Series: Kuroko no Basket, Hogwart!AU

Pairing: AominexKuroko, hint of KagamixMomoi

Genre: Romance, Humor

Rating: PG-13/T

All original characters belongs to Fujimaki Tadatoshi. Contain some OOCness.

Sequel for Third time's a charm (or maybe fourth).

"Why don't you simply visit him?"

Aomine groaned and tied another letter to the small leg of his family owl. It was pretty old and tired of life, but even now, she was still doing her job well. She never lost a single letter. And after so many years, he grew quite fond of it.

The owl squeaked at him, stretched her wings and flew up.

"Because no, that's why." After a second he added "I may accidentally see Kagami…"

Kise put one leg over the other and put his hands on his knee.

"Well they do live next to each other." He stated with a playful tone.

"And I don't want that to happen…"

Kise rolled his eyes at that. Aomine wanted to comment on it, but couldn't find the proper words for this situation so he just closed the window to his room.

Sure they were friends, but after living for years almost in the same room you want to get some free space. Not to mention, he knows that if he visits Tetsu, then Kagami would tag along too.

Nope, he did not want that to happen.

"And what are you doing here?" He asked instead sitting on the chair next to him.

The boy shrugged.

"I was bored and you live close enough. I was a little surprised that Momoicchi wasn't here with you."

"She doesn't spend every minute with me."

For a short moment there was silence between them, because Kise started to look at his reflection in the window and corrected every strand of hair that was sticking in the wrong direction. Seriously, such an attitude.

After he was done, he turned to him and asked;

"How's O.W.L.s?"

Aomine of course knew that he would ask that. Even Midorima bugged him about it in his occasional letters.

Well they weren't bad and the boy didn't expect high grades anyway.

"Could be better. But I didn't fail any of it, thanks to Tetsu, Satsuki and that damn Midorima…"

Kise smirked. It looked ominous. He put his elbow on Aomine's desk and rested his chin on it.

"Soooo, only A?" He asked

Why was he even spending time with this guy? Scratch that, with everyone from the team? They were most of the time a bunch of dicks to him. Well, he also was sometimes mean, but hey! That was his character!

He frowned but with a hint of pride, he spoke;

"I got one O~!" Which was true. After a while he added "And you?"

"Not bad if you ask me, but could be better."

And Aomine immediately knew what he meant. He knew from that distant look somewhere far behind Aomine.

They were on the same boat anyway.

"Almost only A?"

Kise's cheeks turned red and he only gasped out.

"Shut up…"

He laughed at that. Maybe that's why he was still putting up with his over-reacting friend. He liked teasing him off, like the rest of the team.

It was definitely weird, finishing fifth year. He was super happy about it, because now he can only focus on his main subject (and that means Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms and of course Quidditch… He was thinking about other subject also, but this was his favorite) and not care about the others. He will finally learn something that really interested him.

But how quickly those five years passed by. Especially the last one. The end of it.

"And Kurokocchi?"

Aomine twitched hearing that name. He really hoped that Kise wouldn't find out, but when he glanced at him, he saw that ever-knowing smile on his lips.

It looked like everyone on his team knew about his crush, besides Tetsu. And he was glad that it was like that. Though that didn't prevent them from teasing him about it whenever they get the chance.

No, they really were a bunch of assholes.

"Two O and the rest are E… freaking nerd"

Kise chuckled and started playing with a pen on his desk. He was writing a letter to Tetsu yesterday evening and he had no time to hide it. Not that it was something embarrassing about writing the letter, it's just…

"Something moved between you two?" He suddenly asked not turning his head.

Ugh. Aomine slumped down on his chair and put his hands inside the pocket of his trousers.

"No…" Why was he even talking about this with this guy? Why are words even leaving his mouth!

"Maybe you should just ask him out? You were on dates, right?"

Aomine took out his hand and massaged his temple. Talking it sober with no other person than Kise was giving him a headache. The blonde always wanted to know what was between them. He was more persistent than the others.

And to tell the truth it didn't bode too well. After the sudden kiss, nothing moved forward and Aomine wasn't sure if that was a good or a bad thing. He was super-duper happy that they were friends now and he wasn't able to put him in more concussions that he already did. But… you know… He wanted more than that.

And that damn holidays proved it. Even his mother saw how bored he was throughout the days.

"You can call it that…" Man, he wasn't in a mood to talk about this. He still had one whole month to live through until he will be able to see his crush. "Why are we even talking about this?"

Kise smiled.

"Because I like listening to it and I'm curious."

