::I DO NOT OWN THE PRINCE OF TENNIS, IT'S CHARACTERS OR STORY::
Tezuka dropped his shopping bags. Thud!
Ryoga looked up from his embrace and gasped.
"E-Echizen?" Tezuka stared at the two brothers in their loving hug.
Ryoma turned around slowly, still locked in between his brother's arms and body. "Buchou…"
Tezuka's eyes were abnormally wide, "I, uh need to um, go. See you at practice…"
Ryoma squirmed slightly, "Okay."
Tezuka nodded, picked up his bag and walked at top speed down the path.
"Oh crap…" Ryoma muttered worryingly as he watched the stoic man in glasses disappear slowly from sight. "This, can't be good…"
"Huh?" Ryoga scratched his head. "Oh…" He laughed, "This should be interesting, your buchou thinks we're an item."
Ryoma broke away from his brother and frowned. "This doesn't change the subject."
Ryoga sighed in defeat. 'This feels strange…This feeling that's coming over me.'
Ryoma looked at his feet. "Please, tell me you'll stop inflicting damage on yourself."
Ryoga gazed at his brother in disbelief. The strange feeling became more persistent. "Chibisu-"
"Tell me!" Ryoma felt him ache; the situation was tearing uncontrollably at his heart. "Tell me your reasons for doing it."
Ryoga inhaled nervously, the walls were caving in around him and he couldn't do a thing to stop it. "I, I don't know."
Ryoma glared at his brother fiercely. "You have to know why, stop throwing shit at me and tell me the truth!"
Ryoga hesitated. "After, the cruise ship incident, seeing you again pulled at my emotions, so much so, I realized how unreachable a family was for me…"
Ryoma bit his lip.
"I couldn't stop my suffering, doing what I did in the bathroom this morning relieved me, it gave me relaxation." Ryoga said softly. "You don't deserve a person like me…"
"What?" Ryoma asked gently.
"Don't you get it? I'm just a disappointment, a failure, a screw up!" Ryoga yelled abrasively. "Every step I take leads to another mistake."
Ryoma's breathing became uneven, making him more and more weak. "But you have our family…"
Ryoga smiled painfully. "I'm just a mess-up. I don't belong in your family."
"Yes you do!" Ryoma shouted. "You're my Aniki!"
Ryoga's smile lessened. "You don't need me." He began to walk to the front door of the house. "I'll leave in the morning…"
Ryoma stood glued to the spot he was in, staring blankly into the distance. 'It's my fault, I was the cause…'
The darkness consumed the house. A lone figure inside disturbed the stillness, it moved about until it got to the front door, slowly the boy turned the knob and went outside. Back inside the house, another figure, a slightly taller one, traced the others' movements and followed.
"I was the cause…" Ryoma whispered to himself softly as he stared at the ocean, he had walked quite a way from his house. He wiped back a small tear that began to form in the corner of his eye, slowly, he advanced into the water, deeper and deeper until he couldn't stand up anymore.
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