A/N: I started typing this chapter yesterday, but it's too late to upload it already. I should say that I couldn't update on weekends and Fridays because it's my sister's time to use the computer. So while I update Amnesia on weekdays, she updated her Hitsugaya Karin on weekends, that's also the reason I typed several chapters in three days Mon-Wed, it depends on Thursday because our dad's home and both of us stay upstairs together.

Warnings: I might change the rating to M in this chapter or the next. It depends on how fast I want this arc to end. After this arc, my original plot line will come back. Before writing this story, I planned on writing an after-the-annulment story, no beginnings or whatsoever, but then I thought that the story will not going to make sense if I just throw things out and the multi-chapters I'm planning would end by now. I estimated up to thirty chapters because that's my real plan, or more if the story made it possible.

I would like to thank Angel That Cant Fly-sama for following Amnesia.

It came to me that I put "Summer break" instead of "Winter break." I looked at it and thought that it's impossible to have a summer break when the prefecture happened around June or July, so I changed it. Please check the previous chapter to see any changes I made.

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis and its characters.

Kinomichi Hotaru, because of you, my family should have been together, completed. If your mother didn't conceived you, my mother and my father wouldn't have the need to break their relationship. Because of you, my mother suffered. Because of you, I didn't experience the love of my true father. YOUR father.

Hamasaki Ruriko stared at the happy family picture of the Kinomichi family. She was seething with hatred and jealousy, she was cursing the reason her existence is not good enough for her mother. A bastard conceived from a jerk of a father. A loser. A weakling father.

Growing up, she was the topic of every person who knew her mother. A bastard, they said. And her mother. A pitiful commoner who whored out herself to marry a rich man.

And yes, that was true. Her mother seeks out for revenge and she cannot do it without the help of money. So she seduced a rich man in Kyoto, very faraway from Tokyo, so when she finished building her empire she'll crush her ex's.

But then, she died before even that would happen, and she left a bastard for a daughter to a man who didn't feel anything for her. Not even compelled to be with her, to love her, take care of her.

He married another woman, and even though he legally adopted Ruriko in his family, she never feel that she's part of his family. Yes, they feed her, clothe her, she have a roof under her head, but they never be there for her.

That's why she's more happy to stay in the ryokan in summer or winter breaks when she's not in school. Besides, like she told Atobe, she never had that many friends, because her friends are those bullies. She learned before that if she want people not to bully her, then she needs to become a bully herself. When she realizes that she became more and darker in the inside, she blamed Kinomichi Hotaru, her half-sister.

She blamed the hate she felt towards this sister of hers, and to their father. Her adoptive father's family treat her like an outsider, and sometimes his wife and children would order her around, mistreat her in every way they know.

At first, she tried to complain to her 'father' but he doesn't want to listen to her, he said that she's a bad girl for accusing his children of mistreating her. They humiliated her, and oppress her. She became worse as she grew older. She told them that she wants to attend school, and they let her.

That's where she meet the bullies, and because there are also bullies in her own house, she knew how to handle them. If she couldn't strike back at home, then she will going to strike back at school. That's where she became the evil incarnate, and no one seems to like her, other than those bullies.

They opened their arms to her. Wide. And welcome her to their own little world. She climb the ladders of hatred, self-righteousness, anger,evil deeds, until she became their queen. No one tried to stop her, because if they do utter one single word, something grand and marvelous would happen to them: accidents that lead to DEATH. And she have underlings to do it for her.

Every woman needs to have their hands clean, ne?

Atobe grope his head. It has ached since dinner and he really needs to rest it or it will going to explode because of the pain.

"Why don't you go to your room and rest?" Oshitari said. He nodded before getting up.

"Ugh," he groaned. Ruriko trod hurriedly to him, helping him get up.

"Let me take you there," she said.

Oshitari tried to tell her off but Atobe said 'yes'. When they arrived at his room, Ruriko began to take care of him by looking for aspirin and water. She hand them to him and went back to look for something.

