[Her Between The Past And The Future]

※ Prologue pt.2 ※

The sun was already setting when the train came back, landing swiftly on the ground, the door opened and the team came out, some dashing out and some were just calmly walking. Two figures welcomed them back, one being the chairman of Japan youth soccer association, and the coach of Teikoku and trainer of Raimon. The team stopped infront of the two and then greeted them with excitement.

"I see that you are still the same as ever after those happened." Kidou said, referring to Tenma. Being serious as ever. Tenma just scratched the back of his head embarrassingly and chuckled sheepishly.

Shindou went beside Tenma and looked at the two adults. Curious. "Where's Endou-san?" Shindou asked. The others looked around then realized that the grayish browned haired boy was right. The Raimon team was not here as well. Shindou knew something's wrong, but remained still about it. They expected that Endou, Kirino and the others would be joining Gouenji and Kidou to welcome them back, as they promised before leaving, but they didn't. Maybe they were just late and was practicing at their school, they're not gonna break their promise, or, are they? That would be so not them if they did.

Kidou remained silent while gouenji lowered his head, hiding the guilt from the Earth Eleven's line of sight, except for Tsurugi who narrowed his eyes when he saw it. That got the team felt some cold and heavy silent coming from the two adults after shindou mentioned the first soccer freak of raimon before Tenma.

"Kidou-san? Gouenji-san?"

"..."

"You all worked really hard, it's best if you go home and take a rest..." Gouenji stepped in, his face void of any emotion. "But, could you, at least, tell us what's wrong?" Tenma asked. Looking strainght at Gouenji's eyes while the man tried to avert his. "Gouenji-sa-"

"Go home." Gouenji said. "But-"

"No buts. It's getting late, so go home and have a rest for now."

"Ah, y-yes." Tenma hesitated. "Let's go guys."

The others followed their captain. Seperating after to go to their own routes to go home. The last ones were Tenma, Shindou, Tsurugi and Shinsuke, who were silently walking, still not talking because of what happened earlier. That was not the Gouenji Shuuya they know. He is the person who would face all difficulty coming his way. Even if it meant becoming rogue to the sociaty.

After the long silence, they decided that they would visit Raimon first before they go to their homes then jump onto their bed and sleep. Going there was peaceful but was still tense around the air. The area was quiet, way too quiet to be exact. There were no people walking around the place that they thought there should at least 2 or 3 people walking around. It was not much of an isolated area to walk on since the place was bright enough to not see a man who would rob or kidnap you at the corner.

Seeing their school at the distance, the four hurriedly walked and walked passed the gates to the field the Raimon team were practicing at. But when they reached the field, no one was there. There were no balls around or a dirty goalpost to be seen that could indicate that someone used it awhile ago. What they saw was the opposite, the field was all clean, no scratches or dirts on the post and the grass were all healthy.

"That's strange. They should be here practicing." Tenma said. Then they went to the soccer building and found it the same as the field. They also checked the school and at every room but still found it just the same as the previous two. They finally gave up looking and walked out of their school to go home.

While walking, Shindou thought that something happened while they were away, in which resulted that the people in the town were scared to come out of their houses. Or maybe they were just too agitated since it's just 30 minutes ago after they came back to Earth.

"First, the town was isolated and now the school? Now I'm starting to think that we're in an apocalypse movie." Shinsuke joked. Making the others chuckled with him.

Walking now peacefully and relaxed, the tension and awkwardness around the air were gone. They missed this. So much. But that silence was stopped when a charming sound of music rang in their ears.

They turned 90° to the left where the beautiful sound had came from and saw a girl standing in the middle of the riverbank playing a violin. Her hair was rosy pink tied into two pigtails. She's wearing a light blue cardigan, a light pink sleeveless shirt underneath, a black denim pants, and a simple white sneakers. The sun and the river behind her only enlightened her figure even more than the music she's making with her instrument.

The four of them were all shocked at the familiar looking ace defender of Raimon standing at the riverbank but the one who was most shock was none other than Shindou Takuto himself, seeing his childhood best friend playing a violin made him shock and confused but what confused him the most was his childhood best friend was wearing a girl's clothes but assumed that maybe the pinkette had made a bet with a certain teal headed boy and lost. But what about him playing a violin was out of the story.

They snapped out of their shock state when the music stopped and a solid silence hugged the air. The four Earth Eleven players looked at the pinkette who was looking back at them with the same expression they had earlier and examined the four of them one by one but when her eyes finally landed on Shindou, their eyes locked. Her azure eyes clashing with his brown ones. leaving them thinking of only nothing but what the other is thinking right now. The others used to say that 'the eyes are the windows of the soul', but why can't they find out what's behind those beautiful eyes they're looking at?

The two stayed a little longer like that but the azure eyed pinkette was the first one to tear her gaze away -much to Shindou's disappointment- and quickly put her violin on its case and scurried off at top speed. Leaving Tenma, Tsurugi, Shindou and Shinsuke dumbfounded.

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And done!

Lol. I feel like I'm already making a real chapter than just a prologue. But the next one will be a real one, so pls wait for it.

And sorry for the delay.

Ja~

[8/31/18]