Hiya! Thanks a lot for all of your comments and kudos ;)
For Jess, thank you soooo much for beta-ed this chap XD
I edited this fic at 2 a.m, that's why all the mistakes that remains are mine
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Warning : Shounen ai (mild boyxboy), bad language
Disclaimer : Tadatoshi Fujimaki-sensei
"Talking"
'Aomine's talking'
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Chapter 3
Three days.
It has been just three days since Aomine has shown up in Kagami's life, but the cocky-cat has easily eased his way into Kagami's routines. Most of Kagami's activities involve Aomine in it, like… bickering about (what's on the menu today?), fighting (who would take a bath first? Why the hell was a cat need a bath anyway?!), stopping Aomine from destroying Kagami's little garden, and a lot of other silly things.
But after years of living alone in his little hut and rarely getting a visit from his friends (well, except for Tatsuya and Kuroko), Aomine's presence makes a slow but big change to Kagami's life…
… and honestly? Kagami doesn't mind about it at all.
Aomine strangely feels the same way. He has a lot of friends back at his hometown, but Kagami is… Unique. Up until now, he still doesn't know what type Kagami is. Is he an alpha? An omega? Or a beta? He thinks the last option is likely the correct answer.
Each type has their own scents, and Kagami… He has a different scent than the others. It's not an earthy-scent like most of the Alphas, it's also neither like a fresh air-scent of betas or a sweet-scent of omegas. Kagami's scent is off, faint and unclear. It seems like he's using something like a scent-blocker and Aomine wants to know the reason behind it. Unlike what the other thinks about him (a selfish bastard, smug and cold-egoistical Alpha… well, that's true tho') he knows when it's time to stop and not push someone just because of his curiosity.
Surprisingly, he doesn't mind waiting for Kagami to open up to him.
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They're argue a lot and sometimes one of them will be sulking in the corner (Aomine) and the other would give the silent treatment all-day (Kagami). But in the end, Kagami would shake his head a little and a soft smile would grace his face that would make a weird feeling in Aomine's gut. It feels like a lot of butterflies swirling in his stomach.
'Che! That sounds so fucking girly…'
"Did you say something Aomine?"
Aomine lifts his head and his dark blue eyes met with Kagami's crimson eyes. Kagami's hair was a mess, his face covered by sweat and dirt, and nope, Aomine didn't check Kagami out. He's just looking at how the shirt sticks to Kagami's body or how the tanned skin peeks out from under his shirt . A sudden image of Kagami's flushed cheeks, writhing under him and moaning his name crossed his mind
Fuck. Why the hell is he suddenly thinking about that?!
'Nah… just thinking out loud.'
"Well, maybe you can do something rather than just sitting and lazing around all day. The weather is good, why don't you play on the grass or go sunbathing outside?"
'That's something that a cat will do.'
Kagami shrugged, "Well, you are a cat."
Aomine fur bristled, he hissed and glared at Kagami. He jumped onto the bed and curled his body on a pillow, leaving behind an amused Kagami.
Sulking in the corner again, that means end of discussion.
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"Taiga!"
Aomine's ear flicked slightly at the stranger's voice. He opened one of his eyes and spotted Kagami opening the door for a beautiful guy with dark hair. Aomine sniffed the air… There's that scent again, plain and unclear, but he still could scent a faint fresh air-scent…
Ah, a beta then. Why are they using this scent block, by the way?
Aomine's thoughts stopped when Kagami and the stranger hugged each other. He tried to push away the sudden anger in his chest. The purple-haired guy stared at Aomine, then approached him and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Oh! Who's this cute little guy?"
The stranger cooed and pet his fur. Aomine really, really wants to swat the stranger's hand away, but he's still sleepy and the hand feels good on his head, so he's just stretches a little then settled again on the pillow.
"You will change your mind when he's truly awake and starts to make a lot of noise and stomp at everything in the kitchen, asking to be fed."
"Oh come one! This cute little guy doesn't seem that bad."
Kagami's snorted and walked to the kitchen.
