Pulling Pigtails – Short Story (?)

Disclaimers: I do not own Kuroko no Basuke.

This is a work of fiction and incredulous occurrences do occur, no words are meant to hurt anyone's feelings.


After a rather disappointing session of ball dribbling in football, Kise Ryouta was certainly bored. And like every bored person would do when bored, he mentally complained. Complained how every sports he tried was turning quite tedious, which was tragic as he rather liked sports, it kept him slim and flocked with servan-err-fanpeople (oops). Although he would be forever appeased if someone could light a fire in his bored life.

His train of thought was cut short when his face impacted the ground, courtesy of a rather round object which attacked his well-proportioned head.

And no, by 'lighting a fire,' Kise did not refer to the painful burning sensation on the back of his head.

The round menace turned out to be a basketball. Its menacing curly lines seemed to only mocked him further. All he could do was glare back at the nasty piece of roundness.

"Sorry, sorry," came a rather laidback voice from a rather black guy who didn't seem to be feeling 'sorry' in any sense of word if his smile was anything to go by. So, no, Kise was not going to forgive him or his ball (basketball).

He was dark and aggressive like a gangster, he was simply a ganguro. A ganguro kurosuke, and Kise simply did not deal with ganguro kurosukes. It was hate at first sight!

Throwing a ball at someone's head was clearly a form a bullying, especially when said ball and ganguro was leagues away from the school gymnasium.

Kise was a lot of things, but tolerating bullying from a ganguro was not one of them.

"Aren't you that famous Model Ki-" His question was cut rather short when a basketball impacted his face, courtesy of Kise's amazing throw prowess. Kise quickly walked away before the ganguro could recover from his dark concussions, which seemed to fail as said ganguro was walking towards him with a rather angry face.

Luckily or predictably, he was blocked by the Great Wall of China aka the large group of fangirls, god blessed them.

Taking the chance, he quickly walked up to car waiting for him at the school's exit and left the premises before the ganguro kurosuke could rage on. He'd been injured quite enough, thank you very much. He was a model with places to go and things to do. A busy life if he would say so, especially when he was still 13.

At least he learnt that basketball was quite an aggressive sport, suitable for ganguro kurosukes like the one he'd just encounter. It was not a sport for someone as precious and kawaii as he was. It simply was blacklisted! BLACKLISTED!


Spending his time and efforts on modeling and the like, it wasn't long before a scouting agency noticed his skills and casted him a role in various movies. One was the 'blonde prince,' where he obviously played the role of the blonde prince. The other was his role as a young Louis XIV aka the sun king, his blonde hair clearly helped, and though critics criticized how Louis XIV did not have blonde hair, his acting (which he borrowed from world renowned actors from watching them), was greatly praised. His fame was taken to new heights in a matter of a few months; the same could be said of his fans that experienced a hundredfold increase.

He did appreciate his fans; after all they were his loyal human shields, but things got out of hand outside of school. His Teikou's fangirls knew how to not act aggressive towards him and he was totally fine with that, but the same could not be said about his fanbase outside of Teikou.

Public fans were good but quite dangerous if there were too many, much like the dosages of painkillers.

As all famous models and actors did, he disguised him with a pair of black sunglasses and a beanie in order to mingle with the normal crowd.

Sadly it did not go to well as his perfect disguise was torn away the moment his aggressive fangirls' laid eyes on him.

In the midst of Shinjuku, he could feel himself being slowly surrounded by more and more fangirls.

His fear tolerance was reaching its limits and he nearly screamed until someone pulled him into a rather small street. He turned to evaluate whether this person was his helper or his soon to be rapist but he saw no one.

"Good afternoon." A voice said and his heart nearly stopped but he quickly reminded himself that this was in broad daylight and ghost simply did not appear in broad daylight.

The source of the voice was from a rather petite looking boy with light blue hair, he was rather small so it was impossible for him to rape Kise, hence Kise was probably safe from being raped in a rather small street.

"Do I know you?" He asked quietly, still fearing that this boy might be some strange spiritual ghostly concoction that could appear in broad daylight.

"We go to the same school."

"Ah. I see." But he did not see, he'd never seen that face before. Again, it could be due to the fact that fangirls were always blocking his gaze.

"And you are?" He asked back.

"I'm Kuroko Tetsuya, it's nice to meet you." 'Kuroko' replied as he bowed.

It was strange how unfailingly polite this ghost boy was but his ghostly presence was quite amazing and Kise could sure respect that, but firstly he would have to be sure that this boy wasn't a ghost.

