So here's one more chapter for my darling reviewers / followers and those who faved the story. Thank you very much!

This chapter is mainly Kaga and GoM interaction (Mido, Taka and Kuro)

This means flashback. - It's only a small one though.

Have fun reading!

Disclaimer: I do not own KnB.

The next day, after he had breakfast with everyone (it was becoming a routine) he decided to visit the library Akashi had told him about. He wasn't really one for reading, but since there weren't any meetings the next few days he thought he could at least check it out. The pride in Akashi's voice couldn't be missed.

When he first stepped into the room his eyes widened. It wasn't a room but a hall with shelves as far as the eye could see. Everything was filled with books, some looked really old and worn out, others new like they hadn't been used all that often yet. That explained why Akashi was so proud of this. Kagami would be too. After gawking at the shelves filled with a huge assortment of books and books and even more books he noticed he wasn't alone in the 'room'.

There were two people - one sitting at the table reading attentively while the other was flipping uninterested through some pages. Their names...Ah, yes. Midorima and Takao if he remembered it correctly. He began walking in their direction and Takao was already waving at him excitedly.

"Yo, Kagami! What's up?!" he practically shouted with a big grin on his lips that almost split his face in two. Midorima simply continued reading and paid Kagami no attention.

"Hey Takao!" and he added after slightly hesitating, "Hello Midorima."

The green haired male looked up briefly and after a short pause gave Kagami a nod in greeting.

"Hello Kagami Taiga."

"...It's enough if you only call me 'Kagami'. Hearing my whole name every time feels really weird." He smiled a little at Midorima who only nodded once more and turned back to his book.

"Soooo how have ya been hunter-san? I heard you almost got killed by Akashi? Congrats on surviving your first encounter with him!"

Takao chatted excitedly away and Kagami could only nod occasionally at his words. He wasn't fast enough to reply most of the time and Takao just kept on talking, jumping from one topic to the next.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw how Midorima's eyebrow twitched and he could almost feel the annoyance the other radiated. Kagami decided to stop the argument that was surely going to happen soon, if Takao didn't stop his relentless chattering and let's be honest, that wouldn't be the case anytime soon.

"- so there I was hanging upside down on a rope from the third story window when suddenly,-"

"Um...Takao...?"

"Yes?" Takao smiled brightly at him.

"Maybe we should go somewhere else and leave Midorima to read in peace...?"

"Oh! Sure! Ne, Shin-chan~! Is it okay~?"

"Just go."

"Yay~!" and Takao skipped out of that hell hole filled with books, glad to get out of that boring place. Behind him he dragged a sighing Kagami with him which left Midorima alone in the library

"At least one of them still has a little common sense." He sighed tiredly before he once more immersed himself into his book.

Four hours. Four hours of listening to a hyper Takao chat about anything he could think of. Anymore and he would have jumped of the tallest building he could find just to escape him and his nonstop blabbering.

Don't get him wrong, Takao was an okay guy, really. He discovered he got along just fine with him. But four hours is just too much and he was glad when Midorima dragged the other male away. Even though the green haired guy was kinda weird.

Just before they left he asked him what sign he was.

"Huh? Sign?" a very confused Kagami asked.

"Yes. I'm cancer. What are you?"

"Oh! That's what you meant. I'm a Leo.

"Hmm...interesting."

And he turned around without another word - with Takao following closely on his tail- and left behind a slightly confused and weirded out Kagami.

Later on he figured out it had something to do with the whole fortune stuff Takao had told him about.

Apparently Midorima was said to be blessed by the goddess of fortune herself. He enhanced the effect by carrying around his so called lucky items, which were objects his horoscope recommended to him. He claimed to win every fight as long as luck was on his side.

Takao also talked about himself. He had something he called 'hawk eye'. With that he could see farther than anyone else, even through walls, trees and so on if he so desired. It made him a perfect spy.

Aomine and Murasakibara both didn't have any and Takao told him how they once claimed they didn't need them anyway.

He wondered what kind of abilities the others had, but four hours weren't enough time for Takao to tell him about everyone.

After the rather tiring endeavour with Takao and Midorima Kagami had decided against going back to the library and instead visited the training hall the rainbow squad leader had mentioned.

It was located underground so there wouldn't be any noise getting through to the rooms where meetings were held and the vampires slept.

There was an elevator that could be taken, but Kagami took the stairs. Nothing against a little workout right?

The stairs themselves seemed rather old, like they've been there for a long, long time. They were rock-hewn, every now and again there were little holes - some had crumbled away over the years of usage.

Half an hour later and Kagami reached the bottom, making his way over to the only door in a rather long, dimly lit hallway. The moment he reached out to turn the handel he heard a loud thud followed by a painful sounding groan. Raising an eyebrow Kagami opened the door to reveal a sky blue haired male lying on his back in seemingly a lot of pain.

"Whatcha doing down there...?"

Startled the bluenette scrambled to get onto his feet, almost tripping and falling down again in his hurry.

"Kagami-san, I did not notice your arrival." Kuroko fidgeted and was apparently embarrassed by his little display of clumsiness.

"Yeah...um, what were you doing anyway?"

Kuroko hesitated a moment before deciding that there wouldn't be any harm in telling the redhead and started talking quietly.

"Actually I tried to train by myself. I wanted to improve my strength in physical combat since it is only average."

Kagami blinked a few times, a bit surprised at that answer. Wasn't this guy part of the 'Generation of Miracles', the strongest of the strongest? Why would his strength be only average?

As if reading his mind Kuroko answered his unasked question.

"I am not the best fighter. I prefer using my ability to win and that normally doesn't involve hand to hand combat."

"Then why train that?"

"Excuse me...?" Kuroko seemed a bit perplexed so Kagami explained further.

"I mean, you can defend yourself just fine with the skills you have, right?"

"That may be true bu,-"

"Then you should concentrate on the things you're good at, right? I'm sure you can better your skills even more and support everyone with it. If you aren't good in certain areas, then concentrate on the others, get better and make up for it."

For a moment Kuroko stared at Kagami with a blank look on his face. The other wasn't aware of that in the least though and sent a bright smile at the vampire standing across from him. Kuroko pulled himself together after a few more moments of stunned silence before he coughed awkwardly into his hand and slowly nodded.

"I-I guess."

Immediately Kagami's face brightened even more and he let out a merry laugh.

"If you want I can be your training partner! Training alone is boring, right?" the words were said with such an eagerness and honesty that Kuroko didn't have the heart to say 'no'.

"Yes, thank you very much."

"Sure thing!"

I hope you liked the chapter! Until the next chapter!