I Can See Your Heart
\What Can Your Eyes See?/
Being in a popular group of the school are NOT pleasant AT ALL. Well at least that's what this six basketball players think.
Akashi Seijurō. Wealthy kid, the best point guard in the school. Best at all subjects. Hot red hair and perfect height for girls, especially good personality.
Kise Ryōta. A model, need to say more? A small forward. Cheerful personality not very good with studies but it made him cute.
Midorima Shintarō. A tsundere boy. He's also smart, not as smart as Akashi but still smart. He's weird but a nice person. An unbeatable shooting guard too.
Aomine Daiki. Rough? Yeah but he's a good boy who still worries and is cheerful. He might be a basketball idiot more than everyone else in this group who doesn't do well in studies.
Murasakibara Atsushi. He would be the childish yet cute type who have a really high height. He's not smart but also not as worst as Aomine and Kise. His body fit him as a center too.
Kuroko Tetsuya. He's the last one noticed. He have a weak presence. It helped him a little to avoid crowds chasing the six of them but recently he's noticed by fans. His studies are average the same as Murasakibara too.
The six of them had been best friends since kindergarten. They went through the same Teikō since kindergarten to High School. They're still best friends but it bores them that every girls would just gather and make a crowd every time they're out, what's worse? Akashi's famous and Kise's a model. What made it more worse? The six of them were known as Generation of Miracles now and it made MORE girls chased them, even from outside school. That's the reason they decided they would play a game.
"Listen! We would like it if you girls could give us some space. But, it would make you girls sad, no? That's why we're offering ONE girl to be around us. If ONE girl completed the task we will offer, we will always be around that ONE lucky girl, we'll be loyal and protect her" The Generation of Miracles had spoken and it silenced the whole girls following them. The girls passionately waited for the terms needed to be that one lucky girl.
"What you need to do is... Be the manager of first string"
The girls knew it was impossible.
Teikō's basketball club have a motto, 'one hundred battles, one hundred victories' other words, they must not lose. That's why first string players are the strongest out of all... a manager must stood up to that. To be a manager in Teikō's first string means you need to spare your time to help organize things, giving towels and drinks also helping the club with their datas. For girls who only cares for looks and money that Generation of Miracles own, that's tough. Lots of them tried but it only resulted four of them as the second and third string managers. The six boys were a bit happy for the little game cause now all the girls are trying to be the first string manager and they got their BIT space. They thought it would be the same till today. When Momoi arrived, they eyed her. It looked like they were chilling but they were observing her. Not everyone would just say that they want to be a manager without knowing what's needed to be it, that's why they challenged her. They challenged her to see if she was worthy enough. They failed to know that they had challenged the wrong girl.
"What is she doing?" Aomine asked to his five best friends. He pointed at Momoi who was talking to the coach. The other five shook their heads, they knew nothing. Basketball club had just started but before they arrived Momoi had arrived first. They thought it was probably about the little game they told her, they were right. Kise, dribbling a ball, walked closer to Akashi and Kuroko who were stretching.
"Kurokocchi! Akashicchi! Do you think it's possible for her-ssu?" Kise asked with a slight pouting or thinking face. The rest of Generation of Miracles drew closer to the three of them, wanting to listen to the emperor and shadow's opinion. First reason being because the emperor is always right and second reason because Their shadow is a really straight forward guy.
"I certainly can't say yes or no"
"That's right Kise-kun. But... Momoi-san have been getting lots of approval from the looks of it" Kuroko continued. The other four went sweat-dropped. Kuroko's feelings about something is usually strong. Also, Coach had been smiling in happiness ever since he was talking to Momoi. The six of them couldn't stand the curiosity anymore and walked closer to Momoi and their coach.
"-your eyes are great... If you can prove it" the coach said. Generation of Miracles boys had moved within the range of hearing those two talking to each other. They were really curious about what Momoi will prove to the coach.
"I will be happy to prove it coach" Momoi said. Her eyes turned, from being the cute happy girls eyes to a similar... Navigator or spies. Aomine, Murasakibara and Kise was too busy about something else to noticed. But Akashi, Midorima and Kuroko realized it. They found it interesting too also a bit shocking.
"How about him? Small forward, Haizaki Shōgo" the coach said as he pointed the ash-haired colored boy. Haizaki didn't realize he was being pointed at, though he won't care anyway. Haizaki just ran and slam a lay up in. Momoi eyed him for a while but didn't say anything at all. It was as if she was searching for something. Then the coach gave a paper and a pencil to her. Right away after receiving it Momoi scribbled down the things she saw. Then gave it to the coach after. The coach red the paper and was astonished. "This is true. He have a special ability and a good physic and technique. You can gather data like this?"
Momoi smiled as she knew the coach was amused. It was a bit of bad news for the Generation of Miracles and a bit of a shocking one too when Momoi added, "Not only like that. I could see if someone had ever trained something else"
The coach's eyebrow was raised while Momoi gave a wide smirk.
"For example, our captain over there... He can do karate and table tennis, right?" Momoi said while pointing at Teikō basketball captain, Nijimura Shūzō. The six over hearing boys was astonished and confused. Does Nijimura-senpai do karate and table tennis? The coach eyes widen and happily with pride the coach patted Momoi's head with a wide smile. The six kōhais ran to their favorite senpai right away.
"Nijimura-senpai! Does senpai do karate and table tennis?" Kuroko asked with all the polite attitude he had although he was a bit panting after the rush they made. Nijimura stopped shooting basketball and gave all his attention to his kōhais who were really curious.
"Yeah. I planned to stop to play basketball but I still practice a bit... How did you know? I never told anyone" Nijimura answered. What their senpai answered confirmed them that Momoi's eyes did see it. That fact made the six basketball players both surprised and scared.
