Chapter 55
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Earth~
"What? You usually go by limo?!" Lucy asked, shocked at the long, shining black Mercedes holding in front of the entrance, idly waiting for Akashi.
He looked at her with a raised brow, looking at her obviously. "Of course I do." He said, as if that was the most normal thing in the world.
Now… Lucy, though having been here for a while, didn't know much about Earth and the norms here yet. She'd admit that. But she knew enough to know that driving around in a limo regularly wasn't normal.
Alas, she just looked at him as if he was crazy. To which he just returned her gaze calmly. "Is it that surprising to you?" He asked as the driver made his way around to hold the door open for the both of them, bowing lightly though they weren't even down the stairs yet.
Without a glance towards the driver, Akashi slid down and into the luxurious car in one flowing motion, like he'd done it his entire life. Which he probably had. With a bit of hesitation, Lucy finally followed along, thanked the driver with a smile, before she ducked down and took a seat beside the redhead.
While the driver closed the door, after a moment's break, and sat down, setting the car into motion, the blonde glanced at her companion. He was sitting nonchalantly with one leg over the other, staring straight ahead, though all he could see was the neck of his driver.
With a sigh, she felt her earlier excitement gradually drain away again, both with her companion's stoic and silent presence and with her own realization of the situation.
Ever since that one incident… She hadn't spoken to him even once. They had not even had a single exchange of glances. Nothing. Nada.
And now… She had suddenly shown up at his place, he had found her in the middle of a conversation with his father and now she'd forced him to go with her to watch Kuroko and Murasakibara's match. She had acted as if what happened never had…
And that was all well and good until she realized they had, which she did now. The tension and awkwardness was like a brick wall between them. She sat completely frozen in her car seat, drawing a complete blank with what to say to the young redhead in the situation..
Well… At the very least she could apologize. Turning in her seat slightly, she faced Akashi. He, however, didn't twitch the slightest. "Listen, Sei-kun." She said, drawing his attention. She hoped. He didn't react on it either way. "Back then… I'm sorry for what ha-" She began, but was cut off.
"I do not care for your apology, save it for someone who does." He harshly told her, not sparing her even a mere flicker of a glance.
She narrowed her eyes at his rudeness, crossing her arms. "I understand it if you don't like me very much, but you could at least let me finish what I was saying." She half scolded him, annoyed. She really disliked it when she was interrupted like that. She turned around pointedly and stared forward. "It is very rude." She added.
"There you go again with that 'big sister' act." He said, venom dripping from his voice. "It is quite honestly getting very pathetic to spectate." He shot at her.
Feeling like he might as well have jabbed a needle right into her heart, she glared at him, whipping her head around. "Huh?!" She asked him angrily, simply saying the first thing, which came to mind.
Finally, he looked at her from the corner of his eyes, his arms crossed. "Back when we were younger, that act fit nicely, however now it is simply you pathetically grasping at the past, refusing to realize that we have grown up." He told her sharply, turning his gaze forward again calmly. "It is about time you understand, that it is not possible for everything to return to what it once was." He told her.
She frowned at him and his words. "You can't just give up before you've even tried." She said, confident that it was entirely possible to bring things back to what they once were. That was why she was sent here… Right?
"Lucy, there is one thing you seem to have forgotten." He told her, comfortably leaning back in his seat. "It is not certain that we want to return to that. We do not wish to be that team again." He told her, completely silencing each and every thought running through the blonde's head. "We have grown up, matured, Lucy. Just like it would be impossible for you to be the same girl you were, when you were thirteen, so is it for us." He told her.
She looked down, listening silently to what he was telling her. Her brain had completely halted with his second sentence, stopped functioning completely. All she had been able to do was listening.
Just like he had told her, she could hear from what he told her, that he too, had matured a lot in that duration. That was the kind of thing she'd expect to hear from someone her age, not…
But Akashi, and the others, they were sixteen now… She was only two years older than them. They were basically her age, weren't they? Wasn't that what Loke had tried to tell her way back when she'd only just returned? Yes, his words had another meaning in them too, but still. It was the same for Midorima, he wanted her to realize it too.
