When he woke up, the other side of the hospital bed was entirely empty.

Wait, did he really just fall asleep?

Shaking his head a little, Aomine propped himself up onto his elbows, only then noticing the blanket thrown haphazardly over his legs.

Where is that idiot now?

He squinted a little and looked around the room. The thin blinds had been drawn again, but even through the cracks in them Aomine could tell the sun was shining brightly through the windows. Across from him there was a closed door, and underneath it the light shined from the crack in the bottom. There was some noise coming from behind it but he was still a little too groggy to tell what it lights in the room had been turned off too, just like when he had first come here the day before.

The day before…

Then everything came crashing back in an instant. Yesterday he had kissed him, and today he had…he had…

"Oh god." he muttered to himself, "What's wrong with me?"

What was it about him that was pushing him completely off the edge? He never lost control, not in that way, or in any way for that matter. What's so special about Kise that he can't seem to keep his head on straight for more than two seconds when he's around? Sure he had liked people before, but for some reason he had a feeling this was something totally different than just like. It was something more like…

Longing?

He was so preoccupied thinking about how Kise totally scrambled his brain that Aomine never saw the other person sitting at the other end of the room.

"Good afternoon."

Aomine's head whipped around so fast he thought his neck might break. He had heard that voice before…but where?

"Um excuse me?"

Yes, definitely familiar. What a strange voice.

"I'm over here."

That's when his eyes finally found him. Sitting with his legs hanging off the sides of the opposite bed, the boy in the wheelchair stared at him with unflinching eyes. Aomine blinked a few times, unsure of what to say. His mouth always seemed to fail him when he needed it most.

"Who are you?"

"Kuroko Tetsuya. Although I think the more appropriate question is who are you?"

The boy named Kuroko bundled up the edge of his shorts and lifted his legs up onto his bed, keeping his eyes glued on Aomine. He folded his arms and kept staring.

Does this guy even blink?!

"I'm Aomine Daiki. We saw each other in the elevator, remember?"

"Yes. I remember." Kuroko stopped and his eyebrows twinged ever so slightly as he appeared to begin to think about something. Aomine waited for what seemed to take forever. His impatience made his foot shake subconsciously. Where the hell is Kise?

"Why were you asleep in my roommates bed then?"

He's so...blunt?!

"Uh well I, uh I mean, we're…friends."

"Do boys over the age of ten often sleep in other boy's beds?"

Kuroko leaned forward, placing his elbows on top of his knees and his face in his hands. Was this kid trying to intimidate him? He looked like he couldn't be over fifteen with those gigantic eyes and wobbly looking legs. Well if he can't walk that would make sense.

"Well?"

Aomine paused and turned his gaze to stare at the wrinkled sheets in front of him.

"No, I guess not…" it was barely a whisper, but something about Kuroko told him that he could probably not say anything at all and he would still understand. Something about his strange demeanor just suggested that he was more of an watcher than a doer. Those kind of people just drove him crazy.

The room went totally quiet again but Aomine could still feel Kuroko's gaze from across the room. So this is who Kise shared a room with everyday and night. It almost made him want to laugh at just how opposite the two were when compared, and couldn't help but want to see how they got along (or didn't). Then everything slammed into him again and this time he could actually feel the heat in his face. Stop thinking about it, dear god what are you a 14-year-old schoolgirl, pull it together!

He glanced back up at Kuroko who, just as he suspected, was keeping his blank stare fixed on him.

Kise c'mon where are you,stupid?!

Suddenly the door across from him swung open, and the culprit himself finally showed his face.

That stupid, beautiful face.

Kise ran a hand through his damp hair, towel slung around his neck, the only thing he wore a clean looking tee shirt and a pair of boxers. Aomine felt his nerves spasm slightly just at the sight of him. There he goes again. Kise at first didn't seem to notice either of them, lazily scratching his head yawning a few times before really opening his eyes. And when he did they widened first in shock and then in sudden realization.

"D-Dai-chan?! T-Tetsu?!"

Then Aomine was moving all at once, finally able to let his frustration and restlessness out. It only took him one second to reach in front of where Kise stood in the doorway, and he desperately tried to ignore the fact that the other was hardly wearing anything and dear god they were so close.

"Hey! Where the hell have you been?"

"You fell asleep so I took a shower!"

"Why didn't you just wake me up then?!"

Kise pouted and leaned forward into his toes so that their faces were inches apart.

"Because then you would've left without saying goodbye, I just know it!"

Before Aomine could back about how he would never do that ever, there was another voice who spoke before him.

"Kise."

"What?"

"What happened to your neck?"

Aomine felt his insides go cold. Kise's...neck...? He glanced down from Kise's face and almost stared, jaw dropped at what he saw.

Down the left side of his neck splotches of purple and pink bruises had started to blossom, stretching all the way from the bottom of his jawline to the top of his collarbone in a colorful display.

"Did I...was that...?" the words came out of his mouth before he could stop them.

Kise just laughed a little, sounding extremely nervous and more than a little alarmed.

"What are you…ha Tetsu there's nothing on my neck do you need glasses or something ha..ha.."

"That didn't even make sense. Why would I need glasses for-"

"Tetsu is seeing things, right Daiki?"

The single moment of pause was a tense one before Aomine realized Kise had been talking to him, "U-Uh of course!" he sputtered, looking to see the urgency in Kise's eyes as they both began to laugh more than a little forcefully together.

Kuroko was also obviously not convinced of anything. He narrowed his gaze and switched back and forth between the two of them in the uncomfortable silence.

"Fine. You said you had to tell me something later so you better explain this too."

And with that he turned away from them to lay on his side facing the wall, seeming to have given up completely. For the time being at least.

Kise's sigh of relief was so loud Aomine wanted to slap his hand over his mouth just to shut him up.

ugh I'm sorry this update was basically super pointless I just have no time so this got written over the past few days in the like 5 minutes here and there I could spare (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ (school is so dumb why)

but at least now the kuroko/mine meeting is out of the way so now I can move on and write about the really fun stuff mmmm ┐(￣ー￣)┌

ok so I literally have not stopped listening to this song whenever I write this and well just thought you might be interested to see where all this is coming from: watch?v=I6xMgHoZmkw (((my feels ouch)))

you all are the sweetest seriously every single on of you is amazing thank you so much (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

EPISODE 2 IS IN TWO MORE DAYS FFFFF (sorry I get overly excited for that stupid show)