Miracles Chapter 4: Fake Smiles, a kuroko no basuke/黒子のバスケ fanfic

A/N: Here's Chapter 4 of Miracles!~~ :D :D I deleted the Author Notes, from before, so yea.

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Chapter 4 might be a bit rushed, and poor quality. This might be my last update for this month. I probably won't update until in one or two months time - I'm really busy with school, and things for me are a bit stressful. :/

~Miracles~
|Chapter 4|
-Fake Smiles-

Aomine blinked, and groggily sat up. His mind was fuzzy and couldn't comprehend what just came out of Momoi's mouth.

"W-What?" He asked stupidly.

Momoi smacked his on the head. "Y-You idiot! Tetsuko-chan! Tetsuko!" She shrieked angrily. "Ahoumine! Ko-chan, you idiot!"

Aomine stared into space, his eyes slowly widening. "Ko-chan…" He breathed. "She's here?!"

Momoi nodded, and a smile formed on her lips. She waited eagerly for Aomine's reaction. 'What would it be?' She thought with glee, her eyes nearly sparkling with the thought of the reunion between the three of them, 'Maybe Dai-chan's reaction would be kind of funny!'

The blue haired Ace laid back on the floor. He stared at the roof. And kept on staring. He breathed heavily. In. Out. In. Out. He draped his arm over his eyes.

"Dai-chan," A petite girl with light blue hair and matching eyes held out a basketball at him, "Let's play, Dai-chan!" Her eyes smiled at him, as her blue hair swayed in the wind.

His lips then tweaked into a smile. 'Tetsuko,' He thought with a mixture of relief and happiness, 'You're back.' For some reason, his heart felt lighter.

He couldn't wait to see her.

'Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius…' A certain green haired Shooting Guard chanted in his mind as he scanned the classroom. Oha Asa kept on mentioning about a fateful encounter with an Aquarius who will affect him for the better or the worst. His eye twitched. Not many people affect him much…except…

His green eyes narrowed to the person sitting in the desk next to him. Akashi Seijuro.

The redhead looked up from the book he was reading, and his eyes met Midorima's. "Yes, Shintarou?"

Midorima cringed inwardly. 'He's so perceptive!" He thought. "N-Nothing, Akashi."

"I see." The heterochromatic eyes travelled back to the book.

Midorima's eye twitched. 'I'm sure that Akashi is a Sagittarius,' he thought recalling the times when Akashi had truly shocked him, and thrown him in such a position, which had Midorima change his thoughts about the redhead.

Such as the time, when Akashi placed him as vice-captain – now, his time is consumed by signing forms, attending meetings (which half the time is playing shogi), though he grudgingly admit (to himself) that he has great respect for Akashi and wants to beat him. Especially in basketball. And shogi. And tests.

Midorima pushed up his glasses to the bridge of his nose.

"It seems like you still have some thoughts, Shintarou."

"Ah. Akashi…are you a Aquarius?"

Akashi remained silent for a moment. "I do believe that you are fully aware that I'm a Sagittarius."

"A-Ah. Just confirming something."

"Hn."

Aomine glared down at the groups of people from the roof top. He scanned for a sign of light blue hair.

"Don't tell me she has weak presence still," Aomine groaned. He heaved a sigh and sat down.

His eyes slowly travelled to the sky. It was a nice day. The sky was a clear blue, not a speck of clouds in sight.

Blue…like her eyes.

Aomine shook his head, and stared back down once again at the students. "Where are you Tetsuko?" He whispered.

He certainly won't ask Momoi to find Tetsuko – she probably smile in that evil, smug smile of hers again, and demand him to go shopping with her. The last record of time, they spent shopping was 5 hours and 21 minutes. It was just shopping for clothes. Girl clothes. Which meant going into Women's Clothes Section. And that meant total embarrassment, because ladies giggle at the sight of him – for some weird, apparent reason. And the undergarments section didn't help either.

Aomine scowled.

Kise waved cheerily to a group of giggling girls.

"Thank you so much for signing the magazine, Kise-kun!" They called, as Kise walked away.

