-Third's PoV-
"One more time!" He yelled. Tenma managed to get the ball back, he passed it to Hamano; it was the start of a new 'Ultimate Thunder' but, as the previous one, it did't blew off the defence; by now, trusting issues came to sight: 'Is he slipping up on purpose?' Kurama asked, to which many agreed, except Tenma, who saw the distress on the other's eyes. Kirino performed 'The mist' and passed the ball directly to the striker, yet, he wasn't paying attention.
"TSURUGI!" Tenma shouted, it was too late to even react, the ball was stolen by Teikoku. Tenma went straight for it trying to gain control over the sphere with despererate movements as he tried to talk to his teammate, even if he hit the floor each time. "Stop this behaviour, Tsurugi, you are making soccer cry!" Finally, the words reached the blue-haired-boy' heart. He had focused on his brother's tears, not his smiles. Those tears were breaking him. With new found force and the ball Tenma stole, Tsurugi yelled "ULTIMATE THUNDER!" This time, it blew the defence off, the wave was powerful; Tenma received the ball and performed "Match wind!" It was his first shot, he knew loads more thanks to his practice with Gouenji; he scored.
Black Wings Raven appeared, yet Instrumentalist Maestro pushed through, Takuto was impressed at the sudden energy he felt, as if a wind was making him stronger. Ultimate Thunder was successful again.
Tenma went straight to the goal, performing 'Soyokaze step!' , then, Tsurugi made another goal, one of his famous shots, level two. They made a high five after that, our brunet slightly tired. Teikoku was so pissed they didn't realised Shindou had run all the way up from the center of the pitch, he made a pass to Shinsuke, with 'Full Trodell Jump!' It hit the net as the whistle blew: 2-3 for Raimon. Tenma hugged Shinsuke as they jumped, overjoyed. Tenma motioned Tsurugi to join them in the hug, he refused. On one of the jumps, Tenma's ankle started to ache a lot, it refused to move, nonetheless, he didn't let it show.
The four players reunited next to the goal caught Kidou's watchful eyes, he finally knew where his Seeds were, who they were, now, he only needed to wait to tell his discovery to Endou, before the man reached to his own wrong assumptions, which was meant to happen, he awaited the man.
Yuichi and Kyousuke were talking to each other about the impressive match.
"You won, I am so proud of you, Kyousuke!" Suddenly, Fuyupe entered, a giant smile on her face, she was very happy indeed.
"Yuichi, someone has donated enough money to pay for your operation!" They believed it was a joke, a very bad joke. Yuichi eyed his brother, who was in the same state as himself.
"Who gave the money?" Fuyupe, smiled.
"Someone going by Matsukaze T., it isn't really that hard to guess." She smiled at them, a huge grin on her face; that left the two brothers thinking; they reached the same answer after mere seconds of thinking: Tenma. "We will talk about a date for your surgery, Yuichi." With that, she left the two brothers alone, on their own. Kyousuke could do nothing else but hug his older brother and cry on his shoulder. He had hurt that boy so much and, thanks to him, he could leave Fifth Sector once and for all; he hugged him close.
"You should talk to him, Kyousuke, do it for me. I can't show him my gratitude for now, I am not able to leave the hospital." Just then, Fuyupe had returned, apparently, she heard Yuichi's whishes.
"You see, just for now, you will leave but come back before eight PM, okay? And take care, Tsurugi oh! Give this to Tenma." She gave them a bandage, the brotheers stared at it. "I saw the game," she told them. "I now he was hurt during the second half... usually he comes to me but as he has not... just give him this and tell him to come to me if necessary. Tell him he has someone to turn to if required." Her eyes were sad as she made that statement, the brothers shared a look between them, Kyousuke had seen the boy limping away; he had not payed attention to it either way. Kyousuke bit his lip and nod, a worry glint on his eyes. Yuichi had a carbon copy of his brother's look, he had a shirt, trousers and shoes. he had no idea were Tenma was, somewhere, that he knew. With help, both were walking towards the Riverbank. They found the boy they had been looking for, staring at the sky, as if nothing else mattered in that moment. Just focused on the stars and the blackness above him; he sigh and had a dog at his side, licking his hand. In exchage, the boy patted the dog's head, it was rather old.
"Tenma... thank you, so much." Yuichi sat down with his brother's help next to the brunet. "I... I can't give you anything back, I don't have nothing to offer you either way; but, what you have done for Kyousuke..." Tenma could only stare into Yuichi's eyes.
"It was nothing really. It could mean something important to you though, in no way that is something that mattered, I just felt the need to help in any way possible even if that meant I needed to let go a rather important quantity." It was then when he put a hand over his lips and his eyes widened, he shoudn't have said that; he felt the two pair of eyes focused on his back.
