A/N: I do wish you liked the first chap!!! Keep on reading... onegai!!!

Arigatou minna!!!

Warnings: Mature Themes

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Ryuzaki Sakuno's POV:

Flashback:

It's a pain to see him relying on a breathing mask. I entered the ambulance bringing him in Jounan Hospital. It was also the place where he was born. I can really feel chills and nervousness building up inside me. I don't want to lose him. I kept holding his hand and there were three times that he almost slipped and leave me. Arigatou, Kamisama. He's still with me, hanging on. I looked outside and I saw hundreds of stars. We could have been gazing at it today if only the tsunami did not hit us. I am truly disappointed!!! Ryoma... hang on!

Sakuno's POV end.

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The news has reached all over the world and when the news came up, the Echizen Family, Ryuzaki Family and Echizen's team mates were surprised.

Rinko quickly tried to call his son but he doesn't answer. She's close into crying now.

Nanjiroh saw her crying and tried to comfort her. She's currently crying and deep inside her heart, she wishes that both of them are safe. She was closely watching the television until Ryoma's name came up at the news.

The reporter had said: "Echizen Ryoma, also known as the Prince of Tennis, the youngest champion of the US Open and won consecutive youth awards, we sadly report to you that he is one of the unlucky victims of the disaster. The doctors of Jounan Hospital are still closely monitoring him and they are reluctant in telling the media about his real condition but they told us that he had slipped into a coma. We do pay our prayers and wishes..."

The news made her more depressed. At first it was just them who are surprised but when the other regulars also learned that he is one of the victims, all became worried for him.

After an hour, Rinko's phone rang. She quickly answered it. Her tears were falling down painfully. "Moshi moshi?"

The person who called her is her father-in-law. Dr. Echizen Jiroh is also a high profile president of the Echizen Brothers Corporation.

"Rinko-san... how are you?" he asked weakly.

He's also working as a pediatric doctor and since he learned that his grandson has been a victim of the disaster, he quickly took the responsibility of looking on his condition.

"Father, why are you calling us?" she asked. Nanjiroh quickly went beside her.

"You need to go and see your son in Jounan Hospital. I'm his doctor. You've got to support the girl with him and him, too. There are many things we can't talk on phone that's why you need to be with them," he said.

Both hung up their phones. Doctor Echizen Jiroh looked at his grandson and his girlfriend. Up until now, Sakuno is crying on his bed begging for him to wake up. She kept holding his right hand as she painfully cry, watching him breathe through an oxygen mask. An IV is also stuck on his arms. His arms, chest, forehead and legs were also bandaged.

For another thirty minutes, his parents and Nanako came in the hospital. They quickly asked the room where Echizen Ryoma is at the nurse's corner. "Echizen Ryoma is in room 408, Intensive Care Unit in the pediatric ward at the twelfth floor. Doctor Echizen is waiting for you," she said. "I was told to escort you there." The green-colored hair girl went outside the nurse's ward and told the three of them to follow her. The three have already calmed down inside the elevator but as they approach the twelfth floor, nervousness came back inside them. The elevator opened. Rinko's grip on the red bag full of his things tightened. She's too nervous at what she might see if ever she had her glimpse of her son. The silver doors opened.

As they were walking, Nanjiroh looked everywhere. There wasn't so much special everywhere. The place are in bronze color and at the sides are thick glass windows. There were only few nurses running back and forth until they reached the ICU. There was a small, clear window and inside it is a clear image of their son, lying unconscious on the bed. "We're here already. Please wait inside your son's room," she told them.

She left and when the three already entered, they found Sakuno sleeping on a chair and her head on Echizen's bed. "She must have been crying hard, too. We have to be strong for them," Nanjiroh told his wife.

Rinko nodded and hugged her husband. Sakuno heard their voices and stared back at Echizen. "He's still asleep. When will you wake up, Ryoma-kun? Come on!!! Wake up!" she cried. After that, his father went inside. "Have you now learned your lesson, Nanjiroh?"

Nanjiroh looked at his father and laughed, "You're still the same, dad!! You never change! Learned my lesson? What? Me? Running away? You tried your best to force me in becoming your successor and that made me to run away from our house and work as a monk in the temple! If you think everything that happened to my son is my fault, you're wrong! It's your fault! He should have lived the way I had lived! I decided to live in hiding for twelve years in the United States until you found me!"

