GoM – 19

GoM+Kagami – 8

Akashi – 7

Akashi+Kise – 2

Kagami – 5

Kise+Aomine – 1

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"Hey, you're that girl that was with Aomine and Kise aren't you?" Kuroko looked up when he heard the two names that he had become familiar with over a short amount of time. That was close, he would've missed the two he had been waiting for if Himuro had not spoken to him. He was in the middle of musing about how Nigou would look like if he dressed him up the way some popular celebrities were dressing their dogs up. He had just decided that Nigou would look better in a basketball jersey than in any other weird costumes.

"Hey, it is that girl!" Kagami exclaimed in surprise as Kuroko pushed off of the stone part of the gate. He walked towards the two purposely, causing everyone else who saw it to whisper in curiosity.

"Yes, my name is Kuro Te. I was wondering if I could talk with you two." Kuroko went straight to the point, as he was prone to do, and Kagami and Himuro exchange looks.

"Basketball practice is going to start soon but you can come with us. I'm sure coach won't mind much." Himuro smiled at Kuroko politely. Kuroko considered it before agreeing, following them to their first gym. "We have a pretty small basketball club so it isn't anything impressive like you're probably used to at Teiko private high." He informed Kuroko before opening the gym doors for him, Kagami and Himuro following soon after.

"Kagami, Himuro! You're late! What took so lo – " A female was yelling at the two when she suddenly stopped. She blinked several times, apparently trying to process the information that her eyes were telling her, before she squealed. The team members near her quickly covered their ears while Kuroko remained impassive, Kagami looked confused as all hell, and Himuro had a knowing smile on his face. "It's Kuro Te-chan!" She was shaking the guy next to her who looked to be trying to keep his glasses on his face, though they were attempting to fall off his nose from the force of the shaking. "Hyuuga, hurry, get me a paper and a pen! I need to get her autograph!"

"Um, coach. You're currently about to kill Hyuuga there." A boy with a cat-like mouth commented, his hand partially raised. The coach stopped shaking 'Hyuuga' as a tall silent guy handed a blank sheet of paper and a black ink pen to her, a considerably attractive boy trying to put the floating soul back into the lifeless body of Hyuuga's.

"Um," the change from the super strong tomboy to the high school girl about to confess to her crush was instantaneous as she held out the paper and pen hesitantly towards Kuroko. "Would you… I mean, you don't have to but… CanIpleasehaveyourautograph?!" Kuroko blinked before laughing at the rushed words.

"Sure, I appreciate your enthusiasm." Kuroko forced a smile to appear on his normally blank face so that she would know that he meant his words. Kuroko felt even the wind outside freeze right at that moment before the coach seemed to snap.

"Oh, you're more adorable in person!" She started hugging Kuroko and rubbing her blushing cheek against the top of his head as it was forced onto her chest. For some reason, he could also have sworn that he heard a bunch of male voices say in a chorus 'so cute' before there was a rush over to him and the coach. After a while of talking to coach, they managed to convince her to let go of Kuroko. "I'm sorry for forcing you into a hug without your consent!" She seemed really worried that she had upset the model.

"It's okay; I've had worse happen to me than a hug out of nowhere. I remember one time a fan had run to the front of a line just so he could propose to me." And how embarrassing that event had been. He was pretty sure there were still videos up on Youtube about that.

"Well, let me introduce myself. My name is Aida Riko, but you can go ahead and just call me Riko." She smiled and Kuroko had to admit that she was pretty cute for a tomboy.

"It's nice to meet you, Riko-chan." Kuroko smiled again and Riko seemed to have to stop herself from launching at Kuroko again. "Excuse me for asking, but could I watch your team practice? I haven't seen a real team practice in a long time."

"Don't you have a really good basketball team at your high school?" Hyuuga asked though it seemed as though he wasn't much paying attention to the conversation and more focusing on Kuroko's hair.

"That isn't a team." Kuroko dismissed the question easily before meeting Hyuuga's eyes. "Is there something in my hair Hyuuga-kun?" The focus suddenly being him, Hyuuga blushed and looked off to the side.

"N-no, I was just wondering something." Kuroko tilted his head to the side in curiosity, hearing some sort of restrained sound coming from where Riko was.

"Something to do with my hair?" Hyuuga blushed even more.

"I-I was ju-just wondering if it was as soft as it looks." He started out sounding defensive, quite loudly, before trailing off in a mutter. Kuroko loved getting attention and got it as much as was possible, but he had never had that question directed at him.

"Do you want to feel?" He tilted his head again, meeting Hyuuga's eyes when they snapped to his.

"Ye-n-n-no! I think I'm fine!" He seemed to have been ready to agree before a dark aura appeared from off to the side of Kuroko. He looked over to see a smiling Riko and blinked in confusion.

"Okay, if that's what you want. You never did answer if I may be able to watch your team practice." He directed the last sentence to Riko, putting his attention on the brunette coach. She seemed ecstatic and agreed near immediately this time and started barking orders at the team members who were just standing around. After stretches and warm-ups were taken care of, Riko had apparently decided to make practice be between the first-years and second-years in the team. Kuroko focused his attention to Kagami and Himuro, the only two first-years that actually seemed to be making the baskets. After ten minutes of dazedly watching the two smash the second-years into the ground, Kuroko decided that it was time to leave. After all, he did have a small job in about twenty to thirty minutes and needed to go to the meet-up place within the next ten minutes. He turned to Riko, who seemed to have been drawn into the game as well.

