Chapter 40 Say hello to your new teammates of Suruga

The bus stopped at the front door of the school. A few of the Suruga Keijo engineer veteran instructors were present at the front door, as well as the teacher and coach of the Keijo Suruga Keijo players: Ayako Sakashiro.

Ayako was standing with Evako who had arrived back at Suruga in the morning. Ayako had asked Kakuyo if their family matter was taken cared of, to which Kakuyo said yes. However Evako was instructed to absolutely not say a single word about her older brother within earshot of her peers, less she get scolded for it. The once strong relationship between Evako and her mother was now forever tarnished when she found out that she was never meant to be born. What was once an obedient young girl who followed her mother's orders was now replaced with a teenager who would only show favored love to her father and older brother.

The relationship was even further destroyed when Kakuyo didn't have to hold back on how she really felt about her daughter, within earshot or not, she could now freely voice her real feelings for her. Evako was bitting her left index fingernail as she remembered the car ride to the school.

-flashback-

The car ride was silent on the way back to Suruga, Evako was looking at her wild rose CD's as Adam glanced at her through the rear view mirror as he gave her a smile. Kakuyo was looking out the window as she was happily rubbing her belly. When she had told Ujibe that she was pregnant Kakuyo was ever so happy about it. She then glanced at her daughter a bit through the corner of her eye.

"We'll almost be close to Suruga" Kakuyo said to her "You'll get to see your friends again".

Evako snorted at her words and uttered "Sure….".

"You don't miss them?".

"You wouldn't understand….".

Kakuyo was about to ask her what she meant until Adam adding in "Hey now Evako, don't worry. We'll bring you back to Setouchi so you can see your new friends. I promise to bring you back to see them after the East/West war". Hearing that made Evako look up at her father with a smile forming on her face, she really wished that she had some time to spend with them, especially her older brother.

"Thanks dad-".

"That's not happening" Kakuyo coldly interrupted causing Adam and Evako to quickly look at her as she continued "As my daughter you are to stay put and train to become a strong Keijo player. I had great plans for your brother when he was to be born, I had plans to make him perfect, just as you are now. But due to his birth defect, you had to be made second as my backup plan, and I will not allow your personal feelings squander what I have worked on for over 12 years! I should have decline Ujibe's offer to come to Setouchi! Thanks to that incident I now have a daughter that acts just like her worthless brother! *sighs* going to Setouchi was a mistake, but i let my personal feelings for my sister cloud my judgment….".

The moment the last of Kakuyo's words left her lips, Evako responded back in full force.

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!" Evako shouted "You have no control over me! I wasn't supposed to be born! Remember?!".

Kakuyo just looked at her fingernails "Yes, I remember sweetheart…" she said in a bored sarcastic tone "I just never expected that my project would have such a smart ass backbone". Those words struck a massive nerve within Evako, that's all she was to her mother….a project.

"I-is…that all I was to you…just a project…." Evako chocked up a bit in her voice. Kakuyo didn't bat an eye nor hesitate on her words to make her feel better, she had no reason to do so anymore with her, so why bother to sugarcoat her words any longer. "Exactly…your brother was my only child that I wanted, you're just lucky to be born into this world thanks to your brother's deformation. If he didn't have that, then I would have raised him as my son. But the love that I gave you was to keep you in check so that you would follow and obey me as you got older, but thanks to that bastard I've had to start from scratch again" she finished before she thought to herself 'Oh well, once I give birth to my new children, I can raise them to be the perfect Keijo players as I had originally intended to do from the start with Miles. Now that Evako knows too much about her purpose, her only way to regain my respect for her is to win the East/West war now…'.

Evako was silent, she just sat back in her seat in shock and silence. All her life her mother's love was a lie, from her birth to her upbringing, it was all false love that her mother gave her to fuel her own goals that she had planned for her brother. But now, like her brother, she felt the dismay and heartbreak as he did.

"Oh yes, don't mention that your brother is alive at school. I don't want Ayako or anyone in Suruga to know that he's alive. They know that's dead and I prefer to keep it that way. Understood?" Kakuyo said to her.

Evako was still in shock to be able to respond to her, Adam was about to say something to her, but Kakuyo quickly put a stop to that by placing her hands on his lower area. Kakuyo nuzzled her husband's right shoulder as he sighed and looked back at Evako as he thought of something.

-flashback end-

Evako bit her nail harder, it pissed her off on what her mother truly said to her. And it upset her that her father didn't say anything to comfort her, although that was pushed to the side maybe due to Kakuyo's grip on him during that situation. But despite what her mother had said, she didn't care, she didn't care about her mother's orders to keep her brothers death a secret to her peers. She would at least tell her best friends about him. However as Evako was thinking Ayako glanced at her and noticed her off in her own thoughts.

"Something on your mind, Evako?" Ayako asked her.

