Previously on Hemophobia
'Maestro is waking up slowly, I just hope to get to Lancelot before it's too late.'
Though he felt like he was being followed, he paid no mind to it. As he got to the Kogarashi Manor, he went directly to his room without greeting anyone or even bother to have dinner.
Tomorrow was going to be stressful. He could already feel it, and he didn't like that feeling one bit.
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"The murder of 32-year-old single mother Akira Hiroshima is a total mystery. She was found in an alley on the 7th of September at 10.00 am. It seemed the murderer sadistically stabbed her heart and then proceeded to continue this action on the rest of her body too, making the corpse almost non-recognizable. Two days later, her son was found in an alley not distant from the mother's location. The victim was thirteen years old, before his death, it seems the assassin slashed his right eye before ending his young life the same way he did with Akira. Investigations are still on this case. It seems to be unclear what the culprit's motives are. And the reason for this particularly sadistic way of the two murder."
Simeon Omg! I cannot believe things like this are still happening in the world. May their soul rest in peace.
Marylyn Roberts Simeon Yes, I really hope for them to find their peace in heaven. The way they were killed was absolutely cruel.
Justtryingtodraw And that man should totally pay for that. I mean, who is he to decide when someone gets killed? He must get what he deserves and spend the rest of his shitty life in the prison where he belongs.
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Aki couldn't read any more of those awful messages. That morning a notification came on her phone about a news website she signed to long ago and while she was preparing breakfast for Tenma, she decided she was going to read it. But it soon turned out to be an awful idea as she felt like puking as she read the first sentences.
This brought unwanted memories to her brain. Memories she thought to have locked up.
Memories of the dead body of her cousin.
Tenma's room
I will take away every precious thing you own.
I will destroy you.
Tenma suddenly woke up startled by what he just heard. He ran a hand on his sweaty forehead to wipe away the disgusting liquid. And instinctively touched his right eye, massaging his scar.
"Calm down Tenma, it was only a dream" he whispered to himself biting his lip hard enough to draw blood. He had to resist the urge. After all, he promised.
But he didn't know for how long he still could keep that promise. At that moment, Sasuke came to him and started licking his hands, in his way of comforting him.
"Thank you, Sasuke," he replied a rare smile surfacing on his face. "You're the only good thing I have in my childhood other than my mother of course."
Sasuke barked happily at that response.
He got up, went to the toilet, had his bath, brushed his teeth and wore his school uniform.
"Tenma, I prepared breakfast. Come down now." Aki shouted from the kitchen as Tenma was walking down the stairs.
He left his bag on the corridor's floor near the exit and walked into the kitchen. He sat down on the dining table and stared at his food.
"Itadakimasu," he said quietly before taking small bites of his French toast.
When he finished, he stood up and walked to the door.
"I wish you could eat more Tenma," Aki said, her eyes glancing at Tenma almost nervously.
"And you know that wish can't come true," he said, not looking at here before picking up his bag and walking out of the door.
When he got to school, he entered the classroom as soon as the bell rang and sat down at his chair waiting for Kanekoto-sensei to come in.
"Kiritsu," an unknown student said as the door slid open and the man walked in. All the students stood up. "Ki o tsuke"
"Rei," they all bowed down to their sensei, and the man did the same.
"Chakuseki" they all sat down and the lesson started.
Skip to Shindou's class
'We only have nine members left. What's more, Tsurugi's joining' he thought frowning, 'How do I protect the club? What can I do as a captain?'
'Shindou, don't put all this on yourself,' Kirino thought, looking at the boy worriedly already knowing what was going through the wavy-haired by's mind: 'You aren't the only one worried about the soccer club.'
After the lessons, Amagi, Kuramada and Sangoku went to the back of the class to talk.
"If Tsurugi ever tries that again, I'll knock him flat!" the violet-haired teen exclaimed furiously.
"Calm down, Amagi," Sangoku said clenching his teeth. "An observer from Fifth Sector could never understand how we feel."
"Wish we could play soccer as freely as we want," Amagi said, calming down.
"Yeah..." Sangoku said, thinking nostalgically at when he was still in the second team of Raimon's soccer club. Things were really nice then. At least, he didn't know of Fifth Sector. But it all changed as he joined the main team and was forced to watch others pull goals off him without really trying. And damn that was frustrating.
