Slam Dunk

© Rita Valentine aka Resha Yukira

Disclaimer: This is not reality but it is dedicated to my friends! ^_^

*bows a hundred times* Gomen nasai… Gomen nasai… sorry for the long wait.

A wish

Chapter 15: Friends and Mitsui

"What do you mean I can't do anything? Just tell me. I'll try my best to cure you." He demanded, suddenly he heard sobs, "Rita?" "Nothing can cure me," She refused, her voice was different, as if she was crying, "Do you really want to know? My life's like hell before I came here with the girls. My family hates me and treats me like a dirt. Nothing, just like a dirt. They always insult me in either way. No one loves me, okay? That makes me cry always." She looked at him and had tears, not just drips, real tears that Mitsui haven't seen before, as if the tears hasn't burst out for a long time. "I have lack of love ever since I was born."

Mitsui was amazed, seeing those tears. "Rita… I…" "Laugh all you want, Mitsui. These tears are too much, aren't it?" She said looking down, "I had never cried this heavily nor showed it to anyone. You're the first one.""?" Mitsui flinched and held her shoulders.

"Lack of love is a very hard to feel. My parents tottered me, my older sister insult me, my younger sister humiliated me," She added looking down, "I can't get real close with my friends in school because my sisters had said that I'm not to be trusted and say bad things about me. When I feel like crying, I couldn't let it burst out in front of people. Why? I don't want to feel weak in front of them. All I do is smile all them, acting I'm fine with it. But I wasn't. Mitsui, now you see you can't cure me." She sobbed, "Now you see the reason I treated you bad, I'm so sorry Mitsui. But every time I get mad at you, I would start telling you my past… I don't why but maybe you care about me."

"Rita…" He held her shoulder tighter, "It's all right, I just didn't know…" "Don't look at me like that," She looked away, "I'm such a fool to cry, aren't I?""No, you're not," He corrected and grabbed her shoulders again facing him, "Look at me, Rita. Look at me." She was still crying looking down, she didn't dare look at him."Look at me, Rita," he demanded angrily and she looked up at him slowly, "You can cry all you want, I don't blame you." Her eyes widen but she was glad he said it so. He was the first one who said she should continue her cry. "Mitsui!!" She yelled and grabbed his clothes and pushed herself to him, crying even more.

An old women, from Rita's country stomped angrily on the kitchen table speaking in their language of course, "Where the hell is that Rita? It's been 3 months she hasn't return. She dare go without our permission. Honey, should you find her?" She looked at her husband, an old bald man. He had an evil grin, "I got the tickets, I think two of our girls can do the job. Right, Riva" A long purple hair nodded from the dark aura, "Of course I can. I can even trick her friends." She looked exactly like Rita but she had an evil grin, came from her own father, "Together with Diva here, nothing can go wrong." Diva was her younger sister, she's only 11, and acts like a real teenager and women, but she doesn't fit it well. She is very pretty but has a dark heart. She has brown long hair, and nearly looked the same as Kou, yet her face tells it well that she always has a bad theme of her own. So beware of her.

"Ah.. Gomen nasai, Mitsui…" Rita pulled back herself after a one hour cry. [X.x.. is that long? I cried abt 3 in a half hours once..] She wiped her tears, "This is too embarrassing…" She fisted. "Too embarrassing?" Mitsui repeated, "I don't think so." He smiled and made Rita frowned, "What? That's not embarrassing. You were just confessing your feelings that haven't gone out." He raised his fist, "From now on, you can tell me all your problems, I'll help you anything in any way. Nee… Ms. Rita." She smiled, "Arigatou.." "I like that smile, it's more than just an innocent smile. It's more from your own heart. You even look more cuter," He said and laughing, he actually was saying the truth though.

"Mou… Urusai naa…" She blushed trying to slap him but he avoided it. "Chk¬, can't reach me," he said back and stick his tongue our, "Baaaaa…" "Teme!!" She was mad and rushed to him from behind, "I'll get you, Mitsui." "Isn't that Mitsui-kun and Rita-kun?" Miyuki wondered as she spotted Rita trying to hit Mitsui. "Hate to say it, but yeah," Isamu replied irritated.

"Come here, you Missy," Rita yelled. "She looked happy…" Miyuki said serious and smiled, "Let's go away." Isamu agreed.

