Hi, everyone! If you must know, this is my FIRST fanfiction story ever!

I don't know if this will be a good one or not, but I'm still hoping you'll like it! I'm not sure about the pairings though; however, I'm going to warn you now- this story will be YAOI or SHOUNEN AI!

A.N.: If you don't mind, please read my note at the end of this chapter. Thank you! ^.^

Chapter 1: A Forgotten Memory

I hate this place… Everything is white, and I can smell the sickening disinfectant and all sorts of chemicals. I feel so weak, tired and always nauseous. The treatments are much worse. The medicine, instead of making you feel a lot better, it just makes you feel more horrible.

"Be strong, Ryoma. I know you can make this through." I turn to my side. My kaa-san is crying silently and oyaji is comforting the love of his life. And then, I glanced at the owner of that voice from earlier. He squeezed my hand, as if he'll lose me forever if he let go.

Karupin pawed Ryoma's soft cheeks and mewed, as he tried to wake his master up from his nightmare. Ryoma's eyes widened and started to breathe really hard. He finally calmed down when he felt his cat caress its head against him. He smiled tiredly, patted his Himalayan cat and looked at the time. It was only 6am, but he changed into his uniform, anyway.

"You know, Ryoma, you should smile more. Children like us should be more cheerful and enjoy the time being young!" He said with a playful smile on his face.

The young boy scowled. His head started to hurt. He hadn't slept well for days and apparently, Ryoma had been having that same dream. It had been irking him over and over, and it had kept waking him up every time he would close his eyes, making him really exhausted.

He finally descended the stairs and shuffled into the kitchen to eat. His mom made him a Japanese style breakfast; Nanako was helping out in the kitchen, and his dad was reading his 'newspaper'. Ryoma plop onto his seat and stared blankly at his food. "Ohayou, Ryoma-san." His ever smiling cousin greeted. After a while, Rinko noticed that her son wasn't eating.

"What's wrong, dear? Are you sick?" She had just finished talking to her foreign client, so it had slipped from her mind that she was supposed to be talking in Japanese. "I'm fine." The three gaped at Ryoma. Then, he stood up and put his tennis bag onto his shoulder. "Oi, seishounen, leaving already? What about your breakfast?" Nanjirou watched his, as his son walked out of the kitchen. "Please, Ryoma-san, you must eat something." Nanako pleaded. "I'm not hungry." Ryoma muttered, before he went off to school.

"Eh? Something's not right. He'd been losing his appetite for the past few days." commented Nanjirou, sounding oddly serious about it. "Sou da yo, anata. I'm getting really worried about our son. Maybe we should check him to a doctor." Rinko suggested. Nanako anxiously stared at where Ryoma had meandered. "Ryoma-san…"

Ryoma was walking tiredly to school when Momoshiro saw him. "Oi, Echizen, you're early today." Ryoma acted like he didn't notice his loud senpai, since he continued walking like nothing happened. "Hellooo! Earth to Echizen!" Momo yelled, while he tried to catch up with him using his bike. At that time, Ryoma cursed inwardly when he felt that same odd feeling again. He scowled, as it was getting really disturbing. He didn't want to feel that kind of nostalgia.

Echizen was just about to go inside the club room when his phone rang all of a sudden, and of course, he picked it up.

"Hello?" He reluctantly answered, as if he knew who it was already, and he shuddered at the caller's message. "Hey, kid, I can see your every move…" Ryoma looked around to see if anyone was there and saw him. He scowled. That guy was doing it again. He really wasn't in the mood for any more pranks like this. Then, the next thing that the strange man said traumatized him.

"I hate you, and soon, you and your family will be in a pool of your own blood…"

That didn't sound like a prank at all. He glanced at his stalker. The way he uttered those words made him sense his resentment. Dread and fear drenched within him, as the man chuckled horridly. The cat-eyed boy was still considering that it was just a hoax, though he doubted that it was, judging by the man's words and tone.

Ryoma flinched when someone suddenly touched him on his shoulder, and he dropped his phone. "Hey, calm down." He snapped back to reality, as he recognized the owner of that voice. It was just Momo. "Are you alright, Echizen? Whom were you talking to on the phone?" To be honest, Momoshiro, along with teammates, was getting really worried about him. He then felt Ryoma trembling.

He placed a hand on my shoulder, and then, I turned to him. "Ryoma, if something's troubling you, don't keep it to yourself… okay?" I let my grin grace on my lips and nodded tiredly.