"Well, I'm Kise Ryouta, thanks for the save anyway, I'll be sure to return the favour. See you." The light bluenette simply nodded and Kise quickly ran away before anymore ghost or fangirls could haunt him further.


It turned out that Kuroko Tetsuya aka. Kurokocchi, courtesy of his amazing ghost-like/phantom-like whatsoever skills was not dead, hence was not a ghost and therefore deserved Kise's respect for his abilities and his help.

His present film set was near school and as and Miki-san, his manager drove past it, he saw a familiar figure.

"Miki-san! Stop, stop!" The car stopped and he quickly ran down shouting "Kurokocchi!" The ghost-like person seemed to as recognized him.

"It's nice to see you again Kise-kun, why are you calling me Kurokocchi?"

"Ah. I add –chi to the names of people I respect, saving me sure earned you that." He answered, cheerfully as was now certain that Kuroko wasn't a ghost.

"Please stop that." The phantom quickly shot down his cheerful speech but Kise was nothing if not determined.

"It's fine isn't it, and I told you I'll return that favour, so is there anything you want to ea-" Before he finished his sentence, a shout of "Oi! Tetsu!" Came. It was eerily familiar and he was quite afraid to see the source of the voice.

Unfortunately, his suspicions were correct, it was none other than that ganguro kurosuke!

"Y-You! You ganguro kurosuke!" Kise shouted as he glared at the dark figure that seemed dumbstruck for a while before he regained foothold.

"Ganguro kurosuke? What the hell is that! And aren't you that aggressive model who threw a ball at my face?"

"I only retaliated, you were clearly bullying me! Hmph! As if I'd believe your lies of it being a stray ball when the gym is kilometres away from the school's exit." His logical answer stunned the ganguro. Kuroko simply stared appraisingly at the tanned boy leaving the group of three in a world known as awkward silence. Said world was destroyed when a pink haired girl who appeared out of nowhere started giggling as she muttered 'ganguro kurosuke' repeatedly.

"Kise-kun, that was so creative!" She beamed at him, "I'm Momoi Satsuki, and the g-ganguro kurosuke over there is Aomine-kun." She said, though he really didn't care for the name of said ganguro; to him ganguros would always be ganguros.

"Now that we're all here, shall we get some popsicles?" Kurokocchi spoke and Kise was quite confused about what he meant by popsicles.

It turned out that popsicles were shared frozen ice and Kise ended up paying for all of them. He was happy to buy them for Kurokocchi and Momoi-san but to buy them for the ganguro was something he couldn't tolerate even when he had already bought them.

His musing came to an end when a piece of Popsicle appeared in front of his face.

"Here's yours," The ganguro said and Kise reluctantly accepted. He had to admit that the popsicle was quite tasty and he supposed sharing really did enhanced the taste, even when you're sharing them with a ganguro.

Kise realized that his popsicle eating trip was quite time consuming the moment Miki-san ran over, telling that him that it's time to go.

The ice cream eating trip was fun and he did meet new people, even if he didn't care for the company of some.

Walking back, a familiar painful sensation impacted his head; it wasn't as painful as last the last time he felt it, seeing that he was still standing. Turning back he saw the ganguro kurosuke smirking playfully.

"Ah, ah, sorry my hands slipped." Was the worse excuse that could be given but the bluenette said it anyway.

"Y-You bully!" Kise shouted before he quickly escaped into his safe haven know as Miki-san's car.


His film studio was close to Teikou. He'd taken its advantage and decided to join Kurokocchi's occasional popsicle outing.

It wasn't long before he realized that both Kurokocchi and Momoi-san were members of the basketball club, something he clearly disapproved of. Kurokocchi's was quite a basketballphile, though Kise refrained from criticizing he fear of nasty consequences.

He did enjoy the company even if the annoying ganguro kurosuke kept throwing balls at his head whilst Kurokocchi made a knowing look. He always had plenty of fangirls, but friends? Not so much.

He'd been quite a target of bullying in kindergarten and early primary before his mum pulled him off to be home-schooled. Kurokocchi might not think so but Kurokocchi was Kise's best friend, Kurokocchi saved him from certain death after all. Kise admitted that it wasn't the most unbiased of judgement as Kurokocchi was his first and only friend.

With school, work and popsicle or Maji-burger outings, a week flew by in an instant.

A new vanilla and chocolate stuffed Maiubo snack commercial was recently released although said snack would not be made available for the public until a few weeks after. Miki-san, his manager who should be in the marketing department instead decided that Kise should be carrying around said snacks until the public released date in order to promote its popularity.

