Yubel- Eh well this would be my first time posting a KnB fanfic so I hope it isn't totally horrible. Warning though this will contain yaoi between GoMxOCs , KagaKuro and yuri with MoimoixOc . As a side not this chapter takes place on the last day of 8th grade (end of middle school) for Kagami.
Disclaimer- I don't own Kuroko no Baskue atleast I'm pretty sure because Kagami and Kuroko haven't made out yet.
An ear bleeding whistle sang through the enclosed court.
"Wrap it up, the teachers are already breathing down my neck about letting you stay here this long," a dark brown haired girl said with tired eyes.
"Come on ten more minutes you can wait that long right Toma?," laughed one of the many running boys.
Toma sighed and checked her thick watch. " How about 30 seconds Ari" she retorted.
The rest of the boys howled in laughter despite their tired bodies. Ari stuck his tongue out at Toma as if he was a small child, which probably wouldn't be far from the truth. A slightly taller red haired boy wrapped a tan arm around Ari while smiling keenly.
" Taiga, help me I know you want to stay here longer," Ari pointed out.
Taiga scratched his cheek with the tip of his finger," Of course I do but man it's already night I don't think we can keep at it for another game."
The other boys that were running just a moment ago were settling themselves on the ground their legs feeling like jello. The half-asleep blonde boy,Chris, shook his head trying to rid himself of sleepiness while the white haired boy next to him, Itzel, shook off the plastic gloves that was clinging to his skin from sweat.
"Good God does that mean we can stop, that means we can stop right? I don't even know how you and Taiga do it, Ari," Chris said glaring at the ever energetic boys.
"Simple you're just weak," Ari shrugged
"He's right y'know," chimed in Noah, the other blonde haired boy sitting next to Itzel.
"NOAH" Chris yelled.
Taiga rolled his eyes along with Ari. The red head looked over to two others standing next to the score bored.
"Oi Blyfe, Theo what's the final score?," Taiga asked.
The fore mentioned Blyfe and Theo snapped from whatever trance they seemed to be in and checked their drawn score bored. Blyfe added in the few points she'd forgotten to record then looked back to the Taiga.
"25-18 Taiga's team wins our farewell game!," the small girl said raising a bluish flag.
"What? No fair!," Chris pouted.
"Chris, callate," Theo said.
"...what...does that mean again," Chris said squinting his eyes as if it'd help his memory.
"Idiota," Theo broke out in a smile.
Before anyone could speak once again another high pitched whistle sounded quieting everyone at once. The six members of the then, Ridgeway middle school basketball club turned to their now obviously frustrated manger. Toma's eyebrow was twitching rapidly.
"Listen for just a minute," she said in a controlled voice," why don't we just go get something to eat okay?".
Kagami Taiga was searching around his mismatched group of friends as they argued and chatted away in the colorful McDonalds Toma had found. In only a few days Kagami would be back off to Japan leaving behind everyone and the middle school memories they'd made. He'd be trading in his competitive middle school life in America for a life in Japan as his dad had put it. He'd wanted to delay the trip as long as possible, but he had to face facts sooner or later. His father wanted to move back for family reasons more or less. While Kagami slowly slid into the idea of America being his new home, his father was yearning to go back to Japan, mostly to be back in close range of family. He believed that this being Kagami's last year of middle school served a perfect opening to move back, much to Kagami's dislike.
Kagami's red eyes darted across his group of friends first landing on Ari. Ari was the closest thing they had to a captain at Ridgeway maybe for his authoritative nature or overwhelming charisma. If he was being honest, Kagami would admit he'd miss Ari the most. The boy's love for basketball almost matched his own surprisingly enough.
The girl next to Ari was attempting, and horribly failing at that, to grab Ari's Mcdouble. She was Blyfe, a pretty laid back girl if Kagami ever saw one as well a odd. She hung around with the group because there was no girl's basketball club for lack of interest; even if there was Blyfe couldn't understand the actual rules of basketball only the less rule centered streetball and even at the her skills were still novice at best.
" Off," grumbled Toma to Blyfe and Ari from beside Kagami.
Toma was the teams manager ,but might as well be the coach since their actual coach was much more busier with the football team. Her first priority was always to make sure the team was in top shape regulars and new members. It was if she trying to be the stern older sister to all of them but overall had her upsides.
"You should listen to her you know before she strangles you," Itzel said standing a few inches away from the group's booth.
Itzel, now he was nut job to Kagami, a lovable nutjob that is. Itzel seemed to always be looked down on everyone for his near albino appearance ; he got the most crap in basketball and the short period he was in football. It also didn't help he had a thing with germs, like an earth shattering phobia of germs. He always wore plastic gloves during games complaining that with all the other players having their hands all over the ball that he doesn't want to even flick the dirtied sphere. At the moment he wouldn't even take a seat at the booth with them.
"Yeah listen to Itzel and be a suck-up to Toma!," laughed Chris tugging on Noah's shirt.
Chris and Noah were twins that always loved to keep Kagami's head spinning. Though the two were normally rather immature they were actually Kagami's tutors in just about...every subject; Chris tutored him in math and technology while Noah took on language arts and music (because what ever teacher decided to put Kagami in choir wasn't the sharpest knife in the toolbox).
"Taiga you're starting to hurt pushing into me, move," Theo said in his accented voice.
