For over the past few weeks Sena has been coming over to my house for training, and I'll tell you he has gotten really good, but the problem with Sena is that he is scared of being tackled still, not as much but he still starts shaking.
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I sigh as I walked my way to the Zokugaku college to record the game for Hiruma, funny thing is that he didn't even tell me to do it. I look over myself: light blue ripped jeans, white camo tank top, Nike blue, white, and orange shoes, and my sun glasses that I wear under the helmet. I make my way to see them all crowding around the entrance, a blonde haired kid with glasses is trying to read the sign "The two upper kanji are hard so I can't read them, but the lower ones say 'College'" a guy that's really built and long blonde hair stares in disbelief "Hey Hey are we gonna play a college students?" As I get closer Apollo starts walking in, I tap the kid with glasses on the shoulder, he turns to look at me "The upper kanji say Zokugaku" he stares at me and so do the others "You speak English?" I nod with a smile "I lived in America for eight years" Panther walks up to me "Hey! Are you from around here?" I nod 'Sure lets go with that' he gets even closer to my face "So do you know a Shin guy?" I blink a few times "Yeah, I know Shin" He drops the luggage and grabs me by the shoulders "Can you take me to him?!" I shake my head "No for two reasons: 1. You guys have a game right now and 2. I have no idea where he would be if he's not at his school" he nods "That sucks" I laugh "You guys better go get ready for your game against Zokugaku" they nod, holding out their hands, the kid with the glasses "I'm Watt", the guy that's really buff "Homer" Then Panther "Panther" I smile shaking each of their hands "Takumi" they smile and walk off. I make my way up the bleachers to get a good spot to record the game. I start recording and I see movement from the bushes I look over to see Monta and Sena dressed in black tuxedos and wearing black sunglasses 'Oh dear God what are those two idiots doing here?' I shake my head and turn my attention back to the game, they go at it. Watt must be the receiver because, Homer is the quarterback, he is standing behind a linebacker. Homer pulls his arm back and counts down from 3 and launches the ball, Watt rushes towards the area and makes a touchdown, I stare in shock 'That throw was like Rockets'
*** At Deimon ***
Taku got changed on her way back from the Zokugaku game. She made her way to the club house to see everyone waiting for something, "Hiruma, here" she passes him the tape, he raises a eyebrow, Taku sighs "It's a recording of the Americans vs. Zokugaku game" he gets a huge smirk on his face "Good job! Fucking newbie!" Taku looks over at Sena and Monta "Monta, Sena, next time you guys decide to look over a game don't do it in black Tuxedo's and black sunglasses" they gulp, rubbing the back of their necks "You saw us?" Taku nods "Yeah it wasn't that hard" they gulp and dash out, Taku chuckles and turns to the changing room to get changed into her uniform. When she got outside she sees Hiruma throwing a ball, while Sena and Monta try to catch it. Monta does a pass route and goes upside down as he catches it. Taku stares 'Dumbass is going to hit his head' just as she predicted he his head. Mamori runs over to put band-aids over his head.
Taku walks over to where Sena is on the ground panting "The field is to wide, what's the best way to defend against a long pass?" Kurita walks up with a board with the design of a football field, it also has the figurine of them.
*** Taku's Pov ***
I chuckle "Sena there more than one method to defending a pass" Sena looks up, then down to start thinking, he perks up and raises one finger in the air "Getting the quarterback before he passes!" Kurita and Komusubi raise both of their hands in the air "Correct!" I walk over to the benches to just watch them talking about sacking a quarterback. I was jerked off the bench by Hiruma as he drags me over to the others "What the hell, I can walk!" Hiruma starts cackling "No one cares, newbie!" I grunt "Can you possibly think of a new nickname other than Fucking Newbie or Fucking Slave?" Hiruma just ignores me "We're going to go with a 'Blitz'!" he says as he holds out a box of pretzel sticks, Monta just stares at the box "What on earth is that for?" I sigh "A blitz is where everyone leaves their positions to rush forward to sack the quarterback" Hiruma pushes all of the Devil Bat figurines towards the Homer figure "And just strike ahead to crush Homer" Sena and Monta are shaking a little "But if we do that" "The rear defense will become completely empty!" I look down at the board, Kurita starts fidgeting "A few of us will remain behind" Hiruma shoots of one of his guns "Sink or swim, Kill or be killed!, We'll practice with the Homer doll immediately, We'll overthrow the NASA chickens!" I shake my head as I see the Homer doll "Wow you really meant the chicken part" Mamori, Sena, and Monta walk up to said doll, Mamori has a deadpan look on her face "When you say "Chickens"" Sena sweat drops "This doll" Hiruma grunts and starts walking "I picked it up at Doutonbori" We all get in a line, we have to pass Kurita then tackle the doll I'm standing behind Komusubi. Monta gulps "That's what we're going to tackle" Sena starts shaking "That looks painful" Hiruma puts his hands on his hips "Homer's more scruffy looking" Monta rushes forward yelling "Blitz Max!" then the Huh-Huh brothers tackle it, then Komusubi. I look at Sena "Hey Sena do you want to go next?" He gulps and nods "Yeah" Sena dashes forward and rams it head first 'Thank God for helmets' but the doll doesn't collapse. Hiruma barks at me "Newbie your turn!" I sigh and dash at the doll and stop right in front of it "Newbie! What the hell are you doing?" I look over at them "It's broken all the way through, watch" I barely touch the doll and it crumbles "Eyeshield 21 already smashed it, it just didn't fall over" Hiruma grunts then smirks "Fine then tackle fat ass" I look at Kurita "You okay with this Kurita?" He smiles nodding "Its fine Taku" I shrug my shoulder "Okay" I back up and tackle Kurita he holds me back, I smirk and drop my weight so that it looks like Kurita is going to crush me, but I move my hands onto his stomach "AH!" I flip him over so he's skyhigh. I look down at Kurita "Are you okay Kurita?" He stares at me with wide eyes. Hiruma walks over with a evil smile on his face "Fucking Newbie, how the hell did you do that?" I sigh rolling my shoulders "I lean back so it looks like they are going to crush you, then you move your hands onto their stomach and push up with you legs sending them laying skyhigh" Hiruma tilts his head to the side "Where did you learn that?" I look him straight in the eyes "I lived in America for 8 years, I played football a lot" His smirk gets bigger "Use everything you know in the game" I nod "NOW EVERYONE PRACTICE IS OVER!" I walk towards the changing room, to get changed into my school uniform.
