9.
Title: Team Captain
Prompt: Turf
Pairing/Character(s): Karin
Word Count: 319
A/N: This prompt was especially difficult for me: I had no idea where to go with it for a long while. Also, I looked up the real names of the people on Karin's team, not OCs. I know that my writing's been pretty terrible, so if anyone has advice can you give some?
Karin turned around, and gave her teammate a high five. The teammate, who was still smiling dazedly at the goal, missed the oncoming hand. It seemed to get him out of his daze when Karin elbowed him on the head. "We've got a match to win, Uehara. You can go cloud-gazing later." She paused for a moment. "Nice kick, though." And Uehara was stuck back in his daze.
Just like that. Pathetic. Well, almost.
The team they had just scored against started at the center again. It was a 1-1 tie after her last goal, and she was determined to keep her team from failure. Even if she was the only one who actually had enough brain cells to realize that soccer was a team sport. It wasn't much of a team if the other people didn't even attempt to do much of their own volition.
Team Captain's the only one who can shoot ever, and my father has the capability to be serious for more than a second. It was a familiar line of thought, but no matter how much or how hard they practiced, somehow it always came down to her.
Well, time to disprove her theory. Toba kicked her the ball when she waved her hand in the air. She tapped it to herself, controlling it, before she yelled out "Uehara!" and kicked the ball in his direction.
It was a wonderful kick, sailing through the air in his direction. She'd managed not to kick up a lot of turf either, so most of the force actually went with the ball. All Uehara had to do was a simple header into the goal.
No, she thought, I take that back. He is pathetic.
The ball had sailed out of bounds, and off of the grassy field they'd used for the soccer match. He'd missed his chance.
Maybe the Team Captain did have to do everything herself.
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