You're not alone Aliea Academy Arc Chapter 5: Within The Core, an inazuma eleven/イナズマイレブン fanfic

You're not alone

Chapter 5: Within The Core

Fubuki squeezed his eyes tight as Kizarato drew closer with his whetted fangs. Cold breath fanning against his sensitive skin and the stinging in his arm. The icy cold ground that he was trapped on and his blood absorbed into the snow. Tears welled up in his half lidded eyes and miles away behind them were Shana and Sayaka forcing themselves into a run, but he knew by then he would have been eaten before they could stop this from happening.

Fubuki angled his head, earning a grunt of disapproval from the demon when his neck wasn't in sight. Kizarato retreated his fangs and removed the hand that had Fubuki's injured arm pinned down, his other hand still pinning his other arm down. Kizarato cupped his chin and was inches away from his face. "Scared, aren't you?" He turned Fubuki's head to the left, exposing bare skin. "Fine. I'll be more gentle." His tongue darted out and smeared saliva all over the exposed neck. He took his time enrapturing the teen below him and eventually, he gently bit and marked him. Fubuki gritted his teeth throughout the process of his ministrations to his neck. "There. Now continuing from before." His fangs protruded out and plunged his way down to his neck.

"And one more thing, here! Just incase you need it! See you!"

Fubuki forced his pinned hand to move and reached for his pocket, pulling out a perfume like container and Kizarato's was instantly met with orange. The demon pulled away and rubbed his eyes viciously with his arms, screaming out non-stop. Fubuki stood up weakly and gathered a smile, watching the demon thrashed around like a bull. "That's my line." He looked at the pepper spray. I'm lucky that I kept you. He never meant to use it because it was plain rude, but his life was at stake.

Fubuki finally realized that the pepper spray wasn't only for buying some time, it was an effective weapon too. Kizarato's eyeballs had melted and the liquid was doing the same for the rest of his body. Was demons frail against pepper sprays? Then one thought hit him. Pepper sprays burns your eyes, burns meant hot and hot meant fire. Fire was their weakness. Fire consumed the figure and disintegrated into ashes. Fubuki approached the pile of ashes and kneeled down, extending an arm and grabbed tiny bits of cinders with his thumb and index finger, rubbing them together and felt the rough chemicals brushed against his smooth skin.

Sayaka was proud that Fubuki had took up her advice on keeping it. Albeit it was moderately weird to use it on a demon. A shadow reared up from the sky as Sayaka looked up and eyes opened up in terror. "Fubuki-kun, behind you!"

Catching the shout, Fubuki turned his head when the sound of buzzing came from behind him and claws came into view. There was another one besides Kizarato and he was lying in wait for an opportunity, he was stupid for thinking that Kizarato would be dumb enough to attack alone. This one was in his actual true form, completed with claws, fangs, wings protruded from it's back and dark-purple skin tone.

"Fubuki!" Shana shrieked.

The demon had his claws out and swung it at the smaller teen. Blood spilled out and splattered across the snow as Fubuki fell back. Bones shattering sounded across the field and the air was filled with the scent of carbon.

Fubuki opened his eyes and gasped. The demon's fallen form lay inches away from him with the head being pierced by an arrow. His body twitched and disintegrated into dusts before fading away. Fubuki didn't know what happened and how did that arrow got there. He tried sitting up and was pushed back down by his shoulders. "Don't get up. You're wounded."

Fubuki's vision went up as he met pink orbs. Her pink hair draped behind her back down to her knees while her bangs were brushed behind her ear with a wide forehead. She wore the school's physical education shirt - a plain white shirt with a pair of shorts. A bow in one hand and a batch of arrows held by a quiver which was slung over her shoulders. "What are you doing here, Hanamae-san?"

"Saving you." She slung her bow over her right shoulder and kneeled down, slipping her arms under Fubuki in a cradle position while he pouted by her gesture. She flicked his forehead as he winced. "And I told you to call me by my first name, Sakura."

Fubuki rubbed his forehead. "Gomene, Sakura-san." Sakura gave a satisfying look and stood up while carrying him bridal style.

"Sakura!" Sayaka waved her hand as she called, running to them with Shana beside her. "What are you doing here?"