"You freaking copy-cat!"

But Kise didn't push that topic that evening. In the end, they both got out and played their improvised Quidditch match with only two people. For a few minutes, Aomine was freed of thoughts about the small Ravenclaw wizard.

It was the second time in his entire life that he was very happy about the end of holidays. He packed his bags two days earlier (what really surprised his mom and dad) and paced around the house for two days straight. Glad that Satsuki visited him and went together to Diagon Alley to gather few things, because otherwise, he would have no books for school.

He just didn't have mind to do shopping (don't count that he hoped to meet Tetsu here, but no matter how hard he tried he was nowhere in this line of vision).

So when the day finally came he was the first one to wake up that morning. But those two hours was too long for his comfort. It felt like an eternity until they all stood on the platform and Mom was kissing him on the cheek (even though he was an adult now) and Dad was patting his arm.

"Have a nice year, and send letters to us!" They were yelling after him as he was jumping into a train. He only waved back and disappeared from their sight.

Finally, he took a deep breath and started to pass through throng of students waving to their families and friends yelling at each other. Many of intervals were already taken and for a brief second, Aomine was scared that he won't find an empty one for him and maybe… maybe Tetsu.

Maybe he imagined spending the whole ride alone with him in one small room. Maybe he did! What was wrong with it! Every normal person in love was probably doing it!

"Aominecchi here!"

He stared at the lump of blond hair peeking from one door and directed his steps there.

"We have one for us only!" Kise said too loud for his own ears.

But for them it means, it means that…

He walked inside, maybe too fast for a normal person who tried to look not interested in anything. But heck, he didn't see him for two months! Yes, sending letters were nice, but it's still something different.

And he was sitting there, next to the window, with Kagami next to him. He was talking with his redhaired friend, but when Aomine entered, he turned his head a little bit and waved that small palm of his.

(Maybe it was just his imagination, but he really wanted it not to be like that, but he saw something shining brightly in his eyes)

And his heart had gone crazy. But then it became cold as he saw that there were too many people around him. He shrugged in his mind. It was better than nothing. He sat in the seat in front of Tetsu, next to Murasakibara who was eating something.

"Where is Akashi and Midorima?" He asked as he settled more comfortably in his seat.

Kise sat next to Kagami, but it wasn't him who answered him. It was the Keeper next to him.

"Aka-chin and Mido-chin are with the other Prefects taking about something, they said that they will be late…" His voice was as monotone as always. He was holding a bag with weird candies. Aomine never saw them.

"Ah Sacchin also said that she will be with some other Prefects…" After a while, the giant added.

"Wouldn't it be bad if Akashi was with us? I mean he had many responsibilities…"

"I think Akashi-kun prefers to be with us. He once told me that almost all the other Prefects piss him off and he wants to calm down…"

Aomine lifted an eyebrow at the bluehaired boy.

But it was Kagami who commented on that.

"I don't know which part of spending time with Aomine you can call calming…"

Seriously… couldn't they just be a little bit nicer? Though it doesn't look like anyone from his team could apply for that job.

"Every minute that he is silent…"

They all lifted their heads to spot the green-haired and red-haired boy walk inside. It was Midorima who commented that.

"Ugh you…" Aomine grumbled and glared at him, but the Ravenclaw wizard only smirked at that little threat.

He had a feeling that Midorima started to dislike him. Like, they weren't close or anything like that. They were teammates and friends. Well, friends who are not nice to each other. But lately, this dick part was showing a little much more from Midorima's side than his own.

He wondered if this had anything to do with Tetsu's case.

They were pretty close friends and Midorima had this habit of being over-protective of people (no matter how many times he will deny it).

Nevertheless, he sat next to Murasakibara and crossed his arms on his chest.

"How was the meeting?" It was Kuroko who broke the silence between them.

Akashi put his bag on the shelf above them and then sat down next to Kise.

"Boring as always, we didn't quite talk about a lot of things. Well maybe the Ball is the only interesting thing about it all…"

Aomine lifted his head, pretty much just like almost everyone. It was the time when the train finally moved.

"What Ball?" Asked the blond.

"This year, on December our school is going to celebrate its two thousandth anniversary of founding so we were thinking about holding a Ball to commemorate it…"

Kagami hummed under his nose.

"Not a bad idea, we don't get much parties here in school…"

Akashi nodded.

"Yes, I think so too. The last ball we had was after Triwizard Tournament which was ten years ago. It's time to change that."

Aomine wasn't really interested in dancing nor in any Ball, so he stopped listening to their talks.

