Tenshi walked home slowly, wondering about Kagami's strength. He looked strong, maybe not as strong as the Generation of Miracles as of right now, but he had potential. His aura was like that of a wild, intense tiger. He had pretty intimidating looks that added to that too. Okay, not just pretty intimidating, he was a lot intimidating. She wondered just how well he would do against Aomine, or any of the Miracles for that matter.
Aomine was like a monster, he had what seemed to her, was unlimited strength. It was like the gods had pushed as much power as they could into him and threw him into the world. Saying, "look at this creation, look how he hands everyone's asses right back to them and how literally no one can beat him" Then they added a cocky, lazy, "the only who can beat me is me," attitude and there you have it, the ace of the Generation of Miracles.
Aomine was a nice guy though. He had really loved basketball when he first joined. When he played, there was a passion and fire burning in his eyes. But overtime, he grew too strong. The other teams had stopped trying to win against him and he slowly started changing. How could he not? When people looked at you in fear and never even tried when you gave it your all, you were bound to change. She felt sort of bad for him.
Kise on the other hand, was like a bundle of sunshine. He had never stopped or gave up on beating Aomine. To Tenshi, he was sort of like a cute puppy and a bestfriend. He had always managed to cheer her up when she was down.
She sighed, shaking her head. Could they even beat Aomine though? No, she had to stay positive. With Kuroko and Kagami, they could beat Aomine. Yes, yes they could. What about Akashi then? She shivered as she remembered the red-headed captain. Oh snap- she shouldn't even mention Akashi. What if he was reading her thoughts? What if- what if he was there right behind her?!
Paranoid, she looked behind her quickly to see if Akashi was there. She then looked around the area. Finally concluding that Akashi was definitely not there and not going to skin her alive, she continued walking, but at a bit of a faster pace than before.
Her phone vibrated yet again and she pulled it out again, to see one text message from Midorima and another from Kise.
Hurry up.
-Tsunderima
Geeze, couldn't he be a bit more patient? But it was, maybe a bit, cold outside. He was locked outside her house doing god knows what. So maybe he had a bit of a right to complain.
She pouted and quickly texted him back.
Fine, fine, I'm coming.
Just sit still Tsunderella.
-Tenshi
Hitting send, she went to look at what Kise had texted her. She found a wall of text messages. Her phone vibrated again and yet another text message popped on the screen of her phone.
Tenshicchiiiii text me back
-Kise
Tenshicchiiiiiiiiiiiiii you haven't texted me back! You're so meaaaan D:
-Kise
TEXT ME BAAAAACK :C
-Kise
Going down the list of text messages, they were basically all the same. They were all telling her to text him back and how she was so mean to not talk to him. She continued walking, pondering if she should text the blonde back or not. It was either that or letting him bombard her phone with texts...
But the blonde would continue to bombard her with texts either way. Finally giving in, she slowly typed a message back. Reluctantly, she hit send.
Hi Kise, how are you doing?
-Tenshi
She put her phone back in her bag when it vibrated yet again. She stared at her bag, wondering if she should pick it up.
What if it was important?
What if one of her friends were injured?
What if Momoi was calling her to tell her that there was a sale going on in some clothing store?
Thoughts quickly rushed in her head and she let out a groan, picking up the cellphone and looking at the screen to see what was in store for her.
Die.
-Tsunderima
Welp, that wasn't as important as she had thought it was. It wasn't important at all, actually. Besides, what kind of cousin told their other cousin to die? But...she had called him Tsunderella... but still!
She decided that she shouldn't dilly-dally any longer and started jogging to her house. Turning a corner, a familiar green-haired figure entered her field of vision.
Her cousin turned to look at her, frowning. Welp, looks like he was pretty irritated. But he always seemed to be irritated, so no change there.
"It was about time you showed up." He stated, his frown still on his face.
She reached up and put her fingers on each of the corners of Midorima's mouth, much to his displeasure. She pulled it upwards, making it into a slightly disturbing smile. After all, she had never actually seen him smile. He was way too serious for his own good sometimes.
"You shouldn't frown like that, it might turn permanent one day!" She gave him a cheery smile, releasing his mouth and opting to pull his cheeks instead.
