A/N: First of all: I'm sorry for the lack of updates! I forgot that I had finished this!

Secondly: Some people misunderstood the AU describtion (Or it wasn't accurate enough...)

Third years: Riko, Momoi, Sakuya & my other OCs (And all the second years in the series like Wakamatsu...)

Second years: Hyuuga & Rest of Seirin (I'm twisting a bit here...), GoM, Takao

I hope this helps...

So here I present to you, Chapter 5!

Still AU and OOC!

For this Chapter: I don't own KnB! OCs are mine though...

Help:

Bold = Intro to a certain character

"blablabla" = talking

'blablabla' = thinking

[Bold] = Author's Note

Chapter 5: Let's try again!

"Nanaya Rei.

Always honest and blunt.

A nice and gentle girl.

Seigaku's passing specialist.

The second SF in the Generation of Miracles.

Died in a car accident.

May her soul rest in peace."

– Seigaku's school newspaper

Shuutoku's gym

After one month of daily meetings between Riko, Momoi and Sakuya, Riko and Sakuya had set up a practice game between Shuutoku and Seirin.

Sakuya had applied being the manager of Shuutoku and got accepted.

"I'm not gonna hold back, even if it's Riko!"

"Neither will I, Sakuya!"

Sakuya managed to convince Riko to call her by her name and not "Captain".

Both team were currently warming-up, sneaking peeks at the opposite teams.

It was very apparent that Seirin had improved since the last Winter Cup, but Shuutoku hadn't been resting either.

Sakuya and Riko had managed to get Momoi as referee and she started the game.

"Shuutoku's win with 101-98! Bow!"

"Thank you very much!"

All players bowed and walked to their changing room.

"Good work, guys!", Riko was very satisfied with the result despite losing to Shuutoku.

Shuutoku was the second oldest campus and so the coach had much experience training the players, while she on the other hand hadn't even touched a basketball till High School 1st year and only started coaching then.

In addition, Shuutoku had Sakuya as a manager now and Sakuya's strategies and game plans was definitely no joke to laugh at.

"Good job! Ahh, Midorima, Akashi from Rakuzan wishes to speak to you. Meet him in front of the gym in twenty minutes."

"Hai, nanodayo."

"And Takao!"

"Yes?"

"You are to come, too."

"Hai!"

"Ahh, why is Akashi-cchi not here?"

"Be silent, Kise. You're annoying."

"That's mean-ssu, Aomine-cchi!", Kise fake-whined at Aomine.

"Mido-chin, why are you holding scissors?"

"These are my lucky item, nanodayo."

"Nee, Murasakibara, can I have some chips, please~?"

"No, Taka-chin will take them away! Eeh…?"

Murasakiobara tried to open his bag of chips.

"Mido-chin lend me your scissors for a bit~"

"No, nodayo!"

Midorima turned away, holding his scissors in his hands.

"Kuro-chin, Kaga-chin, do you have scissors?", Murasakibara asked the two boys who just came out of the door.

"Ahh, Kuroko-cchi! Kagami-cchi!"

"Yo, Tetsu! Kagami-teme!"

"Yo, Aomine, Kise! Where is Akashi?"

Kagami chose to ignore Aomine's insult and looked questioning around.

"He's obviously not her-"

"I've kept you waiting."

Everone turned to the owner of the voice. Standing there was Akashi and behind him, Sakuya.

"Oi, Akashi! Why did ya call us?"

"I'm sure all of you got this kind of letter, too."

Akashi held up and white envelope. On the envelope was written in big letters: NATIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM ASSOCIATION JAPAN.

Everybody nodded.

"Well, the reason is, that we all got recruited, but one person doubted our abilties and asked for prove. We are hereby-"

"I think it will be better if I tell them.", Sakuya interrupted Akashi and stepped forward.

"As he said, a chairman from the board of leaders doubted your abilities and asked for prove. That's why I am here. I'm the one, who's going to give him that prove. You guys need to beat the current U-16-team with a margin of 50 points at least. At your current level, Sa-chan and I calculated that the biggest margin you can achieve by yourselves is 34 points. That's too little. I will train you guys and be a judge when you play against the U-16-team. The head of the association, the chairman who doubted you and I will give marks, as well as every coach from the National team."

Sakuya looked at the boys. Everyone seemed a bit shocked and overwhelmed.

"So now I will anounce the members that that will be trained: Akashi Seijuuro, Aomine Daiki, Kagami Taiga, Kise Ryouta, Kuroko Tetsuya, Midorima Shintarou, Murasakibara Atsushi. You will continue to study at Teiko, but not attend regular practice. I will ensure your stay for the next month."

"I see. But why did you ask me to come..?", asked Takao.

"Well, my grand parents wanted to see you and we are to go there."

"Hey, don't decide this on your own!"

"I did not decide this."

Everyone just looked at the two bickering. Midorima felt like as if little bites were taken from his body. It hurt to see them that close.

