Chapter 1: Introduction

Teiko Middle School Basketball Club,

An Incredibly Strong team with over 100 members with 3 consecutive championship wins. Amongst the team's brilliant team, there were the 5 known chosen prodigies, with the exception of 5 additional elite members among them. The generations of those 5 known prodigies are known as the "Generation of the Miracles", with each of every single of the 5 players possessing their very own unique and dominating talent. However, according to rumors, despite his lack of game record and existence to the public, he was also recognized and accepted by the 5 prodigies, which very few knew about him, "A phantom sixth man".

The title of the group was born from within the Keishin elementary academy, where the group by the known 5 prodigies was formed from there.

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Tomoka Minato's POV

"I wonder what's he gonna be like? I hope he's not scary", Hinata, a small frail pink haired girl, who is way too short for her age as a 6th grader, asks another who is tall with short brown hair, who has a well matured body for her age, who is 168cm tall for a 6th grader as well.

"It's alright, there's nothing to worry about. I don't think that Mihohi sensei's nephew will be a problem for us" Said a blue long haired girl with glasses, Saki, who does not seem to concerned about if our coach is bad or not.

"Did she really say that she's in high school? Right? I questioned them

I feel like there's hope for us, a high school student coming to our School's club to coach us, I hope he can really make us stronger quickly in no time.

"It's Mi-tan's nephew, right? I'm sure he'll eventually make us much stronger in no time flat, so I believe there's no doubt about it" Commented and reassured by a blonde girl with long twin tails, with a single snaggle tooth on her right side in her mouth of her teeth.

Oooooh, I think the oni-chan will surely accept us and keep on coaching us after he sees us, so let's do everything we can to accept us and make him feel welcome, so let's do our parts to ensure that he gets everything he really wants.

In the gym

The rest of us gathered in a line from side to side, waiting in front of the door of the gym, while we're all in our maid outfits, hoping to win him over with them. As we heard the sound of the door knob making a creaking little sound, I was feeling a little nervous, since I'm not sure if we can win his approval to have him as our coach from today and now on.

"Welcome back, master!" We said it out loud in a chorus altogether, as we greeted our new coach.

He seemed pretty normal, who is about 170cm at average height and build, with brown short hair. He doesn't seem like pretty bad person like we expected him to be.

He seemed pretty startled right after he entered through the door. Guess he's shy.

"Y-You are the girls basketball team, right?" He asked in a startled tone with a bit of hesitation.

I finally decided to speak up first to introduce myself and my team.

"K-Keishin Academy's Elementary School wing, sixth grade….I'm Minato Tomoka", as I introduced myself nervously

"Same here! Misawa Maho!", my blonde friend introduced herself

"Nagatsuka Saki!", my friend saki introduces herself in a calmly while she used her left finger to adjust her glasses.

"Hinata Hakamada's my name onii-chan, but you can call me Hina for short!", My friend Hina introduce herself before pointing towards Airi, my tall brunette friend.

"And that over there is Airi, Airi Kashii", while Airi is standing right behind us, looking extremely shy and flustered when facing our new coach.

"N-n-nice t-to meet you", as Airi introduces herself before she quickly nod and bow in a very polite manner

Then we all gathered around into a half circle curve line, remembering what to do after we introduced ourselves, then yelled out 3 seconds before saying our final introduction line.

"One….two, NICE TO MEET YOU MASTER!"

After that, he seem pretty nervous about what we called him, as he asked us to drop the "Master thing down"

"Uuuuuh, could you..please drop the "master" thing down, I would really appreciate it.

Well, I guess he didn't like being called master after all. So we all gathered around into a circle, and eventually managed to come up with a second plan on what we should call him. We quickly then gathered into a line then yelled this next, since we don't even know his name:

"UNDERSTOOD ONNICHAN!"

"Oooooh….What's your name Onni-chan?", As Hinata asked the boy.

