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Happy readings~ [Lots of fluff]
"Ohayō, Atsushi!" chirps a white-haired girl. She waves and bounces towards the purple-haired giant with a broad grin on her face.
"Eh? Ohayō, Ri-chin..." Murasakibara drawls lazily, peering down at the short girl. He lifts a gigantic hand and slides it through her pale coils, mussing up her combed hair.
"Oi, oi! Don't mess up my hair!" she pouts, flattening her hair with two hands. Murasakibara observes her with lazy eyes.
"Ne... Ri-chin is like a small doll..." he murmurs more to himself before dragging his legs off to class.
"E-Eh?! ... Atsushi! Ch-Chotto matte!" she calls, hurrying after the lumbering giant. "We're in the same class, remember?"
"Hm?" the giant raises an eyebrow as if the revelation had just occurred to him. Shirogane suddenly grins slyly.
"If you're a good boy, I have some treats for you later...!" She winks, placing a slim finger on her lips. She opens her bag slightly to show Murasakibara the shine of tinfoil, no doubt covering baked goods. His eyes widen as he reaches out a hand to grab the sweets. Shirogane quickly swipes the bag out of the giant's reach, which is quite impossible to do since the purple-haired boy's arms are freakishly long. "Hey! I'll give them to you during lunch, okay?"
Murasakibara frowns slightly before straightening up again. He produces a bag of chips seemingly out of nowhere and opens it noisily. "But, Ri-chin, I'm hungry..." he grumbles, stuffing his mouth with a hand full of chips.
Shirogane sweatdrops, deadpanning at the snacks in his hands. "How do you afford to keep up with your eating habits?" Murasakibara offers her a lazy noncommittal shrug as he continues eating.
Unbeknownst to the chatting pair, they are attracting a lot of attention as they walk down the hall. To the people around them, it's an amusing sight to see such a tall boy with the shortest girl in the grade.
"Look! It's Daiki and Satsuki-chan!" Shirogane cries, waving her arm frantically hoping to catch the attention of the two. Murasakibara sits on one of the cafeteria chairs, hand buried deep in a bag of snacks. His long leg are bent at uncomfortable angles in order to fit underneath the annoyingly low tables.
It's lunch time and Teikō's captain was hoping to get all of the basketball team members to eat together- at least, all of the first year players, she wasn't so sure that Haizaki wanted to sit with a bunch of first years.
Unfortunately for the white-haired girl, she is too short to get anyone's attention, nevertheless someone's from across the bustling cafeteria.
"Atsushi... help me!" she whines pitifully, stretching her body to the max. Suddenly, two large hands grab her around the waist, lifting her high into the air. "E-Eh?! A-Atushi... what are you doing?!" Shirogane squeaks, face flushing bright red as some of the loitering students turn to watch the commotion.
"Ri-chin asked me to help..." the giant mumbled, unfazed by her reaction. "See? Mine-chin saw you." True to his word, the blue-haired player had finally spotted the short girl and was waving back. Shirogane could see the pink-haired girl beside him shooting her a strange look.
"Murasakibara, it's not polite to lift a girl like that." a voice comes from behind the giant.
"Eh?" The giant turns his head back, peering forlornly at the green and red behind him. "Oh, Mido-chin, Aka-chin..." he greets lowly. Akashi smiles thinly while Midorima pushes up his glasses.
"You should put Riyeko-hime down." Akashi echoes with a slight teasing tone to his voice. Upon hearing this, Shirogane immediately stops fidgeting. Instead, her entire body begins to flush a scarlet red color from head to toe. Murasakibara complies and gently plops the blushing girl down on one of the chairs.
There's a brief moment of silence between the four before Shirogane cracks. "Wah! Seijurō! D-Don't call me that!" she splutters, slapping her hands to her face. She fails to cover her raging blush. Akashi cracks a smirk while Midorima sighs and takes a seat next to his captain.
"Oi, Riyeko-hime!" Aomine barrels over to the table, Momoi in tow. Shirogane stiffens in her seat. "Eh? What's wrong with ya?" The blue-haired player questions, leaning down to inspect Shirogane's red face.
Shirogane slumps forward in her seat, resting her chin on the table. She mutters darkly to herself, almost too quietly for the others to catch. "You too, Daiki...?"
"Ne, ne, are you okay?" Aomine waves a hand in front of her shadowed eyes to no avail.
"Just shut up and eat, Aomine." Midorima cuts in, placing his lucky item on the table. This time, it's a snow globe.
