A/N: Yooo it's been like forever since I published a story. Anyways this is my very first KnB fanfiction! I really love this anime (even though I don't know anything about basketball) and it's sad to see the anime finish..*cries*.

Well this story is AkaFuri and there will be lots of it! So if you don't like this pairing then don't read it please! This story is T rated so there will be no sex scenes. There will be bad things happening in the future but nothing gruesome.

The inspiration to write this story literally just came to me today so I only had the first chapter planned out. I have random events that happen throughout the whole story but I need to come up with other events to make the story flow better. I'll have the 2nd chapter uploaded sometime this week. So until then I hope you enjoy this chapter! :) -Momo

Disclaimer: I do not own Kuroko no Basuke! It belongs to Fujimaki Tadatoshi!

Outside in the chilly night the Seirin team gathered around.

"Good job guys for winning the Winter Cup! To celebrate this victory I decided to treat you all to dinner," Riko explained.

"What? She's got to be joking, right Hyuuga?" Koganei questioned.

"Shut up! You guys better be glad I'm spending my own money on you idiots!" Riko yelled ready to punch Koganei.

With the 2nd years bickering the 1st years huddled together sharing their excitement.

"Wow guys I still can't believe that we won the Winter Cup!" Fukuda beamed.

"Ha! Well you better believe it because we're the champions this season", boasted Kagami.

"Kagami-kun you shouldn't boast like that or you'll get jinxed," Kuroko pointed out calmly.

"Oi shut up! I know that you're just as excited as I am."

While Kuroko and Kagami were exchanging impolite words to each other, Kawahara suggested an idea to Fukuda and Furihata.

"Hey, after dinner with the team how about we go to my house and play games?"

"Ah yeah I like the idea of that!" Fukuda remarked.

"Yeah I'd love to do that," Furihata spoke, "Just let me call my mom to let her know I will be coming home late."

Furihata reached into his pocket to grab his phone only to find out it was empty. Huh? Reaching into his other pocket, he discovered it too was empty. Worriedly he patted himself everywhere hoping to find his rectangular phone. Are you kidding me? Did I leave it in the locker room?

"Furihata what's wrong?" Kawahara asked.

"Crap! Uhh guys I think I left my phone back in the locker room."

"Seriously Furihata? Well you had better go get it before the janitors clean the room and throw it away. I'll tell coach you need to go back."

"Thank you guys and I'm sorry but I'll be right back," after that Furihata ran as fast as he could back to the locker room in the building.

Reaching the room, he went inside and saw his phone resting on top of one of the benches. Gahh how stupid must I be just to forget something like this! He mentally cursed to himself as he grabbed his phone and left the room.

In the hall, he decided to walk a bit slowly to calm down his fast heartbeat from running and his anxious feeling from earlier. He was unobservant to his surroundings until he heard something.

*Sniff*

Hearing the sound behind him, he thought someone was crying. Walking back a few steps to look at the stairs on the right he found a person sitting on the steps with his head down. He was right knowing that the sound belonged to someone crying but what he didn't expect was that it belonged to someone he feared the most since coming to the Winter Cup.

A-A-Akashi?! Oh my god he's right in front of me! What's worse is that nobody else is around so it's just me and him! Oh no this is bad, if I just quietly walk maybe he won't notice me.

Hearing a soft whimper the red head lifted his face up to see a shaking brunette staring at him. Irritated he asked the coward,

"What?"

"Huh? Uhh w-well..." Crap it's too late he's staring right at me with those frightening red eyes of his. What do I do now? Huh? Looking at what he called the devil more closely he saw that tears were streaming down his cheeks. He's crying! But why is he crying? Don't tell me it's from losing the Winter Cup is it? Oh god this is even more awkward.

Not getting a proper response from the brunette Akashi was getting even more irritated as he tried to ask nicely as he can while trying to suppress the shakiness of his voice.

"I apologize for this improper appearance of mine but I would appreciate it you would leave me alone please."

Oh my god he's getting even more angry at me. I guess I'll just leave him alone. He took a step forward and looked away from Akashi but stopped after that. Wait a minute.. He suddenly remembered what he heard from Kuroko when he talked about Akashi to his team.

"I know it's hard to believe but it's true, Akashi-kun has never experienced failure in his entire life. It may be extremely hard for him if he loses the game but we have to win."

Is that why he is crying then? Is it because he experienced his first failure...? Feeling his chest tighten he took a step backwards and faced Akashi who was still staring at him.

"Uh A-Akashi-san, I'm s-sorry..." he muttered. It was all Furihata could say because there were so many words going through his brain and he didn't know how to word it.

Akashi on the other hand was getting angrier because not only was this person not obeying his request but also he apologized for no reason.

"Look," he snapped quietly, "There is no reason to apologize. All I want is a moment to myself so if you would please-"

"N-no! Ah- s-sorry for interrupting but I-I'm apologizing because I didn't know it would be this h-hard for y-you." Why the hell am I stuttering this much?! I really am scared of him...but at the same time, I feel...so bad for him. Even if Furihata was the biggest coward that ever lived, he was still very sympathetic. Even for people that scared him so bad that he wanted to pee his pants. Whether that person deserved it or not, he hated it when he saw someone cry.

