Chapter 3:
Alright guys, sorry about the time between updates but I suffer from extreme writers block frequently, so yeah… sorry.
Anyways I really wanted to write a chapter from Miyuki's POV so this is going to be his perspective of chapter's 1 and 2. I know, I'm evil.
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Ace Of Diamond, even though I really wish I did.
Miyuki's POV
"Nice pitch!" Miyuki yelled at Furuya whose pitches he had been catching the past hour. "Try to get a bit more control though, that would have been hit by that monster first year easy." Furuya nodded at his upperclassmen and got ready to pitch again.
As Furuya nodded at got ready for his next pitch Miyuki saw something from the corner of his eye and turned to look at it. Jogging with a first year manager (who at the moment Miyuki couldn't think of the name of) was a girl whom looked oddly familiar to the catcher. She has purple bangs; I know I've seen her before. I just can't remember where. But before he had time to think further into he was pulled out of his thoughts by the coach who was calling the team together.
As the team gathered around the coach the manager and other girl Miyuki had previously been watching pushed through them arms loaded with boxes to the center where the coach was standing. "Sorry, sir. I had a bit of trouble getting here until Rin-chan here helped me," The first year manager apologized to the coach once they had set down their boxes.
So Rin is that other girl's name, now she seems even more familiar but I just can't place where I know her from. Miyuki was once again snapped out of his musings by the coach as he began to speak. "Now, we only have two weeks until our game against Yakushi. The school was generous enough to get us some new balls, new helmets, and some new bats; wood and metal. All of which are right here. I want you all to break in the new equipment before tomorrow, which includes taping your handles," Miyuki along with the rest of the team groaned, taping handles was the most tedious thing in the world to do since you had to get them just right. "Now everyone take four laps around the field before you leave," The coach finished.
"Hai!" Miyuki and the rest of the team screamed before they took off to do their laps. However just as Miyuki was about to take off he stopped as he saw Rin walk up to the coach. What is she doing? He wondered as he began to listen in on their conversation.
"I just transferred here, and I'm supposed to be joining onto the team as a manager. My father called and requested it," The girl explained to the coach.
"You must be Mr. Sato's daughter. I'll introduce you to the team tomorrow but for now I'll tell you that our head manager is Takao Fujiwara, and our scorekeeper is Chris Takigawa. If you have any questions about your job, ask one of them. Make sure you're at every practice and game unless told otherwise, and Haruno will probably need some help cleaning up after the team tonight, so stay with her until then. Welcome to Seidou," The coach then turned and walked away from her.
Mr. Sato, as in the chairman Mr. Sato? If she's his daughter that means- He looked at Rin who was now talking with her now fellow manager and smirked. So that's why she seems so familiar, well this will be interesting. With this thought Miyuki set off to catch up with the rest of the team for his laps.
Miyuki was the fifth person to finish his laps and walked over to where his stuff was and began packing up. Just as he picked up his catchers mit he caught the sound of Kuramochi's laughter and turned to see what was going on. Kuramochi was currently laughing and pointing at a very offended looking Sawamura and they were both standing with the new manager. Ah, I wonder what's going on over there, Miyuki thought as he began to walk in the direction of his teammates.
"Ah, what's going on here? With you two over here, it can't be too good," Miyuki asked with a grin as he approached the group.
"Nothing Miyuki. Just explaining to Sawamura here that we haven't been lying to him about how annoying he is if someone that just met him can make the same observation," Kuramochi answered Miyuki with a cackle.
Miyuki snickered "We told you Sawamura, it's not just me and Kuramochi here." He said and began laughing along with his friend and teammate.
As they continued laughing and making fun of their first year pitcher Miyuki noticed Rin staring at Kuramochi and looking him up and down. I would say that she checking him out, but there's something odd about the way she's doing it. She's concentrating so much, it's like when you're picking out fruit at the grocery store and you have to determine if it's any good before you buy it. Miyuki kept watching her and noticed the small smile she gave as she looked at his legs. After that she turned to Miyuki who quickly looked away from her and rejoined the teasing.
As Miyuki continued teasing the pitcher he could see Rin out of the corner of his eye as she observed him and saw her go from wrinkling her nose to giving another small smile when she looked down at his hand. I wonder why she smiled when she looked at my hand Miyuki thought and when he looked down at his hand he noticed that he was still holding his catcher's mitt. Ah, so she smiled because she saw my mitt. Hm, interesting.