Kise smiled his trademark model smile and turned his head back to the front, his smile quickly dropping off. His eyes flickered with an unknown emotion and drooped slightly."I'm bored," the blond model muttered, stifling back a yawn.

He closed his eyes. 'I want to play against Aominecchi,' he thought, as he lazily stretched his arms, 'But Aominecchi just disappeared off somewhere again…'

Kise slowly opened his eyes, "Hmm…I – Oomph!" He collided into something or someone, and stumbled back.

He smiled again, and rubbed the back of his head with his hand sheepishly, "Sorry, I was watching were I was going…" His voice trailed off as he saw no one front of him. He glanced to his left and right, a puzzled expression flitted across his face.

"I'm right here," a voice deadpanned.

Kise jumped back as he saw a pair of expressionless blue eyes bore holes into his. "W-Where did you come from!?"

The girl brushed off the dust from his skirt, and bent over to pick up her fallen book. She straightened up, and raised her head to meet his eyes defiantly with a blank expression.

Kise's eye twitched. He didn't like the look that the girl had – usually girls would blush at the sight or him – but this girl… He shook his head of such thoughts, and smiled at the girl.

"Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going," He apologised, bowing slightly.

"It's alright," the girl replied, "I wasn't looking where I was going either." She gestured at the book in her hands.

"…" Kise stared at her, his smile slowly dropping off.

"…" The girl stared back.

Kise stared deep into her sky blue eyes, as he thought, they shown no emotion. He didn't like it. He didn't like her. She was…blank, impassive – almost boring – the opposite of him – fun, outgoing and carefree.

It also didn't help that the girl gave off a feeling that she knew something that Kise didn't. And he didn't like it – not one bit.

"Um…" He rubbed the back of his neck, smiling slightly, "Are you lost?"

"I'm fine, thank you," the girl replied politely.

"Well…okay…see ya around!" Kise quickly stepped aside, and walked as fast as he could, away.

'Who is that girl?' Kise thought, glancing back only to find no one there, 'She's…strange.' He wasn't used to getting treatment like it – the girl's blank eyes felt like they were piercing through him, and knew something that he didn't know.

"Argh!" Kise slapped his hand on his face out of frustration.

"…"

"Midorimacchi!"

"Kise. It seems like you are have a conflict within yourself."

"Ehh!? Midorimacchi – you're – "

"Oha Asa stated that Gemini will have a fateful encounter today, and because of that, they will strange, and perhaps frustrated."

"Midorimacchi – "

"If I recall correctly, Gemini's lucky item for today is…a toy worm."

"Urk! You're just saying this to annoy me, aren't you?"

"I never lie when it comes to horoscopes, and lucky items. Remember, Man proposes, God disposes."

"Well, you seem to be more caring for me, Midorimacchi!"

"A-As if! We have a practice match coming up with another a school, and I don't want one of the starters to be sick or something!"

Kuroko Tetsuko stared at the blond boy who dashed off. There was something strange about him, she noted.

Her eyes travelled to her book, and a displeased expression appeared in her eyes as she noticed a rumpled corner. Her eyes flickered back to the blond boy who was growing smaller with the distance.

'He hides his emotions when it comes to matters he thinks are tedious,' Tetsuko thought, 'He smiles so happily, but it has no meaning…'

She shook her head, and placed the thoughts about the blond boy at the back of her mind. She had more important matters to worry about. Like finding Momoi.

Momoi tossed her head left and right, hoping to catch a glimpse of light blue.

"Mou, where's Tetsuko-chan," She pouted, clutching her bento box in her hands, "I wanted to have lunch together, I even made a bento for her!"

Momoi took a few steps forward and stopped. "She stills has that weak presence, huh…" Suddenly a sly smile stretched across her face, "I wonder what can make Tetsuko-chan more noticeable…"

Aomine Daiki wasn't very happy. He couldn't find his blue haired childhood friend who was nicer, sweeter, more understanding and passionate than his pink haired childhood friend. And she was less annoying too. And hopefully, less girly too.

It didn't help that his backside became very attached to the ground of the rooftop, where he had a bird eyes' view of everyone. Or maybe it was his legs that fell asleep.

