Title: Love Hoop

Rating: T

DISCLAIMER: Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Kuroko no Basket belongs to Tadatoshi Fujimaki. Two respected mangaka! I do not own the characters in any way nor the story plot. Only the idea of this fanfiction!

MizukixTsukiyomi's Notes: Ah-ha! Thought I was only going to pick one series, right? Well no. I loved you all too much to just pick one although Magi had won on the poll. Other than that, I was getting lots of love over making a Kuroko no Basket and Inuyasha crossover so I thought why not? Also, I did tweak a few things from the one-shot where Kagome meets Kagami so...I would re-read it. There is a tiny beginning and more at the end.

Now the pairing is still undecided...maybe until I get further into writing the series. Just like the new Magi crossover, I will update depending on popularity and see where it goes. Now, it is an...'abrupt' beginning but for people who know how I write, I tend to explain things further into chapters just like animes like to play mind f**** in the first episode and don't explain anything until the episode after that.

Anyways, hope you all enjoy. I did tweak a few things! Remember that!

Enjoy!

And please don't be harsh on me on this. I tried!

Chapter 01: A Given Decision

"Seirin High…," the former miko, savior of the Feudal Era, looked around the crammed entrance of the school. Clubs swarmed like bees trying to recruit new incoming students for the year which reminded her that she, herself, was a normal teen.

Kagome looked back down to her brochure, following the map they had given her to the welcoming orientation. She buried her attention to the paper in front of her, ignoring all others around and the calls of people trying to convince her into the clubs and activities.

'I need to hurry to meet Yuka-chan, Eri-chan, and Ayumi-chan at the entrance of the orientation ceremony before it begins,' Kagome's inner thoughts bolted away from her mind as she came to crash into a person, making her stumble backwards.

Falling on her behind, Kagome winced from the slight impact: "Itai…"

"Ah…gomen."

The miko's eyes met another pair of blue the moment she looked up from her fallen spot. She blinked, taking in the male's features of ghostly colored hair and his dull stare into her own orbs.

"Are you alright?" he asked, taking her out of her inner observations.

"Ah…h-hai," Kagome nodded and met with his offering hand to help her back up. Taking in the offer, she dusted off the dirt from her skirt and looked over to the mysterious male. "Gomen, I didn't mean to bump into you."

"It's alright," he replied picking up her dropped brochure. "Are you…a first year?"

"Uh, hai," she answered, taking back her paper and closing it. "I was about to make my way to the orientation ceremony."

The male blinked, watching as she looked around to find the location she had been searching for. He caught the smile she sent him.

"Well, I better be off before I am late," she scratched her cheek lightly.

"Have you joined any clubs?"

"Clubs?" she repeated, confused on his interest. "Nope, not really interested," she smiled softly, dropping her gaze down to the paper in her hand.

The boy remained silent, watching as the happy expression on her face dropped to one of remorse and loss. He blinked as the miko only returned back to her former smile and waved.

"Well, I need to make my way to the ceremony. Thanks for helping me back up!" she laughed lightly before making her way around him and soon blending into the crowd of people.

"Hai…," he whispered before he returned back to his task onto signing into his desired club.

"Kagome-chan!"

Long ebony hair moved to the side as a young female looked over her shoulder to see her three familiar close friends running to her with a wide smiles. Her cerulean colored orbs blinked, unusual to see her friends to hyped. Only with a week into their new year in a new school, her friends had already become excited with everything around them. Of course, it was like a whole new world to them. The high school life. Although her friends continued to pester her with the want of her in a club.

She would continue to tell them she was not interested and only wanted to concentrate on her academic goals. The miko did feel horrible in rejecting their hopes, but she didn't feel the need any more of joining something. She just wanted a normal and peaceful life without the drama, troubles, and tears of loss.

"Eri-chan. Ayumi-chan. Yuka-chan," the three young teens stopped in front of her, letting Kagome fully turn her body to their attention. "Is something wrong?"

"No, of course not, silly!" smiled Ayumi. "We came to take you!"

