At first glance, he thought he recognized her, but shrugged it off. He had to concentrate on practicing. Just like her who needed to practice her dancing. Kuroko Tetsuya normally didn't always check out girls. His main priorities were usually just his teammates and basketball. But today, a certain girl caught his eye.

Now, she was pretty much average looking. She didn't have much to show except her legs maybe.(He wasn't going to lie, he thought her legs were really something to look at. They certainly weren't sticks like most of the girls at the school.) Her hair was a midnight black color that was shoulder length and was somewhat wavy. Her eyes were just a really dark brown color though she hid her right eye with her bangs.

But really, it wasn't like he was interested in her or anything. She just looked…oddly familiar to him. His mind then flashbacked by the time when he was in Teiko. A girl, with black hair tied back into a ponytail was sitting down minding her own business, pushing back thick-rimmed glasses to her nose. He shook off the memory. It couldn't be her right?

Minutes passed by and he wasn't aware that he was out of it until a basketball slammed into the right side of his face. "Oi! Tetsu pay attention!" called out the red headed Ace of the team. "Sorry." He stated but it came out more like a whisper.

Aida Riko was slightly pissed. She had two reasons; one, the team was extremely distracted by the dance club practicing a couple a feet away from them. Reason number two, the stupid dance club. Now the boys would be easy to handle since all she had to do was increase their practice by like 5x's and it would be enough to make them crawl all the way home. Though, the dance club…was something else.

She was completely against it at first going as far as to tell off the 'president' of the club. (But seeing how they were friends, the president didn't really take it all to heart at all.) The dance club had nowhere to go for you see, at the beginning of the year they would practice in a vacant room and dance in there, but seeing how the AC had broken and it was getting near summer, they wanted to practice in a place much cooler.

Nobuko ( The president, but Nobu for short.) had asked to practice in every place possible for the club to practice only to be turned down by…most of the clubs. (Riko couldn't help but think about how pathetic that was.) So Nobu decided that maybe it was ok to practice in the gym for the time being. Riko automatically said no to her, but that's when Nobu decided to pull out a certain card on Riko. If Riko wouldn't let them practice then she wouldn't help Riko bake that birthday cake for Serin's basketball captain. Riko quickly accepted that she lost to her so she had no choice but to let them stay.

The whistle blew, practice was done for the day.

Even though he didn't really do much, Kuroko wiped off the beads of sweat from his forehead. Once more his eyes glanced over at the black-haired girl. Their eyes met and once they had made contact the girl froze. From what Kuroko was able to tell, she looked…shocked? Like if he was some person that she really did not expect to see at all.

"Hey Yuzu stop daydreaming for once!" cried out one of the girls from the dance club. "Ugh, from the beginning…again." Stated out Nobu in an annoyed manner as a tall blonde girl ran over to the stereo to replay the song they were dancing along to. Nobu was stressed. They had a month to pull off at least 4 dance routines till the school did their open house.

Apart from that, their AC broke down in their clubroom, luckily for her Riko said yes. And she knew that her friend was extremely furious for distracting the basketball team. ( Though, it's their fault for losing concentration.) But of course that was something that wasn't much of huge problem. The problem was that they needed to practice 4 routines…and the club was barely capable of getting 2 routines down.

By the end of this week they would have 3 weeks down. They needed to pick up the pace. Fast.

"So you like that blue-haired kid, am I right Yuzu?"

The girl Yuzu, turned around to come face to face with a girl with perfectly straight long black hair that reached her bottom. She was around the same height as Yuzu and shared the same eye color as well. Dressed in red sweats, running shoes, and a white cami, Yuzu couldn't help but stare at her chest. "Ayame, don't you think you were the reason that the basketball team was so…distracted?"

Ayame flipped her long her over her right shoulder. "They are boys Yuzu. Of course hormone-crazed boys are gonna get distracted with 5 hot chicks dancing around with cleavage popping and booty shorts. By the way you should so wear those next time we go out." Yuzu pulled on the hem of her black shorts to make them appear longer but of course, that didn't work out.

