Disclaimer: I own nil.
Warnings: All warnings from chapter 1 are valid. Additions to them are cheesy pick-up lines, more stupidity, more bullshiting. OOCness overflow, especially for Kagami due to drinking more alcohol.
A\N: A FAST UPDATE. Am I awesome or what? Okay i actually finished writing, just taking my sweet time for revising and editing (for the 5th time). So it will be completed TODAY. I know i'm lame. I don't make people wait. Whatever. I tried to make it less confusing. Hopefully, it's better at that department than the 1st chap. Grammar mistakes of Kagami's speeches are intentional. Otherwise it's all on me. Oh and the song I used is Somebody Told Me from The Killers.
I forgot to add this to the first one btw.
"dialog"
'thoughts'
Stage 2-Gabby
After 3 more beers and some more tequila and vodka shots, Kagami Taiga loses his control over his mouth.
Him, talking more than couple of sentences on a topic other than basketball is already quite a surprise in itself, so his friends get amused over this development.
It doesn't take long for them to go homicidal.
…
Kagami Taiga strolls around his flat, looking for victims he can rant to; he comes across with very familiar faces.
Kuroko and Izuki are sitting at a relatively less loud corner and talking in such a civilized manner that redhead can't help but want to join to the peaceful atmosphere. So the huge teenager with a dual tone of red hair bounces toward the probably the most invisible pair, with a wide goofy grin.
Instantly finding their beloved 6th man, the GoM and their respective partners surrender the two with the red headed ace.
Kuroko wishes to slaughter Kagami-kun right then and there, and be able to get away with it without attracting his coach's and captain's rage on himself.
…
"Ya know, this one day I was playin' basket at this court… But the place had this like green…stuff coming out of it-" Kagami is on ranting.
"Do you mean grass, Kagami-kun?"
"Yeah yeah that. Grass. Like I said, court had grass coming out of its floor... But you gotta see the ground. I mean, it was like someone… crunched it. Y'know like the ad, remember-"
"Oh, do you mean the ground was cracked, Kagamicchi?"
"Yeah ground was cracked. Stop interrupting me, damn it! Listen, a cracked ground and grass going out of-" this time Kagami stops on his own, freezes up for 10 seconds then starts giggling uncontrollably.
"Grass!" sudden yell from the red haired makes people who are near to him jump a little. Seeing the identical confusion on his friends' faces, Kagami yells again.
"Grass! Ahahaha! Grass. Grass grass grass grass! …so funny… hahhaha~…m-my stomach!"
Apparently, grass is a funny word for a clouded mind of Kagami. After causing several comical sweatdrops on colorful heads, Kagami continues with his speech.
"A-anyway… I was playin' basket at a place like that and I was jumping for a dunk-"
"Figures…" Redhead shots a glare at the general direction of the voice came from; only to make people at the end of it blush because the 'maji tenshi' effect is still active but weaker than before.
"S-Shut up! I was gonna dunk and jumped for it but because of the grass- pfft! …I-I couldn't give enough power to my legs! And the cracked ground made me stumble a little-"At this part, Aida Riko's attention is completely directed to redhead even though she is almost at the opposite side of the crowded room.
"-so I lost my balance and fell on my butt! My butt! Like, a baby falls on his butt!"
'A giant beast giggling like 12 year old girl is not a pretty sight.' is the mutual opinion of said beast's forced audience. The gabby slowly but surely destroys the maji tenshi.
Between his barks of laughter, a self-satisfied Kagami tries to speak again "-but ya know, I'm lucky that I didn't get injured. 'Cause if I hurt my legs, I'm dead! Dead! Especially because I was playin' the day coach speciff- specaif-"
"Specifically." Someone helps.
"Yeeaah, specifa- yeah that. Coach speciff- specifically warned me not to play that day. But hey! Shhhhhhh!" continuing with a loud whisper "She can't know okay? Don't-don't tell her or she will… she will… eat my heart out! Raw!" with a terrified expression, redhead stops talking and looks as if he is thinking.
"…She thinks I was studying to my Kanji that day."
Kagami is too busy with sniggering mischievously, thinking he must be so smart to be able to deceive devil-carnation, all the while missing pale faces of his teammates.
