Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basuke belongs to Tadatoshi Fujimaki and everything else is a figment of my imagination.
Chapter 1
The warm beads of sunlight paved its way through the refractive medium blocking its way and into the well ventilated auditorium of the most prestigious school of Kanagawa prefecture- Kaijou High. He could visibly recall his very first day at the High School when he sat in the front rows; far from the hustle of the crowd and listened to the chairman deliver a passionate speech about the bright future of every student present.
He wanted to enjoy his high school life as well as work hard. Little did he know about the drastic amount of work that would stack on him? For the two years that have passed the only thing he could most remember was gruelling basketball regime and the added responsibility disciplinary committee member.
He rubbed the back of his neck to alleviate the pain from his fall from yesterday. He tried not to recollect the embarrassing event but sadly he did. From the goodness of his heart he tried to stop Kasamatsu from killing Moriyama and Hayakawa but he ended up taking the kick and hitting the bench nearby. He always wondered if Kasamatsu had to ever join the soccer team; he would be a prodigy. Not to undermine his capability as a national level point-guard, he is a prodigy in basketball. But now was not the time to think about sports. He needed to give introduction on behalf of the whole disciplinary committee and it was a challenge. Nobody likes to follow all the straitlaced regulation in High-school hence his post is always unwelcomed.
He took deep breaths and straightened himself on the cue of student council president's speech and walked precisely to the allocated space on the podium; facing the eager visages of his juniors. When he heard the president introduce the dreaded committee he walked to the centre and put on his best smile in order to counterbalance the popularly established perspective of the stringent discipline enforcers; the disciplinary committee.
"Kobori Kouji, 3-2, Head of Disciplinary Committee. Pleased to meet you all." His voice boomed even without the microphone followed by customary applause but not before an unpleasant silence.
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The school front yard was bustling with various clubs displaying their unique selling point and trying to recruit freshmen on the very first day itself. He did not take out his committee badge even when he had to settle down at the basketball club display. The workload on them was minimal as they had a good ground hold on the popularity. In the end they are the Blue Elites.
He spotted his bushy-eyebrow and ever energized junior, Hayakawa, who was radiating his basketball zest to the new comers and by the look of it he concluded that none of the passersby understood a word he said. He picked up his pace and moved towards his junior in order to help Hayakawa in explanation. Sometimes he worried a lot about his teammates but that couldn't be helped. Blue Elites are filled with some reckless people.
"Why are you here Moriyama?" he voiced when he saw their shooting guard making his unneeded appearance near the booth.
"Why you ask!" his eyes glinted with passion but Kobori knew that it had nothing to do with basketball, per se.
Moriyama looked at the taller male and responded without any further delay, "For recruiting the cute manager." And his background literally sparkled with a pink aura engulfing him. He had to look away in order to save his eyes.
"Don't do anything to scare the fresher," he sighed as he tried to warn the shorter male and then paused to emphasize on the next syllable, "please."
Moriyama grabbed Kobori by his shoulder and the grey eyes focused on the coffee-brown ones as he said, with a dead serious undertone, "Trust me. This time I have learnt everything from a very source-full site. This is going to be a major success."
Kobori did not have the heart to leave the booth after hearing that declaration. He sat down and texted his vice president to take care of the matter on the committee side. He would probably leave when Kasamatsu shows up; he takes a look at the team gathered and smiles at himself, or maybe not.
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"Everyone calm down!" even with his gifted height and built he couldn't stop the rush of girls by himself. He looked over to his gathered teammates for any help but they had it even worse. Kasamatsu had been rendered mute, thanks to his phobia of girls. With their formidable player taken out of the scenario there were very few left who could hold the crowd. At this crucial period Moriyama had to go on a break. Hayakawa was more than useless with his half baked, fast paced sentences which did not make sense not that anyone was listening, by the look of it.
How did this even happen?
"Girls, Girls!" A new voice joined the tumult but fortunately was favouring. The girls seemed to have turned their attention towards the voice.
"I have to fill in the application first and then we could have all the time to talk." Again the players were submerged in a clamour of girly squeals. Slowly and reluctantly the girls dispersed revealing the cause of the upheaval in their wake.
A blonde boy with a radiant smile came to his view and without much hesitation he sat on the chair before the basketball club's display table. He put his arm casually on the table and leaned forward with his eyes narrowing that mismatched his earlier warm smile.
Kobori looked around for his captain and the team's power forward but found no one beside him. He could see the retreating figures of the said teammates, with Kasamatsu being dragged away by the energetic man beside him. Kobori chuckled at the thought of Kasamatsu straining to keep his composure when around girls and then to have left with no energy to deal with Hayakawa.
He worried a bit about his newly appointed captain while turning to look at the freshman sitting before him. "Do you want to join the basketball team?" he put on his innate smile while asking.
"Of course Senpai! That's why I'm here." His smile became wider so did his eyes. Kobori couldn't pinpoint where he had seen the familiar face of the fresher as he handed out the application form.
"Fill out this form." Kobori directed. The blonde guy whistled nonchalantly as he filled out the essential blanks.
