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	 Volume 1
	  Chapter 4
	   You'll Grow

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(Ch. 4) You'll Grow

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<<Hiro: I can see your bra through your shirt.
	Trying to be sexy.
	Heheeeeh!

<<Hikari: Be quiet!

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<<Hikari: Oh,
	wait, Hiro.

<<Hiro: Uh?

<<Hikari: Who's...
	that boy?

<<Hiro: Hm?

<<Hikari: The one who just picked up the grounder.

<<Hiro: Ohh.
	He's Tachibana Hideo.  He came from Hirai Elementary.
	He hit clean-up for the Hakusan Angels.
	He's huge, i'nt he?
	And he's the same grade as me.  It sucks.

<<Hikari: You're just too short.

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<<Hikari: And that baggy uniform looks ridiculous on you.

<<Hiro: My dad told me, "You got big hands and feet, so when you get in middle school, you'll grow."
	He said by the end of my first year, this uniform would fit perfect.

<<Hikari: Hmmmmm.
	{Tachibana Hideo...}
	Kya!

<<Hiro: Trying to be sexy.
	Heheeeeh!

<<Hikari: You brat!

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Coach: Your thoughts are preoccupied, Amamiya-san.
	Listen well, everyone.
	Heart, spirit, body.  An arrow flies with the completion of each of these things.
	It is not "released" by your fingers, but moves of its own accord.
	The wish to hit the target.
	The anxiety that you may miss the target.
	If fear and confusion are present, the spirit is not complete.

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Coach: Love is the same.
	The arrow is your feeling, and the target is the other's heart.
	First the arrow.
	Your feelings must be straight and honest.
	Then the target.
	You must see it with your heart's eye, free from outside distractions.
	You must not be hasty.
	Wait for your spirit to be complete to release the arrow.
	Understand?
	It is too late for regrets once you have let it	go.
	An arrow once shot will not return again.

Student: Ah.

Coach: Dyaah!

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Sign: Senkawa Private Senior High School

Players: What?!
	The grass-lot baseball team we were going to play against tomorrow can't make it?!

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Haruka: Yes,
	that's what Kuma-san from the vegetable stand said.

Players: Awww, man.
	What do we do?
	We can't search for a replacement team this late.
	Oh well.
	We'll practice by ourselves tomorrow.
	What a waste.  Just when we got a chance to use the city field.
	Bummer.  I wanted to show Haruka-chan how good I am.
	Bad luck.

Haruka: But it'll feel nice to hit the ball around, won't it?

Player: Yeah, that's what baseball is really all about,
	isn't it...

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Kine: Yo!

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Kine: HE SHOOTS!
	HE SCORES!
	GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLL!!

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Akagi: Okay Kunimi, you switch with Saito!

Player: You okay?!

Hiro: (ouch)(ouch)

Players: He's malicious.  He doesn't need to play so tough against beginners in practice.
	Yeah.

[It doesn't matter what he does.
As long as it pumps me up.]

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Players: A baseball game?
	Against that baseball club?

Kine: Yeah.
	It seems they lost their opponent for their game tomorrow and they need help.

Player: Who cares?
	Why do we have to play them?  That's bullshit.

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Akagi: Wait, wait.
	This sounds fun.
	Even the baseball club's gotta have some pride.
	They'll be the laughingstock of the whole school if they lose to the soccer team.

Player: It's not guaranteed we'll win.

Kine: Don't worry.
	For any game, all you really need to win is your innate reflexes and physical strength.
	Everyone who had those a few years ago was playing baseball, but not anymore.
	And the soccer team has the most of those players out of all the teams at this school, right?

Player: Hehe.

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Kine: We should be able to assemble 8 more of those players, at the very least.

Akagi: 8?

Kine: I'm already counted, of course.

Akagi: Well, aren't you a cocky one?

Kine: I've got the innate reflexes and physical strength needed to win any game.

Captain: All right, leave it to me!
	I won't hide it, I was one of those guys who had to choose between baseball and soccer, myself!
	We'll crush that ugly bunch of cockroaches into the ground.
	Hah haha!

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Mother: Oh, Hiro-chan, are you on your way home?

Hiro: Oh, it's the mother of Amamiya Hikari, daughter of the Amamiya Bookstore and first-year at Meiwa Daiichi High School.
	Good evening.

Mother: Who are you explaining that to?

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Mother: So,
	is soccer fun?

Hiro: Yeah, fun enough to give me a nosebleed.  
	What is it?

Mother: You and Hikari were just like brother and sister so long ago.
	Hikari was still bigger when you went into middle school, wasn't she?

Hiro: I caught up with her at the end of 7th grade,
	and I passed her in the summer of 8th grade...  I think.

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Mother: When you boys grow, it's always in a instant.
	Will you come over?  Hikari's home.

Hiro: Nah...
	I'm totally wasted.

Mother: Oh.
	Bye, then.

Hiro: G'bye.

Mother: (huff)(huff)

 - Chapter 4 Owari -