AN: i have returned here just take this chapter

yeah i dont own captain tsubasa

Chapter 26: Confusion and Unwanted Circumstances

She was so happy that they didn't have morning practice that day, because she hadn't adjusted her sleep schedule back to normal. This always happen during summer. She always stayed up late just to read some of the manga she follow. Granted, she's not as addicted as her cousin Ayuri, Ayame's twin sister, but she just couldn't put those down once she started. Ugh, not to mention how many tears she shed just reading those. Stupid shoujo manga.

She was leaning against the table near his desk, listening as the five of them chatted before class starts. Ayame was apparently berating Tsubasa-kun from how reckless he was on some parts of the tournament, and she didn't even let the two other boys defend him because she eventually scolded them too, hitting their heads with rolled up papers. She's really taking this coaching thing seriously.

She only chuckled at her cousin's reprimanding of her boys because if she was willing to admit it out loud, there were times that she wanted to go to France and punch each and every one of them for some of their careless actions. And don't even get her started on that match with the host country. They almost gave her a heart attack!

She looked at the clock in front of their classroom to see how many minutes they had left before class started. Huh, seven more minutes, that's a lot of time.

Speaking of what's starting. She began to wonder how the Koizawa brothers were doing. They were supposed to start school too, with Kaoru-kun going to Nankatsu Junior High and Subaru-kun would be coming to where she was, Nankatsu High. She hoped that they wouldn't feel out of place.

She was really grateful for the two of them. She didn't know if she would have stayed sane from all those matches of it weren't for those two. They managed to distract her from worrying about the boys too much in their games.

They took up her offer of letting her help them get familiar with everything in the town, showing them what Nankatsu has to offer. Of course, that included the never ending soccer fields littered all over the place. Seeing the fields made Kaoru-kun tell her something they forgot to tell her at the very beginning.

They were apparently extraordinary soccer players, and Subaru-kun was part of the U-15 team last year when they competed in Argentina. He also led the team all the way to the semifinals, and lost to Spain with a close match of 2-3. They apparently moved to Shizuoka just because their parents wanted them to enrich their soccer talent, and seeing that Nankatsu won Nationals, this year, they picked this little town.

It was odd though that Subaru-kun wasn't part of the U-16 team this year. Actually, when Subaru-kun told her the other players of the U-15 team last year to see if he knew anybody, it turned out she didn't know anyone at all. But if they're that good, then was it that nobody got picked from that team this year?

Huh, maybe because it wasn't Katagiri-san who picked the team last year.

"Sanae-chan?" Tsubasa's voice snapped her out her thoughts. She felt something warm on her hand and saw that he grabbed a hold of it. She looked up to see everyone looking at her in concern.

"Are you okay?" he asked her worriedly. "You haven't said anything at all for the past few minutes."

She waved her free hand to ease them of their worries. "I'm fine you guys," she assured them. "I was just thinking about something."

"Ooh," Ayame said mischievously. "Did you forget to do one of the assigned homework we need to do?"

She rolled her eyes. "I finished all our homework right after Nationals," she replied. "Maybe it's you who didn't finish that homework."

The boys all snickered as Ayame gave her a glare. She was about to retort something back, but the bell beat her to it.

"This isn't over yet, dear cousin of mine," Ayame warned. "Just you wait." Then she turned around and stomped back to her desk.

"Looking forward to it," she called out cheekily, to which Ayame only ignored.

The two other boys also said to them that they should be go towards their seats before their teacher arrives. She was also about to do the same, but she was stopped when she felt him squeeze her hand.

"Are you sure you're alright?" he asked again with the same worried tone.

She chuckled and squeezed his hand back. "I'm fine," she answered again. "I was just really thinking about something. It's not even that big of a deal."

"If you say so," he said uncertainly.

She chuckled again. "I'm sure," she assured. "I gotta go before sensei comes," she told him. She took her hand away but she couldn't help but want to grab his hand again, missing his warmth. "I'll talk to you later."

She barely saw him nod his head as she rushed to get to her chair, this time on the third row of the second to last column because of their new seats for the new term.

She made it in time, because just a few seconds after she took a seat on her chair, the door opened to reveal their homeroom teacher.

"Okay, everyone, settle down," she said to them as she started to walk towards the middle of the room. She seemed to be in a good mood. Her date from before probably turned into dates.

She stopped right in front of the teacher's desk and put her hands on her hips. "Good morning, my lovely children," she greeted them cheerfully. "Hopefully you all had another fun break!"

"Because you got a good one right?"

"It was more than fun," she exclaimed dreamily. "Huhh, I can just remember what we did thi- wait, why am I telling this?"

"You're the one who started saying those things to us, sensei!"

Their teacher blushed furiously, and they all laughed at her reaction. This was just the perfect thing to start the new semester.

She coughed as she willed her blush to die down. "Anyway," she said loudly. "I have another set of news for you guys. We're adding a new student to our class today."

"Again?"

"Didn't this happen last time too?"

"Why does our class always get the transfers?"

"Hopefully this one's a girl this time."

"Guys, settle down!" their teacher ordered them. "Just don't ask any questions okay? Homeroom's about to end soon and I haven't even introduced him yet."

Before the guys could whine anymore because, it wasn't a girl again this time, their teacher turned towards the open doorway. "You can come in now."

Hmm… wonder who this could be this time. The only person she knew who would be transferring would be-

Oh wait, there he was walking towards the middle, right beside the teacher's desk.

Subaru-kun stood right before all of them, and she could only blink in surprise. Who would have thought that he would be transferred to her class of all things? It's like what happened to the three boys all over again.