"Tea?"
"Yes, please."
After a few minutes, the stranger who was later known as Himuro Tatsuya, was chatting with Kagami at the dinner table. Aomine swished his tail back and forth lazily, dozing off while he's listening to their conversation.
So, Himuro is a childhood friend of Kagami, he's come from Seirin (it seems that's Kagami's hometown as well) but now settle down at Yosen with his mate. He's usually visiting Kagami once or twice in a month. He would bring something for Kagami, mostly cheese and meat, Kagami's favorite. They're laughing together and most of conversation dominated by Tatsuya who filled Kagami in about the latest news in town.
This is the first time Aomine is seeing Kagami so relaxed since three days ago. He saw Kagami laughing before, he saw him angry, pissed off, and sometimes Kagami gets this sad and far away look on his face. It's like he makes a barrier, a wall, that prevents someone to come in, stop someone to get closer to him.
What had happened to you, Bakagami?
Aomine wants to know about this red-haired guy with mysterious past. That thought startled him a little, because he has never felt like this with anyone. He gazes up at Kagami, noticing how his eyes lit up when Himuro teases him, how his body shakes when he laughes. Kagami suddenly stopped, turned his head at Aomine, then he smiled and continued his conversation with Himuro.
Aomine sighed. He doesn't know why but he feels like he's in deep trouble.
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The sun began to set, Himuro looks outside and decided to go home. Kagami looked a little disappointed, but he covered it quickly. Himuro went to Aomine again and stroked his head.
"I forgot to ask before, what's his name, Taiga?"
"Aomine."
Himuro blinked.
"Do you mean like Aomine as in Aomine Daiki, the son of the Touo's lord?"
Aomine's attention peeks up at this.
"Do you know about him?"
"Who doesn't know about Aomine Daiki?! Well, you apparently…"
Aomine snickered and Kagami glared at him.
"He's a player, loves playing around, is lazy and a smug-bastard."
Kagami laughed at Aomine's offended face.
"So, in short Aomine is a womanizer and a lazy alpha?"
"Yup, and he's also hot as hell and a sexy one on top of that, so it was a good choice of name, Taiga."
'Told you so!'
Kagami rolled his eyes, when Aomine preens around.
"You have a mate, Tatsuya."
"I do, but it doesn't hurt anyone to appreciate another hot alpha, right?"
He laughed at Kagami's expression and patted Aomine's head. Himuro walked to the door with Kagami following behind him. He stopped and looked up at Kagami.
"Are you not visiting them again this year?"
Kagami's body becomes rigid and after a while he shakes his head slowly. Himuro smiled sadly, he reached kagami's shoulder and gives a gentle squeeze. Kagami's body went lax again.
"See you Taiga."
"Take care Tatsuya."
"Bye Aomine!"
Aomine answered by swinging his tail.
A few minutes later, Kagami flopped down beside Aomine, raised his eyebrow.
"So?"
'So what?'
"A player and a lazy alpha, really?"
' Don't forget the hot as hell and sexy one part.'
Kagami chuckled and shook his head.
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They're eating and munching on their dinner enthusiastically. Thanks to Tatsuya, they're having a little fest tonight with a lot of meat and cheese.
"Don't eat too much Aomine! You'll protest about a stomachache again later."
'Shut up! I'm hungry!'
"I don't think that much meat is healthy for a cat like you."
Aomine and Kagami jumped up from the chairs.
"Gaaaahhh! Kuroko?! When did you come in?!"
'What the fuck?!'
"The door isn't locked, so I decided to come in here. I've been sitting here for… fifteen minutes."
After a lot of cursing from Kagami and a blank look from Kuroko, they moved to the living room and were sitting on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate in their hands. Kagami gave a brief introduction about the new stranger, Kuroko Tetsuya, his other childhood friend. Kuroko is also a training witch like Momoi. He's regularly visiting Kagami and sometimes accompanies him into town to buy food stuff and other things.
