Hello! I'm back! This is another Chapter of my first Slam Dunk fan fiction! Disclaimer: I do not own blah…blah…blah… you guys probably know the rest. Anyway, I'm excited. Let's begin!

"There were times when I look above and beyond
There were times when I feel your love is gone, baby
But everywhere I go, every smile I see
I know you are there smiling back at me
Dancing in moonlight I know you are free br
'Cause I could see your star shining down on me…"

Chapter 2: Welcome Back to My Life

"How's life?" Mitsui first decided to speak.

"Ok, I guess." She replied. "How about you?"

"Ok too." He smiled. "Do you want a drink?"

Aki nodded. Hisashi handed her a coke in can. When she took it, it slipped of her hand and fell to the ground. (We all know what happens when a Coke in any container falls or shakes right?) Anyway, Aki insisted in opening the Coke and guess what happened. Of, course, the Coke spilled on her hand and on the floor.

"I told you! You shouldn't have done that!" Hisashi laughed.

Aki frowned. Hisashi took a towel and wiped Aki's hand.

"Hey, Red-haired monkey!" Mitsui called out. "Clean this mess up!"

Sakuragi got a bit angry but Mitsui didn't mind him.

"So, why are you here?" Hisashi asked.

"I'm doing an article. So… I have to interview you!"

"Yosh! Let's start!"

"Why do you like to play basketball?"

Hisashi smiled. "Why do you like to do what you like to do?"

Aki frowned.

"I told you a lot of time before. You don't need a reason to like something. You like it because you like it."

Aki sighed.

"Hey, I didn't become part of the editorial in elementary for nothing." Mitsui boasted.

"Ok, ok. How about this. When did you start playing basketball?"

"Like you don't know the answer to that?" Mitsui smiled.

He remembered the first time he dribbled a basketball. He had a hard time controlling the ball at first but ever since then, he was playing basketball.

"Junior high." He replied.

Mizuhara wrote it down.

"I said junior high not first grade!"

>"Demo!"

"Hey, I'm the one being interviewed here!"

Hisashi felt lighthearted while he was talking to her. Though they haven't formally spoken for a long time, Hisashi felt comfortable with her. Funny though, Aki wasn't interviewing him anymore, she was telling him everything what happened to her that day. He smiled and laughed hearing all this. He asked himself so many times if this is a dream, but he knew. Aki-chan was really in front of him.

Finally, Aki decided to leave. Her friends who were waiting for her teased her because Aki talked to Hisashi the longest.
Just before she left the gym, Aki gave Mitsui a small wave of good-bye. Mitsui also raised his arm a bit and made a small wave. When Aki left, the other players began to tease him.

"Gee, Mitsui." Ryota giggled. "I never thought you were a magnet to girls."

"Yeah, Miyagi's right!" Sakuragi agreed.

"If I'm mistaken," Haruko said. "She's one of the brightest students of your batch."

"Probably Mitsui's girlfriend." Lukawa whispered.

"SHE"S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!"

The team whispered to each other; "Denial." "Liar." Etc.

"Anzai-sensei." Mitsui looked at his mentor.

The white-haired Buddha like coach just smiled.

"Akagi, Kogure, tell them she's not my girlfriend!"

"Okay, okay. Tell them Akagi-sempai." Kogure laughed.

"She's not Mitsui girlfriend…YET!"

The whole gym burst in laughter. (Including Lukawa? Yes, including Lukawa…)

When Hisashi Mitsui was about to go home, he saw in his things a notebook. It was Aki's. She must have forgotten it. He thought that he'd just give it to Aki on his way home. "After all," he said to himself, "His home was just three houses away from hers. (It would be an excuse for him to see her…so he thought.)

He remembered that during his gangster days, he always passed by her house, but he seldom sees her. Only in school did he see her, usually while he was cutting his classes.

When he was near home, he saw Aki in her room listening to some music, while watching television, while doing her homework. He smiled. He held the notebook tighter. He decided to keep it for some time. Then he murmured something and went home.

END OF CHAPTER

"Tell me, why do people hide what they really feel inside?
Take what you can, do what you want to do. br

One step at a time
I love the way you don't care; how you have been programmed to live
I would follow you where ever you will go…"

Okay. That is the end of chapter 2. By the way, if you got questions just ask me okay! That's all for this chapter! Bye-bye! Ja-na!