A/N: Hi everyone! Thanks for all the support you have given me... This is the much awaited third chapter the story of our favorite AoKaga! Enjoy!

Kuroko no Basket

Split-second Realization

Part II

Kagami is confused.

Okay, he wasn't really that confused. More like irritated, and bewildered, and totally unnerved.

It started the day Aomine, the boastful ace of the Generation of Miracle, the jerk who made Kuroko cry with frustrated tears during the first match against Seirin and Touou had ignored the ball he passed to him during their one on one. Aomine had looked dumbfounded as he stared at him.

And then the jerk avoided him - yes, avoided. What else do you call what he did? Aomine had ignored his calls and text for a rematch and when they saw each other, which was only by chance when the jerk visited Kuroko in said bluenett's house, he had looked like he had seen a ghost, didn't look at him at all and then ran away - for two days - not that he'd missed the bastard. He doesn't. He just wanted to play against him. Jerk or not, Aomine is an excellent player. He ignored how Kuroko smiled weirdly at him when he told that - then came to him saying he'd treat him.

It's food, of course he wouldn't say no. And Ahomine even said he'd pay. And with Kuroko there looking at him imploringly when the jerk also offered to buy him vanilla milkshake, he agreed.

And Kagami also figured that that is Aomine's way of apologizing. He hadn't asked why he avoided him since Kagami thought that it wasn't really his business, though he cannot help but be curious.

He thought that everything would go back to the way it was after that.

But he was wrong.

Because Aomine became, well strange.

He would look at him for a long time that Kagami can already feel himself becoming flustered. For some strange reason, Aomine's stare makes him feel something that had never happened before. His heart would beat faster when he wasn't even doing anything. He would feel his face becoming hot and he can't stand being looked at like that.

Aomine would also go out of his way just to play basketball with him. Okay, gawd him to play basketball with him. He would go to Seirin, talk to Tetsu for a minute before irritating him and making him forget about anything but to rub it in the bastard's face that he can be beaten. And when Coach Riko would come and smack him with her hand as she usually did whenever he becomes hotheaded, Aomine looked ticked off while looking.

And then for some reason, Aomine's touches feels more intimate than before.

His attitude and words were the same, cocky and all high and mighty, rude and disrespectful. But his actions towards him are what confuses him the most.

Tatsuya's visit is a welcome break from all the confusing things he had been feeling.

"Until when are you staying Tatsuya?" he asked while both him and his brother played basketball on the same court he and Aomine frequented. It's close and free so they played. At least their bond as brothers aren't being threatened anymore.

"Just until tomorrow Taiga. I have to get back on Sunday. Atsushi will be waiting for me." Tatsuya answered. Kagami's shot missed because he was startled and he released the ball a little too soon. He cursed as he saw this and immediately went to Tatsuya when he got the ball. They faced each other, not giving an inch in their defense.

"You really are close with that man-child?" he couldn't help but ask in disbelief. Murasakibara is an excellent center and is also a part of the Generation of Miracles, but outside of the court, he acted like a child who always eats snacks. Like Kuroko said, a child with a screw lose. Tatsuya only smiled at him before doing a sharp fake and a fast cut to shake off his defense. Kagami gritted his teeth before he immediately reacted by following his brother's moves and jumping when Tatsuya jumped to shoot. But he wasn't able to stop it since Tatsuya did a mirage shot.

Kagami panted as he stopped moving. he hadn't realized that he was playing quite heatedly with his brother. He glanced and saw Tatsuya also panting, albeit more heavily than him.

"You okay?" Tatsuya nodded before standing up and walking towards the bench where they put their things earlier. They both took out their water and gulped large amounts.

Kagami sighed, closed his bottle of water and watched as his brother did the same. Tatsuya stared at him in confusion before it cleared up and he swung his arm on his shoulder like he had done before in America.

"Ease up Taiga. You're looking worried there." Kagami felt his face heating up, probably in embarassment at the teasing tone Tatsuya used.

"Shut up." Kagami said heatedly. His brother only laughed and ruffled his hair which made him glare at the Yosen player.

That was when his peripheral view caught a blue color, which he distinctly thinks as Aomine's due to the shade of the hair and tan skin. He stared back and there saw the Touou player looking at them.

"Oi! Aomine!" he shouted, walking towards the other man while dragging Tatsuya with him. "What's up? Weren't we going to play tomo...rrow..." Kagami trailed off and then paused when he saw Aomine looking ... displeased? "Aomine?" he asked, his forehead creasing in confusion.

"Who is he?"

Kagami blinked, and then looked at his bemused brother and then at the increasingly irritated Aomine. He had a feeling that something is not quite right in the situation.

Just what is he in right now?

A/N:

Guess what? It's my birthday! Happy birthday to me! And this is my present to all of you! [Wow, the birthday celebrant herself is giving a gift!] I hope you enjoyed reading that.

For some unknown reason, Kagami was hard to write. Honestly, this chapter is short but I have rewritten this like three times before I decided that this is the best I could make it while retaining the cute side. *sigh* such tedious chapter. Kagamin, why is your POV hard to write? [Nah, I think that's only myself talking]

Give me reviews k? It's my birthday after all. That could be your b-day gift to me! That would be awesome!