Adventures In Nekoma High || A Nekoma Fanfiction

Chapter 43 : Catnip

"Himura-chan!" Fumi called to her and waved her arm around. Himura walked up to her and saw that she was another volume of Shounen Jump.

"Have you gotten any practice matches?" She asked quite suddenly. Himura just shook her head and peeked at the magazine. "Hmm...me neither." Fumi giggled.

The read the magazine near the gym together, Himura never really thought that manga were pretty interesting. "Y'know, when I graduate, I wanna make my own manga, maybe write it." Fumi admitted out of the blue.

"You can draw?"

"Nope."

"What do you want to be?" Fumi cocked her head towards her. Himura scratched her cheek and sweat dropped. It was still a confusing topic to her, everyone seemed to have everything figured out.

"I don't know..." She mumbled.

Fumi blinked and frowned, "Well, at least we still have a year 'till we go to college, right?" Himura agreed.

"Hey, I got something to tell you!" Fumi perked up.

"I think Shouhei-kun likes you."

Her face went to a hot red color, and she covered her face and made a small whimpering sound. "Ooh~? You like him too, don't you~?" Fumi teased and pinched her cheek. Himura just buried herself in her arms and shook her head repeatedly.

"Hey, you know what's funny about this?" Fumi said, and Himura peeked through her dark brown hair.

"It was all a lie."

"Fumi-chan, what happened?" One of her classmates asked her as she entered the classroom with a bruise on her cheek. "Hehe...getting slap on the face is painful."

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Walking inside the gym, Himura was greeted with a ball aimed at her face. "Lev, get it right for once." Kenma demanded irritatingly. Himura hissed at the pain and rubbed head. A hand came, she looked up to see Fukunaga helping her. She gladly took his hand and stood up. When she was finally standing up, Himura accidentally crashed into him and it made her blush.

"S-sorry over there, Himura-san!" Lev apologized and Himura just waved it off.

Akahana was waiting for her and about the things she had noted before. "Have you took notes on Itachiyama's captain?" Akahana asked, Himura shook her head and it surprised her. "From what I took, the captain is a pretty powerful player, not as much as their ace but still powerful. If our first opponent is them, we have to prepare all of our defense system."

Akahana looked at the liberos practicing digs. "And both of them need to be on guard."

"But if our first opponent is Fukurodani...?" Himura asked in a hushed voice. It made Akahana reconsider some parts.

"W-well...we have to be on point with blocking his attacks then!" Akahana stammered nervously.

"That's the same thing, idjit."

"It is?!"

For the most of practice, the team was working hard to conquer the preliminaries and become one of the representatives. If they couldn't become one of the two, they'll be the sponsored one instead.

"Everyone, gather up!" Naoi called.

They all huddled around the coach and Nekomata took a deep breath. "I know you all are focusing on the preliminaries, but this is an offer I possibly couldn't pass on." Akahana was confused by the sayings and tilted her head. "The coach of Aoba Johsai had contacted me if we are willing to have a practice match with them."