When he looked up from his mitt he saw that she was no longer there. Apparently he wasn't the only one that noticed that one of the members of their group had left because Kuramochi took the opportunity to make another jab at Sawamura. "Looks like your annoyingness scared the girl away." He said laughing at his teammate.
"Eh! Stupid Kuramochi! Where'd she go I wasn't finished I have to tell her how odd her hair is!" Sawamura exclaimed as he began his search for the partially purple haired manager. "Ah! She's over there!" he exclaimed pointing and beginning to walk to where Rin was currently crouching and helping Haruichi with his bat.
Miyuki and Kuramochi followed the first year pitcher over to the two crouching teenagers to see how Sawamura would make a fool of himself this time. Once they got over there the three caught the exchange that was happening. "My name is Haruichi Kominato by the way. I'm a first year, It's nice to meet you. Haruichi said extending his hand to Rin.
"I'm Rin Sato, nice to meet you as well. And I'm also a first year." She replied placing the tape she had been holding in Haruichi's extended hand.
"Eh, you're a first year too?" Sawamura exclaimed once he heard her introduction.
Kuramochi and Miyuki laughed as Rin took a step back and whipped her glasses that had been hit with Sawamura's spit. "Yes I am. Why must you yell everything?" She asked once she finished cleaning her glasses.
"Look, not only can the girl tell that you're annoying, but she doesn't want to be too close to you either! Haha!" Kuramochi laughed again. And they say I have a nasty personality, Miyuki thought as he laughed with his friend.
"Who'd want to be too close to a girl that dies her hair funny anyways!?" Sawamura exclaimed.
"I don't care that you just insulted me while trying to make yourself look less like an idiot, however my hair color is natural." Rin said defending her hair color while putting her glasses back on.
Miyuki smirked at her retort She's just like she was when we were little.
"There's no way that's natural!" Sawamura said once again opening his big mouth.
"Why not, your teammate here has pink hair along with another one I saw earlier. Do you think they both dye theirs?" Rin asked as she gestured to her pink haired fellow first year.
"W-w-well Haruichi and Haruichi's brother are different theirs is natural yours isn't." Sawamura sputtered.
Before Rin could reply to Sawamura; Yuki, Ryosuke, and Jun came over and addressed Miyuki. "Hey Miyuki, we're going to go ahead and head over to your room alright." Ryosuke said.
"Actually, we won't be able to be using my room anymore. I finally got a roommate and the principal says that because my roommate has some special condition I'm not allowed to have anyone in my room anymore." Miyuki explained to his upper classmen.
"Eh, that stinks you were the only one of us with a single room, Oh well; I guess that just means that Sawamura, Kuramochi, and Masuko's is the new place then. Come on you two let's go" Ryosuke declared and the others grabbed a protesting Sawamura and Kuramochi dragging them in the direction of the dorms.
"Well, that was entertaining if nothing else," Rin said after his teammates were out of sight "I hope that bat works just fine for you," she said to Haruichi before turning so she could address Miyuki as well. "Now, if you'll both excuse me I'm going to see if Haruno needs any help cleaning up."
Miyuki watched as Rin walked away and then he called out to her. "Hey, hold on a second," and then walked to catch up with her when she stopped.
"Yes?" Rin asked when Miyuki had caught up to her.
"I didn't get a chance to introduce myself; I'm Kazuya Miyuki, 2nd year." He said extending his hand.
"Nice to meet you; I'm Rin Sato, 1st year." She said ignoring his extended hand.
He smirked "I thought you looked familiar. Although it'd be hard to completely forget a girl with purple bangs. Especially one that claimed they were natural," Miyuki finished his smirk still firmly in place.
"They are natural, and I think you must be confusing me with someone else. We've never met. The last time I was in Japan was when I was six and I didn't associate with too many other children back then." Rin explained to Miyuki.
"When you were six, let's see, that would make me seven and that sounds about right. Oh well, if you don't remember me that's fine; we'll be spending a lot of time together in the near future I'm sure," Miyuki said with a dismissive wave of his hand. "Anyways I'll be heading back to my room now. See you later." He walked away, the smirk never having left his face throughout the exchange. I'm a little hurt that she forgot about me, granted we only me that once. However I'm sure she'll remember by the time she gets in later tonight.
As Miyuki was walking back to where he had left his stuff earlier he stopped by the younger Kominato and remembered Rin crouching by him earlier. "Hey, what were you and Rin doing earlier?" he asked.
"Oh, she saw that I was having trouble taping my handle and she offered to do it for me. It turned out really well too, better than I've ever done it." The pink haired boy replied as he offered Miyuki his bat.
