After coming home, Kise found it hard to sleep as he kept thinking about the tanned boy. He kept tossing and turning on his bed. He was excited to play basketball with him and his thoughts kept darting in and out of number of things.

The blonde thought back to the Teiko days, before joining the Basket ball team he had always felt lonely amidst the crowd that surrounded him. When he was alone, he could hear the sound of the wind blowing around him...it all felt so lonely and boredom filled him whenever he excelled at something new.

People usually saw him for his talents and his career as a model but since he met Aomine things changed for him. Aomine made him feel like he's belongs there, with the entire team, made him feel like he's not just for his skills or his modelling career.

Aomine often bullied him, he never went easy on Kise during Basketball and he just treated Kise like any other human being. Aomine made him feel like a person and not just a celebrity. Kise didn't admire Aomine just for his Basketball skills, he admired his entire existence.

His thoughts made their way to Aomine's personal life. He never got involved with girls in Teiko. He was aware that Aomine read porn magazines and liked big breasted girls. In middle school, Kise himself got involved with girls but his relationships with them never got too serious and the girls were interested in him only because of his status as a model.

He thought back to Kuroko. Kise always had felt an odd sense of jealousy whenever he saw the tanned boy with Kuroko.

Kuroko joined the Teiko basketball team before Kise and he already had become Aomine's close friend by the time blonde joined the team.

Aomine and Kuroko were a duo on a Basketball court as they played together as the light and shadow and Kise wanted to be a part of it. Whenever they played together Kise would feel jealous, it made him feel left out, it would made him feel dejected.

It isn't like he had wanted to be Aomine's shadow, he just wanted to play with him with the same passion Kuroko played with him, play with him as a pair. On a basketball court, Kise couldn't have much interaction with the tanned boy, he wanted to have those fist bumps with Aomine, wanted to make those passes, wanted to smile while playing with him, just like Kuroko did.

Kise didn't feel better when Aomine addressed to Kuroko as 'Tetsu.' He used his given name which had the blonde jealous and hurt again. The blonde knew that Aomine and he, himself did become fairly close to each other in the shortest period of time but every time Aomine addressed Kuroko as Tetsu, their relation would feel intimate.

Kise never expressed his jealousy. Truth be told, he was fond of Kuroko, he never held any ill feelings towards the sixth phantom. But all he craved was the tanned boy's attention.

Aomine is the only reason for his inspiration to play a sport which became close to his heart. He was the one who erased the boredom in his life, the one who pushed him beyond his limits, the one who always brought out his true potential, the one who always motivated him and the one who made him feel alive.

Aomine Daiki was and still ishis hero.


Kise sighed as he thought of the day he had spend with Aomine, he bit his lower lip as his mind was filled with Aomine and he was reminded of the indirect kiss. He closed his eyes and he let his mind wander as a dangerous thought made its way into his mind. 'Aomine-cchi's lips, his lips over mine'. Kise snapped his eyes open and jolted upright on his bed and soon enough his heart has started beating loudly. His breathing had become irregular.

Kise blinked once, twice, thrice until he felt his own cheeks heat up. He covered his mouth with his hand trying to register his thoughts, trying to calm himself.

He exhaled as he ruffled his hair trying to fathom his unusual thoughts. He realized he was having such thoughts about a boy... 'What the hell was that? What is this feeling?'

He gradually came to a conclusion that these feelings aren't just simple, they are something different, something that had his heart in a state of total confusion.


He flopped down on the bed, closed his eyes and sighed again, he somehow managed to get rid of his thoughts and he just wanted to sleep. He glanced at the clock and saw it was 1.37 am.

As for tomorrow, he couldn't just wait to get up, get over with his school and club activities. Exhaustion soon took over him and he finally let himself fall into a deep slumber.


The next morning, at school, Momoi asked Aomine how everything went with Kise. Aomine told her that things went fine and they're meeting again today to play basketball. Upon hearing this Momoi smiled brightly at Aomine and told him, "Dai-chan, whatever happens from now on, be sure to be honest with yourself, okay?" Aomine furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and asked her, "What are you talking about, Satsuki?"

