A/N : In order to make this story work, it seemed like I had to also change some character's gender, so now we'll have fem!Kasamatsu, fem!Sakurai, and fem!Mitobe. And why I choose those three? Because their names are easier to alter as female name. And I think it'll be just that. Sorry for the inconvenience… And also there's some non-KnB characters in here... They're not OCs, they're just characters from another anime or manga I took in... just ignore them. They're not that important anyway...

I don't own the non-KnB characters, they belong to their respective owner.

This is the third chapter, so enjoy~

Excuse my grammar... Please, review?


Chapter 3

Female Basketball Team, Assemble!


Kagami woke up next day, looking as depressed as ever. Even the thrill after a small one-on-one with Aomine had lost its power to make her forget about the lack of female basketball team in Teikou. So, instead of cheerful "Good morning" and a bright smile, the boys were greeted by dark gloom looming over the kitchen. Kagami didn't talk much as she put the breakfast on the table and ate her own in silence.

"Taiga, are you okay?" asked Akashi as he poked at the overcooked omelette on his plate. Where's the delicious breakfast liked usual?

"I'm okay…" Kagami mumbled.

"Tai-chin, my omelette tastes too sweet~" Murasakibara commented.

"Ah, my bad… I must be mistook salt with sugar. Here, have mine…" Kagami put her uneaten omelette on Murasakibara's plate.

"Oi, you really want to play that much, huh?" asked Aomine as he took a large bite of the toast. Man… Even the toast was burnt!

"Shut up, ganguro alien."

"Oi, oi… I'm trying to give you a solution for your problem here!" said Aomine. "The hell with this crap?! It's undercooked!"

"Stop complaining!" she took away Aomine's breakfast as the boy whined at the lost of the food.

"What I mean is," said Aomine after he came back from the whining, "If Teikou doesn't have female basketball club, why don't you just make one?"

There was silence as every eye turned to Aomine.

"What? I'm just saying…" said Aomine as he drank his coffee. Yuck! Too sweet!

"Okay, who are you and where's the real Aominecchi-ssu?!" Kise yelled as he pointed his finger at Aomine.

"Don't you dare point your finger at me!" Aomine shouted at the blond and caused Kise to whimper and turned to Kuroko who sat next to him.

"Well, Aomine, aren't you against girls playing basketball?" asked Midorima as he adjusted his glasses and cringed at the lumpy omelette on his plate.

"I'm just saying! If it can make her happy, why not? Look what happened to our breakfast!" said Aomine.

Well, he did have a point. Depressed Kagami meant bad meal time since the girl wouldn't be concentrated when she cooked and often messed things up. Like this omelettes of doom in front of them. But Kagami didn't seem to hear what they've just said. Her face was a pure bliss, and the boys swore they never see Kagami looked this happy before. Without much of a thought, she took a bite of Murasakibara's omelette and…

"YUCK! The hell is this?!" she yelled as she glared dagger at the omelette. "How can you eat this crap?!" she glared at the different kind of ruined omelette on the boys' plates. The girl sighed as she tightened her apron and rolled her sleeves. "I'll remake them!"

The boys sighed in relieve as Kagami started to make a proper breakfast. They didn't mouth it, but deep down, they were grateful for Aomine's action. At least now they could eat a proper breakfast, not the horrible piece of nightmare Kagami had created in her depressed state. Next time, they had to remember not to ruin the girl's mood.


"Female basketball team?" Momoi asked as Kagami explained her plan to Momoi. The pink haired girl smiled brighter. "That's nice, Kagamin~!"

"Isn't it?" Kagami asked excitedly. "I've read the student book, and it explained about the requirement for club's submission at school's committee. It seemed like a club had to have at least five members, and an advisor. And since the club is basketball club, I think I might need a coach…"

"Well, that'll be easy. If you need coach, I think Riko-senpai would gladly be the coach, and it can have the same advisor as male basketball club. We just needed the approval," said Momoi. "But, don't you think you'll need more members for a basketball team? Reserved players and such…"

"Ah… I know… But finding four more people might be a good start though. At least to get the school committee approval first," Kagami said.

"I'll help you with the club registration form then," said Momoi with a bright smile. "Maybe we could make flyers to recruit more people?"

"That's a good idea!" Kagami said.

