The greenhaired alien - Inazuma Eleven

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We were standing in front of the bus, waiting for the doors to open. As the coach told us before, we were heading to Cloister Divinity, some school about peace and meditating, dull. Between the weird shopping adventure, as Jack calls it, and now, Janus changed his hairstyle. He had it in a tail, with his bangs hanging down. 'Looks nice,' I complimented, and let my fingers slide through his gorgeous green hair. Yes, I still thought he was pretty and no, I wasn't ashamed of it. His eyes widened like I just told him some life changing news, and a little bit of color appeared on his cheeks. Maybe he didn't get complimented often, but the blushing was something we all noticed, and everyone chuckled.

After I found my notebook between some sweaty shirts and water bottles, I flipped through a few pages. I had possible shots for the team in there, stories and drawings. When I first entered the team I promised them I'd draw them, but it took me a while. Right now I was working on Willy, but his glasses just weren't realistic. 'WIIILLS LOOK AT ME!' He turned around and was about to make a comment, but then noticed the pencil. 'Can I take a picture of your face?' He smirked. 'Yes, and lucky for you I am very photogenic,' he said and tried to make a duckface. I sweatdropped, idiot.

In the meanwhile:

After they got inside the bus Jude decided to sit next to Janus. The green haired boy looked up, and awkwardly smiled. 'Hey,' he mumbled while studying his hands. 'Why are you sitting here?' Jude raised his brow. 'Do you mind?' He quickly shook his head. 'I just wanted to get to know you better, we know nothing about you.' Janus tried to smile. 'Trust me I'm not that interesting,' he giggled. 'I doubt that. Let's just-' Jude thought to see a glimpse of admiration in the alien his eyes. 'Everyone is just so... happy and kind. Though a few are a bit scared of me, but why are they like that?' Jude was confused. Not because of his question, but the answer. 'I have no idea.' Janus sighed. 'Do- do you think that they know I'm sorry?' Jude got a flashback of that night, the night when they discovered the bruises. 'I have a question that needs to be answered. Were you happy at Alius Academy?'

'Were you happy at Alius Academy?' It became silent and I rolled over Nathan to Jude his seat. It was a personal question but I really wanted to know the answer. 'I don't know. I mean, I had a place to stay and my team of course, but no, it wasn't very pleasant. Not that I had a choice.' The whole team gasped. 'B-but why weren't you happy?' Mark asked shocked. 'It's Epsilon. They were able to control us.' I tried to get the pieces together. Bruises, Epsilon, soccer. 'As the people on earth would say, we were trainingspartners.' He spitted out the last word like it was a disease. Then he smiled again. 'But you have to look at the future, right?' I gritted my teeth. 'That is not how it works. Yes, you have to look forward but there is something called justice. After we got that, we can go forward,' I mumbled. 'You keep surprising me. Three hours ago you were insulted because we didn't let you in the shopping cart and now you're being clever.'

'Oh sweetie, I know, I'm such an interesting person.' Nathan sighed. 'She just has two very different personalities. The weird one and the smart one.' I shook my head. 'You forget the evil one.' Janus frowned. 'Evil?' I smirked. 'Everyone has an evil side, and for your own sake, don't make that one come out.' Kevin snorted. 'And then there is the bitch, scared Rhona, drama queen and the suspicious one.'

'Shut up.'

I stared outside the window of the bus, the view was incredibly boring. 'Entertain me,' I said to no one in particular. Mark searched for something in his bag, it were toy guns. Once again, I had no idea why he brought them. 'I dare you for a fight!' Celia shook her head. 'Mark I don't think that's a good id-'

'THAT IS AN AMAZING IDEA!' I shouted. I loved these kinds of stuff. The unwise ones, everything funny and weird.

Two minutes later there were teams. Jack, Nathan, Shawn, Willy and I against Mark, Jude, Janus, Todd and Kevin and Sylvia kept the score. The others refused to join. 'Okay guys,' I started. 'Jack, you will cover us and shoot at Todd. Shawn takes Kevin, Nathan takes Janus and I will do Mark. Jude will be done by all of us.' I wrote down a plan. 'Unbelievable, how can they be so serious about this?' Nelly mumbled. 'How dare you?'

'And start!' Not even ten seconds later Todd got shot and had to say goodbye to his team. 'Don't worry, we will get revenge,' Jude reassured him. I saw Mark aiming for me, and luckily I could dive away. Just at that moment the coach walked in and the plastic bullet hit her head. 'Evans, you are lucky that you're the only keeper, otherwise you'd be out.' A minute later we had to say goodbye to our guns, that were thrown in a bin next to the road.

'Well, this was it. We're doomed to eternal boredom.'

A few minutes later I continued with the drawing, that still didn't work out. I observed the picture, then my sketch. Something was off. 'Wow, that is amazing.' I saw Janus his head leaning on Nathan's seat. 'Yep, she is a true artist,' Nathan added. I shook my head. 'Not really.' Nathan made some space between us and pulled Janus in the middle. Because of the little space our thighs were pressed to each other and his body heat warmed up my leg. 'Do you have any other drawings?' Without waiting for an answer he flipped to the first page, the drawing of Sylvia. 'That is so realistic! Where did you learn that?' I giggled. 'So I was right, you are an arty one.' He pouted. 'There may or may not be a little chance you were.' Then he looked back at the page. I smiled. 'It was my first drawing from the Raimon team, I just joined the club. We only had seven players at that time.' I went to another page. 'While Mark was trying to gain new members I made him with the Raimon uniform,' I explained and thought back at that time. We had come so far. Then I saw Axel, and my mood dropped. The pain ebbed since we arrived in Hokkaido but now it all came back. 'Oh Axel,' Nathan whispered. 'He's the guy that left the team after the second match right?' Janus asked. 'He didn't leave, he just took a break,' Kevin snapped. 'Yes, I believe he will come back,' Mark said full of confidence, while Janus just smiled. 'I hope so for you.'