Chapter 25

~Teiko Days~

Shirane's POV

2 days have passed since then and now it's Thursday. I had been busy reading my books, so I am on my 9th book now. Kise also has been walking me back home, very understanding that I need to finish my books. I feel bad for him since we really haven't spend time together properly yet.

Of course since that day, the letters kept coming in. Lucky for me, Kise hasn't found out yet.

I didn't throw any of the letters away, but instead I kept them and brought them home, reading every single one of them when I had a bit of time.

This isn't what people would normally do when they faced this problem but I had a purpose for doing so.

Anyway, today was the day I was going to confront those people. I could roughly guess that during practice, they would put in the letters in my shoe locker.

"Jun-chan? Where are you going?"

Momoi asked me as I headed out of the gym, looking at the pile of papers that I am holding in my hands. Currently, the members were having a practice match which is a perfect time for me to head out and find out who were the ones doing it.

"I…left some stuff on my desk. I am heading back to get them."

I hurried off, before she could ask anymore.

"Hey! Wait! You dropped one of your papers!"

Unfortunately, I had already left the gym.

Squatting down to pick up the paper which I dropped, Momoi read the contents of the paper.

"This is…"

Heading to where the shoe lockers were, I slowly went behind the row of shoe lockers just before mine to see if anyone was there. And there, in front of my shoe locker was a group of girls.

I slowly and carefully walked up to them and saw they were putting the letters in my locker. Well, at least I know who they are now.

"If you guys have something you want to tell me, you guys can just find me you know?"

Shocked, they turned around to find me stand there, smiling at them.

"You…!"

"If you keep leaving those threat letters in my shoe locker, means that you guys are cowards."

I kept smiling at them.

"Shut up! Don't act big just because Kise is dating you! Didn't you read them?!"

One of the girls spoke. From the way she speaks, I can tell she is probably the one leading the rest.

"Of course I know what inside all these letters."

I raise my hand which held all the letters that I received.

"Break up with Kise or else. You will regret it. You are just lucky that you are dating him."

I began saying every single sentence that I read from those letters which I remembered in my head.

"If you know them all, then you should immediately break up with Kise!"

"Okay."

"Eh?! You will?!"

The girls were shocked at my respond. My expression changed to a serious one.

"But if I do, what good will it does to all of you? Kise might find another person again and the cycle will continue."

"It… doesn't matter if the cycle continues, Kise belong to no one."

One of the other girls spoke up.

"But deep down, you guys wished to date him right?"

"Ugh…"

They were speechless at my words. I could tell that all of them wished for it.

"Don't talk big! You are just lucky he decided to go out with you!"

One of them snapped back at me but of course I wasn't affected by it. Instead I sighed sadly at them.

"But it true right?"

"…"

Kise's POV

"Satsuki! What wrong? You looked kind of uneasy today."

Aominecchi, Kurokocchi and I walked up to Momoicchi after the practice match. I looked around to find Shiranecchi missing. Where did she go?

"Where's Shiranecchi?"

I asked Momoicchi who seemed worried over something.

"Kise!"

Momoicchi finally realized we were beside her and she immediately grabbed a hold of my shoulders, shaking me.

"Ki-chan! What am I going to do?! Jun-chan is probably in trouble!"

"Eh?!"

I started to worry. What is going on?

"Woah! Slow down Satsuki! What do you mean?"

Aominecchi grabbed a hold of Momoicchi's shoulders, shaking her now.

"Hmm? What are you guys doing?"

Murasakibaracchi and Midorimacchi came up to us now. Murasakibaracchi was busy eating his snacks.

"What is with this gathering? You guys are too noisy that I can hear you from the other side of the court."

Midorimacchi looked very annoyed with us.

'It's Momoicchi. It's something about Shiranecchi in trouble."

Midorimacchi didn't look so annoyed now and Murasakibaracchi suddenly looked serious.

"Aomine-kun, that's no way to treat Momoi-san like that."

