Ritsu Sakuma/Eichi Tenshouin

**Ritsu Sakuma/Eichi Tenshouin** is a relationship between Ritsu Sakuma from Knights and Eichi Tenshouin from fine.

## Relationship and notable canon moments

Fellow members of the Tea Club during their second and third year in Yumenosaki.

Ritsu's and Eichi's first meeting during Checkmate was bad, since Eichi believed Knights was getting along with Ritsu just because of his brother and Ritsu punched him.

Later in *Black Tea* Eichi apologized for their first encounter since he had told Ritsu he seemed to like hiding in his brother's shadow, but Ritsu knew he still thought the same.

Eichi wanted to use Ritsu against Rei, so he tried to be friendly with him. However, Ritsu knew what Eichi was trying to do and decided to use him too.

Eichi hired a detective (who was easily trapped by Sakuma family) and found out Ritsu was lying to him about Rei abusing him as the reason why he ran away from home (since Ritsu kept sleeping in the school). Although Ritsu told Eichi not to mess with his family, he also explained him how to get rid of Rei because he hated him and Eichi even asked him to join fine, but Ritsu said he couldn't mess with his own family.

Ritsu said goodbye since Eichi already knew he had been using him, but Eichi asked him to create a club together and Ritsu accepted, though he warned Eichi he wasn't going to participate in activities.

Ritsu betrayed Eichi later, but Eichi kept having tea with him, although he didn't tell him about his schemes anymore.

When Yumenosaki War was over, Ritsu was thinking about how he was going to be left alone as the only unharmed survivor again after letting stronger people protect him, since Rei and Knights status were a mess, Mao would be busy with the Student Council and Eichi was hospitalized due to his exhaustion.

However Eichi ran away from the hospital to drink tea with Ritsu because the Tea Club was his one and only solace, where he could find peace during his long battle against the Five Oddballs. Ritsu called an ambulance because Eichi was so ill that he could have died there and told him he would be a little lonely if he died. Eichi replied that even if it was just a little, he could live thanks to a mere teaspoon of that love, and he would go back to the hospital and get better soon, since he didn't want Ritsu to feel lonely.

Eichi asked Ritsu to protect the Tea Club and they made this promise before Eichi passed out.

In *Mall Live* Eichi tried to go to the mall and asked Ritsu to help him when he saw him in the street, Ritsu ended up asking him to help him to buy a bed in return. Ritsu seemed too tired during their journey, so Eichi asked if he should carry him, but Ritsu said Eichi wasn't strong enough to do that. Later Eichi apologized for making Ritsu go with him while he wasn't feeling well, Ritsu replied if it were going to rain the next day because he couldn't believe Eichi was apologizing and assured him he didn't need to do. Eichi patted his head, making him complain about it.

When they were in the mall, Ritsu said if Eichi tried to get lost on purpose (since he seemed to like the idea of going to the department of missing children) he would leave him. Later Eichi asked him to not go alone anywhere because if he really missed in the mall, he wouldn't be able to return home.

## Trivia

* Ritsu calls Eichi "Ecchan".
* Eichi thinks Ritsu is similar to a kitty.
* In *Tea Part*y Eichi stepped on Ritsu because he didn't want to stop sleeping in the floor of the garden terrace.
* Later Eichi offered to give him a shoulder massage because Ritsu's body hurt for laying on the floor, but when he did, Ritsu said Eichi was surprisingly rough.
* Also in *Tea Party* Eichi said he can't have a never-ending Tea Party, Ritsu replied he would join him whenever he wish.
* In *Tea Garden* Sub Story Eichi gave Ritsu medicinal herbs because he wasn't looking well lately.
* In the same sub story, Ritsu told Eichi he could turned him into a vampire if he wanted to live a long life.
* In *Sudden Death* Ritsu said he would hate to be compared with Eichi, maybe even more than be compared with Rei.
* In Ritsu's feature scout, Ritsu asked Eichi to help him because he thought he would feel sad if nobody did.
* In Ritsu's feature scout, Ritsu asked Eichi to buy him a resort or an island as a joke and Eichi said he would do.