Zzup everyone! Soooo, this is actually my first fic and I'm still a newbie in here so if it happens you had any complaints with how I wrote this fanfiction, please do so in a rather courteous and gentle manner. (lol at my english). In the first place, I'm not a native english speaker so I'm bound to commit mistakes every now and then.

ANYWAYS! Moving on, I've noticed, Most people only write Rukawa, Hanamichi, Mitsui and Sendoh stuff in here and I rarely see stuff about the other awesome characters so for a change, I decided to write this fic in a way EVERYONE is included or mentioned at least in the story, while on the other hand, giving a tribute to one of my favorite charas in this anime: Sawakita, Eiji x an OC chara that I specially designed to fit his personality. ^^ (teehee xDDD)

*NO YAOI in here. I don't write Yaoi. Not to appear like a homophobe in here, I just don't feel like it. I only know het stuff so. yep.

*Rated T for mild language

*The rest of the characters will appear on the next chapter

DISCLAIMER : Following the word itself "fanfiction", I do not own anything in this fiction and credits belong to the rightful creators of the manga: Inoue Takehiko, the publisher, the broadcasting company of the anime and etc.

Prologue

"Sannooooooooooooooh... FIGHT!"

"OOOUU!"

"FIGHT!"

"OOOUU!"

The number 1 team is all high-spirited as they jogged altogether along the seaside somewhere in Kanagawa. It was a bright sunny Saturday morning, and it's not even 7am yet. Their loud yells stirred up the antecedently quiet beach, and livened it up, drawing people's attention to them.

"Isn't that Team Sannoh of Akita? What are they doing here?"

Words coming from the small crowd of high-schoolers who are familiar about high school basketball.

Who wouldn't know this team anyways? They reigned for 10 years as the #1 Highschool Basketball Team nationwide and always have consisted the top class players, well known for bringing out the best of every player joining the said renowned ever-winning team.

Unfortunately, this prefecture, Kanagawa's Team Shohoku rewrote history and dethroned Sannoh from its former glory.

"The unremarkably strongest Sannoh, to be even more stronger.." has been their words of motivation since.

And since then, they spent the remaining months until the Winter Invitationals to challenge all the top 4 teams of the Prefectures that created a huge impact during the previous Inter-High School Basketball Tournament. As a penalty to their defeat, a way to boost their morale as a team after the depressing loss and also to widen their range of information. They went all the way from Akita to hold training camps and practice matches with the top 4 teams of every district and this time, it's Kanagawa's turn to face them, hungering for a payback.

Autumn has just started.

"Aaaah... my legs feel all sore." Sawakita groaned. "Aren't we done yet? We've been running since 5. I'm starving...!"

They sat by the white sand, taking a break while waiting for Mikio to come back who was told by Doumoto-sensei to buy some snacks and drinks.

"Alright, I think you're right" Doumoto-sensei agreed. "Let's just wait for Mikio to come back, have some snacks and then we shall jog back to the Inn."

"AAAAAHHH! JOG BACK?!" Sawakita whined louder, like the usual cry baby he is, falling into his back lying down the sand, sulking.

"What a wuss..." Masashi sighed.

"I still can't believe how someone like that, has a monstrous talent in basketball inside him...yo" Fukatsu added.

"Sorry to keep you waiting..." Mikio, the gentle giant ran up to them panting, handing them over bottles of Gatorade and some snacks too, before turning to his brother to utter an apology that seemed to have been his mannerism... "Sorry brother..."

"You just came on time..." Masashi responded.

Whilst they were doing their own thing, drinking and eating to replenish the energy lost during their rigid exercise, some girls by the shore, were staring at them.

"Just do it!" "But I'm too shy!" "Don't worry were here to back you up..." "C'mon, go girl!"

That's what they heard from afar, and it only meant one thing. After some few moments of fumbling, those girls finally approached them, still nudging on each other on who goes first.

"Umm, are you Sawakita-kun of Sannoh?" The bravest one of them asked, while the rest were blushing and nudging each other.

Masashi just rolled his eyes, as this is the usual sight being with their ace a.k.a., the heart throb. "Here we go again."

Minoru nudged Sawakita who seemed to be too busy on his snacks to notice those girls swooning over him. "Oi oi..."

"Yeah?" Sawakita looked back.

"KYAAAAAA!" The girls screamed. "He looked so cute up close!" They sprinted back to where they used to stay moments ago and continued screaming like a school of dying whales... looking back at Sawakita who was left disconcerted by the girls reactions.

"Ohhhkay?" He went back to his drink and rolled his eyes.

" 'OHHHKAY'? Is that how you treat your admirers?!" Masashi, lunged forward, grabbed Sawakita by the head and wrestled him who was caught off-guard, his bottle of Gatorade CAME flying in the air, and he is now trying so hard to struggle before he gets crushed once again into mincemeat by the wrath of this beauty-deprived, freak of nature. "Getting all the fangirls and fanmails all for yourself definitely isn't a permission to act like a total douche! Dont be so happy about yourself Sawakita!"

