Chapter One

One's opinion is ones opinion

-Next Day-

The boys all gathered together at the club room resuming where they left off last time. The atmosphere was different though their captain was, flatter than normal.

"Endou is something upsetting you?" Gouenji asked in concernment for his close friend.

"Why can't I figure it out? I can't even understand my former teammate's reason for leaving the club!" Endou screamed shocking everyone.

Suddenly the door of the club room burst opened sending Endou off his chair.

"This is where you've two been spending your time then."

Through the door way the boys saw the image of a girl entering the room as she impatiently walked over to where Hiroto was sitting.

"How did you find out where we were Renae?"

Renae gave Hiroto and Midorikawa a small smile as she helped Endou up.

"What else, I ask a girl in my class where the soccer club was since you guys are such big fans of it."

Endou and Gouenji looked on in confusion looking towards Hiroto, hopping he would give an explanation about the strange girl. Midorikawa seeing his teammates where confused, nudged Hiroto slightly making him look back to them.

"Endou, Gouenji, this is Renae she's been staying with us at the orphanage. Renae this is Endou and Gouenji my teammates."

Renae bowed to both of the boys, when she blinked twice at Endou.

"Endou you were screaming before about something, can you tell me what it is."

Endou looked down at the floor for a moment while the room went silent, mostly from embarrassment that you could hear Endou's screaming from outside the club room. Hiroto was looking to and from his captain and his foreigner friend contemplating what he should do to break the silence.

"Endou it's best telling Renae, she might have some ideas about the whole thing." Said Hiroto as he took a deep breath, relieved he could say something to break the quietness.

Endou lifted his head up and nodded in agreement and explain the situation to Renae, giving the captain a little bit of hope. Afterwards Endou looked in aspiration to see if his new friend could come up with any ideas, Renae ran her fingers through her hair taking everything in and thought about it for a couple of minutes.

"Well I can't say I've been in your friends' position but I can understand where there coming from. Parental expectations can put a lot of pressure on people but the way your friends have done it is, unusual."

Hiroto, Midorikawa, Gouenji and Endou looked to each other to see if anyone had got any ideas but all still looked puzzled as Renae continued talking.

"This Kazemaru, is he medium height with long, teal hair which is tied up in a ponytail?"

Endou nodded. "Do you know him?"

Renae shock her head. "Not really but he's in my class."

Gouenji turned to look straight on at Renae.

"Why, do have an idea about the situation?" Gouenji spoke in a serious tone scaring Renae.

"W...well he must be very close Endou so I can't understand why he quit, also the whole quitting the soccer club and focusing on studying is defiantly bothering me." Renae made a fist in one hand and lightly punched it on the flat palm of her other hand looking like she had come to her decision. "In conclusion I think Kazemaru is a puppet."

Everyone looked startled and shocked to hear Renae assume such a thing, Endou clenched his fists trying to hold back his anger taking Renae's opinion as an insult on his friend. Luckily for Renae the bell rang for the beginning of class and everyone had to leave.

Endou's classroom-

Tension surrounded the three boys as they were sitting around Endou's desk eating their lunch, all obento. Hiroto saw that Endou was still furious at what Renae had said in the clubroom earlier which made him feel anxiety about how the friendship would continue. That side of Renae wasn't foreign to him; he was used to her bluntness and straightforward personality. At first he found it a bit overwhelming but soon found it to be charming. The home room teacher suddenly appeared out of nowhere catching everyone off guard.

"Endou someone's down in the teachers' room for you and your friends."

"Who is it?" Endou asked looking surprised.

"Can't remember the boy's name but he said you would know him."

The three boys headed to the teachers room all curious about whom it could be, Hiroto slid open the door as the three boys eyes widened from surprise. Standing at the other side of the room where two familiar looking guys, one had long unrestrained dreadlocks with blue, black and white goggles the other boy had cyan hair that curled around his neck and a black eye patch covering his right eye.

"Sakuma, Kidou, what are you guys doing here?!" Endou screamed in shock.

A quaint smile appeared on the dreadlocks boy in liberation; half remembering he hadn't seen his old friend since he transferred back to Teikoku Academy and the other half was because he was relieved to see he was still the same goof ball he had become friends with. The cyan haired boy took a step forward throwing his hand to one side.

"Kidou heard about the lack of members here and we decided to challenge you to a soccer battle tomorrow morning to help increase interest in the club." The cyan haired boy spoke with an eerie of confidence.

"Really!" Endou screamed and went to shake Kidou's hand.

"For a soccer battle you just need four players right." Gouenji asked.

Kidou nodded, still shaking Endou's hand now looking at him reluctantly.

"Teikoku's team will be Sakuma and I but we also have Genda and Fudou."

"This is awesome. Thanks Kidou, Sakuma. We have Gouenji, Hiroto, Midorikawa and I so that's four too." Endou added before finally letting go of Kidou's hand, giving his friends and former teammates a huge grin.

"It will be nice having a friendly after all the drama the past year." Gouenji said quietly to himself as the three boys returned to the classroom. Everyone looking pumped up for the soccer battle tomorrow.