"But you can't draw, Taiga-san."

Kagami and Momoi jumped from their seat as they turned around to see Kuroko was already stood behind them, reading some novels.

"Kuroko! Stop doing that!" Kagami yelled. "Where the hell are you come from?"

"I've been here since the beginning," Kuroko replied calmly. "But it is true. Taiga-san couldn't draw."

"Hmmm… I can't either…" Momoi mumbled. "How about you, Kuroko-kun?"

"I can draw stick people."

"Maybe we could just make a simple one?" Kagami asked.

Momoi looked pretty deep in thought before she smiled as she got an idea.

"Maybe we could ask Takao-kun to help us?" asked Momoi.

"Takao?" both Kuroko and Kagami asked.

"Ah, he's Midorin's classmates. He can draw just fine. We can ask him to help us," said Momoi. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind."

Kagami smiled brightly. Now she was so excited. Finally! She could make a female basketball team! She was wondering what kind of people might join. Practicing together, going to a match… Just imagined it and Kagami felt happy already. In America, she used to play street basketball with boys since they never mind a girl joined in their matches. But, in an official match, she never had a real chance.

The draft she had drawn in her notebook about her plan kept the smile on her face. Momoi promised her to introduce her to this 'Takao' guy and asked for his help.


Kagami Taiga found out that Takao Kazunari was actually a pretty much fun guys. He smiled a lot, and he gladly helped Kagami to make the flyers and posters. They chatted for awhile and she laughed at Takao's joke until a certain green haired male appeared.

"What are you doing here, Kagami?" he asked.

"Huh? Oh… I'm just asking Takao-kun to help me making the flyers and posters for female basketball club members' recruitment," said Kagami. "Is something wrong?"

"No," said Midorima calmly as he adjusted his glasses. "So you're serious about making a female basketball club?" he asked.

"Of course I'm serious!" Kagami said.

"Good luck," said Midorima. "Here's today's lucky item."

Midorima showed a simple small panda plushie and put it in Kagami's hand. Kagami looked at the panda and smiled.

"I don't know you always share lucky item with other people, Shin-chan~" Takao teased with a wide grin on his face.

"Shut up, Takao," Midorima said sharply though his face was slightly blushed.

Kagami only laughed at the banter between the two of them. As she walked out of the classroom, she could hear Takao called her name. Kagami turned around and saw the boy had come out of the classroom.

"Kagami-chan, about the basketball club… you're looking for a manager too, right?" asked Takao.

"Hm? Sure…" said Kagami. "Why'd you ask?"

"Can I be the manager? Since it seemed fun~!" Takao said with bright smile.

"Eh? R-really?! Of course you can, Takao-kun!"

"Thanks, Kagami-chan~!" Takao laughed and returned to his class.

Kagami felt so excited now. Soon, she could play basketball with everyone once again!


"Kagami-san! Kagami-san! I heard you wanted to make a female basketball club?"

Kagami was really surprised when a couple of girls showed up out of nowhere and stood in front of her desk, looking very excited. Kagami was blushing for a bit, since this was the first time the girls (other than Momoi and Aida-senpai) talked to her. She could feel her face was getting hotter, and she wasn't sure how she was supposed to react.

"Uum… Yes…" Kagami mumbled, trying to keep her speech polite.

"Can we join? It sounds fun, and I've never been in any sport club before…" said one of the girls. "Ah… Maybe I can't? I mean, you must have needed someone who had experience and such…"

"T-that's not true!" Kagami lashed out, quickly stopped herself when she realized her words might sound harsh to the girls. "I-I mean… You can still join even if you're a beginner. We can learn together, right?"

"Eh? Thank you, Kagami-san~!" the girl smiled brightly. "Where should we put our names?"

"Wait…" Kagami rummaging through her bag and pulled out her notebook. The girls wrote down their name. Mizuno Mami and Akagi Haruko. Both of them were first-year from Kagami's class. After they signed their name, Kagami chatted with them for awhile. Kagami smiled. She was so motivated now that the club already had four members including her. But it wasn't enough. Well, if Takao finished with the flyers and posters, she could get more members!

"Kagamin finally got more girl friends?" Momoi asked as she approached Kagami's desk. "That's good for you, Kagamin~!" Momoi said as she ruffled Kagami's dark red mane.

