CHAPTER 8: Hot Summer Determination of the Legends
Summer vacation has started and exams ended
The rest of the students were enjoying their vacation going to the beaches, travelling, visiting relatives and for those who stayed in the dorms it is a good chance to come back home and visit their parents. But of course not all of the students who lived in the dorm went home, some of them preferred to stay and socialize more with people there.
As expected those who stayed are all of the basketball club members. They are going to have a summer program. It's divided into two the normal ones who are not representing the school and the main core of the club. The main core is none other than the Generation of Miracles!.
So since they are still staying in the dorm until the place had been decided they are going to change roommates! It's a simple way. There will be three long strips of origami paper which will be in different colours. Each of it will be cut into two and put inside a snack bag!?. There is not much things that could be used so that was the only thing they had at the moment.
This was done in Akashi and Murasakibara's room. After Akashi explained the reason of doing this each member took the strips. The first who tried was Kise who was hoping to be one room with Kuroko of course.
Kise got a red colour. "Red…. Does this mean that I will be in one room with Akashi-chhi?" asked Kise in a little panic voice. The next one who take the strip is Akashi. All the members stopped talking and focus in the right hand that Akashi use to take out the paper strip. The colour is green Kise was having a moment of bliss.
"YAY! I'm not with Akashi-chhi!." Said Kise excitedly while turning around in his own position with both hands up. Because of what he said Akashi was looking at him but since Kise is really overjoyed he didn't notice it. The members changed their view to what will kise do after this and Akashi's reaction. The other members including Kuroko tried to make a room for the two. Who wants to be involved with Akashi's torture method?
Kise stopped when he felt a pair of eyes looking at him. To his surprise it's Akashi's eyes. Kise started looking around for support but the rest of the members was looking at the other direction not supporting him and Akashi gave him a winning smile which is almost creepy.
Akashi took out his scissors and cut Kise's strip into two equal pieces. Akashi took one of it and he almost threw it. But suddenly the teal blue haired boy moved forward and said "Akashi-kun I think if you did that it won't be fair for us." After a while Akashi replied "You are lucky this time Ryota no next time." Before Kuroko could escaped Kise hug him tightly and tried to kiss his cheeks. "Kise-kun please let me go." Kise let Kuroko go even though he doesn' t want to do that yet.
Kuroko took his strip and the colour is…. Yellow. Simply means Kuroko is not one room with Kise or Akashi. Murasakibara took his strip quickly red. Kise was looking at Murasakibara in disbelief while thinking I'll be one room with this snack monster!? Until when will I get my turn with Kuroko? Who will be the lucky person anyway? Soon Aomine took his strip and the colour is…. Yellow.
There was one strip left in the snack bag, Midorima took it out with his heart beating fast... He was shocked to find that it was the last strip, this left a conclusion that he will be one dorm with Akashi. Midorima looked at the strip wide eyed...
Soon the discussion started. "How can you be one room with Kuroko-chii? Aomine? Tell me how?" Kise was half begging but Aominne's answer is "Shut up. It Is fair and square." Kise was asking to Aomine to switch rooms with him obviously Kise was rejected. Kise had no choice but to stop.
Midorima saw this as a chance to switch rooms...
"Kise"
"Yes?."
"Do you want to switch rooms with me?"
"But you are with Akashi-chhi. I only want to be with Kuroko-chii…."
"Then how about this, we play 1 on 1 whoever reach the score 21 first deserved to sleep with Kuroko?"
Aomine who was bored is interested because he might be playing against Kise or Midorima. "One of you will play against me to get one room with Kuroko officially." Midorima and Kise looked at each other. 1 on 1 with their own ace!?. But Midorima and Kise didn't want to look cowards so they agreed with this.
When Akashi saw this he thought it was a good chance to train his comrades. So he added"The losers will have to have an extra training." Hearing this they will play seriously against each other. Using Kuroko as a reason is not good but... Kuroko didn't say anything about this so let's just say this is approved.
It was still around nine a.m. without waiting any longer Akashi ordered the whole Generation of Miracles to go the indoor gym. The game started but suddenly some girls who are staying in the university island came to the gym to watch Kise play 1 on 1 with Midorima the three point shooter.
Kise's fangirls started coming into the gym to watch Kise while giving support and doing some cheerleading. The question is how were they able to do this when this is not even an official match? Even the manager doesn't know anything about this.
Murasakibara, Kise and Midorima is on the court getting prepared. Kise and Midorima looked around to check if there's someone that they know. To Midorima's surprise Kiren is somewhere among the crowd although only her lucky item of the day which is a basketball is seen. Then the ball was thrown upward by Murasakibara, Midorima with height advantages made him get the ball first.
