A/N: I am so sorry for taking so long updating this. I'm just not good at multitasking. My mind is too full with Signal plot and progress… ahaha. Well, WOW you guys are amazing! XD So many reviews for a first chapter! So many faves and alerts too! I could kiss each of you reader in total happiness (if only you guys were in my reach…)! XDDD
Well then, I hoped you are still interested to read the continuation, so… here's the 2nd chapter! ENJOY!
Disclaimer and Warning: See chapter 1!
Chapter 2: The Big News and the Plan
"KYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Riko doubled over, laughing her ass off while rolling around the court-side after she heard what her junior had said in once upon a morning practice.
"D-don't laugh that hard—please!" Kagami shouted furiously (even though he still tried to speak with his strange keigo), face red in total embarrassment at Riko's display of overreacting laughter.
"C-coach, you're laughing too pft—!" Hyuuga's voice cracked, his body shaking slightly in supreme effort not to laugh at his junior's misery after the redhead broke the news to the team.
"Ka—Kagami as a Prince…! Oh my GOD! Ahahahahaha! Tha-that's so epically hilarious! Kagami… a prince?!" Riko was still unable to stomach the idea as she continued laughing madly, because seriously, Kagami as a prince? That must have been the dumbest idea she had ever heard.
"W-what's so funny about me as a prince?!" Kagami yelled again, obviously sulking now and pouting slightly. His face turned redder if it was possible. Oh, he could look adorable too sometimes.
"Kagami-ouji (1), eh?" Izuki laughed as well at that, followed by Koganei who called, "Yo! Kagami-ouji!" and then held his stomach painfully for laughing too much right after.
Tsuchida grinned widely and Mitobe covered his mouth, making a rueful expression. Even though he didn't outright laugh at Kagami, he was definitely as amused as the others.
"You guys are a bunch of sadists! Can you at least feel sorry rather than turning it into a laughing matter!?" Kagami complained loudly. His head already steamed at this point.
Everyone went quiet for a moment and looked at each other for a few seconds before they said, "Nah. Pft—ahahahahaha!" and then exploded in hard laughter again.
Veins of annoyance and frustration were popping out one by one on Kagami's head and face. His body was obviously shaking badly, totally in the verge of exploding like a volcano before Kuroko showed up out of nowhere and jabbed Kagami on his side.
Instead of erupting in anger, Kagami howled in pain at the violent treatment. "Ku-Kroko, you bastard...! That freaking HURTS, you ass! What the hell was that for?!" Of course finally the redhead yelled in furry at the usually invisible boy while nursing his abused side.
"You are talking too much. Now our senpais know about it too,"—you idiot, was left unsaid, but Kuroko stared at Kagami with eerie looking despite his toneless voice and expressionless face. Kagami actually cringed and stepped back slightly at the sight.
"Aha! Kuroko-kun will be playing too in the drama?" Riko widened her grin at this inevitable. "What role will you play?" she was definitely interested as she stared at him sparklingly.
Kuroko turned to face the brunet coach, but he seemed rather reluctant to answer her question.
"He'll play the princess," Kagami casually answered, seemingly still annoyed at the smaller boy for jabbing him so hard on his ribs just now.
Then the gym fell into silence approximately for three seconds before suddenly three pairs of demonic eyes were focused on Kagami.
"You… don't act too cocky, you insolent underclassman!" For some reasons, Hyuuga entered his clutch mode.
"That's right! It's ten years too early to brag about something like that to us, you cheeky brat!" Izuki scowled sourly at the redhead.
"Happy people could jus DIE already!" Koganei yelled as well heatedly, while his eyes tearing up.
"Huh? Eh? Wha—?!" Kagami, who had become the sudden object of instant hatred for unknown reason, seemed to be totally perplexed. "What the hell?!"
Kuroko only sighed in defeat and Riko couldn't help laughing again manically. Mitobe seemed trying to comfort the now weeping Koganei awkwardly and Tsuchida looked another way in disinterest.
