Two months after the Winter Cup final

It's a nice winter morning in Tokyo. It is very cold, but the sun is shining brightly and strongly down on the city. Thousands of people are on the way, some are on the phone while walking around the paths, others are in groups, either in school uniforms or students meeting in their free time.

Meanwhile, high school basketball players are training nearby at Seirin High. Although her trainer, Riko Aida, is not in the hall at the moment because she received a call a few minutes ago, the two teams, which will be the upcoming third graders and the upcoming second graders, will continue to play their mini-game. At the moment the youngsters are leading by four points. Even though the team won the Winter Cup two months ago and is now the champion of Japan, the players know that they cannot sit back. The opponents will come back stronger and now they are the hunted to beat, and they don't want to accept that. Especially when their opponents are the Kiseki No Sedei.

Five minutes later, the game is over with the better end for the first grader team. Sweating and puffing, the players Seirins sit on the hall floor and immediately fill up with a few liters of water and take a short break, because the game was, as always, very intense. The only one who still feels like it is the ace of the team, Taiga Kagami.

"Hey Kuroko," the redhead says to the light-blue hair lying on the floor. "One-on-one, who has ten points first." The person addressed looks at the taller one in front of him, without a look on his face, the smaller one lets his light understand that this idea was really idiotic. Listening to the conversation, Captain Seirins, Junpei Hyuga, is now interfering. "What should you expect from a Bakagami? Neh?" The baka looks at his Senpai with a scathing look, which, however, only pushes his glasses up unimpressed. Just when Kagami wants to start a counterattack, the hall door is opened ... and Riko Aida hops in. Oh oh, she hops. Everyone on the team knows exactly what that means.

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After everyone has sat up and calmed down a little, it is time for Riko to bring them the good news for themselves. With a devilish smile she looks down on her team. Oh it will be a dream.

"So gentlemen, do you know what I think?" The players look at each other in confusion and then at their coach. "At burger?" She suddenly rips a question out of her thoughts. "Fool, baka, you can never think of anything else, can you?" Riko asks the redhead. He just mumbles something and then looks back at his trainer.
"Well, you know that a new school year will soon begin and with it a new competition. But please don't think about that now, because what I have to say has something to do with the current school year. "
"Yo, but coach, we did everything, even the basketball idiot passed the tests," Shun Izuki and his vice-captain of the team throw in.
"Oi, why always me, heh?", Kagami is now in the counterattack, but no one answers. Everyone knows that her ace is a fool when it comes to the motivation of learning, yet ... he has still made it.
From their "discussion" the two are interrupted by a very loud cough that belongs to their coach.
With a dark aura around him, Riko makes it clear, "If you don't stop with this idiotic subject right away, you will keep going until you collapse and can't breathe, did you understand?", Finally with a devilish grin she turns in the direction of the others who still don't know what to expect.

"In order not to torture you for too long - and no Bakagami, there was no torture here yet - I'll get to the point." Everyone is anxiously waiting for the statement. "I just got a call from the National School Basketball Association. You invited Seirin to participate in a month-long training camp in Kumamoto-shi. " With big eyes full of astonishment, her players look at her, she even managed to keep the hothead Kagami in silence. The only one standing there unimpressed is Kuroko-kun, he only stands next to his light with a small smile. "And Kuroko are you already on the move?" Kagami asks him now. The addressed student nods and then says: "But I think our coach still has something to say, right?" Riko looks at her wonder player in surprise. Could it be? Does he already know ...? He nods to her that she should not only continue to speak, but also that he knows it. Wonder, in that sense it should not ...

"But that's not all, guys. We will not be the only participants in the camp. Five more schools will be there ... " "Who else?", She interrupts the voice of the idiot ace. At some point, in the near future, she will kill him. "Shut up! And let your boss finish, you fool. So ... the five other schools are all well known to you, because we played against everyone. Too, Shutoku, Yosen, Kaijo and Rakuzan will also take part in the training camp. The association provides us with the flight and the overnight stays. We meet at the airport on Saturday at six in the morning, everything else will be discussed during the flight. Oh, I can hardly wait, can't you? ", Hypocritically she looks around. Shocked faces and an impenetrable face are in front of her, but you can't see shock on the face, but also hidden joy. The first one who found his language again was Kagami. "So that means against Aoemine ... ohhhh, there is a fire burning in me right now, you can even ..." "BAMMM!", a fist lands on his face. No one but Hyuga stands in front of him "You miserable fool. Just think of the other fool, what is floating up there with you, nothing apparently! This is a training camp and not the Winter Cup, it means strengthening yourself and not holding new competitions. They are important when the time comes, so drive yourself down ... otherwise I will do it for you ", with an evil grin he turns his back on Kagami, who just mumbles again. "Whatever you murmur, you're not a marmot ... wait, where do I have my book, I have to write it down", Izuki intervenes again.

Aida Riko can only smile tiredly about the behavior of her group, but that's just the way they are best and none of them want to do without. Suddenly a big hand lies on her shoulder. Next to her is the team's founder, Teppei Kyoshi. "You're really looking forward to the camp, aren't you?"
She nods in agreement. It will be a whole new experience. They know what it's like to be in the training camp with Shutoku, but with everyone else of the miracle generation ... it will be something completely different.
"Akashi-kun had the idea," Riko turns surprised to Kuroko, who has stood on her right side and gave the meaning to the goings-on in front of him. Kagami, Hyuga and Izuki argued vocally as stupidly as the other was.
"That ... eh ... well, that ... um I didn't know," Riko indicated. The phantom player now looked at her.
"He had the idea at our last meeting."
"For your birthday?" Asked Kyoshi. Kuroko shook his head, the two looked at him in surprise.
"Since the Winter Cup, we all meet again often, especially when everyone is back in Tokyo. Two weeks ago, Akashi-kun had to go back to Tokyo for business and Murasakibara-kun of course came. We played basketball, and then Akashi-kun suddenly came up with this idea. And we all agreed. "Both of them looked at him with their mouths open. So were the six, the initiators of this whole camp?
"You were that? !" The exclamation was so loud that there was even a small echo in the gym. Of course, this also attracted the attention of the three brawlers, who were now also looking at their coach and phantom. Without moving, Kuroko nodded. "I apologize for not telling you beforehand, but yesterday we received the OK from Akashi-kun, that everything is regulated and we can now tell our teammates what we have planned." With a bow his trainer made her Kuroko clear that he was really sorry, Riko quickly wiped it away, she couldn't be angry with her main player.
"Wait a minute ... plan, Akashi? Why do I feel the fear rising in me? "Asked Hyuga.
"Captain, you don't have to be afraid of Akashi-kun ..." With a tiring but slightly relaxing smile he calmed down again until "As long as he doesn't get angry ..." Kuroko finished his sentence.
"Oi, Kuroko, I'll let you go for punishment right away!" With a shocked look that you don't often see on the boy's always the same face, everyone else starts laughing. Even the light blue-haired man can't help but smile.
Secretly, he's a little excited too. Even if the six had come together again several times, it would be something completely different if their teams were also involved.

With a last smile in the round, everyone present went in their respective directions in which they lived. And one thing was already certain.
The sparkle in every eye will not go away so quickly.

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I hope you enjoyed the prologue and gave you an insight into the future course of the story.

Let's see how it goes in the training camp, but first you all have to go there - what will happen on the way there?

Be excited!

Greatings Alina :-))

PS .: Before the reactions to the anime start, I want to give a little introduction to the story. So you have to wait a little longer for the first episode and the reaction to it.