Aomine turned his head and stared at the window. Tetsu's face was reflecting in it, but he was not staring outside. More like his eyes were staring outside, but his mind was in another place. It looked like he was thinking about something.

Then suddenly his eyes shone with recognition and he noticed that Aomine was probably staring at him from the window. So he turned his eyes.

But Aomine had nothing to say, he just wanted to look at the boy's peaceful face.

Even though the changes they had in classes this year had already started, it looked almost the same as every other year. There was a ceremony at the beginning, first-years were chosen for their respective houses and after supper, they all returned to their dorms.

"Man I almost missed you…" Said Kagami as they both walked inside their bedroom. Furihata was already there looking through his things in the box.

"Could almost say the same thing." Aomine snarled but the playful smirk was on his lips. They were friends from their first-year (okay second, because during their first year, they were literally hating each other), but from time to time they both need space from each other. But it didn't mean that he hated the company of the other.

"But it was hard to forget you because of all those letters you send to Kuroko…"

Oh and here it was again.

Aomine turned to his bed, because he wanted to hide the sudden blush that made its way onto his face.

"Shut up…" He answered and looked inside his chest to find some clothes to sleep. There was an old t-shirt with his favourite Quidditch team moving on his chest so he guessed it was fine. He quickly put it on and changed his trousers.

"You know, Kuroko was unnaturally sad during the holidays" the red-haired said after the silence and Aomine immediately stopped whatever he was doing.

His heart started beating faster after hearing that. Was it true or was he just messing with him? Knowing him, it was very possible for him to do so, but still… Oh how much he wanted it to be true.

The hardest part about it all was that Aomine wasn't sure if Tetsu was interested in him in that way. Of course they went on a few dates, but they were only hanging out and talking like normal friends. Aomine didn't know if he should make some move or not. He wasn't good in reading those small movements and stares and the fact that Kuroko's face was almost emotionless wasn't helping at all.

Because sometimes he felt like Tetsu expected something from him, judging by the way he was staring at him, but then there were times when he felt that Aomine's presence (maybe he was too close, okay, it was his fault) was bugging him. These two different signals were messing with him and he just didn't know what to do.

So he only hummed in response while hiding his blushing face.

"So are the two of you already dating or…"

And he choked on his own saliva. Why? Why? First Kise, then this stupid Kagami. Why won't they leave them both alone!

But he found himself answering.

"No…"

He heard shuffling beside him and Kagami laid down on his own bed, right next to his. Aomine felt his gaze on his back, but he long ago stopped doing whatever he was doing (he totally forgot what it was). Now he was only averting the boy's eyes.

"Why not?"

"It's just…" No way was he telling him this, no way! Mind no! Please no!

But his lips were already open and his asshole of a brain decided to let whatever was on his heart away.

"I'm not sure if he feels the same way towards me…"

And it's done. Total destruction! Aomine couldn't understand why he was talking about his personal feelings with no other than Kagami Taiga. Even Midorima would have been better.

After a thought, scratch that, he wasn't.

He expected everything, literally everything, but not the laughter that came after his sentence.

He abruptly turned around to spot Kagami rolling and laughing on his bed, holding his stomach like he just heard the funniest thing in the whole universe. At first Aomine only glared at him and waited until he stopped, but it looked like he won't be doing that anytime soon, so he just took out his wand and casted a simple Depulso on him, making him fall down on the other side of the bed.

"Ouch that hurt!" He heard and smirked. Served him right for laughing at him.

After another groan, he saw the lump of red hairs coming back to the bed.

"So why were you laughing about this? This is a serious problem!"

Kagami smirked at him even though he was massaging his head.

"You're so dumb and blind sometimes…" He said in that playful tone and put his chin on his hand still staring at the tanned boy.

"Says who…" Then he blinked. Then Aomine's brain processed what his friend said. "Wait what? What do you mean?"

Kagami rolled his eyes at that.

"Just look harder…"

What? He was looking pretty hard at Tetsu. He was doing it everyday, like literally sometimes even for hours. He was staring at him just right, okay?

"What do you mean?" He asked instead, because he didn't know what Kagami meant.

But the boy still didn't answer him.

The beginning of the year was almost like every other. Well maybe the sad part was that he only had one class with Tetsu. But well… he knew it from the very beginning, so he prepared for it all summer.

Nevertheless, he couldn't stare at him in every class. Shame.

But there were free afternoons and weekends so it wasn't that bad. Not to mention they were going to Hogsmead in two weeks. This was the perfect opportunity.