Ryoma fixed his composure and shrugged. "It's nothing." He merely replied to his senpai, before he opened the door and entered the club room. Everyone's staring at him. Why is everyone gawking at him? Well, whatever. Ryoma just ignored it and went to his locker to change instead.

"Something's not right here. He's been unusually quiet these past few days." said Inui. Ooishi leaned to Ryoma. "Are you okay, Echizen-kun? You look a little pale, and it looks like you lost some weight. Haven't you been eating much lately? Is something bothering you? Maybe you should skip practice and take some rest." Ooishi had been like an anxious and annoying mother hen recently, and Echizen was getting really irritated about it. Everyone's been talking about the same thing over and over. He wished that everyone would just leave him alone.

Eiji jumped onto Ryoma and hugged him, "Nya, ochibi, he's right. You look really weird, you know, nyaa~" then, Echizen jerked from his senpai and glared at him, before he headed to the courts, leaving the group, startled. "Ochibi…?" muttered the red-headed player under his breath. Fuji's typically closed eyes were shot open, unveiling his sapphire orbs.

Momo stepped inside the room. Along with the others, sans Tezuka, since he's in Germany to heal his shoulder, he, too, was also perplexed. "Senpai-tachi…" he mumbled. "Had you talked to Echizen and noticed anything strange?" Inui demanded. Momoshiro thought for a while, before he replied. "Yeah… when I finally caught up with Echizen, I stopped when I saw him, looking like…" He suddenly stopped when he reminisce the look on the boy's face. "And then…?" Fuji prodded Momoshiro to continue. The broom-haired boy shuddered at the tensai's creepy stare.

"He looked horrified at something…" He finished. The team gaped at him in disbelief. Echizen Ryoma, the cockiest and the most arrogant brat that ever existed, was scared?

Silence.

Then Kaidou broke the stillness. "Fssshhh… Are you sure about that, peach-head?"

"What did you say, baka mamushi?"

"Teme…!"

Eiji jumped between the two. "Hoi, hoi, stop it, you two. We need to worry about ochibi right now."

Everyone fell into silence, whilst they were thinking about what the heck was up with the situation of their kouhai here. "Maybe, we should forget about this for a while and head for practice." They all agreed with Ooishi and did what he had just suggested. But they didn't concentrate well enough on their training. The members hadn't averted their eyes from Echizen who was playing against Kaidou.

Ryoma barely won against the snake boy, because obviously, his mind was absent. He was thinking about that sinister phone call and the things related to that creepy guy. He couldn't help but think about the worst things that might happen to him when he's all alone which made him feel uptight in this situation.

"You stupid brat! Why did you let this happen to him?" The furious man yelled out while the men in the room were trying to keep him in sane. The young lad on the white bed cried incessantly, as the doctors and nurses tried to control the disastrous situation.

Morning practice was over, and it's time to head to class. As usual, Ryoma wasn't paying any of his attention to any of his teachers, but it wasn't for the fact that he was bored or knew the lesson already; it's just that there were some things that couldn't stop irking his brain. Naturally, his annoying classmate, Horio, along with his fellow little freshman 'minions', noticed that he'd been acting really weird. So at lunch, they dared to ask Ryoma what had been bothering him.

"Ryoma-kun, how come you are not yourself lately?" Kachirou started.

"…" Ryoma kept quiet, and it was like he didn't hear anything. Kachirou and Katsuo stared at each other worriedly. Then, Horio interjected and started talking about how Echizen had kept on messing up every practice recently. He kept on talking and talking and bragging, saying that even he was not as irresponsible as he was. How come Horio had been always so egotistical about himself when it's obvious, even to him that he sucked at everything he did? The two sighed and wished that he could just shut up for once.

"Echizen can be so… Eh? Where's Echizen?" The three looked around to see where he had gone to.

Echizen took a deep breath and sighed resignedly. He's too tired and desperately wanted to get a really nice rest. But that same nightmare wouldn't let him have any sleep which was what he certainly wanted to do. Notwithstanding, it wasn't just a mere dream. It was a part of his unforgettable reminiscence back in America.

"It's because of you that he's dead! You're going pay for this!"

He recollected all those words. He thought he had forgotten about it, but now, it started haunting him all over again… still, why now?

Then, he found himself inside the restroom, standing in front of the mirror. He now realized why his teammates and his family were so worried about him. He really looked terrible. His face was a lot paler than usual, and dark smudges had shown under his eyes. He also noticed that he had lost some weight due to not eating much lately.

