the soccer war chapter 1: prologue
"Tenma, it's dinner time!" a nineteen year old Kino Aki called out for the eight year old brunet. Matsukaze Tenma, who was in his sleeping quarters, ran to the kitchen to see that Aki has finished up preparing the plates. Today's dinner was fried chicken, one piece for every resident in the house.
A blue-haired girl, a short boy with a headband on his head, and an orange-haired boy suddenly entered the kitchen, entranced by the smell of the chicken aroma that seems to spread throughout the household. The boy named Tenma and laid out chairs for his friends.
"Come Aoi, Shinsuke, Taiyou! Take your seat!" he told them with a gleeful smile on his face.
Aoi smiled back at his friend and took a seat next to Aki. Taiyou and Shinsuke took their seats next to Tenma, Taiyou on his left and Shinsuke on his right. Tenma took his seat eventually and altogether, they said their thanks before digging in. And Aki took this chance to turn on the TV so she would watch the news together with the kids.
The newsreporter on TV was sititing on his desk, and he had a frightened expression on his face. He reported about nearly the same thing again, a place in the country has either been blown up and over hundreds to thousands of people have been killed or injured or even, another riot broke out at the city hall. Aki felt a pang of sadness in her heart and she clutched her dress.
It's been like this for the past five years.
"Aki-nee!" Tenma called for her, "May I offer some food to Mom?" he asked.
Aki smiled and gave the young boy a pat on the head, "Of course, you may do so."
Tenma grinned at her before entering the living room of the small household. He was carrying a small bowl with a three small pieces of chicken inside. He was walking to a table, with a picture of his mother on a frame on the table together with two candles. Tenma lit up a match from the drawer of the table, lit it on the candle, and placed the bowl at the front of his mother's picture. He placed his hands together and whispered:
"I hope you're enjoy up there, Mom."
Afterwards, he went back to the kitchen to be with his friends when he heard the doorbell ring. Aki answered it and two familiar faces to the four children entered. It was Tsurugi Yuuichi, together with his little brother, Tsurugi Kyousuke.
"Kyousuke! Yuuichi-san! Welcome back!" Aoi greeted to the brothers.
Kyousuke was on a wheelchair, waved at Aoi before coughing. Yuuichi gave Kyousuke a pat on the back, trying to calm him down. The older Tsurugi brother let him stay near the table and instructed his little brother to eat his food. The younger Kyousuke nodded and started eating his chicken quietly.
"So Yuuichi, is Kyousuke's condition doing any better?" Aki asked Yuuichi.
"Well, the doctor said that he will need to do some physical therapy. If it worsens, he'll have to stay in the hospital for a while." Yuuichi explained and sighed, looking at his younger brother. Kyousuke was shouting at Tenma who grabbed his piece of chicken as a way to tease the boy.
It's been three years since Kyousuke has been confined to be on a wheelchair. Three years since he walked, since was able to run everywhere...
...And five years since they were able to play soccer happily.
"Alright everyone!" Aki stood up from her seat and clapped her hands, "Take a shower and go to sleep now! It's nearly bedtime, you know?"
"Aww, but Aki-nee...!" Tenma protested but Aki gave Tenma a deadly glare, which the brunet flinched and ran to the bathroom to take a bath and prepare for bed.
Everyone did the same thing and soon enough, they finished up. Tenma, Aoi, Shinsuke, and Taiyou went to their own beds while Yuuichi helped Kyousuke go to his and lay down before going to his own bed. Aki kissed each of the kids' foreheads before she closed the lights.
"Goodnight!" Aki told them and smiled before leaving the room and closing the door behind her.
She walked to her own room, changed to her night gown and closed the lights before laying down to bed. Her thoughts seem so preoccupied about a lot of things lately, and she realized something.
It's been five years now, when all this chaos happened. What chaos you ask?
The Great Soccer War.
Exactly five years ago, someone destroyed the Tokyo Tower and according to the investigation, a soccer ball was left in the midst of the crime scene. Weeks after the incident, more and more landmarks of Japan were destroyed. And as each incident happened, a soccer ball was the only clue left to try to determine who was the culprit.
Police and government officials interviewed all the soccer players from professional players to young elementary school students who play soccer as their club. They even asked the winning team of the Football Frontier International, Inazuma Japan. Endou Mamoru, the captain of the team, shook his head as he was asked about it.
And nearly four months past, and the enemy they have been looking for finally appeared onstage. He was a man in his twenties, who wore a mask with one side coloured white with black markings and the other coloured black with white markings. He wore a black trenchcoat that nearly covered his entire body and black boots. And when he appeared to the public on that day, he grinned maliciously at them.
"Soccer will no longer be a sport of happiness, for now it's a weapon of destruction!" the mysterious man proclaimed proudly.
What happened after that was chaotic. Soccer players who sided with the mysterious man attacked the people who dared defy him and many hid away from his presence. Within two months, the mysterious man took over all of Japan and disposed of the former political leaders.
And now, soccer was something everyone was required to do. Those who didn't how to play or didn't know its elements were imprisoned. The beloved sport that was used to be fun for everyone was now something destructive.
The mysterious man tried to capture all the members of Inazuma Japan, but it seems they disappeared right when he came to attack. Everyone thought that the best team in the world would save them, but they just disappeared from their sight.
And the only ones who are part of Inazuma Japan who didn't disappear, was Kino Aki, and Fuyuka Kudou and Kudou Michiya, with the father and daughter staying abroad to hide away and at the same time, for Fuyuka to finish her studies in the field of medicine.
Now the question we ask now is...
...Who can save us now?
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