A/N: Wow, the response last chapter got was great, thanks for every review/follow/favorite/ I got from you :) So, here is the next chapter!

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Chapter 2: "Why don't you come in?"

"Isn't that Kise?" Kagami wondered aloud and glanced at Kuroko, who was looking indecisive. With a sigh, the shorter one left the kitchen and headed for the door, kitchen knife still in hand.

He opened the door and the whining on the other side stopped immediately, much to Kuroko's relief. Before he could say anything though, Kise threw himself at Kuroko, a grin on his face. "Kurokocchi!"

Kuroko watched in slight amusement as the grin on the blonde's face morphed into an expression filled with horror as he stopped himself in mid-air, only barely able to avoid the knife from piercing right through his chest.

"Uhwaah! Ne, Kurokocchi, w-would you mind putting away the knife?" Kise asked hesitantly and his smile showed slight worry.

Kuroko glanced at the knife if he even just remembered it being there. "Of course. By the way, good afternoon, Kise-kun." Kuroko greeted as he laid down the knife on a shelf in the corridor.

Kise's expression immediately lit up again as he threw himself at the shorter one once more, this time succeeding in capturing Kuroko in a bone-crushing hug. "Tanjoubi ometedo, Kurokocchi! Happy Birthday!"

After a moment of silence, Kuroko realized that Kise wouldn't let go of him until he returned the gesture, so he laid his arms around the blonde with a feather-light touch. "Arigatou gozaimasu, Kise-kun. Could you please let go now, I'm finding it a little hard to breath."

"Gomen ne, Kurokocchi." Kise said with a smile as he reluctantly let go of the blue-haired boy. "So, are you celebrating yet? I didn't know if I could come over or not, you never answered my texts…"

"Oh, I must have forgotten." Kuroko deadpanned as he watched Kise staring at him in expectation. "I'm actually celebrating with Seirin at the moment, but one more person won't hurt." Or at least, that was what Kuroko hoped… "Why don't you come in?"

Kise literally beamed at him and Kuroko could barely avoid being crushed by another hug. "Thank you so much, Kurokocchi is such a nice person! I even got you present!"

And like that, Kise entered and joined the guys from Seirin in the living room. Kuroko followed him, after bringing the knife back to the kitchen.

"Oi, what are you doing here?" Hyuga asked skeptically as he watched the member of the Generation of Miracles sit down in an armchair.

"I'm here to celebrate Kurokocchi's birthday, of course." He explained, turning to Kuroko, who entered with the now sliced cake. Kagami followed him, a stack of plates in his arms.

"Look, I even got a present!" The blonde announced as he pulled square packet out of nowhere. It was wrapped in golden wrapping paper and a red ribbon was tied around it.

Kuroko accepted it with a nod, his expression staying monotone. While everyone started to serve themselves some cake, the birthday celebrant started unpacking his newly received gift.

When he saw what it was his eyebrows twitched ever-so-slightly but other than that he showed no sign of annoyance or any emotion whatsoever. "What is it?" Kagami asked from the other side of the room, cheeks stuffed with his fourth piece of cake.

"It's my new winter-themed photo-book! It's not even out for sale yet but I managed to get a copy especially for Kurokocchi's birthday." Kise explained proudly receiving multiple sighs and head-shakes from the Seirin members. "So how do you like it?" The model asked Kuroko, who stared at the cover intentially. It showed Kise in a black suit with a blue dress-shirt, posing in front of snow-covered Christmas tree. "I… appreciate it." Kuroko managed and Kise's eyes sparkled like a puppy's that had just been told it was a 'good boy'.

"Okasan and Obachan (grandma) are going to be happy." He said and successfully made Kise blush.

It was true though. His mother and grandma liked to see photos of Kise. They would laugh and his grandma would say 'Hasn't he turned into a handsome young man?' and his mother would reply 'How true! It makes you want to be young again.' Grandma would give her an amused but slightly disapproving look and say 'Remember, you are married to my son.'

Kuroko sighed inwardly as he thought about the conversation there surely would be. At least someone was happy about this present and seeing his family happy made himself happy, so nothing was going to waste.

"Woah, that cake sure is amazing!" Kiyoshi stated all of a sudden.

"My mother made it."

"She must me a very talented cook then." Kiyoshi said with a smile as he continued eating.

Next to him Riko sighed heavily and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "I still don't get why you didn't allow me to bake a cake as well. I thought my skills in the kitchen had improved."