*** Outside of the club house ***
Monta is standing outside with Kurita, Komusubi, and Sena talking about more morning practice. I open the door "I actually have to agree with Monta on the point that we could use more morning practice" Kurita nods and places his fist on his hips "We start every morning at 2am!" I sigh as Monta sweat drops "Even the subways not running at that time" Kurita looks like he's in thought "Then how about this, you three leave for school from my house, just like Komusubi" I nod "So where sleeping over?" Kurita nods, I nod back "Okay I'm going to go get some stuff for it, lets meet here in like 5 minutes" they nod.
*** Back at the school ***
Taku walks back with her backpack in tow. She sees Kurita and Komusubi sitting in front of the clubhouse "Hey guys, I thought Sena and Monta would make it here first" Kurita stands up and pulls me into a hug "Yay! Taku, Sena and Monta are sleeping over at my house!!" Taku pushes against his shoulders "That's nice Kurita, now put me down please" he puts me down as we see Sena and Monta walking up with another bag of stuff. They follow Kurita to his house which turns out to be a temple. Kurita points over to said temple "It's right over there, the Buddhist Temple to a sect called Mourenshuu" they all get settled and hang out. Taku stands up "I'm going to go walk around okay?" the others nod as they go back to talking and playing video games. Taku shakes her head as she walks outside over to where a overpass is at, Taku closes her eyes and takes a deep breathe, but she is snapped out of it when something hit her head "What the heck?" Taku grabs it off her head "A head band with a panther on it?" Taku's eyes widen "This is Panthers" Taku shrugs "He'll come looking for it so when I see him I'll hand it over"
*** 2 hours later ***
We walk in to the dinning area to see bowls upon bowls of sushi, I raise a eyebrow at all the food while the others except for Kurita stare wide eyed "These are the leftovers from the Buddhist services, It'd be a pity if we throw them away, eat up!" We sit down and start eating, Sena sighs "It's tasty, but the quantity" Monta nods "We ain't gonna finish with just 5 of us!" I grunt "Speak for yourself I'm freaking starving" Kurita smiles, Sena and Monta stare at me. Sena snaps out of it and stares at Kurita "I was gonna ask, why Musashi-senpai would leave the team?" Monta smiles as he stuffs a shrimp sushi in his mouth "What's it gonna matter? As long as we beat the Americans, he'll come back" Kurita slams his hands on the tabled causing sushi to fly up in the air, I caught the majority of it in one of the bowls. Kurita looks down so that it cause a shadow to cover his eyes "Is that so we have to beat the Americans. Me, Hiruma, Musashi we all swore that even though we were a small team with only 3 people, we'll definitely make to the Christmas Bowl" tears start streaking down his face, I smile "Kurita, if we don't win, I'll force Musashi to play again with us, even if I have to drag him on the field" Kurita smiles "Thanks Taku" we go back to eating when we hear sounds coming outside. Sena and Monta jump at the sound "What is that?" I sigh and stand "I'll check" I walk outside to see the whole NASA Alien team outside they look up at me. Panther rushes up to me and starts talking to me "Hey have you seen a sweat band with a panther on it?" I look at him like he's crazy, when Watt pushes Panther to the side "I don't think he understands" I shake my head "I understand, I can speak English" they stare at me "And yes I have seen your sweat band, hold on" I walk back inside and grab the headband, the others stare at me "What?" Sena walks up to me "Who's out there?" I push open the door "Look for yourselves. They look out to see the aliens "AH! They're the Aliens!" I sigh and walk over to Panther "Here" he puts his headband on with a smile "Thanks!" I smile back "No problem" The other Aliens starts saying "Sushi" "It's sushi" Monta and the others look at each other "If we can't eat it up" Kurita interrupts Monta "With just the 5 of us" I smirk and whistle catching everyone's attention "DIG IN!" the Aliens do exactly that. I'm sitting next to Sena who is sitting next to Panther. Panther leans over to Sena "Is Eyeshield 21 here?" Sena looks at him weird "I've come all the way here just to throw it down with Eyeshield, I gotta win this" I was about to translate but Watt beat me to it "Allow me to translate: He cannot lose, Panther's Grandma poor" Panther looks up at the ceiling "If I can make it to NFL, I can earn $500,000 a game, In order to be picked by the NFL, I cannot lose to anybody" I look at Sena he looks down on the floor "Even for us Devil Bats, we cannot lose, because everyone's waiting for Musashi" I smile "I'll translate" Panther and Watt look at me "He said we can't lose because if we win a friend will return to the team" Homer leans over me and starts pouring sake into Sena's water. Panther and Sena clang cups. I burst out laughing at the look on Sena's face when he took a sip. Soon the majority of people in there are drunk the only people not drunk out of their minds are Me, Kurita, and Komusubi. Sena stands up, heading for the door "No time for me to play, I gotta go run!" Panther follows "I won't lose!".