"Like I was saying," Ayame said placing her hands on her hips. "I saw that blue-haired boy looking at you. He couldn't take his eyes off you! You should talk to him, he's pretty cute." Yuzu rolled her eyes. "I'm not interested. Besides, I doubt he likes me in that way." Before Ayame had the time to say anything the music started and practice started once more.

Throughout practice Yuzu tired her best at concentrating, but as she followed the dance steps her mind wandered off. The blue-haired boy kept popping in her mind and cursed to herself. 'I thought I saw the last of them. Or at least some of them…Just why on earth would he enroll in this school? I thought all those damn miracle players went to elite schools? Ugh, who cares it's just Kuroko after all.'

Since they were both out of practice early both Kuroko and Kagami Taiga decided to go over their usual hangout place. Right after Kagami got his order and stuffed a burger in his mouth he just had to ask. "So…You got yourself a crush?" Kuroko looked at him with a blank stare as he kept sipping on his soda. "Doesn't seem like the type of girl I imagined you with but, I won't lie, she's pretty cute."

He stopped sipping his drink. "It's not like that it's just…she's somewhat of an old friend. Back when I was Teiko." Kagami raised a brow. Well, this was unusual. The only friends Kuroko ever talked about was his past teammates from middle school. Also to be truthfully honest, he thought that Kuroko had no other friends outside from basketball.

"Well, you've never talked about her. Did you even talk to her at all this past year?"

"She was more of an acquaintance to me and I never noticed that she went to Seirn till today."

Kagami stuffed an entire burger in his mouth swallowed the whole thing. "Ok, so what's the history behind you and this chick?"

Kuroko placed down his soda as his eyes seemed so distant that Kagami wondered that maybe it wasn't good to ask him that question. "I met Yuzuna-chan in my second year of middle school. Aomine, Momoi-chan, Yuzuna-chan and I had the same class. Yuzuna-chan wasn't very talkative back in middle school. She always kept to herself, very timid, and really kind. Me and her would make small talk every now and then in class, but one day someone took a particular liking to her."

It was now the end of a regular school day and the students were so excited about this upcoming 3-day weekend. Girls chit-chatted among their friends about going to meet up with some guy or planning their girl's night out. The boys however, talked about going to go watch the recent horror film that just came out and about Saturday's basketball game. You'd think everyone would be hyped up about heading home…no?

Wrong. Not everyone was willing to go home. A tall tanned bluenette was heading towards this one gym that no one esle bothered to go practice. A rumor was spreading around saying that there was a ghost hanging about there. Which at first sounded quite ridiculous when his dear childhood friend warned him about the place. So of course, one night he decided to go check. He did hear footsteps and the sound of a ball being dribbled. At first he really thought that maybe his friend was right but then he found out-

"Hey Aomine-kun."

The tanned boy almost spat out the water he was drinking. Luckily, he was able to drink it all down. "You need to stop fucking doing that!" his shouting echoed throughout within the abandoned gym. A boy with light blue hair and matching blue eyes stared at him. He seemed rather weak looking next to the tanned boy, but they just happened to be teammates for this year's basketball team. The young boy passed his teammate the ball to him, "You ready to practice?"

He only grinned in return.

So they quickly dissolved into the world of basketball it wasn't long until the younger one suddenly stopped. The taller boy gave him a look of confusion. Just what on earth made him suddenly stop? Before he even asked why he noticed that he was looking towards the entrance of the gym. It was open but no one was there. Once more he was about to open his mouth again and ask but he was 'Shh'd' by his teammate.

He looked at the door once more and there she was. A girl was standing beside the door and doing a poor job at hiding herself. ( Or maybe she wasn't trying at all.) "Um, are you lost Yuzuna-chan?" The girl, Yuzuna slowly stepped forward and entered the gym. Her eyes roaming around the gym and her arms encircling around her waist. "O-oh…it's just you Kuroko-kun. Hello Daiki-kun."

The tanned boy was now able to see her clearly. She was pretty much as tall as Testu, if not a few inches shorter. Her white colored sweater hid her black skirt making it look like if she was wearing nothing underneath except for her black thigh-high socks along with black high-top converse. Her black hair was tied into a pony-tail and long bangs to cover the majority of her left eye. A small blush appeared as she adjusted the black framed glasses that Daiki only believed that they were either used for sexy secretaries only or old geezers.