In return, Momoi told him, "Nothing much, just promise me you'll be honest with yourself." Aomine gave her an annoyed look and agreed with a roll of his eyes. He couldn't be bothered to know the underlying meaning behind Momoi's words.

Last night, he kept thinking about the blonde, Kise was making him feel things and he found himself confused. Aomine decided to just shrug these things for now, he was just itching to play basketball later in the evening with the blonde, he smirked as he could already imagine Kise losing and demanding another game.

He still had his own club activities to attend to and wondered when the blonde will text him.

As on cue, the blonde texted him: informing that his club activities will end an hour early, and he will be in Tokyo by 5.30. The tanned boy texted him back, told him to arrive at the park which they used to play at, back in Teiko.


Kise was getting excited by the passing minute, he was being bubbly than usual which was getting annoying for his teammates.

Finally the club activities came to an end and he left right away.

He arrived at the metro, got in the train. It was a one hour ride from Kanagawa and Tokyo, it felt so long to the blonde. He had been really excited and he could already feel his heart going into an overdrive mode. He had gotten used to the long ride but times like these he just couldn't wait and ended up hurrying.

Finally the train arrived at the Tokyo station and Kise sprinted towards the park mentioned by the tanned boy.

Upon his arrival, Kise found the tanned boy playing with the basketball by himself, bouncing the ball, blocking and cutting through the air as he imagined being faced by an opponent. Kise saw him make a shot which went through the hoop effortlessly. Even without the opponent Aomine looked so cool; he was graceful in his movements, he always was so impressive. Kise for a moment found himself being mesmerized by the sight. Kise thought, 'Ah, why does he have to be so freaking cool even when he's playing by himself'.

He walked towards the tanned boy and called out to him, Aomine stopped his movements and turned around to face him, "So the blondie's finally here..."

Kise gave him a smile in return as he tried to steal the basketball. But Aomine was quick to move away from him, he said with a smug grin on his face, "When you lose, you're buying me ice cream, Kise."

Kise pouted heavily and said, "Aomine-cchi should use the word, 'if', 'if' ". Kise put the emphasis on the mouthing of the word 'if' at which Aomine quirked an eyebrow. He suddenly flung the basketball at the blonde which he managed to dodge. Kise asked him looking surprised, "W-Why did you do that?" Aomine replied with a smirk, "You annoyed me so I wanted to shut you up." Kise pouted again, "You're always bullying me, Aomine-cchi is so mean-ssu!"

That made Aomine heave a sigh and Kise saw him run across to grab the ball, Aomine ran up to Kise and the blonde could see the determination in his eyes and knew they were going to play in a serious demeanour.

As Aomine began to bounce and dribble the ball, Kise couldn't help but feel ecstatic. Kise only managed to make 2 shots in the hoop, Aomine was surprised but wasn't all that shocked. He had expected the blonde to get better and he had gotten a lot better. He managed to steal the ball from Aomine and also managed to make scores.

They played few more rounds on the blonde's demand. But their one-on-one ended up with Aomine winning after all.

Kise sat on the ground, with the palms pressed against the surface of the ground, panting hard, trying to get the much needed oxygen in his lungs.

Aomine bounced the basketball in his hand, all Kise could do was stare at him. The sun was setting in the afternoon sky and Kise could see the sweat glistening on his sun kissed skin. His shirt was getting damp and sticking to his skin because of the sweat, Kise almost licked his lips as he could just imagine his muscled abs underneath his clothes laced with beads of sweat.

His navy blue hair shining under the orange-yellow rays of the sun. His midnight blue eyes fixed on the basketball. He dribbled the ball again, running towards the hoop and making a dunk.

Captivating, Aomine Daiki is absolutely captivating.

He couldn't bring himself to look away, Kise's thoughts diverted their way to last night, he breath got caught in his throat and he shook his head violently as he didn't want to be reminded of anything weird...at least not now.