His father sweatdropped and a he started to laugh at his son's outburst. "That's not what I mean. Nanjiroh! I know that since that day you won't be my successor but you still need to know this, I don't want your adopted son to replace me as the president of the Echizen Corporation and since Ryoma is still my grandson and has my blood running down his veins, he'll be the heir of the corporation. You need to accept that truth, Nanjiroh. I'll do my best to save your son... my grandson... I don't want him to slip and be taken away from us."

With that, he told them Echizen's condition, "I and the other doctors has to keep monitoring him. He has fractures on his legs, he has lost too much blood. I quickly decided to transfuse my blood to him and most of all, we need to keep monitoring his electrocardiogram and breathing rates. When he wakes up, it is no doubt that he will be having post traumatic stress. Everything I'm telling you means that..." his father lowered his glasses and wiped his tears using a white handkerchief.

Nanjiroh finished his sentence, "He'll be having a long time staying in the hospital and because you are taking care of him... I need to be the temporary president of the corporation!?"

Dr. Echizen Jiroh nodded.

"You know I can't do that! I'm incompetent! Our partners in the business and the board of directors wouldn't like me as replacement even temporarily! Dad... I can't," Nanjiroh told him.

He sighed and told him, "I can't trust your uncle, Nanjiroh. He's too jealous! Also, he might use these events to steal the trust and loyalty that I gained from the board of directors!"

At long last, Rinko held his husband's shoulder and told him, "You only think you can't but the truth is, you can, Nanjiroh!"

"I still don't know..."

After that, all of them went into a deafening silence. The only things they can hear inside is the beeping of the machines and Ryoma's painful breathing. Nanjiroh, Nanako and Rinko looked at Ryoma. Their eyes are full of worry and hopes that he survive his comatose state. Sakuno stopped pretending to be asleep and she  looked at all of them and told them, "When he calms down, you all need to tell him the truth. I heard everything," she told them.  

"Of course, Sakuno. We will," Dr. Jiroh said.

"Can you leave us alone?" she asked.

Even they want to hesitate, they allowed themselves to leave Ryoma's lover alone in the intensive care unit.

Echizen Nanjiroh accepted his father's plea to temporarily replace him as president of the Echizen Brothers Corporation.

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ONE WEEK AFTER THE INCIDENT:

Momoshiro's POV:

When I came near the Echizen Residence today after learning through a news that my bestfriend is one of the victims of that tremendous disaster, I saw a limousine that just parked in front of the house. Who could it be? When I saw that there are two men wearing a black cloak who went outside the car, my heart pounded too fast. Why are there men wearing black? What's the meaning of this? They went inside the house with a man wearing a white western coat and tie.

I quickly went inside the house to check if my scary theory is true. I opened the door full of my strength but I was actually embarrased with myself. I saw his father who's wearing a formal clothing just like the  tall man that looks older at his side. I started to laugh. It's my first time to see him wearing a different clothing different from his usual robes. To top it all off, his clothing is actually expensive! Wait... why is he wearing formal clothes? Most of all, business clothes?

"What do you think you're doing, boy?" he screamed to me. I kept laughing. He really looks different from the usual perverted guy I know.

"Kisama!!! Hey kid!!! Stop it now!" he's really pissed off.

"Is that really you, perverted monk? You... you look different!!!" I told him.

Suddenly, the two men wearing black went closer to me and asked him while restraining me, "Do you know the boy, Echizen-sama?"

He let out a sigh and turned at the yellow-skinned man who looked at my uniform. The unfamiliar man asked me, "You're from Seishun Gakuen, I presume?"

"Y-yes...," I answered back, stuttering. I can really feel that there's something different here which none of us know yet and I'm the lucky first guy to peek at the personal lives of the Echizens. His hazel feline eyes remind me of Ryoma. Also, he has the same green-black hair which Ryoma has. Echizen-sama?

"Let go of him. He's a friend of my son," Nanjiroh told them and the two men let me go from their grip.

I shrugged my shoulders and asked, "Hey, perverted monk, what's the meaning of this?"

He held my shoulders as all of them walk out of the house, "My son is not what you think he is. For the mean time, I have to do my father's job. Tell Tezuka Kunimitsu to be a good brother to my son if ever he wakes up from his deep sleep. Most of all, he's the man I entrusted to be the sole messenger of the truth behind my son's fate and true identity. Momo, if you're here to ask where he is, you probably know where my son is!"