Miyuki took the bat from the first year and looked at the handle. "I guess she did do it pretty well." He said handing back the bat.
"Yeah, well goodnight Miyuki senpai." The first year said waving as Miyuki began to leave the field.
As Miyuki walked to his dorm he began to let his thoughts wander. She was six the last time she was in Japan, which made me seven. It's hard to believe that it was nine years ago when we met, seems like just yesterday. He thought his mind flashing back to when they first met.
"Miyuki this is Rin, Rin this is Miyuki. Rin's father and I have known each other since were little like you two," His mother said introducing the two for the first time.
Miyuki walked up to the girl hand extended, "Hi, it's nice to meet you; I'm Miyuki and I'm seven."
"It's nice to meet you Miyuki, my name is Rin and I'm six." Rin said shaking his hand.
"Wow, you're only six and you dye you hair?" he said looking at her purple bangs.
"It's not dye, it grows like this!" She exclaimed jerking back the hand that Miyuki still had in his grasp.
"Really? That's cool, I wish mine did that!"
"Rin, why don't you take Miyuki to your room and play while I talk to Miyuki's mother," Rin's dad said smiling at the conversation the two were having.
Rin nodded and grasped Miyuki's hand before she took off down the hall towards her room.
Once they entered her room Miyuki was met with the sight of baseball everywhere, on the walls, books about the sport, gloves, bats, and anything else that could possibly be baseball related. "Wow this is a lot of baseball stuff, you must really like it," Miyuki said looking around the room.
"Yeah, I do. I know it's kinda weird since I'm a girl, but it's my favorite thing in the world." She said looking at the floor.
"Baseball is alright, but I don't get how it can be your favorite thing in the world. I mean it's alright to watch but I've never understood how anyone could enjoy playing it," He said walking around the room.
"I can't really explain why I love it so much, it's just that when you throw the ball back to another player; especially the catcher, the way the ball feels as it glides through your fingers is just so amazing. That brief moment that you have control of the ball that whatever you do could decide the outcome of the game just makes you feel so empowered and important. It's the best feeling in the world,"
During Rin's explanation Miyuki had turned to look at her. "I wish that I could love something that much." He said a little bitterly.
"Well, have you ever tried baseball?" Rin asked with a cock of her head.
"No, I'm not very good at working with others so I don't really do sports."
"Really? Well I'm sure you'd be just fine, so let's play some catch and you can see if you'd enjoy baseball," She said as she tossed him a mit. "That's a catcher's mitt, I don't have an extra fielder's mitt but since you don't work well with others catcher would probably be a good position for you anyways. So all you have to do is when I toss the ball to you just catch it and throw it back alright?"
He nodded once Rin had finished explain what he had to do. She tossed the ball to him and Miyuki easily caught it and tossed it back to her. "I really don't get what's so special about this," Miyuki said after they done the process a few times.
Rin caught the ball once again and put her hand on her hips. "Okay, think of it like this. It's the bottom of the ninth, two outs and the bases are loaded, and it all comes down to you getting the next runner out. Third baseman is throwing the ball to you; if you can catch the ball you will get the runner out and win the game. Now visualize that and I'm going to toss the ball to you again." Rin said and tossed the ball to Miyuki once again.
Miyuki visualized the scene Rin had described and caught the ball. "That felt amazing!" Miyuki exclaimed in awe at the feeling.
"Haha, I know. That feeling is why I love it so much." Rin said giggling at his reaction
"Yeah, I think I get that now. You know, I think I might try out for the baseball team," He said staring down at the mitt in his hand.
"In that case keep that mitt for good luck, maybe we'll get to play on the same team."
"Okay, promise me." He said looking at Rin now.
"Promise you what?" she said a little confused.
"Promise me that one day we'll play on the same team." He said extending his pinky to Rin.
"Okay, I promise!" Rin exclaimed locking her pinky with Miyuki's and smiled.
Miyuki came out of his flashback when he reached the door to his room and unlocked it so he could step inside. Walking over to his desk he placed his bag on it and looked inside pulling out a much too small mit and looked at it. He smiled at the mitt "It's all thinks to her that I play baseball," He placed the mitt back into the bag and sat down at the desk. Miyuki propped his head up against his hand and decided to wait for his new roommate to come in.
It wasn't long before he saw the door open and his purple banged roommate walked in and shut the door behind her. "Remember me yet?" He asked and smirked when she let out a sigh and turned to face him leaning against the door frame.
This was definitely going to be an interesting experience. He thought to himself.
There we go, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter make sure to review!