Author's Note: Hello guys, Happy New Year! I hope you have a great holiday with your family and friends. Sorry for the long wait, but here is the fifth oneshot, and I don't think we can call it a shot since I'm planning to make this into three chapters. It's just beyond my control, I just can't stop writing!
Special thanks to the cutie Flo-chan who helped me out as usual. And welcome to the series too. Again and again, thank you for all of you who reviewed, it means a lot to me since it works like a stimulus. Lol
Disclaimer: it's Fujimaki Tadatoshi who owns Kurobasu~
Baby Bounce
Aomine Daiki almost choked on the strawberry milk he's been drinking. "Oy, Satsuki, you can't be serious," he said between his coughs as he wiped the milk drops from his mouth.
His childhood friend, Momoi Satsuki, is looking at him, confused. "Why not? I'm really going to quit from the team," she inquired, lightly putting her hands behind her back.
"B-But.." Aomine protested, slightly panicked.
"I don't need your permission, Dai-chan, I just wanted to tell you," the girl put her hands on her waist and frowned at him. "Okay then, see you!" After that she turned away from him and left.
Aomine froze on his spot. He still can't believe what he just heard. Momoi suddenly wants to talk to him after she refused to come to the gym for a week, and that's what she tells him when she meets him. Is she serious? Really? Serious enough that she doesn't care about him and will leave?!
He quickly texts his teammates to meet up in the clubroom, and runs there as fast as he can after they all confirmed it.
"Oy! This is bad!" He yelled as he pushes the door open.
"So noisy, nanodayo. Today is not my lucky day, so I'm pretty much on edge. You better stop yelling," Midorima glared at him from his sitting position behind the table.
"Give me one good reason as to why you called me here from my nap time, Mine-chin, or I'm going to crush you," Murasakibara yawned, leaning to the locker on his left side, also in a bad mood since he rushed here and was unable to grab his snack on the way.
"Aren't we supposed to be teammates?" Aomine protested and slammed the door hardly, upset.
"Calm down, Aomine-kun. They're just joking," Kuroko, who is the one standing closest to him, calms him down.
"Kurokocchi is right. What's wrong?" Kise supported the smallest boy and chuckled nervously.
Aomine sighed. "This is getting worse, Satsuki told me she's going to quit," he told them.
"Heeeeeeee?!" As he expected, all of them inquired, looking really shocked (in their own way). Most of their jaws were dropping.
"But, we can't go on without Sa-chin," now Murasakibara looks extremely awake.
"This is beyond our anticipation," Midorima nods and adjusts his glasses.
"But if she quit, d-do you remember what happened at our last match? We're screwed, ssu!" Kise adds, panicking.
He reminded them about the match a week ago, the one that Momoi was absent. Their captain was trying to solve the situation by himself, he didn't look like usual back then. He did look firm and charismatic but none of them understood what he was talking about. It turned into chaos and the game ended up with one point difference on their side. Thankfully, that was just a practice game.
"Exactly! And if we're going to be screwed again-" Aomine butted in.
"The director is going to increase our exercise routine…" He finished the sentence with the rest of them, all looking down at the floor with dark expressions plastered on their faces, a heavy pressure above them all.
"Gah! What should we do?" The small forward scrambled his blonde hair in frustration.
"We need to think of a solution, fast," the shooting guard, who is also the vice-captain, suggested firmly.
"Let's just make them both make up, everything will be back to normal," said the center lightly.
"It's not that easy, Akashi won't apologize, I think the problem is really big, and he assumed he's right. Satsuki is just as stubborn, she believes she is right too, she won't back down," the power forward disbanded the idea straight away. All of them know their captain's nature really well (since they fear him so much sometimes), and Aomine knows more than anyone else about their manager's behavior.
Kise stopped fussing around and tried to steady himself. "That's odd, really.. I thought everything is alright between them.. Aren't they sleeping together sometimes or something like that?" He asked confusedly, breaking the uncomfortable silence in the room.
"That doesn't necessarily mean they can't fight, Kise-kun," Kuroko corrected him blankly, like usual. If an outsider saw that reaction they probably would thought that he's being harsh and ignoring his teammate, but all the people in there know he doesn't mean it in that way.
"Does anyone have any idea about what that fight is all about, ssu?" The blonde asked again and looked around at the members.
It all started ten days ago, before the practice match the week before, that time it was really a match against Kamikuza. It happened right after the game. The regulars (minus one), and the rest of the members were changing their clothes comfortably in the locker room.
"I SAID NO!" Until they heard their captain shout out from outside.
"H-hey, what is that?" Murasakibara almost fell from his seat while the others were already running at the door to peak.
"But you can't tell me to not do it! And why are you being so mad, Akashi-kun?" They were shocked when they found out that the manager was standing face to face with him. Her facial expression was something between upset and shocked. They couldn't see their captain expression though.