Kurokocchi moved Aominecchi hands away from Momoicchi.

"Momoi-san, calm down and take deep breaths. Take your time and explain to us what happened."

Momoicchi did what Kurokocchi told her to do and took deep breaths. After calming down, Momoicchi finally spoke.

"Jun-chan suddenly left in the middle of the practice match saying she needed to get some stuff from her desk."

"So?"

"She still hasn't come back yet."

"Maybe she went to the toilet or something?"

"The thing is that she dropped this."

Momoicchi handed me a piece of paper.

"Jun-chan was holding a stack of these when she left. She dropped this one."

Don't act so happy just because you are with him! You are only just plain lucky that he choose you. Once he is done with you, he will dump you for sure!

"This is…"

Don't tell me, these are threat letters from my fans… That means that all this while, Shiranecchi was…

Aominecchi took a hold of the paper which I was holding and was reading it with Kurokocchi before handing it over to Midorimacchi and Murasakibaracchi to read. I stood there, stunned with thoughts going through my head.

"Eh? I don't get it."

Aominecchi didn't understand, but I do. That means that Shiranecchi is in trouble now!

"I need to find Shiranecchi!"

Snapping out of it, I ran off and left the gym.

"Ki-chan!"

Momoicchi yelled after me.

Shirane's POV

"So what if we are? You can't do anything about it either."

One of the girls finally found the courage to speak back at me.

"Likewise, but did you guys ever think how Kise feels?"

"Don't talk like you know him!"

The leader quickly recovered as well and spoke back at me.

"Yes, I don't know much about him at all."

I spoke in a sad tone and sighed again.

"In fact, we only just started no long ago. Plus the fact we don't really have much time together because of the championships coming up. But I do understand one thing, which is how people feel when they break up with another."

The girls were quiet, listening to what I was saying now.

"The first time I met Kise, he just found out that his girlfriend was stolen by another person… I could see how depressed he was even though he intended to break up with her sooner or later. Even if both parties were to mutually agree to break up, there will always be an unpleasant feeling. These things take time to heal."

"Of course…! But people will eventually forget and start a new relationship again. It's a normal thing!"

"But to experience time and time again, is it a good thing?"

They kept quiet again.

"You guys are his fans right? As fans, shouldn't you support his decisions instead restricting him? Isn't that what true fans should do, right?"

"Ugh…"

Suddenly, we heard footsteps coming our way. As it got faster and closer, we saw Kise running towards us.

"Kise-kun?!"

"Kise?"

We were surprised at his appearance.

"Shiranecchi! Are you alright?!"

Kise suddenly pulled me to an embrace.

"Yeah. What are you doing here?"

We pulled apart as I asked him. Kise looked at me worryingly before glaring at the group of girls who flinched when Kise glared at them.

"Kise, it's okay."

Kise turned back at me and I smiled at him. His expression softens when he sees my smile.

I turned my attention back to the girls again.

"I hope that you guys would think about what I just said. Of course, I will keep to my words but in the end, the decision is up to you all."

Bowing at them, Kise and I headed back to the gym, leaving them speechless.

"Are you sure you are okay? They didn't hurt you right?!"

Kise worryingly looked at me as we made our way back.

"I am fine."

I took a hold of his hand to assured him.

"Did those girls do anything to you? What if they decide to hurt you later?"

"They didn't and they won't. Stop worrying. Don't you have training to do?"

"But…"

"I just know that they won't."

"Then what did you promise them?"

"It's a secret between girls."

Kise kept quiet, knowing he had nothing else to say. Kise stopped in his track and said this to me.

"Shiranecchi, didn't I tell you before that no matter what happens you would share your problems with me?"

I stopped and looked up at Kise who was seriously gazing at me.

"I am your boyfriend, right?"

"Yeah."

I looked down, feeling guilty for some reason.

