She was actually doing well avoiding Kuroko. She was lucky enough to avoid going to that fast food joint all thanks to her dear friend that had forgotten her money and Yuzuna decided to just invite her friend over at her place for dinner. Though, she knew that she was going to see him eventually especially since the basketball team had practice today. She decided to sit at a vacant table and just think to herself on how possibly she could avoid seeing that guy.
"Hey Yuzu, I promise I won't be long I need to find this book and Aoi needs to print something out. Just...don't leave us kay?" Yuzuna merely nodded her head. She hoped her friends wouldn't take so long in the library for she was starving since she had no time whatsoever to eat anything in the morning. But first she needed to figure out how in the world she could avoid- "Hello there, Yuzuna-chan." she felt her heart stop for a couple of seconds. She looked up from the table to see the blue-haired boy standing in front of her. "H-how long have you been standing there?"
"Only for a minute or so...I'm sorry if I startled you."
She nodded back a 'no' to him. 'Well, he's called the phantom player for a reason.' she thought.
Before the awkwardness started to settle between the two Kuroko decided to be the one with starting the conversation. " I didn't know you were such a good dancer. You're really good you know?" Her gaze fell down to the table, a faint blush appearing on her cheeks. She gave him a barely audible 'thank you' to him. " I didn't really recognize you yesterday, you've changed quite lot." A she couldn't help but let small smirk form on her lips. "Well it happens. I mean, you may look the same but how do I know for a fact you've changed your persona as well?" now she was glaring at him.
Her eyes were piercing back at him with such...hatred? No...it looked like she her emotions were just all over the place. Anger, pain, sadness all rolled into one. It really was quite a shocker to see her like this. The well kept calm girl he knew back in Teiko was now in a mess of tangled emotions. This time it was his turn to avoid her her gaze. " I know the rest of them turned out really...prideful and full of themselves, but I -"
"Yuzu-chan we got our shit lets go now!" in came by a girl no taller than 5 ft. She was waving around a pamphlet and other papers in her hand but was quickly shh'd by a blonde girl who seemed to be 5'9. Yuzuna didn't hesitate in quickly getting up and murmuring a good bye to Kuroko who just stayed there not moving whatsoever. She literally speed-walked her way out of the room with her two friends having a somewhat hard time keeping up with her.
"Yuzu-chan you ok?" asked the tall blonde holding her books to her chest.
"Did that guy touch you in an inappropriate place?" cried out the small girl.
"I-It's nothing." she stated trying her hardest to calm herself for she knew that if she kept thinking about them, the incident from a year ago, and the boy who held so much admiration for her...she knew for a fact she would break. She definitely was not going to let anyone else see that happen. Thankfully, her friends didn't question much about Kuroko.(If they really wanted to know they would most likely would wait till after school and ask her about it.) She literally almost forgot about even seeing him earlier that day until that is her blonde friend; Junko decided to ask about him as they headed over to the gym.
" So I saw you were talking to the blue-haired guy...Did he say something to you?"
"..." She really had no idea how on earth she was going to respond. She honestly hoped they would forget about it just like she did, but that of course didn't happen. She never really told her friends about her past in Teiko. All her friends knew was that her family were living in the States while she stayed in Japan and lived with a friend of the family. They knew nothing about her past school life whatsoever. Though, she figured that they thought she was a loner back in her elementary and middle school days. (Now that was partly true.)
She never really thought she would have to ever talk about what had happened a year ago. At all. She didn't think she would ever run into them ever again, she thought she didn't have the need to to tell them. Or anyone. Well something has to be said sooner or later. She choosed the latter. "Oh, nothing much. He was just said 'Hi' to me was all. Nothing important."
"Seriously? Aw c'mon! I thought some romance was finally blossoming into your life."
"Well Sorry to burst your bubble Aoi-chan."
The small girl seemed really disappointed but quickly started talking about something her younger brother had done last night. Something about taking away her DS or some sort. Yuzuna slowly started drifting into her own world until someone shouted out, "Watch out!" There before her eyes was an incoming ball ready to slam into her face when out of no were a flash of blue appeared before her hitting the ball into another direction. Yuzuna just stood there, slowly registering as to what just happened and what would have happened.
"You should really take more notice of you're surroundings Yuzuna-chan."
It was no other than the phantom himself. The comment irked her but instead muttered out a mumbled, 'Thank you' to him. "No problem." He replied. "Yuzu-chan! Hurry Up!" she heard Ayame shout out from across the gym. When she barely took a step away from him that's when he decided to say the most stupidest thing she has ever heard come out of his mouth. "If you're not busy Saturday, you could go over at the town's arcade. It would be nice to hangout with you again. Along with Mukkun and Kise if you want."
She just wanted to scoff, but instead blabbered out a , " I'll think about it." to him.
If she had no intention to ever talk to him what on earth made him think that she'll want to talk to Mukkun and Kise? (Well, Mukkun was maybe an exception. He wasn't one to really care about drama or believe in rumors.) The nerve of this guy and thanks to him, she kept on messing up more than several times during practice which made their 'leader' become extremely bitchy.
"Alright, that's enough practice for today. Yuzu-chan, what's up with you today? You've been out of it a lot more than usual."
'Really Mizuki? You really had to ask me that when the basketball team is still here?'