Kise looked away quickly as he realized what he had just thought was something weird indeed.

He suddenly felt Aomine's piercing gaze upon him, staring at him and the blonde was starting to get conscious. Aomine asked him, "Hey, that piercing in your ear, why did you get that?"

The model touched his ear, fiddling with his earring and told him, "Ah, this...It was just impulsive. I thought it would look cool." Aomine scoffed and asked him, "And your manager was okay with that?"

Kise continued, "Not really, he reprimanded me but later everybody at the agency liked it and thought it made me look attractive." Aomine hummed in reply while he made a shot in the hoop.

The blonde quirked his eyebrow at him, "What do you think, Aomine-cchi?, Does it make me look attractive?" Aomine was looking for the ball and replied unconsciously, "Well, yes, you have always been attractive and that earring adds more to your appeal."

Kise froze and forgot how to breathe for a moment and stared at his back in shock, he was not expecting that. He expected Aomine to say something like it's dumb or something. He had never received any kind of compliments from Aomine until now.

Aomine turned around and amber eyes met cerulean blue eyes, the tanned boy's eyes were widened to the size of saucers but he couldn't utter a word. They stared at each other for a moment until Kise felt himself blush crimson red and he broke the eye contact, not wanting to let Aomine see the blush. But he failed as Aomine blushed himself after he was greeted with the pleasing sight of the blonde's cheeks turning into a pretty red. Kise looked around, tried to regain his composure said rather nervously, "A-Aomine-cchi, W-we should leave now." The blonde resumed his breathing slowly.

Kise pushed himself off of the ground, dusted the dirt off of his clothes with his heart pounding in his chest. He missed the moment when Aomine placed his palm on his face, cursing himself under his breath. The blonde grabbed his school bag and they left.

For a while they were both quiet until Kise bought him a Popsicle and Aomine had insisted again to walk the blonde to the metro station. Kise wondered why Aomine wanted to do walk him again to the station.

While walking Aomine asked him, "How is your Kaijo basketball team, are you having fun with them?"

Kise answered, "Yes, indeed it is fun with them. I'm really thankful to Kaijo, truthfully speaking, I think it's because of our basketball team, I learned about team work and I always want to win as team, I truly feel like a part of the team at Kaijo and well, Kuroko-cchi is also someone I'm also thankful for-ssu."

"What are you talking about? What about Teiko, didn't you feel like a part of the team in middle school?" Aomine asked him looking a bit perplexed.

"Well, I only joined Teiko in second year, Aomine-cchi and soon enough in third year, we all fell apart and went separate ways, so as for feeling the part of the team, I didn't have that much credibility and about teamwork, I never really got to experience true teamwork until I joined Kaijo and Kasamatsu-senpai was the one who thought me team work-ssu." The blonde stated.

Aomine's eye twitched at the mention of the ex-captain's name, the tanned boy had shunned all about the senpai this past week. Kise continued, "Now that I think about it, even though Kasamatsu-senpai kicked me all the time, he would always motivate us and it was really fun to play with him-ssu."

Aomine scowled and felt his anger rise up, he took a deep breath and exhaled as he tried to calm himself down. Aomine muttered, "And after he had retired from the club, you still hang out with him?"

Kise answered, "Eh? Yes, I do, he may have retired from the club but he is still my senpai and moreover he is graduating this year and also nee-san invites him to have d-

-dinner at your apartment, yes, yes I get it!" Aomine grumbled in annoyance.

Kise tilted his head when Aomine used a rather sharp tone. Kise continued talking, "And sometimes Kasamatsu-senpai plays his guitar at home and I sing with my sister."

Aomine turned his head sideways, staring at him in utter disbelief and questioned him, "I-you-wait-what? What the fuck? You're telling me Kasamatsu knows how to play guitar AND he plays in front of you, while you and your sister sing?"

He couldn't believe his ears, it all sounded so ridiculous to the tanned boy. He couldn't process that information.

"Yes, maybe we could form a band or something." Kise laughed.

