This is the 34th chapter of At Your Service. I hope you all like it. It is a day late unfortunately. I've been living under school work for days.
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At Your Service
Chapter 34- A New Question
Karin pulled on her soccer cleats as she sat in the girls' locker room. She pulled on the other cleat afterwards and stood up to her feet.
As she got to her feet, she unlatched her Christmas present from around of her neck. She then looked down at the leaf charm on the chain.
She and Toushirou had been doing rather well lately; even if Karin was hiding how she was really feeling about his college plan. For some reason, he hadn't said anything about his college plans. He hadn't even mentioned the subject of college when they were together.
Karin quickly shook the troubling thoughts out of her head. She had to stay focused for practice.
Karin gave the necklace a good squeeze for luck and then through it in her locker before running out to the field.
Kentoru was giving direction on more efficient goal kicks, so Karin headed over to the coach.
Karin and Kentoru were doing fine in their relationship as well. After that blizzard, they had nicely patched their friendship back up.
Yeah, things we pretty close to normal again as Karin looked over the fields. Spring had snuck up on them early too.
"Coach" Karin called.
"Morning, Kurosaki" he greeted as Karin stood by him.
"You sound sad, coach" Karin noticed.
"Only because I'm gonna miss my star players"
"You're such a softie" replied Kentoru as he walked over.
"And what if I am? This is the last season I'm gonna see you guys in case you forgot" he grumbled.
"Love you too, coach" replied Karin with a bright smile.
"Whatever. So have you two picked a new captain, yet?" he asked as he looked at the two players.
"No, not yet" replied Kentoru as Karin looked over her players.
"You better get a move on" he replied before blowing his whistle.
Everyone on the field stopped immediately when they heard the high pitched sound ring through their ears.
"Practice match, shirts versus skins" the coach instructed.
Karin and Kentoru smiled excitedly. They hadn't played a practice match in a while since it was too cold for anyone to take off their shirt and be a 'skin'.
The teams were easily separated. Kentoru was captain of the skins and Karin was captain of the shirts, for obvious reasons.
"Hey, taichou, it's a shame you couldn't be a skin. I mean, you'd give us an advantage" one of the 'skin' players joked.
The other players on the skin's team wolf whistled playfully and laughed loudly.
"Well, fortunately, I have really good aim. And with guys like you, I know exactly what to aim for and exactly what to accidentally hit" Karin stated cheerfully.
The players who had made jokes looked at her wide eyed.
"Nice, guys. Now, when Karin gets done with you, she won't be the only girl on the team anymore" Kentoru laughed.
He had personally felt the sting of Karin's wrath, especially when it came to sexists. These guys didn't have a prayer.
Soon, the practice match was over.
A few boys were grabbing their crotches, doubled over in pain, and Karin looked extremely satisfied with her work.
"They didn't have a chance" sighed the coach as he looked at them.
"It was their own fault" replied Kentoru as he looked at the boys sympathetically.
"Alright, team, listen up! Now, as you know, the big rematch between us and the sabers is coming up…"
Cheers of victory sounded across the field before they quieted down to let the coach finish.
"And even if we have beaten them once, it's gonna be even harder this time" the coach reminded.
"Yeah, the word on the street is that their players have gotten huge" informed one player.
"I heard that the Sabers' coach has got the players taking steroids!"
"What?"
"No way!"
"Hey!" shouted Karin, silencing the whispers. "Rumors aren't gonna help us win. If we really want to win this, we've got get focused, right coach?"
"She's right" he answered.
"Come on, guys, Karakura on three!" Karin shouted as she put her hand in the middle of their group.
Everyone else put their hand in the bundle, even those who were… wounded.
"1, 2, 3," Karin counted.
"KARAKURA!" everyone yelled loudly.
"Alright, guys, hit the showers" ordered the coach.
As the boys began to leave, Karin was about to walk after them until she suddenly heard coach calling her.
"Get over here, Kurosaki" he called.
Karin walked over to him confused.
"Yeah, coach?" she asked.
"Well, you know that amazing kick that won the game against the sabers at the beginning of the season? The one that ended up in the newspapers?" he reminded with a slightly boastful attitude.
"I remember" Karin responded with a bright smile. She'd loved that kicked, but she'd loved it more when she saw it in the Karakura journal the next day.
"Well, scouts have been calling me about you ever since. They're coming to the game to see you!" he informed.
Karin eye widened as her jaw dropped.
"R-Really?" she asked, stunned.
"Yeah, so you better bring your A-game" he replied proudly before walking away.
Karin was left standing, shocked.
What was she going to do?
This was the 34th chapter of At Your Service.
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