"You believed of the rumors, didn't you Yuzuna-chan?"

She looked hesitant for a bit before answering back. "Well kind of…You see Kamiko-chan kept talking about it during lunch today and well I was curious to see if it was true or not. But I guess it's not." She gave them a genuine smile before the last sentence came out of her mouth. "You both must think I'm pretty stupid to think that there really was a ghost, huh?"

"Of course not! Hell, I almost believed it myself too but, found out it was Tetsu here practicing basketball." Aomine said as he messed up Kuroko's hair. "Wanna play with us Yuzuna-chan?" Kuroko asked holding up the basketball. She nodded to them, "No thank you really, I'm not all that well coordinated and I have to meet up with my friends within an hour. Sorry, but maybe I'll come by some other time and watch. Bye Kuroko-kun! Daiki-kun!" And with that done she just ran off and disappeared.

"Aomine-kun, you like Yuzuna-chan, don't you?"

"…WHAT!? Where the hell would you get that stupid idea?" Aomine replied ready to punch Kuroko at the very moment. ( But he knew that if he were to do that he'd most likely kill the boy.) "Because…you wouldn't stop staring at her." Aomine's brow rose. Just what in the world was this kid talking about? The girl was as plain as white rice. There was nothing special about her whatsoever. If she had F-sized cups then maybe he would've taken more notice in her but no. She was just…'meh'.

"When she smiled, you took an interest in her. Your face, it was like you were showing an expression of amazement in a way." A nerve popped by the side of his forehead. He didn't need to hear this. "C'mon let's just get back to practicing."

"Little did Aomine know that after that incident he started eyeing that girl more and more each passing day. It wasn't until our last year of middle school where Aomine started to slowly begin accepting his feelings for that girl and he tried so hard to gain her attention, but sadly by that year she was chasing after another person."

Kagami Taiga couldn't help but let out a laugh. Kuroko just kept his poker face on as usual and just kept on sipping his soda until Kagami calmed himself down. "Ah sorry, but, just knowing that Aomine had a crush on that girl and that she didn't like him in return...I'm sorry I just found it pretty funny."

"Well it's not." Kuroko stated matter-of-factly. "She's another reason why Aomine is the way he is." Kagami pushed the tray away of the mountain of wrappers and relaxed in his seat. "He must have really liked her huh?" Kuroko nodded. " He truly did, but it was all thanks to this one rumor that just made him…not want to do anything with her anymore."

"And what was this rumor about if you don't mind me asking?"

Kuroko hesitated, was the rumor that bad? " You see, the person that Yuzuna-chan was after, it was Haisaki." Kagami was speechless. That girl was after that fucking bastard? "Is she fucking crazy?! Why the fuck would someone ever like that son of a bitch?"

"Kagami-kun, please keep your temper down. People are staring." A small hint of red appeared on Kagami's cheeks. He propped his elbow to the table and placed his palm to his forehead. "The rumor was," Kuroko carried on quickly taking a sip from his drink. "That she slept with Haisaki. "I would believe that rumor too, hell, she was chasing after that guy. I think anyone would believe it."

"I honestly don't. She doesn't seem like that type of girl." Kuroko's eyes once again seemed distant. He also almost looked…furious? "You never know Tetsu, I mean girls are pretty deceiving." It still baffled Kagami. What kind of person could ever like Haisaki? After what he did to Alex, that guy was nothing but a waste. He wondered as how on earth Aomine must've felt. It must have been like a kick in the balls. Ouch.

He was about to take Kuroko's drink when he noticed that he was staring at the window, curious he looked out to find the girl standing there across the street waiting to cross. In his eyes, she was a lunatic, but he wondered what made Kuroko strongly believe that what happened between her and Haisaki was a rumor. Kagami suddenly caught Kuroko saying, " I know that that it's odd to hear that she was after Haisaki, but before that…She did have a soft spot for Aomine. I also know for a fact that Aomine must still still think about her every now and then. Maybe, there is still hope for them."