Slam Dunk

Tittle: A wish

© 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 16: Mitsui's protection

They all laughed in a one-rented restaurant, having a feast of their own. Actually it was just for cheering Rita. Mitsui was besides her laughing while the couples were on the other side. "Cheers!" They said and drank. Rita smiled and drank.

"We won!" Sakuragi yelled in the big room, "We won!! We won!!" "You mean Mitsui won," Ryouta reminded back. Sakuragi patted Rita on the shoulder, "Don't worry, Rita. You have us." Her eyes widen and smiled, "Arigatou." She stood up and headed to the toilet. "Where you going?" Mitsui pondered and she giggled. "Do you have to ask that?" She turned to him; "I need to go the comfort room." He blushed and saw her entering the toilet. The others laughed at him. "Hey!"

Rita washed her face and looked herself in the mirror, "Am I doing the right thing?" Then tears turned out again. "I don't have a family now…" She looked up the mirror again and realized something, "I must be strong."

Riva was at the airport with Diva waiting for their parents. "Welcome, mum dad." "How was it?" Their mother asked. "Did she agree to come with you?" Their father added. They raised up their eyebrows, "Actually she didn't pay attention nor obeyed us." "She what?" Their father barked. "For all the years I took care of her, she disobeyed?" Their mother added. "I know her place and you can scold her all you want," Riva said.

"How are you now?" Mr. Anzai asked Rita. She bowed him; "I am fine now, thank you, sensei." She turned to the players and stopped when Mr. Anzai called her. "Rita, remember this: 'We are your family'." She smiled and nodded, "Arigatou!"

"Let's play!" Kou raised up her fist in the middle of the game court. "Yosh! I've been waiting for that," Kazeno barked up in the gym. Rita had a wide smile, "Okay, I won't lose this time." She had a high spirit. She ran through the gym with Mitsui on her side.

"Rita!" Kogure threw the ball to her. "Yeeha!" She said happily and scored 3 point shoot. She high ten to Mitsui, smiling. He thumbed up, "Good. You are getting good." "That's because you are my tutor!" She said back running to defense. "Shake it to right, shake it to the left. Go Kogure's team!!" Miyuki jumped through the air with her pom-pom. "Miyu nee-san!!!" Kou and Kazeno barked angrily to her in chibi; "You are supposed to be cheering our team!!"

Ryouta looked at Mitsui with irritated eyes in chibi; "You're having a great mood today." He smiled to him, "Am I?" "That's because Rita is cured," Rukawa added in chibi and Mitsui barked angrily to him, blushing. "That's not it!"

"What are you guys mumbling there?" Rita said angrily under the ring with Kou and Kazeno. "Keade, we need to win! Win!" Kou claimed fisting in chibi and Kazeno agreed. Rukawa and Ryouta shared a big sweat drop behind their heads. Rita ran towards Mitsui and he had a question mark dragged out from his head. "What were you thinking?" She was so close to him and he blushed. She turned to her members, "Okay guys, here's the deal, if we lose this game. I'll have to kick your buts." She had transformed into chibi that everyone crashed down, "I am not joking."

Kou and Kazeno grumbled in the corner and transformed into chibi discussing. "What's with them?" Rita pointed at them with dotted eyes and the boys shrugged. "You can't kick Tensai's butt!" Sakuragi crossed his arms and Mitsui happened to kick his butt. "How's that?" he said in chibi and everyone sweat dropped. "Damn you Mitchy!"

"Okay, here's our deal!" Kou and Kazeno pointed Rita in chibi; "If we win…" Everyone was waiting. "… Everyone will watch you and Mitsui kissing under the Sakura tree!" They jumped up and down happily throwing blossoms all over the place. Everyone crashed down but Mitsui and Rita was blushing red with dotted eyes. "Stop joking with me!" Rita barked angrily with veins popping out from her temple. "How's that, groups?" They weren't paying attention to her, they were looking at their team mates, "We are sure you all look forward to watch them kiss." "Kou! Kazeno!" Rita yelled angrily from behind with her head bigger than her body.

"Hey, that's romantic," Sakuragi thought, "Might as well lose." "Sakuragi!!" Mitsui yelled angrily from behind blushing. Kogure had a sweat drop while Miyuki was giggling. Isamu was, uh, chuckling looking forward in watching their kissing. Mitsui and Rita sulked with vertical lines on their faces and dark aura surrounded them. They were in the middle of the court and blushed when they had a look at each other. Akagi mushroom breathed, "Kiddies…" Mr. Anzai was drinking and grinned, "Ho! Ho! Ho!"

"Everyone is on our side," Kou stuck her tongue out towards Rita, who was steaming up. "I'll kill you, Kou!" She ran towards her in chibi, "Come here!" Kou was running away laughing. "No! No!" Kazeno corrected, "You need to win not to kiss Mitsui." Mitsui boiled up listening the word 'kiss'. "This isn't fair!" She stomped like a giant with veins popping out from her fist, "Mitsui is a just a friend."

"A friend that loves you," Ryouta added a few yards away in chibi and everyone gased at them. Quickly, Mitsui kicked him high blushing as usual, "What do you know?" Rita, all of a sudden, stopped and turned facing to the gym door. She sweat dropped for some reason and her expression transformed in a second into scared.

"Shohoku?" Riva's mother crossed her arms entering in the school. "Bet she's hanging with Rukawa Kaede, am I right?" The father pondered. The girls giggled, "Rita is a dirt bag, I won't think Keade would be interested in her." "But," Diva corrected, "That Mitsui… he protected her…" "Protect? Puff," The father laughed, "No one protect a dirt bag."

