A/N :
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'Who can be calling me at this kind of time?' Nevertheless, she still picked up the phone as the ringtones were getting annoying by each second passed.
"Hm?"
"Yuukiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"
Again, Yuuki distanced her ear from the phone, and still received glances from people around her due to the 750kHz frequency coming from the other side. 'Even if my hearing's completely fine, but I might need hearing aid in near future if those guys keep on using high-pitch voice.'
"Please keep your voice down. I'm in a bookstore now."
The caller, realized that, quickly apologized. "So, did you hear?"
"Your voice? Certainly." Her sarcastic remark embedded itself in her tone as she left the bookstore, continue walking aimlessly.
"I see your sarcasm still hasn't changed."
That voice!
"Dai-chan!"
Yuuki rolled her eyes at her phone. Without wasting a sweat, she hung up. They never change too. What's with that kind of lovers' quarrel?
Three minutes later, her phone rang again, displayed the same caller's name as before. "If you're going to do your stupid bickering again, I'm hanging up."
"Grumpy as usual."
"So, I assume you didn't call me just to forget about me and do your lovers' quarrel."
"WE'RE NOT LOVERS!" The girl's voice echoed through although Yuuki's sure that Dai-chan is probably holding the cell at the height the girl couldn't reach.
"Tetsu's coming after me now."
A scoff escaped her lips. "Please, Aomine. More like, you're coming after them."
"You look dead." Both Kagami and Kuroko turned towards her. Her eyes were lazy and expressionless. "Never thought the match with two kings in a row had this kind of a toll on you."
"Actually, Yuuki-san." Kagami's barely standing, let alone talking to argue with her. "Kagami-kun's reviewing for the review test."
"You did that bad on your previous mid-term?" Yuuki's faking her surprised face.
Kuroko nodded on his behalf. "Reminding us of you-know-who, isn't it?"
"Couldn't even disagree to that." Yuuki looked at the angry Kagami. "By the way, you should use that pencil Midori gave you."
"You asked him for this?"
Nodded. "He said something like how lame it is not to be able to play in a match because you're an idiot."
"HE SAID THAT?!"
Yuuki came closer to Kuroko and whispered something. After that, she winked and scuttled to eat her lunch elsewhere.
I just made up most of that~
A pair of hazel eyes watched the playful 1-on-1 as the red-haired being completely pressured by the tanned teen. Although that's pretty much were expected, it's still sting her heart to see how he changed from a basketball-idiot to basketball-bastard.
"Did Satsuki tell you I'm here?"
"No." Her eyes met with his. "I just figured it on my own."
"Can't believe Tetsu thought of him to be his new light." His smirk mocked Kuroko and the person before him.
"Aomine."
His smile when he's playing basketball was more radiant than the sun, warmer than the summer and happier than five-years-old kid getting his first toy.
"Here." A towel was handed to him. "Nice play."
The blue-haired would smile and say thanks, no matter how cliché her compliment is.
But then, nothing lasts forever. So is he.
"Nice play, Daiki!" Her smile is always the thing that keeps them going, only to be shattered the next moment.
"Yuuki. You won't see me playing like that again next time. And..."
Yuuki's eyes widen at his last words. Nothing could describe how her heart aches at that moment. Just like how he broke the connection with Kuroko, he broke the connection with her too.
"That's low, even for you."
"Is it wrong to test his abilities? He beat Midorima, and Kise." Aomine tried to defense himself spontaneously when the girl looked as if she pierced through his heart.
"We both know you are here to crush him, not test him."
Aomine scowled. He should know better than anyone how this girl could nail everyone without even trying. "He could beat two of Kiseki no Sedai because Tetsu's there."
Nodded. "I think the same."
"And you're okay with that?" His eyes filled with anger, dissatisfaction and agony as their courage seemed to take outsider's side.
"It doesn't matter if I'm okay with it or not. What matters is Tetsu. And you have forgotten it all along."
"Yuuki." Aomine started to walk away. "Never imagine I would be disappointed in you."
"Makes the two of us, Aomine."
"Isn't that Satsuki?" The pink-haired girl with big bust turned. "Why are you here?"
"That's what I should be saying! We have training today!" This guy!
"Ah~ I met Kagami."
"I told you not to! He's still recuperating!"
"And Yuuki." The girl went silence. "Both of them disappoint me."
Dai-chan. Yuuki. What happened between them now?
"So, I don't feel like practicing! Let's go and eat…"
Momoi followed her childhood friend's pace without even sparing a nagging, causing Aomine to ear-bleed.
When did it start?
"Is that the new first-string?"
Nodded. "Not bad, isn't it?"
Yuuki sweatdropped. Not bad? More like he's talented. Being promoted in just two weekds since he joined the club and now holding his own ground against Aomine, this guy is certainly not in the league of not bad. He's way beyond that.
But it's not like Kise's the first to surprise others. The other four already do the honor when they're selected into the first-string in their freshmen year.
It's just that, Aomine blossomed faster, followed by the rest of the GOM, leading to a huge avalanche in their relationship.
She realized the stronger a person becomes, the more he wanted something that's near impossible to reach. Aomine loves basketball more than anyone. That's why when he's getting stronger and yet no one can rival him, he lost his track. He started skipping practices and eventually, stops putting effort into his matches.
Her eyes landed softly on the frame, the only thing that she didn't keep hidden from her middle school memories. 'Forget about Aomine, Seirin won't have an easy way around Touo this time. Right, Tetsu?'
