Kagami was feeling awful when he woke up. His whole body ached, especially his lower back. Kagami's face automatically heated up, he remembers vividly how he had asked Aomine to fuck him. He'd never been a very sexual person, so it was strange to think one bastard changed everything. Speaking of Aomine, where the hell was he?

By now Kagami was used to waking up with a body next to his and a tan arm surrounding him. Red eyes cracked open and he let loose a groan, stretching a bit to move sore muscles. His head swam a little when he sat up fully and he gripped at his forehead. Eyes widened as he noticed that finally that the soul string was gone, that was why Aomine wasn't there anymore. Kagami frowned, so right when its gone Aomine leaves? Anger and frustration shot through him, but almost immediately after happiness and glee waved over him. It was the strangest feeling, half of him was so angry but the other half wasn't.

Right then the door burst open. Kagami looked over to see a pleased grin plastered over Aomine's face. He grumbled, "whats got you so happy Ahomine?"

Aomine didnt answer his question. "Still in bed I see?" He said it so smugly that the redhead scowled, he knew what he was implying.

"Kami, I practically see your ego getting bigger. And I just woke up asshole, of course I'm still in bed."

To his shock Aomine laughed, "you're cute when you're grumpy." Then stepped over and placed a heated kiss on his lips. Kagami gaped at the simple action while Aomine started throwing clothes. "Get up lazy bones." Aomine snickered.

"You of all people have no right to call me lazy." Kagami still took the clothes he was handed to put them on.

He stood up, stretching again once he was fully clothed. Kagami's anger was abating now he knew Aomine didn't just leave him there. The thought that since the soul string was gone they technically could go back to before passed through his head. Frowning, he watched Aomine say he was going to breakfast and that Kagami should join him if he wanted. Aomine left with a lethargic wave.

It was only a couple minutes later when Kagami decided to stop moping. An idea popped into his head. Instead of going to breakfast (his stomach was making too many weird flutterings to really eat anything) he thought he could finally go practice a bit more. Grabbing an extra sword (seriously how many did Aomine collect?) he set out to an empty training ground.

Kagami went through his usual routine of stretching and jogging before starting to work with his sword. It felt good to have a little time to himself, just to think. These past few days had been strange and exciting for him. When he first met Aomine he had hated the guy, but after yesterday... Obviously Kagami didn't hate him, in fact he knew that there was an attraction between them (he really could not dispute it after how wantonly he acted). Even thinking about it made him blush.

He went to his next stance, slashing to the right then repeating. Although he didn't admit it, he was jealous the day before, much to his own shock. Why Aomine of all people? What was it about him that made Kagami act this way? Admittedly Aomine was very attractive, there really was no lying about that. But that didn't explain why he would get so angry at Moriyama. Honestly he felt a little bad about how rudely he had acted towards him. Plus when they had went to see Kuroko for his second magic lesson he had even acted rudely to him. He had to remember to apologize for that.

He exhaled noisily before shaking his head to clear the thoughts away. Thinking was not something he was good at. Its not like it would matter anyways, Aomine would most likely kick him out of his room and back into the Soldier's Quarters. He sighed, it made his stomach twist but there was still that strange happy feeling in the back of his mind that wouldn't go away.

"Tch, what am I even thinking?"

"Yes, Kagami-kun, what are you thinking?"

Kagami instantly tensed and flinched so hard he dropped the sword. Usually he would have just let it drop like he was taught to, but his mind was a mess that morning. So he did the stupidest thing possible, and his arm shot out to try and catch it. But luck was not with him that day and it sliced his hand open, with a yelp he ended up dropping it anyways. "FUCK! Kuroko you little bastard!" He roared as he grabbed his hand.

Kuroko blinked at him, "that was dumb Kagami-kun. A trained warrior shouldn't ever let go of their weapon even when surprised." Kagami just ignored the patronizing blue haired male, hissing at the pain in his hand.

"Got a cloth on you or something?"

Kuroko looked at him amused, "I have magic Kagami-kun, of course I do, I'll even do you one better." He merely waved his hand for a space pocket to open, and pulled a bandage out.

"Oh. Yeah, right." Kagami rolled his eyes, "Yeah well thanks."

The light bluenette smiles a bit and moved closer so that he could start to bandage Kagami's hand. He was about to say a little healing chant over it to stop the bleeding but to his surprise the bleeding was already stopped. His hand glistened a little with white light, but Kagami didn't notice any of that.

"Hey... Um," he started sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head. Kuroko only nodded at him to continue as he started covering the small slice. Kagami place his uncut hand on his small shoulder. "Im sorry for yesterday. I was kind of an ass."

Kuroko finished, and looked up with a tiny, knowing smile. "It's alright, no harm done."

