A/N: ohh..how touching isn't it! just like in Dadada! The baby there called
Miyu and Kanata mommy and daddy. hehehehe ^_^
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Rukawa stared at the girl. " daddy." the little girl said again and tugged his pants. Helois sighed. " mommy, why wouldn't daddy carry me?" Iris looked accusingly at Helois. Everybody was speechless. " Iris, that's because he's not daddy." Helois said walking towards her sister. she was not ashamed but she was about to cry, experiencing such agonizing moment. Her little sister, innocent and naïve, is looking for their father but there's no way that he's coming back. He's dead.
She reached for her little sister but the girl just hugged Rukawa's leg who was too shocked to move. " no. he's daddy and I'm staying with him. daddy says he will not leave me." the little girl insisted. Helois crouched near her, ignoring curious looks from other people. " Helois." Anzai-sensei murmured. Helois looked at her oyaji-san. Helois' shoulders shook. She buried her head in her arms. " Iris, please listen to me.he's not daddy.you got it? daddy's dead and he's not coming back." Helois sobbed. " no.this is daddy. See, he looked just like daddy." Iris pointed at Rukawa's face. Helois looked up and Rukawa felt his heart being squeezed when he saw tears in those blue eyes.
Helois looked at her sister. " Iris you must understand.he's not-" Helois said but she was interrupted. " ok, I'm your daddy. Come here, angel." Rukawa said and picked Iris up. Helois was shocked and so as everybody. " what the-." Helois was speechless. " daddy!" Iris giggled and hugged Rukawa tightly around the neck.
Akagi smiled at the scene before him. " kitsune? Daddy? Weird." Hanamichi said. " Rukawa-san-." Helois stood up and stammered. " its ok. She can call me daddy." Rukawa said. " gomen nasai. Don't worry. I will tell her to stop calling you-." Helois started to rumble but she paused when Iris took her hand and Rukawa's hand. " I now have a mommy and a daddy! Yehey!" she cheered. She then smiled and rested her head against Rukawa's chest. " daddy." She murmured.
" Helois! Dressing room." Yohei tapped her shoulders. Helois wiped her eyes and nodded. " domo." She said and walked away with the team. Anzai-sensei smiled at Rukawa. " Rukawa-kun?" the old man asked. " un?" Rukawa replied. " arigatou gozaimashite." Anzai-sensei said. " Do ishtemashites." The pale boy said. " ok guys, you can relax a little. The team will just prepare themselves. Ja ne." Houjo-san said and left.
Rukawa was immediately surrounded. " wow! Who melted your stone-cold heart, Rukawa? Helois or Iris?" Hanamichi asked. " do'aho." Rukawa said. " baka kitsune." Hanamichi retorted. " she's so cute!" Ayako cooed. " it is ok if I call you daddy? I call onessan mommy because she looks just like mommy." Iris said. " well." Rukawa started. " don't you dare break her heart, Rukawa or bench for three weeks." Akagi threatened. " ok." Rukawa said. Iris smiled. " oyaji-san! I have a new daddy!" Iris cheered. " that's right Iris." Anzai-sensei laughed. " Rukawa-kun, can I hold her?" Ayako pleaded. Rukawa looked at the girl in his arms. " you want to go with her?" he asked the girl while tucking a stray strand of those silky black hair. " who is she?" Iris asked, looking at Ayako. " she's our manageress, Ayako-san." He answered. " is she kind?" Iris asked. " well. she can be a monster sometimes." Rukawa said and punch on head was given to him by Ayako and Ryota. " baka kitsune!" they said. " Hey don't hurt daddy." Iris said and massaged the sore part of Rukawa's head. It felt so relaxing. " aw, how sweet." Maki said. " can I hold her?" Fujima asked. " you want to go?" Rukawa asked the girl. " he looks like Oniichan." Iris said and held her hands out to Fujima. The older boy took her with expertise.
" that's the result of having a baby brother in the house, ne Fujima?" Hanagata asked him. " Kentaro might be the same age as you are, Iris. How old are you?" Fujima asked the girl in his arms. " Oniichan said that I'll be five this spring. What's spring?" Iris asked. " it's the season after winter." Kiyota said. " what's winter?" Iris asked again, looking more confused that ever.
" winter is the time when everything is white." Sendoh suddenly said. " white? Like snow?" Iris asked her grandfather. " hai, Iris." Anzai-sensei said. " Ma." Iris nodded. " daddy, what's spring?" Iris turned to look at Rukawa. Everybody stared at him. " well, it is the time when the snow is gone and tiny green plants and colorful flowers started appearing again." Rukawa said. Akagi sighed. He was thankful that Rukawa knows a lot about baby talk.
