*Throws study material into a fire* Burn! Burn! Muhahaha!
*Turns to see reader* A-Ahem, you saw nothing.
Anyway i had to pick up that tempting KnB manga, i just had to.
Enjoy~
"An alliance?" the red head asked, puzzled with what the man was implying. The man was sweating bullets as he eyed the ferocious beasts around the room, he often kept stuttering as he explained "S-Somewhat, Y-Yes. Its more of a tag team battle format for the second round. His majesty's words were 'during a sudden crisis you use what you have, not what you want.' he wishes to see how well the kings could get along since one of you is going to be the future emperor its best to keep good relationships with the others."
Akashi smirked "Ah is that so? I can definitely see where this is going…So, how are the points given and the amount of alliances made?" "U-Um due to the lack of people and teams, you can only form an 'alliance' with one team. And should your alliance earn ten points then both teams gain ten points. Its wise for the weaker teams to pair up with stronger ones to clinch points but in the end that's the king's choice."
The red head smirk got wider as he waved his hands "Alright, I get the gist of it. You may leave." the messenger got up from his kneeling position, bowed and left the lodge. "What do we do now, Sei-kun?" the black scaled dragon asked as he placed down the novel. "This certainly is interesting. As for the team I want to pair with…..Satsuki." said eagle stopped 'polishing' her feathers and faced the red head.
"Hai?" Akashi gestured to the stack of notes that the pink head written down. "Which one of the teams are the most interesting and least annoying?" the eagle blinked as she went through her notes "I think that would be Seirin. They're a well balanced team and their king…..or is it precise to say queen? has an identical ability of mine to view the others statistics. Though probably not as accurate. Shouldn't we pair ourselves with the strongest group which is currently Rakuzan?"
Akashi waved his hand around "I am assured that our group can win against them. Victory is guaranteed, but making it interesting is a key point as well. See if they are available and send a request to them." Momoi nodded and wrote down a letter to be given and passed it to the red head. "Hmm…Taiga, you didn't have much of a workout did you? Take this to them and bring Ryouta with you." Akashi passed the scroll to the tiger after reading through once and watched as the beast clenched the paper between its jaws and dashed off with a fox behind. The red head almost wanted to snicker when he heard the two of them whined about being 'messengers' of their king.
When they had expected to wait long they were mistaken, Murasakibara and Aomine were sleeping peacefully as Midorima and Akashi fought in 'Shogi' a game Kuroko introduced, similar to the English chess and the red head was immediately hooked. Though a rookie, he managed to beat Midorima multiple times without a single loss, though certain times were close calls. Kuroko was teaching Momoi about mana control.
Until all of a sudden, one can hear loud stomping and what seemed lik a couple of roars as the door to their lodge broke down. The group immediately snapped to attention but was surprised to see a brunette holding Kagami in a choke hold, said tiger was enable to break free and Kise had ducked behind a cat mouth person muttering something under his breath. "Akashi-chi! We brought them! Please save Kagami-chi! I don't think he can last much more without oxygen!" Celestial deity he may be, but then again hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. "Pardon but could you release my contract? I need him alive tomorrow." The brunette let go and took deep breaths to calm herself.
One door repaired, a rejuvenated tiger and a calmed down woman later. The group began their discussion. "First, Taiga what did you do wrong when I simply asked you to send a letter?" Akashi asked as he narrowed his eyes at the tiger who ducked behind Kuroko. "Well…."
Kagami and Kise stood in front of a lodge identical to their own and he used his paw to knock on the front door. A man with glasses, Hyuuga was it? Answered the door and immediately widened his eyes at the sight of them before taking a defensive stance. "Whoa! Calm Down! We came to pass you this!" Kise said as he pushed Kagami forward and said tiger placed a scroll in Hyuuga's palm.
The humanoid skimmed through it and his faced expressed shock before beckoning the two to follow inside. "Riko! A alliance request came in from Teiko!" he yelled. There were a few tumbling sounds as the 'king' ran forward. "What?! I mean we were prepared to send one of them because Teppei said so. But we didn't expect it to succeed much less them coming here themselves! Are you sure?!" "Positive. This is their seal." the humanoid said as he showed the scroll.
The girl, Riko looked completely skeptical "What is your king thinking?" she asked the two "Ah, well. He said something about wanting to pair up with the most interesting and least annoying one. Mister." Kagami said and almost wanted to shrink back when he felt a deadly aura flowed through the girl.
"What. Did. You. Call. Me?" she asked sweetly. Kise nudged Kagami me with his paw and hissed "That's a girl you blockhead!" Even Hyuuga seemed to back off as Riko summoned every one of her contracts and chased after the tiger who immediately leaped out at the sense of danger. Though Riko was fast and with the support of Hyuuga she managed to overtake Kagami and grabbed his neck.
Thus, the position they were in.
Akashi pinched the bridge of his nose and attempted to keep himself from cackling loudly. He didn't know how Kagami could mistake her as a guy with his sharp eyesight, maybe he could get Tetsuya on that. Plus the chokehold was impressive as well. "I don't know whether we should take it as a complement that you think us as interesting and less annoying. But you could have teamed up with Rakuzan, their ranking is rather high even though their points isn't."
"I wanted to make things interesting." the red head said as he shrugged his shoulders. He had noticed that the girl was scanning the room and the red head's contracts and widened her eyes at the sight of it. "Well I guess we should except. We were planning to send a request anyways because Teppei said it would be fun and we have no reason to object."
