Bwahaha. Isn't it amazing to put two chapters in one go? I seriously like OC's. But only if they're not Mary-Sues. By the way, the fan art for the fanfiction profile is mine~ I really like fandoms and our excessive love for them. Of course, reviews are very much appreciated. And so are ideas.
Chapter 2 - Monday at 8:40 on the Rooftop
"HA?! WHY THE HE... W... TELL MY WHY, CAPTAIN? WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME...!"
Kagami was completely freaking out at the news that he couldn't play in games to Hyuuga in the hallway. All the passerbys jumped at his rants.
"Ah, that's not it," Hyuuga said calmly. "You freshmen are still temporary members of the club, you know!? You're not proper members yet. That's what I told Kuroko and Fujidana earlier."
"Hah?"
"Alright, this one improved just like I thought... bringing up guys is so nice... fufufu." Riko was giggling, drunk on stupor. She was playing her basketball video game on her DS, and one of the virtual players had upped his basketball stats.
"COACH!" Kagami bellowed.
"SPUH!" Riko spat her milk out.
"MAKE ME A REAL CLUB MEMBER!"
"AGH! DIRTY! Geez, what's happening today. You too!?" She yelled back.
"Too?"
"Kuroko-kun came to say the same thing earlier!" She shuddered as she recalled Kuroko popping out of nowhere and making her spit her milk out again. "And Fujidana-san too!"
"Coach, I'd like to be a real member of the basketball team please," Hazuki appeared behind Riko.
"SPUH!" She spat out her milk. "Wait a second, how'd you get there?"
"I came from the backdoor of the classroom. Coach, your words a few days ago were so misleading..."
"Hah?" Riko asked.
"You said I passed the first day of school..." Hazuki mumbled.
"Ara? Wait, I did."
"Then..."
"Ah, we have an official initiation, I'll collect your form on Monday, 8:40 on the roof~"
"I... I see," Hazuki twitched as she remembered her brother's tales that made no sense. She recalled that he mentioned something about a ritual that required... stripping naked if they all lost. She thought he was speaking in his cryptic and joking tone at the time. She had a very bad feeling.
"By the way coach... can you not tell my brother... about me being in the basketball club?"
"What?" Riko asked. "Wait, you've never told him about this?"
"Well... he would probably stop me." Hazuki scratched her head. "So can you not tell him? I will tell him eventually. I think."
"Well, it's true that he'd probably stop you..."
"I wanted to get some good results and prove to him that I can still play in a game that's wasn't made for me."
Riko sighed, "I understand."
"Well, you have to promise me one thing though," Riko's eyes gleamed dangerously.
"Huh?"
"Those guys..." Kagami muttered in irritation at the fact that they got a headstart on him.
"Geez, the three of you are so hasty! Are you kids?" Riko scolded then shuddered remembering Kuroko's ghostly presence once more.
"What the hell are you saying..."
"Well, you've got firepower, and there's free space on the bench, so here you go," Riko gave him a form. "Be my guest."
"I'll be able to play in matches like this!"
"Ah, wait a second. I'll only accept your form on Monday, at 8:40 on the roof."
Kagami raised an eyebrow, confused.
The coach is weird, Kagami thought. Why couldn't they just let him play?
He gave a sigh and left the second-year classroom. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a clipping of the Seirin Student newspaper posted on a board.
Men's basketball Rookie Game "Kanto Tournament Debut!"
"He wasn't kidding huh, this basketball club is pretty strong," Kagami mused.
"They are strong," Kuroko said.
"BASTARD! APPEAR NORMALLY! STOP JUMPING OUT OF NOWHERE!"
In the library Hazuki jumped and nearly fell out of the chair, "Kagami-kun?" she asked.
"Shh," Kuroko hushed and pointed at the library sign.
"You're picking a fight with me right?ANSWER ME!"
"I'm not."
Hazuki bolted out of the library at once and was startled to see Kagami's hand crushing on Kuroko's head.
"Erm, what's going on?" She asked.
Kagami let go and snarled at the newly arrived Hazuki out of reflex.
"That hurt," Kuroko rubbed the bruise on his head. "Hello, Fujidana-san."
I seriously can't believe it... this guy who is usually invisible, is actually the phantom sixth player from the Generation of Miracles... Kagami scowled. How did that happen anyways? Didn't the rest of Generation of Miracles enroll in veteran schools?
"Are you alright Kuroko-kun?" Hazuki asked.
"Yes."
"Hrm, you might want to go to the nurse, just in case," Hazuki pulled Kuroko's arm in the opposite direction. "It's important to check just in case, when you get hurt, Kuroko-kun. See you Kagami-kun."
