Update: It's been like half a year since I uploaded the last chapter. To be honest I kinda lost interest to writing until I stumbled upon a certain story. I thought about it for a while and here I am. I hope to finish the United States Vacation and move on to another idea I have for Kuroko. Thanks for waiting a very long time and don't be mad. Disclaimer: I don't own Kuroko no Basket
- Chapter 6 -
Kagami and Kuroko stood in aw as they tired to find Nash in the crowd. Unknowing to them Nash had made eye contact with Akashi and slipped away. Akashi felt a turn in his stomach. He hadn't felt that for a long time, not since when he found out that Nash had the Demon eye.
"Lets go back to the others and tell them what we saw", Kuroko suggested. Akashi sighed and nodded to the teal haired boy in front of him. His thoughts about Nash could wait.
Kise had lost Aomine and Murisakibara, they weren't were he would have thought they would be. "How do you lose a guy that sticks out like a sore on a thumb?", Kise said to himself. He thought he saw purple hair, maybe it was Murisakibara. He ran to the person, it looked like Murisakibara because he was so tall. He stopped tho before he caught up with him. He wasn't talking to anyone he knew and it wasn't like Murisakibarato talk to random people. He sensed something odd tho. These people were like someone he knew alright. He questioned this until someone ran into him. He looked down to see Kuroko. Kise starred at him until Kuroko broke the silence.
"Kise-kun", Kuroko said. Kise nodded in response. "Do you know what happened to Murisakibara-kun and Aomine-kun?"
"You know you aren't supposed to add kun to the last part of peoples names here", Kise responded, "And I don't have a clue."
"Team Shot and Team Jab report to court 3." the intercom announced.
"Lets head to court 3", Kuroko insisted. Kise (just realizing that there was a Team Jab) had a blank look on his face. He appeared to be spacing off.
"Kise!", Kagami shouted as he ran over to meet Kuroko and Kise. Kise snapped out of his trance and looked up.
"Did I hear that right? Team Jab? Like Jabberwock?", Kise started to ask.
Kagami didn't say a word. He could have guessed Kise would have known already. "Yea there is.", Kuroko stated.
"That means...", Kise started but was silenced with Kuroko and Kagami nodding. Kise's face stiffened.
"Don't worry about it Kise, Midorima and Himuro can beat them.", Kagami said as they walked over to the court.
Ben had just arrived at the tournament when he found some old college friends of his. He chatted up a storm with them before one of them asked for the reason he was there. "You haven't played ball since senior year, what makes you come to a street contest?", one of them asked. Ben lifted his head and announced that Kagami and the rest of the gang were playing in it and so far they all moved on.
"Well I'll be, that son of yours has real talent. I don't know if anyone can match him." another said. Ben laughed.
"He went over seas and came back with plenty of competition." Ben stated. "Speaking of which, Himuro's game is starting over there.
Ben and his friends walked over to the court to see that game had started. Team Jab vs. Team Shot.
The ball came into Midorima hands. His defender, was Nash his name?, started to back up. Midorima adjusted his glasses and stated, "Cancer's lucky item today was a dice, and Cancer's lucky came out on top today so there isn't a way I can miss."
He began to shoot the ball, until he realized that Nash was right in front of him. I can't shoot like this Midorima thought to himself as he passed the ball.
Himuro jumped and began the Mirage Shot. His defender jumped so he did the fake release. To his surprise, his defender smiled.
"Don't think we know how to guard monkeys?", the one they called Silver said. Sliver then grabbed the ball before it got back down into Himuro's hands.
Everyone looked in shock. A shot form that was hard to defend against was stopped before the 2nd half of it could be executed.
Team Jab look a 14-3 lead because of the great ball handling by Nash and the big ability difference between the teams. Midorima could guard well, but this was getting outta hand. He decided to take matters into his own hands.
"Himuro.", Midorima began, "I need you to focus on passing."
Himuro looked at the green haired shooting guard with a confused look.
"I have a way that we can win this." Midorima stated and then laughed.
His face suddenly changed. Green light streaks came out of his eyes.
Midorima had triggered Zone.
The Generation of Miracles looked at their teammate in worry and wonder. They wondered what Midorima could do now.
Himuro didn't say anything, but he gave the ball to Midorima and said in a quiet voice, "Let's do this"
Midorima nodded and then chucked the ball at the hoop. It went in without hitting the rim.
"Aomine's formless shot?" The Generation said to themselves and to each other.
Aomine was the one who was in most shock. Seeing his play style being used by someone he never thought would try such a careless shot. Flashbacks to middle school when Midorima would mock him about his carefree play style, and now that same player was using it.
Team Jab didn't look too worried. They could handle this compared to what happened in Japan. They doubled Midorima while Nash did a zone defense to keep the other 2 on Team Shot in check. This however didn't stop Midorima as he went on a 15-0 run that turned the tables on the game. They were now up 17-14 and the momentum was in their favor.
This was until Nash decided to take matters into his own hands. He took Midorima 1 on 1 and did an ankle break causing Midorima to fall out of focus and fall to the ground. "Don't get to cocky.", Nash stated. Then he proceed to make a 3 pointer and tied the game at 17.
Ben looked in shock as he witnessed the game. I've never seen anything thing like this before. Amazing.
He left his friends and approached Kagami and the Generation. "What is happening out there?", Ben asked them. None of them responded.
Ben looked back to the court to see Team Jab hit another 3 making it 20-17.
Akashi spoke," Zone is part of your ability to play basketball. You have to have enough skill to be chosen to be able to enter through the door plus you need to love basketball more than anything else.
Ben nodded in respond that he understood. "So how do you get into Zone"
"You have a trigger way of playing to get you in. Like Kagami's is fighting along side his team, or what mine used to be was abandoning my teammates for the sake of winning.", Akashi responded.
Ben looked at Midorima. "So what was his trigger?", he asked.
"Beats me, this is the first time I've seen him in the Zone.", Akashi said. The rest of them nodded their heads.
Now down 22-17, Midorima had to make this shot. He had watched Aomine make this shot too many times. If only he could get the motions right.
"Fade away and throw it. It's that simple isn't it? Easier said than done tho.", He thought to himself.
He started to fade away and drew Nash towards him. He proceeded to then jump back and throw the ball. Nash jumped up but missed to block it. The ball went towards the hoop but hit the back of the rim.
"It seems you don't know what happened.", Nash said to Midorima. "I didn't block it on purpose because I did something far worse that." Nash smiled. "I cut off you momentum by making you miss."
The game ended after that by a 3 pointer from Nash.
The players exited the court. Team Jab had their heads held high with smirks on their faces while Team Shot didn't even look up at where they were going. It was by luck they went in the general direction of the group that had watched them fail.
No one said a word to them, not like they could. All of them were down after what Nash didn't to their former teammate and friend. All they knew was they had to avenge Himuro and Midorima one way or another.
End of Chapter 6
Note: So after a long 5 months, chapter 6 is here. I'm sorry to anyone who really wanted me to keep updating during the 5 months but I didn't have a drive but now I do. I thought about having Midorima getting hurt in the game but I didn't think it would go as smooth as the story is now. (Also Murisakibara got hurt in the extra game manga) So hopefully I can finish this story. As of right now I'm planning to have 8-10 chapters in the story but we'll see.