Author's Note 2: I cannot believe I am doing this now, I mean I do have other things on hand to do but I simply decided to revise this fic of mine, revamping it into something better. Well, here goes nothing and on a side note, the sequel up and running now.
Title: Lost and Found
Genre: comedy/general/romance
Rating: PG-13/ T
Pairing: Fujima Kenji/Sakuragi Hanamichi
Summary: Fujima Kenji and Sakuragi Hanamichi used to be childhood playmates; the two of them ended up losing contact with one another after some unforeseen situation occurred that resulted in Sakuragi's move from the neighborhood.
Disclaimer: No, I do not own Slam Dunk nor its' characters.
Chapter 9 – Epilogue
The budding relationship between one Sakuragi Hanamichi and Fujima Kenji continues to grow and blossom in the dark. They told no one of their actual relationship with one another, although Fujima had a nagging suspicion at the back of his mind that his friend, Hanagata Toru, might already have guessed it.
The reason why they opted to keep things quiet was mainly for two reasons, one of it being not wanting to test his parents' reactions without a fool-proof plan. Who knows how Fujima Kosuke and Miyako would take it if they just dump the bombshell piece of news upon them. They might like the redhead well enough at this point of time, but who is to say the same again once news of their son being involved romantically with the redhead came out into the open? True, the Fujima couple might not have anything against homosexuality but no one could be certain of how their reactions would be like when the one being involved in a homosexual relationship happens to be one of their sons.
Two weeks after Shohoku's victory against Ryonan in the Inter-High, Kanagawa Prefecture Tournament…the recovered Coach Anzai of Shohoku designed a training menu for Sakuragi Hanamichi separately from the rest of the team. Shohoku would be conducting a training camp for the impending National Tournament, and while the rest of the team members would be in the town of Nagasaki training with another school's Basketball Team.
Sakuragi Hanamichi would be training individually in Kanagawa under the scrutiny eyes of Coach Anzai, and the aid of one Haruko Akagi. He was going to be practicing jump shots, and the coach wanted him to practice a total of 20,000 shots in that two weeks time before the Nationals approached. As of current, the skills which Sakuragi Hanamichi possessed on the court include Lay-ups (finger-roll), Rebound, Dunk and also his unique way of doing free-throws (set-shots).
However, just relying on the above skills would not work in the long run and especially so if that is the case in the National level. Thus, Coach Anzai decided to enhance his skills further by getting him to pick up the technique of jump-shots. This began Sakuragi Hanamichi's incessant day and night training of jump shots from all three angles, left, front and right side of the restricted zone on the court.
"Pray tell, where on earth do you think you are going?" Fujima Kenji's voice from behind jolted the redhead out from his reverie.
"Eh… to practice…?" Sakuragi Hanamichi responded, dumbly.
Fujima Kenji felt his eyebrow twitching dangerously, as he fought against the urge to bash his boyfriend on the head. Oh, he knew his boyfriend had a whole load of stamina and strength available for disposal and it was far more than any typical human being out there but still…despite all those points, Sakuragi Hanamichi was only mortal. How could he be thinking about practicing again after being home for like only an hour?
"You're not going; your body needs to recover from its toll from the earlier training. Over-doing your training is hardly advisable; you are just going to have to trust me on this. Now go and get your Mathematics textbook, if you are so free…you might as well study together with me." Fujima Kenji stated in a no-nonsense tone of voice, leaving the redhead no room for argument.
"…" Upon the former words of studying, Sakuragi felt doom looming above his head. Then again, it would not do to try and sway Fujima over with his pleas to practice. The last time he did something like this, his boyfriend had thrown the ball to the back of his head before growling at him not to attempt anything reckless. Fujima Kenji had pulled his coaching card out on him, treating him as though he was one of the first years on Shoyo's Basketball Team, ranting and raving at his stupidity at over-doing his practices.
With a dejected sigh, the sixteen year old red-haired teen trudged over to where his boyfriend stood waiting for his response and set the basketball aside, reaching for his textbook instead. Next, he joined his boyfriend over at the dining table to work on his school's homework in silence. The downside of having a top scholar boyfriend was that he no longer could submit sloppily written homework to the school's teachers anymore, Fujima had taken up the role of being his private tutor and checked over all his answers before he could stashed his homework away.
While his friend may not be acting like 'Gori' on him, bashing him up whenever he failed to answer his homework questions…the former was exceptionally good at guilt-tripping him into putting in effort in his daily school work. All of these made possible simply because he, the ever prodigy in basketball despite being a rookie in this particular aspects, could not bear the thought of disappointing his boyfriend.
Fujima Kenji finally had a chance to witness the improvement in Sakuragi Hanamichi's basketball ability, three days before Shohoku was set to travel out to the town whereby the National Tournament would be taking place. His boyfriend had somehow managed to trap him down with his friend, Hanagata Toru, who was on the way to one of the sportswear store with the request of having a practice match with the Shohoku team.
The practice match was suggested by Sakuragi in a spur of a moment, and then somehow the topic was overheard by a first years from Ryonan High. It then proceeded to become a Shoyo-Ryonan combined team playing against the Shohoku Team. Quite an interesting experience for Fujima Kenji to experience, and he had to prevent himself from laughing aloud at the gob smacked look on his side of the team when Sakuragi Hanamichi scored using his first jump shot ever on the court, during the practice match. The expressions on Toru's and Ryonan players' face were priceless to say, and while he too was stunned by the sight of it. He was kind of expecting it too, overall to say, it was a refreshing experience for him.
"Good luck, Hana…" He murmured softly before turning his attention back to his science homework on hand, his boy-friend was now away for the National Tournament while he was busy prepping up his own team in preparation to the Winter Tournament to come in time.
~The end~
Date started: 2/3/2013
Date completed: 2/3/2013