"Ba-ka-ga-mi! "comes the voice from hell right behind the mentioned idiot.
A killing intent sends shivers down from his spine as Kagami slowly turns his head to see a possessed Riko. Begging for his life does not help the poor ace of Seirin. He gets the smacks of his short life with a promise of more to come at the practice. His teammates pity him from the bottom of their heart, knowing there is no excuse for being a fool.
Reviving after a short while, Kagami continues with his speeches as if he wasn't on the verge of being completely gone just moments ago. Well. Idiots always do survive.
Though at this point, everyone is just trying to tune him out. They are almost succeeding it but a heated discussing about unicorns and ponies between Kagami and Midorima begins to erupt slowly.
"Don't be ridiculous. Of course unicorns do not exist, you fool. They are mythological creators from ancient history." spats the green miracle, taking the drunken idiot seriously because he is Midorima.
"Wah-?" red-head's brain can't handle the greenette's complicated words at the moment. But he gets the gist of it.
"Hell yeah unicorns are real! What do you call horses with horns then?!" he is shocked to find someone who doesn't believe in the most mystical, most beautiful creators on earth.
"They don't exist either, moron!" snorts the bespectacled miracle.
"Actually Shin-chan, horses with horns do exist." hawk-eyed player decides to join the debate, much to everyone's chagrin and bewilderment of Midorima. "There is a certain horned breed. It is called Moyle horse, if I remember it correctly. Very rare. …You know what; it's in fact pretty funny how they are discovered. When people first saw them, they really did think they were actual unicorns-"
"How the hell do you know this much about damn horses, Takao?!" now a storming green mess goes off.
"Ah, haha. I find horses very interesting Shin-chan! And my sister adores ponies! You must know this already..! I always talk about them you know~?" whines Takao a bit but still happily.
Now Midorima is flushed because it's obvious he doesn't listen to his partner's one-sided chats. Not that he cares if this revelation hurts the point guard's feelings or anything. But it seems like his Takao is not going to realize anything for a while. Probably alcohol in his system is getting to his brain. Not that bespectacled shooter is relieved. Because Midorima Shintarou does not care.
And he didn't call him 'his' in his own turmoil, damn it!
"Hah! See! I told you unicorns are real!" declares Kagami triumphantly, finally overcoming his dumbfounded state due to Takao's unintentional help.
"They are not real!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are-!" Both freshmen double over in pain. Finally, their respective captains have enough of this shitty argument and decide it is time to stop it. With a jab to the ribs.
This time, no one feels pity.
…
With the help of red wine, martini and vodka shots, the thin line between Kagami Taiga's brain and mouth is completely severed.
"Hey whe' is my shadoow?" Red-head is quite wasted by now, so much that he can't even register if he is asking it to someone or just wonders out loud.
"Shadow~! Your Light lookin for ya~! Com-*hic* out come out~!" he tries to sing song while yelling. Not a good combination for baritone voices. And he thinks his voice is not loud enough since he doesn't get any response from his shadow.
"I WANT MY SHAD- Argh!" Kagami feels a sudden pain at his stomach.
"I'm right here, Kagami-kun. Please stop shouting." an annoyed Kuroko appears right beside the red-head. A convict right hand takes its place beside its master's side. Although there aren't any traces of annoyance on his baby face, it is obvious that Kuroko is grumpy and not pleased with a certain light. And maybe it is because he is a bit tipsy himself.
The abrupt appearance of his shadow scares the red-head a little but his reaction rate seems much slower than usual and less effective thanks to the alcohol he's consumed, much to Kuroko's further annoyance. A wide loose grin spreads across the light's face eventually and he throws his left arm over shorter male's shoulders.
"Kuroko~ do you remembe' what yo-*hic* …said to me when we fi'st met?" apparently Kagami doesn't know how to speak at a normal volume when he is like this. And since the music has to turn down noticeably quiet due to the time, everyone can hear the deep baritone voice clearly. Red-head's question attracts many attentions, especially rainbow heads'.
"Of course I remember. What about it, Kagami-kun?"