"I apologize for having intruded upon your practice without having informed you beforehand. I had come here wanting to speak with Himuro-kun and Kagami-kun about a match that was going to happen this weekend. They seem like they might be interested in street ball to me. I had also wanted to watch their teamwork again. But Himuro-kun told me that they were going to practice and asked if I wanted to come with them." Kuroko bowed in apology, even though the girl obviously was happy that he was there. If he made someone happy by his presence, he was happy. Though he did feel bad about disrupting their practice when they had obviously started already.

"No, it's perfectly fine! You're welcome here at any time Kuro Te-chan!" She seemed to trip over her words as she tried to convey her obvious 'you must come here again!' in a subtle way.

"I'll be sure to stop by some other time." He smiled at the girl before walking out of the gym to head to the meet-up place.

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Kuroko rushed out of the classroom after he grabbed his things. He had not been paying any attention to his cell phone during class, still thinking about the practice he had witnessed just yesterday, and had missed the twenty texts and five calls from his manager. Mei had been trying to get his attention, to inform him of a change of timing for a shoot that had really been scheduled at four this afternoon but had been placed earlier – at one-thirty. Only problem with that time; school had just got out and it was one-o-five* at the moment. It had taken him five minutes to go through all twenty texts, delete the missed calls from his history, and gather his things so he could rush out of the school. He was mentally calculating the time that it would take to rush out to the meeting place that she had stated in one of the many texts when he turned a corner and hit someone's broad back. Not only did this cause him to fall to the ground but it had also made him drop his bag and many of the papers he was still holding on to. "Watch it! I could have been injure-" the rude sounding male voice stopped when the white haired male* had turned towards him, staring down at him now rushing to get the papers stacked again. There was silence in the hallway as the other students watched this happen. The school bad boy and flirt against the school's 'female' model. A few students were making bets on what was going to happen (one of them had even gone as far as to say that Akashi would show up and beat him up), quietly of course. "Hey, you okay?" Kuroko looked up to meet the eyes of the guy he had bumped into. It seemed that the teen had gotten over his anger when he realized that Kuroko had been the one with the lesser part of the deal. "Let me help." The students in the hallway watched in stunned silence. Usually when you pissed this guy off, he would be out for your blood. They had just watched him go from pissed to concerned in a manner of seconds, and they were all left wondering what type of powers Kuro Te-chan seemed to have. "The name's Haizaki Shougo." He smirked at Kuroko as he helped the fallen boy-dressed-girl.

"Kuro Te." He quickly grabbed the stack of papers that Haizaki held out for him before grabbing his bag and standing up to leave. A hand on his shoulder caused him to turn around to look at who owned the hand. He was a brightly smiling brunette, his brown eyes holding all the cheerfulness in the world, and he was holding some more papers in his hand.

"Here, you might want these before you go m'lady." Kuroko blinked at the pet name before accepting the papers from the brunette. "You can call me Shige, what's your name?"

"Kuro Te, thank you both for the help but I really must hurry." Kuroko said hurriedly before bowing then running down the hallway.

In the end, he made it on time.

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"Kuro… Te…?" Ogiwara Shigehiro had to question where he had heard that before. Surely it was back in elementary…

"Ogiwara-kun." He turned towards his shorter blue haired friend, dressed in his usual basketball clothing. The boy looked troubled by something.

"What's up, Kuroko?" Ogiwara held on to the ball he had been dribbling, preparing for a shot to the hoop that had been lowered for elementary kid use.

"It appears that kaa-san had decided that she wanted to sign me up as a model. She kept saying that I was cute enough for it and that it would help with my low presence." Ogiwara didn't get it, how that was something to be distressed about?

"Yeah? Isn't that good?" He turned back to make the kiddy version of a three-point shot.

"It's as a girl model." The ball, that was originally going to make it, hit the back of the board before bouncing off the hoop as Ogiwara snapped back around to look at his distressed friend. Kuroko continued speaking. "I already have a manager named Tsucchi-san*. My stage name is Kuro Te-chan." Ogiwara didn't know what to say but he knew that his friend was in need of some confidence boost.

"Well, you are pretty cute. But it doesn't change that we can play basketball together! I'll still be your friend so it'll all be okay!" Yeah, he really had no idea what to say. But that seemed to be sufficient enough for Kuroko as he had a peaceful expression now.

"Yeah, you're right." Not even a month after that conversation, Ogiwara had been told that his parents were moving because of their jobs.

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Let me say this straight out... I hate Haizaki's high school hair... His beautiful fluffy looking spiky white hair is much more preferred over disgusting looking black cornrows... In fact, when he complained about how Himuro had a girlfriend (even though he had just met him), how he didn't have a girlfriend but someone as boring as Himuro had one or something like that, I yelled at my phone (since that's how I'm reading it) "You could've had a girlfriend if you kept your hair in a nice hairstyle instead of that disgusting one! You aren't black, you're Asian!" No offense to any African, African-American, etc etc but I really do believe that only black people look good/alright with cornrows... This idiot dying his hair black and putting it in that style made me lose all interest in him... When I saw a picture of him at first (I hadn't yet read the manga and the anime was at the earlier stages), I fell in love with him immediately... Then I saw his high school version and refused to believe it was him... Anyways, I should stop ranting now shouldn't I...

Tsucchi-san is his manager when he was a kid but he's gone through a few different managers during his short life… From what I understand, the better you get, the more your manager changes in Japan… Idk, it's what I got from reading all sorts of manga and watching random anime… ^.^'

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So we've met Hyuuga, Riko, Shige, Haizaki, Kagami and Himuro a second time, and technically Mitobe, Izuki, and Koganei… Along with, technically, the first years of Seirin… As far as I can tell, all that we're missing are the Crownless Generals, Nijimura, and the named people from other teams. I'll fix that soon enough! ^.^

Mind reeling from how fast I typed this chapter,

Nightmare