Chapter Zero

The Test of summer and autumn

-Hitomiko Kira Orphanage-

As the summer heat started to settle down for the season two oddly looking boys sat on the wooden floors reaching all around the orphanage that slightly resembled a dojo.

The boys each had a slender figure, the tallest had short, thickly spiked, dark red hair that was looking at the smaller boy with his light coloured emerald eyes.

"Hey Midorikawa are you seriously thinking of transferring to Raimon,"

The shorter boy turned to his senpai making his long apple green hair flip, falling upon his face.

"Hiroto aren't you excited about seeing everyone again, it has been at least two years since seeing everyone."

"Midorikawa who's this everyone you're talking about?"

The two teenagers both looked up to lay eyes upon their new friend they had just made at the start of summer. The girl was in her late teens; her body figure was bigger in a sense from the other two boys but not by much. Her hair was blonde with streaks of brunette going through it and was spiked up. It jilted forward as she almost tripped over the floor boards handing each of the boys a drink.

"Thanks Renae, we were talking about are old friends for the FFI."

The red head took a sip after explaining.

"Those are the guys you wanted to move schools for right Hiroto."

The older boy stood up placing his pale white hands on the girl, interestingly, looking frustrated at the girl.

"Yes that's the reason Midorikawa and I am moving but why are you?"

His emerald eyes looked at her in concernment leaving the apple green haired boy to look on.

"Listen my reason for coming to Japan and my decision to follow you guys is 100% my decision so stop worrying okay."

Her dark brown eyes stared back with a determined gaze and inside the red head's mind he became more and more intrigued at the strange and mysterious foreigner he had found.

-Raimon High School-

The architecture of the buildings hasn't changed much to the boy's memory of the few times they visited. The schools front entrance was outlined with cherry blossom trees leading to an extravagant entrance to the old middle school building but with the addition to a gigantic lightning bolt statue in the middle of the stair case, dividing it into two parts.

"Hiroto."

"Yeah Renae."

"What type of weird school is this, it's gigantic and it has so many sporting facilities."

The boys looked at the foreigner and chuckled.

"This completely normal, now come on we have classes to go to."

The three of them split up as they headed their separate ways but as Hiroto entered his new classroom he spotted a few familiar faces. At the back of the room one boy was sitting at his desk while the other stood around over exaggerating his movements trying to explain something. The boy sitting at the desk had spiked up jelled, white hair much to the same style Hiroto had seen on him long ago, the boy must hav emoticed him as he pointed to the red head suddenly turning the attention of his friend. The other boy quickly turned around to see what his friend was pointing to. Hiroto giggled to himself to see that his other friend had not changed that much as well. He still had the same orange headband wrapped around his dark brunette hair but was lengthened so it was now touching his shoulders. The headband boy raced to the front of the class to greet his old friend.

"Hiroto is that really you?"

The boy seemed almost stunned as the white haired boy calmly approached them.

"Good to see your well Hiroto, it sure has been a while."

"Hey Endou, Gouenji, it has been a while."

The three boys smiled at each other as they remembered pleasant memories.

"Hiroto did you transfer to Raimon?"

Asked Endou.

"Yeah along with Midorikawa too he's in first year class D"

Endou's eyes lit up at the sound of his old friends.

"That's great we can have more members for practice now."

The red hair was stunned at that announcement.

"Endou what happened."

"Well since high school started most of the players started quitting the soccer club and now were only down to two members."

The red head was still as stunned as when he heard the first lot of news.

"What about Kidou and Kazemaru?"

Endou turned to look away at Hiroto as he spoke.

"Kidou along with Sakuma and Fudou go to Teikoku Academy's high school division, whether as Kazemaru..."

Endou cringed at the memory of his best friend leaving the soccer club.

"Kazemaru tried to stay as long as possible but his father disapproved of him playing soccer in high school when he should be focused on his studies."

Hiroto could see the pain in his friends eyes, Kazemaru was always there supporting Endou even in all his over the top soccer ideas. Endou though would never want anyone to see him down so he shook his head and slapped his two friend's backs.

"But we need to focus on making the Raimon High Soccer Club stronger than we were in Middle School."

Both Hiroto and Gouenji looked at their Captain but also saw him as a great friend and as they slowly learned as they spent more time with him, gathered more determination to follow their friend to make Raimon Soccer Club stronger and stronger.

-Raimon Soccer Club Room-

The three boys entered the new club room with a sense of excitement; it had much more room than their old club room as well as a mini gym with treadmills and bikes but also had lockers and a change room. The lockers where in the main part of the room, too the left where Gouenji and Endou both put their bags into.

"Hiroto what do you think of the new club room."

Hiroto smiled at Endou as the door slid open to find the green apple haired boy standing there.

"Glad to see you again Midorikawa how was summer." Endou came running to his new teammate.

"Hello Endou, Hiroto already texted my about what happened but summer was pretty good it was exciting to." Midorikawa glanced back at Hiroto while he smiled back. They all went to sit around the desk in the middle of the room

"Endou why exactly did everyone quit?" Midorikawa asked trying to work it out.

Endou scrunched his face as he tried to understand what happened the past year.

"Mostly, like Kazemaru they put studying before soccer." Gouenji spoke trying to help out his captain.

"Well we can't really help that can we?" Hiroto said looking confused.

All three of the boys looked at him puzzled.

"What's the matter Hiroto?"

"It just doesn't seem like them to just quit like that."