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Reviews:

Rinfantasy ~ That's definitely true. But we all know how stupid Kagami is sometimes. Most of the time. Okay, all the time. :P

Seirin is way too protective. :T

Guest ~ That's definitely going to be on his gravestone. His cause of death would also be idiocy.

Guest ~ Yup! You can never be too careful…especially when your team is super possessive. Poor Kuroko. (Or Akashi, since his date is most likely going to be ruined.)

Guest ~ Your wish is my command. (Even tho I took what seemed like a century break from this fanfic. Whoops)

SomeRandomGuest ~ I went back to the chapter where it said that and now I can't unsee it. Thanks a lot! XD

And thank you again…sincerely this time and not sarcastically. I'm glad you're liking my story so far!

And guess what? The Generation of Miracles are included in this chapter! That's great for us, but not for Akashi/Kuroko….

"Wha – eh – EHHHH?!"

Kagami growled, pulling the phone away from his ear. "Don't scream like a little girl in my ear, Kise!"

"B-But-!" the blond puppy wailed pitifully. "Kurokocchi is being tainted at the hands of a demon! My precious Kurokocchi! Waaaaahhhh!"

Kagami grimaced, fighting the temptation to plug his ears with his fingers. "Can you shut up?"

"KAGAMICCHI, AREN'T YOU WORRIED?! KUROKOCCHI IS GOING TO…I CAN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I NEED TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THI-"

"Chill out, will you?!" the redhead thundered, anger boiling over. "You're not helping! I don't like this either, but that d mn Akashi is going to kill me if I get involved! Got it?"

"YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT KUROKOCCHI'S PURITY!" Kise babbled, the redhead's words going in one ear and out the other. "ARE YOU HELPING AKASHICCHI IN DESTROYING KUROKOCCHI'S INNOCENCE?!"

"What the – what are you even talking about? What does this have to do with Kuroko's innocence?"

"You're a baka, Kagamicchi-ssu!" Kise sobbed, tears springing to his eyes as he cradled his cellphone to his chest, trying to push the picture of Akashi and Kuroko together out of his head. "A baka!"

"Oh my God, stop crying! You're getting on my nerves!"

"Any luck?" Riko popped out of nowhere, scaring the crap out of Kagami. He nearly dropped the phone in his hands.

"Geez, Coach!" he grumbled, pressing a hand to his temples. "Where did you even come from?"

"I was here the whole time," the brunette announced. "We all were, actually."

"Wha-" Kagami whipped around, dual eyebrows drawing together as he spotted the rest of the team spying on them from the corner. "Are you kidding me?"

Riko's eyebrow lifted pointedly. "So?"

"So what?"

The coach gestured wildly at the phone, clearly expecting him to understand.

He didn't. He just stared at her blankly.

She rolled her eyes, snagging the device from him and waving it in the air with excessive irritation. "How is Kise handling it?"

Cue in the bawling and whining from the blond in question.

"I assume he's not taking it very well, then?"

Kagami glared balefully at her. "Well, whadda you think?"

The coach's brown eyes darkened instantly. Kagami regretted his words. "Is that how you speak to your coach?"

"N-No, ma'am!"

Through his tears and annoying wailing, Kise laughed. "You're such a scaredy-cat, Kagamicchi!"

"Mind running that by me again?" Riko said sweetly, holding the phone to her ear while radiating serene fury. "If you want, I can go over there and kick your butt."

"No thanks! S…Sorry!" Kise silently compared the brunette to Akashi. They seemed very much alike. "A-Anyway…I need to call up Aominecchi and tell him about this!" He hung up almost immediately, leaving Kagami with his terrifying coach.

D mmit...

"Tetsuya."

Kuroko's eyes traveled up to meet Akashi's multicolored ones. He raised a single delicate eyebrow. "Do you need something, Akashi-kun?"

"How about another date?" the redhead offered.

"No," the other boy rejected him right away. "The last one was a disaster. How do I know you won't drag me somewhere fancy again?"
"But that restaurant had high-class milkshakes," Akashi reminded him. He almost sounded…petulant. Like a little kid throwing a tantrum because he didn't get his way.

Kuroko turned away, eyes once again landing on the page he was reading. "The milkshakes tasted fine, I suppose. But they were nothing special." And because he didn't want to come across as impolite, he sent a tight, forced smile in the redhead's direction. "Thank you for the…date, however. It was rather kind of you." Although there must be a catch, he added as an afterthought.

Akashi moved forward, quickly approaching the cornered bluenet. "Tetsuya—"

"No, Akashi-kun."

Akashi's eyes flashed dangerously. "You don't have a choice."

"What…?"

"You're coming whether you like it or not."

"Eh – Akas-"

Before Kuroko could finish his sentence, his former leader grabbed his wrist and dragged him outside, closing the door behind him robotically.

Kuroko pulled feebly, attempting to struggle out of the redhead's grasp. He knew it was pointless, but there was no harm in trying. After all, Akashi would never intentionally harm him.

And he was right. Although Akashi looked thoroughly pissed off at his adamant refusal to go along with his plan, he didn't lay a finger against the tealnet.

"Tetsuya," he spoke urgently. "I request your utmost obedience at this time—"

"Where are we going?" Kuroko demanded.

"Somewhere," the redhead responded vaguely, tone giving away nothing. "Now, let's go."

Knowing it'd be useless to go against the devil himself, Kuroko gave in easily.

"Seriously, Coach, I don't see the point in all this."

"What do you mean?" Riko tossed a frown over her shoulder. "Bakagami, we need the Generation of Miracles with us!" Her eyes glimmered intimidatingly in the moonlight. "Don't you want to protect Kuroko-kun?"

The redhead backed away nervously. "Well, I mean, uh, yeah, but I don't think this is the way to go about it."

"Ohoho? Do you have any better ideas, then?"

Kagami stayed silent.

"Thought so. We need to get moving, all of you!"

"Don't order us around," Aomine mumbled indignantly.

"What was that?"

"….Nothing."

Riko took a deep breath and stepped out from the bushes. "We're in the clear. But they're getting away from us!"

"We need to ambush them!" declared Kise resolutely.

Midorima adjusted his glasses so it seated comfortably on the bridge of his nose. A frown tugged at the corners of his lips.

"That would not be the best course of action," he said reasonably. "We wouldn't want Kuroko to get hurt as well, right? ….N-Not that I care or anything, nanodayo. I'm only going along with this because I feel obliged to."

Kise rolled his eyes at him. "Yeah, sure. We all know you're infatuated with Kurokocchi." He sighed dreamily, stars in his eyes. "After all, who isn't?"

Midorima's face was akin to a tomato. "Look here, you—"

"Stop it!" Riko intervened. "We don't have time for your lollygagging!"

The green-haired boy twitched, visibly disturbed at the notion of him ever partaking in such a thing. "Lollyg-?"

"They're almost out of sight," Murasakibara pointed out lazily, rolling a vanilla candy in his mouth. He absent-mindedly remembered that vanilla was Kuroko's favourite flavour.

"See, you two?! Now we need to hurry!" Riko hissed loudly at them. She rushed to hide behind a nearby lamppost, (which did nothing to cover her) peeking out to see if the couple had noticed her. They hadn't of course. She signaled for the others to follow her. With that, they set out to sabotage the date.