A/N: Here is Chapter 4! From now on one chapter a week...

This is still kinda AU and OC...

For this Chapter: I don't own KnB or Shakugan no Shana!

Cover is not mine... Found the picture on zerochan...

(That's Sakuya...)

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Bold = Intro to this Chapter

Italics = Flashback

'blablabla' = thinking

"blablabla" = talking

[Bold] = Author's Note

Chapter 4: The perfect weapon of Japan

Hanasaki Sakuya,

Otherwise known as Supreme Throne Hecate. [A/N: Hecate = Witch]

She returned to Japan after a four year long break!

And she's going to play for Nadeshiko Japan's basketball team again!

Japan's Trickster Point Guard Captain returned to snatch America's title of "The Best"!

– Japanese Newspaper

Before Tokyo's basketball stadium for official matches

A week had passed since their little conversation infront of Seirin's gym and Sakuya had given Riko, Momoi and Takao tickets for their teams to watch the national female team play against Korea.

It was Saturday and almost every one of Seirin's team was standing at the meeting point, where they would meet up with Touou and Shuutoku.

"Where are those idiots!?"

Riko was furious. Not only because Kagami was late, but because both Shuutoku and Touou were late too. The game would start in ten minutes time.

"Hey, Riiiiiiiiiikoooooooo!"

Riko could see Momoi running towards her. Behind her were Aomine and the rest of Touou's team.

"Sorry, Riko-san, we're late."

Takao was coming her direction too. Behind him Riko could see Shuutoku's regulars.

Riko sighed relieved.

"Let's go then!"

"Hai!"

Everyone followed Riko into the stadium.

"And now a player, who disappeared four years ago! Now wearing Jersey No. 4 again, Hanasaki Sakuya!", the announcer yelled excited.

Sakuya calmly walked to line up beside her teammates.

"Bow!"

"Let's have a clean game!", all player said and the referee threw the ball up high. The game had started.

Meanwhile Riko & Co. had found their seats just in time to hear the announcer.

Everybody froze and just stared how Sakuya started playing.

A 9-year old Sakuya was playing basketball on a public court when a scout for the U-16 team, she had seen earlier watching her school's middle school all boy team approached her.

"Say kiddo, wanna play for the national team?"

Sakuya could only blink at this question.

The scout laughed.

"You don't believe me, do you? Fine, come to the hotel in xxx street. The national team is there. Bring your parents. I'll ask the coach to test you. You'll see, you're going to be Japan's ace!"

"Okay, now that's Harano is going to be playing for the national team, we'll need a new captain and No. 4!", the coach said after assembling the entire team.

All players looked interested at her.

"I and the other coaches discussed it for a while now and we decided that Hanasaki Sakuya is going to be the new captain and No. 4. That's all! Continue practice!"

The coach walked away. The players all looked at their youngest member, who didn't seem interested at her new duty and had started to practice again.

"Oiiiiiiiii! Saku-chan!?"

"Yes?", Sakuya looked at the others.

"Are you okay with this? You're just a 10-year-old brat!"

"Senpai sounds like as if she wants to be captain herself."

"Don't accuse me, you brat!"

"I was merely stating a fact, senpai."

"Don't give me this 'merely a fact' crap! I'll show you, who's gonna be captain!"

'You're totally jealous!', the other players thought.

"Fine. A 1-on-1. Let's try not to be injured."

Sakuya didn't seem to be scared or worried. She simply grabbed a ball and went onto a court.

"Senpai, you coming?"

The player walked onto the court and both started their 1-on-1.

Half way through it was apparent who the better player was.

Sakuya hadn't missed a ball and kept scoring, while the other player was struggling to get passed Sakuya's defense.

In the end Sakuya won with 30-9 against the other player.

"Now get to practice! We have another game upcoming! Harano-senpai's last game! Let's not worry her and give it everything we got!"

"Hai!"

After Sakuya's little speech every player continued their training and no one dared to disobey her.

"Hanasaki, come here for a minute!", the coach yelled across the hall.

"Hai."

Sakuya walked over and the coach handed her a paper.

"Here. This is letter from the head coach to you. He said that you are a member of the national team starting tomorrow. Keep up the good work and thank you for leading the team for two years."

"Thank you for informing me, coach. Thank you for taking such good care of me these years."

Sakuya bowed and went to practice again.

'Let's see how this kid can evolve. She'll be the one to lead our team to the top. Japan has brought out a prodigy, a monster on the court.'

"Everyone listen up!"

All player looked at the coach.

"Starting today Hanasaki Sakuya will be the captain! Ichinose and I came to an agreement that she's the best for this position since Ichinose will be on maternity leave."

Everyone looked at Sakuya, who was just holding a ball in her hands smiling slightly.

"So Hanasaki, is that okay for you?"

"Sure."

"Okay then, Hanasaki will be the new captain! She already has experience, being the U-16's captain, so I wanna hear no complaints!"

"Hai, coach!"

The players had heard how Sakuya had led the junior team to countless victories and were happy that their little ace was going to be the one in charge, despite being only twelve and a half years old.

They all liked her very much.

But no one would have guessed that their little ace and now captain was going to disappear half a year later just like that.

The game was now in the last quarter. Japan was crushing Korea. The score was 198-67.

Such a big margin was something rarely seen these days, but what was even more fascinating for the high schoolers to watch was Sakuya's play. It was all over the place, graceful, yet completely free from any boundaries.

"She's similar to Aomine-kun…", Kuroko commented.

"Yeah… She's a complete free-styler like Aomine, but more extreme. Her dribbling, passing, shooting… Nothing has anything similar to form. But her strategies, traps and quick pace-changes… They are similar to Akashi's style, yet completely different. Her style is unique… No one can copy it, no one can stand against her… The perfect weapon of Japan…", Riko started to mumble, but still loud enough for everyone to hear.

Then it was a time-out for Korea.

"Hey, Monster-chan~? Why don't you just pass me the ball?", an opponent said. Her teammates were laughing.

Sakuya ignored her and continued to drink her water and wipe her sweat. To the normal audience it may seemed like everything was alright, but to Takao it wasn't.

He had seen the look in her eyes, shortly before she had continued to drink. There was sadness and pain in her eyes.

"But… It looks like it's not fun… She isn't smiling… She's just giving them orders and playing as if she needs to… That must have hurt… She just hid it… The pain, the sadness… She got better at it than we were kids, but…", Takao mumbled too, but everyone still heard him.

"It's because…Because WE quit… Without us, there's no one nearly strong as her in the Female Basketball World… You guys are different…There are 5, no 6 of you, all with the same potential…But she…She's all alone… It's our fault!"

Riko had started to cry and Hyuuga, who was sitting beside her, tried to comfort her.

"It's not your foult, Riko… She decided to continue and you decided to quit… It's not your fault!"

"It is!", Momoi had started crying too and Aomine was having a hard time comforting her, so he just pulled her into a hug and patted her head.

The game ended with Japan winning with 201-78.

On their way out Takao commented: "She's holding back… A team is only as strong as it's weakest member… Especially as PG, she needs to hold back… She can't set a pace the others can't follow… She's holding back."

Everyone just nodded, too busy to comfort Riko and Momoi, who had stopped crying, but were still sobbing.

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