CHAPTER 1 – THE BIRTHDAY PREP

"No. I'm feeling too lazy to go there."

"Oh c'mon Aominechii! We won't even take that long. We'll just consult Himuro-san about Kagamichii's party preferences. You know, since he's his brother and all that."

Kise whined to his roommate, asking Aomine to accompany him to Akita. Unfortunately, Touo's ace has been saying 'no' for the past 2 hours. He wanted to throw a surprise birthday party for Kagami so bad after hearing that the red head will be spending the special day alone since all his relatives are in America, and everyone in the gang seems to have agreed on the plan and are willing to participate.

The blond wanted to make it extravagant, and as much as he hates to admit, he can only ask Himuro (who is living in Akita, which is more than an hour of travel from where they're located) for details, since they spent years of being brothers; compared to their less than one year of being JUST friends. Yes, just friends. Kise hated that. He wanted more. He couldn't say it though.

Anyway, he definitely doesn't want to travel alone. There are two reasons why; first, he's not used to commuting, second, he sucks at directions, so he had to convince Aomine to tag along or drive for him.

"This is the only thing you can contribute for the plan that you also agreed to Aominechii"

Kise's voice suddenly became firm and serious from being whiny and pitchy. "If I get robbed or raped or killed while getting lost on the way there, I hope guilt won't eat your conscience up."

This was Kise's so called BIG GUNS, he was confident that this will convince his roommate to tag along. He knew that despite the none-caring-scary-looking expression Aomine often displays, he actually is quite caring and overly protective of his friends. That's probably why, regardless of the foul attitude, they ended up being the best of friends.

Touo's ace gave out an I-am-super-annoyed sigh and stood up. Walking out from the bedroom that they share, Aomine crossed his arms. "Shut up and give me the keys. And you'll buy me lunch for a month." He went to the door, giving Kise the signal that he's ready to take him to Akita.

Satisfied with the result of his work, Kise just gracefully nodded, grabbed the keys from the side table, took their coats from the coat stand and cling on to his best friend's arm. He joyfully bounced towards the car, almost dragging Aomine as if he would try to escape.

~XXX~

So they drove to Akita, on the first 30 minutes of the travel, Kise kept on sighing happily while staring at the man behind the wheels beside him, but not saying a word. Irritated with the treatment, Aomine broke the silence.

"Cut the crap and spit it out"

"Aominechii is soooo mean. I'm just happy and thankful. To you. Thank you Aominechii. Thank you for doing this for me"

A slight blush crept on his tanned cheekbones after hearing such embarrassing statement

"Shut up. I have my reasons."

"And what would they be? Don't tell me, you're falling in love with me?" the blond poked the bluenette's cheek teasingly, earning him a growl.

"BAKA! Only 2 reasons; one, you used the big guns, and two, I know how you feel about that Bakagami."
His tone was annoyed at first, then a little soft and serious at the latter part of his sentence.

The blond blushed lightly, confused and panicked a little.

"How did you-" he was cut off before he can even finish his question

"You say his name while you sleep." Aomine paused for a couple of seconds. "-and I also heard you jacking off in the showers while moaning 'ohh Kagamichii, right there'" mimicking Kise's way of speaking. Ok maybe a little exaggerated.

Kaijou's ace flushed. He wasn't sure if he would jump off of the car window or choke himself with the seat belt.

"I DON'T SPEAK LIKE THAT! Don't be a meanie Ahominechi!" almost yelling of embarrassment.

The blunette chuckled and suddenly became serious.

He then asked "Why DO you like him?"

Unsure of what to say, The blond looked outside the window, blushing like there's no tomorrow.

"…Well?" still waiting for the blond's reply.

Kise realized that there's no point in hiding it from his best friend. He cursed himself for being so damn obvious and noisy when masturbating. Being caught red handed, he decided to let him know his story.

"Well, what's not to like? he's always full of surprises…"

"That's it?"

"That, and I met him about a year earlier than you guys."

"Wha-?! When? Why? Where?" Aomine's reaction was more than shocked with the revelation. He is now so curious (and somewhat interested) of the story behind this.

Kise's face soften as he remembered what seems to be a very dear memory. He smiles, looking straight at the road. Aomine stops for the red light giving the man beside him a short glance as he goes on with his story.

"Tt was two years ago… I had a modeling job in America."

~FLASH BACK~

After the photo shoot Kise did for a popular clothing line, he decided to walk around to see some good spots while his manager was out in a meeting for his next shoot. The blond didn't need to be there so he walked aimlessly through a park until his feet led him to a street basketball court. There was a crowd of street players, it seemed like they've just finished playing and ready to go back to their respective homes (or wherever they were to go.)

