Summary: Coach Sawamura re-emerges in both a bad and good way.


Seidou was in shambles. Having few new first years (at least of quality) broke the team after the retirement of the third years. Having mostly second years to count on, the team imploded from within. An ace that wasn't trusted, a relief pitcher that got thrown aside (for being female, despite proving herself over and over again) and a head coach that only now began to see reason again made for a disastrous season.

The assistant coach felt like the one he thought of as the unrivaled ace was, at this point, more than useless and resigned. By putting all the blame on the head coach for not making him tough enough during the previous season he forewent his own responsibility in the destruction of the team. Saying that spending too much time on the (in his eyes) useless female southpaw with only sparingly lucky moments was what naturally led to these results.

Awareness of bad decision making only started to make itself known after having lost, resulting in ending the senpais summer even quicker than the year before. Nothing was learned from the disastrous results of the previous spring tournament. The preparation time in-between tournaments was unsatisfying, because the wrong decisions kept getting the wrong follow-ups.

Said, female pitcher did everything to get any useless coaches in her and everyone's eyes to resign; going as far as to get the principals to back her up. But by then it was too late to repair the damage reputation and right the senpai's before their summer ended.

Seidou lost.

They lost in the first round of the summer qualifier games. The senpais summer cut short by biased opinions and open rebelling while ace-sama never thought he was doing something wrong. Completely consumed in his one-sided egoistical fight with his final Koshien game counterpart he totally missed the declining support and lack of faith towards his person.

So here they were, drinking coffee with each other.

'What makes you think, we'll trust a second year?" the principal said, with an indifference face.

"You have no other option." She pointed out. "No one is jumping to fill in the spot."

"You do know you'll need someone to back you up right?"

"Hai." She paused before looking at him in the eyes. "I have three people in mind that should be more than willing to help me."

"The only thing is... Are you willing to trust me?"


Hard truths emerged, but it was in vain. The resignation of the assistant coach was met with cheers, no one liked the guy and no one was sad to see him go, but the other assistants still remained useless. The head coach felt like waking up from a long bad dream, but no apologizing or tears could make right the wrong committed to the (retired) players. There was only one hard truth he had to face. He sacrificed the team for one single person. Something he vowed never to do. He miserably failed.

"So your leaving?" She asked, leaning on the door. He looked back stopping his movements on packing his things. "Sawamura." He said, in acknowledgement. She didn't look at him, no longer acknowledging him, but aware of his presence.

"I knew from the beginning that he was trash." She stated quietly, still not looking at him. But with a gut wrenching feeling, he knew where this was going. "But I never thought..." Her voice trailed as she thought of a way to put what ever she was feeling out into the air lightly as she could, before deciding it was no longer worth it.

"I never thought you were one as well." Her lips quivered. "I'm almost never wrong in my judgment...But I can see clearly now.. " She leaned away from the door turning around, her hand on the doorknob"If your going to leave." She said, holding the doorknob tightly.

"Then your a coward." She slammed the door behind her, walking away from the office, she refused to cry.

Coach Koatoko didn't bother to look back; not even bothering to think about the confrontation between him and the female southpaw pitcher.

Because in the end she was right, he was nothing but a coward who took a cowards way out of the mess, he help make.


The first years where wondering if they could still transfer to other schools, since it was technically still the start of the school year and they wouldn't have any problems fitting in at different schools or clubs since most weren't on the active game roster anyway. So it came to a surprise that they were all ordered to wake up on a Saturday morning; Lining up like they had done on the first day of Seidou, with hopes and dreams. Before they were all crushed and destroyed.

They eyed the three people that stood behind one of their senpai who's hat covered her amber eyes.

Well if looks were anything to go by, then they were about to get their questions, answered. They were curious though; where were the rest of the second years?

Sawamura walked leaving the new coaches behind, her back straight and her aura for once was not goofy or relaxed like it had been, when they first met her in the beginning of April. Her aura was demanding respect and intimidated them, yet somehow her aura made them relax and heart pump with excitement.

They stood in silence, Sawamura looking at them one by one."Seidou, is a mess." She spoke, breaking the grim silence."I know it, they know." She jerked a finger to the three adults behind her. "You know it." The first years were wondering just where this was going. "We lost the right to call ourselves king;" She continued. "We've been away from nationals for far too long and the one chance we did we blew it." She bitterly smiled at the remembrance of being thrown aside " We lost respect and our way of baseball. We're nothing." She let her words dawn on them, eyeing those who shuffled away, uncomfortably. "So those who are thinking of leaving; I'm gonna say: Please rethink after this speech." Her tone was soft, a bit softer then what they were used to from their loud mouth senpai, but something about her standing right in front of them; made them think they were seeing a different person.