She let out a sight before she nodded a 'no' to her. "It's fine, really, I'm just really...uh, frustrated with school. Y'know, my grades aren't doing too well so that's been kinda been bringing me down." The tall tanned girl gave her skeptical look. Yuzuna usually kept an average grade and normally stayed like that. ( Minus in the English department she excelled in that subject.) Mizuki knew that her friend hardly ever had any trouble with grades but none-the-less she accepted that. " Alright, but try to stay focus next time, ok?" Yuzuna gave her a small smile and nodded in return.
"Hey how about we all go hangout at the ice cream parlor downtown? It's been a while since we've gone there, how about it Yuzu-chan? It'll get your mind off things." exclaimed Ayame who was just beaming from the thought. "You just wanna see Azuma, don't you?" a girl around the same height as both Ayame and Yuzuna crossed her arms and gave a sly smile to Ayame. "Wh-what? Of course not!" The girl; Kiyori, just rolled her eyes. "So that's a yes right? It's been a long time since I've ate ice cream and it sounds like a great idea."
Mizuki giggled and agreed to it. "Sure, we'll go."
As the rest of the girls started talking about the upcoming hangout Yuzuna decided to just go ahead and leave. "You guys just text ok?" They all nodded in unison but Junko took notice that she was still in her practice clothing. "You're not gonna change?" Normally Yuzuna would put on her school uniform back on before leaving campus but this time she just didn't feel like putting it back on. She was tired and just wanted to leave school right away and have that phantom out of her sight. "Nope. I don't feel like changing, and I just wanna get home as soon as possible and lie in bed. See you guys."
Something really was off.
Yuzuna really didn't feel uncomfortable until she kept getting stares from various guys. She gripped onto her bag and couldn't help but look down in embarrassment. She really should've had put on her school uniform before leaving. She sighed in relief when she finally made it out the gate but almost jumped out of her skin when she heard a certain voice shout out her name.
"Yuzu-chan! Is that really you?!" There standing in front of her was a pinkette with similar colored eyes was the last person she wanted to see. Well...second to last. "M-momoi!"
"It's been such a long time since I last saw you! How you've been?"
First Kuroko and now she had to deal with this girl. Just how worse can this day get? "Momoicchi, I thought you said-Oh, Yuzucchi...Hey! It's been awhile!" Oh no not him, if there was a ranking list of the most annoying of all of the Generation of Miracles, Kise Ryota would be first place. "Midorimacchi, come look! It's Yuzucchi!" Yuzuna swore she felt one of her nerves pop. She never liked Midorima only because she felt like he didn't like her either and after the incident he became more colder towards her. " So I see." he stated pushing up his glasses to his nose. "Uh, hey..." was all she could think of. Honestly, why would they appear as well?
'Well, at least it's not stupid Aomine.'
"What are you guys doing here?" she asked before the atmosphere got awkward between them. "We came by to see Tetsu-kun, are you going home? We could all walk you home if you want." She quickly nodded a 'no' to them. "Thanks but no thanks, if you don't mind I really have to go home." Yuzuna didn't bother to wave bye or look at them again, she just simply walked passed by them.
Her walk back home really wasn't all a pleasant one. She got whistled at various time, which annoyed the hell out of her. And the fact that Momoi, Midorima, and Kise all just suddenly decided to come by Serin? Another question that just wouldn't leave her alone was that she was actually by herself and that Aomine wasn't around at all. Now that was something. Probably got in a fight...yeah, that sounded pretty reasonable.
Stepping inside the small apartment that she lived with her 'roomate' she took off her shoes and cried out, "I'm home!". She had a habit of yelling that out even if no one was there. Probably did it out of homesickness, she wasn't really quite sure. Yuzuna made her way into her room and just flopped onto her bed that was still in a tangled mess from this morning. Crawling up to her pillow she turned to her drawer which had a picture of her and the Generation Of Miracles. She found Kuroko standing right beside her and Momi grabbing a hold of her. Midorima seemed pissed off by Kise, probably about some comment he made on his lucky charm that day. ( He was holding onto a green Care Bear.) On the right side were Murasakibara or better known a Mukkun between her and Kuroko. Eating away some Hello Kitty rice crackers that Momoi had given him that day. Beside him was the devil himself, or better yet the devil's son; Akashi. There was something about him that she didn't like though, she thought that maybe it was of because of his need to always always be on top.
Then there was the idoit, the one who sought after her even though she in the end decided to go after the asshole. There he stood behind her and Kuroko ruffing Kuroko's head with a stupid grin on his face. Oh, how she wanted to slap herself everytime she remembered about anything related to the Generation Of Miracles. She really was a dumbass then, but she knew better now. The incident that had happened a year ago really caused her a lot of hurt not from the shit she got from some of the girls at Teiko, no. That was something she was able to deal with. The one thing that did hurt her the most was that her so called 'friends' at the time didn't really defend her.
The majority of them stayed silent and didn't say much of a word to her. Aomine, who she thought would actually try to listen to her didn't. Instead, he just became cold and distant to her and around that time that's when he too decided to become an ass as well. The sweet, caring, Aomine that probably no one ever saw, not even Momoi, decided to become a competitive asshole thinking he was better than everyone else.
She made a mental note to herself to ask a close friend of hers to see if anyone has whopped his ass this past year's basketball competition.
My excuse for not updating? Well, I guess you can say that life just got in the way. I was planning on updating as soon as possible but an unfortunate event happened that just caused me to just not update as soon as I had hoped for. Also, I had gotten into Project K and I quickly became obsessed with that as well. I will try my best to update this fic as much as I possibly can along with putting up another story. I know it's best to finish this story first but, I just really wanna put up my other story as well ...I hope you all have a wonderful year.
