Chapter 14

A/N:

Real quick, this is a double update. So, in case you didn’t get the first notification make sure to read Chapter 10 – Cut the Shit first.

Anyways, have fun.

See ya!

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

At kick-off Kuon shouts at his teammates  “Let’s not rush things! We got a two goal lead! We don’t have to take the offensive, let’s just focus on setting passes!” 

‘Wrong mentality, even if this weren’t fake. This is Blue Lock not some baby league, wanna win? Go for the killshot!’ Gento thought to himself.

“Isagi!” Kuon yells before sending a deliberately slow pass back towards Isagi, not having expected this he runs forward hoping to still receive the ball. However before he could get to the ball the older of the brothers ‘steals’ the ball.

“Ah shit! My bad!!” Kuon yells, whilst Junichi sends a ball up the field cutting through Team Z’s defence towards Keisuke, who volleys the ball into the goal.

Goal! – Scorer: Keisuke Wanima

Team W 2-3 Team Z

“What the hell’re you doin’!!! Kuon, You fucking idiot!” Raichi yells stomping over to try and attack Kuon. “Calm down, Raichi! He made a mistake, it happens!” Kunigami steps in to intervene.

“Sorry for messing up this badly on such a crucial game!!” Kuon yells, going down on his knees and bowing towards the team. “C’mon get up. It’s not like you messed up on purpose. Let’s get back on track.” Kunigami responds, dragging him up by his arm.

“Yeah, let’s just get it together and stop their offense.” Gagamaru says, whilst wiping the sweat off his face with his shirt. “I’ll focus… Sorry…” Kuon says whilst still looking at the ground.

Looking at his teammates Isagi’s deep in thought trying to find a way out of their situation, ‘This is bad, they almost tied the game in five minutes. I didn’t expect this considering their performance so far.’ turning to look at their own goal he sees Gento still not moving from his spot ‘What’s up with you Gento? You’re normally not that emotional. 10 v 11 is borderline impossible if this continues.’ Turning back towards Kuon, Isagi freezes for a second. ‘Wait… Did Kuon just smile?’

“We only gotta hold on to our lead for 30 minutes! Let’s score another to make sure we got this!!” Igaguri yells towards the rest of Team Z moving into his new position. “Yeah, let’s attack” Kunigami responds, staring at Team W’s goal. “Now you’re talking!” Bachira exclaims with a smile on his face.

Team Z – Final Formation!

‘Come on… find it out already, this is getting boring’ Gento thought to himself, picking out dirt from under his fingernail, still waiting for his Team to realize Kuon’s betrayal. ‘I saw that look Isagi, you should realize it…’

With the new front three getting in position, near the halfway line Isagi passes the ball to Kunigami. Receiving the ball Kunigami alongside the others begins his attack, nearing his preferred shooting position he sees three of Team W’s defenders intercepting his shooting angle, completely eliminating the chance to score.

Attempting to pass the ball towards Bachira, he spots the dribbler currently being marked by two of Team W’s defenders making it impossible for him to receive a pass, forcing the hero to pass the ball back towards Isagi.

With the ball at his feet Isagi realizes that their entire attack has been completely neutralized. ‘Something’s off! When would they’ve had the chance to study it?! It should be impossible for them to counter a combination they’ve never seen before so flawlessly’ Looking around for a chance to pass, he begins to get nervous ‘Our weapons were rendered useless! I don’t smell a goal at all!!’

Whilst Isagi was lost in thought, the older of the brothers takes the chance and steals the ball from him. “Nice one, big bro!”  Keisuke exclaims, before making his way up the field alongside his dear older brother. Staring at the brothers’ retreating forms, Isagi begins to think, yet again. ‘It’s like our strategy has been leaked… Back then…’ remembering Kuon’s smiling face he comes to a realization ‘Did Kuon sabotage us? If we lose now, Team Z is finished… Wait, is he going for that?’ At this moment Keisuke sends a cross towards his older brother. ‘Does that mean Kuon’s doing all of this to become Team Z’s sole survivor?!’

The ball flies over the huddle of players in Team Z’s penalty box, nearing Kuon he jumps up to ‘intercept’ the ball and ‘whiffs’ causing the ball to fly past him right to Jinuchi’s feet, who upon receiving the ball immediately hammers it into the top of Team Z’s net.

