Nya here you go chapter 3~
One friend asked me when Haru was gonna reveal herself, and honestly I haven't thought about that ^^', so I don't know. I think it might be soon, 'cause for one upcoming chapter it's gonna be needed her identity to present a new character~
Nya, I think I said too much, so enjoy~
" Line up and start undressing."
" Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh?"
It was the afternoon right after Teikoku's match, and the Raimon soccer team just arrived at the infirmary, when they heard such a thought-provoking order from the black haired 'bishonen'. All the players were beat red, either from embarrassment or anger.
" What are you thinking, you girly boy!" Someoka said between clinched teeth, with an huge anime vein on his flustered face. Haru raised an eyebrow and asked, as if what she requested was a daily task.
" What were you thinking, Someoka? How am I going to check on your health when you are fully dressed? Don't misunderstand my words." She grabbed a notepad from her desk and kept on. " Besides, I've already seen a lot of bodies, yours won't be too different from theirs."
Everyone calmed down, but still looked a little doubtful after hearing the blackette's explanation. They didn't seem to mind the 'boy' to see their half-naked body, the only problem is that...
" Alright minna! Who's going to start?" A dark green haired girl, also known as Aki, asked, a measure tape on her hands. The boys looked at each other nervously. Impatient, Haru rolled her eyes and said:
" C'mon, I bet you're not this shy with Shiratori-san (school doctor). So what differenciates Aki-chan from her?"
One's a woman old enough to be your mother and the other is your age, that's the difference. Most thought, sweatdropping. Seeing them still so hesitant, Haru sighed and stood up, walking towards them:
" There's no trouble for me to do a health check up one on one, but are you willing to waste time here instead of practicing soccer?" She said, stopping in front of Endo. At the sound of his favourite sport, said boy rushed quickly to stand in front of Aki, with a few others behind him. Haru sighed, and shook her head. Just like him...
-Fast Forward-
After the health check up, Endo inmediatly lead the team to the club, saying that he has to show them a new tactic. Not having anything else to do, Haru tagged along, leaving the paper work behind. Let's see what the great Endo Daisuke's grandson will be doing now... She smirked to herself.
" After the match against Teikoku, I know now what our weaknesses are." Endo started. He was standing next to a board, Kazemaru at the other side of it. Everyone else was sitting on the floor, while Haru just leaned against the wall, near the door. The captain kept on " And..."
" Instead of talking about our weaknesses, we should first focus on building up our endurance." Matsuno, or rather Max, interrupted. This statement seemed to have brought the team's spirit very down, and Haru couldn't help but nod in agreement, chuckling on the inside. He's right.
After that, Endo explained a formation that he had thought based on his grandfather's notes and drew it on the board. After everyone took a look at it, Megane complained about how he wasn't playing forward. Handa retorted that he has no right to complain, because he ran away on the last match. The glasses wearing boy's answer made everyone anime fall down. Haru secretly stuck her tongue out, her true personality leaking out. Lucky for her, no one saw it.
Then Shishido's innocent comment caused a very intense protest from Someoka's part. The afro haired boy only asked Endo to search for Goenji to play with them again, but the pink haired guy started accusing Endo that he's being to relaying on the blonde former forward player. Haru's eyes sparkled for a second, and then they returned to normal. Things were starting to get ugly when someone opened the door.
" Ano, minna! Here's a visitor!" Aki informed. Slowly, she started realizing that the atmosphere in the club was somewhat stiff, but before she could ask a hand rested on her shoulder. She turned her head and saw Haru smiling reassuringly at her.
" It's nothing big. Don't worry about it."
" A-ah..." Aki nodded shyly and turned back to the entrace. " P-please come in..."
A familiar brunette walked in. After looking around in the corner of her eyes, she covered her nose.
" It stinks here."
That comment seemed to tick Someoka off even more, and he grunted.
" Why did you bring this type of person here?"
" She said that she had something to say..." Aki couldn't help but explain it that way. Suddenly, the cause of Someoka's mood aggravation stepped forward and spoke:
" The practice match with Teikoku only helped you escape disbandment."
Endo was caught off the guard.
" Y-yeah. But from now on, we'll play more and more matches." At the end he got his confidence back and raised his fist.
Natsumi chukled quietly and continued:
" Your next match has been decided."
" Eeh?"
