I own nothing but all of my OC's in this chapter Suzuki Mikomi, Ishihara Leiko, Ikeda Kimiko, Oshima Hiro, Saito Yumi.
Suzuki was dripping in sweat as she slung over a bit, her hands rested on her bent knees as she tried to catch her breath. They had run a number of laps around the gym and then the couch had them doing a number of drills that had left her exhausted by the end, the muscles in her legs where already starting to argue with her and she was out of breath. She had noticed the coach testing each player analyzing them, noticing their strengths and weakness'. She may have been out of the game for a while with moving across the world and everything but she still knew what to do. She noticed quick which girls could defend, shoot, dunk, it only took her watching them while she would wait her turn to do the drill or she would watch others from the corner of her eye. She was happy with herself, even after a couple good months of doing nothing but packing to moving and school she still had her speed, her stamina was not as good as it was, but her dibbling skills, and speed were still there. Her small compact size actually could come in handy, her turns where tight and fast making her hard to stop, and even if she was short she often did not have problems being able to quickly sprint across the court with out without the ball. She knew her skills still needed tuning and more work compared to when she had seen some of the senior girls play. She actually found it amazing to watch them, she would have to admit more of the later games she played where street ball, occasionally she had seen a couple of people who were good or where lucky enough to have the raw skills to be good but even then, just about non had the foundation that these woman had. Thier foot work was excellent , their shots perfect, and they had great team work even when simply doing different drills and exercises. Once she had caught her breath she straightened up and looked around, she was not the only one who looked tired and breathless everyone else was in a pretty similar state as her.
"Great work today girls, today was a good warm up hope your ready to really start practicing," Oshima said as he looked around at the group pretty much all the first years where bent over trying to catch theirs breaths or sitting down because their legs hurt. But he still smiled as he watched them he was rather happy with the new recruits that he had gained this year and felt confident that the girls would get to the championship this year if they worked hard enough.
Sighing Suzuki along with the other girls slowly as they slowly made their way to the change room, she walked a little ways from the group of girls as they talked and walked into the, she looked up from the floor as one of the girls slowed down as they started walking the same pace. Suzuki looked over at her a little curious, she was a taller girl at least 174 centimeters, she had dark purple hair and eyes to match, her hair was cut short for a girls it came down around her ears but was a little messy and her bangs swept over the side of her right eye, during the practice she had it pinned back but now it was free covered her one eye.
"Your Suzuki Mikomi right?" She asked smiling down at the short blonde as she slowed her pace so that they waked side by side as they got the change room and walked in behind the rest many where already half undressed some where showering.
"Yes I am" Suzuki said nodding her head to the taller first year as she looked up at her, "and your Saito Yumi correct?"
"Yes" the other girl said as she nodded her head and walked over to her locker to grab her cloths, as she opened the looker she looked over at the small blonde. She had recognized her from some of the classes that they took together, she didn't know why but those pale blue eyes where cold. At first glance she looked nothing more than the average girl, she had long blonde hair that during the day she wore down but during practice she pulled it back into a high pony tail where it stayed out of her way and some blonde hairs came loose to stick to her forehead untill she wiped it with a towel and the bangs feel a little more free around her face and forehead. At first glance she appears to be shy and timid but at times her pale blue eyes can become solid and she can actually apppear rather scary.
Suzuki looked over at her fellow classmate and teammate, she seemed like a pretty bubbly person always a smile on her lips wither she was in class or sweating during rough work out. She was a tall slim girl with long legs some of the longest on the team, Suzuki had noticed that the long legged girl specialised with jump shots, and with some practice might even make a some good dunks in the future. Suzuki's score percentage only sat at about 85% accurate, her aim was affected the worst with the lack of practice but like everything else she imagined it would increase with time and some good hard practice.
"Hey Suzuki-kun do you want to go get some food with me?" Saito asked looking over and down at the blonde her purple eyes shimmered and seemed to glow as she smiled happily at her. Suzuki slid her shirt over her head as she thought about it for a second before she looked over at her teammate to answer her questions. She was going to tell the other girl that she was busy and was not hungry but suddenly her stomach growled and blew that story, the other problem was the look that the other girl was giving her, normally people did give her puppy dog faces when she goes to tell them no but this time when she started to stutter and try to get out of it Saito's eyes started to water and her bottom lip started to stick out and Suzuki suddenly froze unable to deny the girl, sighing she gave up and simply nodded her head.
