ERI'S P.O.V
Monday . Another day has passed by and a few days after the winter cup ended . The atmosphere were still cold as ever , well it's still winter .
Once I stepped my foot at the ground of Rakuzan high , all eyes landed on mine , giving me death glares . If looks could make you kill then I probably die as soon as I entered this high school . They all blame me for what happened .
" Why is she still here ? ".
" Ne , she's the one why our basketball team was defeated , right ? ".
Was that suppose to be heard or not ? I can hear all of your conversation . Rumours surely spreads quickly . I admit that it was my doing when I made a scene during the game and telling at Seirin to defeat Akashi . But it looks like the story they made was going a little too far . Someone says that I am a sorcerer that's why Rakuzan was defeated . And someone said I'm a spy , collecting information about Rakuzan then giving the information I gathered at Seirin so that they could defeat them . That wasn't my intention from the start .
I sighed and doesn't paid attention to them . Hearing those rumours makes me feel dizzy .
When I reached the designated room , I slid the door and as expected all eyes were on me , watching my every move .
" Here comes the traitor ", someone said from my class .
" How dare she did that to our basketball team . She should be ashame of herself ", the one who said thay is my friend Tomo , no , she is no longer my friend anymore . From now on we were a completely stranger at each other .
I look at her into her eyes but she glared at me in return . Her eyes were full of hatred .
I simply took my seat and did nothing to her . There is no point on explaining to her . Tomo is stubborn when she said that she don't want to hear my explanation , she will do it . I took out my book into my bag and place my bag into the side of my table and started reading .
I'm not planning to go to the basketball club anymore . Probably I'm not welcome there anymore . All of them surely hate me from what I did , the coach , the manager , everything and everyone from this school . That's why I'm sticking to my only plan and that is to study .
One week later .
One week has passed and it seems that they still hold a grudge against me . The teachers doesn't cared about me . They even treated as one of the student here though they were quite disappointed on me and summoned me to the faculty to talk what I did about during the finals of the Winter Cup but that happened a few days ago . They were planning to tell this to my father but good thing that they declined it when I explain everything to them .
I was reading peacefully at somewhere behind the building since it was lunch break , I preferred to be alone until something fell on my head that made me drenched . I was shocked on what happened to me since its winter , the water was cold as ice or it was more than that .
I looked above and saw the students laughing at me . I thought bullying was not existed in this school and also I thought most of the students here were highly educated .
" Well , look who's here ", the guy began , snickering " the traitor ".
I ignored them and continued reading my book even though my book is all wet like me and keep enduring the cold .
" Seriously , why are you still here at our school ? You who betray your club members and everything . You don't have the rights to stay here anymore ".
I can't stay silent and ignore them forever until they hatred died down . I thought that confronting them would be enough to lift the heavy burden I feel on my shoulder . I stood up , making them startled . I'm not planning to fight them back . I'm just planning to confront them " traitor ? Don't have the rights to stay anymore ? Don't act stupid . You didn't even know how I felt to fell on everydays Akashi's scheme . Dont judge me that you know me enough for so long . That's right I did that so that Rakuzan could know what defeat is ".
" You - ".
" But ", I continued " I have reason why I did that . Every evil or good deed has always a reason behind it , right ? If you want to continue to judge or bad mouthing me , you should at least take look for yourself ", I gazed at this small group of people " How disgraceful ".
The guy's eyes widened . He greeted his teeth and clenched his fist . He crouched and picked the rock on the ground " Die ! ", as he swiftly throw the rock .
I know that I don't have much time to avoid it and I know that it will hit my face but I saw a tall figure came infront of me , blocking the rock that will hit me .
" What's with this commotion all about ? ", the tall black haired guy asked . Even though that I didn't see his face I know who he is this man .
" Mibuchi - san ?! ", I called him and suddenly a coat was covered my head and cold body . I averted my eyes to look who did it " Akashi - kun ?! ".
" How disgraceful . Picking a fight to a girl ? That's not manly ", the redhaired man said , his hand was still on my head . A prove that he is the one who place the coat over mine .
" T- the basketball club ?! ", some of the small group of people said , even the students from above , who was watching this kind of commotion , was all shcoked even myself .
" Why are you here ? ".
" Isn't obvious ? Were here to bring Takasugi back to our club ", the tall dark skin-tone man said in his usual deep voice .
" But why ?! ", the guy asked , it seems that he was against it " Did you forget what she did to you during the finals ? ".
" Yeah , we haven't forget that . But what's done is done . Eri has nothing to do with that . It is our own fault why we lose . We are not strong enough and we're planning to take a revenge on court ", this time it was Hayama Kotarou said that .
Akashi take a step forward and negotiate with them . I was still standing here doing nothing . My mind wasn't responding in this turn of events .
" Hayama was right . Takasugi has nothing to do for not winning the championship of Winter Cup ", who is this ? Takasugi ? Hayama ? What happened to his high and mighty attitude . I know that he is calling us by our first name but right now ...
Akashi slightly inclined his head " I hope you will leave her alone . Even if Takasugi did that she's still belong to our club ".
" If you continue treating her that way ", suddenly Mibuchi's voice gotten deep and giving them a scary aura that made them frightened " I don't know what will might happen to all of you ".
" Ih ?! We're sorry ", they all inclined their head and fled .
Mibuchi sighed as soon as they fled " Look like our job his done ".
" Now let's go , Eri ", Hayama stretched out his hand to me " Let's go back to the club together ".
" What's the meaning of this ", I mumbled , low gazed .
" huh ?! ", all of them seemed confused .
" I'M ASKING YOU , WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS ? ", my voice was gotten high .
" You don't have to get angry that much ", Mibuchi commented at my reaction .
" I'm sorry . I'm just so confused . What happened to your high attitude ? ".
" How rude ", Hayama said .
The redhaired guy face me " It seems that you are confused at us ", then suddenly he inclined his head " I apologize for all the trouble I made for you from the time when you enter the club until now . I was so fixated at gaining victory and loose the sight of everything around me that's why I'm glad that I face Kuroko . It made my eyes open and made me back when I used to be ".
" What are you saying ? Just who are you , anyway ? ".
He gave me his sincere smile " I'm obviously , Akashi . The Akashi Seijuuro that you know all along ".
I shook my head and completely forgot that it is so cold at my current state " But ... ".
" Because we are your teammates . Sooner the upperclassmen are going to retire from the club so we need you as a new manager . You were perfectly suited for it ", Akashi said .
This is bad . My tears escaped from my eyes . I quickly lowered my gazed to not let them see me crying as I clenched the coat that was wrapped over my head and upper part of my body . I gritted my teeth so that they couldn't hear my sobs " Seriously guys ... you really had changed . I'm so happy right now . What I did during the Winter Cup finals , didn't went in vain . And next time for sure ... we will win ".
Even though I was crying here . I can feel that all of them are smiling at me . I don't know if they are making fun of me or they're just happy for me . I'm just so relieved that these group of people , who was so full of themselves , can be change at the time when they know what defeat is .
This is kinda short chapter but I hope you like it . ^^