Then she returned with a wet towel and made him take off his shirt, "You need to take them off if you want me to wipe this on your body."

"You just want to see me naked," he said, smirking but doing what he was told to do.

"That too," she too grinned but became serious again. "You need to rest."

"Hai, hai," he flopped himself into the bed and she began to wipe the cool towel on his body. "Hmmm, feels good." he murmured.

She smiled sweetly before blushing. He laughed but then stopped abruptly because of the pain. "You're not hot. Maybe it's just stress. Go to sleep."

He put his arms around her waist, "Gyahh! What are you doing?" She fell on top of him and he held her there before answering.

"Hugging you, of course," he whispered. They look for more comfortable position and she found herself being spooned by him. "This..is.. embarrassing."

"Shut up and sleep, Hotaru," he said, not conscious at what happening and what he just said. His dreams are full of the night he held Hotaru like this.

Ruriko froze on her place. She gritted her teeth furiously. Hotaru. He said Hotaru. I thought he doesn't love her. He said he never did. Grr! That damn Hotaru again.

And then she smiled evilly. Sorry Atobe but your you will never see your Hotaru again. And you will live knowing that you lose her forever.

She went down to the cafeteria and asked for a chicken blood. She went back upstairs and poured some on the sheets. Then she took off her own clothing along her underwear and his remaining pants and underwear. She's going to make sure that Atobe will be hers in the end.

Atobe woke with a jolt the next morning. He held his head, not aching anymore but still blank from sleep. He felt a hot body stirred beside him and he stop in his tracks. His heart beating fast as he nervously shifted to find Hamasaki Ruriko, his girlfriend, beside him.

What have I done? His mind screamed and his eyes wide in terror. He didn't plan this to happen. Oh yes, they kissed, they hugged. But he never thought of having sex with her until their marriage night, if they will going to continue the marriage he promised her.

She's so innocent, she might be a virgin somehow. "Shit," he whispered and regretted it when he saw her opening her own drowsy eyes.

"W-what?" she asked, then saw herself, naked under the covers and all. He eyes went wide, hands on her mouth as she covered her gaping mouth.

"It's..it's not what you think, Ruriko," she started to cry. "Ruriko, listen. Listen, dammit." He shook her, "I am going to take responsibility. You don't have to worry, I promised that I am going to marry you."

"I am going to graduate soon," he embraced her. "We will going to marry."

"I can't marry you."

"What?" he shouted-whispered. Moving back a little to see her face.

"I can't. I'm still seventeen," she said, her hands shaking as she grip the covers to her chest.

"Then we shall marry on your birthday. Daijoubo da yo*, I will going to tell my father. We are going to meet with your family and talk about this.

"If you find out that you're pregnant, then please do tell me. I will try to make our marriage go on faster." She nodded as an answer, still speechless of what happened.

They took a shower separately and he helped her sit down because she said that she's still aching 'down there' and they blushed together. He ripped off the bed sheets that has her blood and throw it away in the laundry basket before ordering the chambermaid to clean it up and put another bed sheets and comforter.

Oshitari nodded. "Yes, I will guard him and see to it that he's in good hands." That's what he told to private investigator Red. He approached Oshitari when he was on his way to get a can of drink from a vending machine not far away from the cafeteria.

They went to Red's room and the private investigator fill him out about what's truly happening.

"Maybe I should tell this to Atobe. He never did talk to his father because he try so hard to swerve away from this topic," he said thoughtfully.

"No," Red said. "What you need to do is tell me about any girls who talk to him, befriend him, or come to him, that way it's easier to learn about this blond who want to kill Hotaru-chan."

"Someone tried to kill her!?" he exclaimed. This is becoming serious, and he thought that it was a simple lover's quarrel with parents trying to iimpose their own opinion in their relationship.

"They are planning to do it. When or where, we still doesn't have a clue. We need to catch this woman first before we catch the man."

"And because you need him to be able to catch her, you still let him roam around Japan?"

