Chapter 13

A/N:

Hey guys, first of all thanks for the kind comments under the latest ‘chapter’. It really helped me to deal with what happened.

Even though you’re just some strangers on the internet the words of support felt good to hear during such a shit time.

So this week was surprisingly productive so get ready for a double-update containing the entirety of the Team W match!

Both of the chapter are roughly 3k words so get ready for some longer chapters.

Anyways, thanks again and I hope you enjoy the next chapters!

See ya!

‘Something’s off.’

Team Z makes their way onto the field, where Team W was already waiting. Standing at the kickoff-spot with the ball at their feet were Team W’s Wanima Brothers. Whilst most of Team Z were walking next to each other and chatting, Gento notices Kuon walking a bit behind them with a strained expression on his face. Slowing his walk a bit Gento falls back and walks next to the long haired boy.

“You good, Kuon?” Gento asks, staring at his teammate with a skeptical expression on his face. Not having noticed his teammates’ approach Kuon jumps a bit “Huh? Oh, Gento, yeah I’m fine. Just a bit nervous I guess.”

‘Do you think I’m that stupid’ Gento thinks to himself, narrowing his eyes at Kuon’s response “You know Kuon, something I’ve noticed over the course of my life is that I’m pretty good at reading people…” taking a step closer to his teammate, Gento puts his arm over Kuon’s shoulder dragging him down to eye-level and staring deep into the older’s soul “… You wouldn’t be lying to me, would you Kuon?”

At his teammates’ declaration Kuon’s eyes widened for a fraction, before returning to normal “Why would I lie to you, Hirako? I’ve got nothing to hide.” After his response Kuon and Gento stand still for a second with Gento a step in front.

“How come you used my last name? You seem awfully scared considering you’ve got nothing to hide, right?” Gento continues his walk onto the pitch looking over his shoulder one last time, staring at his unsettled teammate “You should watch your back Kuon, wouldn’t want something to happen, right?”

Gento walks towards his assigned position with his hands in his pocket.

The 3×3 All-Stars Tactic – Formation #1

‘Really? Putting me in defense? Can’t make it more obvious than that.’ With a bored expression Gento stands next to Chigiri, ‘Let’s see what you’re planning Kuon.’

Team W vs Team Z – Game Start!

With the whistle going off to signal the start of the match, Team W’s Wanima brothers sprint up the field passing the ball between them. “Let’s go, Big Bro! Where do you want the pass? Heey, heey, heeey?!” being met with a strained expression the younger of the two instantly gets his older brother’s plan.

“Aight, gotcha! Gotcha!” He passes the ball to his brother’s feet “You want a pass right to your feet, and then…” During the middle of his sentence the brothers perform a quick one-two pass and make their way past the stunned Igaguri. “… One-Two, we go!”

The brothers continue to make their way up the field consistently being one step ahead of Team Z and passing through the Team without any trouble. “Our weapon is eye-contact!!! Was getting caught with your guard down part of your plan?” The younger of the two taunts Team Z.

Deadpanning at the duo Gento is not impressed in the slightest ‘Wait, so their whole gimmick is ‘we got good teamwork’? that’s really pathetic. Let’s see if my teammates manage to defend this? I’m tired of doing the work for them…’ Gento positions himself slightly in the duo’s path, noticing their expressions flicker from over-confident to worried for a second, before returning to normal. ‘Getting scared because of my appearance?’ Gento gains a small smile on his face. ‘I could get used to that. But for now…’ He lets the brothers pass by him with no interference. ‘How about gaining some confidence, makes it more fun when they break.’

Seeing the duo pass Gento, Isagi gets worried “Shit they got past Gento?” turning towards Chigiri he speaks up “They’re coming Chigiri! We’ve gotta stop them!” Hearing the name, Keisuke’s grin widens before mockingly speaking up “Oh, Chigiri? Don’t tell me he’s that Chigiri, the ‘Genius’ with a glass knee?”

