Chapter 1
This is my 1st fanfic that I've written. A huge shoutout goes to @AizenTheGoat for bouncing ideas back and forward with me.
My Naruto in this story won't be the ramen loving, orange wearing idiot you guys know. If you want something like that then just watch the show. Saying this, I know I'll still get someone in the reviews talking about how I just made an OC and named him Naruto.
My Naruto is going to have a confident attitude towards girls, he won't be blushing like a schoolgirl with a crush every time he talks to one. At times he may seem cocky when it comes to basketball, but that's just how it is.
Fair warning: he's as good as Nash Gold Jr in the KNB movie. If you watched it, then you'd know that Nash is better individually than all 5 of the generation of miracles and Kagami. So he will be better than them.
As for pairings, I'm open to anything. I'm even open to bring a girl/girls over from different anime's since there aren't many to choose from. If you have a suggestion, feel free to leave it in the reviews or just message me.
You may see that not everything is following canon, but that's what fanfiction is for. You don't follow canon to the script, so if I mess up with something remember reading this.
I've been looking forward to writing this, so if you have any constructive criticism then feel free to let me know. I won't get butthurt if you don't like something and then point it out in the reviews. I'd actually encourage that and add what an idea that you believe would work.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or Kurokono Basuke. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Tadatoshi Fujimaki respectively.
As the start of a new school year starts, it brings the chance of new people joining clubs. In Tokyo, Japan at Seirin High, the clubs are set up outside of the school in hopes to recruit new people to their respective club. Walking through the crowd of students is a young man standing at 6'3, with an athletic build, with tan skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. He was wearing a white t- shirt with a gold chain around his neck. He was wearing black pants and he wore frag 1s on his feet. His name is Naruto Uzumaki.
He has just moved to Japan from America due to his father's job relocating him. He decided to go to Seirin High for school due to hearing about the so called "Generation of Miracles" his 1st week in Japan. If he wanted a challenge, he'd need to go to a school that didn't have any of the GoMs. Even then, due to how long he's played and his history of the game back in America, he doubts anyone will make him go 100%
Walking around looking for any club that seemed interesting, he spots a familiar shade of red hair.
'Hm? Is that Kagami?' Naruto thought to himself. Him and Kagami used to be friends back in America before Kagami moved to Japan. They played basketball with each other and another kid a lot growing up.
As he continued to walk, the redhead finally turned so Naruto could get a better look at him. 'Oh shit, it is Kagami. Would you look at that, he's as tall as me now.'
"Oi! Kagami!" Naruto yelled with a smile on his face. Kagami turned in his direction, no doubt trying to find out who yelled for him. His eyes landed on Naruto for a couple of seconds before they widened in recognition.
"Naruto? Is that really you? What are you doing in Japan?" Kagami asked as he was walking towards Naruto. 'We're about the same height now. I wonder what position he plays since we're both relatively tall people in Japan' he was thinking to himself as he got in front of Naruto.
"Ah, yeah it's me! It's good to see you again, man. It's definitely been awhile. As for what I'm doing, my dad got a promotion at his job and they transferred him over here. My mom and I decided to come with him so we could experience some of her family's culture" he said while looking at how else Kagami might have changed since he last saw him.
Kagami is a red head standing around the same height of 6'3 like Naruto himself. He has a muscular build to his body. He's wearing a white shirt, with a black unzipped jacket that has 2 blue stripes going down each side of the zipper and up to the collar. Around his neck, is a gold chain.
"Well, it's great seeing you again. Your Japanese is definitely sounding a lot better, I guess your mom taught you more. Has a club caught your eye yet?" Kagami asked with a chuckle
"Yeah, her and my grandma sat me down and made me learn it. As for clubs, the only thing I'm interested in is basketball. I'm assuming that's what you're looking for as well?"
"Hell yeah that's what I'm looking for. You shouldn't even had to ask, you know me. I've been reading up on your old street ball team as well. You and Nash never took it easy on anyone did you? I saw you and him had 60 points each. With us on this team, there's no way we're going to lose to anyone"
"Oh? You kept up with Jabberwock? Yeah I had to make sure I left on a high note. Nash told me if I ever came back, my spot is still open. I hope you've improved since we were kids, I wouldn't want to carry you" Naruto said with a chuckle as they started walking towards the basketball club.
"Tch. You should know I've improved. I'm strong. I might not be as strong as you yet, but I'll definitely get there. We'll have to hit some of the local courts soon so we can train together so we can get our chemistry down pat. How does 3 nights a week sound?"
