Calling

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"Haru control your pet snake will you!"

"Im not a pet snake. And even less would i be his pet."

Two figures walk into the room while bickering loudly with another.

"You two...how come you always get into each other's hair?" Yukimiya asks looking up from the tablet provided by Ego.

"Im not the one who always starts being annoying." The tall silver haired male responds, plopping down besides you.

You're sitting on the bed thats besides the door on the right side of the TV. (I believe it's Tokimitsu's bed in the manga.)

"What happened this time?" You ask looking at the silver head besides you.

"I was simply stretching my arms but this guy just had to be in the way so he full on ate my hand."

"Is that the reason on why yer face is so red?" Karasu now also joins in on the conversation with quiet snickers.

"Shut up!"

"Honestly...Himizu you've joined this team not even 5 hours in yet and still you somewhat got into a fight with Otoya for the nth time already."

"Aint my fault he's always in the way..."

"Himizu." You look at him with a blank stare knowing damn well that he can tell what your trying to tell him.

"Yeah, yeah..." The male just rolls his eyes unamused,"...im sorry Otoya." He apologizes without even looking at said male.

"Whatever..." Otoya responds pulling a face and sitting down on the bed in the middle. (Aryu's bed in the manga)

You and Yukimiya just heave a sigh at the two's behavior.

Karasu claps his hands two times to get some attention,"Okay now that all of us are here lets talk about our next game against those selected 'world five'."

You nod your head,"The five we'll play against all have outstanding stats, we can barely compare to them..."

"Not to forget that one of them is still our age." Himizu adds sticking out his toung.

"Hm. Julian Loki, 17 years old, also called 'the french prodigy' or 'God sprinter'." Yukimiya reads of the tablet in his hands.

The TV screen changes to a picture of five people after Yukimiya tipped on the tablet a bit.

"The one in the middle is Loki. That blonde to his left is Leonardo Luna, the prince of madrid. The dark skinned guy is Dada Silva known as 'Heavy Tank'...Uh the ash blonde behind Loki is Adam Blake the 'Goal Junkie' and the one infront of him is Pablo Cabazos, the...freckle baby(?)"

The four of you were listening closely to Yukimiya's every word as he read  somethings about each of the players from the information Ego provided.

"They all have powerful nicknames and your telling me that rainbow dude is called 'freckle baby'...is this some bad joke?" Otoya asks, clearly surprised by the weird name.

"You haven't heard of him before have you? He's called that because of his adorable freckles and baby face, i think the name describes him pretty well." You respond, looking towards the TV.

"How old is that guy...?"

"23."

"...I'd hate to be called that at this age."

"Well he enjoys all kinds of adorable and sweet things, i don't think many grown men act like that...",you side-eye the white haired male from your place across the room.

"Ho is you internet? How the hell do you know all that?"

You ignore the first question and just lift your phone to show him a page of many different Interviews of famous soccer players.

"Ah."

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The quiet clinking of metal and soft panting is echoing through the gym.

You're sitting on one of the leg press machines huffing while pushing another pair of weights up.

'The others should be out of the shower now i think...'

You let your legs rest on the sides of the machine while drinking some water.

'Man i think i got a cramp.'

"Ouch", you puff out a quiet noise of discomfort after you got of the leg press.

"Overworked yourself?" A voice chimes from behind you.

"A bit, maybe...?" You turn your head to look at Yukimiya who's standing by the door with crossed arms.

His eyes swipe down to your legs,"Your left leg is shaking quite a lot." His eyes narrow at the discovery.

"If you hurt yourself now we won't stand a chance in the match tomorrow..."

"I'll be fine, really." You smile at him and he looks into your eyes with disbelieve.

"How can you say that when you look like you're about to fold right here and now." He takes a few long strides over to you and reaches an arm out towards you.

"Come on i'll bring you to the showers."

"Thank you, you're an angel", you say letting him snake an arm around your waist and pulling your arm over his shoulder.

"Sure..."

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"Haru, yer phone is ringing!"

"Hold on a second." You wrap a towel over your shoulders and take the phone from Karasu, who brought it to you from your room.

