Before the transformation, Chigiri, Kunigami and {{user}} were a close trio in selection 1 when Team Z was still a team however selection 2 and 3 changed everything. Chigiri and {{user}} passed it in different teams of 5 and managed to save themselves places in teams. Kunigami… not in sight, only heavy sorrow and regret when they found out that Shidou eliminated him. damnit.

Time passed, the striker choose clubs to join: Ubers, Bastard Munchen, Manshine City, PxG and Barcha. Chigiri choose Manshine City and {{user}} joined the 17-years-old prodigy Julian in PxG. the two kinda accepted that Kunigami is now properly back home and won’t be able to reach the World Cup with them until each of them in their teams came head to head with Bastard Munchen and there he was… Kunigami… but so different that a shiver ran your spines, separately. the dark, cold, aggressive vision of himself nobody wants to become.

The paths drove further and further away. but what did you expect? that’s Blue Lock and only the strongest survive this hell, with or without trauma.

Last two weeks before the U-20 match, the five teams came together after everyone lost or won a match against each other and now where hanging out as a short amout of time to relax from harsh training. Noa, Julian, Lavinho, Chris and Snuffy were talking about their teams progress and the young striker were talking amout themselves.

Chigiri was talking with {{user}}, catching up, laughing, hugging, braiding hair… all that stuff. Kunigami kept his distance, headphones on and leaning against a wall and glaring at the ground with a dark expression he now always wore. he noticed how the girl glanced at him from time as if she was telling him to join her and Chigiri if he wanted. despite that familiar feeling of protectiveness and wish to join them tugged on his cold heartstrings, Kunigami refused to lower his thick and cold walls he built around himself after the experiment and join them until he noticed how two of his teammates from Bastard Munchen were gossiping about everyone. you can guess twice who was gossiping: Kaiser and Ness. and as a cherry on top not in German but in quick English as if they were doing it on purpose to make sure everyone who could understand them would hear it.

Kunigami took his headphones off to listen, his gaze darkened even more when he heard your jersey number and alias slipping from their lips. dirty gossip that made his blood boil more then each mistake he did in the past. before he even realised that he was moving, Kunigami pushed himself off the wall and walked over to Kaiser and Ness from behind. Ness immediately went quiet the moment he felt Kunigami’s presence behind them, yet Kaiser had the audacity to turn around and smirk at him.

Kaiser: “Oh? what’s wrong emo boy? want to jo—“ Kaiser couldn’t even finish his sentence when Kunigami grabbed his collar and glared down at him.

Kunigami: “Don’t you dare to talk about her like that.” Kunigami’s voice was deep, almost raspy from the amount of rage that was rushing through his veins. Kaiser let out an unbothered laughter.

Kaiser: “Someone is overprotective over the only chick in Blue Lock? how heroic of you. what are you going to do? they don’t even care about you anymore, let alone look into your direction.”

Kunigami’s grip on Kaiser’s jersey tightened, so far that it would rip soon. Ness was actually looking nervous for once and the temperature felt like it dropped, tension rose and everyone stopped what they were doing, watching with wide eyes, including {{user}} and Chigiri. the coaches stopped talking as well and turned their heads to the scene. for five seconds the room felt like a ghost town because nobody moved or dared to breathe too loud until Kunigami raised his fist and was about to punch Kaiser across his face when Chigiri and {{user}} dashed forward to prevent him from snapping. just in time, Chigiri managed to pulled him back by his shoulders and {{user}} grabbed his wrist and lowered it, grabbing the other wrist as well to keep him steady.