Title: Life, Newspaper and Basketball
Disclaimer: Slam Dunk belongs to Takehiko Inoue. I'm doing this to improve my creative writing. (Shucks) Please don't sue me.
Authors Note: Hello there pips! This is my first attempt of a RuHaru fic. There's just so little of them out there...tsk, so depressing...I don't know how I'm going to pull this fic off, since I'm no writer...I'm majoring in ECONOMICS for gawds sake and I'm doing this?! I'm suppose to be doing a fan-fiction that includes math, eco, business...blah.... blah...blah.... (Authors gone haywire...)
**By the way, this is an AU fic. Rukawa is nicer, I mean NICER! And he's social, heck; he's even a journalist! At the top of all the good things...ya know what I'm saying?
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CHAPTER TWO: THE TRY-OUT
Haruko, now completely dressed up for basketball practice (as an asst. manager of course), happily made her way towards the University Gym.
"Aaaahhhh...this is home...well, if you thought about it, I should have done this while I was in junior high..."
//I wonder how many would come today...hopefully, onii-chan and the rest of the guys could find someone good. We really need some power forward, or a small forward...// Haruko contemplated.
When Haruko stepped in the gym, the whole Shohoku team, or what remained of them since some had already graduated, was already there. They were huddled up just like what they would do during a game. You could feel the anticipation and excitement in the air, and the try-out hasn't even started yet! Haruko looked on.
"They're talking about the drills that they're going to give for the try-out. 'Been like that since the past 30 minutes. They're talking serious on how they would choose the new members, since it's heard that many would come out today."
Startled, Haruko replied, "Ayako-chan! Gomen, I was kinda absorbed back there. Sou ka...what are we going to do then? How can I help?"
"We're assigned near the gym's entrance. Grab some papers and a ball pen 'coz we're getting the names of those who are joining. Got that?"
"Hai!"
After grabbing some papers and ball pens, they set up their "office" near the gym's entrance.
//Five more minutes...wow, I'm so excited!! //
Five minutes elapsed, the line on the gym's entrance were starting to get long. People might think that there's a free film viewing of "Lord of the Rings" or something. If the people outside were not wearing basketball attire, anyone would think that something's up. One by one, Haruko and Ayako asked for their name and wrote it down the paper.
//Wow, this one's tall, probably a center...this one's like a point guard...hhhhmmm, this one's too fat!...he's well-built...too small...// Haruko analyzed the try-outs on her line silently.
"Nyahahahaha!! Step back weaklings, Tensai is here! Nyahahaha!!"
//Urusai...//
Some red haired guy can suddenly be heard not so far away from the enlisting section where Haruko and Ayako was. To their surprise, people on the line were suddenly thrown to the side, as if someone was going in between them. And someone was indeed pushing them out of the way and it was the same loud red haired guy. Hearing the commotion outside, Takenori Akagi, the basketball team captain, went to see what was it all about. Behind him was the rest of the team.
"Oi, what do you think you're doing?!?!" Akagi yelled.
The red haired guy became quiet. Seems like he got frightened of Akagi. He just stared at him.
"... You have got to own the ugliest face on the planet!! And I thought the kitsune was the worst!! Nyahahaha!!! What do you think I'm standing here for? I'm trying out of course!! It has come to my notice that team Shohoku was in need of Tensai's superb basketball skills!! I'm offering them, and hey, no need to be shy about it. Nyahahaha!! Who are you anyways?"
//What the heck?!? Is he out of his mind?! But I have to admit, the way he's talking, he might really have some talent there...he looks like a brawler though...too bad. Who's this guy anyways?//
"Baka yaro!!! I'm the team captain! If you really want to join the try-out, better learn to fall in line first!!" Akagi said not so silently...
"...NANI??? You're the team captain? "
"What do you mean by that?!"
Ignoring the red faced captain,"Sou ka...just like what I've heard...you're very much like a gorilla! Nyahahahah! Such a warm welcome captain! You're loving me right now aren't you? Can't blame you though...!!"
