Rukawa changed into his training shirt and shorts in the locker room after class. Then he went ahead to the gym expecting that Sakuragi would already be in there. He was thinking to himself that Sakuragi would not be as stupid as he think he is. That may be he'd be worth of something.

He heard voices coming from the inside of the gym and when he got in. Few freshmen were already there and greeted him yet, no red-haired monkey bragging. Irritation was written all over his face. He was even purring when he was getting inside.

They started practicing but they seemed energetic. In the middle of it, Miyagi observed his team mates attitude. He was furious that he screamed, "WHERE'S YOUR SPIRITS? Your lame perseverance won't take you even to the quarter finals of the Regionals! Rukawa is not the only player of this team so come on!" Afterwards, a freshman came in the gym panting. The captain approached the freshmen and called out for a break. The settled on one side to rest while Rukawa walked pass Ryota handling a ball.

"So did you find him?" Miyagi asked.

"No, captain… I didn't find him anywhere but I did find his friends. They told me that he didn't show up in his class." Then he kept panting.

Rukawa heard their conversation and knew right then that it's Hanamichi they were talking about. He felt awkward that he begun dribbling the ball fast and hard towards the basket. He slam dunked the ball shaking up the ring heavily and surprising everyone.

"It's good to see that kind of spirit from every one of you. Isn't that right, Rukawa?" Coach Anzai came entering the gym. When Rukawa saw him he wiped-off the sweat on his face with his shirt and greeted the coach. Ryota had the team assembled to give respect to Coach Anzai. On the other hand, Rukawa excused himself to go to the comfort room.

Inside the comfort room you'd hear the gushing out of water from the faucet.

"I'm becoming an ahou because of that stupid monkey! I can't believe that I thought he'd be thinking this time…he's really and AHOU!"

He got carried away splashing water to himself. He was all dumped that he needed tp change his clothes. But when he got to the locker room and opened his locker. There he found a spare shirt but unfortunately, no shorts.

"I forgot. I brought home my spare clothes to wash them…Damn! This is all that RED-HAIRED DO AHOU"S FAULT."

"Then you can borrow mine."

"Hanamichi!? When did you got there!?"

"Not too long…"

Sakuragi then gets to his locker and took out black shorts and hand it over to Rukawa. But he refuses to saying…

"Why would I want to wear yours!? I don't want to have your microbes crawling to me."

"I washed those and I haven't used it yet. Wear it… after all, it's this red-haired do ahou's fault anyway, right?" and Hanamichi smiled at him. Kaede then felt embarrassed hearing him.

The red-haired dude changed his clothes as to while Rukawa turning his back and still was not convinced to wear the shorts he gave him.

"Wear them or not it's your choice. If you would not come I'll explain what happened." He was at the door as he was talking. "I'll go now so…you better make a choice now or you'll catch a cold on those clothes" and he sounded really concerned.

Rukawa had put his pride behind him minutes after Hanamichi was gone. Then he wore the black shorts leaving his wet ones inside the locker.

When he got to the gym it was quiet. Everyone was throwing their attention to Sakuragi who was presently taking a bow in front of Coach Anzai.

"Coach Fatty …iie! I mean a…Coach Anzai, I've been irresponsible but I'm sorry I am willing to cope up. Please accept me again in the team?"

"HANAMICHI SAKURAGI" the coach yelled angrily.

Hanamichi felt scared that he had his head closer to his knees not waning to see the coach turning to his ever popular devilish face. But then the white-haired devil change his tone saying, "As always you make me laugh, Sakuragi. The team doesn't need to accept you back…because you're still part of it." then he had a big smile on his face "but it's good to say it's nice to have you back though."

When he looked at him he was able to breathe properly. Ryota and the team had packed on him. They were pushing and hitting. Rukawa walks towards them and welcomed him back too but seemingly he wasn't too happy about it. Then he hears the coach, "On second thought, Hanamichi take a 100 run around the court." And he immediately followed him hurriedly with a smile.

After practice, Kaede said to Hanamichi in the locker room, "I'll wash your shorts before I give it back to you, at least I won't get much under your depth." Yet, he sorts to have a tone in his voice. Rukawa was the first to go, leaving Sakuragi behind. Hanamichi was just about to change his clothes when he saw something inside the locker. He then grinned as to like he was thinking of something.

sorry been busy...('')