Lucky Match
pt 5
By Izumi
Jiro
blinked again and again as his eyes started getting used to the light. Hisashi
was pulling the curtains open. He rolled over in his futon, trying to get in a
few more blinks.
“Rise and
shine, Sleeping Beauty,” Hisashi called to him.
Jiro
breathed in deeply. He finally sat up and blinked a few more times.
“What day
is it?” he asked.
“Friday.
You do know what day it is,” Hisashi answered.
Jiro groaned
and lay back on his side.’Final tournament,’ he thought.’Againts Kyoto,’ a tiny
voice inside his head reminded him. Damn, he wished he hadn’t met Kaoru at all
if he knew that he really was going to compete with him. His heart raced.
Pain shot
up from his right cheek where Hisashi had painfully pinched it.
“OW! What
did you do that for?!” Jiro sat up
instantly and rubbed his cheek.
“Good,
you’re up. Go take a shower and get ready for our last practice. Ami told me
that there’s going to be a practice session with the guys from
“Practice
session?
~*~
“ Okay,
guys. When we walk in there, we walk in with dignity. We’re not scared of
Five other
heads nodded.
They walked
out to the court, actually facing their opponents for
the first time.They faced each other according to their positions.
Teru broke
the silence between the two teams.
“Okay,
guys. We’re from
“Agreed,”
Kaoru said.They went their separated ways and started practising.
Or at least, trying to.
Kaoru kept stealing
glances at Jiro, and Toshiya was stealing glances at Hisashi, at the same time
Hisashi was looking at Shinya. And Shinya…well he was looking at Teru. And Teru
was looking at Jiro.
They were
pretending to practice dribbling (oh really?^^) but
they’re balls kept bouncing in the wrong direction.
Jiro at
first was concentrating on his dribbling, when he finally couldn’t resist the
urge to look over at Hisashi. Only Hisashi was looking someplace else, on the
other side of the court. At Shinya. So he looked at
Shinya. Only to find out that Shinya was looking at Teru, and Teru was looking
at…him.Teru was surprised to be caught staring at Jiro and gave a little nod.
Jiro smiled in return and continued dribbling the ball.
A shrill
whistle from Levin made it clear that practice was over.
~*~
( In the
Kaoru bent
his head.He felt the blood rushing to his face.
“I can’t
believe I spent half of practice staring at that guy!!! What am I turning into?
A big fat baka?” he scolded himself outloud.
“Uh, no.
If you go on, you’ll be categorized as, well, crazy,” a voice said from the
door.
Kaoru
froze, not wanting to think who was there at the door. He finally looked up. It
was Kyo.
“Uh, hi,
Kyo.What’s up?” Kaoru tried to sound casual, but his voice came out a little squeaky.
“Oh, man. I
knew you were weird, but this is something totally new,” Kyo commented, sitting
down next to him.
Kaoru hid
his face in his hands. ’So this is how it feels to be embarrased. It’s awful,’
he thought glumly.
“Don’t
worry. Just play well, ne? No one can call you crazy if you play really well
out there,” Kyo assured him.
Kaoru
looked up. Kyo gave him a small smile and patted his back.
“Arigatou,”
Kaoru said in a whisper.
“No
problem. Better hurry up, though,” Kyo replied. Kaoru nodded and followed him
out the locker room.
~*~
“And
these are the two teams competing in the Final Tourament today…I give you the
Shrill screams
could be heard as the six team members walked out.
“Number
4 and team captain, Kaoru , number 5, Die, number 6, Toshiya, number 7,
Shinya,and number 8, Kyo! Let’s give them a huge round of applause!!” the host continued. He was greeted
by high-pitched screams of girls (and guys) in the stadium.
“And now
I give you, the
Levin and
Ami bowed politely to each other before sitting in their seats next to their
coaches.
“I’m sorry
that you’re gonna lose this one,” Levin said to Ami. Ami glared at him.
“We’ll just
have to see, won’t we?” she replied and tossed her hair and walked away.
The two
opposing teams bowed to each other before taking their places according to
strategy. The referee blew his whistle and the team captians jumped up to get
the ball.
Round 1 of
a very interesting tournament had began.
~*~
“Hisa!
Take the ball!” Takuro shouted as he passed the ball to Hisashi.
Hisashi jumped
up to catch it when suddenly Toshiya came and hit the ball away from him.
Hisashi fell to the floor and Toshiya landed on top of him.He smiled.
“Hi there,
cutie,” he said. Hisashi stared back uncomfortably.
“Get off
me!” he pushed Toshiya off him and raced for the ball.
All Toshiya
did was smile.
The ball
was now in Shinya’s hands. He dribbled swiftly but carefully, making sure no
one stole it from him. He was near to the ring when someone proceeded to steal
the ball from him.
“Hey-!” he protested.He looked to see who had the nerve to steal the
ball from him.
It was
Teru. He winked playfully at Shinya.
“Oh, it’s
okay,you can have it,” Shinya blurted out. He covered
his mouth with both hands as he received a deadly look from Kaoru.
**
‘Things can’t
possibly get any worser than this,’ Jiro thought to himself as he passed the
ball to Hisashi. Hisashi caught it and without thinking,shot
a three pointer.
“HISASHI!!!!!!!!!!! WOHOOOOOO!! KAKKOI!!!!!!!! SUGOI!!!!!” girls screamed out.
