Previously on Hemophobia

The moment the ball hit the net and the whistle for the goal was blown, another sequence of three whistles followed indicating their victory.

"This game is over 3-1! The ones to rise victorious out of this fierce battle in the first match of the district preliminaries is Raimon Jr. High!"

Shindou looked at the avatar he had brought our as the spirit was going back in made a feeling of nostalgia creep into him. Now that he thought about it, he did miss his long hair.

A.N: changed my mind again. Tenma will be the one calling Tsurugi: Kyousuke. I'll edit the other chapters when I have TIME!

After the match, everything became somewhat normal if you didn't count the pissed-off members of the team. Not like Tenma minded. After all, he was with Tsurugi either in the music room or in the hospital with Yuuichi.

The day he actually decided to go to practice, the room was filled with tension and the members that weren't against Fith Sector glaring at those who were.

"It's a pain," Tenma heard Minamisawa say as he entered the room "Quit pushing your ideas of soccer onto us."

Shindou said nothing to the teen, only lifting his head to acknowledge the brunet's presence. Minamisawa noticing this continued: "Do you think Fifth Sector will keep quiet? Do you guys not care if the club gets disbanded?

Tenma walked past the room seemingly uncaring about what was happening in the room went to Haruna and whispered something to her before walking towards the door but Kurama's voice stopped him.

"Of course, why did I expect you to ever care in the first place. This is all your fault." He was looking down, trembling in rage and seemed to be holding himself back from hitting Tenma

"If you hadn't joined the team in the first place, none of this would have happened. You just came here to ruin us with your stupid soccer ideals and brainwashed Shindou too!"

At that word, everyone looked up expecting fury in the brunet's eyes but found cold indifference.

"And tell me, why exactly should I listen to someone who can't even face me when talking?" the brunet asked and walked away as he saw Kurama had no answer for him if not the slight gritting of teeth. Before closing the door he added: "I'm not coming to practice today either Senpai. You can blame me however you want, but you can't blame me for the fact that you guys don't know how to fight for what's right."

Outside the room, Tsurugi had heard everything and frowned 'This Tenma is too different. Too cold towards them. Even if they have no recollection of the past, he shouldn't be treating them like that. What happened?'

The door opened and closed again. And Tenma came walking out taking his phone out of his pocket, he noticed the presence of the navy-haired and looked at him.

"I understand," he said and walked away.

The navy-haired looked at the disappearing figure wondering where he always went since he skipped most of the soccer practices and sometimes, he wasn't with him either.

Time skip

Aki was worried about Tenma. He seemed worse than usual. He had very dark bags under his eyes. She knew he wasn't sleeping, the few times he was able to sleep, he would be awoken by a nightmare and for the remaining hours, he would stay on his bed and probably cry his frustrations on the past (Not the one he shares with Kyousuke and Shindou) in his pillow.

She had no idea what she could do to help him. She was sure his condition was slowly worsening and the only thing that made her a bit relieved was the fact that he was going back to his therapist.

'Well, once again, light dinner and make sure he eats even a few today.' She reminded herself as she heard the door open and heard a light "I'm home" from the boy.

The next day, Tenma found out Minamisawa had quit the soccer club, that Endou was head set on taking down Fifth-Sector and Kyousuke was going to join the game, well, he already knew the latter. He was just waiting for the rest of the team to decide which side they wanted to join. But there was nothing to worry about. Tenma had a positive feeling for the first time in years and that feeling made him think that maybe. Just maybe things could change for him too.

Time skip

"Holy Road's Kanto A block district preliminaries! Mannouzaka Jr. High versus Raimon Jr. High is about to begin!" shouted the commentator amidst the raging crowd.

Facing Endou were Kurama, Kuramada, Amagi, Hamano and Hayami the message they were conveying was clearly written in their expressions but Kuramada said: "Coach, we're going to follow Fifth Sector's decision. Whatever it may be. We don't want our chance to play soccer be taken away too."

The other five were contrary to the Fifth Sector's ways and Kyousuke's opinion wasn't asked since everyone assumed he wasn't against the organization.

Before the match started, the Kurama and the others looked at Sangoku, Shindou and Kirino with slightly apologetic eyes 'Sangoku and Shindou should know how we feel. We've been enduring it all this time. We'll keep playing the soccer we've gotten used to for our last year. Even if it means going against those two.' They thought, looking at the people were referring to.

Kurama went next to Tenma and glared at him. He had thought about what the brunet told him and that made the light blue-haired detest him more. This time, he looked at the brunet straight on and glared at the smirk on his face: "I'm protecting my own soccer. And if you ever try to win, I'll stop you."

"I'd like to see you try," Tenma responded not seeming fazed at Kurama's words.

Kyousuke was having a hard time internally, he couldn't help having the feeling something was going to go wrong during that match. But he couldn't act suspicious, there was someone coming to him.

The teen facing him had dark, greyish-blue hair tied into a ponytail, part of his hair was coloured white: "Long time no see Tsurugi," he greeted but the navy-haired paid him no heed.

But the captain of the other team didn't care and continued talking: "You know what Fifth Sector ordered right?"

"Of course," the seed replied and walked away from the captain.

The match had officially begun.

"The match begins with Mannouzaka's kickoff."

Isokazi (1) passed the ball to another teammate with sunglasses and he advanced, only for the ball to be stolen by Tsurugi in less than a second after he passed by him.

Isokazi jumped in immediately to stop the navy haired, saying: "What are you doing?"

Tsurugi didn't let him complete the sentence and kicked the ball to the goalpost.

Raimon's goalpost, shocking everyone.

"G...goal! The first point is an own-goal. Raimon gets set back one point in friendly fire."

Everyone looked at Sangoku that was on the floor ashamed he couldn't stop the shot. No one could blame him though, they certainly had not expected him to pull something like that off. They knew at some point, he was going to wreak havoc on Raimon's field but they hadn't expected it so soon. Everyone turned around looking at Tsurugi with wide eyes.

"Quit trying to scare me!" the dual colour haired exclaimed smirking at Tsurugi who just mmphed and walked away.

"This is the second match in the Kanto a Block district preliminaries! In the opening of Mannouzaka versus Raimon, Raimon loses their first point by an unbelievable own goal! The score is currently 1-0 with Mannouzaka in the lead. Can Raimon catch up?"

Everyone were having conflicted thoughts about the match, even the people in the stands were looking sceptical at the players. Having a wolf in sheep's clothing was something hard to deal with. But in Raimon's case, it seemed there always were some players never actually playing and that was becoming too suspicious. Even someone that wasn't a fanatic soccer fan would have guessed immediately that something wasn't right.

Contrary to beliefs, the population wasn't as stupid as they thought.

"You can still follow orders and lose this match 1-0 like established," Kurama whispered to Shindou before the kickoff.

"No, I've made up my mind," the wavy-haired replied.

"The match resumes with Raimon's kickoff!"

Kurama passed the ball to Shindou who kicked it backwards "Shindou makes an unexpected pass to Matsukaze and Matsukaze dribbles up."

The brunet continued dribbling as he passed the opponent coming in front of him with blinding speed, everyone looked at him astonished, not quite expecting Tenma to be that fast. No one understood it was a silent challenge to Tsurugi.

But the navy haired teen and the grey-haired understood perfectly what he meant:

'Just because I let you do what you deem is necessary doesn't mean I'm gonna make it easy to you'

It is very short. I know but writer's block's slowly making itself known.

We'll see next month hopefully.

(1) Isokazi is the name of the other team's captain.