Sebar says: Sorry if it took a long time to be uploaded. Okay, here's the next chap. Hehe. Enjoy!
Title: Cheer Up!
Chapter 2: Start of the cheering squad
Chapter 2 out of ?
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"Yumi-chan! Thank god you're here." Teika said running to Yumiko and Kikumaru who still has his grip on Yumiko's wrist. She has the same outfit as Yumiko. "You're late!"
"I'm sorry." Yumiko apologized, shaking off his hand from Eiji's grip. Yes! Now, I'm free! She thought as Eiji let go of her hand.
"Oh well. Let's just go to our office." Teika ordered Yumiko. Then, she noticed Eiji. "Oh, hi! You're Kikumaru Eiji from the boy's tennis club, right?"
"Hai!" Eiji felt a little excitement.
"Well, good. You wanna come with us and have a look? We need someone to like… be our judge."
"Oh, oh!" Now, Eiji felt excited! "Count me in. I'll watch you, Yumiko!"
"Whatever…" Yumiko murmured.
"Well, then, let's all go." Teika walked away from the two.
"Okay! Let's!" Kikumaru followed.
"Sheesh." Yumiko, who was left behind, followed the two.
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"Tomo-chan, hurry up, or we'll be late." Sakuno told her friend while they were in Tomo-chan's house.
"Alright! I'm ready! Let's go."
The two of them walked to their school. And once they were there, they headed for the girl's tennis courts.
"Teika-san said that their office would be near the girls' courts." Sakuno remembered.
"Yah, and she said that we would easily know that it's their office. Where could it be?" Tomoka looked around and saw a room with a big banner outside, and written in bold strong pink letters was, 'Seigaku's Tennis Cheering Squad.'. Around that room, there were some mats that lay outside, and many posters with the same writings on the banner. And the room was also… pink. Tomoka poked Sakuno, and pointed the place. "I think this is it."
"Oh yeah. It is obvious. Just like what she said"
They opened the door and went inside. The inside of the room was no longer pink, it's painted plain white, but still, there were posters. The place was really spacious. What Tomoka noticed first was the pictures of all the Seigaku Regulars posted on the wall. She saw Ryoma's and started saying "Ryoma-sama! My Oujisama! Whow!"
What Sakuno noticed were the girls inside the room. All of them were seated in front of a long table, in one corner of the big room. She saw Teika and she apologized for being late. Teika instructed them to take a seat.
Eiji was seating on one chair a bit far from the table. He waved at the two girls. "Ei, Tomoka! Sakuno! Good thing you're here."
Sakuno and Tomoka smiled back. "What's Kikumaru-senpai doing here, Sakuno."
"I don't know." Sakuno whispered back.
It was nice that the place was not so quiet. The cheerleaders were mumbling things to their friends. The others already wear their uniforms.
"Okay, now I have your names. When I call your name, tell me if you're here. Okay." Teika, the head cheerleader was now serious, but still has a smile on her face.
"Kimiko," She called out.
"Here!" A girl answered.
"Chiaki,"
"Here!"
"Mayumi,"
"Here."
"Sakuno,"
"Here."
"Tomoka,"
"Ahh! Here!"
"Aiko,"
"Here!"
It went on like that. After checking everyone's attendance, Teika made an announcement.
"We will first be having auditions. We want only the best cheerleaders for our beloved Seigaku Tennis Club. If they're giving their best in the matches, we should also do our best. Right?"
"Aha." Most answered.
"First part of the audition is where you will just… umm, how I can say this. Yell or shout one cheer you know, or just make up something. Okay. Prepare for at least 7 minutes, and then I'll be calling you one by one, outside. Hehe, that's it." Teika opened the door and went outside.
The aspiring members of the cheering squad remained quiet. Just then, the door opened again. Teika came in. "By the way. I almost forgot." She said. "The official members of the squad, meaning the ones who were part of the squad last year, come with me." Some of the girls stood up and walked to the door, including Yumiko. Teika was about to close the door again, when she said, "Kikumaru-san. Come with us too."