"Get over it already," Minamisawa said pulling him out of his thoughts. "No one can win against Fifth Sector," he concluded
"We know that. And we also know that we have to listen to them if we want to continue playing soccer." Amagi said, grumbling.
"Then put up with it just for another year. At least, our three years of soccer here will look good once we apply for high school." the violet-haired boy said closing the book he was reading and heading for the door.
Amagi slammed his fist on the cupboard, the teacher didn't scold him because apparently, destroying a school property is a very normal thing to do. And Kuramada said clenching his teeth: "Not all of us can get over it easily as you do,"
They looked out of the window and saw Tenma standing there as if he was expecting someone. As of cue, Tsurugi walked towards the brunet, told him some things that the third years obviously didn't hear and together, they walked away.
The second years were looking at them from their classroom too.
"What's he doing with the Seed?" Amagi exclaimed angrily.
Tenma suddenly turned towards the window and glared at Amagi with piercing red eyes almost saying: 'That's none of your fucking business.'
'I was right. This guy is one of them' Kurama thought, glaring at the brunet as he walked away with the navy-haired teen.
(a/n: I'm gonna skip all of Shindou's -guilt-and nothing can be done-speech-scene. I have no time for useless shit. Don't get me wrong, I think Takuto is an amazing guy but I really hated the way he doubted himself so Imma make sure Tenma straightens his ass.)
Time skip until the beginning of the test
Tenma walked as slowly as possible to the internal field seeing as the external one was still being repaired. He would have wanted to skip but couldn't if he didn't want his ass handed to him later.
"We'll now begin the entrance exam. Matsukaze Tenma," he said, calling all their names as Tenma walked through the door "Nishizono Shinsuke. Kotegawa Sakio. Oshii Tsuyoshi. Kanari Atsunori."
They all responded (a/n: all except Tenma but I guess you already figured that.) excitedly due to their names being called.
"All of you'll be playing as if you were in a real match and your actions will determine whether you pass or fail.
'I expected as much. But these are all huh...' Sangoku thought, thinking he was hiding his disappointed look but Tenma noticed it and smirked: 'I'll give you something else to be disappointed about'
'No matter who joins, it won't change anything. Nothing can be done' Guess who thought that.
At that moment, Tsurugi walked inside and sat down at the audience seat. Tenma noticed this and smirked at him the teen doing the same.
Amagi saw the brunet looking at the navy-haired teen and he glared at him, clenching his fist and teeth but he said nothing. Surprisingly.
"The five of you will go against our second and third years. You can play whatever way you wish. And Tenma, please, don't get yourself expelled from school." Kidou said, looking at the field and Tenma gave him a blank expression.
"The soccer club has only ten members right now. There's no way they'll let me fail," one useless character thought, smirking to himself.
"If I join now, it will look like I was the one to save the soccer club. It'll make me look good in the teachers' eyes," another useless character thought.
The sound of the whistle gave them the signal to begin.
The first student passed it to the second who later passed it to third.
The last person that received the ball started walking/running forward, thinking: 'The famous soccer club may be dropping fast but a regular is still a regular.'
Kurama walked towards him but stopped as the black-haired boy passed it to red-haired who shouted: "Where do you think you're aiming?"
"It's your trapping that sucks!" he shouted back.
"Tch!" the blue-haired muttered in annoyance and passed the ball to red-haired but the useless guy was unable to stop it.
"Hey! Where'd you learn to pass!" but blue-headed teen just turned around
'This is the level they're at huh?' Kuramada thought and everybody looked downright disappointed (a/n: even I was disappointed as I was watching the show.)
Kuramada later passed the ball to Shinsuke but the boy was unable to stop it due to his petit and untrained figure.
"That was such an easy pass" Hayami muttered as he stopped the ball.
He then kicked it in mid-air, for it to be caught by Tenma who dribbled forward Hamano tried to stop him but Tenma kicked the ball high and moved forward to later retrieve it.
Hamano looked surprised at the way Tenma passed by him, it somewhat reminded him of what Tsurugi did during their match and he frowned at that thought.
As Tenma ran forward, Shindou blocked his way and he smirked "Shindou,"
The wavy-haired teen said nothing as he dashed forward and pushed Tenma out of the way.
'Mmmh... Seems I'll have to play a little seriously. Sorry, Kudou.' he thought as he hit the ground.
"What's he getting so worked up about," Kirino said, looking surprised that Shindou did that.
'Oh, this is getting good' Tsurugi thought, interested.