Class was boring as usual , however Kise could feel that something was different. Turning around, he realized he was the subject of the purple-haired titan's stares.

"D-do you want something?" he asked insecurely.

The purple-haired titan simply nodded but said nothing. However, it was quite clear that the titan's saliva was dripping, could the titan be having nasty thoughts of him, his beautiful looks must be like magnetic pull to bullies.

Though upon closer inspection, it wasn't him that was the object of the stares, it was rather the bag of new vanilla-chocolate Maiubo that was on his desk.

"Err, do you want this?" His question made the titan nod as his eyes sparkled. Well, at least Kise was relived that he wasn't going to be eaten.

"You can't take the bag." He said and the purple titan slumped, manager Miki's command was quite absolute when it came to marketing, and keeping the bag with him at all times was a must.

"But I can share the snacks with you if you want." He offered and the titan drew near as his eyes brightened like illuminations.

"Really?" The purple titan asked, as if wary that Kise might not be keeping his words.

"Of course." He replied sincerely, handing the bag of snacks to the purple titan. "I'm Kise Ryouta, and you are?" For some reason, he felt that he was not known by the titan even with his skyrocketing popularity.

"Murasakibara Atsushi." The giant said before he helped himself to a handful of Maiubo. "Wahhh! It's delicious!" Murasakibara made a blissful moan and continued to ask as he ate "Whrere did wu get dis wrom."

"Ah, I'm the presenter so I got the them before the launch."

"Ah! I remember you now! I was so angry since you were on television eating snacks which were impossible for me to get. I was so angry that I want to crush you then." Kise thought crushing people for having snacks was quite extreme, fortunately Murasakibara seemed appeased with the snacks, snacks which Kise did not find that appetizing.

"I still have loads at home, I can bring it if you want? As long as you don't take the bag as it's suppose to be exclusive." And he really did have loads more at home. Miki-san's urge to promote the sales resulted in his house being filled with boxes of exclusive Maiubo which Kise was not allow to give away but was commanded to keep a bag with him for public exposure at all time.

Miki-san's enthusiasm sometimes made Kise wonder whether he was related to the owner of the Maiubo company. Murasakibara's love was a good way for him to rid himself off those boxes.

"Really? That would be amazing Kise-chin!"

Kise concluded that some people could truly be lured by food.


Murasakibara following him around was a benefit in disguise. Sure, he loved his fans, but they always seemed to block pathways when he was walking around.

Those worries became non-existent the moment Murasakibara entered. He was like a pseudo-path opener in every sense of the word.

However, it was as he suspected. Murasakibara was a member of Teikou's basketball club. It wasn't that had to see, especially when every members seemed to have weird quirks or are prone to violence, similar to that silver-grey haired guy he'd met earlier.

The fuming silver-head boy confronted him and raged on about how Kise stole his girlfriend, something that he totally understood. Kise was too handsome for his own good and that was his cross to bear. Things got weird when the silver-head claimed that the blonde was dating her. Either there were 2 Kise(s) or that the girl was a liar since Kise was not dating anyone.

The violent guy however decided that the blonde needed some pummeling and proceeded to lift Kise up from his collar. It wasn't that Kise didn't know how to fight, he was just quite anti-violence. His purple giant was off practicing that violent sport called basketball, which made Kise wonder why this silver headed guy was in front of him rather than at practice, since violent pinpoints basketball. Things were looking to be quite bleak hurtful for but suddenly the violent boy released Ryota and sank to the ground holding his crotch.

He turned around to find Kokou-san, president of the 'Love Kise-sama4Ever!' club glaring hatefully and the downed boy. She was accompanied by his troops of loyal fangirls who were ready to tear the silver-haired boy apart.

"What were you trying to do to Kise-sama!" She fired her question.

The violent boy reply of "bitch" was not the brightest nor the best of answers and resulted in him being pummelled by Kise's troops. He thanked his fangirls for their loyal services and gave them all a piece of Maiubo. Never again did the silver-haired boy, whose name he did not know confronted him at Teikou.

Kurokocchi did complained during their outing about the absence of said certain silver-haired boy but Ryota simply whistled and feigned ignorance. No one said anything about the violent boy's injury, fangirls' business was much like the mafia underground world. Such was the power of his fans.

Kise admitted that he was partially responsible for bringing this predicament upon himself. He should have known better, badmouthing basketball in front of Kurokocchi was not a great idea.

