Yokato Junior High
Endou was sitting up on the roof of the school reflecting on what had happened up till that point, Gouenji leaving, Someoka's injury, Fubuki's split personality and Kazumaru and Kurimatsu leaving the team and he felt hopeless.
Endou listened to the shouts from his team practising and couldn't even feel the same joy as he once did when it involved football.
Kino was walking up the stairs with a determined look on her face and made her way onto the roof and walked towards Endou and said "Look Endou, at everyone on the grounds"
When he turned to look he saw a goalkeeper trying his best to perform Majin the Hand. He kept looking at what was going on and didn't notice a mysterious figure walking up to them.
The mysterious figure spoke, altering the two to his presence "He reminds you of someone doesn't he Endou"
Both Kino and Endou turned to see the person who had familiar sun-kissed hair. It turned out that the mysterious figure was none other than Naruto Namikaze. Naruto continued "Look at them giving their all, it kinda reminds me of what we were like before the game against Zeus."
Endou kept quiet as Naruto continued "You act as if you'll never be able to play football with them again, I know it's hard but let's focus on the now. Both Kazumaru and Kurimatsu left because they lost their will to fight, but look at those who are still here and you will be able to see their passion and will to continue fighting even in these terrible times."
Right as he finished speaking the goalkeeper had managed to perform Majin the Hand, Endou then felt a wave of emotions coming back to him as he remembered how he felt trying to do the move himself and how everyone around him never gave up even when they were battered and bruised by the hands of Zeus.
Endou then stood up and said "You're right, all I can do is focus on the now and someday we can all play together like we used to do before. I won't give up, I'll fight Aliea Academy and take back the football I love"
Endou turned to Naruto and said "It's good to have you back with us Naruto, I can't wait to play together again"
Naruto smiled and nodded at Endou before saying "Well why don't we head down there so I can meet the team"
Endou nodded, before him, Kino and Naruto made their way down to the pitch to see everyone speaking to the coach. Endou quickly ran towards them and stood in front of the coach and Said "Everyone, I'm sorry for causing you trouble. I won't hesitate anymore"
Kidou walked up to Endou and put his hand on his shoulder and said "You're the only captain for Raimon". With the others agreeing with him, Endou was grateful for everyone's support and looked towards the coach and said "Sorry, Coach. Please let me on again."
The coach had her arms crossed and said "If at any time I think you're not necessary for the team, I'll take you off without any mercy"
Endou kept smiling and said "I understand"
The goalkeeper ran towards Endou and asked to be able to fight alongside him, Endou was ecstatic at this and asked the coach if it was okay. The coach agreed with it, making the keeper happy and bowed to everyone and expressed himself.
Endou then remembered something and turned to the coach and said "One more thing coach"
The coach looked at Endou with a questioning look before he continued "Someone else is joining us"
This confused everyone besides Kino who knew who he was talking about. Then a person started walking towards the crowd and said "I thought you forgot about me for a second there Endou"
Everyone turned and saw Naruto walking towards them and was happy to see him again. Naruto waved at them and said "Yo, long time no see guys, I can't wait to play with you guys again"
Kabeyama was freaking out and yelled "It's him, it's really him. Naruto is here!"
Naruto laughed and said "It's good to see you, too big guy"
Kidou then smirked and said "With you here, our defence just got a whole lot better"
The coach stepped forward and introduced herself "Hello Namikaze, it's good to see you here, I've heard about your skills and I'm quite pleased to have you join this team. My name is Kira Hitomiko"
Naruto nodded and said "Thank you for having me coach Kira and please call me Naruto"
Coach Kira nodded before leaving, Naruto then turned to everyone and bowed to them and said "To those who don't know me, my name is Naruto Namikaze. Please just call me Naruto and I can play anywhere in the midfield or in defence. It will be a pleasure to play with you"
The people who didn't know Naruto before then introduced themselves. One was a girl named Zaizen Touko. She was of average height, fair skin, shoulder-length pinkish-red hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a blue hat with white and yellow stripes on the centre with a line of white dots underneath. She was a defender.
Another was Kogure Yuuya, he was on the short side and had blue hair with two spikes on each side and had golden eyes. He also had pointy ears, he was also a defender. He introduced himself by giving a toad to Naruto after shaking hands with him, Naruto then smiled at the toad and petted it, shocking Kogure.
The other girl in the team was named Urabe Rika, she has blue hair, dark skin and grey violet eyes and introduced herself as the Queen of the pitch.