Then why was it only just now she realized that those small boys were no longer? They'd grown up.
She sighed and looked at him, though he only stared straight ahead, as usual. "I'm sor-" Once again, she was cut off.
"We have arrived Seijuro-sama." The driver said from where he was sitting. Quickly turning off the car and jumping out of his seat, he held the door open for Akashi to exit from it. What happened to ladies first?
Without waiting or even reacting to what she had been in the midst of saying, he got out of the car. With a sigh she followed after him, knowing their conversation had ended. He quite clearly made a point of not wanting to talk about it.
Immediately as the daylight once again touched her, she got the strange feeling that she was being watched. While Akashi and the driver came to the agreement that he would call when he was to be picked up again, Lucy took a look around.
She'd been on enough missions to know to trust her instincts with this kind of thing. They barely ever failed her. That and Gajeel had drilled it into her head as well.
And like those times, this time they didn't either. It didn't take long to spot the remaining four of the starting team of Rakuzan hiding behind a building with only their heads sticking out behind it, staring right at her and Akashi.
She raised a brow at them, which made them quickly hide again, having been spotted. So Hayama had gone and put more into their relationship than what was after all and then proceeded to tell the rest of them about it. Lovely.
"I believe the matches are about to start, we should hurry." She heard Akashi tell her and turned around to see him already moving towards the building.
She quickly caught up to his brisk pace and soon enough they had seated themselves fairly well. Not close enough to could hear anything but yells from the court, but not so far that they couldn't see the faces of the people on the court.
Glancing back, she found the four Rakuzan players sitting a few rows behind them and to the right, keeping an eye on the two of them. Every single move they make would be watched by them, eh? Kind of like how she and Aomine followed Kuroko and Momoi once.
She leaned a little closer to the redhead. "Your team sure is curious about you." She told him and when he looked at her confusedly, she discreetly nodded towards his teammates.
Sending them only a quick glance, he nodded. "It would seem they are." He agreed. Quicker than she would have imagined, he had grabbed the armrests of her seat, moving to tower over her, another proof of how he wasn't thirteen any longer. "Are you suggesting we put up a show for them?" He asked her, his multicolored eyes slightly narrowed.
Right, this would be very suggestive for those four…
Before she got a chance to reply, a pair of unknown hands came into view on either side of her head, the arms resting on the backseat of her seat. "Don't tell me you so easily let him get so close, but me you beat up?" A deep voice which did nothing but send shivers down her spine asked mockingly. "You seriously need to set your priorities straight."
Akashi wasn't at all looking at the blonde and was instead staring straight up into the eyes of the other guy. "Haizaki." He simply stated, making the blonde shudder.
Haizaki's face lit up into a grin. "Missed me, bitches?" He asked them amusedly.
The redhead sighed and returned to his seat again. "Not in the slightest." He reassured the now black haired guy, whose cornrows didn't seem to have undergone the slightest change since the other day.
Since the blonde had yet to say anything and the redhead didn't seem like he was going to come to her rescue, the Fukuda Sogo player decided to continue teasing her. "You know that whip you used is damn dangerous." He told her, showing her the arm which she had hit. "This still hurts like a bitch." He said, gesturing to the arm, where a quite ugly-looking wound still remained from the day before. He apparently didn't see the need to bandage it.
She looked at the injury, then turned in her seat and looked at him. "Of course it does. You were lucky that was the only one you got." She told him, while Akashi listened to the conversation curiously, not having known they'd had a falling out the other day. He could guess why, though.
His grin turned into a smirk. "Well, I don't mind it much." He told her, letting his gaze travel slowly down to where the whip rested on her hip and continued to suggestively travel up again. "After all, it was damn sexy." He assured her with a chuckle.
