When the Basketball Team goes Grocery Shopping
"Rina-chin, what's for breakfa-" Murasakibara walks into the kitchen and makes eye contact with the single, orange vegetable in my hand.
Kise walks in as well.
Chaos ensues.
Almost immediately, Murasakibara leapt at me. His tall stature combined with the sheer, shocking force successfully sent me crashing down the floor as the carrot flew out into the open and landed in some corner of my kitchen. After two seconds of eye contact, both of the mini basketball players lunged for said vegetable.
"Murasakicchi! Let go! You don't even like vegetables!" Kise screeched as he held onto one end of the carrot. Atsushi simply frowned and grunted, keeping a strong grip on his respective end. Both of them held on for quite a long time, it was quite entertaining, really. I didn't have the heart to break them up.
The rest of the team must've heard the commotion seeing as one by one, they began to file into the kitchen. At first they were confused as to why the two kids were fighting over a single carrot. That it, until they directed their attention to the empty fridge, save for the one carton of month-old carton of milk inside.
Now, more participants of joined this great once-in-a-lifetime battle for a carrot! Midorima headed in first, mumbling about how he would definitely win, he did have today's lucky item after all. Wait, was that my mom's precious vase!?
"Woah, woah, woah! Watch it there, Glasses boy! That's an eight hundred dollar vase you got there! Hey, don't go swinging that around! Are you even listening anymore!?" That's not even the end of it. Just as I was about to catch the little broccoli-colored boy, Aomine stepped in still holding onto baby Tetsuya. My poor little baby was then flung in the air as the big idiot Aomine joined the carrot battle as well.
Had it not been for me, who ran as fast as I could to catch the little one, we would've had a huge Kuro pancake right here in the middle of my kitchen floor. Don't even get me started on Akashi though. Who knows where he got all those pairs of scissors…I really think that being in a child's body has really affected the previous mindset of his. He was more of an obnoxious, spoiled child now. Just somewhat. What used to be the Great Captain of the Teikou basketball team is now a mere child glaring menacingly at his teammates with multiple pairs of scissors in his hands. I must say, child safety scissors have never looked as threatening as they did now.
"As captain, you all shall submit to me. Now hand over the orange item."
The members all looked at Akashi, then at Murasakibara, then back. Deciding that the threat did not lie in their captain, they continued to fight it out.
"Hey! I should be able to get it, I am the Ace after all!"
"No, I should! According to Oha Asa, Cancers are luckiest today!"
"I want food." Murasakibara stated simply.
It was when it turned into an almost fist fight that I stepped in. Gently, I put Baby Tetsu down and walked over to separate them one by one.
"You guys, knock it off already!"
"Ehh? Where did carrot-san go!?" Kise exclaimed. It was then that everyone noticed that the object of the whole battle was missing.
"Oi! It's right there in Tetsu's hand!"
In the midst of chaos, it seemed nobody remembered Kuroko, not even me. The little devil had stolen the carrot from right under our noses!
I let out a sigh and snatched the carrot out of Tetsuya's tiny hand.
"You know, I was about to suggest that we eat out for breakfast yet it seems like you idiots prefer to fight it out for a single carrot. Fine by me, if that's the way you guys roll." In ten seconds flat, the whole team was at the door, shoes on.
Taking them to a pancake house was a big mistake on my part. Next time I think I'll just buy them each a burger and a milkshake and call it a day. Never have I ever seen even an adult eat that many pancakes let alone a child. All of them started out with a decent amount of pancakes, except for Tetsuya who was content with just a milkshake, the amount of pancakes had then escalated as they asked for seconds, thirds, and fourths.
At the end of it all, they were clutching their bellies and belching loudly across the table.
"You guys! Don't you have any manners?" I'll just watch them all suffer from stomachaches later. The bill racked up a good two hundred dollars, way off from the amount that I had imagined.
"Hey Ryoutan?"
"Yeah?" The blonde turned from his conversation with Aomine to address me.
"Do you wanna know a way to get out of dish duties?" He nodded vigorously.
"Let me borrow your credit card again." I said as I held up the piece of plastic. He visually paled as he weighed the pros and cons of both situations.
"Um…but…"
"Look, by lending me a couple hundred, you could get out of dish duty and save your precious little hands. Then you could possibly pursue a career in hand modeling and easily earn those two hundred back! Doesn't that sound easy?"
"I suppose so…"
"Hey, why can't I get out of dish duty!?" Aomine complained.
"Well, do you have two hundred dollars to spare?" He had nothing to say to that. "I thought so."
Afterwards, I announced that we would go grocery shopping.
"Since you guys are staying with me for the rest of the week, we will need to stock up on food. You guys will have to help me out but remember, buy the necessities only. I don't want to be ringing up a bunch of candy and other junk. Stay with me the whole time and maybe if you guys don't cause any trouble by the end, we can split up and buy something you guys want." Gosh, I felt like a teacher leading a field trip.
The first half of the trip did run by smoothly, so I split them up into two groups and let them choose one item each. Tetsuya stayed with me, of course. Surprisingly, it was Atsushi who returned first…with his own, personal shopping basket.
"Please explain to me why any of this is necessary." I asked, pointing at the various candies and packages of junk food in the blue basket.
"I like them. It's good."
"Choose one, Atsu-tan. Just one." In one hand, he held a large chocolate bar and in another, it held a family sized bag of chips. His brows furrowed in frustration as he tried to decide which package to take.
"Rinacchi!" I turned my attention to Kise and Aomine who had returned from their trip.
"What did you two decide to buy?" As they told me about the items they chose, I heard an unnaturally loud crinkle of packages right next to me. I turned around and realized that Atsushi had dumped the items in his shopping basket into my cart. The boy had even mixed the items around so that I couldn't even tell which was mine and which items were his!
