Weeee! I'm back with another fic, although this time it's about my one and only love… Digimon!
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon (Sadly…) if I did Tai, Ryo Takuya and Kouji would have been a lot more powerful. Tai and Sora would have had more of a relationship inside the series. Davis wouldn't have existed (Sorry but he tried to copy Tai and that is an insult in my books). The D-reapers of Digimon Tamers wouldn't have been as weird… (Well the guy from Evangelion designed them… So I can understand why) Ryo and Rika would have had more of a relationship and he would have been like her rock, the only person she could trust and she would admit his feelings for her… And there would have been a definite love triangle between Izumi, Kouji and Takuya and another girl that Kouji would finally go for that understands his personality better and can connect with him and JP would have dies (Sorry JP fans, just a personal thing against him…)
Well enough of the long authors note and enjoy the show!
The Soccer King
Chapter 1 – The game
'Mizuho… Why do I let you get me into these situations?'
Izumi Orimoto asked herself as she walked with her best friend into the huge stadium of Tokyo. Mizuho was a soccer fanatic and tonight her favorite team was playing and somehow she had managed to drag Izumi to the game…
Izumi was lazily flicking through one of her best friend's and roommate's soccer magazines. She was insanely bored, that was the only reason she was going through a soccer magazine…
She hardly understood what she was looking at, let alone what she was reading. The article was something about getting yourself noticed as a forward…Then an article about which boots were more comfortable…
"This is so pathetic…" she mumbled as she mindlessly turned the pages, she couldn't even understand a dumb soccer magazine… How useless did you get?
Her cheeks began to blush from her lack of knowledge on the sport from living with Mizuho for almost three years and her knowledge went as far as the fact that there were nine players in a team… No wait was that even right?
Growling in frustration she slammed the magazine down, how dare the stupid thing make a fool of her, even if it was unintentional…
The closed her eyes and crossed her arms as she huffed at the magazine. The stupid thing would not get the better of her.
She looked back down at the open magazine and her cheeks soon became rose coloured again as she saw where the magazine had opened to.
She pulled the magazine up again and stared at the picture that had made her blush. Chocolate coloured spiky hair and hazel eyes stared back up at her. Also a goofy grin that made her blush deepen…
Under the picture was a caption, "Son of the famous Taichi Kamiya. His son carries on the legacy of his father proudly and is named one of the best players Japan has ever had…"
Izumi stopped reading, she had heard of the name Taichi Kamiya before…
That's when it hit her, he was Mizuho's hero and role-model… That girl could babble about him for hours…
She shook her head, back to the point. He had successfully led Japan to victory in the FIFA World cup and now he was training the members of the team Pyro Tornados. She was surprising herself as to how much knowledge she had on the man…
Well maybe it was from listening to Mizuho talk non-stop about the man and all the info had finally sunk in, after all those years…
She looked at the magazine again, determined to find out the name of the guy's son. Her eyes scanned all over the page until…
"Takuya Kamiya."
Izumi immediately dropped the magazine from the shock of hearing someone's voice and whipped around to see two green orbs looking into her own blue ones.
"Mizuho!" she calmed once she realized who it was, "You really scared me!"
The black haired girl broke into a fit of laughter and Izumi blushed, this really wasn't funny! "Mizuho! It isn't funny!"
"But you should have see your face!" the black haired girl said in-between the giggles that were erupting out of her mouth.
Izumi crossed her arms and stuck her tongue out at the girl, "So you caught me in a moment of weakness once… Big deal because it will never happen again!"
Mizuho stopped laughing and looked at her friend, a smile playing on her lips as she watched the embarrassed girl. "So why were you looking at the picture of Takuya Kamiya?"
Izumi was brought out of her defensive state and her cheeks went slightly red, "Nothing, I was just browsing until you came in and frightened me!" she said, lying so bluntly.
"Really? Well then what if I told you I had scored tickets to go watch his team play tonight?" Mizuho waited for her reaction.
Izumi's jaw dropped and she blinked, "Really?"
"Really! Now hurry up and go get ready, the match starts in a couple of hours so go, go!" and she pushed the blushing girl into her room so she could get ready…
So that's how she had ended up here as she and her best friend walked to the seats they were assigned to.
They sat down and Mizuho started fumbling in her bag for something. She soon found the object and shoved it into Izumi's hands.
The blond looked confused as she looked at the white paper curiously, "Open it. I promise it won't bite ok?"