"Take…me?" at this, Kagome's eyes blinked multiple times in confusion. "Take me where…exactly?"

"Well, we heard this new fast food place opened up about a month ago and a lot of good reviews are being given," smiled Yuka. "So we wanted to go today and try it."

Kagome sighed tiredly: "Sorry, girls. I really need to catch up with math and take care of the shrine. You three know I do not have much time to go out freely."

Eri placed her hands on her hips: "That is why we are taking you forcefully for today!"

"W-What!?" Kagome's eyes widened before she felt her two arms being taken under Yuka's and Ayumi's and quickly dragged to their destination. "Wait a minute!"

"It will only be for a while, Kagome-chan!" smiled Eri. "We promise!"

Kagome looked at Eri for a few seconds before sighing in defeat: "Fine, but do not think you two are forgiven so easily."

'I could have easily walked away once they let me go,' Kagome's eyes scanned over the menu of the place as her friends ordered their own likes. She crossed her arms, still undecided. She was not picky, she just was not hungry at the moment. 'Why did I let them take me here…? I have so much to do. I mean, I wish I could spend time with them, but school and family duties come first.'

Her eyes looked ahead, realizing it was her turn to come up to the front and order. She gave the employee a smile before ordering a small combo. Her eyes glided to the corner to see that her three friends had begun to talk to three males. Raising an eyebrow, she observed the simple uniform they wore.

'Hmm, they go to our school.' She gave her friends a boredom look. 'So that is why they wanted to come here. Try the food they said…'

She gave another voiceless sigh and handed the money to the employee and waited for her change. Kagome took her change with a smile and placed it orderly back into her wallet.

"I will just prepare the drink for you, ma'am," spoke the employee while grabbing the cup and beginning to pour a bit of lemonade.

"Um…alright, that will be two-thousand six-hundred and eighty four yen (approx. twenty-two dollars), sir."

Upon listening to the large amount of money the customer had to give, Kagome slightly looked to her side to see a male with dark red hair with black streaks having ordered his food and looking into his wallet. He was looking and looked for what seemed forever.

"Ah…damn. How could I forget my money?" he spoke, angry with himself. "Um, sorry," he looked up at the employee. "It seems like I forgot my money…"

Kagome blinked and noticed his embarrassed facial expression. Her eyes dropped down to her wallet and gave herself a mental smile before taking out the exact amount the cashier had asked for. She walked over to the cashier and handed the money to her.

"Here, I will pay for him."

The male's red eyes immediately dropped down to the much more petite female having already given the money: "W-Wait! You do not have to-!"

Kagome gave the male a smile: "Do not worry about it. Think of it as a nice deed."

Before he could say anything back to strange female, she had already been called for her order pick-up. Smiling at both the male and cashier, she returned her attention in grabbing the tray of her food and walked away, leaving the red-headed male in confusion.

"Um, sir, here is your drink."

His attention was drawn back to the employee, handing him his drink.

"Uh…thanks."

Walking over to a table, Kagome jumped slightly as her three friends appeared in front of her with wider smiles than before and what looked like begging eyes.

"What is it now?" glared Kagome.

"Well…these three guys invited us to go to a karaoke place with them. They go to our school and you know how hard it is to make friends when we are just first years," Ayumi placed her hands in a prayer. "Please come with us! They are third years!"

Kagome looked at them with a look reading 'you-are-not-serious?' before sighing once again: "Girls, I told you I cannot go. I promised you only coming here to eat and that is it."

Their expression dropped in sadness, knowing that they had lost their chance in getting to know boys from their new school. And they were right. Getting to know people at high school was not easy. Much harder to friend males than females and upperclassmen at that. Kagome gave her friends a smile: "But girls, you three can go. Do not think I am going to tie you down. Enjoy yourselves."

"B-But…we dragged you here. We could not just leave you alone after all of that," whispered Eri for her to hear.

Kagome chuckled: "It is fine. I will let you know if I liked the food or not tomorrow."