Running up to Chigiri on both sides, whilst continuously passing with his brother, he continues “Hey Big bro, can you believe it? He’s still playing football after everything!”

At his younger brother’s exclamation Junichi smiles with his mouth wide open. “Yeah, Yeah, You’re right! Let’s remind our old pal from the school club that…” during his sentence the brothers manage to pass Chigiri “…Your football career is already oveeeer. That’s what my big bro says.”

Chigiri turns, preparing to follow the sprinting brother before he gets stopped when an annoying voice speaks up yet again, “Hey now, you suuure you wanna run full-speed with that leg of yours? It might snap again, you knooow.” hearing this Chigiri falters and doesn’t move.

With the ball at his feet, the older of the two nears Team Z’s penalty box, when all of a sudden the ball gets kicked away from him, causing him to fall flat on his face. “Don’t talk to him like that, by the way you really give off some weird incest vibes with the whole ‘My big brother this… Big brother that…’ Shit you got going on.” Gento speaks up standing over the fallen brother, whilst staring at the younger. “Got it, thanks Gento!” Isagi yells, receiving the ball and passing it up the field. “Don’t get used to it…” Gento mumbles staring after the raven haired boy ‘Why did I help? I didn’t want to but wiping the smile of those bastards faces was really worth it.’

“Are you shitting me, bitch?!” Keisuke yells, after seeing Gento interupt his brothers attack, “That was a fucking foul!! Get that VAR going!! That’s what my big bro shouts!!” looking towards the screaming Keisuke, Gento sweatdrops “eh… if that was a foul, VAR would have intervened so shut it.”

He leisurely walks towards Chigiri before speaking up “Are you really going to let them talk to you like that? Don’t you want to show them that they’re wrong?”

Looking down at his shorter teammate Chigiri gains a slightly surprised expression “Huh?” staring into his teammates eyes, Gento continues “Come on Chigiri… You really scared of those nobodies? Come on kill them this match.” feeling unsettled by his teammates stare, Chigiri looks to the side before speaking up “God, you’re annoying. First Isagi tries to get me to play and now you’re starting with this too. It’s like you’re obsessed with me…” exhaling a small sigh Gento walks away from the boy, before briefly looking over his shoulder

“Honestly Chigiri, I don’t give a fuck if you play football or not but just let me say one more thing: Wanna waste your life? Do it somewhere else.“

Hearing his teammates conversation Isagi chooses to interject himself into it “I’m with Gento on this Chigiri, I don’t have a past like yours that I can boast about but I came here because I don’t want to give up on football!” During this the rest of Team Z manages to pass the ball up the field. “I’m in Blue Lock because I want to change my life!”

Igaguri receives the ball before running up the side of the field nearing the corner-flag “I don’t know what it was like for you to get injured…” Igaguri crosses the ball into the oppositions box “but we’re both strikers, we can change everything we hate, everything we despise all of it…” Kuon jumps up over the two defenders covering him to head the ball “With just one goal!” At this moment the ball hits the back of Team W’s goal.

Team Z GOAL!!! – Scorer: Wataru Kuon

Team W 0-1 Team Z

With the rest of Team Z celebrating in the background Isagi finishes his monologue “So, who cares about the past? What I, no what we want to see is who you are now!” He turns to stare at Chigiri “We didn’t come to Blue Lock just to give up on football!”

Whilst Isagi and Chigiri were conversing and the rest of Team Z was celebrating with Kuon, Gento stands in Team Z’s defense with his hands in his pockets staring at Team W ‘Did they even try? I mean most of the defenders we have played against weren’t that good, but this?’ He narrows his eyes at the celebrating Kuon ‘What did you do?’

“Heeey! Defense!! How about you fucking do your jobs and stop them?! Idiots! That’s what my big bro says” Keisuke yells at his defenders, whilst standing next to his brother. “My bad!” “Okay!” “Let’s do this Team W!” the members of Team W’s defense respond, before getting into position again.

