AUTHOR'S NOTE:

It's like 2:30AM so I'm not going to check my grammar or if all my shit makes sense. I'll do it tomorrow if I have to, so don't hate on me. Thanks…..

END OF AUTHOR'S NOTE

"FUCKING MANAGER WHERE DID YOU GO!" screamed Hiruma from afar.

Hiiiiiiii! Oh no! Wha-what is it now? thought Sena as she quickly jogged to Hiruma on the other side of the field. Apparently there was a time out and all the players were gathered together. Then she saw Ishimaru in a stretcher clutching his ankle. Uh oh… this doesn't look good.

"Wha-what happened?" asked Sena even though she had a feeling that she already knew the answer.

"Oi! What kind of shoes did you give all the players before kick off?" asked Hiruma who was becoming very inpatient.

"Errr the ones from inside that box" Sena pointed to the old box she had brought from the football club's shed.

"GOD DAMMIT FUCKING SCOUT! YOU GAVE EVERYONE ARTIFICIAL TURF CLEATS!" screamed Hiruma who was burning with rage and dangerously clutching his rifle.

"Wait wha-what's the difference!?" asked Sena who was becoming more and more tense as the situation got worse for her.

"TSK! What's the difference she asks! You might as well have given him regular sneakers you idiot!"

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii! I'm sorry!" Sena was scared for her life now. Hiruma is going to kill me. That's it….

Meawhile on the other side of the field…

"Well I guess that's it for this game. I'm pretty sure they just lost their ace runner" said Sakuraba who was filming the last parts of the match.

"No. It's not for sure; they still have a few plays before the quarter ends. It's possible that they might have a replacement" replied Shin.

"The only players worth mentioning are Hiruma and Kurita, everyone else are just people they borrowed from other teams. Without other committed players they'll never make it in the league. Kinda makes me feel bad for them".

"Yes. If only they had one more player. A fast running back perhaps, then it would have been a different story" said Shin.

Back on the Deimon side…

"Damn it! I really wanted to hide this card, but I have no choice" said Hiruma.

"Eh? A card?" What's he talking about. Suddenly, Hiruma turns his head 180 degrees. EEEK! HOW?!

"FUCKING MANAGER!"

"Eeeeek!" screamed Sena. She was scared out of her mind at this point. There really was no saving her now.

"It looks like you get the DEATH penalty" cackled Hiruma.

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! NOOOO! I have to get away! But it was too late. Hiruma grabbed Sena by the collar and dragged her behind a building kicking and screaming. The entire team sweat dropped.

"Stop! What are you doing?!" cried Sena.

"Kekekekekeke now it's time to take responsibility. HERE!" He throws a jersey and helmet at her.

"EHHHHH!" she screams.

A few minutes later, Hiruma calmly walks back to the team.

"Okay. She was put to death" he said.

! thought the entire team.

"Err so umm… what are we gonna do about Ishimaru's replacement?" asked a random player.

"Don't worry, a hero always arises during a time of crisis" replied Hiruma with an evil smirk on his face.

"WOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHH- Scrrrreeeeccch!" All of a sudden a mysterious player arrives on the scene with a breaking screech. He was so fast that Hiruma had barely managed to finish his last sentence. The player was wearing the jersey number 21 and had a spiffy green eye shield.

"Let me introduce you to the speed of light running back EYESHIELD 21!" yelled Hiruma.

"Whoa! So fast!"

"Who is that guy?

"He's kinda cool"

"But who is he?" said some of the other players.

Unbeknownst to the others the cool looking Eyeshield 21 was really the scared out of her mind Sena.

Uwaaaaaaaaaa someone please reserve a hospital room for me!

"I can't see his face through that eye shield"

"Yeah who is it?" murmured the others.

"Colored eye shields aren't allowed" said the referee.

"Kekekekeke he has eyestrain. Here's a signed (forged) permission slip from the association" Hiruma cackled.