"Ya know~ I was reeaally freaked out at fi'st when y-*hic* …you said you will be my shadow from now oonnn..? I was like 'woaahhh…'. Cause ya know. 'Cause it sounds like you are a stalker or something-" a nausea makes the red-head pause for a while.
"…and then you said "Generation of Mi'acles"-" making imaginary quotation marks with his fingers, red-headed idiot continues "I was like 'Whooo…? Laaame!'" emphasizing and yelling the last word with a 'duuuut you failed' voice, red-head annoys everyone with his American high schooler antics. "Ahahaha~ I mean "Generation o' Miracles"? Like, couldn't they find a lamer naaame? Riiight? Hahhahahha~-*hic*"
6 pairs of varied colored eyes shoot deathly glares at the dunk monkey, daring him to continue while promising painful memories. But being the oblivious himself, Bakagami continues when he can take a break from his chuckling.
"…and then like, I thought 'This guy is gonna help me to beat these "suuuupee' strong" guys? But he is ssssoooooooo-*hic* …weak! Whasss he gonna do, stare the shit outta them?'" now even the GoM halts at being mad and just pities the idiot because his life just shortens to a couple of seconds. The poker face of his shadow starts to crumble slowly and anyone can see the death surrounding the shorter male. Well anyone except Kagami who calmly sips his unknown but surely combustive cocktail.
"Mm- but you know what, Shadow? I was ssoooo~ wrong! Never been more wronge' in! my! life! I mean your awesome ya know that? I was like… awessst'uck when I fi'st saw you play. …Amazing!" the Light looks at his shadow and nods in affirmation.
All Kuroko can do now is just stare with slightly wide eyes and pinkish cheeks. He cannot help but feel touched a little. All madness is forgotten. Other participants of the party release the breath they have been holding. Relieved that they don't have to be accomplices of a bloody murder. But the red-headed idiot crushes their new hope completely with his next words.
"Ohhh and Shadoow, ya knaw wat? Ya should work out more! Your so scrawny I'm shocked-*hic* that you haven't break you're wrist or ankle… or something. Eat lots and stop drinking vanilla milkshakes! It tastes-*hic* …awful already! And anyway it's not like-... it helps you to get any taller-"
Kagami Taiga : KO
Stage 3-Shameless
At this stage, no one is sure about what happens. They don't know if the red-headed idiot regains some control over his mouth and on his mind because his words and grammar seem to be improved, or just temporarily loses his mind. But they are definite about one thing.
A 3rd staged Kagami Taiga is not Kagami Taiga.
They have a sneaky suspicion that is all because of Absolut Vodka.
…
Seirin's ace revives after an hour or so, but still pretty much wasted; a courtesy of Absolut Vodka he's been drinking earlier. He looks different though. There is a strange glint in his eyes. No one notices at first because they've stopped paying any mind to him. But a couple of incidents lead them to realize something's wrong with the beast.
"Woah! Kagamicchi?! Did you just smack my butt?!"
The redheaded player throws his arm over the blond beauty's shoulders and inhales his hair deeply. Kise freaks out but the shock makes his body freeze where he stands. Kagami's lips close on his right ear and with a husky tone, he hits on.
"…Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?"
Honey brown eyes are the size of a saucer.
It's not like Kise Ryouta isn't used to advances. He can resist to any men and women if he puts his mind to it. But he has to admit; he hasn't heard such a cheesy line for a long time.
After not receiving a response from the man he is heavily coming on to, the player tries another approach.
"Hey, I've got skittles in my mouth. Wanna taste the rainbow?"
"Oh my God, Kagamicchi! Where did you even learn lines like that?! And please don't lick my ear!" Kaijou's ace finally finds enough strength to push away his 'friend' at his last assault.
Kagami stares with unfocused eyes at the general direction of blond's face for a few seconds. Then he turns on his heels and leaves a dumbfounded small forward behind without uttering another word.
Kagami Taiga is on hunting.
Deciding on a new prey quickly (he is not picky at the moment and really, nice ass), he slyly approaches his victim, doesn't give a crap about if the person is in the middle of a heated speech, the player firmly gropes and gives a nice squeeze to left cheek of the sexy arse, humming in appreciation.