"That sounds good to me. As good of a scorer I am, I still value teamwork. I'd want to be able to have someone I can rely on if I'm getting double or triple-teamed. Plus I could move the ball around easily to the rest of the team since they'd have to worry about you and I both" Naruto said as they were nearing the basketball club table when he caught a guy with blue hair turn his form in without anyone paying attention to him. 'That guy legit just stood in front of them and no one batted an eyelash in his direction. It's like he's so unassuming that he has no presence. Wonder if he can do that on the court as well. If he can, he'd be a good 6th man to facilitate the offense when I'm off the court' Naruto thought to himself
"Ugh! We need to find more recruits. At this rate we won't have many new players" a girl said as Kagami and Naruto were nearing the table.
She was wearing the traditional girls uniform for Seirin. She had short brown hair that came down to just below her neck with 2 hair clips in.
"Hey, my friend and I here would like to join the basketball club" Kagami said catching her attention
"Certainly, my name is Riko Aida and I'm the coach for the basketball team. All you need is to fill these forms out and report to the gym later" Aida said while looking over Naruto and Kagami and evaluating them off of 1st glance. 'Wow these 2 are almost as tall as Kiyoshi. Just off of 1st glance alone, I can tell they're strong. Especially the blonde, he seems like a monster' Aida thought to herself.
"Coach? Aren't you a student though? That's a 1st. Well it's certainly impressive, since I could tell you were looking our bodies, evaluating us." Naruto said with a wink at Aida
"Aha I'm sorry about that, it's just a habit." Aida said with a light blush, embarrassed at getting caught so easily.
"It's fine, don't worry about it. Like I said, it shows you're serious. Here's the form for me, I look forward to playing for you, Riko!" Naruto said as he and Kagami handed their forms in. Turning to Kagami, he asked "hey do you wanna walk around and explore the school till we have to come back and report for practice?"
"eh I don't see why not. Wouldn't want to get lost any." Kagami said shrugging. Waving bye to Aida, he and Naruto went to go explore the rest of the school
After the freshman stood on the roof and screamed their dreams to the future, everyone was gathered back into the gym ready to start practice (AN1)
"Alright everyone take their shirt off" Riko said walking towards the players.
"Damn Riko, if you wanted me to take my shirt off the least you could've done is invite me for dinner" Naruto said chucking with a wink sent at Riko
"Sh- shut up I just need you take take off your shirts so I can evaluate your numbers" Riko said with an embarrassed flush on her face
"Numbers?" Kagami asked with his eyebrow raised
"Ah right, I can read the physical attributes of your body, with how good it is based in numbers" Riko said to Kagami
With that said, all of the players have their shirts off with Riko walking by evaluating their numbers. 'Hm pretty average numbers with the new players so far. Of course with Hyuga and the rest of the returning players, their numbers are about the same' she thought before stopping and looking at Kagami's numbers. 'God, these numbers are insane. He'll definitely be a huge boost towardsour team' she thought before she looked at Naruto before her eyes widened in pure shock at seeing he's numbers. 'This guy is an absolute monster, with these numbers, we shouldn't have to worry much about the generation of miracles' she thought to herself while looking over his number again.
Seeing her shocked face while looking him over, Naruto had a small smirk on his face. 'Heh, she's probably never seen numbersclose to mine for a high schooler. Plus it's been fun to tease her so far, I can tell this year will be fun' Naruto thought while looking her over
Backing up, Riko said "alright now that I've looked over all of you, it's time to do a scrimmage. Freshman vs returning players"
"Um... you never looked me over" a monotone voice said beside Kagami
'Oh wow, when did he get there? Has he been there from the start?' Riko thought before looking him over. "Ah right, I'm sorry about that I didn't see you there"
"It's fine, I'm used to it" he said with the same monotone voice
"Right... what's your name again?" Riko asked him
"I'm Kuroko Tetsuya" the now named Kuroko said (AN2)
"Alright, now that I've looked Kuroko over, line up with your respective group and let's get ready to start the scrimmage" Riko said to the group as they nodded in return
On the freshman side, there was Naruto, Kagami, Kuroko, Furihata, Kawahara, and Fukuda. "Alright, since we have an extra player, let's discuss who's going to initially start and who we'll have to sub in so everyone has a chance to play" Naruto said to the group of freshman as they nodded and started to think on who should sit out to start before someone spoke up.
"It's fine if I'm the one that sits out to start. My style of basketball is revolves around team play anyways so I'm fine if it's me" Kuroko said to Naruto who smiled at his fellow freshman's selflessness.