Akashi stayed quiet as if he was asking Furihata to continue.

"I-I uhh..." Furihata didn't know what else to say. Even with his concern for Akashi, he didn't know what to say to him. About to give up he just bowed to him and turned to face the long hallway when he suddenly thought of something.

Turning back to Akashi who still sat there staring he turned his attention to his duffle bag. He opened it and reached in to grab something he thought would help. He pulled out his white unused towel and draped it over Akashi's head.

"I-I know it's isn't much b-but... it's just that...it's just that it...j-just take this towel please!" he said showing a sheepish smile. Furihata looked to the ground avoiding Akashi's gaze fearing that it might show anger.

Akashi was about to say something when he was cut off by a ringing that came from Furihata's pocket.

Furihata jumped at the unexpected noise as he grabbed his phone to look at the caller ID. Seeing the words "Coach" Furihata started to panic. Crap I didn't know that I took that long for the coach to call me. I have to leave now before she punishes me!

Showing Akashi his sheepish smile again, he stammered out, "I h-have to go now s-so I guess I'll see you some other time."

With that, Furihata sprinted out before Akashi could speak again. He looked at the brunette's retreating form before sighing.

"I never even got to say thank you...," he said to no one with eyes still looking at the double glass doors.

He looked back down as he put his hand on the towel that rested on his head to wipe the sweat and tears that still lingered on his face.

Another thought struck him as he faced to the double glass doors before sighing again.

"I never got to ask for his name either..."

Back outside Furihata met up with the rest of his team.

"What took you so long?!" yelled Riko, "It shouldn't take 10 minutes to find a phone that was in a locker room!"

"I'm really sorry coach. But I ended up talking to someone along the way," Furihata explained as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Mou! Well since I am still in a good mood, I shall forgive you this time. But don't ever keep us waiting that long ever again. It's freezing out here!" And with that they all turned to head to a restaurant to celebrate their victory.

Furihata traveled behind the others thinking. God dammit, I left my towel with that demon... I just hope he's still not angry at me or anything. I hoped what I did helped though, seeing him so vulnerable and so weak, it made me really worried. Gah! Why should I worry about that monster! Well goodbye towel, I'll never see you again. He sulked emitting a depressing aura to where the other 1st years around him noticed.

"Oi Furihata are you okay" asked Kagami.

"Huh?" Furihata squeaked, "Ah yeah I was just thinking."

"Does it have to do with the person you talk with earlier?" Kuroko joined.

"I-I guess so..."

"Who is this person that you talked to?" Kuroko replied with a bit of interest.

"Well uh.." I can't just tell Kuroko that I spoke with Akashi! He's going to keep questioning me if I do. "It was just some random person asking for uhh...some m-money. Yeah, it was this really shady guy asking for money!"

"What did you do?" Kuroko asked with a hint of suspicion.

"I just ran away..." Even if that did happen I would have ran away anyways.

"I see," with that Kuroko didn't question him any further.

"Heh heh yeah..." Good job Kouki you idiot that was a terrible lie! Well at least the conversation is over. Oh yeah I have to call my mom.

Taking out his phone, he called his mom.

"Mom? Yeah hi, I was letting you know that I'm coming home late. It's because the whole team is celebrating by eating out and after that I'm going to Kawahara's house along with Fukuda to play some games. Yeah I know. Bye." With that, he hung up and sighed.

He placed his right hand over his heart that was beating fast. It hasn't calmed down since that meeting with Akashi. Was I really that scared? God I'm such a coward...

"FURIHATA!"

"Ack!" Furihata yelped and saw everyone a few meters ahead of him ready to cross the street.

"HURRY UP!" Coach Riko was in rage getting tired of Furihata's poor behavior.

"I-I'm sorry!" he yelled running to catch up with them before they ditched him.

Stupid stupid STUPID Kouki pay attention ,he told himself. Well it's not like I'll see Akashi again. Well at least not until the InterHigh competition if we ever face Rakuzan again.

And with that Furihata shook his head of the memory that happened with Akashi telling himself it was just a onetime thing and that there was nothing special about it.

He caught up with the rest of his teammates to enjoy their victory celebration of winning the Winter Cup.

A/N: Well that's it for the first chapter. Nothing really fancy going on in here but I promise the in the next few chapters (I'm not exactly sure since I only planned the first chapter only) things will start happening. Anyways I hope you like it and thank you for even reading it.

I'm just letting you guys know that AkaFuri is the only ship in this story. There will be no AoKuro, KiseKuro, MidoTaka, MuraHimu, AoKise, and especially KagaKuro (I really loathe that ship xD) and etc. I do have other ships that I like but I want to focus on AkaFuri. So I'm sorry if you were expecting other romances.

I'm sorry for the mistakes and if any of the characters are OOC. I try my best. So until the next chapter, goodbye for now! :) - Momo

I almost forgot but HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIDORIMA! Enjoy being 16 forever while still looking a lot older than you should be. :D lmao