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Die to Love You	By : Bastet Category: Prince of Tennis/Tennis no Ohjisama > General Views: 6699 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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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Prince of Tennis is not mine. 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.

Authors note:� Several entries from Echizen Aya�s journal
are in italics, as is her past that Inui dreams about.

�� As Inui
prepared for bed that night he discovered the Omamori that Fuji
had placed among his things.� He knew it
was the prodigy because he�d seen him placing the seals against evil spirits on
the locked door earlier.� Inui might have
one of the most logical 18 year old minds out there but he still believed in an
aspect or two of the supernatural.� He
would have to remember to thank him in the morning; for now though he had
something else on his mind.

�� Inui
climbed into bed and reached for the off white diary of Echizen Aya.� The moment he opened it he was entranced and
felt unwilling to put the old book down until he had finished all of the entries.

�� The diary
spanned the girl�s life from the time she was fifteen to the day she died about
a month after she turned sixteen.� For
the most part she seemed to be a normal, nice, helpful, and dutiful girl.� Then, about halfway through her journal, things
became more interesting.

�� I met someone today.� He is handsome and strong but he was so soft
spoken when he addressed me that I thought I might forget to breathe.� I have never felt like this before but it is
very much like how my friend Ashiya Sachiko told me it would be.� He is the eldest son of my father�s coworker,
and his name is Ken�ichi.� He and his
father came to see my father this afternoon and my mother and I served the
tea.� Our eyes met by accident for a mere
instant but it felt like an eternity.� He
later spoke to me as he was in a conversation with my younger brother in the
hall near the tea room.

I do not like that
room, I find the ceremony beautiful but that room has always frightened me and
as we stood there I felt as though someone watched me closely.

�� Oh the gods have blessed me with a
day I barely dared dream of.� My younger
brother Shuuichi invited Ken�ichi over for me, he seems to have guessed my
feelings towards him, and all three of us went for a long walk in the forest
surrounding the house.� He taught me how
to skip a stone across the pond, though I was not very good at it and I do not
think my mother and grandmother would approve of the skill, and then he recited
his favorite Haiku to me under the sakura trees.� At the end of the walk he took my hand and
said he wanted to see me again, my brother made him take his hand away from
mine but agreed to chaperone another meeting.�
Shuuichi may be three years younger than me but he is very protective
and caring.

It was strange; the
entire time I was with him I felt eyes upon me again though I know it was not
my brother.

�� I saw Ken�ichi with his friends at
the market today when I was out with my mother and grandmother.� His friends stared at me openly in a
frightening way and whispered rude things as I passed.� I felt quite embarrassed.� My mother seemed not to notice but when we got
home I heard her telling my father that Ken�ichi was friends with
delinquents.� He came that evening to
apologize and take Shuuichi and I for a walk again.� I feared that one of my parents would protest
but thankfully neither did.� My father
glared and scowled so much though that I felt as if we were betraying him by
going.� While we were out Ken�ichi asked
for forgiveness again for his friends and then before my brother could protest
he took me by the hands.� He told me that
he could not forgive them for what they had done and that if he had his way he
would be the only one to ever enjoy my beauty ever again.

I think I am falling
in love with him.

Tonight my brother
came to speak with me as I wrote this.�
He says he has seen a strange man and occasionally a boy wandering the
hall near my room at night.� Shuuichi
thinks they are ghosts and says he�s seen them disappear into thin air.� I find myself wondering if they could be what
has been watching me when I am with Ken�ichi.

�� It has been three months since I met
Ken�ichi and rarely a week goes by that I do not see him, though my brother
still chaperones those meetings.� I will
be sixteen tomorrow, he has promised me a nightingale and a surprise.� I do so hope that he will ask my honorable
father for permission to marry me.

Ken�ichi came to visit
tonight and I met him in the second floor hallway by the stairs while my
brother was in the washroom.

He kissed me.

It was wonderful but I
felt someone was standing behind me glaring.�
Did I make a mistake?� I love him
but should I have not let him kiss me?

�� Sachiko tells me she saw Ken�ichi
kiss another girl today.� What a cruel
joke to play on my birthday.� My Ken�ichi
would never do something like that.� I
told her she must have been mistaken and she left after telling me that I was
being a fool.� My mother has been acting
strangely since last night; I wonder if something has happened.

