Ridicule Play

Break time was over and the students from the two competing classes were gathering at the field again.

Leaving Anna and the others as I enter the field. I made my way to where Hinata was arranging who would be the starting eleven for the second half.

"Hinata, I'll be the striker" dictating my position to her as she was mulling over which position was to whose.

Getting pulled out of her thoughts she looked in my direction as she saw me starting to warm up.

Without replying back to me she goes back to jotting down all the player positions of her classmates.

Our classmates who heard me also didn't complain, but as a matter of fact, they were quite relieved and happy that I was stepping up to play.

As they glance over in my direction they see me warming up for the game, they also start to warm up after Hinata gives them their roles.

While warming up I recollect all of my pretraining during the break time.

=== Fifteen Minutes Ago ===

Somewhere near the shades of trees, I was checking my muscle flexibility as well as the leg strength of my legs.

'Based on the stat value in my stamina running around the field shouldn't be a problem, tiring me out"

After having checked all of them, I proceed to juggle the ball on my legs and head. I try to familiarize myself with the ball as much as I can followed by balancing it on each of my feet and then the head again.

"I never knew you played Miko-chin~~" Natsuki from the shades commented as she watched me now bouncing the ball on my shoulders alternately.

"This is my first time even touching the ball Natsuki" I gently answered back to her without taking my attention away from the balancing ball on my head.

"Remember the video I asked Honoka to record?" Turning my head while still balancing the ball and leaned a little forward to her face-to-face. "I learned all the basics and how to handle the ball in the match records, now I'm just trying to apply them in actual and how much I can perform all of them in an actual game"

"Wait!; you are telling me you were learning all this by just watching the video Ichijou-san recorded?!?!" Furuichi astonishingly asked as his mouth was a little gapped open; surprised by what we were discussing.

"IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!?!?!" he couldn't hold himself and asked with an increased tone in his voice.

"Furuichi you idiot" Oga suddenly commented, while still lying in the shade of the trees with a piece of towel covering his face.

"Yeah, Furuichi you idiot" Anna seconded.

"You are already seeing it happen right in front of you why are you even asking, and You're too loud so shut up Furuichi" After saying the last part Oga grabbed a fist full of grass with dirt and threw it at Furuichi, which he swiftly dodged.

After dodging the dirt, the two are now bickering about different things.

"Fufu~~ It is still amazing seeing it in person" Honoka stated with her head resting on her left hand while her fingers were tapping her cheeks rhythmically.

I was now performing dribbling exercises and ball-handling drills for the rest of the break time.

Getting a good feel of the ball now, I called Anna and the others as we all went back to the field.

On the way back I called out to Natsuki, Honoka, and Furuichi and asked them to do something for him after the game ended. Surprised by my request as they couldn't quite understand why I wanted them to do that, but still agreed to do what I asked.

===== Flashback End =====

Kirishima and his team were now returning to the field and came to a sudden halt when they saw me warming up with the other 10 members of our class.

Taking a quick glance at them and flashed them a quick challenging smile before returning to my team.

With a simple plan in mind for the game I went to my team to explain what I wanted them to do.

"Simple and basic; all I want from all of you is to spread around on the opponent's side of the field and be ready to tap the ball when it's going in your direction"

"Whenever I pass the ball to you 'DO NOT' move, ready your legs, and just let it hit wherever I pass it. Understood?"

After explaining my plan they wanted to complain or say their opinion but I quickly shut them down with a quick look that said 'I don't need your opinion so just do it', followed by some reassuring words of victory.

"Just do what I said, and I promise you; you'll enjoy the look on Kirishimas' face after this" With a joyful smile on my face that hid the evil smirk of my plan to ridicule Kirishima reassured my teammates, and just went and do their parts.

As the game was starting Kirishima had a worried look on his face while observing me.

'This can't be good' he thought, confused by my participation in the game.

Starting the game as the ball was passed to me to hold. Stepping on it, all but the goalkeeper of my team started running to the other side of our field and spreading out. They were not guarding or doing anything to block our opponents but just stood in open spaces waiting for me.

This flabbergasted our opponents as there were no defenders on our side. Confused about our gameplan the attackers quickly rushed to me seeing that I was alone and defenseless.

Seeing their attack, a smile appeared on my face as I quickly tapped the ball and started to rush head-on to my opponents.

Handling the ball to pass through the 3 rushing players, I kicked it and passed it to one of my teammates. Remembering my plan he just stood there and waited for the ball to make contact with his right leg.

Feeling the force of impact of the ball but not too strong that it may cause any kind of injury. Landing on the front of his cleats redirected the ball upon contact to a direction with no other player; not before I appeared and trapped it, resuming my dribbling on the way to the goalpost. 

I did this two more times just to pass through the defenders which resulted in me in scoring a goal with a volleykick.

Our score was now 7-3, which our class cheered out loud with smiles and joy celebrating my goal.

"What the heck was that!?!?"

"It was like bouncing a tennis ball on a wall"

"He passes to a teammate and before it even makes contact with the player he is already running to the direction in which the ball is supposed to land"

"Amazing! He's predicting it"

"Look both teammates and the opponent were flabbergasted and confused about how that goal was even scored"

The students continued to cheer, catching the attention of other students who were passing by, curious about the rowdy cheers of the students surrounding the football field they also started to watch what was transpiring that made them cheer so loud.

This plan continued a total of five more times, allowing us to score five more goals, putting the score now at 8-9. 