"Well I wouldn't call the change from 'poisonous' to 'barely edible' an improvement exactly but-" Before he could finish his sentence Kiyoshi was slapped across the head with a paper-fan. "Don't be rude to your coach!"

"It's sure getting hot in here with that many people…" Hyuga said while he opened one of the windows. "I'm already sweating and we haven't even started to drink yet."

"Oh, so that's what the wine is for." Kagami wondered aloud. "But… is it really okay to get drunk in Kuroko's house?"

Hyuga quickly pulled him into a corner of the room, so that no one could listen in on their conversation. "Kagami, I didn't bring it for nothing. We made a plan." He nodded towards the other members.

"Kagami, can you imagine what a drunk Kuroko is like?" Hyuga asked in all seriousness.

"Nah, not really." The red-head said while rubbing the back of his neck.

"We can't either. That's why!" Their captain said determinedly and Kagami noticed that he was really fired up.

"Well, I don't really care…" Kagami started to grin. "It could still be fun though. I wonder how the alcohol affects him…" Suddenly, an idea popped into his head and the grin vanished.

"He probably won't touch the wine, even if we offer it to him…" Kagami voiced his worries.

Hyuga nodded, as if he had already expected such a problem to come up. "If that's the case, we simply have to follow plan B."

Kagami raised an eyebrow. "Plan B?"

"Mix some alcohol into his drink without him noticing."

"It certainly won't be easy, but we did things that seemed even more impossible."

"That's the spirit!"

"Oh what a coincidence to meet all of you here." A voice cut through the happy chattering and rattling of the plates. All eyes turned towards the window where the voice had come from. There, on the other side of the open window, directly in Kuroko's garden stood-

"Midorima?!"

Yes, right there stood Midorima, pushing up his glasses with one hand and in the other holding a small box with a green ribbon on top.

"Ah, Midorima-kun. Good afternoon." Kuroko greeted nonchalantly.

"What is Midorimacchi doing here? Did he come to celebrate as well?" Kise asked in surprise to seeing the green-haired appear so suddenly.

"As I said, it's merely a coincident." He said with a snort.

"Than what's with that present?" Izuki pointed out and watched was Midorima pushed up his glasses again, successfully hiding his face in the process.

"Today's lucky item is a present."

"Does he really think we would believe something like that?" Tsuchida whispered towards Koganei, who just shrugged and murmured "That's how tsunderes are."

"Why don't you come in?" Kuroko asked and his empty eyes stared at Midorima. If you looked closely enough, you might even see something like mocking amusement in them. "Now that you are coincidentally here, why not join us?"

"Yes, why not." Midorima replied as he smoothly climbed through the window and sat down on the chair Kuroko brought in from the kitchen. It was getting a little bit stuffed with all these people…

"I think it is appropriate for the guest to give the host a present." Midorima explained as he handed Kuroko the box, who accepted it with a nod. "Of course. I appreciate it."

"Wait, you wouldn't give away your lucky item! So it is a present after all." Kise explained triumphantly and pointed towards the box in Kuroko's hands.

Midorima just snorted at that, giving Kise a look that clearly said 'don't underestimate me'. "Only the act of giving it to someone else is making the present a present. If I simply kept it for myself, it wouldn't classify as a present aka it wouldn't serve its purpose as a lucky item. And since Kuroko invited me inside his house, it's my duty to offer him a present of some sort. Coincidentally, everything matches up."

Everyone stared at the green-haired for a moment before sighing and shaking their heads.

"He surely planned the whole 'it's-a-lucky-item-by-coincident'-story out well." Tsuchida commented, just quiet enough for Midorima not to hear. Koganei just shrugged and murmured "That's how tsunderes are."


Meanwhile…

"So…you are really gonna do this, huh?" Kagami asked skeptically, albeit respecting his captain for his courage. He had thought it would be funny but actually doing it was something else. Especially when it was about Kuroko. Usually, it was a bad idea to mess with Kuroko. It always came back. Twice as hard.

"Of course. I'm not bluffing." Hyuga said, holding up a glass filled with a liquid of the ominous sort. "In here is the alcohol with the highest percentage I could spontaneously get my hands on." He explained with grin that reminded Kagami of an evil demon lord. Wasn't he taking this a little bit too serious?

"I also added a huge amount of sugar, cherry-juice and other flavoring substance so Kuroko won't notice it right away. Also, this glass alone will probably be enough to make him drunk. I highly doubt he will fall for the same trick twice, so we have to make sure he really drinks it."

