For Shiranai Atsune – sempai

I take too much time to make one chapter. :I Ehm sorry…

Disclaimer: Noooope. I don't/can't/won't own Inazuma Eleven, even if I wanted to. :D And Suishou Yusaburu-san belongs to Shiranai Atsune-sempai-sama!

4: Snow Sports

Being like the wind and trying not to fall was so much harder than she thought!

'It's not a date. It's not a date. Oh my Kami, Yusaburu, get a grip: it's. Not. A date!'

Being the ice queen of Galourmore High, Suishou was used to the solitary disposition. The only boys who were her very good buddies were her Project Elements teammates, Tomoshibi Gyousei and Amadare Kyougisha. Sanada Ran was her one and only girlfriend, and still was.

Other boys were out of the question.

"I know you're nervous about your very first snowboarding lesson," Kazemaru calmly told Yusaburu. To whoever Kami was out there, Yusaburu half-thanked, half-cursed them for her brown-eyed teammate's obliviousness. "But Fubuki's a really great teacher. And even if you're not fond of listening, snowboarding is easy to learn from and…" Kazemaru was happily yapping away about his first time, but the blackette with white locks wasn't paying attention.

There it was again. Her heart was hammering harder against her ribcage.

'It must be an effect from the nano-technology,' Yusaburu concluded just as hintlessly. 'I really have to find the three other cures fast.'

There was a knock on a door. It was enough to cut Kazemaru's story and Yusaburu's train of thought. The tealnet defender turned to his new friend encouragingly. "You can do this, Yusa!" She shook her head almost immediately. "Kaka, you better be right." (A/N: According to SA-sempai-sama, Yusaburu doubles the first syllable of people's names, except Endou's and Fubuki's.)

"You ready for a day in the snow and being like the wind?" Fubuki's head poked through the icy blue-eyed girl's bedroom door. Seeing his new friend's speechlessness, Kazemaru gave one last 'helpful' push at Yusaburu's back, sending her straight to Fubuki's waiting figure.

"Go get 'em!" Kazemaru gave her the thumbs up as she and her silver-haired snow buddy disappeared from view.

"Have you tried to contact your friends from Galourmore, Yusa-chan?" A small voice asked the latter casually after dinner. The girl with her incomparably high IQ sighed longingly. "I'll only cause trouble for them if I do. And I'm not strong enough yet…" The Queen of Elements sighed yet again, but Fubuki still had his smile on. "I might have something that might help relax and strengthen you at the same time…"

How did it turn out as an outdoor date?

'It's not a date, darn it!' Frustrated, Yusaburu smacked herself when her companion wasn't looking; this took a pretty long time, if it wasn't her imagination. 'I swear to Kami I will do twenty laps around the whole Hakuren courtyard if I think like that again!'

And as much as she loved the night, she hated doing laps…but after implementing the self-punishment in her head, she had no other choice.

"…You understand?" The silver-haired boy asked as soon as he finished explaining the trick to snowboarding. "Hopefully…" The ex-captain gulped nervously. Since when did the slope become even steeper?

'Oh, Kamisama, if I die today, please tell Kaka that he's next.'

Yusaburu felt the wind clamoring for her face as soon as she pushed herself down the slope, where the Raimon team had once done. "O-oh m-m-my K-Kami!" She screeched as she luckily made a sharp turn before she could hit a tree blocking her path.

"Good job on that turn, Yusa-chan!" The voice sounded too close for someone who was standing and watching her from afar, the blackette analyzed.

Now she really wished she had listened to Kaka's ranting on Fubuki being a good teacher.

"I thought you were going to see my progress!" She yelled above the whir of the winds. The ex-captain felt Fubuki's grip on her forearm to steady her. For someone who was snowboarding as well, that was a pretty difficult thing to do. "I am," He answered back casually, "Kazemaru-kun must have forgotten that I observe my students up close?"

Now Yusaburu knew she was really going to do laps that night.

"Next is skating!" The blue-eyed boy said with a smile as he and his icy blue-eyed companion removed their snowboarding equipment. "You up for it or would you like to rest a bit?" The gentle voice watched the disciplined girl have a staring match with her borrowed ice skates. After a long moment, she exhaled.

"Let's go break my ankles," She stood up and slung the skates over her shoulder as Fubuki smiled.

"I take it back! I don't want to break my ankles!" Yusaburu shrieked- shrieked, the girl realized- as Fubuki gave her a firm push. Now she was gliding aimlessly across the ice, and she was actually missing her teacher's guidance beside her.

"Fubu-kun, now!" She yelped helplessly again as the blackette with white locks miraculously managed to skate circles a few times in order to avoid the trees and stray squirrels. Laughing in amusement, Fubuki skated his way- gracefully as Michelle Kwan would've thought- towards the panicky girl. "I got you, I got you," He smiled with a twinkle in his eyes.

"I got you."

If the snowboarding lessons and skating practices were a handful, the trip back to the Hakuren building was hell on earth.

"Why couldn't the skating rink and slopes have been somewhere higher than Hakuren rather than Hakuren being higher than them?" The panting girl complained as she helped Fubuki haul the snowboarding and skating equipment back up the hill. "Bad things could happen anytime, you know," Fubuki answered in a way so serious, but still so casual. Yusaburu scoffed incredulously. "What can possibly be worse than nano-technology forcibly injected into your bloodstream in the hopes of toughening you and your teammates and the threat of death by the same thing that used to strengthen you without any existing hint for a cure?" But before Fubuki could form an answer, a loud rumbling sound was heard from above.

And the last thing the duo could remember was a giant wave of white heading towards them.

Cliffhanger huzzah! Now I know why I hate them too… :)) Although they actually sound better in the emails I send to Jer-bear, right, onnakuma-chi? OvO Been a while since I've updated, but hello new chappie! :)) Reviews are well appreciated, thank you very much! :3

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