Hi there, I'm ImaginationWorld2000 or you can call me MAGi for short
I hope you enjoy this story (and a my other bunch of stories). Please RnR. I would love to hear tips and advice from you guys so I can improve on my writing skills.
And if you don't know some parts of the story, same thing, review and I'll try my best to explain it in the most simpliest way possible for you to understand.
It was a beautiful day, morning to exact; the sun was shining, the birds were singing and apparently a famous school club was playing a certain sport.
"AND IT'S IN! RAIMON SCORES BACK THE GOAL!" The commentator yelled into the microphone as the whistle blew, signalling the first half of the match to end. The score on the scoreboard read 1-1; a tie between Raimon and Tenton Academy, another famous soccer playing school. Raimon had been invited to play a friendly match against Tenton when they made an extravagant entrance, and by extravagant I mean they ran all the way to Raimon and showed up with sweaty armpits.
As the game continued through the second half with Tenton's kickoff, more students of Raimon stayed to watch the outcome of the match.
"MINAYA RUNS UP TO RAIMON'S GOAL—BUT HAYAMI STEALS THE BALL AWAY! AS EXPECTED OF RAIMON'S MAGNIFICENT DEFENDER!"
Smirking to himself, the rose haired defender, Hayami Sasuke brought up the ball before being marked off by a forward with blonde hair and green eyes.
Gritting his teeth, the defender tried to keep the ball from being stolen as he caught glimpses of his teammates, front and back all marked by Tenton's teammates.
The forward smirked mockingly at the defender. Hayami clenched his teeth, desperately observing for open spaces he could get away. While his blocker focused on keeping him stuck, Hayami looked over his shoulder and grinned.
"Captain!" Hayami kicked the ball, catching the Tenton captain off guard as it was sent flying past him. One of the defenders with an eye patch and teal hair, Nabeshima Ichiro smirked confidently as the ball came closer to him. "Bad mistake buddy," He whispered, preparing to head butt the ball when all of a sudden, a shadow appeared behind the ball.
"What the-"
"AND RAIMON'S CAPTAIN, OMIWARI RENON TAKES THE BALL!"
In a blink of an eye, the captain of Raimon had the ball in his possession, leaving the poor defender in shock and his mouth hanging. The ball had been a pass to the Raimon captain! The captain brought up the ball while his teammates blocked the defenders; allowing him to pass through Tenton's defence with ease.
"OMIWARI IS ONE-ON-ONE WITH KUROU TOROTO, TENTON'S GOALKEEPER!"
The captain halted in front of the goal and goalkeeper, his eyes closed; crouching down on one foot with the ball in front as four sharp edges pointed out from the ground and immediately shot out four silver daggers, surrounding the ball in a rhombus shape. The daggers then rotated themselves, pointing to the left and began rapidly spinning around the ball in a perfect circle; defying the forces of gravity, the daggers brought the ball away from the ground and up to the captain's face. When the daggers stopped spinning, they went back to their original position, but are pointed towards the goal instead; the captain's eyes shot open and narrowed them at the ball.
"Dagger Ark!"
Like lighting, the captain sent the ball flying within an instant, towards the goal as the daggers followed the direction.
"THERE IT IS FOLKS, OMIWARI'S HISSATSU TECHNIQUE, DAGGER ARK!" The crowd went wild; shouting out praises and encourages to the Raimon team. The goalkeeper held a stoic and confident face and crossed his arms.
"Ten Ton Weight!"
Behind him, an enormous ton weight blocked off the goal completely just seconds before the ball impacted with the solid, black surface. The ball and daggers tried to pierce their way through the solid wall defence and seconds later, the daggers disappeared and clouds of smoke replaced their places. The rolling ball slowed down as soon as the daggers were gone and fell into the hands of the goalkeeper who smirked at the Raimon captain.
"BUT IT'S BLOCK OFF BY KUROU'S HISSATSU TECHNIQUE!" The game resumed with the Raimon captain gritting his teeth before running after the stolen ball, "A FEW MORE MINUTES BEFORE GAME TIME, WILL RAIMON TAKE BACK THE POINT OR WILL IT GO TO TENTON ACADEMY!?"
One of the midfielders brought up the ball and made a back pass to their captain before being blocked off, "Natsukata!"
The captain, Natsukata Renji, swiftly slid past two oncoming Raimon defenders that tried to tackle the ball away from him.