Her friends gave her smile, surprised she was not annoyed. If anything she was understanding.

"Kagome-chan….," whispered Yuka. "You are amazing!" She hugged her friend from the side.

Kagome moved her tray to the side: "Yeah, yeah. Now go," she laughed. "The boys are waiting."

Kagome watched from her standing spot as her friends waved goodbye and left with the group. She smiled, waving back before sitting on a table and setting her tray down near the window. Her eyes look out, seeing them laugh with enjoyment.

'A full year has already passed by just like that. I still have days where I cannot believe that I am already in high school,' her eyes were caught by the auburn sky. 'I wonder how my friends are doing in the Feudal Era. I am sure they are safe now that Naraku has been dealt with.'

Kagome took a sip of her drink, thinking back to the events that had happened when she and Inuyasha had come across their long awaited enemy, Naraku. They had betted everything, even their lives in that battle. Sango and Miroku had come as fast as they could after they had defeated Byakuya. The battle was nothing but difficult. Naraku continued to throw them down not only with physical attacks but also mental ones to destroy their will to fight and survive. She had to admit that it was almost working until Inuyasha had broken her out of her fear.

Naraku ended up being defeated along with the Shikon no Tama fully completed. Her wish in the end was for the jewel to have never been existent in the world, but due to that, she had been taken back to her 'rightful' time. She had two choices after that.

Either having continued to be depressed in her room about her life or continuing to live as her friends would want her to live. She chose to live. Live the life like other teens of her age and here she was. Surprisingly having graduated from middle school even though she was far behind in math but thanks to tutoring, she had passed with a 'B'.

Kagome had made it to a good high school. 'Seirin High. Who knew I would actually pass…'

Her eyes came back to her small burger and slowly opened the wrapping paper. Before she could take a bite, her eyes widened as her table jumped slightly at the drop of a tray carrying what looked at least like ten burgers, four fries, and a drink. Her eyes scanned up seeing it was the male she had paid the meal for.

Silence expanded through them only with the miko watching as the unknown red-headed male pulled the chair back and sat across from her. His fingers grabbed the burger on the top of the pile and began to unwrap it. She blinked: 'W-Wait…I paid for all of that!?' Her attention drew back to him about to take a bite.

"Um…," she whispered to catch his attention.

His red eyes looked up from his meal, to see her having retreated back from taking a bite of her own food.

"What…are you doing?" she questioned.

"What does it look like I am doing? Eating." He answered her before taking a bite of his burger.

She raised an eyebrow: "I meant here. On my table."

He shrugged: "Thanking you."

"Huh?" she blinked, taken back by his choice of words. "Thanking me?"

"For paying for my food," he answered. "I saw you sitting here alone so I decided to join you."

Her eyes dropped with a bored look: "I would call that pity…"

"No!" he exclaimed. "I do not feel pity for you! I was just being nice, sheesh!"

She chuckled at his childish act before nodding: "Well thank you for keeping me company. Um…what is your name?"

"Kagami; Kagami Taiga."

"Higurashi Kagome," she introduced herself with a smile. Opening her eyes from the smile, she noticed the name of his school printed on his jacket. Not to mention the colors of black, white, and red. They seemed familiar. Kagome blinked: "Seirin…?"

"Hmm?" he sounded out his question with food in his mouth. Halting on his chewing, he looked down at his jacket where she was staring. He swallowed his food: "Yeah…I go there. I am a first year." He noticed the recognizable uniform she wore, the same one as his coach and blinked. "Guessing you go there too."

"Y-Yeah…" she replied. "Hmm, I will admit you are big for a first year. Tall in general for a Japanese. I am sure I could have noticed you at school…"

He took a sip of his own drink: "Hm, probably because I always spend my time at the gym."

"Gym?" she tilted her head to the side.

"Yeah, I am a member of the basketball team."

Kagome blinked, surprised yet she knew she should not have been. For her, it came to conclusion that with his height, he could easily be a good player – maybe.

"My life is mostly spent there," he continued, looking out the window. "I love it."

