A SLAM DUNK FAN FICTION

BY: SAKURA RIU

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After the Heartbreak I

(A Nobunaga Kiyota Story)

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AU: This a sequel to Genius' Sister... a year after Kiyota let go of Veniz. Disclaimers applied!

CHAPTER 1: I'm Failing Chemistry!

KAINAN

Nobunaga Kiyota walked along the corridors of Kainan. It's been a year of the day he had to let go of his beloved angel Veniz Sakuragi. Who is Veniz Sakuragi? She is Hanamichi Sakuragi's twin sister and he fell in love with her only to lose to the one and only Rukawa Kaede. The guy he wanted to beat. However, Kaede is now in the states and the point of defeating him is gone.

So how is he is now? He's doing good, he's now a sophomore. His best friend Jin Souichiro is now the Captain ball of Kainan. He didn't make it as a Vice Captain since he's still a sophomore. Takasago Kazuma became the Vice-Captain. Kiyota remained a Small Forward but his jersey number is no longer number 10. He has Jin's jersey number and that is jersey number 6. Jin is now jersey number 4, Maki's former jersey number.

If you're going to ask in academic, Kiyota is doing fairly well in it except in Chemistry. How he hates Chemistry and that god dammed teacher who drone on in his boring lecture. Kiyota made a point that he would go on with his life. It was very hard to give up Veniz to the guy he loathed but he knows that no matter what he do, Veniz would love only Kaede Rukawa.

A year have passed, Kiyota now have recovered from the pain, he is ready to face a new love like there is one! Okay, there are girls in Kainan that drools over him, but none of those girls are worth it. None of them stand the chance of being a new Veniz Sakuragi in his life.

Kiyota made it a point that if he's going to find a new girlfriend, somehow or way or another, that girl would be like Veniz. She would be like angel and so far none of the girls that drools over him is like an angel to him. Actually, they were more of a plague! The reason why he is late to some of his classes is due to these admirers who keeps to hog him along the way to ask a date or a picture or his phone number.

Jin suffer the same thing but he is lucky to get away from those admirers and Kiyota wonders how he can do it. Jin smiled at Kiyota as the young man walked into his classroom.

"Whoah, no admirers to hog you?" Jin asked. Kiyota exclaimed, "It must be my lucky day!" Jin laughed and said, "That's the burden of being the next Maki Shinichi! All of Maki's fans turned into Nobunaga Kiyota fans after he left for college!"

"I'm not sure if I'm going to accept that as a compliment or as an insult!" Kiyota exclaimed with a raised eyebrow. Jin shrugged and exclaimed, "Just take it as a challenge!" Kiyota shrugged his shoulders as he settled to his seat. Then he noticed a box wrapped in blue paper.

Kiyota picked it up and read the card attached to it:

Kiyota-kun!

Ohayou! It's me Ria Masahara, I hope you like my gift!

Lots of love,

Ria-chan

Jin looked over the card and asked, "Ria Masahara? Ain't she the head of the cheer leading squad?" Kiyota nod his head and said, "Yeah, she always give me gifts. Take note, all of them are tad expensive!"

"Why not? She is the daughter of Hideki Masahara the corporate CEO of Ryuuseigun Corporation, a business firm in Tokyo! She's very rich and she's very much in love with you!" Jin pointed out. Kiyota unwrapped the gift and opened the box. It contained a crystal figure of his face.

Kiyota wide-eyed exclaimed, "Sugoi! I don't believe this! She actually have my face carved in crystal!" Jin nod his head and said, "Yeah, she's really into you Kiyota. So are you going to reciprocate?"

"I don't know Jin... I mean... you know I can't be bought by expensive gifts! I'm not like that" Kiyota exclaimed looking doubtful. "Just say that Ria Masahara don't fit in the Veniz Sakuragi category!" Jin pointed out.

Kiyota nod his head and said, "Something like that. I know she's popular, beautiful and a good a cheerleader like Veniz but she's not an angel!" Jin gave him a puzzling look and exclaimed, "She looks angelic to me!"

