Chapter 3: New Traditions.

"Take a look gentlemen! This school, will soon be conquered by us!" Tai stood against the railing as the five of them stood upon the roof. He held his arms out, looking down at the mixture of students. A sea of dark red and black stared back at him; a mixture of murmurs and whispers questioning his sanity as he continued garnering attention. Suddenly, a wave of girls began screeching in love and admiration. They were yelling for a name that Tai wasn't paying attention to. Instead, he soaked up the cheers that weren't for him as he turned back to his teammates, pointing to the screaming crowd. "Hear that? The women already love us!"

"Us?" John questioned as he walked over to the railing where Tai was standing. Coincidentally, Jeremy was just in sight, next to Tai as John appeared. "Let me show you something, Tai." John stated as he pulled him out of sight of the student crowd down below. The cheers continued on. "...Show me what?" Tai asked, shrugging. John held up a finger. "Listen. Hear the girls?"

"Yeah...? Still cheering for us." Tai replied.

"Us.." John chuckled. He then pulled Tai back up to the railing, and pulled Jeremy out of their sights. "Hey!" Jeremy yelled in surprise as he was yanked away. Suddenly, the cheers stopped. All that was heard now, was the consistent murmurs that were heard before.

Tai blinked, unsure of how to react to the quietness, but before he could make a comment, John pulled him away again, replacing the point guard with Jeremy. Once again, the uproar occurred. Just to add insult to injury, John began rotating everyone in. First Karlan, as the cheers from the girls stopped. He then placed Jeremy back up to recreate the uproar before silencing everyone with Oba's appearance.

"Okay but that's not the point!" Tai yelled. He then hooped up on the railing, standing on the edge of the roof as everyone hushed once more. "The point is, we're going to take this school over!" He yelled, throwing his fist into the air.

"It's only been a few days and I'm already tired of seeing them." Kagami stated as he stood next to Kuroko and the others, blending in with the rest of the students. "They're too loud."

"I agree with Kagami." The cat faced player Shinji added. "It's bad enough we have to share a school with them, but now they're on our roof. We do initiations up there right? That's still a thing right?"

"Of course it is." Kagami replied. "Nothing changes here without our say so. If anything it's we..."

"TETSU!"

Kagami's words trailed off as they were being overdrawn by a familiar female voice. Everyone turned around to the one who called him. Arms wrapped around his neck as pink haired flowed about. Buried in Kuroko's chest, was one Satsuki Momoi. The rest of the Seirin team looked on in comical envy. "Oh, it's Momoi." Kagami murmured.

"You know, I don't think everyone's gotten over that she's in love with you, Kuroko." Shinji added as the rest of the team remained frozen in their envious states.

"What are you doing here?" Kuroko asked her, ignoring the comments from his teammates. Momoi finally peeled away from the light blue haired male, smiling. "I took a school day to come see you! Just wanted to see Seirin's environment after winning the Winter Cup. Are you guys celebrities yet? More importantly..." She began looking around, noticing the mixed colored uniforms in the sea of students. "Where are they?"

"They?" Kagami asked, blinking to come back to a normal state. "Yeah, the Americans. The ones that dominated you in that pick up game."

"Dominated!?" Kagami questioned with an angered expression. He tightened his fist. "You must have gotten your information from Aomine!"

"Kise actually." She replied, still innocently looking around for her targets.

"Kise threw me under the bus!?" Kagami yelled at the top of his lungs. In the next instant, Kagami was seen away from the group, sulking. Momoi continued to look around, until Kuroko finally pointed her to the roof. "Huh? Oh? How high and mighty. They've taken the roof already? This will be an interesting season."

Back upon the roof, the five continued to banter between each other, still looking down towards the crowd below them. Karlan than pointed towards the basketball team. "Hey, there's the Seirin guys!"

"How could you spot them from here?" John asked, walking to and leaning against the railing to get a better view. He could now easily see them once Karlan pointed the team out. His eyes then flashed wide. "Oh? And who's the pink haired cute girl with them?"

"Hm?" The rest of the five was now interested, and headed to the railing as well to get a better view.

"Whoa..." Oba whispered aloud. "She's cute!"

"She's got nice tits!" Karlan exclaimed, almost loud enough for everyone below him to hear. John then slapped him against the back of his head for the comment. Jeremy stayed quiet, but as he stared, to him it almost felt like Momoi was staring back.