"Hinata! Getsuka!" The captain called out to the forward and midfielder who arrived at his sides after escaping from their blockers. They exchanged smirks and the Tenton captain advanced forward while his teammates moved further towards the sides resulting their position to look like a triangle. Behind their feet drew bright, white lines as they connected it with each other with the ball being their point; each one raising their kick leg and bringing it down to the ball in sync.
"White Eagle!"
Behind the trio, a gigantic white eagle appeared as if it was real, spreading out its wings to show the might of Tenton.
As the ball shot towards the goal, the white eagle chased after, flying from side to side as air currents formed around the ball. The Raimon goalkeeper Namayaki Zarou braced himself for the oncoming ball, clenching his fist as he put his face forward. Blinking once, his irises had turned from deep blue to bright red and his scleras to purple as a large illusion of his new eyes appeared right in front of them. The illusion grew bigger and bigger and looked even more menacing than the last one every time a new illusion appeared right behind the other; until it finally came to an abrupt stop.
"Beast Glare!"
And if looks could kill, then this one stopped the ball; it had impacted with the first illusion which slowed down the rolling process and power. The ball landed lightly on the ground, slightly tilting itself and rolled to the goalkeeper's feet. Just as the Raimon goalkeeper was about to pick up the ball, the whistle blew.
"AND THAT'S THE END OF THE MATCH! AMAZING! A TIE BETWEEN RAIMON AND TENTON ACADEMY!"
The Raimon team cheered for joy as they ran up to the goalkeeper, whose eyes had returned back to their natural colour, to congratulate him for a job well done.
"That was a good match." The Raimon captain whirled his head to see the Tenton captain walking up to him, "As what we expect from Raimon."
Omiwari smiled, "You weren't so bad either." He said, shaking hands with the Tenton captain, "I see you guys have been improving since our last match. Took me by surprise with that hissatsu tactic of yours."
Natsukata grinned goofily, showing his teeth as he placed his arms on his hips, "That's what Tenton's so great at! Surprises! Oh and speaking of surprises, I was surprised you guys could manage with only ten players. And by the looks of it, it doesn't seem that you have any substitutes or anyone else who wants to join." He remarked, watching the crowd of students from Raimon disperse, "If you plan to get into the Holy Road, I suggest you get some team members and quick."
Omiwari nodded in acknowledgment. Natsukata patted his shoulder and walked towards his teammates who were waiting patiently for their captain at the sidelines.
"Let's have another match Raimon!" The cheerful one of the team with dark spiky hair and dark eyes, Rocomoto Yuu, waved at the Raimon team before jogging back to his school along with his teammates.
"You bet!" Hayami cried out, pushing up his round glasses and letting it rest on his forehead, "We'll win for sure!"
"Dream on!"
"I like him!" Hayami said out loud, placing his hands on his hips as he glanced back at his teammates, "Hey guys, why don't we play a little game of Think Fast? We've got plenty of time left."
A chorus of cheers echoed and fist-punched the air.
Omiwari, who wasn't paying attention to his teammates, watched Tenton jogged away from their school. Moments later, they disappeared out of sight, leaving the Raimon captain staring at the open space as his mind pondered about events that happened earlier.
"I was surprised you guys could manage with only ten players. And by the looks of it, it doesn't seem that you have any substitutes or anyone else who wants to join."
"If you plan to get into the Holy Road, I suggest you get some team members and quick."
He was right. Raimon had only ten members in their team and they needed more if they wanted to get into the Holy Road. But how would they even get more? Everyone was still afraid of the incident that happened with the last soccer team they went against. Lost in his own train of thought, the Raimon captain didn't realize that his teammates had formed a circle with him included in and already started kicking the ball around at a fast pace.
"Captain!"
Omiwari immediately threw his head to the direction of the voice, only to be met with a ball hurling towards his face within seconds. Acting quickly, he stepped back and gave the ball a hard kick. Unfortunately, he kicked it AWAY from the circle (and he's never done that before) as the ball headed towards a school girl who was obvious to it. The girl heard screaming from the school's soccer field and turned her head, only to see the ball a few seconds away from colliding with her. She immediately turned her whole body around and the ball went impacted with her stomach.
The force of the ball pushed the girl slightly back but was able to keep a firm footing.
Gritting her teeth, she glared at the ball; after a few seconds later the ball slowly stopped rolling and fell to the ground, not before leaving a dirty mark on the girl's uniform due to all the dirt and soot on it. Resting her foot on the surface of the ball, she ignored the gawking faces of both the student witnesses around her and the soccer club members, inspecting the field for the person who kicked the ball.
