It happened after the visit to Rosa's practice. Sitting on the train, Shou was fast asleep, but Erika was reflecting the events during the practice. Her thoughts went back to the Kageura of Amarillo. She still couldn't believe that he was of the same grade as her for his height truly surpassed even those of middle schoolers. What Kageura said crossed her mind.

Flashback:

Kyyyyaaaa!

Squeals of girls were heard from Rosa's practice field. Erika, Shou and Misaki looked outside the fences and saw a certain soccer team was getting attacked by fans. It was the Amarillo, the elementary school team for New Tokyo FC. There was a very tall boy looking at Shou's direction. He was Kageura, a fellow sixth grader. He looked like there was something he wanted from Shou and so he left the crowd of squealing fans and walked up to Shou.

"Do you need something?" Shou asked in a strained voice as he looked up to Kageura. Kageura's presence was even more intimidating close up.

"Are you from the Momoyama Predators?"

"Eh... umm.. Yes."

"Are the Furuyas here?"

Upon knowing that they are not, Kageura face was filled with disappointment. He really wanted to face against them ever since the last year's tournament, but too bad that Momoyama Predators lost right before they get a chance to go to last year's nationals.

"Tell the Furuyas that we want to play against them, be it a practice match or anything. Later."

Flashback Ended

Erika nudged Shou to wake him up, wanting to know more about the Furuyas.

"Ah, the Furuyas? They're the core of the Predators. They're known as the Triplet Demons." Upon seeing Erika's iffy face, he elaborated a bit more. "They're really good, but their personalities are a bit…. They got into a fight with the coach and left the team last winter."

He continued to ramble on about what happened to cause the Momoyama Predators to disband, not seeing that Erika had already stopped listening. She was thinking really hard while counting her fingers. Misaki gave them permission to let them come to the practice again, but this time with a team of nine players in order to hav competition with the teams there, be a mini game or a full match. It was unbelievable, it was a once in lifetime chance to play with adults. But now, Erika and Shou had to scout a team within a week; they might even get a game with Rosas. Erika already thought to ask Stella, for sure she will agree given the chance to play against professionals. She was also thinking about recruiting the Furuyas; when she asked Shou about it, he also agreed seeing that the Furuyas will be fired up about playing with pros that they will also agrees.

Erika and Shou got off on their stop and stared to walk on the road that lead them to Furuya household with Shou leading her. They came to a stop at a very large house, with Shou ringing th door bell. She looked up at the house that seemed like an Italian villa. There wasn't a doubt that this house or rather mansion will cost as much as $19,500,000 at the least.

What's with this house? Now I know what wealth disparity means.

(Erika thought)

For some strange reason, Erika didn't realize that the mansion next door belonged to her best friend was even larger by many times. It turned out that the Furuya triplets were out with Stella, which Shou didn't get the name; he was only told that the triplets were out with a friend of theirs in the park.

Time skip, at the park:

The sound of tennis balls being hit echoes through the area, but not once did the ground had been hit. Stella and the triplets stood facing each other forming a square. They were practicing tennis by hitting the ball to the person next to each other while not allowing the ball to hit the ground.

Stella was wearing a Nike brand overalls. A black Nike female's summer pure ss top, it features a signature neckline, cap sleeves, women tennis label on the left hem, and embroidered Swoosh of the left chest. It was only form fitting around the chest area, the sleeves, waist and hip were very lose on her. The light gray Nike female summer victory skirt was in fleet women pleat style. It features an elastic waistband, built-in nit short, pleats on the front and back, merrowed hemline, and heat transfers Swoosh at left hem. Best of all, it was lightweight and stylish. She was also wearing a Nike lunar Ballistec 1.5 white and gray volt women's shoe. The highlight of this was it is built for players looking for a sturdy, durable and comfortable shoe in the lightweight category; it aid players in their explosive and aggressive court movement.

As they continue to hit the ball, they started to want to add another to increase the difficulties of the pass. That was when Erika and Shou came and saw them or at least the triplets and an unknown girl for Stella's back was turned towards them.

"Yo, isn't that Shou-kun" Ryuuji commented as he saw Shou from the corner of his eyes after he hit the ball to Ouzou.

"Hey, long time no see." Shou greeted before he tried to ask them for forming a team. "Umm… I have something to tell you."

The three continued to practice without aknowleging what Shou has to say, but Stella had stopped and turn to face Shou and Erika to greet them, seeing this Kota skipped her (not wanting to hurt her) and directly passed it to Ryuuji.

"Hello Erika-chan and Shou-kun. How are you?"

"Can't you tell? We're in the middle of tennis practice." Not liking how her attention was sifted to the new comers, Ryuuji started to interrupt her.

"Can you just hear us out?"

"Shut up! You're disturbing us!" Ouzou commanded, also not liking how Shou interrupted their time with Stela.

These rude comments made Stella wanted to scold the triplets for being so rude, but just as she turn to them, she was beaten by Erika. Erika's eyes were twitching and her smile seemed to be strained. She took the soccer ball from Shou's hands and shot it right towards Ouzou. It was fast, as it went nearer the ball seemed to caught on to fire (in Stella eyes it seemed that the fire was originated from Erika's temper).

"What's with that attitude!?"

But the ball never did reach Ouzou, instead it become airborne. Without a second thought or heistaton, he had hit the ball straight up to the sky. It must be a shock to Erika, when she was angry her shots seemed to again more power, so Ouzou effortlessly deflected the ball was quite shocking to her for his skills were many levels higher than her.

"Not a bad shot for a girl." He said as he brought his leg down.

Then the ball was flying up and slowly landing down towards Kota. Kota dropped his racket, when the ball fell to his waist level, he gritted his teeth and kicked to ball back to Erika with some force behind it. It was for Ouzou's sake; Erika had intended to hit Ouzou from behind with the ball; so Kota wanted to teach her a lesson. After all, he was the eldest, so he had to protect his younger brothers, even if they were born just few minutes apart. Stella didn't really object to Kota's retaliation because families are important to her also, but she still thought that it was a bit unnecessary to shoot the ball so hard when she saw the result of the shot. At the last minute, Shou got in the way of the shoot in fornt of Erika. He was hit with his stomach; a bit of the stomach acid mixed with his saliva was forced out of his mouth.

We are going to have a talk on the way home.