"They're the new members of female basketball club," said Kagami.

"Hoo? That's cool, Kagamin! You already got two new members~" said Momoi. "As expected from the hot-blooded red-head!"

"Is that a compliment?" Kagami asked.

"Don't be too serious, Kagamin~!" said Momoi. Momoi sat before the girl and she observed Kagami's happy expression about the idea of joining female basketball club which made her wondering though. But, before she could ask, Kagami had stood up and excused herself. Momoi watched her walked away before she leaned down and realized Kuroko was in his seat behind Kagami. She got an idea.

"Nee, Kuroko-kun, you've known Kagamin for a long time, right?" asked Momoi to the teal haired boy.

"How'd you know?" he asked.

"Well, let's call it 'woman intuition'… Anyway, I have a question for you," said Momoi. "Why Kagamin seemed so happy on making a female basketball club? Why'd she so eager to play?"

"Hm? Maybe because she was a basketball idiot for a long time ago," Kuroko answered nonchalantly. "The moment she learnt to play, she had played like crazy, no matter what time is it. And I have to spend a cold winter night waiting for her playing on some random street basketball court back in the States."

"Hmmm…" Momoi seemed to understand this. Aomine used to do the same in their childhood, playing basketball like crazy. Then again, Aomine was also a basketball idiot. "I'll asked her if she wanted to join today's afternoon practice~" Momoi giggled.

"Thank you, Momoi-san," said Kuroko as he looked at Momoi with soft eyes and a small smile on his lips. "Thank you for being Taiga-san's friend here. She needs it."

Momoi's face was blushing at the sight in front of her. Did she just…? Did Kuroko just…? Momoi was speechless for a moment after that breath taking smile, but she quickly composed herself and smiled back at Kuroko.

"Don't worry, Kuroko-kun, I'll help you take care of her!"

Momoi's face was still a bit pink when Kagami returned with a bunch of breads in her arms. But it seemed like the red head didn't realize it as she offered Momoi her super-sized BLT (which Momoi quickly refused when she remembered her program).


"Oh, Shortie is here to play with us today?" Aomine's annoying voice made the veins in Kagami's head twitched. She just entered the gym with Momoi, and the dark-blue haired teen had made her blood boil in anger.

"Who'd you call 'Shortie', Ganguro?" Kagami retorted.

"Well, you're shorter than me, Ochibi-chan," said Aomine.

"I've beat you in one-on-one yesterday, Hentai ganguro."

"Yes, by flashing your panties at me."

"I wasn't! You're just a big pervert who get distracted by that kind of things!"

"What can I say? I'm a healthy sixteen years old," Aomine shrugged. Kagami was lost at words. Was this guy was just a plain pervert? Kagami wouldn't be surprised if he actually wasting his time in the room reading porns.

"Hmmm… too bad you're wearing those basketball shorts," Aomine looked disappointed with Kagami's white basketball shorts. "I was hoping for another show~"

"PERVERT GANGURO!"

"You two, stop that! Aomine, go run laps until I told you to stop," Aida Riko's voice could be heard from the side of the court. Aomine shrugged but he did as he was told and started to run laps. Aida sighed as she turned to Kagami who was now dressed in black T-shirt and basketball shorts doing a warm-up. The brunette came up to her.

"So, I heard you're going to build a female basketball club?" asked Aida.

"Well, yes… I guess rumor spread fast in this school… ma'am…" Kagami said awkwardly, trying to stay polite.

"Well, you just attract too many attentions, Kagami-san. Besides, Momoi texted me, and I planned to bring this motion to head coach and the director if they would consider it. Your idea seemed to be brilliant, and I have some recommendation for the addition in female basketball team," said Aida. "I'm not forcing them on you, it was just a suggestion."

"It's okay. Coach's judgment is good, right?" Kagami said with a bright smile.

"Well, the first one to come up to my mind was Kasamatsu Yuki-san from my class. She used to play in the middle school, but stopped for some reason. And there's also Mitobe Rin-san from second year. She doesn't talk much, but I know she got some skill. The last one might be Sakurai Ryou-san from Aomine's class," Aida said thoughtfully. "Well, they're only my recommendation, so it's up to you if you want to ask them to join the female basketball club."

