I was thinking of doing a different one to update, but then this one half wrote itself and half tried to kill itself off.


Akashi's Miracle Pitch


Akashi Seijuurou was unpredictable.

So, of freaking course, he was the last person Kagami ever expected at his door.

Well, it made sense as it was pouring a river outside— The captain was soaked to the bone. Kagami wouldn't stand to have anyone just crash at his place without taking care of them first (clearly, Akashi seemed completely unbothered by the cold rain water).

But.

What the hell was Akashi doing around this area?

Kagami stared at the ball of fur from his place in the kitchen. Akashi's weird cat already made himself at home. The fat meat bun of a thing settled itself on the coffee table while Akashi blow dried him.

The red head was mostly dried off. His hair was still wet from the shower Kagami (almost literally) dragged him into. The clothes he borrowed were actually Kuroko's spare set (as some tutoring sessions ran late into the night). He used Alex's back-up hair dryer as if he done it a million times before, expertly drying the cat's fur into a literal fluff ball.

If Kagami wasn't still stocked that Akashi freaking Seijuurou was sitting in his very living room—- he would've laughed.

"Thank you, Kagami," Akashi said the second he clicked off the dryer. His red eyes seemed like it was burning a hole in Kagami's head, "I'll pay you back at a later date."

"Forget it- we're good," Kagami immediately rejected it (as amazing as it seemed— it sounded just as dangerous). Instead, he placed two mugs of tea on the table and sat across from the Rakuzan Captain.

"What the hell were you doing in a storm like this?" Kagami didn't sugar coat.

"Helping a friend." Akashi didn't elaborate.

There was an awkward silence (if one ignored how the rain hammered the windows).

Akashi seemed awfully calm, sipping at the tea as he smoothed Nyanko-sensei's fur down.

It was just— so awkward to be sitting in front of Akashi as if they were, what? Lifetime friends they certainly were not?

Kagami survived at least a whole damn minute longer before he stood up abruptly. "RAMEN."

"Eh?" Akashi's faint look of shock and confusion was almost enough to make Kagami falter.

Almost.

"Ramen," Kagami repeated himself, "it's almost dinnertime. Uhhh— hope you don't mind if it's beef."

For some odd reason, the weird cat was more excited about it than Akashi.

"Beef is fine," he said as he practically smuggled an overly eager Nyanko-sensei, "Just… If you have enough, please make a bowl for Nyanko-sensei."

Kagami sighed, remembering Kuroko's birthday party about half a year ago. The cat had actually sneaked food off the party table all evening and no one was ever able to stop him, "Right."

Akashi only smiled when he squished his cat to the floor.

As Kagami cooked, he kept an eye on the Rakuzan Captain. He lost count how many times the weird cat hissed at the balcony, and Akashi shifted a bit closer to the kitchen. If he found it strange, Kagami didn't say anything.

Now that he thought about it— Akashi acted the same way at the birthday party. He always stuck close to either Kuroko, or Kagami.

Weird.

The rain still hadn't let up by the time the ramen was cooked, nor the time the boys had finished their bowls. They chatted, somehow. Akashi somehow managed to get Kagami to do most of the talking (Kagami wouldn't lie— it was damn awkward as hell when Akashi ate so neatly and the cat basically inhaled his portion).

It was only when Kagami finished washing the dishes did Akashi said something strange.

"Kagami, do you happen to have picked up a white pearl anywhere?"

Kagami blinked, "A what?"

"A white pearl," Akashi repeated. He held up a hand as if he held a freaking baseball instead, "About this big and rather heavy."

It was only then that Kagami saw a red scratch near his elbow, almost hidden by the baggy sleeves of the shirt.

Akashi dropped his hand with a slight tilt of his head, "Have you seen it?"

"No? I mean, you sure that's a pearl? Whatever the hell you showed me was a damn baseball," Kagami answered rather honestly. For some odd reason, the Rakuzan Captain made him feel like he needed to keep his volume down.

"Ah, I —"

"I FOUND IT—"

Kagami whirled on his heel when he heard a sudden old man's voice in his house.

"WHAT THE—" Kagami cut himself off when he looked down.

The weird cat sat on its haunches. Both paws were high in the air and frozen in place. But Kagami didn't see anything.

In that same second, Akashi freaking Seijuurou dove past Kagami and swiped at the paws.

Kagami could barely comprehend what the hell happened in the next few seconds.

But he knew for a damn fact that his balcony door was thrown open. He didn't know why the hell Akashi moved as if he pitched a 100mph fastball.

He could only gawk at the late evening sunset filtering into his house.

The rain—

The literal waterfall of rain was just—

GONE.

Akashi quietly brushed off imaginary dust and closed the balcony doors with a gentle grace only he possessed. The odd group shared a long silence— Kagami could've sworn that the cat was sweating bullets.

Then Akashi cleared his throat with a rather calm smile, "Ah, it looks like the rain's gone."

"OI! YOU CAN'T PRETEND NOTHING JUST HAPPENED, YOU IDIOT!" Kagami exploded.

"WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE WAS THAT, BRAT?!" the cat— yes, Kagami, the weird as hell cat yowled.

Needless to say, Kagami found out about the cat just like that.


Kagami was hard to write, but then I thought about how Kuroko often riles him up, and Akashi just- unintentionally does it to him the second he does something out of the ordinary.