Sakura gave a warm smile. "I'll answer to that later. For now, let's head for a safer place."

"Ite!" Fubuki winced as water streamed down onto his arm and rinsed off the blood. Sakura closed the tap and took out a tiny container from her pocket. Opening the lid, she poured the content down on his arm, receiving another wince from him. The colourless fluid washed down onto the wound and the once black cuts began to gather into smoke. She quickly took a canister and swiped it across the air where the smoke was absorbed into it. She closed the lid and dumped it into her pocket. Sakura led Fubuki back to the couch and began bandaging his arm.

"That should do," Sakura said. "The paralysis should wear off in your arm. Your muscles would only witness some difficulties in your movements for awhile. Luckily the venom didn't spread all over your body."

"Arigatou, Sakura," Fubuki said, testing his arm carefully.

"What was that just now?" Sayaka asked. "Was that really a demon?"

Sakura nodded. "A wasp type where it'll paralyses humans and feed on them."

"Where did they come from?"

Sakura crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't specifically have prove, but I believe that they come from…" She raised her head. "…another dimension."

"Another dimension?!" Again, Sayaka need another supernatural disaster interrupting her private life with her family. She wondered whether were they cursed to eternal bad luck and promptly consistently got involved in every none-existent matter in the world - was what she believed to be a fairy tale. If she found whoever was the one who did all these to them, she'll make sure he or she would go through hell before skinning whoever was it dead or alive.

Sakura nodded. "Portals have been opening all around the world and allowed the demons to pass through, but most of them were exorcised by the priestess and priests. That only resulted in angering their clansmen, so the attacks never decreases. In fact, it went up twice as much. So I suggests that all of you be careful from this day onward. I'm not a priestess so I can't possibly do much in Hokkaido, but as long as I have arrows and a bow, I'll kill them."

"What about the girl?" Fubuki asked from beside her. His wolf ears dropped while his tail had lost life in it. She knew that Fubuki was kind to be worried about others more than himself - even though they were strangers to each other, that was why he never left Shana and Sayaka alone and allowed himself to be eaten in their place.

Sakura ruffled his ears, casting a smile to him. "Gomene, Fubuki. She died from blood loss before we were able to reach her. So, it wasn't your fault. Cheer up. Besides, I was the one who was too slow in sensing his presence. I never thought that Hakuren would be a target. I should have been more cautious and that applies to all of you. When you see one, run. Don't fight back unless you have the upper hand, all right?"

"Wakata." Another thought struck Fubuki as he jolted his head up. "Then, what about her parents? What should I tell them?"

For once, Fubuki felt fear rose into him when her face took up a grim look. "Fubuki… you do realize that wasps go in groups to attack their preys, right?" Fubuki nodded slowly. "It's also the same with demon wasps, but they not only attack their preys. The scent that that girl gave off will be implanted into their systems and they will not be satisfy until…"

The screeching of tires went by and Fubuki peered out the window in the student council room. Lights flashed around with the colours of red and blue while sirens broke the ever so peaceful night. He knew that the gods were giving him a hint through the hectic streets below and he was afraid that his answer was right.

"…every last bit left on the plate is finish."

Fubuki widened his eyes and looked back. "That means…"

Sakura closed her eyes. "Her family should be dead by now."

Fubuki and Shana returned back to the ski slope the next morning. The team was practicing diligently and Someoka had even joined in too. One by one, they would notice his bandaged arm and asked what happened. The same answer was always given to them about tripping over a flight of stairs and managed to scratch his arm during the process. Endou and a few others had been completely convinced by his excuse while observant people like Kidou, Domon and Ichinose had decided to not pressed it further.

Someoka made it back up to the top of the slope and without looking, asked, "What happened to your arm?"

Fubuki gave him one of those looks, signified his change of nature. He thought that Someoka hated him that they weren't going to gather up the courage to talk to one and another because both of them thought the other hated the other. Did Endou said something to this striker? Did he finally acknowledged him as a friend or a teammate? Maybe time had changed him and he was back to his usual self? After all, Endou had told him that one of them had experienced the same thing and time had made them become good friends.

