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Chapter 3:

It's been a week since Tsukiya joins the boy's basketball club, one of the best clubs in Teiko can offer. The club consist more or less 100 members and only few manages to reach the top to become regular or substitute for the game.

It's a clear day and the basketball practice is hell for the first years.

Kuroko can't help but take heavy breaths while she is currently the last one at the run. She can't take it anymore; the heat and the tiredness of her frail body can't keep it up anymore. Her new friends, Midorima, Aomine and Akashi kept glancing at her in subtly way but she notices it anyway. At the last lap, her body gives up and fainted. She vaguely remembers someone is carrying her and unconsciously, she buried her face to the well build yet warm chest.

A week with Aomine being her roommate is disastrous but fun, the guy is funny without even trying, he is also very vocal on how he loves basketball more than anything else and also Tsukiya is very thankful that the tan lad is an idiot. She is confident that she will win the bet and escape her fate as the sixth.

A week with Midorima being her club mate in the library's bookkeeper club and to her surprise, the basketball club too; at first, she thought that Midorima is being a serious type with weird habits, he always bring different toys every single day. She recently found out that the green haired teen believes his Oha-Asa Horoscope and those toys are called his lucky item for the day. Even though they are not close, she seems to understand him and unknown by her, the green haired lad is grateful for her presence.

A week with Akashi being her personal instructor for enhancing her passing is terrifying and exhausting but worth it. She never thought that she came to love basketball more than she loves books. The red head lad is strict but the light blue haired girl knows that Akashi is doing this because he needs her to be strong when the time comes.

She finally gains conscious when she felt a cold bottle besides her cheek.

Her sky blue eyes snap and met a pair of purple eyes. The owner of the eyes is so close to her face and she even blink twice to make sure that she wasn't dreaming.

"Yes?" she asks after awhile since the stranger didn't even move an inch away from her.

"You're awake" the lad finally moves away from her and stood up with his full height. Tsukiya can't help but notice how tall the stranger is and how purple his hair is.

"You want some?" the guy offers her a bottle of strawberry juice which she thankfully accepts and muttered a soft "Thanks"

"You fainted" the guy pointed out.

"Ah"

"Are you really that weak?"

Kuroko can't help but frown at those words. She knows she got a low stamina but she isn't weak and she refuse to be weak.

"Umm. Who are you?" she bluntly change the subject.

The guy looks amuse but answered her "Atsushi, Murasakibara Atsushi. You?"

"Kuroko Tetsuya. Murasakibara-kun why are you here?"

"I was the one who carried you here"

"Oh, Thank you"

"You're welcome" The purple haired lad smiles at her and gives her a bag of sweets. "You should try these; it's delicious and it makes you happy. These makes me happy too if I got tired"

The light blue haired girl can't help but smile a little "Thank you"

Murasakibara nods "Then I'll take my leave, I have to finish the training and I also want to make sure that you're well so I can report it to your worrywart friends"

Tsukiya tilt her head at the side and "Worrywart?"

"Yes, Aka-chin, Mine-chin and Mido-chin seems too been in panic attack when you fainted and hopefully couch have already made them calm down. Those three looks murderous when some senpais insults your stamina"

"I see"

Murasakibara made his way to the door and before he moves out "Kuro-chin looks like a girl"

Kuroko didn't say anything and she only stares at the door which Murasakibara previously is.


It's still 3 in the afternoon, too early to go back to the dorm and Tsukiya didn't feel to go back to the club too so she decided to walk around the campus and observes the different clubs. She visits the archery club which she finds a good place to observe. If she weren't in the basketball club, she maybe signs herself at the archery club.

30 minutes later, she found herself at the field where the soccer club was but she sees no one. She didn't watch where she is going since she is busy finding some members of the soccer club which she finds none until something caught his foot and lose her balance and landed into a warm yet solid ground.

The 'ground' hisses a "It H-hurts"

Then she realized that she landed a body and luckily not the ground. She pushes herself a little up to look at who she landed to and at the same time the stranger tilts his head up. Gravity seems to joke with them and both of their lips touches one another.

Tsukiya is the one who automatically moves away and puts a finger on her mouth. She blinks twice and stares at the stranger's eyes which she found a pair of gold eyes staring back at her, his hair is brightly yellow, his face is red as a tomato and both of his hand cups his mouth.

Tsukiya gives a small bow and says "Sorry, it's my fault. Please kindly erase the incident in your mind." She stood up and when she is about to leave, a hand caught her wrist and spun her around to meet those golden eyes again. Those eyes held intensity and seriousness.

"Name?" he growls while his face is still bright red.

The light blue haired girl just stares at him questioningly.

"Your name? What is your name?" he asks again.

"Kuroko Tetsuya"

"Kuroko, I don't appreciate being kiss by a boy" the blush is still there but its slowly fading.

"It's clearly an accident. I don't wish to kiss you or you to kiss me. It's both our fault"

"What?"

"I think its the gravity's fault"

"…."

"…."

It seems like forever, they are still staring at each other eyes. No one backs down and after a few minutes, the blond seems to snap and laugh.

Tsukiya looks at him strangely but in a stoically way.

"Are you perhaps a bipolar?" she can't help but asks.

"Hey, that hurts you know." The blond answered her. "I guess I didn't expect that to happen, that's all. I'm sorry I growled at you" the stranger smiles at her brightly and warmly. She can still see the blush but only minimal.

"It's okay, I understand" she dismissively said and looks up. She notices that the guy is taller than her, her head only meets his chest, well; she knows that she's probably the shortest one at the entire campus.

The taller guy offer his right hand for her to shake "I'm Kise Ryota, Nice to meet you Kuroko"

Tsukiya frowns a little but takes the offered hand and shakes it.

"I'm from the soccer club, the others are already gone for the day, I stayed here because the surrounding gives me peace, I'm 189 cm, 77kg , 16 years old and from class 1-A. How about you?" Kise bubbly said, the smile never falters and only to grow bigger.

"You're nosy Kise-kun" Tsukiya said bluntly and passively.

The first time of his life, Kise Ryota's spirit cracks.

Shall I continue?


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