In retrospect, he blamed the ganguro kurosuke for it. The damn ganguro threw a basketball at his head again, an act that could cause permanent concussion and severe mental basketball trauma, which he supposed he already had the moment his face flattened the ground courtesy of said ganguro.

He decided that the ganguro deserved some drama and proceeded to declare the vileness, painful and uncivilized nature of basketball upon the ganguro kurosuke.

After he finished his rant did he noticed the dangerous glistening aura behind him, emanating from Kurokocchi of all people.

"Kise-kun, basketball is a great sport," Kurokocchi spoke in a sickeningly sincere sweet voice. Kise had used every bit of restrain in him to stop his 'no it's not' retort from emerging and mechanically nodded.

"Here, take it." The cyan-haired boy offered him a basketball. The fact that it manifested itself out of nowhere told Kise it was an object of darkness. He could hold it and throw it immediately so that his sight could rid itself off the evil roundness but Kurokocchi's gesture implied that he was to hold it for a while and that was a request he refused to oblige.

"I see that you still have deep prejudices for basketball. Kise-kun you're coming to the basketball practice tomorrow." Kurokocchi said, well more like decreed and Kise simply had to find a way out.

"Er- I have a modeling session tomorrow?" Kurokocchi simply shook his head to Kise's semi-questioning answer.

"Tomorrow is Sunday and you have no modeling." He was blasted, he'd spoken too much about his job that Kurokocchi now knew his timetable. Kurokocchi was scary sometimes.

The blasted ganguro kurosuke all but laughed at his predicament. The bastard.


No. He wasn't resigned to fate yet. He still had the sick card to play. However, that was shot down the moment his house bell rang.

His sisters told him he had a visitor and that could only be Miki-san yet he was met with the sight of Kurokocchi sitting in the living room.

"K-K-Kurokocchi!" How Kurokocchi got his house address he would never know. All he knew was that Kurokocchi was severely passionate about the violent sport of basketball and would seek to convert any haters, like how Christian missionaries might seek to convert believers of other religions to their own.

He was dragged to school before he could even start moaning about how mean Kurokocchi was. Something was terribly wrong as he usually was the one doing the dragging. Luckily it was still quite early in the morning and fangirls were still asleep, hence the lack of viral pictures on the internet.

Kise was met with a world out of joint the moment he entered the school's basketball gymnasium. Again, this out of joint-ness might be caused by the menacing round object which impacted his head. The culprit was so obvious he didn't even have to look.

"Ganguro Kurosuke!" He shouted for justice but justice did not come. Kurokocchi gave him a severe look which said you-are-disturbing-practice whilst the ganguro laughed. Such was the cruelty of this world.

Kurokocchi sided with the ganguro and decided that Kise should learn how to play basketball. It was quite futile, especially when Kise was blatantly ignoring them. There was no way he was going to play a sport infested with bullies, especially when said sport was infested with a ganguro kurosuke bully.

He was saved from his predicament when the coach gave the 2 blue bullies a look that said stop messing around and start practicing.

Kise supposed he could appreciate the sport. Kurokocchi was quite good at it though the blonde could never understand how Kurokocchi could enjoy the game, especially when all he did was pass the ball. Kise thought his plays were rather similar to his personality, helping others, sacrificing himself without being truly appreciated. It was those qualities that drew him towards Kurokocchi.

Aomin-ganguro was good at it as well, his form was quite beautifu-…. But there was no way Kise would tell him that. There was also no way that Kise would play a sport which his hated ganguro played.

In the midst of the game that Kurokocchi and ganguro was playing, a red-haired boy walked up to him.

"I'm Akashi Seijuuro, the vice-captain of the basketball team. I sincerely apologized for the behavior of our club member, Haizaki." He said as he pointed his fingers towards a familiar silver-haired violent boy.

Kise wanted to blurt out 'how the hell did you know?' as his fangirls were the only group of people who knew about the assault. Again, it was the violent boy who started the fight, therefore Kise would not be in the wrong.

"What are you talking about?" Playing the ignorance card was the best escape. The redhead gave him a bland look, though Kise might've seen a hint of smirk in it.

"It's fine as long as these matters are kept secret." Akashi said in an even tone before he walked away. Some basketball players were quite ferocious about maintaining a pure image of their sports, Akashi probably was like Kurokocchi, trying to cover up any splotches of darkness in their beloved sports.

"Wahh, Kise-chin. I didn't know you play basketball." Came the voice as Murasakibara walked towards him before he sat down on the bench with Kise.

