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Chapter 2

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Scared of Broken Bonds- Is Yuu predictable? I never really thought about her like that, I am trying to base her off of a certain horoscope (that I know plenty about seeing as we share the same one) feel free to guess! And as for Kagami goin along with what she said was more of a testament to how fast she had stolen the ball and made a shot. Not to mention that he couldn't see the ball but knew she took the shot! But she can get mean when need be! As for who Ki-chan is… You might be able to guess better after this chapter.

MRocks- I'm typing, I'm typing! I've even skipped homework, video games and drinking with friends to write this! Like Yuu always says, she hates to repeat herself, so that's most of the reason why its easier for her to just let people assume that she's a boy.

Shamhao- You make me so happy with your review! Your English is fine. I am an inpatient reader so I think that makes me an inpatient writer as well but I too prefer reading something that isn't 3 miles of shit until you get to the point. Yuu does have weak points that should be made clear in this chapter and the next!

Midnight03- Thank you! I've just updated so I hope you enjoy this chapter. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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"Aho-chan."

"It's Kagami. Quit callin' me that! Baka!" Kagami yelled as he turned around in his seat to look at the mildly curious white headed teen.

"What is that?" Yuu ignored his complaint and instead pointed to the paper that he had just walked in the door with.

"Ara? This?" He lifted the hand that was holding on to the paper. White hair swayed as he nodded his head. "It's the registration paper to be an official team member of the basketball team."

So that's what it was. Kagami really didn't strike Yuu as the type of student to carry around unnecessary papers.

"May I see it?" She asked, already holding a hand out to accept the paper.

"Huh? I guess…" Yuu had taken the paper before Kagami even had a chance to finish his sentence. "You really need to learn how to be more polite." He scolded the smaller teen. Yuu raised her eyes up to meet his red ones. Saying nothing she shrugged her shoulders and went back to the task at hand, quickly scrawling a name over the paper.

"Here" she pushed the paper back into his hands. "Please take this to the coach for me." Yuu finished with a smile.

"Nani!?" He exclaimed as he got a good look at the paper. "This was for me!" He turned to the infuriating teen with rage in his eyes.

"Really? How was I supposed to know that?" She questioned with an innocent look on her face.

Kagami's face turned red and he muttered a few choice words before he slammed the paper back onto his desk, his body shaking in anger. "Tch, turn it in yourself, Takemura!"

"Eh? Won't you do it for me? You owe me since you didn't listen to me yesterday." She complained, trying to force the paper back into Kagami's hands, which he refused every time.

"Why would I listen to you?!"

"Please lower your voice, Kagami-kun. We are in a classroom." A polite voice scolded from out of nowhere.

Grey and red eyes turned to the right and were met with the expressionless gaze of blue.

"Kuroko?!" Kagami was shocked that the boy was so close to us. Yuu was too, truth be told, but she refused to acknowledge such emotion. Kuroko stood there as if he had been there the whole time. His face as passive as ever, something that really irritated Yuu.

"Takemura-kun, you are the cause of Kagami-kun's noise. Please refrain from instigating him in the future." He directed towards her. 'So he was there the whole time. Why didn't I notice him?' Yuu had always thought she had a rather good sense of observation, until she met Kuroko that is.

Narrowing her eyes the slightest she ignored Kagami's rebuttal to the blue haired peer. "Mah, are you scolding me Tet-chan?"

"Not scolding, reminding." He corrected the teens assumption but Yuu was mildly surprised that he made no comment on his name.

"Tet-chan? Why do you call him by his real name and not me? And what's with the weird nickname?" Kagami asked.

"Yes. I like Tet-chan. Aho-chan, I don't like you very much." A wide smile was given to Kagami as he once again became enraged.

"Takemura-kun, please refrain from exciting Kagami-kun, the teacher is about to walk in." Kuroko 'reminded' her again. He really was an interesting character.

"Hai, hai. Oh," Yuu picked the discarded paper off the desk and handed it to Kuroko. "Please turn this into the coach for me!"

