PROLOGUE

NAGASAKI, KAGAJIMA HIGH

First Year...

"Allen! Zach! Nick!" A redhead in number 10 jersey yelled across the court. "Where the hell are the others?"

Her stare was deadly, and the rest of the first string members did not dare cross her way. "Nami, chill." Says Zach. "Nash and Hara are probably playing one-on-one in the third string gym. Jason, Akara and Kagura are in coach's office."

"Having a threesome." Nick added, which earned a laugh from Allen and an elbow to the gut by Zach.

"And my babe's over there." Zach pointed to a brunette in a jersey sitting in the bleachers across them. Mibuchi Reiko, the small forward, had a cellphone in her hand, scrolling down to see tweets from her fans.

Reiko's ears perked up at the sound of her name. She glared daggers at Zach before turning her back and returned her attention to her phone. How she managed to hear him across the 50 feet gap between them, we never know.

Nanami Hana, the vice captain of Kagajima High's basketball team, sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Allen, get Nash and Ayazami." She said. Knowing what she could do if he didn't comply, Allen stood up and dragged Nick along with him.

Right after they exited, the other door opened to reveal the three tallest members of the basketball team. Kagura Mikazuki, Akara Mirai and Jason Silver.

"Where have you been?" Nanami raised a brow.

"All my life?" Mikazuki sang to the tune of a certain song, earning a blank stare from Nanami.

"Our supplementary exam was moved today." Says Mirai. "We can't miss the western summer prelims this friday."

Silver slung his arm over Mirai's shoulder. "Uh-uh." Mirai elbowed him in the gut before twisting his arm, only stopping after Silver begged not to break his arm. "Don't do that. You're not my boyfriend."

"And why do you need to take remedials?" Hana asked. "I'd understand of it's only Jason, but why you two?"

"Hey!"

"I flunked physics, while Mikazuki caused a minor explosion during the practical exam in Chemistry, hence, she failed." Mirai explained.

Mikazuki looked as if Mirai offended her. "Hey, don't say it like that. It makes me look bad. I aced the written test, okay? I accidentally put Hydrogen peroxide and Hydrochloric acid in a bowl of boiling water, so it exploded. No harm done."

Mirai raised a brow. "No harm done? Your experiment sent two students to the infirmary-"

"They're fine! You just don't know how to appreciate my works." Mika huffed.

Akara Mirai, the center, shook her head. "They cause explosions, Mika."

Kagura Mikazuki, the shooting guard, crossed her arms. "They don't! Well, some of them I guess... but it's effective! My sleeping draught worked on our sensei, the love potion was effective on Zach and-"

"Did you say, 'effective on Zach'? You made Zach drink it?!" Says Mirai. "If he cannot play in the preliminaries this Friday, it's gonna be your fault!"

"Hey, that was three weeks ago." Mikazuki glanced at Zach, who was staring dreamily at Reiko. "The effects haven't worn off yet."

As if on cue, Zach's eyes widened and made his way over to Nanami and the girls. "I have an idea! The most brilliant idea ever made!"

Jason, Mirai, Mikazuki and Hana looked at Zach like he was an alien. Zach's ideas were never brilliant. "What idea?"

"Elaborate, Zach."

"Okay, it goes like this." Zach stood a little closer to the group, afraid of being heard. "After today's practice, when all the people are gone, I'll ask Reiko to stay behind. Then I'll kiss her. If she kisses back, then I won't give up. If she doesn't react, I'll just kiss her again. If she pushes me away, then game over."

Mika snickered. "See, it works." She grinned. "He's head over heels for Reiko."

Mirai glared at her. "Not helping, Mika. He's intoxicated!"

It took ten seconds before Nanami could react. "That was the most idiotic, most stupidest thing I've ever heard."

"Oh come on, Nami. You girls are supposed to support me." He whined.

"Zach, she's devoted her life to avoid being within 10 meter radius near you." Nanami deadpanned. "What makes you think you could even get her to stay behind?"

Zach opened his mouth to reply, but was stopped when a voice spoke behind him. "Agreed. What kind of fucking plan was that?" A familiar gruff voice was heard and he knew who it was.

Zach rolled his eyes. "Shut up, Junior. You can't even get your ass to confess to Ha- WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?!"

"Shut up or I'll kill you." If looks could kill, Zach would've been totally obliterated from the face of the earth from the intensity of Nash's glare. "And don't fucking call me 'Junior' you asshole!"

"You don't complain when I call you that though, Nash." Ayazami said, now eating a protein bar given by Nash.

"Sh-shut up." It was ironic how a 163 cm girl could easily put the 190 cm point guard in place. Jason, Zach, Nick and Allen laughed at his reaction. Mirai and Nanami just grinned.

"Wanna try my love potion, Gold? It works." Mikazuki said.

"There's no way he's gonna try that! I mean, look at Zach!" Mirai protested, gesturing to Zach who's now walking towards Reiko in a trance.

Reiko's senses were tingling and looked back to see Zach walking towards her. She scowled and hurriedly made her way towards the group and hid behind Mikazuki. "I'm seriously getting pissed with that creep. Kagura Mikazuki, I swear, if I find out you're behind all these, I'm flying to Tokyo and tell your greenheaded boyfriend that-"

Mikazuki abruptly covered Reiko's mouth. "Shut up!" Mika growled before she let go of the brunette. "Hoe, he ain't my boyfriend."

"Why the fuck you lyin' bitch?" Reiko smirked.