"Hey do you have a mirror in your pocket? 'Cause I can totally see myself in your pants."
Aomine Daiki literally jumps out of his skin.
"What da fu-?! Kagami?!"
"Call me Tiger. Roarr…"
"Tig- What?! L-Let go damn it! Stop making circles on my butt!" a slightly out of breath tanned power forward tries to stop the tiger's advances. He thanks to every God he knows that the room and his skin color are dark.
Ever so observant Kuroko Tetsuya, of course, notices the strange color of his friend's face.
"Aomine-kun, you are blushing."
"Wah-? I'm not blushing Tetsu! …I told you to let go, bastard! Not hold the both cheeks!"
"Your dad must be a baker 'cause you have a nice set of buns."
"…! Do you even recognize which gender you're coming on to?!" shoving the red-head on the face is not enough to stop the player in Kagami.
"Baby I'm no Fred Flintstone, but I can make your bedrock."
…
The tiger continues his hunt while nursing a swollen cheek.
He is unconsciously making the jazz walk from Spiderman 3, creeping out everyone in the process.
The tiger sees livid green and slowly walks towards it in a trance like situation similar to a zombie watching the fireworks. Soon after he realizes that green stuff is actually hair growing on a head. Belongs to someone very tall and muscular, presenting a delicious sight from behind for the red-headed player.
"It's a good thing I have my library card because 'm totally checking you out." comes a husky voice from behind a baffled Midorima.
Turning back, the greenette is more shocked to see a very close face of Kagami Taiga with a strange glint in his crimson eyes.
The horoscope believer quickly recovers from his stupor and starts questioning at once though.
"I didn't know you had a library card, Kagami. Do they give them to everyone in your school? Or are you actually using it? What kind of books do you read anyway? Of course, I'm assuming you actually know how to read, but I might be expecting too much."
If Midorima hopes for an answer, he doesn't get one. Tiger looks at the greenette with a blank face. Then turns to green-head's left, directing his advances to the shorter male who was obviously having a conversation with the shooting guard before Kagami interrupted.
Putting his huge hand on shorter male's head, fierce crimson eyes bores into cold heterochromatic eyes. The whole room gets quiet.
Fascinated with the enchanting different eye colors, the tiger wraps his arm across Akashi's shoulder. No one remembers how to breathe anymore.
"You have very pretty eyes. Ah, but I think you have something in it… Nope~, just a sparkle~."
Luckily, Kagami's freshmen trio teammates have merciful hearts. They save the red-headed idiot from the wrath of an emperor even though they are scared shitless. The trio grabs the tiger and bolts while dragging the beast and dodging flying scissors.
Everyone breathes again. They are relieved that a messy murder, once again, isn't taking a place at that night.
Kagami Taiga falls asleep on the couch he is thrown to. Only to wake up shortly after, much to everyone's horror.
Stage 4-Emotional Wreck
It is unknown how much alcohol consumed by the redhead by now. At least, he stops the bold flirting and party participants are content with it.
But it is not over yet.
No one realizes that Kagami is awake and not on his crushing spot anymore until a loud music erupts and even more louder voice starts to sing, making everyone jump on their feet. Well, it is actually hard to call it 'singing' cause all the redhead is doing to shout the lyrics with his lungs out.
"…SOMEBODY TOLD ME! YOU HAD hompf-FRIEND! WHO LOOKED LIKE GIRLFRIEND! THAT I HAD IN FEB-hmhuh-ARY OF LAST YEAR-!" Kagami starts humming loudly but still lower than his singing voice until his favorite part comes again.
"…He has no idea what the lyrics are, doesn't he." states the captain Hyuuga. Everyone sweatdrops while nodding.
Apparently, red-headed idiot knows only four sentences from the song, even those lines aren't completely correct. God knows why he chose this song to yell at.
At least, he seems like he is getting those lines better now.
"...huhmyn my mhmoonlight…WELL SOMEBODY TOLD ME! YOU HAD A BOYFRIEND! WHO LOOKED LIKE A GIRLFRIEND THAT I HAD IN—"suddenly, Kagami starts sobbing while covering his eyes with his hand. He just stands there and cries into his palm.