"Me?" Eiji pointed himself.
"Yah! We also need you as our judge."
"Okay." Then, he stood up and went out.
"7 minutes. Okay, guys?" Teika said to the girls left in the room while closing the door the last time. "Okay. Now," She started saying to the senior cheerleaders and Eiji. "We will be like judges to those girls inside."
Eiji stood beside Yumiko who was looking bored.
"The process is that you will rate the girls from 1 to 5, 5 is the highest. We, the judges, are all 8, including Kikumaru-san. We will—"
"Hehe. You can call me Eiji." Eiji interrupted.
"Ah, Hehe, Okay. Sure, Eiji." She smiled at Eiji. "Now where was I…? Hmmm."
"Us. Eight judges." One girl anwered.
"Oh yeah. There are eight of us, so the total score will be 40. If one gets 19 or above, she's in." Teika continued.
"Why 19? Isn't it supposed to be 20?" another girl in pigtails asked.
"Because, it's sooo frustrating if you get 19 and the passing score is 20." She replied.
"What about if you get 18? Isn't that more frustrating?" The girl in pigtails asked again.
"Umm. Well. Rina-kun, Let's just stick with 19, okay?"
"Whatever…." Yumiko mumbled to herself.
"There are chairs and one long table there." Teika pointed to her left. "You guys go there, while I fetch the girls who are gonna audition. Okay?"
"Hai!" Kikumaru said, while walking to his chair.
7 minutes passed and Teika was just standing in front of the door. She looked at her watch and opened the door slowly. "Ready, girls?"
The answers that came from the girls were all different. Few said 'yes', enthusiastically. Some said 'a little bit'. Some said 'not yet' and others said 'yes' but didn't really mean it.
"Junko, you're the first one."
The audition went as Teika instructed. When a name is called, she goes outside and performs a cheer or yell. Then the judges rate them from 1-5. (A/N: It's too boring if I write bit by bit how the audition was held. Well, at least you get the picture) Kikumaru was really pleased with the cheerers. He almost gave everybody a score of five.
Yeah, some were lame and didn't rhyme. Those were the people who got a score of 1 from every judge, well, maybe except Eiji. But of course when there's something bad, there's something not so bad, okay, I mean good.
Sakuno almost got kicked out from the squad, but she got 19. It's a good thing Teika changed 20 to 19.
Because of being so energetic and loud, Tomoka got an average of 36.
At the end of the first audition, out of the starting number of 40, 20 remained. 4 first years, 11 second years and 5 third years.
"Now that I've told you who passed in the first audition, let me tell you the 2nd audition." The head cheerleader announced as she is seated on her chair, inside the cheerleaders' office. "Out of the 20 who remained, we will be only picking 13, which means seven of you will be eliminated." Everybody turned their full attention to Teika. "What you will do is to dance something in front of us with any music we play. You have to prepare any steps involved in cheering that will easily blend with the music we play. The music might be kinda slow, fast of really fast. You just have to be prepared. Let me give you an example." She stood up.
Everybody thought that she was going to perform a little something. The first years were excited to see Teika dance. "Yumi-chan!" Teika turned her head to the gloomy cheerer. "Stand up. I will play something and you dance something. Okay?"
"Fine." Yumiko said.
"Go Yumiko! I'll cheer for you! Yaay!" Eiji yelled (sort of).
Teika walked to the cd played as Yumiko stood up in front of everybody. She took something out her pocket. It was something to tie her hair. She tied her long dark red hair in a ponytail. She looks better like that, she even looks attractive.
"Here it goes." Teika pressed the play button.
