Disclaimer: Unfortunatly…I don't own them…sigh..nope Rukawa neither!

Thnx for the reviews and the advice everybody. I think you already noticed that English isn't my native tongue. So I'm doing the best I can. Hope it's good enough for you guys. Anyway, I talk too much! Here's chapter 4!

Previously:

They walked out the locker room and saw the Shohoku team waiting. Yuki went to Akagi and shook his hand.

"Let's have a fair match, ne?"

Chapter 4: Let the game begin!

After everybody lined up and wished each other a good match, they huddled up and began to discuss their strategy.

Shohoku:

"Alright!", Akagi began, "Yasuda, you do the ball-handling. And Sakuragi…you only get the rebounds, nothing else! That means NO DUNKING!"

"Grr…how about that lame shot?", Sakuragi asked

"What lame shot? Oh…you mean lay-up? That's what Rukawa is for."

"RUKAWA?! ALWAYS RUKAWA!!!"

"…do aho"

"Anyway, we're playing man to man…so everybody mark your man…err…woman well."

Kusanagi:

background noise RUKAWA?! ALWAYS RUKAWA!!!

"Damn…that number 10 is loud!", Sakura said

"Yeah…sure is.", Yuki replied

"Anyway…we need a strategy!! Cause those big guys on the court sure are intimidating!", Ami said

"Yeah yeah…but I got a plan…", Yuki said, "...First we gonna…..and then….."

few minutes later

"Oooi!! You girls aren't ready yet??", Sakuragi said, "What, your nail broke? Nyahahahahha!!"

Everybody from Kusanagi glared at Sakuragi

"Grrr…yeaaah we're ready…damn is a little patience too much for you??" Yuki said and then turned to her team, "Alright everybody, got it??"

"Yup"

"Yeah"

"Uhhuh"

"Um…"

"sigh…which part didn't you understand, Ami?"

"Well, when Hakura goes this way, I'm suppose to go this way??" Yuki looked at her. She was making a lot of gestures with her hand. It looked pretty funny.

"No, Ami", Yuki replied "You're suppose to go that way after Sakura goes there, see?"

"Ooooohh… Right! Got it!"

"Good…oh, by the way, we're playing man to man, but we'll mark them half court though."

"Heey, what about our yell???", Hinata said

The girls stood in a circle where they reached out their right hand to the centre where all the hands met.

"1…2…3…"

"KU-SA-NA-GI!!!!"

"Alright let's do this!!!"

Everybody stood out of the circle except for Kusanagi's number 5 Hinata and Shohoku's number 4 Akagi.

"Ready?" Akagi challenged Hinata

Hinata glanced at Kusanagi's number 4, Yuki. They both nodded.

The ball went up high in the sky. Even though Hinata is a tall girl, she stood no chance against Akagi's height. He tapped the ball easily towards one of his teammates and it was caught by Yasuda.

"Good work, Akagi captain!", Yasuda thought, "Against this team, we cannot lose!"

Yasuda dribbled the ball. "Alright everybody! Positions and let's make this count!"

Once he was on Kusanagi's half court, Yasuda was guarded by Kusanagi's number 6, Ami. Really tight defense. Yasuda started to sweat. A girl never came this close to him. He felt really uncomfortable.

"YASUDAAAAA, PASS PASS PASS!!!!!"

Yasuda woke up from this trance. Ami noticed this and tried to strip the ball…but she failed. Yasuda quickly passed the ball to Sakuragi before Ami could recover. The ball never reached Sakuragi though. Hakura came in touch with the ball and it went out.

"Heey are you trying to stealing my glory?" Sakuragi started

"No, you have to catch that ball before having any glory..", Hakura stated

"Don't worry...This tensai can do anything NYahahahahahah!"

"Yeah? Catch that ball first…then we'll see."

"Shohoku ball!"

"Yasuda! Concentrate!", Akagi said

"H-hai!"

Kogure went to the sideline to take the ball.

"Ok…I have to make eye contact with Akagi for our special move to impress Kusanagi. We have to be the ones who score first!", Kogure thought.

All of a sudden Yuki whistled really loud. FUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuT!

"Team…let's rock!!", Yuki said and tightened her defence on Rukawa who wasn't impressed.

"Let's do this!" , Sakura thought and tightened her defence on Kogure who could hardly take the ball out.

"Allright!!!", Hinata thought and she too tightened her defence on Akagi who just smirked.

"Ugh…I hate this part..", Hakura thought but she to tightened her defence on Sakuragi who was to dense to even notice a change.

Only Ami wasn't defending.

"Ami! What are you doing!? DEFENSE!", Yuki shouted

"Oh! Right..sorry!", Ami said and tightened her defence on Yasuda who was sweating more then usually.

"What are they doing?", Ayako asked Anzai-sensei.

Anzai-sensei kept silent. He was thinking very deeply. "Kusanagi is already at this level…amazing!"

"Ayako-san…isn't that…pressing?" Haruko asked

"Well… now that you mention it…it is!", Ayako exclaimed "They want to force Shohoku to violate the 5 seconds rule!"

Dr. T:

When the ball goes out, you have to take it within 5 seconds. Otherwise the possession of the ball will go to the other team.

FIIEEETTT "Five seconds violation! Kusanagi ball!"

"Alright! It worked!", Yuki said, "Now it's our turn!"

Hinata passed the ball to Yuki and she dribbles towards Shohoku's court.

"Everybody! Positions!", Yuki shouted and she raised her fist in the air. Rukawa was defending Yuki, but not really tight so she had some room to dribble. Yuki's fist was a signal for Sakurato screen Rukawa out. Rukawa who was underestimating Kusanagi wan't fully in this game and didn't notice Amanda. Yuki paced up her dribble and went past Rukawa thanks to Amanda, cause he collided with her which slowed him down. Meanwhile, Yuki went for a lay-up. She took the two steps and went for a shot, but she was defended by Sakuragi who jumped to block her shot.

"You'll get past that kitsune, but never past me!!"

"Heh…I don't plan to", Yuki said. She faked the shot and passed it to Hakura. No one was defending Hakura at that moment, cause Sakuragi was still in the air. Hakura shooted…and scored.

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TBC…