Chapter One
It has been 7 years since Rukawa left to America for basketball and now he is back in Kanagawa for good. Since those years in America he changed in a good way. Not just physically but also emotionally.
He walked through the streets of Kanagawa.
'Things surely had changed since I left.' He told himself.
He kept walking till he bumped somebody. That 'somebody' fell on the floor hard on her butt. Rukawa looked at that somebody and gave her his hand. She looked up at him and gasped.
'Don't tell me that I bumped a fan girl here.'
"Ruuukkkkaawwaa- kun! Is that you?" she took his hand and stood up.
Rukawa just looked at her as if he just saw a ghost. The girl looked so familiar but he just couldn't remember. He couldn't this girl who has a height just right on his shoulders, with cute brown eyes and brown hair; she's got nice slim legs and got curves on the right place. Those seven years had been too long. The girl looked at him up and down.
"Gosh! You have grown taller haven't you?" she asked.
He nodded.
She stood a bit closer to him and lifted her hand up (liked measuring her on height with his) to her head then up to his eyes since she wasn't able to reach his height. He still looked at her puzzled and confused.
'She looks awfully familiar but I can't remember her. How does she know that I have grown taller? Who is she?'
She looked at his facial emotion; she could tell that he can't remember her. She smiled at him.
"You don't remember me, do you?" She asked. He nodded.
"I am…RIInnnGGG! RIINNGG" before she could tell him her name, her mobile phone rang.
"Sorry" she said before flipping up her mobile phone.
"Moshi Moshi" she greeted. She did a bit of nodding and shaking her head while talking on her mobile.
'She looks cute when she does that.' He thought to himself. He smiled at his thought.
"Okay, I will be there." She closed her mobile and put it back in her pocket.
She looked at Rukawa and smiled.
"Rukawa-kun I got to go and meet my friends. Sorry for bumping into you. See you later" she smiled and waved and left.
"Wait…" he called out for her but it was too late, she already left in a hurry.
He couldn't get her name. For the first time Rukawa was curious to find her name. Those 7 years must have changed him a lot.
'Maybe we will meet again.'
He began his journey walking through the streets of Kanagawa. He heard some footsteps which sound like they were following him. He stopped and bended down, to make it seems like he was tying his shoe lace, the sound stop. He continued his walk, when he came to a bend, he heard foot steps again.
'Do no tell me that a fan girl is following me.'
He stopped his walk and looks past his shoulders and saw a hint of red. He turned around and saw Sakuragi.
Sakuragi smiled and gave him a tensai pose.
'An idiot will always stay as an idiot no matter what'
"Dobe! What are you doing here following me here and there?"
"Is that a type of greeting I get after those 7 years of disappearing to America. Any way I thought I saw a kitsune walking around so I decided to check. By the way did you see one walking pass by?" he joke and smile.
"So kitsune, how you are doing?" he asked still had his tensai posed on.
"Just came back a while ago" he shrugged.
"What! And you never called me that you came back, you sly kitsune" Sakuragi hissed.
"Dobe, I said I came back a while ago"
"Whatever!" he looked at his wrist watch and screamed at the top of his voice.
"OH MY GOD! TENSAI IS SO LATE! AND A TENSAI IS NEVER LATE" he screamed.
"Sorry, kitsune I got to go and pick up my son."
"A son?" he was shocked that he would have his son on his own.
"What's that suppose to mean? But I need to go. Ja!"
"Ja" he waved to the fading figure.
He kept walking and decided that it is better to head home. He walked and then he saw a familiar a brown curly haired former team manageress. She seems busy with uhh... her children. He walked towards her. It took a few minutes for Ayako to realize that he was standing there. But it gave her a one hell of hello.
"God! Rukawa, you shouldn't have just stood there, you just gave me a heart attack."
"Wow, people nowadays just greet people like that, so how are you?" he smiled and asked.
"Is that really a Rukawa I am seeing here?" she asked.
"Yes it is. People in America need you know socially contact each other. That's how they play basketball there." He told her.
"And I thought I was seeing things." She smiles.
"This is yours?" was indicating about the two kids laughing and playing around.
"Yes, so you got any of yours running around playing basketball yet?" she joked and asked at the same time.
"That's the reason I am back in Kanagawa." he joked back.
"Really Rukawa, there are many girls still drooling over you here and there"
She then points to a direction past his shoulder, he looked over the direction and he could see a crowd of fan girls drooling.
"I thought they would immediate leave me alone since I left for America?"
Ayako shook her head and her pointer.
"They watched every one of your game, didn't do have fan girls in America?"
he scratched his back and started to laugh.
"They are worse than the ones here"
"Is that so, how so?" she asked him.
"They bring their camera along with them and will take shots of you everywhere, including the bathroom, change room."
Ayako started to laugh.
"Here" she took out a phonebook and gave it to him.
"Contacts of every one if you want to find them. Don't worry I got another one at home." She smiled.
"So who is the father of you kids?"
"Who else?"
"Ryota Miyagi?"
Her smiled widens and nodded.
"I got to go and get dinner for these two. See you later bye"
She waved and went and picked her kids up and left.
Rukawa looked through the phone book while walking.
Hanamichi Sakuragi, Hisashi Mitsui, Takenori Akagi, Kiminobu Kogure, Yasuharu Yasuda, Satoru Kakuta, Tetsushi Shiozaki, Mitsuyoshi Anzai, Ryota Miyagi
All the basketball players were in here. He flipped through the last page.
Haruko Akagi
'Sounds familiar'
'Right she is Akagi sempai's sister and once a team mangaress. I wonder how is she doing.'