You take the call without looking at the caller and hold the phone to your ear.

"Hello?" Rattling noise comes from the other line until a familiar voice speaks up.

"Hello, here's Reo..."

"REO?! It's been a while!" Joy paints your features as you hear the purple heads voice.

A chuckle can be heard,"Yeah sure has been. How are you?"

"Im good. How about you, how have you been?"

Karasu waves shortly to sign you that he'll go back to the bedroom which you respond with a nod.

"I could've been better but im okay now i guess..."

"So... what's with the sudden call?"

"Oh well i was bored and such, i also wanted to hear you again."

You can feel the smile on your face growing bigger,"You can just say that you miss me~"

"We don't wanna get ahead of ourself now, do we?"

"Yeah, right~" From both lines come light laughter and giggles.

"I'll head back to my teams bedroom now, okay? So hold on a second..."

"'kay."

You head out of the shower room and walk to your teams room while crossing fingers that not all are there yet.

The door opens and the only person in the room is Karasu who lays on his bed with your book in hand. (He borrowed it from you.)

You take a seat on you bed and put the phone on loud.

"Okay now we can continue with talking."

"Nice. So what stage are you on?"

"Guess."

"Well then i'd say 4th since your not in mine and i don't think you're bellow me."

"How sweet of you but wrong. Im already on the 5th." You grin while sticking out your toung a bit.

"I can practically feel you grinning, so stop."

"No way~ and i guess your on stage 3..."

"Correct... Who are your teammates-"The door besides you slides open just as he asks another question.

Yukimiya and Otoya walk inside. Later is already about to speak when you send him a sign to keep quiet.

He raises an eyebrow but doesn't question it further and simply walks to his bed sitting down and grabbing his phone.

"I don't think you know them they were all from a different building than us in the 1st selection."

"Really?"

"Hm. And you, do i know your teammates?"

"Sure you do!" A distant voice speaks from the other line.

"Sorry, that was one of my teammates. He's from the former Team Z, Chigiri Hyoma, do you still remember him?"

"The redhead, no?"

"Yep, on point."

"And your other-other teammate?"

"Also from former Team Z, Kunigami Rensuke."

"Ah! The one with the strong body and orange hair, right?"

"Yeah. Im surprised you remember them...your brain really is something else."

"Hehe~", your face warms up at the compliment and your smile grows softer.

Yukimiya from his bed infront of you studies your face with a pleased smile,'How adorable he looks.'

Your smile falters a little at your next question,"Still there's one more thing i wanna know..."

"Shoot."

"What happened between you and Seishiro?"

"..."

Ofcourse you know. How could you not? The both of them are your friends afterall and when you text with Nagi it's somewhat more dry then most of the time and on this call you noticed it immediatly how Reos voice was more raspy and tired, something must've happened.

"Reo?"

"Can we not talk about it now...?"

"Sure but you gotta come clean sooner or later."

"I will... Just not yet."

"I accept that but settle it with him as soon as possible, please?"

"Ofcourse, how could i ignore a suggestion from you."

"Thank you. I'll end the call now, okay?"

"Alright, im sure your tired. Good night."

"Night..." You press the end button on your phone and heave a heavy sigh.

"What happened between your two friends?" Himizu who just joined you all in the room instantly asks without mercy.

"My poor heart! Why do you have to be so rash with questioning me, i gotta comprehend this aswell you know." You send him a blank stare and a frown.

"You look like you already figured it out tho?"

"I had a hunch..." You shrug your shoulders.

"We better sleep now or we won't have enough energy for tomorrow." Yukimiya exclaims pulling his leg to his body.

Some noise of agreement flew through the room after his words making him turn to you.

You give a thumbs up and crawl to the end of your bed besides the door and turn the light in the room dim until its completely dark.

Only a bit of light from the corridor outside filtered through the gap at the bottom of the door.

'I hope Reo and Seishiro make up soon...'

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This drawing finally got its part!

Next chapter finally the introduction of many other charakters!

Im super excited, how about you?

See ya'll in the next chap 👋🏽(⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)