Hello! ^_^" I'm sorry (again). I'm not even going to begin giving pointless excuses. T_T But I FINALLY updated again.
On with the story!
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Chapter seven: The new club member!
The next day Endou is on his way to school when he sees Hoshino riding a blue bicycle. "Good morning Hoshino!" he greets her. She, in response, snaps her head and looks behind her at his direction and smiles. "Ohayo Endou-san!" She stops for a while so that he can catch up to her. When he does she starts pedaling again.
"So how come you knew almost all about us when you just met us? You even knew about the old team's 'situation'." Hoshino shrugs and replies: "Well I kind of am a walking encyclopedia about soccer. People in my old school used to call me 'The soccer gossip girl'."
"'Soccer gossip girl'? Wow, that's a cool title!" Endou exclaims happy to know something about their energetic new manager (it is creepy for you that someone knows so much about you while you know nothing about them). "But isn't it a little far-fetched?" "Well… not from my point of view." "Then do you mind explaining to us why you deserve it?" asks a familiar voice.
Both teenagers turn around to greet their friend. "Ohayo, Gouenji!" Said boy waves at them while walking up to them. "Good morning. So are you going to answer my question?" "I don't really like bragging about it but when something happens that affects the soccer world I'm always the first one to know about it"
"Prove it. Yesterday there was a match between junior high schools that couldn't be reported through the media due to technical problems. They said they will post it on the Internet today at 7:45. It is now 7:50. Do you know who won the match?" "Wow, I feel like I am given a math pop quiz. Oh well, it was a tie with the results of: 2-2." "How come they had a match at the very start of the year?" asks Endou. "It was postponed from last year. The teams' players were the ones from last year." answers Hoshino.
"Heh, you really are a walking soccer encyclopedia" says Gouenji smiling a bit. A few minutes later they reach the school and they find Aki, Kidou and Imai talk while sitting down under a tree's shade. "Ohayo, minna!" says Endou showing his signature smile. "Ohayo!" they reply at the same time. Good morning guys! I'm going to park my bike see you later!" says Hoshino and rides away.
Endou and Gouenji sit down next to Kidou and Endou asks: "So, what were you talking about? And what is that, Imai?" asks Endou after realizing that she is holding an old notebook in her hands. "Oh! This is an old notebook my grandmother had. She was coach of a soccer team a long time ago and I went and asked her to give me this. It is a notebook with tips to help with training since I thought it would become useful. That was what we were talking about before you came." "Wow that so cool! Can I see it?" "Sure!" Endou takes it and starts reading. After a while Hoshino returns and sits down next to Aki. "Is that a training note?" she asks after seeing the notebook.
"How did you know?" asks Aki confused by her guess. "Well… I saw that before, Imai was the one who held it and, the last time I checked, there was a woman who went by the name 'Imai Ai' and she was the coach of the high school's soccer team that won in the very first 'Football Frontier Advanced' thirty years ago. So I assumed she is your grandmother which explains the note Imai."
Everyone looks at her with a blank expression. Gouenji is the first one who snaps out of it. "You are really sharp." "Thanks." She replies smiling. "My grandmother was the winner of the Football Frontier Advanced?" "That's awesome Imai!" exclaims Aki. "But how did you know about that Hoshino?" asks Kidou. Hoshino just smiles and explains about her 'Soccer gossip girl' nickname. "And just call me Hikari guys. I prefer it much more to my last name." she finishes.
That's when the bell rings and everyone goes to their respective classes. Ina class 1-A Imai is talking with Kidou. "I didn't know that my grandmother won such a tournament." "Well, you learn something every day." Then their homeroom teacher walked in and the lessons started.
Meanwhile in class 1-C they have home economics. The students got paired in order to make a meal so they can learn how to work like a team. Endou and Natsumi get paired together and, since Endou doesn't know how to cook, they decide to make onigiri, Natsumi acting like the boss while giving him orders.
"Okay, now the only thing that remains is giving them shape." she says before taking two cups and filling the one with a little rice and salt. After that, she brings them together and shakes them. "I usually use this method but if you can handle it you can try with your hands, but I must warn you, the rice is really hot right now" Endou, thinking it is a challenge, he replies: "Don't worry, I can handle the heat" and with that he takes a spoonful of rice and put it in his hand.
