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Disclaimer : None of the characters in Slam Dunk are mine…but I'm planning to steal Sashi-kun for myself…don't tell anyone, okay?

Chapter Four : His Family and A Night Talk

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       "So," Sendoh tried to open conversation. "What are you doing here?"

       "I'm going home." Sakuragi answered. "What about you?"

       "We're heading to Kae-chan's house." Sendoh smiled to the redhead.

       "Kae…-chan…?" Sakuragi pointed to Rukawa. "You mean this kitsune."

       "Do aho…"

       "Teme!"

       "Maa…maa…come on, guys. This is in the middle of public." Sendoh patted Sakuragi and Rukawa's backs.

       Sakuragi and Rukawa both glared at each other before looked away. Sendoh sighed. He looked to both of his teammates and made a mental note.

       Sakuragi Hanamichi à cheerful, noisy, innocent, funny, sociable, CUTE

       Kaede Rukawa à cold, quiet, honest (or too honest), unsociable, kinda handsome (not as much as myself)

       Sakuragi Hanamichi + Kaede Rukawa = IMPOSSIBLE / CHAOS

       Sendoh snickered when he thought about this. Both Rukawa and Sakuragi looked at Sendoh questioningly.

       "What's with you, Akira?" Rukawa asked.

       "Ah, no, nothing." Sendoh answered. "Anyway, where do you live?"

       "Me?" Sakuragi pointed at himself. "I live on Shohoku Road #10."

       "Nani?!" Rukawa and Sendoh asked in unison.

       "Ah! Sou ka….You're Sashi-chan and Kae-chan new neighbor!" Sendoh realized.

       "Nandatto?! Kitsune and…and…just who the hell is Sashi-chan?!" Sakuragi nearly shouted.

       "Mitsui. Hisashi Mitsui." Rukawa answered for him.

       "Sou ka. Then Kitsune and Micchy are my neighbors." Sakuragi thought for a while. "That's just so…messed up…"

       "Manners, aho…" Rukawa said bluntly.

       "Oh, what time is it?" Sakuragi asked to Sendoh.

       "Nine o'clock." Sendoh answered as he glanced at his watch.

       "Oh no… I have to go. See you tomorrow!" Sakuragi said and then left his two seniors.

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       "Tadaima!" Sakuragi shouted as he entered his house.

       "Okaeri-nasai, Hanamichi-sama." An old man greeted him with a small smile. "You're a little late today."

       "Ah, gomen, Takeshi-san. I've been practicing a little longer today. You know, today's my first day in the basketball team." Sakuragi smiled Takeshi.

       "Really? How was it?"

       "Nice, I think. We freshmen were battling with the seniors, but we lost. It sucks." Sakuragi pouted and Takeshi laughed.

       "You were beaten, Hanamichi-sama. Well, I wish I were there to see that." This made Sakuragi mock-glared at him.

       "Where is Tomo-chan?" Sakuragi asked.

       "She's already slept. She's been a hyper bouncy tennis ball all the day." Takeshi chuckled along with Sakuragi. "By the way, I've prepared your dinner."

       "Have you eaten?"

       "I've eaten with Tomoka-sama."

       "I see."

       "Oh, I nearly forgot. Kireihana-sama called this afternoon."

       "Obaa-san?" Sakuragi frowned.

       "Yes."

       "What did she say?"

       "She said she missed you and Tomoka-sama. Kireihana-sama will visit you a few weeks later."

       "Obaa-san will come? That's great! Tomo-chan will be really happy. Have you told her?"

       "Yes, I have. And that's the reason she's been bouncing all day."

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       "So, anything interesting happened today? Beside your lost to your seniors I mean." Takeshi asked after Sakuragi finished his dinner. The redhead just gave him a sour look.

       "Yeah, a lot of interesting people in the school and the basketball team. And two of them are our neighbors." He rolled his eyes.

       "What's their name?"

       "Rukawa Kaede and Mitsui Hisashi."

       "Really? That's great then! The Rukawa family is right beside our house."

       "WHAT?! That's even worse!"

       "Why, Hanamichi-sama?"

       "That Kitsune…grr…"

       "And the Mitsui family is in front of us, if I'm not mistaken."

       "I really hope you're mistaken." Sakuragi grumbled.

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(AN : From now I'll write 'Sakuragi' as 'Hanamichi')

       Hanamichi was lying on his large four-poster bed, staring deeply to the ceiling, although his mind was elsewhere. She turned his head to the side and stared at a large photograph inside a luxuriously carved wooden frame. There were a handsome man with ebony hair, a very beautiful gaijin woman with long wavy red hair, a boy with shockingly red hair, and a baby, who was smiling from the woman's lap.

       "Kaa-san… Tou-san…"

       Hanamichi got up from his bed and walked to the window. He opened it, letting the night breeze in. He sat by the window, glancing to the beautiful night sky filled with bright stars.

       "Oi, do-aho…" Oh, yes. THAT nearly gave him a heart attack and almost sent him out of his room down to the ground.

       "TEME, KITSUNE!? ARE YOU TRYING TO GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK OR WHAT!? Geez, my age is shortened, ya know!?" Hanamichi shouted, clutching at his chest. "What are you doing this late?"

       "I could always ask you the same, do-aho." Rukawa jumped from his window to a big tree in front of his window.

       "What are you doing?"

       But he received no answer. Hanamichi watched as Rukawa gracefully moved from the tree up to the roof. There, the raven-haired boy laid down watching the sky.

       "Stargazing?" Once again, no answer.

       Hanamichi hesitated for a few minutes. Then he made up his mind and jumped to the tree, too. He climbed up to the roof then sat beside his sempai.

       "I often did this back then in America…" Hanamichi said, mostly to himself. "…when I was little…" Unknown to him, a pair of sapphire eyes watched him behind long black fringes. "…but not after…"

       Silence.

       "I think it's too late. Take-san will give me a loooong speech. See ya tomorrow, kitsune." Hanamichi said as he got up left. A little to quickly, as if he was avoiding something.

       Rukawa moved his eyes back to the sky.

       "I wonder…" He whispered.

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Great…just great… No update for sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long, and the chapter is too damn short!!!

Sorry, minna. I've been very very very very busy with school. If you want to blame something or someone, blame them! Oh yeah, you want fast update? Go here and blow up my school or something.

Anyway, I'll seek for some ideas after I finished final test, which will be held start from 14 to 20 June.

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