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Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis (Tennis no Ohjisama), nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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I don�t own Tennis no Ohjisama or
any of its characters.� The original
characters in here are free to be used as you see fit. Lots of thanks go to my friend Nicole for helping me with the ideas of this story and for helping me write when i get stuck.�

The nine tennis regulars piled out of the vehicle and stood
staring at the three story mansion.�
Ryoma merely blinked and stroked Karupin who was still cuddled in his
arms.

Nami was the last to exit the limo
and after the others got their luggage she motioned them to follow her.� At the door she handed Ryoma a key ring and
moved so that he could open the door.

�� Welcome
Ryoma-kun.� The first floor has the
kitchen and pantry, two bathrooms, a tea ceremony room, and an entertaining
room, to which we�ve added a stereo system and television.� The second floor is all bedrooms except for
the three bathrooms, and the third floor has storage rooms, one bathroom and
several more bedrooms.� Each bedroom has
a small section of furniture for entertaining visitors.� The house has had a heating and air
conditioning system installed and each room has a vent that can be opened or
closed as each person wishes, right now they�re all open to heat the
house.� The controls for that are on the
wall by the stairs.� I can give you the
grand tour now, or you can choose your rooms first if you like.� Nami said as she led them past the entrance hall.

Oishi spoke up when it became
apparent that Ryoma was a little overwhelmed.

�� We should
probably choose rooms and put our luggage in them so that we won�t be carrying
it on the tour.�

�� Of course,
I�ll wait for you all on the third floor when you�re done and we�ll work our
way down from there.� The rooms on the
second floor are all open, except for one.�
For some reason we can�t find the key to it and any spares we have made
break.� We�ve had several locksmiths
attempt to open it with no luck and our carpenters tried as well with the same
results.� We thought we should see what
you wanted to do with it before attempting to break it down and replace
it.� Well, I�ll see you in a few minutes.�
The lawyer said as they reached the second floor and she carried on to the end
of the hall where there was another staircase.

Ryoma just walked over to a random room, or so it seemed to
the others, and looked inside.� While
each of the other rooms were scarcely decorated this
room was decorated with woodblock prints, paintings, and a few small ivory
statues.� Karupin jumped from his boy�s
arms and was soon curled up on the bed purring contently.� To anyone who was watching the young boy closely, and several of his friends were, they noticed that
Ryoma had gone a little pale and there was a confused look in his eyes as
though he were seeing something he knew wasn�t there.� In fact Ryoma was seeing two rooms, the one
that the others saw and an older fashioned one.�
Some of the artwork and statues were in different spots than they were
now and a futon replaced the bed, there was also something just outside of his
line of vision that he couldn�t seem to catch sight of.� A hand on his shoulder brought the world back
to normal and he looked up slightly into the eyes of Kawamura.

�� You ok Echizen?�
the sushi chef in training asked in concern.

Ryoma and Kawamura had never become truly close but they
were still friends and the older boy, though he seemed almost timid at times
when not holding a racket, was protective of the team, especially the three
younger boys.

�� Hai sempai.� Just
thought I saw something for a minute.�
I�ll take this room since Karupin already seems attached to it.� Ryoma
said as he walked into the room not noticing the cold spot he passed just
inside the door.�

Tezuka, Fuji,
Kawamura, and Kaidoh gave him a strange look before joining the others in
choosing rooms.� Tezuka
and Fuji took the room across the
hall from Ryoma and to the right of the stairs.�
To the left of the stairs was Kaidoh and in the room between Kaidoh�s and the bathroom was Kawamura�s.� To the left of Ryoma�s room and facing the
stairs was Momo�s room and to the left of him went Oishi and Eiji, with Inui in the
room between them and another bathroom.�
Ryoma had a bathroom to the right of his room and the large locked room
spread out to both sides of the hall with the door marking that end of the
passage.� The stairs leading to the third
floor were between the two bathrooms at the opposite end of the corridor.