"WOW! Did you finally become motivated Sen-" before he could finish Kurita was "accidently" zapped by an unknown source of electricity, "EEEEEEYOUCH!" cried Kurita.

"What's that Kurita? Your back is itchy? THEN USE THE GROUND TO SCRATCH IT!" screamed Hiruma.

Sweat drop…. Why do I know this person…. thought Sena.

"FUCKING FATTY!" yelled Hiruma who then proceeded to lower his voice, "If you let the whole world know who Eyeshield is then every other team at Deimon is gonna want her! Even Ishimaru only came to scout!"

"Waaaahhhh I'm sorry" pleaded Kurita.

"Che. Besides look at who arrived earlier!" Hiruma forcibly turns Kurita's head towards Shin and Sakuraba.

"There's NO WAY I'm gonna let Shin get any info on fucking legs! He'll probably come up with some kind of strategy to use against her!" explained Hiruma.

"The-then what do we do?" asked Kurita.

"We hide can at least hide her identity, plus I think I know of a way to get rid of Sakuraba".

"Ehhh how?"

"Missile" replied Hiruma nonchalantly.

MISSILE! OH NO! SAKURABA-SAN RUN! thought Sena and Kurita.

Hiruma walks into the crowd of cheerleaders.

"Hey isn't that Sakuraba from Jari Pro?" shouted Hiruma.

"SAKURABA!"

"WHERE!" screamed many of the girls.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OVER THERE!" And in 5 seconds flat, every girl with in a 10 meter radius was gunning for poor Sakuraba.

I see…. A missile… haha…ha Hiruma is pretty sly….

Sakuraba looks up and sees the missile of girls coming to catch him.

"OH SHIT! Shin I'm sorry, but you need to take over I have to ruUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!" he screams while running away from dozens of cheerleaders.

Shin takes the camera and tries to understand how to work it. "…." He shakes it a little and, "CRACK!" GASP! Wha-what happened?! Unable to understand how the camera worked or why it was beginning to sizzle Shin took off after Sakuraba. "Sakuraba, something's wrong with the video camera!" He grabs him and runs off into an alley whilst the horde of wild cheerleaders ran after them.

"Kyaa!" cried Mamori as Shin and the cheerleaders blew past her. What was that?

Mamori was so worried about cute little (well she wasn't so little anymore) Sena that she just couldn't take her mind of it while at the mall with her friends. I just had to come. I need to see if Hiruma is bullying her. Which he probably IS! She took a spot close to the field and looked around for Sena, but couldn't find her anywhere.

"Oh? Shin disappeared too! Kekekeke we're damn lucky" Hiruma turns to Sena, "Alright Eyeshield 21! Now you can run to your heart's desire!"

But I don't wanna run at all! thought Sena.

"Kekekekeke of course you do fucking legs" replied Hiruma.

Ho-how did he know what I was thinking?!

"Alright listen up fucking legs. There's about 2 minutes left on the clock, but if you get us one touchdown within the next minute the fucking Cupids don't have a chance to catch up"

"O-ok…." replied Sena. Easier said than DONE!

"This is how it's gonna go, the Cupids scored a 3 point goal so that means they'll kickoff to us. It's impossible for you to catch, SO I'll catch it and then pass it off to you and then YOU will run all the way to the end of the goal, we score 6 points and WIN" Hiruma finished without taking a breath.

"Al-all the way! But eleven people are coming to tackle me…"

"WE'VE GOT NO OTHER CHOICE" yelled Hiruma, "You don't want it to end here do you?" he finished more seriously.

Sena took a look at the other team. They were dangerously plotting on how to crush her. Hiiiiiii! I knew it, I'm going to die. The Cupids were basically emanating their killing intent.

"If only I had enough strength to hold down my opponents like Kurita-san" squeaked Sena.

"Impossible" said Hiruma and Kurita at the same time.

They answered too fast!

