"Cool!" Yagami clapped after we saw hasekura-senpai showed us the most basic wall-clearing move, the vault.
"Up next!" Kohinata-senpai raised his hand then ran to the obstacle and showed us a monkey vault
"Wow"
"Kohinata-senpai is really good at clearing gimmicks" yagami impressed
"That move was a the monkey vault, a type that requires a higher leap than other vaults" kadowaki-senpai explained
"There're other types. Kong vault, dash vault, pop vault, gate vault, sky vault, tick vault-"
"Aren't you going to try, ayumu-senpai?" Yagami interrupted
"Uh, of course I will! I will most certainly jump" he stammered
After inhaling and exhaling some air, he ran at full speed but slowdown before jump
"Solid"
"Too slow" fujiwara said
"Huh"
"Slow jumps are meaningless"
"Do you have to say it like that?" Yagami protested
"At least he tried. Right?" I tried cool them as fujiwara ran and did a side vault with one hand
"Good one takeru!" Kohinata-senpai amazed
"If you pulled your knees in more, it would be cooler" hasekura-senpai said
"As long as it's fast and accurate, I don't care about looks" fujiwara said
"Always the cheeky one"
"Stride is a speed sport"
"Do you want to jump first, yasegawa-san?" Yagami asked
"It's okay?"
"Of course. Lady first" he said with smiled
After I thanked him, I ran and did tiger vault. The most thing I can do
"Good job yukari!"
"You sure like a boy, doing that kind of thing. Well, don't do that again if there's not any mat okay?" Hasekura-senpai warned me
"Okay" I said
Then Yagami ran and do dash vault
"Good job riku!"
"Yagami, it's cool" i said happily
"Okay, solo practice time! Watch out for injuries" hasekura-senpai said
"Yeah!"
~~~
Third POV
"Lock up when you leave" hasekura told them
"Okay"
"I'll leave the key right here, since takeru probably going to be the last" kohinata said then closed his locker
Yasegawa POV
"I'm entering" I said then walked in
"Kohinatasshi" kadowaki-senpai called
"Ayumu-kun, aren't you going to change?"
'They didn't hear me right?' I thought then silently hid behind the chair
"Can you help me practice the gimmicks?" He asked
"What? Now?"
"Yeah"
Then kohianata-senpai sounded relieve
"Okay, let's do it!"
Then kohinata-senpai opened his locker again
'Is he going to change?! I can't come out like this. Why am I hiding again?!' I thought while my face reddening
After about a minute, they finally walked pass me without noticing me and I relieved
"That was close. I really have bad timing" I muttered
~~~
"Sister, will you watch tomorrow match?" I asked her, then I realized that she's packing
"Where are you going?" I asked again
"Oh. Welcome back yukari. I'll go to kyoto tonight"
"K-kyoto?"
"Yeah. I got message from Diane-san that the designer for fashion show at next 2 weeks got accident and she need me to replace her"
"So you're going to go to his place?"
Then she looked at me surprised
"Y-yeah. I think"
"Why? At last you can live here peacefully and you decide to stay at his place?!"
"It's only for 2 weeks, yukari. I promise I'll be back"
"You better!" I ran from her to my room
~~~
Third POV
"Yukari?" Yukiko peeked her head into yukari room
"She's not here" yukiko sighed her head and drove her wheelchair by herself to the kitchen
In there, she saw a paper that hold by a glass in the table, she reached her hand, took the paper and read it
"I'm going. She said" she smiled. To her, at least yukari didn't avoid her like back then
"What should I buy for her?" She asked to particularly no one
~~~
Yukari POV
"Hasekura-senpai" suddenly yagami stood up when we were sitting on the train
"Can we trade bites?" He asked
"Sure. Here" hasekura-senpai answered then they exchanged their meal
"Wow, seafood" yagami said as there were some flowers aura all around him
"Meat is good too"
"Thanks, here you.." Hasekura-senpai stood up to exchanged again, but yagami ate all the salmon roe that hasekura-senpai liked
"Then, would you like mine?" I asked to hasekura-senpai as I showed my meal box
"Is that alright?"
"Of course. I already had my breakfast" I smiled and he thanked me
Then, yagami tried to exchanged with fujiwara, unfortunately, fujiwara's meal consisted of white meat and something that had more protein.
~~~
"Atami!" Yagami cried out as he held his hand up high
"A foot bath" he chirped
"You do really like hot bath huh?" I said with small voice as we went out from the station
"Hey kohinata-senpai. Let's check out the foot bath" he suggested
"Sounds good"
"Yes, it would be good to warm up our feet before the match" kadowaki-senpai butted in
"Then, why don't we go to the inn and get in to the hot bath in there?" I offered
"Then we can sprint to the hotel" hasekura-senpai said
"What?!"
