Title: Welcome Home

Summary: Why is his stuff here? He disappeared years ago and hasn't contacted us since? Did something happen to him? I don't know. Do I think I'll see him again? With how clingy he was to me in the past, I'm pretty sure he'll find some way to come back. What am I going to do when he does? Probably smack him for disappearing. But I still love him either way.

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis. The anime and its canon characters belong to their rightful owners.

A/N: There is a poll on my profile that I would like some people to answer just in case I manage to find some time to work on my fanfiction while school is going on. And also, there is a question I would like people to answer when they review. Who should I pair Hanako up with if I should pair her with someone at all? I already have an idea of who she could be paired up with, but I want some reviewer's input please.

"Welcome home… Ryoga," Ryoma greeted. "It's been a while…"

"Yeah! Sorry about that!" Ryoga apologized, trying to get out of Hanako's grip. "Let go girl! Sheesh! What sport do you do?"

"None!" Hanako chimed happily, smiling widely before tugging Ryoga forward and flinging him toward one of the empty chairs. "So~! Who are you?"

"He's Ryoga, Ryoma's older adoptive brother," Tezuka explained, looking the new figure up and down.

"Although step-brother would be more appropriate," Fuji commented, humming as he crossed his arms over his chest. "He has the same hair color and eye color as Ryo-chan does…"

"Yeah, step-brother would be more appropriate I guess," Ryoga chuckled, scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "Apparently you all know me, aside for the girl who wouldn't stop dragging me around," he growled at her, earning a giggle in response and a smile. "But I don't know any of you."

"Sorry about that," Tezuka apologized before he, Fuji, Sanada, and Hanako introduced themselves to Ryoma's brother.

"We're his boyfriends," Fuji added after everyone was done, "while Hanako is a close friend of ours who has been helping us with practically everything we need."

"Especially parties and festivals," Ryoma couldn't help but add with a snicker as he flicked Hanako on the nose, earning a yelp and a pout.

"Hold on, hold on, hold on!" Ryoga shouted, waving his arms around randomly. "You three," he gestured at Tezuka, Fuji, and Sanada, "are the boyfriends of my baby brother?!"

"Uh oh…" Hanako whispered.

"What is it?" Ryoma whispered, watching with a raised eyebrow at his brother was glaring and scowling at his three boyfriends.

"Overprotective relative alert~," Hanako whispered in a sing-song voice as she smiled nervously. "You might want to help… Otherwise, your boyfriends are going to be pum-"

"You dare try to taint my baby brother! I'm going to make you regret that!" Ryoga yelled, already shooting up from his seat and stalking toward the now very nervous boyfriends.

"What do we do?" Fuji gulped in slight fear. He had dealt with scary relatives before, but dealing with the older brother of his youngest boyfriend? Umm… help please?

I mean, sure they got the parents' approval, and they didn't react as badly as Ryoga. But the way Ryoga was reacting to the news made it seem as if the three were predators, and Ryoma was just a little cub… They weren't going to eat the boy for Kami's sake!

"Ryoga!" Ryoma shouted, shooting up from his chair and standing in between his boyfriends and his brother. "That's enough! I'm old enough to make my own decisions now!"

"Three boyfriends! Ryoma, you have three, I repeat three, boyfriends!" he emphasized.

"One, two, three, yahoo, you can count," Ryoma deadpanned, earning a chuckle from everyone else in the room. "Honestly, I'm fifteen now. You don't have to worry so much about everything in my life."

"I'm your older brother! It's my job to worry about you and your love life!"

"Gack… agh… stubborn as a mule just like baka oyaji…"

"Did he and mom accept this?" Ryoga yelled, pointing fingers at the three. "I swear, when I get my hands on you three!"

"Enough!" Ryoma yelled, walking over and stomping on his brother's foot.

"Ow!" Ryoga yelped, hopping up and down on one leg as he cradled his injured foot. "What was that for?"

"For being a major idiot," Ryoma scoffed, scowling as he turned his head away from his brother. "You don't need to worry about me dating those three."

