Upside-down

By:
Darkness XI

Disclaimer: I still don't own Slam Dunk no matter how hard I try...too bad though.

Chapter 7-Years later

Two years ago, Shohoku High won the Winter games. Now, two years later, the successor of captainship is Rukawa Kaede. He was team captain after Miyagi Ryota and Akagi Takenori. He was a little nicer now. He talked a bit more, and had won the inter High games last year when Miyagi was still leading the team.

He had everything. He was rich, famous and superb at basketball. But then again, he was not complete anymore. Not since his girlfriend, Kim, had to go back to the US. It had also been two years now. He has never seen Kim since then. Though she still called, wrote and e-mailed him every chance she got. Kim never visited though. That was his problem. Two years with no physical contact with his girlfriend had made a great big hole in his heart.

Today, it would be different, because I, the all mighty author, will make it one.

It was early morning and Rukawa Kaede was cycling his way to school, half-asleep with his MP3 player's earphones in one ear when he heard a familiar bellow of one boorish co-captain. "Oy, Rukawa! Wait up!" the red-head yelled. "Do 'ahou, you woke up too early" he grumbled "Besides that foxy look on your face, why so glum?" he asked the captain. Their two years of fighting finally registered a strong bond between them. When Kim heard about this, he remembered how shocked her tone was. They've become best friends now, as well as best enemies.

"Well, as you and I know, today is Valentine's day, right?" "Yes" "And besides our lockers flooding again, it's Kim's birthday...and well, I wish she was here...ya know..." he trailed off into silence for a moment. "Ah, kitsune, don't worry. I bet Katakura's thinking of you right now." he tried to comfort his friend. "I guess so..."

After another excruciating day at class, as you know, would be basketball practice. Rukawa was unusually slow that day. He walked too slowly. He dressed up too slowly and greeted so glumly. Akagi Haruko has now taken the place of Ayako as team manager. Her boyfriend, Sendoh was off to college but they were together every chance they got. She was worried about Rukawa that certain day and approached her former crush. "Ne, Rukawa-kun, why the long face?"

Since that fateful day when Kim broke her arm, Haruko has totally forgotten about her silly little crush on Rukawa. After getting rid of each and every Valentine gift he had received that day, he answered Haruko's question. "Kim's birthday... is today..." "Today, huh? Well, I bet ya she's thinking about you right now" she smiled "Funny, Sakuragi said the same thing this morning."

Then, there was a sudden burst of sweet energy that felt familiar to Rukawa. "Tadaima!" yelled a sweet and innocent voice. "Nani!?!" Rukawa blurted out., clearly astonished. "Okaeri, Katakura-san!" Haruko greeted "KIM!?!" he yelled through his surprise. "Kaede-chan! I'm back!" she yelled back at him. Rukawa rushed to he side at once and pulled her outside the gym and hugged her tightly. "I'm back, baby" she whispered softly. "Welcome back, baby" he whispered back.

There was a comfortable silence between them. They savored the chance to be in each other's arms again. "I missed you" he whispered again "Me too" she said softly and put her head on his shoulder. Rukawa kissed behind her ear softly and said almost inaudibly "I've waited for you. I missed you so much. Please tell me you'll never leave again". She raised her head and whispered into his ear, "Promise, I'll never leave again"

She pulled his head closer to her face for a kiss that had all their passion bottled in for the past two years. Tongues dancing, giving more and more each second. They could've caused a scandal, but they didn't care. So what if people stare. So what if there were goddamn rumors. Who the hell cares now? They didn't. All they cared about was that they were in each other's arms again.

Then, a freshman, Taiko Keiji, opened the door and interrupted a very intimate moment. He was in a hurry and didn't notice what was going on. "Rukawa-san, we should...whoa!". Kim tapped Rukawa a few times to get him to notice the student. "Yes?" he asked coolly. "Ano...gomen nasai, Rukawa-san. I just thought we should start now." "Well, let me just finish my business here and you guys can start with the warm-ups" "Hai, captain" he answered and went back inside.

Taiko went up to Sakuragi and told him that Rukawa asked them to start now. And then he approached Haruko and asked her, "Ano...Haruko-san... who is that girl with captain?" "Oh, you mean Kim? That blond girl?" "Yes" "That's his girlfriend!" she yelled out enthusiastically.

All activity in the gym stopped. Even the Rukawa fan girls stopped their racket. "Rukawa-san has a girlfriend!?!" the yelled in unison. "Hai!" she answered happily. "They've been on to it for almost three years now" she informed them.