This made her break out of her thoughts as she looked at the headmaster, "Hm?! Oh…it's nothing. I'm fine" she told her. She didn't feel like explaining the situation with her since the two of them didn't really get along with one another. It was mostly due to Ayako's arrogant haughty attitude, who always underestimates her opponents. Her arrogance was the worst when the Meer mention of the Setouchi was even slightly talked about, she and the rest of the students all looked down on all players of Setouchi, it didn't matter if Setouchi had new or veteran players, to them, all Setouchi could do is produce only weak players that would amount to absolutely nothing.

It was this mindset that Evako never agreed on, no matter how many times it was told, she would never agree with it as Evako believed that all players regardless of what school that they went to could amount to anything if they trained hard and believed in them and themselves. This mindset of hers constantly clashed with the arrogant people of Suruga. And it often lead to small fights….

All of which Evako won because they were all Rank 40-class players.

The only people that she couldn't beat was Ayako's adopted daughters Maya Sakashiro and Kaya Sakashiro. She considered Kaya her rival as did Kaya to her. Maya was a good friend to Evako and the two girls were good friends. The other girls within Evako's rank were her only female friends, and she only had three male friends at Suruga, six if you count the other three from Setouchi. Evako didn't even see her teammates yet because as soon as she got to her dorm room early in the morning, the announcement of the Keijo engineers from Setouchi coming today made her ran all the way back to the entrance to see if her friends were coming. Ayako was going to question Evako as to why she wanted to see the Setouchi people so badly since they had nothing to do with playing the water sport. They were only engineers….

Unless…..

'No…theirs no way that Ujibe of all people would actually break the rules and allow males to play in Keijo since they've been banned long ago. She isn't that stupid…I hope' Ayako thought to herself until the boys from their rival school got off the bus. Despite Ayako's way of making everyone in Suruga look down on Setouchi, she never applied this mindset to the Suruga engineers, since they didn't play Keijo. Although the Suruga engineers were more advanced in land work and took up architecture and graphic design classes as mandatory extra work, some of them had that snobbish prideful attitude and they felt like they were better than their rivals. Masaru, Taichi, and Tatsuya got off the bus and grabbed their things as the Suruga Keijo engineer veteran instructors greeted them as well as Ayako.

"Greetings fellow engineers of Setouchi" Ayako said seriously "I welcome you all to Shizuoka, and to our Suruga Keijo school. Now! I will get to the point, I want you all to know that you will be helping us with the advanced lands that we are working for the East/West war that we will be having with your school. We need all the extra hands that we can gather, as these lands are on the larger scale, hence why we sent out an email to your school. I am looking forward for your cooperation with this. Now, I shall let our veteran engineers headmaster take it from here" Ayako finished. The Suruga engineer headmaster walked forward before the Setouchi engineers, his ripped figure made some of the skinny ones look intimidated by him, some thought that he looked like vin diesel, he had on military boots, jeans, a sky blue shirt, and black sunglasses. He looked at all of them before pulling out his pda.

"Welcome newcomers!" He said sharply "Okay! I'm going to put you all in groups of three! It will be easier for us if all of you are in a six person group!". He then glanced at his pda, he smiled at the first name that was before him.

"Makoto Kusanagi!".

The sounds of quick feet could be heard as a short boy with short brown hair and chocolate eyes and light skin. He was wearing the black Suruga Keijo engineer jumpsuit as he was standing straight like a soldier in the military. "S-sir!" Makoto said in a slight nervous tone.

"Next! Haruki Kazuma!".

The next student came forward, he had short length black hair and red eyes, a few piercings on his face: one on the lower part of his left ear, another on the right corner side of the eyebrow, and the last one on the center lower lip. He had a slight athletic build and was the tallest of the Suruga boys. Masaru, Taichi, and Tatsuya felt as if he was looking at them coldly.

"Sir!" Haruki said in all seriousness.

The headmaster nodded as he then called out the last one "Desmond Shimo!".

The last Suruga student came forward before them, he had dark skin, slightly long dreadlocks, and a goatee. He looked very laid back as he waved at his headmaster "Sir!" Desmond said.

The headmaster looked at the three of them as he then scrolled down on his pda to find who to pair them with until he called out three names: "Are Masaru! Taichi! And Tatsuya present?!". The three boys came forward in front of the man, the headmaster then turned to the three boys "Makoto, Haruki, Desmond will be with you for this whole month! If you have any problems with one another and want to switch with someone else, be sure to let me know!" The headmaster then turned to his students "As for the three of you, make sure to be on your best behavior! I don't want any of my students acting like some high and mighty brat! You are to help one another, not cause issues, understood?".

"Yes sir!" Makoto, Haruki, Desmond all said in unison.

"Good, now then, the three of you take our guests to their dorm room on the southwest building" the headmaster instructed. The 6 all started heading into the building, Evako happily sighed as she was about to head out to see her teammates until Ayako called out to her. "Evako, a quick word with you" Ayako said as she walked over to her "Could you explain to me as to why you wanted to see the boys from Setouchi".