One thing that the blue haired ace was sure of is that he definitely won't ask Momoi to help him find Tetsuko.

He hates shopping. Especially with Momoi. And shopping for clothes.

Tetsuko stared outside of the window, paying little attention to the class. Her eyes fell upon a stray basketball near a bench.

'I wonder how I can achieve my dream of becoming Number 1 in Japan for basketball now…' Tetsuko thought, tapping her pencil softly on her booklet, 'I don't really like the girls' basketball team… But, I don't mind becoming the manager for the boys' team, but Momoi mentioned that she was the manager…'

"Everyone! If you have any problems, don't be afraid to ask me! You don't always have to ask the person next you!" The maths teacher said, and tapped the board, "Exercise 3-A, page 45. If you're not finished with it, then it's homework. And yes, all the questions!"

The class groaned.

Tetsuko stared blankly at the board. Her lips twitched slightly with amusement. 'It's amazing how everyone doesn't notice me, but that's fine. I don't really want to know them either.'

She heaved a soft sigh, and began scribbling equations on her exercise book.

She blinked away the look of sadness in her eyes.

Kise groaned, and slumped in his chair. "Aominecchi, Exercise 3-A is so long though – so please help me!"

Aomine grunted. "I'm not a genius at maths or anything, and it's not like I'm going to do it anyway."

"You're lazy, Aominecchi."

"I don't think you're the one that should be talking, Kise."

"If only Midorimacchi was in our class, that would be extremely helpful."

"Humph. That tsundere wouldn't have helped you in the first place."

"You'll never know."

Aomine ignored the blond model's blabbering next to him and sighed heavily. He had spent his precious lunch looking for his childhood friend – and he didn't find her. He couldn't even find a speck of light blue hair.

He yawned.

Aomine Daiki, being the great idiot he is, never noticed his childhood friend was sitting a few rows back from him.

She didn't notice him too. Both were 'too absorbed in their own little world'.

Tetsuko stared out of the window, and sipped at her vanilla milkshake. Her eyes slowly travelled, examining the view, and absorbing all the details.

She tucked a stray lock of light blue hair behind her ear, and placed her chin on the palm of her hand.

The three empty seats around her seemed more empty than usual. When she goes to McDonalds, or Maji, as they call in Japan, she usually goes with Kagami, Himuro and Alex, or her parents.

She missed America. She missed Alex. She missed Himuro. She missed Kagami. She missed the basketball courts that they usually played at together.

She even miss the cranky old man who lived down her street, back in America.

Tetsuko sighed softly, but her eyes still held the same sad longing.

Her eyes flickered to a nearby table, with the seats filled with many high schoolers boys in a black uniform trimmed with blue, and a brunette girl in a similar sailor's uniform. A particularly tall brunette boy wore a jersey with Seirin printed boldly across the back grinned goofily as a black haired boy with glasses shouted at him, and jabbed a finger in his face.

Tetsuko smiled slightly with their interactions. It reminded her of Alex and Kagami.

She ignored the painful thump in her heart.

"Kiyoshi, you idiot!" Hyuuga Junpei, captain of the Seirin basketball's boys team shouted, japing his finger at the tall brunette boy, "Coach told us we didn't have practice today, and regardless of that why did you bring your jersey today! And you're even prancing around in it, with the school's pants on!"

Kiyoshi Teppei waved his large hands pacifistically, smiling happily. "Hyuuga, Hyuuga, don't be so angry. For some reason today, I felt really excited to go to practice so I brought my jersey! And it's feeling rather cold, so that's why I put it on!"

"Y-You idiot!" Hyuuga seethed with anger.

"You complete forgot that we had practice today," Koganei Shinji sweat dropped.

"…" Mitobe Rinnosuke had a worried expression in his face.

"Don't worry Mitobe!" Koganei patted his tall friend on the back, "They'll be fine! …I hope."

"Captain looks awfully angry," Furihata Kouki whispered anxiously to his fellow first years.

"He'll be fine," Izuki Shun smiled reassuringly to the first year. Then his eyes brightened, and exclaimed, "Captain in Clutch mode – "

"Shut up, Izuki."