"What do you think Tai?" Oba asked the point guard. He didn't receive a response. "Tai?" He looked over to where he was once standing, seeing nothing but a silhouette of where he once was, and a trail of dust. "...Tai?"

"So that's them." Momoi said again, placing a hand over her eyes to shield her vision from the sun while she looked. "Yeah, they look like athletes from here. Especially..." She turned her attention to Jeremy, staring back towards the male staring at her. "Hm..." She grinned, and then turned back to Kuroko and the others, clasping her hands together. "Well, I got all the information I needed."

"Really?" The others asked in unison. "Hai, it was great seeing you again, Tetsu~! Maybe next time it'll be a longer visit..."

Momoi's words faded as a loud yell was being heard once more. The group looked over to the source of the yell, and what they saw was a bunch of students being launched into the air, and a figure running towards them.

"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" He shouted as he made his way towards them. Once he was there, everything turned from comically serious, to a romantic attempt as Tai clasped his hands with Momoi's. Taken completely off guard, Momoi stood there, unsure of how to react.

"Hey. My name's Tai." Tai started, staring into her eyes with a smile.

"Uh...hey..." She replied awkwardly. "Momoi.."

"Beautiful. I'm part of the new school here. I'm from America, which means I'm new to Japan. So maybe you could show me around soo-"

"Gack!" He gagged as John began pulling him away from his collar. "How did you get down here so fast!? I ran my hardest!" Tai yelled as he tried to fight against the pulling.

"You're an embarrassing teammate, you know that!? Have some proper etiquette!" John replied. As Karlan and Oba walked off with them, Jeremy gave Momoi and the group a quick wave. "Sorry! He's a bit out there sometimes! Bell's about to ring though, so I'll see you guys in the halls!" He smiled at each one of them before jogging to catch up with his friends.

Everyone blinked in confusion, still feeling the effects of Tai's appearance more than anything. "Well...that was something..." Kagami stated as he and the others began walking back inside; Momoi hugging Kuroko once more before making her way away from Seirin high school.

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The bell rung in the background as the halls quickly filled with the mixture of students. Suddenly, the the Seirin high students stood in the way of the newbies, forming a blockade in front of the doors that led to outside.

"What's going on?" A random asked. Another stepped up, waving his hands in surrender. "Look guys, we don't want any trouble. We're not trying to start a school war or anything."

"Quiet!" The male in front of Seirin's enforcement yelled, silencing everyone. "Students of Ashita High!" He yelled again. "What you're about to experience, is a huge part of lunch time here at Seirin!"

The students of Ashita began looking around, confused as to what he was going on about.

"Everyone..." The student kicked the doors open, showing another endless yet chaotic ocean of students lined up at a simple stand against a far walk. "THIS IS JAPANESE LUNCH TIME RUSH!"

As soon as he yelled, the students of Seirin rushed out into the yard, also shoving, or at least attempting to shove their way through the crowd to reach the front. The students of Ashita looked around, still confused, but now intimidated, some concerned as they watched the chaotic scene unfold. In the back of Ashita's crowd, a certain giant could be seen holding his stomach as it growled.

"I knew I should of went to the cafeteria! But I heard about their amazing bread. Ah, I really want it..!"

Marcus continued to hold his stomach as he stood just a bit away from the chaotic crowd. Ashita high had already joined the melee, the dark red and black school uniform began to form in a mini riot. "There's no way I'll make it through that! Especially since everyone got a head start! I'm gonna starve!"

Marcus continued his freak out, until he saw Tai walking around the crowd with bread in his hand. He took a huge bite, smiling in ecstasy as he continued walking away.

"Hey..uh...Tai!" Marcus ran over, now bowing in front of the point guard. "Hm?" Tai turned to him, still chewing the bread in his mouth. "Marcus. What are you doing back here?"

Marcus regained his posture. "I...I wanted that bread from the stand, but I didn't expect it to be like this!"

"Oh is that so?" Tai gained a cheeky grin. "Well, you better get up there soon. When I bought mine, there were only five left." At that moment, the other four of the American miracles walked by, all moaning to the sweet taste of the bread. "Make that one." Tai said as he began walking away with the others. "You can do it Marcus. Just, use your size. You have to use your talents to your advantage."