As the music started, the miserable-looking girl suddenly had a nice smile on her face. It was one of the cutest smile Eiji has ever seen. She looks even more attractive than before
The music went bam-bam, chu-chu-ping like all cheering music. Suddenly, Yumiko's movements became fast and tough, like that of a great cheerleader. She jumped and danced and twisted and twirled and did a little tumbling here and of course, she was wearing a nice smile. She raised her arms, then to the left, she knelt down, waved her hands around her head, stood up, did a cartwheel, did a jumped up high, twisted on air. She landed on both feet and continued her dance with some usual and some unique cheering moves. Everybody was enjoying how she danced. The people who didn't know her well never expected that she could dance like that. As the music fades, she knelt down and crunched like a ball, with the boom of the music, she did a high jump. And with that, Teika stopped the music. (A/N: Hope that description is enough. I'm not good in describing dances. But, at least, I tried. Wahah!)
Yumiko removed the band that ties her hair and went back to her seat. Eiji was so amazed with what he saw that he clapped the whole time and said 'whow's and 'waaah's. As Yumiko sit down, Eiji stood up and went near Yumiko. "Sugoi! You were so great! How did you do that!" He said in amazement.
Yumiko smiled half-heartedly and said something to Kikumaru. "Heh. Just sit down." The smile disappeared. "Okay?"
"Nya." Eiji walked to his seat. "Are you sure you're the Yumiko who danced a while ago?" He whispered to himself with a bit of sarcasm. What he didn't know was that Yumiko heard him.
"Whatever…" She again, mumbled.
"Did you all see that? That's what I wanna see from all of you, this coming Monday" Teika uttered. And all of them were amazed with Yumiko.
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"Syusuke! Syusuke! Wait up! Hey!" Eiji ran towards Fuji who was on his way to their room.
Fuji stopped and looked back. "Oh, Eiji. Ohayou." He greeted his friend with his usual smile.
"Ohayou!" Eiji greeted back as he went to Fuji's side. They started to walk together. "Have I told you about the other day?"
"About what?"
"About me being in the cheerleading sq—no." He paused, then started talking really fast like he was so excited. "The other day, I went here to get the things I left, then thought that I should see the cheering squad for the tennis club. Then I bumped into Yumiko then I ju—"
"Oh yeah. I heard about that."
"You already heard my story? Aww"
"No, I mean I heard about the cheering squad."
"Oh. Well, let me finish." He took quite a deep breath. "The cheering squad office was pink and Sakuno was there, and Yumiko dan—, oh! Did I tell you I gave Sakuno and Tomoka 5, Well, Yumiko danced and, wait, I bumped her then, she jumped, then I jumped, and went to the office, and she danced and Yumiko… wow, then, oooh! Sugoi! Then, Teika stopped the music and umm… it's done, then, I went home, and told my sis about that and she said that. Oh, never mind. Just… well, that's it!" He was talking really fast and made weird faces and actions.
"Hehe. I didn't understand what you said. Can you make it slower?"
"Am I that fast?"
"Aha."
"Hehe. I just…….—Nya!" Someone bumped Eiji. He fell down. He looked up and saw a red-haired girl slowly glancing to him. He saw Fuji reach out his hand to help him stand up. He turned to his right and saw Yumiko. And Yumiko saw him too.
"I'm so so—" Yumiko saw that she bumped Eiji, for the second time. "Oh, it's you."
"Yumi-chan!" yelled Eiji.
"Since when did I permit you to call me Yumi-chan?" Yumiko glared at Eiji. But Eiji sort of ignored the last thing Yumi-chan said and turned to Fuji.
"Syusuke! This is Yumiko. The one I've been telling you about" Eiji almost jumped.
Yumiko already know who Fuji was. He was always popular since first year.
"Oh. Hi, Yumiko." Fuji smiled.
Yumiko can't resist to smile back because of that sweet and calm smile Fuji gave her. She smirked and greeted him a simple hello.
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Sebar says: Yeah, yeah, I know this chap kinda sucks. I need your reviews! Constructive criticisms are accepted. Ok? Have a nice day! Ja!