Though, on the outside, the Makino siblings are just like the rest of them- Tasuuki, despite her temperamental personality, can prove to be a deadly forward, and Takuya, with his wide knowledge and experience in the field, made him the Kaiser of strategy in the midfield- he wonder just why he decided to call such a risky dare, as if he have anticipated this opportunity in the first place.

Yuuto Kidou realized that there is more to it than the older lad's laid-back yet ingenious plot.

::SECRET::

Completely, the Makino siblings are quite a character but none more mysterious than the eldest of the two who played with the Raimon soccer team, Takuya Makino. When he first enrolled to Raimon along with Tasuuki as transfer students from the private school, Gurren Academy, he seems quite the type who would be an idol for girls, mostly the one with the pretty face and the boy-next-door attitude compared to the unrefined and tomboyish Tasuuki. He is older, at fifteen, a bit mature for his age, polite and quite a charming young lad indeed.

However, it couldn't be helped that there is something from this guy; something that not even his younger sister couldn't decipher despite being siblings for fifteen years.

He claimed he would only joined the soccer team (Endou somehow heard from Haruna that he's one of the top three MVP in the Gurren soccer team and that he asked him if he could join their team) if Tasuuki could join the team as well. When they first knew Tasuuki, they heard that she had just recovered from her arm injury at her last volleyball match back when she was in Gurren. He asked her if she would be interested in other sports asides volleyball and that him and the Raimon soccer team captain made a deal that if Tasuuki, who is new to this soccer business (but not foreign to the game of soccer for she have played with her brother when they were younger), can score even a single point on their next game, then he would join the team as well.

What is his real motive about it is still a mystery, but it was because of the female's miracle shot (which soon became the signature hissatsu technique of Tasuuki, the Spiral Helix) that Takuya joined the Raimon's soccer team and helped won the match against the opposing team using his own hissatsu technique, Reverse Helix. With that, both the Makino siblings were welcomed with open arms in their growing soccer team.

Yet, nobody seems to know the real reason why Takuya decided on this ordeal. Why did he make this deal if, in the end, he will join either way? What is his real motive, is there something else beside that passive way of making his younger sister appreciate soccer and getting back the thrill of being with a team?

"I don't know why you're hiding things from us, but I bet it has something to do with Kageyama, am I correct?"

"Smart... looks like you caught me red-handed, Kidou-san."

Kidou was starting to think he must be working for Kageyama but...

"Kageyama took something that belongs to my previous team."

Kidou wasn't sure what he meant, but it didn't took him long before the brunette found out from Takuya's former classmates, teammates and childhood friends, Kurogane Ryouga and Himawari Satoshi, that it was because of him that Tasuuki broke her right arm a year ago and preventing the Gurren soccer team to join in the Soccer Frontier because of his lack of focus in the finals match. Takuya felt how enraged and, most of all, depressed the girl was at that time for holding the whole team back because of a simple injury and her careless dare (it was all because of her selfish whim of wanting to prove that if the volleyball team can win the tournament, then the soccer team can win as well and for Takuya to watch her use a technique he learned and modified thanks to watching the soccer team practice).

"It must be hard, watching how someone you love feels devastated for something she hasn't done," The brunette sympathized, though a small smile appeared at the lavender-haired teen. "Something tells me that this is not the only time you saw her down, am I correct?"

"There are a lot more stories about us that you don't know," Takuya spoke normally with a smile, as if trying to reassure the guy that he's fine. "I wish I could tell you some of them, but I guess I'll leave them for another time." He nodded towards his comrade as Takuya continued. "Please, give me more time and promise me you'll keep this as a secret from everybody else, especially to Tasuuki." The goggle-wearing lad understood; he had been in the said situation before.

"You don't want to see her sad from that memory," Kidou cleared up. "That's why you want to keep your worries a secret from her, am I correct?"

"Yes."

Unlike Tasuuki who is clearly a transparent person, Takuya, on the other hand, is like a conniving schemer. You never know what actually runs in his mind until you ask him. However, he's willing to share his thoughts so one can't really tell if he does that intentionally or there's something else in his mind of his.

Hm, it's rare for me to write just the male Makino. Again, Kidou, being the smart guy, sense something from Takuya but there's a fifty-percent chance that Takuya only said the tip of the iceberg. Why did he mention Kageyama though it doesn't seem related to his tale? Kidou needs to find out more about him and his real agenda. Takuya is a harder character to write with, to be honest, than Tasuuki.

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INAZUMA ELEVEN, its characters, location and everything else is owned by Level-5. I do not own any of them except this shorts, my own characters and their skills, and the PC I am using. If I own them, Gouenji's job in 'I11 GO!' would be a doctor.

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