Finally, someone regains their composure again and turns off the loud music. They are lucky if no one calls the police, it is very late.
Himuro Tatsuya officially panics. He has never seen his brother cry before. Not even when they had that painful parting match. He doesn't know what to do or how to react to such an enigma.
With a gentle smile, brave Kiyoshi Teppei dares to approach to the sobbing giant. Putting his huge palm on a shoulder, he wants to know what's wrong with Kagami. Others just watch the scene with a broken heart.
"Ki-Kiyoshi-senpaiiii!" two-toned head wraps his arms around his senpai's neck, wetting the friendly center's t-shirt with his tears and snot. Slightly disgusted Kiyoshi questions again while patting his kouhai's head.
"It-it's the song! *hic-hic* It is so sad! Dude's- *hic* Dude's ex-girl looks like a… a dude! I had no idea!" redheaded idiot's sobs become uncontrollable. He is not aware that he just lost everyone's sympathy; even friendly giant hesitates with his ministration of easing the crying mess in his arms. But being the ever sweetheart he is; he continues to try soothing the crying beast.
"Huh… You know, I always thought it was the boyfriend looking like a girl. But I guess it can go this way too." Izuki comments and Takao nods in agreement.
"Izuki. Shut up!" Hyuuga retorts immediately as usual.
An angered Riko gets ready to walk towards to her ace, probably to smack him some more, but redhead perplexes everyone by suddenly shouting.
"Tatsuyaaa! Where are you?! TATSUY-!" an urgent need to sniff interrupts his bellowing. It gives time to Himuro to react.
"I-I'm here Taiga. I'm here. Big brother's here. Come on, calm down." Himuro pulls his little brother into his arms with a gentle voice. Still not losing the concern for him, even though it is only drunken bullshit coming out of the idiot's mouth.
"Tatsuya! Why-?! Why you don't wanna be my brother anymore? Why did you s-say *sniff* …those things to me back there…?" Sincere tears trail down Kagami's cheeks to his chin and drop on his brother's ring hanging around his neck.
Oh, bummer. Now everyone feels like shit, especially Himuro. He can't stand to see his Taiga's teary eyes and hearing his hurtful voice. His poor heart won't be able to bear this much breaking.
"Taiga… I don't know what to s-"starts the white dragon but Kagami suddenly grabs his shoulders firmly and asks with a pitched voice due to all the crying he has done.
"Is it because of my eyebrows?! Is it?! They-they are weird aren't they? I-I couldn't have any- *sniff* -friends because of them when I first moved to States... N-now they are making you run away from them! I-I-I-I-" Kagami bends his head enough to cover his eyes with his bangs; doesn't hear the snickers breaking out. Then a pair of scissors suddenly appears in his hand out of the blue and a determined glint in his crimson eyes like he is ready to go one-on-one.
"I'm gonna cut them." And proceeds to do just that.
A fierce battle between the tiger and the dragon erupts.
The dragon tries to take the scissors away while coaxing the tiger into convincing that eyebrows are not the issue between them. Redhead seems like he is only focusing on the mission he gave himself. Himuro's words and the now-full-blown laughs are not processing in his brain.
Finally, Japanese beauty snaps. He shouts everyone to shut the hell up and help him already or Taiga is going to hurt himself. This gets attention of a few teammates. Mitobe and Kiyoshi see the losing battle on the dragon's side and decide to assist.
Now it's three-on-one. The tiger is more fiercer than ever. He is determined to win against three strong defense players.
Aomine, who is laughing his ass off over 'The Great Scissor Battle', can't do much but to clutch his middle due to cramps. When it seems like he is calming down, he takes a look at the scene before him to prevent just that, and laughs some more. He glances at the crazed tiger's face and freezes at what he sees.
Then he doubles over, having hysterical fits. While punching the floor and freaking out the people who are near to him at the same time, he barks with a cracked voice.
