Chapter 35

"The second half of the game has just begun, if you are just back from your break you've missed only little of the beginning of the second half, I wonder how this game would turn out in the second half."

*The Lord is on our side.* I thought rubbing my hands and smiling.

The referee blew the whistle and Tanaka played the ball all the way back to Suzune who played it back to the keeper.

"Hey, go and steal the ball." The captain shouted as Koenji passed to Ryuto.

*We've completely destroyed our normal tactic, it's now on us to know how we'll attack.* I thought as he passed the ball to Hinami.

"Hey, get the ball back!!"

"Look, there coming from the side!" I said as Hinami nodded and passed back to Akane.

"What's going on?" The piercing guy asked as Akane ran for a bit and passed the ball to Kimishita up front.

*It's going well, but we need to be fast.* I thought raising my left hand, high enough for them to see it.

When I raised my hand up, they all nodded.

"Hey, Mark the captain!!!" Piercing-kun said as I ran up.

*Nice, hope you guys do this well.* I thought smiling as Kimishita passed to Yusuke and Yusuke back to him.

"They're trying to confuse us, Mark their captain!!"

*Oh yeah, come at me.* I thought looking at the field and raising my right hand up.

"It's about time!" Kimishita said passing the ball to Akaji who ran towards the wing and played a high ball to the middle.

I was around the corner so most of the defenders came to head the ball out of the field.

*Ha.* I smirked as Akatsuki ran forward and dived towards the ball, making it go into the post.

"Goal!!!!"

"Yeah, we scored." He said running towards me.

"You did it Akatsu." I said smiling before hugging him.

"Tch, he was a decoy. But that won't stop us from scoring." The piercing guy said grabbing the ball and walking towards the middle.

*The first goal was good and all but that was more of a consolation, I'll get the next one.* I thought as they restarted the game.

"Dammit!!!" The captain shouted as Yusuke stole the ball from them.

*Haha, we already know their tactics so we can intercept any direct passes.*

"Ryu!! They're coming by you." Piercing-kun shouted as Yusuke dribbled past the guy running towards him.

"Cool pass." Akatsuki said controlling the ball with his chest.

When the ball hit the ground, he did some moves that I've never seen before and then passing two defenders.

*W-wow.* I thought looking at him surprised.

*I gotta learn that move.*

He passed the ball to Tanaka who ran forward, dribbling past a defender and passing a high ball to Akatsuki.

"And the keeper got the ball!!!" The commentator said.

The keeper was on the floor holding the floor and smiling.

"Thank God I saw where the ball was going." He said standing up.

"Awww, I couldn't even score." Akatsuki said running back.

"Haha, don't worry about that, we still have lots of chances." I said patting his back.

"Yeah." He said smiling.

The game was restarted and they began passing. This time they kinda reached our post but got blocked by Akane and Suzune.

The ball was stolen from them by Akane who passed the ball to Chika. Chika ran for some time before passing the ball to the middle of the field where Ryuto was.

"Cool pass." He said smiling before running forward.

"Counter! Intercept! Tackle! Anything!!" The captain shouted as the fell back.

I ran forward and someone came to Mark me. Ryuto passed the ball to Akatsuki who ran forward and passed the ball to Tanaka.

*This bastard.* I thought looking at my marker while running forward.

He kinda followed me a bit late cause he was watching Tanaka and Akatsus' passes.

*Fool.* I thought smiling as Akatsuki played a high through pass to me.

*It's very close to the post, the keeper would surely act whil the ball is still on the air.*

"Then i'll make sure he doesn't touch it." I said running faster.

The ball was still up and I was very close to the keeper, the others were running forward too.

*Maybe, I can test that out.* I thought, looking at the ball which landed on my chest.

I hit it so it could stay on the air for a little while. I ran back flipped and hit the ball with the tip of my right leg.

Luckily, the keeper was too stunned to move so the ball just went past him.

"What the…!!! That's a super acrobatic goal from Team Cs' Oshiba Atsushi!!!"

I was breathing heavily on the floor as the others ran towards me and jumped on me.

"ATSUSHI!!!!!" Akatsuki shouted grabbing my neck.

"Ouch!!!" I screamed as my finger cracked.

"Get the fuck away from me!!" I screamed as they all laughed.

"Atsu, when did you learn that, I can't remember teaching you that particular one." Akatsuki asked giving me a hand.

"Oh, I kinda practiced alone." I said smiling as he dragged me up.

"Wow, alone. Sometimes I don't believe that you gave up on soccer after middle school." He said as we went back to our positions.

*Ha… I can't believe that went in.* I thought smiling.

*Seems like my hardwork paid off.*