Inazuma Eleven Go - His story

Aftermath and Kageyama

After the match was over, the Raimon members headed towards their dressing room, and in there, a lot of chatting and cheering happened among the players

"I'm glad you decided to listen for once, Kariya."

"Hm?" The said defender looked right towards the voice owner, only to find his lovely brunet friend, smirking at him, unimpressed "Uh, hehehe..." Kariya felt pretty awkward under his penetrating stare, and all he could do was rub the back of his neck while chuckling nervously, which in return, makes the brunet shake his head with an unimpressed face

"What do you mean by that, Tenma?" Asked the captain of the team, his expression filled with curiosity, same as the others, except for Kirino, who already had an idea of what was about to happen

"Oh, I don't know~, maybe I'm referring to this guy purposely ticking off Kirino-senpai's every last nerve~?" It wasn't that much of a question really, it was more like a statement than anything else "And~, maybe I'm also referring to him not being the angel he seems to be, but rather a prankster, a joker and~ a troublemaker?"

'This is it... They probably hate me now...' As Kariya's mind was circling through all the worst consequences he could ever imagine, his eye sockets were struggling to hold back his tears, his hands were also having a hard time controling his violent shaking

"But... Why did you do all of that, Kariya...?" Asked the goalkeeper - a.k.a mother - of the team to the shaky defender

"Ever since I've been abandoned by my parents, I've developed trust issues. I wasn't planning on trusting you guys anytime soon, so... I decided to make the most out of my time with all of you with a fake persona..." At this point, Kariya was having a meltdown, one that he has been holding back ever since he became part of the orphanage, one that he was dying to just get it out.

He was fully expecting his teammates to despise him to the max, but instead, he received a group hug from everybody, even Tsurugi, Kurama and Kirino joined in, the only one who didn't join in was Tenma, who he then saw was watching from one side, and when they made eye contact, the brunet gave him a reassuring smile and a promising wink, which made the defender cry even more with his already overwhelmed feelings

'Must be painful...' Thought Tenma to himself as he watched his friend break down in the middle of the group hug. The defender made him remember vividly of 'someone' who he once used to know, but now, that 'someone' is buried alive, by none other than himself. He had to, he had no other choice, it was either do or die 'Can't start getting weak now...'

~'0'~

"Welcome back, Tenma."

"Nii-san? Why are you already back?"

"Uuuuuuhhhhh... I've been having quite the headache today, since I barely even slept last night..." Responded the older sibling with guilt written all over his face and Tenma shot it back with a blank one

"Be honest, how long did you sleep for?"

"Uuuuuuhhhhh, 4 hours...?"

Tenma couldn't help but twitch his eye at his brother and Reo fully understood why, after all, Tenma has always been the most objective person when it comes to him being a night owl.

A long sigh escaped from the brunet's mouth before he said the following sentence

"If you keep this up, I'll call your boss to give you two weeks of rest and I'm gonna confiscate all of your personal devices during those two weeks."