"Alright now we have that figured out, let's state the position we play so we won't be playing on top of each other on the court. In case you didn't know, my name is Naruto. As for my position, I'm a point guard. I'm an offensive playmaker, but I'm good on defense as well" Naruto told the group
"My name is Fukuda and I'm a center" he said while looking at the next person
"My name is Kuroko, and I don't have a set position but I guess if I had to say, then it'd be point guard"
"Kagami. Power forward"
"Kawahara, I'm a small forward"
"I'm Furihata, and I'm a point guard. Since you've already said you're a point guard, I can play shooting guard in the scrimmage" he told Naruto.
"Well alright, so it'll be me at point guard, Furihata at shooting guard, Kawahara at small forward, Kagami at power forward, Fukuda at center, and Kuroko as our 6th man. Let's go kick some ass" he told his team as they cheered in response.
As they were talking to each other getting ready for the game, Naruto looked across the gym to study his upperclassmen. There was 1 missing apparently due to an injury as Naruto heard earlier. At point guard, it was Izuki, at shooting guard is Hyūga, at small forward is Koganei, at power forward is Tsuchida, and at center is Mitobe. As he was done looking the last one over, Riko blew her whistle to get everyone's attention.
"Alright, this will be just a game to 21 just so I can see a basis of what you can do and where you could improve. We'll be going by 2s and 3s instead of the traditional 1s and 2s for 21, but like I said it's just a basis on how strong you are at basketball. Everyone line up for jump ball so we can get started" Riko said to everyone as everyone got in position with Fukuda and Mitobe positioned for the jump ball.
When Riko threw the ball up, both jumped to get it but Mitobe had more vertical so the ball got tipped back towards the upper class men (Team A) with it getting caught by Hyūga with him passing it to Izuki to get the offense set.
Dribbling up the court, he sees he has Naruto on himself. Using his eagle eye to survey the court as his teammates are moving around to get open, he sees Koganei cut to the basket open for a pass. Passing it to him, he sees Naruto just staring in his eyes while he passed it to Koganei for an easy layup to be up 2-0 he couldn't help but think to himself 'what's he doing? Is not going to guard me?' shaking that thought off, he runs back to set up on defense.
"Oi Naruto, what are you doing? You just stood there while he made that pass you could've easily stolen." Kagami asked Naruto getting ready to inbound the ball
"Well, I just wanted to see what kind of player he was. To see if he'd take advantage of my lack of defense or just pass out like he did. Don't worry though, I'm done now." Naruto said as he caught the inbound pass from Kagami. "Also even when on offense, be ready for a pass from me at anytime. Even if I'm not looking at you, be ready for it" he told Kagami while dribbling up the court.
"Alright, let's get serious then" he said in return before he ran down the court to get in position.
'Yeahlet's get a little serious' Naruto thought with a smirk as he started to get closer to the defender. Going forward with the ball in his hand, he cut to the right before he brought the ball back quickly to the left, he shook Izuki off of him as he shot an easy 3 pointer bringing the score to 3-2.
Off to the sidelines, Riko was amazed at the play just shown by her new player. 'That was a great play. He crossed Izuki over then squared up for the 3 that space brought him. I feel like he has barely shown anything yet' (AN3)
Izuki bringing the ball up decided to pass again, before it was stolen by Naruto with Kagami not far behind him. Running down the court, Naruto noticed Kagami behind him and passed it as Kagami took the easy dunk.
"So you decided to play defense now?" Izuki asked Naruto
"Eh something like that" he answered with a chuckle. Going past Kuroko, he told him they'll switch when they have 11 points who nodded in return
Back at half court, Izuki decided to be more careful with the ball this time so they wouldn't cause an easy turnover this time around. Looking in the paint, he saw Tsuchida posted up on Kagami. Throwing the ball up to him so he could try to get the points on Kagami. Catching the ball, he span around Kagami to go for the dunk only to be blocked by him at the rim with Fukuda catching the rebound and passed it to Naruto. Catching the ball, Naruto saw an open Furihata down the court who ran down after the block, who caught the long pass from Naruto before doing an easy layup going up 7-2.
Coming back up with the ball, Izuki used his eagle eye to do something with the ball before it was stolen away by Naruto who ran down for an easy dunk.
Coming up to Izuki, Hyūga said "my mark has been giving me enough room. Be on the lookout so we can get back in this game"
Nodding, Izuki told him "right, let's do this"
Passing half court, Izuki saw that Hyūga's mark was hanging off of him just like he said. Passing the ball quickly to him, he caught it and took his form and shot the 3, making it with the score now at 9-5.
