Before anyone says anything, yes I know Rakuzan & Seirin's match is still ongoing. I'm the type of person who is rooting for Rakuzan to win but they won't which fucking sucks... Anyway carry on Chapter 14 :3
Chapter 14
Coach POV
With our defeat at the Winter Cup, we have to train even harder to reach the number one spot in the next one. I don't have a doubt that we will go back to the top next year but without Teppei this time, I think it will be harder… If only he had gotten his surgery like he should have, okay maybe we would not have made it far to the Winter Cup but at least we would have had him for the next one and he would have been in top shape.
I guess it can't be helped but Teppei will be sitting on the bench with us anyway as moral support but knowing him, it would not surprise me if he would join the game for one period or two. He loves basketball too much to just sit back and watch.
"Got everything planned for this weekend's training?" Hyuuga asks as he just casually lies on my bed reading some of my notes for this weekend's regime.
"Not quite, I still have a few things to decide. At this point I don't think I can give everyone the same training anymore." I answer as I take my notebook from his hands. "Kagami-kun and Kuroko-kun are too different from the rest; if we want them to improve they need something more intense than the rest, especially Kagami-kun."
"I agree, Kagami is on a whole different level than we are. Not to mention he's on par with the Generation of Miracles but is it too soon to push Kagami this hard? From what Izuki told me, he's still taking Himuro's death quite hard."
"Yeah that's what I'm still working on… For us it's easy to move on, we were not close to Himuro-kun, Momoi-chan and Kise-kun but for Kagami-kun and Kuroko-kun it's different." I reply as I put away the notebook on my desk. "Kuroko-kun lost two friends that he was close too and Kagami-kun lost one. Even though he does not let it show like Kagami-kun, I know it's still heavy for Kuroko-kun. I wonder if it's too early to go on a full hard-core training… From what I heard, Aomine-kun isn't at a hundred percent either nor is Murasakibara-kun."
"Moping non-end won't help them either… Go ahead with the training, maybe it will do them some good, get their minds off the deceased for a while at least."
Yeah that's all we can actually do, it's still hard to believe that three people I knew are gone. I envied Momoi-chan's looks, she was so beautiful but I never wanted any harm to come to her, I saw her as somewhat of a rival. Kise-kun was kind, maybe a little too kind; I felt bad for him, seeing him get bullied so much by his captain of the other members of the Generation of Miracles, he did not seem to mind though but I think it was more of a friendly teasing. I honestly never thought that Kise-kun would have been so kind considering his popularity. Most guys and girls who are popular are not kind but arrogant and selfish. Kise-kun would have given up anything for his friends; I wonder how much he would have improved in his game play? His perfect copy was something quite special; I wonder how good he'd be. Would we have stood a chance in the next Inter High? Deep down I don't think so, we were not even able to stop him in the Winter Cup, if it had not been for his leg injury I think we would not have won against Kaijou. Kise-kun sure was a prodigy…
"Hey Riko, want to go get something to eat?" Hyuuga's question came to a surprise. Since Momoi-chan's death, we've actually grown closer than before. I always thought of Hyuuga as a god friend and I was really just selfish, I did not even notice Hyuuga's feelings for me. It took a friend's death to open my eyes; it made me realize that I'm afraid to lose him. I don't know what I would do if I'd never see Junpei again.
"Sure, where to?" I ask as I take my bag.
"No idea lets wing it." Yeah that sounds good…
Aomine POV
"Aominecchi help me"
I practically spammed the chat box asking questions but nothing. What the hell is going on here? When I got the message it said that Kise was online but it went offline just as quick. Who's the wise guy? Thinking it's some sort of joke to use a deceased person's account. Rage is quickly building up inside of me as the more I think about what just happened, luckily for me Akashi was online and I wasted no time to message what I just received and alerted him to check Kise's profile. The cover picture is just too fucking weird and creepy as fuck. It's not something that Kise would put, it's demented. It's a picture of a kid, can't tell if it's a girl or a boy. Anyway it's sitting on an old worn out chair with their mouth taped, covering their ears with their hands with their eyes closed with what looks like stitches in the form of an X dressed in old tattered clothes. The background looks like a filthy room and there is a window in the right top corner that looks like prison bars. It's fucked up as hell. The information is just as bad, nothing makes much sense.