"Oi, Takao! I thought we wanted to go on a date somewhere!"

Midorima was yelling this with his head turned to hide his blush.

Silence…

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Then hell broke loose.

"Eeh!? Takao-cchi and Midorima-cchi on a date!?"

"Oi, Midorima! What was that? Where did that come from!"

"Takao-kun was able to melt Midorima-kun's frozen heart…?"

"Mido-chin is dating Taka-chin? Taka-chin, Mido-chin is a meanie, you know~?"

"Midorima, don't tell me, you already popped his cherry!?"

"Aomine-kun, you pervert!", Momoi smacked Aomine.

"Satsuki!? Where did you come from!?"

"Everybody quiet down.", a calm and collected voice said.

Everyone looked at Sakuya. Akashi was just sighing.

"Please inform your parents or guardians and tell me if you can participate. This is a one time chance for you guys. Training will start in one month. I will send you the adress to our estate."

Sakuya turned and left, leaving the boys and Momoi in front of the gym.

Riko's home (Afternoon)

Riko was sitting in her room, going through an old photo album from her middle school days.

After a while she grabbed her mobile and called someone.

"Usano residence. Who am I spea-"

"Quit it. I'm calling your mobile. It's me."

"Ohh, Riko-chan, why did ya call me?"

"Sakura, I need you to tell Minami cousins and Momoi to meet me today. I'll call Keiko and Ruka."

"Okay… Don't call Yuri and Lily 'The Minami cousins'! That sounds weird! So where are we gonna meet?"

"Like old times."

"At yours that is then… See ya later!"

"See you!"

After taking a deep breath Riko called another one.

"Here is Ayami Keiko. Who am I speaking to?"

"Keiko, it's me, Riko."

"Ahh, Ri-chan!"

"Don't call me that."

"Yes, got it. So wassup?"

"Wow, even a lady like you can use colloquial language…"

"Very funny. Wassup?"

"Meet me at my house. We gotta do some talking."

"Why?"

"You'll see."

"Got it…Geez, no need to be so mysterious…"

"See you then."

"Yes, yes. See ya!"

'Only one left. Ruka…', thought Riko, 'Hope this isn't gonna be that hard…'

Riko took another deep breath and called the last one of them.

"Nanaya Ruka is currently not available. Please leave a message after the beep."

'Not available? Maybe she's taking a bath…', Riko thought to herself when looking at the time.

"Ruka, it's me, Riko. Can you meet me at my place today? I called the others already."

Riko's home (Evening)

Seven girls were sitting in a cirle in Riko's room.

"So why did you call us, Riko?", Lily asked.

"It's about Sakuya. I'm sure you heard already Ruka, being a Shuutoku student. Sakuya is back."

"Yeah, we heard.", Yuri said, munching on some crackers.

"Well, have you heard that Sakuya is playing National again?"

The other girls except for Momoi shook their heads.

"She is. And…"

"And she is suffering!", Momoi exclaimed suddenly.

"Saku-chan is playing, because she loves basketball, just like Rei!"

At the sound of this name Ruka visibly flinched.

"She is playing to fulfill Rei's dream! To be the World's No. 1!"

Everyone looked at her. Momoi had started to cry while shouting.

Luckily Riko's father was grocery shopping, otherwise it would have been troublesome to explain the shouting.

"I think, Sa-chan is right… Rei's dream, no our dream was to be the World's No. 1… How could we forget that!? How could we!?", Sakura was now crying, too.

Yuri and Lily looked at one another and nodded.

"We… we want to play basketball again… With you guys… and Sakuya…"

"Yeah… Rei wouldn't have wanted us to quit… Never…", Riko started.

"We were just selfish… Trying to find a reason to quit and blame ourselves…", Sakura continued. Almost every girl had tears flowing down now.

"As always, Saku-chan realised that… That Rei loved basketball more than everything…", Momoi said.

"You're right… Sakuya didn't quit… She waited for us… Gave us time to think…", continued Lily.

"Patiently waiting for us to come back again… Our captain always did…", Yuri finished.

Ruka didn't say anything out loud. She just cried, mumbling "Sorry… I'm so sorry!" in loops.

Keiko was patting her back, trying to calm her down, even though she cried too.

"Hey guys?", Riko suddenly asked, whiping her tears.

The other girls looked at her.

"Let's try again! Playing basketball… With Sakuya… with Rei… As long as we don't forget her, she'll continue to live and be with us… So let's snatch our title back! We're gonna be Seigaku's Generation of Miracles again!"

I hope you liked this... My chapters are going to get even more crappy... Please ignore grammar or any other kind of mistake... If it stops the understanding, tell me, I'll fix it asap...

If anyone thinks Sakuya is too Mary-Sue, then he/she will see what I'm gonna do with all that! *evil smirk*

It is needed for this story... The genres are romance and TRAGEDY~ Please don't forget...!

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