Chapter 2

"Everyone gather up!" Kasamatsu called out for everyone on the court after the morning practice. Several days passed since the 2nd years' school trip and Hayakawa still hadn't stop blabbering about every little detail about it. Kasamatsu was glad that they had fun participating to it but couldn't really stand the fast chatter of the 2nd year. He looked around to make sure everyone gathered before starting his speech.

"Okay guys listen up; couch has arranged a practice match with this new school Seirin High. He will tell afterschool today who's gonna play the match. So be here exactly at 3.00 p.m. And the match will be on this Friday. If you don't have any questions, go clean up and go to classes." Everyone dissolved and Kise tapped Kasamatsu from behind.

"Sempai, did you mean Seirin High in Tokyo?" he asked the dark haired captain in a thoughtful tone. Kasamatsu turned his steel blue eyes towards blonde and raise an eyebrow. "Yeah, why? You know them?"

"Well, if I remembered correctly, Kurokocchi went there!" Kise was all smiles and sparkles as he said that. Kasamatsu looked dumb struck. "Kuro..ko..cchi?" he had no clue what was the golden eyed brad talking.

"Yes! Kurokocchi was my mentor and instructor at Teiko! He was so cool and so cute! Kise was literally dancing around kasamatsu saying how awesome this Kurokocchi guy was making his captain irritate.

"Oi! I didn't ask you about whoever mentors of yours! Stop dancing around or I'll hit you!" Kasamatsu said kicking his kouhai's shin. "Ow! But sempai, you already hit me!" Kise whined while crouching down to grab his shin. Kasamatsu walked away to retrieve his water bottle. "Kise go clean up, let's have a walk before school starts." He said to the whining blonde, chugging down some water. Upon hearing that Kise was all smiles and jumped to his feet, beaming at his captain. "You want to show me around the school?! Sempai! You're so nice!"

Kasamatsu was shocked at how fast this brat can switch moods but after realizing what Kise said he frowned at his kouhai. "Huh? Why do I want to do that? And who do you think I am your personal guide?" Kise looked down. "No, well this school is so big, and I kinda lost couple of times, but... so I thought…" he trailed off making Kasamatsu's frown go soft.

"Okay, whatever, I just want to discuss some things with you. While we're at it I'll show you around here." Steel blue eyed teen turned away from Kise to stuff his bottle in his bag. Kise smiled at his sempai who now turned his back on him, preventing him from seeing Kise's sincere smile. "Yes sir!" Kise saluted as he jogged towards the shower room.

"My (l)ocke(r) is jammed! It's bent in the midd(l)e!" Kasamatsu heard Hayakawa scream in the locker room. "Let me see.., oh man! It looks like something heavy rammed in there..." someone said wondering and Kasamatsu looked at his balled fists and sighed.

Shit, I really have to control it next time. He thought as he headed to the locker room.

15 minutes later they were all fully dressed in their school uniforms and packing their bags. Moriyama came around to Kasamatsu's side and checked his watch. I have approximately 14 and half minutes to scout out the beautiful ladies on the tennis court." Kasamatsu turned away from him disgusted. "Don't involve me in your perverted schemes, moron. Go ahead without me to class, I have a talk with Kise." As he started to walk off to the exit, Moriyama grabbed his coat pulling him back toward him.

"Hey!" Kasamatsu protested feeling Moriyama let go of his coat and casually slung an arm around his shoulders, giving him an odd look. "Are you giving him 'The talk'?" Moriyama asked seriously, making Kasamatsu twitch. "I'm not his dad to give him 'the talk' idiot, besides we're not even… aarrhh! Forget it!" Kasamatsu pushed his friend's arm and walked away.

"I'm telling you, Moriyama_" Kasamatsu turned his head without stopping, to look at his friend, who stood there with a grin. "_if your little 'scout' went wrong again; you'll get something worse than a slap you know."

