I'm back! How did everyone like the first chapter? I know it was really bland but I'll try to make this one awesome and suspenseful.

The backstory with how everyone met Ryoga is changed a little… well, they still met him on the cruise but after that, he's randomly shown up at their practices a few times each year, so that's how everyone knows him :P

iLoVeYaOi:No, Ryoga isn't a bad guy. I can tell by your name that you love yaoi but I'm sorry to say that there will be no major pairings. I'll try to incorporate some things but no promises :P

God, I hate the beginnings of stories. They're so boring and I have to say that I DO NOT own Prince of Tennis constantly.

Here's chapter two. Enjoy.

"You're so mean to me! Why can't we get along?" the other voice said.

"Oi, what the hell? Get off of me!" that's all Kikumaru could stand to hear.

"Ochibi!" he burst into the room ready to save his defenseless kouhai. "What do you think your- EH?"

"Kikumaru-kun, it's been a while hasn't it?" Kikumaru walked in to see a sight he never thought would be possible.

"What is it sempai?" Kaidou asked as he and the other regulars came to the room.

"R-Ryoga-san!" he said as he pointed inside the club room.

"Eh?" Momo poked his head inside the room to see Echizen encased in his brother's arms and burst out laughing.

"What's so funny Momo-sempai?" Echizen glared at him through his brother's arms.

"Momoshiro-kun!" Ryoga looked happy to see him.

"I've *snicker* told you before *snort* Ryoga-san, call me *giggle* Momo-chan." Momo could hardly talk he was laughing so hard. Echizen was slumped on his knees with his head on his brother's chest. Ryoga had his arms around his head to the point where he could barely see.

"Ryoga-san!" everyone else started crowding into the club room.

"Minna!" his face brightened.

"Why are you here?" Oishi asked.

"I have a few weeks free from practice and school and I wanted to spend it with my baby brother." He hugged Echizen tighter. Echizen grunted and gave an annoyed look as he tried one again to escape his brother's grasp.

"Nya, you came at a perfect time! You can come camping with us!" Kikumaru said flailing the letter around.

"Camping?" Ryoga's grip on Echizen loosened and he was able to break free.

"What do you mean camping Kikumaru-sempai?" Echizen asked as he sat on the ground and fixed his hat.

"That's your prize for beating Atobe. You get to go camping with the Hyotei regulars for a week." Momo said as he took the letter from Kikumaru's hands and handed it to Echizen. He took the letter and read through it.

"Nya, wouldn't it be fun to go camping on our week off?" Kikumaru said with a big smile.

"We would have to see if everyone knows what to do in difficult situations." Oishi said.

"Saa, we could get to know our opponents better." Fuji said. "Ne, Tezuka?"

"Hn." Tezuka kept his answer as short as possible.

"It would provide a good time to get more data on everyone and how they act in those types of situations." Inui said as he adjusted his glasses.

"Fsshhh… it's not our decision sempai-tachi." Kaidou said.

"Kaidou's right. As much fun as it sounds, it's Echizen's choice." Taka said.

"There's no way that Echizen would want to go camping with Hyoutei. Right Echizen?" Momo asked clapping him on the back.

"Actually, I think I will go." He said lowering the letter from his eyes to look at everyone.

"Eh? Hontou?" everyone except Tezuka and Fuji were shocked. "Why? I would have thought that would have turned it down like that." Momo snapped his fingers.

"I bet I can answer that." Ryoga took the letter from his brother. "Chibisuke actually loves camping. We used to go quite often when we lived in America." He set his hand on Echizen's head.

"You'll really go Ochibi?" Kikumaru asked.

Echizen removed his brother's hand from his head. "I see no reason why I shouldn't, even if the Monkey king will be there."

"Yah Hoi! Camping! I'm gonna go home and pack right now!" Kikumaru gathered all this things and ran out the club door in the direction of his house.

"Eiji matte! It's not until next week!" Oishi grabbed his things and ran after Kikumaru.

"Saa, I think that means that practice is over." Fuji said with a smile. "Ne, Tezuka?"

Tezuka sighed. He announced to everyone that practice had ended and everyone gathered their things and began to head home. Echizen questioned Momo about his promise to treat him to 'all you can eat' burgers. Momo sweat dropped and told him he had 'family matters' to attend to and he could do it that day. Echizen knew that he really meant that he didn't have any money and couldn't do it that day. With that, Momo rode home ahead of him, leaving him to walk home with Ryoga.

"How long have you been back? I don't like the idea of you watching me at school." Echizen said as he and Ryoga walked down the street.

