Itsuka, Kitto...

Disclaimer: Sessha does not own any of the characters from SD...Only the one's I created...

They all belong to Inoue Takehiko...



"Sugoi yo! Ryo-chan!!" a familiar voice called out, as Miyagi walked over to the sidelines after they had won Ryonan in a close game.

Ayako watched, as the black haired girl jumped into Miyagi's arms. She froze for awhile, before Sakuragi's usual singing brought her back to reality.

"Ayako-san...Jealous?" He said, calming down a little. When he received a confused look from the team manageress, he continued. "About Ryo-chin and Kaori-san." Sakuragi pointed towards the pair, who were still holding each other in a bear hug.

"W-why should I be...I should...am...happy for them..." She stuttered out, as she clumsily walked up to congratulate everyone.

Sakuragi pushed the thought aside, when he saw that Haruko had come down to the sidelines to join them.

"Haruko-san!"

_-_-_

Right after all the Shohoku players were ready to leave, which was not very long. They immediately left the basketball court, for the hospital which Anzai-sensei was staying in.

Ayako walked in the room, along with their team captain and vice captain, Akagi and Kogure. Mitsui, Rukawa, Sakuragi, and Miyagi later followed. Due to the small size of the room, the rest of the Shohoku players had to wait outside, but the door to the room was left open.

The doctors, nurses and other patients in the hospital, all turned to the direction of the cheering, which was coming from the famous Shohoku High's coach room. The nurse in the room, almost suffered from a heart attack herself, as the six players lifted Anzai from his bed, and threw him into the air.

Everyone was happy over the team's victory over Ryonan, even Sakuragi and Rukawa didn't have the strength, or thought to fight over anything. But before anything else happened, they found themselves chased out of the hospital for making too much of a din. But who could blame them.



The curly haired manageress, kicked the ground, as she walked along the familiar streets of Kanagawa. She had been walking around aimlessly, for what, an hour, two, three? She didn't care.

~flashback~

After the team was chased out of the hospital, they made their way back to school to practice for the up coming inter-high.

As usual, Kaori was cuddling Miyagi's arm, oblivious to the glares that she was receiving from a certain currently green-eyed manageress.

"Oi!" Ayako shouted over the loud voices of the players. After finally getting their attention after the fourth try when she took out her fan, she continued. "I think I'll leave now...I don't feel so good."

"Why?" Sakuragi asked, before bending down to whisper something in her ear. 'Too much cuddling going on with Ryo-chin and..."

* WHACK!!!! *

The next thing everyone knew, Sakuragi was lying on the floor, a smoking mushroom-shaped bump on his head. Ayako turned, and stomped off. That was when Kaori decided to confront her.

"Ayako! Wait up!" Letting go of the point guard's arm, the usually shy girl bounded towards Ayako. Everyone was shocked. Kaori didn't strike them to be the athletic type. But now, they watched, as Kaori sped through the crowd to find her friend.

As soon as she heard someone calling her name, Ayako started running. As she ran, she recalled all her gym classes, and hoped that it would help her to get away from whoever was chasing her.

Ayako blended into the crowd fast. Because as soon as Kaori reached a traffic light junction, she had lost sight of Ayako.

'I wonder where she went...I have to talk to her...' With that, Kaori began her search, unaware of the boy who was following her.



"Baka!" Ayako shouted, as she slammed her fist into the lamp post. "Baka, baka, baka, baka..." She soon regretted her action, as she held her clenched fist to her chest. Her knuckles were bruised from the impact of her fist connecting with the solid cold metal.

"Who's the 'baka'?"

Ayako froze. All the pain in her right hand suddenly faded away, and was overtook by numbness. She shrugged, as the sound of foot steps grew louder.

"Ne...You really should go home, it's late...I'll take you home..."

'Kogure-sempai?' Ayako thought, as she turned around to see that she was right. Before her stood the present vice-captain.

"Saa...everyone's worried abo..." Before he could complete his sentence, Ayako ran to him and started crying in his chest.

"Kogure-sempai..."



"Have you found her, Ryo-chan? Ryo-chan?" Kaori asked Miyagi, who had his back to her. "What's wrong?"

Miyagi was standing at the shadowed corner of the alley, when his mind finally registered the scene before him. 'Aya-chan and Kogure?'

"Ryo-chan?" She was hushed, when Miyagi pulled her in the other direction, pretending that he hadn't seen the incident.

"Nothing, it's almost sun-set. You should get home."

"Ryo-chan..."



After ten minutes, Ayako finally managed to calm down, and compose herself. "Arigatou..." She whispered, as she took the piece of tissue from her senior.

"Now, want to tell me what that was about?" He said, his eyes filled with concern.

Nothing...

"It doesn't matter, it's alright if you don't want to tell me, but at least give me the outline of the situation."



Silence...

"If not for me, then for my wet shirt." He smiled, as he tried to humor her with her current situation.

At this, Ayako turned to smile at him. 'Gomenasai Kogure-sempai...but I can't tell anyone yet...' Without giving an answer, she stood up and walked off.

Kogure found himself alone, as he stared at the shrinking form of his friend. She needed time, he knew...he knew it had something to do with a certain point guard and a certain jet-black haired girl.

The only people who didn't notice it, was probably Miyagi and Kaori-chan themselves. It was rather obvious. Kogure sighed, as he picked up his bag, and headed back to his own home.

_-_-_



Miyagi paced up and down his room, hair messed up from all the tossing and turning he had done trying to fall asleep. It was five minutes pass twelve, and he was still wide awake. He just couldn't get the image out of his mind. If his Aya-cha had something to say, why didn't she come to him? Sure, Kogure was the comforter, solver of problems in the whole group, but...but...

'But what? There isn't anything going on between them. Kogure already has someone...so maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions...then why do I feel nausea just thinking about it...jealousy?'



_-_-_

"Aya-chan!" She heard, as she felt someone's hand upon her shoulder.

"Ryota?! What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to get ready to basketball practice?"

"I need to talk to you about something." Without giving her a chance to ask what, Ayako found herself being dragged out of the main building, and into the empty space between two of the blocks.

Miyagi allowed her to catch her breath, before finally getting the questions off his chest. "Are you with anyone?" After this, he blushed, and looked down to his feet. "I mean, I would understand if you were, but...at least tell me if there is..."

"What?!" The girl immediately did the only thing she was accustomed to do at times like these.

* WHACK! *

"Itai!! Aya-chan? What are you doing?"

"What kind of stupid question is that?" She asked, her face tinted a dark shade of red, that could compete with Hanamichi's hair anytime.

Standing up, Miyagi said. "I meant it. Is there anyone else?"

Taking out her fan once again, Ayako held it threateningly between herself and the point guard. "I should be the one asking you that!"

"What?! But I saw you..."

* WHACK *

"Itai..."

"Let me finish!" She said, drawing the attention of two students who were walking pass. "What exactly is it with you and Kaori, anyway?!"

"What? We are just friends!" Miyagi argued.

"Friends? Friends don't cuddle each other like that. Friends don't hug each other like that. Friends!" Before she could go on, Miyagi pulled her to him, closing the already small distance between them.

"Aishiteru..."

~*~*~

* choke choke * I can't believe how sappy this is getting....(p/s: Omae o Korosu....shadow child....there...i did it...* choke *...sappy enough...?) Anyway... *smiles *...pls r&r....comments, cause I want to know whether I should lighten up the feel of this fic...it feels like it's getting very serious...(or is that the point?) Aaa....anyway....Onegai r&r, ne? Arigatou!!