Me: Heeeeey! This is a CharacterxReader series where you get paired up with Inazuma characters, starting with Shindou.

Shindou: Ehm, hello?

Me: Great, you're right on time, Shindou-kun!^^ Anyways, this one is based on a video I saw on YouTube and if you don't like what happens, blame Kariya!

Kariya: Hey!

Me: I don't own Inazuma Eleven, enjoy!

[Edit]: Rewritten, no longer you-based. Many stories get deleted because of that, so this is a precaution. I will rewrite the others too when I have the time and I'll try to update soon!


Shindou Takuto ~ My greatest fear


"What are you planning?" I asked while looking down on the teal haired boy. Soccer practice was still going on, but I was allowed to quit ten minutes earlier so I had a little more time to shower and change into my casual clothes. Endou-kantoku always made teasing remarks about women needed twice as long to get ready than men, so that's why I was allowed to leave earlier. I always rolled my eyes at that and didn't respond any further. It wasn't true, since I could change really fast, but I wasn't complaining about this.

However, Kariya had followed me today and kept me from changing. When I said this to him and asked him to leave, he simply ignored me and challenged me to a bet. And a strange one at that.

"I'm not planning on anything, [l/n]-senpai." The cunning smirk was replaced by an innocent smile. Your inner alarm went off. That boy was definitely up to no good. "I just think that you can't do it, that's all."

"You think I can't keep my hand on the middle of the table for ten lousy minutes? Glad to hear that you think so high of me," was my sarcastic reply. Yes, that was Kariya's challenge: I wasn't allowed to remove my hand from the table for ten minutes.

"Then, prove me wrong, senpai," he said innocently. "If you win, I won't prank you anymore this year."

A little voice told me to ignore the bet. It had to be some kind of trick, it just had to be. There was no way he would make it that easy for me. I was one of his favourite, if not his number one favourite, victims, since I always got angry with him. I knew I should act like I didn't care, instead, but every time that little imp pranked me so mercilessly, something inside me just snapped... A year free of his pranks, free of constantly looking over my shoulder to see if he wasn't there really sounded tempting. What could be the catch?

Kariya's voice pulled me back to the land of the living. "But if I win, you tell me who your crush is."

"How did you-"

"I heard you and the managers talking about that a few days ago. I've been curious to whom it is ever since." He paused for a while and then continued. "So, what do you say, [l/n]-senpai? You think you can prove me wrong?"

I hesitated for another moment, still trying to figure out his real intentions. The bet was too easy to lose, so there wasn't a risk for me. But since it was so easy, something told me that he had something up his sleeve. But then I just shrugged it off and let my competative side take over.

"Alright," I smiled. "There's no way I can lose an easy bet like this!"


So I did as he told and placed my hand on the table as he sat down next to me and waited... and waited... and waited...

I still didn't know what he hoped to gain from this, but to keep him from cheating, we had agreed that he wouldn't touch me. I wouldn't be surprised if he would have pulled my hand off the table to claim his victory, but that possibility was now sealed off. A minute passed like this... Two minutes... Three...

Kariya yawned and stretched his arms. "Uwaa, I'm gonna get something to drink, do you want some too, [l/n]-senpai?" I shook my head while a frown was still on my face. This was all so unlike Kariya! My kohai didn't seem bothered by my expression and reached for his bag. "And to make sure you won't get lonely when I'm gone..."

He took out a blue lunchbox and grabbed something out of it, placing it on the table while covering it with his hands. I broke a cold sweat when I got the feeling that something was wrong. As I saw his misschievous smirk, I knew what I had gotten myself into: deep trouble.

"...I brought you some company," he joyfully finished and he lifted up his hands, revealing the thing on the table. I gasped for air and almost backed away, but remembered just in time to keep my hand in place. I couldn't stop my arms from shaking vigorously, though. The reason for that was the table, barely a feet away from my hand: a spider.

But not just any spider.

A. Freaking. Tarantula.

"Isn't she cute?" Kariya chirped, but his grin told said that he enjoyed my situation. I mentally hit myself and I would have done it in reality if I didn't have to keep my hand there. How could I have been so foolish? Why hadn't I listened to that tiny voice and ignored the bet? Why was I so stupid? These questions floated through my brain as I saw how close that thing was to me. Needless to say, I wasn't really fond of spiders. Absolutely not!

"K-Kariya, get that thing away from me!" Oh god, this was too much! I could barely handle average-sized spiders! I usually just called out for my dad to save me from them. Too bad I knew that the only one who could save me at the moment, wouldn't do it.