Blue eyes stared at the paper before looking directly at a pair of grey ones. "I refuse. You have not even finished completing all of the prompts."

"So if I complete the paper will you take it then?" Yuu asked hopefully.

"No."

"Wah! Tet-chan is so mean!" She cried, retreating back to her own desk in a dejected manner.

"You should turn it in yourself. It shows that you are a committed member of the team." He further continued before he turned his self around to look at the front of the class where the teacher had just entered.

"Mendoksai…" was all that was uttered by Yuu as she folded up the paper and slipped it into her blazers pocket.

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The following Monday morning had arrived and before Yuu knew it, she was standing in line with her class waiting for the morning announcements. Cocking her head to the side, she noticed that neither Kuroko nor Kagami were in their rights places. Shaking the thought away she let it slide, maybe they were just late. They did have five more minutes left until the announcements began. Oh well. It really wasn't any of her concern.

She sighed, running a hand through her hair. A glance to her right and she was met with the sight of the second year basketball members, where they stood in their respective lines. Koganei, the one with the mouth like a cat, noticed her first. Perhaps there would be a little excitement this morning after all.

"Oi, Takemura-kun!" He greeted while motioning over to himself and the others.

"Domo." Yuu lazily greeted as she walked the few meters that separated them, a slight slouch in her posture and her hands pushed into her pant pockets.

"Ne, Takemura-kun. Why aren't you with the other first years and coach?" The one with glasses asked him. More like demanded really, with his strict face.

Shrugging her shoulders in reply, "I was unaware that I needed to be anywhere this morning" was all that the teen supplied.

"Nani?!" was the collective gasp of the second year basketball players, save for Mitobe, of course.

She gave them a disbelieving look. Really, she wasn't told to be anywhere today. "Oh, that reminds me," she dug through her pockets, quickly pulling out a folded piece of paper. "Hyuu-chan, please give this to the coach to me."

"Nani? What's with the nickname?" He asked in a disappointed tone, taking the paper from the outstretched hand none the less.

"Hmm, I suppose your name is too long to bother with." Yuu reasoned, scratching her chin as she pondered the question.

"What kind of reasoning is that, brat!" Hyuuga responded, crumpling my paper in his hand and waving said fist in Yuu's face.

Grey eyes watered as they watched the paper before them become creased and destroyed almost beyond repair. A cry quickly emitted from her.

"Aho-chan! You destroyed my enrollment paper into the basketball team…" Trailing off, hands grasping desperately at the ruined paper, her sniffles became more noticeable and Yuu watched in mild satisfaction as Koganei and Mitobi looked concerned.

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The same could not be said for Hyuuga Junpei. His dark eyes flashed before becoming unnoticeable behind his glasses.

"Kisamaaaa!"

"Clutch mode!" Koganei and Izuki muttered, obviously unsure of what was going to happen next between the captain and new student.

Watching her new captain lose his cool over something so small really was funny, not that Yuu could show it. Mustering up as much tears as she could, she turned to Izuki, who at this time was trying to hold Hyuuga back as well as he could. As strong as he was, Hyuuga was still managing to get a hand out of the point guard's control, trying his best to make a grab at the crying teen.

"Izu-chan, help me! Your unfit captain has destroyed my entrance into the basketball club!" Yuu whined, letting even more tears flow down her now blotchy face.

"Wah?! Izuki-kun get a nickname too?" Koganei cried out as he too tried to restrain the now furious captain.

"Shi-ne! Takemura!" Hyuuga roared as he continued to make an attempt at the noisy teens life.

It was this point when Izuki and Koganei's struggling was rendered useless as their taller classmate slipped through their restraints and made a lunge toward the white haired boy, who was too busy wiping her tears away in an over dramatic way, further infuriating Hyuuga.

Hands gripping the front of her school jacket, Yuu was suddenly pulled into the very unsettling face of Hyuuga Junpei. Only inches apart, the enraged captain was about to yell something in Yuu's face when a holler from somewhere off in the distance interrupted him.