*** The next Morning ***
I get up around 6am, I look around to see everyone passed out, but I don't see Sena or Panther. I get changed into black sweatpants, black and white polo shirt, and Black Chuck Taylor. I run to find Sena and Panther I pass by a zoo, and I hear Sena scream, I dash into the zoo to see Sena hanging from a tree in the Lion exhibit "Sena!" he looks over at me "Ah Taku-san help me!" I laugh "How the hell did you get stuck there?" Sena shakes his head "I don't know, I just woke up here" I sigh "Okay, hold on" I see Panther upside down in a trash can "Panther, you okay?" He jumps out "I'm good, I'm good!" I laugh "Hey Panther, can you get Sena?" He looks over "Whoa! Kid!" he walks over grabs him but he can't pull him because his shirt is stuck on a branch in the tree and starts pulling Sena hard "One more time!" He yanks hard sending him and Sena crashing into a bird cage. I walk over "You two okay?" they smile and nod "Yeah" I nod "Sena you have to go home and Panther, your teams waiting for you outside of the temple" they nod and follow me back to the temple.
*** Day of the Game ***
I walk into the club to see Hiruma cackling. Mamori pouring them coffee, she noticed me "Ah Taku, what are you doing here?" I shrug "I have nothing better to do and I figure some people would be here" she nods and pours me some coffee, black, I nod towards Musashi "Hey Musashi" he nods back "Kid, what happened to you?" I raise a eyebrow "What do you mean?" he points and my shoulder, I look to see a bruise. "Not a freaking clue, either my brothers did it or it happened at Kurita's" Hiruma walks over and looks at it "What happened at fat-ass's house?" I push him away from me "Me, Sena, Monta, and Komusubi stayed at his house 3 days ago, the Aliens came looking for something and stayed the whole night the majority got drunk" Hiruma stares at me "Whatever zero" I raise a eyebrow "Wow got a new nickname" I turn to look around the club house as Musashi and Hiruma go back to talking "Did you just say that if we beat the Americans, you'll come back to the team? Interesting!" Musashi grunts "Yeah, sorry about that" Musashi brings his cup up to his lips "You've trained a great bunch of freshmen, Hiruma you and them are alike" I roll my eyes 'Yeah cause Sena and Monta are crazy psychotic demons' "You guys would all do anything to achieve your goals" a smile works on my face, but it is quickly wiped off at what Musashi says "Hurry up and go train a new kicker" Hiruma smirks "Stop sleep-talking, fucking old geezer, How can we possibly win the fall tournament with some makeshift kicker?" I stand up, which gets everyone's attention "I hate to admit it, but Hiruma's right, we could never train anyone to be as good as you, Musashi. Hell I can kick but it's a 86% chance, you are probably a 100% easy, you have the strength in your legs, you could beat anyone even that Koutarou with your eyes close, you showed us that power, sending the ball through the net and sending Murosatoshi through the net. Remember what I said Musashi Deimon is always waiting for you" I hear a weird noise and open the door to see a huge shadow "What the hell… is that a devil bat?" Hiruma pushes past me "I gotta utilize the home advantage properly" I read the banners connected to the devil bat 'Eyeshield 21's coming as well! Japan-US showdown at 7:00pm at Chikyuu Ground' I slap my head "Why am I not surprised?" Hiruma starts laughing, I sigh and walk off "Where do you think your going, fucking zero?" I turn and look him dead in the face "I need to grab some stuff from home unless you want me to wear this in the game" I turn and walk off.
*** With Hiruma ***
'Fucking Zero better watch himself' I turn to hear old man laughing "Hiruma looks like you got yourself someone who isn't afraid of you" I grunt "Shut fucking old man" and stalk off to start advertising for us.