CHAPTER 29

Ryoma was mad, when he heard that he would have to give his room up. It was his and no one else's. Storming down stairs with Sei following. The blunette had a smile on his face finding this entertaining. All they where doing was laying in Ryoma's bed and a second later he heard the boy mumble a 'hell no'. Ryoma had suddenly stood up and yelled at the top of his voice. What made Sei more curious was that he heard nothing and the kid obviously heard it loud and clear.

He stood in the lounge and gave everyone his best glare. Syu and Mitsu both looked at the boy with slight amusement. Gen felt pretty shock seeing a tail swaying side to side and the ears bent down. But to all of their surprise they heard a thump and looked over to where the noise had come from. There on the floor out cold was Keigo. After taking in the Ryoma's looks it seemed his brain couldn't cope with the boy's appearance and had shut down. Thus the king, had been defeated.

All the cat's anger seemed to vanish when the Monkey King fainted. He looked at the others and asked. "Did I knock him out with just a glare?" Fuji deciding to let the boy know.

"Ryo-Chan, not everyone present has seen your lovely features yet." The boy froze for a second before turning round to try and see in his tail was out. He saw a flash of black and knew it must be true. He sat himself on the floor and grumbled. "Sorry, please speak up Ryo."

"I said why do people always find out my secret when I'm in my PJ's... Except Momo and Chizu and Keiichi and..."

"Alright Ryo-Chan, I think we get the point." Syu smiled at the boy knowing that all five of the teens in the room had seen the cat like this now. Ryoma crawled over to Keigo and started poking his cheek.

"Do all monkey's faint when they see something they don't think possible or is it only the kings." It didn't take long for the boy to get bored. Deciding that he looked comfier as a seat then anything the cat sat on his stomach. Gen continued to watch the cat and finally voiced his question.

"How did you hear us?" Ryoma tilted his head and thought. Shan had beaten him to the answer though.

"All of Ryoma's senses are enhanced in some way. From being able to hear frequencies and sounds no one else can, to being able to see some of the most fastest objects that the normal human eye can't keep up with. The most weirdest thing I remember was him claiming he smelled cooked meat and sure enough after we all went out to investigate about five blocks, away someone was having a BBQ." They all looked at the boy in shock and that's when they heard the groan.

Keigo had just woken up from what he claims his most strangest dream yet. But what surprised him was that his dream was now sitting on him and making it so he can't get up. "Get off." He spoke with a slight hint of annoyance. The brat had just looked at him and smiled.

"Why? You're really nice to sit on." Kei finally had enough pushed himself up and the boy slid down onto his lap. The Hyotei captain looked and inspected the ears. Thinking he lost the plot he brought his hand up and tugged at one only to be slapped away. "Do you want another fight?" The boy spoke letting his voice drop a few octaves to show he was serious. It was then that Fuji had finally connected the dots to the earlier riddle the boy gave him.

"Saa... Ryo-Chan is the reason you threw up on Momo because of your taste being better then most?" The cat looked from Keigo to the tensai.

"Yeah, all my senses where at least tripled on what they should be." He felt his ear twitch when he could feel someone breathing right next to it." "Do you mind?" Him and the Monkey King stared at each other for a second before Ryoma looked at Shan. The boy then got up and walked to the door about to go back upstairs.

"Oi, Ryoma. We need to talk about something." The boy let out a sigh and kept his back to Shan.

"Is it the fact that you're leaving or you clam that my Master is dead?" With that the boy was about to leave the room. Shan scratched the back of his head.

"You heard that?" Ryoma could feel the tears collecting in his eyes. Turning around fully he looked his adoptive father in the eye.

"You know what, if you're going to leave, than just go. I don't need you. You just like that woman who I was meant to call a mother." With that the boy ran upstairs and slammed his door. Shan hated it when Ryoma got like this. It was normally when the boy calmed down he would be more upset for saying something like that to him. Sitting on the arm of one of the chairs, Sei stood in front of him, with a single brow raised in question.

"What did he mean about his mother?" They where all getting more and more confused. Half of this just didn't connect together.

"Ryoma a while ago when we had just gotten to Japan wanted to go visit his father's grave. I told him no and he had a tantrum about it. You see I didn't want the boy to see something which could of harmed him more."

"Ore-Sama doesn't get it. How could it harm him more if he already knows about his father being dead." Shan looked at each and everyone of them. Knowing that this was going to be the boys family. These 18 years olds. He knew he could trust them.

"Because next to Nanjiro Echizen's grave is Ryoma's. His mother literally got rid of his entire existence. She made him dead to the world. I can't tell you what the boy went though, but I can fill you in on all that happened before he got taken and after we found him." So once again he the story of Beauty.

It had been a few days and the house had been cleaned out and had rooms changed to each of their own. Ryoma hadn't spoken to Shan since. The others had all tried to spend a least a little bit of time with the boy after school and club activities to get to know him better which was harder than it seems seeing as he was always nearly grumpy at the moment. Keigo was the only one that had the most trouble. The boy would either ignore him or would start commenting loudly that there was a noisy fly somewhere that had to be squashed.

While cleaning they had come across Ryoma's things which he kept hidden in a shoe box. It was a strange hiding pace they found it in. It seems the cat had dug a hold in the mattress that was in his room and stuck it there. Leaning it against a wall so people couldn't see. It was pretty smart, Shan had thought.

Shan knew better than to look. Knowing it had the results on the scans and most likely everything the boy collected in the past six months that he thought where valuable. Shan knew Ryoma had reasons for wanting to keep something's private but it didn't mean that he wasn't curious. Once in America the boy went to go play tennis in the park nearby and the man had found it. Opening it he had found written on the underside of the lid 'Beauty's Secret'. He found some of it sweet. It had picture's of the police force and one of him and the boy sleeping on the couch which strange enough, he had always wondered where that had gone. It was the only picture they had of him. The one which showed the true Ryoma. There was also his first tennis ball and his first medal which he won in a local tennis tournament.

When Ryoma found out he had been though the box he had a massive tantrum and even chucked a freshly open can of ponta at the wall. Once the boy did calm down, he asked why it has to be kept a secret, the cat had told him that if he ever wanted to get rid of him, then at least he have the memories to hold onto. Shan felt hurt that the boy would think that, but understood seeing as his mother had sold him with nothing to remember. So now he was holding onto it and would give it back to the boy when he said goodbye tomorrow... Well that is if he shows up.

Just then he thought of something. A going away present for Ryoma considering he was the one going, not the boy, but he thought he should give him that much at least. So with that, he told the people helping that he was going out for a bit.

Momo had gotten use to the fact ears where apart of the boy. It was when he mentioned a tail did the trickster demand to see it. It was now Thursday and Shan was leaving tomorrow.

Today Ryoma had managed to convince Momo to buy him burgers. So at the burger restaurant they where chowing down on as many burgers they could eat and talking about the tournament that was happening on Saturday and Sunday. "Of course Singles three is going to be me." Momo said as he took a sip of his milkshake.

"Yeah right, I'm the freshmen prodigy. They would want me to, knowing I would win." Momo smirk at the boy. He couldn't believe how cocky the kid could get. That was when he realized. He had brought the boy ten burgers so why was he on his twelve. Looking down the trickster then realized that the eight he had for himself had only one remaining. The boy looking out the window felt Momo's gaze on him. "What?" Ryoma shrugged and turned back to look outside. "Hey, why don't we fight for it? I mean singles three. Who ever wins, plays. Deal." Ryoma let his free hand go across the table.

"Deal." Momo replied and sealed it with a handshake.