I DO NOT OWN SHUGO CHARA, ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS, OR ANY LICENSED MATERIAL THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS STORY AND CHAPTER.
THIS STORY IS RATED T FOR LANGUAGE AND CONTENT SO BEWARE OF THE LANGUAGE!
Taking One for the Team
CHAPTER 7: It was about Bulls
RIMA'S POV:
As the days went by and we continued to practice, in the end our routine was real kick-ass material. No thanks to Utau. However the credit still went to her. Our routine was totally hot. Our short blue and black outfits were gonna complete it!
Soon it was the day before the big game! It was a Thursday afternoon and the game was a Friday night. As promised, my curls came back. I had moved in with Amu in her room, conveniently her parents went away for a big magazine scoop in Paris shortly after I had moved in. I did not visit Nagihiko's mother for she refused to see me so close to game time and insisted I should focus on my routine.
Amu, Ikuto, Kukai, Nagihiko and I all continued to walk to school together in the mornings, and walk home together in the afternoons. Their practice had gotten more and more intense (even Yumi had stopped cheering for it did not seem appropriate), as did ours. It wasn't as fun because you constantly felt worried and nervous. We tried our hardest to perfect and improve, and Yukari showed up every day of the week leading up to the game observing every detail. It was she who chose the head cheerleaders. I don't blame her for selecting Lulu, Saaya, or Yumi.
Lulu was very talented at making up cheers and almost gave Yaya a run for her money when it came to school spirit, her determination inspired us when we were down and she was good when it came to team work, though a little snobby at times.
Saaya was a talented gymnast and could even perform in the Olympics one day, I believe. She also had a certain charm about her complimenting her beauty. She was super flexible even more so than Yaya, and her fancy tricks really made our routine look a lot more complex than it actually was.
Yumi was obviously tough, and her approach to things were always fun. Her dancing skill is amazing and was like nothing we have ever seen. Not only was she bad ass but she knew it too. When she is in charge everyone enjoys practice, laughing and falling over each other but serious when we need to be.
It was indeed a good selection for head cheerleaders, but what I can't get over is Utau. I mean what the hell? She wasn't anything special if you ask me, I am yet to see her amazing talent.
O.O.O.O
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, END OF FINAL PRACTICE
SPORTS FIELD 15:30 HOURS
"Alright girls," Yukari sensei said giving her motivational speech, "in all my months of being your coach I have never seen such an awesome routine. You guys have truly worked hard, keep this up and you guys will be at the freaking top!"
Everyone cheered wildly. Well mostly Yumi, shouting 'Seiyo' at the top of her lungs, Yaya of course couldn't resist joining in.
"Let's hope those guys are working really hard! Because once we win this, we will represent the entire district! Competing with all the other top schools in the entire nation! Do you know what that means? THE WHOLE OF FREAKING JAPAN! That means we are freaking going to Tokyo girls!"
"YAYYYY! WOOOH! T-T-T-T-TOKYO!" Yumi screamed waving her pom-poms In the air smacking Lulu in the face.
"Minazaki, calm down." Utau hissed, "It's no big deal,"
"Fancy five star hotel…." Yukari cooed.
"NO WAY!" I shouted excited. I joined Yumi in her cheering and Amu sighed.
"As I was saying….have any of you girls been watching the boys practice? Are they making any shocking progress? Does anyone know?" Yukari asked. Before anyone could answer she turned to look at Amu and said, "Hinamori-san….?"
"Um….Y-Y-Yeah, I know." Amu stuttered looking down. I sighed and shook my head.
"You've been checking up on Ikuto right? How do they look?" Yukari asked casually not noticing how flustered she caused Amu to be.
"T-They s-seem to be working really hard…." Amu trailed off.
"It's intense," I added, since Amu was hopeless. Yukari raised an eyebrow.
"You too, Mashiro? Who are you dating, Fujisaki?" Yukari questioned. I must've looked fried.
"What? ME! M-Me and N-N-Nag-stupid? NOT IN THIS LIFETIME! Maybe if he were reborn into a decent person!" I scoffed.
"Rima-chan is blushing," Yaya observed.
"Stuttering too," Yumi added.
I'll freaking kill both of them.
"I AM NOT!" I defended.
"Yeah, you are," Utau scoffed, "So you like him, huh?"
"You guys, stop it," Amu said laughing hysterically.
"What's so funny?" Yukari inquired.