She sighed and rolled her eyes, demonstratively turning around and sitting with her back to him. "Pervert." She simply retorted. He'd been getting his ass kicked and that was what he had been thinking about? Men.
"Can't deny that." He agreed. Slowly he began reaching down to her, but before she could react, his curious hand had been stopped. "What do you want, redhead?" He asked exasperatedly, having thought he'd have free passage once the guy moved away.
"Know your place, Haizaki." Was all Akashi replied, before he released the grip on the guy's hand again, knowing he would not take it further again.
Haizaki grunted and retracted his hand. "Thought you didn't care." He grumbled, annoyed with the interference.
The conversation was halted as the speakers finally announced the beginning of the match. "Ohh~! Here they are!" The commentator shrieked like a fangirl into his mic. "With only two years since its inception, the menacing new star that continues on with its victorious march!" He said, building up excitement as he went. "Seirin High School!" He yelled as said team entered the court, looking just about ready to win this match.
She hoped they were just about as ready as they looked, gathering by their end of the court to talk about the game, probably… Well… She wondered if it even mattered much now… Her plan had kind of been foiled. She had to revamp it or something..
Either way, while Seirin released a battle-cry, their opponents entered the stage. "And here they are…! They trumped through the 2nd and 3rd round with unprecedented zero point loss…!" The commentator said dramatically.
It was impressive though, and he wasn't lying, throughout the time she'd been here, watching the Winter Cup, Yosen High, Murasakibara's team, had not lost a single point to their opponents. Their defenses simply were that strong.
"Shield of Aegis! Yosen High School!" He introduced them as the white and purple team entered the court.
When the two teams lined up, it was clear to see the difference in height. Of course, that would only be natural, since Yosen had three players above two meters in height. Which was ridiculous in itself.
"Now we'll commence the 4th match of Winter Cup Quarter Finals: Seirin High School versus Yosen High School." The monotone speakers announced as the judge stepped forward to the two teams.
"Stand!" He said loudly as they all did. And yelling in unison with the others, he said: "Let's have a good match!"
With that, everyone took their positions and the two centers, Murasakibara and Teppei stood facing each other, about to do the tip off. The ball was thrown high into the air and the two jumped after the ball. However with his increased height and insane wingspan, Murasakibara was easily the one to get the ball. He continued to push it right into the hands of his teammate, the blonde, narrow eyed one, Fukui.
However, before they got any further, the judge blew in his whistle. "Jump violation! White no. 9!" He called out, bringing the court to a standstill already now.
Lucy sighed, but not entirely without a smile. "So he never got over that?" She asked Akashi mainly. Just like he had when they all were younger, he had touched the ball before it had reached the peak. Which was a fault.
"Just like your strange sleeping habits, he never quite got over that quirk." Akashi confirmed. "Though it would seem he does it more consequently since getting as tall as he is now." He added.
Haizaki looked at the redhead strangely. "You telling me that damn giant hasn't gotten used to his height yet?" He asked confusedly.
"Something like that." Was what Akashi confirmed.
Once again, the conversation was cut off as the commentator gushed about Yosen's tough defense and how he wondered Seirin would score any points through that defense. However he found himself surprised, when Seirin burst right out with quite high-speed passes. So Seirin were aiming to come through that brick wall of defense by being faster? Could be a good plan.
However, as Hyuuga got the ball and made to land a score, Murasakibara was standing in front of him. And though the glassed guy had moved far enough back to could score on a normal person, the ball was flat out blocked by Murasakibara. Which to some was a grand surprise and to others was expected.
Izuki was quick to get the ball rounded up again, though Fukui was right at his heels. Without even a flicker of hesitation, Izuki sent the ball right across the court horizontally, past all the enemy and team members, aiming for the other side.
Now, this would have been impossible had it been any other team attempting to do this, however Seirin had Kuroko and with him, that horizontal pass was made possible and the ball was sent straight into Kagami's hands.