"Class 1-B, number 5, Kagami Taiga…"

"Oi, is that Aho-chan?" Yuu questioned, head now facing the front of the school building.

"Daho-ka, you're supposed to be up there with them." Hyuuga retorted, still angry at the boy but releasing his grip on the younger boys jacket none the less.

"Really? No one told me, that looks like too many stairs to climb this early anyhow…" Yuu's eyes moved up and down, sizing up just how tall the building was.

Hyuuga's hand shot out and effectively knocked against Yuu's head. "It's a rite of passage if you want to call it. All new members of the basketball team have to declare their goals for the year in front of school population. There is also the stipulation of confessing to your crush naked if you don't achieve your goal by the end of the school year."

"Sou-ka…" Yuu said quietly, taking a few minutes to consider what her captain had just relayed to her.

White hair was once again met with the harsh hand of Junpei Hyuuga. "Don't stand there and space out! Get up there and introduce yourself with the other first years! Aho!"

"Wah, captain needs to be more gentle with me. I'm too delicate for this type of abuse." Yuu's hands rubbed soothingly at her sore head, tears once again welling up in the corner of her eyes. Mitobe silently handed the poor first year a handkerchief and soothingly patted a hand atop her head.

"Move! And don't admit such embarrassing things! Be a man!" Hyuuga roared, giving his kohai a kick to the side, pushing Yuu in the direction towards the doors to the school.

"Ha? Aho-chan is too rough, no wonder why he doesn't have a girlfriend." She muttered, hands moving from her head to her now pulsating side.

"Takemura!"

"Ja ne, Hyuu-chan!" Yuu waved, picking that time to start walking towards the building, eyes refusing to meet the infuriated ones of her senpai.

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White shoes moved almost noiselessly across the clean floors of Seirin kōkō, their path yet to be met with any disturbances. Not that Yuu had expecting any, given that everyone was outside waiting for the morning announcements.

"Taku, this is too much work just to join a team that will accept me even if I didn't fill out that silly paper…" Yuu mumbled to herself, walking at a leisurely pace towards the stair case that was known to lead to the roof top.

A small smirk started to appear on the young teens face at the thought of said team. Seirin's basketball team really was something else. Having never played on a team before, it really was a nice change to be welcomed with open arms into such a tight knit group. Even though they had only been together for less than a week, Yuu really did feel like she belonged on the team with them, a sort of acceptance she hadn't felt since meeting Ki-chan only a few years ago.

Yuu's musings were cut short as the sound of faint footsteps caught her attention. Looking over the banister, Yuu could see the shadows of a group of people descending the curving stair cases. Soon after, she could also hear their quiet chatter.

Softening the features of her face, Yuu reached the landing and waited for the group, who could only be the coach and first years. Just as she could almost make out what they were saying the visage of Aida Riko came into the view of grey eyes.

"Ah, Ri-chan. I've been looking for you all morning!" Yuu exclaimed, coming to meet the surprised coach as she came to stand on the landing.

"Takemura-kun?"

"Ah! It's Takemura." Kagami announced as he too came down to the landing, closely followed by Kuroko and the other first years.

"Aho-chan, what kind of greeting is that?" Yuu asked pointedly, turning to look at the giant head on.

"Huh? You didn't greet me either-"

"Good morning, Takemura-kun." Kuroko greeted from his position net to Kagami.

"Mornin', Tet-chan" She smiled in his direction before turning back to Aida, ignoring Kagami's complaining. "Ri-chan, can I speak to you?"

"…Sure." She eyed the odd boy suspiciously before motioning to the other first years to continue on the down the stairs and to the courtyard that held the rest of the school peers.

Grey eyes made contact with a pair of curiously blue eyes, well not that Yuu could tell if Kuroko was curious or not but that was what she chose to take from the look Kuroko had sent her as he pushed Kagami down the rest of the stair cases.

"What was it that you wanted to talk about, Takemura-kun?" Aida questioned her once the group of first years was out of earshot.