Before the two get into an argument again, Nanami interceded. "Okay! Since everyone's here, we'll proceed with practice. Let's start with ten laps."

"Isn't Nash supposed to be in charge with practice? He's captain." Says Allen.

"Nash is lazy. So Hana-nee took the initiative." The power forward, Hara Ayazami, said nonchalantly.

"Aw, man. You're lazy." Zach gave Allen and Nick a knowing look. "She's turned off."

"You're literally hopeless, man. Give it up. She doesn't like you." Silver laughed.

Ayazami turned to the other girls. "What does 'turn off' mean? I'm not a light switch, I can't be turned off." Mikazuki, Mirai, and Reiko smiled at their teammate's innocence.

To protect her pure mind, Nanami glared at the boys. "Not important, Ayazami. 20 laps, now. Let's go!"


6 months later...

An enraged Nanami stomped towards the rooftop. Mirai was behind her, for safety reasons. If Nanami went out of control, Mirai would be there. She opened the locked metal door by force without breaking a sweat. Sure enough, Nash, Jason, Allen, Zach and Nick were there.

"I told you all to come to practice." Her voice was calm, but venomous. "Nash, you're captain. This is an unacceptable behavior."

Nash only yawned. "Too tiresome."

Nanami glared at them. "Come down and practice."

"Why should we?" Jason said airily. "This is Japan. We won againts those fucking monkeys. We'll win again in the conference."

Nanami's glare hardened. Ever since they won the Western Japan Sports Meet in autumn, the boys stopped attending practice. Their coach allowed the boys to play the whole game without subsitution. The girls were okay with that, but there was one thing they weren't okay with.

"Don't remind me of that disgusting game." Nanami growled.

Silver cocked a brow. "Disgusting? You're disgusted by our win?"

"It wasn't our win, Silver. It's your win. You and and your whole fcking crew." She sneered. "And they injured three of their core members. It's an unfair game."

Nash got up from his position. "What's so unfair? They were unlucky, was it our fault? They would've lost anyway even if they had their members. Aren't you supposed to be happy, Hana? Our school won. Our team won, and we did all the work. You recieved medals and the trophy without breaking a sweat."

Nanami clenched her fist. Memories of that game disgusted her to no ends. "Happy? You put Strky High in complete shame and humiliation. You insulted them infront of the entire Japan, and not just them, but the entire basketball playing population!"

"So?" Zach said lazily. "We're strong, they're weak. They deserved it. They don't have any right to complain about their loss."

"And I thought you were the decent one." Says Mirai, after a long time of silence. "It's not because you won, it's how you won."

"You played them, looked down on them and make them look like complete idiots." Nanami said.

"Because they are idiots, Nami." Says Zach.

"Don't call me that. We're not close." She snarled. Nanami took a deep breath. "I came here for one purpose: to get you to practice. But since it's obvious that you won't be practicing anytime soon, fine then. Don't regret this."

Nanami and Mirai left the rooftop, and the boys went back to sleeping like nothing happened.


"What do you mean we can't play?" Silver growled at the coach. Behind him, Nash was controlling his anger.

"I mean it as it is." Coach said. "You five won't be playing for Kagajima High any longer."

"Why?"

"Because you're kicked out of the team." A feminine voice said behind them. Nanami, crossed her arms, and despite being 5'8 feet, the menacing glares from the boys did not faze her. "You're no longer part of the basketball team."

Nash stepped forward. "I'm captain, and you don't have the fucking right to kick us out just like that."

"Oh, she fucking can." Kagura Mikazuki said in an equal tone. "The rules states that if more than 80% of the club members want you out of the team, they can kick you out, with the approval of the vice-captain and head coach."

"You can't do that. You can't win without us."

"In addition, you've broken about ten club policies, three of them being the major rules. Absence from practice, inflicting violence on clubmates and harrassment." Mirai added, ignoring the last comment. "The last straw was the incident at the Autumn Sports Meet. I hope you didn't forget injuring three Strky members. It's not just us, but the officials suspended you from playing in the Western Conference."

"By the way, we can't win without you?" Reiko raised a brow. "What makes you think we can't?"

"You're girls. Simple as that." Allen said, which he regretted because the next moment, he found himself kneeling on the ground, petrified by Nanami's eye.

"What was that?"

"That is enough." Before anything escalates, the coach interfered. "Jason, Nash, Allen, Zach and Nick. On this day, you are dismissed from the basketball club."


"Yosh!" Mikazuki yelled to the top of her lungs.

"Kyaaaaaa! We did it!" Ayazami and Mirai jumped in happiness as the crowd cheered for them.

"I'm so proud of us!" Hana smiled brightly at her teammates.

"Hah! That's what the get from underestimating girls!" Reiko smirked, but was soon replaced with a broad smile.

In middle school basketball, the national tournaments are divided into two separate championships; the Eastern Conference, and the Western Conference. Schools in the eastern and western region don't get to compete againts each other, only those included in their region.

Out of the three major middle school basketball tournaments, the greatest of these is the Eastern/Western Conference title. The other two tournaments have been won by the former Kagajima High starters.

For the first time in history, the Western Conference was won by a team of five girls, completely overpowering all the other schools by the greatness of their talents and skills. They defeated a total of 50 all male teams from different schools.

The girls cannot remove the broad smiles from their faces as they were each given a medal and the Western Conference trophy. They gained dramatic increase in fame and honor in the basketball world.

In the east, there were Prodigies, the Generation of Miracles from Teiko High.

In the west, there were Legends, the Queens from Kagajima High.


REVISED VERSION. R&R.