Everyone was surprised to hear that. Haru whistled lightly and grinned to herself. Heh, the match against Teikoku made them quite famous, didn't it? After recovering from the initial shock, the Raimon team congratulated their captain and chatted lively among themselves. This seemed to irritate the present ojou-sama, who asked annoyed:
" Will you listen to me, or not?"
" Oh, sorry. So which school is it?" Endo asked, not so affected by the tone Natsumi used.
" Occult Middle School. The match is in one week."
No one seemed to know said school, because everyone had a slightly puzzled expression. Natsumi hadn't forget to add a last warning, typical of her.
" Of course, this is no regular friendly. If you lose, the soccer club will be disbanded inmediatly. But if you win, I'll look into applying your team fot the Soccer Frontier Tournament. Do the best you can." And then, she left.
After the, erm, reunion I guess, the socce club went to the camp next to the river and started training. Aki and Haru stayed at the banks, the black haired girl asked the manager to help her keep an eye on how are the players doing. Disapprovement flashed through the Mitsukai girl's eyes while she watched Someoka play. She knew that what caused Someoka to play so agressively is his eagerness to be a forward who his comrades can rely on, like Goenji. But haste makes waste, his frustration at not achieving the level he wants makes him very snappy, and this can cause controversy among comrades.
" Kino-senpai!"
Haru turned her attention to the approaching blue haired girl that shouted earlier. She had shoulder length wavy blue hair and light grey eyes. Her yellow tie meant that she was a first year, and apart from the Raimon girl's uniform she had red glasses on her head. In summary, she was quite cute and Haru, upon seeing her cheerful smile, couldn't help but feel quite fond of her.
" Oh, do you want another interview?" Aki asked when the newcomer stood in front of her.
" No! I came today to observe the club's training! I've become a huge fan of the Raimon eleven since the match. The way they put everything they've got into fighting back is so cool!" Admiration shined in her eyes all the time she talked. Haru walked closer to the two girls and smiled gently.
" Aki-chan, who's this?"
Both girls turned around and looked at the black haired 'boy'. The dark green haired manager smiled shyly, still not completely used to 'Mitsukai-kun'. Unlike her senpai, the first year presented herself enthusiastically:
" Ohayo gozaimasu! I'm Otonashi Haruna! A first year student at Raimon! Pleased to meet you, senpai!"
Haru chuckled. She really started liking this kohai.
" Ohayo, Haruna-chan. Pleased to meet you too, I'm Mitsukai Haru, a second year at Raimon. I hope we can be friends."
" Me too, Mitsukai-senpai!" She beamed excitedly. " Ano, senpai. It seems that their team spirit isn't very harmonious today." She said worriedly. Aki nodded along.
" Someoka-kun seems to be in a rush to improve before the next match."
" The next match? Who will you be playing against?"
" Occult Middle School."
Haruna seemed terriefied. Aki asked why she was so scared, while Haru also seemed interested in that topic.
" You don't know? There are a lot of scary rumors about Occult Middle School."
After that, Aki gathered all the players and asked her kohai to explain about those scary rumors. Haruna then told the Raimon soccer team some of the rumors: how Occult's opponents get high fevers after their match, if someone was to shoot in front of the Occult's goal, said person won't be able to move, etc... In summary, most of Raimon's players got really scared and started talking with each other. However, the topic somehow came back to Goenji and Someoka got angry, again. After a small quarrel, Endo hushed everyone to go back to practice.
" It's such an honour for us to have the Medikaru Tensai (medical genius) here visiting our hospital. Saa, Mitsukai-kun, how old were you when you graduated again?" A man around forty years old asked the black haired girl walking beside him.
" Eleven." Said girl answered lazily.
" Oh, it's such a young age! If ..."
Haru looked around aimlessly, anything for not listening to the vice-president of this hospital. I really dislike people like him. Sure, I don't mind enthusiastic people, but superficial people like him really annoys me to no end. If I wasn't the so called Medikaru Tensai then he wouldn't even bother to cast me a glance. Suddenly, a tablet with a familiar last name caught her attention, and she asked the man beside her.
" What's the condition of this patient?"
" O-oh, you mean Goenji Yuka? She..." And again the vice-president started talking, this time Haru listened intently. After he finished, she opened the door and spotted two familiar figures inside the room.