"Ah, well I had the paper to become a regular member of the basketball team but Hyuu-chan destroyed it…" Yuu trailed off, sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

'Eh? He must have really pissed Junpei off…' Riko thought to herself as gazed at the strange teen in front of her. It wasn't like she was going to deny him a spot on the team. No, he was much too interesting to let him out of her hold.

"There's that." She started, looking at Yuu pointedly, "But you were supposed to meet us on top of the roof and proclaim your goal to the whole school. It's been a tradition of the basketball team."

"Is it really a tradition if it's only been done once before this year?" Yuu questioned, as if she was talking to her fellow first year peers instead of her senpai, and coach.

"What was that, Takemura?" Aida seethed, fists bunching at her side.

Noticing her rage, Yuu quickly put her hands in front of her in a sign of surrender.

"Wari,wari. I was just thinking out loud, Ri-chan," She easily brushed off her senpai's anger. "I was wondering if maybe a bribe would make up for my absence?"

"Bribe…?" The abrupt change in atmosphere quickly soothed Riko's anger.

'Bribe? What could he possibly bribe me with to let him join the team? Surely he knows there's no way that I would kick him out of the basketball club…'

"Hai, something to perhaps, pique your interest in me to keep me around," Yuu started, closing the gap between the two students. Coming to a stop beside her coach, Yuu leaned down so she could whisper in her ear. "How would you like to know a sultry, dark secret, Ri-chan?"

Aida Riko stood absolutely still, the younger teens voice sending chills down her spine. Any words she could have uttered died instantly in her throat. Swallowing rather loudly, she nodded her head in a silent queue to continue.

"I knew I captured your attention, Ri-chan. Very well then, my secret is…" Yuu paused for dramatic effect, thoroughly enjoying the nervous yet hungry face that the coach was wearing.

"I have bigger boobs than you." Secret being told, Yuu straightened back to her full height, a good seven centimeters taller than Riko, and walked passed her stunned coach, fully intending to head towards her homeroom since it seemed that the announcements were over.

Yuu was half way up another set of stairs when she heard the all too distinctive sound of her coach.

"Takemura!" was barely heard by the intended teen as students quickly flooded the stair case and hallways, muting the sound of the enraged coach.

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Upon entering the gym at Seirin, one would be greeted with the reverberating sound of a basketball thumping on against the floor and the constant squeak of sneakers. Today was no different, with the senpai's once again facing off against their kohai.

Yuu, being guarded by Hyuuga, had little space to work with as his older captain towered over him, trying to block any pass the boy might try to make. Making a small step towards the left, Yuu waited for his captain to put more weight on his left leg in preparation to move towards the right before Yuu swung to his left then right in a flashy motion, effectively capturing all of the man's attention before executing a perfect cross over and breaking free of the block.

Hyuuga, noticing his mistake tried to correct himself but he was too late. Yuu had already sent the ball to Kuroko who easily passed it to Kagami. With the later facing off with Izuki before he easily shook him off and dunked the ball in the basket.

"Nice shot!"

"Amazing, such a quick turn at full speed!"

"Neh? Tet-chan, do you hear this?" Yuu approached Kuroko and leaned an arm against her shoulder. "They congradulate Aho-chan but say nothing about your or I's awesome passing! That monkey would be nothing without us…" Yuu whined, a playful frown painted on her face.

After hearing no response, grey eyes traveled to gaze at the shorter member. His blue eyes were glued to Kagami, who was soaking up the attention even if he acted like he wasn't, the corners of his lips were drawn tight in an almost desperate look.

"Oi, Tet-chan," The white haired teen continued, moving her hand to grasp the top of his head gently. "You think too much. Basketball is just a game." Yuu's hand moved back and forth, messing up his blue hair.

Kuroko was too focused on Kagami to even shoo her hand away from his head. A fact that Yuu was displeased with. Just what was going through his mind?

"Gather round everyone!" The voice of their coach cut in before Kuroko could respond to the pinch Yuu had given him, but he did send a smile towards his odd class mate. A small smile.