"What's wrong, senpai~?" he said in a singsong tone and I swore I was going to kill him. "Don't you like your new friend?"

He enjoys this way too much, I thought sourly. Ignoring his question and trying to distract my mind, I asked: "H-how did you even get i-it?"

"My neighbour is on vacation and he asked me to look after his pet spider. I'm not sure what species she is, but I hope she's not deadly to humans."

Trying hard to suppress my nausea, I almost fainted when that little brat started poking the spider's back, effectively forcing it to walk to my hand! "Kariya, stop it!" When he didn't listen, I grumbled something among the lines of: "When I get my hands on you..." It sounded quite threatening and it usually worked to scare him away, but not today. He knew he had found my weak spot, and he took joy in exploiting it. Little sadist.

"I'm so scared, senpai," he mocked before he gave the spider a final push so that it climbed on my hand. All the curses in my head were immediately forgotten as I pressed my free hand firmly against my mouth so that I wouldn't scream. That would be really embarrassing!

God, this was torture! How long did I have to endure this? Suddenly, Kariya got up from his seat and walked towards the sink, leaving me alone with that thing! "KARIYA!" I yelled without thinking. "GET IT OFF, RIGHT THIS INSTANCE!"

"But the ten minutes aren't up yet, senpai," the teal haired boy smiled innocently as he filled his water bottle. "There's still three minutes left."

Damn! "KARIYA!"

"Is something wrong? We heard screaming," a familiar voice said and my eyes widened when I recognised it. It was his voice. Kariya turned around and smiled at the people at the door.

"No, nothing is wrong, Captain. [l/n]-senpai and I are having a really funny bet, that's all."

I couldn't see him since my back was turned towards him, but I knew that Shindou was looking at me and despite the situation, that knowledge increased my blush. "[l/n]-san, are you alright?"

With my hand still pressed against my lips, I wildly shook my head. I knew that if I took my hand away, I wouldn't be able to keep myself from screaming. Footsteps came closer and numerous gasps reached my ears.

"Kariya, what did you do?" Kirino scolded him, but the kohai just smirked.

"Like I said, senpai, [l/n]-senpai and I made a bet."

"The spider was no part of it," I hissed. "You cheated."

His smirk widened, if that was even possible. "No, senpai. The rule was that I didn't pull your hand or something and I did nothing of the sort."

I grumbled, but that turned in a squeal when I felt how the spider started to climb my arm. "Kariya, get it off, now!"

"No~"

"Kariya!"

"I heard you."

"The first thing I'll do tomorrow is dance on your death bed," I threatened darkly, but he wasn't fazed by my words or my glare. It remained silent for a few more seconds, but then the timer went off. Ten minutes had passed, it was over now. Thank goodness.

"There, I won. Now take it off," I yelled at Kariya. Despite the fact that he lost the bet, the smirk was still on his face and my heart grew cold when I realized what this meant: Kariya had a plan.

"Congratulations, senpai," he said and nonchalantly leaned back.

"What are you waiting for? Take it off!"

It remained silent for a few more seconds and a thoughtful expression was plastered on his face. "As you said before, senpai, the spider wasn't part of the bet. Technically, I don't have to remove it."

My eyes widened in shock. He... He had been planning this all along, hadn't he? Even if I would win the bet, he would just keep the spider there until I told him the name of my crush. But I couldn't tell him! I couldn't! If I told it, I wouldn't only say it to Kariya, but to Shindou a well... I didn't have the courage to confess to him! B-but if I didn't I would be stuck here... What should I do? What should I do?

The spider suddenly moved again and instinctively, I made my decision. "Shindou," I whispered barely audibly, hoping that it was enough. I should've known better.

"Hah? What did you say, [l/n]-senpai?"

"It's Shindou! Now get that godforsaken thing off of me!" I yelled and my voice echoed through the room. Kariya smirked as he obliged and silently placed the spider back in its box. I leaned back and closed my eyes, exhausted from all that I had endured.

"Shindou? What's with Shindou?" Kurama asked behind me and my eyes shot open as I realized that I wasn't alone. The whole team was in the room. Shindou was in the room. A blush krept on my face and my mouth fell open, but no sounds came out.

"[l/n]-san?" Shindou asked as he walked closer to me. "What did he ask you?"

