Different from the rest

chapter 9

Tenma was right beside Shindou, wiping his sweat off with a wet towel,  eventually the game maker woke up while Tenma was still squeezing the excess water out from the towel, he got up by himself despite his headache and soreness, Tenma heard the shuffling of the bed sheets and when he turned around, the senior had already accommodated to a sitting position

"Tenma...what happened...?" Asked the captain with a weak voice, it pained the brunet's heart to see him like this

"You've caught a fever Shindou-senpai, a high one to be specific. So you're staying at home and I'm taking care of you." Replied the brunet while wiping some of the sweat off from the game maker's face, Shindou blushed at how close the junior was, but it went unnoticed due to the redness of his fever

"Ok, I should probably to check your temperature, but-" He cutted himself off by placing his forehead against the captain's forehead, Shindou hid a light gasp and he felt his blush intensify, he also the lack of oxygen in his lungs"-it seems like your fever has gone down quite a bit." He separated from the game maker's forehead, reaching out for the thermometer and the senior finally felt the precious oxygen coming back to him. Shindou placed the thermometer under his armpit, waiting for the beep, the silence between them was kind of uncomfortable in a way until the beep came in and cut the tension, Shindou took it out and gave it to his junior

"38,5. Not as bad as before, but now you should take your medicine." Said the brunet while placing down the thermometer and handing a glass of water and a pill to the sickly senior. Shindou chugged it down as fast as possible, not wanting to taste the pill even though it had a horrible aftertaste, he then felt tired again so he layed his head on his pillow and without realising he slowly fell asleep again, Tenma stayed by his side until he was fast asleep, then he went to the bathroom to change the water.

While he was away, Shindou was having a dream, more accurately a nightmare. He was in a dark room with a figure that more or less resembled a full grown man walking towards him, this man was walking a little lopsided, he was limping but it still seemed like he was kind of fast for some reason. Shindou sensed that there was something wrong about this man though he couldn't quite put his finger on it, but he wasn't about to take any chances so he started running away with that figure following him. But no matter where he ran this man would never leave him alone, at least he would never go out of sight no matter how further apart they were, Shindou was starting to get afraid and tired, he was starting to loose hope in this dream, and in real life he was panting and sweating, a lot. When Tenma came back he was shocked to say the least, he placed the water on the nightstand and kneeled down beside the bed, he heard Shindou mumbling inaudible words and he was starting to get worried himself, but then a crazy idea came to his mind.

He held one of the senior's hands and started humming a relaxing tune, in hopes that it can somehow manage to calm down the senior, and when you least expect it, it worked! Shindou had stopped panting and groaning, he still had the sweat on his face so Tenma went ahead and wiped that off.

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During Evening

Tenma had to wake his captain up cause at the end of the day, he had to eat something, so he asked the chef to prepare Shindou some food, not too overwhelming in seasoning and portions. As much as Shindou didn't have the appetite to eat anything, he understood where Tenma was coming from so he ended up eating all of it, after that he decided to just lie down cause he wasn't sleepy anymore. When Tenma came back from bringing the dishes to the kitchen, they talked and talked, at first it was quite hard for them to even squeeze out a word, but after a couple minutes they finally managed to soothe the tension

"Hey Tenma, do you think that the one who's trying to murder me and my family, is gonna give up anytime soon?" The brunet was stunned by the sudden change of topic

"I'm...sorry to break it to you senpai, but I honestly don't think so. So far their attacks are just going from bad to worse and I don't see any signs of them giving up." Just when the atmosphere was getting dense again, two people fortunately cutted in by opening the bedroom door, it was none other than the two parents, Tenma stepped aside and the the two of them were checking on their son's temperature, well-being... After making sure that their son was ok and all, they turned to the brunet and thanked him for taking care of their son while they couldn't

"You should probably go and eat something Tenma-kun, we've all eaten ourselves except for you." Tenma and Shindou were shocked

"You didn't eat for the entire day!?" Exclaimed Shindou, not understanding why the midfielder would go so far for him, not that he minded actually, the brunet on the other hand, completely ignored Shindou's question and asked one himself

"Ho-how did you know...?" The two adults merely chuckled

"The butlers, maids and chef told us that you've been up here all day taking care of our son, so you haven't got a chance to eat." Tenma chuckled sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck

"Well, then...I'm gonna go and eat something now..." He bowed before leaving and closing the door, he didn't even realise that he was that hungry until he sat down and started eating.

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During midnight

While everyone was sound asleep, the brunet was on his computer again, searching for more detailed information mainly to answer his hypothesis which was

Maybe he had done something in the past that didn't allow him to go near the heritage.

The answer for the attempted murders was pretty clear to Tenma, jealousy. It would be logical, since jealousy can easily blind anyone's eyes and make one do whatever it takes to fulfill their deepest and most disturbing desire, but as for his own question he still needed a proper answer. He kept on searching and searching until he found a link which belonged to the Shindou family under a name called Shindou Hideaki, further research of this person Tenma found out that it was actually Shindou's grandfather, in other words Shindou Kuroi and Mizunari's father that had passed away years ago. After reading all of that he went back to the link that had intrigued him and tried to open it, but the link required a password in order to get access to the content, this of course only intrigued Tenma even more than it already did, cause why would you need a password in order to enter unless it's something special. So he went ahead and took on the challenge to crack open this password.

It took him a long time but eventually he managed to open it, as much as he wanted to jump up and scream he knew that it was a bad idea, especially if he woke up one of the family members, so he just kept quiet, wrote down the password just in case he had to insert it again and started looking through the content. The more he looked at it the more his frown deepened, and dared he say that he might've been a little bit terrified, he thought he was prepared for anything but this was on a whole other level. What he saw were documentaries and news of murders, drug dealers and robberies, but they all had one thing in common, Shindou Mizunari. Shindou Mizunari was involved in every single one of these cases, his age goes as far back as 6 years old, when he started to get involved into drugs, from then on he became addicted, not only that, he also got involved with gangsters, serial killers, rapists... But with his father's wealth and influences, he was never sent to prison for a 'long' period of time. After looking through every single one of them, it was pretty clear why he didn't get anything from the heritage and obviously with his amnesia and how well hidden this is from the public eye, he wouldn't have known any of this

'He really did do a great job at hiding all of this, not even my own brother managed to find any of this. Come to think of it I didn't actually finish reading the list that my brother sent me. But, maybe not today.' Tenma took a look at the time and almost did a huff 'Almost 3 am, hopefully tomorrow I can look partially normal at least.' He saved everything, turned off his computer and went to sleep, trying to make the best out of every minute of rest he had left.

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Done with this chapter!

I really don't wanna do the part where they go back to school T^T