" ...Haru?" Endo exclaimed. After much insistment on the black haired 'bishonen's part, everyone started calling 'him' Haru instead of Mitsukai. The goalkeeper took quite a time to recognize his classmate. After school, Haru was wearing a white tank top under a purple sleevess open shirt, light blue jeans and white and maroon sneakers. Unlike her school uniform, this outfit showed her developing curves perfectly, so it is impossible to mistake her for a boy like that. But we're talking about Endo, so it took a couple minutes for him to take notice.
" Eeeeeehhhh?" The brunette boy pointed his finger at Haru. Goenji seemed surprised at first, but then he regained his composture again.
" Yoshino-san, I'll meet up with you later at the President's office. For now, please leave me with... my friends alone." After he left, Haru turned to Endo and said:
" What? Never saw such a beautiful girl like me~?" And she winked playfully.
" B-but I thought you were a BOY!"
" Hmm? I never told you that I was a boy, nya~. And it's not good to jump into conclusions, you know, Mamo-chan?" She walked up to the bed. " Ohayo, Shuu-chan. Can you please move a little?"
" Mamo-chan?/ Shuu-chan?" Both boys looked at the girl. The blonde one's gaze was somewhat cautious, observing what the black haired girl was doing to his sister. Haru ignored both, taking the young girl's hand into her bigger ones. " Konichiwa, Yuuka-chan. I'm your onii-chan's friend, you can call me Haru nee-san. You know, I think you're very cute, and I bet you're even cuter when you open your eyes. Your onii-chan plays soccer amazingly, I'm sure you know that." She brushed some hair from the little brunette's face. " Apart from me, here's also Mamoru nii-chan, we are at the same school as Shuu-chan. You know, your brother saved our school's team with his amazing hissatsu! I bet you're very proud of him. So, Yuuka-chan, today Haru nee-chan and Mamoru nii-chan are leaving now, be good okay?" She leaned in and gently kissed her forehead. " Saa, good bye Yuuka-chan." Haru got up and signaled the boys to leave with her for a moment.
After closing the door, Goenji inmediatly asked the black haired girl.
" Why did you do that?"
" You know, patients that are in comma are perfectly able to hear everything around them. So it's good to talk to them every once in a while, encouraging them to wake up. Also, it is better not to talk about negative topics, it might upset the patient." Haru paused, shrugging her shoulders. " As to why I did it, there are two reasons: 1. It's a doctor's duty to help the patient recover as soon as possible; and 2. I want her to wake up as soon as possible, to prove you that you have no reason not to do something you love." She smiled gently. " See you around, Mamo-chan, Shuu-chan."
" I'm Otonashi Haruna from the Newspaper club. From now on I'll be the soccer club's manager. I think only watching you practice is not enough, so I thought that joining will be better! I want to use my ability to recolect info. to help you out. Doozo yoroshiku!" She then bowed.
" Ah... doozo." Endo scratched the back of his neck.
" I'm so happy that you decided to join us, Runa-chan." Haru put her hand on the blue haired girl's shoulder and smiled.
Days passed and without knowing it, Someoka has been practicing a lot and he got better and better. For example, at the beggining his shoots weren't straight and always diverts to another way, and this shoot he did right now went straight to Endo. However, the goalie caught it and threw it to Someoka.
" Try it again!"
Someoka caught the ball and tried again. This time, afte he kicked the ball it went flying to the goal with a blue dragon trailing behind. Endo didn't even had time to react and it scored! Everyone was awestruck and couldn't utter a word. Then, all the players commented on how strong was that shot and Endo ran up to the pink haired guy.
" Someoka! That was an amzaing shoot!"
" This...this is my hissatsu!" Everyone congratulated Someoka and someone asked for a name for it. Again, all the players discussed animatedly until Endo saw an approaching figure.
" Goenji..."
The camp suddenly turned silent and everyone had their eyes fixed on the blonde forward player.
" Endo...I want to join."
Everyone cheered, excited that another forward joined their team. Goenji smiled lightly, but he seemed to remember something.
" Endo, where's that girl?"
" Huh? What girl, captain?" Kabeyama asked the brunette goalkeeper, who was as stunned as them. Then, he beamed and scratched his neck.
" Aaaaaahhh you mean Haru! She went to get us drinks."
...
" Eeeeeeeeeehhhhh?"
* Dun *
The soccer team turned their heads to the source of that sound, just to find a certain black haired girl with some bottles at her feet.
Oh boy...
Huff! Finally done!
Like I said, Haru-chan was about to reveal her true gender soon, so here it is~!
Anyway, this chapter seems a little longer than the others, I hope you don't mind~~!