*Sigh*

*Scratch Scratch*

*Bleep*

"Tch..."

*Scratch Scra- Rub Rub Rub*

*Yawn*

*Bored Tongue Clicking*

*Scratch*

*Blee-*

*Bleep*

"Oh bloody..." Liz was getting very fed up. Our leading cast were stuck inside because it was pissing it down with rain, thus leaving them with very few options to entertain themselves.

Liz was drawing. Momoi was watching with curiosity. The boys were doing nothing, more or less, except a few of them who were reading books. Midorima found a book about astrology, Kuroko was looking at a manga and Akashi was reading a book about basketball.

Kise was going through one of Liz's older sketchbooks, unknown to the latter. This one, he found, was dedicated to creating an original manga of her own creation.

It wasn't completed, but despite that, it was good. She had stuck every scrap of paper she used to create the manga in the sketchbook, even the bits with not so neat handwriting, first drafts of characters and add ins to the main plot.

Kise was amazed to say the least. He found it endearing that she had put all this effort into creating something so hard to make, and even left evidence that she had worked to develop it to make it even better. If he had to say what he liked about it, he wouldn't know where to start. But one thing that he could definitely say he loved was the art. The art was truly beautiful.

Having seen many animes/mangas in his life, Kise was aware that every mangaka has their own style. He could tell that Liz had already found hers, and would be able to develop it further and further.

He looked up at Liz from where he lay on the floor. He saw the girl who was capable of creating such a beautiful, yet unfinished, manga, clearly at a young age. He felt proud, and he wanted to share that feeling with the rest of his friends, because he knew that the others would feel the same way.

'She looks so cute when she's concentrating~' He thought to himself, a small smile gracing his lips as he watched his crush hard at work, a minute pout and furrowed eyebrows visible. His staring didn't go unnoticed, and a certain bubbly character started imagining a relationship between the copy cat and the average girl with sparkles in her eyes.

*Bleep*

*Ble-*

*Bleep*

"Oi, Bakagami! Shut that phone up or I will!" Aomine yelled obnoxiously from his place on the bed, very frustrated. Kagami wasn't exactly a bag of smiles either.

The girl who had (forcefully) gotten his number, was not only sending him a hundred texts, but had given Kagami's phone number to her friends, and from there, it spread like the plague. Now his phone was bleeping more than Gordon Ramsey on a censored TV programme.

"There's only one thing we can do to solve this." Akashi spoke up, having finished his reading.

"It's not going to involve scissors, is it?" Kagami asked, unconsciously touching his cheek. Akashi turned to look at his fellow redhead with a pointed look.

"Of course not. What can scissors do now...?" It was like one of those really creepy rhetorical questions, and everyone else felt chills run through them, even though the air was really muggy and humid.

Turns out that the only solution (according to Akashi) was to borrow a small, metal mallet from Hank's garage and his workbench and, well, let loose on the phone.

Liz pat Kagami's shoulder as he dropped the metal corpse, contained in a plastic bag, into the bin.

"Don't worry about it, we'll get you a new one tomorrow. Also, never give a girl your phone number unless I give you the green light." She told him as they followed everyone up the stairs. "At least, while you're here."

The rest of the day was spent playing video games, or just messing about inside. Liz served up some Kimchi ramen to the group, leaving only three bowls of ramen in the house.

They were currently playing Tomb Raider (the 2014 prequel game), and everyone seemed to be interested, especially Aomine, who was the one actually playing it. Then again, this is Aomine and Lara Croft we're talking about, of course he'd love it.

They were sitting parallel to the TV where the game was being displayed. Some reclined in beanbags others sitting/lying on the bed.

Right now, Lara and the Professor had just been captured by some bad men on the island and they were trying to sneak her out of the campsite where she was being held, ideally without being spotted.

"No don't go yet! He'll see you- aaaand he saw you..." Liz was sitting behind Aomine, who was sat cross legged on the edge of the bed, leaning over him and sort of back seat driving in a way.

"I'd be able to concentrate if you would juststop yelling!" He turned back to face her with a scowl after pausing the game.

"You're being unreasonable!" The girl yelled, thwacking him upside the head.

With a grunt and a flinch from the impact, the dark haired boy was nearly lost for words.

"Me?!" He looked at her, dumbfounded at her hypocriticising.

Liz huffed, frowned and crossed her arms, turning her head to the side.

"Oi...now you just look like a sulking kid..." He said as he looked at her in exasperation, rubbing the back of his head to try and soothe it. She said nothing, she just shuffled further to the right and sat herself on Kagami's knee.

The red head protested at first, feeling the jealous stares from around him. Then he got cocky at the fact that Liz chosehis knee to sit on, even though she only picked him because he was closer, and he wrapped his arm around her waist lightly and causally.

Liz heard Momoi giggle and say something about a reverse harem. She just gave her pink friend a funny look.

"Tch, geez..." Aomine said as he turned away and resumed the game.

It got a bit rowdy after that, with everyone offering up their opinions or suggestions about the game at least five times each.

"Gah! Where the Hell did those chickens come from?!" Kagami yelled, caught up in the excitement. Liz just laughed at him.

