Chapter 3

It was finally the long awaited Friday. The team had practiced till night time for the past three days, planning endlessly, practicing to no end.

Sho had gotten up bright and early in the morning, despite the fact that he had went to sleep at midnight the previous night. He had barley any sleep the last night, as a matter of fact. He was too excited about the game that was yet to come. But, unfortunately, it would be another eight hours till the game.

He haded for school, meeting Tatsuya on the way there. He hadn't had much sleep either. He was going over the game plan once more in his head. "Are you ready, Sho? Did you get enough sleep?"

Sho shook his head. "But I am ready. I can't wait!"

Teppei swung his arm over, stretching and warming up for the game. Taki, Tatsuya, Sho, and Shige were doing the same thing,

"Why do I have to be goal keeper? Come on, you know I'm a perfect forward!" Shige nagged Tatsuya.

"Well, the problem is, your the only one who can play goalie. So, suck it up!" he ordered.

Shige grumbled something, eyeing Sho. He smiled, and said, "I should be the forward."

Sho shivered, but smiled back. "Someday, I'll beat you, too. Tatsuya, Shige, both of you who are such good players. I want to be in your guys league someday, and I will be," he said firmly.

Shige nodded and said, "I'll be waiting for you, Puppy, but before that, we gotta beat those loosers over there!"

The regulars meanwhile, were just lazily walking around, not making much of an effort to warm up. They were, overconfident. And why shouldn't they have been? They were the regulars... at least, for now.

Tatsuya walked over to the captain of the soccer team. "You guys ready to play? Let's start then," he said.

As the whistle blew, Sho ran forward, following the ball with his eyes. The ball was in the regular's position, and they were making their way for the goal. As one player passed, Teppei ran foward at great speed, intercepting the ball.

"Alright! Interception!" he yelled, but stopped as the defending regulars loomed over him. He quickly made a pass to Tatsuya. Barley getting a chance to touch the ball, he passed it to Sho, and Sho, doing the same, passed to Taki.

Taki, in hold of the ball, narrowed his opened eyes to the goal. He aimed for the far left corner, and much to the team's excitement, scored.

"Yes! Good job, Taki," cheered his teammates, patting him on the back.

The onlookers gasped in surprise. Not only were the substitutes matching up to the regulars, they had scored the first goal. Ten minutes passed as the regulars tried to even up the score.

"Your not gonna get a ball through me anytime soon," Shige commented, kicking the ball far away to Sho. He passed it on to Tatsuya, who scored their second point.

"Pass to Tatsuya or Taki," Sho mumbled. Looking around for a place that was empty, or free. As soon as Teppei or Sho got the free ball, they would pass to either Tatsuya or Taki who, with their ball control, scored.

"WE WON!!!!" Teppei shouted, jumping up into the air for a somersault. Laughs and cheers went all around as the celebrated their victory. After thirty minutes, they had won 2 to 1. It was a close call, but nevertheless, they had won.

The regulars through down their uniforms, angrily muttering about their loss. "We quit!" all of them said in unison. But the five others didn't notice. They were celebrating to hard to notice.

"Tatsuya, it's unanimous, and also obvious, but we chose you as our new captain!" Sho announced. Taki, Teppei, and Shige gave Tatsuya a supporting smile, and Tatsuya happily accepted.

"Hm. Now, just because we won this one game against the regular, don't get cocky! Also, we better start recruiting new members for the soccer culb. We have a lot of work cut out for us!" Tatsuya said sternly.

"Yes, sir!" Shige joked, getting a thump in the head from Tatsuya. After, there was more celebrating, but Tatsuya and Shige wern't part of it for long.

Outside, as the day became night, Tatsuya and Shige who had slipped away, walked around the school.

"Was it because of Sho that you joined?"

"Yeah, you could say that. He's interesting," Shige mumbled, looking to the stars.

"Will you stay this time?"

"Maybe," he said. "Come on, Sho will be wondering where you went," Together, they walked back towards their new teammates.

The next day, in place of the flyer of the five on five minigame, was a new one.

Recruiting New Members:

The Soccer Club is looking for new players!

For anyone who'd like to join, try outs are tomorrow after school.

Anyone is welcome to try out.

-Soccer Club

The soccer part was hard to describe and write, so it wasn't very detailed. I'll work on that in the future, after all, they'll have to play lots of games, so, I HAVE to work on it. Anyway, again I ask, PLEASE REVIEW!