Chapter 5: Xien Devilbats
A/N: Sorry for a very very late update! But I'll finish this I promise! Teehee! Here's chapter 5!
"Hieeeee! We're late!" Sena panicked as he tried to maintain his speed so that Monta would be able catch up with him.
"Mukyaaaa! Hiruma-san will probably kill us!" Monta shuddered as he imagined their Evil Captain mutilating them and feeding their remains to Cerberus.
The Devilbats had agreed to go on together on their first day at the Xien University so that they can inform the merge of the team with the Xien Reapers. So Monta decided to sleep over at Sena's but eventually things got out of hand because of Sena's brand new Wii. They played with it until 4am in the morning.
Sena rounded into one corner when he accidentally bumped into someone, causing him to stumble backwards and Monta crashing into him. They both fell on the ground.
"What the fuck?!" growled the bald student that Sena had bumped because the juice that he was drinking was spilled into his uniform. He seemed to be the leader of the group of students they had bumped in.
"Tch. These chibis might be one of those transferees. They don't know who they are butting heads with." Sneered one of the bald's comrades.
"Well, maybe we could do a little workout with them. It's been a while since we last sparred." another one commented as he started to make sounds with his knuckles. The group started to surround Sena and Monta who was still on the floor and never had a chance to stand up. There were about 5 students who were surrounding them now.
They were about to start to maul Monta and Sena when a piercing voice made them all turned around.
"You're late Fucking Brats."
Relief washed over Sena and Monta as they saw Hiruma standing about 3 meters away from them. He has his hands on his pockets and seemed so defenseless but they both knew he was hiding his assortment of weapons in his uniform.
"Oohh. Who's that you're fucking father? Hahaha." The bald sneered at Hiruma. Cue for his comrades to laugh as well.
Hiruma just grinned evilly as he started to raise his right hand into the air unto which Sena and Monta ducked instinctively for their lives.
BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.
All five bodies flew up into the wall as smoke smothered all over the place. When the smoke cleared Monta and Sena turned to their Team Captain only to see him had his hand still on the air. No gun present with him. Only to see someone behind Hiruma.
"Tsk tsk, it's you again Ryota and the rest. Now that would be your 2nd offense ne?" Azrael smiled as he walked past Hiruma and levelled the his AK-47 on the bald guys head.
The bald trembled in fear as Azrael cocked his gun loudly when a voice interrupted him.
"L."
Azrael's eyes widened for a split second before he shook his head in amusement whispering to Ryota. "Tss. Today is you're lucky day."
He shouldered his gun as he turned around to face Mamori who was behind Hiruma. He had that innocent look on his face almost copying Sena's smile. "Good Morning Mamori."he greeted.
Hiruma's trigger finger twitched, the bastard is calling her by her first name once again. He didn't dared to look back because he might not stop himself from embracing her.
"I'm not buying that innocent act of yours L. Why does the students of Deimon University are here dressed in our uniforms?" Mamori said as she raised a brow at Azrael.
He just chuckled in response as he made her way to her. "I'll explain it at the clubhouse." Azrael said as he snaked his hand on Mamori's shoulder while his other hand shouldered his gun.
"Ah, Devilbats right? You guys are coming to our clubhouse right? Come on let's go." Azrael said to the petrified Sena and Monta. The two gave a look at their Team Captain.
"Keh." Hiruma spat annoyingly before he turned his heel to follow the duo, the chibis trailing behind him.
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"A merge?" Mamori said as she raised a brow when Azrael explained to her that Deimon University had merge with Xien University because Deimon was caught on fire. Azrael smiled and nodded in amusement at Mamori's disbelieving eyes.
The Devilbats were nervously sharing glances as they sat on the sofa and was only listening at the conversation. Hiruma was sporting his poker face ever since he had set foot on the clubhouse.
"But…" Maya, the Reaper's manager trailed off as she glanced at Azrael, she merely looked away and blushed a little when he nodded her to continue, Musashi raised a brow. "Deimon is a public school, wouldn't it be complicated for the curriculums A-azrael-sempai?"
"Nah. I've got that covered. Already adjusted everything." Azrael said coolly.
"Ne, but why have you chosen Xien University, Deimon?" Aya asked enthusiastically as she waved her pompoms, Monta can't help to think that she was cute.
The Devilbats stared at each other for a second but because being the idiot that he is, Taki almost answered, "Aha-ha-ha! Because of Mademoiselle Mamor-"
"Because of Sena and Monta." Mamori butted in and everyone turned to her.
"Us?" Sena and Monta exclaimed as they stare at each other pointing to themselves.
"Because Sena wanted to fight with Shin, the same as Monta wanted to Tetsuma. So they can't join Ojou nor Seibu. Only Xien University was the option. Isn't that right, Hiruma?" Mamori said as she maintained her poker face as she came eye to eye with Hiruma.
The sudden sound of his name on her lips was music to his elf like ears. He grinned evilly. More than that, she still can read beneath him, when everyone thought that the reason he had chosen Xien University was only for his sake. Here she was, reading him like an open book and knows that he is not as selfish as everyone would think. The reason why he loved her to bits.