Fubuki was about to reply with the warmest smile he could muster up, then he stopped midway in his thoughts. Or maybe he was testing him? Someoka might be tricking him into his good side and laughed it out later. Fubuki wasn't going to let Someoka fooled him for being friendly without a single sorry for the deeds he had done and words he had said. After all, being around his former teammates a lot had rubbed off on him and being the student council president gave him pride, his pride was at stake if he let this guy make a fool out of him. No! He wasn't going to give in to his desires, he would fight back.

Fubuki turned his head away. "It's none of your business," he countered.

Someoka was ticked off. What did he do to deserve this kind treatment? All he did was asked whether he was okay and what happened. The others told him he fell down a flight of stairs and scratched his arm, he mentally spat and like hell was he going to believe that type of lame excuse?! How could people received five gashes from a flight of stairs and it was too coincident to have it only on one arm while the other was perfectly fine. And how the hell did that guy managed to have his entire body being fine without a bruise except from his injured arm?!

"What's with that sort of attitude you're giving me?! I was just asking!" He snapped and his teammates seemed to be fascinated by their argument.

See. He reverted back to his usual self. I knew he was playing me. "Don't shout. Classes are still on session."

"Then why are you still here!" It sounded more like a demand than a question. "Go to school for god damn's sake if you hate being here!"

"You have no privilege to order me around and I'm part of the student council so I have to tend to everything in the school. As a matter of fact, I'm having spare time to watch your growth progress. I did not request for your perspective, so please keep your mouth remain shut until further instructions are given. Your participation in training have earned a little respect from me, but for your ignorance at the beginning, I will make sure that you receive proper punishment."

"Wha-!"

"As the student council president of Hakuren, you have no objections in your choices, but to comply to every word I've said. Unless you want yourself to be banned from ever entering our school grounds and prohibited on ever playing soccer again, I suggests that you should not try deflecting my words."

This kid… What was his deal? Seriously?!

Shana sweatdropped. Fubuki, what are you thinking?

"The hot atmosphere in this field today is enough to melt the snow! The emergency television airing is focused on Raimon Junior High versus Aliea Academy's Gemini Storm! The match of the century is truly about to begin!" Kakuma exclaimed through the microphone from the booth in the air. Cameras were quickly unloaded from the trucks by a mass of people and busted into the stadium - which was granted a permission from the student council. The entire student population sat by at the benches and seats provided with volunteers handing out water bottles and snacks. Cheerleaders danced at the sidelines for Raimon's victory and teachers were given front row seats - much to the dismay of the students.

Gemini Storm had went into their positions. Gorureo, Gemini Storm's goalkeeper, kept bragging about being able to stop a meteorite when some from the camera crew decided to interview them. Coral, as usual for the bluenette, had been smirking, but he'd literally snapped at the guy who questioned about his grazed cheek and marked forehead. Gigu was screaming at the crew members and doing it was his strong point, because he claimed that getting angry would help fired up his speed and power. The crew had laughed and said it was obvious because of his red face and red hair. Fubuki had pitied the camera crew after that, each of them were hit by a black soccer ball and thus preventing them from further interviewing the other members, but at least they weren't dead.

After yesterday's improvement and comprehending their body balance on a snowboard, Fubuki was surprised by their fast development and speed, especially Kazemaru who had ran faster and became the wind - was how Fubuki would describe. After that, Someoka demanded a match with Shana over the Ace Striker position and made an excuse about wanting to see how fast had he gotten. Certainly, he was indeed fast and was able to actually steal a ball from Shana, but she quickly recovered it back and made a shot into the goal. Fubuki thought that Someoka would fuss over it again, but Someoka in return, gave a smile and asked for a second chance. Shana complied to his wishes until he was satisfied when he got past her and made a goal with Dragon Crash.

"Fubuki, what do you see?" Hitomiko asked.

Fubuki activated scan and numbers appeared in his eyesight with a few icons. "It's just as you said. The main point of their play is speed. Their states have went up in their heels, but," he turned to Raimon, "ours too!" He turned back to Hitomiko with a smile. "Then, what shall we do now?"

Hitomiko understood his intentions through eye contact. "Shana will be in centre back," she announced. The team began complaining about using Shana's speed while Gemini Storm detested them for thinking that they were weak by going soft against them. "I didn't ask for your opinion."

