A/N- This is my first fanfic. As you will have read in the description, the plot to this story is a bit messed up, but I hope you can stick around and enjoy how it unfolds.
Nagumo X Fem!Suzuno, as well as Fem!Suzuno X (?)
I don't own Inazuma Eleven, or any of the characters.
Enjoy.
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My name is Suzuno Fuusuke. Right now, I am the ultimate third wheel.
It all began when my two best friends started dating each other…
His name is Kira Hiroto. Her name is Midorikawa Ryuuji. They are truly amazing people- Hiroto is extremely charming, and Midorikawa never fails to be cheerful. We had been friends, the three of us, for quite some time- since kindergarten, in fact.
However, after some time, those two realised that the relationship they wanted was no mere friendship. Don't get me wrong, this is not jealousy- I do not feel for Hiroto that way myself (nor for Midorikawa, either). And they still are my best friends. But since the beginning, I have felt a lot of times that I was in the way.
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I remember that I had been watching TV, and they were out on the balcony…
At that time I had thought nothing about it. Hiroto loved being out on the balcony- no matter what the weather, temperature or season. He had regularly sat there, doing schoolwork, using his phone, drinking coffee since we had moved to the new apartment we were currently lodging in. And Midorikawa loved the stars; they were shining brilliantly that night. But there was a confession to be made at that scene, and an acceptance too.
They took their sweet time outside, and in that time I just simply showered and got ready for bed. In fact, they tell me, by the time that they had returned indoors, I had already fallen asleep. I don't know how I slept that night. Perhaps I shifted a little, just a bit, because my subconscious mind knew that our friendships were going to change.
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Now I often found myself out of place.
We would go to see a film by our favourite film director together, and then I would find out it was a romance movie; things would get awkward, with Midorikawa on Hiroto's lap, the two of them 'distracted', and I just sitting there, finishing all of the popcorn while trying to ignore the kissing sounds.
Or we would have a science project from school. With us three being us three, we would choose to be a trio. The only problem: it would be a project based on reproduction. And I would sit there, being the only virgin (Don't even get me started on the times I hear the bed creaking violently at night. The first time, I thought the beds were remote-controlled robot monstrosities, but, on nearing the room, I heard moans, put two and two together, and realised that my friends were lewd ).
Yeah…Far from a fun and enjoyable experience.
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I had looked for any potential boyfriends. And they had helped me. Hell, they had even tried setting me up with a few other girls. But with none of them had the connection felt right. They were usually half-week flings, and none were lasting. But, of course, there were no tensions between the three of us, just awkwardness, so we continued with our daily lives.
Let us now return to the present…
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I sighed as I got on the bus that I took to my workplace. I sat there, and decided to do some maths revision for the test coming up the following week. I went with easiest first, and soon reached basic sequences with easy examples of the nth formula. I read the first question:
Diva Lu wears necklaces with links and fake diamonds. In a necklace with five fake diamonds, she has seven links. In a necklace with fourteen fake diamonds, she has sixteen links. In a necklace with one hundred and two links, how many fake diamonds are there?
This is easy, I thought, as I neatly wrote down my working out on the paper.
Fake diamond = d
Link = l
5d - 7l
14d - 16l
Nth term: l = n+2, when n= the amount of diamonds.
l = 102
l = n+2,
102 = n+2
n = 102-2
n = 100
Number of diamonds = 100
I looked at the other questions in the booklet. I sighed. I hate to boast, but being the top student in our year, they were way too easy. I put the revision packet back into my bag.
Diva Lu… What kind of name is that? Oh…that's an anagram for the name Ulvida…
Ulvida was one of our friends as well. She, along with another friend Desarm, her boyfriend, was a year above us, but we also knew each other as kids, so we often hung out together. In fact, we had been together just yesterday. It must have been quite the sight: Dezzy and 'Vida, Hiroto and Midorikawa. Two brilliant couples. Oh, and that loner Suzuno Fuusuke as well for background props to the double-date.
I decided to stop wallowing in self-pity. At least I wasn't the third wheel that time. Wait… I thought back to the math question with the nth term. Suddenly, the earth lurched beneath me. The world seemed to turn upside down, inside-out, and the everyday colours seemed more vibrant than ever, as I made the most important scientific discovery of my young life.
I am not the third wheel.
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I am the (n+1)th wheel, when n= the amount of people in the room, not including me.
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After my anti-climatic epiphany, I decided to do something else, in case I kept wasting my time thinking of such useless things. I picked up the local newspaper of our town, and was shocked by the blaring headline.
The Azure Death Strikes Again! Another Child Saved, Another Gang Arrested. The Most Astonishing 'Anti-Hero' of our Modern Day is Not Going to Rest!
The Azure Death, huh… As somebody who lived inside the town, the name was beginning to be all too familiar. There were articles on the internet, rumours flying, and policemen scrambling to confirm his identity.
He was a man who roamed the streets, defending citizens at a time where crime was soaring to new heights. Those who had been saved by him were all in awe of his power. It was said that he had inhuman fighting abilities, and he was even rumoured to have shut down small branches of the Yakuza single-handedly by destroying them in 'battle'.
But that was not just it. Although he was said to have the fighting spirit of the greatest warrior, and the physical strength of the strongest brute, he was also an enigma. Nothing about him except his gender was known, and the police were now even investigating to try and confirm his identity. He was a master of his trade- a masked vigilante, with a cape bluer than the lakes in heaven, who swooped in to defend innocent people, and who left just as fast. He left the people in capable hands; when he knew they would be fine, he disappeared swiftly.
