[Her Between The Past And The Future]

Chapter 7

A very useless author am I, eh?
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I'm finally done talking. You can now enjoy the chapter.

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"So what do you think?"

A voice echoed in the dark room, with only a portion of light illuminating the area. There were shelves full of books at the corner and a rectangular office table at the middle where a person's elbows were resting on while it's owner was sitting on a chair that matches the table. And an another person was standing in front a few inches away from the office table. Their faces couldn't be identified for the room was too dark that only their figures were the only ones that identified them as both men.

The man was called out to the other's office for they were discussing about something that involves a big problem similar to the soccer team that went to space, that conflict appeared just as after the Earth Eleven left and that worries the two men inside. It's as though Earth is a magnet of misfortune that appears one after the other. The higher-ups already knew of this situation and all agreed at the same thing; Assemble a team. But what team though. That's already been decided before the meeting and the higher-ups had no choice but to comply with that idea.

The man standing nodded his head, confidence evident from where he stood. "I have no complaints." The other nodded back in satisfaction then a sigh of relief came out of his mouth, that went well, the only problem was how will they approach them without shocking them? But I guess that doesn't matter anymore for the man he's talking to right now could handle that situation.

"Then I leave it in your hands."

"Hai." With that being said, the man left the gloomy room as the door closed. The man that was left in his office didn't stop staring at the door that's being shut earlier with intense onyx eyes, the cold silence he's emitting made the atmosphere around him more tense. He stayed in that position for awhile before he sighed again and rotated his chair along with him to look at the window behind him. Now, how did I forgot to mention that there's a window in his office earlier. Later on, the man turned back to his table and started doing his paperworks.

I just hope you all can do your best...

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"Yo, minna."

"Kantoku!!!"

[Kantoku - coach]

The Raimon members shouted. Endou almost stumbled at the pressure the team gave him as they all hugged him tightly. The brown haired coach breathed out in relief once they finally released him. "How was the team, Kirino?"

"We're just fine, kantoku." The pinkette answered which made the man in front of him nodded back. Endou noticed the two unfamiliar faces at the back and grinned from ear to ear, and slowly approached the two siblings and pointed his thumb to himself.

"Yo, I'm Endou Mamoru, yoroshiku!"

[Yoroshiku - Nice to meet you]

"Hai, yoroshiku, Endou-san." Both answered and bowed their heads in respect. "You two must be a new recruit here."

[Hai - yes]

Kaito waved his hands as if to cue his denial. "No, no you misunderstood, Endou-san. The two of us are just here to watch them practice..." The coach stared at him silently and lowered his face at the boy's eye level. Kaito started sweating intensely at Endou's gaze.

"Hmm.... Seems fishy..."

Kaito and Rina flinched unconsciously at the word. Fishy? Were they've been found out? That can't be, he just met them and couldn't find it out with just a glance. "Erm... Endou-san?" The coach didn't answer and just stared at him with a serious face. "You.... You two ..." They both started to sweat uncontrollably now. I guess, they're doomed.

"You two must have want to join the soccer club, huh?"

... Huh?

They stared blankly at him and tilted their heads to the side at the same time. "Eh?"

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"If a number is equal to its own, such as; 3x is equal to 3x or 14x² = 14x², then that is called -- "

The bell rang as it interrupted the teacher's discussion and indicated that school was finally over. "Now, don't forget to do your homeworks for the weekend, okay?" Reminded the man that was teaching his students awhile ago as choruses of agreement was received.

"Great. Then see you all back on Monday." Their teacher walked out. Just as the teacher left, most students scurried out to finally go to their respective homes while some were patiently putting their things into their bags before walking out.

Kirino, Rina, Hamano, Hayami and Kurama were walking home together as they want to talk about what they had discussed with Endou at the soccer club room earlier. Unfortunately, they have to wait for that later as someone blocked their path and was angry about being in his way and that Kirino and the others were stepping in their territory.

"What'ya doin' here in our territory!? Get outta the way!" The man yelled at them with authority as if he really owns the road they were standing upon. Kirino and the others frowned at the smell of alcohol, that went into their nostrils, coming from the man who was stumbling over at his own feet, maybe drunk man read their minds as he, to their surprise, grinned evilly at them and just laughed like a maniac but was interrupted by a coughing fit. Kirino and the rest sweatdropped at what they saw but never spoke a word about it for they feared of what's to come if they ever did. Although people were always walking around in this place, the man got a nerve to claim this road as theirs.

"Tho' we wanna have some fun with all of ya' but the boss wants some treasures before we get back!"

'we'? Does that mean...  Rina narrowed her eyebrows further at the realization of what the man had said to them. The pink-haired female was about to warn her friends when a groan of pain came out of Kurama as his body instantly fell to the ground then started clutching his stomach and another man was standing just a few inches away from the pained boy, who was seemingly the one to cause the boy's pain.

"Kurama!"

Soon after, the others were being held captive by the other men who appeared out of nowhere and put their hands at their backs to restrain them from escaping.

"Let go!" Kirino shouted at the man holding him. He tried moving his upper body to make his holder's hands to loose and get the pinkette's chance to escape and save the others. But to no avail, he too, fell to the ground after he felt a force at his stomach and chocked out some air. The older men snickered at this and did the same process to the others. Later, all of kirino's friends, including him, fell into deep slumber.

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Okay, now I'm back! No reply? Ok.
I'm going to get straight to the point to make it short. But first....

BELATED MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!  And done hehehe~

So I decided that I'm not going to put this story on hold anymore and update. YEY!!

But.

I know you already know this I'm just going to repeat it again, I will be updating more slowly than the way I'm saying and describing it now. But (again.) If I have the nerves to update then maybe it will be a bit faster..? Depends.

I'm already done. That's all for today folks! Have a good day, or night.