Chapter 2: Introductions ( Part 2 )
At the Gym, after school.
All the freshmen and sophomores gathered there for formal introductions.
"All right, everyone seems to be here" Junpei Hyuuga, the current captain of Seirin's Basketball team started, "All the freshmen, come there way." He took them near the stage area and told them to just wait a bit, then proceeded to talk to Riko regarding the recruits. Meanwhile, the freshmen were looking around the court they were going to use for the whole school year until they set their eyes at Riko. "Hey, isn't the manager cute.", one freshman started. "She's a second year, right?", asked another, seeing Hyuuga talking to her and pointing out to them. "But that's true! If only she was a bit more sexy...", suddenly Hyuuga appeared behind them out of nowhere hitting their heads. "Wrong idiots!", he deadpanned.
"OUCH!"
Suddenly, Riko appeared in front of them introducing herself, "I'm the basketball club's Coach. Aida Riko. Nice to meet you!"
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"EEEHHH?! Coach!?", the freshmen screamed in shock. "It wasn't that guy?!", pointing out to the old mawatching them at a corner. "That's the advisor, Takeda-sensei~", Riko said with a smile ,"He's just watching."
"Seriously?!"
"Wait, is that even allowed?!", one of the freshmen asked but Riko just proceeded and ignored his outburst. "...Well then, first...", folding her arms together, "Take off your shirts!", she said with enthusiasm.
"Eeeeeehhhh?! Why?!"
Even though most of the boys felt freaked out of their coach's antics, they still took off their shirts looking nervous on what she was up to. They all lined up as Riko scrutinized their appearance. "You", Riko pointed out, "Your instantaneous strength is weak. I guess you must be 50 steps for 20 seconds on the quick ladder training, right?", looking at the guys eye, "If you want to play basketball, you'll want to improve that a bit."
"You," pointing out to another recruit, "Your body is too stiff. Train your flexibility after getting out of bath!" She proceeded to go through and check all the status of the recruits in the team, telling them their strengths and weaknesses and giving them suggestions on what to do in order to strengthen their weaknesses. "A..are you kidding..? It's right!" Stuttered out one freshman. "What the hell?!", uttered out another, "Just by looking at your body...?" Seeing the shocked and surprised expression plastered on all the freshmen's faces, Hyuuga explained why Riko had such an ability at her current status as a High school student, "The father of that girl is a sports trainer. He was always recording data in order to make training menus.", thinking about how Riko got the ability, he continued, "It's a special kind of skill she gained after spending everyday at his workplace looking at muscles and data.", looking back at Riko who was now in front of Kagami, assessing him, "By looking at someone's body, that girl's eyes see all it's abilities and stats."'Well that's not the only reason she's coach though...', he added secretly in his mind. Meanwhile, Riko stood dumbfounded in front of Kagami. "...what?", he asked wondering why his coach was just standing there. 'What the hell?! These number are far above everyone else's!', she was awed by the numbers she saw as she was looking at Kagami, 'These aren't the stats of a boy in first year high school!', Eyes trailing up from the boys chest, it landed to his eyes. 'On top of that, I can't even estimate his potential...This is...', Riko thought and she stared awed, mouth agape, and eyes wide open. 'Wah, That the first time I see someone like that in real..'
'...Natural Talent!', drooling on the thought. Riko's daydreaming was interrupted by one irritated Hyuuga, "Coach! How long are you going to daydream?" Turning around Riko, snapped out of her trance, "Sorry! So, errr..." "You saw everyone right? That guy was the last." Hyuuga explained. "Huh? Really?...Wait...where's Tetsuna?", Riko wondered. "Yeah! Where's your cousin, Coach?", Koganei asked. "Yeah..."
"Wait, wait...who is this 'Tetsuna'?" Hyuuga asked. "Don't you know? Apparently, she's Riko's cousin who was in Teiko.", Koganei explained. Hyuuga was surprised, normally (for him) Riko would tell him about thing like these first. "Ooohhh...okay. Then, where is she?", he faced towards Riko, "Riko?" "Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess she's taking the day off today.", the brunette concluded. "Alright! Freshmen gather!" The boys followed their coach's orders and went near her know what to do. "Let's start practice!"
Focusing on the boys, Riko missed a blue blur pass through, heading to straight to her. "Uuummmm...", a pretty blue haired girl uttered, "Riko?" "Hm?"
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Everyone stopped doing what they were doing and looked at their coach. Still they didn't see the bluenette. A few second later, seeing as their coach wasn't going to do or say anything, they went back to their activity. They were soon interrupted again. By one loud yell.
"WAIT! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE?!", the coach yelled. "I was...here the whole time.", a voice uttered. The guys looked around, looking where the voice came from. Hyuuga, seeing as it's better to ask Riko about this, turned to ask her, "Riko, who're you talking to?", but was, nonetheless, ignored.
Meanwhile, Riko looked at her cousin in bewilderment. Looking her back, she saw the guys looking in her direction, pointing at her as if she's crazy. Seeing as she had a lot of explaining to do, she grabbed the blue haired girl's arm and frankly dragged her to meet the other. "Guys!", catching their attention, "I'd like you to meet my cousin," pushing the other girl in front of the team. The boys, seeing and hearing Riko scream, saw what happened and was also baffled about the girl that nobody else seems to see unless you looked closely. "Kuroko Tetsuya! She was part of the Teiko team during middle school."
"EHHHHH!?"
"Wait! Then that means...! She was part of the 'Generation of Miracles'!", a freshman yelled. '..'Generation of Miracles'...? What is that?', Kagami wondered. Hyuuga, not believing his coach, asked, "Wait, I'm sure she didn't play in the games, right?" "I did.", Kuroko said, somewhat offended. "See, she d- wait...what?", Hyuuga looked flabbergasted. "Seriously?!", the others yelled. "Well, yeah..."