This is why he was called an anti-hero. But, nevertheless, of the title, he was praised everywhere, and his deeds, as well as his mystique, gained him innumerable fans (including, unfortunately, fangirls). Although I myself was not one to so readily bow and worship someone I didn't know anything about, I highly appreciated his work for society, and thought it rather unjust that he was compared to villains with the title 'anti-hero'.
I went on social media and read messages written by some of the people he had saved. Besides the obvious 'unfathomable strength!', and gushing admiration which really had no plot, there were also a few other agreements.
'A god-like aura', was a common thing in his descriptions. He was also, a point of personal intrigue for me, said to be unyielding and wordless.
There were also comments such as: 'Piercing, glowing eyes' which were made quite a lot as well.
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I finally go off my bus and went to my workplace: Sun Garden Orphanage. It was an orphanage for young children, and, incidentally, where I met Hiroto, Ryuuji, Reina (Ulvida's real name), and Osamu (Desarm).
The pay was quite small, and the journey was quite long, but I loved working there. Other than me, Desarm also worked there, as well as our old carer, Kira Hitomiko. The small children were adorable, and help me forget my stress as I worked with them. They were innocent and sweet, and I couldn't love them more. For someone who had been sidelined quite a bit in my own social life, it was a beautiful thing to be able to feel the joy and happiness coming from them, directed at me.
I worked there until 9.30 PM, when it was bedtime for the children. I thanked Hitomiko, and she thanked me back; then I left to go back home.
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I was walking to the bus stop when it happened. There were about fifteen men, whom I am pretty sure were drunk, so I avoided them as best as I could. But as I walked past them, one of them, probably the ringleader, noticed me. They were onto me in a flash.
"Going somewhere, little lady?"
"You even sure that's a girl? She's flatter than a chopping-board."
"Don't worry, I can smell females from a mile away. To confirm it, why don't we check? Perhaps her boyish appearance will mean she's tighter than the normal bitch."
I cried out in horror as I was surrounded inside the alleyway they pushed me into, and they began pulling buttons loose. In the night on the deserted street, I was completely alone. I bit the hand of the leader.
"You stupid bitch!" I groaned when his hand slapped my face, his ring slashing a cut above my left-eye. I fell to the ground, overwhelmed, and dread washed over me as I heard belts unbuckling, including my own.
Its over. I never thought I would lose my virginity this way…I love you, Midori-chan and Hiroto-kun.
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Suddenly I heard a giant crash above me. I looked up, as did the thugs.
What I saw changed my life forever…
There was a man, a ghostly silhouette against the glowing full moon illuminating him from behind, standing on one of the buildings overseeing the alleyway. No, not ghostly…more…godly. I could suddenly feel the air almost humming. I looked at him, squinting in the light which seemed to pour straight through him from the moon. Powerfully built, but not completely muscle, like a bodybuilder...black mask and gloves without an inch of skin showing...sea blue cape. It's him...It's The Azure Death!
And it seemed that the other thugs knew it as well. One of the smaller thugs, a bald, greasy man, tried to run, after almost choking to death as he saw the mask. However, as he reached the opening of the alley, The Beast jumped straight down, fast as lightning, and landed right on top of him, knocking him out cold. Then the two men who had followed the first tried to flank him. He jumped, and pushed himself onto the wall, flipping 180 degrees and using it as a springboard to propel himself back at the two men, who were now perfectly aligned diagonally. With his two legs perfectly symmetrical, he hit the first, and knocked him forwards, straight into his comrade.
This guy is insanely strong, lightning fast and 100% precise. No wonder his name is feared all over the Japanese crime underworld…
But she quickly turned as more eruptions of violence occurred. Three other gang members, both scared and angry, attacked him again. The man seemed to almost sigh, and, as the two who were both throwing a punch at him simultaneously, he ducked and slid, cleanly tripping the man facing him head on, sending him hurling forward. I almost grimaced as the two punches connected with the third man's head from both sides. As the two men stood both perplexed and horrified, he swept away the feet of the man nearer to him, and then jumped into the air, smashing the other in the face with his knee, before flipping backwards and completing a 360 degree turn with his other knee pummelling the first, who was lying on his back on the floor, straight in the face.
Another three down. Where does he get these moves from?!
The hero stood up in front of me and the remaining nine gangsters. He made a forceful gesture, waving his hand behind him towards the exit of the alleyway. He was probably telling them to leave while they could. And that they did. All of them, including the leader, ran as fast as they could. And I just stood there dumbstruck. Suddenly, I felt blood seeping into my eye.
Damn...I forgot about my wound.
I could now feel the full brunt of the pain. It stung, and my vision was blinded by the stream of red. I suddenly felt weary. Perhaps it had been The Azure Death's aura, but whatever force I had been holding in my body had left now.
Speaking about The Azure Death …Wait, is he gone?
Suddenly I felt hands wrap around my face from behind. I don't know what they were doing exactly, but I could feel the blood flow stopping, and my wound being cleaned. And the hands… they were so warm. I felt comfort emanating from them, even through gloves. All this was done without a word, until they abruptly stopped.
"Get some rest. I have stopped the blood flow, but your body is still tired."
I froze, and looked behind me. But the Azure Death had turned around, and his back was towards me. Then he moved to face me, and his eyes met mine. Suddenly my legs were jelly. There were warm but dangerous, and I felt insignificant under their gaze. This was true power. Then he turned back the right way, and took off like a gust of wind into the night sky.
The Azure Death, who had never uttered a word before, had spoken to me. But that wasn't what shocked me the most. It was his voice.
His voice…was that of a teenager…
A teenager only about one or two years older than me.
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A/N- Hope you enjoyed. Reviews would be greatly appreciated.
Also, I know that this is only the first chapter, but it may take some time for the next chapter to come out.
Thank you,
Cherries of the Perdition