Date: 10th July, Saturday

"The time has finally come for the finals of the football frontier. It is the Raimon Jr. High versus Seidouzan. Who will take the victory of todays match?" The commentator announced. 

The Stadium was filled with people from all over the cities, including the teams that participated in the tournament. One of them was Outei Tsukinomiya's captain, Amemiya Taiyou.

"I highly doubt that they will play Matsukaze Tenma. I mean, you remember him passing out on the field after the final whistle." Sata Tosamaru said to Taiyou looking closely at the field.

"I know, that's why I wanna see how things turn out without him. He was an excellent player who saw through us and chose to save his team even if he broke apart." His voice broke a bit as he spoke. "That's what a true leader is. I want to be like him."

Sata smiled at the words of his best friend. "I'm sure we will play against him once more in the Autumn." He put his arm around Taiyou shoulders as Taiyou turned to him and smiled. "You're right"

As the two waited for the match to begin, Raimon on the other hand was warming up on the field. Coach Ichihoshi looked over to the team, checking their conditions and observing them.

"Hey, Aoi!" The coach turned his head over to the red haired manager. The mangers were wearing the away uniform jersey with yellow skirt to cheer the team.

"What happened to Tenma? Why isn't he here?" Midori yelled at Aoi softly. The startled expression changed to a sad expression on the blue haired manager before speaking. "He said, he had to visit the doctor's. I even went over to his house to bring him along but he shut me down immediately. He told me he will come to watch the match after the appointment."

"Aww, come on" Midori let out a sigh. 

Coach Ichihoshi read the expression of Aoi seeing a believable face. 'I thought Matsukaze would be quite stubborn as Endou-san I guess I was wrong.' The coach thought before whistling to gather the team whom were warming up.

"Well that's everything, Otonashi-sensei. We leave the team in your hands." Aoi spoke to Otonashi-sensei. She gave them a soft gaze and a smile before wishing them good luck. All three of the managers walked out of the benches as they hurried over to the stadium.

"Well, this was quite the surprise right guys?" Hamano said as he stared over to the crowd supporting behind them. All the members looked over to the stand looking over the group of cheerleaders.

Raimon Juniors Cheer Squad was there to support Raimon. 

"What was more surprising? The fact that we had them or the managers joined them?" Nishiki said smirking.

"I never thought, I'd see them in anything except the school uniforms." Kariya said look over to them.

"But it truly is unfortunate."

"What?"

"Tsumugi Haru isn't there. I bet she would had been amazing in wearing the jer-" Hamano sentence caught mid sentence as Tsurugi walked past him bumping into him. "HEY Watch-" Hamano tried to yell to him but met with a glare from Tsurugi that he turned pale.

Kariya smirked at Tsurugi's reaction and whispered to Hamano. "I'd be careful when I talk about someone who's taken."

"What do you mean?"

"While at the arcade during two weeks ago I saw the two of them, wandered around into a corner holding hands."

"No way"

"HAMANO! KARIYA! ARE YOU TWO LISTENING?" Kirino yelled at the both of them. They both rushed over to the semi circle surrounding the Coach. The Coach sighed before speaking again.

"As I said, this is the line-up for first half."

FW Kurama
FW Tsurugi
MD Hayami
MD Shindou
MD Nishiki
MD Hamano
DF Kurumada
DF Amagi
DF Kirino
DF Kariya
GK Nishizono

"Nishizono, I am counting on you to protect Raimon's goal." The coach said to the short light haired brunette. He nodded as he said yes. Along with the line-up, Coach Ichihoshi informed them about the strategy they will proceed with. Unlike the usual, the team no longer had Tenma, Shuu and Hakuryuu. They weren't a compatible trio but as ex-seeds they were amazing players.

The Captain Shindou spoke a few words to the team before they went on to the field.

"I'll keep it short and simple. Without Tenma we probably would not have made it this far, so to make him proud let's win this match." He said as he put his hand out. His best friend, Kirino followed after him and put his on top his. All the members put their hand in one by one. Together they screamed. "Fighting! Raimon!"

"The match between Raimon Junior High and Seidouzan will begin momentarily." The commentator announced. All the players hurriedly went to their positions and awaited for the whistle to be blown. As the whistle blew, the crowd went wild along with the cheer team supporting the two teams.

As the match between Raimon and Seidouzan occurred, a brunette walked through the entrance to the stadium slowly making his way into the crowd. He was wearing baby blue hoodie along with red cap. He wore a pair of black jeans along with red sneakers. He also wore a black backpack. 

