Right when Ryoma walked onto the courts, Eiji instantly went to grab hold of him. As the third year hugged him, the younger boy tried his hardest to pull away from his grip. Fuji, knowing that Ryoma was becoming scared, could only watch as he began to shake.

"Ochibi, you're not wearing your tennis uniform," Eiji whined as he slightly shook the boy.

"Dirty…" Ryoma barely mumbled as he quickly looked over towards Fuji. "It's dirty…I forgot to…wash it…"

Eiji let go of the boy and placed his hands on his shoulders. Lowering himself, he met with Ryoma's eyes. "You seem different."

"It's nothing," Ryoma avoided his gaze. He somehow managed to maneuver himself away from Eiji. "We should start practice…"

"Fuji, do you know what's going on with him?"

"It's not my place to tell people," Fuji watched as Ryoma fumbled to hold his racket.

"That's your racket and your clothes. Was he with you last night?" Eiji didn't seem to give up on his questioning.

"He spent the night."

"He's different."

"I know," Fuji shook his head as he continued to remain there with Eiji.

On the court where Ryoma stood, he seemed to be having issues with the game he loved to play. As he tossed the tennis ball into the air, he just watched as it came back down and bounced on the ground. Miss after miss, anger grew within his small body until he became so frustrated that he tossed the racket aside.

"I'm done!" Ryoma growled as he started to leave.

"Echizen!" Momoshiro, who he was playing against, jumped over the net and ran after him. "You can't just leave."

"This is frustrating. I don't feel like playing anymore," he crossed his arms and frowned.

"What's gotten in to you? This isn't how you normally acted. Did something happen?" he placed his hand on Ryoma's shoulder.

Ryoma jerked away from his touch. "Momo-senpai…you could have…you could have prevented this…"

"What are you talking about, Echizen?"

"Just leave me alone!" his voice cracked as he fell to his knees. Tears streamed down his cheeks as he held him body low to the ground.

The piercing cry Ryoma let out caused the entire tennis team to rush over to him. Momoshiro took a few step backs as he saw Tezuka and Oishi bend down to Ryoma's level. The others simply watched in awe. No one ever thought they would see the young boy in tears nor as broken as he seemed.

"Echizen, are you alright?" Oishi let his hand rub up and down the boy's back. "If there's something wrong, you can tell us."

"I'm fine," Ryoma uttered through his sobbing.

"You―" he stopped when Tezuka placed his hand in front of him.

"Echizen, maybe it would be best if you go home for the day," Tezuka suggested.

Ryoma quickly sat back up which nearly knocked Oishi backwards. "I won't go back there!" Right as the words slipped out, he slapped his hands against his mouth.

"Why is that?"

He darted his eyes between Tezuka and Oishi. Getting back onto his feet, he wobbled his way to where the racket laid on the ground. Going back towards the captain, he let out a sigh. "I'm going…"

As Ryoma started to walk beyond the fenced area, Fuji had finally realized what was happening. He knew that Ryoma wasn't going back to his own house. There was no way he'd step foot back in that place without someone he trusted by his side. Not willing to wait to think things through, Fuji raced out of the tennis courts and after the small boy.

"Fuji!" Tezuka called for him, but he wasn't listening.

Eiji made his way towards Tezuka and frowned. "Something happened to Ochibi, and I think Fuji is the only one that knows what that something is."

"Everyone, get back to practice," Tezuka ordered as he stared down the path the two boys took. He knew they were long gone by now, and there was no way that they would come back today.

"Echizen!" Fuji, finally catching up to the boy, grabbed onto his wrist. This only made Ryoma scream until he noticed who was holding onto him.

"What are you doing here?" Ryoma's voice was nothing more than a whisper.

"I couldn't get myself to just let you leave like that. Lets go get your clothes and then we'll go back to mine."

"I don't want them to know," he turned to face Fuji. "Don't let them know."

"I won't tell anyone, Echizen. The things you've trusted me with will always be kept between the two of us," Fuji patted the soft hair on Ryoma's head. "I promise."

"I guess it'll be ok as long as you're with me," he slightly swayed to the side. "What will I tell them?"

"Does that even matter to you?"

"No…"

Fuji extended his arm out. "Then, it's not something we need to worry about."

"…I guess…" uncertain of what he wanted to do, Ryoma slowly placed his quivering hand in Fuji's. Together they made their way down the road towards the Echizen residence.

NOTE: What is this? Another chapter? I told myself that if I received a total of five reviews before I woke up in the morning, I would write another chapter for this fic. Did you like this small surprise? Don't worry, I will still update come February 7th. I want to mention something, the man is not Ryoga. I know I said I wasn't going to tell you if you all were right or wrong, but I just had to say that. I barely know anything about Ryoga other than he's Ryoma's adopted brother or something like that. I'm still working on watching all the anime, so I don't really know the anime only characters (I've read the whole manga, but I'm still working on the anime.). I'm actually really interested in all the guesses people have as to who Mister Rapist was.

Anyways, the next update will be where they go to Ryoma's house. That'll be fun to write. Oh, and I don't think I've ever mentioned this before in anything I've written. I don't know if you can tell, but I hate plotting things out. I have a basic idea of what I want to happen, but I usually just write whatever comes to me first. Unlike some writers, I don't know what's going to happen in the end until very close to the end (or something happens that makes me realize what should happen). I just thought everyone should know that (You all probably don't care.).

Ah, I changed my profile icon. I think I mentioned the Niou picture I doodled in the last chapter. Yeah, I sort of liked how he turned out, so I've been changing my icon on every website to that. Since I'm talking about Niou, I can mention that I want to write a fic with Niou in it. If you all haven't noticed, I shy away from the characters that aren't from Seigaku. Not anymore! I will start to write for other characters too (I have an AtobeXRyoma fic planned for those who like that pairing along with a YuutaXRyoma fic. I never thought I would want to write either of those pairings.). Though, I seem to have a good amount of FujiXRyoma fics planned. Seriously, you think I'm not capable of writing for other pairings? Or do you all even like other pairings? Sorry, I don't do TezukaXFuji or TezukaXRyoma (or OishiXEiji). They're just not my thing.

Okay, I'm rambling about nothing again. I hope you all are happy with this surprise update. The next chapter is coming soon. We'll see each other then, right? Thank you for reading, supporting me, and being the awesome people you are. I'm thinking that the next chapter is going to be a little more dramatic and…I'm not sure…hurtful? We'll just have to wait and see. Thank you for your time~!

(P.S. Oh! This was chapter five! Exciting! Lets go for five more…and make them even better. Right?)