�� Ken�ichi came to see me tonight to
give me the bird but my parents became angry.�
My father confronted him about something, I could not hear about what
because they were in another room, and Ken�ichi left.� Why would they do this?� Mother told me she saw me kiss him but that
she had not told my father.

Why did he send him
away then?

I found out today that
Sachiko told her older brother about how she supposedly saw Ken�ichi with
another girl and her brother told my father.�
I will never forgive her for this even if Shuuichi does like Sachiko�s
younger sister Kana.� I will never
forgive her or her family for this.

Mother no longer
speaks to me unless she is giving me chores.�
What is happening to my life?�
Ken�ichi is the only one that understands me now.

It�s
been a month since my father forbade me to see Ken�ichi but I�ve snuck out to
meet with him a few times.� I feel
horrible disobeying my parents but I love him.�
This will be my last entry in this diary.� I am sneaking out in a few hours to elope
with Ken�ichi.� I know it might dishonor
my family but I must get out of this house.�
The ghost that is watching me is beginning to frighten me.

�� Inui
finally put the book down and looked at the clock.� It was ten to four in the morning and he
decided he definitely needed to get some sleep.

�� The spirit
of 16 year old Echizen Aya entered the room of the boy who had her diary with
no difficulty.� The charms that had been
placed around the house were protections against injury and evil but Aya, her
uncle Ryoma and her grand-niece Mai were not evil.� So long as they meant no harm the Omamori
would not work against her and them.�
Then again they might not work against the red eyed ghost either
considering how old and powerful he was.

�� Aya sat on
the edge of the bed and smiled sadly down at the sleeping boy.� He�d forgotten to remove his glasses before
falling asleep, just like her brother used to.�
She reached out and took them off for him and placed them on the table
nearby.

�� I�m sorry
for intruding Inui-san, but I wish to show you the rest of my story.� I can show you the mistake I almost made and
how I died.� Even if you will only think
it�s a dream I hope it helps you protect your Echizen-san and the two that love
him.� She said as she placed her hands on either side of his face and
concentrated on controlling his dream.

Aya left her room to
take a bath after hiding her diary.� As
she was out of her room her brother entered it, bringing with him a cup of tea
and a letter.

The tea he placed on
her bedside table and the letter he left on her bed before he left for his own
room.� He didn�t notice that his sister
had left her window slightly open or that a breeze knocked the paper from her
bed and it came to a rest under her desk.

The spirit of a man
entered through the open door with a nearly full vial of white powder.� He carefully poured some into the cup of bitter
dandelion tea and stirred it to make sure it dissolved.� The powder was said to be bitter but that
would barely be noticed in this tea.� He
heard her approaching and quickly hid the vial so that he could retrieve it
easily at a later time before he disappeared.

Aya reentered her room
still drying her hair.� She noticed the
tea and wondered for a moment if it was her mother�s way of showing that she
forgave her before shaking off the thought and reaching for the cup.� Dandelion tea was her favorite and it had
just started to cool so she downed it in a few gulps.

About ten minutes
later Aya was feeling a little dizzy and nauseous so she decided to make her
way back to the washroom to splash her face with water.� She was walking by the stairs when the first
of the spasms wracked her body and sent her falling down the flight of
steps.� She broke her neck near the
bottom.

Several days later her
spirit found her brothers letter with her uncle Ryoma�s help and she read about
how her brother had found out that it was Kana, Sachiko�s younger sister that
had been forcefully kissed by Ken�ichi.� Shuuichi
had then discovered that Ken�ichi had several �girlfriends� and was suspected of
attempting to rape a girl in the next town.

Aya removed her hands and wiped a tear away from the boy�s
cheek.� He was crying for her.

�� Thank
you.� She whispered, touched, before pulling the covers up further and leaving.

The red eyed spirit wandered the third floor corridor in
annoyance.� The stupid brat thought he
could seal him in his room with those charms but he hadn�t counted on two
things.� One was the ghost�s age, because
with age came strength; the other being that he wasn�t in the room at the time
it was sealed.� He stared at the charms
he came across in the hallway in distaste.�
If he wanted to he could destroy them but that would leave him powerless
for at least a day unless he took the time to gather more strength first.� For now he would simply wait for an
opportunity to present itself.