"Slap? What slap? That was a gentle and soft touch of a beautiful angel!" Moriyama said doing a dramatic pose with his hand on his cheek and all sparkles. Kasamatsu shook his head and stepped out of the gym. "Pitiful indeed… "He muttered to himself as he looked for Kise.

"Sempai! Over here!" Kise waved his hand over the heads of a bunch of girls who flocked around him for autographs. Kasamatsu sighed. "Hurry it up, we don't have much time." He turned away from Kise and walked down the opposite direction. Farther away from the girls is the better. He shuddered at that thought.

Kise escaped from his fan girls and fall in to step with his captain. "Sempai! So what do you want to talk about with me?" Kise asked slightly leaning towards Kasamatsu, who had his hands inside his pockets and a serious look in his face.

"There're two things you need to be a better basketball player. Skills and experience." Kasamatsu continued with a thoughtful look. "Well, that's kinda applicable to many things, what I'm saying is that you can't win only with skills or only with experience." He looked at his kouhai to make sure he understood what he was saying.

"So, basically you're saying that I lack experience since I started basketball in my 2nd year of junior high right?" Kise asked his sempai with a serious tone, which kinda odd for him.

"Exactly." Kasamatsu said with a smirk. "You're not as dumb as you look, are you Kise?"

"Sempai! So mean!" Kise returned to his pouty self in a minute. "Well, if you lack skills you can always improve it through hard work and practice, but as for experience there's no other way other than participating to matches as much as you can." Kasamatsu continued without wasting time.

"But it's different for you "he looked at Kise who looked confused. "What do you mean, sempai?"

"I saw your ability. Call it copying or whatever, but what I think is that you're learning things through what you see, exceptionally fast." Kasamatsu grinned. "So I came up with a method to make you experience without actually play in matches." He looked at his golden eyed companion only to see that he was busy gawking at something over Kasamatsu's head, in awe.

"Sempai! We have American football in our school?! That's awesome!" Kise yelled pointing at the football field which was behind his sempai. Kasamatsu snapped. "Oi! Are you even listening to me when I explained all that idiot!" he smacked Kise's head. "ow!"

"Oi Kasamatsu, my man! Long time no see, bro!" the said man turned his head around to see who was calling him with that familiar voice, and saw a guy who fully dressed in American football gear, running with the ball, waving his hand at him. Kasamatsu recognized him as the running back of their school team, Kurosawa Shin and waved back with a smile.

"Yo Kuro! I guess it's been awhile_ ow..." Kasamatsu's wave froze in air as he watched three, four no five guys tackled his waving friend to the ground, crushing him under them. "That was cool!" Kise shouted in the background, cheering. He saw a tall, lean guy wearing the jersey number 8 made his way in long strides towards the pile of guys.

He shot his arm and yanked that Kuro guy out of the man pile and smashed his helmet with his own and hollered in a hoarse voice. "Who told you that you can wave to random people in the middle of practice! Kuro chibi!"

Kuro winced as he started to say, "But Yama, it's not random people, that's Kasa_"

"I know who he is, idiot!" the jersey no.8 shoved his teammate behind and faced Kasamatsu and Kise. "And you!" He pointed at Kasamatsu. "Don't you have anything better to do other than interrupting my practice, bastard." The guy called 'Yama' crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked straight at Kasamatsu. Kise couldn't see clearly the guys face because of the football helmet, but he could make out that he had piercing jade green eyes and a strong look in it.

Kasamatsu clucked gaining Kise's attention to himself. "So you're saying that your inability to make your teammates focus on the practice game is my fault? Dumbass." He smirked giving him an equally piercing stare. But his steel blue eyes switched to Yama's right side where he caught a quick movement. Kise's eyes practically came out of its sockets as he watched a huge lineman made his way swiftly towards Kasamatsu sempai with a not so friendly manner. "Uh-oh" Kuro whimpered with horror, not wanting to see what's gonna happen.

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I accidentally deleted the whole story T_T soo sorry about that, and now i'm gonna upload again. If you have a wattpad account you can check out this story in my profile Black_Ant. ^_^ reviews are always welcome! Ja ne!