"Okay, everyone, time for the picture!" Riko had insisted that everyone meet in the gym, under threat of triple training every day for a week. She had claimed it was for the graduation album, even though there was nobody on the team graduating. Kuroko pointed this out, but Riko threatened him with quadruple training, so he quickly dropped the subject.

"So, what do we need to do?" Why does Koganei have to choose now to act like a moron?

"Just stand there and look happy. Is that so fucking hard?"

"Calm down, Hyuga. It's not clutch time, after all." Kiyoshi was the only one who wasn't afraid of Hyuga going into clutch mode. He just thought it was funny.

"Come on! Let's just take the picture! I still want to practice after this!"

"Yes, ma'am!" the team shouted.

"The team is teeming with life."

"Izuki, shut up." Even if it wasn't clutch time, that didn't mean that Hyuga was going to be nice.

"Wait, who's going to take the picture?"

"Hey, Mr. Takeda? Can you please take a photo of the team?" The older man put down his book and walked over to the group.

"Okay. Is everyone ready?"

"Yeah!" The eleven members of the Seirin basketball team and their coach smiled for the camera. There were a few peace signs and waves, but this wasn't a formal picture, so it was fine.

"Also, I wanted to say thank you for the tickets to the game with Touou. My grandsons loved them." Takeda had two grandsons, aged 7 and 9, and they were basketball fiends in the making. Kiyoshi held them up on his shoulders so they could do a dunk, and Riko tried not to burst from the cute display.

"It's no problem! We love our young fans!"

Kagami wasn't really listening. He was just wondering why Riko was waving in the picture.

That weekend, Riko went to get the pictures developed at a photo printer. Kagami came to practice on Monday to find his teammates writing on a piece of paper.

"What are you guys doing?"

"Absolutely nothing. We most definitely were not planning on sending a present to your parents in America."

Kagami grabbed the paper. "You better not be sending this shit! 'Kagami is ace. We are best team.' Just write it in Japanese! They'll know how to read it! And what's this? 'To see the sea is the life for me.' I know this was you, Izuki."

"Stop it, Kagami-kun. There's no reason to be so angry." Kuroko's words made Kagami stop yelling and bow his head.

"Sorry, guys. It's just a surprise that you'd even want to send my family anything. Except I don't know how you were planning to send them anything without their address."

"The school has it in their database. It was easy for Kuroko to get it while the secretary was dealing with business. This was his idea first, after all."

"I wanted to do something nice for your family, Kagami-kun. They're really nice."

My god, would those two admit that they like each other and get it over with, already? I have 500 yen riding on this! I don't want to have to pay Momoi just because two morons don't want to admit their feelings!

"Okay then. We'll send it." He gave Kuroko a tiny smile, and Riko had to consciously hold in her screams.

Three weeks after the package was sent, Takeshi and Akiko Kagami opened their mailbox to find an envelope sent from Tokyo.

"What is this? Is Taiga in trouble again?" They were surprised to find a framed photograph of their son and what they assumed were his teammates.

"Oh, how cute! Taiga and Tetsuya are in the center!" Since their Skype conversation with Kuroko, Akiko was dying to know more about him. Then they had found the card. "What is this? Is this a card? Oh, that's cute. They mostly wrote it in English; I guess they forgot that we know Japanese. And there's Tetsuya's!"

"There are times when I think that you care more about him than our own son."

"Let's see, it looks like he's the only one who wrote in Japanese. 'Kagami-kun is very important to me. He is my light who helps me every day, both on and off the court. He is my best friend, and he may be an idiot, but he is my idiot. Kuroko Tetsuya (we have "met")' Sounds like someone has a crush! And Taiga wrote something, too."

Mom, Dad- I'm dating Kuroko. I wanted to tell you in person, but after seeing what he wrote, there's no way around it anymore. I just hope you still love me. ~Taiga

It's the end! I can't believe I actually finished this. And I'm glad that so many people love it!

I have been working on a longer story for Aomine and Kise (for ten months, OMFG) going into how these two finally confessed to each other. Momoi is there too, and being replaced by Haizaki is Kise's worst nightmare, in basketball or modeling.

Thank you so much for reading!

~Aurora