"Looks can be deceiving Jin! I mean, rumors are going around that Ria step on other peoples shoes just in order to be on top!" Kiyota pointed out. "Rumors are rumors Kiyota! I don't believe you believe in such crap!" Jin exclaimed in disbelief.

"You know what, I think you're interested in Ria Masahara, you're defending her!" Kiyota exclaimed teasingly. "No i don't! You know I like Mia Yoshiku!" Jin exclaimed punching Kiyota lightly on the arm. Kiyota laughed saying, "Hey I was joking Jin!"

The two laughed, their laughter stopped when their Chemistry teacher Junta-sensei came in. Jin bade Kiyota goodbye and left. Junta-sensei and his thick brimmed glasses greeted sternly, "Ohayou Gozaimasu!"

"Ohayou sensei!" the class greeted. Junta-sensei eyed the class and exclaimed, "I'm very disappointed with your test results! Only few of you passed it!" with that Kiyota groaned.

Junta-sensei then distributed the test papers. Kiyota's paper landed on his desk with big fat F on it. Kiyota groaned even more. "Kuso! I'm failing Chemistry!" he exclaimed in his mind. Junta-sensei went back to his desk and exclaimed, "I'm going to have another quiz tomorrow, I want you all to ready for it!"

"Another quiz? Why this big idiotic teacher! I can barely understand his lectures and he's going to give another quiz?" Kiyota cried in his mind. At that moment he wanted to clobber his Chemistry teacher. Junta-sensei opened his book and started on his lecture.

Kiyota stared at his watch and tried to listen to the lecture but it was tad boring. At the moment he wanted to get out of the classroom and do some shoots in the gym. He can't wait for the basketball season to come. He can't wait to face Shohoku all over again, better to face Ryonan!

The bell rang. Kiyota nearly jumped for joy. Chemistry was over! Junta-sensei dismissed the class, as Kiyota was about to leave, Junta-sensei called him.

"What's wrong sir?" Kiyota asked. Junta-sensei exclaimed to him, "Mr. Nobunaga! May I remind you we already have 3 quizzes and among those 3, you haven't passed a single one! If you continue this, you might flunk this subject and technically pull out of basketball!"

"WHAT?!?" Kiyota cried in disbelief. "You know the rules, you have a flunking grade, you have to be pulled out of your co and extra curricular activities until to passed that flunking mark!" Junta-sensei pointed out. Kiyota made a fist and exclaimed, "I understand sir!"

Junta-sensei exclaimed, "Study for the next quiz Nobunaga! You're dismissed!" with that Kiyota walked out of the classroom fuming.

KAINAN GYM

Jin noticed that Kiyota's shots kept on missing. Jin tapped Kiyota on the shoulder and asked, "Something wrong buddy? Your shots kept missing the hoop!"

Kiyota sighed and said, "Sorry about that Jin... I just received a terrible news from Junta-sensei" Jin grabbed him by the shoulder and demanded, "Don't tell me he's flunking you?"

"He's not Jin, well he might if I don't pass any of his quizzes!" Kiyota replied gloomily. "Darn it Jin! I can't afford to flunk Chemistry! I'll be pulled out of basketball! I can't let that happen!"

Jin sighed and replied, "Kiyota, you're flunking one of the easiest subject!" Jin gave him a weird look and exclaimed, "Are you mad Jin? Chemistry easy? For you of course it would, you're good at Chemistry! According to Junta-sensei you passed Chem with flying colors!"

Jin blushed and said, "Uh yeah..." Kiyota shook his head, "I'm not like you Jin, I'm no genius at Chemistry!" with that he raised his hand towards the sky and exclaimed, "I need a miracle!"

"No Kiyota you don't need a miracle!" Jin replied. Jin stared at him asking, "I don't?" Jin nod his head and answered, "Yes, what you need is a tutor Kiyota Nobunaga!"

"A tutor?" Kiyota exclaimed in surprise.

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TO BE CONTINUED

AU: Kiyota-kun needs a tutor! I wonder who will it be? Hmmmm.....

R&R please!