"Senpai! Does senpai know that girl over there-ssu?" Kise asked as he pointed to Momoi who was still getting praises from the coach. Nijimura then closes his eyes as he tried to think. Then he opened his eyes.
"No. Why?" Nijimura asked. The six boys sweat dropped. Nijimura was getting worried because his kōhais are acting strange and all. Nijimura was about to ask if they were okay but the six kōhais had left walking incredibly stiff.
"Oi Akashi. Aren't you worried?" Aomine asked. He was getting a bit too much of the game.
"Daiki... I AM worried"
"Hey~ Nijimura-senpai told us to run laps or our training will be doubled~" Murasakibara finally snapped the thought of them around one girl always to practice. They started running right away because... Well? Who want their training doubled just because of ONE thought that MIGHT not happen anyway?
Sadly for them, it happened.
"I am Momoi Satsuki, now the manager of first string basketball club. Please take care of me" Momoi said in front of all the members and coaches. Most of the basketball players were all shouting and being happy for having such a beautiful manager. All but six basketball players. The six basketball players were really thoughtful right then. They were thinking about the little game of theirs. Momoi, beside the coach, was smirking a winning smirk.
"Ok. For the first job. Momoi I want you to gather all of the first string basketball players data you can collect tomorrow at the end of practice" the coach, Shirogane Kōzō, told Momoi. Momoi's eyes widen in surprise. The basketball players thought she won't be able to do it and the Generation of Miracles were starting to think about her quitting the manager position. Suddenly Momoi smiled and took a book from her school and gave it to the coach, which made the six boys turned slightly grumpy.
"I got bored while looking at them practice so I asked coach Sanada the names of the players and wrote their datas before this..." Momoi said. Nijimura walked next to the coach and peek to the book. After a few seconds the book was handed to him. Momoi was a bit down, cause she thought that maybe Nijimura won't like her. Instead, Nijimura walked closer to Momoi and patted her as he smiled.
"You did a good job. You even noticed that Midorima can play piano and Akashi do horseback riding!" Nijimura praised and Momoi nodded. While Akashi and Midorima's eyes widen, they had made sure not lots of people knew that. Nijimura let go of Momoi as he kept reading the data Momoi gathered. Momoi walked to the Generation of Miracles.
"Are you guys the type to keep promises or break them?" Momoi asked. The boys sighed to themselves.
"We keep them. You got the position and is worthy enough to be our manager after what you did with only a book, Satsuki" Akashi said. Momoi was startled because Akashi had called her by her first name yet she can't care too much about it.
"Well I guess-nanodayo" Midorima said as he held his lucky item a little bit tighter.
"A deal is a deal. Murasakibara-kun do not run away" Kuroko said while holding Murasakibara's t-shirt to make sure he stays.
"Ah... I guess it'll be okay... If she give me snacks" Murasakibara whined a bit. Momoi smiled and walked closer to Murasakibara and pulled out a few maiobus. Murasakibara's eyes sparkled and his mouth was beginning to water. The other five boys sweat dropped when they saw what she just did.
"My ears are fast for gossips. Muk-kun like maiobus and potato chips the most, right?" Momoi said. She opened one of the maiobu and fed it to Murasakibara who obliged like an obedient puppy right away. NONE of the boys dared to say that they were touched by Momoi's doing because of one thing, she just called him 'Muk-kun'.
"We never introduce ourself-nanodayo. How come you call him Muk-kun right away-nanodayo?" Midorima asked as he fixed his glasses on his place. Momoi tilted her head.
"Didn't I say 'my ears are fast for gossips'?" Momoi answered. The group heard the coach shouting that training is over and that everyone starting leaving but the Generation of Miracles and their now manager didn't budge.
"So... Momoi-san, how much do you know about us?" Kuroko asked.
"How about we talk about this outside school? Everyone is leaving now" Momoi answered. The boys just agreed to her and started walking to club room leaving her. They changed in silence, all of them wondering what that one girl knew. They went to the school's entrance but Momoi wasn't there. They thought she would probably still be inside the basketball court.
"NO! GO AWAY AND DON'T COME NEAR ME AGAIN!" The girl shouted and slapped the hand offered to her. The boy who was rejected, with one weak small smile said goodbye and left the girl. The girl didn't cry or show an expression. She simply left the other way and didn't look back. Momoi sat on the bench and saw the girl walked away from inside the building. She didn't realized the six basketball players walking from behind her trying to surprise her.
"I wonder why she said that?" Momoi said. It literally stopped Aomine and Kise who was creeping up to her and the other four who was interested on what she said. Momoi pulled her knees up to the bench, not caring that her skirt is short. She hugged her own knees. "Her heart was a blue ocean and she wanted to be with him. His heart was a light purple, he wanted to have her. Why did both of them let each other go? I don't understand humans speaking"
It silenced the six boys. What about ocean blue and light purple? All they saw were two students walking away from each other. Momoi not long after realized Aomine and Kise who was still behind her. She stood up right away and brushed a few light tears from her eyes and shouted to them, "Ki-chan! Dai-chan! Don't creep up in me!"
"KI-CHAN!?" / "DAI-CHAN!? Aomine and Kise shouted at the same time. It was followed by a few giggles from behind them, coming from the four boys. Momoi puffed her cheeks as she clearly showed an annoyed expression.
"You earned your own nicknames from me and I'm not changing it" Momoi said. She took her schoolbag from the bench and started walking toward Kuroko, Akashi, Murasakibara and Midorima. When she walked past the four of them Akashi stopped her by holding her hand. Momoi had a feeling about what he will ask and surely she doesn't want to answer it.
Akashi opened his mouth and asked, "What can your eyes see?"