"Oh that? It's a long story, one that I'll explain at a latter time" Evako brushed her question off as she then started to run off "I have to head off to class teacher! I'll see you soon!". And with that Evako ran off without another word, leaving Ayako's question unanswered. Ayako just looked at her, she crossed her arms as she watched her run off. 'That girl is hiding something, she's not one to just avoid my questions like that. I intended to find out why she was so interested in the Setouchi students' Ayako thought as she walked off to teach her class.

-meanwhile-

The boys were walking down the hallway as they were making their way to the dorms. Makoto kept glancing back at the Setouchi boys who were looking all over at the school. He smiled at them as he then decided to make conversation with them.

"You guys like our school?" He asked.

This made Tatsuya look at him "Are you kidding! This place is huge! Way bigger than Setouchi! How'd you guys get the money for this place?".

"Many, many sponsors. That's how!" Haruki said "I also noticed how you guys looked uneasy when you saw me". This made the three look at him, Haruki could almost hear the gulping in their throats. However they were surprised to hear him actually chuckling, Desmond then joined in on the laugher. "Don't mind him, he's a gentle giant and all heart. He only puts on the cold act due to-".

"Don't say her name!" Haruki said quickly "I don't want her to know that I'm here!".

The boys were absolutely confused by his…quick and odd attitude, it was then that Evako made her appearance from behind, "He's just on edge because Sanae likes him and is stalking him at every chance she gets! Speaking of which! Hey Sanae! Here he is!". Taichi, Tatsuya and Masaru were surprised by Evako's sudden appearance. "Jeez Evako! Give us a warning next time you come out of nowhere!" Masaru told her. Evako just smiled widely at Masaru before Haruki yelled at her "Evako! Do you know what you-". However Haruki's words were instantly silent when the sight of Sanae Hououin came into view before them. The others were surprised to see another girl of Suruga so quickly.

Sanae glanced at the Setouchi guests a bit before turning her attention back to Haruki. Haruki sighed as he had that started to play the cold act again. His eyes narrowed, his lips began to pout a bit, and he looked pissed. "You got here quick when Evako called you" Haruki said coldly as he looked at Evako who was behind Sanae who was then placing her hands on Sanae's breasts and fondling them. This made the boys quickly blush as Haruki looked away, hiding his obvious red face.

"Evako cut that out! You always tease me when Sanae is around!" Haruki shouted.

"What? You always get red in the face and hard in the pants when I do this evey time poor Sanae wants to know where her hunny pot is" Evako teased as she then gave Sanae's breasts a soft squeeze "Sanae just can't get you out of her head, and just hearing your name alone makes her all hot and bothered! She get super horny and imagines you just whipping out your dick and surfing it into her yummy mouth-".

However before Evako could continue teasing, her cheek was being pulled by her best friend Nami Nanase. Nami sighed as she kept her grip on Evako's cheek, forcing the young wolf child to stop. "Ow! Ow! Stop it you ass lover!" Evako responded "You can't pull my cheeks!".

"You're teasing Haruki and Sanae again, of course I have to step in every time you cause your best friend and friend trouble" Nami scolded her. Nami kept pulling until Evako fully gave up, Evako sighed as she rubbed her red right cheek. "Damn ass lover! Why do you always pull it so hard?" Evako asked her.

Nami placed her arms under her large breasts "Because I'm your best friend. And I have to make sure that you don't stir up any trouble with the rest of your teammates" she said with a smile "You aren't a saint, you're a lewd demon, am I wrong? Child of wolf mother?".

Hearing that made Evako's blood boil, that alias….the very nickname that was given to her, that defined her. Before the incident at Setouchi she held that title with absolute pride, but now after everything that had happened afterwards, and with her knowledge of what her mother was really like, as well as her true reasons for her birth in the first place. She absolutely wanted nothing to do with Kakuyo. Evako quickly calmed down, letting out a hard sigh.

"Don't call me by that nickname again…." Evako said slowly "I want absolutely nothing to do with that bitch".

Hearing this made everyone look at Evako with surprise, excluding Tatsuya, Masaru and Taichi who knew the true reason for why Evako was quickly acting the way she was just now. Nami and Sanae looked at Evako in surprise, why was their best friend showing heavy malice towards her own mother that she would praise so much? Evako then looked at Taichi, Masaru, and Tatsuya as she asked them a question. "Did Miles say anything before you guys left? In regards to my text" she asked them.

This was an absolute shock to the Suruga students. Who was Miles? And how does Evako know Setouchi students? Taichi quickly gave her an answer: "He wanted to know how you were doing, Evako" he told her. Hearing this made Evako smirk, she was happy to hear that Miles was asking about her. "Miles…." Evako said before she looked at Taichi "I'll text him, and see if I can get him to call me. I need to talk to him about something important".

Taichi nodded as Evako then walked away heading to class, Nami and Sanae following after to get answers for their questions. This leaving the Suruga students still in shock at the small display before them. Taichi looked at them before rubbing the back of his head. "Guess we have a lot of explaining to do".