"Teppei? Ah, the one Atsushi fought with." said bear was offering sweets to the odd panda who excepted it, they seem to get along well. "Are we the first ones to see your team in their true forms?" Riko asked as she tried to piece together what class they were. "Why don't we start with introductions then? Its not like I have to keep it a secret but might as well keep it a secret till the very end after all, no point letting them see who their up against." the queen nodded in agreement. "Then we'll start first. You don't mind telling us your class as well? We'll do the same." "I don't mind."
Riko gestured for them to line up.
"Nice to meet you! I'm Koganei Shinji, a bake-neko, demon class!"
"You already know me but I'll say it again then. I'm Kiyoshi Teppei, giant panda beast class."
"I'm Izuki Shun. Golden eagle, aerial beast class."
"Hyuuga Junpei. Elf, humanoid class."
"The slient one is Mitobe Rinnosuke, he doesn't talk. Spiritual antelope. Spirit class."
"I'm Tsuchida Satoshi. I don't look like it though I'm a Hebi(Snake)yokai. Demon class."
"Well you should know me by now that I'm the leader of this bunch and my name is Aida Riko. Pleased to meet your acquaintance, Akashi-kun." Riko extended her arms for a handshake and Akashi took it.
"Likewise, I'd hope you won't spread information on us. I'm Akashi Seijuro."
"Kise Ryouta. I'm a fox demon~ Demon class~"
"Murasakibara*Chomp*Atsushi. Bear, beast class."
"Likewise, Aomine Daiki. Panther"
"Momoi Satsuki. Same as Izuki-kun, though I'm a bald eagle."
"Kagami Taiga. White tiger, Celestial deity."
"Midorima Shintaro, Kirin, Celestial deity."
"…."
"…."
"Tetsuya, do not hide. Come and introduce yourself." said dragon came out reluctantly from Akashi's shadow earning several startled screams from the Seirin team. "I'm not good with strangers though." "This is an order." the red head said firmly.
"….Kuroko Tetsuya, Azure dragon, Celestial deity." his said in monotone. "EH?! Akashi-kun has three celestial deities?!" "Is it such a big deal? Demon class should be the equal of this class." "N-No, not really just that they're rarer as they don't really bother with humans much that's all." Celestial deities were hard to come by heck, even Mitobe who was a Spirit class is already rare. "Anyway now that that's decided, I suggest we do something to get to know each other."
In the end they decided to be civilized kings/queens, superior beings and decided to have a chat. They found out about Hyuuga's clutch time and that he and Midorima actually get along very well, though the latter was too prideful to admit. Kuroko and Kagami got well with Kiyoshi and actually see him as a nice, ditzy and odd older brother. Koganei got intimidated by Aomine and Kagami even though they were all felines. Izuki and Momoi talked about the similarities of their species though the former had to go through several of his puns, some of the others kept to themselves while Riko and Akashi talked about plans for tomorrow.
It was the most cheerful the colorful group had been and they secretly thanked Akashi for the very odd choice.
The next day, when they entered the arena crowds went ballistic and cheered for them seeing as the current first place and second place were teaming up and they wanted to see the result of this sure kill pairing. "Wow, just hear them." Kise said. The announcer then said that with the arrival of the Teiko-Seirin alliance the groups are present. Kaijo and Shuutoku paired up followed by, Touou and Rakuzan and finally, Yosen and Kirisaki Daichi.
"First obstacle of round 2 is tag team fights!" Kuroko, Kise, Koganei sat out for this round. The first tag team would be Hyuuga and Midorima, Kaijo and Shuutoku sent out Takao and Moriyama, Touou and Rakuzan sent out Imayoshi and Hayama, Kirisaki Daichi and Yosen sent out Wei Liu and Seto.
The first fight is between, Seirin-Teiko and Rakuzan-Touou, Kirisaki Daichi-Yosen and Kaijo-Shuutoku.
"First obstacle second round, Begin!"
*Panting* Alright i know this a tad bit short, but it'll have to do for now.
I realized i never explained who are the kings so here they are.
Kings,
Akashi, Riko, Hanamiya, Kasamatsu, Shirogane, Harasawa, Nakatani, Araki.
Contracts,
Kuroko, Murasakibara, Kise, Momoi, Midorima, Kagami, Aomine.(Teiko)
Moriyama, Hayakawa, kobori, Nakamura, (Kaijo)
Hyuuga, Kiyoshi, Izuki, Mitobe, Koganei, Tsuchida (Seirin)
Wakamatsu, Sakurai, Yoshinori, Imayoshi (Touou)
Wei Liu, Himuro, Fukui, Okamura (Yosen)
Furuhashi, Hara, Yamazaki, Seto (Kirisaki Daichi)
Hayama, Nebuya, Mayuzumi, Mibuchi (Rakuzan)
Takao, Kimura, Miyaji, Otsubo (Shuutoku)
Hopefully that will clear and explain somethings for you.
(Or should i have not just have said anything and kept the kings quiet...All well~ There's nothing surprising about this line-up anyway.)
If you're about to ask why i didn't let the coach of Kaijo be a 'king' it was both on a whim and i felt that Kasamatsu should be the one leading. My instincts told me~
Anyways~ Please review~