"Kuroko..." Kagami breathed, his voice choked and taught inside his throat. He gasped quickly for air, gripping onto Shun's shoulder.

"What?!" Shun yelled, hearing Kagami echo his name again sent chills down him, he glanced at Junpei, seeing his own shock and confusion mirrored in his friends eyes.

"K-Kuroko!" Kagami yelled, this time finding the strength in his voice.

"Kagami... Are you serious?" Riko whispered, coming over to them to push them on to the court, their team still waiting.

"Kuroko is on that team..." He mumbled to his team mates. Riko glanced over, her brown eyes locking onto marvellous green. She gasped, watching as Ebisu Tachibana looked her up and down. Her patronising gaze skimming over Riko in disgust. A smirk played her lips when she looked over at Kagami, her eyes lighting up in a devilish shine. She brought her hands to her mouth in a sarcastic gasp, before smirking wider, pointing for Riko to watch the scoreboard.

"Oh my god..." She whispered in utter dumbfoundment, the red flashing lights reflected in her glazed over eyes.

78-0

The whistle blow, ending the game and Riko, Kagami, Shun and Junpei all stood shell shocked as they watched the players part to their siding teams.

They watched as the bluenette grasped the young black haired girls arms, spinning her around slightly, her slim back to his old team, his own pearl blue glaring daggers at them violently. Kagami went to speak, to call out to his old friend but Kuroko just glared harder.

"They're a couple..." Riko informed them, "it was in the article... About how she had trained him and now, no one can score a single point against them in their matches..."

Shun gulped as he watched Kuroko wipe the sweat off of his body, his gaze still locked in his old team.

"They say, he disappears in the matches... That even his own team can't see him, even when he's right under your nose, not like when we were with him... This is different... Kuroko he..." Riko's voice trembles, her grip tightened on her plaid skirt, her fingers groaning and popping in protest.

A nervous sweat had over taken them all, the cold liquid trickling down the backs like a ghost.

"He's not a shadow anymore..." She swallowed loudly, stepping back slightly when the opposing team began to make their way over across the courts to the changing room, "they say... They say..." Riko struggled for words as the first members of the team shoved past them, laughing and joking about how pathetic the other team was. Kagami's mouth fell open and closed shut like a dying fish as he stared at his old friend, the now taller bluenette arm wrapped around Ebisu's shoulder, his hair dripping with sweat and red towel draped around his shoulders.

"They say he's a wizard." And just as the pair walked past them, their eyes trained on the blue haired boy. He vanished, just like that, Ebisu stumbling slightly and rolling her eyes at his antics. All of their eyes widened like saucers.

"Kagami-Kun." A rotten voice snarled and the four spun around to see Kuroko standing right under Kagami's nose.

"How lovely it is to see you again."