"They hate each other, she calls him Nag-evil all the time, and he calls her inelegant." Amu explained.
I love her.
"Oh I see," Yukari giggled, "That was fun though,"
"Please go on with the motivational speech!" I begged.
"Haha, as you wish Fujisaki-san,"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT! Seriously I dislike that guy!"
"Not for long," Yaya giggled.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I demanded to know.
"Nothing really…."
"YAYA!"
"Mashiro-san is right we should go back to the speech,"
"It doesn't matter, I forgot what I was gonna say, you all are dismissed. See you tomorrow night."
O.O.O.O
WALKING HOME FRIDAY AFTERNOON
17:30 HOURS
None of us had practice, so Kukai, Amu, Ikuto, Nagihiko, and I all went out for sweets and ate it on the way home. Nagihiko was going to have his driver pick us all up and drive us to the game. None of us objected, he also agreed to pick up Tadase, Kairi, Yaya, and Yumi.
Ikuto and Amu ate their Taiyaki happily together giggling and whipping the chocolate off each other's faces. Kukai ate his cream filled buns, and surprisingly me and Nagihiko had matching Odangos. As usual my mouth was sticky from all the sauce. Kukai was dropped off at his house first then I and Amu were dropped off at Amu's house next.
"Bye Ikuto!" Amu squealed as they said their emotional goodbye. When they travelled to the over-emotional-taiyaki-loving-couple world, Nagihiko and I were left on earth.
"See you tonight Nag-evil." I hissed glaring. He shook his head and laughed.
"You don't look too intimidating with all that sticky sauce all over your face," He commented. I glared up at his beautiful face. What? He's hot. He sighed and pulled out his handkerchief my eyes widened in realization of what he was about to do.
Then it happened! He bent down and whipped the sauce of my face carefully, holding my chin up to keep my head straight; I found it hard to breathe. When he was nearly finished getting off all the sauce, we were interrupted by Ikuto clearing his throat. Nagihiko whipped off the rest then pulled away and we both looked at Ikuto.
"Well, Well, Nagihiko isn't it about time we get going?" Ikuto asked his freaking eyebrows dancing, "come on let's go lover boy,"
"Ikuto tell your damn eyebrows to stop moving before I fucking shave them off!" I nearly shouted.
He stopped but continued smirking at me.
"Bye, Rima-chan. Next time, eat more lady-like," Nagihiko taunted. I stomped on his foot before he and Ikuto left.
"What was that?" Amu asked when they left. I glared at her.
"Ask him," I muttered as I trudged into the house.
O.O.O.O
FRIDAY NIGHT
19:20 HOURS, 55 MINUTES UNTIL GAME TIME
Amu and I stood outside her house waiting patiently for the guys, Yumi and Yaya should be in there already, so it's just us and Kukai left. I had my hair tied into a high side pony tail, my curls dropped down elegantly beside my waist. I wore lip gloss, mascara, and a bit of glitter.
Amu's hair was let out and curled by her sister, a blue X was clipped onto the top right of her hair. She had no makeup on but a little lip gloss, she didn't need it.
Our uniform was a black skirt, with blue pleats, and a black tube top that had a blue S on it. Our socks were high and blue it had the words 'GO SEIYO!' in black on it, though you could hardly see it as it went down the sides of it and were a small sized font. Our shoes wore black sneakers. We had to wear blue tights underneath so we don't give everyone a show.
At last a fancy limo pulled up. We both looked at each other awestruck.
"I think that's for us," Amu mumbled.
"Me too," I gulped, "Nag-rich brought a freaking Limo!"
Suddenly the windows rolled down and Yaya's head appeared with a bottle of coke in her hand.
"GET IN! GET IN! GET IN!" Yaya squealed giggling.
"They gave her sugar and now she is high!" We heard Yumi shout from inside. A man in a black suit stepped out and opened the door for us. We glanced at each other once more before crawling inside.
"WOAH!" Amu squealed when we saw the inside of the Limo. It had squishy looking seats and a mini fridge and tinted windows, it almost seemed as if you were in a tiny little room. Yumi, Yaya, and Kairi sat on the seats to the right Nagihiko, Ikuto, and Tadase sat opposite from them on the left.
Amu plunged into the seat next to Ikuto excited as ever. I sat in between Kairi and Yumi who were quieting down Yaya. Kairi greeted me by nodding I stared at him for a while then smiled gently.
