Yellow Testimony

by Kise Ryouta

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Morning

Despite being a rookie in Teikou basketball's club, Kise had made his way to be admitted into the First String just in two weeks. Aomine was the reason he started playing basketball. Kise admired Aomine's skill, yet he also thought of him as a rival. How could that be? The answer was simple - Kuroko Tetsuya.

On a day when they didn't have morning practice, Kise was surprised to find Kuroko coming to the school earlier. He was about to ambushed Kuroko with morning hug when he noticed him holding a letter while standing in front of Aomine's shoe locker. Kise almost died of shock when he saw Kuroko put the letter inside the locker with a smile. Somehow he managed to hide himself behind a pillar before Kuroko noticed him, thanks to his good reflex.

For Kise to find his shoe locker filled with love letters was an usual sight every morning. Not to mention that he had gained more fans since he joined the basketball's club. The other members of Generation of Miracles often got a fair amount of love letters in their lockers but Kise never imagined that his crush would gave one to his rival. His next action was certain – he had to find and destroy that letter no matter what. Thus, Kise came out from his hiding when Kuroko was nowhere to be seen and started sorting the love letters he took from Aomine's shoe locker.

Found it! Kise cheered in his mind upon finding a light blue envelope addressed to Aomine Daiki without sender's name which had been hold by Kuroko earlier.

"What'd you want with Tetsu's locker, Kise?" asked Aomine curiously, couldn't hold back his yawn.

"Nothing." Kise responsively replied, hiding the letter in his schoolbag. He didn't know that Kuroko's locker was actually next to Aomine's.

"..." Aomine didn't pry further but still had his suspicion.

"We don't have morning practice today so why did you come so early?" Kise changed the subject, walking towards his own locker that was overflowed with love letters from his fans.

"Just a habit." Aomine answered lazily, observing Kise who's collecting the letters and mumbling to himself that it would take a lot of time to return those letters to respective senders because he couldn't accept their feelings. "Damn... I wanna play basketball. Wanna go one on one?"

"Sure!" Kise accepted the challenge delightfully.

Midday

"Kise, I want another one!" Aomine demanded a second helping when Kise brought him hamburger set meal from the cafeteria.

"But this is already the third!" Kise protested.

"It's not my loss, so who cares?" Aomine reminded him about the bet they set for this morning's one on one match. Loser had to treat the winner for special lunch of the day.

"Okay, okay. I got it." Kise gave in, grumbling as he walked away to join the queue again.

"Try this, Tetsu. It's really good." Aomine slid his untouched lunch tray in front of Kuroko. "You should've eaten more."

"Aomine-kun, you're practically bullying Kise-kun." Kuroko turned down Aomine's kindness because he felt sorry for Kise.

"Kuroko-kun has a point, Aomine." Akashi seemed to be agreed with Kuroko.

"He reaps what he sowed. I wouldn't have lost if it were me." Midorima bragged.

"Mine-chin~ Can I have it if Kuro-chin don't wanna?" asked Murasakibara, preying Kuroko's meal.

"Tetsu, you're being too soft with Kise. Did he give you something?" The scene Aomine saw this morning replayed again, creating a doubt in his mind.

"What do you mean?" Kuroko had no idea what Aomine was trying to say.

"Never mind." Aomine dropped the subject.

Evening

Oddly enough, it was unusual for Kise being the last one to finish changing while the others had left for home. His mind was occupied by Kuroko's letter, making him trapped in an endless internal conflicts. Should he return the letter and admit his fault? Or, should he wipe out the evidence by destroying the letter?

"Kise." Midorima appeared out of blue with Akashi. "Why'd take you so long?"

"Whoa!" Kise jumped about an inch off the ground, making him dropped the letter.

"Everyone's waiting for you." Akashi told Kise why they was looking for him.

"You almost gave a heart attack!"

"?" Akashi picked up the letter from the floor and was about to return it to Kise when he noticed the recipient's name. "You like Aomine?"

Midorima was also interested with the letter in Akashi's hand.

"No, no." Kise denied immediately, shaking his head. "It's Kurokocchi's."

For a very brief moment, even Akashi himself didn't notice his expression has become stiffened a little bit, let alone Kise and Midorima who was also in the room.

"Then, why do you have it in your possession? Explain yourself." Akashi failed to see how Kise got a hold of Kuroko's love letter for Aomine.

Kise explained the scene he witnessed this morning in details.

"Kuroko wrote this?" Midorima frowned a bit but let out a sigh a second after. "You're really stupid, Kise."

"What the-?!" Kise felt offended.

"Do you really think Kuroko would prefer an old fashioned way like this to confess his feelings?" Midorima had an image of Kuroko being a straight-forward type.

"You wouldn't know." Kise objected.

"That's it." Akashi stopped their bickering. "I'll be taking care of this." He put the letter in his schoolbag. It seemed he knows how to deal with this.

"You're not coming so..." said Kuroko who suddenly appeared, along with Aomine and Murasakibara who tired of waiting and decided to fetch them.

"You've got a love letter, Akashi?" Aomine teased him deliberately, feeling that he had seen that letter somewhere so he had to make sure.

"This..."

"Yeah." Kise cut Akashi in before he started explaining the situation. "An acquaintance of mine rooted for Akashi so she asked me to deliver the letter."

"If you say so..." Aomine just shrugged, probably that was it all along.

"Let's go already~ I'm hungry~" Murasakibara couldn't hold his hunger much longer.

It seemed only Midorima and Kuroko who wasn't satisfied with the explanation. However, they said nothing as they leaving to get some snacks at a convenient store on the way home.

Omake:

"Keep your paws off! I'm gonna beat the light out of him!" Aomine almost strangled Kise if Kagami and Himuro weren't quick enough to suppress him.

"Do you really think Kurokocchi would write a love letter instead of confess to you directly?" Kise stated his reason, defending himself from behind Midorima.

"Aomine, Kise has a point." Midorima stood up with Kise. He had the same thought because he was also at the scene.

"Calm down and think about it, Aomine." Kagami thought that Aomine should have known Kuroko better than him.

Aomine calmed down at last after giving it a thought. Kuroko had always been a straight-forward type. If Kuroko really did love him, he would have come to him directly to confess his feelings.

"What happened to the letter then?" asked Himuro, a bit curious.

No one answered this question because they couldn't predicted what kind of fate stored for the letter if Akashi was the one who had a hold of it.