"You...!" Aomine takes a swipe at the green-haired player, only to be held back by Momoi. Shirogane is briefly distracted by the swirling fake snow and plastic figurines frozen inside the plastic dome.
"Calm down, Dai-chan! Sheesh!" the pink-haired girl scolds, forcing him down into a chair. "Do I always have to babysit you?!"
"Oi! Stop meddling in my business then, if you find it annoying, hag!" he shoots back. An anger vein forms on Momoi's head. The two of them start bickering loudly like siblings.
"Ri-chin, where's my reward?" Murasakibara drawls, prodding the girl with a long forefinger. Shirogane jolts up, brightening up considerably.
"Oh, that's right! I forgot! Here, Atsushi, you have to eat a balanced meal before you earn your dessert, you know!" She beams, and hands over a purple bento box to Atsushi. He, along with everyone else at the table, stares at the plastic box dwarfed in the giant's hands. On the purple container are stickers of small butterflies flitting around.
Aomine chokes. "Wahahahaha! So girly!" he howls, clutching his sides in mirth. Shirogane frowns before slamming something down in front of the blue-haired player.
"Well, here's yours!" she scowls. On the table is an innocent blue bento box, matching Murasakibara's in shape and size. Everyone peers curiously at the stickers covering the top.
"..."
"Pfft!" Momoi snickers, slapping her hands in front of her mouth. Tears gather at the corner of her eyes as she struggles to hold in her laughter. Aomine's jaw drops at the colorful mermaid stickers adorning his bento box.
"O-Oi! What's this?!" he demands, staring at the smiling stickers in disgust. "Why are there these things on here?! I should at least get something cool on mine!"
"Hmph!" Shirogane sniffs, turning her nose into the air. "That's what you get. Besides, it's the only one in its color."
Aomine slams his head onto the table. "Nande?!"
Chewing noises from Shirogane's side of the table draws their attention. Behind the small girl, a certain purple-haired boy is slowly consuming the contents in the bento box.
"Ne... how is it, Atsushi?" Shirogane asks blissfully, happy that someone was finally eating her food. The others lean forward in anticipation. Murasakibara grunts, not pausing as he continues to shovel food down his throat. The others share an uncertain glance.
"I mean... it can't be that bad if he's eating it and living..." Aomine stares distrustfully down at his opened bento. The food inside is gently steaming, still warm from when Shirogane had prepared it in the morning. He picks up a pair of chopsticks and dips it into the shogayaki before hesitantly placing it in his mouth. Chewing slowly, he gauges the taste. The other four who are not eating watch in rapt awe.
Aomine's expression morphs from concentration into one of delight as he aggressively begins to devour the food in front of him.
"Good, right?" Shirogane grins triumphantly.
"Hm? Yeah! he shouts excitedly, flashing his half-chewed food in everyone's face. Midorima flinches at the display of savagery in front of him while Momoi whacks Aomine across the head for lack of mannerism.
In a daze of happiness, Shirogane sets two more bento boxes down in front of Akashi and Midorima. Akashi's is red with stickers of fish while Midorima's is a grassy green color adorned with balloons. The green-haired boy frowns ever so slightly at his with a pensive expression on his face.
"You'll try it, won't you?" Shirogane wheedles, clasping her hands in front of her and turning on her cute, feminine charms. Midorima turns away with a slight blush splattered across his pallid cheeks.
"I already have food. It will go to waste if I don't eat it." he states logically, glancing down at his bag.
"What? Don't have the guts to try it?" Aomine taunts, still eating his bento like a starved beast. Midorima scowls and pushes up his glasses.
"Is that a challenge? Then again, coming from an uneducated caveman like you, it's nothing worth my time." he retorts cooly. Nonetheless, he opens his bento box while ignoring Aomine, who's shouting insults, and takes a small bite out of the contents. Midorima stiffens, chopsticks freezing in mid-air.
"... Is it alright, Shintarō...?" Shirogane asks, breaking the intense silence. The green-haired boy quickly recomposes himself and swallows after a moment.
"It's fine." He places another bite in his mouth, no trace of emotion across his stoic face.
"Ahahaha! He likes it! He's just too wimpy to admit it!" Aomine declares, pointing at him with his eating utensils. Rice litters his face as he grins broadly at the expressionless male in front of him.
"Urusai. Don't make up random crap like that." the green-haired boy replies without hesitation, placing another bite of rice in his mouth.
"What about you, Seijurō? Are you going to eat yours?" Shirogane questions, turning to the redhead. "Gomen, Satsuki-chan, I didn't know you were going to eat with us, otherwise I would have made you one, too." she apologizes to the pink-haired girl at the table.