Goal! – Scorer: Junichi Wanima

Team W 2-3 Team Z

Walking towards the kneeling Isagi finally asks the important question “Kuon, have you betrayed us? Have you betrayed Team Z?” At this Kuon stares up at his teammate not saying anything, when all of a sudden the Wanima brothers lean over both of Isagi’s shoulders before the younger speaks up, “That’s riiight! They caught ya so come clean, Kuon-chan” walking towards said striker.

Now standing behind the kneeling striker he continues his monologue “He leaked everything about’cha guys! Tactics, weapons, weaknesses everything! He even came up with the plan, coming up to us during dinner, wanting to backstab you lot!” Gaining a massive shit-eating grin on  his face he finishes his speech “In other words, this match is ours for the taking! That’s what we say!”

Before Team Z gets the chance to respond, a small voice speaks up from behind them, “Then why did you look scared when you saw me, you weirdos.” At this the players turn towards Gento, who was slowly walking in their direction, hands in his pockets.

“Wanna tell me my weakness then? Or how you lowlifes want to try to abuse it? You know what let’s get it out into the open, I Gento Hirako struggle the most with physical duels due to my smaller size. Happy now?” He continues, putting his hand on his chest during the last part before staring down at Kuon with a murderous expression on his face.

„Fuck you Kuon, you pathetic excuse of a striker.” Continuing his walk towards Kuon, Gento shakes his head with a slight chuckle “You know what? I’m fucking pissed. First of all, that bowl-cut having freak put Isagi in front of me in the Rankings and now you betray us?” Gesturing around at all the surrounding players he continues his rant “I’m by far the fucking best striker, no the best fucking player compared to all of these wannabes.”

At his declaration Raichi grabs Gento by his shoulders “The fuck did you just-” However before he could finish speaking, he gets interrupted by Gento.

„Shut up you dog.“

He stares at Raichi, staring the rest into silence, as the usually rather care-free Gento is pissed off beyond belief. Walking away from the rest of Team Z, Gento yanks Kuon’s head up by his hair forcing him to look up at the striker.

“Kuon, you really think your pathetic goals are going to save you? Just watch, I’ll score three goals against a team that knows my weaknesses.”

Shoving his head down into the dirt he stares at the brothers, causing their smiles to dim, “The fuck are you inbreds laughing at, are you seriously proud of scoring three goals that were gifted to you? By the end of this you’ll be crying for mommy to save you, just remember this isn’t some nightmare you get to wake up from, I’ll drag you straight to hell to win this.“

He turns towards Chigiri, who startles at the sudden attention, “Come on princess, let’s murder these pathetic worms.” Taking the ball and moving towards the kick-off spot, he looks at Team Z before speaking up one last time. “The rest of you can sit back and relax, I’ll show you a real life horror movie.“

After the teams get back into position Gento restarts the game by surprisingly passing the ball to Kuon, startling the striker before he gains a cocky smile on his face. “Really Gento? Giving up, after all that big-talk, about scoring a hattrick?” He turns running towards the goals passing the ball between himself and both brothers passing Team Z’s defense with ease.

“You bastard what was-” Raichi starts yelling, turning towards Gento’s last position before suddenly stopping “Huh?! Where the fuck?!”

Running up the field Kuon explains his thought process to the rest of Team Z, “A team like ours is hanging by a thread, barely able to last another day, that last game? A fluke, we won because we played against the second worst team in all of Blue Lock. That won’t cut it for our next game, remember how we struggled against Team X? They got dismantled by Team V, we can’t beat a team like that. That’s why I gave up on winning as a team.”

He turns towards Isagi who was running beside him continuing his speech “I alone will win this, no matter what. That’s what Blue Lock is about aint it? Breeding that one sole striker, I will be the world’s best even if I have to play dirty!”

Finishing his explanation he passes the ball, right past Isagi, towards the sprinting Junichi. However before the ball could reach the weird looking striker it gets stopped, by a boot stomping on it killing all of its momentum. “Really Kuon, a fluke? I didn’t think you were that stupid.” Gento looks toward Kuon, “I didn’t think your football IQ was worse than that bald-headed monk’s, but I guess even I’m wrong sometimes.”

He flicks the ball to Chigiri, startling the princess. “Don’t keep me waiting Princess, or are you that fucking useless, that you can’t achieve a single thing in your life without taking a risk?” He runs up the field not turning back.

With the ball at his feet Chigiri stands still for a second, not knowing whether to play or not. Spotting his chance Keisuke runs up and steals the ball moving towards the penalty box whilst insulting the speedster “Today is the day, we’ll finally end your football career for real.”

