Addicted to you



Chapter 9: "Accepting"



A/N Sorry guys if it took a while… here goes…. And… I still need your reviews.



After the ten-day training camp in Josei High, the shohoku team's practice became more harder. They all didn't miss any practice these following weeks. They are all pretty excited and nervous of the up coming tournament.





"Ne, Aya-chan I'll carry those for you!" the point guard said from behind the manageress.



"Arigato Ryota-kun" as she handed him her sports bag.



The two walks side by side, they just finished another hard day of practice. The both of them passed by the central park where out of the corner of the manageress' eye, she spotted a red head hiding behind some bushes.

"Ryota-kun… is that ----" Ayako said pointing at the red head.

"Sakuragi?" the point guard finishes off.



They both looked at each other questioningly and approach him.

"Sakuragi Hanamichi?!?" Ayako exclaims.

"Aaaaah!! Shhsssssshhh…" the red head startled then pressed his hands on the manageress mouth.



The point guard showed up behind him and whacks him on the head. Pretty mad, touching aya-chan or much hurting her, as he thought. Hanamichi signals the two to crouch down beside him.

"Nani? Why the hell are you spying at them?" Ayako asked in a whispering voice.

"Who are they anyway?" The point guard asked, trying to look closely at the bench a couple of paces in front of them.

The couple, seemingly having a date has their backs at the snooping trio and quite oblivious of the trio spying on them.

"Huh? It's Akira S---endoh?!" Ryota exclaims, as Hanamichi again signals him to pipe down.

"Who's with him?" ayako asked the redhead.

"the sister of the bench warmer guy from Ryonan." Hanamichi replies back… still in a whispering voice.

"Oh! So that's Hikoichi's sister!" Ayako exclaims as a matter-of-factly. As Hanamichi again presses his hands on her mouth trying to muffle any sound she was making.

"hey let go of her." Ryota asked from the other side.

The trio listened intently as the couple began mumbling words to each other.



(Let's hear what the two are talking about.)



The short-black haired reporter rested her head in comfort on the shoulder of ace point guard, the point guard didn't hesitate to put his arms around her. The both of them blushed.

"I didn't know Shohoku's park is this beautiful." The reporter started a conversation eyeing the beautiful Venus de Milo fountain in front of them.

"Hai---" the point guard stutters, making short glances at her then in the fountain in front of them.



The both of them wore the same color of shirt, Sendoh wore a blood red polo with light brown khaki pants, and on the other hand, his date wore the same color shirt with a knee length skirt.

(Back to the trio)



"Isn't Hikoichi's sister little bit to old for Sendoh-san?" Ayako asks the red head beside her.

"And so thus Anzai-sensei and his wife." The red head replied.

"Nani?!" they both gaped at the red head in between them.

"Sssssssssshhhhh… I'll explain later okay?" the red head tensai replied.

"So, why are you spying them?" Ryota asked him.

DEEP SILENCE REPLIED BACK AT HIM.

"Sakuragi!!" Ryota exclaims.

"Ssssssssssshhhh…" hanamichi signals… "You'll soon find out…" he added.

The two beside the red head eyed each other a questioning look.

"Are you giving up on Haruko-chan so easily?" Ayako pointed out.

"And what would I do that!!" the red head exclaims.

"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!" the two signaled him.

"No, I'll never give up Haruko-chan… I don't have something for Aida-chan." The red head replied.

The trio didn't spoke for some minutes and the two slowly crawls away from him.

"Baka!! Baka!! Baka!!!! What are you thinking?! Especially!!!! I don't have a thing for SENDOH!!!" Hanamichi exclaims flaming up. As he stands… now the couple they were snooping at noticed the rumble going on.



"Sakuragi… Hanamichi?" Aida asked from behind him.



He glanced around Ryota and Ayako had gone away and he was all alone. He turned stiffly to the couple behind him and smiled faintly at them.

"What are you doing Hanamichi?" Sendoh asked quite angrily.

"Ah…. I'm picking flowers…. Mwahahahahaha!!!" Hanamichi stuttered frantically. As he began picking flowers around him.



"Oi!!! Can't you read the sign? No picking flowers!!" the park's caretaker approaches him.



Hanamichi sweat drops and runs away from the caretaker.



The couple looked at each other puzzled and dismisses the things that had occurred.





