Sakuchii: Ah, the next chapter is here! I'm sorry for the late delay!
Lumi: And sorry for the grammar mistakes, betaed version is out soon!
Sakuchii: Yeah, I finally have a beta! X)
Ayaka: Finally...
Gouenji: Yeah, Sakuchii doesn't own anything related to Inazuma. The other OC's belong to the rightfull owners!
Plan Six: The First Faceoff!
vs. Black and White
A female with light brown hip length hair which was in two pigtail knocked a door lightly. When she heard a voice telling her to walk, in she opened the door and did as she was told to. "So, how did it go? Did you safely escort Ayaka-sama to the past?" a female with cheerful voice asked. The girl turned towards the voice and smiled kindly.
"Yep, my mission was accomplished!" she smiled and the other female grinned lightly. "So, what do we do now, Suzuno-sama?" the girl with black straight hair and orange eyes asked and a boy around the age of adulthood who was sitting on a chair, lying his cheek on his hand, turned to her and stared at her with his emotionless amber-colored eyes.
"Don't call him like that! You know that we should all call each other by our "Names"." suddenly a male voice interrupted and a boy with short purple hair and light violet highlights walked to the girl and stared at the girl murderous with his dark purple eyes. The other girl just humped and suddenly a pure white pigeon flew past the two females' after what they heard yet another voice speaking.
"Oh, come on! We're all in this together so let's get along, right -pyon?" the girl laughed all hyped up, as if she had just drank sugar to get herself so cheery, and the while pigeon landed of her shoulder and she petted it. The black-haired girl smiled at her and agreed while the purple haired boy crossed his arm in anger. After that the three of them and the light brown-haired female turned to the icy-blue haired boy.
The black-haired girl took a step ahead and bowed, "So what do we do now, Guardian?"
"We're not going to do anything. You guys should remember that we are the Arcane…"
-OO-
Ayaka squinted her eyes when she was finally getting her consciousness back and stood up. "Where am I?" she asked and Lumi immediately turned to her when she heard Ayaka speaking.
"Ayaka-sama you're finally awake! I'm so glad! I mean… Why did you risk yourself to bring so much people here? You know that Kuroko cannot take more than 10 people! That isn't possible, how can you do this to us?-" the teal haired girl kept throwing questions at Ayaka with worried tone. The fire-red haired girl couldn't keep up with Lumi's questions and ended up answering to none of them.
Before Ayaka could answer to Lumi the door suddenly opened and two girls walked in. "I'm sorry to interrupt you, but the second half is starting soon." Haruka told with formal tone and Kazoe nodded her head while looking worried.
Lumi turned to the girls and kept a short pause, "So, what's the score?" the girl asked, hoping that everything was fine for Raimon. After all the team they were facing against was strong, but they couldn't allow themselves to be defeated, otherwise Ayaka would have to marry Arashi.
Kazoe glanced at Haruka and when the latter girl nodded she walked ahead and spoke, "Raimon is currently losing 3 to 4!" she spoke. Lumi's eyes widened in shock and Ayaka turned her head from Kazoe to Lumi and then back to Haruka. What was going on there?
"What's going on? What happened while I was unconscious?" Ayaka asked and the trio turned to her with desperate looks. Lumi took a deep breath and tried to calm her friend down, "Please stay calm no matter what I will say to you. The situation isn't as bad as it looks…" the teal haired girl told as she knew very well how Ayaka would react to her news. The fire-red haired girl nodded, but Lumi knew that she wouldn't be able to keep her temper down after she had told her everything.
"While you were unconscious Rellie suddenly appeared of out nowhere and… She kind of challenged Raimon into the first match of this competition… And now it's seems that we're losing…" Lumi's voice quieted down towards the end as she saw Ayaka's face turning pale from shock. The fire-red haired girl stood up from her bed and dashed out of the room while leaving Lumi to shout after her. "Ayaka-sama!"
"We better go after girl," Lumi told to Haruka and Kazoe and ran after her friend, while the latter two were left in the room. Haruka glanced at Kazoe who shrugged and then the duo went after Lumi.