The goalkeeper introduced himself as Tachimukai Yuuki, he has golden brown hair and blue eyes. He said he could also play in the midfield.
They also told Naruto that they had another player called Fubuki Shirou who was resting and explained everything about him, including the split personality. Naruto nodded and was excited to meet him.
It was quite late and they decided to head back to the caravan to sleep, on the way, Naruto asked about sleeping arrangements and was surprised to find out about where they were sleeping but when Endou and Natsumi saw him smirk they had a feeling of dread wash over them. Naruto opened his mouth and said "So we all sleep together huh, I hope you kept to yourself Endou, Natsumi"
Both of them blushed and walked as fast as they could away. The original people from Raimon laughed, as those who joined looked confused but were told about how they would joke about Natsumi and Endou's relationship as they were always together and deeply cared for one another. Rika was excited about the prospect and chased after them to get as many details as she could from them which caused more rounds of laughing.
During dinner Kugure had put hot sauce on Naruto's food but was surprised when Naruto didn't feel anything but when he tasted his food he had fire shoot out of his mouth before falling on the ground. Naruto then said "I knew about your tricks before coming here so I decided to one up you by making yours spicier"
The next day the players were doing a run around the pitch while telling Naruto their adventures so far. Naruto was shocked to hear about them but smirked at hearing about them going to an amusement park. Naruto took the opportunity and said "So Endou, did you actually look for the base or were you enjoying a nice date with Natsumi"
Everyone laughed as Endou blushed deep red before saying he did look for it with Kino, Natsumi and Touko. Naruto was laughing but hearing about how Rika met her 'darling' made him smirk which caused Ichinose to become white when he saw the smirk, "So Ichinose, you and Rika huh. I've always thought you would end up with Kino with the amount of time you two are together but whatever, maybe you and Rika could go on a double date with Natsumi and Endou"
Everyone was laughing at this, especially Domon as he was laughing the hardest as he was getting a look of betrayal from Ichinose. Rika, hearing the suggestion of a double date was ecstatic by the idea and clung onto Ichinose and was listing ideas for dates.
Once finishing the laps around the ground, Coach Kira walked towards them with Fubuki who had a white scarf around him, he has teal-grey eyes, he had short grey hair with spikes facing downwards. He has thick silver eyebrows and could play in any position.
Everyone quickly ran towards him and wanted to make sure he was okay, Fubuki nodded at them and said he was okay before turning to Naruto and saying "Hello, you must be Naruto, it's nice to meet you"
Naruto nodded and said "Nice to meet you too Fubuki, I heard a lot about you and I look forward to playing with you"
All of a sudden Coach Kira's phone went off and received word about a 'flame striker' in Okinawa. Endou thought about it for a second before looking at Kidou in excitement and saying "Gouenji?!"
Kidou agreed with Endou and said "Let's go!"
Endou was feeling excited about meeting Gouenji but also had a bad feeling about something, it turns out the bad feeling was Naruto who took the opportunity and said "Are you sure, your this excited about meeting Goeunji again or are you planning to have a romantic date on the beach with Natsumi"
Both Endou and Natsumi blushed and denied it which caused everyone besides coach Kira who had a small smile to laugh at their expense.
On the way to Okinawa, Naruto and Kidou were speaking to one another. "So Naruto, what have you been doing since waking up"
Naruto sighed and said "Well when I woke up the others told me what happened and what you guys were doing. I wanted to help you guys, so I tried to leave but the doctors said I should rest and if I were to play, I would risk injuring myself more and could damage my body to the point I couldn't play again so I had to go through medical rehabilitation. But when I wasn't working myself to the bone to recover I was thinking of Hissatsu techniques that could be useful"
Kidou smirked at Naruto, knowing he would think of a way to help the team before asking "Anything you can share?"
Naruto smirked and said "We shall see, but some of them were for Kazumaru and some others who aren't here at the moment but give me time and I think I can adjust things accordingly". Kidou nodded at Naruto before making their way onto a boat to take them to Okinawa.
On the Megane was looking at the coral before he fell into the water, everyone looked over at him as he was screaming for help, Naruto was trying to get his jacket and shoes off as fast as he could so he could jump after him but stopped when he saw someone with dark skin, pink hair that sticks up a little with white goggles come and save Megane
Once everyone got to sure, they quickly checked on Megane to make sure he was okay and thanked the person for saving Megane's life. It was also then they found out that the boat comes in once a day, which annoyed them as they were stuck for the time being, so Endou suggested they practise, to which everyone agreed.