"Koizawa Subaru, nice to meet all of you," he introduced himself as he bowed before them.

There was a moment of silence and their teacher took advantage of it. "Well, how about we sit you… beside Nakazawa-san?"

That seemed to have gotten Subaru-kun's attention and quickly brighten up, his eyes darting everywhere around the room.

"Nakazawa-chan, can you please raise your hand please," their teacher asked her.

"Hai," she answered as she raised her hand. Subaru-kun turned to where she was and she failed to see the way he seemed to have breathing when he saw her. She turned towards to him and gave him a smile, and again didn't notice how he seemed to have started breathing.

"You can sit on the empty desk beside her, Koizawa-kun," their teacher said to him.

He gave a nod and silently walked towards the desk beside her. When he was finally settled, their teacher went back to addressing the whole class.

She turned towards Subaru with a small smile on her face. "Who would have thought you would be put in my class, ne Subaru-kun?"

"Who would have thought indeed," he replied.

"Well, hopefully you take care of me," she winked.

"I should be the one saying that to you," he retorted.

She didn't say anything back as they shared chuckles between them.

Is she would have looked back, she would have seen him watching them, a small frown on his face.

The day went by with nothing in particular happening, except maybe with Subaru-kun's surprising transfer to her class. When lunch came, she had the full intention of introducing him to her group of friends (aka her boys and the other three first year girls), but apparently he had a friend who also transferred to Nankatsu with him. Niwaki Ryota-kun, and he also played soccer for the U-15 team last year. He moved to Nankatsu for the same reason as the Koizawa brothers did.

Since they both knew each other already, Subaru-kun said that he would just eat with Niwaki-kun, seeing that he didn't want to intrude her group. Of course, she said they wouldn't be intruding, and she even invited Niwaki-kun to join them, but they both declined. She didn't want to force them at all, so she gave it up.

She was a little bothered by what they said though. Something about not really wanting to confront Katagiri's players so early.

She just shrugged it off and went to everyone was, already in the process of starting to eat.

But really though, if they wanted to join the soccer club, they could have just eaten with them. She was sure that if the boys found out they both played soccer, then they would be welcomed with open arms.

Well, whatever. They could all just meet each other when the both of them turned in their application form.

Their afternoon practice ended really early that day, and she couldn't help but be shocked by it. Even everyone was surprised by it. The only ones who weren't really surprised by it all were the third years as they shared snickers with each other. Except Akane-buchou. She was in a daze the whole time, and never have they since her so absentminded ever. She wasn't pushing them to play harder at all, or coaching them on what to do. She was literally in a different world than them.

When they tried asking the third years what was wrong with their captain, they shared smirks with each other and just answered that something happened to her on Tanabata. When, they tried to get some more out of them, that was when Akane-buchou told them they could go, still in that daze.

Well, they weren't exactly complaining so they headed her dismissal and started towards the clubroom to get their stuff.

She didn't really want to get home yet, so she decided to go to the boys' field to see how they were doing on the first day of practice. Ayame decided to join her, since she thought it would be funny making fun of their unsuccessful plays again like she did in France.

She could only shake her head at her cousin's sadistic nature. One day it's going to bite her in the ass, she was sure of it.

When they arrived in the field, it seemed like the boys were also having an easy day like them. Of course they were still playing soccer, but it wasn't as intense as usual when they were preparing for Nationals. With the some of the bitter second years leaving, the team wasn't that big as before, but you could see they were all having more fun, especially the first years. Those second years were probably tormenting them behind the third year's back and when they were finally gone, everything seemed to be livelier.

She was about to take a seat on the slope, but didn't when she saw who were across from her, watching as the boys practice.

Subaru-kun and Niwaki-kun were watching, with Takano-senpai talking to them occasionally, probably telling them how the club works. They must have turned in their application form right after school.

She smiled and told Ayame to come with her, who already made herself comfortable on the grass. Of course, she whined but stood up nonetheless, grumbling as she followed her to where she was going.

She arrived to where Subaru-kun and Niwaki-kun right after Takano-senpai left to attend to something.

"So, what do you guys think about the boys?" she asked as she appeared right beside them.

They looked up in to surprise to see her.

"Nakazawa-chan!" Niwaki-kun exclaimed in surprise. "Y-you're wearing-"

She knitted her eyebrows in confusion and looked down to what she was wearing. Oh yeah, she was still in her practice clothes and cleats. She got too lazy to change out of them.

"Yeah, I guess that's one way to find out I'm into soccer as well," she chuckled.

"I didn't peg you to be one," Subaru-kun remarked. "But why am I not surprised?"

She chuckled from their reactions. "Better to make use of them soccer fields," she replied cheekily. "So what do you think?" she gestured to the boys again.

"They looked strong," Niwaki-kun answered. "But I can't believe that they actually won Nationals this year. Not to mention they led Japan to win the Junior Youth this year."

She turned to where Niwaki-kun's eyes were and she couldn't help but smile. Ayame was already with the boys, talking and teasing them. He was facing away from her, she knew he was laughing along with everyone else.

"You'll be surprise, Niwaki-kun. There's more to them than meets the eye."

With that she left the two, and ran up to the boys, ignoring their confused faces. She jumped on Tsubasa's back, laughing as she did it, and forced him to give her a piggyback. He stumbled forward, but instinctively had his hands support her, laughing as well.

If she would have looked back, she would have seen Subaru-kun frowning.

End Chapter

AN: Subaru is in. and there's some more stuff going on with the U-15 team. i might do a time skip after the next chapter because most of my plans are going to be in their second year in high school but idk, thats just a possibility

okay thats it for this chapter. thank you for reading and please review. cya soon