Let's be Friend!
Rated : K+
Genre : Friendship, Hurt/Comfort
Warn : AU, OOC, wrong grammar
Disclaimer :
Kuroko no Basuke owned by Fujimaki Tadatoshi
One Week Friend /Isshukan Friend owned by Matcha Hazuki
Author Note : Try watching One Week Friend/Isshukan Friend, it's a really great anime ^^ I love it at the first time I watch it. Sorry for my wrong grammar, English isn't my language. I'm writing this in English to improve my English skill, so —enjoy ^^/
Summary : Kuroko Tetsuya always stay alone and never tries to become close with anyone. One day, a transfer student, Kagami Taiga tried to become friend with him. Unknown by Kagami, Kuroko loses every memories of his friend each Monday. After learning the truth about Kuroko, Kagami swear to himself that he will make Kuroko as his friend, no matter how many times he need to chant the magic word "Let's be friend" to him.
Kagami Taiga is a 15 years old higschool student from America. He is attending Seirin Private High School at Tokyo, Japan. Now, it's almost a half month for him in Japan. He already get used with Japanese language (but still confused by kanji), Japanese culture and the place around his school. He made a lot of friends and joined the basketball club in his school. He even played as a regular and get the title "The ace of Seirin". Different with the first time he arrived at Japan, now Kagami feel this place like his own hometown. But, there's one thing he curios about, it is about a classmate of him, Kuroko Tetsuya.
Kuroko Tetsuya is a boy with pale skin, beautiful carribean blue eyes and light blue hair who turning on Kagami's curiousity. Kuroko has a skill to make himself invisible, that is what Kagami believe. The first time Kagami saw him was when he introduced himself in front of class but he didn't realize that Kuroko sit in front of him until a week later. The moment he realized it, he thought a ghost just appear nowhere to scare him. The teacher and his classmates have the same problem too. They often screamed and jumped when Kuroko appeared beside them or – to the point of extreme—some of them even fainted. Maybe because of that skill, Kuroko always stay alone and never tries to become close with anyone. Sound ironic, huh? It's make Kagami feel a little guilty to see Kuroko didn't get any partner when they have a pair project from the teacher. But it's not his problem, right? He and Kuroko aren't friend after all. But looks like his life is joking with him. Two minutes ago, Kagami just bought an extra large French fries with an extra large burger and a big glass of cola in Maji burger. While he was gulping down his burger, suddenly a pair of carribean blue appeared in front of him, resulting the poor burger stucked in his throat.
"Stop popping out from nowhere!" Kagami spat out after drinking his cola "It's not good for my heart! Can't you see that this table already taken?".
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to" Kuroko said calmly "And….actually I sit here first. I don't know why you suddenly took the seat in front of me".
"I didn't remember anyone sit here before me. Say the truth! You must have a ghost gene inside you, right?" Kagami pointed to Kuroko.
"No, I'm a 100% human" Kuroko said with a poker face.
Kagami just clicked his tongue and took a big bite of his extra large burger. Suddenly, he heard a sound of ringing phone and that sound come from Kuroko's phone! Briefly,he got a flash of Kuroko's phone wallpaper and believe it or not, he just saw a Michael Jordan's photo!
"Yes, grandma. I will buy some later, bye" Kuroko hung up his phone just to found a shocked Kagami.
"Your phone wallpaper…It's Michael Jordan, right?" Kagami couldn't believe what he saw with his eyes "I'm a big fan of him, no way….are you his fan too?!".
"If watching all of his matches mean I'm his fan , that mean yes I am" Kuroko answered still with his poker face.
" You watch all of his matches?! Than, how about Shaq, do you know him?" suddenly Kagami become fired up. Of course, anything about basketball fire him up. He is a basketball freak after all.
"Of course I know him, he is one of my favourite basketball player"
And then, a long time conversation about basketball just begin. Without realizing, the both of them sunk deep into the conversation. If a stranger saw them, they would think the both of them as a childhood friend who just meet each other after separated by two years.
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"I don't know that you are a basketball freak too! Your knowledge about basketball is outstanding" laughed Kagami "Oh, I never introduce myself properly, I am Kagami Taiga".
"You don't need to" Kuroko said still with his poker face.
"O fcourse I need to, let me introduce myself as a prove of our friendship. I am Kagami Taiga, let's be friend" Kagami said with a big smile. He didn't know why, but he felt happy when talking with Kuroko. At first, he thought Kuroko will be a boring kind of people who refuse to talk but surprisingly he talked a lot! Kagami swore, he saw Kuroko's eyes glinting with star when he talked about his favourite player.
"F riend…?" Kuroko muttered. His bang is covering his eyes and he looks down. A sudden change of Kuroko's behaviour surprised Kagami.
"Is something wrong, Kuroko?" Kagami asked.
"No, I think I need to go home" Kuroko said and in a second he already disappeared from Kagami sight.
"Hey, what's wrong with him?" Kagami asked to no one.
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The next day, Kagami found Kuroko, eating his lunch alone on the school's rooftop. Actually Kagami tried to talk with Kuroko at the class but thanks to Kuroko's disappear ability, it's hard to spot him.
"Can I sit here?" Kagami asked. He brought a plastic full of breads with his right hand.
Kuroko just nodded his head and continued his lunch.
"You just eat that small sandwich?" Kagami got a shock when he saw what Kuroko eat for lunch.