The entire basketball club gathered around their high spirited coach as she came to a stop in the middle of the court. With a smile threating to break of her face, Riko happily indulged that their team would be having a practice match against one of the strongest teams in the area, Kaijou kōkō.

"A practice game against Kaijou." Hyuuga repeated, completely stunned that Riko would put them up against someone so strong when they had only been practicing as a team for a week.

"Ah, that's what she said Hyuu-chan… No need to repeat it." Yuu commented, obviously unaware of what implications were behind the name of Kaijou.

"Hai, they won't disappoint us!" Riko cut Hyuuga off before he could reprimand Yuu for her insolence.

"Disappoint us? More like they'll destroy us." Koga, as he had mentioned he liked to be called to Yuu, supplied.

"Are they really that strong?" Another first year had asked.

Hyuuga pushed his glasses up further on his nose, "They are strong at a national level. They play in the Inter High every year."

"And this year, Kaijou got their hands on one of the Generation of Miracles, Kise Ryota." Coach quickly finished for the captain.

"Kise Ryota? Who's that?" Yuu questioned. Sure she had heard of the Generation of Miracle. They were some group of over powered basketball players, but that was the extent of the knowledge that Yuu knew about them.

"Apparently Kise also works as a model."

"Really? Amazing!"

"Good looking and good at basketball? That's brutal" Koga breathed.

Yuu's ears pricked at this information. "Eh? Kise is a model." The cogs in her head starting to turn just a bit faster.

"Hai, a very popular one." Kuroko supplied Yuu with the information that she wanted to hear.

"Interesting…" She muttered, rubbing her hands together in a thoughtful manner.

"Huh? What are all these people doing in here?" Aida's question brought Yuu back into the real world. Looking around she noticed that the doors and even the stadium seating was full of female students, all trying to force themselves to what seemed to be an epicenter in the form of a tall blonde. They had appeared so suddenly, so the cause of the ruckus could not have been there for very long.

The cause in question seemed to notice the eyes of the basketball team and turned to address them, all the while still signing autographs.

"Uh, I didn't mean for this to happen. Sorry, do you think you could wait five minutes?" Said blonde spoke, speaking with every girl that approached him.

"So that's Kise…" Yuu and Kagami muttered at the same time, though for entirely different reasons.

The team watched in silence as the good looking teen signed autographs with an easy smile on his face. Sooner than Yuu would have liked, the blonde started to make his way towards the team, the last of his fans finally making their way out of the gym. The silence was almost deafening as Kise made his way over to the Seirin team at a carefree pace.

"W-what are you doing here." Hyuuga was the one to boldly ask.

Kise shook off the rude question as his eyes gave the entire team a once over, "When I heard our next opponent was Seirin, I remembered that Kurokocchi went here, so I thought I'd come say hi. We were the best of friends in middle school."

Kuroko was quick to respond, with absolutely no emotion. "Not any more than anyone else."

"You're so mean!" Tears immediately flowed from the blondes eyes. His reaction was extremely off-putting to the Seirin team. How could someone so strong be so idiotic? Then again… his attitude was oddly reminiscent of someone they all knew…

"Kise Ryota?" Yuu questioned, suddenly appearing by the models side.

"Huh?" He stopped crying and looked at the white-haired teen before him.

"I would be most honored if you signed these for me." Yuu bowed before shoving a stack of papers and magazines in Kise's face. He was slightly shocked that someone from an 'enemy' team would so shamelessly ask for an autograph but he brushed it off, he had met weirder people.

"Anything for my fans!" He happily agreed while taking out a pen and signing the papers on top.

"Oi! Takemura, just what do you think you are doing?!" Hyuuga yelled, balling up a fist and charging it up to hit the clueless boy.

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm getting Ki-chan's autograph… wait I can't call you Ki-chan, I already have someone called Ki-chan. I could call you Se-chan but that sounds stupid…" Yuu rambled on, staring intently at the blonde in front of her. She ignored the incredulous looks her team was giving her. "Though I do suppose something of that nature would suit you…"

"Oi! Quit spacing out!" Hyuuga knocked Yuu in the back of her head with his fist.

