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Chapter 2: Yamada Reiko
As Fuji changed out of clothes after morning practice, he could hear the sound of the soccer balls moving back and forth between feet on the soccer field.
"That's really strange," Fuji thought to himself. "I've never noticed the soccer practice before."
And that was true. As a matter of fact, no one ever noticed the soccer team, or the basketball team, or the baseball team for that matter. Everything at Seigaku was centered on one sport, and that was tennis.
"I call first shower!" A voice screamed.
As Fuji walked out of the boys locker room, a huge group of dirt-covered girls race towards the adjacent girls locker room, smiling as the ran. He could hear all the showers turning on at once as the girls hurried to get ready for class.
Trailing behind the rest, one particular girl walked slowly, kicking a soccer ball at her feet. Her eyes were facing the clouds, as she seemed to stare into some unknown distance.
"Hmmm" Fuji thought, "What a peculiar girl."
"Fujiko!" a voice screamed and Eiji bounded from the locker room, Oishi following behind, "Come on! Let's go to class."
"Sa, Eiji, don't you think we should wait for Tezuka, he is in our class too." Fuji said, smiling, as always, at Eiji.
Oishi returned Fuji's smile, "Tezuka is talking to Ryuzaki-Sensei about our training regimen for the Tokyo Tournament."
Fuji nodded, "Okay then, let's head over to class."
Schoolwork came pretty easy to Fuji, although he did give the appearance of being a hard worker; the actual truth was that hard work wasn't necessary. He knew the answers… he was a genius after all.
So throughout classes he allowed his mind to wander. He was curious as to why he was attracted to that girl. No other girls had ever truly interested him before. She didn't even play tennis.
Maybe it was aura of general aloofness that surrounded her. As if she doesn't know who she really was, just as Fuji has no idea of his own true identity.
"Yes," He thought, proud of his new revelation, "That's it, I'm attracted to familiarity of it. The fact that seems to be in the same situation as I."
Fuji sat at his usual table during lunch with all the other tennis regulars. He glanced over to the table in which the girl soccer regulars usually sat.
Sure enough, there she was. Laughing at a joke someone else must have spoken while hitting a broccoli head between her chopsticks, as if it were a soccer ball.
Fuji tapped Momo's shoulder, giving him his ever present, yet slightly disturbing smile.
"Hey Momo." Fuji said, still smiling.
"Y-y-yes? Fuji-Senpai?" Momo said, smiling nervously at his creepy senior.
"You see that girl over there? The blond one with the green eyes? She's in you class, am I wrong?"
Momo chuckled, relieved yet confused by the question, "Uh huh, her name is Yamada Reiko, she's junior in Viper and my class."
"Well?" Fuji said, still smiling, "What do you know about her?"
"Umm…" Momo murmured his eyes turned up to the ceiling as he thought, "Well she's the only junior regular on the girls soccer team. I've seen her play in gym class and really is good."
"You're just saying that cause she stole the ball from you seven times during gym class last week." Kaidoh said with a smirk.
"Why were you counting Viper? To lazy to actually pay attention during gym class?" Momo asked ominously.
"What was that bastard?!" Kaidoh shouted.
"Okay you two," Oishi said pulling them apart, "Or do I need to separate you like in kindergarten?"
Fuji chuckled, "That's just what a mother hen would say."
"Why does Fuji-senpai want to know about Yamada-san anyway?" Momo asked grinning, "Could it be? Does Fuji-senpai have a crush?"
"Crush!" Eiji shouted, pouncing on Momo, "Who has a crush? Fujiko? On who???!!!"
"Yamada Reiko." Momo said, grinning happily.
"Why yes Momo," Fuji said smiling, ""As a matter of fact I do."
Both Momo and Eiji froze in place.
"Fujiko!" The acrobat whined, "You're no fun to tease."
Fuji shrugged but his smile never failed. He of all people, knew how to deal with Eiji.
The rest of the day went by and practice was uneventful. Although there were quite a few spies watching Seigaku's development. But that was just annoying. Not an event.
As Fuji was walking out the school gates he saw none other than Yamada Reiko, rolling down the street on a razor scooter with a soccer bag slung over her arm.
Fuji ran to catch up with her. "Hi," He said as soon as he caught up, "You're Yamada Reiko right?"
She stopped scootering and looked him up and down, "Um, yes, who are you?"
Very few things surprise Fuji, but this did. Most people at Seigaku, particularly the girls, knew the tennis tensai. "My name if Fuji Syuuske, I'm a senior regular on the school tennis team."
"Oh yeah," She said, "Now I remember."
Fuji smiled at her, "Can I walk you home?"
She observed him carefully again. Her green eyes seeming to process the question. Then she sight, got off her razor and began to fold it up until it was small enough that she could stuff it into her soccer bag. She zipped up the bag and started walking.