Kagami told Kuroko about Aomine's situation. Aomine tried really hard to not fidget under Kuroko's scrutinizing eyes. After a long awkward silence, Kuroko opened his mouth.
"So, you claim to be Aomine Daiki from Touou?"
"You know about him too, Kuroko?"
"Yeah. I heard that he's a class A asshole."
'You- little jerk! How dare you!'
Kagami is laughing out loud while clutching his stomach, and Kuroko is dealing with the wrath of a black furball calmly.
"You can curse me as you like, but I don't understand what're you saying, Aomine-kun."
Aomine stop trying to scratching Kuroko and Kagami's eyes widen slightly.
"….You don't?"
'Heh. That means the ones who understand my voice are just you and Satsuki. Oh! I just realized it… Why didn't you tell Himuro about me?'
"Tatsuya cares about me a lot, but I don't want him running away while he's thinking that I have gone mad because I say that I can understand cat-language."
"And do you think that I would trust you, Kagami-kun?"
Kagami grinned, "I know you do and you'll always do."
Kuroko looked surprised with Kagami's statement, but it quickly shifted to a soft look on his face. Aomine felt like he had interrupted something between them and his stomach was churning at the thought.
'What are you? Your scent is off like Kagami and that Himuro guy', Aomine blurted out suddenly.
Kuroko asked Kagami what Aomine said and Kagami explained him about it.
"I'm an Alpha."
Aomine raised his eyebrow.
"I may not look like one, but I'm really an Alpha. And yes, the three of us are using a scent-block to mask our natural scent. You could say that we were not really happy with our true nature."
Kagami panicked because of the direction of the conversation, but they weren't aware of it. He tried to change the topic several times but Aomine and Kuroko ignored his efforts.
"I am an Alpha who hoped to born as a beta. As you can see, my body doesn't look like most Alphas, and I don't like it when people label the Alphas as a bunch of brainless people who're just thinking with their dicks, or some opinions about how an Alpha must look strong and tough."
They were silent for a few minutes.
' So, Himuro is ...?'
Kagami reluctantly translated Aomine's voice again to Kuroko.
"He is a beta who wants to be an omega. He's always been good with children and he want to have his own child. But as you know, unlike an omega male, a possibility of a beta male to have a child is really small. While Kagami is …"
'A beta who wants to be an Alpha? Well, his posture and behavior are completely like an Alpha's, so it's not that difficult to imagine if he wants the others to think of him as one.'
Kagami stood up from his chair abruptly. Aomine and Kuroko looked at him quizzically, but his eyes are hard and cold. He grabbed the edge of his shirt tightly while he tried to calm himself.
"Kagami-kun ..."
"No. I'm not a beta nor an Alpha-wanna be… I'm just an omega who's trying really hard to act as a beta or an Alpha so the others don't think of me as a freak."
He left them and walked out from the hut. Aomine snapped out of his shock and turned towards Kuroko. Anger and confusion mixed together in his head
'You know that he doesn't want me to know about his gender, but you still told me about it?!'
"Like I said before, I don't understand what are you saying right now, Aomine-kun, but I think I know what you mean. I don't want him to get hurt in the end. If you really care about him, then you should know about this fact. I know I should let Kagami tell you about it himself. But when I thought about Kagami's stubborn nature, he will not admit it if he can lie about it.
I want you to think about this fact carefully, Aomine-kun. If you don't mind about it, then I'm happy that Kagami has one more person who understands him without judging his gender. But if you loathe this fact, then you should leave this place now."
Aomine opened his mouth a few times, but he couldn't form any words out. Kuroko stood up and walked towards where Kagami has gone, leaving a bewildered Aomine behind. Kuroko stopped at the door and turned his head slightly to Aomine, a sad smile formed on his face, the same one he saw on Himuro's face.
"He's been hurt a lot before by narrow-minded people, even his own family. So, please… Don't hurt him again, Aomine-kun."
The sound of the door opening and closing ringing loudly in Aomine's ears..
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Yup! Kagami is an Omega…
I think most of you have guessed correctly, right?
All right.. See ya on the next chap~