"IDIOT IS IN THE ZONE! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
This causes others' laughs come to a halt. They finally take a good look at the scene before them and holy shit, there is that strange smoke coming out of Kagami's eyes. This revelation doesn't have the same effect on the others like on the tanned idiot. The seriousness of the situation is escalated because they know a Zoned Kagami is unstoppable if the others are not in the Zone too. The only ones who got into it before are Aomine and Murasakibara. But the ganguro is having fits, tries to breathe between painful cramps and the purple giant is knocked out by his snacks at somewhere, even the loud performance from the red-headed couldn't wake him up.
They might outnumber the power forward. If this was the actual basket match, it wouldn't work because it's impossible to stop a Zoned player. But the said red-headed is much more smashed than anyone else in the room right now, so they may have a chance.
Now adding the Hyuuga, Kuroko, Kise and Tsuchida to the earlier trio, there is a pretty strong barrier between the scissors in the tiger's hand and the tiger himself. Eventually Kise manages to snatch the accused object away from the deathly grip and backs away couple of feet from the red beast. Other six human obstacles take a step back, assuming now the tiger is calmed down a little, though not getting too far away from him, but still making a big mistake.
Realizing now he is free from his hindrances, the tiger attacks Kise's scissor holding hand at top speed thanks to the Zone. Noticing he can't be faster than the beast, blond throws the scissors without looking, out of pure basketball reflexes in his surprised and drunken state.
Kagami, never taking his eyes away from the object not even for a blink, quickly changes his course at the direction of scissors. His fingers are millimeters away from it when it disappears. Kuroko, now in power forward's line of sight, uses his misdirection to sneak up on Kagami and passes the object to a reluctant green-headed shooter.
At this point, all the basketball junkies are just watching the battle beholding in front of their eyes with identical amazed expressions. To their wasted minds, it looks like the most anticipated match of the year. Mouths are gaping, eyes are wide, waiting what is going to happen next.
With a weary sigh, the green miracle receives the pass gracefully and shoots the scissors like his never missing three pointers, aiming an open window. Of course, his accuracy is perfect. He is Midorima-fucking-Shintarou. It is impossible for him to miss as long as he follows the fate and has his lucky item with him. Today's lucky item is a tea pot, for the ones wondering.
Midorima Shintarou continues what he was doing before the shoot, so confident it will be a success and not giving a second glance; he is changing his bandages because stupid Takao spills some champagne on his left hand earlier. Then the greenette hears a loud crash, like some glasses are broken, and looks back.
Apparently, high arch of the shoot is too high for an apartment complex. The scissors takes out an innocent lamp in its travel to the window. Due to the impact the object lends on the floor, away from the window. Everyone stays quiet for a while.
Now Takao Kazunari is having a hysterical fit along with Aomine Daiki. Midorima is blushing furiously, shouting them to shut up.
Kagami Taiga, with the deviousness of an actual tiger, doesn't miss his chance. While taking everyone by surprise for the second time, he dashes towards the object.
Fortunately, Furihata Kouki is there to save the day. He grabs the scissors quickly and throws it out from the open window, earning many praises, congratulation slaps, a recognizing hum from a certain heterochromatic eyed sociopath, and a tiger's despair.
Since his mission is failed, Kagami pouts cutely while sitting on the floor, stretching his legs like a kid.
"Taiga."
Looking up and seeing his real object of despair at the moment, adorable kitten's bottom lip starts quivering.
Himuro gasps and hurriedly kneels down beside his little brother and hugs Kagami's head to his chest. Himuro's heart stops at the lack of response he is getting. He breathes again when he feels the strong long arms wrapping themselves around his middle section.
Kagami buries his face in his brother's chest and Himuro does the same to Kagami's two toned hair. They start to speak after few moments of silently hugging each other, though still in the same position.
The brothers are talking in English, so none of the guests understands what they are saying but they understand enough to leave them alone.
…
At this point, participants are sure they've seen everything. Nothing worse is left for them to witness. Well. Wrong. And they have to learn it from the hard way.
I... I have no excuses for Gabby. That's the bullshit-ness at my highest level. I hope I didn't offend anyone though. If I did, I'm very sorry. And I just HAD to mention absolut vodka at somewhere in this fic. Anyway, thank you for the reviews for the first part. Hopefully, 2nd part didn't let you guys down.
Thank you for reading.
