Pieces of Childhood Memories
Chapter 19 - The Sweets Shop
RING! RING! RING! Yoko's alarm clock rang. Yoko woke up and yawned. After she turned off the alarm, she took the calendar and looked at the dates. Suddenly she realized that today's Raimon's match against Shuuyou Meito! How could I forgot about it?! Yoko thought. She then quickly took a shower and wore proper clothes, then she went down for breakfast. As she ate her breakfast, she took a glance on the clock. It's 15 minutes before the match... I overslept! Oh no! Yoko thought. Then she ate her breakfast a little faster than before. "I'm going!" she shouted to her mother.
"Be careful!" her mother advised. Yoko nodded. Then quickly, she ran towards the pitch for the Football Frontier Qualifiers (Raimon vs. Shuuyou Meito). As she ran, she looked at her watch. It's five minutes before the match... I must run faster! Yoko thought. Then she ran faster. But then, when she was running past the shopping area, there came a drizzle. Then not long after that, it rained. Then it became a heavy rain. Thunder and lightning everywhere. All of the people around her went to the shops to shelter. Yoko sighed. I won't make it in time for the match, she thought. Maybe, by the time the rain stops, the match is over. Then she sighed again and went to a sweets shop near where she's standing. (PS: It's the sweets shop where Endou met the Mutaka triplets.) After she went inside, she looked around the shop. There are so many sweets here, Yoko thought. I wonder if there's the chocolate-flavored Sweet Sweet Candy here... (PS: The Sweet Sweet Candy is a sweets brand.) Ah... there it is! Yoko thought happily after she found a chocolate-flavored Sweet Sweet Candy.
-Flashback-
"Let's settle this! You and I will take turns guarding the net and kicking the ball! If I can score one point past you, then you must stop bullying this girl!"
"Sounds fine to me," Hitotsuji replied. "And I will win, for sure! If you can't win the match, then I'll torture you and your friend! You wouldn't want that, do you?"
"...Please...be...careful..." Yoko said. She was really worried about the boy. Will he be alright? she thought.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine!" The boy smiled as he ran towards the pitch. Then he ran towards the net and guarded it. Hitotsuji smiled evilly, then he ran towards the net and kicked the ball with full strength.
"I won't let you score a goal past me!" The boy said to Hitotsuji. Then the boy gathered all of his strength and succeeded at catching the ball that Hitotsuji kicked with full strength!
-End of Flashback-
'I won't let you score a goal past me'...? Yoko thought. That... really... sounds like Endou... And come to think of it, I got most of the deja vu when I'm near Endou... Could Endou be the boy of my memories..?
-Flashback Continued-
"W-What?" Hitotsuji said, he didn't believe what he had just saw. "B-But I kicked it with full strength.. Tck."
The boy of Yoko's memories jumped in excitement. "Hooray! I succeeded at catching the ball for the first time!" he said. (PS: Just so you know, he had never been a goalkeeper before.)
Hitotsuji smiled evilly. "Don't be too excited, I will catch the ball you kicked..." Then they exchanged places. Hitotsuji guarded the net, while the boy shoots.
I hope he's alright... Yoko thought. Because that boy name Hitotsuji Yuji have a very powerful catch hissatsu technique... called Rocket Kobushi 2... But there's a difference between Rocket Kobushi and Rocket Kobushi 2. The user gathers energy in his/her right arm and forms an energy fist and fires it towards the incoming shoot in Rocket Kobushi, but in Rocket Kobushi 2, the user gathers energy in his/her right arm and forms an energy fist and fired it towards the incoming shoot AND also the person who shoots. The person who shoots will be injured! This is bad...
"Stop it!" Yoko cried and ran towards the pitch. The pain in her leg felt more painful than before, but she didn't care. She didn't want the boy to get injured just because he wanted Hitotsuji to stop bullying her. "Stop it! The one who kicked the ball will be the one who get injured... let me kick the ball so I will be the one who gets injured, not you!"
"But then, I can't! You're INJURED! Sit on the bench right now, or else the pain in your leg will feel more painful than before!" the boy shouted to Yoko.
"Let me kick the ball!" Yoko shouted to the boy as she cried.
"I'll kick the ball!" The boy shouted back. Hitotsuji just watched them as he smiled evilly. Idiots... he thought. Especially the girl. Why would she want kick the ball even though she knew that she was injured?
