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	 Volume 2
	  Chapter 10 (19)
	   Hideo = Hero

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(Ch. 10) Hideo = Hero

(Note: Notice the kanji are the same.)

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Hiro: Nude sketching?
	A model's gonna come in and undress?
	What do you mean?

Guy: I told you,
	the art club got a model to come, and we're gonna do nude drawing.

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Hiro: I don't have time for that now, you fool!

Guy: YOU asked US about it!

Hiro: Why are you doing this now, when we're most desperate to get the baseball club ratified as the school team?!

Guy: I ain't doin' nothin'.

Hiro: And we can't even become a team until we have enough players by summer vacation.
	Got it?!

Guy: Who cares.

Hiro: Sigh,
	I'm so busy busy busy.

Guy: Stop following us.

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Beast: Which way's the art room, boys?

Guy: Oh, straight ahead that way.

Beast: Thanks fer yer help.

Hiro: Cleaning lady?

Guy: Today's model.

Hiro: Yah!

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Hiro: Punk!
	What the hell do you think you're doing?!

Guy: What do you mean?

Hiro: I'm busy!
	I don't have time to play with you dorks.
	Excuse me.

Guy: You're excused!

[Art Room]

Hiro: Sheesh!
	THAT'S nude drawing?
	Looks more like a Godzilla drawing contest to me.

[Art Room]

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Hiro: Yanagi?
	From Kita Middle School?

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Noda: That secondbaseman?

Hiro: Yeah.
	I saw lots of secondbasemen on lots of different teams in middle school,
	but his fielding was the best.

Noda: Yeah, he was definitely good.
	Fast legs, persistant hitter.  Tough opponent...
	Are you sure it's him?

Hiro: Hell yeah, I am!

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Hiro: Yanagi.
	Toldja.

Noda: Yeah,
	it IS him.

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Hiro: Why are you at this school?

Yanagi: What do you mean?

Noda: You didn't know this school didn't have a baseball team?

Yanagi: Oh,
	I quit.
	I was only gonna play baseball until middle school...

Hiro: You quit?
	What's busted?
	Elbow?!
	Hip?!

Noda: Did you go to a real hospital to get it checked?!
	It wasn't Uetake Clinic, was it?!

Yanagi: No.
	There's nothing wrong with my body.

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Hiro: Then why'd you quit playing baseball?!

Noda: What a waste!

Yanagi: I promised my dad.

Hiro: Your dad?

Yanagi: Yeah.
	That I'd play baseball until I got into high school, then I'd forget all about it..

Hiro: Why'd you agree to that?

Noda: Don't you like playing baseball?

Yanagi: Yeah,
	I love it...

Hiro: Then play it with us!
	We're only a club now, but we could totally be a team!

Yanagi: The old man wouldn't let me.

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Hiro: What's your dad got to do with it?!
	Do what you want to do!

Yanagi: You can say that because you don't know my dad.
	It's a waste for YOU TWO to be here, Kunimi-kun and Noda-kun.
	You should go to a school with a real team and go to the Koshien.
	Later.

Hiro: Wait a minute, Yanagi!

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Newspaper: HERO
	Meiwa Daiichi's Hero [TACHIBANA]
	Homered in 2 consecutive games, No. 3, Sophomore Tachibana Hideo.

(Note: Hideo's name means "Hero" in kanji.)

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Mother: I don't believe it.
	Everyone kept saying how amazing he is...
	But seeing his name in the paper so large like this, it's like looking at an entirely different person.

Hikari: That's Hide-chan, all right.

Mother: Hideo = Hero.
	His parents must be satisfied that they raised him just like his name would suggest.

Hikari: Shouldn't you be, too?
	I'm shining, just like my name would suggest.

(Note: Hikari means "light" or "shine".)

Hikari: I have been chosen as Miss Meiwa among all the newcoming students.
	Ahem.

Mother: That's not because of your name.
	You just have your mother's beautiful blood in you.

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Hikari: Aha.

Mother: What about our other hero?

Hikari: Hmm?

Mother: Hero/Hiro.

Hiro: So what happened?

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Players: Huh?
	About what?

Hiro: You know what I'm talking about!
	The principal came back from his business trip, didn't he?!

Player: Oh,
	indeed, he certainly did.

Hiro: And?

Player: Yeah,
	well...
	I tried to ask him through a teacher, but he won't meet with us.
	He's too busy.  He doesn't have the time.

Haruka: What do you mean?

Players: Uh, well...
	Basically...
	He won't meet with us.

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[Principal's Office]

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Principal: Blast!

Sign: You don't look busy to me

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Sign: We're from the baseball club

Bug: *splat*

Sign: To be continued

 - Chapter 10 Owari -

 - Volume 2 Kan -