"First, of course I can order you to do it, I'm the captain. Second, how could you possibly expect me to not be mad in this kind of situation?" Akashi stated coldly as he folded his hands in front of his body.
"What happened? Is there a problem, nanodayo?" Midorima tried to calm him down.
"Satsuki, oy.. Are you alright?" While Aomine was more worried about rescuing his childhood friend.
Akashi looked back at them with his narrowed eyes and so made them suddenly shiver. "Stay out of this, all of you," he ordered and looked in front of him again.
"Nijimura-senpai, ssu?" Kise turned to Teikou former captain for help.
Their senpai sighed heavily. "I know. I have to talk to the coach later.. First he kicked out Haizaki and now this.." He commented, agreeing with him.
"He won't kick out Sa-chin, about that I'm sure," said Murasakibara who finally joined them on the door. "She's too special," he added simply.
"But if Momoi-san can't be controlled.." Kuroko responded him, his brows furrowing. The rest of them agreed heavily, he could be right.
"Well, I still don't want to do it, but I want to do what I always do!" Momoi put her hands on her waist as she said stubbornly.
This is the first time for them to see the manager acting like this, especially to their captain. They always thought that Momoi was the most obedient towards the red-haired boy – who has the best relationship with her. There's no way she'll fight him, but it seems that they are wrong. This is also the first time they saw their captain being mad at her, using his coldness and his position against their manager. He have never done that before, he used to always stood up for her.
"Very well, then don't come to us," Akashi turned his back to her.
"What?" She exclaimed, her hands hanging on the side of her body, matching her tensed knuckles.
"I said; don't come to us before you reflect on yourself and are ready to obey me again." He didn't look back, he only stopped and glanced around his shoulder.
"Fine, then I won't come here again!" She nodded and turned away angrily, leaving them with a quick pace.
"Mo-Momoicchi," Kise called her helplessly.
"Satsuki!" Aomine wasted no time to chase after her, with the blonde trailing behind him.
"Oy, Akashi," Nijimura stopped the point guard when they finally met.
"I said.." Akashi looked up at him coldly and uttered dangerously calm, "do not interfere, senpai."
Nijimura said nothing more and just froze on his spot, letting him walk to his locker.
"Are you alright, senpai?" Midorima asked him worriedly.
"Definitely not," Nijimura smiled tiredly and shook his head at him. His body was trembling.
They shook their heads at Kise as they all finished reminding, looking uneasy while doing so.
"Ano.." Suddenly the phantom sixth man spoke. "But I think I have a solution for this problem, do you want to hear it?" He asked, unsure.
"Kurokocchi!" The small forward wailed as he jumped at the smaller male, hugging him.
"As long as it works, nanodayo," the shooting guard crossed his arms.
"Yeah, none of us idiots have any idea anyway," said the center as he nodded.
"Who are you calling an idiot?!" The power forward snapped at him.
Kuroko nodded after their response. "I think that, as long as they're forced to be in the same place so they could talk, it should be enough. I'm sure they also miss talking with each other, it's been a week, and we all know how close they were. All we have to do is to set them up," his face was in his usual blank expression.
"Set them up?" Aomine repeated his best friend's words and arched an eyebrow.
"You mean trap?" Midorima confirmed, and Kuroko just exchanged a knowing look with him.
"You can be sly sometimes, Kurokocchi," Kise sighed and scratched the back of his head.
All that Murasakibara did was yawn.
"Still, how do you expect us to do that, nanodayo?" The green-haired boy was the one to agree first to the rather mischievous and dangerous proposal.
"One of us can lure Momoi-san and the other can lure Akashi-kun. We'll leave before they realize, but we have to make sure they find each other. A big crowd is good, so they won't get suspicious easily," the teal blue-haired boy continued on telling his plan to his teammates.
"Then, the one who should stay with Momoicchi is Kurokocchi, it'll be very easy to lure her," concluded the teen model.
"So who will stay with the other one?" Murasakibara finally spoke again.
And since he's the one who's speaking, almost all of them don't really pay any attention towards him. "The other one?" They asked back to him, confused.
Midorima adjusts his glasses. "Just to remind us, that captain of ours can be very terrifying sometimes. Even I don't want to mess with him," he told them as he was the only one who understood the purple head's words.
There was a dark cloud above their heads as they were thinking about their red head captain and the various aspects of his personality. "Oh, that other one.." They mumbled weakly and faintly, knowing exactly who's Murasakibara meant by now.
-TBC-
For the first time I wrote to be continued, lol. So what do you guys think? Make sure you tell me, okay.
By the way, I'm having a health examination this week, I guess there's something wrong with my body and so I decide to check it. So, please pray for me, because honestly, I'm scared. It might turn out into a big deal but hopefully it won't.
Well, I hope you enjoyed. I'll see you on the next chapter, buh bye!