"Use my talents to my advantage?" Marcus questioned. He then turned back to the crowd, staring at the ensuing fight for the front of the line. Holding his stomach, Marcus's face slowly turned from intimidation, to holding a raging fire in his eyes. "I won't spend the rest of the day starving! I waited all morning for this!" He began yelling, crouched down and clenching his fists as if he was about to power up into something. "I'LL MAKE IT TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE!"

Marcus took off, head above the crowd as he began bumping the smaller students out of the way.

"Think he'll make it?" Kagami asked, talking to Kuroko. It was then when Oba peered his head around Kagami's shoulder, scaring him. "Ten bucks says he does."

Kagami patted his chest, trying to regain air after having it scared out of him. "Don't do that! But fine! Ten bucks! You guys don't know what he's in for."

Shinji turned to Kuroko whispering. "Kagami does know that all four of them already have bread right? So they should know what it takes to get through."

Kuroko kept his emotionless face. "This is one of the times where Kagami has to learn the hard way."

"Ten bucks!" Oba and Kagami shook on it, turning back to Marcus. "He doesn't stand a chance!" Kagami exclaimed, but when he actually turned to Marcus, the giant was at the back once again, panting slightly, but holding the bread in the air. "I did it!" The giant yelled. "I grabbed it!"

"In record time too!" Tai shouted as Kagami sulked in the background with Oba dancing around him. Kagami stared at the ground, a vein popping out of his head as Oba danced around him. "I hate these guys..."

"Okay Marcus!" John said as he dribbled the basketball a few times. Three of them took the court at the park, occupying the recreation. John held the ball at his side as Karlan and Marcus stood next to each other, Marcus just inches taller than Karlan. "Tell me what you know about basketball."

"Well..." Marcus hummed while scratching the underside of his chin. "I know that you're supposed to put the ball in the circle in order to gain points. Oh! And there are five people on a court for a single team!"

"Alright." John shrugged. "How do you feel about shooting?"

Immediately Marcus panicked, waving his hands in surrender. "Ah! Oh no! Shooting is an act of violence! I don't condone any of that!"

Karlan and John froze, stale faces between the both of them as they slowly turned away from Marcus. "Marcus I..." Karlan was struck, unsure of what to even say. John then snapped out of his trance, and turned back to the giant. "Marcus, I meant shooting the ball, as in attempting to place it in the hoop."

"Oh!" Marcus said, smiling at the mistake. "I'm sure I'm not good at that, since it takes practice and I never practiced this game."

"True. Alright let's see what you got." John said, as he directed Marcus where to stand. "Oh, I read about this! This is the post!" Marcus exclaimed as he stood where John pointed him to. Karlan stood behind him, ready to play defense. "That's right. You're a center, so you play the post." John bounced the ball a few times again. "Okay, I want you to try to back Karlan as far under the basket as possible. When you can't push him anymore, I'll pass you the ball, and you try to score, okay?"

Marcus nodded. "Got it! I'll try my best!"

"That's all we need, kid." John replied, slapping the ball in his hands. Immediately Marcus crouched just slightly.

"He has a light frame...I'm sure John knows that he won't move me an inch- Gah!" Karlan's thoughts were quickly cut off. It seemed Marcus took the center off guard, pushing him back rather easily. Karlan recovered, now trying to push back, but it seemed no use. He continued to be forced near the basket against his will. "What's going on!? He's not strong enough for this!?"

Even John watched in surprise as Marcus steadily moved Karlan towards the goal. "His center of gravity seems amazing." The three point shooter said, watching Marcus dominate Karlan in terms of position. Karlan looked up, realizing that he was directly under the basket. Helpless. "No way! That's a dunk every time..!"

"Pass it!" Marcus yelled. John perked up, and gave Marcus a chest pass, the center catching it before taking a determined expression. "I'm done..." Karlan stated as Marcus leaped into the air. Marcus would then rear back and...fail the dunk attempt, falling to his rear after wedging the ball between his right hand and the rim. As he fell to the ground, Karlan and John once again stared with the same pale faces as before. John blinked a few times, finally forming a small smile at Marcus who was slowly standing, rubbing his back from the fall.

"Well...

It's a start..."