"Look as you are now, nobody expects any physical strength from you. Your only job is to HOLD. DOWN. THE. FIELD" explained Hiruma.

"Instead you're strength lies in your legs!" added Kurita for encouragement.

"Two minutes left on the clock and counting! It's the Cupid's kick off annnnnnd there it goes!" cried the announcer.

"It's high! As soon as they catch it tackle them!" yelled one of the Cupid's players.

"Che!" said Hiruma as he ran under the ball and caught it easily, "take it and GO!" He tosses the ball to Sena, who barely catches it and dashes off as quickly as possible.

That's right I have my legs. I-I think I can do this!

Everyone on the field and off it watched Sena with bewildered eyes, not because she was fast, but because-

"THE OTHER WAY YOU DAMN IDIOT!" screamed Hiruma

"SCCCCCRRREEEEEEEEEEECH" Sena broke as fast as she could and barely made a U-turn. A bunch of dust blew into the air as Sena emerged she burst through two opponents. Three, four, five, six- suddenly two guys got in her way at the same time. Kyaaaaaa oh no! They're going to get me. Without a moments notice, Hiruma and Kurita were there and blocking the two Cupid's members. Ahh- Senpais. Thank you! Sena thought as she blew past them. Then 9, 10, 11….. There's nobody left! GOOOOOAAAAAALLLL!

Mamori turned the corner of the building just in time to see Eyeshield run. Wo-wow that guy was amazing! He's so fast and is about the same size as Sena. Maybe is she worked hard then she'll become strong too!

"TOUCHDOWN!" yelled the announcer.

"YA-HA!" yelled Hiruma as he let off a dozen canon's of fireworks.

I-I did it? No way? thought Sena as she slowed down. That was actually easier than I thought it would be…. And I feel…. "good" she finished her thought aloud. I won. I won. I WON. Sena beamed for once in her life she felt useful, she felt control, she felt…. Pride.

"What in the world! That's not the speed of a high school kid?" cried a random audience member.

There's about 1.5 minutes left before the end of the game, but like Hiruma said the Cupid's couldn't catch up, especially with Kurita pounding them into the ground. And so they Devilbat's got their first win.

"YAAAY! OUR FIRST WIN" cheered Kurita who threw out confetti.

"It's over" said Sena. That is until the entire Devilbat's team came charging towards her.

"PLEASE TELL US WHO YOU ARE!"

"Join the soccer team!"

"No! Join the baseball team!"

Ishimaru hobbled over with a large stick as a cane, "JOIN THE TRACK CLUB!" he yelled while covered in dirt and mud.

"KYAAAAAAAAA!" scream Sena as she ran away.

"FUCKING FATASS BLOCK" cried Hiruma as he pushed Kurita onto the other members and used him as a shield.

"Che. If we let them know your identity it won't matter if you're a girl or not. There'll be a violent kidnapping and you will probably live the rest of your high school life being used" said Hiruma.

"EEEK! No I don't want that!" said Sena. I just got out of being a gopher after hitting my growth spurt. I don't ever want to go back to that!

"Ah! Ishimaru have you seen Sena" asked a familiar voice. It was Mamori and she was approaching fast.

"Crap an annoyance has appeared" said Hiruma, "Quick! Get your ass back there and change before she catches you fucking manager".

"Eep!" cried Sena as she ran behind the building as fast as she could and changed back into her regular clothes.

"Sena? Oh I think Hiruma dragged her out back because she made some kind of mistake" replied Ishimaru to Mamori.

Mamori rushed out back to find Sena.

"Sena! Se-na! where are you?" she yelled.

"Kyaa! I need to change faster!" said Sena as Mamori closed in. She had gotten her dress shirt and shorts back on, threw her football gear into the bushes, but only had enough time to get one shoe on her foot right as Mamori turned the corner.

"SENA! What happened?! Why are you back here all alone!" cried Mamori.

"O-oh well I was just uh- uhh cle-cleaning or errr" I can't think of an excuse! SHIT!