As the boy�s began waking up and moving around he decided to
follow some of them around to see if he could find his chance to hurt, or kill
one of the three though his sole target was Echizen now.� The boy was being corrupted before his very
eyes and while he was not about to let them get away with it he first had to
save the boy from himself.� He couldn�t
actually enter any of the bedrooms without wasting energy on destroying the
charms so he left that be fore now, but the boy had forgotten several key
spots.� So when Echizen�s precious cat
came downstairs demanding attention and food from the protective hissing boy
and the humble one that had the ability to create sushi masterpieces he knew
his chance had arrived.

Fuji was content
in his dreams.� Tezuka was stroking him
to hardness as Ryoma kissed him senseless before whispering into his ear that
he was ready for Fuji to take
him.� He moaned in his sleep and
reluctantly began to wake up only to find that it wasn�t completely a
dream.� He was lying between Tezuka and
Ryoma; his lover was awake and looking at him with a seductive smile, while his
soon to be lover slept on.� Tezuka was
stroking his abdomen just barely caressing his half hard cock.� Ryoma was on his other side using his chest
as a pillow and had one of his legs tangled with Fuji�s making the silk of his
boxers rub maddeningly against his thigh.�
Fuji leaned up slightly and
kissed Tezuka before reaching down one hand to kneed Ryoma�s ass which
consequently woke him up.

Ryoma blinked as he felt a hand grope him and ended up
looking into a pair of very aroused blue eyes.�
Deciding it felt just as right as it had the day before, and technically
they were already further than they had gotten yesterday since they were all to
the same point of undress, Ryoma decided to just go with the flow and leaned
over to kiss the older prodigy.� As his
mouth was occupied he reached a hand around to his team captain and ended up
with his fingers stroking his hip just under the edge of Tezuka�s boxers.� He reached his thumb further to the front and
found a spot that made Tezuka�s hips jump forward.� When he finally came up for air from kissing Fuji
he stared at the captain with half lidded lust filled hazel gold eyes.� Fuji
now had both hands massaging Ryoma�s butt as the younger boy carefully raised
himself to his knees, know straddling one of the prodigy�s legs, and leaned
over to kiss Tezuka.

He was in the middle of one of the most passionate kisses
he�d ever experienced when all three broke apart at the loud crash and feline
scream that followed it.

�� KARUPIN!�
Ryoma gasped out as he bolted from the bed and out into the hall still clad in
only his boxers.

The other two weren�t far behind him, though they had to
pause for a split second to pull their own boxers back into place.

Ryoma got to the top of the stairs just in time for him to
see Karupin come racing up them and leap into his arms.� The cat was trembling and meowing pitifully
as though she were trying to tell her boy what had happened.� Oishi, Eiji, Momo and Inui had also come
running out into the hall, this was becoming something of a habit, as Kawamura
and Kaidoh were about halfway up the stairs.�

�� Ryoma, is
she hu�� WATCH OUT!� Momo cried out.

The regulars watched in horror as a red eyed spirit appeared
behind their youngest member, grabbed him, and spun him around to look him in
the eyes.� Karupin let out a more feral
hiss and tried to claw at the attacker even as he shoved the boy backwards down
the stairs and disappeared.

Ryoma felt helpless as he began his unwilling decent
downwards until a yell and a pair of strong arms wrapped themselves around his
waist taking care not to crush or dislodge the cat.� He opened his eyes and found that it was Kawamura
that had saved him from injury and possibly death.� The steps jutted out harshly and it would be
easy to land in a fatal way.

�� Sempai.� Thank you.� Was all he managed to croak out
before the others came rushing down to reassure themselves that he was alright.

After thoroughly checking the younger boy over Fuji
looked at Taka, his eyes full of gratitude.

�� Taka-san,
that�s twice you�ve saved the ones I love.�
I�m in your eternal debt.� Thank
you.�

�� Fujiko-chan,
you don�t have to� I wouldn�t be comfortable� please don�t say things like
that.� Taka replied uncomfortably and then blushed bright red as Tezuka bowed
to him.

The nine tennis players gathered in the kitchen, tactfully
ignoring the fact that four of them were only wearing boxers and that Oishi was
missing his shirt and his jeans were zipped but not buttoned.� The subject of the ghost was quickly brought
up as they put to Ryoma the question of whether they should leave or not.� Kaidoh, Oishi, and Taka were in favor of
abandoning the house and inheritance, but Momo, Inui and Eiji were sided more
towards staying, not for the money but because it was a challenge and Inui
wanted more information.� Tezuka and Fuji
simply stated that they would support Ryoma in whatever he chose though they
silently hoped he would choose to leave.�
Not that they were willing to back down from the test but to keep Ryoma
safe.

