To all those who might get confused about the timeline I am using for this story; This story is based after the anime of Kuroko no Basuke. So I didn't include any other details from the manga. It would be difficult to base from the manga since it's not finished yet and since I am not a good writer. Ahahha. That's all. :D
Oh right. Almost forgot. This chapter was original one with the chapter 5 but I figured it was a bit too long, so I cut it in half. That's all. :D.
Chapter 4 – It's Possible
"WHAT IS MY NAME?" the magenekko[TL; glasses girl] asked while still using a megaphone.
The members of the club just looked at each other.
"WELL, DO YOU GUYS KNOW?" the girl asked okay, so everything typed with capitals are amplified by a megaphone. "YOU GUYS HAVE 2 MINUTES."
"Ehh?! 2 minutes?!" the members shouted.
"Uh, let's see. Who here knows her name?" Kasamatsu asked.
"OII! KISE! YOU SEEM LIKE YOU KNOW EACH OTHER!" Hayakawa [the overly energetic power forward of Kaijou High].
Everyone looked at Kise with hopeful faces.
"Yatta~ Kise will save us from hell~~~" one of the members said.
"Ahh… erhm… ano—" Kise said while looking doomed.
"Kise, you saved our lives!" another member said with a joyful voice.
"Eh—actually. I—" Kise said but was interrupted by a sudden cheer.
"HOORAY FOR KISE~~~" Hayakawa screamed.
And finally, while all the other members were rejoicing Kise shouted; "I DON'T KNOW HER NAME!"
"Ah… that's great Kise." Kasamatsu said in a calm voice. Then suddenly, "EHH?!"
The word Panic was written all over their faces.
"Goddamit Kise!" Kasamatsu kicks Kise once again.
"Aiyaa! Senpai, stop it!" Kise pleaded.
"We thought you were close because you kept talking to her!" Kasamatsu continued.
"She's my classmate! That's why!" Kise explained.
"If she is your classmate…..; THEN WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW HER NAME?!" Kasamatsu hit him hard on his head. "Gomen! Gomen!"Kise said.
"WHAT'S THE MATTER KISE-SAN? YOU ARE MY CLASSMATE, AREN'T YOU? SO, WHAT IS MY NAME?" the meganekko asked as she faced Kise. "IT'S NOT TAKARA, TSUKINO, OR TASUGORO." She continued. "IN FACT, NOT EVEN CLOSE."
"Eh—ahh gomenasai!" Kise said. "CRAP! SHE HEARD EVERYTHING I CALLED HER!" he thought.
"AHH, WELL. I CAN'T BLAME YOU. I'M NOT POPULAR ANYWAY. AND I AM PROBABLY NOT SPECIAL ENOUGH TO BE NOTICED BY YOU." The girl said with the same straight face.
"Ahh! What to do now! I think I made her feel bad!" Kise shouted in his head. He face was full of guilt and the other members were looking at him with weird faces. Their faces seemed like it was saying; "Oh my. Kise made a girl feel bad. What a guy he is...*sigh* tsk tsk tsk."
insert awkward silence here
"SO, SINCE YOU DON'T KNOW MY NAME, LET THE PRACTICE BEGIN". The meganekko said in the same icy plain toned voice.
"Maybe she's mad now and she'll punish us with the practice." Someone whispered.
"I don't wanna die yet. It's Kise's fault!" another one said, almost teary.
"HEY! DON'T BLAME IT ON ME!" Kise defended. He looked at the manager and said, "She doesn't look mad? I guess?"
"She doesn't look like she feels anything at all!" one member shouted as well.
The meganekko interrupted the commotion.
"NOW THEN, START BY GOING AROUND THE CAMPUS FIVE TIMES. BE BACK BY 10 MINUTES OR ELSE YOU WILL REDO IT AGAIN. BUT THE NEXT TIME WILL BE 10 TIMES. " she said plainly.
All the people there [besides the girl] looked pale as a ghost. "WE ARE DOOMED" was the perfect description for their faces.
