"Ebisu Tachibana..." Riki growled, her anger boiling inside her, popping the veins against her forehead and temples, she crushed her fingers together tightly into a fist.
"R-Riko-!" Kagami went to try and calm her down but received a full on punch to the face.
"Hahaha!" The college students burst out laughing like hyenas as they watched the, now first years of college, from their old team, came to join their college basketball team.
The whole team had gone to the same basketball related college, so it was easy for them to relieve a place on the team as regulars, ever since they won the winter finals.
"Listen up!" One of the older second years called out, pulling Kagami off of the ground, he rubbed his nose and glared at the now snickering Riko, she has ripped up the poster of the Ebisu Tachibana, the leading manager /coach at the moment, and stormed off and cuddled into the arms off Junpei.
"We got our regulars fixed, now get to practising!" He ordered and all the team jumped off and began to toss the ball between themselves.
"It's kind of strange." Teppei commented from the bench, now the manager of the team, as he watched his team sweat around the court.
"What is?" Shun asked, dribbling the ball around Junpei who "tch" in annoyance.
"Not having him here." A loud squeak of stopping trainers echoed throughout the gym and a ball went soaring past Teppei's hair, crashing I got en bleachers behind him.
Everyone froze at the anger pouring out Kagami, burning around him like a uncontrollable fire. Teppei gulped, realising his mistake.
"Shut up." Kagami growled menacingly. Glaring hard and cut at him.
"Kagami, come on, it's been a year." Riko groaned, pulling her now longer hair up into a pony tail.
"And whose fault do you think that is?" He growled again, shoving past her violently. Riko frowned, pain flashing across her face like a knife to her heart.
"I didn't mean to!" She called after him as he wiped the baby blue towel across his face.
"Nah... You didn't, none of you did. But you did it anyway. And now look. It's been a year and he still ain't back. "
Kagami aggresivly picked up his back and began to walk away from his team.
"Kagami!" Junpei called "Tetsu made his decision! And if it's to not play basketball anymore then we should respect it!"
"You knew how good he was!" Kagami burst out in rage.
"You knew he could beat ALL of us if he wanted too, but you didn't like that, did you?!" He sent a hard glare to all of his team mates " none of you did! So you made sure he didn't find out about his ability! You shoved him down into the dark!"
"He's a shadow, Kagami! You're his light, we needed to be darker!" Junpei reasoned.
"Oh yeah, and where is he now? Now that you need him?" Kagami snarled icily before storming out.
A few ripped pieces of paper with Ebisu Tachibana's and Tetsuya Kuroko's faces blowing in the wind behind him.
"Shadow and his light!"
It read.