"Was it that much?" They both asked, but Tenma didn't answer, in fact, he ignored it. It was just then when Kyousuke gave him the rolled up bandaged; Tenma could only satred at it. He had not shown it to the rest, they must have been staring at him after the match, he had been doing the usual, it was the very first time he had been caught.
"Has Fuyupe gave it to you?" They both nod at that, Tenma got off his left trainer, and roled down his sock, showing a rather horribly looking toe, swallowed and scratched.
"How could you run with that? You shouldn't even be walking!" Yuichi yelled, Kyousuke was suppressing a tear, if it had been him, he would have cried in pain, how could Tenma tolerate that great amount of suffering? 'He is used to pain.' His subsconcious said. They both eyed as the brunet bandaged up his toe with great maestry, that gave them some things to think about, he was used to do it, then.
"Fuyupe says to take it easy and... that you can turn to her whenever you need, that she is there for you to cover up your necessities." Kyousuke said, his voice terribly cold. Tenma noded, while he was putting on his shoe again. 'Well, it seems you have someone beside you! How much will it last?' Jack told him. Tenma didn't do anything, he didn't even answer, he turned his head.
"Tell her I already knew that. "He mentioned to the two shocked brothers, the smile he had on his face showed sadness. He just ignored them, as he remembered himself that he needed not to let anything show. He stood up, Sasuke following right behind him, moving as if nothing was wrong with him. That had touched the other two profusely, they could just stare to the way the brunet had left.
Next day, Endou had taken them to Teikoku. They had no idea why they were there, why did they need to go if they had already won the match against them.
-Tenma's PoV-
The mach was strange, I had felt something was off with Teikoku, something really important involving SEEDs. Maybe that was why we are here, Kidou had been strange since he had seen Endou enter the pitch leading the Raimon team, a if there was something he had to talk to our coach but he just couldn't say what, something vital.
"They are going to do something to us, I'm sure!" Hayami yelled from the back of the bus. The idea was pushed away as it made no sense to anyone, specially me.
-Third's PoV-
He just wanted to let that go, he wanted to go home, do nothing else and enjoy the warm of his bed. They entered Teikoku and decided that it was best if they just let everything pass by. He was remembered of the old school he used to take part in, suprisingly, it was simmilar to this junior high and that made him feel uneasy. He lost track of time as he waved as Kidou-san, god he had missed him a lot on the past few months sisnce he joined Raimon, an enormus smile was plasted on his face, which the other noticed and smiled back at the young kid. They were told they needed to win, they couldn't afford to loose in any sense of the word, their revolution was going to be followed by many other teams, they will all battle against Fifth Sector.
After that, they practiced with regained force, knowing that if they were alone before, they wouldn't be anymore, many would follow the path they had decided to walk on thanks to the brunet's help surprisingly; since he came to Raimon, he had doe that: the Revolution had started thanks to that boy and they all knew that. During said practice, he felt absolutely strange, he had a dormant force inside him and he couldn't bring it out, it was different form any other thing he had felt before, that was no technique, he had felt it when he was younger. It used to appear when he was in danger, alone, desparate for a hug... a keshin they were called now he believed. It had enormus wings that made him feel save each time he was hugged by them: Demon he used to call him, but as he came, he was gone, and now, he could feel waves of pain crushing inside his body.
After that training, he had gone to the Riverbank to hit the ball by pleassure and try to ease away the pain, Endou came some minutes later. Passing the ball between them was fun, he even managed to forget the enormous force inside him causing his head to ache, te adrenaline came as possitive and foreighn thoughts came his way. He found out he was married to Natsumi, whose cooking was horrible to keep it short, even his coach created a new meaning to his infamous quote while trying to shalow the terrible dish.
Next day the kept practicing, the revolution was in their veins, running freely making them even better, they wanted to be the best, the best of all to win and show that their soccer was the one that needed to be played. Tenma had a rush of energy, he felt as a wind inside wanted to come out and that is why he wanted to play against Tsurugi. He had his Kesin blocked, he had used him since he was little, six to be exact, he couldn't bring it out on his own now. That had him worried and hurt at the same time. It was then when Endou received an upcoming call, he seemed to have been waiting that call for quite some time.
"They re all SEEDS!" Tat was what had came soon after he had answered, that sent chills down everyone's back, they where all seeds, whoever they were going to play against, they were all seeds, meaning they could possibly be able to call for their keshins if they wanted to, they must be skilled and that, that paralysed Tenma for some seconds.
After that, on his way home, Tenma encountered Hayami, his shoulders were trembling, his head was bowed down, as it normally was by now. Nonetheless, he went to his side, his hands supporting his shoulders, making him stared into his grey metallic orbs.
"I can't do this anymore, we are going to end up in the bin and I just can't!" He yelled at Tenma.