Rita had the instinct that her parents were near. She had sweat drops and walked backwards. She ran off and everyone was baffled. Mitsui grabbed her arm, "What's the matter, Rita?" When she looked up to him, he saw tears.

"Let me go, Mitsui!" She pleaded, "They're here!" "Who's here?" An eyebrow shot up and said, "Your parents?" "You don't know my father well," She sobbed, "Let me hide… or run…"

"Hide? Run?" A deep voice echoed in the gym and everyone turned to him, "I don't think so!" They saw evil grins from 4 people on the gym door. Rita's eyes widen and turned to them shocked, "Mum?! Dad!?" "You gone to Tokyo doesn't mean you can escape from us," Her mother's cruel voice pierced into her ears and more tears turned out. She looked down.

Mitsui's calm look changed into furious and barked; "What are you doing here?" "Getting our right," The father replied and walked towards him. Everyone was scared and looked at his move. The father was holding something in his pocket and Rita saw it. "Rita come nicely," He said, "You know what is the consequences if you disobey…" "Aw… common Rita, we took care of you all your life and this is your gratitude?" If we didn't, you'd end up with the thrash out there," the mother laughed with the sisters, "Which suits you well." Mitsui clenched his teeth, "Stop-!" Rita pushed him and ran towards her father that no one could see her eyes. All they saw was flowing tears on her cheeks. "Rita?" He questioned.

The father smiled in an evil way and put out his right hand from his pocket; "Good, that's what I want from you!" He quickly grabbed her hair and she screamed making everyone worried. "Rita!" Mitsui tried to run after her but stopped when he saw her trembling eyes and voice. "Don't Mitsui," She pleaded with her eyes filled with tears; "You don't have to help me..." She had a fixed smile, "You don't have too..." "Why?" He asked back, "I did promised you that I would protect you, don't you remember?"

She stopped and looked at him with shocking and reminded expression. "I care about you more than just a sister;" He confessed and she smiled happily yet she was still crying.

"Care? To a dirt bag?" The mother repeated and puffed out laughing; "Impossible!" "Rita is not dirt bag!" At last, Kou and Kazeno barked angrily in the corner fed up of their insults. All members agreed. "Rita is a pretty and kind-hearted girl. She doesn't deserve a family like you," Someone added. "Right? You don't have any right," Another said and made them feel a little scared.

"Let her go!" Mitsui demanded angrily walking towards them. The father clenched his teeth and pointed out a gun to him. Everyone gasped and paused when they heard gunshot. "If you get near, I'll shoot you," he yelled through the Gym and the girls gasped. He threw Rita on the floor and pointed the gun on her forehead; "But first I'll kill her since she is just a worthless girl."

"You go, Dad," Riva and Diva cheered happily. "You are over limit, Rita. You've raisen up your father's temper," The mother showed evil eyes; "I've always wanted to see you die and vanish in front of my eyes permanently." Everyone was surprised, what mother would say that to her own daughter?

"You're running on my patience," the father claimed angrily and was ready to pull the trigger. Rita's eyes were wide open. Mitsui had sweat drops, "Wait a second, why do you want to kill your own daughter?" "Ain't that obvious?" The father replied back chuckling, "She's not my daughter! She never was!" Rita looked at him with a shocking look, 'Not his daughter? Then who's daughter am i?"

"Her father was my rival so killed him to replace his richness while her mother died of my wife's poisonous drink," he explained laughing. "How can that be?" Miyuki asked curiously from the corner, "Her older sister look nearly the same as her. As if they are twins." Everyone in the gym agreed. "Heh..." the mother smiled proud and flung her hair back, "Her mother has the same looks as her..." "Could it be?" Kazeno snapped after a gasp, "The case 15 years ago..." "What case, Kaze-chan?" Ryouta pondered from her left. She turned to him, "Parents stole a woman's skin and look for the advantage of their daughter." Everyone gasped.

"You're good," the father looked at her and she hid behind Ryota feeling scared. 'He killed my father and she poisoned my mother...?' Rita thought angrily and fisted. She stood up and everyone looked at her stupidly. She slapped her father in slow and repeated motion with serious and angry expression, "How dare you?" Her eyes still filled with tears and anger. "You dare lie to me all this years?" She hit him again and again. She never had been so brave and furious to slap and hit her father. The father was furious and pointed the gun to her temple, "I'll shoot you!"

"Shoot me!" She agreed, "I never did like my life!" She shut her eyes with tears on her cheeks, 'I am coming, mum, dad.'

"Rita!" Mitsui jumped over Rita and pushed her away in slow motion as the father pulled the trigger. The bullet passed them and headed towards the mother. She gasped and the bullet passed through her chest. Haruko and her friends shut their eyes while the sisters' eyes widen. The mother burst blood out from her mouth after the bullet hit her. "Mum!" They yelled and walked to her. The father sweats dropped surprised and looked angrily at Mitsui, "You..."

"Mitsui?" She turned as he was protecting her. "I won't let you touch her!" His protection words pierces into her ears. "Mitsui..." She smiled happily.

The father was so furious that he would shot everyone in the gym. "Play game is over," Sakuragi kicked him off in chibi; "Bastard!" The gun was hurled away and Rukawa stepped on it that it crushed. "You're late!" Mitsui complained in chibi; "You should done that earlier!" "Hey, you should appreciated that the flower of yours is not dead yet!" Sakuragi barked back.

Rita smiled looking at her favourite characters and new tears turned out. She suddenly lost consciousness and everyone yelled, "Rita!" 'Mitsui, thank you...'

To be continued

Will Rita end finely?

What will await them?

Chapter 17: Sendoh's and Fujima's return. Who will prevail in this love triangle?

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