"And why not? It's bad enough that two other boys asked me questions about you for crying out loud before I met hyperactive over there," he snarled, gesturing a thumb in Hanako's direction.

"Hey! I am not hyperac-"

"Yes you are Hanako," the four boyfriends deadpanned, making her pout and slump in her seat.

"Wait a minute!" Hanako yelled, snapping out of her pouting state. "You said two others! Who?" she yelled, literally jumping at the older brother and shaking his shoulders. "Who? Who? Who? I have to know!" she yelled, continuing to shake the older male with a wide grin on her face.

"Someone! Get this! Girl off! Of me!" Ryoga yelled, his sentences being stopped every time the girl shook him a little too hard for his liking.

"Hanako!" Ryoma and Fuji both shouted, pulling the girl's arms away from the shaken male. "You're gonna snap his neck if you keep at it," Fuji chuckled.

"Woops," she hissed, smiling apologetically. "So~?"

"Ugh… this pretty-boy with violet hair and then this arrogant little monkey," Ryoga groaned, making the four boyfriends glance between each other. "Although, the pretty-boy was mainly asking about you," he pointed at Sanada, "and the monkey was asking about you," he pointed at Fuji.

"Huh?" Sanada and Fuji both said in surprise. "Us?"

Ryoga nodded. "They kept asking me really weird questions about you. At first they thought I was chibisuke," he snickered, gesturing at Ryoma who snarled at the familiar nickname.

"Don't call me that," Ryoma growled, only to get waved off by his older brother.

"Chibisuke is chibisuke," he said with a smirk before getting hit on top of the head by Ryoma's fist. "Ow, ow, ow!"

"Hmph!" Ryoma grunted, turning his head away and listening to the snickers from his friends.

"What were they asking about?" Hanako questioned.

"Aren't you a nosy little busy-body?" Ryoma muttered under his breath.

"Ryoma!" Hanako pouted. "This is dealing with you and your boyfriends! I'm already involved just because of that!"

Ryoma just blinked before sighing, knowing that the girl had a point. Pretty much, any business they had when dealing with the relationship immediately included her for some odd reason… Must have been because of all the times they called her in for help…

"So what were they asking about?"

"Well, they pretty much asked me whether the two were happy. I was just thinking 'what the hell are you talking about?' to be honest. After that, they just shoved two presents in my hand that were addressed to chibisuke," he said, digging in his pockets before pulling out two small boxes wrapped in Christmas paper.

"Weird… Why would Yukimura-senpai and the Monkey King ask about that?" Ryoma muttered under his breath, taking the presents. "Should we open them now?"

"Let's wait until tomorrow hmm?" Fuji suggested, taking the presents when Ryoma handed them over. "For now, let's just go ahead and get some sleep. It's starting to get late. We can catch up with everything in the morning."

"Sounds like a plan," Tezuka agreed, Sanada nodding his approval.

"Fine with me. Chibisuke, I'm rooming with you," Ryoga added with a cheeky grin on his face.

"No way," Ryoma deadpanned, making Ryoga face-plant.

"Aw! Why not?"

"Because I said so," Ryoma said, immediately turning away and heading up to his room before Ryoga could move.

"Aw! Chibisuke!" Ryoga yelled, getting up and chasing after his brother only to get the door slammed on his face before he could get inside the bedroom. "Aw…"

Hanako chuckled along with the others as they all followed the two relatives. "I'll show you the guest room then," Hanako said, already tugging on Ryoga's shirt.

"But Hanako, where are you going to sleep? There's only two guest rooms, and you already know we're sharing one," Sanada questioned, gesturing to himself, Tezuka, and Fuji.

"Umm… I actually didn't think of that…" Hanako said, pouting as she twiddled her fingers behind her back.

"It's fine, it's fine, I can sleep on the couch," Ryoga sighed. "That way when chibisuke wakes up, I can greet him right away when he comes down for breakfast," he said with a wide grin.

"If he manages to wake up for breakfast," Hanako giggled, going into the second guest room and grabbing a few blankets and a pillow. "Here you go," she said, handing them over. "See you in the morning."

