A/N: This is my promised chapter that I will upload with chapter fifteenth. I do not know the length of the words I will use in this chapter, but I am certain that it will be lesser than the previous chapter.

The bold letters/words indicated that the story is in the less important characters but essential to the story.

Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis is not my own.

I decided not to have any lemon, however, there may be a hot scene like the last one, although, they may undress each other but the love making shouldn't be type. I am indicating that there will be another like that because she's only sixteen, but we will see.

Red leaned his back to his swivel chair's backrest. His partner, Onyx, returned from the meeting between him and the Atobes. By the look in his face, something was not right.

"What happened there?" he asked.

"You know it is confidential," Onyx replied.

"I've got something.." he started. "A suspicious photo and I think that it is connected to whatever problem the Atobe had been experiencing."

Interest picqued, Onyx rose from his seat to approach him, "What do you know?"

"I do not know," Red said calmly, "until you tell me what is wrong."

His partner sigh, "Very well then. The Atobes learned that the Kinomichis are stealing money and profits from their bank account with small values so that the company would not know until the amount lost is big enough to get away."

"Are you sure about that?" he asked, brows furrowed.

"I do not know if you got attached with your client, but this investigation will not proceed peacefully if you do not open your mouth."

"I've got a picture of a suspicious person when I went to visit the Atobe mansion about a month ago," he shuffled his belongings and look for the said photo on his drawers. He showed it to his partner and Onyx raised his eyebrows.

"And?"

"He was grinning evilly, don't you see it?" he pointed at the said grin in the man's face in the photo.

"But that doesn't mean that he's-" he was cut off b Red,

"Not if you are in the roof spying like me. And I get a clear picture, we could identify him, you know."

"You did, which lead to the question: How did you use the flash of camera on him without him noticing it?"

"Maybe he got very focus on his evil plan that he didn't caught me taking a picture of him?" BINGO!

"Maybe," Onyx answered.

"Let me come with you on your next meeting with the Atobes," he stood to stretch his sore muscles. "We need to clear this up, so both parties would not get into brawl they would regret later."

"Okay," Onyx nodded. "I will tell Atobe-san."

"Tell him personally," he advised. "We wouldn't like the perpetrator to get away once he learned that we know the truth. He will find ways to get this bigger."

The news about the Kinomichi stealing from Atobe spread like wildfire in a grassland in Hotaru's school. The nuns frowned at her as she walked through the hallway with her bag slid on her shoulders and books on her arms.

She could hear the malicious whispers of every female population of her religious school.

"How shameless"

"How could she do that to Atobe-sama?"

"She doesn't deserve him at all!"

"How disgusting!"

"She should get expelled, causing bad reputation. Hmmph!"

And so on and so forth. They only people who stayed by her side is her friends. Even Murosaki got annoyed at the whisperings and gossipings. Once, someone wrote profanity on the school's restroom about her friend and about her. Like Bitch, whore, slut.. and so on.

She decided to act cold towards them again, she push them away.

"Hotaru-chan, are you okay?" Reina asked with worry in her eyes.

"Please don't associate yourself with me. I do not need your useless sympathy," she saw hurt in her friend's eyes, and she hated herself doubly.

"How dare you?" Murosaki yelled at her, but she ignored her. "How dare you?"

Since that day, they never approached her anymore. The bad rumors about them that linked to her stopped too. For most of the week, her only hope is Atobe's call, asking her to go on a date with him and the nights she spend playing tennis with him every time he visits the Midnight Tennis.

She look across the cafeteria, scanning for a free seat, when someone pushed her hard and her food and drink spilled on her. Everyone who saw this laughed, except for Reina's group, who eyed her silently but not offering help.

Her eyes met Murosaki's glaring one, and she dropped her gaze so that she cannot see the hurt in her eyes. She walk out the room while everyone threw things on her.

As she walk through the hallways. A nun saw her, "Kinomichi-san, why don't you go home for now?"

She nodded and get her things. That afternoon, she locked herself up in her room and cry silently. She called her grandfather and told him that she couldn't come to the afternoon practice. Her brother taking her chores from her.

"It's Saturday tomorrow. I could see him," she whispered before drifting to sleep.

"Hey," Atobe called out one of the girls batting her lashes on him.

"Yes, Atobe-sama?" she said seductively, which Atobe categorized as horribly screeching.

"Are you busy tomorrow?"

"No, Atobe-sama," she answered. Still batting his eyes on him.

"Could you come with me on Saturday? Let's go on a date," then he turned around.

"Of course, Atobe-sama," she squealed as she turn towards her friends.

Let's see what you'll do, Hotaru, he thought. I will make you regret meeting me, as I regret it as well. More than you will ever know.

A/N: So that's it, minna-san! I really like to write their date already, but I thought, it would be great if I write it in another chapter. Don't you agree? And this is like a bonus chappy, so I wouldn't want to write long one in here.

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