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	 Volume 8
	  Chapter 5 (74)
	   I'm Sure You Could Do It

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(Ch. 5) I'm Sure You Could Do It

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Sign: Meiwa Daiichi High School

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Meiwa Coach: Tachibana!
	Guy from a newspaper wants to talk with you.

Hideo: Okay.

Amamiya: Hello.  I'm Amamiya, from the Sanpo Sports paper.

Hideo: Ah, thanks.
	Amamiya?
	...san.

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Pachinko: (ting)
	(jingle jingle)

Hiro: Brrr,
	cold...

Amamiya: Yo, there.

Pachinko: (ting)
	(jingle jingle)

Hiro: Pachinko again?

Amamiya: What do you mean, again?

Hiro: Seems like I always meet you in front of a pachinko place, or a bar.
	And I've seen you sitting in there like two or three times.

Amamiya: How rude.

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Amamiya: I have to get up early every morning to unwrap the new deliveries and stock them.
	And after everyone goes to sleep, I'm busy looking over the day's sales and calculating our budget.
	(ah, so busy busy)

Hiro: So why don't you do that in the middle of the day?

Amamiya: Cuz then there's no time for pachinko.

Hiro: Yeah right, pachinko stores are open late.

Amamiya: But none of the good machines are open.

Hiro: Geez.
	You're so rarely home, they'll think your family is fatherless.

Amamiya: Who will?
	Oh, hi there.
	I'm Amamiya Hikari's father.
	Nice to see you.

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Amamiya: Well, come and have some tea.
	You gotta stick your head in our place sometimes.

Hiro: I do.
	You're just never there.

Amamiya: Really?

Hikari: Oh,
	look who's here.

Amamiya: Hah, you liar!  You don't come by at all!  She said "look who's here".

Hikari: I was talking about you.

Amamiya: Oh.

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Hikari: Oh,
	and Uncle's here.

Amamiya: Takaaki?
	Now THERE'S a rare visitor.

Hiro: Takaaki being your dad's younger brother and newspaper writer?

Hikari: Yep.
	He's going back to the Tokyo HQ next year.

Hiro: Ahh.
	Good evening.

Takaaki: Is that Hiro-kun?!
	My, you're so large.

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Takaaki: How's baseball?
	Still playing?

Hiro: Err,
	yes...

Takaaki: What school?

Hiro: Senkawa.

Takaaki: Senkawa?

Hikari: They just got their baseball team created.

Takaaki: Oh, no wonder.

Hiro: That's right.

Takaaki: By the way, I just stopped by at Meiwa Daiichi.  They're expected to be in the Koshien.

Hiro: Hear that?

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Takaaki: Tachibana Hideo is just like his reputation.
	He'll be a major Koshien star that people come out to see.
	He's smart,
	and he knows what he's doing.
	I think he'll be a productive pro baseball player.

Amamiya: If you want to discuss Tachibana-kun, maybe you should just ask Hikari.

Takaaki: Oh?

Hiro: ...by the way,
	I just remembered.

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Hikari: What?

Hiro: That paper you wrote in elementary school...
	About your dreams for the future...
	It was to be a journalist, wasn't it?

Hikari: Yep,
	a sportswriter.

Hiro: Wait...

Hikari: Wait what?

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Hiro: You still want to?

Hikari: You probably think I can't.

Hiro: No.
	I'm sure you could do it.

Hikari: When I told Hide-chan,
	he didn't take me seriously.

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Hiro: That's because you haven't showed Hideo what you're really like.

Hikari: Huh?

Hiro: With him, you're a nice, normal girl.
	Hideo doesn't know how stubborn and persistant you are.

Hikari: Boo to that.

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Takaaki: So, Hikari-chan
	and Tachibana Hideo.
	What a surprise.

Mother: Surprise?

Takaaki: Uh,
	I mean...
	Not that I have any complaints about that pairing.
	Just, that combination...

Mother: Your journalistic sense?

Takaaki: I suppose I couldn't have seen it anyways.
	My image of Hikari-chan is from when she was in grade school.

Mother: Oh, well then.

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Hiro: Goddamn snow.
	I'm home.

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Father: Oh, there you are, you're back.
	Hey, dumbass.
	My boss's daughter is on the phone.

Hiro: What do you want?

Father: Take it easy!

Hiro: Pretty snow?
	What the hell?

Father: Eeep!

Hiro: Listen!  Every GOOD school has a practice space for rainy days.
	The longer this weather goes on, the further we'll slip behind.
	We have to shovel the snow off the field tomorrow morning.
	So get up early.

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Hiro: I can't get up that early, so you'll have to come get me.
	6 o'clock?
	No way!  That's too early.
	Yeah.
	...okay, I guess.
	Right.
	Hmm?
	What?
	Pretty snow?
	What the hell are you talking about?!
	Don't make me kick your ass!

Father: M-Mother!

 - Chapter 5 Owari -