Hey guys. Next chappie up. Sorry to anyone who thought the principal was going to be this big important person. (He's not really) Ryoma just knows him and I needed to end the last chapter with something -_-.
ajprycta - Ryoma went to Rikkaidai. I realized not once did I mention that in the last chapter. So I changed one of the sentences to make it more clear. :)
Thank you everyone for you reviews and support on this story. Hope you enjoy the chapter.
CHAPTER 151
Shan suddenly sat up straight as his hand slipped off of his hand as he was about to nod off. He couldn't believe he was back in Japan already. Sitting in a room with Tomo, Keiichi and his brother. The doctor who was going to be looking after the master had giving him a form for all the things that will be happening in this institution. Like for example Senichi will not be wearing a straight jacket when he's in his room. He would get an hour outside everyday where he will be watched by at least two guards where he will either be wearing his straight jacket or a pair of handcuffs depending on his behaviour.
What worried Shan more than anything was that Ryoma and Seiichi were about an hour away from this place. He was still in an inner fight about whether or not his nephew should meet him. That or the fact he might have to drag Ryoma here just to get his brother to tell him how to cure Sei.
He had to admit that when Akitaka phoned him up that time tell him that they were running out of things to use on Sei, he really did panic and started the process of moving Sen over to Japan straight away. Of course Tomo and Keiichi had been helping a lot and they were meant to go to the hospital after this to meet Doctor Oishi and go through some more treatments for his nephew.
Too be honest he could blame Gen'emon or Kunikazu. The two as soon as they landed had gone over to the police station to caution all that were involved with the Ryoma case that the boy's sa-called master was here. All had agreed though that they weren't going to tell their families that they were back until monday came around. So they had time to sort out precautions and excuses.
"Sanada will you please stop tapping." Gen looked up towards Renji seeing the other frown at him. 'When did the lesson finish.' He thought as he noticed the classroom now empty of all students besides himself and Yanagi.
"What happened?" Renji sat down in the spare seat next to the vice-captain. "You were late this morning? And for the rest of the day you seemed to be distracted." Pausing in his tapping on the desk Gen looked to the data collector in thought.
"I was late because I slept in." The other gave to motion to expand on the sentence. "Ryoma got angry with us last night and stayed in a hotel. I got a call at one in the morning from him crying his eyes out. So I went to stay with him. His in the principals office now since he's staying here for the day. But just after we got dropped off by one of the Atobe drivers he went strangely quiet." As Gen finished he seemed even more tense when he was after he left Ryoma with the older man.
"Sanada I know it isn't my place to pry, but did you say anything to him. From what I've gathered from our phone conversation, Ryoma can let his thoughts control him. You should be careful how you say your words." Opening his eyes he gave the other a meaningful stare. "I'll go talk to him. It will be interesting to meet him face to face."
"By all means. You're the reason he even considered the relationship. He probably wants to see you as well. Just be careful of his odd habits." Gen sighed as Renji left. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes for a couple of seconds.
Knocking on the door, Renji waited for the come in from the principal. When he heard the answer he opened the door only to raise an eyebrow in curiosity. In front of him sitting on the floor was the old man in charge of the school and what he could only guess was Ryoma. They of course were doing a jigsaw puzzle along with at least eight empty cans of ponta scattered around the room.
"Yanagi can I help you with anything?" Sato was in his mid 60's and was the one that said you either win or don't try at all, well that's what Renji was lead to believe, but seeing this man sitting down smiling with the other was abnormal to say the least. Sensing the look Renji was giving to the boy, the principal stood and told them he would give them sometime to talk.
All through out this Ryoma sat there listening in to the elder man who he had met once back in America and he had to say was quiet fond of him. Mainly because they both like doing jigsaw. "Alright, Ryoma I'll go and get some more ponta. Maybe Yanagi can help you with the jigsaw." Leaving the two teens in the room Sato left closing the door behind him.
"So we meet at last Ryoma. I have to say you are much more interesting in person." The boy stood trying to make himself on equal ground. "It's okay. I'm Renji Yanagi. Remember?" He spoke softly as he watched the boy slump back onto the ground.
"Is Gen mad at me?" Renji sat down facing the cat as he thought of the question.
"Did something happen when you got out of the car?" Ryoma gave the other a nod as he grabbed another piece of the puzzle placing it in its correct spot.
"Does Gen feel ashamed of me? He told me not to tell anyone that he's in a relationship. I mean we did something last night and... Was I that bad? He was nice to me this morning, but then he goes and say's not to tell anyone that we're together." Yanagi stayed quiet as he thought over what the other was saying.