"See you in the morning," Ryoga greeted back before heading back downstairs to set up his sleeping place for the night. "That little hyperactive brat… oh well. She's keeping Ryoma happy along with the rest of them… I guess I could let them off… I'll just give them hell for a bit though," he said, smirking as he turned off the light and went to sleep.

"Good morning," a voice greeted Ryoga, making him blink his eyes open.

"What time is it…"

"Ten in the morning," the voice grumbled. He could almost hear the pout in it. "Sheesh, everyone else is asleep too," the voice complained, footsteps moving toward the kitchen. "After all that talk about waking up early to get everything sorted out."

He could hear the stove being turned on and could even smell some food being cooked.

"Who knows how to cook in this house…" Ryoga asked himself, still half-asleep as he tried to think. "Ryoma doesn't know how to cook much… I don't know about the other guys…"

"Who else do you know that pouts?" the voice nearly shouted, although it was quieter than a normal yell for some odd reason. Maybe because the others were asleep like the voice said earlier?

"Hanako?"

"Got it in one~," the girl cheered, still cooking on the stove.

Ryoga yawned as he stretched. "What are you doing? And what time did you even wake up?"

"Eight in the morning," she said, another pout clear in her voice. "Sheesh… it's annoying being the only one up in the morning, so I made a few calls to those people you were talking about yesterday."

"How do you even know their numbers?"

"Got them sometime in the past… don't remember how… I think it was for some of the parties I threw your brother and his boyfriends."

Ryoga clenched his fists at the last word. "I can't believe he has three boyfriends… who are all older than him!"

"Only by two years," Hanako said, pouting as she came over and placed a plate of food in front of him. "And they are taking good care of him."

"Where are mom and dad anyway?"

"In America."

"What?!"

"They left last summer," she said, a sad look crossing her face. "Hah~. Ryoma was really upset at the time even though he didn't show it. Didn't even make any plans with his boyfriends. I literally had to schedule the next couple of weeks after they left, so he wouldn't just stay in the house all day."

"They just left him here… on his own?"

"Yup. But don't worry, he's not alone anymore," Hanako reassured him, the smile back on her face.

"So… they really love him?"

"More and more every day," she chirped, her smile growing wider. "I've never seen a relationship like this."

"Who was the first…"

"Huh?"

"Who was the first one… that Ryoma loved…"

Hanako blinked at that in confusion before smiling warmly. "First was Tezuka Kunimitsu… he had proposed to Ryoma to become fiancés. Then after a year or so, Fuji Syuusuke who confessed to them on Valentine 's Day. Next was Sanada Genichirou who confessed the year after. This is their," she stopped in order to count on her fingers, "third year of dating entirely, but first year dating as a group."

"I see…"

After a few more questions from Ryoga and answers from Hanako, Ryoga began to see the entire picture and what he was trying to fight against.

"You two are already awake?" Ryoma questioned, yawning widely behind his hand as he and his boyfriends walked down the steps to make it to the living room.

"Yup. Just talking," Hanako said, going back into the kitchen to fetch them some plates of food. "Here you go."

"Thank you," they all said, sitting down around the table and digging into the food.

"Ryoga, are you still upset?" Ryoma questioned, placing his food down when he caught Ryoga staring at him for the nth time that morning.

"Are you happy?"

"Huh?"

"Are you happy?" Ryoga repeated, narrowing his eyes at the younger.

"Of course I am," Ryoma responded immediately, face flushing lightly at how angry he was getting at his brother. "These three make me the happiest I've ever been!"

"Uh huh…"

"Don't tell me-"

"I'm giving these guys a trial run then," Ryoga interrupted, shocking everyone in the room.

"Excuse me?" Fuji questioned, blinking his eyes in shock.

Ryoga smirked then. "If you guys pass, I'll let you keep dating my little brother."

"I'm not a little kid anymore!"

"If you don't, I'll make sure you regret looking at him," he added, narrowing his eyes as a challenge.

"Well now… that's a test we can't afford to lose," Tezuka said, narrowing his eyes in anger as the other two agreed.

Hanako and Ryoma looked between the four males before sighing.

"Ryoma, why is your family so weird?"

"Like you should be one to talk?"