The rest of Team Z threw themselves at the offending striker, whilst Chigiri was lost in thought remembering his injury, the following recovery and being mocked by the brothers. Not seeing the ball flying towards him yet again, he gets pushed to the side by Isagi, with a vicious expression on his face. “Fucking, move it!” Watching as Isagi rushes up the field Chigiri finally makes a decision.

“Eh what the hell. Who cares if I get injured again, right now all I can think of…”  He stares at the brothers with an angry expression on his face “… is how my blood boils when I look at you! Every fiber of my being is seething!” He kneels down, leaning his body forward “Just watch me.” He finishes before sprinting up the field.

‘Took you long enough.’ Gento thought, moving to the side and receiving the ball after Junichi managed to tackle it away from Isagi. “Come on princess, go for it…” He sends the ball forwards toward an open area on the left side of the field “… go for the killshot!”

“Where was that supposed to go!” One of Team W’s defenders exclaims whilst running to the ball with Kuon by his side, who also chimes in with a comment of his own “Thanks for the ball Gento!”

However, what neither of them saw coming was for Chigiri to blow right through the middle of them “Outta my way!” Sprinting past the two of them Chigiri continues his sprint, moving towards Team W’s goal. With the opposition’s goalkeeper running towards him Chigiri flicks the ball slightly into the air, causing it to slowly fly past the keeper straight into Team W’s goal.

Goal! – Scorer: Hyoma Chigiri

Team W 3-4 Team Z

“Yeeaaah!”  he yells falling to his knees right behind Team W’s goalkeeper, with Team Z running toward him in celebration. During this Team W, alongside Kuon are stunned, staring at the ball laying in their goal in silence.

“Come on guys, there’s still 15 minutes left, we can still win this.” Kuon tells the brothers standing by his side. “We better win this, otherwise you’re in for a world of hurt, that’s what my big bro says.” Keisuke says, staring at Kuon whilst Junichi was grinding his teeth.

“We just gotta hold them off for 15 minutes, we got this!” Igaguri yells looking at his team with a relieved expression on his face.

After both teams get back into position with Kuon walking towards Team W’s defense, in hopes of stopping Team Z from scoring again, the brothers restart the game with the younger passing the ball to the older.

Although before the ball could reach its destination Gento swoops in and steals the ball sprinting up the field. ‘Dumbasses, my stamina’s still full.’ he thinks to himself.

Actively ripping apart Team W’s defense, using the disoriented players as meat shields he nears Team W’s penalty box, he suddenly stops forcing the older brother to barrel into him, causing the VAR to intervene.

“Foul by Junichi Wanima! Yellow Card! Free Kick for Team Z!” is heard over the intercom, causing the mentioned brother to make even more aggravated facial expressions “That wasn’t a fucking foul! What the fuck are you doing! That’s what my big bro’s saying!” His brother translates.

Whilst Team Z was talking about the plan and Team W were setting up their defense, Gento gets up and wipes some dirt off of his knees. Spotting Bachira holding the ball walking past the bumblebee he holds out his hand and Bachira drops it into his hand without second thought.

Walking forward he puts the ball down and takes a step back, preparing to take the free kick, before getting interrupted by Raichi putting his hand on his shoulder. “The fuck do you think youre doing who said you could take-” Gento yet again interrupts Raichi with a simple “Fuck off.”

Turning to look at the rest of his team he continues “Want us to win? Then I’ll take it. I already told you one of my weapons is my freekick accuracy. I wont let any of you nobodies shoot this free kick when I’m on the field.”

Hearing the whistle signaling that Gento is free to take the free kick he steps up and hammers it into the top corner, curling it smoothly around Team W’s pathetic attempt at a wall.

[Picture Declan Rice’s first free kick vs Real Madrid, since I couldn’t get the gif to work 🙁 ]

Goal! – Scorer: Gento Hirako

Team W 3-5 Team Z

With the ball laying in the back of Team W’s goal both teams are stunned at Gento’s stunning goal. Casually walking past all of the players and picking up the ball he stares at Kuon and the brothers shortly after.

“I told you, didn’t I? I’ll score a real fucking hat trick not that wannabe shit you did for Kuon!”

Nearing Team Z, Bachira runs up and throws his arm over Gento’s shoulder “I knew you had it in you Gen-chan!” shaking the dribbler’s arm off his shoulder he gives him a cocky smirk, “We’re not done yet weirdo. Still gotta get two more.” At his declaration Bachira laughs before responding “Got it, boss!”

