Soft Side of the Zone
Kuroko no Basuke
Ship: AoMoi
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Part 1/2
´Satsuki, are you free tomorrow?´
´What? Well, Yeah.´
´Want to go shopping with me?´
´What? Sure, I guess…´
´I want new basketball shoes…´ Aomine stretched and closed his eyes, ´I want to practice.´
Satsuki smiled.
´Okey. Let´s go, Dai-chan. But you´ll buy me a lunch!´
´What –?´
...
´These are cute! ´
Satsuki was waving white shoes in front of her.
´No white ones, you know that damn well´, Aomine resisted and took a pair of black and red colored shoes from the shelter.
´Ne, Dai-chan, you can wear any color while practicing, you´re always choosing something like black or very dark red´, Satsuki pointed out and walked next to the ace of Tōō High. She looked at the basketball shoes he was holding.
´Yeah´, Aomine growled and sat down at the leather bench, ´I´m not Tetsu-kun, You know? Don´t mix us...´
Satsuki put her hands on her slender waist.
´How could I? It was Tetsu-kun who gave me a popsickle!´
Aomine tied the shoelaces and stood up.
´Yeah, Tetsu-kun won… Um, he won six more popsickles. What a man!´
He walked away from her and jumped in the air.
But Tetsu won, after all, Satsuki whispered.
´Whoaa!´ Surprised young woman behind the desk yelled. ´That was one amazing jump!´
She rushed to him and asked:
´How does those shoes feel, mister?´
Satsuki snorted.
Aomine nodded approvingly and stared at saleswoman´s ridiculous big breasts.
´They also look pretty damn good!´
Pwahah! Jackass!
´I dunno about that internal foam´, Satsuki pointed out and was also staring at saleswoman. She was barely older than Satsuki. Now she turned her glance to her and said:
´Filling gives nice boost for players.´
Satsuki bite her teeth together.
´Yeah, so it feels´, Aomine laughed stupidly.
´I know what that foam is for´, Satsuki said angrily, ´but I´ve seen better ones.´
Saleswoman rised her brows. Satsuki looked at Aomine, who said:
´I´ll take these!´
Argh! Men! No, Aomine!
That sellerbitch smirked and took shoes from Aomine, who was staring too low again.
Satsuki hit him with her elbow.
´Ouch! What the heck?´
´I´m your manager, Aomine-kun´, Satsuki said threateningly, ´It´s my duty to keep you away from wrong kind´s of fillings…´
They went by the desk.
´You play in JBA?´ Sellerwoman asked and took Aomine´s creditcard.
Yeah, Aomine-kun is really 30-year-old pervert who is just hanging around whit 16-year-old girl.
´Nah, just in High School´, Aomine responded.
Satsuki tamped the floor with her left foot.
´Where I can see you play?´ Seller asked and handed a shoe box to him.
´In Tōō High´, Aomine said and smiled, ´I dunno when there´ll be our next practice match… Schedule is still open. What do you say, Momoi?´
Oh, good old ´Momoi´ was back! Satsuki took the shoebox from his hands and said to Missis Boobs:
´We just lost Winter Cup, so there´ll be no new games for a while!"
Then she rushed out of the shop. Aomine followed him and sounded huffy.
´Oi, Momoi, why you had to tell her I lost? She got huge –´
´We lost, Aomine-kun!´ Satsuki scolded him. ´You are huge, pervet, puppy, idiot!´
´Puppy?´
Aomine yawned and looked suddenly so vulnerable. He took his purchase from Satsuki and said:
´You know, Seirin and Yosen are gonna start soon… Um… I´m kinda curious…´
´And what about lunch?´
´I can buy you something from the cafeteria of the hall... Or maybe, Tetsu-kun brought some popstickles with him.´
Satsuki pushed him again with her elbow. But because she was as curious as Aomine, they headed towards sportcenter.
´Hey, Aomine-kun…´
´Uhm?´
´U look tired… You know, more than usually.´
Aomine look forward and put his free hand in his winterjacket´s pocket.
´I haven´t slept since yesterday…´
´You should.´
´Kiddin´, ha? Maybe I should, but I can´t. I´m not used to feel this much. Yeah, you have seen me tired before, but back then I was just bored. Now I´m full of excitement and disappointment.´
Satsuki couldn´t stop herself, when she repeated:
´The only one who can beat me, is me.´
Aomine smiled shortly.
´I´m actually happy I was wrong…´
Satsuki rejected her sudden desire to grab his hand away from the pocket.
´You haven´t lost in years´, Satsuki said, ´in b-ball… But… I sensed that Tetsu might do something like this to you.´
Aomine turned and looked at her.
´Tetsu was never physically stronger than you´, Satsuki pointed out, ´but he never changed. Instead, he kept something important.´
For some reason, Aomine looked sad.