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Title: Kanagawa Blues
Part 3: Light and ShadeAfter lunch, Sendoh went straight to Koshino's house. The captain's heart leaped to see the sub-captain waiting outside his house. For a few minutes, Sendoh stood watching him not realizing that the boy was waiting. How he loved his semi-long black hair, his young fair face, his evenly smooth skin, his point guard built body, his-
"You're late," said a cold voice. It was Koshino.
"Oh, yeah, sorry you see I must've over slept, and I forgot to tell you I planned to meet you here, see, my alarm clock didn't ring and-"
"You have no alarm clock, I've been in your room."
"Right, I mean my mom didn't wake me up-"
"Your mom goes to work at 7, she's not supposed to wake you up that early."
"Hey, easy, why so cold? I overslept, ok, I didn't mean to be this late. I'm sorry."
"Alright. Do you want to come in?"
"No, thanks. I think we should take a walk."
"OK. To where?"
"To the park, there's no better place."
So they walked their way together. Sendoh was looking at Koshino with a faint smile on his face. Koshino noticed this and said,
"What? Is there something on my face?"
Sendoh's smile faded.
"Nothing." He said.
As they walked, Sendoh longed to hold Koshino's hand but thought better of it, he knew something was wrong and he couldn't just hit it like that. When they reached the park they found a bench to sit on. Sendoh sat first and motioned at Koshino to do so. He sat on the far end of the bench, Sendoh's lips curled almost into a frown.
Sendoh spoke first,
"Listen, I know something has been bothering you lately, but please don't get it on the way of our relationship. If you tell me what's wrong then I'll be more than glad to do what I can. What is it?"
"Don't act as though you don't know, Akira, if something's getting on the way of our relationship, it's because you put it there. Now, what do you have to say?"
Sendoh's brows raised in confusion.
"How would I know what to say when I really don't know what I did to offend you?"
"Stop pretending, will you? If there's one thing that we really need to talk about right now, it should be about breaking up."
Sendoh sat frozen, he looked at Koshino who looked back and shook his head. Sendoh spoke,
"Tell me what I've done wrong and I'll fix it for you…you know I can't…"
Koshino swallowed his breath before he spoke,
"Look, Akira, I know I can't blame you for being chased by girls all over town and be flirted with nor do I want to blame you for flirting back. Now let us be practical and live our lives as we should. You know very well that we can't stay like this for long, we have to break up. Someday I'll find the right girl and so will you."
Sendoh was so shocked, he never expected that things would go this wrong. He had never felt so crushed, hurt, mutilated and down before. His throat was too tight but he spoke,
"I may not have always understood you but you know they mean nothing to me, I told you that before. Look at me now and tell me what is it that you really want but this."
"Things get hard, Akira. We do not know how much we could bear. For all I know this shouldn't be."
At this, Sendoh felt that he was struck by lightning. What more should he say?
"I've come here to ease myself for the damage you've given me. I swore before Ikegami and Uozomi that I will make the team the best way I can, you can turn your back on that promise, you're not the captain. But I am, so I've come here regardless of the pain I am to face to tell you that you're free to do whatever that pleases you. And I hope you'll be satisfied."
"And so you give me permission to leave as I am to ask you, that's why I agreed to talk to you. Before you let everything I've said sink in your head and before we part, I want you to know that I'd be leaving Ryonan High and entering Shohoku High. On Friday I'll be bringing this news to the whole team thus I will never have practice with you again."
Sendoh smiled bitterly, it showed all the pain he bore.
"Then I grant you leave," said the captain.
"Don't wear that scornful smile you wear now. If only you know how much I hate to tell you this…" said Koshino.
Sendoh shook his head and said,
"Your own eyes have betrayed you. All they tell me is your urgent need to depart from me, who has won your heart by now? Since you avoided me?"
"Akira, could I change the past when my father knew of this? I hid his knowledge from you, yet I continued to walk with you in the midst of uncertainty, not knowing the price I was to pay and the lesson I was to learn. If I hadn't avoided you for long I would be thousand miles away from you and that would've killed both of us slowly." Koshino said all this wearily.
Sendoh still didn't know what to say. He was trembling. He held Koshino's hand as tears filled his eyes.
"What are you going to do?" Sendoh asked.
"I don't know, this may be a new beginning but I won't forget…and you?"
"I'd still be captain." He had never been this hurt all his life.
Tears streamed down Koshino's cheeks.
"Uekusa should be sub-captain after me, he had worked hard for it. He deserves it."
And so the two parted tearfully as the evening closed upon them.
A/N: So sad… and what a wicked cliffhanger! Again we will upload more often IF… we get enough reviews. That's all, Ja!
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