This hit the nerve of the team captain. He was so determined to jump on him and beat the leaving daylights of out this person that the team behind him had to grab and hold their captain down.
Mitsui, Shohoku's shooting guard piped in, "You better pray hard if you get in this team. You're going to be his favorite"
"...I-" the red haired guy was suddenly cut off by a voice behind him.
"Since it seems like you're not going back to the line, and you're already here, why don't you just tell me your name so that I can put it down here on the list" Haruko interrupted.
Everybody looked at her as if she's committing suicide. The red head turn around and was about to argue when he noticed that she was pretty. The tips of his ear suddenly turned pink.
"...m-my name? I-I'm..I'm...who was I again? Oh...I'm H-Hanamichi S-Sakuragi." Extending a hand, asking for a handshake.
"Why you puny little thing!! You're hitting on my sister!!" Akagi yelled.
"Oi, Akagi sempai...teme...your temper!" Grabbing their captain more tightly and pulling him back inside the gym to cool off.
Haruko sweat dropped.
//Really now...//
"Yoshi, Hanamichi Sakuragi, you are try-out number 22...please go inside and join the rest of the try-out. Right there, see?" Ayako pointed out.
"Well, actually...a friend of mine asked me a favor. He said he might be late so I should just enlist his name...is it okay-?" Sakuragi stopped abruptly, asking silently for Haruko's name.
"I'm Ayako."
"Not you!! Her!"
"Well ex-cuse me!"
Smiling," I'm Haruko Akagi, I'm the asst. manager here and this is Ayako, she's my boss."
"Right...so Haruko, can I call you Haruko?"
"Why not?"
Sakuragi was about to die happy.
"So, can you write his name down?"
Haruko looked at Ayako for approval and the latter nodded.
"Okay...so, what's his name anyways?"
"k-.."
"Hanamichi!!"
Haruko went rigid.
//That voice! That arrogant, pompous....argh!!//
"There you are!! Yappari...your voice can be heard all over the campus!!"
"So what? Everybody loves my voice, right Kaede? Nyahahaha!"
Everybody sweat dropped.
"You." Haruko said flatly.
"Yes ma'm?" Hanamichi replied eagerly.
"Not you!!"
"Haruko-chan?! What are you doing here?" Rukawa asked.
//The nerve!! He sounded like I'm the last being who's supposed to be here!//
"Huh? Know her?" Sakuragi asked.
"Yup, we were friends back in junior high."
//Who ever said that the feeling was mutual!?!//
"Rukawa-kun...won't basketball clog-up your already-hectic schedule?" She said almost teasingly.
Rukawa scratched the back of his head.
"Nahh, this is something that I had been wanting to do since junior high...I wanted to join the team so badly but so many things held me back...you know..."
//Puh-lease...what are you implying? And create your own reason, that's mine!!//
"Yeah, you were such an active student ne?"
An awkward silence soon ensues with Hanamichi looking back and forth between them.
"How about moving on so that the rest of the guys out here could enlist. They were whining for the last 30 min. or so, you know?" Haruko suggested.
And indeed the line outside looked like they were standing up enough for a lifetime.
"Right...so, see ya later Haruko-chan" Rukawa said.
"Later Haruko!" Sakuragi said, grinning ear to ear.
"By the way Haruko, what are you doing here? I'm pretty sure your not trying out." Rukawa said humorously.
//Flirt!//
"I'm the asst. manager here."
"That's nice...well wish me luck!" Then he jogged off.
//Luck? You've gotta be kidding me! You'll need more than luck with me being the asst. manager here!//
"G'luck!" She said rather unconvincingly.
"I think he'll make the cut..." Ayako said.
"I don't think so Ayako-chan..." An idea forming in her head.
Ayako noticed that Haruko was thinking about something not good just shrugged it off.
//I don't think so Rukawa...//
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...what do you think? help me out here guys!
...do you think haruko's too mean?^^
…btw, sorry bout the title: originally, it was supposed to be School, newspaper and basketball. But I changed it to Life, newspaper and basketball. Gomen mina….