He only grunted in return, swatting her hand away and bringing his hand to massage his abused face. He then stared at her and motioned her to open the door. She complied, pulling a set of keys out and unlocking the door.
"Maybe I should give you a spare key or something," she muttered. "That way you don't have to stand outside and pester me to open the door."
He was silent and upon entering, he turned to her. "Have you eaten yet?" He asked.
"No." She blinked as she watched him make his way into the kitchen. "Ah, you don't have to, Shintarou."
He merely gave her a look and continued pulling ingredients out of the fridge. He was muttering something about how she didn't take care of herself enough and how troublesome she was.
She just smiled at him and pulled some eating utensils out of the drawers, setting up the table and what not. Even if he didn't show it, she knew he was worried about her. She was glad that he cared for her. He was...sort of like a big brother that she's not sure if she ever wanted or not.
After dinner, she thanked Midorima and they said their goodbyes. Shutting the front door, she went upstairs and got ready for bed.
Jumping into the comfort of her bed, she snuggled in. She quickly fell asleep, dreaming about a world of basketball.
In her dream, she was dribbling around the court, no injuries and no back or hip pain at all. She was happy, smiling brightly with not a care in the world. She didn't want to wake up at all.
But it seemed that the odds were not in her favor that day for she was awoken from her slumber by a vibrating phone, courtesy of Kise.
The phone was vibrating against the wooden surface of her dresser, creating a loud smacking sound each time. She groaned and turned over, picking up her phone. Peering at the screen, everything was blurry from how sleepy she was. But after awhile, she made out the name 'Kise'. Too sleepy to care, she just threw the phone on the floor and buried herself into her pillow. It could wait until tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Kise was sitting on his bed. It was near midnight, but who cares? Kise was a ball of hyperactive energy.
He was radiating from joy because his Tenshicchi had finally replied back to him. Joyous, he rapidly sent multiple replies to her at a speed that was inhuman. But it was Kise after all.
After an hour of no replies, he sank back into his bed, sulking. Tenshicchi hadn't texted him back yet, maybe she was sleeping. But still! He wanted to talk to her! It had been so long since he had seen her and he was simply bursting with energy. He stared at his phone and seeing that she wasn't responding, he decided to text his senpai instead.
Maybe he would visit Seirin to see Kurokocchi and Tenshicchi.
Yes, it was a promise. He would definitely visit them soon.
Tenshi pushed open the doors to the gym and found herself staring at what appeared to be a mini game. Taking her place next to Riko she turned her head to her senpai.
"A mini game?" She asked.
Riko turned and nodded her head confidently. "Yes, it's the second-years against the first-years."
"Wah, I wonder how they'll do?"
She watched as the first-years were whispering about how they had made it to the finals in just their first years. She had to admit, that was impressive.
"There's nothing to be afraid of." Kagami said confidently, a challenging smile on his face."It's always better to have stronger opponents than weak ones. Let's go."
Right after he said that, he started walking forward, confidence oozing out everywhere. The boy was sure arrogant.
"My, my, confident aren't we? Quite arrogant too." Tenshi said, grinning at the red-headed boy. "Are you sure you'll be able to keep up?
"Why don't you see for yourself?" He turned to her, the challenging smile still on his face.
Well then, let's see what they can do.
Everyone got into their positions and the two teams faced each other. Kagami and Mitobe stepped up into the center, focused intently on the ball.
As Riko blew the whistle and threw the ball up in the air, they pounced up. Kagami ended up being the one to knock the ball away first. It ended up in another first-year's hands and he quickly dribbled it towards Kagami. The opposing team tried to block the way but the pass made it through.
She watched as Kagami took a powerful jump, letting out a mighty battle cry, he slammed the ball into the net. Her eyes widened, that had been more than she had expected.
The force he had used was powerful and destructive. His strength was much like Aomine's.
It looked like the rest of the team thought so too, they were staring at him in awe and disbelief.
The game continued on, with Kagami still going at full power. He was still dunking all over the place like a crazy buffoon. The first-years were doing great. But, Kagami was the one making all the shots, none of the others had made any yet.
