title: baby baby
rating: k
themes: baby pictures
"Ah, Aomine-kun, look!" A brown-haired girl exclaimed, bounding over to the said basketball ace, who was flipping through a porn magazine, using the front of a textbook to conceal it. He glanced up from his magazine, looking seemingly bored.
"What is it?" He asked lazily, narrowing his eyes quickly at the piece of paper she was holding before looking up at her excited expression. He was used to Momoi's best girl friend, Izumi, coming up to him to ask him about stupid things, but for some reason, he felt as if this time would be different.
She beamed brightly at him before holding out a picture directly in front of his face. "Look at this! Isn't it adorable?" She demanded, grinning widely.
Aomine rose an eyebrow at the photo, which featured a very young pink-haired girl, most likely around age one, wearing a white, fluffy dress, and smiling innocently while gripping tightly onto a teddy bear. It was a professionally done photo; the type that parents always signed up and paid for whenever their child reached a certain age.
"Who's that?" He inquired, carelessly sticking a pinky into his ear. Izumi glowered at him before sighing.
"You don't have to go playing dumb, you know. Who else has pink hair like this?" She demanded, pointing at the tuff of pink hair on the baby in the picture. He merely shrugged her off.
"She gave this to me just yesterday. You have to admit, Momoi-chan is really cute here," she continued, giggling as she gazed at the photo. Girls are weird, Aomine thought to himself vaguely.
"Anyway, I'm going to go buy lunch. Watch my stuff, okay?" Izumi requested, already walking towards her desk, which was directly in front of his. He watched as she slipped Momoi's baby picture into her pencil case, fished some money out, and then left the classroom.
Aomine remained in his seat, staring at his porn magazine. However, as more seconds passed, he found that it was gradually becoming more and more difficult to focus. He sighed before resting his head on top of his desk and sliding his magazine into his desk.
Slowly, his eyes flickered upwards, meeting Izumi's pencil case, which seemed to look much more inviting in his opinion. The zipper of the case was still undone, and he could see a small corner of Momoi's baby picture peeking out. He hastily tore his gaze away and groaned in frustration.
She never gave me one of those, he stubbornly found himself thinking. And I've known her longer.
Aomine knew that Momoi had a baby picture of him, taped somewhere in one of her notebooks. She had received many baby pictures from his doting mother. Every time Momoi came over, she seemed to leave with a new baby picture in hand. She would coo and giggle at them, irritating him.
His eyes rose up once again, lingering on the pencil case. Warily, he glanced right, and then left. He set his stare right on the pencil case, frowning deeply.
Well…it's all her damn fault anyway.
000
"Momoi-chan! Momoi-chan! This is terrible!" Izumi shouted as Momoi stepped into the classroom. The class representative meeting had just ended, and the pink-haired girl was surprised to see that Izumi was still in the class.
"Eh? Did something happen?" The pink-haired girl questioned, immediately thinking that her childhood friend had probably caused trouble again. Izumi pouted in response.
"It's gone!" She exclaimed, whining. Momoi tilted her head to the side, still confused.
"What is?" She asked as she stuffed some notebooks in her school bag and hoisted it onto her shoulder.
"The photo! Your baby picture! I'm sorry Momoi-chan, but I don't know where it is…" The brown-haired girl explained, frowning. Momoi laughed softly.
"It's fine! I can just bring another one for you tomorrow," she told her, giving her hand a firm squeeze. Izumi glanced up at her, still pouting.
"You added really nice notes on the back of it though…I feel bad for losing it…" She muttered. Momoi shook her head lightly, waving a hand at her.
"That's alright, really," she told her. Izumi looked up at the ceiling, as if in deep thought.
"It's so strange though…I don't usually lose things. And I definitely wouldn't lose something like this. I remember showing it to Aomine-kun and then putting it in my pencil case. Then…I went to go buy lunch and half way through the rest of class, I realized it was gone…" She said, beginning to talk to herself. Momoi rose an eyebrow at her story.