He looked over the game with a smile and turned his head over to the school students of Raimon cheering on for their school. Noticing a familiar face, he quickly took his phone and snapped a picture before he fled out of the crowd.

He walked over to the locker rooms but was instantly stopped by a security guard. He took out his eleven license and showed it to the security to show he was a member of Raimon. Recognizing the brunette the security guard apologized and continued to patrol around the stadium. The brunette quickly hid the card in his back pocket and entered the room. He put the bag down on the bench and opened it.

He grabbed the small black boxes and placed them in every corner of the room. He made sure to be very careful to turn on the boxes. It was a remote controlled box that would open up upon receiving the signal. He took his phone out and texted to someone stating he had planted the boxes. Now it was time to wait.

He took off his cap and went over to the mirror which was hung on the pillar. He carefully styled his hair in the way it resembled a certain someone. He put his cap in his backpack and took off his baby blue hoodie and switched it to a yellow one to match the personalities more. He put the backpack in one of the lockers as he went out of the room.

He slowly made his way back into the crowd and went over to the students cheering over Raimon. Going down each row he peeked a look over to a blue haired female. As a red haired noticed him, she quickly alerted the blue haired female.

The brunette grinned at her and waved. She immediately left her place and made her way through to the brunette.

"Tenma you made it." She said happily as she gave him a hug.

"Of course, I would not miss this for the world." He said as he held her. She let out a laugh as she pulled apart from him. "Of course not."

He led his way to the empty seat on the right side an and sat down together. Aoi also joined him after letting Midori know she was sitting next to Tenma.

"So do you think Raimon will win the match?"

"If they don't win, I will put all of them in the hospital." Aoi laughed at Tenma's comment. "I didn't sacrifice myself for them to lose." Both of them focused on the game and watched as Seidouzan has scored a goal the first goal. Aoi looked over to Tenma who groaned at the sight of the first goal being taken by Seidouzan. Aoi simply felt happy to see him after today morning.

This morning he had seemed to be in an awful mood. His eyes were dark unlike the usual and was wearing a tank top and shorts. As she asked him to join to watch the match, he refused immediately saying he had a doctor's appointment. She frowned upon hearing about it and apologized as she was making her way out of the entrance. 

But she was stopped by the brunette with his arms around her neck like a hug. He lowered his head towards her ear and whispered in her ear. Her face turned red upon hearing it that she was frozen and shocked. Before she could respond back the brunette let her go and walked back into the manor. 

Remembering the events form the morning she slipped her hand into the brunette and met his eyes which became wide.

"Tenma, about this morning..." She said softly as she blushed. She looked away but met with his eyes and said something to him but her voice was muffled by the crowd that cheered because of the goal scored by Raimon.

As the crowd calm down, the brunette who was stunned spoke. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that because of the crowd."

Aoi leaned in closer to the brunette but was stopped as the brunette stood up to excuse himself to the toilet. Aoi slumped in her seat and frowned in a bit anger as the brunette had walked away.

Outside of the stadium a limo arrived. A group of players exited the limo one by one. The players slowly made their way to stands and watched over the crowd cheering.

"Well I will be damned, Raimon has their own cheering squad." Matatagi said as let out a whistle in a teasing tone.

"Dude, be careful. They could mistake the whistle with an adult and get them arrested." Ibuki commented and all of the players laughed along with him. They all walked all the way to top of seating areas. All of them walked over to the seats which were book by their acting leader. All of them watched as another goal was scored by Seidouzan.

All of them groaned and yelled. But they knew the truth no matter what the scored turned out they will be flipping it around. The dark teal blue haired called out to the approaching duo.

"Finally the both of you showed up." Everyone turned their head towards them.

"Sorry, we were waiting till his understudy planted the boxes and made sure to keep the managers away." The blonde told to her team as she texted on her phone.

"Is everything ready?" Ibuki asked them.

Haru smirked before speaking. "Yup, we even have a Coach so everything will go according to plan." Everyone let out a gasp followed by not believing it.

The conversation got interrupted as the brunette received a call. "It's my understudy, one second." He said as he walked away and talked over the phone.

 "Who's gonna be our Coach?" Nozaki asked excitedly.

"I think I won't tell as I want you all to be surprised." Haru said she put her hair behind her ears as she looked over to the field. The moment they all had been waiting for the past year was finally happening.