Keisuke passes the ball to his brother, starting the game back up again. “Let’s go, bro! We still got this, just gotta step up and crush them!!” Receiving the ball Junichi makes a disgruntled face before moving slowly up the field. “Wait, bro!? What’s with that face again? It’s not my fault we all have to compete to score the most goals, okay?! Stop making that face or those wrinkles are gonna stick!”

Whilst the two of them were having their ‘argument’ Kunigami takes the chance to steal the ball from the older. “Bro, watch out!” with the ball now in his possession Kunigami passes it to the waiting Bachira “Damn, these guys are snoozin’!”

Running up the field Bachira he spots one of his teammates waiting slightly in front of Team W’s defense. “My target is you, Kuon!” He yells before sending the ball towards the mentioned striker. “With you jumping power you should get that no problem, right?” With the ball flying the ball towards him at a rapid pace, Kuon jumps up to trap it with his chest, before letting the ball bounce once and shooting a volley right into Team W’s goal, with the goalie not moving.

Team Z GOAL!!! – Scorer: Wataru Kuon

Team W 0-2 Team Z

‘That shot was so mediocre.’ Whilst the rest of Team Z were celebrating Gento yet again remains in defence, just watching. ‘The goalie didn’t even try.’ putting his hand up to his chin he begins to ponder ‘What did you agree to, Kuon? They let you score but for what? They wouldn’t do this if they get nothing from it…’ He looks toward the timer on the wall seeing that roughly 30 minutes have passed, ‘Time for the new formation… defense again…’

Team Z – Next Formation!

‘Wait a sec… The only real goal threat up-front is Gagamaru, but he’s playing out on the wing, where he can’t really use his weapon.’ Narrowing his eyes at Kuon’s back ‘Yet you’re right where you want to again.’

With Team Z having yet again, gained possession shortly after kick-off the front three consisting of Gagamaru, Raichi and Naruhaya are making their way up the field. With the ball at his feet Naruhaya goes wide trying to find a free teammate to cross to. Preparing to shoot the cross into the box, he all of a sudden gets pulled from behind by Junichi causing him to fall. “Foul by Junichi Wanima! Freekick for Team Z!” the VAR announces.

With Gento still lost in thought Bachira walks towards him with the ball inhand. “Hey Gen-chan, you’re good at freekicks right? Wanna take this?” Not having expected Bachira, Gento slightly jumps “Eh? Oh it’s you, nah not really. You can take this one, I want to test something.” Slightly tilting his head at his teammates response Bachira speaks up again. “You sure?” Giving the dribbler a small smirk Gento responds “Yeah don’t worry about it, or are you to bad to do it yourself?” At this Bachira laughs and begins moving away from Gento, putting down the ball to take the freekick.

Turning towards the penalty box Gento spots Kuon, who yet again isn’t being guarded by any of Team W’s defenders ‘Okay now they’re just making it to obvious… How could you be so stupid to leave a striker, who already scored twice completely open?’

Bachira sends a high ball into the penalty box and the completely free Kuon soars over the rest of the players and heads the ball into the goal.

Team Z GOAL!!! – Scorer: Wataru Kuon

Team W 0-3 Team Z

“Yeaahhh! Hattrick!” he exclaims after landing back on his feet, with the rest crowding Kuon to celebrate with Gento stares at the bundle of strikers beginning to get pissed off. ‘Are all of you so stupid that you can’t even spot that this shit is fake.’

With the game starting up again, Raichi dashes forward and manages to steal the ball from the younger of the brothers before starting to push up the field. During this Gento is leaning on the goal post with his arms crossed refusing to participate in the Game ‘Come on, scumbag prove me right…’ he stares at Kuon who was running up to Raichi, calling for the ball ‘Show those losers how worthless you are…’ Upon receiving the ball Kuon instantly looses possession to the younger of the twins ‘Then after everything, I’ll fucking haunt your nightmares‘

With the ball now in their possession the Wanima brothers yet again pass between each other and with a quick one-two cut through the midfield, the ball shooting between their legs like a laser. At this Gento raises an eyebrow ‘Huh… Would you look at that all of a sudden they’re playing better, who could’ve seen this coming.’