So at lunch, he missed his own table and moved towards the Ravenclaw ones.

Midorima and Satsuki were already there, on both sides of Tetsu, so Aomine had no other options than to sit in front of him. It wasn't that bad.

"Yo…" He said as he flopped down.

Both Kuroko and Midorima lifted their faces from the book they were currently studying and both give their nods. It was a little bit sad that the bluenette didn't do more, but well…

"How's your first class Dai-chan?" Satsuki put some fruit salad on her plate and started munching on it. Come to think of it, he still hadn't eaten yet, so he reached and took a donut from the huge pile.

"Not so bad, but they already gave us homework…"

Satsuki grinned.

"Welcome back to school then!"

Before he was able to ask the same thing about his friend, Akashi approached their table and sat next to him.

It wasn't uncommon for them to hang out at one table that often wasn't from their House. Other people were doing it too. Of course first-years were hanging around in small groups from their own Houses, but other people don't do that. It came after some time to everyone.

"Satsuki, Shintarou and Tetsuya…" Akashi said after he greeted them. "I have a favor to ask from you…" Then he turned to Aomine. "I would ask Daiki but I assume you won't be interested in it."

Aomine lifted his face at that.

"And what is it?"

"The preparation of the Ball."

Nope, definitely not interested in that!

"Then I'll pass!"

He wasn't good at keeping up with plans or making plans or preparing anything. He once tried to prepare his own birthday and failed miserably (because he forgot to invite his friends, but whatever).

Yet he didn't get up and decided to listen to them talking about minor things – like who should also help or the date of the event.

Aomine just stared at Tetsu the whole time, at his nodding head, eyes that sometimes shone when someone said something worth pursuing, as his lips turned into a thin line or when he bit it.

And once the boy glanced back.

They were staring at themselves for only a few seconds, but Aomine felt like in that moment Kuroko wanted to tell him something, something very important. But the message was coded in that look.

And as soon as Akashi turned to ask him something, it was gone.

The two weeks passed by and it was already Friday, the day before the Hogsmead and Aomine was a little bit over-excited at that thought. Well he still needed to ask Tetsu if he wanted to go with him, but he had been doing it a few times on last minutes and he had always said yes.

So why should now be any different?

He was whistling and walking around the school until he spotted the mop of blue hair between the throng. Lately, he was pretty good at finding the small boy.

"Tetsu!" He yelled at the top of his lungs which startled a few students around him but he didn't care.

What mattered was that the Ravenclaw wizard turned around and when he spotted him, the corner of his lips turned a little bit upwards.

"Good afternoon Aomine-kun" He said as Aomine finally caught up with him.

They talked about nothing in particular as they were slowly moving forward. Kuroko was going to the greenhouse to write an essay about some kind of plant that Aomine didn't really care about, but the way Kuroko was describing it made it the most astonishing thing in the world.

"Do you want to go to Hogsmead tomorrow?" He suddenly asked like he always do.

But he didn't expect a sudden sad look that appeared on the boy's face.

"I'm sorry Aomine-kun but tomorrow I have a meeting about the Ball…"

Ah... he literally felt like someone just stomped on his heart. No, not stomped, totally crushed it, jumped on it!

He really tried not to let it show on his face, especially not in front of Tetsu. So he simply murmured.

"O-oh okay, next time then…"

"Yeah, next time."

Well he was sad, but Kuroko promised him that next time they can go so it was fine.

But the next time was the same as first. Aomine really didn't blame Kuroko for this. It was the fault of other people who had no other free day than Saturday. Of course. Because they had to plan some kind of Ball… Who cares about that damn thing anyway?

It looked like Tetsu did… And almost everyone else.

Aomine was smashed with homework in weekdays too, but heck… don't they have boyfriends and girlfriends to hang out with on Saturdays?

Of course he still didn't have a boyfriend to be precise, but he was close to it. Or not at all.

"I'm really sorry Aomine-kun, but it started to get pretty complicated."

"Kuroko, we need to go!"

The said boy turned to his green-haired friend who was standing in front of the door of some classroom. He waved at Midorima showing that he will be there in a minute and then turned to Aomine and bowed down.

"I'm really sorry…"

Aomine tried to smile, he really tried, but it probably didn't come out as comforting as he hoped it to be. But he ruffled the boy's hair and turned around.

"Next time then!"

"Yes!"

He waited until he walked a few corridors away to finally let out the curse he was holding inside of him until now.

