Kuroko no Basuke © Fujimaki Tadatoshi

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Part 1: How it Begins


"Youtubers?" Kise's eyes grew wide.

"Tell me you're kidding, Kuroko."

Aomine yawned, but was as surprised. "That's pretty unusual for you to come up with such idea."

It was summer holiday, and the generation of miracles decided to rent a villa-Akashi's, to be precise-and stayed there for the entire holiday.

The Blue Phantom remained calm, but disappointment was shown all over his face. "I thought you'd like it. YouTube is one of the biggest social medias spread worldwide, and if you gain enough viewers and subscribers-" he scrolled his phone screen. "-you'll get paid."

"Still, I disagree." Midorima objected. "That means working. And showing off yourself to get money sounds scary. And stupid, too."

"It's not as scary as it sounds like, Midorima-kun," Tetsuya said. "As long as you post appropriate contents, you'll be just fine."

"Could it be-" Akashi tried not to giggle. "-Shintarou, don't tell me you never watched YouTube before."

Midorima's face turned red. "I have so many important things to do other than fooling around with social medias."

"But Mido-chin always checks his Facebook, though." Murasakibara said between his munches. "Every morning I can see him online, reposting stuffs from OhaAsa fanpage or something."

"Shut up, Murasakibara-and how the hell do you know I'm online in the morning?"

"The culinary fanpage gives me good breakfast recommendations every 7 AM."

"Well, I've seen some YouTubers who have grown really famous-and rich," Kise admitted. "If we make one, will our popularity rise even more?"

The teal hair nodded. "That is possible, Kise-kun."

"Great! Let's start becoming Youtubers, then!"

"Kise, I don't know whether you're so obsessed with popularity or just a plain idiot-"

"Aominecchi, that's mean!"

"-but don't you think we need more motivations to make a good content despite the number of views?"

Akashi raised his eyebrows in amusement. "Well, Daiki, I thought you have a point there. So what is your plan?"

"We're all boys. And that would be unfair for male viewers." He pointed at the smiling Horikita Mai-chan in the magazine he was currently gazing at. "So we need women for the guest stars. Don't forget the big boo-"

Kuroko interrupted. "How about we start thinking about names?"

"Hey, at least hear me out!"

Murasakibara fixed his lazy-looking eyes at Kuroko. "Kuro-chin, there's something I'd like to ask."

"What is it?" Kuroko inquired.

"Kuro-chin has been talking about YouTube a lot lately," the purple titan took another handful of chips and stuffed them into his mouth at once. "But you didn't explain why do you pick so much interest to it in the first place."

Kuroko tilted his head to the side as he replied, "Nothing particular. I just happened to stumble into a YouTube video, and the next thing I know is that I've become attached to it. I tried to google the creator's name, and it appears to be one of the most sensasional youtubers in the world."

He took a deep breath before continuing. "And as far as I know, six of us are capable enough to become a top rank YouTuber. I think Midorima-kun and Akashi-kun are pretty skillful in video editing."

"Speaking of video... what kind of video that you've gotten to like?" Akashi asked, curious about what kind of taste would fit Kuroko.

The teal haired hesitated for a while before handing his phone to Akashi. "Just... don't laugh. Okay?"

Akashi didn't have a single clue of why he should laugh-yet.

"Sure."

He watched the video displayed on the screen, and his face went weirder by minutes. Kise and Aomine rushed to The Emperor's side, trying to peek.

"Well, Tetsuya," Akashi tried so hard not to look into Kuroko's eyes-he would have burst out laughing if he did-as he handed the phone back. "You got a pretty unique taste."

A soft mumble came out from Kuroko's lips. "I told you so."

"But-" Kise couldn't help but chuckled. "-does it sound a little exaggaratting to call this 'sensasional'?"

"I've seen him somewhere else, though." Aomine frowned as he tried to remember something. "Oh yeah, Pewdiepie watched that too."

Midorima hated the fact that he didn't understand the conversation a single bit. "Pewdiepie? Is that a person's name?"

"Yup."

"Wait," the green haired rubbed his face. It seemed like they're trying to drive him mad. "So what channel did Kuroko show you?"

Akashi glanced at Kuroko-which was responded with a weak nod-before answering. "It was 'Toys in Japan'."

Midorima, still clueless, shifted his gaze to Kise and Aomine who were trying to suppress their laughter by holding each others' hands. "What's so funny about it?"