" I wanna skate." Iris said. " oh, so you wanna be like your sister, er, mommy." Koshino said. " hai. She gave me my very first skates when I was." Iris paused, signaling no. two. " oh." the boys murmured. Anzai-sensei took something from her bag. Rukawa thought that it was the key chain but no. it was a pair of light blue skates made just for the feet of a five-yr-old girl. Anzai-sensei gave it to Rukawa." Come. let's wear your skates." Rukawa said. Fujima gave the girl to him and he made her sit on his lap. He took off her school shoes and smiled seeing her Beauty and the Beast designed socks.
" onessan gave them to me. She said I'm as pretty as Belle." Iris said and wiggled her feet. " you are prettier than her." Rukawa told her. " oniichan said so. But onessan said that I'm just as pretty because." Iris paused and smiled. " what did mommy say?" Rukawa asked her. Everybody stared at him. even the couches smiled. " you called her mommy!" Iris clapped. Rukawa blinked. Thank Kami-sama that he was not blushing. " mommy said that she's the prettiest and I only come in second because I'm still a little girl." Iris said. " she told you that?" Kogure smiled. " hai! But she said that once I grow up like her, she will gave me her crown and be the prettiest." Iris said and giggled.
" daddy?" she asked. " hmm?" Rukawa answered as he slip the other skate into her left feet. " I wanna be like mommy. She's so pretty and so good in ice skating and so good in everything. will I grow up like her?" Iris asked him. she looked up to meet his gaze, sapphire met sapphire. " well, if you'll be a good girl then you'll grow up like her." Rukawa told her.
" Akagi, I never thought Rukawa can be so soft." Uozumi said. " yeah. First time." Akagi answered. Jin went to Anzai-sensei. " Anzai-sensei, do you have a picture of Iris with his mom and dad?" Jin asked the old man. " oh yes." Anzai-sensei said and gave him a picture with five persons in it.
it was remarkably true that Rukawa looked like the man cradling the two-yr- old Iris and Helois looked just like the woman beside him. Jin thought he saw Fujima but it was Helois' older Brother, Hiro. The photo was taken two years ago. The picture passed on to every person in the room. " see, that's big daddy. He looks just like you." Iris told Rukawa. Rukawa nodded. he looked intently at the man in the picture. it is true that he really looked like the man.
The door opened and Helois' head pocked in. " Iris, you are being fetched now." she said then disappeared. " I don't want to go home." Iris told her grandfather. The door opened again and they saw the older version of Fujima walk in. Iris jumped off Rukawa's lap and ran towards the man. Before she can reach him, she tripped.
" Iris!" Rukawa yelled. Everybody was shocked. " Iris." the man bent down. The lips of the little girl quivered and then she started to cry. " wahhhhh!!!!" the little girl wailed. " oh, oh, oh, oh. come here, baby. Don't cry." The man took Iris and embraced her. the little girl was still crying. The man went towards them with a smiled in his face. He bowed at everybody and smiled specially to Rukawa. " it hurts! Am I going to die?" the little girl sobbed. The man giggled.
" no, Iris. You're not going to die. come on, stop crying now. see, there's daddy watching you." the man said. Iris suddenly stopped wailing and looked at Rukawa. " da..daddy, it hurts." She sobbed. The man gave Iris to him and went to the first aid cabinet. There was a small scratch on her knees. " its nothing. Here, I'll blow the pain away." Rukawa said and blew soft air unto her wound. " am I gonna die?" she sobbed. " no." Rukawa said. the man came back with wound-cleaning materials.
" how bad is it?" Anzai-sensei asked. " just a scratch, oyaji-san." The man said. " here, let me see your wound." he said. he held her knees and shook his head. " you are realy clumsy, don't ya know?" He said. " it hurts." The girl said. " it will be gone soon." The man said and cleaned her scratch. After cleaning her wound, he held out colorful band-aids to her. " ok, what color?" he asked the girl. " blue!" she said. The man smiled and plastered the protective sticker above her wound. " there! All patched up! now you're going to die." the man said. " arigatou, oniichan!" she cheered and hugged the man. " ne.Iris.I can't.breathe." The man choked. " Iris, enough." Rukawa said. the girl complied and kiss the man's cheek. " aw, how sweet." He said. then he noticed the people around him.
