Submitted on 1/11/2014 to basketballpoetsociety's Challenge No. 95: Character Battle for Kise. More pre-AoKise than actual AoKise.
He's spectating Kise's game.
Really, what he wants to be is playing with Kise, either on the team or against. Playing with Kise is always hilarious. There's something missing, spectating like this – he can't see team or all chat, where Kise is undoubtedly talking the most ridiculous amount of shit like he always does, even in official games.
Even though he's been doing it for years, there are still some people who still can't tune him and his endless stream of bullshit out, and get infuriated by it. That's why Kise does it, of course; he loves the reaction. It was better in the old days when they weren't all so well established, the days when the opposing team would form a death squad with a singular hive mind set only on blowing up Kise's champion; it doesn't happen so much anymore, but occasionally someone will break and just go batshit trying to kill Kise.
The problem with that is that Kise is incredible. He doesn't outplay quite as hard as Daiki himself does, but it's a pretty close thing. (His fails are incredible too. Daiki loves watching Kise fuck up as well. Kise's always infuriatingly good at laughing it off, and Daiki likes the way he looks when he's smiling the way he does after a particularly bad fail in solo queue; it's never an embarrassed look, it's always genuine delight at the ridiculousness of how badly he messed up.)
He wants to see what trash Kise is talking, but he's not streaming; either he's forgotten to, or he looks or feels like shit and doesn't want to show his adoring fans.
Kise's always been pretty popular. Even before he established himself as a personality for this game, he'd been popular on another, and even though he'd decided to change games, his fanbase hadn't even dropped him. Daiki occasionally envied how photogenic Kise was even over webcams. He looked like a serial killer when he streamed.
Daiki didn't get what sucked people in about Kise other than that ridiculously nice looking face (what was it that sucked him in about Kise, then?), but it was what it was.
He closed the spectator window and sighed. Queueing with Kise would mean waiting forever for a game with their combined rankings, unless Midorima got on with his duo partner, which was unlikely, because somehow the bastard managed to keep 'normal people' hours.
Also Kise would be insufferable about him asking to queue together.
Maybe if Daiki was lucky, the queue gods would pit them against each other.