"Anyway!" Cutting off their conversation, "You know them, they know you, now take off your shirt! It's been a year since I last assessed you." "But...I just put them on." 'Wait, 'put them on?', the boys thought. Holding the rim of her shirt, Kuroko slowly pulled it up, taking it off. Riko, not realizing what she just made her cousin do, just stared at Kuroko. The guys on the other hand, standing behind the Riko, had a perfect view of the blue haired girl's body. 36D sized breast being held down by a very tight sports bra, well toned body girls would kill for, and alabaster skin. 'W-wow...', they all thought, sporting nosebleeds and having heavy blushes. The coach, finally realizing what she made her cousin do, dragged Kuroko to the locker room. "No!", the boys whined but was immediately silenced by Riko's glare. Looking to the direction where the coach dragged the girl, Kagami processed what just happened, having a heavy blush, 'What the hell is that girl...?!', he thought.
In the locker room, "Sooo...", Riko started, looking at Kuroko's eyes, "How are you feeling this year?" Kuroko, knowing that she can't avoid the brought up topic, sighed, "I'm okay, really", the brunette looked skeptical of the given response, "Look Riko, I'm really fine. New school, new life, besides they don't even know I'm in this school.", the girl explained. "Yeah, but, do you really think you can hide forever?", the coach wisely asked. "No, not really, but, I have time.", Kuroko replied, letting out a small but visible smile, to Riko. Seeing as her cousin was okay, Riko looked at the girl's body, 'Hmmm...her statistics are very low...tsk...but that was expected over what happened to her. With the right training, she can regain back her old stats, or maybe more.' Seeing Riko's changing expression, "So...how bad is it?", the girl asked. "Not that bad...with some training you can regain all those lost points back." Kuroko contemplated on what her cousin said, since she stopped playing basketball for 8 months already and just focused on her other club activities, groups, and academics. Needless to say, she lost a lot of points. After a while, Riko told the girl to wear her shirt again. A little while later, both girls started walking out of the locker room, to the court. "Hey, I wanna ask," Kuroko looked at Riko wondering what she was going to ask about. "Is your band still...you know..umm..functioning." Kuroko's eyes widened then cast down when she heard the question. Riko, immediately regretted her decision on asking. "U-um, you know what, let's just go play. Okay?", the coach smiled at the girl.
When they finally arrived, all attention was on them. They wondered what happened that resulted on both girls' uncomfortable expressions then suddenly remembered what transpired earlier and blushed. Hard. Riko, seeing the guys' red faces staked right up to them. "What the hell are you thinking?! Get back to practice!", the boys then scrambled back to what they were doing. After practice, all the other players went to the locker room to change, Kagami though, went to Kuroko, and tapped her back. The girl, after feeling the tapped turned around and saw the red-brown haired transferee. "Hey", he started, "I need to ask you something. About Teiko Middle school and the whatever of miracles...", the girls eyes widened at his question, surprised that he didn't know about them. "I'm a transfer student.", he explained. 'Oohh..that's why.', the girl thought.
A few hour later, the sun has already set and the city lights were on. Kagami was ordering at a well know fast food restaurant, taking his tray of burgers and paying for it. People behind and beside the player looked at him bewilderedly, looking at the mountain of burgers he bought. He saw a table beside the window, not noticing a person already sitting there, Kagami sat down. 'The 'Generation of Miracles'...', he thought, opening a burger. 'If it's these guys then maybe...', taking a bite. During his internal monologuing, something or rather, someone caught his sight. "Gwoh?!" He choked. "Hello.", a blue hared girl greeted to him, not really minding that he sat in her table. "You are still growing up, right?" "Where from...wait, what are you doing here?!" Kagami said. "Well", the girl started, "I was just sitting here from the beginning.", she explained, "Just watching people." 'This girl was from the best of Japan...?!' Kagami thought, "...Wait?", he processed what the girl last said, "...Watching people?!" The girl, seemingly not surprised by his outburst, just continued to sip from her drink and read her book. A little while later, finally realizing that the girl won't answer him, Kagami started, "Anyway...tag with me for a bit once I'm done eating this.", pointing at his tray. The girl didn't even look up from her book and nodded.
A few minutes later, Kagami finally finished eating his order, and led them both to a nearby basketball court on the park. "You...", pointing out to Kuroko, "What the hell are you hiding?" The girl had a confused look on her face, staring at Kagami. "I was in America until the second year of middle school.", he explained. "I was really shocked when I came back to Japan.", recalling the first time he came back. "The levels are just too low." Closing his eyes and breathing in, he suddenly opened them showing the fire within, "What I'm looking for is not playing basketball for fun. I want to play in matches that make my blood boil at full strength!", looking straight to the girl's eyes, he continued, "But, I've heard a nice thing earlier." Feeling the night breeze blow past him, "It seems like there are strong guys called the 'Generation of Miracles' in the same year.", looking at the silent girl, he asked, "You were on that team, right?" But his speech didn't stop there, "I can guess the strength of an opponent to some extent too.", passing the ball he held to the girl, on which she easily caught. "It's like strong guys have a peculiar smell about them." He explained, "...But you're weird." He stopped, looking for an expression on the girl's face, "Even though you should reek of weakness...you don't smell anything at all." He explained, "Your strength is odorless." Looking at the girl holding the ball. "I want to see for myself." Looking feral at her, "You," pointing to Kuroko, "From the 'Generation of Miracles' what kind of guy you are."
A/N: Next update would be the last part for "Introduction"