[If anyone on the team was inclined not to feel protective of Kenzo, it may help his case that he arrives at his first practice with a pronounced half-moon bruise under one pale green eye. Standing a full inch under five feet tall with the sleeves of his school sweater wrapped around his hands and his backpack sagging nearly to his knees, Kenzo looks he should be about to start middle school, not leave it.
He trails slightly behind Tsukishima and, when Yamaguchi runs over, uses both boys to shield himself from the rest of the team. Sure, everyone he's met up until now has been nice, but he knows from watching nationals on TV that some of the others are downright terrifying - the famous one with the oni mask face, the bald delinquent one, the small but foghorn-loud one.
Koushi-nii's coming right before the end of practice to see how he did and walk home with him, so he just needs to survive that long. He can do it.]
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[If anyone on the team was inclined not to feel protective of Kenzo, it may help his case that he arrives at his first practice with a pronounced half-moon bruise under one pale green eye. Standing a full inch under five feet tall with the sleeves of his school sweater wrapped around his hands and his backpack sagging nearly to his knees, Kenzo looks he should be about to start middle school, not leave it.
He trails slightly behind Tsukishima and, when Yamaguchi runs over, uses both boys to shield himself from the rest of the team. Sure, everyone he's met up until now has been nice, but he knows from watching nationals on TV that some of the others are downright terrifying - the famous one with the oni mask face, the bald delinquent one, the small but foghorn-loud one.
Koushi-nii's coming right before the end of practice to see how he did and walk home with him, so he just needs to survive that long. He can do it.]