"Se-na… it can't be-" Mamori didn't finish and small tears began to swell in her eyes.

"EHH! Nee-chan! What's wrong?!"

"I-it's all my fault… I wanted you to be more social and join clubs an-and now you've been jumped by a gang of boys haven't you!" Mamori really began to cry now.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH?!" HOW DID SHE REACH THAT CONCLUSION! Sena started really panicking now, "Nee-chan it-it's not what you think!" Definitely not what you think!

"Don't worry Sena I'll set this right for you!" said Mamori as she pulled herself together and went to pick the fight of the century.

"HIRUMA!" She yelled.

Hiruma only looked at her with expressionless eyes. He knew what was coming.

"Hiruma! You're brutality towards other students knows no bounds. Even if no one dares talks about it and the school disciplinary committee has given up, TODAY I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY WITH IT!"

"Nee-chan please! It's not what you think, I just tripped and fell down is all!" pleaded Sena.

"No matter! I will definitely do something about his behavior!" replied Mamori.

"Ooooh" jeered Hiruma, "What are you going to do about it? Let me guess, you're going to get the football team removed?" He went to his bag and pulled out his infamous threat book.

Mamori was visibly frightened at him after realizing who she was yelling at, but she didn't want to back down.

"No. That's not what I meant. I'll just have you disqualified from the tournament" she finished in a serious tone.

Hiruma stopped and though no one could tell was visibly surprised. He put down his threat book and decided to let her off.

"Just, please don't pick on Sena anymore, that's all" she said as she took Sena by the hand and led her away, "Sen-chan let's go find a nicer club for you to join okay?" cooed Mamori as they walked away. Kurita was about to burst into tears at the loss of their new team member, but Hiruma didn't even bat an eye to stop it. Even though it looked especially strange as they left because Sena was actually 3 inches taller than Mamori. Almost pitiful… As they walked further Sena looked at Mamori's hand and her own. It wasn't long ago that she'd seen a scene like this, that is, Mamori protecting her from the slightest put down and dragging her away while others jeered at her inability to stand up for herself. She looked at Mamori's hand again and then saw a football replace it in her own.

No more thought Sena. She let go.

"Eh? Se-Sena?" asked a concered Mamori.

"I-" at first it was a whisper, but Sena found the courage to speak up, "I want to stay!" she said loudly.

"Wha-WHAT?" asked a dumbfounded Mamori.

"I will stay here in the American Football Club" said Sena with a full on smile that could brighten even the gloomiest person.

Kurita began crying pools of tears at hearing Sena say she was going to stay and Hiruma smiled a real smile (Though it was TINY).

"Bu-but what's keeping you here!?" asked Mamori, who was still confused.

Suddenly, their evil mastermind got an idea.

"It's simple. Sena's place is here" he said while putting Sena on the shoulder suspiciously, "No one's forcing her to stay". He smirked again and began bull shitting at high speeds, "But there's no doubt that being the manager is hard work, she's probably overwhelmed. If ONLY there was someone else to share the load. Then I'm sure her life would become much easier" he finished with an evil smile.

"Manager?" pondered Mamori. She turned to Kurita, "Is it okay if the second manager is another girl?" she asked. Kurita nods quietly. "Then it's settled! I'll do it!" she stated.

"WHHAAT!?" cried Sena and Kurita in unison. Kurita got on the ground and did the biggest "huzzah" of his life while crying gravity defying tears.

"Don't worry Sena everything will be okay now!" reassured Mamori.

"Ne-Nee-chan… you're being fooled" squeaked Sena, but she didn't have the heart to say it any louder as the King of the Devils was right there.

"Kekekekekeke another slave secured" was all he said as he walked away grinning his evil grin.

"Man, Sena AND Mamori working as managers on the football team….I- I want to join" said Satake.

"Idiot… now you're being fooled" said another player.

