Disclaimer: It's just a fanfiction because I know I wouldn't have it. So give me a chance to write this fic. ^_~

Special thanks to Hana-chan: don't worry, there's no yaoi pairings in my fic. Never. Zackire-chan: sob sob sob.. thanks a lot for your supports.. big hug for you. Moonwalker: thank you for reviewing my first fic. Enjoy, minna-san!

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"Nice, Ryota,"

"Aya-chan," a blushed-face chibi Ryota signalled 'V' towards Ayako as he did lay-up shoot successfully.

"Hn… that cheeky boy," Ayako responded slowly, wondering if somebody else could hear her voice. She already knew that Miyagi Ryota who also her classmates had a crush on her. He always said that she is the most beautiful woman he ever seen in everywhere or whenever he met her. All of Shohoku basketball players knew that thing. 'He's just joking. I shouldn't anticipate about his words,' she comforted herself and smiled secretly. 'By the way, he looks cute when he blushed. Kawaii…'

Rukawa wiped his sweat away with his clothes and he glanced at Ayako. 'She still gazing at Miyagi-sempai,' he snorted. 'I have my own aim, Ayako-san. I'll be the best high school basketball player in Japan. I'll prove it to you that I'm better than him and everyone. No one could beat me anymore.'
When he got the ball, he dribbled it slowly, waiting for the time to attack. At last, he eluded three players to jump and did lay up shot that perfectly went in the net.

'Sugoi….' Everybody stunned.
"RUKAWA…. RUKAWA… L-O-V-E- WE.... RUKAWA" cried the annoying three girls joyfully.
"Huh… he looks spunky today. It's seemed that he got something strong inside him to drive him. Now, he really like a different man," Mitsui remarked at Rukawa's great display. The rest of them nodded.
'Kuso… I hate him,' Hanamichi mumbled with hatred in his heart. His eyes were fiery, full of anger. 'I'll show you how a tensai are supposed to be,'


"Rukawa-kun…" Haruko uttered the super rookie's name in misery, slowly. 'He doesn't think of anything else except basketball. How could I be in his heart when his eyes didn't even look at me?' She tried to endure her tears from raining down her cheeks. She did not any linger any longer to see the rest of it. Matsui and Fuji, her best friends had not accompanied her today because they had their personal matters to solve. Now, she was alone.

"Nan da yo, Haruko-chan. You don't want to see them until they had finished the practice?" Youhei asked, bewildered with the girl's mood. She turned back and shook her heard. Then, she walked away.
"Nani, Youhei?" another gundam asked, puzzled.
"Nothing," Youhei answered, simple. 'Something had happened just now. Should I tell Hanamichi?' Youhei pondered for a while.

In another side, Haruko walked along streets without any plans. Her mind was set to Rukawa's image and his attitude towards her from the first time she encountered him. She sighed. Coincidentally, her eyes contacted to the poster of BackStreet Boys that has been stuck to the wall. BACKSTREET BOYS, her favourite artist will come to Japan and holding their concert in Tokyo for the next month.

'Yosh', she smiled faintly. This is an opportunity for her to see BSB in front of her eyes. 'Oh my Brian, Kevin, Nick, A.J and Howie D….'

"BACKSTREET BOYS'S CONCERT!!! I SHOULDN'T FORGO THIS GOLDEN CHANCE!" a young lady shouted happily behind Haruko's back, disturbing her fantasies with her favourite boy band. The lady perhaps aged early twentieth, dragging a man beside her to approach the poster in order to look clearly and find out for more details about the show.
"Nani? You admired them more than me?! How could you?" the man, probably her boyfriend, protested. A frustration could be notice from his face.
"Haahaha… are you jealous? Ne, don't get me wrong. I'm just their fan. They wouldn't know me. I'm just admiring them as my favourite artist but the one who can give me happiness, feel protected and make me comfortable is only you, honey," the lady persuaded her boyfriend seductively.
"So ka... Hmm..when Britney Spears come to Japan soon, I'll be the first one who buy her ticket concert, okay, darling?"
"You tried to get me jealous, huh? I don't mind. I will accompany you. You'll be the first, I'll be the second one but right now, you must follow me to BSB's concert. Deal, honey?"
"Deal, my darling. I'll be the one, who will make your sorrow undone. I'll be the light, when you feel like there's nowhere to run, I'll be the one," the man answered and gave his girlfriend a peck on her cheek before they left the place, hand in hand.

"Romantic couple. I envy them," Haruko muttered slowly and she looked on the couple until they disappeared from her sight. "Admire…" she repeated the word several times. The word reminded her of… Rukawa. She tried to imagine Rukawa and her as a loving couple but it seemed impossible. The illusion became blurry. "Am I? Am I just admiring him for his skills and good-looking face? Other than that, I don't know anything else about him. I just admired him from distance like my favourite artist, BSB,"

"I'm just their fan. They wouldn't know me. I'm just admiring them as my favourite artist but the one who can give me happiness, protective and make me comfortable is only you, honey,"

'So ka… if the lady words is true…the one who can make me happy, feel protected and comfortable is….'
She desisted from walking and her heart began to beat furiously. "He…" she titled her head and looked up the sky, recalling the memories she had been through together with him.

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5.00 in the evening. Back into the court

"Nyahahahahaha.. No one can beat the tensai…. nyahahahaha..," the chibi self-proclaimed genius laughed after he did the beautiful formed slam dunk. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Did you see that Haruko-san? Hah?" he stopped laughing when he couldn't see Haruko around. "Oi Youhei!, where was Haruko?" he asked to his gundam.
"She was gone three hours ago. Didn't you realize it?"
Hanamichi stunned. 'Three hours? Where has Haruko-san gone?' he wondered.