After that, they left me stunned. I heard the limousine leave and when I heard footsteps, I was awakened and I saw two women in front of me. Nanako-chan and his mother, Rinko-san. Nanako bowed her head and told me, "Sorry if you have to learn this but they were my uncle's servants and uncle. Uncle Shuichiro have..."

Rinko-san cut her off. "Nanako, Tezuka will tell them." She looked at me and said, "You better go at your practice if you want to understand whatever happened here. It'll be hard to believe though."

I bowed and thanked them. I quickly went outside, dragged my things and biked hard to reach my school. I also don't want to be late for practice. When I am finally at school's tennis courts, I was the last one they were waiting. The regulars were very far from the non-regulars like they were having a secret meeting which must not be known by everyone. I put down my things and joined them. Strange things have been happening at me today. I quickly joined them and asked Captain Tezuka about Echizen. Ryoma's father's statement to me is still bugging me off that Tezuka-bucho knows something more than what we know to that gaki.

Coach Ryuuzaki is also there with us. All of us stared at the two of them. Inui-senpai quickly took out his usual notebook. All of us concentrated at the words they will tell us.

"I leave everything to you now, Tezuka. Let them believe the truth about Ryoma," Coach told him. We all stared at coach as she leave him all alone to explain things up.

He cleared his throat for us for us to look back at him. "All of us have probably were scared for Ryoma's well being, right?" 

"Nya!! Ochibi's stuck in the hospital! I wonder how he is, now. Do you know, Tezuka? It's been a week already and all of the doctors concerning him kept saying that he's still in coma, nya!" he said while his arms with a racket at his back.

"Ryoma's going to wake up soon. His health is going fine now. We can all go and visit him today. He's likely to wake today." All of us jumped up high full of joy after hearing that good news. We are all so happy he's going fine now but after that, Tezuka-bucho cleared his throat again, "You've got to learn something about his personal life which he himself doesn't know yet."

We all stared at him confusedly. He touched the middle of his glasses and seriously told us, "Does Echizen Brothers Corporation ring a bell on any of you?"

Oishi-senpai only blinked up and down.

Our minds are all blank at what he meant. We don't know where this is going. He spoke another clue to us, "What about Echizen Jiroh?"

Oishi-senpai tightened his grip at his racket. "He's a powerful man who owns Echizen Brothers Corporation and a doctor. It is a prestigious corporation that creates sports companies, and a major stock holder of a big sports company in the US and Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Echizen Brothers Corporation produces hospitals and sports equipment, Not just that! They're into housing industry and car industry. Echizen Jiroh is a powerful man who has partnerships with high profile politicians in the country. Tezuka, are you saying that Ryoma is actually Echizen JIroh's grandson? Can't it be that they only have the same surnames but their blood is not interconnected with each other?"

Tezuka-bucho looked away from us. It's our first time seeing him like this. After hearing that to Oishi-senpai, we all remembered that corporation and we sometimes buy our things that were produced by one of the companies of the Echizen Brothers Corporation.

"He's not just a grandson, Oishi. The Echizen Brothers Corporation is in mourning right now because of what happened to Ryoma, the heir and successor. He's still alive but because they were afraid that he'll be having post traumatic stress when he wakes up, he'll take a long time inside the hospital. President Echizen Jiroh, CEO of Echizen Brothers Corporation asked us to help him in his current situation and help him deal with the changes he'll be having in his future. We will help him because we are his senpai-tachi, his team mates and most of all, as his friends whom he can lie into now that he needs help. I know that what you've all heard is shocking to all of you," he told us.

My eyes widened. "Tezuka-bucho, that's impossible. Echizen Nanjiroh... how could he be a son of a powerful man?"

"It's possible. My father knows Echizen Nanjiroh and Coach Ryuuzaki since they were young. You can also ask Atobe about it," he said.

"Atobe???" we are all shocked. Suddenly, that geek came into view and entered the court.

"The bus is ready, Tezuka. We'll be heading at Jounan Hospital today to visit Echizen," he said.

Tezuka smiled and asked him, "You have just visited, right? How is he?"

Atobe's smile subsided and told us, "He's still asleep when I came."

Atobe's eyes dropped. "We need to get going. Dr. Echizen's patience is tightening up. We've got to go."

After that, all of us entered Atobe's bus outside Seishun Gakuen to meet Ryoma again.

MOMO's POV end

A/N: Wish you like this story!!! Please keep reading!!! Thank you for the first person who liked my story!!! Domo Arigatou!!!