Outside, Kim had successfully persuaded her boyfriend to go back to the gym. "My party will be tonight, baby, we can talk there." she told him in a whisper and gave him a soft kiss before he lead him back inside the gym, hand in hand. They separated after Rukawa came near the members who were doing their warm-ups. "Stretch a little more and get ready for running" he yelled. "HAI!" they yelled back.

After a while they were already jogging around the gym. Rukawa clapped his hand once and they all went into dash. He clapped once again and they went into a jog. They did this for five minutes, until Haruko told them that it was enough.

"Will you be playing today, Katakura-san?" Haruko asked "Ne, Haruko-san, please call me Kim, I've gotten used to that" "Hai, Kim-san. Well?" "I doubt I'll be playing today. Skirts aren't the easiest things to play in" "Sou desu, ne"

"Anou...Haruko-san, will you go to my party tonight? I mean it is a Friday and all." "I'll have to ask onii-chan first. You know how strict he is." "Hai, I do" "But if I'll be allowed, what attire?" she asked. Kim took a deep breath and yelled, "Oy, minna-san! Party at my house, 7:00 PM, today, please wear semi-formal attire. Arigatou!".

After a long and hard practice, which ended up in the legendary Rukawa-Katakura battle (in which Kim won, again, even in the obvious disadvantage of a skirt), Kim had one last thing to tell Rukawa before she went home. "I'll be expecting you earlier, love" she told him, and went off home.

And so, he went off his own way home to get a start on everything. His mother picked out his outfit. He took his bath, did all his dilly-dallies and finally went off with his parents to Kim's party.

Kim's nanny to picked out her outfit, seeing that she was too busy humming a happy tune in the bathroom. She wore a simple, black formal skirt with knee-high slits on both sides and a white tube-top with a black jacket and black low-cut boots [about 2-inch-high heels].

The doorbell rang and instead of the doormen answering it, Kim answered it. Her jaw practically dropped to the floor. Her boyfriend, a.k.a. Kaede was wearing a long sleeved dark blue polo shirt and black pants. Simple, then again, he looks cute any way you look at him [believe me, I've tried].

Rukawa's reaction was almost the same, but more perverted. His nose bled. Kim wasn't wearing her jacket. And Rukawa, being a little taller than Kim, saw her, erhem, cleavage. Wow...they're big... [Now doesn't that sound perverted?] His girlfriend's voice broke his train of thoughts.

"Ano...baby...you okay? Here, have my hankie" she offered. "Arigatou, baby" "No problem" she told him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He saw more cleavage and his nose bled some more.

"Wanna have some ice on that, love?" "Iie, don't worry about it too much. It's just bleeding. I'll live." "Okay"

=*=*=Flashback=*=*=

Sendoh was shooting, the other still haven't recovered from when he caught the rebound. She blocked his shot and then...his hands brushed over her breasts on purpose.

"IYAAAA!!!! BAKA!!! HENTAIIII!!!" Kim screamed. She ran through the other end of the court where their side was. "She's free" Uozumi yelled. Sendoh and Fukuda ran after her. Kim, with her super running skills, got a head start and jammed the ball into the hoop. The backboard rattled first. And then...the glass broke. The crowd went wild.

"Kim-san!" the benches called out. "Kim!" her boyfriend yelled out in surprise.

"*sigh* Guys are just jerks. Huh?" she asked out in utter surprise, unaware of what she just did and why the crowd was so silent.

"Kim, you idiot! You broke it!" her brother yelled in English from the audience.

"Hey Kolt! Come down here and help them replace the thing I just seemingly..." she said "holy!" she yelled out in surprise as she saw all the broken glass.

She went over to the officials. "Ne, I guess I'll have to pay for it" she told them. "I've never saw that happen in high school basketball" one of them said.

"Gomen, gomen. I'm really sorry" she said shyly, blushing

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They walked upstairs to the ballroom where there were elaborate decorations. The chandelier was enormous. It seemed as if it were going to fall any second. On the other side of the room, there stood her father and someone who look a heck of a lot like Kim.

"Kim!" the girl called out

"Danie!" Kim called back. She ran to the girl's side, dragging Kaede along with her. "Hey, Dan, this is my boyfriend Kaede. Kaede, this is my twin sister, Danica."

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Hm...


I'll cut it from here.

Next chapter will contain a lemon.

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Matta ne!

~Nobody loves me...everybody hates me...huhuhu... *cries*