NOTE THIS: Hey everyone! I'm going to be redoing this story. Mainly fixing all of the horrible errors I've done and putting chapters together to make them longer. Story won't chance much if at all.

Hello everyone! This is my FIRST fanfic. I would like to say thanks to cocophyz12 for letting me adopt this story. The one I adopted it from it called The Prince of Angels if anyone wants to take a look. Hopefully there will be steady updates until the story is done. Sorry if there isn't.

I DO NOT own Prince of Tennis… sadly.

Welp here's Chapter 1

Enjoy!

Early morning practices did not make Echizen happy. He hated the thought of waking up early and he hated morning practice for making him get up at such ungodly hours but something about that morning was different. Practice had begun and Tezuka had all the regulars play against non-regulars for warm-up. Everyone's matches went smooth and quick except for Echizen's. Everyone has 6-0 games in their favor except for him. He was playing Arai with 4-3, but it was in his favor. All of the regulars couldn't help but notice their kouhai's strange behavior.

"Ne, what's up with Echizen? He's been acting weird since I picked him up this morning and I've never seen him have this bad a game." Momo asked as the regulars started to circle and watch Echizen's game.

"Maybe he's just tired." Taka said. "We all know how he hates getting up early."

"But that never seemed to bug him before, I mean, no more than usual."

"Maybe he's hurt or his cat died and now he's depressed." Oishi commented as he slowly transformed to mother hen mode. "And he might be so depressed that he will go jump off of a bridge and kill himself! We have to do something!"

"Saa… I don't think that he would do something that rash." Fuji said trying to calm Oishi down.

"Fsshhh… It's not like him." hissed Kaidou.

Tezuka remained silent throughout the conversation while Inui was writing in his notebook. "Ii data. Everyone cares for Echizen in one way or another."

By this time Echizen's match was over. He had barely won Arai 6-4. He started to walk to the bench to get a drink when he was attacked be Eiji. "Nya, Ochibi-chan daijobu?"Eiji asked as he latched onto Echizen.

"K-Kikumaru-sempai c-can't b-breath." Echizen tried to say as he gasped for air.

"Gomen ne!" Eiji said apologetically letting go of him. "Ne, Ochibi, what's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong Kikumaru-sempai." He said lying through his teeth.

"You can't lie to data Echizen." Inui said popping out of nowhere nearly giving him a heart attack. "You have been sighing 39% more than usual and your concentration decrease by 9.6%"

"I told you it's nothing." He stated bluntly and walked away.

With that said and Tezuka announcing the end of practice Echizen was the first to leave the group and go into the club room. The rest of the regulars just looked at him as he walked away. Fuji noticed that he was clutching his right arm as he walked into the club room.

"He's injured." He stated bluntly. Everyone looked at him with questionable and shocked stares as noticed the icy blue color of his eyes. "He was clutching his arm and only playing with his left during his match. He also winced when Eiji jumped on him"

"Ahhh! I knew it! He was injured! What if it's broken?! What if he can never play tennis again?!" Oishi started to panic like mother hen he is.

"Oishi-sempai I don't think he would be playing if his arm was broken." Kaidou hissed if only trying to calm him down a little.

"Baka Mamoshi. Nothing would stop him from playing." Momo stated.

"Nani? You wanna go you stupid peach?" Kaidou hissed back.

"Maa, maa. This isn't the time to be fighting you two. We have to find out what's wrong with Echizen." Taka said trying to calm the two down.

After Momo and Kaidou calmed down they all made their way to the changing room and looked inside through the window to see Echizen with bandages around his chest and right arm. They all stood there in complete horror. What could have happened to him to make him need all of those bandages?

'Gah!' Echizen thought as he quickly tried to change has bandages before anyone else came in. 'It stings. I'm going to be sore for at least a week. Damn them. Why did they have to come back now of all times? It's been at least three years since the last attack'. He took the bandages off of his arm first and everyone who was looking in from outside gasped as they saw a deep gash going from just below where his shoulder started to just above his elbow. Then he started to unravel the ones from his chest only for the regulars to see even more cuts and scars.

Eiji started to cry. He couldn't stand the sight of his kouhai in that state. Oishi tried to comfort his while Taka, Momo, and Kaidou just stared with their mouths open. Fuji's eyes were now wide open, staring at all the cuts that were on Echizen's body. Inui had dropped his pencil and just looked. Even Tezuka could not bring himself to turn away. At that moment, everyone's thoughts were the same. 'I'm going to kill whoever did this to him.'

Echizen finished applying new bandages and changed into his school uniform only to see all of the regulars standing in the doorway.

"Oi Echizen! What the hell is with all of those scares and cuts?!" Momo was the first one to blurt out his question.

"It's nothing." He replied apathetically.

"100% that those are not nothing." Inui said looking down into his notebook. "10% that you are being abused at home, 35% that you are being bullied, 5% that you got mugged and 50% something unimaginable that you will not tell us about."

"You can change that 50% to 100% Inui-sempai. Nothing happened." Echizen said with a smirk.

"Nya Ochibi tell us what's wrong!" Eiji demanded in a rather loud voice as he latched himself onto Echizen causing him to grunt in pain.

"Itai!" He grunted rather quickly causing Eiji to let go.

"Aww! Mōshiwakearimasen Ochibi! Please don't hate me!" He shouted as he lunged off of him with tears in his eyes.

"It's fine Kikumaru-Sempai. Now if you all don't mind I'm going to be late for class. Move."