Disclaimer: Slam Dunk belongs to Takehiko Inoue. I'm doing this to improve my creative writing. (Shucks) Please don't sue me.
Authors Note: Hello there pips! This is my first attempt of a RuHaru fic. There's just so little of them out there...tsk, so depressing...I don't know how I'm going to pull this fic off, since I'm no writer...I'm majoring in ECONOMICS for gawds sake and I'm doing this?! I'm suppose to be doing a fan-fiction that includes math, eco, business...blah.... blah...blah.... (Authors gone haywire...)
**By the way, this is an AU fic. Rukawa is nicer, I mean NICER! And he's social, heck; he's even a journalist! At the top of all the good things...ya know what I'm saying?
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CHAPTER TWO: THE TRY-OUT
Haruko, now completely dressed up for basketball practice (as an asst. manager of course), happily made her way towards the University Gym.
"Aaaahhhh...this is home...well, if you thought about it, I should have done this while I was in junior high..."
//I wonder how many would come today...hopefully, onii-chan and the rest of the guys could find someone good. We really need some power forward, or a small forward...// Haruko contemplated.
When Haruko stepped in the gym, the whole Shohoku team, or what remained of them since some had already graduated, was already there. They were huddled up just like what they would do during a game. You could feel the anticipation and excitement in the air, and the try-out hasn't even started yet! Haruko looked on.
"They're talking about the drills that they're going to give for the try-out. 'Been like that since the past 30 minutes. They're talking serious on how they would choose the new members, since it's heard that many would come out today."
Startled, Haruko replied, "Ayako-chan! Gomen, I was kinda absorbed back there. Sou ka...what are we going to do then? How can I help?"
"We're assigned near the gym's entrance. Grab some papers and a ball pen 'coz we're getting the names of those who are joining. Got that?"
"Hai!"
After grabbing some papers and ball pens, they set up their "office" near the gym's entrance.
//Five more minutes...wow, I'm so excited!! //
Five minutes elapsed, the line on the gym's entrance were starting to get long. People might think that there's a free film viewing of "Lord of the Rings" or something. If the people outside were not wearing basketball attire, anyone would think that something's up. One by one, Haruko and Ayako asked for their name and wrote it down the paper.
//Wow, this one's tall, probably a center...this one's like a point guard...hhhhmmm, this one's too fat!...he's well-built...too small...// Haruko analyzed the try-outs on her line silently.
"Nyahahahaha!! Step back weaklings, Tensai is here! Nyahahaha!!"
//Urusai...//
Some red haired guy can suddenly be heard not so far away from the enlisting section where Haruko and Ayako was. To their surprise, people on the line were suddenly thrown to the side, as if someone was going in between them. And someone was indeed pushing them out of the way and it was the same loud red haired guy. Hearing the commotion outside, Takenori Akagi, the basketball team captain, went to see what was it all about. Behind him was the rest of the team.
"Oi, what do you think you're doing?!?!" Akagi yelled.
The red haired guy became quiet. Seems like he got frightened of Akagi. He just stared at him.
"... You have got to own the ugliest face on the planet!! And I thought the kitsune was the worst!! Nyahahaha!!! What do you think I'm standing here for? I'm trying out of course!! It has come to my notice that team Shohoku was in need of Tensai's superb basketball skills!! I'm offering them, and hey, no need to be shy about it. Nyahahaha!! Who are you anyways?"
//What the heck?!? Is he out of his mind?! But I have to admit, the way he's talking, he might really have some talent there...he looks like a brawler though...too bad. Who's this guy anyways?//
"Baka yaro!!! I'm the team captain! If you really want to join the try-out, better learn to fall in line first!!" Akagi said not so silently...
"...NANI??? You're the team captain? "
"What do you mean by that?!"
Ignoring the red faced captain,"Sou ka...just like what I've heard...you're very much like a gorilla! Nyahahahah! Such a warm welcome captain! You're loving me right now aren't you? Can't blame you though...!!"