Straight away, he starts shaking his hand like crazy. "Ow, ow, ow, ow! Hot, hot, HOT!" he screams before slipping on some water on the floor. He isn't quite sure what is going on since he has his eyes closed, one hand on the floor while the other rubs his aching head. "Ouch" he says before opening his to see a wide-eyed Natsumi, while still holding the cups in her hands, bellow him with rice on her face.
Before the information gets to get into his head, he starts hearing grinning and clapping all around the classroom. Blushing he gets up and offers a hand to an already blushing Natsumi. She gladly takes it and gets up. Then they realize that their teacher is standing in front of them, rice on her face. The two teenagers gulp down before their teacher takes a piece of rice of her face and tasting it. "It is tasty but I expect you two to clean up your mess." She says. "H-hai sensei." is the only thing that can get off their mouth while they get down on their knees to clean up.
After a couple of minutes they are finished and start shaping the onigiri again, this time Endou using the 'cup-method'. "What happened to the 'I can handle the heat'?" whispers Natsumi after a while, still blushing. Endou scratches the back of his neck laughing sheepishly, trying to hide his own blush. "Oops!"
After the lessons end, the gang meets up in front of the teachers' room in order to find their new-found coach. As expected, after one minute, Coach Suzuki gets out of the room and faces his students. After he gets introduced to Aki and Imai, who weren't there yesterday, he leads them all to their club room, since the previous was taken by another club. The clubroom is about ten meters away from the soccer pitch and it is about two times bigger from their club back in Raimon, but it sure smells a lot like it.
"That is our clubroom?" asks Saya trembling a little. "There wasn't any other we could take" says the coach with a sigh. "What is so wrong about this clubroom asks Endou. "This clubroom has been closed since twenty years ago when a rumor went out that a ghost was living in there. The students from that club started disappearing with the result of the club to get disbanded. Ever since this clubroom was never used again, until now." says Akira with a creepy voice resulting Aki and Imai to squeak and Natsumi to shrug. Hikari just frowns and takes the key from her uncle's hand and unlocks the door. "Come on, guys! It can't be so bad!"
Before Arata gets to stop her, she opens the door and reveals a dusty, yet tidy, room. But that isn't what catches everyone's attention. In front of Hikari floats something, or someone, that looks like a girl their age with blonde, almost white, hair that reaches het waist, pale skin and pitch black pupils. She is wearing the girls' school uniform*. At her sight everyone, except for Hikari widens his or her eyes and makes a run for it screaming. "Wow! There really is ghost here guys! Guys?" she looks behind her back to see that they are all behind some bushes, hiding. "Come on, guys! There is no reason to be scared! Besides, she looks more scared than we are!"
And she is right. While she has her back turned, the ghost runs and hides under something that looks like an old-fashioned couch, eyes widened in fear. Hikari walks up to her and looks at her from the front of the couch. "Come out. There is no reason to be afraid of us. We just want to use this room as our clubroom. And ignore the others, they are just scared of you." Eventually she comes out of her hiding spot and, by then, the rest of the club members have gone inside out of curiosity for the ghost girl.
"So, my name is Hoshino Hikari. But you can call me Hikari. What's yours?" "M-my name is Yuki, t-that's all I can r-remember." She says, obviously feared of the gang. After everyone introduces themselves, Coach Suzuki starts explaining what is happening. After the explanation, Yuki seems not scared anymore and explains that she has been a ghost since twenty years ago but does not remember anything that happened before her death, which she doesn't remember either.
"So, do you want to join the club?" asks Endou to the surprise of everyone including her. "What do you mean?" "Well, we can't just kick you out just because we want to use the clubroom now, can we? So why not join the club. Come on, it will be fun!" Yuki gives of a sweet smile and nods.
"Okay. Now that that is settled, grab a broom and start swooping. This place will not clean itself!" exclaims Hikari while she grabs her own broom and starts swooping gaining a lot of moans and groans from the gang.
Wow, that's the longer chapter I've ever wrote! Oh well. Now the club has a ghost member. What is your opinion? If you want to point out something just comment! ^ v ^
*By the way, the school uniform for the girls has the same design as Fuyuka's, but instead of blue and light blue it has orange and yellow, while the boys' uniform is the same as Raimon's but, instead of dark blue, it has orange.
Bye-bye! See you next chapter! ^^