"This can't be true! I won't let that to happen!" the fire-red haired girl mumbled to herself and cursed while running towards the entrance and then to the soccer field. When she finally saw the team playing her eyes widened as she saw them in such a bad state.
Endou was playing as the goalkeeper with Shirou, Kogure, Touko and Kabeyama as defenders. Kanon was in the midfield together with Hiroto, Midorikawa and Kidou. Gouenji and Someoka were playing as the forwards. Ayaka couldn't believe her eyes! Why on earth had they come up with that kind of group to fight against Rellie?
Ayaka then turned to see the opposing team and saw the girl staring at her with sadistic smirk. "No, please NO!" she whispered when seen that that girl was no longer Rellie... she had changed into her split personality Eiller. "NOO!"
Everyone turned around when their heard Ayaka's sudden scream and Hitori and Chinami and Tadao immediately ran to the girl to support her. " , what's going on? Why are you so freaked out?" Kuuya questioned and Ayaka took a deep breath while trying to calm herself down. Rellie herself was dangerous enough to have a match against, but if the girl had managed to turn into Eiller then they had no chance.
"Yura, if this continues what will the outcome be?" Ayaka questioned from the light brown-haired girl, while completely ignoring those who were supporting her. This wasn't the time to fall apart. She needed to come up with a plan to battle against Eiller.
Yura pressed her earpiece and froze for a moment. Everyone kept quiet, though the start whistle was heard as the second half was finally starting. The players started to run around the field and passed the ball while not really knowing what was happening in the bench.
Yura was still in trance, but soon she closed her eyes and spoke, "If this continues, then Raimon will lose 3 to 8." the girl told her answer and Ayaka sighed. She had been right, this group couldn't possible win against Eiller, not the way they were at the moment.
She was really glad for taking Yura with her. The girl was a manager because of her weak body but she was excellent strategist and had the great potential known as "possibility reading." She could predict the outcome and knew what to do in order to change it. That was the mystic power of Noble Yura.
"I knew it." Ayaka said and told Chinami and Tadao to let go of her. She then smiled at Hitori who was standing next to her. They needed to change the outcome after all they were not given to lose. "Yura, now tell me the way to change the result." the girl told in commanded tone and Yura glanced at her with mysterious look in her eyes. Ayaka didn't really like to command people like this, but somehow she always ended up doing it with Yura… it was as if the girl wanted to be commanded.
"We need change 11 and put Gouenji-kun on his place. Also Shiatori with the 18 and Mizuhara change with 13. Lumi is going to replace the 8 one." Everyone listened closely to Yura's words and when their heard the name of the manager of Aoi Yuki everyone's eyes widened in shock. What was this all about, why did she want a manager to play soccer.
"Ayaka-sama, please call Lumi-chan here, otherwise we will lose this game," Yura glanced at Ayaka with serious look and the fire-red haired girl ran to search for her dear friend. When Ayaka finally found Lumi walking to her together with the duo from the past, she quickly grabbed the teal haired girl's hand and dragged her together with her. "Come here for a moment,"
"Where are you taking me to?" the Lumi questioned and Ayaka suddenly stopped and turned to Lumi, "We need you to with this match." Lumi's eyes widened and she protested. "No way! I haven't stepped on the field since that day and I still don't want to! How can you ask me to play while knowing my reasons?" the girls eyes got little blurry and Lumi did her best to swallow up her tears.
Ayaka stopped and glanced at Lumi with her amber-colored eyes, which were full of sympathy and regret. Her expression was so kind, but at the same time so determined that Lumi's wall finally broke. If she just had to stand on the field it wouldn't matter. "I guess it needs to be done… for the victory, huh?" the teal haired girl said, still hesitating though, and Ayaka smiled happily. It was good that she could rely on her commanders.
Lumi and the three boys' changed their clothes and switched in, while Someoka, Touko, Hiroto and Midorikawa came to the bench. "Are you guys really sure about this?" Midorikawa questioned little doubtful, but stopped when he saw three angry pair of eyes staring at him. Ayaka, Yura and Hitori then turned to the field and sighed. "You guys, do your best."
