Konichiwa minna! XDDD and welcome to another chapter for Help in Sorrow! Whoot! I'm happy that I finished one chapter story and now working on this one. I believe I'll finish this story in a few more chapters, still planning it thou.

Oh, I'm sorry about this super late update! DX I have testing which will take more time off my busy schedule. T_T so I apologize in advance. I also have been working on some other stuff which you will be later once I get the courage to post it.

Polls… they will end when I finish this story because my other one is finished now 8D! Well off to the next chapter of this story. XD

Disclaimer- I don't own Inazuma Eleven Go sadly. I don't even own this plot T_T

Longing for Belonging

Tenma yawned as he stretched a bit. He looks around his room and slowly steps out of his warm bed. His eyes began to tear up but Tenma quickly wiped the tears away. He turns to the soccer ball that saved him when he was younger and places a hand on it.

'I really want to know why they are acting like I don't exist.' Tenma thought as some stray tears trailed his face. He sadly smiled before he wiped the tears away and proceed to clean himself up. Tenma quickly finished his mourning rituals and he a shout for him.

"Tenma-kun! It's almost time for school!" Aki shouted as she finished making Tenma's lunch. She wrapped it in a cloth that had soccer balls prints on it.

"Okay, Aki-nee!" Tenma said as he races down the stairs. He grabs his lunch but not before hugging Aki. Aki looks surprised but she smiles back and hugs Tenma while rubbing soothing circles into Tenma's back.

"Is there something that you want to tell me?" Aki asks when Tenma finally lets go of her. Tenma smiles brightly and shakes his head.

"No, it's just that I'm glad that you take care of me so well. I just wanted to thank you for that." Tenma said happily as he races out of the house. Aki smile turns to a frown when she saw what look like a red streak on his face.

"Was he crying?" Aki asks herself as she places herself onto a chair. Aki looks at the door where Tenma ran through with a worried expression. Sasuke walks into the house and directly to Aki. He whines as his master isn't here. Aki frowns even more when she noticed Tenma forgot to give Sasuke his leash. She rubs Sasuke's head and she walks to the table to get the leash.

"He never forgets to put the leash on Sasuke so that I can take him on a walk later." Aki told herself as she takes to the task of getting the leash and walking Sasuke.

Tenma races down to his school and breathes in a sigh of relief when the bell rings just when he enters his homeroom. Quickly he walks to his seat but frowns when he sees Riku but still he sits down. Riku turns to Tenma and smiles at him.

"Ohioo, Tenma-kun." Riku said while he was pulling out a notebook. Tenma smiles slightly and nods his head before turning to face the homeroom teacher.

Riku frowns a bit and taps Tenma on the shoulder to get his attention but is ignored again. Riku opts to poking Tenma with his pencil but still no reaction. Finally with no other options he crumples up a piece of paper and throws it to Tenma's back. Tenma turns his head slightly to see Riku cupping around his mouth to whisper easier. To Riku it still looks like Tenma is ignoring him.

"Tenma? Yo Tenma." Riku whispered to Tenma as he also taps the boy's shoulder. Tenma glances back before looking back at the teacher. Riku frowned again and tried to get Tenma attention again but was stopped by a raise of hand. The hand belonged to Tenma.

"Sensei? Can I get my seat moved?" Tenma said as he looks straight at the teacher. Their teacher nods and turns back to the lesson. Tenma quickly picks up his stuff leaves to one of the empty desks that were next to Kariya. Kariya frowns slightly and quietly pokes Tenma.

"Why did you move here?" Kariya asks as he looks at the other boy with question. Tenma sighed and ran a hand through his brown hair.

"I really don't like being next to the new kid anymore." Tenma said as he picks out a pencil from his backpack. Kariya bit his lip in worry for his friend.

'Tenma doesn't usually act like this.' Kariya said but he quickly looks up to catch up on the lesson.

The bell rung and teens literally jumped out of their seats to get out of the school. Shinsuke ran towards the clubroom with Riku in toll.

"Come on Riku! Let's go already!" Shinsuke said as he tugged at the other boy. Riku yelped as he was pulled along.

"Wait! We don't have to go this fast!" Riku shouted as he was tugged. Shinsuke rolled his eyes and they both disappeared in the clubroom. Tenma and Kariya watch both of the boys and Kariya looked directly at Tenma. Kariya tugged at Tenma's uniform sleeve.

"Are you alright? You've been acting kind of strange ever since some of the soccer team…ignored you." Kariya said the last part in a whisper but Tenma heard it.

"I'm fine. You don't have to worry about that. I bet they just want to get to know Riku, that's all." Tenma said with a smile but anyone that knows Tenma knew that was fake. Kariya reached his hand to hold onto Tenma but Tenma slipped pass Kariya and ran to the clubroom. Kariya watched his fading figure and bit his lip.

'Why is he acting like this?' Kariya asked himself as he stays at his spot, dazed. Suddenly Kariya feels hands wrap around his chest and he is pulled to a hard chest. He looks up to see Kirino and blushes darkly.

"What? Kirino!" Kariya whines as he struggles to get out of his boyfriend's grip but fails miserly. So instead he opts for pouting and crossing his arms together.

"Why is my little sunshine out here and all dazed? Hmm?" Kirino says as he snuggles into the bend of Kariya's neck. Kariya blushes and looks directly at the clubroom with a frown.

"Tenma… he's acting very weird and I want to help him." Kariya says. Kirino's face quickly changes to a serious look and turns his boyfriend so that they face each other.

"I know. This isn't like them to act so… I can't describe it really… but we are going to help Tenma get through this and maybe with some help." Kirino said as he and Kariya smile together. They nod to each other and clasp hands.

"We'll do it when they have time off." Kirino said as he and Kariya walk hand in hand to the clubroom.

Tenma walks into the clubroom to find most of the team chatting with each other while changing. All were laughing but they were all doing the same thing, ignoring Tenma. Tenma's hair shadows his eyes and he breathes a sigh before he goes to his locker to change.

When Tenma changed out to his uniform he walks out to the field. Slowly after him was Kariya and Kirino who were still walking hand by hand. Next after them was the rest of the team, who were still chatting with Riku.

"Okay, enough talking. Go warm up!" Endou said as he takes out a list and writes down something.

"Hai!" all the soccer boys said as they began their routines.

Tenma watches his teammates and looks down to his feet.

'Why do I feel so far away from most of my team.' Tenma's last thought before he began to stretch with Kariya and Kirino.

I think I did horrible… still testing but I found a little spare time in between study breaks to type this up. Tenma-chan you are the only one who knows what will happen next (sort of) but I hope I can make it to your standards. ^^

Also I am sad this is so short chapter but I wanted to type something up for you readers. At least to have something to read while I do test after test… TT_TT *cries in the background while hugging stuff Pikachu* (yes I have a stuff Pikachu. So what!)

To all of you readers that read this. Should I try and do a M rated story? If so put it in a review so I can find out how many actually want me to try it. XDD

Well all I can say is that thank you for reading and see you in the next chapter!

This is RookieDea signing out.

Bye minnaaaa! XDDD