"I DIDN'T DO SHIT YOU STUPID COW!" Sawakita protested while struggling to catch the last of his breath and felt like his arm was about to snap like a piece of crunchy soda cracker the moment Masashi stretched his arm up to his back... "Let go of meeee! HEEEELP!" He started to wheeze like a lung cancer victim while his face started to turn blue until Masashi eventually finished him with a judo throw, landing him with a thud on his back.

"THAT HURRRRT! (cough cough)" He continued yawping while he sniveled along with a series of wheezes, as he slowly tried to get up, cracking some seemingly dislocated joints. "Fat ass...(snivels)"

"He should have another title yo... Sawakita, the #1 sniveler...yo" Fukatsu added who expressed it humorously despite his monotonous expressions.

"Dude, youre 17, sniveling costs a lot of fangirls" Masashi added.

"I don't snivel! (snivels)" Sawakita stood up, getting really ticked. "Im just gonna head back to the Inn... ALONE pffft" After whisking off the sand on his Jogging Pants, off he marched away from his taunting teammates, with hands on his pockets, still mumbling.

"I can't believe it! Even Fukatsu-senpai, all of them teaming up on me..." Sawakita continued mumbling while slowly walking absentmindedly.

"AAAAHH, LOOK OUT!" He heard someone scream before he looked back just to get a direct hit on his face, smash with a basketball.

"Oooops?" A group of girls playing basketball, watched as the ball bounced to the ground after hitting Sawakita right to the face.

"We're so sorry! We didn't mean to hit you with that one..." A girl ran to him to apologize with a corteous bow.

Sawakita still rubbing his face, trying his best not to whimper, uttered "Yeah, it's cool. I just didn't see it coming..." Until he took his hands off his face revealing his identity...

"Ooooo~~ He's... he's...!" One of the girls was about to exclaim... "Sawakita-san of Sannoh!"

"Oh my gosh! He's actually here!" And the rest of the girls started to surround him and chatter around the popular guy they just happen to luckily yet accidentally stumble upon.

"Umm hi? hahahaha" Sawakita, once again disconcerted by the feeling of women surrounding him simply scratched his head with the feeling of abashment painting his cheeks red while he let out a guilty and awkward laughter.

"What are you guys doing stalling our rehearsals like that?" A voice interrupted those girls chattering, drawing their attention to where the voice was coming from. It was actually from another girl who seemed to be someone around the same age as them.

"Sorry Captain!" The girls apologized. It was their Captain. A girl who looks apparently different from most of them. She has a light colored, wavy blonde hair that was tied in a loose bun with stray locks scattered around her sweaty forehead, light grey eyes, and a facial feature not quite familiar compared to the regular girls he used to see around. She's quite tall too compared to the average and she has a nice, slim and androgynous fit, while her sun-burnt eneven skin tone matches her blonde hair well.

"A foreigner?" Sawakita thought.

"Captain, we just apologized to Sawakita-san, we accidentally hit him with the ball in his face..."

"Sawakita-san? You mean, that ball-headed goof over there...?" The blonde captain asked contemptuously raising a brow at Sawakita who stood outside the court still looking at them blankly.

"Yeah!" One of the girls answered enthusiastically. "He is from Sannoh, and he was an MVP..."

"Big deal..." The Captain interrupted before the girl could finish her word. "We had no time to moon over a fool labelled MVP who cant even dodge a ball with his hands."

"What the..?" Sawakita was taken aback by such downright arrogance. "Even called me a goof?"

"Get back to your posts!" The Captain admonished. "Sub me in." She called for one of the members who stood as the referee to sub her into the game.

Then the girls were back to what they have been doing previously before Sawakita accidentally interrupted it, and there he is still standing there, feeling a bit agitated by such an understatement he got specially from a girl.

"Shohoku Basketball Club - Girls Division." He heard someone spoke from his behind.

"Gaah! Se-sensei!" Sawakita exclaimed, surprised to see everyone behind, who apparently had caught up while he stood there for quite some time inattentively, watching how girls play the game he ultimately excels in.

He was hoping so bad that none of them have seen his embarrassing screw-up just a little while ago, and that they did not also hear the deriding affrontations addressed to him by that outlander.

"What are you doing here, standing blankly like all that...?" Masashi asked.

Apparently by that question, they did not seem to know.

"Uhh, nothing..." Sawakita stammered. "Was just watching how girls play basketball." He got back to his composure and turned to his team, so they can finally head back to the Inn together, since they caught up to him anyways.

"Let's go..."

They all started to move on, except for Fukatsu who was left there, standing by the fence, still watching.

"That blond chick over there playing as the Point Guard is remarkably good...yo" Fukatsu remarked as the Top Point Guard of the Japanese High School Basketball League himself.

"Of course she is..." Doumoto sensei walked back to join Fukatsu watch. "Just like you, she is a #1 Point Guard after all, but mostly known as the National MVP... haha" He ended with a chuckle.

END OF CHAPTER 1

I dont actually expect a lot of reviews on this one as my main chara for this is not the usual main chara people love to use around here, but hey! At least I made it! (fair enough for a noob like me pffft xDDD)

see ya on the next chapter (IF there would be any? *shrugs*)! ^^