Izumi shot a hard glare at the black haired girl before pulling the contents out of the envelope. She unfolded the letter inside it and read aloud:
"Dear Miss Hitoki
On behalf of the ladies Pyro Tornados I am writing you this letter to announce to you that you have been accepted into the team Pyro Tornados, the ladies league!
The letter also includes training sessions and yours have been highlighted for your convenience.
The first practice officially starts in one week time, on the 6th of June. This will be a compulsory session and your attendance is required so we can observe more of your skills on a one to one basis.
We were highly impressed with your previous record and I believe that the current team you are on hasn't lost since you joined and we are hoping that you will do the same to the Pyro Tornados.
As a welcome gift we have included two tickets to the men's Pyro Tornados play against the Blitz team this Saturday at the Tokyo Stadium. We also included passes that will allow you to meet each member after the game.
We sincerely hope you will take this opportunity and we hope to see you here for practice on the 6th of June.
Kind Regards
Mrs S Takamori, Secretary of the Pyro Tornados.
Izumi's sapphire eyes widened after reading the letter. "This is so amazing Mizuho!"
She hugged the black haired girl next to her, this was her friend's dream… To always play for the Pyro Tornados… And then to go to the FIFA World Cup on the Japanese team.
She was well on her way of reaching her destination…
"So are you coming with me after the match to meet each of the players?" she asked, "You could meet Takuya?"
Mizuho knew she had just pulled out her trump card as she saw a slight blush rise to the blond's cheeks…
Izumi considered for a moment… She would be meeting the guy in person… He had looked hot on the picture but not only that every time she thought of him a small amount of red rushed to her cheeks and she felt all tingly on the inside…
It was almost as if… As if-
"Earth to Izumi Orimoto!" and Mizuho waved her hand in-front of Izumi's face, "Are you going to come with me or not?"
Izumi shook her head, "Yeah I'll come… But only for your sake. Okay?"
But Mizuho knew that was not the only reason the blond wanted to come with her to meet the team.
Izumi wanted to meet one brown haired guy…
"Hey Takuya are you ready for tonight's match?" a boy with midnight black haired asked the brunette.
"Yeah! Of course I am Kouichi! I mean I am the star player!" the brunette replied teasingly back.
The black haired boy laughed, "Confident as ever Takuya…"
"You know I don't mean it. Without you guys I wouldn't even have gotten this far!" he replied as he patted the black haired boy on his shoulder.
"Yeah, Kouji and mines twin strike never fails!" he said referring to his and his brother's trademark move that usually landed them with a goal.
"That reminds me… Where is Kouji? Did you guys have another fight?" Takuya asked. As in-tune as the twins were on the field, they were enemies off the field and usually weren't close together…
"I'm right here," and the black haired boy seemed to appear from nowhere as he stood in front of the awestruck teammates.
That's why he had earned the name Silent Wolf. He could steal the ball without the other team even noticing it was gone! And he was Takuya's best friend…
"I will never get how you do that!" Kouichi exclaimed, his bubbly personality showing.
"Oh I almost forgot!" Kouichi said, "One of the new Pyro Tornados ladies members gets to meet us after the game." Takuya could have smacked himself at the guys short attention span…
"Well it seems we will have to be entertainers tonight then?" Kouji asked, sounding kind of irritated… He wasn't exactly the social bunny…
Before any of the others could reply a large looking man entered the room, "Okay guys time for pre-match cheek-ups!"
"JP!" Kouichi said, and immediately went over to the medic and put his arm around the solid man.
Takuya looked at Kouji before he also walked to JP, hearing bits of the conversation between the medic and the energetic player…
"And now we have the members of the Pyro Tornados! Leading them onto the field is their captain, Takuya Kamiya!" and the brunette ran onto the field and did a flip once he got to the center and looked around at the adoring fans.
He flashed smiled to all of them but for some reason he couldn't help but look in the direction of the east row of seats… Something had been catching his eye.
He was about to make his way over there when he felt himself being pulled by Kouichi into doing an elaborate handshake he and the black haired boy had perfected.
There was no more time for him to try to get close to the row once the other team's players had come out onto the field but the figure was still at the back of his mind as the match started.
Yay end of chapter one!
Well if you want me to write more please click the little purplish/blue button at the bottom left hand corner, you know you want to! I already have this story all plotted out so the second chapter will be out quite quickly… And for those who didn't figure it out yet, this is a Taizmui fic (Takuya x Izumi) I also adore Kouzumi but this pair seemed better for this fic! So please R&R and I promise to upload the next chapter very soon!
Love you all
AnimeHimura