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Chapter 6

~Why don't ya play against me?~

I unlocked the phone's screen"We lost." the text displayed. "…So they lost, too…" I breathed out sadly. "Beep…Beep"another text message came, I glanced at it "We won, Remi-san! :D -Ryo" I weakly smile while standing in the rain.

"So they didn't beat Aomine…" I thought while reaching the school. Kuroko said that he wanted to beat him, because apparently Amonie said that basketball was boring for him and it wasn't fun anymore; He said he didn't saw Amonie smile while playing, since the second year of middle school and always blabbing about how he was the only one who can beat himself "Hmpf! What an ass!" I thought "The only one who can beat me is me?! Please, don't make me laugh!" I muttered to myself thinking of how he sounds ridiculous.

I was actually worried about Kuroko and Kagami, they always said they would beat the Generation of Miracles, and Kuroko more than anyone else wanted to beat Aomine. How would they feel right now? I could funnily imagine their feelings. I stepped in my class just to see the two of them far apart from each other. They welcomed me back and asked me about the outcome of my match and for all the morning they stayed quiet.

"I'm really sorry guys. I wasn't there to support you, maybe I could've help you a little-" "That's ok Sakurai, we appreciate your concern. But you, too, have faced a defeat, so we all need time to recover from it."Hyuga-senpai said. I saw the guys were all in a gloomy mood, but who concerned me the most were Kagami and Kuroko. They hadn't spoken to each other since this morning. I felt so helpless, at that moment I couldn't help any of them. Right now I needed her to comfort me, but she was not here.

"Remi-chan" Riko's call got me back to the present "Do you remember of that person I talked you about? The one who was injured last year? Well, he'll return today."the coach told me "The one who founded the basketball club?"I asked surprised "Mhm..Mhm"Riko nodded "Then, we don't have nothing to be gloomy about, right?"I exclaimed smiling. Riko agreed with a smile.

I heard the gym's front door opening and saw a tall, even taller than Kagami, brown-haired guy entering. "Oh, he's here!"Riko exclaimed then walking towards him. "Teppei!" "Oh! Riko, it's been a while" Teppei said hi, the team gather around him "Why the hell are you wearing the uniform of the Seirin?!"Hyuga-senpai asked the tall guy with a disapproval tone "I just felt like it, I wanted to make a good entrance!" he answered casually in his #7 jersey "What the hell does that mean?!"and now the Captain was clenching his fist. "Teppei, why don't you introduce yourself to the freshmen?"Riko suggested "Right"he agreed "I am Kyoshi Teppei, second year, 193 cm, 81 kg, position's center. I'm the founder of the basketball club. Nice to meet you all."Teppei introduced himself. "Go change yourself, so we can begin our practice!"Hyuga said glaring at him.

"Fuku-kun, use your wrist more. More power but still gentle."I explained to Fukuda, while I showed him the gesture. He tried again. "That's right, you're almost there. Try to get through me and then shoot." "For real?"he asked "Of course! You need to practice under pressure as well. Come on, come at me with all you've got."I incited him. He started to bounce the ball and then hastily tried to get through me, I put some pressured on him and then let him pass, he shot and the ball got through the hoop. "Good. But you need to study more your opponent, you're too much hasty, like that you risk a steal."I explained.

"You didn't mention me about her."Finally Kiyoshi came back, he was pointing at me "Mhm… I wanted you to see with your own eyes. She's a precious part of the Seirin team. You know…She's part of the national basketball team."Riko smiled. "Uh? Really?!"Kiyoshi looked surprise "I'm surprised that you managed to get her to be a part of our team.""Huh? What do you mean you're "surprised"?"a vein popped out of Riko's forehead. "Oh?"Teppei exclaimed while he witnessed a formless fade away of mine. "Told you!"Riko smiled. "Well, she's got quite of a temper…"Kiyoshi said as he saw me yelling at Izuki-senpai. Riko was now gloating. "Mhm-mhm. She's amazing, isn't she?"then brightly smirked "Eh…Well i should get started too, since I'm a little bit rusty."

"So, you're the new assistant coach, uh?"now Teppei was beside me. I looked up to meet his eyes. "Yeah, well more like, I give just some tips to the guys… by the way I'm Sakurai Remi, first year." "As far as I know, you did much more than that."He smiled "I heard you had a knee injury, is it ok now?"I asked "Yeah, but sometimes it gives me some trouble.."he frowned "When it's aching you should give it a break, and do some stretching. There's an ointment I have that works wonders, if you want I'll let you have it."I offered him "Yeah, thank you. You know so many stuff!""Well, I am in the national team from to years now, I should be knowing some stuff by now."I grinned at him "Will you be interested in going on one-on-one with me? I'd like to see the Seirin's center in action." I requested to the tall guy. He was looking down at me with a surprised face "I was about to ask the same to you" "Oh? Well then! Even if you just came back I won't go easy on Teppei-san!"I made a broad smile as I was adjusting my left kneepad. "I wouldn't expect less! OK! let's have fun~~n!" he then started to defending the low post, with his imposing figure.

The summer break were officially started and the Seirin was working hard on their practices. The coach and the captain have decided to do two training camp, one at the sea and the second one at the mountain during the last week of the holiday. I've trained with them on the beach even though I had my practices to do, during summer break the national team would increase their training, so I was very busy. I left few days earlier than them because of a friendly match between Japan and Brasil I had to attend overseas.

I was practicing in a basketball cage alone, covered with sunscreen from head to toe. Imagine the mess I was from sweat mixed with sunscreen! "Bleah! So troublesome!" I thought. I had to cover myself with sunscreen throughout my body to block sun lights. My white t-shirt was all sticky and my black sport shorts were drenched. Not to mention my left kneepad was slipping down all the time. I snorted while I was wiping the sweat away with a white towel. "Thank God the sun is setting!" I thought as I was sipping fresh water from my bottle. "Oh? Isn't it Yuki? Oi Yuki are you into basketball now?" a tanned guy asked entering the cage. "What?! Who is this guy?" I thought frowning. "Oi, Are you ignoring me, now?" the guy kept asking "You, who are you?" I questioned him "Huh?! What are you talking about? Can't you even remember a classmate? It's Aomine Daiki!"he exclaimed now in front of me. "Hold the fuck up!" I processed. Aomine Daiki the ace of the Generation of Miracles was standing right in front of me. The ass who would always blabbing about on how he was the only one who can beat himself, I got pissed just by looking at his cheeky face. I would've happily slapped him all day. "Oh? Aomine Daiki from the Generation of Miracles? Why don't ya play against me?" I asked with the ball spinning on my left index finger "Huh?! What's wrong with you, today?" the boy asked tilting his head to a side. "Let me show you how wrong you are, saying that you're the only one who can beat yourself." I challenged him.

To be continued...