"Yay! We have new teammates!" Aya suddenly cheered while jumping up and down.
"Not so fast." Mamori suddenly said.
Everyone turned to her but she suddenly turned her back at them. "You'll need to go on a normal try-out. All of you. Come back here and be ready after classes."
"Huh?"
"Huuuh?"
"HUUUUUH?"
The Huh-huh brothers reacted violently at what Mamori had said. The Devilbats having a try-out. The winner of the Christmas Bowl. She must be kidding.
Mamori side glanced at them. "Not because you're the great Devilbats-sama you can just walk into our team just like that, don't be too full of yourselves. You'll all go on a normal screening just like everybody else did."
The Huh-huh brothers looked like they were just scolded by their mother. Of course, in the four years that Mamori had gone no one was there to remind them calmly to stay at their feet, of course there was Hiruma but his methods were always extreme. It was out of fear that they follow Hiruma unlike Mamori that they follow her simply because they don't want to upset her.
And as if on cue, the first bell of the morning classes rang all the campus and Mamori took this to leave. Azrael chuckled in amusement as he turned to the Devilbats.
"Well, see you later in the try-outs."
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The whole team was gathered in the clubhouse, everyone was exhausted because the said try-outs was more than they had expected, it consists from running laps to catching, to throwing and even blocking. And it wasn't only the Devilbats who did the try-outs, the members of the Reapers too.
Maya was distributing sport drinks to everyone when Hiruma caught Mamori signaling something to her on the corner of his eyes. "Eh?!" Maya exclaimed suddenly but came back to the kitchen counter immediately.
The sign language Mamori had used wasn't known to Hiruma. And it pissed him off a bit that she had other ways of communicating with other people.
When Maya came back she was carrying a mug and placed it in front of Hiruma. He eyed it and he needed to bite his tongue to prevent himself from smiling. Black coffee. No sugar, pure black.
"Now time to announce the regular members for the Fall Tournament!" Azrael suddenly said as he approached the rest of the team. Mamori was beside him holding her clipboard.
"Eh?!" everyone said in unison, they weren't expecting that the regulars will be announced today.
Azrael chuckled, "what's with that dumbfounded faces?"
"But we weren't giving our all earlier. We thought it was just practice!" one of the regular members of the Xien Reapers cried out. Kira, the running back of the team last Spring Tournament.
"If you're an American Football player you'll do your best even in practice." Mamori said not even looking up from her clipboard. Collective groans were heard from the regulars of the Reapers.
"So the try-outs was just a façade? The Devilbats were in in the first place right?" Azrael chuckled as he patted Mamori's head. Hiruma was glaring daggers at him.
Mamori smiled at him innocently but her eyes are dancing playfully. "What try-outs are you saying? I was just recording their statistics."
That was the first time they had saw Mamori smiled eversince they had saw her again after 4 years. And the smile might be contagious because the younger Devilbats found themselves smiling, Mamori still cares for them. But it still irked Hiruma that Mamori was smiling at Azrael.
"Well, the runningback would be of course, Eyeshield21, Sena." Azrael started. "Receivers would be Monta and Yukimitsu, tight-ends' Taki."
"Linemen would be Jumonji, Togano, Kuroki, Komusubi and Kurita. Kicker would be of course, Takekura, no one's a match anyway. And Quarterback would be me..." the rest of the Devilbats had almost had their jaws drop but collected it again when Azrael continued, "and Hiruma, we'll rotate depends on the plays."
"Everyone else would be reserved players if anyone of the regulars get injured." Mamori finished as she scribbled something on her clipboard.
"And oh…" Azrael trailed as he had that thoughtful look on his face as he stared at Mamori who was eyeing him curiously. "From now on the Team Captain will be Hiruma Youichi."
Everybody looked at Azrael in shock, even Hiruma's poker face failed him, he wasn't expecting that he would say something like that.
"Wait. What are you say-" Mamori's protests died down on her throat when Azrael patted her head like she was a small puppy. "Almost all of the regular players were the Devilbats, he knows them more than I do. He can get the best out of them. 'sides, we want to win the Rice Bowl right, Mamori?"
Mamori nodded involuntarily, her weary eyes looking at Azrael in disbelief.
"And we'll change mascot too," Azrael grinned as he looked at the general direction of the Devilbats. "From now on we're the Xien Devilbats."
Monta and Sena looked at each other with large smiles on their faces
Huh-huh brothers and Komusubi exchanged high fives.
Taki started to spin idiotically while Yukimitsu smiled.
Musashi had his hand on Kurita's back because he started bawling.
While Hiruma started contemplate to himself if he really hates Azrael.
All in all everybody started to cheer happily but was all cut off when the door of the Xien's clubhouse suddenly burst open.
"Youichi!" a girl with jet black hair started running to Hiruma and gave him a bone crushing hug. "I missed you!"
Mamori raised a brow at the intruder.
"M-MAKI-SAN?!" the younger Devilbats shouted in unison with their eyes as wide as saucers.
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