Peaches and Broken Bones

"A date", Satsuki thought in her head, giggling as she did," I'm on a date." The pinkette felt a squeeze around her hand and shifted her gaze to the boy next to her.

"Is there something funny?" he asked, emotionless blue eyes looking at her.

Her hearts did backflips. She squeezed back and hugged his arm, smiling at the shadow. "I'm on a date with Kuroko!" her thoughts yelled out.

"I just remembered how cute you are", she teased, resting her head upon his shoulder.

Tetsuya inhaled deeply. Peaches, her shampoo smelled like peaches today. He softly smiled for an instant before returning to his usual poker face. "That hurts my feelings."

"Wha-"

Again, the smile broke through his blank demeanor," I never forget how beautiful you look."

Her heart did a full on 1440 degree aerial maneuver as it sky dived off a plane. Satsuki immediately let go of the boys hand and characteristically tried to glomped him yelling, "Tet-chan!"

Her arms caught air as found the shadow to be nowhere in sight. "Kuroko? Where'd you go?" Looking around the street, she found nothing, other than herself alone.

"Hey pretty lady", an irritating voice said," what are you doing alone?" Satsuki turned around to find a trio of smug looking teenagers, probably a year or two older than her. " Are you waiting for someone? It's not fun to wait alone."

"Yeah", another one of them smiled with his yellow teeth, the smell of cigarettes laced in his breath," Why don't we go to karaoke or something? Let's go have some fun."

"I am alright thank you", "I am on a date, right now. Now, excuse me while I search for my invisible boyfriend", or "Piss off Scumbags! Touch me and I will break your faces in!" Which one would be appropriate for her to pick? She was leaning towards the last one, but maybe it might be a bit harsh. Before she could say anything though, she felt a hand on her wrist. "Come on!" one of the thugs yelled," Let's go!" Satsuki tried to pull away but she wasn't strong enough, they dragged her anyway a few feet, before a mysterious voice spoke.

"Excuse me", it politely interrupted, stopping the teens in their tracks," can you please let her go?"

"Wha?" The trio of teenagers jumped back in surprise. "Where'd you come from?"

"I was here the whole time."

"Kuroko!" the girl happily shouted, rushing towards him and putting the passing specialist between her and the others.

"Who are you?"

"This girl's boyfriend."

The teens looked at eachother, then broke into fits of laughter. "R-really?" asked the only one who could control himself enough to speak," That's rich!" Soon the laughing died down as the third of the group walked up and leaned down to Kuroko's height.

"Now, a little kid shouldn't make such serious jokes." A vein popped up on Tetsuya's head. "And didn't your mother teach you to share your toys?" Then another popped up. "I mean, she looks fun to play with." A third revealed itself. " Just leave her with us and we'll take real good care of her. Run along now before I break your hand."

Last straw.

Kuroko took a deep breath to calm himself. The two delinquents behind this one still were giggling.

"Well? What's it gonna be?"

The blue haired boy immediately punched the thug with the same strength and form as the ignite pass kai. Causing the guy to fly to his friends, creating a small pile of dazed thugs. "Well", Kuroko stated as he shook his hand,"Looks like you did break my hand, albeit with your face, but that just makes it more of an accomplishment.

Two of the three soon stopped seeing stars and tried to get up, though it's quite hard with your large unconscious friend pinning them down. "Why you!"

"And that's our cue to leave!" Momoi stated as she grabbed Kuroko's hand and started to run as far as possible.

They ran. She didn't know where, but she just ran to get away, Kuroko's hand gripped tightly in her own. He won't disappear now, she's got him. She squeezed tighter, he can never escape.

After a half an hour of running through the streets, they found themselves at a familiar park where they sat on the familiar swings to catch their breath.

"I've never seen you punch someone like that before", she smiled after getting some oxygen in her lungs. There was the joking punch he used on the his teammates when they were laughing around. There was the punch he used when he needed a teammate to snap out of a funk. There was even a fight with Aomine or Taiga once or twice over something stupid, but that was more of a failing of hands than a fistfight. She never saw him cause a guy to fly with his fist before... It was strangely masculine of him to be able to do that.

"I never did it before", he confessed, rubbing the knuckles of his hand.

"It was cool."

"Thanks."

They sat in silence. The chains of the swings gently creaking back and forth as the two rocked in their seats.

Satsuki decided to break the silence. "Is your hand okay?"

Kuroko hesitated to answer but then softly said,"I think the guy's face actually broke it." She blinked a few times before laughing loudly. "You know I'm serious, right?" he asked.

"Yeah", she smiled, wiping tear from her eyes. She took a sigh and got off the swing, extending a hand out for Kuroko to grab with his not broken hand. "Come on, let's go."

Flirting, a run-in with delinquents, a park, a visit to the emergency room. Believe it or not, this was one of the more normal dates the two shared.