AN: First, I would like to thank everybody who has been so kind as to review. I greatly appreciate it. And no. I have no plan to abandon anything anytime soon.
~ Second. I have given up all hope of finding the stupid flash drive. It is nowhere to be found...
~ Third. My horrendous lack of update is due to the fact that I have been carpooling to get to work and then back home. This means that I leave at around 6 AM and get home at around 8 PM. By that time I am exhausted and really just want to sleep.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Pairing: Hiru/Sena later on.
-'Sena is using sign language'
-'Sena is writing'
-'Sena is thinking'
"Normal conversation"
~ And just so everybody knows, this chap. takes place starting at the game against the Cupids. I will not have a scene about gathering players, but I will tell you that Sena threatened the Huh Brothers into playing along with a few others.
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Chapter 3
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The next few days of school settled into an easy pattern. Wake up, go to morning practice, be bored in class, go to afternoon practice, go home. Rinse and repeat the next day. Honestly it was kind of boring.
But she found great amusement in the fact that nobody had even the slightest inkling that she was a girl. The idiot teachers were too stupid to look on the register for her gender, and her mannerisms were boyish enough that nobody would think to question her.
Really, the only thing she was worried about was when to reveal the truth. Part of her was screaming to just do it and watch the reactions. The other part wanted to wait and observe... try to guess what people would do. What they would say.
At this point in time it didn't make any difference. She just had to make it through the first game without giving herself away. An easy enough thing to do... In theory. But the locker room would be a serious issue.
Sena sighed to herself as she tried to think of how to handle this situation... not that it mattered at that particular moment in time, considering she would only play if they were losing.
Hiruma hadn't been pleased with that idea but after thinking about it he realized that it was a great idea. If they didn't need her to play, the other teams wouldn't know about their team getting such a great asset. And add the fact that Mamori might be showing up meant Sena had to pretend to be manager.
But she guessed if it came down to it, she could change in the locker room after the rest of the team vacated the space. With a sigh and a shrug, Sena realized that that was probably how it would work out in the end.
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(AN: I will not write out the game because it doesn't have any bearing on the rest of the story. If at any time something important does happen during a game, I will write that scene but not the entire game... my writing skills suffer greatly when I have no idea how to explain something.)
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All in all the game went well. Sena did have to play in the end, after one of the borrowed players got injured. But that was fine because she was able to run at around 4.8 and still have absolutely no trouble. She came across as someone from the track team or something of the like.
And even better was that none of her brothers were there. That would have been an unneeded distraction. But she knew that at least the boys from Shinryuji would be at the next game. After all, they were playing Ojo next. And her brothers always scouted Ojo. Oh well. Sena shrugged dismissively with a sigh. When it happened, it happened. There was no point in worrying about it now.
At the time that Sena was considering this, they were on the train back to Deimon, and the team was talking about who they would be playing next. Of course, both Hiruma and Sena already knew who it was, as that was what she had been agonizing over, but the blonde wasn't saying anything. Actually, he was smirking as he typed rapidly on his laptop.
"I hope we don't have to play Ojo until the finals." She heard Kurita saying to one of the substitutes.
"Yeah, Shin would kill us." The other teen agreed.
"Say Hiruma, who are we playing next?" the fat teen asked nervously.
"Ojo White Knights."
"What?" Almost the entire car shouted in distress.
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"Hey. Damn Shrimp. What are you thinking so hard about?" Hiruma asked Sena later that week. It was growing closer to the game, and she was trying to decide what to tell her boys when the confrontation happened. So far, nothing worthwhile was coming to mind.
'I can't decide what version of the truth to tell the Nagas.' The demonic teen snorted.
"Tell them that I blackmailed you if you have to tell them anything."
'No, that wouldn't work…. I would never allow anyone to blackmail me.'
"Then don't tell them a fucking thing."
'If that would work then we wouldn't be having this conversation.' She finally looked at him with a deadpan expression.
The older teen gained a curious glint in his eye as he stared at the shorter of them. Sena became mildly interested, wondering what could have possibly made that look grace his face.
"Why don't you tell them to just fuck off and be done with it?" Was his next question.
'That didn't go over well last time.'
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(Game Day)
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Sena was lounging calmly in a student drawn cart next to the cackling blonde captain. To her the whole situation was rather amusing. Cerberus was pulling the second cart of players, while trying to eat the two pulling the first.
"Watch out or he'll eat you!" Hiruma yelled happily, although nobody but Kurita and Sena could tell that he was happy rather than insane.
At the pace they were traveling, it didn't take long for them to reach the stadium. At the other end of the parking lot, several busses were pulled up and the players from Ojo were unloading. Sena heard a loud shout of excitement and looked over to see Haruto Sakuraba exiting. She rolled her eyes and snorted silently, wondering how those girls could be so airheaded.
'Hey. Mr. Demon Elf. What's the plan for the game?' she signed to him rapidly.
"Simple. Eyeshield gets the ball and runs."
'Anything else?'
"Nothing."
She smirked evilly. 'Actually that sounds rather fun. Eyeshield hasn't had that kind of workout for quite a while.'
"So? Are you ready then?"
'More than ready, Mr. Demon Elf.'
"Good. Then go change Damn Chibi."
'Yeah yeah, I'm going. Keep your pants on.'
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Sena looked around the stadium carefully from where she was leaning against the wall. She knew that her brothers were around here somewhere, she just had to pinpoint the exact location.
'Ah. There they are!' She grinned and pushed herself upright before striding over to Hiruma.
'Hey. Mr. Demon Elf. I found my brothers, so I'm going to talk to them before the game starts. If I don't, they will storm down here and start screaming.'
"Fine. But hurry the fuck up!"
Sena gave a mock salute before walking away. Once out of sight, she made her way to the nearest bathroom and changed back into her casual clothes. Then she made her way slowly up to the top of the bleachers where they had placed themselves.
"Hey midget." Agon smirked lightly. "How's the new school?"
'Could be worse I suppose. I could be at Shinryuji not playing football.' All of the boys who saw what she said froze instantaneously.
"Would you care to repeat that Sena?"
Rather than to dignify that with a response, she just looked at him with an 'Are you stupid?' look.
"Sena how could you?" Unsui was the first to vocalize.
'It's my decision. It always has been.'
"Sena, you can't-"
'You guys can't tell me what I can or can't do! It isn't your place!'
"As your brother it is my place." Agon interrupted. Several of the others nodded vigorously in agreement.
'Then you won't be my brothers anymore. If you try to tell me I can't play then I won't ever speak to you again.'
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Once again, she was leaning against the wall of the stadium. This time, though, she was listening to Hiruma give his pregame talk.
"All-right, you lazy fuckers! This game is different than last time. We aren't playing around! This is a fucking WAR!"
"Yeah. Because we're playing Ojo." One of the guys murmured to his neighbor.
"I don't really want to be here after last year's practice game." Was the soft response.
"Everyone calm down. Eyeshield will have the ball so Shin will be after him."
"What a relief!"
"Yeah. That means we aren't going to die today."
'What a bunch of fucking cowards.' Sena rolled her eyes.
"But at the same time… I kind of want revenge."
"True. I'm going to do my best to avenge last year's broken bones!"
"Exactly. And besides, Eyeshield will be doing his best so we have to do our part as well."
'That's better. At least they aren't completely spineless.'
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End of chapter.
So I know it's not very long, but I thought it was better than nothing at this point. I'll try to update again soon, but I make no promises.
-AN: I know that people will ask about this, so I'll just say it now… Mamori is not made the Manager after the Cupids game. I haven't decided if she will be later or not, but for now the answer is no.
Next chap is the game against Ojo.