"What are you talking about? I got here about two hours ago. I haven't been watching you. I don't even know my way around. I got lost just trying to find the school." Ryoga replied.

Echizen didn't seem too thrilled to hear that. After Ryoga was discovered in the club room, Echizen just assumed that it was him who was following him around all day and the feeling went away but know that he knew his brother was only there for the end of the day, he became a little uneasy. He glanced over his shoulder.

"What's up Chibisuke?" he caught site of his brother's glance.

"Betsuni." Echizen could have sworn that he saw someone watching them walk as they turned the corner.

Upon returning home, Echizen was greeted by Karupin and Nanako. He ventured to his room to discover that his bed had been taken over by Ryoga's luggage.

"What the hell is this?" he asked very bluntly and un-amused.

"Ah, Kaa-san said that until she fixes a room for me, I get to share with you." Ryoga replied with a smile as he slung his arm around his brother's shoulders. "Isn't it great? We'll get to sleep together just like when we were younger."

Echizen deadpanned at the phrase 'sleep together'. He didn't like sleeping together with anyone except Karupin. He could stand sleeping in the same room but if they had to sleep in the same bed… he'd rather just not do it.

"Do you want the right or the left side?" Ryoga had gone to the bed and cleared away his bags and wondered what side of the bed he wanted to sleep on.

Not wanting to bother with it, Echizen sighed and went out of the room. "Chibisuke, where are you going?" Ryoga yelled to him.

"I'm going to bathe." He said as he walked down the hall.

"Do you want me to wash your back for you?" Ryoga asked teasingly.

"Yadda." Echizen answered as he slammed the bathroom door.

While soaking in the bath, Echizen couldn't help but think about what the feeling he had was. He knew that he was being watched it was just a matter of who was watching him and how long. He's had stalkers before, mainly overly obsessive fan girls and a few guys every now and then. But this time, it didn't feel like a fan. It felt like someone, diverse, like they wanted something from him. He sighed and blew bubbles in the water. Hopefully, tomorrow would be different and he would be able to 'concentrate on his classes'. (aka, get to sleep in class faster)

He exited the bathroom to find Ryoga curled up on his bed like Karupin. He sighed again but not fully out of frustration. He was actually glad his brother was back. As little as it may have seemed, he did miss him when he was gone. He let a small smile creep onto his face.

"Hn? Chibisuke? Are you ready to go to sleep now?" Ryoga mumbled as he rubbed his eyes.

"Heh, baka. You're on my side of the bed." He replied as he shoved Ryoga to the other side.

Ryoga smiled as his brother lay beside him. "Good night Chibisuke."

"Good night, Aniki." Echizen lay down beside him and slowly drifted off to sleep.

The night was passing by smoothly until Echizen had woken up to his cell phone ringing. He wondered how Ryoga could still be asleep. With Ryoga being a lite sleeper, he didn't understand why he woke up and his brother didn't. He picked it up, not even looking at who was calling him and answered it. He was both angry and tired and ready to yell at the person on the other line.

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" he asked in a sleepy and irritated voice.

"Echizen Ryoma, you made a joke out of my family and you will pay." the person on the other line said then hung up.

Echizen didn't understand what the person meant, nor did he really care. All he wanted to do was sleep. He set his phone down and checked the time. The red lights of his clock read 4:37am. What devil in hell would wake him up at such an ungodly hour and not even give a proper conversation? He plopped his head back on his pillow and went back to sleep.

The night from then on was peaceful, that is, until his phone rang again. Again, he picked it up without looking at the caller ID and answered it in an even more irritated tone.

"Why the hell are you calling me so early in the morning?" he looked at his clock which now read 6:42am.

"Do you accept Ore-sama's gift?" Echizen did not like hearing annoying voices in the morning, especially the one of the extremely vain and arrogant Monkey king.

"Couldn't this wait until later?" Echizen plopped his head back on the pillow.

"Ore-sama waits for no one. What is your answer?"

"Yes. Never call me at such an early hour again." With that, Echizen hung up on Atobe and turned his phone on silent, only thinking of that after being woken up a second time.

He fell back asleep for a while or so until he was woken up by Karupin licking his nose and Ryoga gently shaking him.

"Okiru Chibisuke." Ryoga pulled the blankets off of him.

"Hmnnn… five more minutes…" he took a pillow and covered his head.

"Chibisuke, you'll be late if you wait five more minutes."

Echizen took the pillow off his head. "What?"

Ryoga held the clock in front of his face. "See?"