Kagami pushed away from the supposed wall he was leaning on which only turned out to be Theo. With a embarrassed voice he apologized to the Hispanic boy. There wasn't much to say about Theo accept he brought a semblance of sanity to the basketball club. He kept his cool (most of the time, Kagami should add) while giving out helpful advice when it came to basketball. It was as if he was a never depleting sphere of patience. Kagami felt one day Theo would make great basketball instructor.
"Hhheeeyyyy Taiga come one at least answer us," Chris whined.
That broke Taiga out of his thoughts. He turned his head to the small blonde with questioning eyes.
"What?," Kagami asked totally blanking out on any missed conversation.
That earned him a hit from Toma.
"We were asking what you'd want to do as a going away party," Toma repeated.
"What?," Was all Kagami could still come up with.
"Party Tiger party!," Blyfe said," you're going off to Japan in like a day we gotta do somethin' fun"
Kagami's eyes lit up with understanding. It was just like them to try throwing a going away party. Then again they attempting to throw parties every day.
"Mm I'm not really sure," Kagami confessed.
"Maybe we should just do a giant hang-out!" Ari suggested.
"With scary movies!"
"And anime!"
"FOOD!?"
"video games!"
"...I'm going to need more disinfectant"
Kagami chuckled to himself as his friends all chatted among each other about the supposed party. It only made the opening hole of resentment in his chest towards his dad more wider. In his fourteen year old mind all he could think about was how Japan would never compare to the simplicity of this right here.
The Ridgeway basketball team was rounding the corner to their separate houses in the dark night. A few street lights littered around the streets, illuminating their figures.
"Man is it hard to believe starting after Summer we'll be high schoolers?," Blyfe asked her teammates.
"I second that, hopefully that whole push the freshies into the toilets thing isn't true though," Noah replied.
"Wait what I don't want to go into a toliet!," cried Chris.
"Calm down guys even if that was true just give them a nice ass kicking!," Kagami said.
The red head punched his hand into the air,emphasizing his point.
"Easy for you to say Taiga, you're going off to Japan! You're going to leave us all alone!," Chris said mock crying.
"He's right you know it won't be the same without our red eyed tiger around," Ari commented.
Looking to each of his teammates Kagami could recognize the little ounce of sadness in their eyes. He stopped walking abruptly. Everyone else eventually stopped to the realization their power forward wasn't keeping up with them.
"Taiga?," Toma questioned.
Kagami sighed but looked up at his teammates with a wolfish smile. One at a time he caught everyone's gaze with his own from Ari's calm hazel eyes, to Blyfe's strong emerald, to Noah and Chris's childish purple, to Itzel's tired red, to Theo's interested orange, and Toma's annoyed chocolate brown.
"Let's make a promise here and now," Kagami announced taking a breath.
"For my high school I'll be going back to Japan with my dad, you all know that," he said," but lets get this straight I still plan on playing basketball for whatever school I'm going to, I expect you guys to too right?"
The group simply nodded their heads still not sure where their red headed friend was going with this.
"Then go on and show that damn high school all the damn talent you have and then one day I'll make sure we see each other again, at least on the court, as a team again, okay?".
For a few minutes red eyes were just staring at the different colored eyes staring back. The silence was broken once Ari came forward, a smirk stitched to his face.
"So we prove that we're a bad-ass team and someday you'll come back huh?," Ari asked.
Kagami nodded.
"Well then don't stay too comfy in Japan, we'll come and force you back if we have to. We're gonna miss you Taiga but the same should go for you too, get stronger while you're away we wouldn't want to get back a weak-ass Taiga," Ari said.
"I'll agree to that," Kagami nodded.
"Spit on it?"
"Spit on it."
The two boys spit into their left hands and joined hands together in a handshake.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW UNSANITARY THAT IS!?," Itzel yelled.
Toma elbowed him in the ribs. When Itzel glared at the girl she only shook her head to Ari and Kagami. She came over to them first and laid her hand on top of theirs. Her dark skin contrasted with Ari and Taiga's lighter skin tone. The rest of the team looked at each other in question.
"Hey assholes get over here this is where we're supposed to have a heartfelt good-bye!," Toma explained.
Chris and Noah came over at the same time following Toma's orders. The held their identical hands up and laid them ontop of the other three's hands. Blyfe skipped over next dragging Itzel and Theo with her. She pulled their hands in on top of the others while Itzel tried to pull away.
"No do you know the ge-"
"Just let it hover you're gonna ruin the moment," Blyfe said.
Itzel did just as Blyfe suggested, though still showed reluctance, finishing their mirage of joined hands.
"Here's to remembering our team," Ari said.
"All the practices"
"All the time hanging out"
"All the games"
"All the pranks"
"All the memories," Kagami finished.
"Guys...we're not like...having one of those sappy good-bye we'll be best friends forever things are we?," Chris questioned.
"Yes we are now let it happen," Ari said.
That was the really the last time Kagami got to hang out with his friends. Now that he looks back it seems like years since he'd seen their cheerful faces when in fact it had only been one year at the most.
"Kagami?," asked the quiet voice of Kagami's teammate Kuroko.
Kagami gave a 'hn' opening one of his closed eyes to see the crystal blue eyes that belongs to Kuroko.
"Practice is over," Kuroko said bluntly.
"I know," Kagami said.
"You're not moving though," Kuroko pointed out.
"I'm thinking I can do that right?"
Kuroko gave Kagami a blank look, but Kagami was well enough adversed at reading Kuroko's face by now to understand that he was questioning Kagami's antics. To be quite honest, Kuroko could still look cute even without lack of obvious facial expression.
"Tch it's nothing,"