Kise's words didn't fall on Aomine's ears as he was busy trying to imagine Kasamatsu with a guitar but the image couldn't just pop up. Kasamatsu is a hard headed and a strict person, that kind of thing was something Aomine could never imagine.

The Touou ace rubbed the temples of his forehead and asked, "So, you all just gather around, sing and stuff like a bunch of idiots?"

Kise whined, "Hido, Aomine-cchi, we are not idiots. You should hear Kasamatsu senpai play a guitar." Aomine rolled his eyes and he was still finding it difficult to imagine the ex-captain with a guitar in his hands.

The blonde continued to tell him that Kasamatsu refused to come to the Karaoke with him but he does play when they are at his place. The blonde told Aomine that he's really talented.

"When senpai met nee-san for the first time, he stuttered a whole lot and couldn't stop blushing while talking to her, that reaction of his was really cute." The blonde spoke while he let out a giggle. "But later they got comfortable around each other and now nee-san seems to be taken with him-ssu."

Aomine grimaced.

It was bad enough that Kasamatsu remained friends with the blonde after he had retired from the club but now Aomine had found out that he plays a guitar while Kise sang songs and shit. And the blonde had the audacity to even compliment him.

'Annoying, annoying, annoying...all of this is so fucking annoying.' He jaw clenched in anger, his expression turned completely sour now.

Aomine remembered Momoi's words, telling him that these feelings are of jealousy, the sound growing louder in his mind.

Damn Satsuki.

His anger made no sign of dissipating at the sudden intrusion in his mind by the pink haired girl's words which refused to go away.

Upon reaching the metro, Aomine calmed himself down and asked him, "When are you meeting me again?" At which the blonde replied, "I don't know, maybe the coming Sunday? This week I have shoots and there are club activities after school and I won't be able to meet you as I have school every next morning."

Aomine itched to say that he could come to Kanagawa and visit the blonde but he held his tongue back, it somehow felt embarrassing. Aomine was slightly sulking.

The blonde wanted to meet Aomine every day but he knew he won't be able to. Between work and club activities, he would have no time to hang out with the tanned boy and moreover, he would be tired at the end of the day. He did travel to Tokyo sometimes but his shoots were mainly centered in Kanagawa.

He heard the tanned boy sigh and Aomine told him to text him when he does get free. Kise nodded in reply.

Kise left for Kanagawa, in the train he could feel his eyes closing shut in dire need of sleep. Tomorrow Kise couldn't skip activities and he also had work.

After the station arrived, Kise got out and hurried home. He had dinner and quickly went to sleep.


At night, Aomine thought back to the long day he had, while he recollected his past memories, he realized and accepted that he had been feeling this way since middle school, feeling jealous since then.

He had been jealous of Kise's fangirls, of Kuroko, of the numerous other guys who got too familiar with the blonde and of the guys who touched him in a friendly manner. He ran his hand through his hair, contemplating these emotions.

Other people getting too close to the blonde was annoying but he thought his feelings of jealousy were the most annoying ones. Adding to the collection of people Aomine got jealous of was- Kasamatsu. Damn him. He felt angry about the whole ordeal, he felt angry at himself.

He reluctantly admitted that not only was he jealous but also somewhat possessive.

He came to a conclusion that he didn't want other people to get close to the blonde and felt as the only person who can get close to Kise is himself. He didn't like when the blonde was smiling and having fun with others.

'I feel like I want him all to myself, only to myself'. Just the idea of other people enjoying the blonde's company didn't set well with him. He was aware of the fact that he can't make any unreasonable demands from the model. 'Damn Satsuki for making me realize things', the tanned boy thought.

Kise is a model, people will always have their eyes on him, no matter what. He felt ridiculous, he felt stupid and he felt like an idiot for having these kinds of petty emotions. He was infuriated with himself.

Aomine groaned at these realizations and feelings, he buried himself in the futon and pulled the blanket over his body. After a while, he felt his eyelids getting shut while he kept on thinking about the blonde.