Hello again everyone~ not much to say, but, I don't own Inazuma Eleven only my OC and the plot. That's all… enjoy or not!
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Playtime was over now, and the kids were all sweaty and had their clothes tattered with dirt. But nevertheless, the orphans enjoyed soccer, they loved it more than anything, and above that, they loved it like their 'Father', mainly because their Father was the one who introduced this sport, since, it reminded him of his young, lost son who died in a car crash. So whenever this man would see the little orphans playing soccer, it would always bring him the memories of his beloved son. And speaking of the beloved son, there was a substitute… and that's why most of them hated Hiroto. Hiroto looked like a carbon copy of Kira's son, so whenever their father drops by at the Sun Garden to visit, though how many children run and jump on him like there was no tomorrow, in the end… he would still love Hiroto Kiyama above all of them. That was what made the orphans feel sad at times, so that's why when their step-father goes for a visit, they would try to make their time last, before the man would get walking to his favorite orphan. The love and affection their Father showed, wasn't so balanced. And that's why all the children in the Sun Garden were so envious of the vermillion-haired boy.
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"Hitomiko nee-san! Where's my bottle? I'm thirsty!" Fuusuke begged,
"Eww! You still drink from a bottle! Fuusuke-chan…you're 5 years old already!" Haruya said, subsequently imagining an image of Fuusuke drinking his bottle, 'That's…so…cute…!" Haruya thought in his head, but his inner thoughts didn't speak up.
"But when I drink from a glass it spills on my shirt…" the teal-eyed boy pouted,
"You're 5! You should try this…" the redhead was walking at the back of the van so that he could get that something he was referring to, he flipped up the hood of the van's back part… and he found a purple-haired girl staring at him, he looked straight into her brown eyes, scary.
"Eep! W-Why a-are you at the back of the v-van? Look, if you wanna s-sleep, there's always the front and middle seat available for you!" Haruya tried to act like he wasn't frightened at all. But seeing those piercing eyes penetrate his— got his heart racing on a road track.
"Miki-chan, why didn't you play with the rest of us? We had such a great time playing soccer!" Fuusuke asked, beaming about how fun all their playtime was. The purple-haired girl looked at Fuusuke, and behind him were the orange-haired girl and the turquoise-haired gals, gawking at her, rather, angrily.
The brown-eyed girl parted her lips, yet words failed to come out of it again.
Miki didn't want 'their' glares to get deadlier, so she just pushed herself up from her seat and went to the middle seat, but before she could enter the van's door, someone coughed:
"Excuse me, but I believe me and Honoka-chan should go first." The similar orange-haired girl huffed at her, straightening her back and looking up, the posture of a real bitchy gal.
Miki scowled at her, while An smirked with pride. The orange-haired girl with her friend got in the van, taking the middle seat.
"O-Oi, I-I was g-going to sit there…" Miki inaudibly said, An snapped her head to the purple-haired girl, and the two girls giggled naughtily, sitting down.
"Oh, sorry… Miki-chan, we just took it." The carrot-haired girl sounded obviously sadistic.
Fuusuke and Haruya were about to enter the van's entrance when both their eyes met Miki with gritted teeth and clenched fists.
Fuusuke stared at her in concern, "Miki-chan, i-is everything alright?" he touched her shoulder, only to see the penetrating brown eyes to look over her shoulder. It scared the concerned duo's behind her, her eyes had looked like she was some kind of murderer.
"I'm…fine…" her voice sounded raspy, as if she was going to cry. The purple-haired girl held the tears that were forcibly getting pulled by gravity. She didn't want to cry, it would only make those bullies happier and would crave for more cries from her.
Hitomiko arrived from the convenience store nearby and saw three children standing at the vehicle's entrance,
"Haruya, Fuusuke, Miki…aren't you going inside the van already?" she placed her paper bags beside the front seat, and the two children hurried to find available seats. Now, Miki was the only one without a seat, though there was one free space left beside the carrot-haired girl, but she didn't want to sit with her.
"Nee-san, could you fetch me later…?" Miki asked, quite shyly. Hitomiko narrowed her brows,
"But why Miki-chan? I can't do that, that's child abuse. Come on, no more dilly-dallies, get in the car…" Hitomiko ordered. Miki huffed stubbornly, 'Anything but sitting with those girls…' Miki mentally thought.
"C-could I sit at the vans back?" the brown-eyed girl asked,
"Why don't you want to sit at the middle dear?" the dark-haired teen wondered,
"B-because…" Miki tried to find a plausible response but couldn't come up with one. She quickly averted her eyes from the teen and played with the hem of her shirt.
Everyone was gawking at Miki, why didn't she want to get in the van? Was she shy about what happened hours ago?
Natsuhiko, suddenly pushed the white-haired boy to the side of the van, as if to get space for the purple-haired girl to have,
"Miki-chan!" the brunette's voice came from the back of the van, "There's a free space here, you could sit with me and Atsuishi –chan…" Nepper tiptoed on top of his seat, waving at Miki from a distance.