And as Kagami jumped up in hopes of scoring in the midst of all the confusion, suddenly Murasakibara was in front of Seirin's ace, effortlessly taking his ball.
"That's insane speed for a giant…" Haizaki muttered behind her. "Wasn't he on the other end of the court just a second ago?"
Lucy nodded. "He was. But you know, Haizaki, it isn't only his arms that are long, his legs are too. He covered that distance with a single step." She told him.
"He can cover the entire area within the three-point arc without problem." He confirmed the blonde's words. That was a bit insane though… Sure, he was tall and had freakishly long arms, but to could cover that entire area… It was just a lot.
Either way, Yosen now had the ball and Fukui hurried down the court, the rest of the players following him. It was only barely Izuki made it to a defensive position, before Fukui jumped up and released the ball. Luckily he was fast enough to blow the ball off course.
Immediately both Teppei and Kagami jumped up for the rebound, however two of the tall Yosen players: Liu and Okamura, jumped up behind them and pushed the ball in anyway with their superior height. Even though it was offensive.
With a ball scored, Seirin started out with it. Immediately Kuroko went for his Ignite Pass - she'd had to ask the boy what he called all these techniques of his. And the others too. She was up to date now.
Either way, the pass shot right through half the court and landed straight into Izuki's hands. "They invaded the enemy territory in one pass! Ohh so fast!" He gushed, watching as Izuki approached the opposing goal.
However, just as it looked like Izuki would score the first goal for Seirin, suddenly Murasakibara was in front of him, towering far above the smaller guy, who had absolutely no chance of scoring a goal past him.
Now, how could Murasakibara get there so fast? Simple. He hadn't moved with the offense, he'd remained in the defense the entire way through. Turnovers wouldn't work on Yosen.
"I always knew Murasakibara tended to be lazy, but… I didn't think it'd be that much." She commented. Yes, this was not her first time seeing it, but it just still surprised her.
The other two remained silent around her and continued to watch the match - even Haizaki, who'd said he didn't care much for basketball. Obviously, that was a giant, fat lie. But he apparently thought it was cool not to.
Either way, Hyuuga had called for the ball and Izuki immediately passed it to him, knowing his captain was hoping to do a shot from outside the three-point arc. Unfortunately… Okamura, the captain of Yosen's team managed to grace the ball, enough to prevent it from landing. And the rebound was completely one sided, Murasakibara took it with ease.
Well, this was a critical situation for Seirin. They could get balls and shots through the defense, but it was beyond difficult for them to get the rebounds, most likely they wouldn't get any of them at all.
"Usually the success-rate of a field goal is around 50-60%, almost half the shots will miss." Akashi broke out speaking suddenly. "Recovering that missed ball in the rebound dictates the possession rate of the ball. It is an invaluable factor in the decision of a game." He explained, crossing his arms. "At this rate, it will be yet another zero-point-loss win for Yosen." He concluded.
And though she believed them to be the team who somehow finds a way at the end of the day, some way to come through and win, when at the end of the first quarter, they still hadn't scored a single point while Yosen was at 18, she couldn't deny the possibility.
"If they do not keep that under 20 points the next 15 seconds, till the quarter ends, their fighting spirit will be dead in the second." Akashi told them, though it was probably mainly just him voicing his thoughts.
And everyone on the court knew the very same thing, so when Himuro went for a three pointer with his abnormally graceful playing, Kagami immediately went for the kill. "TATSUYAAA!" He yelled quite loudly as he jumped, managing to grace the ball.
However, this meant that Teppei and Hyuuga were left with the two 2 meter plus tall players Okamura and Liu in the rebound. Which were impossible odds for the two of them who, though not low, were quite a lot lower.
However against all odds, Teppei managed the impossible. With incredible jumping power, he caught it mid-air with a single hand, as if it was normal, landing safely on the ground.
With this, the buzzer sounded, followed up by the speakers. "That's the end of the 1st quarter. The game will restart in two minutes." They announced.
