When Aomine Yuki was one year old, she said her first word. Her actual first word-not babbled- her first true genuine word.
Aomine's eye's widen.
But it wasn't 'mom,' 'dad,' "Daiki,' or "Sa-chan,"' a nickname that Momoi had tried to get her to repeat, since it was obviously easier to say then "Satsuki."
It was the name of a person who she had never met before.
Yuki, who seemed to realized what she said, quickly smacked her hands over her mouth, eye's wide and full of shock.
Just as he was opening his mouth to ask her how she knew his name- something hit the back of his head. Aomine just sat there. Still as a human could be. Before slowly turning his head around to face the fuckin perpetrator who had the fuckin nerves to fuckin hit his- his head. And stopped.
It was Kuroko.
"I'm sorry Aomine-kun, but you should also be watching your surroundings more carefully." He reprimanded, looking at Aomine like a mother would when her child stole cookies and ate it 3 minutes prior lunch time, and Aomine felt a prick on his forehead.
"Shut it Tetsu, you can't just blame half of it on me when it was entirely your fault you were too short to catch it," he snapped back, wincing when something was, again, thrown his way. Why the hell was everything attracted to him today? Why couldn't the ball have been attracted to him during the match with Seirin?
"Dai-chan, don't be a jerk to Tets-kun!" Momoi shouted, about a meter away.
"What the hell Satsuki, that doesn't mean you have to throw-" he looked down briefly, "- seriously? Sunglasses?" he snorted, picking them up and letting it dangle from his fingertips.
"Shut up, that was the only thing I had on me!" She huffed, running towards them. When she got close enough, she grabbed Kuroko's wrist and started tugging gently, but insistently. "Let's get away from Dai-chan before we catch his stupidity." She joked, sticking her tongue at him. So childish.
"Whatever, go away and never come back," he replied, making a shooing gesture as his eyes wander back to Yuki.
Or where she should've been.
He blinked once. He blinked twice. He looked around frantically, eyes scanning the beach for a raven hair baby. His eyes met with Momoi's and Kuroko's. They looked back at him with confusion.
"What's wrong Aomine-kun?"
"Nothing." He blurted out quickly, looking away from the duo so that he could avert their curious stares. "I'm fine, so go back already, you're annoying." He grumbled, silently wishing that they'll just leave him so he could go found his little sister.
"By the way Aomine-kun, where is Aomine-san?" Kuroko asked, glancing behind him to where the baby's baby blue blanket was. Aomine stiffened, internally cursing at how frickin' observant his former shadow was. (But then again, even Bakagami probably would've realized if a baby was missing.)
"Dai-chan?" Momoi asked, voice sweet like honey while carrying an undertone of something way darker. Her eyes turned to slits and her mouth drew into a tight smile. Aomine froze entirely, he knew that tone of voice, and he knew that whenever she used it, it would never lead to a good ending for him.
He gulped nervously, "Yeah?" Her slit eye smile smile stiffened. "What do you mean by "yeah?" you dummy! You were suppose to be watching her! It wasn't even something hard to do!" She shouted, tears threatening to spill while she smacked Aomine weakly. "Ouch! Stop it, this hurts way more than it looks! Tetsu stop her!" Kuroko only sighed, placing a hand on to Momoi's arm, gripping it not hard enough to leave a mark, but with enough strength to stop her. Though Aomine doubted that Kuroko would ever leave a mark on anything, given his weak physical strength.
Momoi turned around and hugged Kuroko tightly. "Tets-kun! What do we do? She could be anywhere on this beach! What if she was kidnapped because of her cuteness?" She let out a sharp gasp. "What if she's not even on the bea- mmrph?" He had gently placed his palm over her mouth to calm her. She blinked, tears falling out of her eyes. "Don't think about that, Momoi-san. It'll be alright, we'll find her, I promise." He gave her a small, comforting smile. Momoi blinked several more times before her face flushed the same color as her hair. She slowly nodded her head. Kuroko moved his hand to wipe away her tears, which made her blush even harder at the gesture, and weakly mumbled a "thank you."