BAM!

Chibi Hanamichi fall down on the ground when the ball was hit his head.
"Don't be lazy, do'aho," somebody warned him behind his back and he ran away, dribbling the ball.
"Ko-ra Kitsune!!! Who do you think you are?!"

"Maa… maa, Hanamichi," Ryota patted Hanamichi's shoulder, trying to calm the redhead down. "Don't deal with a little thing. For the time being, we have to practice hard to challenge other teams at national level in the Inter High,"
"Hn…" Hanamichi hissed and he joined the other to continue his practice before giving death glare to Rukawa but his life-time rival just ignored him as usual.
"Good job, Ryota," a girl praised Ryota's action, making he become a chibi and blushed when he recognized the voice.
"Aya-chan, hehehehehe," he grinned like a fool as he turned back to face her but she already left.
"Wait, Aya-chan," he called the manageress of the team, his Aya-chan.
"Nani, Ryota?"
"Err.. did I tell you that you're beautiful today?"

WHACK!

"Aya-chan, you don't love me anymore?" Ryota cried in pain, not because Ayako hit him with her dangerous fan at his head but his heart.
"Go to practice now," she ordered.
"Hai… hai," he obeyed and joined the team.

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6.00 in the evening.

"Sumi masen, Anzai-sensei,"
"Nani, Ayako?" the white-haired and fat old man replied.
"My mother wanted me to take the clothes that she had ordered from a tailor. The tailor's shop opened until 7.00 pm. So I must be there before that time. Can I leave the gym right now?" she enquired politely to their coach.
"I understand. Demo, I have planned something. All of you worked hard and played well, so I decided to treat all of you tonight after the practice," he explained.
"Hah? Oyaji, you want to treat us tonight?" Hanamichi intruded and cupped the old man's chin repeatedly.

WHACK!!

"Itai.. Ayako-san," the readhead complained.
"Serves you right, Sakuragi Hanamichi," she responded as her hand on her hips.
"Sakuragi, come back to the court. The game had not finished yet," roared the gorilla, Akagi, from the middle of the court.
"Gori…" Hanamichi mumbled and he walked away from the manageress and the coach.

"So ka... sensei, where are the place that you planned to?" she asked after the redhead entered the court.
"Hmmm... Do you know The Nagareboshi's Club?"
"It's..it's an exclusive club, sensei," Ayako shocked.
"Hai, well, you deserved it, hohohoho…." He sip the tea before he continued again, "Hmmm.. Ayako.."
"Sensei?"
"We'll go there at 8.00 pm. If you have time, join us too," he smiled. Ayako nodded.
"I'll try, sensei, demo, I can't promise you," she said to the couch before she took her black leather beg on the bench.
"Never mind, Ayako," he said as he saw the girl began to walk out from the gym.

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7.00 in the evening.

"Minna-san, please assemble now here…" Akagi who was stood beside Anzai Sensei give an order to his playmates.
"Hai," All of the freshmen stop mopping the floor while the others stop practising. They gathered in front of their captain and the couch, waiting for another order or an announcement from both of them whom Shohoku basketball's members respect the most. (A/N: except you-know-who)
"Minna, since all of you had worked hard, I'll treat you tonight.." Anzai Sensei announced.
"Yoshh.." they replied in unison.
"Hohohoho… demo, whoever must be at home before 8.00 pm tonight may go home now. I don't want your parents getting worried about you," Anzai-sensei added, gazing his student's face one by one.
Since everybody could go, they dashed to the locker room to have bath and changed their clothes. Now, just Anzai-sensei and Sakuragi Gundam are left in the gym.

"Hanamichi could have free dinner tonight," Takamiya said in jealousy tone. Three guys nodded.
"You're Sakuragi's friends, right?" Anzai-sensei asked them. They gaped; the state 'we have a chance' was in their mind.
"I saw you accompanying him every practice and encouraged him. You can go too if you want," he continued.
"Yosh…." Four of them leaped happily like kids.

Meanwhile, in the locker room.

"Did you see Aya-chan? I wondered where she had gone?" Ryota asked to his playmates but no one knew except the redhead one.
"She asked Oyaji to leave early because she have something to help her mother," Hanamichi answered.
"I see. Hmm, the dinner tonight is nothing without Aya-chan. I have no mood to go," Ryota sat down on the bench, sadly.
"Haruko-san had gone too. Let me be with you," Hanamichi said.
"What's wrong with you guys. It's not everyday sensei wanted to treat us. Don't disappoint him," Mitsui frowned with displeasure when he heard the conversation.
"Yeah, that's right, Mitsui-kun. Lets make sensei happy tonight. Right, Akagi?" Kogure added and looked at his captain. Akagi just gave a displeased look at the boys as sign 'how-dare-you-said-like-that' made Ryota and Hanamichi didn't make nonsense anymore.

'I wish you come, Ayako-san,' Rukawa whispered to himself before he walked out from the locker room.
Then, all of them including Sakuragi Gundam went to the club by bus. Chatting, laughing and bickering could be heard from the bus but the fox-eyed boy just looked out of the window, praying that his dreams became true before he fallen asleep.

to be continued.
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A/N: "I'll be the one, who will make your sorrow undone. I'll be the light, when you feel like there's nowhere to run, I'll be the one" from BackStreet Boy's song, THE ONE. I LUV THE SONG!!!