"It's edible,why not?" Kuroko said with his never gone poker face.
"That's not what I mean. It's too small, no wonder why you look so pale and so sick" Kagami said while taking out a tuna sandwich from his plastic and handed it to Kuroko "Eat that! Sometimes ghost need to eat" Kagami said jokingly.
However, Kuroko just stared at the sandwich in front of his eyes. He didn't make any move to take it.
"You don't like tuna?" Kagami asked.
"No, it's just….I am a human" Kuroko said.
"COME ON! THAT'S A JOKE! WHY DO YOU TAKE IT SERIOUSLY!" Kagami spat out while throwing the tuna sandwich which landed on Kuroko's face.
Slowly Kuroko took the' tuna sandwich which landed on his face' and hold it tightly. A small smile showed it way to his face. Of course, that sudden expression make Kagami flustered.
"Wh-wha-why are you smiling?" Kagami backed off a bit. He thought the 'tuna sandwich which landed on Kuroko's face' had knocked Kuroko's brain out.
"So, this is called joking, huh?" Kuroko unwrapped the 'tuna sandwich which landed on his face' and took a little bit of it "Do I need to laugh?".
"No, you are late to doing so" Kagami grumbled and unwrapped his sandwich.
"Sorry, my bad" Kuroko said with a 'I don't feel guilty' face "This sandwich…are you sharing your lunch with me?".
"I already did that, why are you asking?"
"No, it's just my first time to share lunch with someone. Do another people sharing their lunch with stranger too?"
"No, they aren't. Usually people sharing their lunch with their friends or family, and…. wait! Why are you saying that? I'm sharing my lunch not with a stranger but with a friend"
" Friend?... Are we really friend?" Kuroko's expression turned the same as yesterday.
Okay, now Kagami is really confused. Kuroko looks cheerful a minute ago and then turned depressed a minute later.
"Of course we are. We chatted a lot yesterday, remember?" Kagami said matter-of-factly.
Kuroko got silent suddenly but Kagami could see Kuroko's depression from the way he hold his tuna sandwich. He hold it too thight and make the poor tuna sandwich turned flat.
"I'm sorry Kagami-kun" That's the first time Kuroko called Kagami's name "but I'm sorry I can't become your friend" Kuroko stood up and bowed his body.
"Eh? Why not? You don't want us to be friend?" Kagami couldn't find another respon beside of that.
"It's not like that actually I'm very happy. I chatted a lot about basketball with Kagami-kun and then you share your lunch with me, something that people do with friend. I'm really happy and enjoy every moment of it but I think it's impossible for someone like me to make a friend" Kuroko said, this time his face didn't show his usual poker face. The infamous poker face of Kuroko Tetsuya had been replaced by a pained expression.
"For someone like you, what do you mean?"
Kuroko took a deep breath "I don't know what is wrong with me but every time I make a friend with someone, strangely I will forget about my friend and all the things we do together on Monday. Weird isn't it? But it didn't happen with my family though" Kuroko explained "I realized when some strangers suddenly talked to me about a moment that I don't remember at all. By the look of their face, they look like they know me and for the sake of their feeling, I joined their conversation but I really don't remember anything about them. It's happened with some of our classmates too, I forgot about them and end up breaking their feeling. I'm the worse isn't it?"
Kagami is silent. He is still in the process to digest what Kuroko said. Sorry for Bakagami's slow brain. The sound of the bell turned his mind back.
"To make it simply, you will forget all about your friends and the moment you share with them on Monday. Because you are afraid to hurt other 's feeling, you become afraid to make friend too, am I right?"
Kuroko nodded "You already understand, so I can't become your friend, sorry".
"Afraid to make a friend…DON'T JOKE WITH ME!" Kagami punched Kuroko's face with all his might "What you are saying isn't logic at all! Why do you need to be afraid? Forget or not, you will still be my friend, REMEMBER THAT!" Kagami said with a pressure at the end.
"But, Kagami-kun…" Kuroko rubbed his pained cheek.
"Don't make it difficult! If you forgot about me, then the thing that I need to do is approach you, and then introduce myself" Kagami said like that is the most logic answer in the universe "I will chant the magic word to you every time you forget, understand?"
"Magic word, what is it? Are you a magician Kagami-kun?" Kuroko asked.
"Of Course not, baka!" Kagami punched Kuroko for the second time "The magic word is 'Let's be friend again' so we will become friend again, what's difficult from it?" Kagami spat out.
A small smile came back to Kuroko's face. Although his cheek is hurt, his heart feel warm like someone just heal a hole in hit.
"Thanks Kagami-kun".
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The next day Kagami and Kuroko do a lot of things together. Doing homework together, eating lunch together and sometimes walk home together until Monday come. Kagami is a little nervous to meet Kuroko this day. Will 'the forget about friend' thing really happen today?
"Kuroko! Good morning" Kagami called when he saw Kuroko came to the class.
"Who are you?" The only respon he got from Kuroko.
It's real. 'The forget about friend 'thing really happen. There's a little hurt feeling in Kagami's heart when he realized that Kuroko really think him as a stranger. But he braced himself and took his hand out.
"I am Kagami Taiga, a transfer student in your class. Let's be friend!"
Although it's hurt, he will chant that magic word as many is need to make Kuroko remember about their friendship again.
-to be continued or not?
Sorry if this bad and the grammar isn't right. Please be kind to me and forgive me for my bad grammar!