Disclaimer: Slam Dunk, and its original characters do not belong to me. It belongs to Inoue Takehiko. All the unoriginal characters in this fic are mine, though. What If, A Fling and A Love Within Three Hearts is a trilogy. If you haven't read the other two stories, read those first.
A/N: I have been abandoning this fic (and all my other fics) for a long time (gomen everyone), well... that time I lost my inspiration to write, and then now that two years have passed, I decided to go back and reread my old fics at (I've been back at countless of times, but only to read HP and sometimes Paradise Kiss and Hana Yori Dango, fics), imagine my surprise when sometimes I can't believe that's what I wrote. That shows how bubbly I was before, because almost all my stories have this bubbly thing in it. Maybe it's because, when I first started writing fics, whether slam dunk, HYD, Harry Potter, I was still in high school, where everything is sweet (though sometimes not), naive, innocent (though I'm rarely called innocent due to my love for yaoi) and I hate saying this, but high school is easy, and now as I grew up (I'm now in my second year in university), I'm not as bubbly as I was when I was in high school. It's almost as if angst has ridden in my life (not to mention that my boyfriend dumped me when I started uni and now is going to be married to his new girlfriend, and although now, a year later, I'm over him, it still hurts a little bit to acknowledge the fact that he has somebody new while I'm still single as I can't find any guy that caught my fancy and the uni population didn't help with only 1/4 boys and 3/4 girls, and with the science faculty (my faculty) having the least number of boys in all its programs), and in my program, Biological Sciences, there's NO BOYS at all! And back to the fic, 'A Love Within Three Hearts' caught my fancy, and it tugged me to write the next chapter, even though I haven't been watching/reading slam dunk for two years. I reread all three stories (i.e. What If, A Fling n A Love Within Three Hearts) to see where I should continue and how the plot should go. (My favourite: What If). And so, this is my attempt in a continuation, and I hope all of you who have supported me like this attempt. :D Also, a note to Raei Dagger, thanks. Your review for What If? (the one long time ago) was also the one that inspired me to make this attempt.
By: Amyza
Chapter 12
Keisuke grinned as he saw his two good mates, Hanagata and Fujima counting their money in their respective wallets.
"I still can't believe the both of you still betted that she can't score 40 points on her own," Keisuke said and grinned.
"Oh, come off it, Kei, you do know that we did that to stimulate her competitive skills," answered Fujima.
"And it did work!" Hanagata supported. "And speaking of bets, you lost that bet with me,"
"Tsk, shame on you, Kei, not trusting your own sister's abilities," Fujima scorned.
"Hey, she was dealing with all these Kaede-Len thing, I thought that would affect her scoring," Keisuke defended himself. "Guess I'll have to pay you guys 15,000 yen. Here!"
Keisuke paid up 15,000 yen to Hanagata, because Hanagata's the one who betted with him.
Hana came out to the living room after Keisuke paid up the bet, looking all freshened up.
"Ah, Kenji-nii-chan, Toru-nii-chan, since you said I can pick the place..." Hana smiled cheekily.
"Yes we did," sighed Hanagata, wishing now that they didnt tell her that.
"So, let's go to, umm... Starbucks!" Hana said happily. "I want to drink some mocha latte and eat some nice stuff!"
Hanagata and Fujima sweatdropped.
Fujima thought, 'Uh, there goes my allowance,'
Hanagata thought, 'there goes the money I won from Keisuke'
"Uh, all right," answered Fujima. Considering that the nearest Starbucks cafe near their place is well... they need to take the monorail to go there. And thus, that means, they have to pay for Hana's ticket as well.
Starbucks
The two tall cagers and Hana sat at a very excluded booth, away from prying eyes.
"Ne... the place is very peaceful, just what I need after a totally exhausting practice," Hana sighed.
"Physically exhausting or mentally exhausting?" asked Hanagata.
"Or both?" asked Fujima.