"Fujidana-san, it's not that serious―"
"No you're getting it checked," Hazuki pulled him along in the opposite direction of Kagami. "Especially if you're the one who says it hurts."
"But―"
"A guy with muscles the size of my head almost pulverized you. And I think if you don't escape quickly, he's going to try and commit homicide some more," Hazuki said.
Kuroko suddenly had a mental image of Nijimura almost beating Haizaki all the way to the Sanzu River.
Why didn't that guy go with the other Teiko players? Kagami pondered as they left.
"Hey Kuroko―" Kagami began.
The hallway was empty.
"Ah well, that doesn't matter... the most important thing is..."
The next time we meet, I'll kill him! Kagami punched the wall.
Kuroko felt a chill all of a sudden as Hazuki checked his head carefully in the nurse's office. (The nurse was out.)
"What's wrong Kuroko-kun? Does it hurt?" She asked. Kagami-kun has a short fuse, she thought.
"No, I just had an ominous feeling."
"I see," Hazuki patted his head. "Well, it looks like you're fine."
"I told you I was fine," Kuroko replied, not unkindly, but in his normal bland tone.
"Like I said, it's important to check these things." Hazuki said shortly, her tone a little curt and stiff.
"..."
"By the way, can I ask you something Kuroko-kun?"
"Sure."
"Why..." Hazuki's back was turned.
Hazuki turned back around and gave the most baffled face he'd ever seen.
"Why was Kagami-kun pulling your head and yelling in front of the library?"
"...I have no idea," he deadpanned.
"Well it looked like he was trying to open a canister."
Monday, 8:40
"Fu, fu fu," Riko cackled. "I was waiting!"
The wind blew by dramatically, enhancing the evilness on Riko's face.
Teppei did tell me about this, But I didn't quite believe it... until now, Hazuki thought. And those words she told me the day I tried out for basketball were too misleading.
"Are you stupid?" Kagami sweatdropped.
"Is this a duel?" Kuroko asked.
"I forgot all about it, but Monday... THE MORNING ASSEMBLY IS IN FIVE MINUTES!" Kagami yelled, his voice echoing all across the campus.
"Hurry up and take it," he shoved the form to her.
"Before that, I have something to tell you," Riko said.
"Eh?" All the freshmen asked.
"Last year, I made a promise when the captain asked me to become their coach. I promised to solely push the team towards the national championships," she grinned. "If you're not ready for this, feel free to go to another club!" She gestured towards the exit of the rooftop.
"What?" Kagami snorted. "Of course I'm―"
"I know you guys are strong. But I want to check something more important than that."
"No matter how hard you practice, 'someday' and 'maybe' aren't good enough. I need to know you have ambitious goals and the will to accomplish them."
She pointed over the railing to the entire student body.
"Give me your class number! Your name! And your goal for this year! (By the way, all second years including me did the same thing last year!)"
"And if you fail to achieve them... you'll come back up here, strip naked, and confess your feelings for the person you love!"
"EHHHHH!" Furihata, Kawahara, and Fukuda yelled.
"...Hah?" Kagami said.
As expected, Hazuki thought, with a sweatdrop on her head. At least I had time beforehand to prepare what I had to say.
"All of the second years did it last year!" Riko said.
"What? No one told me about this." Furihata gaped.
"I heard about it when they recruited me," Fukuda sweatdropped.
"But I didn't think they'd actually..." Another muttered.
"Like I said before, I'm looking for something concrete and reasonably ambitious," Riko chuckled. "You'll have to do better than 'play my first game' or 'I'll do my best.'"
"Isn't that too easy? It won't even be a test," Kagami snorted.
Kagami strided forward and leaped onto the railing.
"CLASS 1-B, SEAT 8, KAGAMI TAIGA! I WILL DEFEAT THE 'GENERATION OF MIRACLES' AND BECOME THE NUMBER ONE IN JAPAN!"
The crowds below whipped their heads to the roof.
Waah, they're doing it again this year too after all, Hyuuga thought while he facepalmed. The rest of the basketball team grinned as they stared at the rooftop.
"So who's next?" Riko scrutinized the freshmen. "If you don't hurry up, a teacher will come."
Was it impossible for Kuroko-kun and Fujidana-san too?
Is it impossible for Fujidana-san to say that? Riko thought.
Hazuki wordlessly leaped forward and jumped over the railing.
"WHA―" Riko gasped.
"That's just reckless!" Kawahara said.
He did it last year, Hazuki sighed. So I'll have to as well.
"FUJIDANA HAZUKI, CLASS 1-B, SEAT 18! I WILL DEFEAT 'THE UNCROWNED GENERALS OF JAPAN!"
"Wha―" The 2nd years were shocked by that statement except for Riko.
