"Love Me For Me"

Chapter.02 – "Making The Team"

A/N: Hi everyone! I am so sorry for the very late update! Alots been happening lately and so sadly I forgot about my fanfics! But I'm back and ready to comtinue writing again, so that's good news right? Thanks so much for the reviews, keep them coming!

"Class, I'd like you to meet a new student." The teacher announced, "Introduce yourself."

Kyo bowed politely and grinned, "I'm Ryu Hasunumi, nice to meet you all."

All the girls squealed as their eyes met with the handsome new transfer student.

"He'll be here part-time for awhile due to a special program at his old school across the contry. So make him feel welcome and help him around the campus, that'll be all. You can take a seat next to..."

The teacher pushed his glasses back a little while looking down at his clipboard. After awhile he looked back up, "Ms.Kimura."

The girls gasped and then giggled as Yukari's cheecks turned a bright red.

Kyo's grin grew even wider as he approached the desk next to her rival, 'This is too good to be true.'

She flashed one of her "sexy" smiles, just as Miaka taught her and offered Yukari her hand, "Nice to meet you miss."

Yukari's cheeks flushed even more and gave an awkward smile, "Nice-Nice to meet you too."

The guys arcoss them gave out a laugh and patted the guy next to him, "Whoa, you better be careful Chiharu."

When Kyo heard the name, "Chiharu" she immediately looked up and searched the room. Her eyes finally came to a quick stop at the desk across from her, there he was; the Chiharu Eniwa. He was just as she pictured him, spiky blond hair, sexy lips, chinky yet cute eyes, and the most famous of them all: his mole on the corner of his left eye. Kyo couldn't help but stare for awhile until her senses came back, 'What am I doing? I'm supposed to be a guy!'

"Doesn't bother me." Chiharu stated and turned his head the other direction.

"Eh? But she's your girlfriend!"

"Aw, drop it Hamaya." A guy in front of them stated.

Kyo looked at this "Hamaya" character, he seemed awfully familiar yet she couldn't place where. Her eyes continued to study the people in the room and stopped at the guy who was talking to Hamaya, he had the most gorgeous black hair and piercings in his ears. 'Whoa, he's so cool.'

Suddenly, the teacher quickly slapped his textbook onto the black haired guy's head, "That's quite enough, Mr.Yura."

The other kids laughed for awhile and continued to work on their work, except for Kyo who looked at these new faces, 'So his name is Yura...'

Lunch Time

"Phew, this is energy draining!" Kyo stretched her arms outward with her eyes closed.

"Hasunumi-San?"

Kyo opened her eyes and jerked back in surprise, in front of her was the entire population of the girls in her class, "Ah-Ah yes?"

'I'm a guy, I'm a guy, I'm a guy-' She told herself.

"Please tell us more about yourself, Hasunumi-San."

"Eh? Uh, please call me Ryu." Kyo stuttered, 'This is so weird.'

The girls giggled, "Ok, Ryu-Kun." They chanted together, "Please eat with us."

Kyo gave out an awkward smile, "S-Sure."

"Dang, I feel sorry for him." Kensuke stated as he chewed on his straw that was still attached to his juice box, "First day and he's swamped, but then again-" He looked toward Chiharu who took a bite out of his melon bread, "Good news for you huh Eniwa?"

"Mmp." Was all Chiharu muttered.

"Why can't I be the 'sorry' one?" Hamaya asked while choking back on tears, "But they usually swamp you too Yura."

"Hmm? Well I guess so." Kensuke's concentration was dead set on Kyo, "Ryu huh?"

"Ryu-Kun, are you trying out for any clubs?" A girl asked.

"Uh, yeah I was thinking basketball."

Yukari coughed, nearly choking on her food, "Basketball?"

Kyo grinned, "Yeah, I heard the basketball team here is one of the best so I was hoping I'd give it a try."

Yukari stiffened, "The teams are all filled up, if you want to get into the teams now then you'd better be good."

"Oh yeah? Makes everything even more interesting."

The girls squealed, "He's so cool!"

Kyo blushed and stuttered, "No-No I'm not-" The girls just smiled making Kyo worn-out and give up, "If you say so."

After School in the Gym

'So this is the world famous basketball team huh?'

Kyo's gaze wandered around the gym until she saw a tall guy with long brown hair, 'Whoa!'

"Ah, it's you."

Kyo turned around head first into someone's chest, "Ah-I'm so sorry!" She quickly backed up, "Eh? Yura-San..."

"It's ok, and please don't be so formal. Call me Kensuke." He smiled, "Here to try out for the team?"

Kyo blushed, "Uh, yeah."

'God, I don't sound like a guy at all!'

"Well the captain's over there, hey Imai!"

The guy with the long brown hair turned and smiled and started walking towards them, "Hey Yura, who's this?"