Lumi stretched her arms and legs and tried to run for a while. It felt strange to stand on the field since she had stopped playing soccer after that fight when she pushed Rie off a cliff and the latter girl lost her memory. She couldn't forgive herself for hurting someone important to her and because soccer was cause of that all Lumi decided to play it. Only when Ayaka had asked her to become the manager of Aoi Yuki, she had agreed since it meant that she didn't have to play.
The whistle was heard and Gouenji passed the ball to Masato. Before the switch Raimon had just lost a point from Elleir's Black and White and were now losing 3-5. The forwards made their way to the Black and White's part of the field and Lumi watched closely as the midfielders followed them.
She recalled everything that she could remember from the opposing team and their rebellious captain. The team, that had black and white checkered shirt and black trousers, goalkeepers' uniform being completely white, was known for their offensive tactics. Rellie especially, when turned to Eiller, was very brutal, rude and mean. Lumi wondered just how could such a nice person turn into a devil.
Black and White had perfect offence and Rellie was the key stone to it. What they lacked was the defense. And that could be seen as Gouenji and Masato easily made their way past the forwards and midfielders. Their defenders were weak, but there was one but. Lumi saw Gouenji attacking the goal with his hissatsu shoot which the goalkeeper blocked easily. Yes, the goalkeeper was one of his kind.
Lumi stared at the goalkeeper - Konoe Akira, smoky black hair with matching eyes, just few years older than her – and she sighed. What were they supposed to do? How were they supposed to stop him? The teal haired girl then turned her head to Ayaka and Yura and the girls both nodded at her while looking serious.
Lumi sighed once more and headed forward. This was no good... she was going to break her promise… But now that she was on the field, she had no other choice but to attack, even though she was placed as the defender. She shook her head and dashed forward surprising both sides for her sudden actions. She easily made her way to the Black and White's defending area and glanced at Masato who was currently holding the ball.
"Pass the ball," she shouted and the older boy glanced at her confused but decided to do as she had asked. When Lumi got the ball she closed her eyes while gathering all her energy. She didn't really want to call it out, but for their fast win she had to do it. Even though it would bring back memories of Rie, she had to call it!
All of a sudden they all saw something dark coming from the girl and she then yelled, "The Goddess of Healing, Aceso." Lumi gathered her mind together so that her keshin would appear, but then she remembered the fight she had with Rie and her concentration was disturbed and the avatar broke without appearing.
Lumi's eyes widened in shock as she had failed to create her keshin and everyone from the future seemed to act the same way. Ayaka glanced at Yura while being completely upset and Yura closed her eyes, not saying anything to the girl.
Eiller on the other hand smirked happily and stole the ball from Lumi and then whispered to the girl. "It's still carving your heart, right? The day when you lost your dear friend... and she lost her memories of you…" Lumi's eyes glazed and she couldn't move her body while the fight from her past haunted her again.
- Flashback -
"Onii-zan just told me, that you're going to move away tomorrow," the eight-year-old Utsunomiya Lumi told with grumpy face to her best friend Rie, as the couple was coming back from their soccer practice. The other girl turned to Lumi with shocked eyes, not expecting to hear that from the girl, "Why haven't you said anything to me?" the teal haired girl's eyes were watering as she sobbed her words out and Rie couldn't stop her tears either.
"I didn't want to see you cry… I just wanted our last memories to be happy," Rie sobbed and sniffed hard while trying to explain something to Lumi. The other girl rubbed her wet eyes which suddenly glazed as if she was emotionless. Rie stopped immediately and stared at Lumi who had dark aura surrounding her. She had never seen her friend giving such strange aura and the sudden snapping got her completely off guard. It was like Lumi turned into completely different person.
"I don't believe you. You just wanted to betray me and leave me alone. Just like mum and dad did!" she grabbed Rie's hand while squeezing it so hard that the other girl was crying out of pain. "No Lumi-chan stop, I didn't mean that! I'm not going to leave you! We're friends right!"