Resting her hand against her chin, she pursed her lips. He needed to work with the others more if he wanted to get more stronger. This was the exact problem with the Generation of Miracles too.
Her eyes landed on a very confused looking Kuroko, who was holding the ball, looking around the room. Suddenly, the ball was stolen from his hands and his expression turned into one of surprise.
Kagami looked pretty pissed at something. He looked even more pissed as he stopped Mitobe from dunking the ball in.
I wonder what's wrong with him..?
The moment he landed, he was immediately triple-teamed by the second-years.
"OOh, nice work!" Tenshi said, watching as Kagami seemed to be pretty uncomfortable being held there.
He didn't have the ball but they still were double teaming him. Smart, by keeping him there, he couldn't grab hold of the ball and dunk. They had the right intentions, not letting the strongest player on the opposing team to touch the ball was the right idea in a game.
The second-years quickly closed the point gap and continued to score. While Kagami was getting more and more frustrated.
The score was now 15 to 31.
"They're good." One guy said, panting hard.
"There's no way we could have won." Another answered, panting as hard as the first. "I've had enough."
"Eh? Given up so early, have you?" Tenshi said, frowning. Did they have no will-power or something? It was highly disappointing to hear the words 'had enough' or 'given up'.
Kagami was mad. Steaming with rage. He picked up the first-year who had said those words by the front of his shirt and held him close to his face.
"Enough? What the hell are you talking about?!" He spat, growling lowly.
She quickly stood up, about to stop him from doing something stupid, but Kuroko beat her.
"Please calm down." He said, kneeing the taller guy in the knees.
Well, that was one way to do it.
The hot-headed, red-head was twitching in pain. He slowly turned his head and glared at Kuroko. Tenshi could've sworn she saw a dark, murderous aura surround him at that exact moment.
"You bastard..." He said darkly, looking like he was going to kill poor, poor Kuroko.
The two quickly started fighting. Or rather, Kagami was the one swinging his arms around, trying to land a hit on Kuroko. While Kuroko was swaying from side to side, dodging the hits.
"Eh, what's wrong?"
"Was he in the game?"
Tenshi turned to them, and then to Riko, who was making a weird face. They had forgotten that Kuroko was playing?
Poor, poor Kuroko, always forgotten.
After all the shock of not remembering that Kuroko was in the game, they resumed.
Tenshi watched as Kuroko was flexing his hand. Looks like he was going to finally reveal to them what exactly he could do.
As the ball was passed toward him, he misdirected it towards another first-year. The first-year caught it, very confused on where the hell the ball had come from. Had the gods thrown a ball at him from the heavens? He automatically threw the ball into the hoop.
Everyone stared confused.
"It went...what?" Hyuuga uttered, clearly confused on what had just happen. "How did that pass go through?"
She turned to Riko and smiled. "You've just gotten a taste of Kuroko's talent."
Riko turned to her, not quite getting what Kuroko's talent was. But Tenshi pointed back to the court, indicating that she should watch a little bit more.
Kuroko continued to alter the basketball's course. Riko was still confused when Tenshi spoke up.
"You see, Kuroko uses the lack of his presence to pass the ball. His weaker presence diminishes even more." She explained. "Misdirection. It's a technique used in sleight of hand. He's not using his lack of presence, rather, he causes the opponent to focus on something else."
Riko stared at her with a gaping mouth.
"Meet the invisible regular of Teiko, who excels at passing. The sixth phantom member of the Generation of Miracles, Kuroko Tetsuya!" Tenshi exclaimed, throwing both of her arms up in the air.
With the help of Kuroko's passing, the score quickly became a one point difference.
She watched as Kuroko caught the ball, dribbling it...towards the hoop? Last time she checked, he didn't know how to shoot at all. Did he practice?
He threw the ball, but it bounced off the rim of the net. Everyone looked in disbelief, when a large hand caught the ball.
Kagami forced the ball back in the net.
"This is why I hate the weak!" He said. "You have to make the shot, dumbass!"
Their relationship was sure a unique one. She smiled for she could already tell that the two were going to be the most unlikely pair on the face of the Earth.
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