This hit the nerve of the team captain. He was so determined to jump on him and beat the leaving daylights of out this person that the team behind him had to grab and hold their captain down.
Mitsui, Shohoku's shooting guard piped in, "You better pray hard if you get in this team. You're going to be his favorite"
"...I-" the red haired guy was suddenly cut off by a voice behind him.
"Since it seems like you're not going back to the line, and you're already here, why don't you just tell me your name so that I can put it down here on the list" Haruko interrupted.
Everybody looked at her as if she's committing suicide. The red head turn around and was about to argue when he noticed that she was pretty. The tips of his ear suddenly turned pink.
"...m-my name? I-I'm..I'm...who was I again? Oh...I'm H-Hanamichi S-Sakuragi." Extending a hand, asking for a handshake.
"Why you puny little thing!! You're hitting on my sister!!" Akagi yelled.
"Oi, Akagi sempai...teme...your temper!" Grabbing their captain more tightly and pulling him back inside the gym to cool off.
Haruko sweat dropped.
//Really now...//
"Yoshi, Hanamichi Sakuragi, you are try-out number 22...please go inside and join the rest of the try-out. Right there, see?" Ayako pointed out.
"Well, actually...a friend of mine asked me a favor. He said he might be late so I should just enlist his name...is it okay-?" Sakuragi stopped abruptly, asking silently for Haruko's name.
"I'm Ayako."
"Not you!! Her!"
"Well ex-cuse me!"
Smiling," I'm Haruko Akagi, I'm the asst. manager here and this is Ayako, she's my boss."
"Right...so Haruko, can I call you Haruko?"
"Why not?"
Sakuragi was about to die happy.
"So, can you write his name down?"
Haruko looked at Ayako for approval and the latter nodded.
"Okay...so, what's his name anyways?"
"k-.."
"Hanamichi!!"
Haruko went rigid.
//That voice! That arrogant, pompous....argh!!//
"There you are!! Yappari...your voice can be heard all over the campus!!"
"So what? Everybody loves my voice, right Kaede? Nyahahaha!"
Everybody sweat dropped.
"You." Haruko said flatly.
"Yes ma'm?" Hanamichi replied eagerly.
"Not you!!"
"Haruko-chan?! What are you doing here?" Rukawa asked.
//The nerve!! He sounded like I'm the last being who's supposed to be here!//
"Huh? Know her?" Sakuragi asked.
"Yup, we were friends back in junior high."
//Who ever said that the feeling was mutual!?!//
"Rukawa-kun...won't basketball clog-up your already-hectic schedule?" She said almost teasingly.
Rukawa scratched the back of his head.
"Nahh, this is something that I had been wanting to do since junior high...I wanted to join the team so badly but so many things held me back...you know..."
//Puh-lease...what are you implying? And create your own reason, that's mine!!//
"Yeah, you were such an active student ne?"
An awkward silence soon ensues with Hanamichi looking back and forth between them.
"How about moving on so that the rest of the guys out here could enlist. They were whining for the last 30 min. or so, you know?" Haruko suggested.
And indeed the line outside looked like they were standing up enough for a lifetime.
"Right...so, see ya later Haruko-chan" Rukawa said.
"Later Haruko!" Sakuragi said, grinning ear to ear.
"By the way Haruko, what are you doing here? I'm pretty sure your not trying out." Rukawa said humorously.
//Flirt!//
"I'm the asst. manager here."
"That's nice...well wish me luck!" Then he jogged off.
//Luck? You've gotta be kidding me! You'll need more than luck with me being the asst. manager here!//
"G'luck!" She said rather unconvincingly.
"I think he'll make the cut..." Ayako said.
"I don't think so Ayako-chan..." An idea forming in her head.
Ayako noticed that Haruko was thinking about something not good just shrugged it off.
//I don't think so Rukawa...//
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...what do you think? help me out here guys!
...do you think haruko's too mean?^^
…btw, sorry bout the title: originally, it was supposed to be School, newspaper and basketball. But I changed it to Life, newspaper and basketball. Gomen mina….