Kiyoshi threw his head back and laughed. "Loosen up, Hyuuga!" He patted the captain none too gently on the back.

"Everyone!" The coach of Seirin basketball's boys team, Aida Riko whistled to get their attention, "I hope you know why you're here."

"Coach, are you feeling alright today?" Tsuchida Satoshi asked worriedly, "You usual don't let us have breaks, and go off to Maji."

Aida grinned. "You boys had been working hard."

Everyone snorted.

"Working hard is an understatement," Koganei muttered.

"And I decided to have a break once in awhile!" Aida continued.

"Please do not let this break be broken," Izuki muttered. His eyes glinted for a second, and whipped out his pun book and began scribbling something down.

"What's so wrong with wanting to get together to have a meal together!" Aida smiled cheerily, with flowers and sparkles forming around her.

Everyone paled, and a shadow fell across their face.

"You're…going to train us like crazy after this, aren't you, Coach?" Hyuuga stated, his brow twitching.

"Ehh…? Really?" Aida beamed innocently.

Kiyoshi laughed. "Having a break once in awhile isn't that bad! Besides, our food is getting cold. Let's eat!"

"Ah, yea, let's eat."

"Time to eat!"

"O-Oi!" Hyuuga yelled. He opened his mouth again to yell at his teammates, then stopped himself, and sighed. "Oh, whatever," he muttered.

"It's a shame that Himuro couldn't join us," Kiyoshi mentioned, after chewing his burger.

"Ah, yea," Tsuchida agreed, "He's been training really hard."

Aida frowned. "He shouldn't really push himself to the limits sometimes. It's a good thing that he's trying really hard, however, it causes a lot of stress on his body."

"And he receives so many love letters from girls," Koganei wailed, sinking his teeth into a handkerchief. "And he just came back from America a few months ago!"

"What does that have to do with anything!?"

"He has many girl friends, however only one girlfriend."

"Shut up, Izuki."

"Hey, let's go train in the mountain a few weeks later, ne?"

"It's will be good training."

"ARE YOU TWO PLANNING OUR DEATHS!?"

Tetsuko's eyes travelled to the Seirin's table once again. She lips tweaked into a small smile.

'They're looking like they're having a lot of fun,' She thought. Then she frowned. 'Did he just say Himuro?' She shook her head, 'Never mind, it can't be.'

She stood up, and grabbed her milkshake. Her eyes travelled to their table again.

'Seirin, huh…'

She gave them one last glance and left.

Omake

He closed his eyes. 'I want to play against Aominecchi,' he thought, as he lazily stretched his arms, 'But Aominecchi just disappeared off somewhere again…'

Kise slowly opened his eyes, "Hmm…I – Oomph!" He collided into something or someone, and stumbled back.

There was no one.

"That's strange…" Kise murmured, "I'm sure I bumped into someone…" He looked down, and his mouth fell open in shock.

A rubbish bin.

He, Kise Ryouta, a genius at basketball, a model that made girls swoon, a young man with a great reputation – bumped into a rubbish bin.

All of things, a rubbish bin.

He was horrified.

And the rubbish bin smells. Really bad.

A/N: Done~~ I hoped you liked it XD I couldn't resist poking fun at Kise XD

Anyway, here's Kise's meeting with Tetsuko. Like the original, Kise's first impression of Kuroko wasn't that great, so I decided to follow a bit of that XD Just slightly in a different manner.

And yes, Aomine's trying to find Tetsuko, but he doesn't want to ask Momoi for help XD I also decided for Himuro to be in Seirin not Yosei. Tetsuko and Aomine aren't aware that they are in each other class. Aomine obviously doesn't like to pay attention in class, and I decided for Tetsuko to be a bit...uncaring for her surroundings. She misses Alex, Kagami and Himuro a lot, and it doesn't help that she's practically invisible to everyone else.

And I had no idea what to write for Izuki's puns == I can tell why everyone wants him to shut up now.

About the romance of this story. I'm don't have any plans for it right now, but if there is, it would a natural progression of friendship - to make it more realistic. I don't believe in "love in first sight", and to make many boys including the GoM to have romantic feelings for Tetsuko would make her rather Mary Sue-ish.

