A family thing

Chapter 63 Rin's flow

"I knew it'd be here.", Yoichi shouted. Shidou dived for a header. Yoichi stretched out his leg and deflected his poor attempt. The ball flew away. 
"SECOND BALL!!!", Aiku shouted. 
"I'M GONNA!!!", Sendou yelled and rushed for it. Unfortunately he was one second too slow. Hiori already reached it and picked it up. 
"Kay, time to end this, Blue Lock.", he said. 
"Woah, nice one, Hiorin!", Bachira commended and rushed forwards. 
"If we score we win.", Nagi murmered. 
"Up, fast.", Yoichi grunted when he got up and started to run. 'Where the fuck did your shitty confidence go, Bitchtoshi.' 
'Shit... stop getting in my way... Kageyama.', Rin thought and turned around. 'Are you telling me that you won't even let me lose to him in peace? I just wanted to fight alone...' 
"Shit, shit, shit...", he cursed. 'I just wanted to fight alone, but Kageyama, no Blue Lock. They keep biting back... at my football. Blue Lock doesn't let me be alone..!? I'm not... what is this feeling...?'
Rin took a glance at the number 11 on the back of Yoichi's jersey. 
'Disgusting.' 

Hiori rushed forwards with Sendou in the background right on his toes. He looked over the pitch. 
'So, where do we begin. Three defenders, three allies. We need to be fully on the offensive for this counter.', he thought. In front of him Nagi and Barou were sprinting at full steam. 
'So the optimal course of attack would be... which one of you...?' 
However, before he could act any furhter. A shadow bodied him away. 
"RIN!?", he shouted in shock. The captain staid silent and took the ball away from him. Yoichi took a glance back to look at what was the comossion of all that chaos behind him. 
"Oh~ There it is.", he sing songed as he spotted the depth within Rin's eyes. 'But if you thought that you could have the fun all on your own, then you were dead wrong.' 
Yoichi waited for Rin past him, just to steal the ball away from him and rushing forwards. Rin stared at him with the most dangerous look he could give. The raven haired didn't budge. 
"Run.", was all he said. Before scissoring in front of Neru. One last step over before he quickly span around him and took off. 
"Your type of defending is useless if you aren't fast enough.", he whispered. Neru followed him with everything he could. Darai positioned himself in front of Yoichi. He slowed down a bit and waited for Neru to charge him from behind. Yoichi dodged him skillfully making him crash into Darai. Just as the two were freezed by them blocking themselves, he ran around them and kicked it to Rin. 
Niou was the only one left. Rin slid the ball forwards for a few meters. A bait, Niou could not withstand under any circumstances. 
"JUST TRY ME ON, YOU SHIT!!!", he shouted his battle cry and ran towards Rin with his a dobberman charge. "YOU'LL FIND OUT I LOVE FINISHING FIGHTS THAT OTHERS START...!!!" 
Rin ran to the ball and rammed his leg into the ground in front of him, bowing down, letting the laws of gravity do the rest for him because by charging in that way, the man's gravity center rises up the body, meaning, if he hits an object below that center, he is meant to fall. By doing so, Rin barely escaped a foul, but he fully escaped from Niou and continued onwards to the goal. 

"He brings out the opponent's stronges weapon...", Ego analyzed from the sidelines. "And focuses on a play that destroys it." 
The head of Blue Lock didn't keep his glaze off the Blue Lock captain, "So that's your flow, Itoshi Rin. How very twisted."