"THAT WILL BE YOUR LIGHT WARM UP FOR TODAY. THE REAL DEAL STARTS AFTER THAT." She added.
Despite not having any telepathic abilities; they all had one thing in mind: "SHE'LL DEFINITELY KILL US."
"AHH… YOU WILL FOLLOW ONLY ONE ROUTE." *she points at the board behind her that had a small map of the school with red line markings* "YOU WILL USE THE ROUTE WITH A RED MARK." The red lines went all around the school but it was a weird pattern where you will go around 3 buildings.
"DON'T EVEN BOTHER CHANGING THE ROUTE, OKAY?" the meganneko continued. "BECAUSE…"
"I MADE SURE YOU CAN ONLY TAKE ONE ROUTE." She said with the same icy smile she gave them before. And once again, it made the members shudder.
"STOP WASTING TIME HERE. GO NOW, OR I ELSE YOUR TIME WILL RUN OUT SOON."
"EH?!" the members exclaimed. "YOU COULD HAVE TOLD US EARLIER!"
*All the players ran out of the gym*
while running around the campus
All the non-regulars seem to be running out of air.
"I-I never knew... *pants* that our campus *pants* was that HUGE!"
On the other hand, the regulars looked less tired.
"Oi, freshmen! Hurry up!" Kasamatsu scolded.
"Hai! Captain!" they replied.
"*sigh* seriously, our members need to train more." Kasamatsu said to himself. He catches up to Kise and says "Oi, how could you possibly not know her name?"
Kise just gave him an unsure smile and said, "eh, well. Can we just forget about that?"
"OIII! OUR NEW MANAGER SEEMS TO BE STRICT!" Hayakawa screamed [well, he's always like that].
"Didn't she say, she made sure we would only take one route?" Moriyama said. "That was scary."
"Ahahaha. She's scary alright." Kise laughed.
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"YOU SEEM TO BE HAVING FUN." Meganekko suddenly appeared. [still using the megaphone].
"GAH! YOU ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK!" Kise screamed.
"IT'S A GOOD THING YOUR CONSTIPATION IS NOT COMING BACK. THAT WOULD HAVE INTERFERED WITH YOU RUNNING." She said while not looking embarrassed. She seems to have caught up with them and is running at the same pace.
"HOW COULD YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THAT OUT LOUD?! AREN'T YOU EMBARRASSED?!" Kise shouted at her while looking a bit flustered by her statement.
"I AM JUST SAYING WHAT IS ON MY MIND, IKEMEN" she answered.
"IKEMEN?!" Kise shouted. [TL; Ikemen= pretty boy]
She looked at him and pointed the megaphone straight at his face; "YOU SHOULD LOOK AT WERE YOU'RE GOING, IKEMEN"
"YOU SHOULD BE THE ONE LOOKING! AND STOP CALLING ME IKEMEN". Kise shouted again.
"fufufu…This is quite amusing to watch." Moriyama, a regular player, said in the background.
"IKEMEN-SAN..." She jumps at a rock while not looking. "I ALREADY MEMORIZED THIS ROUTE SO. I CAN RUN WITHOUT LOOKING." She then goes to right a little so she would not hit a post [even if she's not looking].
"EH?! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! I KNEW IT YOU DO HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS!" Kise shouted again. "AND STOP IT WITH THE IKEMEN THING! EVEN IF YOU ADD –SAN IT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE!"
She ignored what he said and explained, "IT'S POSSIBLE, IKEMEN. AND BESIDES, DIDN'T YOU CALL ME DIFFERENT NAMES BEFORE? SO I AM GONNA CALL YOU IKEMEN FROM NOW ON. YOU SHOULD BE GLAD. IT'S A COMPLIMENT."
"IT DOESN'T SOUDND LIKE A COMPLIMENT!" [because often times Ikemen is used sarcastically for mocking people]
She looked at her watch again and said, "BETTER HURRY UP." She then ran faster and disappeared.