Looking over at Kuroko, Naruto signaled him to be ready switch with Furihata. Catching the inbound pass and coming up the court passing the half court line, he decided to make this play a little memorable.
Dribbling in front of his mark, Naruto went to the right with his mark on him, he brought the ball back with a step back and went to the other direction before doing a step back again behind the 3 point line, dropping his defender on the floor while doing so he took the wide open shot, making it and made the game 12-5 (AN4)
Due to the last play, all of his teammates were getting hype for what they just saw. Doing a 2 part step back while dropping your defender while doing so, is not something you see everyday. Even Riko looked like she was getting hype after that play.
After the substitution for Team B, the 2nd half of the game started in a new gear. Team A was looking to come back while Team B was looking to build on the momentum going they had before the short substitution break.
Back at half court with the ball in his hands, Izuki was looking at the matchups each player had. Spotting Mitobe, and seeing had the advantage on his mark, he passed the ball to him. Catching it, Mitobe dribbled it twice before spinning on Fukuda and slamming it for an easy dunk making it 12-7
Naruto with the ball coming up in front of his mark, raised his eyebrow at seeing Kuroko cutting to the center wide open. Shrugging, he passed it to where he was heading which was a seemingly bad pass to the other players since it looked like it was going to be passed right to the other team. Kuroko at the last second meeting the ball in his spot, he misdirected it to Kawahara who was open on the elbow, who caught it and made the wide open shot.
'So he really does have no presence on the court either. It'd definitely be good to have him as a 6th man and bring him in when I'm out so he can help facilitate the offense' Naruto thought amused "hey nice play Kuroko" he told him as he passed him who told him a 'thank you' in return
Izuki caught the ball and did a discreet glance to Hyūga who gave a very subtle nod in return, brought the ball up a little slower so everyone could get set up. Bringing it up to the top of the key, he saw Hyūga seemingly alone before alarms started going off in his head and he passed it quick to Hyūga, which was right in time because he saw Kuroko behind him in motion to steal the ball which he would have if he were a second later. Catching the ball, Hyūga shot and made the wide open 3 making it 14-10
Naruto caught the inbound pass from Fukuda, and brought the ball up to in front of the key. He made a subtle hand action to Fukuda telling him to set a screen on Izuki. Understanding what he wanted, he set the screen, and Naruto went on the other side of the screen to shoot the open 3 and making it.
At the top of the key, Izuki saw Koganei slip past his mark and passed it to him. Catching the ball, he took the shot with Kawahara contesting it at the last second which resulted in the ball rolling off the rim. Luckily for Team A though, Mitobe was there to catch the offensive rebound and do an easy put back which brought the score to 17-12
Deciding to get Kuroko involved again, Naruto brought the ball up and dribbled in place in front of Izuki. Seeing him disappear from his defender again, he saw where he was heading and passed it to the direction he was going again, before Kuroko misdirected it to Kagami who caught it and dunked it over his defender.
'Another one of those phantom passes. I'm glad I was paying attention otherwise I would'vemissed it and turned the ball over' Kagami thought to himself
"Alright, Team B we only need 1 more basket to win. You guys have played good in this scrimmage. I can tell you'll be great teammates going forward" Naruto told his teammates who looked happy towards his praise while Kagami just smirked.
Set back up on defense with Izuki in front of him, Naruto was looking to end the scrimmage so he tightened up his defense. Spotting Kuroko behind him, he went to steal the ball which made him move the ball towards Kuroko's position who poked the ball out towards Naruto. Catching it with an open court in front of him, he decided to make it a flashy ending. Sprinting towards the hoop, he clutched the ball in his hand and brought it back to do a windmill dunk which won them the game.
Hearing the whistle blow to signify the game was over the teams payed their respects to each other. "Alright guys, that was a great game. Both teams showed good teamwork and great skills." Riko said before she looked to Naruto and said "and let's give it up to Naruto who showed phenomenal skills out there."
"Thank you, but you haven't seen anything yet. I look forward to winning games for you Coach Riko" Naruto said to her while winking at her making her blush. Turning to his future teammates, he said "everyone impressed me out there. With the squad we have, I really think we can win the championships here" which seemingly brightened up his teams mood while Kagami nodded with a smile.
"Alright guys, that's it for today. Be ready for practice tomorrow. I look forward to seeing everyone again tomorrow" Riko said before she walked out the door.