She suddenly noticed the Raimon captain staring at her with his eyes narrowed and assumed he was the one who kicked the ball; no sooner did she enter the contest as well, staring intently into each other's eyes as if they were trying to get the other to give out unwanted information about themselves.
Seconds later, she picked up the ball with her foot and she threw it upwards until it reached her chest before bouncing off the ground. She swung her leg behind and gave the ball a hard kick. Purposely aiming it towards the captain who was stunned at the ball coming back to him.
The ball went straight for his stomach and he was able to stop it. He turned his attention away from the fallen ball and looked back up to see the girl gone from her position. Confused, he frantically tried searching for the girl through the crowd of students. His head stopped turning from side to side when he heard Hayami walked up behind him, however, didn't turn around to look at the redhead defender.
"Captain." Hayami began hesitantly. When the captain was serious about something, he doesn't look at any of his teammates and Hatsune, one of the managers once commented that he looked very scary-looking when he does that face, dub 'serious face', and Hayami had to agree with that. Breathing inwardly, Hayami closed his eyes before putting on a goofy grin with his arms behind his head. "That was some kick wasn't it captain!"
"Yeah." The captain replied, still not turning his head around.
"We should invite her in our team, don't you think captain?"
"Yeah."
"Umm... We could find her now or maybe later-"
"Hayami..." The captain interrupted which took the Hayami by surprise.
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
Hayami formed an O-shape with his mouth. The Raimon captain was probably deep in thought and probably didn't want to be disturbed either. Hayami frowned and averted his eyes to the sky as he repeatedly tapped his toe; a habit he grew up with when he was impatient. Trying to think of something that he could get their captain to talk again, his eyes shone brightly as a train of thought passed through his head.
"Hey, captain," Hayami said, grinning like a Cheshire cat. His grin grew even bigger when the captain whipped his head and glared at him, irritated, "You gotta eat Rairaiken's Special Spicy Supreme."
Realizing what the defended meant, his eyes widened and his mouth hung opened.
"Fuck."
'The first day of school and you almost get a ball to the face. What a great way to start the morning.'
Hiromi thought as she walked into the school hall. She glared at the dirt mark left on her clean uniform from earlier. Surely a teacher was going to flip at her for looking unpresentable, especially on the first day of junior high.
Reaching the hall a few minutes later, the brunette found a few empty seats in the front rows. Letting her bag fall off her shoulder onto the chair beside her, the brunette seated herself and crossed her arms. Her ankle rested on top of her knee which you would refer to as 'ladylike' (she's wearing black leggings). Hiromi became distracted with her own thoughts, not realizing there was someone standing beside her.
"Is anyone sitting here?"
Hiromi's blue-green eyes widened in shock and immediately turned her head to the voice which belonged to a girl about her age with short, blue hair and lighter blue eyes that resembled the sky. Her smile and eyes showed that she was probably kind and caring, Hiromi guessed. She noticed the girl was pointing at her bag.
"Oh! Uh... No! No one's sitting here." Hiromi replied almost hastily as she grabbed her bag and brought it to her lap when she put her leg down. Her cheeks turning pink from embarrassment as she watched the blue haired girl sit down beside her. Before Hiromi knew it she was staring at the girl beside her. The girl caught her staring and smiled.
"I'm Amemiya Sora by the way. Nice to meet you." She introduced.
So that was her name, Sora, a fitting name for someone who has sky blue eyes, "This is my first time at Raimon Junior High."
Tensing up, Hiromi let out an "um" sound. She was never good with introductions, especially with people she didn't know. "Just... call me Hiromi. I prefer it that way." She just didn't know what to say, did she? Hiromi inwardly hoped that she didn't ask about her surname, it was far too embarrassing for others to know and much to her relief, the Sora girl didn't ask. Hiromi noticed her moving her finger like she was writing something in the air.
"Your name means Generous Beauty right?" Sora asked out of the blue, snapping her fingers. "It really fits your name Hiromi-chan."
It caught her off guard, "...Thanks?"
Sora's smile faded and was replaced with and O-shape mouth. She placed a finger on her chin and looked around the area with her brows furrowed with worry. "He's not here yet..."
Hiromi tilted her head to the side to see Sora's hand placed on top of an empty seat beside her as the other clenched the blue ribbon and white shirt she wore, wrinkling it.
"Is there someone you're waiting for?" Hiromi asked, glancing at the opened doors that Sora had been watching. The blue haired girl turned her head and nodded, "He's a childhood friend of mine. He doesn't have a habit of being late, but when he does I can't help but worry about what's keeping him up."