"W-what just happened?" Kagami was definitely confused as Hyuuga and Izuki glared at him harder, muttering curses about 'impudent kouhai' or something along that line.
"Oh, man…" Riko chuckled, "I understand that Kuroko-kun becomes a princess, but Kagami-kun as a prince… your class did a very terrible job at casting the main character," she shook her head slightly afterwards as she was calming down from her insane laughter earlier.
"Wait a damn second! What the heck's with the discrimination!? What makes Kuroko okay as the princess but I'm not okay as the prince?!" Kagami complained again boisterously, looking extremely aggravated now.
"Eh, well~," Riko drawled cutely as she scooted closer to Kuroko who didn't seem to be interested in what she was up to do as she grinned at him and thumbed his chest winking. "Kuroko-kun is adorable! His skin is flawless and soft, his body is nice and slender, and he's so polite to boot! He'll make a very beautiful and well mannered princess!" she started to recite a lot of good points of why Kuroko would be a wonderful princess dreamily.
"Was that supposed to be compliment?" Hyuuga asked, sweat dropping as the other second years also noticed that Kuroko was not exactly amused at what she said. In fact, he looked rather pale for some reasons.
"Where did coach get those detail assessment of Kuroko's complexion and body? Don't tell me she peeked on him when he took shower…" Izuki whispered, blanching.
"That's criminal!" Koganei looked scandalized.
"Compared to Kagami-kun who's obnoxious, idiotic and useless in anything beside basketball…" she nickered at this, completely ignoring the disturbing conversation in the background and Kagami's obvious protesting noise, "Kagami-kun as a prince is just ridiculous," Riko continued while starting to chuckle and laugh again.
"S-sadist…" The others started to pity Kagami who was shaking, looking extremely incensed until he couldn't even give any come back to their coach's ruthless insult.
"Then, what about you, senpai? What will all of you do for the festival?" Kuroko suddenly tried to steer the conversation to another direction. Well, he was a misdirection specialist after all.
"Mine? Our class will make a Host Club Tour Guide!" Riko grinned and Hyuuga face-palmed while Izuki chuckled awkwardly, blushing slightly.
"Host club?" the others looked at the two with dumbfounded expression, except Kuroko who was expressionless as always.
"Yep, there are a LOT of hot guys in our class after all, and what's better than luring innocent middle school kids to come to our school except with such fine specimens like handsome, athletic young men with nice bodies, ohohoho!" Riko was laughing like an evil queen now, feeling rather worked up for doing this, because she was sure that her class would win. "Ah, and Koganei and Mitobe's class will make a Cosplay Café, right? We won't lose to you," she smirked at the two said guys who were grinning widely.
"You're on, coach! Our class will win!" Koganei said in full spirit and Mitobe nodded eagerly.
"Heeh, so our classes will compete with each other, huh? Err… for what again?" Kagami scratched his head, seeming to be lost somewhere in the conversation.
"In popularity poll, Kagami-kun. There will be popularity poll given to all the students and the visitors, and the class which got the most votes will receive a prize from school," Kuroko informed evenly.
"Heeh? That's incredible. How do you know this?" Kagami asked in wonder.
"It has been announced every day on break time by the school broadcast, Kagami-kun. By the way, our class will also make something aside performing a play. We will make a planetarium. Have you never paid any attention on anything other than basketball?" Kuroko looked at him expressionlessly, but there was an edge of irritation in his tone.
"I never thought that I'd participate in this thing…" Kagami sighed deeply at that, looking resigned.
"Oh, right, Tsuchida and Kiyoshi are in the same class this year, right? What will your class present in the festival?" Izuki asked Tsuchida then.
"Ah… probably the classic haunted house. Kiyoshi is very enthusiastic about it too," Tsuchida smiled at that.
"Huh, where's Kiyoshi then?" Hyuuga asked, looking around because the tallest brunet hadn't shown up yet despite the time. Morning practice almost started after all.
"He said he needed to go to get some properties," Tsuchida grinned.
"Ah, well. The surgery was a success, but he still needs to tone down his eagerness to play basketball insanely like last year anyway, so this festival will be a good distraction," Hyuuga scratched his head while sighing.
