Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Best Season Ever ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

I don't own Ruroni Kenshin or any of its characters. If I did I'd be rich and live in Beverly Hills instead of Missouri.

Chapter 2: 1st Training Session

“Erica! Why did you have to jump on me and embarrass me in front of Kenshin?” Kaoru huffed indignantly.

“Kenshin is an old friend of mine! We go way, way back to middle school! He saw me anyway. I think that you are just angry `cause I cut your time talking to him short,” Erica said as they entered the dugout. Megumi was yelling at Sanosuke about something. Erica and Kaoru sauntered over to Megumi since Erica needed some tape. “Pardon me, Megumi I need tape for my ankle and that thingy for my nose so it won't get broken again.”

“Oh of course J. I'll get that for you right now. Please sit on the bench and take your shoe off so I can wrap your ankle,” Megumi requested. She brought over her medical kit and took out some tape and a strip to put over her nose. While Megumi taped her foot Erica peeled the strip off the sticky part and placed the strip on the bridge of her nose. She felt the wire in the strip to make sure it was on the right parts. “All done J. Put your shoe back on and warm up with Kaoru.”

Erica quickly pulled her sock and shoe on and laced it up nice and tight. When she finished she gave it a nice whack and grabbed a ball and Kaoru and ran onto the field. Kaoru and Erica quickly went through some stretches before warming up by throwing the ball to each other by flicking their forearms to get it to each other kneeling on their throwing leg. After that they backed up to 20 feet apart from each other and start throwing again.

After about five throws each they backed up about five feet. Eventually they stopped around 150 feet Erica at home and Kaoru out in left field. Kaoru jogged in when she threw her last throw and went up to Erica and threw her arm around her. They together went to the dugout and sat on the bench. They hadn't noticed that the men who were there were speechless and gapping at the pair. Because while they have well defined arm muscles they were relatively short Erica at 5 foot 6 inches and Kaoru at 5 foot 3 inches looked as if they couldn't even throw the ball from the mound to home. Erica noticed that they were being looked at while she putting her shin guards on.

“What you've never seen a female catcher before or a female second baseman? Geez get your asses warmed up before the coach gets out here. It isn't too late to be cut still ya know!” Erica said with strength. The men looked at her with mild surprise on their faces and ran onto the field so that they too could warm up.

The Head Coach, Tony Spanks, came out into the dugout. He looked around at the people in the dugout and spat at a man who was tying up his shoe. The man quickly tied up his shoe and ran onto the field with his glove. Sanosuke and Kenshin came out as Erica was strapping her shin guards on. Sanosuke looked at her and asked Kenshin a question in a low voice so that Kaoru and Erica couldn't hear.

“I thought that you said that Erica can't play any sports anymore. So why is she strapping on catchers gear?” Kenshin sighed.

“She wasn't supposed to, but a good friend of hers specializes on knees and the bones and stuff fixed it so she was out for 2