"Seidou's legacy, was handed down to the wrong players." she spoke after a while. "Trusted in the wrong one's and and the right ones a combination of both. In the end it exploded, and now That legacy can't be handed down to anyone else."

A heavy silence hung in the air.

"That's why you first years are going to rebuild a new legacy." They looked at the middle aged man, who walked to stand right next to Sawamura in surprise. "Seidou's original legacy might as well be a stranger to you and me; It's been lost for so long and had only recently started to have been uncovered, but it's long gone by now." He said, before backing away a bit to allow Sawamura to continue.

she glanced at the man before giving a small smile. "Seidou's baseball club is facing its biggest crisis of yet" she said. "The pressure of getting to Koshien, but failed to remain strong. The internal meltdown of the baseball club mid-season. People are wondering if this is the beginning of the end." She hated what she was going to say next, but it would be the best then give false hope; those who stayed would be the ones who would better seidou's baseball team then the ones who left. "And i'm going to have to be truthful." She loathed the truth, hated having to put this kind of pressure on the first years. "It might as well be."

"You as of right now, don't really have senpai's that are reliable right now;" The second adult said, stepping in for Sawamura, who allowed the new coaches to finally take the lead. "They as of right now are going to be tested once again like you to see if they really are fit to be in the first string or second string. We're gonna have to start from scratch and no matter how good a name Seidou build, no name image can save us."


She was done crying, done being alone. She hadn't been left alone when she was coaching; no one had ever thought twice about trusting her in this position. So if this is what it took to get trust in her abilities then so be it. If this is what it took to rebuild a new legacy, rebuild what had been damage by idiot coaching decisions, even if it meant she could by default no longer pitch as a player herself because she would be from now on recognized as a coach.

she would do anything to help the one school who wanted her as a player instead of a damn manager.

She would help the school that introduced her to the thrill of high school baseball.

The school that allowed her to play real baseball.

So taking a deep breath and knowing that the coaches, her senpai's and former teacher from Nagano were done; she stepped to stand beside them. "Those who are willing to follow me and these coaches; who are going to do their absolute best to coach you guys; Step forward. Those who are unsure remain where you are, and those who want to leave step towards the right away from those who are unsure."


Despite Sawamura, finally being acknowledged fully by her team, the loss in the first round and the loss of the person she wanted to acknowledge her and finally did hit her hard. Not even the encouraging words of her most beloved senpai could mend the gaping hole that this particular person leaving left within her. They wouldn't be able to from that special battery she hoped to pursue when she chose to come to Seidou, leaving her friends behind to be the fated partner that they promised each other to be on that first day they met.

But no amount of wishing would be able to change the past.

She was done being thrown to the side; She had the new coaches talk to the third years to calm them down and get the scholarships they needed and pulled some strings. colleges and offers understood what happen and choose to ignore the third years beginning this year and looked at the their previous years before.

So here she was a tea addicted, sleep deprived and looking at the new training regions.

After giving the first years new trials to see where they truly belonged and having the coaches test the second years, not that her fellow second years knew, just yet.

They had manage to find a new team to begin with this year.

The new team would go to Nagano with her and and Sano-sensei.

The second string would trail behind them, with one of the new assistant coaches.

While the third string, because she found it ridicules to have a no string to begin with; would be left here to train and improve with the main coach, her beloved senpai, from Nagano.

She filled in the plans with the principals to get there approval first.


They had won the fall, after an extreme hardship and trying to understand what happened to their beloved senpai.

They had won back their senpai to her old self once again.

But the loss of her pitching was noticeable. They no longer had the ace they needed, not yet anyway.

Because Okumura was persistent, and unlike Yui. He had come to Seidou to form a battery with Sawamura.

He was going to get that battery, before she began her third year.

So he along with the other first and second years, would make a plan to get her back as a player.

After all if they we're going to make a new legacy and ending the former one; then it was better to Ended it and Begin with the best southpaw pitcher Seidou ever had.


A/N: Okay note that this might become a spin off for new game. I have a lot of ideas for this; Especially since in the beginning of new game it's stated that Sawamura became a coach to Akagi; I Thought why not? Seidou having Sawamura for a coach and putting pressure on her and her year as well as the new first year. though If I do write this as a story she won't have the so called "Injury" That she has in new game.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ace of Diamond, Just my Oc's

Review! Thanks for reading!