Two minutes quickly came and passed and the players were out on the field again, Seirin with the ball. "2nd quarter has started! From Seirin's ball.. Wait… What a crushing defense!" The commentator squealed. "Yosen's so intense!" He yelled as Seirin fought to find just some kind of opening.
"Well no shit." Haizaki grumbled, watching Yosen high's movements. "They're planning to go for the kill. Right here, right now." He said.
Akashi nodded in agreement. "Yes, they are not going soft on them. Should Seirin fail to score a point now, the game is over." He agreed.
Lucy watched the young team worriedly. "What are you going to do, Seirin…" She muttered to herself.
Right as she finished her sentence, the ball was sent into Teppei's hands, standing with his back to Murasakibara in the center. With fierce determination he rolled around Murasakibara to create an opening. Of course, the tower of a man wasn't about to make it that easy for them and easily set up an unbreakable defense.
However the plan had never been for Teppei to score the ball and this became apparent as the ball was sent to the ace of Seirin, who'd positioned himself behind Murasakibara. With his superior jumping power, he caught the ball and jumped over Okamura's defense all at once.
Still though, Murasakibara didn't back down and since he didn't need to jump much, he easily reached over Okamura and put pressure on the other side of the ball Kagami was holding, preventing him from completing his dunk.
"Don't just end it on your own!" Kagami yelled. And then, doing what Aomine had done to her in their one-on-one, Kagami angled the pressure he put on the ball and delivered it right down to his little, blue haired friend.
Lucy's eyes widened when she looked at the stance Kuroko was standing in. "He's not going to shoot, is he?" She asked rhetorically, squirming in her seat a little. Though it was no stance she had ever seen before, standing with his side to the goal and looking like he would push the ball up towards the goal rather than throw it - as he did with the Ignite Passes - there was no doubt it was a shooting stance.
Murasakibara also realized this, and quickly came to the defense, raising his hands far above the very small boy, certainly blocking the ball had it been anyone else.
But it wasn't anyone else. It was Kuroko. And Kuroko, well, you don't just take Kuroko's balls. And Murasakibara found this out too, when the small boy let the ball fly and vanish midair, only to announce its presence through the sound of the net rustling after his score.
"IT'S IN! SEIRIN FINALLY MADE THEIR FIRST POINT!" The commentator yelled ecstatically as the scoreboard rose with two points for Seirin and Murasakibara was left to wonder what the hell just happened. "IT'S A PHANTOM SHOT!" The commentator named the technique while the whole crowd cheered for the underdogs of the tournament.
Lucy's face broke into a big smile and she was about to cheer, when she was halted by a single word. "Ridiculous." Akashi almost spat out. No one else could hear it besides herself and Haizaki and both just sort of stared at him strangely, but he didn't feel like elaborating. Instead his heterochromatic eyes were trained on the little, blue haired boy.
From here, the two teams played ping-pong with each other. Seirin used Kuroko and Yosen's fear of the Phantom Shot to create openings and score, while Yosen had found a weak point with Kagami's defense against Okamura, though he soon figured that out and evened the playing field a little more. Kagami's defense got stronger from here and during the rebounds Teppei made good use of his one-hand catching, the Vice Claw.
The second quarter ended with the score being evened out to a 29-17 rather than what it had been before, announcing the big break until the match would continue.
Of course, the commentator was quick to tell everyone his opinion on things. "Even though Seirin was suffering from zero points in the 1st quarter they started a rapid chase in the 2nd quarter with no. 11's scoring!" He summarized for anyone who should be in doubt. Which was no one. "And they aren't done yet! You can do it in the 2nd half! Go Seirin!" He cheered.
"With this, we'll go on a break. Second half, 3rd quarter with start in 10 minutes." The speakers announced, and all around them, the crowd began moving.