"Don't joke with me! What kind of friends leaves you all alone? Tell me! People lie, they betray each other… there's no love in this world! No one loves me!" Rie's whole body was shaking as Lumi stared at her with such scary and emotionless eyes as if she was ready to kill someone. The pain on her hand was so great that she wanted to scream, but she couldn't because she was afraid of her friend's reaction. What if she would do something that hurt her even more?
"No, Lumi! I won't betray you! I will stay with you! I will love you, forever!" Rie tried to calm her friend down, but the girl didn't seem to hear her words at all. Lumi then lowered her head and murmured, "The betrayers need to be punished." she finally let go of Rie's hand and just when the latter girl thought that she was free, Lumi suddenly pushed her to the road.
Rie felled down four meters off the cliff and ended up in the middle of road right in front of a truck. The driver who was shocked of the young girl suddenly appearing before him he pressed the break but he wasn't quick enough and the car went off the road. As she was watching her friends still body from the cliff Lumi's eyes finally got their color back and she realized what she had done, "RIEEEEEEEEEEE!"
- End Of Flashback -
Eiller was right, she still hadn't got over the accident with Rie and she was blaming herself for it. Lumi stood on the field frozen while Eiller made her way to the Raimon's part of the field. She then smirked happily and raised her jaw proudly.
"This is a real keshin!" the girl yelled and then a dark aura appeared behind her while forming up together. "Holy Demon!" an keshin of person, who resembled Oni appeared and Rellie then kicked the ball up, right in front of her face, "Black Darkness!" she then kicked the ball towards the goal and the ball went in like a cannon while leaving a trail of black light behind. Endou couldn't do anything against this quick attack.
Eiller sneered and then turned around to return back to her part of field. She walked past Lumi, who was still upset, remaining still and emotionless look while her eyes seemed so distant. It was like the girl wasn't in their world. Lumi slowly walked to her position, but it looked as if she wasn't going to leave it anymore. She was clearly afraid of something, and the incident had brought her trauma back.
Ayaka crossed her hands and placed them on top of her chest, praying for Lumi and the Raimon. Everyone on the bench could see that something was certainly wrong and Ayaka seemed to be really worried. "Lumi, do your best," the girl whispered to herself, having hard time to keep herself from interrupting the whole game. This was the very time when she should just wait and trust her commanders.
"What's exactly happening there? Lumi seems be having problems." Haruka suddenly walked to Ayaka and Yura, making the two girls to snap out of the game. They glanced at each other and then the red-haired girl sighed.
"Lumi used to play soccer when she was in kindergarten, but suddenly stopped in second grade. It seems that her friend was moving away, and the girl thought she would lose her, so she kind of snapped and pushed that girl off a cliff. The girl ended up being drove over by a truck and lost her memories of everything." Ayaka explained in serious tone. Yura sweat dropped at the girl, the 'kind of snapped' reference wasn't right for the mood.
"Lumi lost her parents when she was small and that's why she believes that everyone who is going to 'move away' or 'transferring school' would leave her. She never shows her tears, but has created that 'personality wall' to hide her real feelings." Yura continued and turned back to the field when hearing the whistle. It seemed that Raimon somehow managed to score.
Haruka and Kazoe were left stunned after hearing the future girls' words and turned to look at Lumi who seemed to be struggling.
The score was 4-5 to Black and White. Raimon really needed to pull themselves together to catch up with the other team and then even score another one as they had only ten more minutes to play. Eiller passed the ball to her teammates and the forwards were about to advance, but Kanon cut them in the middle and passed the ball to Masato who dribbled and then passed it on to Gouenji.
Lumi was frozen to defenders area. She wanted to advance up, but the memories of Rie didn't allow her to. Endou seemed to notice Lumi troubles and he suddenly yelled. "Don't let it get too much to your head! Remember to enjoy this match! Let's score and win!" Everyone smiled at his words and answered to him with a shout. Lumi turned to look at the boy and Endou grinned.