Jiro even saw some girls pumping pom-poms. He had to snicker.’Okay, I guess
things are getting considerably better,’ he thought.
His hoped
drowned as Die shot a two-pointer, making the score appear to be 50-49.
The referee
blw his whistle.Kyoto U called for a time out.
Jiro walked
limply to the bench and heavily sat down. He closed his eyes.The soft feel of a
towel made him open his eyes. It was Hisashi,and he
was wiping away the sweat on his face for him.
“I’m not
tired. Let me wipe your face for you,” Hisashi told him. Jiro shook his head
and took the towel from him.
“Iie.You look tired. And besides, you’re always wiping away my sweat,
let me do it for you sometimes, too,” he said as he wiped Hisashi’s forehead.The
blue haired smiled at him.
“Arigatou,”
**
“IT’S OKAY,YOU CAN HAVE IT?!”
Shinya
winced as he received that from Kaoru.
“What kind of spirit posessed you to say that?! You could have scored two more
points, and we wouldn’t have to be worried about them catching up in the next
two minutes!!!!!!” Kaoru shouted at him.
“Chill,
Kaoru.They won’t get to catch up.We’re too good,” Toshiya remarked
confidently.Shinya hid behind him.
Kaoru cast
one more angry look at Shinya before grabbing a glass of
water.
“Anou, Kaoru-san?” Shinya started timidly. Kaoru turned to face him.
“What?”
“I’m sorry.
I was stupid. I won’t happen again, I promise,” Shinya said indigantly.
Silence.
“Fine.
Just don’t ever do it again, or I’m calling an exorcist. I mean it!” Kaoru said
to him before wiping himself.
**
The whistle
blew. The second round had started a few seconds ago and Hisashi had
‘accidentally’ tripped Toshiya.
“What’d I
do?” he asked innocently.That earned a slap on the head from Takuro.
Toshiya stood
steadily and exhaled heavily. He saw that Hisashi was crossing his arms
furiously. He winked at him before shooting cleanly into the ring. He bowed to
Hisashi playfully as the others ran for the ball. Hisashi ignored him.
The score
was now 68-71. That meant 71 for
They played
really seriously, and believe it or not, Shinya actually restrained himself
from totally passing the ball to Teru.Toshiya finally gave up on Hisashi, and
Hisashi gave up on Shinya.
The game
went on for an unexpectedly long time. Finally, the referee blew his whistle,
announcing that a tie breaker was needed.The score was 118-118.
Swoosh!
And Takuro
received an applause from his adoring fans. He bowed
to them and ran to his teammates who were yalling like crazy.
“WE WON!!!!
WE WON WE WON WE WON!!!!” they hugged each other and cried with happiness.
~*~
“Now, bow!”
the host said.
The two
teams bowed.
The
They shook
hands.
It was
really Hisashi’s luck that he bowed to Shinya. When he was face to face with
him again, Hisashi wiped away Shinya’s tears.
“There’s
always next year,” he reminded him. Shinya nodded, surprised.
**
“Let’s go!!”
Takuro yelled. When nobody replied him, he turned around to see girls huddling
around the other guys asking for their autographs.
Soon, girls
were crowding around him for autographs.
“Well,
well.How does victory taste like?” a voice called out.
The crowed
parted, making way for the
Jiro
realized that Kaoru was the one that said that.
“Tastes
sweet, really sweet,” Jiro replied. Kaoru smiled.
“Oh, you
mean like you?” he asked. Jiro blushed a deep shade of
red.
“I think he
means strawberrys, right, Jiro-kun?” Hisashi called from behind him.
They all
laughed.
“Going back
so soon?” Toshiya asked.
“Yeah,Yoshiki-sensei’s probably waiting for us back in
“Oh, well, it
was nice knowing you, and liking you,” Toshiya said.He looked at Hisashi when
he said that.
Hisashi
ignored him again. Instead,he put his arm around
Jiro’s shoulders and whispered to him.Toshiya fought down the urge to push Jiro
away from Hisashi and hug him.
“Ja ne!
See you guys next year!” they called out to each other.
**
( On the
plane to
“I knew we
would win…..yeah, sensei, don’t worry…mmhmm, trophy’s right here,” Takuro said
on the phone.He was talking to Professor Yoshiki. Sugizo was asleep on his
shoulder.
Teru stared
out the window. Ami sat next to him, flipping through a sports magazine.
“Hey, look!
We made the front cover for breaking
“Yes?”
“Are you
okay? What’re you looking at?” Ami asked.
Teru looked
at her and replied,”Well, just now I was looking at the beautiful sky.Now I’m
looking at you.You know, you kinda look like the sky,” with that he leaned on
her shoulder and fell asleep.
Ami was
happy enough with that answer.
“Jiro…kun?”
Hisashi prodded him gently. Jiro stirred from his nap.
“Nani?” he
asked sleepily.
“I was
wondering…who did you like best among the
“Why?”
“Just
wondering,”
“Kaoru,”
“Why?”
“Dunno,maybe because of his really cool style,”
“Among us all?”
“You, of
course,”
That
surprised Hisashi.
“Why me?”
“ Cause
you’re the coolest,” Jiro answered simply and went back to sleep, this time on
Hisahi’s shoulder.
~*~
(On the
train to
“I knew we
should’ve formed a band,”Kaoru said regretfully.
-End-
~Owari
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