"Here Senpai!" he barked with a whole new level of enthusiasm while handing over the filled form.
Kobori took back the form and with a gentle smile gave out further instruction, "You have to come in day after tomorrow after school to the gymnasium-one for tryouts for becoming an official member-"
"Whaaa! Wait!" he was halted by the loud scream from the freshman. But he didn't understand the surprised face of the junior. Obviously every sport club has a tryout and not that the applicants are kicked off the club; it is just to estimate their calibre- not much of a deal. Was he not in any sports club during his middle school? Kobori thought.
"Yeah! It is not a big deal," he continued so as to not scare him away already, "you won't be kicked out or anything not until the coach asks you to."
A stifled haughty laugh escapes the freshman's lip that catches Kobori's attention as he looks over to the blonde with a raised eyebrow. The freshman looks directly into his eyes and says, "You might not have recognised me."
The joyful demeanour is abruptly replaced by a daunting one but Kobori holds his place although his attention is directed towards a tapping sound. He looks at the table to see the slender finger of the freshman beating the application form on the table, right next to applicant's name section.
Kise Ryouta
No wonder he seemed familiar to him, one of the Generation of Miracles.
"I will come to the tryouts." He said without much of his earlier enthusiasm and then left to mind his further business.
Kobori was stunned to have met him, their coach had informed them already but meeting him suddenly was bit of a surprise. He took the filled form left by Kise and stacked it up with the others. He couldn't help but think about the bright future for his team with the addition of a member of the Generation of Miracles.
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Moriyama was not happy to hear the news of the girls-uproar event from him, "Why did the girls leave?"
Kobori chuckled at his teammate expression and replied, "We will get a manager. Don't worry."
At the cue a girl appeared before them with a smile and asked for the application procedure for the team's manager. She had a mesmerizing face with a set of dazzling blue eyes and auburn hair. The girl who came after her raised the bar of beauty to another level. Then the girl after that was Haruhi Sachiko, the gorgeous and heart-throbbing beauty of the third year's batch. And all asked for team's manager's post.
"Haruhi-san has fallen for me. It is written all over her face." Moriyama said while gently picking the form that was filled, "She has applied for manager post to be close to me." With an uncanny smile he entered his own world of existent possibilities.
Kobori seemed confused. Haruhi did talk nicely with Moriyama when she was filling in the form though very few sentences were exchanged. He has never interacted with her much to conclude anything about her character but what could have made her apply for a manager's job and as far as he knew she worked with the arts club as their vice-head. For her to join the basketball team as a manager would occupy most of her time and she can't possibly hold two important posts.
He looked at the shooter next to him, who was drifting away from the face of reality altogether and knew he was not going to listen to anything Kobori had to say. He wondered how Moriyama always blew anything, especially concerning ladies, out of proportion.
Before he knew, the number of manager candidates outweighed the number of new player applicants. It was the first time he noticed the number of beautiful girls in the school and surprisingly every one of them were nice to talk to.
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"What is this?" Kasamatsu put his hand angrily on the table and broke the chit-chat between his vice-captain and the shooting guard.
Moriyama looked up with a confused look, "What?"
"This ridiculous amount of application?" he pinched the bridge of his nose which was tingling with his growing irritation.
"What's wrong with that? We should be happy about the enthusiasm shown towards the club, right Captain." Moriyama teasingly chose the words while cupping his cheeks.
Veins popped on Kasamatsu's forehead and his steel blue eyes glinted with hellish fury, "Moriyama!"
Kobori instinctively got up in order to stop early bloodshed, like yesterday, as he heard Kasamatsu shouting. "We are at school," Kobori said while trying to interfere but Moriyama was head-butted in a blink of an eye.
"How mean!" Moriyama cried first with the bruise on both their heads being quite visible.
"We won't have a female manager. That is final." Kasamatsu, with an extremely stern expression, crushed Moriyama's dreams and left the scene, leaving no room for argument.
Kobori looked at his poor teammate, whose soul seemed to have seeped out of his body from the declaration, and offered a glass of water, "Here. Lift your spirit."
He smiled and with a damper to his mood said, while taking the glass, "As if this would stop me. Coach will sanction the application for manager." Kobori doubted if the coach would agree knowing the team's captain phobia. But he didn't have it in himself to break Moriyama's hopes once again. Soon Moriyama's drifted to his world while muttering something.
A pat on his shoulder made Kobori look up to face Kaijou's bespectacled shooting guard, "Ah! Nakamura." And he receives just a nod from the said boy.
Kobori lets his junior, Nakamura Shinya, take his place and help Moriyama with the application until Hayakawa returns from wherever Kasamatsu has buried him. Moriyama had a choice of not sitting on the club display but he was persistent to find a new manager by himself. He didn't think that Moriyama would be leaving the display anytime except for small break. He couldn't worry much about the club now because he had to work now with the disciplinary committee. He received a text saying that there is a ruckus that needs to be settled. He sighs as he leaves his teammates to do their job for the day.
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"Again." He sighed looking over to a very familiar scene unfolding before him of which, earlier, he was a part of.
