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Lady Monozuki: Wow, I meant to have this out earlier. Anyway, I'm going camping next week and therefore decided to split my updates. The other two will be updated in Sunday. Thank you all for reading and reviewing! Enjoy!

Chapter Six: Abuse

To say that Fuji wanted to hurt someone was an understatement. He wanted to murder someone for the situation that they were currently in. He knew that all of them carried part of the blame in why their youngest lover was in a coma. However, no one carried as much as Atobe Keigo. In the span of five seconds, Fuji had decided to name that man his enemy and would stop at nothing until he had taken his revenge. He was beyond listening to tired excuses. He had wanted to get out of this relationship sooner, but had delayed everything because of Ryoma. Of course, he could have left with the promising tennis prodigy in the middle of the night, but he had not done so. He cursed himself for being idiotic on that part. He had seen the signs before this happened, but thought that he could prevent it by visiting Ryoma. He supposed that was part of his frustration at this moment, but he would rather direct all of his anger at one person instead of taking part of the blame.

He wanted to lash out at Kunimitsu as well for being so naïve in all of this. Really, did his lover think that the injury would go unnoticed by him? Fuji contemplated lashing out at Keigo and actually listening to the person who had basically put Ryoma in the coma. He clenched his fists. He really did not want to deal with any of them at this moment. He wanted to stay at the hospital until Ryoma woke up. He knew that they had screwed up their relationship, but he wanted to at least make it right with one person. He took in a deep breath. He had a feeling that everything that Tezuka and Atobe would say would only make him angrier. However, they needed to get out all of their anger if they ever wanted to be able to move forward.

"Fine, I will listen," he said venomously. He wanted them all to know how displeased he was at even agreeing to hear them out. Of course, he noticed a look of shock on their faces. He wanted to chuckle, but now was not the time. They had obviously expected for him to put up more of a protest and quite honestly, he was not in much of a mood. Besides, he needed to hear out Keigo before deciding to what degree he should take his revenge. He stared at them, waiting for one of them to start speaking. This was going to be a long night if they just continued to remain frozen there, shocked at his words. Gen was the first to recover and cleared his throat.

"We all need to share our sides in this story. This isn't just about Ryoma, it's about all of us and being able to move forward. I think that we can all agree that we aren't going to be together as a group," Gen stated in an unusually soft voice.

"Right," Syuusuke said through clenched teeth. "I think that we should start at the beginning and be completely honest about everything we've done."

His jibe was directed more toward Keigo. However, he knew that both Kunimitsu and Gen had been keeping their own secrets. He too had his own secrets that he kept from everyone and they would never be able to put the pieces together until they had all of them.

Of course, there is still one person missing.

He waited for one of them to start off the conversation. They really needed to go back to when the first started to have problems. Gen wasn't there at the time, but they were already starting to drift away from each other. He knew that Kunimitsu was under the impression that the abuse hadn't started until after Gen joined, but that is where he was wrong. He always thought that their former captain would be able to pick up on everyone's emotions so well. After all, Tezuka had been the first to break through the barriers that he had placed. He wondered when they had stopped caring for each other in the same manner.

"Syuusuke," he heard. He looked at Tezuka, who had spoken and waited for the next part of the sentence. "Why don't you go ahead and start out."

"Fine," he said. "I know that you're under the impression that Keigo didn't start abusing us until after Gen joined, but I that's where you're wrong. He's been hurting both me and Ryoma since before then."

He saw Gen's and Tezuka's eyes widened. He felt himself grow more angry over the fact that Tezuka had not noticed this before. After all, they had never tried to keep it a secret. Not to mention the fact that Keigo had sprained Ryoma's dominant wrist on more than one occasion. Of course, he probably bought the obviously false tale the their youngest lover had hurt himself during tennis practice. He never did though. He knew all too well of what Keigo was doing. He couldn't believe that such abuse would ever happen, especially to Ryoma.

He had believed for a while that Keigo was truly in love with Ryoma, far more than with him or Tezuka, and therefore could not begin to fathom the idea of abuse. He shifted his gaze from Kunimitsu to Keigo and noticed an incredibly guilty look on his face.

"The only reason why you started to abuse me was because I found out about you hurting Ryoma and you wanted to keep me quiet. You knew that I was already thinking about leaving then, didn't you?"

Slowly, the diva nodded. "As much as I hurt both of you, I wanted for you to stay by my side. I know that this is a pathetic excuse, but because of my responsibilities at Atobe Cooperation, I've had to deal with the extra stress. You know that there aren't many people who accept homosexuals around the world, they are constantly scrutinizing me and all four of you. I started to see you all as a problem that I couldn't deal with."

