Chapter 3

I love you and it scares me…

Soon after leaving the guesthouse and finding out that they were going to watch the quarter finals of inter-high, Seirin made their way to the closest bus stop.

"Kagami-kun." Kuroko said from the seat in front of Taiga, who was slightly blushing with how cute the blue haired boy looked while staring at him and yet hiding half of his face.

"What is it?" he asked with a gentle smile.

"Just before we left Midorima-kun gave me a message… I was thanking him for showing you your weakness and after saying that even a flea can jump he game his massage which was 'I only taught him a lesson because he's so stupid'" Tetsuya said as he continued to hide half of his face from view, because he was smirking way to obviously at Kagami's anger. His boyfriend was too hot headed and easily agitated, but he found that cute as long as his boyfriend wasn't pissed at him.

"That bastard!" Kagami growled out and Kuroko tried to master all the seriousness he could and showed his face.

"And he said one more thing. 'Don't lose until I beat you.' Apparently." And those words made Kagami smirk and brought Kuroko a smile on his face.

"Like hell I will lose! You tell him that!" Taiga said proud and certain with his and his team's abilities. "This year we are becoming number one, Tetsuya! We won't lose, neither to Midorima nor to Aomine or anyone else! We will be sitting on the top." Kagami said loudly and that made everyone smile, too.

Soon they were sitting and watching the match and all of them were surprised at the talent the two miracles were showing.

"Kuroko which one do you think will win?" Kagami asked right after Kise stopped Aomine from scoring.

"I don't know. Both of them have their own amazing talent and I told you once that I believed that until the match has ended the winner is never a hundred percent certain, but all I know is that Kise could never win against Aomine when they used to practice one-on-one. Aomine is the one that inspired Kise to play basketball, so I think that as long as Kise is looking up and admiring Aomine, he won't be able to go fully out on him. For Kise-kun to stand a better chances of winning he has to outgrew his admiration and fight all out without having lingering old attachments, but if he gets there too late… this game is to uncertain, yet more of the scales are on Aomine's side but Kise is too prideful and hates losing, so he won't let himself down easily. This is going to be very interesting game to watch." Kuroko said as he looked at his two used to be teammates and then centered his point of view at Kise. 'But he is in love with Aomine, so just how will he go on fighting him when he doesn't want to see Aomine lose.' He thought as his current teammates looked at him in surprise.

"But Kise just stopped Aomine, so why do you think Aomine is the one with the better chances?" Kagami asked and then looked at Aomine.

"I think you noticed but Aomine is much like how Seirin is – he is a slow starter and gets stronger through the game." Tetsuya said and looked back at the match.

"Can I ask you something? How did you beat Kaijo?" Teppei asked and looked at Kuroko 'With him as a player in the match is not much of a surprise that they beat Kaijo and they probably underestimated Seirin from the beginning but still to beat someone like that hadn't been easy to archive.'

"With spirit." Kagami asked with doubtful voice and Teppei almost busted out in laughter.

By the end of the match everyone were amazed at the abilities the two aces showed and Kuroko used that time to leave unnoticed and went to a nearby court to lose some steam. Watching that match had heated his head too much. He wished to play and give his all in a match, too. Kuroko wondered what would it feel like to go against them one-on-one and then he smirked and threw the ball he held in his right hand at the hook. "I don't have time to think about that. I've got to get my style back and to make it stronger than ever before!" He said as he look how the ball went in the hook and fall on the ground.

"We all have to grow stronger. I'm particularly boiling with the want and excitement for the upcoming matches. They are knocking on our door, so we don't have any time to lose." Kagami said as he made his way to Kuroko, who looked surprised at him but smiled soon after, and then he turned away from him and went to the hook to take back the ball after which he turned back to Kagami.

"If you are boiling I don't know what to say about myself. I get so excited at the idea of finally playing all out that I am trembling all over." Kuroko said and then looked at the hook he was next to then at the one on the other side and then smirked at Kagami, which rose his eyebrow in wonder of just what is his boyfriend thinking about until Tetsuya just off and threw the ball at the hook on the other side without even jumping and as the ball went through the ring Kagami's eyes widen.

"I still miss a lot of my shots but at least I regained my abilities to shoot far from the hook." Kuroko said happily and now was Kagami's time to smirk.

"A team of two good dunkers and two damn good three point shooters and then there is Izuki-sempai's eagle eye… the other teams should be very careful with us in the Winter Cup." Taigas said proudly and then kneel slightly to take the ball, which had rolled next to him and Tetsuya smirked again.

"Throw the ball at the hook!" he said as he looked pointedly at Kagami, who looked doubtful.

"I can't really shoot threes." He said as he didn't understand what Tetsuya tried to archive but he threw the ball after Tetsuya shook his head and just told him 'shoot' and his eyes widen as the ball hit the ring and Tetsuya jumped higher than he should have been able to and then caught the ball and dunked it then he caught the ring with his hands and spoon around and then let himself land on the ground.

"Since when the hell can you dunk?! Just how did you jump that high? You pretty much jumped as high as me when I am so much higher than you!" Kagami exclaimed as he looked wide eyed and disbelieve was written all over his face.