A relieved smile bloomed on the redhead's face. "Great!"

"But..." Kuroko's blank eyes looked up at him intensely, "A milkshake would put you back in my good graces." Kagami gulped, the little bastard didn't forgive him at all! He knew that was a threat and nodded immediately.

The redhead was going to ask Kuroko what he wanted when a vicious growl came from a distance away. He didn't even have any time to blink before a dark blue blur pushed him behind them and growled again at Kuroko. Even Kuroko was shocked to find a seething angry Aomine between them, barring his fangs at the lighter blue haired male. "How dare you hurt him. Come any closer and Ill rip your fucking throat out." Aomine snarled it so fiercely that even Kagami flinched from behind his back. Indescribable waves of anger came over Kagami, but why was he even upset? Struggling to not snap at the male he gritted a question out through his teeth.

"Aomine, what the hells the matter?" Kagami was a little perturbed, what was going on here?

Aomine didn't glance back as he answered, "he hurt you, I felt it. And I smell the blood." Kuroko's eyes got a gleam in them.

"Kuroko didn't hurt me, I... Uhh, accidentally cut myself on my sword." Kagami blushed at how stupid that sounded. "He even helped me bandage it, see?" He held up his hand over Aomine's shoulder. The tenseness faded from his form, and the rumbling from his growling was quieting as he looked at the wrapped up hand. Kagami felt calmer now. All these changes of emotion were driving him insane.

Aomine finally backed off from Kuroko, and gave him an apologetic look. He moved so he was beside Kagami and took his hand so he could inspect it better.

"You guys had sex."

Kagami instantly sputtered, "WHAT THE HELL MAKES YOU SAY THAT?" Kuroko even said it like he already knew. How did he even get to that conclusion, plus, where did it even come from? Aomine just nodded at the question, that grin coming back to his face.

"Whats it to you Tetsu?"

Kuroko sighed aggravated. Aomine and Kagami shared at look, if Kuroko showed emotions that usually meant something was up. "Aomine I warned you. Didn't I tell you to take precautions?"

"What are y-," Aomine's blue eyes shot open and he inhaled sharply. His eyes flickered to Kagami who was annoyed at being the only one out of the loop. "But... That takes SIX days! Not three!"

The light blue haired male's eyebrow twitched. "And I distinctly remember warning you that because of your soul bond at the time it may affect you differently. It shows how strong it is already if you are feeling when he's hurt." Kuroko turned to Kagami, "how are you feeling today? Anything different?"

Kagami blinked, then thought about it. "Uhh, now that you mention it I've had these strange emotions lately, like I was annoyed this morning but then half of me was randomly happy. It keeps happening." Aomine groaned next to him and put his hands in his hands.

"Fuckkkk."

"Huh? Whats going on?"

"Congratulations Kagami-kun, you are now Aomine's mate."


Kagami groaned, rubbing his eyes. When he sat up he instantly gasped, he had fainted! Oh Kami, this all had to have been a nightmare! He found he was in Aomine's room, he looked down and realized he was fully clothed. So it obviously couldn't have been a bad dream. Shit.

"Finally. Thought you'd never wake up," a voice drawled from next to him. Kagami glanced at Aomine.

"T-that was all just a joke right? Right?!" Kagami wasn't proud that his deep voice cracked.

Aomine grimaced, "afraid not Bakagami. I checked your bite, its definitely that."

Kagami paled, "B-but... How? Why?" He gripped his head, as if in pain.

"Tetsu said that it was those damn soul strings. Usually it takes six days for a mating ritual to be complete."

"How the hell did we do a mating ritual? Huh you idiot?!"

He ran his tan fingers through his silky blue hair, "Well its all your damn bloods fault, its... Hard to resist."

Kagami scowled, his hand tightening on his yukata. "Explain. Now."

"To... Mate, one has to drink the same blood from the same person for six days, and none others. On the final day, they mate physically too. It just so happens that we did it the same way with half the amount of time."

"We can just get rid of it, though, right?"

Aomine sighed, "Its not that simple baka."

"And why is that?" Kagami was not happy, not at all.

"Well usually it'd be fine, and its a relatively easy process but..."

The redhead glared at him, "but what? Tell me."

"I had Tetsu look at our bond. Somehow, the damn soul string fucked everything up. It actually gave a little piece of our souls to each other when we mated. Usually that happens over the course of years, same with all those feelings your getting, which are mine, and my ability to sense when you are in danger, plus the heightened protectiveness. In a normal situation we could have broken it easily, but since our souls are entwined... We'll both die if we separate."

Aomine said it so seriously, blue eyes unwaveringly staring at Kagami, that he had no choice but to believe him. The redhead promptly fainted for the second time that day.