"Yes," he smirked. "Your great at this, kid, are you planning on become an intelligence agent in the future?"

He snorted, "Then why didn't you just arrested them when you heard about their plan?"

Red froze, "Uh-oh. You're right."

"Of course I'm right."

"Shit! I need to call Onyx and rely this to him," he began to dial his partner's number. "He's going to kill me." He stopped again, "But then he's with me when we heard their plan, so he couldn't really blame me, right?"

Oshitari shrugged. One woman come to mind: Hamasaki Ruriko.

I will going to watch you too, sweet smile-san he whispered inwardly.

"What did she asked you to give her?" Oshitari asked the chef last night, when she saw Ruriko went in the kitchen of the cafeteria.

When he doesn't heard any answer, he repeated sharply, "What did she asked from you?"

"A-a chicken...blood," the chef whispered in response, terrified at the young man's expression and tone.

"What for?" Chicken blood? How mysterious.

"I- I do not know," he said before turning his back from him.

Oshitari sigh and went to his and Atobe's room. He's shocked to see a naked Ruriko and Atobe under his sheets, their clothing are all over the closed the door silently and went to the other side of the building and crashed in at Tezuka and Fuji's room. (A/N: Yes. Those two's room. A little yaoi-ness innuendo there, ne?)

It was only fifteen minutes, how fast did they do it? Where is the chicken blood? What is that fake girl planning?

"I am going back, I promised," he said to Ruriko. The teams are going back to Tokyo today and they are all going to use the bullet train. Who are in the right mind to use a bus when they knew what would certainly happen?

"Okay," she answered sadly, "Be careful, please call me when you arrive there."

Oshitari observe the woman. What a great actress.

They crowded the train and everyone start their own conversation. He turned towards Atobe.

"You really want to marry her?" he asked confusedly.

Atobe glared at him, "Yeah, so what?"

"Do you even hear yourself? You don't use 'ore-sama' anymore and you certainly didn't sound cocky while you said it."

"And? What are you pointing out?" his brows furrowed.

"You know what," Oshitari said in a very serious tone getting Atobe's attention, "You really need to talk to your dad. Please, Atobe. You have some things to know. Please."

Atobe stared at his friend. He noticed that his friend's restless and his eyes had bags underneath them. "What happened to you? You seem.. restless?"

Oshitari shoot daggers at the oblivious guy in front of him, "Are you kidding me? Or did you get dumb after meeting that girl?"

Atobe returned his glare, "Insult her again or you wouldn't see another day..."

"Pssche, who cares?" he shook his head and said, "Just do what I told you. Please talk to your dad. If I just have the right to tell you about this... but it's a family matter and it would not be right for me to tell you."

Atobe thought that it sound ominous, "Okay, I will. I really do need to talk to him about Ruriko-chan and I."

However, before talking to his father, he went straight to the lawyer he contacted to draw up an annulment papers and some kind of restraining order for Kinomichi Hotaru to sign up. Then he met with her before coldly leaving her. He didn't see the sadness and the tears welling up in her doe eyes. Kinomichi Hotaru, after some time of preventing her tears to fall, she sobbed silently while sitting alone in that place feeling the coldness of the night envelop her into an embrace of long winter solstice.

He went back to Kyoto to be with the girl he chose, and then returned to Tokyo to talk to his dad.

A/N: There you go, minna-san! Please read and review. Thank you very much. I apologise for any mistakes. I don't have time to check them because of the need to right more chapters, so bear with me please.

*About the legal marriage age in Japan, I didn't look that one up, but I think that they could get married at 18 but they couldn't drink alcohol until they're 20(?) Not really sure.

* And then, there's about the drawing up annulment papers and restraining order. I said that Atobe's already eighteen and in the U.S., eighteen years old could get their hands on papers if they like, so signatures are okay, I just don't know about Hotaru, she's only sixteen and maybe need a parent's consent, but do you guys really imagine Daisuke and Takuya letting the separate from each other? NO.

*Daijoubo da yo means It's alright or it's okay.