A Matter of Memory
Little Kitten
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Ok, normal disclaimer, I don’t own it don’t sue me.
actual Café in Tokyo, I’ve never been but I looked it up on the web, it’s not
where Mizuki took Ryoma but I had to have some name to insert in there.
I’ve become a florist and I got the job just before
writing much, sorry. Now though it
should have died down to normal, other than all the funerals and weddings but
those you can’t predict. Sorry, I’m
rambling. On with the story, and
remember if you kill me for not updating then the story will never go on.
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Warning, Yukimura and Kirihara will be ooc.
national championship episodes, I have up to #17 of the manga books but it
doesn’t have much of their characters.
If anyone could help me with them I’d be grateful.
chapter.
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Ryoma flinched and tried to back away as the older boy
holding him by the shirt raised his other arm with a clear intention of hitting
him. The blow never came though and he
slowly opened his eyes as a new voice spoke.
“
there. Why not pick a fight with someone
a little closer to your size shit face?” a boy with longish spiky grey hair
growled out as he squeezed Sasabe’s captive wrist a
little harder.
“Who the
hell are you?! Let me go bastard!
it’s between me and this little monster.” Sasabe
managed to grind out between clenched teeth which were a clear sign of the pain
the other was inflicting.
The grey haired boy simply grinned and put even more
pressure into his grip making the older boy release Ryoma as he tried not to
double over in pain.
take care of this annoyance.”
“But…”
“I said get
lost Echizen, unless you’d rather I let him beat you to a bloody puddle!”
Ryoma did the only thing he could right then, he ran.
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not be sure that we were going to stay together?!” Atobe grumbled more
out of anger than curiosity. It was just
too silent in the limo right then and they all knew they had things to clear
up.
“Do I
really have to answer that after today?”
replied dangerously.
“We need to
calm down. We all know that we don’t
know Ryoma as well as we thought. What I
want to know is how we didn’t realize this before, and where the hell he is.”
Sanada said trying to subtly continue the subject.
“He’s unsure
because we’ve made no real effort to know him beyond what we saw.
from each of us, but we’ve never done the same for him.
restaurant and games. We would know what
was bothering him, maybe even why he lef…” Tezuka
faltered as he started to say that last word.
“I won’t
believe that he left us. He didn’t!
my sight again.”
the cat, their living reminder of their missing lover.
“Where do
we go next? We can’t just wander idly
and hope to find him.” Atobe spoke up.
“What about
the court he and I used to challenge each other on in middle school?
was confused about something.” Tezuka suggested.
“The one
the sky train passes?”
and received a nod.
“
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that one of the St. Rudolph players?!” Kentarou asked
loudly pointing at Mizuki who had just exited a restaurant up the street.
a bit please? I think we’ve
frightened enough people today.” Oishi said wincing as his ears were assaulted
by the loud voice next to him.
ask him if he’s seen Echizen-kun.”
everybody. You never know who’s seen
O’chibi. Let’s go!” Eiji practically
shouted as he grabbed the Rokkaku player by the wrist
and took off running.
the two caught up to the boy.
“Do you
want something?” Mizuki snapped.
“Calm
down. We just want to ask if you’ve seen
Echizen Ryoma anywhere today.” Oishi said as he hurried up to them with a
“Echizen…
who the hell do you think did this to me!?
No, I don’t know where he went either.” Mizuki ground out before
storming off after they’d caught a glimpse of his very wet pants.
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“Hey!
right?” Kajimoto called out addressing Inui and
Kaidoh who were still searching with Renji.
“Indeed.
asked smoothly as he sized up the Jyosei high school
tennis captain.
“Personally
no; but our school coach Hanamura-sensei did.
she’s still sputtering nonsense from the encounter.” Kajimoto
replied looking slightly annoyed.
“We haven’t
seen him all day. Did your coach happen
to mention where she ran into him?” Inui queried.
“Can’t you
get a hold of him?” the tennis captain asked in confusion.
These were after all two of the brat’s teammates, one being
an incessant data gatherer who should know ways to contact each of his own
players, the other had never seemed close to the boy whenever their schools
played each other but was all around protective of his team.
where their teammate was.
question. Where did your coach see
Echizen?” Kaidoh burst out revealing just how stressed the situation was making
him.
“Well if you’re
going to be that way about it… wait.
Something’s wrong isn’t it?” The Jyosei player
suddenly caught on.
“We simply
misplaced him with no way to contact him.
Nothing to worry about.
him?” Inui insisted downplaying the problem.
street
get her to tell me that he took off pretty fast.”
“Thank
you. Kaidoh, Renji, we’re going to
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Kirihara Akaya would never admit it out loud to anyone but
his captain and vice captain, but he was worried about Ryoma.
walking with looking for the missing teen.
He and Ryoma had really become close over the last couple of years.
him and show the other players that he wasn’t a red eyed devil anymore.
hurt anyone without good reason now. His
attitude however seemed to play off Ryoma’s quite well and he found he didn’t
mind the teasing insults the younger boy occasionally threw.
out just as well as he could take them.
At first they’d just sporadically met at the street courts and played
each other. That had gradually led to
them grabbing a bite to eat after and from there they just seemed to become
more and more comfortable with one another.
Akaya knew things not even Ryoma’s teammates knew.
kids at the private courts. He knew that
Nanako’s boyfriend seriously scared Ryoma, that the man had actually tried to
run him down in his car once and that he had tried to get rid of Ryoma’s cat
once as well. That incident is what led
to Ryoma insisting Karupin never return to his parents’ house so long as Nanako
was dating that bastard. Now if Ryoma
went somewhere with his boyfriends Akaya got to cat-sit since the feline had
only taken to select staff who normally either went with the boys or had the
same time off.
Akaya smiled at that thought.
hilarious to watch when he was saying goodbye to her.
“…
five minutes. I know you’re worried but
we need to keep our eyes open if we want to find him.
Yukimura said as he casually draped an arm around the younger boy’s shoulders.
“Sorry
just remembering a few things. Hey,
isn’t that the jackass who played for Yamabuki Jr
High for part of Ryoma’s first season?
The one that likes to beat people up?”
his name Akatsa or something?” Yukimura asked.
boy as no threat.
“Something
he’s beating on looks kind of familiar too.
I think he’s come up to Ryoma a few times when I was with him to annoy
him. Sasabe I
think. Hey, now I remember the other
guy. That’s Akutsu
Jin.” Kirihara replied.
“Well,
shall we interrupt and ask him if he’s seen Genichirou’s little lost kitten?”
Yukimura said lightly not letting go of the younger boy.
Genichirou-sempai calls him that in private he’d commit triple homicide.”
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