Back during their senior year of high school, the two had grown, explicitly… close. What started as Aomine interrupting Kagami and Kuroko's hang out sessions at Kagami's apartment had become Kagami and Aomine's hang out sessions at Kagami's apartment when Kuroko had stuff come up.
Usually nothing much happened. They watched some random movie, Kagami would try out cooking new recipes, and sometimes Kagami would be required to help Aomine study for whatever test he had coming up.
And a study session is what that night had started out as.
"Did you even listen to anything I just said?" Kagami asks, exasperated as Aomine again gets another math problem wrong.
"Of course I was listening to you," Aomine says. "You just make no sense."
Kagami lets out a breath as he runs his hands through his hair. "This concept is so simple, It's just graphing a line."
"Well if it's so simple then maybe you're just a bad teacher," Aomine shoots back.
Aomine just leans back in his seat and gives Kagami a look. Then, he senses something change in the air. He starts to smell something that he can't name. "Hey, do you smell that?" he asks Kagami.
Kagami gives Aomine a confused look. When he realizes what Aomine is asking, he raises an unimpressed eyebrow. "Smell what?" he asks. "You know I'm a beta. Can't smell much of anything." It was common knowledge. Betas can't smell pheromones unless they are uncommonly strong and right up against their face. Kagami reaches across the coffee table they were sitting at to grab another soda can on the side. "What's it smell like?" he asks Aomine.
Aomine closes his eyes, and thinks hard. After a couple seconds, he takes another slow and deep breath through his nose before answering. "Almost like… fire… and, and the forest."
Kagami snorts to himself. "Fire and the forest? So what? A forest fire?" He shakes his head. "Pheromones are so weird, who knows, maybe I walked by someone earlier."
Aomine rolls his eyes. "It doesn't work exactly like that, idiot."
After that the two turn back to Aomine's notes… or lack of notes. And Kagami attempts to teach the other everything he needs for the test coming up.
As the night went on, the small apartment got hotter.
Kagami sighs as he gets up and goes to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water. "I'm gonna turn the AC up," he says as he walks across the room to the thermostat on the wall. It's the middle of the summer season and Tokyo is currently in the middle of a heatwave. That had to be the reason Kagami is feeling so hot right now.
"What?!" Aomine yells out, "I'm freezing in here, it's not that hot! No matter how hot it is outside!"
"Sure it is," Kagami says as he wipes off the sweat building on his forehead. "How are you not hot right now? I thought alphas had higher body temperatures or something like that?" Aomine reaches over to grab Kagami's arm, and at the touch Kagami feels his legs grow weak.
"Kagami, that smell from earlier…" Aomine starts to speak but is cut off by Kagami's whining.
"Aomine… it's too hot in here. Please just-"
"Oh Shit!" Aomine exclaims as he realizes what is happening. "Fuck, Kagami! You- I-... I gotta get out of here!" he yells as he stands up and makes for the doorway.
"Get out? Where are you going?" Kagami asks as he watches Aomine go to the door. "Ah! What?!"
Kagami feels as Aomine presses his face up against Kagami's neck. The hand that was holding his wrist earlier is now circling around his back. He could feel Aomine breathe down his back as his body breaks out in goosebumps.
Then he could feel Aomine kissing the side of his neck. What… What's going on? Kagami has no idea what Aomine is doing, but for some strange reason, he doesn't want Aomine to stop. It's like he is losing control of himself.
Aomine then takes a hold of Kagami's shoulders and pushes the red head away from himself. He shakes his head, and with wide eyes looks into Kagami's sight. "I gotta get out of here," he says. He stands up to go back over to the front door. He doesn't even bother to put on his shoes before he leaves. Right before he closes the door, he tells Kagami that he will call Kuroko and have him come over. "Kuroko will just explain everything to you," is the last thing he says before the door shuts.
Kagami is left there, on the floor of his living room, shaking as he waits for Kuroko to arrive sometime later. And over the next couple days everything is explained to him. He is an omega, for some reason his awakening was delayed… very delayed. But he is an omega nonetheless.
His entire way of looking at the world changes.
After that night, things change between the two of them. They ran into each other a couple more times during their final year of high school, playing on two strong teams will do that, but things were still… noticeably different.
And after that, Kagami went back to the states for college while Aomine stayed in Japan. Years later, here they are now.
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Kagami glares down at Aomine from his position standing over him. Aomine is currently lying down on the floor of the small gym area in the physical therapy office.
"You haven't been stretching like I told you to," Kagami says.
"What do you mean? Of course I ha- Ow!" Aomine exclaims as Kagami pushes against his leg a little more. "Do you really have to be so rough?"
Kagami lets go and rolls his eyes. "If you had been stretching like I told you to on the days you don't see me, this wouldn't hurt so much."
Kagami then stands up from the ground. "Now how about we get you on your feet today? See how it feels to walk?"
"Finally," Aomine says as he reaches his arms out for Kagami to help him up.
Once he is standing up, Kagami helps him take a few steps around the room. His leg is sore, but the pain isn't too unbearable. Maybe Kagami does have a point about stretching after all. It seems Kuroko did do a good job in finding a respectable physical therapist. If only there weren't so many awkward moments in these sessions.
Awkward moments such as how the session wraps up today.
"So… um… about your session on Friday," Kagami says as Aomine starts putting his shoes back on his feet.
"What about it?" Aomine asks.
Kagami is quiet for a moment as he thinks over his words. "I had something come up and need to take the day off. Would you mind if we reschedule?"
Aomine thinks the question over. "Did you talk to Tetsu about this? He's kind of the one in charge of my schedule right now."
Kagami breaks eye contact with Aomine. "Yeah, I did," He answers Aomine's question. "But I don't think you'll like his suggestion."
That caused Aomine to raise an eyebrow. He knows Kuroko has some goal with sending Aomine here for physical therapy. And in the past four weeks he's been going here, Aomine has started to think the goal is more than just repairing their friendship. "What did he suggest exactly?" Aomine asks tentatively.
"He suggested that you come to my apartment in the morning," Kagami answers. Aomine's eyes grow wide and a shiver goes through his body. Kagami,noticing this chuckles as he continues, "That's what I thought. Look, If you don't want to we can-"
"I can meet you there," Aomine says suddenly.
"What?" Kagami asks, not expecting Aomine's answer.
"I want to get fixed up as quickly as possible so I can get back to playing," Aomine elaborates. "I'll do whatever it takes."
Kagami blinks a couple times. "Whatever it takes besides stretching on your own it seems," He says only to needle Aomine. At Aomine's look of indignation he only laughs before motioning for Aomine to leave and telling him he'll see him in two days.
Leaving the office, Aomine feels weird about the end of the meeting. It was almost like they were back in high school again.