24- Slogan and Cheers

The next day, Tanaka woke up early and changed into a jacket, and started running along with his teammates, it was very refreshing to run early in the morning where the fog hadn't dissipated yet.

This also served as a warm-up for everyone before the game, they do this every day and those who skip will add another round to their run, and those who lie will have to run for 5 rounds.

This was done by every member of the team, lying is also useless since there was the interrogation expert Hiruma, so there is no other way for these members to skip and also lie, they would be in luck if they were sick of course.

They run around the hill or a mountain for 3 rounds before their morning run ends.

"Finally *gasp! done!" Sora yelled as he panted heavily.

The others don't have any excess energy like Sora to yell like that and just tried to gasp for air as much as they could.

"It seems like everyone is getting used to running, lets add another 2 rounds what do you guys think?" Tanaka said.

"Oh, captain, I feel like I'm dying please don't add more!" Sora almost fainted.

"Haha, I'm just joking, but once we win the nationals, I will take you guys to a resort along with any who you want to bring, so let's go and win this alright, its a promise," Tanaka said with a smile.

Everyone felt their blood getting pumped up as they heard, "You said that captain alright! It's a promise!" Sora was the first one to react.

"Hehe, we will wring dry the captain," Asahi said.

"That sounds dirty senpai," Kuro said with a smirk.

"Now that you said it, it really sounds nasty senpai" Sora also joined in.

Asahi was not able to process what he said for a few minutes then it clicked to him, "T-that's not what I meant!" Asahi immediately refuted.

"Pupupu! you already said it, no take backsies!" they continued teasing them.

From the side, Tanaka looked at them, he felt this was his family, as an orphan from the present and the past, Tanaka never knew the feeling of having a family, maybe these guys were considered his brothers, yes, that is what Tanaka thought.

Started from recruiting them forcefully to the club then after a few months of being together they bonded as a family, laughed as brothers, fought each other with respect, well, they may not notice and treat one each other it but close.

A shadow once told him, treat your teammates as family, not like someone you met in your lifetime, if you have family, you have the power because you have family, that was the words of the shadow.

Anywho, Tanaka felt he was brainwashed by those words but he did yearn for a family, anyway, Tanaka and the others went back to their hotel and ate their breakfast, they then went to a nearby stadium to play, it was to condition their body.

At lunchtime, they went back to the stadium where their next match will play, their opponent was Meiko, it was apparently an elite school that was having its rise this year, 'there are too many elite schools' Tanaka thought.

"Well, it's not really an elite school, but they have qualified to nationals a few times so they are more like a veteran school?" Hiruma said.

"Well, enough of their past, tell their present team once again, I feel like we missed some details," Tanaka asked.

"We have already talked about this before but I will say it again, they don't have that exceptional player but they do have impeccable teamwork, what I mean by impeccable is that they seemed to know what the other was thinking and what are they going to do next" Hiruma explained.

"Impeccable teamwork huh, who is the core of their teamwork?" Tanaka asked.

"Hmm, let me see, according to the data I collected, their core is the captain of their team, the shooting forward name Reiji Mochida, he had great leadership and seemed to be the one strategizing their plays," Hiruma said.

Tanaka looked at Hiruma, "I don't want what you think, I want the answer" Tanaka said.

Hiruma smirked as if saying as expected of you and took out another paper, "Shigehiro Ogiwara, the point guard of their team, he moves around the court and supports his team, he is also a decent scorer and had good court awareness. What makes him the core of the team is because of his playstyle, he is an all-rounder capable of assisting all of his team as if he was controlling them" Hiruma said

"So an all-rounder, Kuro, you know what to do, lock him up" Tanaka ordered.

"Sure thing" Kuro smiled.

"As for all of you, play this game like your lives are the bets of this game, no more reservations, our school girls are watching," Tanaka said as he pointed on the bleachers.

The place where full of females were sitting, they took up the whole side of that bleachers, and men are also scared to approach so they were very far from the girls, but what made them more eye-catching was the slogan hanging on the bleachers.

It was written in a sword-like manner, dominating and sharp, it was intimidating to look at and the slogan of the boy's team was written there.

[Ousai Boys Basketball Team: This is a new Legend on a making]

"A legend on a making huh? that sounds arrogant but I like it," Hiruma said then turned his head on the court, then to his team, 'yep, this is where a new legend takes place' Hiruma thought.

As the girls saw that Tanaka was pointing at them and the boy's team were looking at them, the girls looked at each other and nodded, they then took out some kind of bottles then bumped them with each other creating a sound of drums along with their chant "Go! Go! Ousai!" filling the whole stadium with their voices

"Well, well, this does make my blood boil," Tanaka said with a smile.

=-=-=-=-=Chapter End=-=-=-=-=-=-

Wassup, the voting is doing good but I see some of you don't like the plot I had for the others, you guys hate system for a reason so, I will make 3 different plot for each of the three, I will put it up tomorrow.

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