"Hey, do you think she can eat them?" Kise asked from the floor.

"I don't know if you can, but you can definitely shoot them." Liz said, pondering.

"Well, only one way to find out." Aomine said as he aimed Lara's bow and arrow and shot a chicken. He then approached it and triggered the salvaging action. Turns out you can hunt chickens on Tomb Raider, and eat them for dinner.

"Well, I'm gonna go get some drinks, who wants what?" Liz asked as she got up from Kagami's knee and stretched a bit.

Everyone gave her their preferences and she headed down to the kitchen. Aomine carried on playing and everyone watched as Lara, having found Roth (a fellow survivor of the ship wreck), talked about a wolf den.

Then they heard the shrill ringing of the house phone. It was Liz's dad calling to ask if she wanted Chinese take away for dinner (one of her favourites).

After a long while, they heard Liz ascending the stairs lightly as she hummed a tune.

"Sorry I took so long." She said with an apologetic smile, handing the bottles and cans of soft drinks to everyone. She also put a large plate on the foot of her bed. "I made some sandwiches for your dinner, it's not much. I sound like a desperate mother saying this but, I wish I could provide for you all properly."

"You do sound like a desperate mother. But don't apologise, you can't help it." Midorima said rather curtly, taking a swig of his Fanta.

"Oi, cut the sympathetic crap, I need help with this bit." Aomine piped in. As he said this, he grabbed Liz's wrist and pulled her into his (open) lap.

Throwing the already surprised girl further off guard, he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer into his embrace.

'Oh my God...I can feel his muscles...'

As her mind caught up with the situation, she started to struggle in his grip. But Aomine just held her closer - if that's possible.

"Stop struggling and help me already...geez..." He said lazily into her ear, ignoring all the staring from his associates.

Liz eventually gave in, and grabbed the controller from his seemingly taunting hand.

"Fine, you aho." She said sharply, trying to ignore the way he was holding her, his hot breath right on her ear, and the blush she received from it.

As Lara Croft was navigated through the beastly wolf's cave, an air of tension fell upon the room. It was extremely eerie, and the music in the background wasn't quite helping the girl's nerves.

When the wolf suddenly jumped out from the shadows, all the boys either jumped or flinched a at least, but Akashi just sat there with a slightly amused expression. Kagami had a baby heart attack and clutched his t-shirt where the respective organ was located. Not to mention the priceless look of terror on his face.

The girls were a different story. They both shrieked and clung to the nearest mass of testosterone they could find, which wasn't too hard.

Momoi was burying her face into Kuroko's shoulder, the latter expressing his concern mildly by rubbing her back.

Liz had thrown the controller into the air, spun around as best she could and latched her arms around Aomine's broad shoulders.

A second later she realised what position she was in, and stood up as fast as lightning.

"Heh! I knew you couldn't stay away~." The tanned boy mused with cockiness just radiating off of him

"Shut up! I was just surprised is all." Explaining herself like a whiney toddler with a red face, she saved the game, that everyone had completely forgotten about, and turned off the console.

"You keep telling yourself that~"

'Aomine, you cocky bastard...'

Just as she was about to voice her thoughts (and the other boys' too) the front door was opened and Hank's voice called for Liz.

"Lizzy! We got a whole bag of free fortune cookies! And they have fortunes in them!"

"Well surely that's the idea!" She called from the doorway of her room.

"Come on~ or I'll eat all of yours." He mock threatened.

"Okay~!" She sung.

"I'll see you later guys, don't get too bored." Liz closed her bedroom door and skipped two steps at a time. Boy, does she love Chinese food.

Kise used Liz's absence to show everyone her original manga.

"Woah~ you mean she made this herself?"

"Man, this is pretty impressive."

"It isn't my sort of story, but I'll admit that the rest of it is good."

"It definitely holds potential."

"This must've taken a lot of effort~"

"I admire her. For such a young person to do something like this...it's like us with basketball, we're in a league of our own. She's on a whole other level from amateur mangakas." Kise mused. Having heard his viewpoint, the others saw it the same way he did, and admired Liz for her hard work.

"It looks like this isn't the only one she's made..." Kuroko trailed off as he looked up at the pile of sketchbooks, all bursting with loose paper, stashed high out of reach at the top of the bookshelf. It was quite high up (that even Murasakibara couldn't quite reach without having to stretch on his tippy toes) so one could only wonder how Liz managed to get them up there in the first place.

The group of basketball prodigies ended up sitting in a somewhat circular shape on the floor, looking at all the different things Liz had ever come up with.

When Liz eventually come back to her room to go to bed, she was surprised to see everyone asleep, next to each other with peaceful faces. Yes even Akashi.

Liz took this as an opportunity to take photos of them, to tease them with, and to have them as keepsakes. She especially wanted to capture the image of Kuroko resting on Kagami's shoulder. Let's not forget the way Kise was leaning against Aomine, who had his arm around the blonde's shoulders loosely.

'I'm gonna get so yelled at when they see these~! Oh well, I just can't wait to see the looks on their faces!~'