Lucy leaned back in her seat, sighing at the tension in the entire hall. It was exactly as Nijimura had predicted it would be: every match including two Miracles (or Kagami and Haizaki) had been incredibly tense matches, because they were so even in strength. And, on top of that, it was all people she knew and cared about, so that sure didn't help the situation in the slightest.
She pulled a leg up to her chest and watching this, for some reason Loke's words popped up in her mind again, the conversation they'd had not too long ago. She felt weak. She probably was weak, in her sense of the word. Only difference between the two worlds was that in Earthland she was working to get stronger seriously. She didn't here for Earth.
That had to change.
With a determined swing of her entire body, she got up from her seat. "I'll be out for a while." She told the two guys and left them in favor of the outside court she knew to be there, right outside the building.
Once there, she found three guys playing basketball there. A tall dark brown haired guy with dark eyes and piercings in both ears, who seemed to be dominating the other two, a smaller guy with blonde hair in the front and black in the back and equally dark eyes and a dark haired one with blue eyes.
She smiled and approached them. "Excuse me." She said, drawing the three's confused but curious attention. "Would you mind if I join you for a little while?" She asked them.
The guy with the strange hair smiled brightly and nodded. "Of course!" He agreed immediately, not even looking to his friends to see if they agreed. So she did instead.
The tallest guy looked at her with a tilted head. "Can you even play basketball at all?" He asked her, seemingly not finding her to be the type to could play basketball.
The other black haired guy looked at the tall one with a frown. "Naruse, that's rude." He told the guy, though he merely nodded.
Feeling a bit optimistic about her skills, she raised an eyebrow at him challengingly. "Well, why don't we find out?" She suggested, feeling a fire burning in her stomach for some reason. She hadn't been playing basketball seriously for a while, since her little match with Aomine, really… She had to take it more seriously from now on and during the games. She could probably squeeze something in there.
The guy, Naruse apparently, remained silent and just stared at her as if she was an idiot, while the other two just looked at her strangely.
Well, she was used to that. But their underestimating her would only be an advantage. "What about we play three balls, the first to get two goals wins?" She suggested.
"Whatever." Naruse said, clearly in no doubt that this would be an easy win, throwing the ball to the black haired one, telling him to send the tipoff-ball off.
Lucy and Naruse stood one each side of the mid-court line, looking at the black haired guy, who nodded and sent the ball off flying. With his way superior height, Lucy knew she'd have little to no chance of getting that one, so instead she did the same trick Akashi had used once, waiting to take it right out of his hands when he landed.
And of course, Naruse jumped and caught the ball just as it had reached its peak, only then noticing she had not jumped. Confused, but probably figuring she was just some nothing, he landed on the ground and didn't even give an effort in the transition from airborne to dribbling with the ball, which left unfathomable many openings for the blonde to take.
Of course, she did as soon as he released the ball to dribble. In a flash of movement, she had taken the ball the second it left his hand and dribbled down the court with higher speed than any of the three had anticipated she could even move at. She nimbly dribbled to the net and landed the first goal, while Naruse just stared incredulously at her.
She caught the ball under his net and threw it to him as she made it back to her half of the court, smirking just a little. She'd been around Gajeel for too long. "Maybe you should be a bit more serious, 'Naruse'." She told him mockingly.
Catching her patronizing tone, he furrowed his eyebrows at her, looking at her with what seemed to be a glare.
Either way, he was with the ball and now took her a little more seriously. Of course, she was still a girl, so she could definitely not be that strong. Was what he was definitely thinking.
So she let him pass easily, winking at his two friends as she heard him speed up behind her, aiming to show off and dunk it in. What he didn't expect was that the girl had yet another level of speed and soon she was in the air, between him and the net, putting pressure against the ball he was about to dunk in.
She smirked at him and taking a page right out of Aomine's book, she altered her grip on the ball and pushed it out of his hands.
He was taking her more seriously now and since he was so much taller than her, he was ready when she landed on the ground, aiming to steal the ball back. However, through using her body as a wall in between, she had been used to keeping the ball out of the boys' reach, so this she used again. Especially because he seemed to have some reservations with becoming too touchy with her.
