"Welcome to the Seirin boys basketball tryouts." Riko announced when all the applicants arrived. Thankfully there are no invisible ones.
"Um, excuse me." A freshman said, raising his hand a little.
"Yes?"
"Um, sorry but, why are we standing outside of the gym? Aren't we having tryouts inside?"
"Yes, that's what I was about to explain." Riko answered and the freshman muttered a faint 'sorry'. "We've ran into a slight problem you see. It just so happens that the girl's basketball team is also having their tryouts. We're having ours afterwards so we'll go inside the gym and wait but we are not to disturb the tryouts, ok." Everyone nodded in agreement and with a 'lets go freshman!' they filed inside.
Various voices and sounds of shoes squeaking filled the huge room as all the girls were warming up. The boys' team were all sitting up in the bleachers; some talking amongst themselves, other watching the girls. The group of first years and Riko made their way around the court to join them. As they passed behind the net at the end of the gym, a small, black haired girl made a careless, but nevertheless, solid lay-up.
"Ah, Nee-chan~" Haru said aloud as she landed. She looked up at him.
"Hey Haru." She replied in a nonchalant manner as she moved out of the way for the next person.
"Good luck, do your best~" the tall male smiled as she grunted and continued with her warm-up.
"That's your sister?" A tall male with dark blond hair asked him.
"Mmm hmm~" Haru replied.
"You're both in the same grade, so that means you're twins, correct?" A dark haired male with glasses asked. Haru nodded.
"How do you know they're in the same grade?" The dark blond male asked.
"She's in my class."
"Oh," he looked taken aback, "yeah, how are you guys twins? You don't even look alike!"
"Just because they're twins doesn't necessarily mean they should look alike." A black- almost blue- haired male said, moving into the conversation.
"But they don't even look like siblings!"
"Hey, all of you, stop bickering and introduce yourselves." Riko said, getting their attention. The freshman group had finally reached their older counterpart and with their coach's words they began their introductions.
"I'm Arashi Haru, lets have a great year together~"
"Nakamura Hideaki, pleased to meet you." The dark haired male with glasses said. Hideaki was around six feet tall with broad shoulders. He had dark brown eyes and his facial features seemed to wear a naturally mischievous look.
"I'm Miyazaki Hinata, s'cool to meet you all." The dark blond haired male said. Hinata was five foot ten and had a very athletic figure which suggested that he'd been playing sports all his life. He had light hazel eyes which were more brown than green.
"I'm Fujimori Shiro." The blue black haired male said. Shiro had a fairly normal physique and stood around five foot eight. His presence was almost calming in a way except for his catlike eyes which were bright blue and he carried himself with a graceful confidence. After the introductions they all took a seat as the girls tryouts begun.
"Everyone, we're now going to organize into teams for a scrimmage match." The coach of the girls' team announced and they all started to organize. Meanwhile, conversation continued between the freshman.
"So, Arashi-san, how long have you been playing basketball for?" The blue eyed Shiro asked with much curiosity.
"Oh, I've been playing for awhile, Nee-chan and I used to play basketball together all the time after school, and if it's not too much to ask, could you please address me as Haru. It's kinda confusing otherwise~" Haru chuckled and Shiro nodded in acknowledgement.
"Is she good? Your sister I mean?" Hinata asked nonchalantly.
"Yeah! She's awesome! We would play one-on-one and still to this day I haven't beat her~"
"Your sister looks like a good player, Haru-kun." That wasn't a voice from any of the freshman. Haru jumped in his spot and slowly turned to look where the voice came from. Seirin's very own Kuroko Tetsuya was sitting on Haru's left, seemingly focused on the tryouts commencing in front of them. All the freshman were staring at him with shocked faces, just noticing his presence. Haru tried to say something but couldn't get the words out.
"I was sitting here the whole time." Kuroko stated.
"Wow, Kuroko, I didn't even see you there!" Kiyoshi exclaimed from behind them.
"How'd he do that?!" Hinata asked.
"He just popped out of nowhere!"
"I know people can't just disappear but, even to me, that was impressive." Hideaki commented.
"Yeah, that's Kuroko for ya." Kiyoshi smiled. Haru looked to Kiyoshi, his eyes shining.
"You mean, there's a senpai whose a magician?!" Everyone who heard looked dumbfounded.
"I don't think that's it Haru-san." Hideaki said. As he said that, Haru looked over to the bench where a few of the extra girls were sitting while the first scrimmage game was going on, his sister was one of those people.
"Nee-chan!" He called. She turned to look at him, an annoyed expression on her face. He suggested her to come over to him and she sighed as she fulfilled his request.
"What." She said as she reached him.
"We have a magician for a senpai~"
"Haru, you need to stop with your shenanigans or no one will be able to understand you." She replied as if she was talking to a small child.
"No, I'm serious! Kuroko-senpai just appears out of nowhere!" He suggested to Kuroko, his sister looked generally confused.
"What are you talking about?"
"He just appeared out of nowhere!" She huffed a ridiculing laugh at him.
"You're kidding me right? He was walking with you guys." Everyone who heard looked shocked.
"What?"
"Ah, Kuroko, so you weren't there the whole time." Kiyoshi said.
"Wow, you actually saw Kuroko?" Hyuuga added, joining the conversation.
"Why are you all acting so surprised? Human beings can't just disappear." Everyone just started in shock. Someone was actually not fazed in the slightest by Kuroko's lack of presence.
"I'm leaving." She started to walk away.
"Hey, Nee-chan." Hinata said, calling out to her. She turned her head to look at him, very annoyed that someone other than Haru called her 'nee-chan'. Hinata continued to talk.
"What's your name?"
"Arashi Rin." She turned to leave again but then she seemed to realize something. "Oh, I just remembered," She turned back to Haru. "You see the girls sitting closest to us over there?" She suggested to the benches where some of the other girls were sitting. Haru nodded. "They want to meet you, after tryouts."
"First day of high school and he's already getting girls, way to go Haru-kun!" Kiyoshi patted Haru on the head and chuckled. Haru's face was slightly flushed.
"Yeah, awesome." Rin replied sarcastically. A few people chuckled.
"Arashi-san!" Rin and Haru turned to look who called, it was the girls' coach. "You're on."
"Hai!" Rin exclaimed as the sudden realization hit her that she was still in tryouts. She turned and got ready to go on the court.
"Good luck Nee-chan~, show 'em what you got!" Haru shouted after her. Even though she didn't acknowledge his words, he knew she would give it her all.
Everyone who was in this game was assembled onto the court. Since there wasn't an extreme amount of people this scrimmage was four-on-four, she took this into her calculation. This meant less could be done but it gave her a bit more maneuverability, an easy win could be done. The whistle was blown, the ball was tossed and the game started.
Yes, I know what you're all going to say. I already laughed a million years over this. Those of you who watched Free!, yes my two main OC's are named Rin and Haru. Not my fault since I made these two a couple months before Free! was released. (That doesn't stop it from being any less amusing..)