"I don't, Kurokocchi was not happy when I complained how dangerous basketball was and I was dragged here." He deadpanned.

"Ahh, Kuro-chin does that. –"

Kurokocchi was anything but pleased when he came back to find Kise and Murasakibara complaining about basketball. Kise's life was met with more basketball when his friend decided that he needed basketball baptism.


Being dragged continuously to basketball practices was like torture, especially when one got at least a ball to the head each visit. The stares from a green-haired boy stating what the hell are you doing here did not help much either.

However, as revealed by Murasakibara. Basketball players were prone to food bribery. And if there was something that Kise knew about his friend, it was that Kurokocchi was a Vanilla milkshake addict. In his latest film, he played a young chef and by that he was forced to acquire cooking skills. Not really a problem for him when he could replicate master chefs cooking methods with a single look. Making milkshake was nothing.

He was still dragged to practices when he wasn't modeling or acting but every time Kurokocchi tried to instil basketball love into him, he handed his friend a 'Kise-sama made vanilla milkshake,' as termed by his loyal fangirls. It worked as Kurokocchi became immediately addicted to his milkshake and Kise escaped the horror of basketball baptism.

However, Kurokocchi could still be underhanded. His friend told him that he wanted a teriyaki burger and Kise obliged. The blonde dedicated half a day to watching world class chef make teriyaki burger, yet his concoction ended up eaten by the ganguro who looked flushed but extremely pleased as he slowly cherished Kise's flavorable cooking. He was quite shock when Kurokocchi admitted that the ganguro asked him to tell Kise to make it. He was betrayed!

"You'd make a fine wife" said the ganguro as he finished the 4 burgers that Kise made. Calling him a 'wife' clearly was a form of bullying categorized as 'name calling.' Kise shed crocodile tears as he mourned his meeting with such bullies.

Momoi-san asked him to teach her how to cook but that went down fast as the school kitchen promptly exploded, though no one said anything and gas leaks was deduced as the cause. Momoi-san became Momocchi the moment her teriyaki burger, disguised as Kise's cooking caused the ganguro to immediately collapse. Poison cooking was a skill and he respected her abilities to concoct such cooking.

He was somehow elevated to the pseudo-manager of the Teikou's basketball club as managers had a duty to provide refreshments yet Momocchi could only provide toxins.

His concoction of red bean soup appeased the green haired boy, whose name he learnt was Midorima, the tofu-soup appeased the redheaded vice-captain and his fried rice caused the captain to look at him in awe.

Akashi soon decreed that Kise was to be co-manager, albeit one that was allowed to miss practice if he was busy.

However, Kise was not one to follow such decree. He was going to outright refuse, but before the words left his mouth, Kurokocchi looked at him with those pleading blue eyes. He couldn't refuse his first friend after all.

Additionally a message in red paper threatening to reveal the assault on the a certain silver-haired bully suddenly appeared in his locker, it was another form of bullying, the 'hate message.' Basketball players were bullies. Kise supposed he wouldn't be in trouble seeing that he did nothing, but the thought of his fangirls suffering were too much. They helped and endured so much for him, it was only right to reciprocate.

Orders for him to cook were made through Kurokocchi and whilst he did complained about the work they were making him do, it was actually fun. Acting and modeling were enjoyable but it was rare to see the same face twice once the project was over.

To increase the club popularity, Akashi even introduced the 'Food from Kise Ryouta' scheme, a lucky draw for outsiders to be served with food made by Kise. The scheme caused much delight to fanpeople around the world and spectators in Teikou matches, even practice ones reached an all time high.

Acting and modelling still took priority but he always visited the gym when he was free. It must be because Kurokocchi was there, seeing that he could not feel any good feeling towards the sports or the ganguro.

Never let it be said that Kise did not hold grudges. He held one like a mother held her newborn child.

Even though his fangirls curb stomped the silver haired bully, whose name Kise did not care to remember, he was still quite annoyed that he was nearly punched. He was further outraged by how the silver-haired bully kept on stealing Kurokocchi's food. It was unacceptable.

Through Momocchi, he learnt that the silver head favourite food was kaarage. Every time kaarage appeared on the list of requested food, he would invite Momocchi to his house as he supervised her cooking to ensure that his kitchen remain intact. He also kept a regular supply of poisonous kaarage to add into Kurokocchi's bento every time the bully drew near.

