Chapter 3 is finally finished! please comment and tell me if I made any typos or grammatical errors.
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animefreak62898
Chapter 3
Karin's Protector
I watched in horror as Kureji came at me at an alarming speed. I closed my eyes tightly and held up my arms in front of my face; oh yeah, like that was going to work. I waited to be crushed and tensed up my body. What happened next was not at all what I was expecting. It sounded like two boulders crashed in to each other. 'Did I die?' I asked myself and peeked out of one eye. No, I hadn't, Yamato had jumped in between us and had stopped Kureji dead in his tracks.
"Oh, Yamato, was I about to run into Karin?" Kureji asked brightly.
"Yes you were, please be more careful next time," Yamato said politely like nothing happened. I fell to my knees, still shaking from the whole experience.
"Whoa, Karin, you're not going to faint are you?" Kureji asked worriedly.
"N-no, I'm j-j-just a b-bit sup-prised," I stuttered.
"Is she going in to shock?" a new voice asked. I turned slowly and found Taka walking towards us.
"I-I'm fine," I said and stood up. Taka held a water bottle to me and I took it, bowing slightly.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?" another voice shouted. I turned and found my twin brother, Haruko, standing near the edge of the field, a look of horror on his face. He stormed down to me and grabbed my wrist.
"Come on Karin, we're going home," he growled throwing death glares at my teammates.
"Wait Haruko, I want to stay," I said. He stopped and looked at me with confused eyes. I looked back defiantly, I had found something I wanted to do and Haruko couldn't just take it away from me.
"Listen to me," Haruko said, putting his hands on my shoulders, "You are a lady, a small, petite lady. You draw and you play piano, you always are polite and say 'please' and 'thank you'. Football is a guy's sport. What if you're injured? What if your precious hands get broken? More importantly, what if mom finds out?"
I grabbed his hands and spoke softly, "Thank you for worrying about me, but I really want to play football. Mother is always trying to find me a new activity that would make her rich in the long run, but I don't want to be a puppet anymore. Please, I'm begging you, don't tell mom."
He looked at me, searching my eyes carefully. He sighed the smiled sadly.
"It's been a long time since I saw that fire in your eyes. Fine, if you promise me one thing I'll promise not to tell mom," he said seriously. I nodded my head and waited for his request. He tackled me into a bear hug and whispered in my ear, "Please, try not to get hurt."
Tears welled up in my eyes; I made him worry so much. He pulled me an arm's length away and smiled at me.
"What is it?" I asked as he started laughing.
"Dad's right, you're going to turn into a jockey," he gasped out between breaths.
"NO WAY! Dad told you about that?" I asked. He nodded, and then began laughing harder when I blushed a bright red. He looked at his watch and grimaced.
"I got to go home before mom finds out I'm a minute late. Don't worry, I won't tell her anything if you don't want to. If you're late I'll just say you're stuck on an art project and had to stay late," he said, nodding in satisfaction at his excuse. I sighed depressed, now I had Haruko lying too. He hugged me one more time, the sprinted off towards home.
"Well, shy little Karin has a bit of a bite to her after all," an amused voice said. I squeaked and jumped about a meter off the ground.
"Did you forget we were here?" Kureji asked, bellowing with laughter. I nodded my head and bowed deeply and said, "Please forgive my rudeness!"
"Whoa, jeesh, not so formal. We're family here so we don't need to be so formal," Kureji said scratching his head.
"S-sorry," I said looking down at my feet.
"What did you mean when you said your mother was finding you new activities to get herself rich," Yamato asked in a low voice so only I would hear.
"I'd rather not talk about it," I whispered back, still staring at my feet.
"You two love birds done talking, yes? Now how about we go back to practice," Kureji said and thumped us both on our backs. Yamato barely budged but I got sent sprawling to the ground… again.
"Ha, ha, ha. My bad," Kureji said and pulled me back up. I giggled and rubbed my back which would be sure to have a bruise on it latter.
"Oh look who it is. It's our little princess," a voice sneered. I looked up and saw a snide boy looking disgustedly at me.
"Watch your mouth Mikoto," Kureji said darkly. Mikoto sneered and put his face very close to mine.
"You better watch it sunshine. I'm the ace quarterback here," he said proudly.
"Really? That's amazing!" I said. He looked at me like he was taken aback. Then the snide grin returned to his face.
"Hey, commander, let me have a catching battle against her," Mikoto shouted.
"I'm not sure that's a good-"but got interrupted by Yamato stepped in and said, "Let's do it."
Five minutes later I was lined up again at the fifty yard line to the right with Yamato in front of me. Mikoto and Taka were to the left. We each had a bucket filled with footballs and Kureji explained the rules to us.
"You will act as the throwers and Taka and Yamato will be the catchers. They will run down the field, you will be continuously throwing the footballs to them. Whoever wins this will become the ace quarter back of our team," Kureji announced. I tensed up my right arm, ready to throw when Kureji blew the whistle.
Tweet! The whistle screeched and Yamato and Taka took off down the field. I threw one football right after the other. 'Don't think about anything but throwing,' I told myself. Tweet! The whistle blew again, signaling the end of the exorcise. I blink out of my trance and looked at Yamato and Taka running back with several footballs in each arm. They set them down on one of the benches and counted them up.
"Mikoto has 6," Taka announced in a droning voice.
"Karin has… 'Pfft', 18," Yamato laughed.
"Well it's settled then. Karin you are our new ace. Welcome to the fist strand," Kureji bellowed and pounded me on the back, making me fall for the third time today. Kureji stared at me for a second, the bellowed with laughter and helped me back up. Mikoto was fire engine red; I walked up to him and bowed low.
"T-thank you f-for the m-match," I stuttered. He blushed deeper then hissed, "I won't forget this Karin. You can bet your life on it!"
He stalked past me and stormed off the field in a huff.
"KARIN KOIZUMI, WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!" an all too familiar voice screeched. I turned slowly and found my mother standing a few meters away, boiling with rage. 'Oh no,' I thought and found myself in a scenario that was so bad, it was almost funny.
Must... sleep. Must finish... forth chapter. Must... keep writing. *Head hits desk*
Snore
I'll finish chapter tommorow. :=(
sorry,
animefreak62898
