Disclaimer: I don't own Slam Dunk or any of its characters although I wish I did.

Prologue

Rukawa's activities can generally be categorized into three things: basketball, sleep, and others.

Ok… actually, just two. Rukawa considers sleeping as his past time. He sleeps almost the entire day, and basically wakes up to play basketball, or if not, do something related to basketball. The other stuff – such as eating and going to class – he just does out of necessity. His thoughts are mostly filled with basketball that he just ignores other stuff not related to it. It occupies 80 percent of his thinking time leaving no room for other things to fill his mind.

But strictly speaking, of course Rukawa also does think of other things besides basketball and sleeping. And to put it simply, these are those that distract him from doing his favorite activities. Like when somebody wakes him up from his sleep, he'll definitely be sure to remind him physically never to do that again. Whoever disturbs him from his peaceful slumber would surely have one hell of a time with him, just so they remember. And this would always be the case unless of course he's being woken up for basketball. Now for those things distracting him from basketball, well there are several different ways he deals with that. But first, let's identify these everyday distractions that he needs to put up with.

To start off, we have his ever loyal Rukawa fan club. Girls screaming his name have been a far too common occurrence for the ice prince that he has already develop a specialized immune system just for this. Occasionally though, there are still those abnormally high-pitched squeals that still get pass his anti-fangirl defenses. For those things, he has learned to ignore them, same as what he does to his ringing alarm clock when he is in deep sleep. Fortunately for him, both of these irritating noises just die down on their own and eventually leave him be – though most of the time, the super fan girl cheers tend to be a bit more persistent than his alarm clock.

Second on his list of distractions would be the annoying self-proclaimed-tensai doaho teammate of his. In the super rookie's point of view, having Hanamichi Sakuragi gone from the team would definitely make his life a whole lot more peaceful. Since this can't be possible (since Rukawa does think, despite everything, that Sakuragi is indeed an integral part of the Shohoku basketball team – a fact he would NEVER admit out loud to anyone), Rukawa attempts to shut the doaho up with his usual side remarks. If this doesn't work, he tries to put an end to his teammate's relentless shouting by showing off a bit of his basketball skills, which would hopefully put the beginner into a right sense of mind and see the extremely large gap between them. This, Rukawa believes, would get the doaho to shut the hell up, just focus on practicing more, and not disturb everyone with his out-of-this-world crazy antics. However, unknowingly, this has the opposite effect to Sakuragi. Contrary to what Rukawa expects to happen, it actually just provokes the 'tensai' to be more riled up and louder than usual.

And finally, we have school work. Well technically, school isn't really a distraction but could be considered more of a hindrance for Rukawa. First, he loses precious basketball practice time because he needs to attend his classes. Second of all, the things taught in class are basically useless to him. It would just be a waste of valuable space in his mind and he could really just do without it. If given a chance that he could play decent basketball without having to go school, he probably would have taken this option. But since Rukawa would not have been able to play his favorite game without entering highschool, he needs to put up with his academics even if he doesn't want to. And so what Rukawa does in order to compensate for this wasted time, he sleeps in class. At least, with this, he is able to enjoy and have more of his much wanted sleeping time rather than listening to a pointless class lecture.

But even though Rukawa thinks of attending school in general as troublesome, he never regretted the fact of choosing to stay at Shohoku, and continuing his basketball training in Japan rather than going to America as he previously planned. Despite his unrelenting nature, Rukawa does respect and value the opinion of his elders which has led him to go against his original plans and follow the goal Anzai sensei had set for him: be the number one basketball player in Japan. The talk he had with Anzai sensei a few weeks ago led him to put off his plans of going to America for a little while and focus first on what he could do to better improve himself as a basketball player while in Japan.

The goal Anzai sensei had in mind for him wasn't bad at all. In fact, when he thought about it, it would probably be a good stepping stone for him. Given this goal in mind, the super rookie is now fired up and ready to take on any strong opponent that he may meet in the Nationals. In order to become the number one player in Japan, Shohoku should first be the number one school in Japan. The path he is set for was never as lucid as it was now. His direction is certain and his mind is clear. However, all of that was about to change when a rather unexpected distraction was about to shake and plague the ice prince's mind.


Author's Notes:

This is my first fanfiction ever. I'm really not into writing but I just had the urge to write this story. I just recently rewatched the one-on-one episode of Rukawa and Mitsui, which made me write this fic. So this would probably be a MitRu and some SenRu on the side. I dunno yet... hahaha

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