"Ahem," Aomine cleared his throat, signaling that yes, he was still here. "She didn't go that far, she was with me right before Testu," he glared at him, "interrupted our good time with that ball."
Kuroko sighed again. "Aomine-kun, I have already apologized. If you have to blame someone, than blame Ka-" he was stopped by a loud shout just a few meters away.
"Kuroko! What's taking you so long?!"
In just seconds, Kagami was behind Kuroko. He rose an eyebrow at the scene. One look at Momoi's red eyes made him glare at Aomine. "Hey Ahomine, you shouldn't make a girl cry." Aomine bristled, "Shut up, and what makes you think I was the one who made her cry? It could've been Tetsu!" He fought back, but even he knew the shadow would never. Kagami bent over to pick up the ball and snorted. "Yeah right. The day Kuroko makes someone cry will be the day pigs fly." He spun the ball on his finger. "What took you so long anyways? All you had to do was retrieve a ball," he asked Kuroko.
"A ball that you threw," Kuroko reminded and Kagami tensed a little. Aomine's eyebrow twitched. "You were the one who threw the ball?! You sonn-"
"Geez! Who cares about who threw the ball or Dai-chan's head, Yu-chan's gone!" Momoi huffed, balling her fists.
Kagami's eyes widen. "Seriously?!"
He looked over at Aomine, mouth opening to say something, but he was cut off by Kuroko. "You can yell at him later, Kagami-kun, but right now, please go call the others back while we start searching first." Kuroko commanded, looking Kagami in the eyes. The red head nodded before running back to where the others were.
While the idio- ahem, others were fussing over her disappearance, Aomine Yuki was in a predicament. She was being carried off to who knows where. The culprit? One who shares the same light blue orbs as Seirin's #11, Testyua Nigou.
Well, Yuki didn't really mind, per se, since it did give her an excuse to get away from Aomine's questioning, but she rather be able to walk by herself than to be dragged by the strap of her bathing suit thank you very much. She frowned as more and more sand attached themselves to her chubby legs. Why would anyone bring a baby to a beach for their first birthday? She couldn't even swim yet! (Apparently a rich-ass mofo- I mean, red head who may have felt a tiny bit left out of his ex-teammate's younger sister life.)
And then Yuki grimaced. Speaking of ex-teammates, how could she just blurt out his name? She hadn't even met him yet! Well, not in this lifetime! She furrowed her brows. But that figure. . . . Could he also be here? Caught up in her thoughts, she hadn't noticed that Nigou had stopped until he barked loudly. Yuki snapped her head to the dog- who had let go of her strap in order to bark- and glanced towards the direction Nigou was looking at, and her eyes widen.
Blond hair- although a little longer than she last remember (or course, after all, it's been two years since she lost saw him), golden eyes that seemed quite dimmed compared to before and a sliver piercing on his left ear.
The last bit of doubt she had of him not being here dissipated, as she was face-to-face with him. She wasn't hallucinating after all.
While caught up in her thoughts (again), she hadn't notice the four figures running up to them.
"There you are you little brat!" she heard the blunnete shout, finally shaking her out of her trance.
"Yu-chan! You can't just go off by yourself!" Momoi scolded, a frown on her face while the duo from Seirin following close behind her let out an inaudible sigh, shoulders relaxing slightly.
"Aominecchi? Momoicchi? Kurokocchi? Kagamicchi? What are you guys doing here?" He asked, eyes widening in shock and surprise.
Kise.
The others stared back at him with the same surprised and shocked expression.
Surprisingly (or maybe not), Kuroko was the first to speak."We're here with the others to celebrate Aomine-san's birthday. I would ask you the same, Kise-kun, but I think that it's pretty obvious." Kuroko responded, eyes trailing from the mirrors, to the clothes, and then to the camera. It was obviously a photo shoot.