" gomen nasai! I'm Tachibana Hiro, Helois and Iris' older brother. Hajimemashite! Dozo yoroshiku!" he greeted with a smiled. " yoroshiku!" they responded. He looked at Rukawa and smiled. " so, my clumsy little sister has found another daddy to pair up with Helois, e." He said. it was Rukawa's turn to blush. " don't they look good together?" Takuta-sensei asked Hiro. " well, he looks like dad and Helois looks like mom and everybody believed that they look good together so I think they might." Hiro said.
" you think they look good together? As far as I know, Helois is considered as the Ice Princess in her class because she, just like Rukawa, doesn't want to talk to anybody." Mitsui said. " how did you know that?" Hanamichi asked him. " I've been watching her to know if she's related to Anzai- sensei." Mitsui told him. " oh." they said. " oh that! true. Helois is snooty and quiet. She rarely talks to anyone but she opens up to special persons. Her distance from people grew when our parents died, not wanting anyone to radiate any emotion from her so no one will suspect that she's weak deep inside." Hiro said. " oh." they murmured.
" does she have a boyfriend?" Sendoh asked. " I've just said it. she remained distant from everybody in particular. She would not let any members of the opposite sex near her unless three meters away. Except for her former ice-skating partner, Mike Hemilton and of course, me and oyaji- san." Hiro said. " and what about Yohei Mito?" Ryota asked. " oh, Yohei too. they meet two months ago here and started skating as partners." Hiro said. " what about girl friends? Does she have any?" Ayako asked.
" well, she belongs to a tight circle of friends though they are only four of them. Her best friends were Erika James, Sandra Wayne and a Japanese girl named Daidoji Maho. She and Erika are into Ice Skating while Sandra and Maho are into Gymnastics. I don't know how they became friends but the three girls seemed to have found the way into my sister's heart. She's a very complicated person." Hiro said.
" how old are you?" Hikohichi asked. " well, I'm 6 years older that Helois." Hiro said. " then you're already 22? Where did you study college?" Maki asked. " I graduated from a school in America." he said. " wow." They murmured in awe.
" so, she's like Rukawa." Kogure murmured. " oh that. she can be really short tempered sometime but she's pretty quiet. People say her distinctive characteristic adds up to the mysterious aura surrounding her personality." Hiro said.
" eherm." somebody cleared his/her throat. They looked at the door and saw Helois standing beside it. her brow arched. " done telling people my shortcomings, Oniichan?" she asked. " Heil! come!" Hiro said and ran towards her. he placed his arm over she shoulders and led her inside. " look at it." Hiro told her. Helois' eyes narrowed when Iris tried to hide her wounded knees but tough luck, her sister's eyes were quick. " what did you do again Iris?" Helois said worriedly, kneeling down to check it. " I tripped when I saw oniichan." The girl said.
" I told you to be careful." She told her. " sorry." the girl said. Helois sighed. " oh before I can forget, you must line up to get your skates." She told the others. Anzai-sensei took Iris from Rukawa and told his team to line up.
when four teams were lined up, they followed Helois through the hallway to the ice skating rink. They quickly felt the sudden change in temperature so some of them zipped their jackets to prevent cold conquering their body. The players took their skates and put them on. after that, Houjo-san called them and started assigning the students to their designated sensei.
" Akagi and Jin, you are assigned with Shizu-san. Rink 1." Houjo-san said. " Maki and Mitsui, you are assigned to Takabayashi-san. Rink 1." She continued. " Uozumi and Hasegawa, Ashikawa-san, Rink 2." She said. and so on and so forth. Kogure and Hikohichi are assigned at rink 2 with Ishiki Hanna. The rest went to their designated rinks and rink 2 is full. Even Helois' brother, Hiro joined the group. Only Fujima, Hanamichi, Sendoh and Rukawa are left with Yohei and Helois behind them.
" Fujima and Sakuragi, you go with Yohei-san, rink 1." Houjo-san said. " what? You?!" Yohei and Hanamichi exclaimed altogether. " good luck." Sendoh mouthed to Fujima and the boy just sighed and followed the bickering boys. " ok, it looks like you Sendoh and Rukawa are left with Helois, then." Houjo-san said. " yes." Sendoh whispered. " Tachibana-san, you take care of these boys. They are the ace-players of the team." The woman told Helois. " I'll break their bones if you want." She said with a monotone voice. The woman smiled and went away. Helois faced her students, to her dismay, it was the non-vocal Rukawa and the smiley of Ryounan Sendoh. She sighed. " let's go." She murmured.