"Eh? Dai-chan…?" She asked. Izumi nodded frantically. "Yup. I showed it to him, but you know how he is. I wonder where the picture went though…" She sighed heavily, crossing her arms.
Meanwhile, the pink-haired girl had cleverly added two and two, and was highly amused with the conclusion she had reached. She rolled her eyes, giggling to herself.
000
"You know, you shouldn't go stealing stuff from Izumi-chan," Momoi said strictly after Aomine had opened his front door. He rose an eyebrow at her.
"What the hell are you talking about?" He questioned gruffly, still looking a little groggy. He swung his school bag over his shoulder as he stepped out of his house and followed her out of the gates.
"Izumi-chan lost something yesterday," Momoi told him. Aomine blinked, still confused, before he suddenly realized what she was talking about. If he was still sleepy a few seconds ago, he was certainly wide awake now.
"…I still don't know what you're talking about," he muttered, lying unconvincingly. She rolled her eyes at him before rummaging through her school bag. Her hand finally emerged again, holding onto a photo.
"Here. Give me Izumi-chan's picture. It's addressed to her, after all," the pink-haired girl told him, smiling lightly. She watched as his face flushed and he reached into his back pocket to take out his wallet. He cursed lightly and avoided eye contact with her as he slipped the stolen photo out of his wallet and handed it to her. He grudgingly took the other photo, which featured Momoi as a baby again, almost the same age as in the other picture. This time, she was wearing more casual clothes, and was tightly clutching onto an enormous pillow which read, "I LOVE YOU." He didn't realize that he had been staring at it for such a long time until Momoi's voice snapped him out of his trance.
"If you wanted one, you should've just asked," she told him, giggling softly before delivering a swift wink.
On impulse, and with completely no coherent thoughts in his mind, he dipped his head downwards and gave her a small peck on the forehead.
She blinked in surprise, before flickering her gaze upwards, only to see him hastily stalking off. Her face reddened as she finally realized what had just happened. She stepped forward, nearly stumbling over her own feet.
"D-Dai-chan, wait!" Momoi shouted, jogging after him.
000
Aomine fell backwards onto his bed, sighing in content as his back sunk comfortably into the comforter. He slowly closed his eyes, relishing in the cooling effect of the electric fan's wind. He pushed himself upwards so that he could rest his head on his pillow.
After a few more minutes of lying down and doing absolutely nothing, Aomine reached into his back pocket, removing his wallet. He lazily opened it and stared at the picture that he had slipped behind the clear plastic just a few hours ago.
The one year old Momoi beamed back at him. The vibrant words on the pillow, "I LOVE YOU," stood out, and he could vividly imagine the words being softly whispered from the girl's lips.
He reached over for his phone, pushed one of the speed dial buttons, pressed the device against his ear, and waited. All the while, he was staring at the photo, letting his eyes linger on the three words etched onto the pillow.
"Ah, Satsuki? Hey"—
"Wha…? It's not that late…oh, it kind of is. My bad."
"No, just, uh…"
Aomine's eyes gazed, once again, at the words stitched into the pillow in Momoi's baby picture. He rolled over onto his side.
"…Could you say something for me?"
A/N: Here's some more awkward, yet adorable Aomine just for you guys! Btw, Izumi is someone who was in the Kurobas Replace novels, so she's not just some random OC of mine lol. I sort of doubt she goes to Touo, but I still wanted to include her either way, hahaha.
Also, I suggest that for those of you who haven't read Replace II yet to go read it! It's really worth it because first of all, it contains cute little Aomomo moments, second of all, it's official, and lastly, it's written in novel form (which may or may not be a good thing for some of you)! It would have been nice for Fujimaki-san to actually draw it in manga-form, but it's still really good. The link is here, and this is not my tumblr (mine is miiniwa):
(http)(!:/!/)mocopersonal(!.)tumblr(!.)com/post/33425695123/kuroko-no-basuke-replace-ii-novel-g1-english
Just remove the parenthesis and exclamation points and you'll be good to go! I'm sorry for having to type out the url in that confusing format, but FF is really strict on those. SIGHS.