Hey, this is chapter two, guys! I've already finished the chapter outline so it'll have twenty-two chapters in all… Anyways…

Title: A Dirty Basketball

Disclaimer: If if owned SD, I'd be filthy rich right now and I'd not have to go through fanfics if I wanted to realize this story, y'know.

Pairings: Umm, at the moment, uncertain. But this is not yaoi!

Time Setting: After Shohoku lost to Aiwa. Oh, wait! After the Interhigh was concluded. Yup, the champs are here. Of course, they're my creation. And here, the teams are still complete.

Fictional/New Character: A whole team, actually… Okay, a whole school. This includes the particular person I created, Aki Sendoh, Akira Sendoh's, umm… cousin… hehehe!

POV's: many, maybe most of my lead characters will have their own share

Summary: Short summary… Explains everything… Aki and Rukawa accidentally kiss in front of the computer… Yihee!

Chapter 2: Stalkers and Kisses

NoRMaL PoV:

After their practice in the gym, Sendoh, Rukawa and Mitsui go back to the building to fetch Aki. They find Aki in a small room with several computers. She was sitting in front of one, typing nonstop and stared fixed on the screen. (a la MakubeX, Get Backers) Sendoh suddenly remembers leaving something back in the court…

"A – Matte kudasai. I forgot something at the gym,"

"Oh, me, too," Mitsui said.

"Wait here, you two. We'll go home together. Don't leave us," Sendoh waves off at Aki and Rukawa. So, the two were left…

"What're you doing?" Rukawa says in a low tone as he pulled a chair, beside Aki, closer so that he could see the computer screen. Aki did not reply, however.

"What're you doing?" Rukawa said again as he pulled the chair to Aki's Southeast, quite behind Aki, kind of leaning over her shoulder, but still kinda facing her cheek or something.

"Hey," Rukawa said again as he kinda playfully tapped Aki's temple. Aki did not reply, for the third time now. Instead, she leaned back on her chair, and Rukawa's lips accidentally brushed on Aki's cheek… or Aki's cheek accidentally brushed on Rukawa's lips… You have it your way… Anyways, this caused Aki surprise, so she suddenly looked at Rukawa, so sudden that Rukawa was not even able to straighten up. Aki turned to Rukawa, and her lips brushed against his. Aki turned red. Rukawa's eyes widened.

"A –" Aki realized what had happened and pulled away, turning even redder.

"Go – Gomen ne," Rukawa apologized, slightly blushing himself.

"A – Iie! It was my fault!" Aki tried to laugh off the tension. It was very obvious that she became uncomfortable all of a sudden. Rukawa, however, took out a handkerchief and handed it to Aki.

"Here," He held the hanky near Aki's pursed lips. "You can wipe it off,"

"Huh? A – Wha – Why?"

"I mean – "

"Iie," Aki smiled, lowering Rukawa's hand. "It's – not that…" Aki blushed again, and lowered her gaze to the floor.

"Oi, what're you doing?" Sendoh and Mitsui appeared at the open doorway.

"Wha – What?" Aki said, looking up nervously to her cousin. Rukawa's heart beat raised, also nervous if Sendoh and Mitsui saw anything.

"What're you doing with the computer? Can't we go home yet?" Sendoh said, pointing to the computer.

aKi'S PoV:

Thank goodness… They didn't see… -sigh- For a moment, I thought I was done for… A – Rukawa-kun!

"You're tracking down people on the Internet?" Mitsui-kun asked. He kinda scares me. When he talks to me, he always looks me in the eye. Like he can see through me… Calm down, Aki… Relax… If you get too tense, he might see right through you and find out what happened…

"A, I'm trying to find out who was mailing all those rumors. You know, earlier…" I shot Rukawa-kun a look. He's so stranger, too. He's acting like nothing happened… He's even looking at me fearlessly… -sigh- These Shohoku boys scare me…

NoRMaL PoV:

"How do you do that?" Sendoh asks.

"Umm, it's a complicated process. I mean, you have to have many resources. You have to know many possibilities on how to pry around on the Internet. That kind of stuff,"

"Cool…" Mitsui said.

"Anyways, I'm done. So we can go," Aki stood up and put her bag across her shoulder, the familiar way she does. She reaches for the PC mouse. Just as she was about to shut the computer down, an e-mail arrived. When they read…

"I know what happened. I saw you. I won't tell anyone just yet, don't worry…"

"What – What happened?" Sendoh blinked, looking at his cousin and back at the PC screen.

"I – I don't know… Hell," Aki said nervously. She looked at Rukawa and found Rukawa looking nervously at her, too. She looked away out of reflex action. She was so scared that Sendoh would find out. She slammed her hands down on the mouse, on the keyboard, screen, and on every part of the PC that needed to be turned off. So, they went down the building. When they were walking out of tha gates of Jonan…

"So, how was your day?" Sendoh cheerfully said, when he made to walk alongside his punk cousin. He walked beside Aki's left.

"Nani?" Aki looked at Sendoh in bewilderment. Sendoh suddenly held her left hand and held it up so that Mitsui and Rukawa could both see. (They were walking in front of Sendoh and Aki.)

"Hmm… Your hand feels thinner than it was the last time I held it… And that was some years ago already… You're thinner than you were when we were younger!"

"Urusai, Akira!" Aki pulled her hand away.

"What's your problem? Why don't you just admit that you grew thinner because you missed me, you were kinda distraught by my absence, ne?" Sendoh said, as he grabbed Aki's hand again and rubbed it against his cheek.

"Shut up!" Aki said, pulling her hand again. They walked to Aki's house, which was, wow, a mansion. When they arrived, everyone was just so tired. They all just went to bed. Aki, before going to bed, checked on her cousin.

"Hey… Why're you… still up?" Sendoh said sheepishly.

"Hm? Nandemonai… I was just checking on you,"

"There's no need… to check on me… I'm not a kid,"

"Hn. Well then, go to sleep, Akira 'ni-san,"

"I'm not that… old… Don't call me 'oni-san…'"

"Yeah… Night…" Aki backed off and chose not to completely close the door. Instead, she left a small space open. When she walked past Rukawa's bedroom, she noticed that the door was open, too. She took a peek, and saw Rukawa sleeping peacefully. "Rukawa-kun…" Rukawa turned in his sleep. "Oyasumi nasai, Rukawa-kun…" Aki continued walking towards her room. She entered it, closed the door, turned off the lights and settled in her bed. No one could have guessed what she was thinking, but it was most probably about the events that happened that day; Akira's gym practice, Otome-san's assignment to her, the stalker's e-mail, and that kiss…

End of Chaper 2: Stalkers and Kisses

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