"Ryoma I'll sort him out. I've got to get back to lessons. I'll get him to see you at lunch." Watching Ryoma give him a small wave and smile he left the room, he went straight back to class. As he enter all students were now staring at the data collector. Instead of going to his seat he went over to Gen's chair slapping the other on the cheek as hard as he could. "You're an idiot."
"Yanagi I expect you to apologize to Sanada then take you seat." Renji suddenly remembering where he was apologized to the teacher, but just gave the vice-captain a look.
The bell finally rung indicating it was time for lunch. Yanagi went straight over to Sanada. "So what was Ryoma upset about?" Despite his facial expression being blank, Gen's heart meanwhile was pounding in his chest, after all Renji would only slap him if he had a reason. Gen glanced towards his friend.
"Ryoma thinks you're ashamed of him. I know you not comfortable about letting overs know about your private life, but you have to remember the kid probably likes to show others that he is with someone. Yukimura and Fuji wouldn't have a problem with this. Tezuka, from what Ryoma told me lets him hug him and Tezuka even shows affection to him in front of others. Atobe I'm not sure about that yet and then there's you. You told Ryoma not to say anything to others." Yanagi sighed as he noticed Gen pale slightly.
"You should go and apologize now before thoughts go through his head and he starts to blame himself. Who know what reason his came up with at this point in time." Thank his fellow third year, Gen left the room ignoring the other tennis regulars who were walking towards him down the hallway.
"Hey Sanada-Senpai! Where are you... going?" Akaya trailed off towards the end as the other walked right pass him. "Well, wonder what happened to him?"
"He's going to see Ryoma." Akaya looked to Renji in surprise. "I'm guessing you didn't know he was spending the day here. Sato-Sensai has been with Ryoma in his office doing a jigsaw. I would suggest you leave them. Sanada will try kill us in practice otherwise."
Gen had rushed through the hallways. As he got to the office he knocked before opening the door to find only Ryoma there. "Where's Seto-Sensai?" The cat looked up to the other feeling nervous.
"He's gone to get some lunch for us." The vice-captain sat down next to Ryoma before dragging the boy onto his lap. "Gen?"
"I'm sorry." He whispered as he unclipped the boy hood and rubbed his face into the cat's hair. "I really didn't mean to make you feel like that. This isn't your fault. It's me that has the problem with letting other know. I find it hard to let others in. You, Kei, Mitsu, Syu and Sei are the exceptions. Since I've been in this relationship I've gotten closer to others as well, but I'll always feel worried up to some point. I'm someone who cares what others think of me." Gen smiled when he felt one of Ryoma's ears twitch against his skin before he felt both his hands around the boy's waist being covered by smaller ones. "So what picture are you making?"
Sei woke to face planting the floor. Groaning, he pushed up with his arms and looked around. 'Lounge. I feel dizzy.' He felt like everything around him was going in slow motion. The blunette carefully got to his feet. Staggering slightly as he tried to find his center of balance. 'Okay... Breathe.' Sei mentally kept telling himself. 'Is there less oxygen in here? Who closed the door.' Taking a few steps he reached out for the door knob. 'Help!' He screamed in his head. 'Why's no one listening? Am I not speaking.'
Collapsing on all fours his breath came out in short pants. 'I'm scared. It's so hot in here.' He brought one hand up and in panic clawed at the bottom of his shirt to get it off. Once he finally managed to get the shirt over his head he threw it away from here, before rolling onto his back trying to get oxygen into his lungs.
A couple of minutes laying on the floor and finally he started to breath normal. Going onto his side he brought his knees up and cried silently. 'I'm scared. I don't want to die.'
Ryoma grabbed Gen's hand as he jumped alongside his lover as they entered the tennis courts. The vice-captain took in a breath as he noticed the look the non-regulars and some of the regulars were giving him. Glancing down Gen smirked when he noticed Ryoma not caring about the looks he was receiving and just hummed happily. Going over to a bench, the vice-captain told Ryoma to sit.
"Ryoma, just stay here and please don't say anything inappropriate." He watched as the boy twiddled with his thumbs.
Sei woke to feeling a hand on his forehead. Opening his eyes he squinted as he look to the blurry person in front of him. "Keigo?" He asked as he watched the figure move to get something from the side table as the image slowly got clearly.
"Well you got the right family, but I'm Keiichi. Are you feeling better and do you know where you are?" The blunette groaned as he felt the enviroment around him.
"Somewhere soft. Bed? By the smell it's Kei's." He could vaguely see the smile on the elder mans face.