Then Riko blew her whistle loudly to stop the chatters. "Alright! Enough with the talk about festivals! Now we'll start the practice! Remember, even though there will be preparation for the festival, I won't let you guys slack off on our basketball practice! Now, start stretching!"
"Yes!" The others immediately shouted in response (having been trained to do so or they would get punished like hell) before they started.
"Huh? I don't see Furihata, Kawahara and Fukuda," Izuki said, informing Riko and the others.
"Ah, Fukuda-kun and Furihata-kun can't make it today because they have student council duty this morning, and Kawahara-kun has a family matter to do. Something about his relative wedding or so," Riko said, marking their absence on the clipboard on her hand.
"Oh, I see…" Izuki shrugged.
"Furihata and Fukuda are in student council?" Kagami scrunched his face, looking rather perturbed.
"Kagami-kun should really pay attention to his surroundings. They have been since first year. Furihata-kun and Fukuda-kun are their class representatives as well you know," Kuroko deadpanned at Kagami, a glint of disapproval in his eyes when he helped the taller stretch his body.
"Heeh, they are surprisingly active in school organization…" Kagami didn't seem to realize that he was reprimanded, so Kuroko pushed his back harder to make a point until Kagami whined at him to be gentler.
"You guys! Stop being so chummy in front of us, damn it!" Koganei wailed again unexpectedly, surprising the two first year coup—duo.
"HUH?!" Kagami turned his head around at the senior so fast he almost snapped his neck. "W-what?! Who are—? What's that supposed to mean?!" he screeched very loudly now, his face flushing again in mortification.
Kuroko sighed deeply again now, appearing pretty resigned.
"Stop flaunting your romantic relationship in front of your single upperclassmen, you idiotic duo!" Hyuuga shouted as well in total annoyance.
"… WHO is having a romantic relationship with WHOM?!" After a short pause, Kagami exploded in total shock.
"YOU TWO ARE!" The seniors chorused as loudly.
"No we are NOT!" Kagami denied… hard, face still reddening (and getting redder if it was possible).
"Huh, you aren't?" The seniors looked dumbfounded now.
"Of course, not! Right, Kuroko?" Kagami glanced up at Kuroko who was still on his back since he hadn't said anything yet.
"Eh, aren't we?" Kuroko asked, still with his expressionless face and there was a pregnant silence for a brief second before—
"KUROKOOOOOOO?!"
Yes and the misunderstanding continued.
~Kagami x Kuroko~
"Jeez, you are terrible! What was that just now? Now our seniors even think we're dating!" Kagami grumbled in annoyance as he bit his extra long bread at lunch.
"They have already thought about that since the shadow-light thing came up," Kuroko replied while shipping his boxed vanilla milk from the white straw.
"Then it's your fault since the beginning!" Kagami shouted, slamming the table hard with his free hand after he chew at the bread three times roughly and swallowed it all with a single gulp. It was kind of magical how he could eat that fast without getting choked.
Kuroko blinked once and stared at Kagami expressionlessly for a moment before saying, "Forgive me. I just realized that."
"You just—?!" Kagami twitched and was ready to yell again when something knocked the back of his head! "OW! What the fu—!"
"If you swear at me, Kagami-kun, I'm going to make the rest of your high school life miserable," Sasaki appeared and smirked at him threateningly.
"Gaaah! What do you want, Iinchou (2)? Can you not pester me in my precious break time?" Kagami nursed his abused head, but he tried to tone down his foul language as he spoke. He really didn't want Sasaki to act out on her threats because she would, just to make him squirm like a worm under her shoes.
"Please don't bully Kuroko-kun, Kagami-kun. He's our precious Doll Princess, you know," Sasaki huffed.
Kuroko made an almost choking sound on his drink at that. "Um… can you please not call me like—,"
But, since Kuroko was ignored as always because his voice was too soft and his presence was fading, now it was Kagami's time to retaliate, "Then is it okay to bully the prince? You are bullying me too, you know!"