With the brothers approaching Isagi gets nervous ‘Shit, how did Gento stop this last-time? Right like this!’ shooting his leg forward Isagi tries to tackle the ball away from their feet, however having expected this both brothers jump over the slide tackle. After dispatching of Isagi, the brothers make quick work of Team Z’s princess and continue running towards the goal.

Seeing the younger brother with the ball at his feet Iemon steps up trying to reduce the angle he can shoot from “I’ll do it!” at his exclamation Keisuke crosses the ball over to the completely free Junichi who hammers the ball into the net.

Goal! – Scorer: Junichi Wanima

Team W 1-3 Team Z

Stepping into the Goal, Gento shoots the ball up the field hoping to speed it up. ‘Come on Kuon, make it even more obvious.’ Walking past Iemon with his hands in his pockets hoping to move back to the goals post he gets stopped, by said goalkeeper grabbing his arm and staring down at him annoyed. “You could have helped me there, you know.” Staring up at his goalie with a bored expression, before ripping his arm free from the keepers grasp “Yeah, could have. Doesn’t mean I have to dipshit.” he continues his walk towards the goal post and leans into it again. “I’ll help when you guys realize what’s going on.”

Whilst Gento was standing by himself with his anger rising, a loud whistly gets blown across of the pitch signaling the end of the first half.

Wing 5 Game 7 – Half Time

Team W 1-3 Team Z

Back in the dressing room most of Team Z were still celebrating the dominant first half and Kuon’s hattrick. “We’re already up 3-1 at half-time!” Igaguri exclaims with a towel draped over his shoulders, “You got a weapon of mass destruction, Kuon! You’re owning this game!!” Kuon, currently chugging a bottle of water response with the same amount of enthusiasm “I’m on such a streak today, it’s scary!!” With the rest of Team Z shouting with a mixture of celebration and exclamations of their own coming success, Gento sits off to the side leaning forward with his arms resting on his knees and a towel over his head staring at Kuon with a pissed off expression on his face.

“We’ll definitely win like this…!!” Isagi celebrates, however before he could finish his sentence a cold voice slices through the celebratory vibes of Team Z.

“Cut the shit, Kuon.”

Hearing Gento, who up to this point has been completely silent speak up, the rest of Team Z shuts up and stares at him. The mention Kuon gains a nervous expression on his face before speaking up, “Huh? What d-do you mean Gento?” however before he gets a chance to speak up Gento gets interrupted by Raichi. “What just because you’ve done jackshit you’re being pissy?!”

At this Gento stands up shooting Raichi a cold glare shooting the usually hotheaded boy up. “I wasn’t talking to you dickhead.” Looking around Gento gets even more frustrated at his teams confused expressions. “Do none of you see this?” He points at Kuon before continuing “He’s fucked us over.”

At this Team Z looks between themselves not understanding what he’s getting at. “Gento, just because you haven’t helped this game,  means that Kuon’s cheating or something.” Kunigami speaks up, looking at the seething boy in front of him. “Yeah! What he said! Just cause we don’t need you, it doesn’t mean somethings fishy!” Igaguri exclaims pointing at the younger boy, “Face it, we don’t need you to win this!”. With most of Team Z speaking up in support of Kuon, the mentioned boy speaks up trying to calm down the rest of the Team. “Alright clam down, remember he’s just a ki-” however before he could finish his sentence Gento throws his water bottle right past Kuon’s face, making it explode when hitting the wall.

“I didn’t think you guys were that fucking pathetic, you know what fuck all of you. When this inevitably goes to shit, I will carry you fucking nobodies to victory like i did last game.” Gento says majorly pissed off before turning around and walking towards the door.

Throwing one last look over his shoulder he glares at all of Team Z,

“Watch how you fail without me, you losers.”

– End of Chapter 10 –