The game lasted quickly although there is a chance of winning for Kise if he used his ability to copy the generation of miracles skill. He didn't because this is just a small match to determine who's going to sleep with Kuroko and who won't. Kise's fangirls leave with disappointment but… they still supported him in the next match?
The next part is the most important one Midorima vs Aomine. Only one will officially be Kuroko's roommate!. As expected Aomine scored the first point. Midorima returned the score so now it's the score is the same point. But still in the end is not only about skill that matters But talent too. As we all know when it comes about talent the one who is born with it has more. Especially Aomine who started playing basketball before he knew the rules of the game.
Kiren tried to hide her worry face because of course she wanted Midorima to win since… ehem.. the good thing is no one noticed her face. This is another chance to see the ace in action. Then she started imagining Midorima winning against the ace through some miracle.
Kiren's imagination:
It was 3 seconds left and Midorima blocked Aomine, he stopped the formless shot and the ball belonged to himself. He shot from the position where he stood and within the last second, the ball went in the hoop beating the buzzer. Midorima looked at Kiren and smiled...
In Reality...
While she was imagining, the game was over with Aomine winning against Midorima by four points.
Aomine is still with Kuroko and no change of rooms. Kiren's daydreaming was stopped when someone whom she didn't see blew the whistle and just like that the game ended and the two losers will be punished soon.
The rest of the generation of miracles went to the court after the game ended. Akashi appeared with a box
"Okay losers your punishment is to take out a hand band from this box. The box was fully covered and only the front part is transparent. Akashi ordered Kise and Midorima to stand behind the box. Kise was cheerful because he thought it's going to be easy. Midorima is calm like always.
The rest of the GoM watched from the front part of the box. The thing is not only the hand band that is there but also….. crayfish!. The challenge is to take the hand band out. And if the crayfish use it's claw to pinch them the one who tried it first have to pass his turn. The first one who tried it is decided by playing Ja Ken Po (Paper, Scissors, Stone).
Midorima is the first one who tried. Instead of going to the area with no hand band his hand went to the area with the crayfish. The crayfish started to react and move away from each other. Feeling something move Midorima bring his hand higher but still inside the box and tried again to search for the hand band. But instead the crayfish used its claw and clamped Midorima's finger he quickly jerked away from the box. Unluckily at that time Kise and Midorima didn't know the secret of the box yet.
Those who are watching from below started to laugh because of it. Midorima became impatient "NO how can it shoot like this?" At least the crayfish is not that mean to clamp it until Midorima's finger bleed. Kise started to panic knowing that there is a dangerous unknown thing inside it. Kuroko went to Midorima and looked at his finger
" Midorima-kun are you fine?" Midorima nodded" yes." H
earing Midorima's answer made Kiren relieved by just hearing it. And as the manager she's also watching the little entertainment. Kise pouted and crossed his arms
" I don't want to do this –SHUU" Because of Akashi using his normal way Kise did it and didn't managed to get the band from the inside part. At the end none of them got the hand band and instead got smelly fingers
The generation of miracles training will be about improving their own techniques and fixing their weakness; Weakness as in weakness for physical and mental during the match.
Generation of Miracles are strong but…. You'll never know if there are stronger teams from the other basketball universities. And that is why the mental training is needed to face that who knows if one of them will stopped playing basketball entirely because of this? If that happens then it is going to be a waste of raw talent they are still young and that is why they still need to be trained to polished those talents to be use.
At least after graduation two of the six will be NBA players. Even though they are famous and the strongest that was three years ago. This time might not be their era anymore….
Well this is just the worst case possibility. On the other hand their influences to the basketball players from other universities and basketball fans are still strong enough. Hearing the name generation of miracles could make people started to have shiver. The atmosphere when the six of them are together is really different. Is kind of dark and have a strong presence. Only a few people are able to stand on the same level with them one of them is Kagami.
For the first few days the training will still be in the university because the manager and coach have to discuss about the place where they are going to practice a place that is not too expensive but could still useful to train the basketball club members.
After around three days the coach and manager decided to train in the beach and mountain because this two places are perfect. And guess what beach did they pick in the end? The place where was used for Seirin, Shutoku and Touou to practice before the winter cup in their 1st year of high school.
As soon as they arrived Kuroko,Midorima and Aomine recoqnized the place and of course Kagami who got the permission to join in the training. The training went smoothly just like how the coach and Kiren planned. Playing the basketball game in the sandy beach, searching the way out from a cave which actually trained some people to be more alert.
