For Someone One-Shot by Tomoya Ohishi - Page 1 - For Someone - Page 2 - Yamazaki: GGGGGGH... Caption: Introducing a boy in his youth!! Naoko: Yamazaki... What's gotten into you? Yamazaki: I'm joining the baseball team!! Naoko: Okay... and the pull-ups are for...? Yamazaki: You can't join if you can't do 10 of them for the tryouts!! - Page 3 - Naoko: Why baseball again...? Yamazaki: Cause you're gonna be the manager!! Naoko: So you're going to follow me wherever I go. Yamazaki: Yeah... I'm following you wherever you go!! If I do 10 pull-ups, you gotta kiss me!! Naoko: HAH?! Yamazaki: I... I'll show you how I feel!! - Page 4 - Naoko: Why should I kiss you? Hmm? Why? Yamazaki: Who cares, just promise!! Don't try to wriggle your way out of it!! That's gotta be the prize!! Naoko: Why me...?! Fine! - Page 5 - Yamazaki: R... R... REALLY?! Naoko: You're going to show how much you love me, right? Besides, it's not like you can even do o... Huh? Yamazaki: Yaaaaaah!! Gaaaaah!! Hiyaaaaah!! One! Two! Three! - Page 6 - Yamazaki: Eight! Nine! Ten! HUH...?! I DID IT!! Yes! Yes! See, I knew I could it! Haha!! Huh?! Naoko...?! Naoko: Urgggh... Yamazaki: Naoko... Where's my kiss?! C'mon, you... *SLAP* Ow! - Page 7 - [Two years later] Yamazaki: YESSS!! Naoko: Wow, Yamazaki, you've gotten so strong!! Yamazaki: Because I devote myself to practice every day, hahaha!! Naoko: I think we could get really far in the district tournament starting tomorrow. Yamazaki: No, you petty-minded fool!! I have only one goal: victory at the Koushien!! (Note: The be-all-end-all of high school baseball tournaments. It's a major major sporting event, like world-series caliber.) - Page 8 - Yamazaki: And I don't break my promises, UNLIKE YOU! Naoko: Jeez, are you still angry about that? Yamazaki: But I tried so hard for you... so hard... Naoko: Don't forget you kicked me and stepped on me, too. Yamazaki: My first kiss... gone... Naoko: And besides, don't you think that a kiss for only 10 pull-ups is a little on the cheap side? Yamazaki: Oh yeah, you're right... that's too easy, hahaha... Naoko: You'd have to do at least 500 or something, ahaha... Ahaha... Ha... - Page 9 - Yamazaki: All right, then!! Naoko: W... wait, Yamazaki... Yamazaki: You'll give me a kiss if I do 500 pull-ups, right?! Naoko: Stop! Yamazaki: Just watch!! This time you can't break your promise!! Naoko: No, no... Yamazaki... Listen, I was just... - Page 10 - Naoko: That was only a "for instance"... hey!! Would you stop it? You can't do 500... Heeeyy, are you listening?! Come on... - Page 11 - Naoko: You'll never change... Listen... Why do you get so pumped up over this and ignore me? Why do you have to be so crazy when it comes to me? I don't like that kind of stuff. You got it?! - Page 12 - Naoko: Oh, fine. Knock yourself out. Yamazaki: Hah... hah... Naoko: You can't do 500. - Page 13 - Naoko: HELLLOOOO? (tomorrow's the tournament) Yamazaki: Hah... hah... hah... Naoko: Please. You're going to kill yourself! - Page 14 - Naoko: Listen... I understand your feelings... You... - Page 15 - Naoko: {YAMAZAKI...} Please... That's enough! Knock it off!! {Just a little more. 8 more. 5 more... 4 more... If he finishes... I... Yamazaki: One more... - Page 16 - Naoko: Oh. Yamazaki: Ow... - Page 17 - Yamazaki: Ow... Ump: Batter out!! [The tournament the next day...] Ump: Change sides! Players: Hang in there, Yamazaki. We can't win if you don't hit. Yamazaki: {I can't even lift my arms, they're so cramped...} Naoko: (on the bench as manager) {You are so stupid...} - Page 18 - Yamazaki: Damn... {Is this is going to be the end...?} Players: Yes, runners on first and second!! Come on, Yamazaki!! Tie it up with a homerun!! Yamazaki: Yeah!! Naoko: {Yamazaki...} Coach: Yamazaki!! Yamazaki: Yes? Coach: Listen up, Yamazaki. There are some games worth more than victory. - Page 19 - Yamazaki: What's that? Coach: Games with no regrets. Yamazaki: Got it. Naoko! Naoko: W... what? Yamazaki: We lose if I don't get a hit here. I don't want to have any regrets after this at-bat. - Page 20 - Yamazaki: NAOKO!! IF I HIT A HOMERUN, YOU HAVE TO KISS ME!! Naoko: {Not again...} Cut it out!! We're all serious here!! Yamazaki: So am I!! LOOK AT MY EYES!! Naoko: O... okay. I get it. NOW GO OUT THERE AND HIT!! Yamazaki: Right!! - Page 21 - Naoko: {What an idiot... There's no way he can hit one. He's so full of himself...} Pitcher: Try it, if you can, buddy. - Page 22 - - Page 23 - Players: WAY BACK!! GET OUTTA HERE!! Naoko: {Please...!!} Yamazaki: GO OUT!! - Page 24 - Team: Awwww!! Crowd: Maaan. Crap! Naoko: {Wasn't far enough...} Player: GO, GO!! FOUR BASES!! FOUR BASES!! 3rd Baseman: Home, home! Naoko: An... inside the park homerun...?! - Page 25 - Yamazaki: Hah hah hah Player: BACK HOME!! Yamazaki: AAAAAAAHH!! - Page 26 - Ump: OUT!! Game over!! Yamazaki: WHAT?! Hey, wait a second!! Ump: Yer OUT, kid!! - Page 27 - Naoko: HE WAS ABSOLUTELY SAFE!! Yamazaki: Yeah, absolutely sa... Ump: OU... Yamazaki + Ump: Huh? Naoko: I was watching!! He was so safe!! Yamazaki: Naoko... Ump: Wha... who are you...?! Yamazaki: Settle down. Naoko: He was safe!! Coach: (hey, hey) Player: (coach) Ump: Uh... Ummmm... Naoko: DEFINITELY... - Page 28 - Naoko: Safe. Yamazaki: Yeah. But the ump said "out", so I was out. Naoko: Except... You were obviously safe. You were safe to me... Yamazaki: Okay then, where's my k... Naoko: I don't think so. - The End -