Hiromi laid back on the chair before putting her bag on the floor, she went back to her earlier sitting position, but instead, her hands were behind her head in a lazy manner, "Well let's just hope he hurries up. The principal's about to give his speech, and from what I heard, it's boring." She added with a smirk.
"I think I can agree on that." Giggled Sora, letting go of her worries of her childhood friend as she focused on the principal walking up on stage holding a stack of papers in his hands. A few of them slipped and flew away from the stack which regarded him to go back and pick them up before stacking them all neatly on the podium and beginning his speech.
"Damn right."
"So you dyed your hair as a birthday present?" Sora asked, pointing to the two coloured dyes on the brunette's twin tails. Each twin tail was a different colour, one being a greyish brown colour on her right and the other a rose pink colour on her left.
"Yup," Hiromi replied, taking a bite out of her sandwich which her father made for her. And he was a really good chef. The first classes of school had been the alright for Hiromi as she felt they actually taught something important to her, BUT not that one class. Hiromi was bored out of mind during Technology class and they didn't even do anything during that class! The Technology teacher, Nagasaki-sensei had a shrill voice and wore small round specs. He had given the class a long and boring speech that took up the whole period.
And it didn't help that he kept stuttering over his words and fumbling with his tie nervously. Half the class were already asleep and ended up on the floor when Nagasaki-sensei shouted in their ears. Hiromi assumed the teacher must have been new to the school or was just really really nervous about teaching.
Putting those thoughts aside, Hiromi munched on an apple she sneaked away from home, "A friend I know is a barber and said that he'd dyed my hair as a birthday present for my 11th birthday. I did it without my parents' permission and I got grounded for a week."
"I guess it makes sense," Sora said, giggling. She tried to imagine Hiromi not being able to play soccer for an entire week.
"It was hell for me. I had to do chores!" Hiromi said dramatically, "But they reduced the days of my punishment because of the colour dyes I chose." Hiromi pointed to the greyish-brown dye mixed with her natural brown hair. Chewing the last remaining bits of the apple until all there was left was the core, Hiromi eyed a garbage bin in front of her. And with one good aim, she threw the apple core and it went right straight in.
'At least her worries are gone.' Hiromi thought, watching the bluenette change the topic to soccer, 'But where the hell is he?' Her eyes averted towards the school gates that were slightly open. The security guard had stormed off somewhere else after an argument with the chairman who came up to check on him.
Much to Hiromi's dismay, she could only see pedestrians walking outside, talking on their phones or chatting together in a group, but not a single student came through the gates. Not that Hiromi would know how he looked like anyway, but was eager to meet this childhood friend of Sora's. When the blue haired girl said that he loved soccer as much as his dad, Hiromi wanted to prove that point by seeing him play.
As she continued to watch the gates, she didn't realize that three pairs of legs were walking towards their way. Sora who was concentrated on her food didn't notice it either until one of them walked past her. The brunette was unbeknownst to their presence, especially the one behind her.
"That was a pretty good kick you made earlier." Hiromi jumped in shock, breaking her concentration from the gates she immediately turned her head around only to be met with a face of a stranger, "We could use someone like you!"
Hiromi screamed in shock. She would have nearly fallen off the bench if she hadn't had good reflexes. Gripping the edge of the bench for dear life, Hiromi stared at the person in front of her with her heart pumping rapidly. He dark brown eyes and long hair tied up in a ponytail. He was wearing the school uniform for boys with his bag slumped over his shoulder.
"Great job Nishiki-san, you scared the living daylights out of her." A sarcastic voice said out loud. Hiromi titled her head to see a boy with dull red hair with two spikes curved up at both sides of his head and had ebony coloured eyes. He was glaring at the guy called Nishiki. Another boy about his age, walked up the group, "Now how are we gonna get her on the team?"
"Come on now Akashi." The boy beside Akashi tried to reason as he flapped his hand dismissively, "I bet Nishiki-senpai didn't mean it right?" The boy had dark blue hair that stood up on top of his head with curved ends. He had lavender eyes and donned a pair of round goggles on top of his forehead.
"Ehehehe... Oops?" Nishiki said, facing his two juniors with his arm scratching his neck while the other one on his hips. Nishiki did an 180-degree spin and faced Hiromi's shocked face, bowing down apologetically before standing up again. "Sorry about that. Let me introduce ourselves. I'm Nishiki Nozayama, the sarcastic one's Akashi Ryomaru and the one beside him is Hamano Takuto." He gestured to his juniors behind him who waved at Hiromi. "When we saw your kick this morning, we just had to recruit you."