"Guys! Do what coach said," Fubuki said.

"What?! Fubuki-san, you're taking her side?" Kurimatsu asked. "What about the training that you gave us about improving our speed so we can beat them? Without Shana-san to score, we don't stand a chance to beat them."

"Do you trust me?" Fubuki asked, locking eyes with everyone. "I know that this match is important. That's why, you guys have to believe in us."

"That's the case, stop complaining," Shana said, tying up her hair into a high ponytail with a red ribbon headband. "Kantoku is also aware of the priority on winning this match. You guys not only have to trust Fubuki and Kantoku, but also believe that Someoka would be able to score. Remember, I'm not your only striker in the team, everyone is! When you get the chance, shoot." The team nodded in understanding. "Let's go."

"Ah, here comes Shana. Raimon's new recruit of the Ace Striker position!" The television crew turned their attention from Shana to Fubuki from the sidelines. When Fubuki was on screen, the entire stadium broke into squeals and screams. Fubuki waved at the camera, increasing the volume of shouts and shrieks in the stadium. "What's this?! Fubuki, the captain of the Kiseki no Sedai have joined Raimon as their manager!"

"What? Is that really true? If Fubuki is out travelling with them, I can't see him!"

"Baka! He'll be back soon! Because he's my Oji-sama!"

"Why would he want a bitch like you! He's better off with us!"

"Boys shouldn't interfere with Fubuki-sama's love life!"

"There's no restriction on letting the same gender fall in love! Aho!"

Annoyed by the comments from the crowd, Shana grabbed the microphone from the interviewer and the screen instantly broadcasted her terrifying glare, having boys screamed like girls and girls backed off out of uneasiness. "This is the vice-president from the student council and phones are hereby disallow until Sayaka, our secretary will have the power to pull out the restriction, but from now on, any electronic devises are banned! Wakata?" Her last question came out as a demand and the feared ones immediately nodded their heads.

"Now then! It's time for the kickoff!"

Beep!

Someoka passed the ball to Kidou and received back when he ran ahead. "We'll show you how much have we power up!"

Reize stood still and allowed Someoka to dash past him. He snapped his fingers and Someoka was easily marked by Pandora and Diam. Pandora made a steal as Someoka grunted. Pandora slipped past Raimon's defense easily, but hadn't saw the charge from beneath her feet when Shana did a sliding and stole the ball. Everything went accordingly the same way as before, whenever Gemini Storm was ready to score a goal, Shana would appear out of nowhere and steal it, passing it to her other teammates.

Reize was clearly frustrated by his teammates' performance. Having the ball stolen multiple of times weren't coincidental or innocent accidents. He scoffed when Kidou intercepted the ball from Gigu and the ball was then transferred to Ichinose who performed his famous Flame Dance on Karon. That brat had somehow figured out Pandora's habit while goggle head was able to read their patterns, not to mention that their speed had increased during the past week and Shana intercepting his path on scoring.

Beep!

"The first half has ended with Raimon and Gemini Storm in a tie with the score 0-0! The second half starts with Raimon's kickoff and change of formation with Shana moving up from the defense line to a striker position with Someoka, while Gemini Storm has yet to attack when stealing the ball became a problem to them! Removing Shana from defense means trouble for Raimon if they allow Gemini storm to score a goal, but they decided to go for a full on offense! Will Raimon continue to outdo Aliea Academy and finally free us from the aliens wrath or will Gemini Storm overcome their difficulties and score?"

As soon as the ball was in sight, Reize splintered for the ball while Kazemaru noticed the latter was coming for him.

"With Shana on defense, Aliea Academy's chance of scoring is low. Although our defense is high, we need to go for offense now. Shana will be scoring with Someoka-kun. Kabeyama-kun and Zaizen-san remains as defenders for Endou-kun. Kurimatsu-kun should head lower while Kazemaru-kun head higher in position." Fubuki turned to Kazemaru. "With your speed, you're the main role. Make sure you go all out." Kazemaru nodded.

"Fubuki-san! Are you sure we can pull through without Shana-san in defense?"