Once everyone had chosen their rooms and placed their
luggage in them they gathered at the stairs to go up together, Ryoma was once
again carrying his cat.� Suddenly they
heard a woman�s scream from somewhere above them and the boys thundered up the
stairs to see if Nami was alright.�

They found the woman cowering in a corner about to throw one
of her shoes at a mouse.� Karupin
immediately jumped from Ryoma�s arms and raced after the now running creature.

�� Nami-san, are you alright?� Ryoma asked as he approached
the frightened woman who was putting her shoe back on.

�� Ah, gomen Ryoma-kun, everyone.� I�ve always been afraid of rodents, I�m sorry
if I startled you.� She replied after taking a deep breath.

�� It�s fine,� The sixteen year old said with a nod before
turning to look for his cat.�� Karupin
come back.�

Karupin meowed in annoyance as she pawed at the wall where
the mouse had disappeared through a hole.�
She looked up when she heard her boy�s voice call her name but what she
saw next to him is what truly caught her attention.� A young girl about her boy�s age was standing
in the shadows beside him.� She looked
angry but sad as well and she reminded Karupin of the boy she�d met in the
kitchen back home.� At least she did until
the girl reached up towards a painting on the wall and the cat sensed danger
for her favorite human.� Karupin became
enraged and with a challenging yowl she raced towards the now wide eyed girl
spirit and pounced.

The nine boys and one woman watched as the cat suddenly
yowled and went running towards the wall before jumping and rebounding off it.

�� Karupin?� Ryoma said seeming to suddenly question his cat�s
sanity.

She in turn wound herself around his ankles asking to be
carried.

�� Well then,
now that we�re all assembled again, let�s get on with the tour.� The lawyer
said with a forced laugh.

The others nodded and followed obediently behind her.� The first few rooms they came too were
smaller versions of the bedrooms on the second floor, but the third door on the
left held something different.� A cleaning
supplies closet, which happened to be across the hall from the upstairs
bathroom.�

In the middle of the hallway Nami
stopped and took down a long pole with a small leather loop on one end that had
been hanging on the wall.� She reached it
up, hooked the loop over the open end of a handle on the ceiling and pulled
down with all her strength.� A trap door
finally groaned open and she reached the tool up again to snag the ladder which
was easier to pull down.

�� That gentlemen is how you get into the attic.� We cleaned and made sure everything was
stable but other than that we didn�t touch anything.� There�s quite a bit of your ancestral history
up there Ryoma-kun.�

Ryoma looked up the ladder with mixed feelings.� He�d never been that interested in his family
history but now that he was here he felt almost obligated to at least take a
look.� In fact it kind of felt like
something was trying to pull him up into the attic.� Vaguely Ryoma thought he could hear Karupin
meow and someone say his name several times but it didn�t seem important enough
to register at the moment.� The attic was
all that mattered.

Once again it was someone placing their hand on his shoulder
that brought him back to himself.� Or
rather it was two someone�s.� Tezuka and Fuji
each had a hand on one of his shoulders and concern in their eyes.� With a start Ryoma realized that he had one
hand and one foot on the ladder rungs as though he were going to climb up.� He didn�t remember having moved.� Ryoma shook his head quickly, trying to clear
it, and stepped back from it quickly.�
Looking around him he was thankful to find that Inui had distracted Nami and most of the others with questions.� Tezuka and Fuji
were on ether side of him, their expressions still worried, while Kaidoh was
using the pole to put the ladder and door away.�
He was glaring at the opening as though sentencing it to a slow and
painful death.