"Rima you seem different," Ikuto pointed out, then the Limo started moving.
"Yeah she looks hot," Yumi snickered.
I then noticed that Yumi pretty much looked the same, her long black hair was let out, as usual. She wore no makeup or anything special. But she still looked hot. Yaya had her usual pigtails only her clips were black and not red.
"No she doesn't seem so violent," Ikuto noticed.
"Clearly you have read her wrong," Nagihiko scoffed. I glared deadly at him, "see?"
"Well not everyone is as good as reading people as you are, Nag-evil." I hissed.
"What did she call you?" Tadase asked laughing.
"Oh just my adorable nickname that she lovingly thought up for me," Nagihiko replied, "She likes me so much,"
"No I don't," I sneered distastefully.
"Do you have a nickname for her?" Tadase inquired.
"No actually, I don't." Nagihiko realized. I rolled my eyes.
"Good, let's keep it that way."
"How about Oushi-chan?" Nagihiko suggested. (A/N: Oushi means Bull in Japanese), "Because you are stubborn like an Oushi,"
"Don't call a girl a bull!" I admonished flinging Yaya's empty coke bottle at his head.
"Such an unladylike thing to do," Nagihiko teased, "Perfect behavior for an Oushi!"
"Oh shut up Nag-faggot!"
"Oushi,"
Before I could retort, the limo pulled to a stop, and almost as soon as it stopped the door was flung open by Kukai.
"HEY GUYS!" He shouted.
"You didn't even wait for the driver to open the door for you? How did you know this was your ride?" Yumi criticized.
"Just a hunch," Kukai replied earnestly.
"That's Souma for you…." Tadase muttered and we all laughed lightly.
"So what did I miss?" He asked plopping in between me and Kairi. I glared wondering why he chose that spot.
"Just a heated debate between Rima and Nagihiko," Amu replied.
"About?"
"Bulls!" Yaya shouted excitedly.
"What?" Kukai asked clearly confused. We all laughed at him ignoring his questions.
The rest of the ride passed peacefully until we arrived at school.
O.O.O.O
SEIYO ACCADEMY GYM.
19:45 HOURS, 30 MINUTES UNTIL GAME TIME
Those cheerleaders looked pretty impressive I must admit. They were all pink and frilly. All of them were beautiful, and as Yumi said, they all acted like whores. Seriously they went ballistic when our limo pulled up and Ikuto came out. Then they saw Amu went all vicious, and then Tadase came out and it was back to slut mode, followed by Kukai, and then Kairi, last but not least Nagihiko. I glared at them.
He's hot but he will never like you, so back off!
I'm not like, jealous or anything, it's just because I hate seeing whores fawn over guys who will never like them. Take Utau and Ikuto for example.
Anyway all of the Seiyo cheerleaders assembled complimenting each other and what not. I was pretty surprised to find that I got quite a few compliments myself. A lot of guys stared at Amu. Most of the girls were jealous of that.
"Of course she is drop dead gorgeous….she is Ikuto-sama's girlfriend,"
Yeah….sure that's the reason. God fixed her genes so that Ikuto wouldn't have to like a plain looking girl in the future. It all makes sense. (Sarcasm is my best friend)
After a while Utau called everyone together.
"We are on soon," She said anxiously, "WHO ARE WE!"
"SEIYO!" We all shouted energetically.
"WHO ARE WE!"
"SEIYO!"
"WHO ARE WE!"
"SEIYO!"
"WHO ARE W…"
"SEI-FREAKING-YO! What the hell is the point of this?" I asked crossing my arms.
"To get us pumped!" Yumi replied.
"It's not working,"
"Yeah I know, but it's tradition."
O.O.O.O
SEIYO ACCADEMY GYM
20: 15 GAME TIME!
"Welcome all to the Seiyo vs. Toyotomi basketball match!" Nikaidou shouted with his microphone in hand, "Everyone please be kind!"
Everyone cheered loudly as the Toyotomi students laughed at his clumsy appearance. They were in for a surprise.
"Well without further ado, I present to you, the Seiyo Academy players!"
Once he said that all the boys ran out cheering and everyone squealed. They spent their time in the center circle soaking up the lime light, and then…..it was our turn.
"WHO ARE WE!"
"SEIYO!" The cheerleaders screamed as we all ran out on the floor pom-poms in hand as we stood in our positions.
Why the hell am I so freaking nervous?
O.O.O.O
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