"Dunking is for people who can jump, not for people that are just higher than others and I have been training over time after our daily team training for this past two weeks, too. I did tell you on the beach that I make some crazy and unbelievable points most of the time. My style isn't an ordinary one, it's a style that has been unreadable to everyone I have ever played against, even to my dad- the person who originally used this style. The reason for that is probably because I can use too many kinds of shooting and if I see that I might get cornered I just change my way of playing. If I can't shoot a three pointer then I just pass the ball or pass the one in front of me and then dunk the ball or if I don't have time to jump to make the three pointer then I just shoot the ball without jumping – it takes more shooting power but is quicker and that's what I showed you a minute ago. Once I get going it's hard to stop me, so what would you say about one-on-one?" Kuroko said as he smiled at Kagami who still looked surprised at him. 'I still wonder what it was like for Kise to go against Aomine even though he is in love with him and then having been beaten like that while still holding to those feelings… it must have been very hard for him and then Ahomine just stood there and watched Kise struggle to get up without lending him a hand, that idiot! But that made me want to find out if I can go all out on Taiga-kun, I too don't want to see him lose, so will I be able to go against him with the idea of winning against him.' Kuroko thought as he took the ball in his hand.

"I can't… I can't and won't go against you with the idea of winning… practicing yes but the way you said it was like you asked for a full out match between us and that's not something I can do… I lost a brother like that, I can't lose you, anyone but not you." Taiga said with regretful voice and somehow his eyes betrayed him and showed part of the pain he felt and that made Tetsuya feel a pang of regret and he quickly made his way next to his boyfriend letting go of the ball, so he could surround his arms around Taiga's neck.

"I love you and I am not going anywhere." He said as he tiptoed and kissed Taiga hesitantly but Kagami quickly buried one hand in Kuroko's hair while the other one went around his waist and drove them closer and deepened the kiss.

"I love you, too." Taiga said as they parted for the much needed air and then he leaned his head on Tetsuya's shoulder. "I feel like we rushed head on in this relationship without even giving it much thought and that makes me think that you would soon decided that this is not what you want and just leave me. Every time I talk to you I feel like I am stepping on a tin ice waiting to break. I usually talk without thinking what I am saying most of the time and I think that I will end up saying the wrong think and make you hate me… I can't go against you in anything be it basket or anything else, because it scares me the what it would just end this." He whispered quietly as he tightly hugged Kuroko, who returned the hug just as tightly.

"I told you I am not someone who would tell 'I love you' easily, baka! This feeling I have for you won't disappear overnight. I know we jumped in this and actually didn't make anything clear but the only one I want is you." Tetsuya said as he buried one of his hands in Kagami's hair and was surprised at how soft it felt.

"There are so many things that you don't know about me and I haven't shown you anything good about me either." Taiga said and then separated himself from Tetsuya when he heard him laugh.

"You put yourself too down, baka. You are the one who made me continue play basket when I had started to hate it and there are a lot of things you don't know about me either, things that might make you hate me…" Tetsuya said as he looked a bit sad at the last part but then he shook his head. "Past is past… there is no use burring yourself inside it… I would never blame you for anything you've done in the past because I have made mistakes in the past too."

"Made you continue playing? What are you talking about?" Taiga asked as he looked lost.

"In middle school I was ready to give up basket when everyone had started to part in their own ways… I felt abandoned and useless and I wanted to quit and then I met you on a court much like this one and even though you didn't know me you said 'you shouldn't give up.' Like you knew what was going around with me. After elementary school I had sealed myself so much that it was hard for anyone to read me yet at that moment I felt like you could read me like an open book and when we met again I remembered you right away. I pretty much fell in love with you at that time and then fell in love with you again after meeting you for a second time. I am well aware just how hot headed you are but I find that somehow charming and it's a good part because you don't go around hiding things but just off and blow them out."

"Wow… I don't remember you, I am sorry. But just when have you been unreadable? It's easy to see what you are thinking about most of the time…" Taiga said as he looked at Tetsuya with a smile, which in return shook his head and smiled too.

"It's only with you… I still don't get how you can read me so well. But we might want to talk more another time after we go home because I am sure that the team is searching for us and I don't feel like taking the coach's anger for disappearing again."

"Shit! She is totally going to be pissed." Taiga exclaimed and Tetsuya smirked.

"I pretty much took the blame for disappearing that time after our match with Kise, so now is your turn, Taiga-kun." Kuroko said as he smirked and Taiga's eyes twitched.

"You are a devil sometimes, you know?" Kagami complained as he followed his boyfriend out of the court but the only answer he got was 'hun' and then they met their team that immediately glared at them.

Soon after getting a little yelling they started making their way back.

"That was an amazing match." Koganei said as they sat in the bus.

"Soon we would end up going against them." Kiyoshi said as he looked at his teammates.

"They both have grown so strong that going against them won't be easy." Kuroko said and then Kagami ruffled his hair.

"We will grow stronger too!" he happily stated and Tetsuya shook his head.

"You do get that with once copying the ability of a member of Generation of Miracles Kise might as well soon learn to copy the abilities of the others. By the time we end up going against him, he will be stronger than ever." Kuroko said and he let his excitement slip at the end and everyone looked at him like he had grown a second head, no one had thought that Kise might get the ability to copy the other members but somehow the way he said that last part made Kagami and Kiyoshi smirk, Kise and everyone else of Generation of Miracles might bring out a lot of surprised but they had the biggest surprise on their side.

"You are all on for more training then…" Riko stated with a smirk and most of them flinched.

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So here is the next chapter I know it's short but I have to go to work tomorrow and its 1a.m so I have to go to sleep… I will try to update tomorrow after work but I can't promise much.

I know this chapter isn't much and I know it's a bit meaningless but that's mostly because I couldn't get to the point I wanted…

See you soon