"Both, up to a point where sometimes I said to myself, 'oh my god, get me out of here!'" answered Hana. "During practice, Ryocchin placed me in the same team as the twins, its easier, coz i can just pass to any of them, and u know, do our normal three-combo play, but Ryocchin can't make up his mind whether to put me in Kaede or Len's team if the twins play separately."
"So, I had to play three times, first, with the both of them, and then, rest, and then, play with Kaede's team, and then play with Len's team," continued Hana.
"The only good thing coming out of it is that I get more practice than usual, and there's two people helping me at shot practices, because now I do 1200 shots daily" Hana grinned.
"And that's why you want to drink a big shot iced decaf mocha latte,eat lasagna followed by tiramisu?" asked Hanagata.
"Don't forget the New York Cheesecake, Toru," added Fujima.
"Never mind, I'm gonna metabolise all these tomorrow anyway," answered Hana. "But I do want to go find Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream later coz I have a craving for ice cream."
"Don't they serve ice-cream here?" asked Fujima. Surely they do, right?
"naah, I want Ben & Jerry's," answered Hana.
Fujima and Hanagata can only sighed.
"Ok, now spill about those two, which one do you gravitate more now?" asked Fujima.
"That's the funny part, I'm gravitating towards and away from the both of them," answered Hana. "It's like, I'm so with the both of them, I can't make up my mind."
"Plus the fact that Anzai-sensei has asked us to forget our differences for Inter High, so, the three of us are making the best situation possible," replied Hana.
"I was thinking of suggesting them share me for a while, demo..." Hana mumbled.
"even though it's for inter high, I feel that asking them to share me is the least painful and yet, most selfish of me," Hana finished.
"Hmm..." sighed Fujima.
"With this annoying problem of mine, I can't believe how easy it is for Kei-nii-chan to juggle his girlfriends, and changes them like changing his clothes," said Hana out loud.
"And it's a good thing that the both of you are so in love with each other that you can't find a girl worth tearing the both of you apart," Hana grinned.
Fujima and Hanagata looked at each other, i.e. really looked at each other.
"Uh, Hana, Toru and I aren't gay," Fujima denied.
"Yup, the both of us are totally straight," confirmed Hanagata. "We fancy girls."
"Yare yare, that's what they ALL say before they came out of the closet," Hana sighed, and grinned cheekily.
"Young lady, it seems as if you've been reading too much YAOI manga and watching too much homosexual romances," said Hanagata.
Hana chuckled, and said, "Yah, Toru-nii-chan, blame it on 'Latter Days' and watching 'Queer As Folks', not to mention 'Love Mode'."
"Please, kami-sama, bring us the real Hana here!" Fujima mockingly pleaded.
"And Hana, this evening is supposed to be about you, not Keisuke, not us," said Hanagata sternly.
'God, how can I look at Kenji...' he sighed.
"Ah, Hana, how many months did you go out with Rukawa?" asked Fujima.
"Which Rukawa?" Hana sked.
"Oh right, I mean, how many months did you go out with Kaede and how many months did you go out with Len?" asked Fujima again.
"Hmm... Len, I went out with him for a month, and broke up because even though both of us wanted the long distance relationship, we know we couldn't handle it, so, we took the best possible way, break up. With Kaede... hmm... we started going out before we went for Inter High, after beating Ryonan, hmm.. no, after our stupid retests, ah no, after Ryu-nii-chan came back for his vacation, until well.. until I went to America and him to Under-16 All Japan, and everyone knows that stupid reason we broke up," answered Hana.
"So, you had more time with Rukawa Kaede than Rukawa Len," Hanagata concluded.
"Yeah," Hana answered.
"What's the difference between the love you feel for the both of them?" asked Fujima.
End of Chapter 12 - Read and Review, people!
A/n:
'Latter Days' - a gay romantic movie concerning a very saintly guy of mormon beliefs falling in love with a 'devil', i.e. a gay man. Very cute and romantic. I like it very much. Set in L.A.
'Queer As Folk' - a gay drama series involving a close knit gay and lesbian friends. Set in Pittsburgh. Like it very much as well.
'Love Mode' - a yaoi manga as in, VERY YAOI. But it's also sweet and cute sometimes.