Kuroko could only give the two bickering teens a long sigh and continue his lunch break quietly while waiting for the argument to tone down.
"Anyway," Sasaki then put two copies of books on the table. "The script is done. Study this and memorize the lines while the girls are preparing the costumes and properties. Ah, there will be time to measure your sizes as well later after school. Don't run away. Now, please enjoy your couple time together, ohohohohoho!" Then Sasaki twirled away like a ridiculous dancer.
"Sheesh, what the hell is her problem…?" Kagami grunted and grumbled as he stared at the script with bullets of sweat on his face. He was still staring at the source of his doom before her last words clicked in his mind.
"We aren't a couple!" Kagami shouted that in chagrin, so loudly and suddenly, such that the other classmates turned to face him with odd ridiculous expression. Kuroko just gave out another long suffering sigh, but he didn't say anything about it.
~Kagami x Kuroko~
"…W-we… we will be together… until my time ends…" Kagami's eyebrow twiched, face very red as he recited the dialog on his script, his voice shaking uncontrollably while Kuroko was silently reading his own script beside him.
"For… for you and I are destined to be… AAAARGH!" Kagami threw his script away in total frustration while his face felt like scorching. "Aaaa! There's no way I can say such lines without getting burnt! It's so embarrassing! It's too embarrassing!" he was complaining now.
Hell, who wouldn't be? The lines were so cheesy and totally corny and there was just no way in hell that people could say such lines in reality.
"Kagami-kun, it is a drama," as if Kuroko could read Kagami's mind, he commented while closing his script.
Kagami threw a heated glare at Kuroko. "You are a doll! You don't have that many of dialogs and acts despite being the leading role! How is that fair?!" he pointed at the bluenet accusingly now, gritting his teeth.
"It is not like I decided that. There is no use complaining to me. Moreover, I have to memorize your lines too to help you," Kuroko deadpanned at Kagami, voice toneless as usual, but his dull sky blue eyes glinted slightly in annoyance.
Kagami groaned and covered his temple, totally miserable. "I'm sooo going to kill Iinchou and the rest of the girls in our class!" he muttered in aggravation afterwards.
Kuroko let out a soft sigh. "It is alright, Kagami-kun. Just study the line one by one and follow the instruction. You can do it," Kuroko encouraged. Well, he didn't sound so thrilled, but his words made Kagami's distressed heart feel rather at ease.
"I'll be totally counting on you for this," Kagami admitted and suddenly felt rather bad as well. "You will help, right?" He knew he sounded pathetically desperate, but he just couldn't help it. Memorizing 'things that had to be memorized' really wasn't his strong point after all.
"Of course, I am Kagami-kun's shadow, remember?" Kuroko showed Kagami a small selfless smile and Kagami couldn't help his heart stirring at the sincerity. It was as if he also said that he would always support Kagami no matter what.
"AS usual, you can spout such embarrassing lines without breaking a sweat," Kagami looked another way, his face getting warm again as a bead of sweat rolled down his cheek. "They should have picked you as the prince," he grumbled afterwards.
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"Kagami-kun wants to play the princess?" Kuroko asked suddenly, rather astonished, his eyes looking suspiciously shiny.
Kagami squeaked in horror at that. "NO, you idiot! How come 'you should become a prince' translates into 'I want to become a princess'?!" Really, Kagami didn't understand how Kuroko's mind works.
"Eh, is it not?" Kuroko looked rather disappointed.
"You bastard…! You just imagined something nasty in that pretty little head of yours, didn't you…?!" Kagami glared as he knuckled Kuroko's head viciously.
"Ow, ow, ow. That hurts, Kagami-kun," Kuroko complained evenly.
"You didn't look hurting at all!" Kagami was really irked at how good Kuroko maintained his expressionless state. "How come you don't show anything in your face, damn it!?"
"Well… maybe that's why they picked me as the doll," Kuroko murmured, his neck still trapped in Kagami's arm even though Kagami didn't knuckle his head anymore, but putting his warm big palm on top of Kuroko's head.