Her eyes continued to stare at him as he spoke for his love for the sport. She had to admit to herself that it was quite…intriguing to hear someone, especially a male, talk about their passion. A sport nonetheless. She had wished to had joined a club in middle school to have a basic idea what her talent could be. Obviously chasing demons would not be the ideal club in this era.

"Are you in any clubs?" he questioned her, taking her out of her mental thoughts.

"Me?" she pointed to herself, setting her drink down. "No…"

It was his turn to blink, surprised. Most people he knew were involved in school in some way. What did she do after school then? A part-time job, perhaps? He had noticed her drop in voice and her eyes falling to stare at her barely eaten meal. Not wanting to poke at something that would be too personal, he cleared his throat.

"Well, I wanted to thank you for paying for all…of this," he scratched the back of his head, realizing he might have ordered too much, although he knew he would finish it easily, but she had paid for all of this. He felt like an idiot in forgetting his money.

Smiling at Taiga, she shook her head: "I already told you not to worry about it, Kagami-kun. Besides, you need your energy if you want to win your matches, right?"

Taiga looked at her smile and blushed slightly, quickly hiding it by looking out the window: "Well…it was a lot to pay for so the least I could do is um…invite you to a game."

"Huh?" she stopped midway from wanting to take a sip of her drink and looked up at the red-head.

"Well, you said you are not in any clubs or anything so why not introduce you to my teammates. Maybe you will enjoy yourself," he continued to avoid eye contact, unsure where this niceness was coming from.

He heard nothing in return and took a bite of his burger. His eyes looked up to see the miko to continue her stare at him. Was something wrong with him? Something he had said to offend her? He blushed and swallowed his food again on his fifth burger: "Or you can come to one of our practices tomorrow…"

Taiga quickly heard a chuckle in response and looked at the girl smiling even more. She nodded: "I accept your invitation, Kagami-kun. Besides, I would like to become more involved with the school. Who knows, maybe I will learn a few things tomorrow and one day challenge you."

He smirked at her challenge: "You can challenge, but I will not go easy. It is basketball after all."

"Did not expect you to," she smiled back. She watched him resume on his eating before realizing he was already on his last burger: "But you know…that is a lot of food…"

"Hey! Do not judge!" he chewed, hearing her laugh again.

"I can walk by myself, you know?" Kagome looked ahead, watching as the lights in the street flickered lightly.

"Baka, my house is in this direction," Kagami scoffed, holding his basketball under his arm near his hip.

Kagome's eyebrow twitched, taking a mere glance at the taller male beside her. 'Did he just call me…a baka?' Kagome sighed and looked over to her left, seeing the empty basketball court outside fenced around. Stopping in her feet, she continued to stare at it silently.

The red head male walked forward a few steps ahead before stopping, noticing she was not next to him. Looking over his shoulder, he noticed her silent observation to the court. He brought the ball to his finger, spinning it effortlessly. "What? You want to play?"

Blinking out of her frozen state, her eyes glided to the corner, watching him with his cocky features. "I was just wondering what you and others in basketball see in the sport. I have never been this interested in a hobby."

Kagami caught the ball in his palm and took a few steps towards the miko. "It isn't a hobby. To me basketball is," his eyes narrowed down, "my life." His sight shifted over to the empty basketball court, slowly making his way towards it.

"Have you met the others in your team?" she questioned, following behind.

Something about the sport was calling to her, but maybe it was more than the sport. But who was she to know? She didn't even know what she wanted in life.

"Yeah, we had our little 'scan' yesterday," he scoffed.

"Scan?" she blinked, taken back by his use of word. "Um…what do you mean by that?"

"I have no idea," he shook his head as he began to dribble the ball lightly onto the ground. "Our coach is a woman."

"Being sexist now?" Kagome crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow.

"Chigau!" he glared at her.

"I am just playing," she laughed lightly as she set her school bag down onto a nearby bench. "So your coach is a female? What about it?"