Kazoe and Haruka glanced at each other and nodded, "We can do it too,"
"Lumi-chan gambatte! Please score for us! You can do it!" Lumi suddenly head voices yelling from the benches and she was extremely surprised to see Kazoe and Haruka cheering for her. Ayaka smirked at the duo and then opened her mouth.
"Lumi attack with all power. Remember we still have to save Waya! Do this for him!" Lumi's eyes flashed when she heard the name of the boy who she had crush on. The sweet, yet total crybaby boy, who for the first time had went against her when siding with Arashi. Ayaka was right. She couldn't allow Arashi to control that innocent boy.
The girl pulled herself together with slapping her face and then headed towards the opposing goal. Raimon had lost the control of the ball and Eiller was dribbling towards Raimon's goal but Kogure stopped her and passed the ball to Kidou who dribbled the ball up, passing it to Mizuhara Yukio.
Lumi advanced forward, watching as the ball went from Yukio to Kanon then to Gouenji, Masato, Kanon and back Masato again. It was just like the first time, she raised her hand and yelled at the boy. "Pass the ball here," the girl yelled and when the ball was in her possession she unleashed her keshin. "The Goddess of Healing, Aceso." a beautiful woman with long blond hair appeared and she was dressed lightly in simple white dress, which had yellow stripes. Her skin was light yellow colored and she had ocean blue eyes.
Lumi smiled happily when she knew that she had managed to call out her keshin properly. Eiller though, wasn't so happy about the idea and she bit her lip while hissing in anger. "You little bitch leave me with no other choice!" she yelled as Lumi was already kicking towards the goal. "Come forth, Dual Soul!"
Ayaka felt that something great was coming, something that was even more powerful that Holy Demon, something no one of them would be able to stop.
But Lumi was one step ahead of Eiller and she kicked before latter was able to properly unleash her keshin. The ball flew past Eiller and even past Akira who had his view blocked by his captain. The score was tied and Black and White lost their way to interact with each other. Another goal was made just before the whistle and Raimon just barely won 6-5.
Eiller fell on the ground in complete shock and hit her hands on the ground. All of a sudden there was a strong light and four persons were standing around her. Arashi glanced first at Lumi and then he turned to Ayaka and bowed.
"I congratulate you for winning the first match. Wish you luck for the upcoming ones." the boy laughed. Ayaka's eyes sharpened and she stared at Arashi with murderous aura. She then turned to look at the boy with navy blue hair and bloody red eyes. The boy flinched at her stare and turned away while looking to the ground. Rei noticed Aito's strange behavior, which she hadn't felt on the first time they met with Ayaka, and she wondered what was going on. Did he have some kind of connection with that girl?
Eiller squeezed her hands and hit the ground while yelling. "NO I don't believe this! How can this be happening! How can I lose to that fucking puny little bitch! This is all your fault!" the girl lost her mind while dashing towards Lumi. Ruyo and Aito quickly grabbed Eiller and transported with her to the future. Arashi apologized for the rude behavior, "Until next time," he smirked and then disappeared into the thin air.
Everyone sighed of relieve as the enemy was finally gone and the guys from the benches ran to those on the field to congratulate them. Ayaka glanced at Junko and suddenly spoke, "When are the guys from other countries coming?" Junko was amused by her sudden question but answered to the girl. "In the weekend."
"Okay, then gather everyone here on Saturday at 13 PM." the red-haired girl laughed and then continued, "We're officially starting our war…"
- Meanwhile In The Future -
A dark figure entered the room, where a girl with indigo colored hair was sleeping in a big capsule in the middle of the room. The person wearing his white laboratory jacket walked to the girl while his cheeks were burning hot red. He placed his hand on the glass of the capsule and smiled kindly.
"The first match is over. Just wait my dear, soon you shall wake up from your eternal sleep,"
Sakuchii: This is it, I'm sorry if it's crappy I suck at writing soccer match scenes...
Ayaka: Ah you surely do! It's always like 1 vs 1 things... And here I wonder WHY are you even writing socce related stories?
Sakuchii: I have absolutely no idea
Lumi: Sigh... and see you guys again when we're coming back with an update!
~ deshii