She stopped and looked back, "Are you coming Fuji-senpai?" She asked the confused senior, "I thought you wanted to walk me home."
Fuji smiled again, "Of course."
The two of them walked silently. The silence was not uncomfortable at first, but as the time moved on, Fuji began to grow uneasy.
"So you're on the soccer team…" He said, breaking the silence.
"Mmm hmmm." She murmured, looking straight ahead.
"Do you enjoy playing soccer?" Fuji asked the oblivious girl.
She looked up at the boy walking next to her, "Do you enjoy playing tennis?"
Fuji looked surprised, "This girl surprises me a lot, that's really rare," He thought, then he looked at her, "Yes, yes I do enjoy tennis."
"Then I guess it would be quite simple to deduce he fact that I enjoy soccer." She said, looking straight ahead again.
"Hmmm," Fuji said aloud, "That's an interesting way to put it… do you have any matches coming up?" He asked.
"They're called games, not matches," she said in answer.
"When?" He asked.
"Next week, Wednesday," She answered, "the district preliminary tournament," She smiled dreamily, "We're definitely going to nationals this year."
Fuji chuckled, "That sounds familiar. Hey, aren't the district preliminary soccer fields near the Tokyo Tournament tennis courts?"
She nodded, "Yup, the noise it annoying."
Fuji smiled, "How about you come over to watch our team after you win?"
She smiled at the usage of when you win opposed to if you win. "I'll probably miss quite a few of you're matches." She answered.
"You should probably make it to the end. Hopefully we'll be playing my brother's team from St. Rudolf."
"Hmmm? Your brother plays tennis too? That ought to be interesting to watch. I'll see if I can make it."
Fuji looked at the girl who was now still staring straight ahead. "I'm glad" He said.
She stopped walking abruptly and Fuji stopped as well. "This is my stop." She told him.
Fuji looked at the average apartment complex. It wasn't bad looking, but it probably meant that her family didn't have a ton of money and that he hopefully doesn't have too many siblings.
"Well I'll see you later Yamada-san." Fuji said.
"Yamada-san?" She asked, "Oh wait, that's me. Did I not tell you to call me Rei-chan… or Reiko-chan if you prefer. Every time someone said Yamada-san, it feels like they are talking to my mom."
"Ok Rei-chan, I'll see you at school."
"Yeah, sure," She said, smiling at him for the first time, "Thank you for walking me home Fuji-senpai."
"Of course." Fuji answered and he watched as she walked into the apartment building.
"Well," He thought to himself, "That was rather successful I believe." And he turned around to head home, realizing for the first time that he lived in the completely opposite direction.
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Reiko walked into the apartment complex with the soccer bag slung over her shoulder.
"Hi Hikaru-kun," She said to man at the front desk, "How are you today."
"I'm fine Reiko-chan, who was the nice boy you were walking with? Was he your boyfriend?" He teased.
"Nope," She answered, "Just I friend… I think… I'm not sure. Just a random guy from school who wanted to walk me home."
"I see," Hikaru answered, smiling at her naiveté, "Well then, I'll see you later."
"Yup, see you later Hikaru-kun." She smiled and pulled her soccer bag higher onto her shoulder and hit the "up" button on the elevator. She took it to the third flood and exited. She walked four doors down and turned to left stopping at room 305.
She was only slightly surprised to see that he door was unlocked. She dropped her bag and shoes in the front hall and ran to the kitchen, to grab a snack.
In the kitchen sat Kirihara Akaya, looking something up on the laptop on the kitchen table.
Reiko jumped three feet in the air. "Nii-san! What are you doing here?!"
He looked at her and raised his eyebrows, "It's Friday." He answered, "It's my turn to come here, remember?"
"Oh" she murmured, scratching the back of her head with a sheepish grin, "I forgot it was Friday."
Akaya smirked at his twin sister, "You would."
"Oh, wait," She stopped, "If it's Friday, then that means."
Akaya smiled, "Yup, time for horrible movie Friday."
"Yay!" She shouted smiling, "What's the winner for this weak?"
"And the movie the worst ratings is…." He said pausing for dramatic effect, he spun the laptop around so she could see it "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (1). Are you ready to go?" He asked.
"Just one minute. I'm hungry."
He grabbed her wrist and pulled her to the door, "Come on, I'll buy you popcorn at the movie."
"With extra butter?" she asked.
He chuckled, "With extra butter." He promised.
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(1)- I'm not lying about this… it got a 2/10, that's horrible ratings.
Well here's chapter two with the introduction of Akaya Kirihara as reviewer asked for. I will get into why they have different last names in the next chapter.
Ja ne For Now!!! :)