The Raven vs Kamata West

[Ryosei POV]

"Let's play for real now." I say while staring down the Twins.

Alright so the current score is 20-19 and we are in the lead. Time to get some payback for this cheesy play style. Shota inbounds to Sota and I immediately cover him, he tries to blow past me but I just poke the ball out his hands. Ball now in my hands while he's standing there in shock I drive to the basket, and Shota appears in front of me.

A savage grin spreads across my face as I stop moving but keep the ball bouncing on my right side.

"1 on 1 Shota? You underestimate me."

I crossover you my left and jab my left foot before doing a quick step back when he twists him body ready to follow beside me. He had watched me easily steal from his brother, so he knew he wasn't faster than me. Too bad for him I read his movements and knew he wouldn't try to compete in speed, so I did a quick step back and dropped a 3 as he stumbled.

Once again he inbounds to Sota, but this time he passes it back to Shota when I come up to guard him, however Ikehara was there. They were to focused on me that they didn't see him read the play and get the steal. He takes it to the basket but instead of a lay up he bounces it off the back board and I slam it in right behind him.

25-19

Frustration could be seen on their faces so they started bouncing it around to their teammates. Finally Shota gets matched up with Otake and manages to draw a foul while making a 2 point shot. He makes his 1 throw, and then looks at me with a triumphant smile. I just return his with a smile of my own before speaking.

"Only 2 more points Shota." He looked at me confused but I just received the pass from Arata and made my way up court. Sota and Shota come to double team, and Shota speaks to me.

"What did you mean just then." While keeping his hand in my face and the other trying to poke the ball out.

"Don't worry. You'll see." I say.

I swap from left to right, and as Sota reaches forward I go between my legs back to my left and side step him. Shota shifts behind his brother and tries to get in front of me, but I just spin back to right and blow past him with pure speed and continue to the basket where I toss in a layup.

The buzzer sounds for the 1st quarter to end with the score being 27-22. During the break I speak to the team.

"Alright everyone focus on defense and keep the ball moving on offense. I'm gonna go a little harder for the rest of this game, but don't play any differently. Get me the ball if you can, if not make a pass to a teammate. If you're open take the shot, they'll be so focused on me you'll most likely have a lot of chances. That's why Teshima will come back in, in place of Arata. Alright let's go win."

"""Yes Captain!"""

We entered the court again and like i suspected I was had 3 people covering me. Shota, Sota and their other defensive heavy teammate. I only grinned and felt the flame in me burn hotter, a challenge and I get to teach them a lesson at the same time. Sounded great to me.

I got the ball off a set up screen, but the 3 were immediately on me and my grin grew wider. The pressure on the court increased and one second I was in front of them and the next I was hanging off the rim of the basket with what seemed like a trail of feathers falling to the floor.

The 3 guarding me could only look on in shock as they couldn't react, even though they were right on top of me. Kamata inbounded and I lowered my presence and popped up to steal the ball as it was being passed from Shota to Sota. Sota looked ready to complain but was cutoff by the sound of me making a 3 pointer.

32-22

What was originally a close game has now been driven to a double digit difference and Kamata didn't know what to do. They realized they couldn't guard me even with 3 so they swapped back to man to man coverage with one of the twins on Teshima. Trying to get him to draw his last foul.

Kamata brought the ball to half court and I immediately covered the person with the ball it was a guy I didn't know the name of but he wore the number 3. He dribbled while eyeing the court, unfortunately for him he took his eyes off me for too long and I snaked the ball out of his hand, and sunk another 3.

35-22

I switched my team to full court and we pressured them on their side for the rest of the game. Inbounds were stolen, balls were poked out while dribbling, passes were stolen. It was repeat if the Iwai game for a 3 minutes before their coach called a time out. In those 3 minutes the score had jumped.

58-22 with 1 minute left.

After the time out they started slow, making short but quick passes back and forth to each other, until the shot clock started to run low. The ball ended up in Shota's hands and he rushed towards me trying to draw a foul while he layed it up. To his surprise I didn't try to stop him and he scored the 2 points making it 58-24.

Kawahara inbounded to me and I quickly took it up the court. Each Kamata member came to try and stop me, but I just spun, crossed and broke their ankles on my way to an easy lay up. Leaving them all either on their ass or their hands and knees.

They dejectedly got up and in bounded the ball just for it to get stolen by me and I bounced it off the board to myself before slamming it back in. Everyone in the crowd thought they saw wings form around my arms as I leaped up to dunk the ball. As it's quite a high jump for someone who is only 5'8 currently.

The buzzer sounded as I touched the ground and I grinned as I looked at the score board.

62-24

[3rd person POV]

"O-oh my, that's crazy." Momoi stuttered out while cover her mouth with her hand.

"What? We know how good he is, besides we've seen him dunk already." Aomine said.

"I think she means the score." Kuroko said with a grim expression. As he said that the rest of Teiko also adopted a grim expression except for Aomine.

"Will someone tell me what's so crazy about the score?! I mean they are only up by less than 40 I mean we ha—… Oh." Aomine finally seemed to get it after he calmed down a little bit.

"Yes, I thought it was strange that he let them score those 2 times when he could have easily stopped it, but Ryosei planned out to have the score be the exact same as our match against Shoei at half time." Momoi says.

"Just what is this guy. It's one thing to run up the score, but to purposely plan the score a certain way is insane." This time it's Nijimura who speaks up, and also Teiko's current Captain still. He looks at the GoM members and then down at his own hands. He's not sure if even he could beat Ryosei after what he just witnessed.

The players started to file out of the court towards the locker room for their break, and when Teiko decided to go to restroom Momoi noticed Kuroko is missing.

"Where did Tetsu go?"

Everyone just shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders. She huffed before running off to look for him. However he was already outside the tunnel that Katagiri would take to head to the locker rooms. He wanted to talk to Ryosei.

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Author's Note

Slightly shorter chapter this time so I apologize, this will most likely be the last chapter this week until my next day off. I wrote 4 chapters today(Tuesday) as well as had to go shopping for groceries and get my first dose of the covid vaccine. (Pfizer gang) maybe I'll grow another arm or be my own portable hotspot lol. Jokes aside please don't make this a whole debate, and sorry if this makes you not want to read my book. I know how serious people take this stuff.

Anyways we got a lot of basketball told play by this chapter. I can never tell if write in a way that is easy to visualize or not, so I'll just hop for the best. Also the moves are pretty limited because he doesn't have to use any "skills" right now he's just playing with pure technique and talent. That will change when the matches get tougher and especially if I ever make it to the start of canon.

Hope you enjoyed.