"Murasakibara! You just!" The smug grin on his face pretty much told me that he had already won. I gave up.
"You two throw your items in too. Let's go find Akashi and Midorima now." I pushed the heavy shopping cart with Kuroko seated on the little child's seat in the front and began to walk around the store in search of the other two.
We were in the frozen foods section that I mindlessly walked through before something that Aomine said caused me to stop.
"Oi Kise, isn't that your mom over there?"
"Eh? Oh, you're right!" My head snapped up and sure enough, my best friend's mother was right. There. In. front. Of. Me.
"Woah! You three, shoo! Shoo! Go far, far, away until I come find you!" They listened and walked out of the aisle into who knows where.
"Ah, Kirina-chan! What a surprise to see you here!" I turned around and gave my best smile.
"Hello Kise-san. My parents are out on another business trip so I'm just out to buy some groceries." She eyed the amount of junk food in my cart.
"Eating all these by yourself isn't good for you."
"Oh no, they're not all for me! I invited some friends over for a sleepover to keep me company so I just needed to buy some snacks. Hehehehe…"
"I see…and who's this little one?" She pointed to Kuroko. I had forgotten yet again that he was still here!
"Oh this? He's um…"
"He has Kuroko-kun's hair color!"
"That's because he's Kuroko's cousin!" Right, this sounds like an okay lie. "I'm just babysitting him for a while."
"Right, they're all out at the moment aren't they? Do you know how ridiculous Ryouta is? After being gone the whole night without a single message, he suddenly calls me in the morning and tells me that he'll be gone this whole week for a training camp! I haven't even heard about this at all! Teenage boys these days are so irresponsible."
"Ahaha…right, right."
"Anyways, what's this little one's name?" She asked and gave Tetsuya's cheek a little pinch.
"Uhm…name? Oh, uh Billy. Yes, that's his name. Billy."
"Billy, huh. Is he foreign?"
"Yes! Yes, he's from…um…Peru. Doesn't speak a single word of Japanese. Actually, he can't speak a single word at all. Only knows baby talk. Isn't that right, Billy-chan?" I asked and gave his blue hair a pat.
"Gwub gwub bloooo." Kuroko blubbered in his attempt at baby talk.
"Ah, such a cutie! Well I have to get going now, Kirina-chan. If you happen to see Ryouta, please give him a good lecture for me."
"Okay, I will Kise-san. Have a nice day!"
"You too." I breathed out a sigh of relief as she rolled her cart away.
"Kyaa, Tetsuyan you're such a good boy keeping up with the act! I'll be sure to buy you an extra large vanilla shake when we get home!" I gave the little boy a hug and began to look for the rest of the team.
Murasakibara was easy enough to find. In the snack aisle, I caught him chomping on a chocolate covered biscuit.
"I would hope that you've paid for that delicious looking snack that you're eating right now, Atsu-tan." He paused mid-bite to turn and look at me, then resumed eating and shook his head.
"Atsu-tan! You know you can't do that! Come with me right now to apologize to the manager!" He quickly finished and stuck the wrapper back into the original packaging.
"It's okay, I put the wrapper back."
"It is not!" So after going through another detour to apologize to the manager of the store and having to purchase the entire package of biscuits, I set out once again to find the others.
Weirdly enough, I found Kise and Aomine in the detergent section.
"Ehehe, Kise, sniff this one! It smells a baby's butt!"
"Aominecchi, I like this one! It's all lemoney and pretty!" The two of them giggled like idiots as they sniffed at the many choices of detergents and other items used for cleaning.
"You two are going to get brain damage if you keep inhaling stuff like that!" I hollered putting the various bottles back into their respective places. The intercom came on with an announcement from the manager.
"Would the parents or guardians of a red haired boy with red eyes and a green haired boy with black framed glasses carrying a large vase please report to customer service. I repeat: Would the parents or guardians of a red haired boy with red eyes and a green haired boy with black framed glasses carrying a large vase please report to customer service." The description sure sounds familiar, doesn't it?
"Well boys, it seems like we're heading to customer service next."
"You again!?" The manager exclaimed as I arrived at the customer service desk.
"Uh yes. What did these two do?"
"They took one of our most valuable shogi sets and began to play it in the middle of the meats section. Not only did this disturb the flow of traffic, it has also significantly decreased the amount of worth of the shogi set." I inwardly groaned.
"I am so, so, so very sorry sir. I'll make sure to keep a better eye on them next time."
"I would hope so ma'am. Now about the price of the shogi set…"
After negotiating with the manager for the longest time and finally getting the rest of the items in my cart checked out, I was left with a receipt of another two hundred dollars plus an extra hundred for the shogi set that was apparently made of glass.
"Soooo Ryoutan, do you wanna know a way to get out of laundry duty?"
"Rinacchi, I'm gonna go broke!"
A/N: Here's the next update! I can't believe I spent 6 chapters just on the first two days of the storyXD This is going on longer than I had originally planned...but next chapter is where the plot(If there is any to begin with) will move on.
So anyways, here's some personal rant time...XD anyone here watch SnK? Last night's episode was just so. Ughhhh. All my feels TAT I swear, I'm not gonna make it to the end of the season...and then there's Free...all my feels there too ugghhhh...such a frustrating week for meXDD I've been trying to keep reading the Kuroko manga but I reached the part in the Interhigh where it was Kise vs. Aomine and I JUST COULDN'T CONTINUE. It hurts so much TTATT my poor Kise bby~~ I will continue on though...definitely...yup.
LOL yeah that was pretty long...well I just really, really want to thank everyone who's favorited, followed, and reviewed this story! You guys all make me wanna write more and more! X3 I'll try to update at least every other week from now on! That's gonna be my goal for now so until next time, bye bye~