Pieces of Childhood Memories

Chapter 3 – Let's Play Soccer!

Yoko was still shocked that her voice is louder than eleven voices. Suddenly, the blonde-haired girl heard a voice calling her. "Akiyama-san!" shouted Endou. Again? Yoko thought.

"Yes?" asked Yoko the blue-eyed girl.

"You said that you know what Ghost Lock is like, right? Can you try and demonstrate the Ghost Lock so I can know how powerful is it?" Endou asked innocently.

Yoko fell down in anime style. This person is so wierd! She thought. "Mamoru-kun... you're asking me to do a crazy thing! Why should I demonstrate the Ghost Lock if I even don't know how to do it? And suppose if I can do it, you will waste your time to practice soccer because you can't move!"

There was a long pause. "Oh.. yeah.. er.. right. I just thought about that. Thank you for reminding me. By the way, do you want to play soccer with us? It'll be very fun!" Endou said.

-Short Flashback-

"Do you want to play soccer with us? It'll be very fun!" person A said.

-End of Flashback-

That sentence, I have a feeling that I have heard someone saying that before... but it's not Mamoru-kun, it's someone else... but who? Yoko thought.

"Come on, do you want to play soccer or not?" asked Endou.

"Er, well, I do want to play soccer, but... onii-chan will be very angry when he founds out that I am playing soccer with an enemy..." the kawaii girl replied.

"It's F-I-N-E!" Endou replied. "You can just make some excuses! Come on, let's play soccer!"

"Wait, wha-" But Endou already dragged her to the field.

"Minna! Someone will play soccer with us today!" Endou shouted. Then everybody approaches Yoko.

"You can play soccer too, Akiyama-san? Cool!" she heard someone saying.

"What position? MF (Midfielder), DF (Defender), GK (Goalkeeper), or FW (Forward)?" she heard another person asking.

Yoko sweatdropped. She felt very nervous. "Umm... I can play as anything!" she said.

"Ok, it's settled! I guess you better play as a forward!" Endou said. "Yosh! Let's play soccer everyone!"

"Yeah!"

Oh well, what would onii-chan say when he saw this? Yoko thought.

-Short Flashback-

"What position? MF (Midfielder), DF (Defender), GK (Goalkeeper), or FW (Forward)?" person A asked person B.

"I...I don't know!" person B answered.

"Ok, it's settled! I guess you better play as a forward!" person A said.

-End of Flashback-

That sentence... I think I have ever heard someone said that to me... but again, it's not Mamoru-kun... why, why suddenly I got a deja vu? Yoko thought. Then she went to the field to play soccer with Raimon.

The Raimon team is split into two, Raimon-1 and Raimon-2. Raimon-1 consists of Endou, Kazemaru, Kabeyama, Handa, Shourin and Yoko. Raimon-2 consists of Someoka, Gouenji, Shishido, Max, Kurimatsu and Kageno. The goalkeeper for Raimon-1 is of course, Endou, and the goalkeeper for Raimon-2 is Shishido. "I think we will lose because we don't have Endou as the goalkeeper," Max said.

"I think we will win,"Kurimatsu said, "because we have Gouenji and Someoka!"

"But then," Shishido said,"they have someone from Teikoku as well.."

"Do not worry," Kurimatsu said to Shishido,"she's just a manager. Most managers can't play soccer, right?"

Then the game starts. First, it is Raimon-2's kick off. Gouenji passes the ball to Someoka, then Someoka passes the ball to Max. But then Handa does a sliding tackle and then pass the ball to Yoko. "Hissatsu..." she started to shoot the ball.

Shishido was so scared. He stammered. "H-Help! She will shoot using a powerful shot hissatsu! Help!"

Everyone was scared. Shishido didn't move because he was stammering. "Hissatsu: NORMAL SHOOT!"

It was actually not a powerful shot hissatsu; it was just a normal shot. Raimon-1 scored 1 point. There was a silence. "It is not a powerful shot hissatsu.. it was just a normal shot!" Kazemaru said. Then he looked at Yoko. "Akiyama-san, why did you say "hissatsu" back there?"

"Hahaha! You're all tricked!" Yoko laughed. "It's a trick so that the goalkeeper will be afraid and didn't move because he/she was afraid. And when the goalkeeper didn't move, it'll be easy to shoot, right?"

Everyone fell down in anime-style. Haruna and Aki just sweatdropped. "What a smart trick," Aki said.

After a tiring game, they decided to take a break. The score is 10-10. Gouenji keep using the Fire Tornado and Someoka keep using the Dragon Crash, meanwhile Yoko keep using the Hissatsu: Normal Shoot, Hissatsu: The Most Powerful Shoot Ever in the World, Hissatsu: Death Zone, Hissatsu: Fire Tornado, Hissatsu: Dragon Crash, and Hissatsu: Emperor Penguin no. 2, but actually ALL of them are just normal shoots. Actually, Yoko can do REAL hissatsu techniques, but she doesn't want to injure Raimon because Raimon's match against Occult is coming up soon. Yoko had fun, even though she didn't use real hissatsu techniques. I'm so happy today! Playing soccer with Raimon is different than playing soccer with Teikoku... Playing soccer with Raimon is better...

Meanwhile, behind a tree, a dark shadow was watching..