"Uuuuh…my name is Hasegawa Subaru, I'm a freshman at high school.", replied our new coach

"How long have you been playing basketball for?", I asked Subaru

"Uuuh, since sixth grade, so for about 5 years", he responded

"Hey, Onii-chan, please stop speaking so formally, and please from now on, call me Maho or maho maho, so no need to add –san to any of our names anymore, okay Onii-chan?" as maho sincerely asked hasegawa to not formally call our names from now on.

"Uuuuuh, sure okay, but in exchange, could you please stop calling me "Onii-chan" too?, as Hasegawa asked her to not call him that anymore

And I guess Maho didn't take his request that lightly

"WHAT?! WE CAN"T DO THAT EITHER? So little sister maids won't do it for you?"

What little sister maids? What is she thinking again, well there she goes again, speaking without thinking first.

"Then what does it do for you Subaru? Little sister androids? Animals? Or maybe-

As Maho was about to finish her line, Saki interrupted her righ tin time before Maho could go out of control, thank goodness that Saki is here with her right personality as well, I gotta be grateful to her for it.

"You really need to back OFF!" Sorry about that, Maho can sometimes get a little bit too excited sometimes" AS saki apologized for herself and on Maho's behalf, including ours as well.

We all bowed in front of him as an apology for Maho not careful about picking her words carefully.

"No no, it's okay", As Subaru responded to our action.

I remembered of all the sudden, since he's here in our school, I nearly forgot about him training us in basketball, so I decided to remind him about that.

"Uuuuuh, Sorry to ask right after you arrived, but could you please start coaching us in our training already? Sorry to rush you." I asked him politely then apologized

"Oh, alright, well then, could you all please get changed?" as our new coach asked us to get things started.

"What? Why? No need to worry about our panties getting shown or anything like that? See?" Then she pulled her maid outfit's skirt up to show proof, and just showed her gym shorts. Which made our new coach feel very embarrassed as he saw them.

I don't think that it's appropriate for her to be doing that in front of our new coach. Before I could tell her to not do that, she suddenly dashed quickly behind me

"See? Everyone's wearing them!"

and pulled mine up from the front, much to my embarrassment, although I was wearing dark blue gym shorts as well.

She quickly dashed behind saki, pulled hers from behind, then went to Airi from the back, and exposed her gym red bloomers as well.

All three of us felt extremely startled an embarrassed, and Airi suddenly got onto the floor on her knees after she was startled by Maho pulling her maid outfit from behind her.

"Stupid MAHO, AIRI COLLAPSED!", Saki complained to Maho for her actions.

"So who cares? We're all girls here.", as Maho responded to Saki, as if she does not seem to mind at all.

Since HIna was the only one who did not get startled by Maho, she crazily decided to badly follow things up by pulling her maid outfit to show Subaru for what Maho meant. Yelled at her to not show Subaru her red gym bloomers from under her maid outfit like that.

Oh dear, I guess Hina has a lot to learn before she could stop being naïve.

Before any more trouble could come out of control, Subaru rightfully in time told us to immediately get changed. So we did and got into our locker room. I told Maho to come along before she could say anymore nonsense in front of our new coach, and Saki helped by pushing Maho all the way to their locker changing room.

"Just keep walking"

"Shut UP, I'm walking already!"

I guess he won't be so bad after all, but I wonder if he can really make us stronger like Maho asked, I have high hopes that he really can. I'm so looking forward to his training from now on.

Then of all the sudden, I turned around to look at near the entrance of the door, as if someone was there, then of all the sudden, I saw a mysterious figure of a tiny little frail and petite girl with light teal blue hair, who's not even wearing a uniform for our school at all.

"Minato-chan, what's wrong?" Saki asked with a concerning tone

I turned my face around for a few seconds to answer Saki, before I turned my face back and pointed the direction to where the door of the gymnasium where Subaru entered from, with my left finger.