Yoko wanted to kick the ball, so did the boy. As she cried, she kicked the ball. But the boy kicked the ball at the same time she kicked the ball! The ball shined really brightly and went up to the sky. Then Yoko and the boy jumped and kicked the ball together. The ball went to the net with a tail like a comet. (PS: You do know that comets have tails, don't you?) In short, they created a shoot hissatsu technique... accidentally.
-End of Flashback-
That hissatsu technique... Yoko thought as she smiled. That's the hissatsu technique that we made accidentally... I think we both named it... The Comet's Cry, since I cried when I kicked the ball...
-Continued Flashback-
Hitotsuji smiled evilly. You still won't score past me, even though you have that 'powerful' shoot hissatsu technique, he thought. You two must feel the powerful strength of my Rocket Kobushi 2! Hitotsuji then gathered energy in his right arm and formed an energy fist and fired it towards the incoming shoot and also Yoko and the boy. But then, the energy fist wasn't powerful enough to stop the ball from entering the net. The ball then went into the net. The boy won the challenge!
"Now, I won the challenge already! Now stop bullying this girl!" the boy said to Hitotsuji angrily. Hitotsuji just smiled evilly and left Yoko and the boy, without saying anything. "Well, that should do it," the boy said to himself. "I guess he won't bully you again." Yoko just nodded as she blushed.
"A-Arigato... for stopping him from bullying me..." Yoko thanked the boy as she blushed. The boy smiled at her. "By the way... I'm Akiyama Yoko... what's your name...?"
"My name is-"
-End of Flashback-
Yoko sighed. The flashback won't tell me who the boy's name is. It's been like this for two times. The first time was at the match against Occult, and the second time was just now... she thought as she went to the cashier to pay for the chocolate-flavored Sweet Sweet Candy.
-Flashback-
"Now, let's buy the chocolate-flavored Sweet Sweet Candy!" the boy said to Yoko as he ran to the sweets shop.
"Is it yummy?" Yoko asked. She always loved chocolate-flavored candies, but one of her friends at school said that chocolate-flavored candies from the Sweet Sweet Candy brand was not yummy.
"Of course it is!" The boy replied Yoko's question as he ran to the sweets shop together with Yoko.
"But... my friend at school-"
"Well, it's your friend at school. But I think that the taste is very yummy! You'll like it, I know that!"
-End of Flashback-
Then Yoko remembered something. The candy... was bought in this sweet shop! Maybe this old woman knew who the boy of my memories is! Yoko thought. After she paid the candy, Yoko asked the old woman who run the sweets shop. "Err... oba-san, when I was still a little girl, I went to this sweets shop to buy a chocolate-flavored Sweet Sweet Candy with a boy, am I right?"
"Yes, you are, my dear," the old woman replied.
"So... obaa-san, could you tell me the boy's name...?" Yoko asked the old woman hopefully. The old woman shooked her head.
"Sorry, I can't, my dear," the old woman answered. "Because the boy himself told me to not tell you his name."
Yoko sighed. "But he went to the pitch for the FF Qualifiers," the old woman continued. Yoko gasped.
"The... FF Qualifiers?" Yoko asked the old woman back. The old woman smiled and nodded. "And... You know, the boy is the one that cares for other people greatly, the one that is so passionate about soccer... and the one who has a very pure smile."
"Arigatou, obaa-san," Yoko thanked the old woman for giving her some information. Then she left the sweets shop and ran towards the pitch for the FF Qualifiers (Raimon vs. Shuuyou Meito).
So then the boy is the one who cares for other people greatly, the one who is so passionate about soccer... and the one who has a very pure smile? And he went to the FF Qualifiers (Raimon vs. Shuuyou Meito) pitch? I might be able to meet the boy of my memories there, in the pitch! Yoko thought happily. Finally...
Finally, she arrived at the pitch. By the time she arrived at the pitch, the rain stopped.
PS: This is the chapter full of Yoko's memories... Hope you enjoy it! And the boy is ... Hmm, the one who cares for other people greatly, the one who is so passionate about soccer... and the one who has a very pure smile? Who is he? Find out in the later chapters! (Or maybe in the next chapter? Guess by yourself!) By the way, review please~~