Dogs

In Kagami Taiga's very professional opinion, whoever said that a "dog" was man's best friend was a complete idiot. If anyone could believe that those furry demons on four legs could be anything resembling a best friend, they were sorely mistaken and an absolute idiot beyond redemption.

Well maybe Kagami was a bit biased, but he still lived by his life long goal of not getting anywhere near a dog.

Kagami didn't always hate dogs; in fact he actually used to like them back when he was younger. But then it happened.

He was about 9 years old and was playing with Tatsuya at a local streetball court. Alex had been watching from up in the bleachers occasionally yelling down at them with random pieces of advice and laughing when they messed up at something. Kagami had just broken Tatsuya's defense when that demon came.

A huge, black Rottweiler the size of a small bear and definitely just as big as Kagami burst from the bushes with its teeth barred. It took one look at Tatsuya and Kagami and decided that Kagami's hair looked like a piece of raw meat or something as it immediately lunged at him.

Kagami shrieked, falling backwards and starting running. In the confusion,Tatsuya, had clambered up to the safety of the bleachers by Alex who had staring at the dog in shock before bursting out laughing. Kagami almost groaned; Tatsuya had always been one who would save his own skin.

But before Kagami had a chance to even yell at Tatsuya for not helping his "younger brother", the dog bounded up once more and started chasing him.

If Kagami didn't have exceptionally strong legs, he would have never ran faster than the Rottweiler and jumped up on a tall tree. He was stranded there for about two hour as Alex finally stopped laughing and called the authorities to apprehend the dog.

Apparently the owner of the dog had lost control of it, and the dog ran wild. The demon was at the pound right now, but that didn't stop Kagami from developing a trauma and a particularly sore butt from staying up on that tree so long.

His ego also took a huge beating as both Alex and Tatsuya had laughed for days afterward at Kagami's pain, the sadists.

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Kagami did not take it kindly when Kuroko decides to freaking bring a dog of all things to practice. He knows that Kuroko doesn't know about his trauma with dogs, but the guy should know better than to shove it in Kagami's face!

How the heck can that guy find a dog with the exact same eyes as him? What were the possible chances in that?

The two zapped with twin pairs of puppy eyes during practice as Kagami made sure that he stayed at least 2 meters away from the demon spawn and its owner.

Seriously, how does Kuroko pull off puppy eyes so well with his poker face on?

"Why?" Kagami thinks to the heavens, "Why do I have to be on the team with a dog for a mascot? Can't we just have a cat or something?"

His thoughts were interrupted as Kuroko decides that it was a good idea to shove the furry demon in his face as if that was going to make them friends.

Kagami jumps up a few feet and scampers away, "Get that thing away from me, Kuroko!"

Kuroko and his demon twin flashes him the "unhappy" eyes.

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Kagami might be getting used to being near Kuroko's demon pet. He definitely doesn't flinch as much when the thing struts up to him or barks when someone scores.

The thing is that the dog might actually be growing on him. Sort of like Kuroko, who was creepy at first and now whom Kagami regards as his best friend, the furry demon has sort of become sort of cute in his eyes especially when he wasn't trying to lick Kagami or near him.

God, those creepy teal eyes must be brainwashing him.

10 chapters! What a milestone for me. Thank you for all the support that this story has gotten. You guys are amazing. Okay I would like to say that from now on I probably will be updating a little erratically. I have a lot stuff I have to do with my life, so I won't always have time to write. Thank you for reading and if you like it, please review.

Special Thanks: Kaynx, isa. asi. isa., and fostine. foli

-SWP