"Kurimatsu-kun, have more faith in Kabeyama-kun and Zaizen-san. You're one of the defenders too, right?"

"H-Hai!"

Fubuki nodded in acceptance and turned to everyone. "All of you should be accustom to their speed right now."

"What are you talking about?"

Fubuki turned to Kabeyama with a smile. "You should be able to tell by now. The reason Kantoku had Shana in defense was for all of you to adapt to their speed. My training only helped improve your speed, but you need time to even up with Aliea Academy. For the second half, let's attack!"

"Shippuu Dash!" In one swift moment, Reize lost sight of the said teen. He turned around only to have the ball distanced away from him.

Several defenders went to mark Kazemaru, but he managed to evade them and passed the ball. Seeing that on one was close enough to accept his pass, Reize dashed forward with a smirk. His vision immediately blurred with the colour of blue while a gust of wind swept past him. His eyes widened in surprised when Shana accepted the pass from Kazemaru instead of him. Everything felt slow to him, the moment where she appeared out of nowhere, her long ponytail swayed across the air, the ball on her feet and her defying excruciating gaze focused solely in front of her with none hesitation nor fear. "I won't hand Fubuki over to you," she whispered before disappearing.

Reize stumbled backwards, landing onto the field. Never had he met those eyes. It made his entire body tensed up and shook violently. For the first time in his life, he'd saw a serpent within those eyes. Nothing could compare to how petrifying it was. The eyes that saw through him like he was nothing.

Beep! "Goal! Raimon takes the leading point with Someoka's evolved Dragon Crash, Wyvern Clash! 1-0 in Raimon's favour!" The crowd cried louder from the announcement. The entire field of Raimon members gathered around Someoka who scored when Shana unexpectedly passed it to him.

"Fubuki-sama, you're amazing!"

"Fubu-chan, one more point!"

"Shirou-kun, knock them off!"

Nearly the entire field sweat-dropped. What's the deal with the fans these days? Brainwashed? Fubuki seemed to be waving to the camera again and a string of screeches and squeals roared around the arena like lions. Raimon dearly regretted not bringing any earmuffs and would have their eardrums burst. Fubuki wasn't fazed by the volume, or rather, he never once took noticed of it. He's that dense? Everyone thought up the same three words circulating in their minds.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Silence fell the whole stadium. "This is it…" Kakuma murmured through the microphone, rendered speechless by the results. He began composing himself in a gentleman like manner, adjusting his tie that Hakuren's assigned commentator - until Kakuma took over for the time being because he was Raimon's personal soccer anchor - forced him to wear the suit as a token of respect toward Hakuren. Kakuma never resented his wishes and complied to his word. After all, the person that had sincerely asked him for a favour was an international announcer and heard to be well known because of having to present - not alone soccer, but also other various sports that requested his presence. "This is it! Raimon have finally won! Earth is saved! The score is down to 2-0 in Raimon's favour which Shana had scored the final goal with a combination work with Kidou on slipping past the defenses and fooling the goalkeeper into thinking that the ball was going to Ichinose, but Shana had scored when an opening was given! What magnificent teamwork!"

Raimon cried with joy and gave each other a bear hug. Shana, who was nearly crushed between her teammates, quickly stepped aside and avoided a hyper Endou, but she wasn't able to avoid the gentle hug that Fubuki lunged at her. She almost lost her balance and ended up doing a twirl to prevent them from falling. Another slam came to her other side and she was engulfed into a strangled hug by Fubuki and her twin who came hurtling awhile ago. "You guys did it!" Sayaka exclaimed in eagerness. Finally everything was over and done with. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Natsumi having to say a famous quote that ticked Reize off and found Coral glaring at the brunette.

"You guys don't know," Reize rasped and his once overconfident nature had twisted into fear. "The real terror of Aliea Academy. We're only the second rank team. Compared to Epsilon, we're…"

"Epsilon?" Sayaka released her hug and turned to Reize with a desperate look. "Second rank? What do you mean?" Raimon cheers had by now died down to listen to their one-sided conversation. Sayaka took a step forward. "Are you saying that there are still more of you?"

"We-"

"That's enough, Reize," a low demanding voice echoed and a cold chill ran up the first years' spines.