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Rukawa stared at the girl. " daddy." the little girl said again and tugged his pants. Helois sighed. " mommy, why wouldn't daddy carry me?" Iris looked accusingly at Helois. Everybody was speechless. " Iris, that's because he's not daddy." Helois said walking towards her sister. she was not ashamed but she was about to cry, experiencing such agonizing moment. Her little sister, innocent and naïve, is looking for their father but there's no way that he's coming back. He's dead.
She reached for her little sister but the girl just hugged Rukawa's leg who was too shocked to move. " no. he's daddy and I'm staying with him. daddy says he will not leave me." the little girl insisted. Helois crouched near her, ignoring curious looks from other people. " Helois." Anzai-sensei murmured. Helois looked at her oyaji-san. Helois' shoulders shook. She buried her head in her arms. " Iris, please listen to me.he's not daddy.you got it? daddy's dead and he's not coming back." Helois sobbed. " no.this is daddy. See, he looked just like daddy." Iris pointed at Rukawa's face. Helois looked up and Rukawa felt his heart being squeezed when he saw tears in those blue eyes.
Helois looked at her sister. " Iris you must understand.he's not-" Helois said but she was interrupted. " ok, I'm your daddy. Come here, angel." Rukawa said and picked Iris up. Helois was shocked and so as everybody. " what the-." Helois was speechless. " daddy!" Iris giggled and hugged Rukawa tightly around the neck.
Akagi smiled at the scene before him. " kitsune? Daddy? Weird." Hanamichi said. " Rukawa-san-." Helois stood up and stammered. " its ok. She can call me daddy." Rukawa said. " gomen nasai. Don't worry. I will tell her to stop calling you-." Helois started to rumble but she paused when Iris took her hand and Rukawa's hand. " I now have a mommy and a daddy! Yehey!" she cheered. She then smiled and rested her head against Rukawa's chest. " daddy." She murmured.
" Helois! Dressing room." Yohei tapped her shoulders. Helois wiped her eyes and nodded. " domo." She said and walked away with the team. Anzai-sensei smiled at Rukawa. " Rukawa-kun?" the old man asked. " un?" Rukawa replied. " arigatou gozaimashite." Anzai-sensei said. " Do ishtemashites." The pale boy said. " ok guys, you can relax a little. The team will just prepare themselves. Ja ne." Houjo-san said and left.
Rukawa was immediately surrounded. " wow! Who melted your stone-cold heart, Rukawa? Helois or Iris?" Hanamichi asked. " do'aho." Rukawa said. " baka kitsune." Hanamichi retorted. " she's so cute!" Ayako cooed. " it is ok if I call you daddy? I call onessan mommy because she looks just like mommy." Iris said. " well." Rukawa started. " don't you dare break her heart, Rukawa or bench for three weeks." Akagi threatened. " ok." Rukawa said. Iris smiled. " oyaji-san! I have a new daddy!" Iris cheered. " that's right Iris." Anzai-sensei laughed. " Rukawa-kun, can I hold her?" Ayako pleaded. Rukawa looked at the girl in his arms. " you want to go with her?" he asked the girl while tucking a stray strand of those silky black hair. " who is she?" Iris asked, looking at Ayako. " she's our manageress, Ayako-san." He answered. " is she kind?" Iris asked. " well. she can be a monster sometimes." Rukawa said and punch on head was given to him by Ayako and Ryota. " baka kitsune!" they said. " Hey don't hurt daddy." Iris said and massaged the sore part of Rukawa's head. It felt so relaxing. " aw, how sweet." Maki said. " can I hold her?" Fujima asked. " you want to go?" Rukawa asked the girl. " he looks like Oniichan." Iris said and held her hands out to Fujima. The older boy took her with expertise.
" that's the result of having a baby brother in the house, ne Fujima?" Hanagata asked him. " Kentaro might be the same age as you are, Iris. How old are you?" Fujima asked the girl in his arms. " Oniichan said that I'll be five this spring. What's spring?" Iris asked. " it's the season after winter." Kiyota said. " what's winter?" Iris asked again, looking more confused that ever.
" winter is the time when everything is white." Sendoh suddenly said. " white? Like snow?" Iris asked her grandfather. " hai, Iris." Anzai-sensei said. " Ma." Iris nodded. " daddy, what's spring?" Iris turned to look at Rukawa. Everybody stared at him. " well, it is the time when the snow is gone and tiny green plants and colorful flowers started appearing again." Rukawa said. Akagi sighed. He was thankful that Rukawa knows a lot about baby talk.