---------Next day's practice--------------



Ayako met Ryota in the hall way as they both goes straight to the gym. They both knew they were late for practice, in fact they were thirty minutes late. As they walked down the stairs, they spotted the shohoku's captain going down the floor above them.

"Ah! Akagi-sempai!!" Ayako inquired waving at him.

"Oh, you were late too?" Akagi asks approaching them.

"Hai, our history class extended some minutes." Ryota explains.

"Oh, the principal asked for me, congratulating us from our training camp in Josei." Akagi replied.



They all headed for the gym. They heard strange noises going inside the gym.

"Nani?" Ayako asked.

The rumbling became really frantic, they hoped for the worst, the three stands in front of the gym. All of them thinking hell broke loose inside the gym.



Akagi opens the door. Everyone stops and looks over the door, there stood Akagi, Ayako, and Ryota. Kogure and the others looked nervously at them.

Akagi and the two stopped dead on their tracks. They saw the whole rumbling about. It was another petty disputes between Hanamichi and Rukawa. The rival stands at the center of the court staring at each other.

"Daijobu Captain, I'll take care of this." Ayako inquired fishing out her fan.

"Iie… let's juts leave them." Akagi replies helding his hand up to stop her.



"Rukawa!!! You think you can defeat Sendoh by practicing like this?" Hanamichi asks pointing his finger at him.

Rukawa just stood there his eyes getting drowsy, his expression still the same. Cold. Distant. Blank.

"Hn. Sensdoh will never get beaten with the likes of you!!" Hanamichi added and laughs an evil laugh.



(another scene)



Akagi, Ayako, and Ryota sweat drops and began to shook their heads wistfully.

"I knew it… Hanamichi is turning gay…" Ryota mumbled, as Ayako seconded his comment with a nod.

Akagi looked at them, his turning blue as he glances back to Hanamichi.





The two so-called rivals as hanamichi puts in are oblivious of the people around them. Hanamichi begans to mumble un-encouraging words to him. Unfortunately, the kitsune as always doesn't let anyone put him down, not especially to the likes of him!

"Do you know why you couldn't win over Sendoh?" Hanamichi asked. And as usual the same dead face kitsune looked unconcerned. But what the hell? Let's hear what this profound Tensai will say.

"Because you don't have a heart!! Like me and Sendoh!!!!! We love and we are loved!!! Mwahahahahaha!!!" Sakuragi answered, discriminating the poor kitsune.



"Hanamichi stop that!!" Ayako exclaimed from behind, whacking Hanamichi in the head with her fan.

"That's why you'll never win from us Tensais, we have everything!! Accept it Rukawa!!" Hanamichi added as Ayako stopped whacking him.



"D'ho…" Rukawa sigh.



A orange-round ball came straight to Hanamichi. He dodges it and smiled at the kitsune. Now the ball was coming to Ayako.

"Rukawa yelled the manageress name and she manages to dodge it. the ball slammed at the gym's wall and ricocheted all over the gym, (this scene is supposed to be in a sd form… please just use your imagination… ^ ^; sorry guys!!)

Hanamichi laughs his heart out as the others held on for their dear life, dodging the ball. It bounced to the other side, and still manages to hit the redhead. Rukawa smiled, two fox ears and a fox's tail grew on his head and back. Snickering in his now sd kitsune form.



After practice, Rukawa decided to head straight for home. As he stops, hearing someone yelling his name.

He turns and finds Ayako as she held Hanamichi's ear.

"Rukawa, the tensai has something to say to you." The manageress said, forming a respectfully smile at him as she tightens her grip at the red head's ear.

"Ayako-san!! Ouch!! … oi kitsune!! I'm sorry!! Ouch!! Let go!! I said it!!" Hanamichi pleads, as Ayako lets him go.

"I know it will not to anything good but atleast." Ayako hinted as she walks back to the gym with Sakuragi.



Knowing that Ayako will teach Sakuragi basics of basketball, the kitsune waited for them to go inside the gym, but still, even if he was known for being cold and no emotion, Sakuragi's words hit him, as he recalls it…

"Accept it Rukawa!!!"…………………………..



A/N Phew!! Few chapters to go and this will be finished… please comments I need them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh… y'all still there??? (tumbleweed passes by…) gulp… please guys… come back!!!!!! /sigh…/ =3