I'm soooooo sorry for not updating sooner. It's just that things are happening in my country and my history teacher has decided to add those events to our pile of homework. Oh well, you don't have to listen to my grievances…you all have enough of your own I'm sure. Here's the next chappie….I just finished reading all the GGG volumes so the characters will probably be a little bit more accurate. I emphasize on a little bit...ENJOY!

The referee whistled and the game continued….again. Kyo, somehow, managed to take the ball from one of her teammates and quickly passed it to Imai. He went through the tired opposing team members like a knife through butter. Before anyone could register what was happening, he scored a basket.

Scowling slightly, Mei arrived over to the other side of the court where the tall brown haired captain was about to make another shot. Mei ran at full speed towards the figure. She jumped off the ground, landing on his face, hard. While Imai tried to register the reason for the sharp pain in his face, Mei took the ball from his grasp and dunked it forcefully.

When a sore-faced Imai realized what had happened he scowled deeply. He'd managed not to fall on the ground but instead he rubbed his nose angrily, which was red with blood. He glared at the girls responsible for his pain. If there was one thing Imai hated about himself was his ability to intimidate his opponents without even trying (it made it too easy to beat them and Imai liked a challenge), but this time he was actually going to enjoy his ability. He was surprised stupid, however, when the girl he was glaring at simply stared back, smirked and then winked before turning around. Imai turned purple. For some reason this girl was being very successful at pissing him off!

The other team had possession of the ball. Imai changed this by ripping the ball right out of Ryo's (team captain) grip. Halfway to the basket he shot a three pointer and scored. This time it was he who smirked at the annoying chick. She looked furious, Imai was happy. After that, the game was a blur. It stopped being a game and became a personal grudge match between Mei and Imai.

Eniwa called for a time out. As the team gathered in a huddle he hissed angrily at Imai "What is going on between you and player #7?"

"She just pisses me off ok?" Imai snapped angrily.

Kyo blinked. She'd never seen Imai loose his cool before, much less swear. Leave it to Mei to piss a mellow guy out she thought to herself.

"Well" Yura stated "we're tied and there are 20 seconds left on the buzzer, and none of us wants to go on overtime". The rest of the team murmured in agreement.

"All right" nodded Imai while rubbing his left arm "I'll do my signature dunk".

"Your what?" Kyo asked puzzled.

"His super cool unstoppable signature move/dunk. Up until this day no one has ever been able to block it yet" Hamaya answered her, looking as if he was about to wet himself.

"Really?" Kyo asked both impressed and worried about Hamaya.

"Yeah…" to Kyo's surprise it was Eniwa who said this.

"Yeah" he repeated, "that could work".

"Ok" Yura said somewhat skeptical "let's win this" (ok so Yura sounds a bit cliché… get over it, he's hard to characterize).

The team left the huddle and marched onto the court with sober expressions. Kyo could almost hear the song Here comes the boom playing in her head.

Ryo hadn't said anything but Mei knew winning the game was up to her. The whistle blew (too quick for her liking) and she watched on as Imai ran towards the basket; she an after him. Watching him closely she realized he was going to try a dunk. What kind of dunk it was exactly, she didn't know.

She was after him, still watching. As he jumped she got an idea of what he was going to do, it surprised her that he would make such a strange move. She jumped in front of him, twisting her backside to stop his attempt at a dunk. He recoiled; surprised she'd managed to block him. As she ripped the ball from his hands in a less-than-lady-like fashion, he fell on the ground hard, watching on as she made the dunk he was supposed to make.

He saw her smile as the scoreboard added points to her team and his blood boiled. He barely saw his teammates' worried faces. There were merely a few seconds left and the stupid bitch was about to score again!

He stood up at top speed as she jumped; he jumped too. BAM! he slammed right into her side making her crash hard on the wooden floor. He dunked and landed n his feet. The buzzer rang and Imai was suffocated under the pile of teammates that had piled on top of him. They had won! But it didn't feel like a victory to Imai. Someone he didn't like, someone he didn't KNOW had blocked his unblockable block. Imai wasn't stupid or conceited, he knew that eventually someone would have to be able to block that shot but he'd always imagine that person to be someone he liked (as in a friend or something) or at least someone he admired but NO someone he dislike, scratch that, someone he HATED had blocked his unblockable dunk! Pissed didn't even begin to cover it.

Ryo rushed down to Mei, with a worried look on his face. She'd fallen down pretty hard. He helped her up. "Sorry" was the first thing she mumbled, her head looking down at the floor, causing her hair to cover her face.

"Hey don't apologize. You played awesome. It's not your fault if that guy was well rested and you were worn out".

She looked up and grinned. Ryo's eyes widened in shock..."THAT SON OF A BITCH!" He made out to kill Imai but was stopped by Mei, who had always been freakishly strong.

"Stop it Ryo" she scolded him.

"But look at what he did to you!" he pointed his finger at her right cheek that was bruised and turning slightly purple.

"Don't point!" she hissed pushing his hand away. It's no big deal" he opened his mouth to say something but she kept going "All's fair in love, war and basketball, remember?"

He smiled slightly. How could he not remember? It was what she'd said to him after they'd first played together. It was before either of them had met Kyo or Shigure. He'd played with her at the basketball court in his father's Country Club (yep! They're rich…betcha you didn't see that coming!). She had beaten him good and ashamed he'd screamed "How did you beat me? You're a girl! It's not fair!"

She'd just stared at him and replied with a slight smirk that was very frightening in the face of such a little girl, "All's fair in love, war and basketball". (A/N—Just to be clear I myself don't agree with the original quote of this quote--- life itself isn't fair and love and war are by definition unfair). After that they were best friends and it was the two of them who eventually recruited was is known as "the gang". He'd met Shigure a year after he met Mei, who had met Kyo a year after he'd met Shigure (two years after Mei and Ryo met...in case you weren't following). Then they all met Damian, Sam, Hatsuro, Nikki and of course Tsuyaka-senpai. The later wasn't officially part of the gang since she was a year older than them and had her own friends. She filled most of the characteristics a member of the gang should have. Most of them were rich (except Kyo, Tsuyaka and Nikki), they were all a bit loud and annoying (like Kyo) but most importantly they all LOVED basketball. They had other friends of course but this was a close circle, especially Mei, Ryo, Kyo and Shigure, who had known each other the longest. After Kyo moved and switched schools, however, they had all started to sorta drift apart, they had all started to hang out with different people. They were all on the team and they still had that one bond in common: basketball. (A/N: most of "the gang" won't be appearing much in the story but it's important for them to be mentioned...you'll see why...unless I change the story...then you'll have to wonder forever! hahaha).

"Come on now captain. We must congratulate the winners" she grinned.

"Fine" Ryo grumbled "I hate sportsmanship". Mei laughed.

That's about it…for now. I'm glad that game is over with; it was a pain to write I'll tell you that. I don't know how J.K.Rowling manages to make all those quidditch scenes so interesting….I much prefer dialogue.

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