" I wanna skate." Iris said. " oh, so you wanna be like your sister, er, mommy." Koshino said. " hai. She gave me my very first skates when I was." Iris paused, signaling no. two. " oh." the boys murmured. Anzai-sensei took something from her bag. Rukawa thought that it was the key chain but no. it was a pair of light blue skates made just for the feet of a five-yr-old girl. Anzai-sensei gave it to Rukawa." Come. let's wear your skates." Rukawa said. Fujima gave the girl to him and he made her sit on his lap. He took off her school shoes and smiled seeing her Beauty and the Beast designed socks.
" onessan gave them to me. She said I'm as pretty as Belle." Iris said and wiggled her feet. " you are prettier than her." Rukawa told her. " oniichan said so. But onessan said that I'm just as pretty because." Iris paused and smiled. " what did mommy say?" Rukawa asked her. Everybody stared at him. even the couches smiled. " you called her mommy!" Iris clapped. Rukawa blinked. Thank Kami-sama that he was not blushing. " mommy said that she's the prettiest and I only come in second because I'm still a little girl." Iris said. " she told you that?" Kogure smiled. " hai! But she said that once I grow up like her, she will gave me her crown and be the prettiest." Iris said and giggled.
" daddy?" she asked. " hmm?" Rukawa answered as he slip the other skate into her left feet. " I wanna be like mommy. She's so pretty and so good in ice skating and so good in everything. will I grow up like her?" Iris asked him. she looked up to meet his gaze, sapphire met sapphire. " well, if you'll be a good girl then you'll grow up like her." Rukawa told her.
" Akagi, I never thought Rukawa can be so soft." Uozumi said. " yeah. First time." Akagi answered. Jin went to Anzai-sensei. " Anzai-sensei, do you have a picture of Iris with his mom and dad?" Jin asked the old man. " oh yes." Anzai-sensei said and gave him a picture with five persons in it.
it was remarkably true that Rukawa looked like the man cradling the two-yr- old Iris and Helois looked just like the woman beside him. Jin thought he saw Fujima but it was Helois' older Brother, Hiro. The photo was taken two years ago. The picture passed on to every person in the room. " see, that's big daddy. He looks just like you." Iris told Rukawa. Rukawa nodded. he looked intently at the man in the picture. it is true that he really looked like the man.
The door opened and Helois' head pocked in. " Iris, you are being fetched now." she said then disappeared. " I don't want to go home." Iris told her grandfather. The door opened again and they saw the older version of Fujima walk in. Iris jumped off Rukawa's lap and ran towards the man. Before she can reach him, she tripped.
" Iris!" Rukawa yelled. Everybody was shocked. " Iris." the man bent down. The lips of the little girl quivered and then she started to cry. " wahhhhh!!!!" the little girl wailed. " oh, oh, oh, oh. come here, baby. Don't cry." The man took Iris and embraced her. the little girl was still crying. The man went towards them with a smiled in his face. He bowed at everybody and smiled specially to Rukawa. " it hurts! Am I going to die?" the little girl sobbed. The man giggled.
" no, Iris. You're not going to die. come on, stop crying now. see, there's daddy watching you." the man said. Iris suddenly stopped wailing and looked at Rukawa. " da..daddy, it hurts." She sobbed. The man gave Iris to him and went to the first aid cabinet. There was a small scratch on her knees. " its nothing. Here, I'll blow the pain away." Rukawa said and blew soft air unto her wound. " am I gonna die?" she sobbed. " no." Rukawa said. the man came back with wound-cleaning materials.
" how bad is it?" Anzai-sensei asked. " just a scratch, oyaji-san." The man said. " here, let me see your wound." he said. he held her knees and shook his head. " you are realy clumsy, don't ya know?" He said. " it hurts." The girl said. " it will be gone soon." The man said and cleaned her scratch. After cleaning her wound, he held out colorful band-aids to her. " ok, what color?" he asked the girl. " blue!" she said. The man smiled and plastered the protective sticker above her wound. " there! All patched up! now you're going to die." the man said. " arigatou, oniichan!" she cheered and hugged the man. " ne.Iris.I can't.breathe." The man choked. " Iris, enough." Rukawa said. the girl complied and kiss the man's cheek. " aw, how sweet." He said. then he noticed the people around him.