A short time later the touring tennis players found
themselves back on the ground floor.�
They were nearing the end of their guided excursion and had only the Tea
Ceremony room left to see.� As they
neared the door Ryoma could feel the hair on the back of his neck start to rise
and an intense unknown fear gripped him tight.�
Without apprehending what he was doing he reached out a hand to either
side of himself and gripped Fuji
and Tezuka�s hands in his own.� Surprised, but pleased, at the boy�s action
they each glanced at him.� What they
found was not the embarrassed blush they�d expected but a wide eyed, pale
skinned, terrified look that they had never seen before and hoped never to see
again.� All three stopped a good distance
from the room and Tezuka leaned down to speak quietly
to the younger boy.

�� Ryoma, are
you alright?� What�s wrong, do you feel
sick?�

�� I� I
can�t� I can�t go in there.� There�s
something wrong with that room.� The now shaking sixteen year old replied.

Ryoma had never been so scared in his life.� He didn�t know how, but he knew something
horrible had happened in that room.� He
did know, though, that it was something he didn�t want to find out.� He tried to steady his nerves and as the
others were turning back towards the entertainment room Ryoma realized that he
still had a hold of his two teammates� hands.�
Blushing bright with mortification he quickly released them and stepped
out of sync from them, missing the looks of disappointment that fluttered
across their faces.

�� Right then,
I put a copy of the numbers for the grocers and the restaurants by the phone,
and here�s another for you.� Now, I have
an unusual favor to ask of you boys.� Nami said as
she handed Ryoma some papers.

�� What is it
Nami-san?� Ryoma replied.

�� Well, this
will sound strange but I want you boys to order as much as you want and then
some.� I want you to run those accounts
up as high as you possibly can.� Feel
free to throw a party or something, so long as the house stays in one piece,
and have it catered.�

�� Huh?� was
the basic sentiment she received from all the tennis players.

�� Well, the
truth is, I don�t really like my boss.�
He�s far too arrogant and needs something of a rude awakening.� He still hasn�t realized just how much money
you guys might spend on food and such, and he laughs my opinions off.� So I want you boys to go all out if you can.� I promise no repercussions will fall upon
you, and no there is no hidden rule that would cause you or your families to
pay for what you buy.�

�� We�ll
see.� Thank you Nami-san.�
Ryoma replied with a hint of his smirk.

She in return, bowed and bid them all goodbye.�

Alone now the regulars piled into the kitchen to see what
had been stored for them already so they could make up a list to order.� Opening the fridge they found two gallons of
milk, three quarts of juice, some different lunchmeats, and various fruit.� On the counter next to the fridge were two
loaves of bread, and in the freezer was some chicken and steak.� They were lucky if it would last the
day.� Quickly making a list Ryoma phoned
it in to one of the stores and asked for it to be delivered after giving the
account number and name.� They were told
that the groceries would be delivered in about an hour, so the boys decided to
unpack a little before then.

Ryoma was in his room looking for a more comfortable shirt,
he had already taken of the first, when he felt eyes on his back.� He�d left the door partly open in case
Karupin decided to come in, not that it really mattered seeing as these boys
changed in front of each other all the time for tennis practice.� Turning around he found Momoshiro staring at
him.� His sempai suddenly gasped as he
got a good look at Ryoma�s chest.� There
were two large dark bruises that were vaguely in the shape of hand prints.

�� Ryoma!� What
happened?� How did you get those
bruises?!� the seventeen year old yelled as he barged into the room.

His voice consequently brought the rest of the regulars
rushing out of their own rooms to see what was going on.

�� Echizen!� Are you
alright?� Who did this to you?� Has someone been abusing you?� Oishi said worriedly as he examined the injury.

�� I don�t
know how I got them sempai.� They were
there after I got home from the law office yesterday.� They don�t hurt much though.�

Tezuka was looking Ryoma straight
in the eyes the boy�s words from the day before circling through his mind,�� It felt like someone pushed me but no one
was there.�

�� Those look
pretty bad, you should rub some ointment into them if
you can.� I�ll go get some from my pack.�
Oishi said as he rushed back to his room.