Murasakibara-to their surprise-answered it for Kuroko's stead. "It's a channel about silly things with nursery song parodies and such things like that. I recall watching one of them." He turned to ask Kuroko. "That's pretty odd for Kuro-chin to like that. I expected something cuter."

Kuroko frowned at the word 'cuter', but explained anyways. "I like how it was so catchy and addicting-though almost all the videos are almost the same. I thought 'we could do better than this', and-"

"I understand." Akashi smile softly at his company. "I think it will be a good chance to improve ourselves."

"But-" Kise took a deep breath before saying, "There are important things to do to make our YouTube channel looks like the professionals'."

Aomine quickly interrupted. "Yeah, get us a sexy lad-Kise, you don't have to smack me like that!"

Kise continued. "I saw a lot of youtubers lately, and most of them have unique catchphrases to attract their viewers."

"Make sense."

"Aside from what kind of content we should make, catchphrases is also vital to show our channel's characteristic." The blonde haired tapped his chin. "Not to mention the background music we have to use for the entire videos, the logo we should make, and our fanbase-I've come up with some ideas, but I'm not sure that they are suitable enough for-"

"We can think about that later." Kuroko said. "But what about our channel name-and the contents we'll be uploading?"

"All about science? Like, tutoring them physics and-"

"I'd LOVE to teach girls biology."

"Aominecchi, stop giving nasty ideas! I was thinking about daily journals. My fans would love to see me on YouTube."

"Kise, this is not your own channel. So be considerate."

"How about...(munch munch) food traveling? Foodporn is booming nowadays."

"How about real porn?"

"Seriously, Aomine-kun. Most YouTube users are underage kids." Kuroko turned his head to Akashi. "Akashi-kun, have any idea?"

"I think being consistent to one genre for a long time would be frustrating," Akashi said. "How about posting random stuffs? Like, traveling, doing challenges, talking about random stuffs-something like that."

"Oh, oh!" Kise's eyes sparkled. "Can we do QnAs as well?"

"I don't see why not."

Midorima grumbled. "That sounds too cheesy, Akashi. I know you're just trying to adjust yourself to their levels."

Akashi shook his head. "Well, it might sound stupid," he admitted. "But what if we focus on something more important? Like, editing the video in a way it looks professionally made, or... finding ideas to make the so-called cheesy content becomes unusual. I know you're an expert in this, Shintarou."

There were silence for a moment before Midorima decided. "In that case, count me in."

"So everyone agreed to this, right?" Kuroko asked, which was replied with everyone's nod. "I've made an account for us. What we need is to make our first video."

"Wait-you've made us a YouTube account? Already?" Kise gasped. "Since when? I didn't even see you bringing a laptop!"

"Ten minutes ago-or so." The teal haired shrugged. "I've made this since you were so busy talking about YouTube."

The blonde looked at him apologetically, which was brushed off with a thin smile. "It's not your fault, Kise-kun. Here, take a look."

The laptop switched place from Kuroko's lap to Kise's. It was still empty-with no subscribers and no videos uploaded. Still, it excited Kise to start doing something fun (as long it's with Kuroko, he doesn't mind at all).

"I named it 'Generation of YouTubers' to let them know that we are from the famous Generation of Miracles." Kuroko explained. "Is that okay for you?"

"I should say that you have a good sense of advertising, Kuroko." Akashi scooted until he could see the laptop screen, smiling. "Since we are already well known in real life, promoting our channel wont be that hard."

Midorima nodded in agreement.

"Okay, we've made a channel, we have a good kick start and have all these shits to help us doing the record stuffs." Aomine pointed towards the camera set on the table.

"We need to find some ideas to start the channel." Kise added. "Any suggestions, anyone?"

Kuroko responded softly. "Kise-kun, we can't even think if you're saying things out loud."

"Kurokocchi, that's so mean~!"

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To be continued

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So... I'm back with the KnB fanfic!

I watch a lot of YouTube videos lately (actually, it all started since the beginning-or end?-of 2015, but I intensively watching it until now), and thought "what if the Generation of Miracles were Youtubers?"

Actually, a friend of mine (shout out to Ordinary Cal) came up with the idea of having KnB characters doing QnA like Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi in HigaTV. Then, the idea developed into the point I want the entire GoM characters participate in this alternate universe.

So, what do you think their first video should be? A formal introduction? A silly daily life compilations? Let me know in the comment section.

Xoxo,

Ayame