"Doll, huh…?" Kagami let out a long suffering sigh, dreading slightly as he stared ominously at the offending script on Kuroko's hand. He still didn't retrieve his own after he threw it away earlier. "How come a doll can develop a feeling for a human, really? They pick quite a bizarre theme," he commented gruffly.
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…
"Even though you don't realize my presence here, I will always be by your side." Kuroko suddenly said and Kagami widened his eyes at that.
"M-moron! I notice you just fine!" Kagami was rather flustered.
Kuroko glanced at Kagami with an amused glint in his eyes. "It is one of my dialogs, Kagami-kun," he said and Kagami's face blew up at that.
"You—!" Kagami was very embarrassed. He thought Kuroko had said that for real! Sheesh!
"I apologize. But… it is something that can be said even in real life, Kagami-kun," Kuroko said, reaching his hand and placed it comfortably on Kagami's arm that was still entrapping his neck.
Kagami flushed even darker at that and he didn't know how to respond to such embarrassing and yet sweet words. Seriously, there was definitely something wrong with Kuroko's head for being able to say those things so eloquently.
"You are unbelievable, damn it," Kagami resorted to just hide his face by drowning it on Kuroko' soft blue locks.
Kagami was sure Kuroko was laughing at him inwardly at that moment, but he didn't want to dwell too much on it because Kuroko kept his calm demeanor even in that situation.
A few minutes of silence later, Kuroko's cell-phone suddenly vibrated. Kagami noticed because Kuroko wiggled around to fish the device out of his pants pocket before opening the lid and looking into the screen.
Kagami couldn't help looking at it as well over Kuroko's head.
"Tetsu-kun! Heard from Aida-san that you'd perform at a play in your school festival! Will surely come to watch! Ah, and I informed the others as well that Tetsu-kun will play as a princess!"
"Oh no," was Kuroko's first flat reaction before simultaneously, his phone vibrated again five times in a row.
"Whoa. What was that?" Kagami raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Kuroko looked disgruntled. "Coach has a big mouth," he looked extremely uncomfortable now and that was the most intense expression Kagami had ever seen in Kuroko's face after at that time when he was pissed off in the match against Kirisaki Daichi.
Kagami actually sweated slightly. Did Kuroko just mutter a quiet cuss at their devilish coach?
"What's wrong?" Kagami took a slight distance away from Kuroko who increasingly emanated dangerous aura around him as he read through some messages he just received.
"All the GoM members will come to our festival…" Kuroko said slowly and Kagami could only widen his eyes, totally horrified, at that.
"EEEEKH!?"
~Kagami x Kuroko~
Meanwhile… The GoM members were…
Aomine Daiki
Tetsu in a dress, Tetsu in a dress, Tetsu in a dress…—chanted dazedly.
Kise Ryouta
Kuroko-chi as princess! Must be very beautiful! Aaah! Can't wait to see it for real!—grinned, totally excited.
Midorima Shintarou
I-it's not like I'm interested in seeing Kuroko in a fairy tale like outfit or anything. It's just for reference…—pushed up glasses, tsundere mode on.
Murasakibara Atsushi
Kuro-chin will dress up like a woman… It must be sweet… I wonder if he will taste sweet as well in it…—licked his lips.
Akashi Seijuurou
...If Tetsuya will become a princess… who is the insolent prince then?—cut something mercilessly.
GoM at the same time…
Definitely have to check it out!—totally determined.
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Thus, at Seirin High, Kagami Taiga couldn't help shivering from the impending doom those weirdoes of Miracles Rainbow would surely bring upon him (and maybe Kuroko too) or Seirin High in general….
End of Chapter 2
Tbc…
Additional Notes:
1)Ouji: prince
2)Iinchou: class leader, class president
A/N: So, what do you think of the second chapter? Interesting enough? Funny enough? I hope (very much) so *lol* I actually had to stop several times while typing this to crack imagining the scene *looool* I hope I portray the humors okay enough to pass down the message *grins*. Will be patiently waiting for your feedback *bows*