After making preparations they got into teams of five:
team 1 - Endou, Naruto, Rika, Touko and Ichinose
team 2 - Tachimukai, Domon, Kabeyama, Kidou and Kogure
Kidou started the game by taking a direct shot at Endou who lifted his hand up then turned it into a fist, after that he brought his hand down and punched which made a golden fist come out before it fell apart allowing Kidou to score.
Naruto turned to Endou and asked "So you're learning a new trick?"
Endou nodded and explained it to Naruto, who nodded and thought about it, trying to see if he could help. Kidou then said "Don't rush it Endou, it's powerful enough to be called an ultimate technique. You won't be able to learn it that easily"
Endou nodded and said "You're right, once I master this ultimate secret technique, I should be able to catch whatever incredible shoots come my way. I'll definitely get the hang of it!"
Before the game continued the person who saved Magane's life was heard, as he was surfing not too far from where the game was happening. When he got close to the beach he jumped off the wave and his board and landed on the makeshift pitch with his board landing next to him a second after him which scared everyone as it could have landed on anyone.
He looked around and saw the makeshift pitch and asked "Is football something you can do on the beach too?" before anyone could answer he grabbed his board and said "Well, whatever. Good luck" before leaving
The game continued after that with Ichinose on the ball, Naruto told him, Rika and Endou to try something with him which they agreed to do on the next play. Kidou, Domon and Kogure were currently closing down on Naruto, Rika and Ichinose, before Naruto nodded at them to start the plan, Ichinose then passed to his left to Rika who then passed it to the left where Naruto was, who then passed it to back to Endou who moved up the field and kicked the ball as hard and fast as he could to Touko who was completely free. Kidou then looked at Naruto who spoke "Hissatsu tactic - Soft and Hard"
Touko took a shot at goal but was stopped by Tachimukai who used Majin the Hand. Seeing this Touko got annoyed and was thinking about how it was not good enough to stop Aliea Academy and looked over at Rika and asked to do Butterfly Dream(two players hold hands as the balls in the air and kick it at the same time making the ball spin and move out of the way of a block before continuing its original path) with her.
Rika asked her why she should do it with her but with a combined effort from Kidou and Touko and Ichinose, she reluctantly agreed to perform the move with Touko. Kidou then looked at Naruto and wondered about the tactic they just used, as if he knew what Kidou was going to say Naruto said "I told you I been thinking"
Kidou smirked before shaking his head and getting back to the game. Touko and Rika tried to use Butterfly Dream but were out of sync with each other, causing Touko to take a shot that went off course and went towards the pink-haired boy. The ball hit the boy's surfboard causing it to fall on his face, Endou, Touko and Rika went to make sure the boy was okay. The boy was acutely quite happy with getting hit in the face as he was about to sleep through a wave which baffled them.
The game continued with Rika and Touko trying to use the move again, they were able to get it right but the ball swerved off course again and went towards the ocean and towards the pink-haired boy who was surfing. Seeing the ball come towards him, he composed himself on his board before kicking it back, the ball went through the waves and straight to Tachimukai who tried to stop it but was pushed back by the sheer force behind the kick.
The pink-haired boy then walked towards everyone and said "Man, what a shock that was, seeing a ball come flying at my face"
Endou quickly ran towards him and said "Hey, you! Do you play football?"
The pink-haired boy said "No, not even once"
This shocked Endou who asked "Not even once!? Do you want to try football?"
The boy was confused but Endou continued "You were able to pull off an awesome kick like that! I'm sure you'll really enjoy it once you try!"
The boy laughed before saying "You've gotta be kidding me. I'm a surfer"
Endou tried to convince him but he wasn't having any of it and was about to leave when Kidou said "It's good that he doesn't. A newbie like him wouldn't be able to reach our level as easily as that." The boy didn't like what he heard and walked up to Kidou as he continued speaking "No matter how fit you are, you can't call yourself skilled at what you've never tried, Football isn't that simple"
The boy said "You saw what happened! I kicked it back good and proper!"
Kidou not even fazed "Just one time"
Haruna looked at Kidou and was shocked at first but then realised what he was doing and smiled. The boy then said "Fine, I've made up my mind!" before turning to Endou and saying "Hey! I'll play football!"
Kidou smirked as his plan had worked, the boy then introduced himself as Tsunami Jousuke. After getting Tsunami a change of clothes he joined Kidou's team and started the game by kicking the ball at Endou at an alarming speed. Endou was able to knock the ball over the bar but had a little pain in his arm from the shot.