"WOW! Our first win and now FOUR members! This is the happinest day of my life" cried Kurita, "At this rate we might actually make it to the top! That is, as long as we don't have to play the Oujo White Knights anytime soon".

"Aha..ha, but Hiruma burned the team roster so now I don't even know who we're playing next" said Sena.

"Let's ask Hiruma" said Kurita, "Who are we playing next?"

"Oujo White Knights" he said nonchalantly while cleaning up supplies.

"KYAAAA! TOO SOON!" they both screamed. This scene seemed very familiar to yesterday's practice…..

Meanwhile at Oujo High School…

Sakuraba and Shin were returning to football practice after Deimon's game ended. Unfortunately they weren't able to get the last few minutes on tape, which meant trouble was ahead for both of them inside the team room.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAST TAPIN SESSION!" yelled the coach.

"The Devilbats came back and won in the end right?" asked an Oujo player.

"Yeah you guys left out the most important part" said another player.

"SAKURABA IT WAS YOUR RESPONSIBILTY TO TAPE THE GAME!" screamed the coach right in front of Sakuraba.

"Hiiii!" Yeah but I was mobbed! But he knew that it wasn't a good enough excuse. So instead, he braced himself for whatever punishment would come next, "I'm sorry coach, I was running away so-" But Shin uncharacteristically cuts him off.

"No coach. It was my responsibility as well and I ran from it. It was my fault" spoke Shin in an almost monotone voice.

Hmmm everyone listens when you speak Shin. Let's see how you deal with punishment. Thought the coach, "SHIN! Next game you won't be a starter!" he said.

Everyone on the team was shocked at this statement, but Shin simply said, "Yes I understand" and that was it.

WHY? Thought Sakuraba. Why did he take the fall for me…. He's always doing things like this. Sakuraba looked down in shame.

"WAAAAHHH! Who broke this video camera!?" cried a member of the Oujo's.

"Who knows? I don't know!" said Shin suspiciously.

"WAIT! IT REALLY WAS YOU!?" gasped Sakuraba. Sweat drop….

The coach started speaking again.

"Recently you guys have been slacking off! We can't let the enemy gain on us, so stay strong and vigilent!" he preached, "Remember the most important thing in football is DEFENSE. If we let them score 0 points then we only need 1 point to win! That's the way of the Oujo White Knights and we will definitely bring home the championship this year!"

Back in the train with Deimon…

"SIGH!" Kurita slumped into depression again, "The Oujo White Knights… why did it have to be them so soon".

"Are they really that good?" asked Mamori.

"Tsk! Forget it, we'll get revenge on them for last year. Remember we have Eyeshield on our side this time around" said Hiruma.

"That's right! Hiruma who's that Eyeshield guy? I want to recruit him for my team!" asked Ishimaru and a bunch of other guys "yeah-ed" after him.

"Kekekeke who knows? I heard he went to Notre Dame College to study American Football. Every game he'd score 100 points cause that's the kind of guy he is" LIED Hiruma.

Why do I feel like he's digging me into a hole of deception…. Thought Sena.

"Listen up you bastards! If they score 99 points, we'd win if we score 100 points. The most important thing in football is OFFENSE!" he preached, "I'll come up with all the blocks and plans, and then Eyeshield will take care of the rest! With our hands, we'll score 1000 points if need be!"

Sena clenched her hands, took a deep breath and hoped that Hiruma was right.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Thanks everyone who reviewed and followed my story. It definitely gives me a drive to work faster. All night if need be! Haha well, I work in the night anyways so I guess that last point was moot.

I hope you enjoyed this first couple of chapters. Soon the real fun will begin ;) Mamori has finally joined the team and the game with Oujo is coming. I'm really excited on how I'll write in Monta's part! Stay tuned I guess.

Also I'd like to know what people thought about this chapter. It was less humor than I wanted in it… I'll also be introducing certain characters that weren't originally introduced until later in the manga. Do people feel good about that or is it an epic fail on my part?