AN: Hey everyone! Here's another chapter! Sorry, it took longer than it should've, but I was working on something with my amazing beta AwesomeSauce (who you can find at werdsmith dot com slash IWrite, check her out because she has really really great stories) so be on the lookout for a new story coming probably within the next week or two? Anyways, thanks so much for the reads, reviews, follows, and favorites!
Disclaimer: I know I haven't updated in like six days, but that's not really enough time to gain the rights to KnB. Ergo, I do not own Kuroko no Basuke.
Aomine fingered the box currently residing in his pocket uncharacteristically gently. The cargo was much more precious than he was used to carrying. He had had enough stamina at age 10 to beat 3 teenagers all at one in a basketball game, but apparently he did not have a nought stamina to carry a freaking tiny box in his pocket up a gradual slope on a slow walk, because his breathing was erratic and his heart was pumping so roughly that he could pass out at any moment. It was definitely because of the brief exercise, he decided, certainly, definitely, 'absolutely' not for any other reason.
He'd told Kagami that he would be busy that night and couldn't make it to the hill, that the redhead would be watching the sunset by himself that night. This instigated a bit of whining, and Aomine almost felt bad for lying to him, but then the idiot forgot all about him and rushed out of the house, citing the fact that the sky was slightly darker than it had been fifteen minutes ago.
The long trudge up the hill made him wonder what he was even doing anyway. Uncharacteristically, he began to doubt. Kagami would surely say no, they were too young, they couldn't even legally get married in Japan anyway so why bother, he'd get laughed off the hill and then have to run away and never talk to any of his friends or family ever again. (Yeah, maybe he got a bit more dramatic towards the end.)
The bluenette finally reached the top with a dramatic sigh, taking a deep breath which was stifled immediately when he spotted his redhead sprawled out in the grass, as always looking up entrancedly at the darkening sky. He drank in the image before him, doubts not erased but weakened, letting it remind him why he had decided to do something so idiotic in the first place. He wanted access to moments like these, and all of the other ones in between, for as long as possible, preferably until he kicked the bucket.
"Kagamiiiii," he practically sang, abruptly leaning over the other man, effectively ending the quiet moment of peace.
Kagami didn't even flinch. Aomine stilled for a moment, confused at the lack of reaction, before his counterpart sat up lazily and began explaining.
"Heh, idiot, you thought you could scare me? I heard you when you got within fifteen feet of me. It's a necessity, being friends with Kuroko and all. Besides, why're you even here? I thought you said you couldn't come." He stuck his bottom lip out slightly at the last part, fiery eyes downturned, and it was so adorable that Aomine almost wanted to drop everything and squeal like a teenage girl, but there were other matters to attend to and he would never be caught dead committing such an act.
"Well, I, uh," he sucked in a breath, preparing for the moment that would change his life forever, whether positively or negatively, and finally spoke clearly, "I had a question to ask you."
Inexplicable realization washed over the other's face, and before Aomime could ask said question, Kagami pulled himself all the way up and interrupted nonchalantly, "Ohh, that's what this is about. Yeah, aho, of course I'll marry you."
Relief flooded Aomine like a tsunami, but it did not dawn on him until a second later that it was kind of impossible for Kagami to have answered his question without even getting to ask it first.
"Wha- but- you... What in the hell, Bakagami?!" he finally shouted, deciding it would convey his internal turmoil the best. "I didn't even say anything yet!"
"Oi, Ahomine. Don't sound so upset. Maybe hide the ring better next time. You left it on your nightstand, so..." He paused, laughing at some internal joke. "Unless you came to ask me if it was okay for us to break up so you could propose to Mai-chan, you would kind of have to be proposing."
Aomine stood still, mouth wide open, staring at Kagami who had leisurely returned to watching the sunset. He probably would've stayed like that forever, had Kagami not added something else.
"I said yes, didn't I? Now sit down before you make me miss the whole thing."
The younger man almost wanted to laugh. He'd be living his life as second fiddle to a frickin' sunset. Aomine did as he was told, sitting down next to the smaller man and wrapping his arms around him. Well, the softer part of him rationalized, he'd be living his life as second fiddle to a sunset, but he'd also be living his life as Bakagami's husband, and that probably mattered just a tiny bit more.