He sighed: "She told us to take off our shirts and began to tell how physique with just one look."

"Hm, just with one look?" questioned Kagome, also interested in the talent. "Seems like she knows what she is doing then."

"Well, it is too soon to tell," he continued before shooting the ball and making it into the hoop.

Kagome grabbed the ball from under the net and threw it over to the red head. "And your teammates? What are they like?"

She received a scoff: "Also too early to tell, but there is one guy I can't sense anything from?"

"Sense? What are you?" she quickly received another glare. "I kid! I kid!"

He dribbled the ball once again before answering. "There is one kid who I can't sense anything. He just…magically appeared out of nowhere and he is said to have been part of this team called the Generation of Miracles back in middle school."

"Generation of Miracles?" blinked Kagome, leaning onto the hoop's pole.

"Whatever that is," he grunted. He aimed for another basket only to faintly see a person underneath the pole next to the miko. Loosening his focus, he shot the ball and cursed seeing the ball hit the edge of the hoop and bounce off. The ball landed on the blue haired male, his eyes straight into the stare of the tiger's. "When did you get here?" he asked with a bored look.

Kagome blinked, wondering who he was talking to. Looking over to her side, she jumped slightly upon seeing the familiar ghostly colored haired male. 'W-When did he get here?! I didn't sense anyone coming…'

"Domo."

"Ah, you're the boy I bumped into the first day of school," spoke Kagome, turning to face the mysterious male. She blinked, surprised by his lack of presence. 'This kid…what is he?'

"Yes," he replied. "Gomen, I didn't catch your name."

"Oh, Higurashi Kagome," she replied, still stunned by his presence.

"Kuroko Tetsuya," he introduced himself, seeing her cerulean eyes fixed onto his person, something he was fully used to, but something told him that the female was more intrigued by something entirely different.

"What the hell are you doing?" Kagami rested his hand on his hip, feeling the irritation from yesterday coming back.

"What are you two doing here?" he questioned back. He threw back the ball to its owner as it was caught easily into the red head's hands.

"Nothing," he replied. "We aren't doing anything."

"Is that so?"

There was a complete pregnant silence in between the trio, only having the miko look between the two basketball players. She blinked, thinking to herself. 'These two…they are first years right? So does that mean they both joined the basketball team?'

"I was in America until my second year of middle school," Kagami spoke out, bringing her out of her thoughts and catching the other male's attention. "I have been appalled ever since I came back by how low the standards are here." His eyes narrowed down, making both the miko and Kuroko stand silently as he spoke. "I'm not looking to play basketball for fun. I want to play a more serious game that really gets me going."

'What is it with this guy…?' Kagome moved a strand of hair back to her ear as the wind picked up. 'Is basketball…that serious of a game?'

"I heard all about you," continued Kagami. "I have heard all about the supposedly strong Generation of Miracles from our year. You were on that team, weren't you? I have a pretty good sense of how good others are." He began to spin the ball onto his index finger again. "People who can succeed smell different from the rest."

He threw the ball towards Kuroko, grinning as he easily caught it into his hands.

"But something is not right with you. The weak should smell weak, but you…don't smell like anything," the eyes on the tiger tightened.

The miko could only watch as the expression on Kuroko remained unchanged. 'Okay what is he? A bloodhound now? What does he mean by smell anyways?' She shifted back her gaze over to the phantom. 'But he…was part of the Generation of Miracles? So…does that mean he is a good player?'

"Your strength has no scent," Kagami continued on. "Let me see. Show me…just how good your Generation of Miracles really is. "

Kagome looked over at the red head: "Kagami-kun, please don't be picking up fights out of nowhere. He is your teammate after all."

"How fortunate," Kuroko began to take off his coat. "I have also been hoping to play against you. One on one."

"You want to go?" Kagami smirked, only receiving a questioning look from the miko. "Oi, Kagome! Keep score!"

"Nani?" she blinked; confused.