Black smoke with a hint of red, emerged and began edging into the field. The screens were clouded and the audience broke into screeches and screams from the discomfort. Fubuki and Shana had separated from their hug and were on their guard with Sayaka inspecting her surroundings. The smoke grew ticker and separated everyone from each other. "Fubuki!" Shana shouted and tried to reach for him when a layer of smoke went between them in mere seconds. The smoke slowly cleared up and Fubuki found everyone, some joining the other during the process, but Gemini Storm was gone. Shana raised her head and widened her eyes when her view traced to the back of Fubuki. "Fubuki! Behind you!"

He froze when she warned him and found similar breathing behind him with black smoke surfacing. The presence of a taller figure stood behind him and he turned only to be met with orange spheres, a divine grin sprawled across his face. Before Fubuki could run, Desarm forcefully grabbed his shoulder as Fubuki yelped. Raimon gasped as Fubuki began struggling for freedom, desperately trying to pry himself off from the strangled grip. Sometimes he wondered why he was completely vulnerable when the challenge wasn't soccer. Desarm's grip tightened into a choke hold, ceasing Fubuki's struggles and disabling his strength on running.

Desarm grinned when the smaller teen submitted into his hold. Fubuki took heavy breaths from the earlier torture as Desarm loosened up a bit. "Fubuki Shirou, Otou-san requests for your presence. I would very much like for you to cooperate with us, unless you want trouble?" Unbeknown to himself, he had unintentionally activated scan. Lines, numbers and icons appeared, but for some particular reason, it was… uncomfortable.

The closeness they were in and how Fubuki felt powered over by the aura admitting from the said teen. He never felt this close before to the power that gave the aliens the upper hand and his scan had drilled down into the very core. His body grew weak, he began swaying when Desarm had released him awhile ago. Black spots clouded his vision as he dropped his head slowly. Darkness slowly crept from each side of the screen. The last thing he'd saw was an extra line in red being added on Desarm's chest as a crystal shape glowed. Numbers and icons kept flashing in similar red materialized on the line.

"Fubuki!"

And he blacked out.

OMAKE

"By the way, where are they? They should be here by now," Kazemaru said, implying to Gemini Storm who was missing in action.

"Maybe they lost their way here?" Kabeyama asked.

Kazemaru rolled his eyes. "Kabeyama, they're aliens. How in the world can they lost their way here?"

Megane smirked, pushing up his glasses. "Or they are afraid of the great Megane Kakeru!"

Ichinose waved his hand in disapproval. "I don't think that's the case."

A black soccer ball came crashing down onto the field as Gemini Storm appeared while Megane shrieked and hid behind Kabeyama who cowered behind Kidou.

"You guys sure got guts on being late for our match," Someoka growled.

Reize shook his hand. "Ah, sorry, sorry, we lost our way here."

Domon choked on his drink, coughing and hitting his chest to relieve the cough. "Seriously?!"

Reize pointed a thumb over his shoulder to Coral. "Blame it on him. Something went wrong with the teleportation and we got sent off into the middle of a desert. The next thing we knew, we were transported into the Amazon and piranhas nearly bit our butts out if it wasn't for Diam's quick thinking in killing them. Our third error was in the middle of a rainforest, we were practically targets for the monkeys on throwing their banana pills at us. Our last mistake was ending up in a region where people assumed us as witches and tried to tie us to a pole and burned us alive."

Everyone sweat-dropped. Did they seriously went through all that?

"You guys really have quite an… adventurous time," Natsumi said.

"At least we're still alive. Somehow," Karon stated, squeezing water out from his hair when they literally landed into the waters of the Amazon.

"And, by the way," Reize began, turning to Fubuki and Shana.

"What?" Shana asked.

Cracks of wood and bricks fell down onto the pitch. "Your roof has a hole."

Everyone looked up and found a giant hole in the roof where the soccer ball had destroyed.

Fubuki whistled in awe from the sight. "Looks like our treasurer is going to freak from this."

"I think she already did," Shana corrected. "Sakura's responsible for the school's financial and including holes in roofs. Looks like the school's budget going down."

An arrow dangerously whizzed past Reize and stuck itself onto the ground while everyone peered at the scene.

"Speaking of the devil."