Author's Note: Hi! Here I am again with chapter 4. Please enjoy it. Thank you very much to those who followed and favorited this.
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" Hello everyone! My name is Kuroko Shuzo, Teiko basketball team's captain. Let us all get along okay? " Shuzo called out to the juniors, flowers visibly sparkling behind him. They were absolutely stunned, some horrified with the person who had just declared himself the leader and rightfully substituted the coach.
" He is too laid back! " They all screamed inside their respective heads. They were reminded when he casually thanked with politeness to the candidate who had mindlessly spitted out his opinion which were usually and should be seen as an insult.
Kuroko Shuzo, on the other, had no complains on being the captain and taking direct charge. He enjoyed being the boss even though he was forced to accept the position last year. He was one of those very few happy-go-lucky type of people.
Aomine Daiki froze the second time as he begun wondering on how did Teiko even managed to win the Kantou Regional, let alone the Inter-high and Winter Cup last year, especially with someone like him leading them.
" Maybe it was sheer luck. " He tried reasoning out but to no avail.
A loud clap resounded in the gymnasium as Kuroko Shuzo tried to attract their attention after noticing that his adorable younger schoolmates were drifting off out of the vicinity.
Aomine shook his head trying to get every bit of unnecessary information, including today's lessons, unfortunately, out of his mind and far away from him. He slapped his two cheeks as encouragement. He did it as softly as possible on the account that he did not want to make another mistake and attract stares again. Kuroko Tetsuyu stood at her previous spot looking very amused.
" Aomine Daiki, " She glanced at her notes where his stats were written neatly on a piece of chart in the middle. " He might be one of the people who will be joining that. " She narrowed her blue eyes which matched perfectly with her silky hair.
" If Shu-nii does not start soon, we may be in big trouble. " She uttered quietly, a hint of irritation could be heard.
A shiver ran up Shuzo's spine.
This was not good, Shuzo thought as he got goosebumps only when Tetsuyu was very annoyed. He had been so close to her since young, leaving aside the fact that she is his little sister. Shuzo knew her like the back of his hand which include her feelings even if she tried to mask it with her signature poker face. On top of that, ever since he was young, Shuzo had an immense amount of instinct that had not yet been proven wrong. That may also participated in a major role as to why he felt so uncomfortable.
He took a big gulp of his collected saliva as he tried to compose himself.
" Divide yourselves into groups of five in eight seconds. " stressing on the time limit as he felt he himself being pressurized.
He did not want to waste any more time, as he had also guessed the reason Tetsuyu was so angry was because of the delay and disruptions taking place one after the other.
The trials for the grouping of the strings was relatively easy as all they had to do was to participate in matches which was in the form of a tournament, by using the groups that they had formed. Some of them had protested at first, giving a bunch of reasons and excuses that they should have be given more time upon deciding their teammates, but one sharp stare by Shuzo was enough to make their mouths stop, as he could be menacing if he wanted to.
Frankly, there were two main things that Tetsuyu and Shuzo were looking for, capability and feelings.
The talent to play with complete strangers and the ability to overcome any obstacles together with them. The emotions that shows up after their victory or loss and even during the game itself were taken in and absorbed by the two of them.
Tetsuyu studied carefully and scribbled every single observation she had made speedily, until no one could even saw her pencil moving.
She took a big breath after she had carefully organized all of her accurate assumptions compiling it into a booklet. She was ecstatic to have discovered five of them, which was enough to design a team and was strong enough to enter that.
This was the second time that Shuzo saw his sister truly happy without having to hide it ever since the start of her middle school life. The first time was when Head Coach Shirogane had approved of her genius idea and plan. He remembered that day, when she had skipped by his side all the way home. When he asked her of the reason, she hurriedly explained everything. He reminisced, that he had accidentally dropped his bowl of miso soup during their family dinner because he was so astonished. His mouth twitched upwards as he remembered that the stated liquid had drenched his expensive and favorite pair of pants which resulted in a three hours long lecture made by his mother and another two hours long by his sweet father. Tetsuyu herself had also teased him for the whole day. She stated that she cannot believe that her own brother did not know how to eat properly. The ticking bomb inside of him exploded as he scurried behind Tetsuyu before he caught her and proceeded to tickle her sides.
Later, after school was over and the winning team was decided, the Kuroko siblings with their numb legs due to standing for too long, trudged along the hallway towards a famous office.
After having been granted of the owner's permission, they met face to face with all the basketball's coaches and submitted their reports.
Tetsuyu, who had pleaded with the head coach for his approval of her having to decide all the freshmen positions, strings and that was the presenter.
She had explained each fine detail and reasoned wisely like a professional coach even though her actual position was the manager. All the while, the adults in the room were bobbing their heads up and down showing their agreement with the fair, petite girl.
Finally, Tetsuyu placed five pieces of paper filled with information on the players that were eligible and wanted for that.
All the occupants of the room went into silence and made no movement as all of them excluding Tetsuyu were thinking on how she had saw these given her short period of time. From that moment on, after witnessing her gift, they had acknowledged her as a widely skilled yet terrifying young 'queen'.
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