One more thing, I'm sorry if this sounds really blunt and rude, but if you want me to make this a GoMxFem!Kuroko, or/and you want me to write whatever the heck you want and you're very persistent about it, then the answer is a big, fat no. I'm happy that people are reading and enjoying this, however, I have many things planned for this story (even if I started this story for fun), so don't expect things to go whatever way. And one more thing, I like being a troll.

(Chapter 3 Replies)

Zikarn Krais: I seen stories like that, and that made me cringe. It's rather Mary Sue-ish :/ ...ARE YOU A MIND READER?! O_O I was playing for that! Ahaha, we'll see how things turn out XD Thank you!

MintLeafeon: I like being a troll XDD Well, at least you got to see her reactions in this chapter XD Yea, I feel really sorry for Kuroko. Well, you'll find out...in probably like 10 chapters /shot Thank you! :D

darkreverie13: Thank you so much! Yup, Himuro's in Seirin XDD Well, here's an update :D :D Thank you! :)

krystalanimeheart: Thank you! I'll try my best to update as soon as possible! Thank you once again! :D

Eurwen de Vrill: Thank you! :D :D Haha, we'll see - if depends on the situation though XD Ahahaha, we'll shall see, my friend, we shall see... *coughs* Looks like I'm not the only fan of Akashi XD

BlackCatAnimeGirl: Thank you! :D :D Kitty...?

asada xinon: Ahaha, well, here's an update XDD Thank you! :D We shall see, my friend XD

FairyLucyka: Thank you so much! I try my best to make Tetsuko as...erm, Kuroko-like as possible, lol. I shall make it randomdudexTetsuko, joking /slapped. It is a good pairing, lol XD Well, here's an update XD Yup, I try my best to update, thus you can see their meetings XD Thank you once again! :D

Aleiafae: Thank you so much! :D :D

gigi323: Lol, well that's co-ed. But it's girls playing in BOY's sport, not co-ed sports XD There's a reason why it's called basketball BOYS team in the first place. Thank you so much! :D :D

Lady Syndra: Haha, she sure did! XD Thank you so much! XD

Glassstar93: She met Kise in this one XD Thank you so much! :D :D

Guest: Thank you so much! Maybe, though it depends on the situation though XD

Rigoudon3: Thank you so much! :D :D She didn't join the girl's team...that means she shall join the tennis team! /shot. I'm just joking, lol XD You'll find out soon XD Thank you once again! :D

(Author's Notes - Guest Replies)

kotori: To be honest, I had no idea what to do with this story when I first wrote it, I simply wrote it for fun. You must really like romance with Fem!KurokoxGom then XD The choice is entirely up to you, it's up to you if you want to read this or not even if it's romance or not. If this were to be a romance story - then I would make it a natural progression of friendship. Thanks for reading :)

Guest: That's what I intend to do XD Ahaha, I don't think I'll need a vote for that, if I want it to be like that :) Thank you understanding though! Thanks again! :D

Guest: Yes, I agree with that. Even in the original, Kuroko has to be benched in order to save energy and the effective use of "Midirection". I don't plan for Tetsuko to join the boy's basketball club though. I know that some girls could be more skilled and stronger than boy in some sports, but that depends. However, Kuroko's stats (provided in the Character Bible), are pretty low apart from his Mental Strength and Special Ability, whereas the other members of GoM are high in all five.

Guys are naturally stronger than girls, so it would hard for Tetsuko to keep up - and Kuroko sometimes have a hard time catching up when it comes to training, and his stamina is his weakest skill. Still, it's a good thing, that Tetsuko/Kuroko is benched.

Well...that was a strange anime you watched... The girl seems like a Mary Sue - but I can't really say anything about her, since I barely know what she's like.

Despite, Fem!Kuroko's sweet personality, it still kind of Mary Sue-ish to have the all the GoM like her. Besides, I don't think that I'll have Tetsuko have all those certain attributes. I like to be realistic, not everyone can be all patient, and sweet all the time :/ She's not perfect, but that doesn't mean she will still have some bad qualities - such as Kuroko's bluntness lol

Don't worry, your English is good :)