"Akari!"
"Endou!"
We stepped into the pitch with half the stadium chanting my name, the other half chanting Endou-senpai's name.
"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬,𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬,𝐀𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐮 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐮!"
I smiled,oh well...My name was back and so am I.
I could feel my teammate's uneasiness. "Come on you guys, we will win this match and the next and we will be champions! Aren't you excited?"
"Not really, Endou is our opponent, I don't know if we can really win." Okuiri said.
"Hey, stop feeling so down,sure the other teams weren't able to get past them but we have one thing they did not have," I smiled.
" What's that?"Golem asked.
"Determination and persistence," I said.
"That's two things.." Goujin trailed off.
"Man,whatever," I said and they laughed
"The point is we can beat them,we are gonna win and we will not lose!" I cheered finally getting them on board.
"🆈🅴🅰🅷!"
"Now come on, sakka yarouzze!(let's play soccer) "I cheered.
The whistle blew for the first half and since I was the starter, I passed the ball to Asuto who passed to Goujin in the clearing of Tousen and used a normal shot which Endou caught and threw it back at him.
" Hey,are you provoking me?" Goujin asked.
𝓖𝓸𝓾𝓳𝓲𝓷 𝓲𝓯 𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓿𝓸𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓲𝓶~ Thoughts.
Kozoumaru got angry and impatient and used fire tornado which Endou kicked back with his leg leaving him speechless.
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓸 𝓢𝓮𝓷𝓹𝓪𝓲 ,𝔀𝓪𝓲𝓽,𝔀𝓱𝔂 𝓪𝓶 𝓘 𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽?~Thoughts
Tonegawa managed to steal the ball from us by their libero Sakanoue Noboru, he dribbled past us skillfully and then passed it to his other two teammates who used their hissastu,"Dragon drive!"
Norika tried to block the shoot using Uzumaki the hand but failed,earning Tonegawa a point.
She was a bit surprised making me wonder whether she had underestimated them.
𝓝𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓽,𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮...𝓭𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽~Thoughts.
Hiura got the ball and used cold snap as a shoot trying to score but failed against Endou's Majin the hand.
Kozoumaru once again complained that he should have passed the ball to him instead of using some useless shot and I snapped.
"Oh really? Was it not your fire tornado that got stopped just now?" I asked and he kept quiet looking away as I glared at him.
The first half ended as fast as it began and we went for a break and I saw Michinari(captain) walk up to Endou.
𝓖𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓪~ Thoughts
We stepped back onto the field a few minutes before the second half could start and Michinari walked up to me.
"Akari..I'm sorry. I failed you as a captain and friend,"
" Is that so?" I smiled and he looked at me.
"Captain,until now you checked the practice menu for the team and cheered us on. I've been noticing your efforts."
"Sure,Endou is a magnificent player but so are you. I know that you are the one who can definitely help this team and you will always be."
" Maybe that's what coach meant after all,don't lose...the spirit," I smiled
Michinari gasped a bit before turning again to me." You're right,I'll be a captain in my own way not like Endou,"
"There we go!" I smiled as we walked back to our spots.
"Everyone! I know you may not want to listen to me right now but just hear me out,"
"We came from the island to save our soccer and have fun,we have been through a lot even on the island and we still had fun,what changed?"
"With all due respect captain,are you telling us to have fun during the semi-finals?" Goujin asked.
"Yes! I am, we used to play soccer having fun even though we lost sometimes. We can still do that now as we play against Tonegawa Tousen. Whether we win or lose,we should not lose the spirit. We are all unique in our own way and I think we should play our unique way of soccer,don't you think so?" He said as everyone fell quiet.
"....."
"Yeah,you're right!"
"Sakka yarouzze!" I cheered out of the blues.
"Yeah!"
I smiled at Michinari as we ran forward. Norika passed me the ball and I dribbled past the midfielders using twilight.
I got to the defence line and passed the ball to Kozoumaru who used fire tornado to the side and Goujin adjusted it once more catching Endou off guard.
"Darn! I thought it could go in.." Goujin said as he ran back with Kozoumaru.
"Yeah, he is annoyingly persistent!" Kozoumaru said.
"You guys should do that again!" I said as Michinari ran up to us.
"Akari is right,Majin the hand is weak at the sides. If we could catch him off guard from the sides,we could score a goal!" He explained.
"Good idea but how will we do that exactly?" Goujin asked.
"I could use Inabikari dash to kick it to you at the sides," Asuto said.
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I kicked the ball to Asuto who used Inabikari dash to kick the ball to the sides for Goujin.
"I'll show you my natural instinct!" He said as he redirected the ball earning us a point.
A defender tried to stop it with his head but he couldn't and his left temple got burned severely.
We used the same trick twice but Endou being the very Endou I knew,stopped it but it still had some power to it.
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We started feeling exhausted together with Tonegawa so I distributed my energy to my temmates.
Then the player got replaced by another one I hadn't heard of before." Ponko Tanukigahara,"
She had a tail and a leaf on her head...she kinda resemble the mascot,the racoon.
I shook my head to concentrate but the second she stepped onto the field she got past us, boy was she fast!
Golem got the ball from her and she took it again but so did he.
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The match was fierce and down to our last minute I kicked the ball to Michinari,Kozoumaru and Asuto.
They used their new hissastu flying colours and scored a goal against Endou.
The whistle blew... We won!
I was over the moon and as we were walking back,Endou walked up to me.
"Akari! It's good to see you!" He said giving me a bear hug.
"It's good to see you too,Endou! I promised I would take on the world with you and win the championship,I will do just that!"
" I can see, I promise to make it to the world too. I can't wait to play with you again,"
"Thank you Endou!"
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As Tonegawa left Endou suddenly turned back," Minna, let's play sokka together again!"
" Yeah!"
I smiled then I turned to Michinari and I noticed he hurt his foot." Great job out there,captain. Even though you had to make a sacrifice,"
"Thank you,Akari."
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