A/N: Hey everyone reading this and thanks for clicking on it. This is my first KnB fanfic which I have been confident enough to post on this site. I always wanted to do a large scale fic like this which involves the main characters are their supporting characters from each team. I am sorry if you get confused as I will keep switching POVs throughout the story and I will write the character's names in the standard, Japanese way (first name last). The characters appearing in the next few chapters are: Kuroko, Kagami, Hyuga, Kiyoshi, Izuki, Riko, Kise, Kasamatsu, Midorima, Takao, Aomine, Imayoshi, Sakurai, Momoi, Murasakibara, Hirumo, Akashi, Mibuchi, Hayama and Nebuya.

I kinda wanted this chapter to be an introductory chapter for the rest of the story. If you haven't already realised, this story is set after the Winter Cup where Seirin won. Enjoy!-RS

Takao's POV

"Shin-chan," I called as we turned down another dirt track and passed another row of tall and untended to crops which seemed to rear up on either side of it. My carrot-headed team-mate was strolling a little ahead of me, carrying a large Russian doll while I carried all of our bags both on my back and in my hands. The rickety bus only went so far along the road and we had needed to walk the rest of the way to Akashi's country house on that humid day in summer.

"Do not call me that, Takao. If you wish to complain about the walk then please do so inside your head; Cancer is having bad luck today and I wish to limit the annoyances."

"I'm an annoyance?"

"Complaining in general is an annoyance. You are more of a pest, like a mouse."

I gasped and jogged to catch up to his pace, "Why? Because I'm small and cute? And I am always hiding in your house?"

Shin-chan thought about this for a second before pushing his glasses back up his nose and answering, "No... More because you were originally unwanted... But like mice you are strangely likeable." I grinned at this rare compliment from Carrot Head as we rounded yet another corner and came face-to-face with a large house. Words can't really do it justice. It was like a traditional Japanese-style mansion in the middle of a country field. Shin-chan sighed and strode over to the entrance of the house, me having to jog to keep up with him again. "Akashi's family is quite rich," he said as if that explained everything. I still didn't understand why Shin-chan's old captain would invite the teams where the other members of the Generation of Miracles attended to his family's country home.

The door suddenly opened and in the doorway stood the short Rakuzan captain with his spiky red hair sticking out in all angles, as usual. "Shintarō and... Taka is it?"

I pushed out my bottom lip slightly and answered, "Kazunari Takao."

"Right. Welcome Kazunari."

Shin-chan crossed his arms as Akashi-kun beckoned us into the house. "Why are we here, Akashi? There has to be a reason. You never do anything without a reason."

Akashi turned and studied Shin-chan with his red and yellow eyes with their vertical slits and in that moment I thought he resembled a cat. Remembering what Shin-chan had said about me being a mouse, I gulped. But instead he cocked a smile and said, "It wasn't my idea." At that moment a tall boy with long black hair ran out of one of the rooms and into the hall, waving at us. Straight after him was a smaller, blonde haired boy who was giggling, seemingly much to the annoyance of the black haired one and Akashi-kun.

"Inviting everyone was actually our idea. Everyone deserves a rest after the Winter Cup and I suppose to losers should treat everyone else, the losers being us. So we pestered Akashi-kun to let us invite everyone... And use his house," explained the blonde haired one, "I'm Kotarō Hayama by the way... And this is Reo-nee."

The tall boy waved and I instantly recognised him from Shūtoku's match again Rakuzan, "I'm Reo Mibuchi," he said and turned to Akashi-kun, "Sei-chan, Hayama-kun keeps messing around and Nebuya-kun won't help."

"But did you lay all the futons out in the different rooms, Reo?"

"Of course, Sei-chan."

Akashi sighed and beckoned us to follow him. Hayama-kun stayed right next to us as we walked through the house, explained exactly who was coming and who wasn't. Apparently Rakuzan's other regular, the one who was like Kuroko-kun, refused to come and had quit Rakuzan after the Winter Cup finals due to his treatment. It was reassuring to know that after Seirin's win in the finals, Akashi-kun's personality was beginning to revert to the way it was in his early Teiko days. Apparently he wasn't as scary back then. The five of us turned into one of the four rooms which were filled with futons for us all to sleep in. However, this room was full with eighteen other teenagers. Myself and Shin-chan made it twenty.

Akashi clapped his hands for silence and everyone looked at him as he held up a box filled with straws, their ends hidden. "Everyone seems to be here so I can finally get down to doing this. I have four rooms where people will sleep over the holidays, of course the females will have to sleep in a room by themselves," when he said this he gestured to Momoi-san and Riko-san and plucked two straws from the sand, each with a pink end, "And the rest of us males will have the other three rooms divided between the eighteen of us. Six people to a room. Pick a straw and whatever colour is on the end, is the room you are sleeping in with all the others of that room colour. Understand?" Nobody said otherwise. "Good"

We all queued up to pick a straw and in the end we all knew the rooms. Room 1: Momoi and Riko. Room 2: Hayama, Imayoshi, Midorima, Hirumo, Mibuchi and Kiyoshi. Room 3: Hyuga, Kuroko, Akashi, Nebuya, Murasakibara and Kise. Room 4: Izuki, Aomine, Sakurai, Kasamatsu, Takao and Kagami. I pouted a little at not being in the same room as Shin-chan but at least I wasn't with scary Akashi-kun.