Echizen looked at the big red numbers on his clock and jumped out of bed. "Baka! Why didn't you wake me up sooner?" he shouted as he changed into his school uniform and gathered his things together and rushed downstairs.

"Mou, but you look so adorable and peaceful while you're sleeping." Ryoga playfully shouted to him.

Echizen was in the kitchen eating a few bites of his breakfast when he heard Momo shouting to him from outside. "Oi Echizen! Hurry up! Buchou will make us run double if were late again!"

Echizen shoved a piece of toast in his mouth and ran for the door. "Ittekimasu!"

"Oi Chibisuke, do you want me to pick you up?" Ryoga shouted as he came down the stairs.

"I don't care!" he slipped on his shoes and ran out to meet Momo.

"Heh, things never change. Ne, Nanoko-chan?"

Nanoko looked at Ryoga and smiled. "Sometimes, that's a good thing."

"Ha, you look horrible." Momo said as Echizen hopped onto the back of his bike.

"Urasi." Echizen placed himself so that he would be able to lean on Momo's back then Momo took off towards school. Echizen took out his phone for no particular reason and noticed that he had a message. He opened his phone to check.

"I left something for you in your locker. Hope you enjoy it." He read.

"Hm? Did you say something Echizen?" Momo asked.

"Iya, nothing." He didn't really care. He merely thought that it was a girl from his fan club who somehow got his number and probably left him a box of chocolate or something. He really didn't want to deal with anything right now. He didn't get a good night sleep and Tezuka was probably going to make them run laps. He didn't like how this day was starting out.

"Echizen, Momoshiro, get changed then do 10 laps." Just as he expected. The first thing out of Tezuka's mouth was a command of laps. The only reason why it wasn't as severe as it has been is because Momo peddled faster than The Flash™ to get there. They arrived just as the bell rang but seeing as they had to be dressed and on the courts when the bell rang, they still had to run.

"Hai." Momo and Echizen simply didn't argue and went into the club room to get changed.

"Saa, at least they were here when the bell rang. Why not cut them a break?" Fuji said with a smile.

"Would you like to join them?" Tezuka asked while adjusting his glasses. Fuji merely smiled and went to warm up.

Upon entering the club room and opening his locker, Echizen found a small box on his uniform.

"Nani kore?" he took the box and opened it. Inside was a small black tennis ball.

"Waa, that's cool! Who's it from? Does it say? Get me one!" Momo was completely jealous.

Just as he was about to check the box for a name, his cell phone rang. Still examining the box, he answered his phone, again without looking.

"Moshi moshi?"

"So, Echizen Ryoma, do you like my gift?"

Echizen looked at the box then handed it to Momo but kept the ball in his hand. "Who is this?"

"No one important. Do you like it?"

"What's to like? It's just a black tennis ball." He looked at Momo.

"I'm hurt. I spent a lot of time on that to make it just right." Echizen heard rather loud beep. He looked at Momo and Momo looked at him, both wondering where it came from. "Ah. I think that it's time."

"Time for what? Who is this?"

Echizen could tell that the person on the other line smiled. "Ciao, Echizen Ryoma. Try not to get hurt." With a click, the person hung up and all Echizen heard was a dial tone.

"Who was it?" Momo asked as he set the box down.

Echizen didn't answer. He tucked his phone in his pocket and took a good long look at the ball in his hand. 'Try not to get hurt.' The person's words echoed through his head. He heard another loud beep.

"Where's that beeping coming from?" Momo looked around the room. There was another beep, the time between each one getting shorter and shorter. "I think it's coming from that." He pointed to the ball in Echizen's hand.

The beeping got faster. Echizen looked at the black ball in his hand and his face was horror struck. "Momo-sempai."

"N-Nani?" Momo saw the horror on his kouhai's face.

"Doesn't this, sort of look, like… a bomb?"

Neither of them had time to react. The constant beeping stopped and was followed by a long, drawn out one, followed by an explosion.

MWAHAHA! Cliff hanger! *dodges bullets* I know. I hate them too. I promised myself I wouldn't do it but… it's too tempting.

What if the story ended right there? The ball exploded and them Momo and Ryoma were caught in the blast and died. That would suck. Don't worry. I wouldn't do that to them. I love them too much.

Did you like it? I thought the moment with Ryoma and Ryoga were cute. Tell me what you liked! Tell me what you didn't! Tell me what made you happy and sad! Review for me peoplez!

I'll try to get chapters out quick but this week is the last week of school and I have finals so I'm not promising anything… even though I probably won't study and work on this story.

Haha whatever. See ya next time!