Midorima Shintarou

"Hm. I don't see why I should help you, but I guess I should for that time…"

"A-Ah, thank you very much. Midorima-kun."

The green-haired Shooter awkwardly glared at the shorter girl in front of him, averting his eyes from her orange ones as he looked in the direction where a floor of basketballs were visible.

"….Stop wobbling around. You look like a penguin." Midorima pointed to the black and white animal in his hands, his lucky item of the day, as an example.

"I-I do? S- Sorry, training with A-Akashi-kun was really tough…" She whimpered under her breath in response as she kneeled down to pick one of the brightly colored balls by the side of the gym.

Midorima sighed in exasperation as he helped her to pick up the basketball and placed it into her arms. Holding another in his own hands as he posed, he told,

"Watch and learn."

"H-Hai!"

Meanwhile...With the rest

"Heeey! Everyone, I heard that Aka-chii has a crush!~"

Kise Ryouta jumped up excitedly with his news as he anticipated the surprised looks on his teammates face. But everyone just stared at him as though he was an idiot.

"S-SO MEAN! Why is everyone staring at me like that!"

"Kise-kun, we all knew that Akane-san had a crush." Kuroko was the one that broke the news to the model, sipping calmly on his new milkshake from the afternoon.

"Mou~ Ki-chan, you're really slow!" Momoi chided at the yellow-haired boy as she ran a hand through her own hair.

"Ryouta, you're at least half a year behind." Akashi added on as Murasaki nodded in agreement, with a Pocky in his mouth.

"Why am I ALWAYS left out of the circle!" Kise cried out as the Generation of Miracle's spiked salt on of his wounds.

"T-Then, who does Aka-chii have a crush on?" The Perfect Copy tried a comeback towards the team, enticing grins among their faces.

"Mido-chin." Surprisingly, it was Atsushi that made a comment,

"Mido-chin received a love letter from Aka-chin this Valentine. Outside our class."

"Oho? Didn't Aka-chii like Aomine-chii? They always sit next to each other for lunch." The model was surprised yet again as he recalled the various times on the rooftop.

"No, Shintarou has a crush on Akane. He moves awkwardly whenever she's around and looks at her whenever he has a chance." Akashi was certain in his answer as he shushed the yellow-head.

"I disagree Akashi-kun. Aomine-kun likes Akane-san a lot, he smiles and waits for her at her classroom daily. Even after school, he offers to walk her home before practice. Aomine-kun also shows up for practice if Akane-san is there. He even said that he dreamt of her without clot-…"

"Kurokochii! That's too much information!" Kise finally managed to put a stop to the usually stoic boy from sprouting too much, private, information as he placed a palm over his friend's mouth.

"N-Nee~! Momochii, you're close to Aka-chii aren't you? So who does she like?"

Kise gave a bright smile to divert the attention away from the phantom sixth player as the pink-haired girl secretly smiled to herself.

"Ufufu! I'll give you guys a clue. That guy is a biiig tsundere when it comes to his crush!"


A/N: The conclusion drawls near.

Any second guesses?