He clenched his teeth. At that moment, he loathed seeing himself in front of the mirror again. What was he thinking? Why did his brain keep on reminiscing them all of a sudden?

He got infuriated, so he banged the mirror with his fist and strutted his way to his classroom.

The last period of the class had ended, and so, Echizen went to the tennis club. After practice, Momo leaned to his best buddy and asked him if he wanted to eat with him, along with Eiji-senpai, at 'Hamburger' and said that Eiji-senpai was going to pay, though the latter was mumbling something which they couldn't really understand. Ryoma simply nodded in reply, though he didn't feel like hanging out with them.

...

Momoshiro had been devouring everything in front of him. But when he looked at his kouhai, he stopped. Eiji, who was looking at his pig friend, and at the same time, he was thinking about his poor wallet, was wondering why his behavior was cut short, so he looked at where he had landed his gaze.

Echizen was just staring at his food, not eating or even touching it. "Nya, ochibi, why aren't you eating?" asked Eiji. "Yeah, Echizen, you know, you should eat something. You got thinner, and as senpai, it is my obligation to look after my kouhai." Momo said. So Echizen obediently did what his senpai had told him to do. But just after one bite, he decided that he had enough, and that, he didn't have the appetite to eat anything. Afterward, Echizen left his senpai-tachi in a worried state. "O-oi, Echizen, ch-chotto!" "Don't go, ochibi!" they yelled out, not minding everyone's stare, but the brat just continued on sauntering.

They were about to chase after their stubborn kouhai when something started to ring. Momo and Eiji stared at each other to know whose phone was ringing. They sought where the sound was coming from and found out that it was from Momo's bag, so the younger teen opened it and unearth an orange phone.

'Oh, that's right. I forgot to return it to Echizen,' Momo thought. "Momo, isn't that ochibi-chan's phone?" Eiji pointed out. Momo nodded and answered the call. "Moshi mo-" "Hey, bastard, no more playing around. I want you to be dead now!" Momo gasped, and the caller hung up. That didn't sound good at all!

"E-Eiji-senpai, Echizen's in trouble! We have to find him before it's too late!" Momo shouted. "Why? What will happen to ochibi?" Momo explained it on the way in finding Echizen. They were in panic when they couldn't find him at all. Momoshiro picked up his phone to call his teammates to inform them what's happening. "Ochibi, please be okay…"

Holding his large stiletto, he made his way closer behind the brat. Ryoma froze; his eyes widened, as he felt the man approaching. He tried to run away, but the man was quick enough to grab him. The menacing man covered his mouth to keep him from screaming. Ryoma struggled to free himself from the man's clutch. Then, he twitched when he saw a big, silver blade in front of him.

He closed his eyes, and before he knew it, he felt pain in his chest. Ryoma groaned, as if he was facing a somewhat 'slow death', and yet, after all that, the man was still not satisfied, so he deepened his knife even more, earning a deeper clutch from his victim who was gripping his arm. After a while, Ryoma lost his strength, along with his consciousness, and his arms fell down to his sides limply. The stranger heard someone, coming on their way, so he threw the bleeding youth on the ground harshly and ran away, as he didn't want to be discovered.

A boy with grayish-purple locks, wearing a gray, white and black combination of jersey, was walking by, when he heard someone cried in pain. He ordered his muscular companion to follow him to see whose voice it belonged to. That voice was excruciatingly familiar, so he was curious. To his utter horror, he saw a young boy, sported in black uniform of Seigaku, lying in the pool of his own blood. "E-Echizen!'' He picked up his phone to call the ambulance. His hand trembled, as he held Echizen with his free hand. "Echizen, open your eyes. Don't you dare die in front of me!"

So… What did you think? You know, when I was thinking about this story, FujiXRyoXAto reminded me of molecular geometry in chemistry… Ryo-chan was oxygen, and Shuu-chan and Kei-chan were Hydrogen, and together they make water.

Do you know their type of geometry? Hehehe… you have to find out for yourselves… XD

Anyway, which pair do you like? If you want to vote, here is the rule: type the ionic or molecular compound that is represented to its respective pairing (Anyone who doesn't follow this instruction is an idiot).

Pairings Compounds Name

AtoXRyoXFuji- N2O Dinitrogen Oxide

Thrill pair- IO Hypoiodite

Royal Pair (My fave ^^)- OH Hydroxide

Please review. To be honest, I'm really nervous right now. Thanks for using your time to read this! It really means a lot to me! X3