Third person's point of view

"Got it." Sakuragi said with the ball cupped in his hands.

"The ball's stolen!" The crowd yelled. "He actually stole the ball from Uozumi-senpai! Amazing, this guy's really great!"

"He used that same defense technique on Gori!" Sakuragi's friends. "Sakuragi is really great today, He did his special move already!"

"Unbelievable!" Takoa-sensei and Aida yelled.

"Uozumi-sempai." Sendoh called. "Defense, come back."

"Really hard to believe." Uozumi said.

"Hey everybody!" Sakuragi called. "Pay attention, don't drag me down!"

"He's getting pretty confident!" Sakuragi's friends shout. "Nice spirt Hanamichi!"

"Okay!" Kogure yelled.

"Counter attack!" Shohoku players yelled.

'He thinks he's so great.' Rukawa thought.

Ryonan is started to panic about the stunt Sakuragi just pull off.

"That guy is really incredible he wasn't bluffing at all." Ryonan players chatting. "I haven't seen that type defense before."

"I told you he would be the next captain!" Aida said.

"Stupid, how can a guy wearing cloth shoes be better than those who are wearing runners!" Takoa-sensei suddenly argued.

"Don't say that coach!" Aida said and come face to face with him.

"What?!" Takoa-sensei exclaimed.

"You shouldn't say such things! Coach..." Aida said and thought that Sakuragi comes from a really poor family.

Takoa-sensei couldn't take it anymore and stand up from his seat and turn to his players.

"Open your eyes and take a good look, he's only a beginner." Takoa-sensei shout. "Even though he's really fast, but those aren't basketball skills! We'll see he's weakness pretty soon! Come on! Pull it together!"

"Ah... Yes!" His players replied.

"Don't just stand there!" Sakuragi yelled and made his way to the other side of the court. "Bring it on Ryonan!"

"That bastard..." Uozumi commented.

"Yeah! Go! Go! Hanamichi!" Sakuragi's friends cheered.

"Coach that guy's ball handling seems pretty good!" Ryonan players shout. "Look! Not bad!"

Aida has this wide grin plastered to his face.

"What's there to be proud of!? Hikoichi!" Takoa-sensei yelled at Aida and punched his head and sits down to his chair with his arms crossed. "You stupid..."

"That's because me, Ayako-chan strictly forced him to practice the basic every day!" Ayako proudly said.

"Yes! That's Ayako-sempai to you!" Y/n cheered while her arm is around her sempai's shoulder.

Ryonan's strategy is to go man-to-man starting from the half court. Of course, Uozumi's defending Sakuragi, Akagi's replacement.

"Time to defeat Uozumi!" Sakuragi yelled as he attempts to force a shot. "Genius's style of the commoner's shot!"

"Ah! Sakuragi!" Kogure called. "Don't force it!"

Uozumi blocked Sakuragi's shot, he immediately got the ball clutch in his hands.

"Sakuragi pass, we've got to play as a team." Kogure said.

Sakuragi has now the ball. At Uozumi's back, Rukawa is waving his hand to Sakuragi to pass him the ball.

"Watch Rukawa!" Ikegami yelled.

"Block him off!" Takoa-sensei yelled.

Sakuragi passes the ball not to Rukawa to Kogure who has no defender.

Ryonan was shock on what Sakuragi did. Kogure scores, they were too late to stop his shot.

"There's only a 5-point difference, Ryonan's in danger!" The crowd shouted.

"Nice pass, Sakuragi!" Kogure praised and pat his back. "Keep it up!"

Rukawa was pissed at Sakuragi for not passing him the ball. Takoa-sensei concluded that Sakuragi will pass it to Rukawa next. But then, Sakuragi still passes the ball to Kogure.

"Not again!" Takoa-sensei exclaimed.

Kogure shoots and scored. The current score is 68-65 still in favor of Ryonan.

"Only 3-point difference!" The crowd cheered. "Just one more three pointer and it's a tie!" "Hey! Hey! Ryonan's going to make it?!"

"Nice pass!" They praised Sakuragi.

Sakuragi is now wearing his smug smirk plastered to his face.

"Although I don't want to admit it... I really don't know what kind of a player he is." Takoa-sensei said. "There's one thing for sure... This guy is really smart! He's very smart!"

"You really think so?! He is really a secret weapon!" Aida said as his face brighten up.

"Although I don't want to admit it..." Takoa-sensei said with a frown in his face.

"Sakuragi... Maybe he can actually tell that Kogure's really up to it today." One of the Shohoku said.

"WAAAAHHAAA! Of course not!" Sakuragi's friend exclaimed.

"Yeah, I really think Sakuragi won't pass the ball to Kaede-kun so he can't 'show off'." Y/n said while his hand is in her chin.

"You got that right pretty manager!" Sakuragi's friend confirmed her thought.

'Rukawa! I won't pass the ball to you.' Sakuragi thought.

'That bastard.' Rukawa thought.

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