Kagome watched from the bench as they continued to play in their 'one on one' game. 'He…,' her attention was set on Kuroko most of the time as she was curious too on his play skills. 'He…is bad!' she sighed, dropping her head from the disappointment.

Continuing to hear the ball echo with each dribble, she sighed heavily once again as she brought her head back up and rested it on her palm. 'Keep score…what score? Kagami-kun has all the points! But even so…both are quite amazing in their own way. Perhaps Kuroko-kun could use that lack of presence to his advantage? Or maybe he already does if he was part of the Generation of Miracles.'

"You've got to be kidding me," shouted Kagami, bringing her out of her inner thoughts.

She watched as Kuroko ran back to him with the ball in his hands, looking up to his height.

"Have you even been listening!?" he exclaimed. "How much do you have to overestimate your own abilities to think you can beat me!? I can't believe how arrogantly you challenged me!"

"Um…Kagami-kun," Kagome stood from the bench and walked over to the duo. This red head needed to cool down!

"You can't be serious," spoke Kuroko, stopping her from saying anything further. "Of course you're stronger than me. I knew that before we started."

Kagami quickly grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and brought him closer to his face. A glare quickly came back onto the red head's eyes. "You want a fight? What the hell do you think you are doing?"

Kagome quickly slapped Kagami by the back of his head, with much effort to her surprise due to his height. Damn. He was freaking tall! In response, Kagami let the blue haired male go and turned his attention to the female.

"Oi! What was that for!?"

"For being a baka," she replied, crossing her arms. "No need to turn to violence."

"This punk obviously wants to pick a fight!" he shouted back, anger swelling inside him.

"I wanted to see how good you are for myself," Kuroko cut into their small argument.

"What?" Kagami turned back his attention to Kuroko.

"Ano…," Kuroko raised the ball in his hands to catch the red head's attention.

"Enough…," sighed Kagami as he began to walk away and past the miko. "I am not interested in the weak. Let me tell you one last thing," he walked over to his things and grabbed his coat. "You should quit basketball. However much you try to cover it up with nice words like effort, raw talent is a fact of life. You have no talent for basketball."

Kagome glared at the male as he turned to leave. 'The nerve of this guy!'

"I don't accept that," spoke Kuroko, stopping Kagami from leaving. The phantom player walked over to the bench, setting the basketball down. "First of all, I love basketball and I don't share your opinion. I don't acer who is strong or who is weak."

"What did you say?" glared Kagami.

"I'm not like you," added Kuroko. "I'm a shadow."

"Don't listen to him," Kagome walked over to her bag. She was left with the blue haired male even after the red head had left angrily after the 'absurd' statement the phantom player stated. She gave him props for such a small guy talking back to such an intimidating person. She picked up the left basketball, seeing the owner completely forgot it in his fuel of anger.

"I hope you continue to love what you do," she smiled at the male next to her.

Kuroko blinked dully at the miko, wondering how she had even came into contact with the tiger.

"Have you joined a club?" he asked her, catching her by surprise.

Kagome looked over to him and shook her head, dropping her eyes back down. "I…haven't."

"I think you could be a good member and addition to the basketball team," he whispered to her as he began to put on his coat.

"Huh? The basketball team? Isn't this a men's team?" she blinked, surely he was kidding.

"Yes, yes it is. But why not become a manager or something?" he grabbed his own school bag and slowly made his way out. "I am sure that tiger needs some taming."

Kagome watched as he walked away from the court, leaving her in the hold of a basketball. Dropping her eyes once again to the orange object, her eyebrows furrowed.

'Basketball…huh.'

MizukixTsukiyomi's Notes: There you go! The first chapter where Kagome meets the two bromance duo! Ha-ha! Anyways, this is my little surprise! Both Magi and Kuroko no Basket series! On the same day!

I tried my best to make you all happy and hope you all enjoyed in reading! Remember I will update depending on popularity, but I do not abandon my stories so please be patient as college slowly drains my life away also!

Thank you for reading and you are free to vote on pairings! We will see!

Please tell me what you think but please don't be harsh!

Ja~ne!