Kagami glanced at the glass with slight worry. He had a bad feeling about this. There was just so much that could go wrong…

"Will you help me or not?"

Kagami sighed and snatched the glass out of Hyuga's hand. "Fine."

As if he was going into battle, the red-head headed towards Kuroko, who was opening Midorima's present. It turned out it was another rolling pencil, which Kuroko was happy about, since his old one was currently in Kagami's possession. He really needed it. A lot.

"Oy, Kuroko. I haven't seen you drinking anything since I came here. You must be thirsty, here." Kagami handed his friend the glass, who accepted it with a nod.

First, Kuroko stared at the glass for an awfully long time and Kagami feared he might've seen right through their plan but then the shorter one slowly brought it up towards his lips. Closer…Closer…

Just before Kuroko could take the first sip of the drink, the doorbell rang. Kagami didn't know whether to be frustrated or relieved when Kurkok sat down the glass and went to open the door. Kagami followed him as he wondered who it would be now. Seriously, every five minutes someone else popped up out of nowhere.

Kuroko stood in front of the door, ready to open it. From outside, he heard what sounded like bickering and he was pretty sure he recognized the voices. A small smile danced across his lips for a split second before he opened the door, expressionless once again.

Just like he had suspected he was met with Momoi and Aoimine standing on his doormat. Momoi smiled brightly at him and much like Kise, threw herself at him in an attempt to squeeze the life out of him. "Tanjoubi ometedo, Tetsu-kun!"

When the girl finally let go of Kuroko, the blue-haired boy got a chance to look at his former light, who just gazed down on him boredly, as if he had just gotten out of bed and didn't really know what he was supposed to be doing here. Which was probably true, considering it was Aomine.

"Good day, Momoi-san, Aomine-kun." Kuroko greeted as he held the door open for them to come in.

Aomine looked only slightly annoyed when Momoi grabbed his hand and dragged him inside. "Why did I have to come all the way here again?"

Momoi looked at him disapprovingly and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "It's Tetsu-kun's birthday after all! Don't be so grumpy, can't you just enjoy this?"

"Aomine-kun doesn't have to stay here if he would rather not join my birthday celebration." Kuroko added, a fake look of hurt on his usually blank face. Momoi joined in, trembling lower lip and glassy eyes strengthening the effect. Aomine just turned around with a "Fine. You got me, Tetsu, I'm staying" and headed into the living room where the others were.

Momoi grinned at Kuroko upon their success in making Aomine stay and Kuroko smiled back. "Big bad Daiki can't do anything against the puppy look!" Momoi chirped happily and as if on cue, Tetsuya#2 came around the corner, happily jumping into the girl's arms.

"Oh, by the way, Tetsu-kun, here is your present." Momoi fumbled around in her bag and pulled out a stuffed puppy that was standing on top of a basketball, just like #2 would often do it.

"Isn't it cute?" Kuroko nodded with a smile and before he even voice his thanks, #2 jumped onto the stuffed puppy, staring at it as if it were a long lost brother.

Momoi chuckled as she watched the pure cuteness in front of her. "Seems like love on first sight." She commented as they followed Aomine into the living room.

"What, you two are here as well?" Aomine asked when he noticed Kise and Midorima, who were both eating a piece of cake.

"Kise-kun invited himself and Midorima-kun is here by coincident." Kuroko clarified as brought two more chairs from the kitchen

Aomine just snorted in laughter at the huffy faces his two former teammates dand threw himself onto a chair, lazily watching as the others all seemed to have fun. Suddenly, he spotted a glass standing on the table next to him. Shrugging his shoulders, he picked it up and emptied it in one big gulp. He immediately made a noise of disgust, this drink was truly terrible. What was that even supposed to taste like? Well, at least Aomine was slowly feeling a little bit warmer, it had really been cold outside, after all.

"Hey, I'm going to turn on some music, all right?" Kise asked suddenly while he was busy with pressing buttons on his phone and on Kuroko's hi-fi system. "Don't worry, you'll like my playlist."

Everyone's doubts were proven right when the blonde pressed the play-button and the most popular and cheesy pop-songs that were played by every radio station 24/7 filled their ears. But no one cared enough to start arguing about it and so the music kept playing, turning the formerly relaxed atmosphere into what could only be described as the typical highschool drama/comedy/romance setting. At least Momoi liked it.

Kagami was distressed, however, for different reasons. Hyuga was glaring at him because he had failed miserably. Not only hadn't Kuroko drinken their special mixture, but Kagami had also left the glass unattended, leading to the current scenario. The glass was empty.