"It has gone out of our control." His vice-chair, Mizutani Rei, tried to explain but she was blushing and stuttering most of the time.
He looked over the girls, thanks to his height, and easily spotted the epicentre. He waded half the way through the crowd but soon was restrained by the dense packing of bodies. He cleared his throat and in last ditch effort he raised his voice, "Line up everyone." Only few head turned and when reorganization dawned over, mostly the ones familiar with the committee, moved aside allowing Kobori to breathe.
"Listen everyone," he continued in his raised tone while walking towards the reason of chaos, "do maintain the decorum of the school." Only now he realise that Kise is a model with lots of fangirls. This information had slipped past his memory when talking to him earlier.
The blonde looked up and smiled brightly, "Good to see you Senpai~" He sweat-dropped looking at Kise's animated face and the ignored him to control the situation at hand, "Problems are bound to be created due to this kind of behaviour." He tried his best not to mar the committee's image any further.
There were some disappointed sighs and murmurs which made Kobori feel a bit guilty but some things are meant to be done in order to keep up the decorum of an educational institute. Since there were no rude jeers from the crowd he felt satisfied with himself.
The relief was short-lived when a girl pulled his sleeve to get his attention, "We just wanted to talk to Kise-kun."
That was just an innocent statement. There was nothing wrong in that. That would not derate any educational institute. He kept his cool by smiling and saying, "No need to rush it today. You have plenty of time."
The girl still looked at him with determined blue eyes, "But he would be busy later and none of us would like to interrupt him."
She sure is a persistent and logical one, with only that though in his mind he could not find a proper retort. Kise is going to be awfully busy once the basketball club starts and it would be nasty if this kind of crowd is always present during practices. He safely chose his words as a last resort, with the most soothing tone he could muster, "I'm sure things will work out just fine."
The girl's auburn bangs covered her eyes as she retraced her hand and muttered, "Yeah."
"So let us disperse." And surprisingly the crowd cleared even though reluctantly.
"Thank you Kobori-senpai." Mizutani said once she came into his view, "We have no idea what would have happened without you." By the look of it she must have put in a lot of effort, her usually neatly combed pale brown hair was messy and out of her pony tail.
"Sorry, I should have come earlier." He bowed his head a bit and looked at his other members, which were just handful in number, "Thanks for your hard work." Other than his vice-chair all of them dispersed to look or patrol around the campus.
He looked at Mizutani's face and could very well figure out that she must have taken a fall while controlling the crowd. He reached towards his pocket to lend his handkerchief to her but Kise beat him to it. The blonde, without Mizutani's permission, wiped the dirt out of her left cheek and said, "Thanks for your help Senpai. Sorry to have caused so much trouble." Mizutani yelped at the abrupt contact and then her face turned crimson.
"N-no problem." She bowed down to both of the guys and left without another word.
Kobori looked at the ball of sunshine next to him and said, "You might cause a lot of problem."
"Ehh! How mean~" Kise cringed at such a blunt statement from his senpai and he hasn't even started playing in the club.
Kobori realised what he had said and quickly tried to correct himself, "No, no. I mean your fangirls like you so much that it would be difficult if we do not draw a line."
"What kind of line should I draw?" He asked not understanding completely what his senior said.
"We will see that later." He waved his had to postpone the topic. Now since the matter on hand has been closed he can leave to check on the basketball display, "I'm leaving then." He announced to the freshman and picked his duffle bag from the corner, where he had asked Mizutani to keep.
He looked around to find the place unnaturally empty. He couldn't believe the extent of people that are dreading to pass by for the sake of avoiding the crowd. He looked back towards the blonde who had slumped against the wall. He felt bad about leaving his new teammate behind, who was sure to be playing as a part of regular, all by himself.
"You can go the cafeteria and eat something." Kise looked towards Kobori with surprise.
Kobori then rummaged through his duffle bag and took out a tetra-packed juice and threw it towards Kise, who caught it without much effort, "Drink it and roam around the campus." To him Kise did look tired from all the girls he had to deal with.
"Senpai is so kind." Kise smiled and murmured which Kobori wasn't able to hear. Both of them bid goodbye and went their separate ways for the day.
When he reached the display he found Kasamatsu trying to kill Moriyama and Hayakawa. Looking at his teammates Kobori had a feeling that addition of Kise to the team is somehow going to raise Kasamatsu's blood pressure, even more.
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A/N: For those who haven't read the manga- no worries. I will tell you before when there is a spoiler. Here, Nakamura Shinya (I think he is handsome :3) is a cannon and the rest are OCs, which are needed to fill in few places. Manga only concentrated on few aspect of life *ahem* basketball *ahem* so we have no other data. I can't explain more, I will let the story speak for itself.
Thanks Waremono Iv for the review... I really hope that you like this too :3
Anyways I heard Jan 2015 is season 3 and Dec 29 will have a new serialization of KnB... Can't wait for KnB S3! It has the most exciting matches ever XD I want my mind to be blown to bits by the first episode because hopefully Kise will reveal *slap*
Dude NO SPOILER!
I wanted to say charms :P
~Ja ne!