"What about your parents?" Fuji snapped. "I thought that they accepted us."

"They had," Keigo said. "Until it started to become a problem with the media, we were spending large amounts of money to keep you out of the papers. However, there were some that could not be bought off and that is why there were so many pictures of us in a few various magazines. When you are rich and constantly in the spotlight, people are going to notice your every move and try to get all the information they can about you, especially when you are considered to be one of the most eligible bachelors."

"So because of the media and your parents, you thought it would be okay to abuse both me and Ryoma? Why? Because we didn't know you as well as you did Kunimitsu?"

Syuusuke noticed the diva shifted slightly and he knew that he had guessed correctly. He knew that if Ryoma heard this, he would be crushed. Their youngest member had always put everything he had into this relationship.

"I thought that if I hit you that you would not want to be in the relationship anymore and therefore I would not have to tell you all personally that I wanted to break up."

He had heard enough. Without realizing it, he headed over toward Keigo. He vaguely registered that Kunimitsu was already there, protecting the son of a bi—

"Syuusuke!" he heard someone shout. He realized that he had almost punched the wrong person. He stepped back. No, he would not be satisfied until he had his full revenge. He growled. He would not be able to take much more of this. He was already far too angry to even hear more. However, he had promised to listen. He would do so just because he was not one to back out of his word. He may try to avoid making promises, but he was never one to go back on then.

"You can't hold me back after we're finished talking," he said. He would not hesitate to let Keigo know exactly what he thought of his antics. They were both stupid and ridiculous. Syuusuke sat back down on the couch, wishing that Ryoma was here to help him get through this talk. He sighed.

No, it would be best if Ryoma didn't hear this at all. He would be heart-broken to know that he didn't matter.

"So you wanted me and Ryoma by your side, but you also wanted to break up with us at the same time?" he asked in the most calm voice he could. He really wanted to punch Keigo and be done with this conversation. He had to remind himself of the promise and the fact that Ryoma was currently in the hospital. He would put up with this just for Ryoma, so they cold both get some of the closure that they needed in this relationship. Syuusuke knew the answer though. However, he just wanted to hear the confirmation first.

"Yes," Keigo answered in a quiet voice.

"What about Gen then? Why did you allow him to join our relationship if you were clearly unhappy with me and Ryoma?"

He saw Gen shift uncomfortably next to him. He knew that the other had always thought that he was to blame for their relationship. Syuusuke waited for an answer.

"Because, you all seemed to be excited at the thought and I wasn't going to tell you no," the diva said. "I thought that I could convince my parents otherwise, but they grew unhappier with my choice. Eventually, there started to be threats on my life because of my orientation. Not to mention the fact that I had four other guys who would stand by my side. They thought that you all were just using me to get to the fortune of the Atobe Cooperation."

"So, you thought that by treating us wrongly, we would just disappear? What type of shallow people do you believe we are?" Syuusuke asked. "You know that we would never do anything of the sort and you allowed for yourself to listen to them? I thought you cared for us far more than that. So did you start to hit Gen too after he joined?"

"No, I left him alone because I didn't want him to know of our problems. I wanted him to believe that we were still happy."

Syuusuke scoffed. "Syuusuke," Tezuka said. "If you two had been abused for so long, why didn't you and Ryoma say anything? You know that I would have stopped Keigo, or at least attempted to."

"Why don't you ask your beloved that question," Syuusuke spat. He didn't want to admit out loud the real reason.

"Keigo?"

"I-I locked them both in a room and hurt Ryoma in front of Syuusuke. I knew that Ryoma was his weakness and that he would do anything so long as I promised not harm Ryoma anymore. Ryoma was always placed us before himself so I knew that he would not tell. Not to mention the fact that his pride prevented him from telling anyone else about what happened."

"But you continued," Syuusuke growled. "Ryoma tried to hide it from me, but I knew that you were still hurting him. I kept to myself because I knew that he would hate me if I told anyone. I tried to help me, but he insisted that he was okay. You knew that he loved you and yet you continued to hurt him and me. So tell me Kunimitsu, when did he start to hurt you as well?"

"He didn't hurt me as much before the incident one year ago. Occasionally he would lose his temper, but I always brushed it off as the fact that he was stressed about handling the company. So I decided to forget about it."

"Then how did your arm go from okay condition to the state that it's currently in now?" Syuusuke growled.

"After we came back and after we tried that one night, Keigo was furious and he took his anger out on me."

"So then why do you want to stay with him?"

"Because he needs me and I love him and forgive him for everything he's done."

To be continued…