The next day, near the porch of the Shohoku School. Sakuragi was singing with his gundan, as usual. "Ora wa Tensai Sakuragi Hanamichi." "Urusaiiii," Ayako scolded him from the hall door, "Is there any song you can sing instead of that?" "No.." He replied and hid behind Haruko, "I like that song, and the tune is great." "Hana-chan…" Haruko said calming him down. "Ohaiyou," Mitsui greeted from the porch and looked left and right, anxious to see someone, "Ano… where's Rita?" "Looking for Rita? Early in the morning?" Ayako teased him and he blushed but he blushed even more when she reminded the date last night. "She was pretty, that's the only clue I'm going to tell you," Mitsui replied irritated.

"You making a relation ship with Rita?" Kou and Kazeno popped out of no where were jerking their heads to him. He squeaked and scolded them, "Don't scare me like that!" "Me and Isamu saw them in the park," Miyuki said from behind, "They were having so much fun." "Miyuki-san," he blushed.

"Oro? Why didn't you all just go in?" Rita wondered walking in the porch of the school and Kazeno together with Kou jerked their heads to her in chibi, "How's last night?" She smiled, "It was great. Crying for an hour got me better." She spotted Mitsui and blushed looking down. "Crying!?" They repeated with dotted eyes. Mitsui looked at her, kinda a disappointed way, he somehow think that she doesn't like him. Somehow he thinks that she only like him as an older brother. He then walked away.

"Mitsui-san," She called him and he turned, "Thanks about last night." "Sure…" He then continued to walk in. "Mitsui-san?" She stupidly pondered, "Doushta?" "Did you kiss him goodnight?" Kazeno and Kou, as usual, jerked their heads to her. She blushed and hit them with the paper fan that Ayako set up, "Stop joking."

'She just treats me like a sibling,' Mitsui looked at Rita up front and sighed, "What can I tell her?" "Tell who?" He crashed down from the chair when Rita turned to him, "Nani? Nani?" "You shocked me," He said with sweat drops. "Nee… nee…" She forced him to say. "There's nothing I have to tell you," He said in a cold way. "Mitsui-san?" She looked up at him, he was walking away from her.

"Konnichewa," Rita greeted in front of the gym door and the other members was glaring at her angrily and some looked disappointed of her, "What's with everyone?" She turned to Ayako, "How's the members?" "They say they are disappointed in something." "?" She looked everyone and one approached her, "How dare you?" "Excuse me?" She asked back. "How dare you make fool of us in front of the other girls?" A question mark dragged out from her head, "Fool? When?" "Oh, stop bluffing," Her classmate; Kari crossed her arms, "You told us about them. Why, I didn't realized you aren't that honest that your friends said." "Ano naa…" Ayako walked forward, "You don't have the right to talk ill here to my friend."

"What's the meaning of this?" Every member was in rage looking at her. Her eyes widen and dashed out the school looking for someone. She panted, "She must be here already. I know it." "Rukawa-kun, are you sure you're asking me out tonight?" Kou asked back to Rukawa as he was feeling strange for her. He just nodded. Rita saw her evil grin and grumbled walking towards her, "Diva?" She looked at her, she was mad but she just smiled, "Rita, what are you talking about? I am-" Rita slapped her angrily, "Diva, what are you doing here?" "Rita-san?" Rukawa questioned curiously and Kou running to him from behind, "Kou-chan?"

"You may look nearly the same as Kou but you never will be the same the real cute, kind Kou," Rita had tears yet she hid. Diva smiled, "You should be ashamed of yourself to come here without father's and mother's permission." "Dare?" Kou pointed her and Rukawa just shrugged in chibi. "I didn't you would differentiate between me and your adorable friend; Kou," She crossed her arms through her chest, "When father's and mother's reached here, you will get your punishment harder than before." She turned and looked up at Rukawa, "It's a good thing, I look nearly the same as your cute girlfriend." He gazed at her angrily, "Stop joking." She smiled and walked away.

"She's braver than before," Diva fisted with a mirror look of Rita in front of her. "Braver? Wait until mum's here," She was Riva, the eldest and she was the one who spread everything.

"Rita? Rita?" "?" She looked to Kou and wiped her tears, "Oh…" "Thanks for telling Rukawa that she was your sister," Kou thanked holding Rukawa's arm tight. She smiled, "Oh… no probs. But you must be ware of her, okay?" They nodded and walked away. Rita looked the road, "They're here… at last… I knew it they would be here. I slapped her…" She looked up, "Mother would do something to me. I know it." Pebbles of tears turned out to be like worse soon.