Naruse fought his way in front of her, but with a pirouette of a roll, she was past him again, keeping her pace steady towards the goal, but nowhere near anything high speed. Naruse managed to fight his way in front of her again, but with a series of crossovers and one between his legs as well, she drove past him with ease.
"You're not the only one who can dunk." She told him as she heightened the speed a little towards the goal, before jumping at the appropriate distance. With this, she slammed the ball through the hoop effortlessly and landed on the ground as lightly as she could.
With that she was pushed out of everything else by the loud clapping she was presented with from the sidelines. "Damn, you didn't lose your touch, eh?" Haizaki commented. When she looked over, she saw him standing beside a stoic-looking Akashi, though it was with a hint of something alike approval in the redhead's eyes, and with a big grin on his face.
She also noticed how the other two of Naruse's friends had moved several meters the other way, away from Akashi. "What exactly is going on here?" Said redhead asked calmly, though confusedly.
Lucy smiled widely despite it all. "Did you see? I won against that guy!" She said excitedly, receiving a high five from Haizaki when she approached, ignoring the mutters of Miracles and craziness uttered by her previous opponents' friends.
"Yeah, I saw." Haizaki said as a smirk made its way to his face. "And you damn better promise me we have a one-on-one sometime soon." He said, something twinkling in his eyes.
Feeling something amiss with the suggestion, she narrowed her eyes at him. "Why would you want that? There's no way that would be any fun for you." She reasoned. Winning an entirely one-sided match against an opponent of that much lower level was never fun. Which was why she was going to get better and better still.
He just continued to grin. "Oh, I don't know about that. I'm sure I'll have lots of fun." He said.
Akashi sighed. "He simply wants to have his perverted dreams fulfilled." He said as Haizaki went on a rant about how he remembered every single moment of the match he'd had with Lucy during their little camp that first year. "So, what is all this about?" He repeated his earlier question.
She looked back to Naruse, who still looked dumbfounded at what had happened. "Oh, let's just say I was provoked and he underestimated me." She said, cutting it down to the bone.
"Well, he should know better than to underestimate an opponent from just one look." The redhead offered.
They were interrupted when the tall guy spotted a girl approaching them from the other side of the court. "Yuki-senpai! Please comfort me, my heart has been broken!" He said with mock sadness in his voice, though doing a complete one-eighty on the personality-scale. Just as crazy as Lucy's.
The girl narrowed her eyes at him, keeping him at a distance with a single hand on his head. "No." She told him firmly, flat-out rejecting him.
Akashi sighed. "The match should be starting right around now, so we should probably go in again." He offered.
Lucy looked at him with wide eyes. "WHAT?! We have to hurry then!" She said, grabbing the wrists of the two men beside her and pulling them after her inside the building again, not wanting to lose out on any of the match.
All right~ Originally, I wanted to fill the entire match into this chapter, but…. Well. It didn't happen. And I found it appropriate to end off here. And then I can also get some conversation time in with Akashi and Lucy at the end. Maybe. Or something. So that's that.
Some of you have been asking whether she will be telling the cute little Miracles about her true story and the answer is of course. It would be ridiculous not to, then she might as well just have been any OC in this story. So yes, she will tell them, and it is not too far away. Also seeing as the end of the story is not too far away either. (Sorry about that)
Likewise, of course the GMG will also be added to this story. As a matter of fact, I just need to finish this match and then the one between Kaijo and Seirin and then it should begin. So you can once again remember that it is actually a crossover and not just KnB. And that should make some nice variety in the chapters. Though it will follow the manga far along the road.
So yeah, that's what I felt I had to warn you about. Basically, thank you for reading, following, favoriting and obviously reviewing! Though I am getting bad at replying to them, I read every single one and appreciate them more than I can put into words! So thank you very much!
~Line464d