"Wah, Hyuu-chan… I told you I'm too delicate for this type of affection." Yuu complained, rubbing the back of her head.

"Ah…" Kise cut in.

Yuu quickly turned her attention back to the blonde model. "What do you think Se-chan? Aren't I too delicate for my captain to pick on me?"

"…Sure…tssu." He agreed with the strange boy in front of him. He didn't look much like a basketball player. Average height for a Japanese person, but he was just too small to look threatening. Kise was also unsure about his new nickname, to him it almost sounded like an insult the way this Yuu had explained how he had come to its conclusion. Furthermore, how could anyone who acted so idiotic be any challenge at all?

"Oh are you done signing all those? Thank you-" Yuu was thanking Kise when she was cut off by a ball being thrown at the blonde.

"Ow! What was that for!?"

"Ah! My autographs!" Yuu and Kise yelled in surprise at the same time, the first scrambling to pick up the discarded papers and magazines that Kise had dropped in order to catch the ball.

"Aho-chan! I really don't like you now!" Yuu sobbed as she ignored the two bickering basketball players and instead dropped to the ground to sort out her newly acquired gifts.

Quickly going through the stack, Yuu counted 12 papers and 7 magazines, all brandishing the popular models signature.

"Wait…12? Wah! I'm missing a paper!" Grey eyes frantically scurried around the gym, trying to locate the missing paper. After a few seconds of hectic searching, her eyes finally landed on the target. There, lying perfectly still and untouched was the missing paper. It was a few meters away under the bleachers. Rushing over to said bleachers, Yuu skid to a stop and reached an arm under the seats, her fingers just barely touching her treasure.

"Come on." She muttered, face squished against the wood of the seat desperately trying to grab ahold of her paper. Giving one last push of her arm, she finally caught the paper and arose triumphant.

"Yosh!" was her cry of accomplishment, only to be drowned out by a serious demand on the other side of the court.

"… Give us Kurokocchi."

"Huh?" Yuu looked over to her team and saw that Kise had taken his jacket off and was approaching Kuroko while Kagami sat on the floor, a dumbfounded expression on his face. A basketball laid discarded off to the side and a bead of sweat rolled down Kagami's face. They must have faced off, with Kagami being the obvious loser.

Sighing, Yuu collected the rest of her autographs before joining her team mates.

"Taku… Tet-chan is ours now, Se-chan." Yuu butted in, throwing an arm around the blue haired teen and pulling him back against her. The shorter boy stood just a few inched shorter than her. "He can't join you even if he wanted too. I wouldn't allow it."

"Tet-chan? They call you by that nickname now?! Have you made friends and forgotten about me?" Kise wailed and started crying again, trying to reach out and embrace Kuroko, only to be kicked away by Yuu.

"Takemura-kun is the only one who calls me by such name. But I must agree with him and humbly refuse your proposal." Kuroko replied, stoic as ever. He acted as if he was unaware that he was in the odd predicament he was in. Really, what is with him?

"Wah, Kurokocchi, this isn't like you…" Kise sobbed.

Yuu moved her position slightly so she could get a better look at Kuroko's face. Grey eyes scanned the emotionless boy before she finally muttered to herself, "It's no fun when you never show emotion or get worked up, Tet-chan."

Releasing her hold on the ex- Generation of Miracles sixth man, she silently made her way out of the gym, clutching on to her new treasures.

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"Where's Takemura?!"

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"Over here! Over here! Just 5,000 yen for a signed paper by the popular Kise Ryota."

"Or if you're feeling extra excited I have signed basketball magazines for 10,000 yen! Hurry quick though! I only have 5 left!"

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"What happened to all of my basketball magazines!?" Hyuuga shouted from the locker room, furiously ripping his gym locker apart looking for said magazines.

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Authors note:

Hope you guys enjoyed the second chapter. Not much to relay here just wanted to say that I played around with switching between his/her when writing with Yuu. Not very much but in a few places. Please comment and like if you guys enjoy the story! You all make my day and don't forget to watch the new episodes of KnB!