They were thinking about holding the Ball at the beginning of December. From the constant talks in the school it looked like it was a big deal to every student in school. Aomine totally didn't understand why everyone was so excited over it. It was just a Ball. Of course they never had one in the school for many years, but well it's just a party where you dance right?

Right, so why was it so important?

Aomine hated the thought of holding the Ball in their school, mostly because it was taking his Tetsu away from him.

Well not technically his… yet. Or at least he hoped he could call it that.

It's just… he wasn't able to spend as much time with the boy as he hoped. Of course this year is totally hell. Like what the fuck? How do you expect Aomine to write an essay about Valcore (essay for five feet, come on!), make his own Blood-Replenishing Potion and learn five more spells? In one freaking evening!

And he had fewer classes than Tetsu, Midorima or Akashi. How are they even capable of doing it (regarding the planning of the Ball)? They are some kind of monsters…

But either way he hates the whole idea of holding a Ball there and nothing in entire universe will change his plans. Never.

They were enemies.

"So are you asking Tetsu-kun out on the Ball or not?"

And Aomine choked on his own tea.

What the heck was this woman was talking about? She must have lost her mind. Too much work, too much learning can do that right? Right…

"What?" Somehow he was able to gasp one word between coughs.

Satsuki rolled her eyes (the same way she often did when Aomine said something incredibly stupid… which occurred pretty often, don't judge him!).

"You know, you are supposed to ask the person you like to go with you to the Ball…" She then pointed at a brown-haired girl and some boy with glasses sitting on the Gryffindor table "Like Hyuuga-san and Riko-san."

Aomine stared at them for a brief second but casted his eyes away when he found nothing interesting.

"So?" He asked instead and took another slow sip from his glass.

"So you are supposed to do the same!"

But the Ball is stupid and he totally hated it. They were enemies, ferocious enemies.

Although the idea stirred something inside of him, that sinking feeling, like there was a whirpool inside his stomach. He gritted his teeth. He is not thinking about truce, is he? No way!

"And tooooday Tetsu-kun was asking me if you're going with someeebody~" Oh no, she sang it in her sweet quiet voice just right next to his ear.

And somehow he found himself melting in that one sentence.

Maybe the Ball wasn't such a bad idea.

The Ball was getting closer with every passing day and the talks around the school were getting louder and louder. But now Aomine understood them.

"Are you going with Jackie?"

"I wanted to, but she is already with someone"

"Excuse me, do you have a minute?"

Now it makes sense. Those talks were now all around the corridors and even in dorms. No matter where he went, the voices surrounded him.

He couldn't push them away even if he was already almost asleep.

"Do you think Momoi is going with someone?"

Aomine lifted his head a little to look at Kagami on the bed next to his own. He was fighting with some kind of book they were supposed to read till tomorrow but it looked like he wasn't totally focused on it.

"Dunno, why are you asking me?" He wasn't Satsuki's babysitter. It was totally the other way around. Even if it was hard to admit.

"You know, you're her best friend and all that…" Kagami's voice was way too low. What was happening here?

Aomine tried to remember his last talks with Satsuki. She only bugged him about Tetsu. If she had someone to go to the Ball with, then he would know about it, right?

"I don't think so…"

Oh no, there was this one dumb Slytherin guy who was always talking with her. But he wasn't a problem in Aomine's opinion. Satsuki hated him (more like really don't like, because she doesn't hate anyone), so he guessed Kagami had a chance?

Wait what?

"You like her?!"

Maybe Aomine got up a little bit too fast, because as soon as he sat down, he miserably fell down with his quilt to the floor. Hard floor.

Kagami should laugh at that but the tanned boy didn't hear a single snort out of his mouth. So he snapped up and saw as the redhead's face was the same color as his own hair. It's shame he tried to hide it behind the book.

Aomine whistled aloud, but fortunately (or not) didn't wake up the rest of the people in the dorm.

"Will you shut up? I-I just think that she is smart and kind… and cute…"

Well he is glad that breast size is not first mentioned (or in this case not mentioned at all). Kagami isn't a bad guy, sure they had a few arguments, but this guy probably wouldn't hurt a fly.

Not to mention, Aomine preferred to know the people Satsuki dated, you know… just in case he needed to kick some butts for her. And in the past it happened quite a few times.

"So, go for it! What's the worst that could happen?"

Totally a fucking lot.

Yahoo! Here comes the sequel for my previous story! I was in the mood so I actually wrote it :3. The second part will be up soon!

Great thanks to Scarlet for her amazing work! You don't know how thankful I am for what you're doing! You're amazing! Just... thank you!

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