"So that's what your Ego's like.", Aiku spoke as he was met with the raging monster. "You got a pretty fucked up fetish little genius junior."
One more was left. All he could think of was killing and destroying. Aiku readied himself for the challenge. Information generated themselves in front of his eyes. All were read from the parts of Rin. Passing, shooting, dribbling and the direction of where he was going to go to were pictured out. However, the problem this time was that none of the data were useful intel. Everything remained as a questionmark. Just as his confusion hit him and clouded his decision making, Shidou stepped in. 
"Very nice, Rin-Rin!!!!", Shidou announced his arrival and placed his hand on Rin's shoulder holding him back. "That super ego of yours is making my love cells explode like fireworks. BUT I'm not letting you get the spotlight though!" 
That was all Aiku needed. The situations was changing because of Shidou. The probability of Rin scoring went to 50 percent. It was all down to luck. All cards were out.
"Give it.", Blue Lock's number 11 shouted besides them offering a great passing option. Aiku started to panic. If Rin passed the ball, everything was over. But Rin looked like anything but passing the ball. He swung his leg violently and readied a shot. Aiku quickly rushed over for a block. Rin hit the ball and curved the ball around Aiku into the direction of the goal. Fukaku jumped up to retrieve it, but even he was late, except for the ball not lifting the net. It hit the bar and flew back to the pitch. Shock and even more tension arose. Sae jumped up and trapped the ball. 
"Still lukewarm.", he commented. The substitution referee held the board with a one on it over his head. One minute extra time. Yoichi swallowed his anger over Rin's recklessness, but he could do nothing about it. What's done was done. He went to tackle Sae while Shidou went the opposite direction to Blue Lock's goal. Sae this time passed it to Niou and doubled against Yoichi, running past him in the process. Barou and Nagi tried to stop him. To no avail. Sae jumped around them like a gazel. 
"DON'T JUST SWARM HIM YOU MORONS!!!!!", Karasu shouted at them from behind. "I'M GONNA STALL HIM!!! WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE ON DEFENSE!!! DON'T BOTHER WITH ITOSHI SAE!!! ONLY THE FREE PLAYERS!!! IF THEY SCORE NOW, IT'S ALL OVER!!! WE HAVE TO SURVIVE DUMBASSES!!!"
He didn't need to stall him though, because Rin managed to get back in time and slowed his elder brother down. 
"Still haven't fixed that habit of sticking your tongue out and drooling, huh...?", Sae spoke. Rin didn't bother to answer. His mind were only filled with two things: kill and destruction. 
"The fact that you didn't score just now is proof of your limit.", Sae continued. "If only you had staid quiet at home, you'd be able to live without knowing that. That's what you get for getting full of yourself in a place like this." 
Rin finally decided to reply to his elder brother. Not with words, but with actions. He charged at him and opened the one on one battle for the ball. 
"Well look at that.", Sae said before he too marched forwards. "You can still make that kind of face." 
The crowd was in uproar. Both the supporters of the Japan U20 and Blue Lock held their breaths. This was it. The last minute. Perhaps the longest minute they have ever witnessed. The elder brother slowly made his way up to Rin with careful scissors. Rin on the other hand stormed towards him like a lepard with his fangs out. Sae waited for an opening to reveal itself. Rin didn't have time for that. He shot forwards and aggressively attacked with his foot. Sae used his right foot and slid the ball away from Rin's tackle. He then lifted the ball up with the outside of his foot and proceeded by kicking the ball over Rin's head to get past him. Rin quickly turned around and caught his brother again in a body battle. Sae barely managed to squeeze Rin away and trapped the ball. His little brother pressed onwards which he dodged again and pushed the hand Rin has put on him away to free himself from him. Rin didn't give up and persistently tried to grab him again. This time Sae parried it with his own arm while dribbling forwards. Rin leaned back and followed him. Sae then stopped and slid the ball to his left behind his back. He was planning on smuggling it past Rin and executed it with the deadly precision he was known for. But Rin had no intention to let him be. He stretched out his right foot and deflected the ball from its original goal and making it fly up. Something that surprised everyone. His elder brother, Darai, Aiku, Neru and Niou. The ball flew over them. Aiku glazed at it as it was gliding right above him. The shock and the adrenaline made it impossible for him to notice the innevitable. Yoichi Kageyama sprinted inside the goal box and was already in his shooting motion. His eyes were so bright, almost as if they were going to explode. Aiku tried to jump up to clear the ball away with a header. Sadly he has already missed the timing for it and timing was everything. The ball finally arived at the point of the curve where Yoichi has wanted it to be. Crosshairs already marked the spots before he even arrived on scene. His radar didn't spot any further disturbance. He waited for the last millisecond to be over, before he pulled the trigger. A huge bang made itself clear through the entire stadium. The sound similar of a volleyball being absolutely smashed into the ground by a middle blocker. Fukaku jumped up and reached for the ball the best he could. Every single muscle inside his body was stretched out. Just to grab thin air. The net was violently lifted up. 5-4. Blue Lock leads. He regained his balance, just as the crowd exploded with excitement. Adrenaline was still pumping within his veins. His teammates on the bench were celebrating as hell, but he couldn't hear them. Everything around him became silent. All that was left to hear was the sound of his fast heart beat slowly calming down. Time paused for him. The sound of the final whistle was very faint to him. All that changed suddenly when Bachira jumped up to him. Only then did he finally hear the chants of the crowd. Only then did he finally realise that the match was over and he was the one walking off of it as the winner. Blue Lock eleven has won. 

"Come on, get the ball!!!!", Tobio's mum muttered as the two Itoshi brothers were in a fierce fight for ball possession. "Come on get it!!" 
Her knuckles were becoming white from the force she was balling her fists out of nervousness. Even Tobio himself must succumb to this tight feeling. Almost as tight as the final last year against Powervolley Milano where he was two points down in the final set. Suddenly, the green haired on the pitch managed to deflect the ball and get it away from the other Itoshi. The ball flew into the air into the penalty area. 
"Shit...", Atsumu murmered out of nervousness for all the players on the pitch. Just then Yoichi approached the ball and shot it. Tobio could hear the 'Bang'-sound even from the place he was sitting. Then out of the sudden, the tight feeling was lifted. 
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!!!", the commentators shouted through their mics in shock. 
"HE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!", Natsu suddenly yelled in euphoria. Relief washed over them. Admitively, for a moment, even she thought that Yoichi was going to lose. Celebration mixed with despair soon broke out through the crowds. Blue Lock eleven has won. But Yoichi wasn't celebrating. He was just standing there and not moving like a statue.
"What's going on with him?", Miwa asked a bit worried about her youngest brother. 
"It's the adrenaline.", Shoyo explained calmly. "Kageyama, once this is over, tell him to meet up with me again. I really need to talk to him about this." 
"Because you once got a fever in the middle of a match?", Tobio replied with a question and this time he wasn't even making fun of him. 
"Because I once got a fever in the middle of a match."