Hiromi looked puzzled, "Recruit me? What do you mean? Don't I need to be in the second team to do that? And hold on a second, why are you coming directly to me?"
Hiromi watched her seniors look at each other confused and nervous at the same time. She had been told stories of the school parents who were students at Raimon and members of the soccer team, so she pretty much knew how things work around here in the school, especially the soccer club.
Hiromi was aware she asked a lot at once, but she did find it perplexing they were asking her to join. Not that she would turn down the offer. But coming directly to her? Now that's something she felt like she should know why and she was going to make them spill.
Looking at Hiromi, Nishiki immediately headlock his juniors and turned around. Their backs facing the brunette and bluenette who looked at the trio questioningly.
"Should we tell them?" Nishiki whispered to his juniors' ears so that the two girls behind them couldn't hear them talk.
"No way," Akashi whispered back with a stern voice as he continued glaring at the taller boy. "If we do then how are we going get her to join us? For all we know she could be one of them." He gestured head to a Raimon student standing a few meters away. The student caught his glare and ran away screaming as students around the area shot him questioning looks.
"But she doesn't look like the one to be frightened so easily." Hamano pointed out. The trio glanced back at Hiromi and then back at themselves. "Besides maybe with her help, we can do something about it."
The both of them glanced at the Akashi for his answer. His eyes drifted from their faces before sighing in defeat, "Fine."
"You're new right?" Akashi asked, particularly to Hiromi once they turned around. He didn't wait for her to reply, "To answer your first question, Raimon doesn't have a second team. Not now anyways. And second, you don't know anything about Raimon's incident, do you?"
"Incident? What incident?" Sora inquired, looking worried again, her hands grasping her food container tightly. Akashi bit back his tongue, not wanting to say anything. His eyes involuntarily fell onto the brunette's blue-green eyes and it made him feel like he needed to say it out already. It was like she had this sort of effect that made people tell her whatever she needed or wanted to know.
"Two years ago, Raimon had an incident involving another team they played against." Hiromi noticed Hamano's lavender eyes turn dull with sadness and he stared at his feet as Akashi continued, "During the middle of the match when the other team was about to win, metal bars began falling from the roof and pierced the field. Luckily no one was severely injured, but one the members from Raimon was so eager on winning he still charged towards the goal." Sora gasped, dropping her food container as the contents leaked out as she clasped her hands together over her mouth with a horrified look on her face. The other three seniors and Hiromi ignored her.
"The captain saw it and ran to save him when a bar was about to fall on him. But..." Hamano spoke up, wanting to contribute but stopped short as he fiddled with his thumbs.
"Because he saved the guy, the captain ended up being pierced by the metal bar and died an instant death." Nishiki finished, "Fortunately, the rest of the players were safe. They promised each other they'd come out victorious for their dead captain. But no matter what team they went against, something bad always happens. People are starting rumours that Raimon brings bad luck to others and ourselves, so nobody wants to join the soccer club. They're scared that something bad might happen to them." Nishiki added, crossing his arms, "If only we knew how it happened in the first place."
"The police never found out?" Sora asked.
"There was no evidence of anyone who caused our 'bad luck'," Akashi explained, "So all we can do is stay safe and hope whoever we're up against isn't going to get hurt.
The silence among them lasted only for a few seconds before Hiromi spoke up from her thoughts, "Who was the guy that nearly got himself killed? The- what was he called?- the 'determined one'?"
Akashi glanced at Nishiki and Hamano who shrugged in reply, "We don't know. But I'm pretty sure the captain or Namayaki-san knows about it."
"Who are they?"
"The captain's the guy you aimed for this morning and Namayaki is the goalkeeper. You'll get to meet them if you join the club." NIshiki involuntarily advertised before getting serious, "Right now, we're lucky nothing has happened yet. So I guess it safe for others to join while it lasts."
"All of us want to get into the Holy Road, but with just ten players, we're not qualified to play." Hamano added encouragingly, poking his head out from Akashi's side, the dullness gone from his eyes, "Not to mention, it's a golden opportunity for you to join. You've never been to the Holy Road have you? Last year, we weren't allowed to join by out coach. Said it was too dangerous for other teams and we'd still be eliminated from the rounds anyway."
"That's why we're working our way up to the be the very best for this year!" Nishiki declared, fist punching the air, "So whaddya say? You in?"
It took a while for Hiromi to answer as she was pondering her mind with the story and their pleas. Then she remembered about this morning with the soccer accident.
"When's the entry exam?"