"Guts," Riko grinned. "Quite some guts."
"Wow, that was unexpected," Koganei commented to Izuki. "So that's why she joined a boy's basketball team."
"Ye... yeah." Izuki frowned.
That's strange, he thought. If her goal was to defeat the Crownless Generals, then why didn't she know that one of them went to Seirin?
Hazuki finally climbed over the railing and collapsed onto the floor, panting.
"Are you alright?" Riko asked frantically.
"I'm fine, but the roof was unexpectedly high."
"Then why did you jump over the railing?" Kagami asked.
"Well... I couldn't be outdone by you, could I?"
"Hah?" He asked.
"Thanks Kuroko-kun," She said as he helped her up.
Kagami shook his head at her logic.
"Well, the rest of you?" Riko asked.
"Excuse me..." Furihata raised his hand. "Could I say I want a girlfriend?"
"NO," Riko glared.
He lowered his hand, depressed.
"What else do you have?"
"I...I've got one," Kawahara stammered.
"Okay!" Furihata said.
"You can do it!" Fukuda cheered.
"Class 1-A, Kawahara Koichi, from Chou-ku, Tokyo," he shouted. "I was a sickly kid, so I couldn't play sports. Things started to change for me in elementary school... I'll never forget the All-Star game I saw at school in 5th grade! It was the first time I ever thought basketball was cool..."
Shoujo bubbles began blossoming around him beautifully with his dramatic recital.
"―I joined my school's basketball club in middle school, but I wasn't very good. I was always dragging my team down, and I was miserable. But!"
Riko kicked him down.
"NEXT!" she yelled.
"Um, I want a girlfriend," Furihata raised his hand.
"I told you, NO!"
"Alright..." Fukuda said hesitantly. "I'll go!"
He walked to the railings. "Class 1-D, Fukuda Hiroshi. I like helping others, so when I heard an upperclassman asking for help, I immediately offered my assistance!"
"...Who knew he'd take my joke seriously?" Izuki muttered.
"...He must have not understood your joke." Koganei replied, recalling Izuki's puns.
"..." Izuki gave him a long look.
"Class 1-D, Furihata Kouki. The girl I like said she'd go out with me if I became the best at something. That's why I joined the basketball team to become number one!" he said.
"It thats not good enough, I don't mind if I can't join the team," he told Riko.
"I guess I'm moved," she smiled. "Who's next?"
"Excuse me," Kuroko said.
"EEP!" she shrieked.
"I'm not very good at shouting, so could I use this?" He held up a megaphone.
"...Where did you get that?"
Kuroko took a deep breath and then―
"KORAAA! THE BASKETBALL TEAM AGAIN!" several teachers burst through the door.
"Tch," Riko snapped her fingers, "We were almost finished!"
They were all forced to sit seiza and listen to a bunch of scolding. Kagami yawned and seemed bored in contrast to the
freshmen trio who were freaking out at the scolding. Kuroko was being passive as usual and Hazuki was about to fall asleep.
"I warned you last year. Didn't you say you'd never do this again?!"
Nope, Hazuki thought as she began to doze off because how early she got that morning. I think they'll keep it as a tradition.
Riko sulked more and more as he continued to shout while they were sitting in their seiza poses.
"And you should know what's right and wrong at your age!"
"Fujidana-san, that was amazing! I didn't know you joined the basketball club as a member!"
"Er, thank you? Um...?"
After their excellent stunt in front of the whole school, many students were now starting to crowd around their classroom, especially since they had Kagami as well.
"Well, that's to be expected, huh?" Kagami snorted while Hazuki was getting more and more ill because of the pouring visitors.
"So you're going to playing as a member huh?" A girl that looked like a delinquent said with no bad intent that was mismatched with her aura. "Well it's true that Seirin doesn't have a girls basketball team."
"Um..."
"I was standing far away, so I didn't really hear you... it seems like the basketball team has a tradition of making new members shout their goals on the rooftop! So what was yours?!" A peppy looking classmate jumped onto her desk.
They were edging in closer and closer. She knew they were genuinely curious and had no bad intentions but...
Ack, Hazuki thought, ACK!
"Um, I need to go now," Hazuki said shakily. "I need to get some... um..."
She trailed off and rushed towards the backdoor. Hazuki ran and ran until she found an empty hallway.
This was what I was afraid of, Hazuki wiped her sweaty head with a handkerchief. Let this school be over quickly...
"Eh? What the hell was that?" The delinquent girl asked.
"I think you guys were crowding her a little too much," Kuroko said.
"WAH! When were you there!?"
"Since the beginning..." Then Kuroko glanced at the door where Hazuki had exited so quickly.
After school: Maji Burger.