No one moved an inch. The only one to do something was Tezuka. He came to the front of the group and looked at Echizen. "We're not moving until you tell us what happened to you."

Knowing it would be easier to not argue with the captain, Echizen took a seat on the bench and muttered one word. "Fine." Everyone gathered in the club room, prepared to hear his story.

Flashback-The Previous Day

Practice had run later than usual and everyone was in a rush to get home. It looked as it was going to storm. Momo had gotten changed quicker than usual so he left without Echizen. He finished changing then left for home. He had a feeling like someone was watching him as he left the school but shook it off and kept walking. The sky had gotten darker but it hadn't begun to rain as of yet. He was just about to turn onto his street when he heard someone walking behind him. He just assumed they were going the same way but soon they got harder and were going at a quicker pace. He turned around just in time to see someone almost at a sprint coming towards him with something shiny in his hand. He moved out of the way just in time. He stumbled and fell on the ground. He looked up at his attacker.

"Hello my dear Prince." The figure said in dangerous but cheery voice. "I'm glad to see that living in this world all this time hasn't affected your abilities in any way."

"It's been a long time hasn't it Archer?" Echizen smirked.

Archer isn't something you would call human. He had red hair down to the middle of his back, blood-red eyes, pointy ears with god knows how many piercings, short black wings and a pure black tail.

"Three years today." He happily stated as he dashed to Echizen with the dagger.

"What makes you think you can kill me now?" Echizen asked in a bored tone as he leaped out of the way. "What makes today different from three years ago?"

"I've been training while you've just enjoyed your little vacation here. Today is the day I will kill you." Archer said in a more serious tone.

"I'd like to see you try." Echizen taunted with a smirk as he seemingly pulled a short sword out of nowhere.

"Heh… Cocky brat. Prepare to meet your maker." Archer charged toward Echizen with daggers now in both hands. Echizen also charged. Their sword clashed into each other in a deadlock and made a spark. Echizen maneuvered his sword causing Archer to stumble. Echizen then took this opportunity and cut Archer's arm.

"Shit." He muttered under his breath. He then backed away clutching his arm and began to chant.

"What's wrong?" Echizen teased. "Can't fight me one-on-one so you're gonna call your little friends to help?"

"Friends? What friends? I have no friends, only minions." Mocked Archer as he began his chant. "Darkness of hell and the moon lend me power; Power of darkness, now I call forward the creatures of the dark, Hell Hounds!" The night got cooler; Echizen smirked as the wind rush past them and form several figures of dogs. Hell Hounds were in the shape of dogs that has razor sharp teeth and moves very quickly.

"Kill him!" Archer yelled. The Hounds rushed Echizen but he quickly dodged their attacks and sliced them with his sword causing the hounds to vanish into the air like little dust particles. Taking advantage of the attention not being drawn to him Archer rushed toward Echizen and sliced him on his chest. He winced in pain but lucky it he was able to dodge so it wasn't as deep as it could have been. Disposing of the hounds and holding his chest, Echizen sighed and flew up into the air with golden wings emerging from his back. He was already tired from practice and wanted to get home and sleep. He knew that wouldn't happen unless he used his own spell. He plucked a feather from his back and began to chant.

"Heaven and Earth, fire and water, sun and moon, as the prince of angels, I ask you to lend me your power to dispose of this minion of hell: Sun's Blinding Light!" He finished the chant and threw the feather into the air where it erupted with his pure white light.

"Damn it...that light!" Archer winced from the pain of the light.

Echizen watched as he disappeared into the shadows. The light faded and he slowly floated to the groun;, his wings disappearing when his feet touched the floor. He looked around to see if Archer was still hiding in the shadows but he was gone.

Echizen sighed as he picked up his things grunting from pain as he bent over and headed home.

End of Flashback

Everyone was dumbfounded when Echizen finished his story and just stared at him. 'So much for keeping everything a secret' He thought to himself. 'Maybe it was too much for them to handle.'

Tezuka was the first to speak. "Echizen you are excused from afternoon practice."

"No need Buchou. I'm fine." He replied nonchalantly.

"NO YOU'RE NOT!" All the regulars shouted in unison.

"Echizen you can't play until you fully heal!" Oishi said fully in mother hen mode.

"Nya Ochibi where is this guy?! I'll show him what happens when he messes with my friends!" Eiji said looking out the window.

"Echizen you need to take care of yourself." Kaidou hissed.

With everyone now complaining to him he could barely hear the bell ring. "That's the bell sempais. We need to get to class."

With that said he got up and started to head out the door. Everyone got up to follow him but he stopped in the doorway. Everyone stopped and looked at him only to see him bolt out and shut the door behind him.

"Oi Echizen what the hell? Open the door!" Momo shouted to him.

"I can't let my sempais get involved!" He shouted back.

They all started pounding on the door hoping that it would open all except for Taka. He was staring out the window. "O-Oi minna-san, I think you need to take a look at this." Taka's voice was shivering. The sky grew dark. They all looked out the window to see a dark figure in the sky looking down at Echizen.

"Oi gaki, didn't think you could get rid of me that easily did you?"

So, how was it? Please review and critique! Sorry if there are any grammatical or spelling errors that I didn't catch.

Wow, so I'm redoing this and I can't help but laugh at all the mistakes I found. And it's so short! Oh my god. This was what- a year or two ago? I can't believe it. Either way, I'm going to be doing a revision of all the chapters and shit sooooo, yeah that's why there will be updates. I might add some things to make it more in sync with the sequel but I'm not sure yet.

Soooo yeah. Thanks to everyone who has read!

See ya later!