Rita was in corner of the gym as every member was ignoring her. She didn't care less though but her heart ripped apart. She wondered what her sisters told them. "Rita, what are you doing here?" She heard Kogure and looked at him, "Mitsui-san's there, why don't you go there and practice to him?" She smiled, "Gomen ne, Kogure-san but I don't have any mood of playing now." "Mood?" Miyuki repeated watching an eye to Sakuragi with the help of Ayako, "You were having a good morning mood. What happened?" "Oh… nothing," She denied and Kazeno popped from behind on her shoulder, "He did kissed you, didn't he?" She looked down and Mitsui threw the basketball to her, blushing. "Stop making stories."

"I was just cheering her up," Kazeno said angrily and Ryouta hit his head. "Yeah, why you short-tempered old man. If you dare hit- Mitsui-san?" He kicked him away and then stared seriously at Rita, in the corner, "Rita?"

"Rita-san, what are you doing?" They heard Haruko's yelling on the gym door. "So this is the gym school," A voice nearly the same as Rita, yet deeper and sexier, ladish even. "Too big too be true," The other one added, she looked like Kou. "Rita?" Haruko questioned as she saw Rita in the corner and looked at the other Rita, "Who are you?" Riva was holding her arm tighter and she screamed. Riva apologized, she was just releasing her anger. She looked at Rita, "Meet you again at last, dear sister."

Rita was crying in the inside after seeing her oldest sister again, "Riva…" "Haruko-san," Sakuragi called and scolded her. Riva pushed Haruko to him, "Don't worry I won't do anything to that (bitch) Akagi Haruko. Ever since I watched her in TV, she's already a (bitch)." Mitsui looked confused but he wasn't the only one. "Who you calling her a bitch?" Sakuragi barked angrily at her. Rita stopped him, "I am sorry for my sisters' behaviour." "Rita?"

"Sisters?" "Yeah, my sisters." Rita was staring both of them, "Why did you come here? You came here to get me back, right? If so, don't include me friends in this." "Friends?" They burst out laughing; "You have no friends." Diva walked forward, "Don't all the members here hate you?" She flinched, "That's…" "We told them everything… uh… so embarrassing," Riva added and Rita can't stand to run away to cry. "You can not be trusted. You are also one of the bitches in the world," Diva insulted and Rita wanted to cry. She hadn't heard that word bitch from her for few months then and now she's saying it to her again?

"You don't have friends, okay, dear sister?" Riva claimed, "So stop wasting your time here to be nice and honest. Come back nicely. We are the only ones who 'care' you." Diva agreed, "No one loves you. You just have to stay in the house doing all those maids' doing." Rita fisted looking down, they insulted her so much but then she calmed down, "Fine. I don't have friends. I don't have love and have nothing. You rule me." She walked away and the two sisters were proud of their work.

"Who said you don't have friends?" They heard Mitsui barking through the gym. Rita turned and saw Mitsui grabbing her arm, "Who said you don't have friends?" Riva and Diva nearly gone off looking at Mitsui's angry eyes as they were looking at them, "They might say you don' t have friends," He barked again, "But actually you have friends and love." Riva laughed, "No one would like or love an ugly, bad luck girl like her." Diva walked to Rita and grabbed her left arm, "Come with us." "Rita, tell them you have friends and me," Mitsui demanded as she was looking down. "Rita, tell him that you are just a dirt bag and a stupid nerd," Diva added angrily. "Rita, you're life will miserable if you disobey us," Riva's voice deepen. "Miserable? Rita, if you obey them, you won't get happiness," Mitsui said and pulled yet Diva pulled her.

"Who will I choose? Mitsui or my only family? I have only one family that I had lived all my life. But Mitsui…" 'Cry all you want, I won't blame you…' Suddenly her pulled her left arm from Diva and pulled back beside Mitsui with her eyes filled with tears, "I have friends and Mitsui." She looked up at them with a different and confident look. "What?" Diva exclaimed shocked, "How dare you?" "Diva, you are younger than me, you don't the right to order me around," She was looking at Diva and then at Riva, "You may be older than me, but you don't deserve to be my older sister." They screwed up their faces angrily and turned away, "Our relationship stops here, don't you ever come to us. We're not coming back for you anymore." Riva walked away, "Oh by the way, dad and mum will be here soon so find reasons why you came here." She laughed with Diva beside her.

Rita looked down holding Mitsui's T.shirt tighter, "Now… I lost my sisters… I may lost my parents…" She started crying as the others could see crystal pebbles leaking down to the floor, "Mitsui… where can I go from now?" He turned at her and hugged her, "You have friends and myself so don't you worry, we'll be always be here for you." She cried onto Mitsui's chest crying.

To be continued

Is Rita's decision right?

Will Mitsui be with her always?

Chapter 16: Mitsui's protection