The evil bully never touched Kurokocchi's bento again after he missed 2 weeks of school from diarrhoea. Kise interpreted Kurokocchi's gesture of remaining silent as he drank his milkshake whilst the bully ate the poisonous kaarage as a small sign of thanks.

His scheme was quite a success judging from the glint of fear in the silver-haired boy every time Kise brought in his cooking.

Kise congratulated himself for such an ingenious scheme.


Kurokocchi always carried a book with him, the most common book being 'The Art of Manipulating the Gaze.' Strangely psychological books were added to the 'books which Kurokocchi carries around' list.

Apparently Kurokocchi said that he had to improve with the basketball team in order to keep up with the team's ever growing potential. And whilst Kurokocchi had said that these psychological books improved his basketball techniques, Kise couldn't see how.

"Was Kise-kun bullied in the past?" Kise truly did not appreciate being the guinea pig to strengthen Kurokocchi's basketball but Kurokocchi was quite spot on.

Kise nod was his answer but Kurokocchi's unnerving stares caused him to explain more.

His beauty was his cross to bear, and it was his looks that caused the bullying. 'Girly face' and other mean things were quite common for him to hear when he was little.

Whilst many remarked that a child's innocence was their greatest gift, Kise disagreed. A child's innocence makes them most capable to violence. It was something that Kise experienced himself when a heavy object, probably a pencil sharpener was flung towards his head. Flinging pencil sharpeners at other people's head was something that only a child would do, though it was possible for adults to if they were facing their nemesis but Kise clearly wasn't anyone's nemesis.

Clearly blood spurted, concussion happened, he was hospitalized and his parents decided on home-schooling until the start of middle school.

Miki-san then met Kise, scouted him and suggested he continued home-schooling for another year to further his modelling instead.

Kise obviously agreed, whilst his parents believed he needed more interactions with people his age, he still could not get over the fear of being assaulted by people his age.

He was happy about his fan followings, it gave him his fangirls troops to keep him safe. Sadly it had not kept him safe when a basketball was flung towards his head causing him to dramatically fall face first towards the ground.

He was in finally in school after years of home-schooling, trying sports which albeit boring were not bodily harmful until he was assaulted in the head during the first week of term by a basketball!

Understandably, his trauma was triggered and basketball was linked to it, or so it was what Kise believed though he may have a little vendetta against the ganguro who flung the ball at his head.

After 7 years of his injury-free life, anything that caused him harm was dangerous.

Why was he voicing out his thoughts to Kurokocchi anyway? Maybe it was because Kurokocchi helped him in his moment of distress without expecting anything in return. Kise had not experienced things like that from anyone other than his parents. And because of that, he wanted Kurokocchi, his first friend to understand him.

"Therefore basketball is quite a dangerous sport and Kurokocchi should pull out." He concluded his rant and Kise had a small hope that his friend might realize the error of his ways in dabbling with the dark sport of basketball.

His hopes were thoroughly dashed when Kurokocchi looked up in understanding and firmly said. "Basketball is a fun and exciting sport, Kise-kun will see."

The only thing he saw was Kurokocchi's large degree of self-delusion. Perhaps basketball was a sport that not only brought pain to the body but also brought corruption to the mind as well. It was a sport of senseless communist-like indoctrination! That must be the cause of a basketball player's weirdness.

Kurokocchi's ghostlike habit, ganguro's bullying tendencies, Murasakibara-kun's snacks addition and his desires to crush classmates, Midorima-kun's tendencies to bring in weird items and the Akashi-kun's 'I'll do anything to win' attitude must have been generated by the evils of basketball.

Even people not playing it were affected, take Momocchi for example. It clearly was basketball that allowed her cooking to be so poisonous. All examples pointed towards a logical conclusion that basketball was a dangerous sport. Albeit a conclusion that came too late as his friends were already brainwashed by said sport.

It was rather like 'Romeo and Juliet,' a movie Kise had just acted in. Basketball was like the always-existing tension between the Montagues and Capulets, brewing there, ready to blow. A menace that caused corruption to those who were drawn in by it.

Okay, perhaps Kise was being a little too dramatic but Kurokocchi was always too dramatic about the sports as well and so dramatization was his only way of retaliation.

His rant had probably angered the god of basketball when a basketball was flung towards his head by the ganguro.

"Kise-kun, Joseph Wolpe and Aletha Solter said that facing your fears is the best way to counter them." Kurokocchi said in a academic way with references to people Kise did not know but immediately disliked. He was not pleased that Kurokocchi was using him to test out psychological theory. Hmpff!


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