"Correct. Now the first question. Are you alright? I found you fast asleep on the floor curled up and with tear stains on your face. In fact now that I look at it your eyes are quiet puffy." Sei looked away from the other in embarrassment.
"It's nothing just forget about it. Everything just got to me. Just don't tell the others. It'll cause them to worry and they all have things to concentrate on." Keiichi stared down at the sick teen. He frowned as he could see the war the other was going through.
"Seiichi listen. You shouldn't push them away. If you do, when you need them the most they'll be so far from your reach they won't know what to do when you call out for them." Sei closed his eyes for a second when he felt a hand run through his hair.
"Is this what it's like to talk and be comforted by a dad? It's weird having a conversation like this. I know I could always talk to Shan, but he is always so busy and though he is in some ways my father he's never really been there. I don't blame him because if he didn't go all over the world doing what-ever I would never of met Ryo-Chan. I just wanted a parent figure I could look up to and ask about things and be selfish in front of." Sei choked out a sob and he curled up facing away from the other.
"Hey come on don't cry." Keiichi rubbed Sei's back in comfort. "If you ever want to talk Sei, whether it me, Shan, Tomo we'll give you our full attention. Please though don't stop letting others get close to you. You know, you should go out somewhere with Keigo. He loves spoiling the ones he cares about. Anyway I'm making my attempt at food which is really just soup heated from a tin." Hearing a snort from the blunette, the elder smiled knowing that he slightly cheered up the other.
As the Rikkaidai tennis training came to and end, Gen and Ryoma got the rest of their things out of the locket before the vice-captain suggested going to that small cafe that they visited with the others before. One reason for Gen doing this was an apology for earlier and the other was the fact that Ryoma behaved and didn't say anything that would scar him or his tennis team for life.
As they left the school Ryoma suddenly paused and looked behind him. "Are they going to join us?" The cat pointed to the six following, but keeping their distance.
"Sei..." The blunette looked up as he heard the voice of one of his lovers at the door. "Dad phoned saying you weren't feeling too well. I brought ice cream." Keigo closed the door behind him as he slipped off his shoes and took off his tennis shirt leaving him only in shorts. Crawling onto the bed he grabbed the TV remote and stuck on a movie. "Did you make soup?" The Hyotei captain asked as he looked to the empty bowl that had small traces of what was tomato soup.
"I didn't, your dad did." Hearing a 'Hmm' in wonder from his lover, Sei rested his head onto the others shoulder. "If it helps it was tinned soup." A small snort came from Keigo's lips as if that part came to no surprise.
Kinjo left the building seething in rage. 'How dare they! It would be front page news. Just because the Atobes are involved the story got cancelled. Che, if they didn't own the god damn company I work for we would have made millions on this story do they realize how much more profit they would make. Idiots!' He was so busy ranting in his mind that he only just barely noticed the teen from last night along with 9 others. Looking at each one Kinjo guessed the smallest was the boy he had seen with ears and a tail. "How lucky." He smirked as he made sure to keep his distance as he followed the group.
Gen had agreed to let his teammate go with them to the cafe on the condition that anything they buy they pay for. Much to Bunta's annoyance.
They sat down the vice-captain ordered coffee for himself and five desserts for Ryoma. As they others ordered they all watched as a man came to the table just as the waitress left. Unconsciously Gen stopped the man from getting too close to Ryoma by putting his arm between the man and the boy.
"Do you need something?" The Rikkaidai student ask not giving off any emotions.
"Yes, but not with you. I wanted to talk to your friend here. You see I'm from the newspaper company called 'The Scoop'. I'm sure you've heard of it being the most sold paper in all of Japan. I wanted to get an interview with the boy you're sitting next to since from what I had seen last night the child is very special." Gen's eyes narrowed as he remembered the maid telling him about a news reporter that had seen Ryoma's appearance last night.
"His not interest. I suggest you turn around and forget what you saw. It's none of your business." Kinjo glared at the teen.
"Like I said I want to talk to him not you. Besides it has everything to do with me. We would make millions. He's a new discovery to man kind. Just think of all the possibility if there were others like him."
"There isn't." Gen interrupted without a second to spare. "He's the only one and he wasn't born with them."
"Even if he wasn't. Imagine all the researchers in the world wanting to meet this amazing discovery. He's something that shouldn't exist, but his living and breathing right in front of us." Ryoma's shoulders tensed as he heard the words 'shouldn't exist'. Just as the cat was about to leap out his seat to attack the man, Gen was already two steps ahead of him and had stood in a flash, grabbed the man by the collar and pinned him against the wall.