Kuon stares at Gento in despair, before mumbling to himself “What… What was that…” whilst he was wallowing in despair the younger of the brothers punches him in the ribs “Do your fucking job dickhead!”

With ten minutes left in the game the demoralized Team W tried to get another attack going, however their hopes got crushed even more, when shortly after kickoff a sloppy pass by one of their midfielders results in Gento stealing the ball before passing it over to Bachira. “Here you’re allowed to have an assist now, Bachira!”

Receiving the ball with a smile plastered on his face, he begins tearing up the left side of the field, leaving Team W’s players behind him who were all in different stages of grief “Thank you kindly, Gen-chan!”

With all of Team Z pushing up the field, Bachira spots Isagi free in front of the penalty box, and sends a pass over towards him.

Seeing the ball move towards him, Isagi prepares to receive it, already planning his next move. However what neither of them were expecting was for Gento to intercept it and push up the field “Who said you could get involved, Isagi?”

Standing just outside of Team W’s penalty box, two defenders alongside Kuon jump in between Gento and the goal, hoping to intercept his shot. „Nice defending scumbag.” Gento says before firing the off the shot, with the ball flying low over the field, right under the outstretched legs of the three defenders.

Goal! – Scorer: Gento Hirako

Team W 3-6 Team Z

With the rest of Team Z celebrating like crazy, seeing as the game is effectively won, Gento wipes the sweat off of his face using his shirt. “Just one more…” Walking past Isagi he pats him on the back before speaking up “Better luck next time, number two.”

Looking over towards the smiling Bachira, with a matching smile on his face he utters a final wish for this game “Hey Bachira, send the next one up high, ok? I need to make this movie’s climax more exciting.” Walking up and high-fiving the smaller boy he responds “Sure thing, director!”

The next ten minutes consist of Team W making desperate attempts to break through Team Z, however not managing to escape their own half. Shortly before the end of the match Raichi manages to steal the ball away from one of Team W’s players, sending the ball forward to Isagi.

With the ball at his feet Isagi runs forward, however being low on stamina he sends it to his left where Chigiri was already sprinting forwards. Chigiri continues his run, when both of the brothers move to intercept him,

“This ends here glass-knee! That’s what my big bro’s saying!” Keisuke exclaims trying to tackle Chigiri, seeing this Chigiri flicks the ball over the younger brother, before sprinting by the older leaving both of them in the dust.

Nearing the left side of Team W’s penalty box he looks up and locks up with Gento “You told Bachira to send one up high, right? Consider this my debt repaid, you phantom!” He exclaims sending a highball into Team W’s penalty box.

Whilst the ball was moving towards him Gento feels a body trying to force him away from where the ball will land, turning he spots a sweaty and desperate Kuon closely marking him. “Your weakness is your physicality right, gento?! I won’t let you score from here!”

With the ball nearing the two, Gento jumps up and pushes himself further up with his arms using Kuon’s body as an impromptu spring board

“Fuck off, you lowlife.” He calmly says whilst pulling his leg back. At this moment the ball appears just over Gento’s head, feeling all of the eyes on him, Gento revels in the fear exuding from all of Team W and the awe of Team Z…

…before firing off a bicycle with all the force his body can muster, shooting the ball towards the goal.

From the keeper’s perspective time seems to be moving in slow-motion, turning towards the ball’s destination, although before he could jump towards all his hairs stand up from his body, causing him to look towards the falling Gento, who was making eye-contact with him.

With the younger’s eyes staring straight into him, he feels a sense of dread over him ‘What the hell is this?!’ At this moment the ball flies straight past his head, hitting the back of the net.

Goal! – Scorer: Gento Hirako

Team W 3-7 Team Z

At the same time the ball falls onto the ground of Team W’s goal, a loud whistle is heard over the intercom signaling the end of the match

Wing 5 Game 7 – Full Time

Team W 3-7 Team Z

At the announcement Team Z begins celebrating, with the players rushing towards Gento who was standing up and breathing heavily whilst staring into Kuon’s wide terrified eyes.

Upon spotting the terror in Kuon’s eyes a wide cruel smile breaks across Gento’s face as he continues to stare at the terrified victim in front of him.

‘I love this, the fear, the despair written completely over his face…’ looking around the distraught members of Team W his heartbeat begins to speed up ‘… this is it… This is why I love football, yes break… fear me you fucking weaklings!’

– End of chapter 11 –