" gomen nasai! I'm Tachibana Hiro, Helois and Iris' older brother. Hajimemashite! Dozo yoroshiku!" he greeted with a smiled. " yoroshiku!" they responded. He looked at Rukawa and smiled. " so, my clumsy little sister has found another daddy to pair up with Helois, e." He said. it was Rukawa's turn to blush. " don't they look good together?" Takuta-sensei asked Hiro. " well, he looks like dad and Helois looks like mom and everybody believed that they look good together so I think they might." Hiro said.
" you think they look good together? As far as I know, Helois is considered as the Ice Princess in her class because she, just like Rukawa, doesn't want to talk to anybody." Mitsui said. " how did you know that?" Hanamichi asked him. " I've been watching her to know if she's related to Anzai- sensei." Mitsui told him. " oh." they said. " oh that! true. Helois is snooty and quiet. She rarely talks to anyone but she opens up to special persons. Her distance from people grew when our parents died, not wanting anyone to radiate any emotion from her so no one will suspect that she's weak deep inside." Hiro said. " oh." they murmured.
" does she have a boyfriend?" Sendoh asked. " I've just said it. she remained distant from everybody in particular. She would not let any members of the opposite sex near her unless three meters away. Except for her former ice-skating partner, Mike Hemilton and of course, me and oyaji- san." Hiro said. " and what about Yohei Mito?" Ryota asked. " oh, Yohei too. they meet two months ago here and started skating as partners." Hiro said. " what about girl friends? Does she have any?" Ayako asked.
" well, she belongs to a tight circle of friends though they are only four of them. Her best friends were Erika James, Sandra Wayne and a Japanese girl named Daidoji Maho. She and Erika are into Ice Skating while Sandra and Maho are into Gymnastics. I don't know how they became friends but the three girls seemed to have found the way into my sister's heart. She's a very complicated person." Hiro said.
" how old are you?" Hikohichi asked. " well, I'm 6 years older that Helois." Hiro said. " then you're already 22? Where did you study college?" Maki asked. " I graduated from a school in America." he said. " wow." They murmured in awe.
" so, she's like Rukawa." Kogure murmured. " oh that. she can be really short tempered sometime but she's pretty quiet. People say her distinctive characteristic adds up to the mysterious aura surrounding her personality." Hiro said.
" eherm." somebody cleared his/her throat. They looked at the door and saw Helois standing beside it. her brow arched. " done telling people my shortcomings, Oniichan?" she asked. " Heil! come!" Hiro said and ran towards her. he placed his arm over she shoulders and led her inside. " look at it." Hiro told her. Helois' eyes narrowed when Iris tried to hide her wounded knees but tough luck, her sister's eyes were quick. " what did you do again Iris?" Helois said worriedly, kneeling down to check it. " I tripped when I saw oniichan." The girl said.
" I told you to be careful." She told her. " sorry." the girl said. Helois sighed. " oh before I can forget, you must line up to get your skates." She told the others. Anzai-sensei took Iris from Rukawa and told his team to line up.
when four teams were lined up, they followed Helois through the hallway to the ice skating rink. They quickly felt the sudden change in temperature so some of them zipped their jackets to prevent cold conquering their body. The players took their skates and put them on. after that, Houjo-san called them and started assigning the students to their designated sensei.
" Akagi and Jin, you are assigned with Shizu-san. Rink 1." Houjo-san said. " Maki and Mitsui, you are assigned to Takabayashi-san. Rink 1." She continued. " Uozumi and Hasegawa, Ashikawa-san, Rink 2." She said. and so on and so forth. Kogure and Hikohichi are assigned at rink 2 with Ishiki Hanna. The rest went to their designated rinks and rink 2 is full. Even Helois' brother, Hiro joined the group. Only Fujima, Hanamichi, Sendoh and Rukawa are left with Yohei and Helois behind them.
" Fujima and Sakuragi, you go with Yohei-san, rink 1." Houjo-san said. " what? You?!" Yohei and Hanamichi exclaimed altogether. " good luck." Sendoh mouthed to Fujima and the boy just sighed and followed the bickering boys. " ok, it looks like you Sendoh and Rukawa are left with Helois, then." Houjo-san said. " yes." Sendoh whispered. " Tachibana-san, you take care of these boys. They are the ace-players of the team." The woman told Helois. " I'll break their bones if you want." She said with a monotone voice. The woman smiled and went away. Helois faced her students, to her dismay, it was the non-vocal Rukawa and the smiley of Ryounan Sendoh. She sighed. " let's go." She murmured.