"Look over there, I just saw someone who—EH? That's funny!"

"What are you talking about?" Subaru asked

"There's nothing over there, I think it must be your imagination, that's all"

"Uuuh, yeah I gues" I replied

XXXXX (Meanwhile)

? POV

"Basketball? Hmmm, looks fun, wonder if I should join, but I seem to be bad in it, I guess I'll just have to practice it a lot more, maybe I'll get better at it."

I kept walking around the school, and as usual no one seemed to be looking at me, as if I'm a ghost that came out of nowhere.

I came here because I wanted to check the school out, to see if it's alright and I would like it or not, and would reply to my parents. I wandered around to see if I could find my parents again, since I always lose their sights a lot. I feel pretty bad for being born with literally no presence at all.

Then of all the sudden I heard an older woman calling out my name very loudly, as if she was panicking a lot in a distress feeling of thinking I might be dead now.

It was coming from near the School's entrance. So I headed towards there for a few minutes, and I could see a woman about in her 30's in a business casual suit. She must be the principal of the School.

"TUKIKO, WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Even my mom and dad are right beside her, attracting attention from other nearby students who are on their way home, most of them are laughing and giggling at them, since they are making a fool out of themselves, and they do not seem to care at all.

"TUKIKO, PLEASE, YOUR MOM'S WORRIED ABOUT YOU"

I walked up to the woman right behind her and tapped her on the back of her right leg. When she felt it, she slowly turned her head towards her behind, she was shocked and led out a huge scream from her mouth.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Goodness, please, never scare people like that"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" I apologized to her sincerely

As expected, I always knew anyone would scream the moment I appear in front of their sights out of nowhere, as if I'm a ghost.

They do that every time I voice out behind them. It's not my fault that I was just born with a lack of presence, and I don't even know why exactly.

"Tukiko, there you are! Where have you been?!", my mother asked me with an extremely concerning tone, and she looked as if she were about to drown herself in her tears of sadness.

"God, please, never leave out of our sights, you know we can't keep looking for you like this until we find you, learn not to wander off by yourself okay? We were very worried about you! This happens every time whenever your mom and I would have a long conversation with someone while you're with us, please never do this again. Understand?", my father lectured me in a very serious tone.

"Please, try not to make your parents worry again next time okay?", the principal asked

"Yes, I understand!", I replied

"Tukiko kuroko, right?" She asked

"Yes!"

"What do you think about our new School, do you wish to come and join us?"

"Yes, I think there are some interesting people I just saw, and I would like to be friends with them?"

"Really, that's so nice of you, and starting tomorrow is your first day, do you truly wish to enroll into this school, I will ask you for the last time."

"Yes, I do."

I can almost see the joyful expression with smiles made by my parents on their faces. Seems they are happy that I'm happy about my decision.

"Excellent, now please come with us to my office, I don't want you wandering off by yourself alone again. So just wait right outside of my office, while I have a big talk with your parents, okay?"

"Yes I understand!"

XXXXXX (Back in the gym of Keishin Academy)

Hasegawa Subaru's POV

What was that, someone was yelling out someone's name, and then I heard someone screaming. Oh well, I guess it's not that important, since I won't be here any longer right after three days.

Right, this is my first day as a coach, I guess I'll just get started then.

In my eyes, I scan as the girls formed a line in front of me, as they are already in their Gym attire outfits, ready for training. They bowed and said "Thank you"

"Okay, let's get started, how about we work on Teamwork exercises today? So, we'll have two people who will be on offense, while the rest of you three will play on defense. After that for five minutes, all of you will then switch positions. Okay?"

"Hey coach, what's Offense?" Maho asked me

"What he means is one team tries to attack against another, while defense means the team guarding against the team that attacks." Tomoka answered the question for Maho

"I knew you would know that Minato!"

Based on what Minato just said, I guess she must be really experienced in basketball huh? So I should just ask the other four to confirm this.

