The Perfect Court

You Broke Me First

You'd think having all the money in the world would make you happy. Being the son on Exy, the king of the sport. Being famous and world wide known, you'd think you'd be the happiest person out there right, you have everything you ever wanted, everything you could ever need, besides one thing. 

No one to love you, and no one to love. 

The family you have, or had, doesn't want you, and thinks of you as nothing but a liability. A useless loose end no one wants, and when it comes to the mafia, loose ends end up dead. But they find a place for you. They hand you off to your uncle, who was also shunned from the family, who made something of himself so his family would have no choice but to notice him. 

When Riko is first handed off to his uncle when he is three, he has hope. Something a child his age shouldn't even know the meaning of, but he does, he has hope that someone will finally love him. He has hope that he will finally have someone to love, that his and his uncles similar situations will somehow bond them together. 

But oh was he wrong. 

Riko was handed over to Tetsuji not because the man wanted him, but because Tetsuji was ordered to make Riko into a star that would make the main branch millions and millions of dollars. Tetsuji had been through his own years of abandonment and abuse, and he had grown cold and selfish. His first feelings toward Riko were repulsion and resentment. 

Tetsuji did not want the boy at first, as he had known that his brother was not giving Riko to him as a gift, but casting the boy off of the main branch just as he had been, and Riko's presence brought up too many buried memory's and emotions.  

So Tetsuji drilled into Riko that he was good for nothing and no one but Exy, that Exy was all he was living for. 

Not that he was wrong.

Riko grew up driven and angry. If he wasn't exhausted from working himself half to death on the court, or more likely Tetsuji working him half to death on the court, then he would mock all of the players, and get them in horrible trouble with pranks and much more violence then any child should know how to cause. The violence wasn't directly given out by Riko when he was younger, he was still mearly a child, to small to do any real physical harm himself. That didn't mean he didn't have someone else do it for him, aka Tetsuji. Even though Tetsuji really had no idea that over half of Egder Allen's pranks and humiliations were caused by his small young nephew. Not that he was around, or talked to Riko enough to figure it out.

Riko always made sure his target of the week/month took the fall for his massive pranks, getting them in deep trouble with Tetsuji, and getting in trouble with Tetsuji was the last thing anyone wanted to do. Even though Tetsuji only laid hands on Riko, he made it violently clear that he would not tolerate disobedience. 

You did what you were told or you payed for it, either by getting kicked off the team, or Tetsuji would take away your free time, the only time away from Exy and school anyone ever really received, except Riko, his life was a complete order after order. And if Riko so much as asked the wrong question, which was a question that did not revolve around Exy and school, then he was met with a hard hit of Tetsuji's cane, leaving an array of bruises were no one who would tell could see.  

So Riko did what he was told without question, and when he ever so occasionally had a moment of his own, he used it to hurt the ones around him. The ones that watched in silence as Tetsuji beat him on the court when he so sloppily missed a pass. The ones that looked the other way when he dragged himseld into the locker room covered in a new patch of bruises. 

So Riko did not feel guilty for causing Jenna Hampton's sisters car crash that ended in her death, after he framed Jenna for stealing $2,000,000 from Testsuji.