"I just told Tetsuya, he does not like it either." Akashi messaged me via Facebook. I don't write back a message, I'm just glued on Kise's profile that was once cheerful and now it's dark and just fucked up. At first no one seemed to notice but slowly people started leaving messages asking what the hell was going on, even someone said that someone should call the police about this. Yeah maybe it would be the best thing to do considering that this is a huge crime to impersonate someone but the only thing that I keep thinking back to is Kise's parents. They already are having a hard time dealing with Kise's death, how much more can they take?
Kise's mom is just going day by day and has been canceling some jobs because of exhaustion. Of course the companies understand due to the circumstances that she just lost her only son but she does not look like she'll ever be able to come to term with Kise's passing.
"Aomine-kun can you alert your dad about this?" The sound of another message pulls me back to reality.
"Yeah Tetsu but not right now, my parents are out for the night but I will." I quickly reply back.
The green circle next to Tetsu's name goes grey and so does Akashi. I put myself invisible but leave my account open to show dad later when he arrives. I look again at the changes done to Kise's profile, who the hell would hack a deceased teenager and pretend to be him. This is a whole new type of low, whoever is doing this better not show his or her face to me because I'll beat the shit out of them for this. It's humiliating to Kise; this is not what he was about. How dare anyone try to tarnish who Kise was, I won't forgive them for this.
Kagami POV
Its official training starts again this weekend, it's about time. With this entire hiatus and all, my mind is starting to drive me crazy. Alex has a point, I have to get back to my regular routine as quickly as possible even though it hurts I have to keep moving forward. Himuro would not have wanted me to keep on mopping and quite frankly I think I've mopped a little too long already. I won't become the best in Japan if I don't train and like dad told me over the phone. Death is a part of life, we just have to live with it and use it to make us stronger and that's what I'm going to do.
Now I have to think of a way to improve my games, first of all I need to work on my stamina. I have to raise my endurance to last longer in games. That's what hurts my game play, I ran out of energy, I can't last all three periods in a fast pace so I need to work on that and the mountains will be perfect to do that but what else can I do?
The coach must have a training regime set out for us but I don't think group training will cut it for me anymore. The others can barely keep up with me, I know teamwork is key in winning but to train and get myself better I can't rely on them. I need to do this by myself, I know I promised Kuroko that I would start relying on the team more but I have to break that promise for this training. I'm too weak, I have to get stronger and I can't do this with the others but I also have to improve my game play with Kuroko at the same time. Damn! There is just not enough time in the day to work on everything that needs to be worked on.
If I'm not mistaken I think I overheard the coach say that we would be getting some new players too. I hope for our sake that they are good; with Kiyoshi out we need a new center. Okay I can do it; well I was the one doing it before Kiyoshi came back but I'm also a power forward and it be rather hard doing both but first thing is first I need to concentrate on getting stronger. No used worrying about this until the tournaments starts again.
"Taiga if you don't mind I'll join you guys during your training this weekend. Who knows, I might be useful to the team."
"Yeah that be fine, I don't think the coach will mind having some extra help Alex."
Akashi POV
Just when things finally calms down and people are starting to forget about what happened this begins. The message Daiki received is rather strange, the user called him the same way Ryouta would call him but whoever took over Ryouta's account would know this from his previous status updates concerning Daiki so we can rule out that it has to be someone who knows us. Of all we know it can be anyone in the world who just decided to hack the first account he saw.
The change to Ryouta's profile disturbs me, why make such changes? If you are to impersonate someone, you might as well keep their profiles the same to avoid attracting suspicion. The visual and message do not match unless they have no intention to impersonate Ryouta and their goal is just to torment the ones he was friend with but why Daiki? I was online too and from the mutual friends we had, there was much more people the user could have chosen to message but they only sent one message to only one person. Maybe this person is someone Daiki knows and if that's the case I fear that this is not over, just the beginning and Daiki's the target.
Slowly putting in the mood as the countdown is in place for the next person to die :3 it's been over due for a death now time to play Russian Roulette XD Review and tell me what you think, while you're at it maybe make a circle prayer around your favourite character. Who knows they might need it lol.