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---Chapter 3---

'It can't be Jackal-senpai…It's impossible…'

Kirihara stood up and walked towards Jackal.

"You KILLED my bear!"

Jackal blinked. "…Killed?"

"Yeah, KILLED!"

"Akaya, I didn't kill your teddy bear."

"But when I told you that I have my bear with me at school, you were surprised!"

"W-well…"

Jackal paused for a while, he didn't want to surprise Kirihara.

"The truth is… The truth is I missed my bear that I left in Brazil…"

Kirihara looked at Jackal. He didn't know what to say.

"Your bear in Brazil?"

Jackal nodded. "Yes, Akaya. I left him there when I moved here."

Kirihara frowned, he felt sorry for his senpai.

"I-I'm sorry, senpai."

"It's ok, Akaya."

After practice…

After their afternoon practice, Kirihara put the 'two pieces' of his bear and exited the clubroom. All of his senpai-tachi was quiet; they feel sorry for their 'baby'.

Suddenly, Kirihara broke the silence.

"Niou-senpai, you KILLED my bear!"

"What?! How can I KILL a bear?"

"Then you cut his head off!"

"I didn't."

Yagyuu coughed. "Niou-kun, I remember you told Kirihara-kun that the bear needs a make-over."

"Yeah, I did. But I was just kidding."

Everyone looked at him.

"Niou, confess." said Yukimura, giving him one of his 'smiles'.

Niou sighed. "Confess what? I told you, I didn't cut the head of that ugly bear off."

"It has a name, you know. It's Mr. Teddy Tender!"

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Niou looked at all his teammates. "I didn't do it, ok? And if so, I would have cut all of his body parts. Not only the head…"

Sanada coughed and everyone looked at him.

"I…I did it…"

"Genichirou…"

"Sanada-fukubuchou…"

"I'm sorry, Akaya…"

Kirihara just stared at the vice-captain of Rikkai.

"Genichirou, why did you do this?" asked Yukimura.

"W-when I was seven years old I had this bear, but my mom threw it…"

"Aww…That was sad." said Marui.

"When you showed me your bear, it made me remind of –cough- Squishy -cough-…"

"…Squishy?"

"Yeah, -cough- my bear. I did it because..."

"Don't continue fukubuchou… That story was the saddest thing I know…" said Kirihara

"Che. What a waste of time…" said Niou as he left all the regulars.

"Wow, Genichirou. That was unexpected." said Yukimura.

Sanada just looked at them and walked away.

"Why did Sanada's mom threw the bear, anyway?" asked Marui.

All the regulars shrugged and left Marui, who was thinking why did Sanada's mom threw the bear.

That night...

Sanada's room.

He was looking at a NEW penguin stuff toy. He bought it for Kirihara, so their 'baby' will be happy again.


I didn't know how to write the last part.TT Hope you liked the ending...)

-Kimi