Fuji hadn�t said
anything but his eyes showed both livid fury and concern for Ryoma.� Someone had hurt one of his precious people,
and when he found that someone he would make sure they paid.

Upstairs in the attic the spirit of a sixteen year old boy
shivered with the sudden feeling of danger that crept up on him.

After the boys were sure that Ryoma either really didn�t
know who had done this to him or wasn�t going to tell them they left him to
change, which he now did with the door closed, and to put the salve on his
chest, not that Fuji didn�t try to help him.

That night, while Ryoma was preparing for bed someone
knocked on his bedroom door.� Opening it
he found Tezuka and Fuji
standing there.� Apprehensive about being
trapped by either of them again, no matter how much he�d enjoyed it despite the
confusion, he let them in but stayed just out of their
reach.

�� We came to
say goodnight Ryoma.� Fuji said
with a smile.

�� Ah, oyasumi-nasai sempai.� He
intoned as a reply.

�� Now that
wasn�t quite the goodnight I had in mind, and what happened to using our
names?� You use Kobayashi-san�s name so easily, it shouldn�t be a problem for you to
use ours.� the tensai said as he drew slowly closer.

�� Right,
that.� Umm, goodnight Shusuke-san, Kunimitsu-san.�
Ryoma muttered as he backed up until he hit the bed causing him to sit down
abruptly.

This made Fuji�s
smile widen and Tezuka�s eyes soften more than they
had been when the two showed up in his room.

�� Saa, Ryoma.� Oyasumi.�
Fuji said sensually as he bent at
the waist.

Ryoma closed his eyes, unsure of what was coming next.� Suddenly he felt a kiss pressed onto his
forehead.� The lips then trailed there
way gently down to his cheek bone before they temporarily left his face only to
return to softly caress his nose in a playful way.� He opened his eyes again, feeling sure that
he was bright red, when he felt Fuji
move away.� While he was still reeling
with shock Tezuka leaned down where his lover had
just been.� Ryoma closed his eyes again
but did not try to escape.� The team
captain hesitated for a moment before placing a kiss next to his left eye and
then one to the corner of his mouth.� Before
withdrawing though he brought his left hand up to tenderly stroke Ryoma�s face
and lips.

�� That�s
what I call saying goodnight, for now at least.�
Ryoma, just remember, we sleep with our door unlocked, and you�re always
welcome.� Sweet dreams.� Fuji
said as he turned to leave.

�� Goodnight
Ryoma, remember what Shusuke just said.� The invitation is always there.� Tezuka said as he too turned to leave.

Ryoma was completely confused now.� He wanted them, that much he knew, and it
seemed that they now wanted him too, but was this invitation of theirs for
keeps or was it just open to occasionally playing.� Did they truly want him or did they just want
to have fun a few times?� One thing he
did know was that he now had to make use of the bathroom beside his bedroom to
take care of a throbbing problem.

�Why couldn�t everything just be tennis?� he thought as he
settled down to sleep with Karupin.�
Despite his turmoil he fell asleep sooner than he expected he would
thereby not noticing how cold his room became a minute
later.

The sixteen year old boy spirit slowly approached the bed in
which Echizen slept.� The cat he�d met at
the house sat up and glared at him as if she wondered if he too would now try
to hurt her boy.� Now that he was in his
house he had energy to spare once more so he reached out and stroked her soft
fur in reassurance.� No, he would no
longer try to hurt this boy to make him leave.�
It was too late for that.� Now he
would have to concentrate all his efforts on saving this ones life.� The boy leaned down and studied the boy�s
face closely with sad eyes before tracing a hand over the spots the boy had
been kissed.� Withdrawing his fingers he
pressed his lips to the boy�s temple in a brotherly way.� The living sixteen year old shivered and
pulled the covers further up without waking.

�� Oyasumi-nasai, Ryoma.� The spirit
whispered before leaving the room.

A short distance away in the locked room another spirit
awoke, his eyes glowing red in anger.
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