"I just didn't want you to worry… You had a lot of thing going on lately and you are already worried about me doing Coach's assignment. So I didn't want you to worry even more…"

"Shiranecchi…"

Kise suddenly embraces me again.

"It doesn't matter. Your problems are also mine. So let me worry for you like you do for me."

"Okay…"

I muttered softly to him before we pull apart and headed back to the gym again, hand in hand.

"Jun-chan!"

Suddenly I was being latched by Momoi was came running to me when we entered the gym. Everyone stood around us.

"Momoi…"

I could barely even breathe. Finally Momoi released me and I gasped for air. Shortly after, Mura-kun hugged me too. I almost died if he hadn't released me in time. How did everyone knew about this anyway?

"Momoicchi was the one who told me about it."

As if knowing what I was thinking about, Kise answered me.

"Here, Shirane-san."

Kuroko who suddenly appeared beside me, shocking me for a moment. He handed a piece of paper over to me. It was one of those threat letters. So that's how they knew about this.

"We were just about to go look for you."

Momoi grabbed my hands, holding them up with a relieved look on her face.

"I understand your problem but it was irresponsible of you to leave for such a long period of time with informing us. Luckily for you, I am willing to help you to cover up."

Midorima pushed his glasses up. He's clearly worried, but he still hides it.

"I see… Sorry to make all of you worried."

I bowed at all of them.

"It's okay. That's what friends are for, right?"

Momoi's smile made me somehow smiled too.

"Why are you apologizing? I don't get it."

Aomine, who didn't understand a thing, looked ever so confused. Kuroko, who was annoyed by Aomine's constant question, jabbed Aomine by the side to stop him from asking. Aomine held his side and winced in pain.

"Kise, you are also at fault for leaving in the middle of practice."

"Is that so… Sorry…"

"You will need to explain to Coach."

"Eh?! You didn't help me cover up?!"

"There wasn't a need to."

"Midorimacchi!"

Midorima left with Kise whining after him.

"We should head back to training now. Let's go Aomine-kun."

"Tetsu! I still don't get it!"

Kuroko and Aomine left too.

"Shi-chan."

Mura-kun looked at me for a second before following them too.

"Come on Jun-chan."

Momoi handed a book she had in her hands over to me. It was the book I was reading.

"You still have to finish the books right?"

"Yeah."

I nodded to Momoi and the both of us went to settle down at a corner so that we can do our own things.

Well, there you have it. I need to end this issue in a rather Shirane like way. Besides, I just remembered about the Summer Festival in Replace Novel III. The festival is hosted in July and the summer break for their school starts in July and ends in September. Then we also have the tournament is which held in August. I am thinking whether I should write about the summer festival. Should I or not?

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ResyaAfhirsa00018 6/12/13 . chapter 24

I think I kinda sort of getting to know where this story will harbour. But please don't make it to dramatic. I just don't like it too much cuz to me it is awkaward ._.

Maybe Shirane will be mistaken as a bishounen if she cut her hair. Gladly, she's not a flat chested like Riko lol.

I won't make it dramatic. I hate writing dramatic stuff myself so don't worry. :D

Haha. Yup, she isn't that flat-chested. If she were, I think she can probably pass off as her brother. Then again, Shun is still better looking than her. Lol.

hlflores 6/12/13 . chapter 24

we shall see what happens next (ﾉﾟοﾟ)ﾉ please, update quickly, yuki-chan. and i realized now that i'm missing atsu-chan - shouldn't he show up more since he is her childhood friend?

Sorry about that. I did try my best to make Murasakibara appear if possible. However if you seen in the fanbook interview for Kiseki no Sedai, Murasakibara gets along with Akashi the most. Meaning that Murasakibara spends more time with Akashi. Knowing Akashi, he don't usually spend time together with the rest. Same goes for Midorima. However Murasakibara and Midorima do spend some time with Aomine and the rest from time to time. So I will take note of that in the future.

Okay, that it from me. Roger out!