Kagami was really excited as she heard this news. So, there were some girls who played basketball in this school after all! This news seemed to pump her up more. She gave her thank you to Aida and asked if she could join today's practice. Aida gave her an okay, and in the next minute, Kagami had finished her warm up and walked up to the court with basketball in her hands.

Just a little bit more…!


They finished the practice. Everyone had gone to the locker room for a shower and prepared to go home. Kagami asked Aida and Momoi if she could practice for some more since she didn't got much time to practice this afternoon (the boys needed the court for a mini-game). She promised she would clean up and lock up the gym. She had told Kise to warm up the food she had prepared this morning for their dinner of she was coming home late.

Kagami dribbled the ball, closing her eyes, imagining the opponent in front of her. Put on a fake here, crossover, stopped for a bit, change of pace, and…

She jumped and dunked into the hoop. She landed smoothly and wiped her sweat with her t-shirt. She retrieved the ball and threw some more hoops.

"You sure very vigorous, Shortie."

Kagami turned around and saw Aomine walked up to her.

"You're not going home?" she asked.

"Nah. I want to practice some more," Aomine threw the ball to the hoop and it swished smoothly. "Oi, let's play one-on-one with me. But no flashing-your-panties or any dirty trick this time."

"The only thing that is dirty is you mind, Ganguro," Kagami said as she kept dribbling the ball, facing Aomine. "First one who gets 10 points wins?"

"Deal."

The two played for an hour before they felt tired of running around the court and it was getting dark outside. Aomine threw a towel at Kagami which the girl accepted without complaint. She took off her pony-tail and let her hair loose, reaching her back, wet with sweat. Ah, she'd need a shower now before she went home.

"You can use the shower first," said Aomine.

"Hoo? You want to peek, don't you?" Kagami asked.

"Well, what if I did? Like maybe I accidentally walk in when you're still in there…"

"PERVERT!" Kagami yelled as she threw her water bottle at Aomine which easily caught it. "If you dare to peek, I'll let you starve for a year!"

With that, Kagami grabbed her sport bag and went to the shower room. She grumbled as she locked every possible entry before she felt safe enough to take a shower.

Meanwhile, Aomine waited in the gym, playing with the basketball in his hand. Actually, he wanted to follow Kagami to the shower room, well, maybe peeked from the window or something, but the girl's threat seemed to work on him.

Aomine wasn't sure if he could survive a week without Kagami's cooking now.


Aomine had told her to wait for him and they would walk home together since it was already dark outside. Kagami agreed and decided to go retrieved her shoes in the shoes locker. Without thinking, she opened her locker and grabbed her shoes and wore it when she felt something slimy touched her feet. She looked at her school shoes and inspected it.

What was that red thing? It was some red liquid, and Kagami almost feared it was blood when a familiar smell hit her nose.

No… Not blood… red paint…?

She looked at her now-ruined socks and shoes. Someone had put red paint in her shoes? Before Kagami could do anything, she heard a footstep approached her and she quickly wore her shoes back, no matter how comfortable and slimy it felt.

"There you are. Ready to go home, Shortie?" Aomine asked casually as he grabbed his own shoes from the locker.

"Stop calling me 'Shortie', Ganguro," Kagami said, trying to ignore the wet feeling on her feet.

"Yeah, yeah… Whatever…" Aomine said. "Where's Kuroko anyway? Isn't he supposed to be your bodyguard?"

"I told him to go home," said Kagami. "Besides, if I need him, he'll always come to me right away."

"Is he a ninja or something?"

"Maybe something like that," Kagami forced out a chuckle to ignore the red paint in her shoes. She hoped Aomine didn't see it. Too bad, her action to make it unnoticeable made her steps slower.

"You walked a lot slower than usual, Shortie," said Aomine. "Are you okay?"

"I'm okay. Stop calling me 'Shortie'. I'm not short!"

Aomine only shrugged and walked in front of her. Kagami followed him in silence. No one should know about this. She watched Aomine turned to the mansion entrance. Now, all she had to do was to create a plan so Kuroko wouldn't ask her about the red socks or missing pair of shoes.

Kagami bit her lips.

Okay, she could do this.


A/N : Oooh... what'll happen next I wonder~? Ufufufu... stay tune for the next chapter~! Please, review?