While walking alongside of the court, a basket ball rolled to his foot. He picked it up and looked up. There was a red haired guy who had split eyebrows jogging towards him, smiling like an idiot while scratching the back of his head. Then he talked to Kise with fluent English.

"Yo, sorry about that!"

It was quite a surprise to see one person still there, playing on his own.
Given that Kise's been in America for more than a week now, and being the fast learner that he is, it wasn't hard for him to answer back fluently in English,

"Nah, its fine. I thought people left already so I went in"

"So you play basketball?"

"Well.. yeah"

"Wanna play a quick one on one?"

Kise grinned with the offer, clearly the man in front of him has no idea he is part of the ever so famous Generation of Miracles.
They played until the sun set; the red head was laying on the ground, panting, while Kise stood up, with the ball in between his left hip and left arm.

Of course, the game was pretty one sided, given that the blond is experienced and played regularly, and the man he's playing with is talented, yet a complete amateur.

Kise was pretty amazed, he's never played with a guy who is full of enthusiasm even though he knew he wouldn't win; he kept playing until his legs gave up.

The red head sat up and said, "Wow, you play great! I hope we can play again! And next time, I will beat you!" giving off the wide smile that Kise finds awfully goofy and cute.
He offered a hand to help the guy sitting stand up.

"Thank you. I'm Kagami by the way, Kagami Taiga"

"Kise Ryouta"

They both exchanged smiles. Few seconds after that, Kise's phone rang. A call from his manager; asking him to go back to their hotel. And with that, they parted ways.
While walking his way to the hotel, he said to himself "What an interesting guy"

~END OF FLASH BACK~

"And I haven't stopped thinking of him ever since." Kise mumbled.

"Wait, why wasn't this mentioned before" Aomine asked, wondering why it never occurred that his best friend knew his rival all this time.

"I don't know, maybe he forgot about me, I mean, that was 2 years ago. I didn't even get to ask for his number back then. Though, he kept his promise, he beat me on our next match, when Seirin did a practice match with Kaijou. I was surprised, actually. His improvement was drastic. I never really acknowledge his abilities until then."

"How can he not remember Kise, the oh-so-famous and ever-so-handsome model?" The blunette teased.

"DDAAWWW! Aominechii! If you're trying to comfort me, it's working!"
Kise gleefully hugged his best friend's neck while he's driving - that made Aomine accidentally twist the wheel and drove them out of lane, but he was quick to get back on track. This however, earned them several horns from angry drivers.

"Dammit Kise! Are you trying to kill us?!"

The drive after that went on smoothly with Kise's small chitchats. Thanks to his bubbly personality, the long travel was not boring, well; it's never boring when one is with Kise Ryouta.

~ X X X ~

It was 4:30 pm, the sun is setting when they arrived at Himuro's place. Aomine rang the doorbell. It took several rings before someone opened the gate for them. Aomine was being impatient when finally, Himuro came and greeted them.

"Oh, hey guys, this is unexpected. Come in."

None of the two answered the greeting. They just stared at Himuro; Aomine gulped and Kise tried his best not to stare too much at the man in front of them.

"Oh, yeah, about this" the raven haired teen motioned to what he's wearing. "Atsushi is inside, and well, we're kinda in the middle of something"

"I-it's fine. W-we'll just come back some other time" Kise turned around, going back to the car when Aomine grabbed his shirt from behind to stop him. "Wait! Do you know how long of a travel this is?!"

"Don't be silly, Kise-kun" Himuro smiled. "It's totally ok, come inside. Besides, Aomine-kun is right, it's a long way here."

He led the two to the front door.

While walking, Aomine couldn't help himself stare at the back of the teen in front of him. Himuro was wearing an over-sized black T-shirt, too big for him that his left shoulder was exposed. He didn't wear pants or shorts and God knows what he has underneath, or if he has something underneath that big, baggy shirt. Touo's ace looked at the exposed skin of the boy, from the nape of his neck, to his shoulders, down to his perfectly long and pale legs.
Indeed, Himuro Tatsuya is 1000% fuckable.

His hands moved on their own, trying to reach for Himuro's ass. But before he could do so, Kise snapped him back to reality with a knock on his head.
Aomine rubbed his head to soothe the pain and then looked at his best friend with a questioning expression.
Kise gave another knock on his head and whispered "You good-for-nothing pervert!"