As the team started to leave, soon it was only Naruto, Kagami, Hyūga, Izuki, and Kuroko (even though Naruto was the only one to notice him which amused him)
"Hey, you guys. You wanna go to a restaurant near by for a little post game so we can get to know each other better?" Hyūga walking over asked Naruto and Kagami with Izuki beside him.
"yeah that's cool." Naruto said back to them with Kagami nodding along. "Kuroko you coming too?" Naruto asked which slightly scared his teammates since they never saw him in the 1st place. Looking over to see Kuroko nod, Naruto said "alright, let's go" walking out with everyone following behind him.
In the restaurant with Kagami and Kuroko beside him, with Naruto sitting on the edge they decided to just ask each other questions to get to know each other better.
Starting off, Izuki looked over to Naruto and asked "so Naruto, how did you get so strong?" With the others besides Kagami nodded in agreement also wanting to know the answer to that question.
"Well I was born and raised in America. I was taught basketball at an early age by my dad. Growing up, I had a teacher who taught Kagami, another kid, and I more about basketball and how to train to get more skills. Later in life, I joined my best friend's street ball team and anytime we weren't playing against another team, we played against each other to train ourselves and each other to get better" Naruto told them with Kagami nodding in remembrance of his childhood days with Alex training him.
"You said you were born and raised in America? You have good Japanese even though you don't look it at all. Is someone in your family from here?" Hyūga asked Naruto
"Well my grandma on my mom's side originally came from Japan, and in college she decided to study abroad and got into Stanford where she met my grandpa and had my mom. My mom being half Japanese, took it upon herself to learn her mom's language which my grandma took delight in teaching her. She went to UCLA where she met my dad and here's me. My mom and grandma decided to teach me their culture and language which I'm thankful for" Naruto told them and they nodded in return.
"Kagami, so you and Naruto learned how to play basketball together when you were younger. No wonder you guys are so strong." Izuki said to Kagami who chuckled
Soon the waitress brought them their food, who was taking discreet glances at Naruto who caught her and winked at her which made her blush in return. When she left, they decided to start talking about random things to build a better relationship as teammates and friends. After about an hour, they decided to start gathering there things to go home.
"Ah...well it's been fun you guys. We'll see you tomorrow" Izuki said to them with Hyūga throwing up a hand saying bye while he and Izuki went home.
"Alright Naruto, I'll see you tomorrow. It was fun playing with you again. Now that we're teammates, we're going to crush everyone out there" Kagami told Naruto who smirked and nodded in response.
After Kagami and Kuroko left, and Naruto went to get that Waitress' number, he decided to go home and call it a night since tomorrow is his 1st full practice. 'I wonder if there will be anyone that can be a serious challenge to me' Naruto thought to himself while walking into his house. "Mom, dad I'm home" he announced. When he noticed his mom, he smiled since he's always been closer to his mom than his dad.
"Welcome home, did you have fun today?" His mom asked him with a warm smile.
"Yeah mom, we had a scrimmage against the upperclassmen and we won and of course I played good." Naruto said with a smirk before he added "oh by the way, I already had dinner"
"Well I'm glad you won and you played good. It makes me proud of you whenever I hear that you played good. I can't wait to come to your games to cheer you on" she said with a smile. "Well I'm glad I caught you before I went to sleep. Goodnight, Naruto" she said before she kissed his forehead
"Thanks mom, it means a lot. I can't wait to play in real games." Naruto said before he hugged her and told her goodnight as well.
Going up in his room, he got in his bed and noticed he got a text from his close friend Nash. Opening it up, he started to read it "aye Naruto, good luck over there in Japan. Since you're my equal, I expect you to win in any game you play in. See you soon." Closing it with a smirk after he sent a thank you message in response, he went to sleep ready to start officially playing for Seirin.
CHAPTER END
AN1: that scene isn't really necessary. If enough people ask for it, I can do a small flashback for it.
AN2: I'm not going to describe everyone's appearances. I'm new at this and everyone know what these characters look like anyways.
AN3: It's a scrimmage so he isn't showing everything. In this game, since it was so short he was trying to involve his teammates as much as possible.
AN4: this play was basically Kemba Walker's double step back play in the NCAA tournament from a couple of years ago. If you haven't, watch it. It's a great play.
Well that's the end of the 1st chapter guys, I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoyed writing it. If you have any suggestions feel free to say it in the reviews or PM me. If you have something bad to say, then just say "here's how you did it,and here's how I would've done it". If you just straight up flame it, how am I supposed to know what you'd wanna see. I look forward to hopefully seeing you guys for chapter 2
-Scoopball out
