For those who doesn't realize this, Kuroko in this story does specialize in passing, but he is also fast and have amazing ball control, which is another reason on why he is called "The Phantom", he is just way too fast for people to chase down and see, that added to his low presence makes him deadly. He can also shoot. And he is as famous as the rest of the Kiseki no Sedai.

After the tryouts, the Satō twins and Takahashi had dragged Suzuki and the childhood friends to celebrate them getting on the team, they went to a cafe which was owned by Takahashi's aunt.

"Aunty! Six coffee!", Takahashi yelled, Ogiwara added, "actually, I like Chocolate milk better, and Tet-Chan likes vanilla milkshake."

Takahashi nodded, "never mind! 4 coffee, 1 chocolate milk, and 1 vanilla milkshake!"

They walked to their table as Takahashi's aunt screamed at him to make up his mind properly.

As the drinks are being made, they chatted about random things, pets, favorite food, favorite basketball player, favorite NBA team, future jobs, before Takahashi brought up another subject,

"So, What school did you guys come from?" He asked.

The Satō twins grinned as they answered happily, "we came from Shizoku Middle school!"

Suzuki just stated that he came from a middle school in America, Takahashi came from Hirotobe Middle school, Ogiwara said Meiko, and everyone knew that Kuroko came from Teiko.

After the Teiko topic, the drinks came and everyone focused more on ordering food, after they almost finished, Takahashi stood up, "it doesn't matter what school we came from," he declared, "from now on, we're teammates, and teammates help each other, just like family, from now on, we're family!"

Everyone nodded and cheered as they clanked their drinks together and drank, "Yeah!" Riku exclaimed, "it doesn't matter if we're benchwarmers or starters, we're the only first years with a Jersey, we have to look out for one another, let's do that!" Everyone clapped and they downed their drinks.

(- A -)/

The first practice was particularly grueling, nothing compared to Teiko, but the freshmen were all dead by the end. Even the regulars looked ready to collapse, "man," Saito panted, "Kantoku just wants to murder us doesn't he." The others agreed completely.

The freshmen starters invited their fellow regular starters to the freshmen's daily routine to the cafe, to which they agreed to.

So there they were, nine players for Senshinkan sitting around a circular table in a small cafe, chatting happily and bonding with each other.

After the meal, they walked outside, only to realize that Kuroko wasn't following them, they quickly started turning around to make sure that he wasn't just being his invisible self,

"Ano..." the players all jumped as the heard the familiar deadpanned voice speak, "I found this," he said, holding a cardboard box, as they looked closer, a puppy suddenly popped out, causing them to scream "manly" screams.

Mio, who was inside talking to Takahashi's aunt, came out to ask what the ruckus was about, and froze as she saw the baby Alaskan Malamute,

"O. M. G. You are soooooooo cuteeeeeeee!" She squealed, taking the puppy and spinning around with it, before stopping, "wait, why do you look so familiar?"

The group looked from the puppy to their invisible player, "AH!" Ogiwara realized it first, "THE EYES!"

"That's it!" Riku yelled, "your name—."

"—is Tetsuya Nigou!" Sora continued his twin's sentence.

"Don't name him!" Suzuki yelled, "you're supposed to return him!" Itō nodded.

"B-but, Suzuki-Channnnnn," Saito whined, "look at how cute he is!" Takahashi nodded, "Yeah! How can you say no to those eyes?!" He exclaimed.

"You can't abandon him to the cruelty of this world!" Watanabe yelled, "and I never knew you were this heartless, Itō!"

Suzuki sighed, "I can, and I will!"

"Noooooooooooo!" The Satō twins yelled, Riku dramatically started to shed tears, as Sora mock glared at their friend, "look, Suzuki! You made Riku cry, as compensation, you have to agree with us and keep Nigou!"

"Oi! What the hell?" Suzuki exclaimed, "and don't name him that!"

Suzuki and Itō ended up agreeing and they kept the cute dog now known as Tetsuya Nigou.

(- A -)/

The boys were playing amongst each other, when they learned that Nigou likes basketball, he watched the players play and learned how to play himself. Of course, he doesn't dribble or anything, but he knocks the ball out of players' hands and blocks shots with his instincts and muscles.

What a smart dog

(- A -)/

"Ogiwara-Kun," Kuroko called out to his friend, "I'm going to Kaijō to scout tomorrow, I heard that they are having a practice game, do you want to come along?"

Ogiwara smiled, "Sure!"

(- A -)/

After the long bus ride, the pair arrived at Kaijō Kōkō, the game was already in the second quarter and they were surprised to see that the guest team, Seirin Kōkō were pretty much neck in neck with Kaijō.

"That guy, the one with red hair, he's pretty good isn't he?" Ogiwara commented, Kuroko nodded as he took note of the score, 68-72, in Kaijō's favor.

The game ended with 100-98, Seirin's game.

(- A -)/

As Seirin started leaving, Kuroko told Ogiwara to go ahead and find a place to eat as went to talk to his former teammate.

When he got there, Midorima was there too, "—day's lucky item is a toy frog" he was saying, Kise sweat dropped.

"Ah, Midorima-kun, you have came to watch this game?" Kuroko interrupted their conversation. "KUROKOCHIIIIIIIII!!" Kise squealed as he saw his former mentor.

Kuroko nodded to him, "it was a good game today, Kise-kun."

Kagami was walking by and he saw something that he can definitely say is the most bizarre thing to this day, Kise was hugging a teal haired teen who was much smaller than him, and a green haired boy was next to them, holding a ceramic frog and bandaged fingers.

(- A -)/

Ogiwara was walking along the park where he and Kuroko met when he heard the bouncing of a ball, there, by himself while dribbling, was the red haired boy who was in Seirin's team. To Ogiwara, and any spectator, it was obvious that he was the ace of the team, and even after the hard game, he was still practicing.

'Though he will probably have problems waking up tomorrow,' Ogiwara chuckled to himself as he thought of that, still, he admired the boy's dedication to basketball, the smile on his face tells him that the teen in front of him genuinely enjoyed basketball.

"Hey!" He called out, just as the boy was about to shoot, causing him lose balance and miss, Ogiwara caught the ball, "What the hell?!" The boy yelled.

Ogiwara ignored him, "I saw your game with Kaijō today, good job!"

Now Kagami is confused, "uhh, thanks?"

Ogiwara smiled, "no problem, name's Ogiwara Shigehiro."

"Kagami Taiga."

Ogiwara beamed, "how about a quick one-on-one? First to five baskets."

Kagami beamed, he doesn't know who this guy is, but if he wants to play basketball, then he's all game.

"Yeah!"

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