Himuro opened the door, and there was Murasakibara, sitting lazily on the end of the long couch nearest the door, covering his eyes with his left arm, wearing nothing but boxers. In front of him was a small center table, and on top of it was a tower of strawberries, a can of sweetened whipped cream and a cup of chocolate syrup. It was obvious what the couple were up to. And it probably is one of the kinkiest things Aomine has ever seen live.

"Atsushi, Kise and Aomine are here" he said as he let the two enter.

"Minechin, Kisechin, go away. We're busy"

"Atsushi! That's rude!"

Himuro motioned the two to seat at the 2 single couches on the right side of the center table as he took the seat on the long couch beside Murasakibara.

"And I told you to get something to wear, right?"

"But Murochin took my shirt, and it's troublesome to go upstairs and look for another one."

Himuro just gave out a sigh and turned his attention to the two visitors, "so what brings you here?"

"Well," the blond responded "It's Kagamichii's birthday 2 weeks from now, and I kinda want to throw him a surprise par-" he was cut off by what Murasakibara did.

The purple head leaned to the man sitting beside him and licked his cheek. Kise's jaw dropped at the sight, it was slow, wet and hot.

"A-Atsushi!" Himuro couldn't hide the blush on his burning face.

"Murochin has a choco stain on his cheek, I have to clean it" and he licked again, from there, he started licking down to Himuro's jawline then sucked on his neck. Himuro started breathing a bit heavier, unlike his usual calm breathing pattern due to what Murasakibara is doing to him, tried to push him away, but his hands were on the purple head's tight grip.

"Hhhmmm Murochin is so delicious"

Aomine thought he had to stop the giant before it goes any further. He does find Himuro sexy, but seeing him do IT with Murasakibara is not really a picture he wants to have in his mind. "Oi, Murasakibara!"

The purple head glared at the blue head and then rolled his eyes
"Tsh! Fine!" Murasakibara carried Himuro like a princess, and then stood up.

"A-Atsushi!"

"O-oi! What do you think you're do-" Aomine was cut off by the giant.

"Murochin said it's rude to ask our guests to leave, so please give us 10 minutes so we can take care of… our business"

Himuro's face couldn't get any redder at this rate.
"T-t-ten minutes?" that's all he could utter. Then the giant whispered something in his ear that made him shiver and gulp at the same time.

Not waiting for the answer of the 2 visitors, Murasakibara carried his partner to the kitchen.

And for right after that, all Kise and Aomine could here were loud moans and breathless gasps of "Atsu-nggh ohh! Ohh! Yeah like that! Fuck! Ohh! More! Atsushi!" and at the end, a very loud "Aaggghhh"

Kise panicked, he didn't know what to do. He didn't want to listen to his friends while they do a quickie, he might not be able to look at those two the same way again. He tried to look for magazines where he can pour his attention to, but he failed, apparently, Himuro's magazines are not enough distraction.

He was panicking like crazy until he felt big ear phones over his head, and the type of music he liked played, and because of that, he couldn't hear a sound. He just looked at Aomine, smiled and whispered "Thank you". After a while he started to relax.

Just like what the giant said, Himuro came back after 10 minutes, fully clothed, still a bit sweaty but ready to discuss whatever the 2 guests came for. Atsushi went upstairs to shower.

"So, you wanted to surprise Taiga on his birthday, right?"

"Y-yeah, we were wondering if you could give us details on what's his type of party. We wanted to go here personally because it's too hard to discuss this through email"

"Oh, I see. Hmm... Taiga's party preferences huh… Well, he's always been alone during his birthdays, his parents would just give him gifts and cakes that are passed through their maids since they're too busy for work. That's why Alex and I always celebrate it together, so he'd feel less lonely. Oh yeah, I remember him telling me that he has always wanted to have a casual party, you know, karaoke, beer, lame games… because at his young age, he never get to attend those. His parents do bring him to parties, but always classy and elegant ones, which are always business gatherings. His life back then, before we met, was just school-house. It was so difficult for him to make friends, well, until he met me, and we met Alex. Basketball became huge to him after that."

The details went on and on. Kise took notes from the party type, decorations, down to every detail like Kagami's favorite cake flavor and ice cream. It was a quarter to 7 when they finished. The raven haired teen offered dinner, but the two refused due to the traffic that they will be facing on the way home. If they stayed for dinner, they would have gotten home extremely late.
So they called it a day. The 2 best friends went home, and Himuro and Murasakibara were left alone to proceed with their interrupted business.