"WHAT IS WITH THAT GIRL?! " Kise asked.
"It seems to me like she hates you." Moriyama said.
"ARGH… not our manager is a scary girl that hates me so much. I AM DEAD. WHAT SHOULD I DO?" Kise said while wiping tears from his face.
"She's quite amazing, if you'd ask me." Kasamatsu said.
"WAAA— don't tell me you like that girl?" Moriyama asked.
"WHAT?! NO! THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT." Kasamatsu explained [a little blush was showing at his cheeks]. He then straightened his face and said, "Just look. She was running at the same pace as us and yet, even with her small physique, she did not get exhausted at all. And she's also carrying the megaphone. That thing must be heavy. She's definitely not normal."
Kise's looked up for a second and seemed to be thinking. Then he said; "Wait, she said we'd only take one route right? I wonder… did she block all the other ways?"
"That's impossible. She wouldn't have the time to do that. And if so, the teachers would have been mad." Kasamatsu said.
"Well then, maybe we could take a shortcut? Please captain! We are not as strong as you guys." a freshman pleaded Kasamatsu.
"And look, we could take a shortcut right…. Here!" the freshman pointed at one corner.
They all looked at the corner, but some students were blocking the way. They all carried tools and they seem to be building something.
"Eh? Since when was that there?" Moriyama asked. "We can't use that shortcut."
"And you are not allowed to anyway. A training is a training." Kasamatsu said.
"But, Captain! Etto… There's also another shortcut right…. There!?" the freshman pointed at another corner and instead of a shortcut, they saw what seemed like the gardening club.
"Oya… " Kasamatsu stated. "That wasn't there this morning." Everyone looked confused.
"What the— wait! There's another one just after this corner!" They all looked at the apparent shortcut but what they saw was more people. And this one seems to be Cheerleaders practicing a routine. The cheerleaders stopped when they saw the players running, well, when they saw Kise running. "Kyaa~~~ Look it's Kise Ryouta~~~" one screamed. And the girls waved and squealed. **sigh** Sundwitch's sigh. =.=
"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!?" Kasamatsu and the others screamed.
Except for Kise who is now waving at the cheerleaders.
"STOP WAVING AT THEM YOU BASTARD!" the captain hit Kise's head.
"What is going on! It seems like we don't really have a choice but take one route!?" a member screamed.
"It's probably the manager's doing. She said so herself." Kasamatsu said.
"But, isn't that impossible? She couldn't have possibly done this all by herself!" Kise said.
"IT'S POSSIBLE, IKEMEN." The meganekko appeared out of nowhere.
Everyone were freaked out at the sight of her. "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?! SHE'S AN ALIEN! AN ALIEN I TELL YOU!"
"HOW DID YOU EVEN DO THAT?!" Kise asked while screaming.
"I WILL ASNWER THAT WITH ANOTHER QUESTION: 'WHO IS THE NAMELESS MANAGER OF THE BASKETBALL CLUB, AND ALSO THE SECRETARY OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL?' "
"DON'T TELL ME—"
"THAT'S RIGHT. ME. I ARRANGED ALL OF THESE." the meganekko smiled a little. "ANYWAY, YOU SHOULD REALLY HURRY UP MORE. YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES LEFT. MATA NE… [TL; SEE YOU LATER]. " she then ran off, leaving the now exhausted members in shock. No one talked, no one screamed. Just plain faces that seemed like they saw a ghost.
after 5 minutes
Almost everyone is panting and some are even lying on the floor.
"GOOD JOB EVERYONE." Meganekko said while still using the heavy looking megaphone. "YOU HAVE 3 MINUTES TO CATCH YOUR BREATH AND AFTER THAT, WE WILL CONTINUE THE PRACTICE."
"I-I don't think I could walk anymore." A member said while panting.
"IF SO, THEN YOU NEED MORE PRACTICE." Meganekko said. "WHAATT!" the member then collapsed at the floor. "OII! ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!" another member shook the collapsed while his soul seems to be drifting away from his mouth.