�� I�m not
leaving.� I don�t care if the opponent is
a ghost or a human; I�m not going to let him win.� I don�t want any of you to feel like you have
to stay though, I won�t hold anything against you if you wish to go, but
there�s only three more nights before this is over and I�m staying.� Ryoma
stated stubbornly as they had all expected he would.

Nodding to one another they all made a silent agreement to
stay and keep him and each other safe.

�� We�re a
team, and teams don�t abandon their teammates.�
I�m staying.� Oishi said.

�� Yeah!� We can�t let you have all the fun
ochibi-chan.� Besides who would empty my
wallet when I want company for ice cream if I let something happen to you?�
Eiji said as he flung his arms around Oishi and Ryoma.

�� I�ll stay,
even if there is a ghost.� Kaidoh stated quietly, he�d vowed to himself to
protect Ryoma against anything and he would not go back on his word.

�� Well I
can�t let you play ghost buster on your own huh?� Besides what kind of friend would I be if I
ran off now?� Momo said with an affectionate but friendly look in his eyes.

�� Echizen,
I�ll stay.� Kawamura said softly.

�� How would
I collect data if I leave now?� Inui stated with one eyebrow raised.

�� I�ll never
abandon you Ryoma.� You�re ours to
protect, remember?� Fuji whispered
to him.

�� It�s
unanimous then, we stay and protect each other as a team should.� Don�t let your guard down.� Tezuka declared
with a nod.

None of them took notice, though Fuji
thought he felt something familiar, of the three teenaged ghosts watching them
with smiles on their faces.�

Inui pulled the car into the driveway of the Yanagi
residence.� Renji lived here with his brother
so that he could continue to attend Rikkaidai high school after his parents had
moved again.� His ex-doubles partner was
waiting for him at the door again looking grim this time.� He�d Called Inui earlier that afternoon to
let him know that his brother had the results of the powdery substance for him.

�� Sadaharu.� Come in, my older brother is waiting in the
living room.� The Rikkaidai student said as he led his old friend down a hall.

�� It�s not
good I take it?� Inui responded picking up on the other boy�s mood immediately.

�� I�ll let
him explain.�

�� Sadaharu,
long time no see.� How have you been?�
Renji�s brother asked as he stood to shake his hand.

�� Fine; and
you?�

�� Fine just
fine.� Please sit.� Now I�d like you to tell me where you found
that powder please and whether you or your friends have been experiencing
anything strange.� Shortness of breath,
restlessness, apprehension, heightened perception (hearing, vision, etc.), abrupt
movements, exaggerated reflexes, muscular stiffness of face and legs, or
seemingly mild convulsions?� the private detective, Renji�s brother, asked
seriously.

�� I�ve
noticed none of those symptoms except when there is due cause.� Shortness of breath after heavy training,
apprehension in stressful situations, and none of the others.� As I told Renji, I found the vial of powder
in the same room my friend was attacked in directly after the altercation.� He
replied honestly.

�� That�s
good then.� What you brought me Sadaharu
is a very deadly poison.� This is
powdered strychnine.� The convulsions I
mentioned a moment ago can become quite violent and often lead to death within
a half hour of ingestion if it�s not treated.�
Thankfully it seems that none of your friends have been exposed to any
of this as it can be ingested, inhaled or injected.� I can�t give you this back, it needs to
either be kept as evidence or properly disposed of.� Have there been any more incidents?� Would you like me to look further into this?�

�� It�s not
up to me to say, but I don�t think Echizen would appreciate it if I said
yes.� We should be fine.� Thank you for all you�ve done, I left your
payment with Renji yesterday.� Now I
should be getting back.� Inui replied before he and his friend headed back
towards the door.

�� Sadaharu,
are you sure you can handle this?� Renji asked in concern.

��

�It will be fine Renji.� Three more nights and we�re all out of there,
probably for good.�

�� Something
else has happened then.� Can you tell me
what?� Are you sure you don�t need help?�

�� Ah,
Echizen was attacked again, this time in front of us.� Tell me Renji, do you believe in ghosts?�

�� Scientifically
they seem improbable, but� yes I do.�

�� Maybe I�ll
tell you about it when it�s over then.�
After all, I don�t have all the information yet.� Inui replied with a
smile as he prepared to drive back to the house.
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