"There, Miki…why don't you sit with them?" Hitomiko bent down to her height and gently pushed her back in the van. Miki hesitantly walked up to Natsuhiko and his seat mate, as she passed by An and Honoka, she received another mischievous smirk from them. But she just ignored it. She finally reached the end of the row of seats and sat in between Natsuhiko and Atsuishi (and that's when everyone started chatting). The brunette at her left held up a hand at her,
"My name's Natsuhiko… uhm…" the brunette forgot his sir name. "Ahaha, I forgot my sir name…" he scratched the back of his head and chuckled lightly, "A-Anyway, nice to meet you Miki-chan…" he shook her hand, making the other kid smile sheepishly. "Oh, and beside you is Atsuishi…" Natsuhiko looked in the air, trying to remember his friend's sir name,
"It's Shigeto…Natsuhiko-chan…." the white-haired boy rolled his eyes, "Nice to meet you…!" he leaned in to kiss the purple-haired girl on the cheek.
Miki blushed and stared at the white-haired boy with wide eyes, "D-Did you just… k-kiss my cheek?" Miki touched the right side of her face feeling the warmth of her cheeks.
"Yeah… my mama said to do that when I meet someone new." Atsuishi grinned at the purple-haired child, he was naïve about the fact that we shouldn't always do that to just anyone. Miki lowered her head and awkwardly turned quiet because of the close contact. She saw shadows of a tulip on her feet; she looked up and found Fuusuke and Haruya smirking at Atsuishi,
"What are you two staring at?" Atsuishi lifted a brow at the two,
"ATSUISHI AND MIKI SITTING ON A TREE! K-I-S-S-I-N-G" the redhead and the snow-haired boy sang in sync. All the babbling made the other orphans curious, and the news had spread among all orphans.
Miki and Atsuishi blushed madly and avoided eye-contact. 'It's not what they think!' Atsuishi averted his head from looking at Miki.
Miki looked at Atsuishi and just had currently noticed a scar on his right cheek,
"Erm, A-Atsuishi-chan," Miki called, instantly, Atsuishi's head turned to her. "What happened to your right cheek…?" she tentatively pointed.
"O-oh…that? Uhm, I don' really know…Hitomiko nee-san said I got this scar when I was three years old…but I don't remember anything when I was three." Atsuishi thought touching his lip with his index finger.
"But its better now, I'm happy that it didn't go worse…" Miki smiled at the white-haired boy. 'Happy? What should she be happy about? We're not even close friends just yet…' Atsuishi frowned slightly.
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It was 6pm when the vehicle had finally arrived at the Sun Garden.
"Okay children! We're here!" Hitomiko announced as the children impatiently jumped out their seats and ran back to the orphanage. Hitomiko giggled a little to herself, 'Kids these days are just so adorable…' she thought. She was very satisfied and happy to take care of the children in the Sun Garden, though some were stubborn… not only because of the big salary she received, she loved baby-sitting the children. She took care of the little toddlers by heart.
The black-haired teenager walked to the rows of the van to see if anyone left any belongings…but instead, what she saw on the second to the last part of the van was the snow-haired boy sucking on his thumb and his head rested on the red-haired boy's shoulder and Haruya drooling with an agape mouth as he leaned his head on the seat's support.
"Cute~!" Hitomiko nearly screamed to herself, but she said it in a soft manner so she wouldn't startle the two. And on the last row, she found Atsushi's head leaning on the window and Miki sleeping soundly on his lap, Hitomiko giggled softly to herself… 'This one's more adorable…' she smiled at the left four children in the van.
-Hours Ago-
Miki was feeling very lethargic and couldn't even think straight anymore, her eyes started to flicker in sleepiness: close, open, close, open…slowly closes.
"Miki-chan, are you sleepy?" the white-haired boy beside her queried. The purple-haired girl nodded her head lazily.
"I want to sleep, but I don't have a pillow…" (Miki can't sleep without a pillow) Miki complained, yawning. Atsuishi could visibly see how drowsy she looked, he wanted to help her.
"Here, here Miki-chan…you can sleep on my lap." Atsuishi beamed at the purple-haired girl.
"A-Ah! N-no…it's okay…" Miki stuttered. Lowering her head, trying to hide the light blush spread evenly on the her cheeks…
Suddenly, a hand pushes her head to someone's lap,
"A-Atsuishi-chan! I-I told you i-it's okay…!" Miki's blush increased, but the white-haired boy just flashed a grin at her, and fixed the strands of hair that covered her forehead,
"You're sleepy right? But you don't have a pillow, I can't sleep without a pillow either…when I was four, my mama used to place my head on her lap whenever I was sleepy... then I would be sound asleep on our long trip…" Atsuishi explained. To his point, it reminded him of his mother. That's why he wanted to try it on someone else…
"O-okay…" Miki smiled with sympathy at him, understanding his point. She nuzzled onto the white-haired boy's lap and secretly smiled to herself once again, she felt so lucky having two more friends in the orphanage,(but also had two haters) "Thank you, Atsuishi-chan…"
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And that's how the two ended up in that position…and amazingly, it did make Miki sound asleep.
"Minna~ time to get up!"
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Erm, I'm sleepy already, so I'll that's a cliff-hanger for all of you guys. No flames, and sorry for my mistakes if there were any. :)