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"WUAHH! H-hey! Get lost! I was sitting here first!" Kagami said as he noticed the other boy sitting next to him. The boy looked around for anyone else that the red head could have been talking to.

After seeing no one, he pointed to himself with a questioning look. "Yes, you! Who else would I be talking to?!" The boy's eyes widened.

"…You can see me? But to be clear, I was here first." His voice was oddly monotone.

"Well, why wouldn't I be able to?" The boy looked away.

"It's just not that many people can." Kagami nodded, and as he wolfed down another burger, he tilted his head in a sense of confusion. The boy continued, "You see, I'm dead." Kagami paused mid bite, and slowly widened his eyes. His face began to pale. He swallowed the bite currently in his mouth, and spoke.

"S-so you're a g-ghost?!"

"Yes." Kagami put his burger down and focused fully on the boy.

"So, can I-?" He hesitantly reached his hand out, and pushed it through the boy to his backside. "HOLY SHIT! You ARE a ghost!" The boy has a disgusted look on his normally emotionless face. The ghost stood up and confronted Kagami in a very serious manner.

"Please never do that again. Ever. It was very rude of you."

"I-I'm very sorry Mr. Ghost Sir, please don't curse me!"

"I'm not able to "curse" anyone. By the way, it's Kuroko Tetsuya. Also, you're making a scene. Please lower your voice. No one can hear or see me, but they can hear and see you." Kagami hunched down in shame, and his face reddened. He snuck a look around Maji Burger and noticed all the eyes on him, which looked away when he made eye contact. It was beyond humiliating. Somehow, Kagami's ears turned even redder.

An employee approached the table, and asked Kagami to peacefully leave the restaurant. Kagami complied hauling the rest of his uneaten burgers out of the store in comically overfilled pockets.

He began walking down the street with over exaggerated steps and took out a burger to munch on. He looked back and noticed the ghost. Kagami took a large step forward, and look back again. The ghost moved forward.

"Hey!-" Kagami started.

"Volume, Kagami." Kagami scowled, and began whisper shouting.

"Fine! Are you just gonna follow me like a creepy stalker until I get home?!"

"I apologize, I did not realize my presence bothered you. You are just the only person that's actually talked back since my death. I'm sorry I'll leave." Kagami was speechless. He never realized how lonely that would be.

He sighed and turned around to face the ghost.

"Fine, you can follow me bu- Eh?! Where'd you go?!" Kagami looked around, but saw nothing. He shrugged and continued on his route home, albeit creeped out and jumping.

Meanwhile, Kuroko the ghost drifted off to his usual spot watching and talking to people who would never respond.

.0.

Ever since the encounter, Kagami had been having nightmares about ghosts. They plagued his thoughts in the dark, when an upcoming game wasn't at the front of his mind.

Sometimes on his way to school in the trains and subways, he would catch a flash of the light blue hair. But by the time by looked away, it was gone. One time he tried to keep his eyes trained on it, but he ended up drying out his eyes looking at a hat.

Life went on normally, but there was always a light blue at the edge of his peripheral vision. Sometimes, he saw Kuroko in the crowd of his games. Kuroko would wave sometimes.

This stale mate of silence lasted for about three weeks, before Kagami's suspension from Maji was terminated. He sat at the normal seat, hoping to find the ghost. And as he was, Kuroko was sitting there, staring at him.

"Ah! Jeez, you're one creepy fucker. So why have you been stalking me?! Not that I don't mind, but-"

"Pervert."

"Hey! It's not like that! I just realize how boring and lonely life would be if no one ever talked to you, so I'm okay with it."

"You're okay with being my entertainment source? I have plenty of entertainment, I watched other people's dramatic lives. "

"I mean, one you can actually talk to! I know I'd go crazy if I no one ever responded!"

"You can talk with me, but our conversations haven't been satisfying so far. I think it might be better for me to just avoid you from now on, so I won't have to suffer your boring conversations." Kuroko said with a straight face. Kagami blinked.

"Don't push it. I can't believe this. I'm too boring?! WHY YOU LITTLE-" Kuroko began stifling laughter. "That, that was a joke right?" Kuroko nodded. "Ugh, nevermind. I retract that offer."

"Too late, Kagami. The deal is made. You have given me permission to stalk you." Kagami paled at the full realization of what he'd just committed to.

"Wait! Just don't be creepy! Don't follow me into the bathroom, or into my house, okay?"

"..That's acceptable."

"In return, you have to help me with stuff!"

"Like what?"

"Like, um… answers on tests! And umm…"

"Basketball games?"

"What?! No way! What do you take me for? Some kind of cheat?"

"Considering you wanted to cheat on a test? Yes."

"That's not the same thing!"

"It is essentially." Kagami considered this.

"I guess so. Fine, just help me a bit on math tests."

"Unless you accept the same level of help from me on all levels, I will not help at all."

"…Fine. No help at all then. I will never cheat at basketball."

.0.

As their relationship progressed, Kagami's nightmares about ghosts became less scary, dreams even. They began to occur less frequently as well. Kuroko became a normal part of life.