Kensuke smiled and put his hand on Kyo's shoulder, "This is Ryu Hasunumi, and apparently he wants to join the team."

'Ack-Remain calm!' Kyo forced herself to smile like a guy, "I'm Ryu Hasunumi, it's nice to meet you."

Imai smiled, "Nice to meet you too, I'm Imai Hisashi the captain of the mens basketball team. Let's see what you can do."

Kyo grinned, "Yes sir!"

After everyone got there and everyone was suited up and ready to go Imai gathered everyone into a group, "Ok team, Ryu here wants to get on the team so you all know what to do. Get into teams!"

Everyone moved into two teams leaving only Kyo and Imai, "Ok Ryu, why don't you be on the opposing team that Chiharu's in. If you can beat Chiharu's team then your in."

Kyo smilied, "Got it!"

"Ok, get ready. Set and go!" Imai blew his whistle.

Kyo jumped for the ball but Chiharu seemed to get there before her and passed the ball to Kensuke. Kyo ran after him and blocked his way but then Kensuke passed to Chiharu, just then Hamaya stole the ball, "Ryu!"

Hamaya passed to Kyo and she ran toward the basket, but Chiharu seemed to be blocking the way, and behind him was Kensuke. They stood there dead silent for awhile until Kyo had an idea. She dribbled her way around him with an incredibly fast speed and jumped on top of Kensuke's face and dunk the ball, "Yes!"

"Haha, nice job!" Imai smiled and patted her on the back, "Your on the team!"

Everyone crowded around Kyo to congradulate him, "Haha, it was nothing."

Watching was the girls who sat on the bleachers, "Whoa, he's hot and good at basketball!"

"Yeah, he even made Chiharu look so un-cool!"

"Shh, Akari!"

"Oh, I'm sorry Yukari I didn't mean it in a bad way."

Yukari continued looking down at the guys for awhile and then slammed her fist on the bench.

The girl whispered into Akari's ear, "I told you."

"Ah, Yukari as the boy's basketball team manager I should tell you that Chiharu's the best on the team so don't worry about it!"

Akari was a perky girl, who always had her hair in two pig-tails, her smile was her greatest feature.

"Yeah, I know. Sorry for erupting." She got up and walked away and out of the gym.

"I still don't know why Chiharu would go out with her." The girl said sighing.

"She is one of the prettiest girls in the whole school, not to mention one of the best women basketball players in the state." Akari stated, and then sighed, "But I don't get it either. They don't even act like they're going out, plus sometimes she needs a personality check. I think Emiri would make a much better girlfriend for Chiharu."

"Eh?" A girl with short black hair jerked, "Me-Me?"

"You like him, don't you Emiri?"

"Well, I guess." She blushed as she looked down below, "But there are people who're better."

"Eh! Someone new?" Akari asked, "Let me guess! Yura Kensuke?"

Emiri blushed, "N-No, I don't want to say."

"Aw, come on it's just us three."

"Yeah, we'll keep it a secret." Akari winked, smiling.

"Um, ok. It's Hamaya Shinji."

"Aw!" Akari smilied and held Emiri's hand, "Why don't we set you up?"

The other girl nodded, "Yeah, you two would look so cute!"

Emiri smiled, "You-You think so?" Emiri blushed, "Ok!"

They giggled, "Okay, operation 'Cupid' is now officially on!"

School Dorm

"I'm so tired." Kyo sighed, "But it's great how I pulled it off!" She smiled, "It's just getting started!"

"I love a boy with such high spirit."

Kyo opened her eyes, "Eh-eh? Ah! I'm sorry I was spacing out."

The woman smilied, "It's okay, hi I'm Ayaha Natsumi the house mom. You must be Ryu Hasunumi."

'Wow, she's so pretty, she's like a model!'

"Ye-Yes, thank you so much for having me."

"Haha, not at all. Please come this way."

They went into the building and went up the staircase, "The first floor is the kitchen and bath, and upstairs are the rooms. Your room is on the third floor, you'll be sharing it with another person. I hope that's all right."

"Ah-yes, it's fine." Kyo stuttered as they approach the room.

"Okay then, I hope you find everything alright. I'll be downstairs if you need me."

Kyo bowed, "Thank you very much."

She smilied and went back downstiars.

Kyo sighed, 'Sharing huh? This is going to be tough.' She took a big gulp and opened the door, "Here goes nothing."

"Hi, I'm Ryu Hasunumi! It's very nice to meet-"

"Huh?" The boy turned around half naked.

"You-You!" Kyo blushed and pointed, "Your-"

A/N: Wow, an extremely long chapter for all of you out there! I guess it's my subconscious way for making up for the late update. I hope you all enjoyed it, of course reviews are always wanted and welcomed. Please keep reading! I'll update as soon as I have time again.