Seeing this Touko took a jab at Tsunami who dismissed the comment and said that compared to surfing football isn't that complicated which annoyed Touko. The game continued as Kidou tried to pass the ball to Tsunami who tried to shoot but missed the ball and fell over backwards, Touko seeing this took another jab at him as Rika was smirking at the interaction in the distance.
Kidou then tried to pass it to him again but this time Ichinose intercepted the pass, Tsunami didn't know what to do but Kidou told him to focus on the timing as the ball was always moving which he nodded.
The Next time Kidou tried to do pass he was intercepted as Ichinose used Flame Dance(he spins on his hands as fire rings appear around him and steal the ball) before driving up the pitch. Kabeyama closed Ichinose down but was unable to stop him from passing to Rika who took a shot at goal, as the ball was going towards the goal, Tsunami managed to stop it by jumping at the right time and connecting his foot with the ball sending it upwards.
This shocked everyone, but then Touko took the opportunity to take a shot. Tachimukai dove one way but the ball curved the other way, the ball looked like it was going in but was stopped by Tsunami who saved the ball with his face. Everyone was shocked at this but congratulated him on making the save, the game continued but Tsunami was able to improve as the game went on with him making fewer errors than he originally was and managing to stop most of the shots at goal.
Rika and Touko did also manage to pull off Butterfly Dream, after the ball went in Kidou told Tsunami it was his turn which made him smile. At one point Tachimukai wasn't focusing and didn't realise the ball was in front of him and was barely able to punch it away, as the ball was in the air Tsunami smirked before jumping high in the air, as a wave seemed to form behind him. Tsunami then rode the ball on the wave doing a loop in the wave before riding it upwards and turning around to do an overhead kick (Tsunami Boost), Endou had tried to save the shot by using his new move but was unable in doing so as well as destroying the goal.
Endou quickly ran over to Tsunami and congratulated him and talked a bit before everyone made their way to a place to stay as it was getting quite late. Everyone enjoyed their time there and was thankful for Tsunami who fed everyone fresh fish. It was also discovered that Tsunami was the oldest one there which was quite shocking, the next day everyone managed to get onto the boat that was heading to Okinawa.
Once arriving at Okinawa everyone had gathered around and was discussing plans on how to search for the 'flame strike' with Magane and Kabeyama trying to act like detectives which made the rest of the team sweatdrop at this and ignore them until Ichinose spotted a football in the air. Kidou, Endou, Tachimukai and Naruto went towards it to see who was playing.
When arriving Endou began doing kick-ups with the ball and saw the people who were playing with the ball to be nothing but little kids that started to cry. At the sound of crying a boy who had a thick, muscular build with aubergine hair with an orange streak down the middle in the shape of a flame with some facial hair and sideburns showed up holding a broom, the boy then asked "Hey! Are you the ones that made my sibling cry?!"
One of his siblings told the boy that Endou took his ball, which Endou quickly apologised for taking the ball. After the kids got their ball back the boy pointed the end of the broom at Kidou and said "Those goggles are sure suspicious"
Naruto laughed at this while Kidou not fazed one bit said "How rude of you"
The boy then turned to leave but stopped when Endou said "We saw them playing football and wanted to ask something. We're the Raimon Junior High football club"
The boy widened his slightly before smirking and laughing then saying "Oh, sorry, sorry. So you're the football team fighting against the aliens? I'm Hijikata Raiden. I'm a junior high schooler like you guys. I'm in the football club"
Endou then got excited and asked "Football club? I'm Endou Mamoru, the captain of the Raimon junior high school football club. Nice to meet you"
Both Hijikata and Endou shook hands as Hijikata said "So you're Endou Mamoru, So what now? Are you waiting for the aliens to attack Okinawa? Then we'll lend a hand, I won't just let them do all they like after all!" before kicking the ball straight up into the sky with a lot of force behind it.
Endou saw this and said "That's so powerful!"
One of the siblings said "An-chan's awesome at both kicking and blocking!"
Kidou then said "He's awesome, eh? Then how about this?" before controlling the ball as it was coming down. Kidou then ran towards Hijikata to see if he could stop him, Hijikata, clapped his hands together with his legs spread apart before having one of his hands sideways on his chest while the other was stretched to the side. Then he put both hands on his legs and lifted his leg into the air as a giant golden foot sprung out of the ground and went towards Kidou, when the foot was above Kidou, Hijikata brought his foot down as the golden foot plummeted towards the ground as well(Super Shikofumi), Kidou seeing this dived away as fast as he could and just barely missed getting hit by the foot.