The meganekko ignored the commotion happening.
"LET'S PLAY THE GUESSING GAME AGAIN. IF YOU KNOW MY NAME THEN I'D LESSEN THE PRACTICE." She said.
Unfortunately no one still knows the answer.
"THEN LET'S JUST FOLLOW THE TRAINING REGIMEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW. WE HAVE TO ACCOMPLISH ONE GOAL TODAY."
"Goal? What goal?" Kise asked.
"THE NON-REGULARS WILL BEAT THE REGULAR PLAYERS IN A GAME." She said plainly.
Everyone fell silent after they heard her.
"Oi oi, manager, you seem to be underestimating us." Kise said to her in a mocking voice. "We are a—"
"—A STRONG TEAM. I KNOW. BUT YOUR MAIN WEAKNESS IS THE FACT THAT YOUR NON-REGULARS ARE NOT TRAINED PROPERLY. SO I WOULD TRAIN THEM." She continued.
"Even so, it's impossible for them to defeat us in a match, even if you train them." Kise said again.
Even if it's harsh, they know the truth. The non-regulars cannot beat the regular players of Kaijou.
"ARE YOU SURE, IKEMEN?" meganekko asked. "HOW ABOUT YOU CAPTAIN? DO YOU AGREE?"
"It is the truth." Was the only thing Kasamatsu said. The other payers nodded.
The girl smiled her usual and didn't say anything.
"WELL THEN, REST TIME OVER." She finally said. "REGULARS, WHY DON'T WE MAKE A BET?"
"A bet. Huh." Kise said.
"IF THE NON-REGULARS BEAT YOU IN THE MATCH WE WOULD HAVE LATER, YOU WILL BUY WE ICE CREAM. AND IF THEY DON'T WIN…"
Everyone listened closely and stared at the girl who now had a smile on her face.
"I WILL QUIT BEING YOUR MANAGER." She added.
They were all shocked at the offer. "An ice cream for being their manager. Those are some odds." Kasamatsu said.
"I AM SERIOUS THOUGH". She said. Another silence filled the room.
"OKAY THEN. ALL THE NON-REGULARS WILL DO THE SPECIAL TRAINING I PREPARED." Meganekko said. "AND TO MAKE IT FAIR; THE REGULARS WON'T JOIN THE TRAINING." Meganekko announced.
"They can't win. Even if they get special training, one day won't be enough for them to beat us." Kise thought. "She made the wrong decision."
"ALL THE REGULARS WILL GO AND CLEAN THE STOCK ROOM." Meganekko announced.
"Does she really know what she is doing?" *sigh* Kasamatsu said.
" I ALREADY CHECKED THE ROOM AND IT DEFINITELY NEEDS SOME CLEANING. PLEASE CLEAN IT PROPERLY, OKAY?" she said. The 5 regulars all sighed and walked towards the stock room.
"She's out of her mind. One does not simply underestimate the regulars of the Kaijou." [meme reference ahaha] Kise said to the other members with a mocking voice and face.
"It would have been fine if she stayed as our manager, but… it's her who said so anyway. A manager for a day…." Kasamatsu said.
"That's just too bad…" Moriyama stated. of the word said nyahahaha
" oh really?" a familiar voice said, but this time she wasn't using her megaphone. Kise looked back and caught the girl checking her watch again.
"Must be my imagination." Kise thought.
the regulars enter the stock room
The megane girl faced the non-regulars and said; "WELL THEN, LET'S PRACTICE."
"Hai, manager." the members replied in an unenergetic voice. "DON'T WORRY. I KNOW YOU'LL WIN." She reassured.
"It's impossible, megane— I mean manager." a non-regular said.
"IT'S POSSIBLE." was her reply. Her glasses sparkled and an ice cold smiled formed.
A war is coming, the non-regulars with the manager versus the Kaijou High regulars.
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IT'S POSSIBLE END
TBC
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