"Ok I will go with you," she said sighing as she pulled her hair out of the pony tail allowing the golden blonde locks to fall down around her face and down her back as she grabbed her bag and closed the door the locker before she turned towards Saito.
"Ok Saito-kun lead the when where your done," Suzuki said slinging her black backpack over her right shoulder as she looked up at the other girl as she closes her locker a little purse in her hand as she slung it over a shoulder.
"Yay then lets go," Saito just about yelled happily as she turned on her heel and walked out of the change room Suzuki quickly followed behind her. Even with Saito's long legs and long stride Suzuki had no problems keeping up with the other girl she naturally walked fast and had no problems keeping up with someone who had a stride twice as long as hers and she even had friends before that would always tell her to slow down, but she was happy with this pace. walking out of the school they walked down the street side by side the walk started out of quiet until Saito looked over at the blonde her curiosity got the best of her.
"So Suzuki-kun I like your accent did you grow up out west?" The tall girl asked her eyes glancing over at the blonde the English accent was very hard to miss, but it seemed to suit her great.
"Yeah I was born in the US but I spent some time back and forth between the US and Japan my mom and birth dad are from the US but my father passed away a little while after I was born and when I was five she got remarried and he was from Japan so he taught me how to read, write and how to speak Japanese," she said as she walked looking around trying to pay attention to where they where going. She looked over at the tall girl surprised to she here eyes wide and full of tears, Suzuki was surprised when she say the other girls reaction, "Uhm Saito-kun there's no need to get upset every things."
"But that's so sad" Saito said looking down at the blonde her eyes full of tires.
"It's not that bad Saito-kun I never knew my real dad but in a way I have always had one, I can't really member any memory's where I didn't have a father" she said blinking her eyes unsure what to do or say to try to cheer up the other woman.
"Oh well I guess that's not too bad then," Saito said rubbing her eyes and she started walking again. The walk was silent again as they started to walk side by side once again as Suzuki followed after the tall and normally happy girl.
"So Saito-kun where are we going?" She asked looking around she blushed a bit when she heard her stomach grow and this time even louder. Saito heard her new friends stomach growl and she couldn't help but giggle lightly.
"Don't worry Suzuki-kun it's not far now it's just over there" She said giggling still as she pointed to a fast food burger place. Suzuki had looked around and this was the first food place that they had come across was there no closer restaurant than a Baji Burger is what she read when she looked up at the sign. She sighed she preferred to eat a little healthier but her growling stomach told her she was too hungry to go home and cook a healthy meal. She followed the tall girl into the restaurant and wait in the short line before they got their orders. As she grabbed her tray and started to walk towards a random table she spotted a tall red-headed male a couple of people behind her. His dark red hair stuck out in the crowd as she quickly looked away and started to follow after her new friend as they walked over and grabbed a table by the window. Suzuki couldn't help but blink her eyes as she walked past a boy about her height but it wasn't till she walked past him already that she had to quickly glance over her shoulder unsure of what she had originally saw when she first walked past. It wasn't till she stopped to think about it that she realised what had drawn her eye to him was not his presence but that she had spotted his tray and drink that's what made her look again. It was not till she looked again and looked harder that she spotted him for a split second before turning her head back to look where she was putting her tray and drink down on the table her blue eyes widened slightly as she realised the boy had no presence. She quickly threw the thought of him into the back of her mind it wasn't till someone sat behind her and a couple of seconds later that she heard a man yell and jump, glancing over her shoulder she spotted the same red-haired man who had been in the line behind her. He had a large pile of burgers in front of him and one in his hands, listening she heard him getting mad at the blue haired boy she had walked past, something about that being his spot and in a soft voice the boy replied he had been there first. As she overheard their conversation she realised that she was not the only one who had not noticed the boys presence. Throwing the two boys into the back of her head she goes back to her burger and having some small talk with her teammate. Finishing her meal at about the same time as Saito they both get up and take their trays and garbage and get rid of them before they make their way outside.
"Well I don't live far from here so I guess ill see you tomorrow, bye" Suzuki said smiling softly as she waved at the nice girl retrieving a wave, smile and good-bye as well before she slowly started to walk back towards her small town house.