Kidou had a sweat mark form on his forehead as he said "Sure you aren't just talk"
Endou was amazed and talked to Tachimukai and Naruto about him joining, which they agreed on being a good idea before Tachimukai suggested asking him about the 'flame striker'. Hijikata was confused about what they meant about a flame striker, Kidou then told him that they were in Okinawa to look for a flame striker on the island.
Hijikata told them that he hasn't heard about a flame striker on the island which brought down the mood of the people there as they were hoping to meet Gouenji again, sometime later Endou introduced Hijikata to everyone in Raimon who thought he was the flame striker at first but Endou explained he was a defender and wanted him to play with them. Hijikata was happy about the idea of joining but declined the offer as he had to look after his siblings but said he would fight if Alias were to show up.
Soon Fubuki and Domon showed up saying they found the flame striker which got everyone excited but was shocked to see it wasn't Goeunji but a boy with red hair with two long pieces of hair as bangs that fall right above each of his dark golden eyes. The top of his hair is styled into four flame-like spikes, he also has on lone low eyelash on each eye. Endou introduced Hijikata to both Fubuki and Domon as Fubuki introduced the boy as Nagumo, Nagumo nodded at this and said his name is Nagumo Haruya and greeted Endou.
Hijikata was suspicious of Nagumo and said he hasn't seen him before which Nagumo said he hasn't seen him either as they stared each other down. Fubuki quickly started talking about how his shot was really powerful, Nagumo didn't like the idea of just showing the shot to them and suggested a test to see if he was good enough for the team, Endou agreed to it as the others didn't like the confidence Nagumo was showing.
Once reaching a pitch, Nagumo kicked off by himself as everyone besides Naruto and Endou charged forwards to tackle him, Nagumo smirked before launching the ball upwards which confused everyone. Nagumo then jumped high into the before kicking the ball down, Kidou called for the defence as Touko used The Tower(She summons a stone-like tower), Nagumo then landed before jumping back up again and kicking the ball through The Tower, Fubuki then used Ice Ground(Fubuki slides on ice before jumping up and spinning then bringing his foot down on the ground causing ice to shoot up out of the ground) but he was unable to stop the ball.
Nagumo was now faced with Kogure and Kabeyama, he then jumped over them and used Atomic Flare(he is seen to be in the air with a ball of fire behind him before turning to do an overhead kick as a small bit of the fire follows his kicking foot before kicking the ball and having fire surround the ball). Naruto quickly ran towards the ball and used Chain Lock and managed to stop the ball in its tracks, Nagumo was annoyed seeing this and narrowed his eyes at Naruto who Narrowed his eyes back at him.
Endou ran towards Nagumo and welcomed him to the team, Nagumo was still bitter about his shot being stopped but accepted the invitation anyway. Rika then asked if he was going to be playing alongside her which Nagumo smirked and said that he'll be enough as the only striker, which annoyed Rika.
Coach Kira walked towards them and asked which school he went to and was met with a scowl, before Nagumo answered, someone, answered for him "It's Aliea Academy"
The person who answered was none other than Hiroto(A pale skin boy of average height with straight red hair that swept to the sides with one strand coming down onto his face. He also has bright/dark teal eyes), everyone was shocked at this and questioned Nagumo about this.
Nagumo was annoyed with Hiroto's interference and introduced himself as 'Burn', the captain of Prominence, an Aliea team. Nagumo was about to kick one of Aliea's black footballs at them but Hiroto interfered and stopped him from doing so.
Everyone was shocked at the news about another team and didn't know what to do but Coach Kira told them to keep practising, saying "If one player from that team was enough to get passed most of you then we need to make sure we train harder then before so things like this doesn't happen again"
Everyone agreed with her and continued to practise till late into the evening. The next day the team went to practise again as Kino said "Leave the search for the flame striker to us!"
Endou nodded at her and said "Yeah, I'm counting on you"
As everyone was about to practise, Hijikata showed up with fresh vegetables from his field for them to eat. All of a sudden someone yelled "Endou!"
Turning to see where it was coming from, Endou saw Tsunami riding a wave that was coming near them and yelled out to him "Tsunami!"
Tsunami jumped off the wave with his board and landed onto the pitch with his board landing after him, scaring everyone there as it could have hit them. Tsunami raised his goggles before saying "Yo, I've been looking for you, Endou"