"Ahh. . ." Kise trailed off, not knowing what to say. It has been at least a year since they last saw each other, and the last time they did meet, it had ended akwardly for them all.
After all, that was when he had officially quit playing basketball.
Wait. "Aominecchi's birthday? But it's only July!"
"Ah, I meant Aomine-kun's sister, Aomine Yuki-san." Kuroko corrected himself, walking towards the little girl and the dog. Nigou immediately ran towards Kuroko, barking excitedly. The baby girl just sat there, looking at Kise with identical sapphire orbs as Aomine Daiki. Kise walked towards the female, flashing her his brightest smile that charmed everyone but his basketball-sexual friends (and one Kuroko-sexual girl). "Hi there Yuki-chan, and happy birthday~"
To his astonishment, the baby girl blinked out of her daze only to narrow her eyes at him. She also seemed to back away a bit, but Kise wonders if it's just him.
The blonde could hear the sand crunching under the sole of someone's feet approaching him. He looked up and the first thing he saw was pink.
"Geez, Yuki-chan, I was so worried about you!" Momoi pulled the baby into a tight embrace, rubbing her cheek on Yuki's head. The baby girl only seemed to stiffen up upon this contact and her cheeks turned into a rosy red.
For some reason, Kise felt like he was obliged to rescue the girl from Momoi.
"Momoicchi, I think you're suffocating her. . ." Kise gave her an uneasy smile while scratching the back of his head.
Momoi looked down at the raven's face to see it flushed red and proceeded to loose her embrace so that the baby would be able to get her breath back(but what they didn't know was that the reason for Yuki's red face was not her lack of air, but something else.)
"So Ki-chan, how have you been?" Momoi smiled, but Kise could see that it was kinda strained.
"Good, how about you?" He also flashed her a smile. That wasn't fully a lie-his life is somewhat back in order, but everything time he closed his eyes, he could still see the truck, he could see the blood, he could see Kasamatsu Yukio's body in the cof-
"Good. Well, as good as I could ever be with Dai-chan around." She chuckled, earning an indignant squawk from Aomine. But at least her smile had seemed more natural now.
"Kise-san!"
The blonde turned around- it was his manager calling him. Ah.
He turned around to face Momoi again. "Sorry Momoicchi, but I have to go now."
"Ah, okay." She looked at him with a solemn expression. As he turned around, he felt a hand tug on his shirt. It was Momoi.
"When will you be done?"
He looked down at his watch.
"Another thirty minutes, why?" he asked, tilting his head curiously.
"Do you have another photo shoot after this one?"
Kise thought for a moment. "No."
Her face brightened up immediately. "Then you can celebrate Yuki-chan's birthday with us!"
Kise's eyes widened (he didn't see Yuki's do the same).
He opened his mouth to speak, but Momoi interrupted him. "We haven't chatted in a long time now, so now's a perfect chance! Meet us at he frozen ice shop in thirty minutes, okay?" Before Kise could voice his opinions, Momoi had dashed back to where the other three was- for some reason, Aomine and Kagami were shouting at each other and Kuroko was just standing there looking just a little amused. Or was he?
Kise sighed. When it comes to Kuroko, he could never read his expressions (unless it had changed dramatically like when he was in despair when the Generation of Miracles toyed with his friend). Kise grimaced. He really was a huge jerk back then, huh? While jogging back to the set, another thought invaded his mind before he could reject it.
The one who had help changed him was him.
And now he was gone
because of Kise.
HAHAHAaha. Sorry for the late update! Even though I had said that I would update faster with more words- I broke both promises! . But I really did want to post a chapter during my Thanksgiving break, so tada! I'll probably edit some things when my sister comes back from work because she's my unofficial beta! I wanted to surprise her with this unexpected release~ and I hope I succeeded! ^o^ Remember- my Tumblr's fujo-hanacchi- feel free to talk to me about KiseKasa! Peace out and see you next time!