Kirishima and his team were now too exhausted from all the running they had to do to catch up to me. I was too fast for them to reach me the moment I passed them as they couldn't keep up with my running and dribbling.

They did manage to score a goal, but that was only due to a mistake my teammate made due to being over-excited as we were catching up to them.

It was now at the final minute and we had the ball again. This time my classmates didn't move from their positions.

I was now in possession of the ball and I smirked at Kirishima.

Angered by my condescending attitude and not thinking of the consequences his actions due to blind rage as he rushed at me to take the ball from my possession.

Smiling at his action I stepped back a few steps to generate momentum. Having reached an acceptable distance I quickly ran after the ball and kicked it with an empowered swift kick to the side of the ball generating a hard spin as it traveled from the middle of the field and curving right straight to the goal post scoring us one more goal as the game ends.

Mouths agape from all around the field at what they just saw. After clearing their minds and understanding what just happened all the student bodies observing the game exploded in loud cheers praising me and telling me it was such an amazing goal.

"Get off your high horse Kirishima" speaking to Kirishima as he was near me in a neutral tone before turning my back to him and leaving a few more words. 

"You're nothing special"

Humiliated by my words all he could do was clench his fists and grind his teeth from anger. It was such a humiliating defeat, that even his lackeys were looking at him with pity after also hearing what I said.

Without saying a word, all of them walked back to their classmates with their heads hung low.

===== Kirishimas PoV =====

As we were preparing to go back and get changed I heard murmurs and gossip from students around us.

"Hey did you know, apparently Akaou-senpai scored the first seven goals exactly as Kirishima did" A bespectacled nerd brought up.

"Wow! Really? that's sick, looks like Akaou-senpai's reputation for being skilled at anything was real after all" the nerds' geek friend excitedly cheered.

"But was it really the same? Kirishima has all the goals he made given to him due to his teammates passing the ball to him, while Akaou-senpai just looked like he played by himself" A dork with a buzz cut commented on their topic not believing that all the goals were exactly the same.

"It's true they even have a video to compare the two and was so similar that it even gave me goosebumps" the nerd answered back.

"What? Where's that video?" asked the dork.

"A really pretty senpai was showing and comparing the videos to everyone earlier, but it looks like she already left" 

"That's too bad" the dork disappointingly said.

"It was big though" the geek chimed in.

""What was?"" asked by his two friends confused by his sudden comment.

"N-nothing i-it was nothing" the geek flusteredly replied.

His friends tried to ask what it was but he no longer commented and didn't want to answer what he meant.

They started to head back since it was almost lunch break. Still, at an earshot away from them, he heard something that frustrated him to no end.

"They say he's the star of the football club, but it looks like only has that title since Akaou-senpai wasn't interested in football"

Hearing those words, I punched the wall near me, causing blood to seep out of his knuckles. Rage was boiling out of me but I didn't know what to do, it's more like I can't do anything.

Akaou is someone who was too high for me to handle, what could I even do to him?

Feeling helpless and weak for the first time since entering this school I was ridiculed by many students who watched the game.

Ridiculed by the one thing I was so proud of, I made my way back to the school. Making a quick visit to the infirmary before returning to class.

"I promise, one day I'll pay you back for this" With determined steps I made my way back.

===== Mikoto PoV =====

"That was a ridiculous second half Mikoto-san, you really made the same exact score as Kirishima just like you said" Furuichi commented while he was stuffing bread in his mouth.

"I told you I'll do it" I replied with a proud smile on my face.

"Fufu~~ you even made us show the bystanders the video of both Kirishimas' and your goals in order for them to know that Kirishima was nothing special" Honoka chimed with a playful smile on her face, obviously intrigued by what did to Kirishima.

"Hehe~~ It was so funny seeing their faces when you scored that last goal, it was so epic!" Natsuki happily cheered.

"What's this about Kirishima and Mikoto's goal?" Anna asked confused about what her two close friends and Furuichi were talking about.

Natsuki and Honoka looked at each other with knowing glances as a teasing smile appeared on their faces.

""It's a secret~~~"" they both replied to Anna, causing her to push for answers and pester them until they spilled what we were talking about.

She tried to ask me what it was but I also just teased her saying 'Secret~~~' which caused her to pout and just go back to pestering her friends since she knew she had a better chance of getting the answer from them than from me.

She wanted to pressure Furuichi for answers but I just gave her a look that said 'Just pester the two' which she poutingly accepted.

We were currently on the rooftop to eat our lunch. Anna, Honoka, and Natsuki were teasing each other as Natsuki and Honoka didn't want to tell Anna what I asked them to do, making Anna feel left out.

Hinata was eating her meal next to me while silently watching my friends, giggling a few times at their antics.

Oga was trying to steal Furuichi's drink so they bickered yet again but Furuichi couldn't do anything since Oga just overpowered him.

After eating and enjoying our time we went back to our respective classes.

Time passed by until it was finally time for dismissal.

"Hinita you going home?" I asked her as she was approaching me.

"Not yet, a teacher asked me and a few others to do something for her" Hinata tiredly replied.

She was exhausted and sleepy, obviously tired from all the running during the P.E. class so I advised her to rest after she was done with the teacher's task.

Saying goodbye to her I made my way out of the school gate when a sudden ring on my phone caught my attention.

Seeing who the caller was caused a smile to appear on my face as memories of a woman who took care of and loved the original Mikoto.

I clicked on the accept and put the phone near my ear as I lovingly answered the call.

"Hey Mom how are you?"