"A-Ah! It's fine! I'm on a diet, anyways." Momoi giggles nervously, waving her hands in front of her.
"I bet he isn't going to eat it." Aomine rolls his eyes.
"E-Eh? Why not?" Shirogane gapes. Akashi blinks his red eyes, seemingly asking him the same question.
Aomine leans back in his seat, his stomach satisfyingly full. "Akashi is a rich kid. I bet he has world-class chefs preparing his lunch everyday." he scoffs, rubbing his mouth with the back of his hand.
"S-Sōka?" the white-haired girl appears crestfallen and slowly stretches her arms out to take back the red bento box. "D-Don't worry about it, Seijurō, y-you don't have to eat it if you don't want to..."
A pale hand on hers stops hers from grabbing the plastic box. "Don't listen to everything you hear. That idiot doesn't know what he's talking about." Akashi stares emotionlessly into Shirogane's pale orbs. He gently removes the bento box from her grasp and opens it.
"Oi! Who are you calling an idiot?!" Aomine shakes a fist threateningly near Akashi's placid face.
"You, baka." the redhead calmly replies. Aomine looks slightly taken aback and falls back into his chair, not knowing how to reply. Momoi snickers and pulls out her rationed lunch.
Akashi nibbles on his bento and offers Shirogane a miniscule smile. "It's tasty. Arigatō." The others hurriedly input their thanks as well, although Murasakibara does so unwillingly, preferring to stay silent and continue eating.
"Eheheh... Anything for my teammates!" Shirogane blushes slightly and beams happily.
"Ri-chin, I finished. Do I get my treat now?" Murasakibara pulls on her sleeve like a small child.
"Ne, ne, of course!" Shirogane ducks under the table to reach for her bag again.
"You have more food?! Man, you sure know how to cook! Not that I'm complaining..." Aomine rubs his hands together in greed.
"Dai-chan, you're such a glutton!" Momoi scolds, tapping him on the head with her chopsticks.
"As if! That purple-haired giant eats more than I do!" he scowls in reply. They engage in another round of insults.
"Here!" Shirogane smiles brightly, displaying a container covered in aluminum foil. She pulls away the metallic paper, revealing rows and rows of small, chocolate cupcakes cutely decorated in icing and sprinkles.
"S-Sugoi..." Aomine breathes, eyes darting from cupcake to cupcake, unable to decide which one to eat first. Murasakibara, on the other hand, has no qualms of deciding and swipes five of them at once with one hand. "Oi! Leave some for the rest of us!" Aomine reaches in with both hands and snatches a few, shielding them with his body as he chomps down on one.
"Tch, savages." Midorima plucks one delicately from the batch and calmly eats it like a civilized person. Akashi mirrors his moves and takes one for himself.
"You can have one, too Satsuki-chan!" Shirogane offers with a kind smile. Momoi hesitates, having an internal battle with herself before finally giving in to her sweet tooth and taking one as well.
"Mm! These are delicious, Riyeko-chan!" she squeals after taking a bite.
"S-Sōka? Arigatō!" said person blushes for the hundredth time.
"You need to stop being so modest, ya know? These are great!" Aomine garbles through mashed up cupcakes. He extends a tanned hand into the container, only for it to be harshly smacked by another.
"Mine." Murasakibara monotones, pulling the container towards himself like an unsharing child with his toys.
Aomine gapes, cake falling out of his mouth. Momoi squeaks faintly in disgust. "Eh?! You've already had ten of them! Lemme have more, too!" the blue-haired boy argues indignantly.
"Iie." Murasakibara frowns, raising the container high above his head, just out of reach for Aomine. The two of them wrestle for the cupcakes, causing the others to sigh in amusement and exasperation. Shirogane smiles contentedly.
It's like we're becoming a family...
"Ten extra laps around the school during practice so you all don't gain weight~!"
"EH?!"
"The first-string will be playing a match with the second-string. I'll be observing your strengths and weaknesses." Sanada explains with whistle in hand. He shoots Shirogane a meaningful glance. She nods firmly in reply.
He's testing my capability in leading our team. I've got to prove myself!
Shirogane gathers the players in a circle. "Ready, guys? This will be our first game together! I'll be making adjustments along the way since I don't really know how you all play, okay? Let's do our best!"
"Hai!"
"Let's go! Atsushi, you'll take the tip off since you're so tall."
"Okay, Ri-chin." crunch, crunch
"And stop eating for a moment!"
"Okay, Ri-chin."
sigh