"I wonder who drank it." Kagami said, earning yet another death glare from his captain.

What the red-head didn't know, was that he would find out. Soon. Actually, in this very second as a basketball suddenly flew straight through the room and bounced off his head. "Ouch! Who was that?" He growled in annoyance and turned around, only to find Aomine walking towards him.

Kagami instantly noticed that the blue-haired was different. He stumbled more than walked and his cheeks were a little bit flushed. Realization dawned on the power forward. "Oh…"

"Oi, Kagami!" Aomine yelled as he came to a halt in front of him. "I challenge you to a one-on-one. Right now!" He picked up the basketball and stared at Kagami with a challenging grin on his face.

"I hate to say it, but this is Kuroko's birthday party. We shouldn't just leave now." He replied and to be honest, he was a little bit disappointed.

"Oh, so you're scared?" Aomine taunted, spinning the basketball on his finger. "What a shame…"

Kagami snorted, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "That's not it. Also, I think you're a little drunk."

Aomine sighed and threw the basketball behind him. The whining which suddenly echoed through the room was an indication that it had hit Kise, who knocked over a chair. Everyone's eyes turned to him for a second, but when they saw it was only Kise, they ignored him.

"All right, let's forget the one-on-one. But I bet I would've one anyway…" With that, Aomine lazily turned around, walking over to Kise and picking up his basketball before he laid down on the ground, throwing the ball up and catching it again.

Kagami watched in frustration, he wished he could agree and play some basketball now… He was stopped from daydreaming however, when Hyuga came back with another glass. "Here's your second chance and this time… BE CAREFUL!"

Kagami nodded and made his way over to Kuroko who was being hugged to death by Momoi on one and Kise on the other side. That sure must be tough…

Before he could reach them however, Riko walked past him. She took the glass out of his hand and looked at it. "Bringing your coach something to drink? Thanks." Kagami watched in horror as she gulped it down leaving nothing. "That tastes strange…" She said and handed him the glass before walking off towards Kiyoshi, a happy grin that scared the shit out of him on her face.

"Bakagami! That was the worst thing that could've happened!" Hyuga came up and hit the first year across his head. "Imagine what the coach will be like when she's drunk! Or what will happen when she finds out!" They both shivered in agony as they thought up plans how to escape the devilish punishment that surely would await them…

Suddenly, someone knocked against the window and everyone's heads turned around to find a certain purple-haired giant standing there, a bag full of candy-bars in his hand.

Happy to be able to escape from Kise and Momoi for a moment, Kuroko hurried over and opened the window for Murasakibara. "Good day, Murasakibara-kun." Kuroko greeted as if he had expected him to suddenly appear at his window. On second thought, everyone knew it would happen. It was kind of obvious. Although it didn't go unnoticed that Murasakibara wasn't in the best mood. He had been defeated by Seirin only a few days ago, after all.

"Why don't you come in?" Kuroko offered and the purple-haired nodded. Albeit how tall he was, he managed to climb through the window just fine.

"Next time, I'll definitely crush you." Murasakibara said coldly as he towered over Kuroko and everything seemed silent for a moment, expect that Kise's playlist was still playing in the background. The giant's face softened and he pulled out a really big box from behind his back. "But today it's your tanjoubi, Kuro-chin."

"Arigatou gozaimasu, Murasakibara-kun." Kuroko accepted the boy with a small smile and laid it on the table.

Suddenly, Murasakibara walked towards where Kuroko's presents from Seirin were and picked up the cookies Mitobe made. He shoved one into his mouth and after a short time of chewing, the purple-haired giant looked around. "Who made these?" He asked with a certain curiosity that was untypical for his usually bored tone.

"Ah, they're from Mitobe-kun." Kuroko explained and pointed towards his silent team member.

Murasakibara made his way to him and sat down on the coach. "Would you tell me the recipe?"

Mitobe just smiled at him and tilted his head.

"He doesn't talk." Koganei explained as he got up from his seat and walked into the direction of the bathroom. "But it's not that hard to understand him."

Murasakibara frowned a little but turned back towards Mitobe. "I'm going to ask 'yes or no' questions. Just nod or shake your head." He explained to which Mitobe nodded.

"Surely there are eggs in it?"

Mitobe nodded.

"Three?"

Mitobe shook his head.

"Two?"

Mitobe shook his head.

"One?"

Mitobe shook his head.

"Five?"

Mitobe shook his head.