"Well, you see..." Kariya chirped happily, glad that he found a new way to drive me in a corner. "I asked he- OW!" I effectively cut him off by kicking his leg, but I knew that that wouldn't stop him from spilling my not-so-secret secret. I didn't want to be there when he told them, when he would display my feelings to everyone... I didn't want to be there when my heart got broken.

And so I ran.

Ignoring the shouts of my teammates, I dashed out of the room. Tears streamed over my hot cheeks, but I didn't notice it. All I wanted was to get away. Shindou didn't follow me, I noticed with relief, but when I looked behind me for the last time, I saw that Kariya whispered something in his ear. I didn't need to guess what that something was.

I was almost through the gates when I recalled that I didn't have all the books for tomorrow, yet, so I ran towards my locker at the speed of light. The longer I stayed around, the greater was the chance that someone would ask what was going on. Worse, if I saw Shindou or Kariya right now... I prayed to the gods that that wouldn't happen!

And it turned out that the gods disliked me.

For when I closed my locker and turned around to go away, I was face to face with Shindou. He was panting so hard that he couldn't speak properly and I wanted to run away again, but he grabbed my wrists before I could. We stood there until he finally regained his breathing, and his closeness made me a little weak in the knees. Silence hung between us, until I couldn't take it anymore.

"I'm sorry."

He shot me a confused glance. "For what?"

"You already know, don't you? Kariya told you, didn't he?"

"He did," Shindou muttered and I couldn't do anything but look down. This was so embarrassing! Several plans to kill that little imp crossed my mind, but I needed to get through this thing first. But no matter what the outcome would be, I promised to myself that I would make Kariya suffer. My next murderous thoughts got cut off when Shindou spoke again. "Would you like me to reply?"

I bit my lip and shook my head, signalling that I didn't want that. I knew that if I spoke, my voice would probably break. He chuckled and asked for the reason and after a little hesitation, I told him: "Because I know you don't love me, so I want to keep my heart in one piece." I was right, my voice broke.

He chuckled again and lifted my chin up, forcing me to look him in the eye. "You're such a smart girl, [l/n]... I never thought that the day would come that I would prove you wrong at something. But it looks like that day finally came." And then he kissed me.

I don't know how long our tongues swirled around each other and I don't know how many times we broke apart for air, only to start again after we filled our lungs. The only thing I knew was that I was happy right now.

Yeah, I was really happy.

"I think we should thank Kariya for what he did," Shindou mused as we broke apart for the umpteenth time.

I scowled. "Yeah, I will thank him. Right before I kill him, that is." Shindou smirked and leaned in to kiss my lips again. I found myself melting into it and my revengeful thoughts temporarily disappeared to the background.

Only temporarily, though.


"You are rather energetic, senpai," Kariya smirked. It was the next day and we were having water break.

"You know I'm going to get you back for that, don't you," I threatened as I practiced my best death glare. Shindou was now my official boyfriend, though we hadn't told anybody on the team yet. And even though it was mainly because of Kariya that we got together, I still hadn't forgiven what he'd done to me.

"Heh, I'll believe it when I see it," he mocked casually as he brought his water bottle to his mouth. A wicked smile broke through on my face when I saw how he firmly squeezed it, but Kariya didn't see that because he pursed his lips and closed his eyes as soon as the contents of the bottle came into his mouth.

"Revenge is sweet, or in this case, sour," I giggled while sticking out my tongue at him. He was too busy with glaring at me and spitting out the lemon juice to retort my lame one-liner, and when he finally was able to, I didn't listen anymore.

That was because I felt Takuto's hands around my waist and his chin on my shoulder. "Mission accomplished," he whispered in my ear and then we shared a quick kiss.

It wasn't obvious, but it was enough to tell the news to our teammates without actually telling them. It wasn't long, but it was long enough to revive the butterflies in my stomach.

It wasn't overly passionate, but it was enough to take me to another world.


Me: kinda crappy epilogue-thingy maybe, but I wanted Kariya to drink lemon juice. Ghehe.

Anyways, I hope you liked it and please leave a review with who I should write about. Just saying, I'm kinda empty for Chrono Stone Characters at the moment, but I'm open for any Inazuma Eleven/Go/Galaxy suggestions.

By the way, the next story is PROBABLY Ibuki (not sure yet). I also have plots for Kazemaru Ichirouta, Matatagi Hayato, Endou Mamoru, Kageyama Hikaru and Nagumo Haruya/Burn. If you want a story like that, please vote for them ^^

Goodbye!

Oh yeah, and the video was The Tarantula Challenge from Tyler Oakley (along with Connor Franta). Go watch it, it's very funny.