After a tiring day worth of practice Kuroko found Kagami shooting hoops on the beach
"Kagami-kun"
Kuroko spoke, kagami turned and missed a shot
"Kuroko... You're in university and you could still keep the low presence... Its really frustrating"
Kuroko just stared at him blankly... As usual...
"Its personality"
He said, still emotionless... This made Kagami want to throw him in the ocean but he held back. Kagami threw a basketball to Kuroko
"Let's play.."
Kuroko nodded and started to dribble. While they played one on one, Aomine watched them from the window trying to block Kise's constant drabbles.
"Ahh~ I can't believe we're here for two weeks, after that we're going straight to the competition, two matches in a day for a week and then a few weeks of holiday~ Aominecchi, aren't you even listening?"
Aomine just looked out the window
"Tetsu's getting stronger" he thought to himself
"Excuse me..."
Aomine and Kise looked up to see Kiren, she was wearing a green night gown... Kise thought it was too fancy to wear for a trainning camp
"Ehem"
"Ah kirencchi! What's up?"
"Have you seen Midorima-kun? He told me to meet him after dinner but he didn't tell me where.."
Aomine and Kise looked at each other blankly, just then Akashi went in the room
"Kiren? Ryota, Daiki did you do something wrong?"
Akashi looked at them with his heterochromatic eyes wondering if they did something bad
"N-no-nothing!" The two of the replied in unison
"Akashi-kun, have you seen Midorima-kun?"
The captain stood there in curiosity for a while why did shintaro arrange an appointment with her?
"Shintaro might be at the antique shop nearby..."
Kiren bowed and went to the shop. After Kiren left, Kise stood up
"Let's follow them!"
"Kise! Are you crazy?!"
"I'm not! I'm normal!"
Akashi just looked at them blankly but a hint of being serious was in there
"Ryota, stop speaking non-sense"
"Akashicchi! No! No! I'm not speaking non-sense! Don't you see?! Midorimacchi likes Kirencchi and asked her out for a date! So we have to make sure it goes well!"
Aomine and Akashi thought for a while but before coming up with an agreement, Kise already dragged them out the door and to the beach.
"KUROKOCCHIIIII! KAGAMICCHIIIII!"
The blond waved at them like a retard, kuroko and kagami looked at him
"LET'S GO TO THE ANTIQUE SHOP!"
And he dragged them too... Now its off to get the purple giant, who was calmly eating a bag of seaweed flavored chips by the convenience store
"MURASAKIBARACCHI! FOLLOW ME!"
Before Murasakibara could answer, Kise dragged him along as well. At the antique shop, they saw Midorima and Kiren talking about something... Horoscopes probably?
Kagami got impatient
"Why am I here?!"
"SHHHHHHH"
Was all he got...
"Kurokocchi come with me!"
Kise and Kuroko went in to the shop... Unnoticed... And unseen... The other generation of miracles and Kagami just watched through the glass window wondering what is Kise up to
Meanwhile inside the shop...
"Kise-kun what are we doing?"
"We have to make sure they don't get bad luck"
Then Kise pointed to a china pot over Midorima's head
"Its going to fall..."
Kuroko looked at the pot
"How do you know kise-kun?"
Kise gasped and face palmed
"Kurokocchi! Have you seen those type of romance movies where the guy accidentally bumps somewhere and a pot falls on him?!"
Kise directed his attention back to the pot...
"Hn... Kuro-chin, kise-chin~"
Murasakibara appeared behind them not only that but everyone else too!
"Eh-EH?! I thought... Chotto!"
"Its not nice to leave comrades out in the cold Ryota..."
Kise sighed and payed attention to the pot again... But he started to get annoyed of Murasakibara's constant munching and Aomine fighting with Kagami...
"Idiot! I could've won!" Aomine argued
"Well, its not my fault I enetered the zone!"
"The zone was supposed to be mine! BAKAGAMI!"
"Easy for you to say AHOMINE!"
The two of them started fighting, making the objects in the shop shake then it happened...
"CATCH THE POT!"
Kise shouted as he "flew" towards the pot and caught it, on the other hand Midorima and Kiren spotted them... Busted...
At the end of the night Kise received a bunch of arguments and complaints from his fellow members and manager
A few weeks later, it is already the end of trainning... No more push ups in the morning, no more laps around the beach, no more water beach ball (volley ball in water) and no more cramps. However this week is game week! What unexpected things would happen?
Reviews and comments are greatly appreciated! (sorry if there are any grammar mistakes)