Murasakibara sighed exasperatedly, this was already too much effort for his taste. "Could you just hold up the amount of fingers?"

Mitobe shook his head.

"You're making fun of me, right?"

Mitobe nodded and held his hand in front of his mouth, as if he wanted to stifle his laughter, it was just that he didn't really laugh in the first place.

Murasakibara growled angrily as he got up and decided to ignore Mitobe for now.

"Why don't you open my present, Kuro-chin?" Murasakibara suggested as he walked past Kuroko, who was holding the box in his hands.

"I'm trying to but you wrapped it up very thoroughly." Kuroko explained as he tried to rip apart the paper with his hands to no avail. Suddenly, a pair of scissors flew across the room and landed direct on the box and became stuck in the middle of it.

Everyone whipped their heads around, only to see the captain of the Generation of Miracles standing in the doorway, a smile on his face. "Tanjoubi ometedo, Tetsuya. You can keep those." He gestured towards the pair of scissors stuck in Murasakibara's present.

"Arigatou gozaimasu, Akashi-kun." Kuroko answered and started opening the box with the scissors. He seemed unfazed by Akashi's sudden appearance, but the atmosphere had suddenly tensed quite a bit.

"Ryouta, Shintaro, Daiki, Atsushi, I'm glad that you've come too." Akashi said while he walked over towards the couch, the Seirin members immediately making room for the intimidating red-head.

It was quiet for a while, the general mood had cooled down quite a bit and no one was able to continue chatting, laughing and eating like they had done before.

"Please, don't mind my presence. I'm merely here because I wanted to see Tetsuya." Akashi explained and as if his words defined the rules of the world, everyone managed to relax again and slowly, everything was back to normal.

It turned out that Murasakibara's gift had been (wait for the overwhelming surprise) indeed various kinds of candy all put together in one big box. Kuroko knew there was no way he was ever going to eat all of them, but if Murasakibara gave you some of his sweets, it meant something.

Kiyoshi watched with a grin how everyone was having fun. He had the feeling that now, since the Generation of Miracles was here, the party was only really going to start. Really, since they were arriving one by one, chaos had seemed to slowly spread across them. As he looked around, he noticed that Kise had turned on Kuroko's TV and was starting to play some video games, not caring about the clashing of sounds from the TV and the hi-fi system which, by the way, was also turned on by him.

Well, Midorima wasn't really doing much. He sat there and texted to someone on his phone, probably Takao.

Aomine was acting a little strange, to be honest. He was throwing his basketball around and by the looks some people where giving him, it had hit more than one person's head. Oh, and he also had knocked over a vase, but Kuroko had assured them it was no big deal – his parents hated that thing anyway.

Speaking of Kuroko…he was nowhere to be seen, but that didn't mean much. For all Kiyoshi knew, he could be standing right next to him.

Tetsuya#2, however, he saw on the first glance, since the puppy was chased around by Momoi, who was trying to squeeze it into a tiny suit instead of the Seirin tricot.

Murasakibara was back to pestering Mitobe about the recipe of his Cookies and Kiyoshi had to chuckle. He knew how hard it was to have a conversation with Mitobe without Koganei's help.

And Akashi…well, he was just sitting there, drinking what seemed to be a glass of wine and watching everything that went on with a smile.

Alright, it didn't seem that chaotic at the moment, but Kiyoshi had the feeling this was going to change sooner than later.

Suddenly, something crossed his mind and the brunet worriedly turned over to Izuki.

"I'm afraid we don't have enough cake..."

"That's not the problem! Why is the whole Generation of Miracles here?!" Izuki sighed as he rested his head in his hands

"Calm down, it's not like they will tear the house apart." Kiyoshi commented with a chuckle and patted his friend on the back.

"..." Suddenly, Aomine's ball was flying through the room again and it…bounced off of Riko's forehead.

"..." Their coach was yelling furiously, her face flushing a bright red and her eyes a little bit glassy. She punched the basketball in a fashion similar to Kuroko's Ignite Pass and it hit a bookshelf, knocking it over in the process.

"..." The bookshelf crashed down onto Kise, who fell face first into the ground. He propped himself up, looking dizzy and barely able to stand without swaying from side to side.

"All right, keep your phone ready. We might have to call the police. Or an ambulance."


A/N: Now that everyone is here, let's get this party started :) Look forward to the next chapter, it'll have more random chaos and at the end something that'll make you go aww… :D Feedback is highly appreciated!

Sayonara^^

By DarkChain