Accidental Reverse

Chapter 4

Hello my fellow humans. Here is chapter 4 of Accidental Reverse~ Please enjoy!

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Accidental Reverse Arc 1

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Saturday morning comes too fast for Tenma's liking.

He groans and looks at his alarm clock, which reads 5:12. 'Great. For some reason I woke up three hours early.'

Knowing training will only start in four hours, he tries to get some more sleep, but it doesn't work. After ten minutes he gives up and instead stares at the ceiling of his room.

'Has it really only been five days? It seems much longer.' The brunet's thoughts stray in the direction of his friends in the future. 'How are they doing? Have the first-years caused trouble yet, or are the senpai keeping them in line?'

He turns to face the wall, curling up in a ball as he thinks about his friends. ''I miss them,'' he whispers softly. 'It's so hard, being here... they don't know me. They don't even like me, yet they look so much like my teammates...'

Tenma shakes his head and turns on his other side, trying to think of something else. Eventually his thoughts return to the events from yesterday.

He went to Shindou's house (and no he did not stalk the captain. He still remembered where Shindou's house was from the many times he's been there in the future, when he was invited over by Takuto-san himself) and convinced said game maker to train with him and Shinsuke at the riverbank.

From there on, he finally managed to master Soyokaze Step and, with a little help of coach Endou, stopped Shindou from quitting the soccer club.

'Okay, so... two things are done. One: Endou Mamoru became Raimon's coach, and two: Shindou Takuto has been stopped from quitting the club. All in all, not bad... but what now?'

Tenma rolls on his back and stares at the ceiling again. ''Shindou isn't going to quit,'' he whispers softly to himself. ''But that does not mean he has warmed up to me. I'm not sure when he actually starts to see me as a friend... but I do know that things with the other players, especially Kurama-senpai, will get worse now.''

He groans. 'Oh gosh, this is too much. The only one who is really on my side is Shinsuke, and maybe coach Endou. Of course I shouldn't forget Aoi, Akane-senpai and Mirdori-senpai, but... between the other players, they're probably the worst. Shinsuke's in basically the same situation as me, being a new first-year, and the managers are not players, so the senpai will feel a certain distance to them. Lastly coach Endou... Shindou would probably go along with him now, but further than that he doesn't have much influence yet either...'

With a sigh, realizing he probably won't get any more sleep anyway, the brunet sits up and looks out of the window at the dark sky. 'I don't want them to get hurt. I'll protect them, if it's the last thing I do,' he tells himself. 'I promise.'

But even to his endless determination comes an end and his resolve falters. 'That's what I want to do.' His thoughts return to the impossibility of his task.

'I can't do this...'

''But I don't have a choice,'' he whispers sadly. ''I have to do this, I have to protect everyone, but...''

He lets himself fall back on his bed, finally allowing some of his weakness to seep through.

''I just want to go home.''