Kagami carried his usual mountain of burgers and sat in front of Kuroko once more.
"Tch, I can't believe he got so mad over a little shouting."
"I didn't even finish, and I got in trouble too," Kuroko sipped his milkshake.
"BLURGH!"
"Here." Hazuki was back from the restroom and gave Kagami his soda, just in time.
He snatched it and gulped down his drink for five seconds.
"You again?! And you too, Fujidana?!" Should I just change stores...
"Yep," Hazuki couldn't resist adding as she sat down.
"Seriously? Are you guys going out or something?"
"No."
"No."
"Hah?" Kagami stared over his pile of burgers.
"And it has become quite a problem."
"Yes it has, wait, what?!"
"We're not allowed on the roof anymore. What will we do if we can't join the basketball team?"
"That's not gonna happen."
"...We'll see."
"By the way, Fujidana, why did you join the men's basketball team in Seirin?"
Hazuki blinked at the sudden attention to her then sipped her chocolate shake thoughtfully.
"Seirin doesn't have a women's basketball team."
"...What was your goal anyways? Something about crowning an army?"
Hazuki put down her milkshake.
"...Wow, Kagami-kun, your Japanese is pretty good for a returnee," she observed solemnly.
"What does that have to do with anything!?"
Kagami rolled his eyes, and being Kagami, his attention was returned to Kuroko, who he was more curious about.
"By the way why didn't you go to some big name school like the other five guys?" he asked. "You were good enough to be known as the phantom sixth member."
Kuroko stared at him for a second, then sipped his shake. Hazuki sat up a little straighter.
"Is there some reason you play basketball?" he asked some more.
Kuroko sat down his milkshake.
"...My middle school's basketball team had one core principle. Instead of teamwork, we needed to push the individual talents of the Generation of Miracles to win. Nothing could beat us, but we weren't a team. The five of them approved of this, but I felt we lacked something important."
Hazuki sipped her shake. He seemed to be hiding more details of how the Generation of Miracles came to this conclusion.
"So, what? Are you gonna beat the Generation of Miracles in your own way?"
"...I used to think like that, but..."
"Your words and the coach's words really struck me." Kuroko said.
"Now my biggest reason to play is trying to make you and our team the best in Japan."
Hazuki smiled.
"We're not gonna just try, Kuroko-kun." Hazuki said. "You know?"
"We're gonna be the best," Kagami declared.
Kuroko couldn't help but smile.
"Well see you tomorrow," Hazuki waved to Kagami.
"See you," Kagami left.
Kuroko then turned to Hazuki and gave her the most serious face she'd ever seen (actually even more than his usual poker face, if that was even possible).
"By the way, I want to apologize for something, Fujidana-san."
"Er, eh?" Hazuki was startled. What did Kuroko ever do?
"Last week, I didn't walk you home."
"Eh?" She asked.
"It's not safe for girls to walk home on their own so late you know."
"...Pft!" She tried not to laugh. He sounded a little like her brother.
"What's wrong?" Kuroko asked, a little startled. Back in Teiko, Momoi had never laughed at him when he said this.
"Sorry, but I wasn't expecting that. Thank you for your consideration, but I'm fine." Hazuki said.
"It's not good though," Kuroko insisted.
"...Well alright then," Hazuki smiled. "Thank you." She would never admit it, but she was relieved.
Huh... she thought. She suddenly and randomly recalled the coach's words after she tried to deliver her basketball forms a few days ago.
"You can't tell anyone you're Teppei's sister!" Riko announced with a dangerous gleam in her eyes.
"..Eh? Well I wasn't planning to..." Hazuki answered, startled. "And I was going to ask you to not tell anyone in the first place anyways. I don't think they would treat me as a real player as much if I told them... but was that your reason, Coach?"
"Ah no, I just think it's more interesting that way. When Teppei comes back, and they find out, I'll be able to get a lot of interesting reactions. Fu, fu fu fu..."
"Reactions?" Hazuki mused.
"Well, I personally don't think our team would treat you any differently. You've proven your worth in practice after all. But still don't tell anyone!"
"...Oh. Okay...?"
Huh..? Hazuki thought. Why is Coach now telling me to not tell anyone when it was supposed to be the other way around?
"What's wrong?" Kuroko asked Hazuki, who was staring off into space.
"Oh nothing, nothing at all."
Just some chaos when aniki comes back. I think?
Chapter 2! Bwahahaha!
In case you don't know, aniki means big brother, but it's a more manly tone (yakuza lol) than onii-chan or onii-san. Riko is so funny.
She sure likes messy around with the basketball boys with her lariats, and boston crab holds and of course their minds. And now that there's potential drama, of course she'll go for it.
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