A routine formed by the end of the week. Every morning once Kagami left the house he would be joined by Kuroko waiting outside his door, who would follow him all day. In public Kagami couldn't speak to Kuroko too much, just a few whispers when he thought no one was watching.

Kagami thought he was being discreet, but almost everyone heard or heard about him talking to someone not there. Rumors began to circulate the school. He was avoided by lots of people, not wanting to catch the crazies.

It began to affect his basketball life as well, even though they never spoke during practice.

His teammates heard the rumors as well, and began to avoid being around him, or passing the ball to him. Kuroko always cheered him up after words, but it began to affect him slightly.

After a few days of this treatment, Riko had had enough of it. She called a team meeting during lunch. As Kagami walked to the meeting, people made a path for him, whispering "There goes Crazy Kagami, hurry! You don't want to be crazy too".

Once the team had gathered, Riko addressed them.

"So, does anyone have any idea exactly why this meeting was called?" The team looked between itself, each face covered in confusion. Hyuga rose his hand, unsure of himself.

"A team bonding session?" The tick mark on Riko's head grew in size.

"Somewhat. Can anyone tell me why our team work has plummeted recently?" The team looked between itself once more, this time looking for a victim to tell her the reason and suffer her wrath. "Well? I'm waiting." A first year stepped up and spoke.

"Well, it's just we don't want to catch the crazies from Kagami…" The tick mark grew.

"Crazies? Is that it? You've been screwing our team over by not cooperating because of rumors?!"

"…Well, it's not just rumors. He really is crazy!" She snapped, and grew very scary.

"Listen, crazy or not, Kagami is a teammate just like all of you. And you will cooperate with your teammates, or you will never play in any games. Am. I. Clear?"

"Y-yes ma'am!" The first year backed off. Riko, and the team then turn their attention on Kagami, who was looking up angrily at Kuroko who had insulted him.

"Kagami! What do you have to say about this?"

"Huh? Oh, sorry Coach. I wasn't paying attention. What was the question?"

"Ugggh. Pay attention! Rumors about you are disrupting our team flow, and we can't have that especially with our up coming practice match with Kaijo so soon! So, care to dispel any rumors?"

"Rumors? Oh, you mean the ones about me being crazy!"

"Yes those rumors."

"I'm not. Simple as that." A first year spoke up.

"That's what you say, but then why are you always talking to nothing?!" He was silenced by Riko's paper fan.

"Don't speak out of turn! But, is that true Kagami?"

"Umm…" He looked to Kuroko for help. Kuroko shrugged, and said he didn't care if others knew about him. "Well, you see, I found a ghost." There were varied reactions.

"A GHOST?"

"WHAT?!"

"Yeah, right."

"I only I can see and talk to him right now. His name is Kuroko Tetsuya and-"

"Yep, definitely crazy."

"Hey! I'm not crazy! Here, I can prove it! Kuroko might be a ghost, but he can still manipulate some things. Like… my phone!" He reached into his pocket and pulled out an iPhone. He put the app Notes on, and set it down on a table. The team leaned forward to see it.

For a minute, nothing happened and the team began to doubt the existence of this Kuroko. But then words began to form. By the end, the team was awed and the message read:

'Hello Seirin Basketball Team. I am Kuroko Tetsuya. It is a pleasure to finally meet all of you formally. Since the only ways I can talk to humans is to either go through electronics, which is always a bother, or appear in front of compatible humans, like Kagami, I go for the later. Maybe one day, if you are compatible you might see me. I always watch over this team, I like it. I'd like to help out with basketball, but please don't let me ruin the beautiful teamwork you all had.'

The room was silent as the team digested this information. A polite ghost, appearing to Kagami, possessing his phone, watching over and helping the team. It was creepy any way you looked at it. But the team got used to it little by little as Kuroko made his presence known by helping with pointers.

He would possess someone's phone, and speak to the team. By the time one week had passed of his reveal, the team was only slightly uncomfortable with his presence.

Turns out, when he was alive, he was a basketball player like them. He told them he played with some top notch people, but never said who exactly. Kuroko gave excellent tips. During practice, anything a particular person needed to work on, he would possess their phone, and type their flaws and a few solutions he came up with. Kuroko could type very fast, though most thought he wasn't typing, more like speaking and the text is his words.

.0.

The second person on the team he appeared to was Mitobe. Though Mitobe didn't say anything, the cat mouth did. Mitobe began to trust the ghost, and cat mouth told the team everything. And everyone began to trust him a little bit more.

Then the practice match came about. They lost, but not as bad as they would have without Kuroko's influence. Kuroko possessed Riko's phone and began to give advice. And Kuroko cooled Kagami down, saving him from more than a few fouls.

Kaijo was arrogant, and won. But Seirin was not too bitter, they learned more than they ever could have learned by winning.

They learned Kagami was more of a selfish ball hog than they realized. They learned Kuroko was great at giving basketball advice, and valuable. Also, Hyuga and a few more of the starters saw Kuroko for the first time, when he was outside the phone analyzing the game.

END OF CHAPTER ONE

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