Raimon Eleven, Winners Football Frontier, captain: Endou Mamoru, third-year
You smiled a little as you looked at the picture, so that's what coach looked like when he was younger? He surely seemed like some kind of soccer freak.
You walked out of the club room and out of the soccer building, when you were outside you noticed it had already become dark. You had to hurry home or you would be scolded for being late.
You quickly made your way out of the school gates, you decided to go through the park since that was the shortest route to your house. You walked through the park when you heard footsteps behind you, you stopped to listen if you were right or if you were going crazy due to your suffocating boring life. But when you stopped, the sound of the footsteps stopped as well. You started walking again and you heard the sound again, were you being followed? You stopped walking to check if you were indeed being followed and when you stopped the other footsteps stopped as well. You knew for sure you were being followed and you started running.
But it was too late, whoever was following you had caught up to you and had taken a hold of your arm. Your arm was yanked and you were forced to turn around. Your face met with that of an older man. He was grinning at you and you started to become scared, was this the molester?
"Hmm… a cute little schoolgirl, what should I do with you?" He started to examine you, you started to panic and you wanted to scream but when you opened your mouth no sound came out. Your panic had frozen you and you could neither move nor make a sound.
"Let her go!" A voice shouted out through the dark.
That voice was enough to make your body unfreeze and you turned your head to look behind you. You saw a boy with teal hear, he wore a yellow hoodie and he was holding a soccer ball. The man had seen the boy too and he started to laugh.
"Or what? What are you going to do to me? What could a school boy like you possibly do to me?" You looked at the man again and you noticed he had drawn out a knife. "Now go away and let me have my way with this girl or I'll cut you."
You looked at the boy again, his face showed resolution, to your surprise the boy turned around.
"Good" said the man and he looked at you again, "now where was I?"
Before the man could touch you again, a white blur hit his head and the man fell to the ground, causing him to finally let go of your arm. You looked at your feet and saw what had hit the man, it was a soccer ball, you picked it up and confusedly looked at it.
Then your arm was grabbed again, you looked up, afraid the man had already stood up. To your surprise it was the boy from before.
"C'mon" he said, tugging your arm, "I don't know how long he'll stay out so let's hurry!"
You started to get what the boy was saying and you started to run along with him, away from the molester. During the running the boy didn't let go of your arm and then he finally stopped. He turned around to look at you.
"Are you okay?" He asked, kind of worried. His worry ignited a warm feeling in your chest.
"Y-yeah. T-thank you" you said, "for saving me." As you said that you thought you saw a little blush creep up the boy's cheeks, but it probably was just your imagination. You realized you were still holding his soccer ball and you raised your hands, offering it to him.
"What's your name?" you said, while he took the ball back.
"My name's Kariya, Kariya Masaki."
You laughed a little. "Are you impersonating James Bond?"
"Yup" the boy joked, "saving the world and rescuing damsels-in-distress, that's just what I do."
You started to laugh harder, this boy was really funny. "Well, Kariya, Kariya Masaki, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm [L/n] [F/n]."
"So [F/n], what would you say if we were to get out of here?" Kariya said with a straight face.
You stopped laughing, what was this Kariya-boy saying? The remark he just made was quite unsettling and subconsciously you took a step backwards.
Kariya started laughing uncontrollably, but you didn't get, what was so funny? You just remained in your stance, with your left foot one step behind your right. Finally, Kariya started to laugh less.
"I was just joking, I just meant to ask if I should bring you home?" he said in between his laughter.
You laughed a little along with him, after what had happened with the molester, you wouldn't mind an escort home.
"That would be lovely Kariya" you said. Right after you said it you realized how weird that actually sounded, but Kariya didn't seem to mind. He just asked where you lived, you told him and he said he knew that street.