"Excuse me, but was Tomoka the only one here who played basketball before?"

"Yes!" Minato replied enthusiastically

"Got it! Then I'll just have to go over with anything that comes up, which any of you might not know about. So, let's have Tomoka and Maho on offense first, while the rest of you will be on defense! Does that sound okay to you?"

"OKAY!" All of them replied happily, except for Airi

I'm getting the feeling that Airi is not feeling very enthusiastic about practice today, I wonder why. But, since she's quite tall for someone her age, I think she'll make a great center for her team in their future games, maybe I should tell her that she should focus on defense as best as she can, since she's tall.

"Oh, Airi"

"Uuuuh, Yes?" Airi responded in a little nervous tone"

"Speaking of defense, you're pretty tall, right?"

Then the rest of the girls gasped in surprise from what I just said, I don't know what's the big deal, so I just kept telling her about how important her role as a center is.

"So you should protect the basket very aggressively….."

Then of all the sudden, she started to hiccup a little for a few seconds, followed by her tears as she started to cry, and started wailing out very loudly before she got onto the ground on her knees and started to use her left hand to wipe her tears off her eyes.

Okay….what's going on? I don't know why did she start crying?

"I KNEW IT, I KNEW I WAS REALLY TALL! I'M AN AMAAAZOOOON!" Airi complained while sobbed, much to my confusion.

Oh crap, I don't what did I just do, I don't know how to cheer her up quickly, and I'm seriously panicking right now, I've gotta think something quick.

"Airi, you never told Subaru your birthday" Maho said to her as she ran to her side to comfort her

"Yeah, that's right, it's just an early growth spurt, that's all" Tomoka helped as well

"Ooooh, Airi, here, have some tissues." HInata offered Airi some tissues for her to wipe her tears off

"Airi has a complex about her height. Whenever someone mentions about it, she's always like this." Saki explained to me what's going on, not that I'm that surprised of

So that's why she's crying, I didn't think she has a huge complex about how tall she really is, I think it's going to take time for her to get used to herself being very tall for her age, which is a huge problem, putting her entire team at a disadvantage is she were to play in a game while she's not accepting the fact that she's very tall. Oh boy.

"Sorry, but…Could you please tell her that you just didn't know that she was born in April?" Saki whispered to my right ear

"Will saying such a silly thing even work to calm her down?" I asked

"Don't worry, it will be fine. This whole time, she has only thought that's the reason because of her height" Saki reassured me very confidently and calmly.

XXXX (A couple of minutes later)

"Sorry Coach, I lost it back there." Airi apologized

"No no, I was just being inconsiderate, that's all. I'm sorry" I assured her and apologized

"Okay, let's all practice again tomorrow."

"Okay" everyone complied, except for Airi.

While everyone was cleaning the floor of the gymnasium of the school except for Tomonka, as she walked towards a ball, lying around on the middle of a free throw line. She picked it up and I was curious on what was she going to do next.

She suddenly then got into her shooting form position, as she is about to shoot, I suddenly frowned, as I studies her movements, with the way of how she shoots after she releases the ball. For some reason, her movements are as if it looks like a person is floating into the sky. It doesn't seem that common to find girls at this age, especially a 6th grader to be this flexible at sports, even though lots of girls are flexible in some sports, but not at this age early.

She looked as if she was jumping slow motion and there was a bright white light shining from the sky as she makes her shot. It was more of a very condensed practice jump shot, so smooth, simple, but very smooth and just perfect. I'm starting to get the feeling as if she's shining a gift from her existence.

She released the ball and it was high at an exceptional arc, and fell right through the net of the basket very smoothly with good "Swish" sound of a ball going smoothly through a basket's net. I was stunned, and then I ran over to her.

"TOMOKA, could you please do that again?" as I put both my hands on both her shoulders, begging her to do her jump shot again.

Thus leaving a bemused look on Tomoka's face.

End of Chapter 1