Shindou showed the three useless guys who the boss was by blocking all their useless attempt.
"Tch, captain's getting serious about this,"
"It's because that guy made him angry,"
"Tch, I'm not dealing with this," the three boys said one after the other.
Shinsuke dribbled forward with the ball but Shindou stole the ball from his feet. 'He's so fast I couldn't even see when he took the ball,' the little boy thought, looking at Shindou who passed him the ball and then walked away.
"Maybe it was impossible thinking I could enter the team," Shinsuke said in a small voice.
"Tenma took the left-over ball and started dribbling towards the second and third years with incredible speed. As he passed by them, all they felt was wind.
When he got to Shindou, he kicked the ball in the captain's face (a/n: Gouenji vibes) and everyone had shocked expressions seeing what he just did but Shindou didn't react.
"Get up Shindou," Tenma declared, looking at him with dark eyes "Get up and face the fucking life you chose. You chose to play soccer, no one forced you. Then get up and stop behaving like a damn spoilt child. You can't always expect someone to bring what you want for you in a fucking silver plate. You gotta work for it. And if you want something to change about this current situation, you gotta stand your grounds and stop being a fucking brat." Tenma said loudly, not loud enough for it to be a yell but loud for Shindou to hear everything he said.
"No matter how much you try to do something, they just won't come to you," Shindou said, standing up from the ground and ran towards the brunet to steal the ball from him.
Tenma kicked the ball high and shouted: "Nishizono!"
Shinsuke understood what the brunet meant and he felt like he should run to that ball. It was a very strange feeling, almost like the ball was calling unto him. He didn't know why he felt like giving up before. His body suddenly filled with energy as he ran to the direction of the ball, he didn't know why but his instinct told him to jump. And jump he did, much higher than Shindou did. Unfortunately, the wavy-haired teen used his leg to catch the ball before Shinsuke could. But that was enough. That was enough to tell Tenma that his friends, his comrades were still in there somewhere. And somehow, he was going to bring them all out.
The brunet ran towards Shindou and said in a melancholy voice: "Hey Shindou, wanna play my favourite?"
At that sentence, Shindou stopped in his tracks and stared at Tenma, memories flashing through his eyes "Y...you're..." he said, unable to continue due to his voice breaking as he choked on a sob and went to the boy.
"That's enough. The exam is over," Kudou's voice interrupted what was happening in the field. But that didn't stop Shindou from going to hug the brunet.
"20 centuries have passed Shindou, I hope your acting skills haven't passed too," Tenma said, looking at the wavy-haired boy.
Tsurugi smirked at that 'Seems he back,' he thought
"I'll now announce the results," Kudou said, looking at the smug-looking 3 useless characters, a panting Shinsuke and a nonchalant Tenma.
"Those who passed are Matsukaze Tenma, Nishizono Shinsuke. Those two. That's all," he concluded.
"No fair, why are they the only ones?" Useless one protested, the other useless guys joined him.
"Examine yourself and one day, come back to tell me if you're really worth joining," Tenma said, not looking at them.
They walked away defeated, mumbling useless shit.
"Why did those losers have to join?" the blue-haired said.
"In other words, you guys are worse than losers. Hmm," Tsurugi said, looking amused
"Congratulations Tenma, Shinsuke" Aoi congratulated them.
"Matsukaze Tenma." the brunet said walking to the place Tsurugi was sitting.
"I'm Nishizono Shinsuke. I'm glad to be here" the light-brown haired boy said excitedly.
"Matsukaze," Amagi shouted suddenly, stopping the boy "Why are you always with that seed?" he demanded, looking fiercely at the brunet.
Tenma turned around as his eyes flashed red for a second and he smiled a dark smile, Shindou and Tsurugi started shaking visibly "Well, wouldn't you like to know..."
'The connection is unstable' they both thought at the same time as they ran to stop Tenma from falling or in Tsurugi's case jumped off the audience seats.
And that's it for this month. I hope it intrigued you.
If anyone has any idea of Tenma's relationship with Raimon please, write it in the comment section. I'm curious to know your theories.
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P.S: I'm so happy cause today the new chapter of Aot is out and I can't wait to read it and the new episode of UnOriginal is out too 😁😁.
I am the happiest author in this world. (And if you don't know what UnOriginal is, I recommend it. It's on webtoon.)
PP.S: I cancelled a sentence in this chapter because it didn't go well with my plot. But it's nothing major.
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