Chapter 2 "Burger and Strawberry Milkshake"

"That's ridiculous. Why do I have to speak with him?" Taiga was thinking out loud while he was walking towards his favorite diner. It had great burgers.

He ended up buying about 10 burgers then sat on a table. What? He like to eat and no one could judge him for that. Besides, all the things he ate were turning into muscles, not fat. So he was thinking he was fine.

When Taiga bit a huge piece of one of his burgers, he raised his head and saw the blue haired brat, Tetsuya Kuroko, in front of him. On his table. His burger stuck in his throat while he was trying to bellow at Tetsuya Kuroko. When Tetsuya saw him struggling, he offered his strawberry milkshake to him. Taiga accepted the offer without thinking and immediately drank half of it. When the burger went down in his throat (finally), he breathed deeply.

Tetsuya took his half-empty milkshake back and that's when Taiga noticed him again. The brat was really like a phantom.

"What are you doing on my table?!" he roared.

"What are you talking about? This was my table. I sat on it first, you sat after me." he said, deadpan.

Taiga looked at him with disbelief. He couldn't be telling the truth. Taiga thought about the time when he sat the table and he was pretty sure he didn't see the brat. But then again, 'Phantom'. He narrowed his eyes as the brat looking at him innocently with his big baby blue eyes.

"Fine. Whatever. Just get up. People will think we're friends or something." Taiga demanded.

Tetsuya Kuroko didn't answer and continued to staring at the giant high school student.

"Don't expect ME to leave. I'm eating." he said. Then Tetsuya reached giant boy's burgers and took one of them.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" Taiga protested loudly as the other boy took a bite.

"You drank my milkshake. In exchange, I took one of your burgers. And now, I can't leave either. I'm eating too." he explained and took another bite.

"You- WHA-"

"Try to bare with me until I finish my meal." and with that Taiga shut up.

They ate silently. When Taiga came to his 4th burger, Tetsuya was barely at the half of his only burger.

Taiga knew that he should ask him about the 'Generation of Miracles' but he also knew that Tetsuya Kuroko hardly considered as a talking-type of a person. And he was rude with him before. Yelling at him countless times and all, was making the whole 'talking with him' thing not so easy-cheesy. But he had 2 options here;

1- Ask him and hope he will answer.

2- Don't ask him and murdered by Riko.

The image of Riko's came to his mind and he shook his head immediately to shoo the image off of his mind.

"So." Taiga blurted.

Tetsuya looked at him. Again, those innocent big blue eyes.

"You're weird." he found himself saying. He thought out loud without noticing. Of course in the end he noticed but it was too late.

Tetsuya didn't answered him though. He just got back to his burger after a second. Taiga face palmed himself mentally.

"I-I didn't mean that. I-I was acting wanted to ask you something."

Blue haired boy raised his head again.

"About 'Generation of Miracles'..?" Taiga tried his chance half question-like.

Tetsuya continued to look at him with the same expression.

"Were you one of them?" he asked and hoped his answer wouldn't be the same stare.

"Yes."

Taiga was extremely surprised by taking an actual answer that he became speechless for a second and it took another second to be able to make sentences again.

"I- Yeah- That's- That's good."

Tetsuya Kuroko raised his eyebrows.

"Would you- I mean- probably no. Bu maybe- Uhh.." he blabbered. Then stopped talking. After he deeply sighed, he tried again;

"Would you like to talk with our school's basketball team's coach by any chance?" said slowly.

"Riko Aida."

"Yes! Her! But don't judge by looking at gender or her short height."

"I'm the same height as her."

"Oh." Taiga put a surprised sound.

"And no, I don't judge by appearances. I believe Riko Aida has the special ability to scan and evaluate the physical capabilities of the player at a glance, am I right?"

Taiga's mouth dropped with surprise.

"Ye-ah. You are actually.. right."

"It's a useful talent for a basketball coach or any kind of coaches."

"Yeah, it is... Uhh.. she is kinda harsh but a good person AND coach. So.. are you gonna talk to her?"

"Yes. I was planning on doing that anyway." Tetsuya took a sip from his strawberry milkshake.

"Really?!"

"Yes."

Blue haired boy cleaned his mouth with a napkin then said;

"Thank you for baring with me until my meal is finished."

"Yeah.. See you later." Taiga said unconsciously. With that, Tetsuya smiled brighter than Taiga has ever seen on him. And that moment, Taiga could've swear that his heart skipped a beat.

'Fuck.'

To Be Continued~