"That'll warm you up.. Not just your feet, but your entire body" he said
'And your soul'
"But the hotel is really far.." Kadowaki-senpai and kohinata-senpai scared
"But I think it's good to practice our stamina" I said
Then fujiwara who already warmed up, started running
"He took it seriously!" Kadowaki-senpai said
"Last one there buys drinks!" Hasekura-senpai warned then also started running
"What?!"
"Count me in!" I said then strated running too, left kohinata-senpai, kadowaki-senpai, and yagami. Ah. Also sakurai and dan-sensei
~~~
"It's so relaxing" I moaned as I went in to the bath
"You must be tired from running to the inn from the station" sakurai said as she went in
"Yeah. It's also quite tough road. And the boys are too fast" I said
"But you came second right?"
"It's because I already been here before, so I took some shortcut to here"
"Eeh?"
"Yea-"
"NO!!"
"Hold him down!!"
Suddenly someone shouted from the boys bath
"FUJIWARA!!"
"What are they doing?" Sakurai asked
"it's so lively" I smiled
~~~
"You'll be watching near the end line?" Yagami asked me as we walked next to each other
"No I won't. I'll be waiting right below sakurai's place. It's cooler that way" I said and suddenly I bumped to a guy
"Sorry" he apologized
"No no. It's my fault. I'm so sorry" I apologized back
Then I relized the uniform he weared
A green colour with mihashi's name in it
"You're from mihashi?" Yagami asked, looked like he noticed too
"Yeah. Both of you are from Honan?" He asked
"Yes. He's Yagami Riku. And I Yasegawa Yukari. We're both runners" I introduce our selves
"Eh?" He stared at me, well, I knew what he mean
"It's rare right? But I'll rarely run in this tournament" I interrupted what he did
"No. I just never see a girl in a stride team lately" he said
"Lately?" Yagami asked
'Did he watched it?'
"No. Forget it"
"Let's do our best" I changed the topic then we walked to our teammates
~~~
"They are.. Big" I muttered as I saw them stood in line
'Especially the one who'll compete with kadowaki-senpai'
Then kadowaki-senpai told him a story about his sister was sick and he must win or else his sister will die or something
"I dont know that kadowaki-senpai has little sister. And.. What kohinata-senpai doing? Holding a picture like that" I said
~~~
"On your mark. Get set"
"May God bless us" I prayed
Then the bell rang
'Isn't yagami run too fast?!'
Then I heard sakurai ordered him to hold his pace but it's too late since yagami already inside the tunnel
And of course, yagami came out second after takeshi Eifuku, the one who ran with yagami
Then, sakurai told fujiwara to ran after the signal 'go' without any countdown
"Eh? What happened?" I curious
Fortunately, they almost collided, I thought they'll crashed each other
After fujiwara ran along the gimmicks, sakurai told hasekura-senpai that we lost by 0.2 seconds and again, sakurai told the 'go' signal without any countdown
'He need to slowdown or we'll be disqualified. Unless, fujiwara believe him'
'They're incredible' I smiled as saw them successing the relay
Then hasekura-senpai overtaken harigaya-san and both of them succesfully relay the runner.
As kadowaki-senpai ran in the uphill, nagatsuka-senpai overtaken him and somehow, kadowaki-senpai slowdown
"Come on, kadowaki-senpai" I prayed
'Don't give up yet!'
Then, he ran to the shrine, next to the main road
"If I remember..." I thought something around that area
"Is he planning to jumped from that?! It's too dangerous!" I gripped the rail really hard
'Will he success??'
Then, he jumped and crashed near the tree and even I knew that it must be bad
"I'm going to help him!" I said to dan-sensei as I ready to ran, but sensei stopped me
"What are you doing sensei?! He could die anytime!" I said with high voice
'I can't do something like back then happened again!'
"Wait until over"
Then, I watched again, I saw nagatsuka-senpai almost stopped for a second near kadowaki-senpai and then he continued followed by kadowaki-senpai
"I have to connect.. I have to connect to Hozumi" I heard kadowaki-senpai muttered
"Kohinata-senpai, set! We're behind 4 seconds!"
Then, after I saw kohinata-senpai near kadowaki-senpai, I ran to his place
"Run!" He shouted
~~~
Third POV
As the mihashi's school captain, jump from the gimmicks to another gimmicks and he jump down and ran while kohinata still jump from one to annother and successfully overtaken his oponent and won the match
Soon after he passed the line, he approached kadowaki, who injured pretty badly after jumping from a dangerous place
~~~
"Where's yasegawa?" Kadowaki asked dan-sensei as he bought to ambulance
"She went to the toilet" he lied
"Is she okay?" Kadowaki asked again
"What do you mean senpai? She's not hurt" yagami answered
"It's not like that, I just happened to see her looked at me with her scared eyes"
"Just think about you right now, we'll talk to her soon" hasekura calmed kadowaki and soon the ambulance door is closed then the car moved to the hospital
"You're back" sakurai greeted
"Are you okay? Your face is wet" kohinata asked as he gave her towel
"Thank you. I just calmed down"
[TBC]
Bye bye,
-shiroyuki04