I need to apologise, this chapter is reeeaaaally short. Anyway, I hope you like it. It's a bit of a set up for the future. ;) Have fun.

Language: English is not my first language.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kuroko no Basuke or any of its characters.

Chapter 6

It was hot. Sweat pearled from the sunkissed males forehead and run into his braids, soaking the shorter red hair at his temple. He squirmed and rolled over with knitted eyebrows only to collide with a broad naked chest. He scrunched his nose and grunted as he cracked his sleepy eyes open. His sight was still blurry but cleared instantly, when a strong muscled arm pressed him closer to the hot body.

Sometime in the night, Daiki had rolled over and now clutched Taiga tightly to his tanned chest. His skin felt too hot, but his breath came even and without any indication that his fever had returned.

Taiga squirmed once more and tried to get away from his wet dream, but to no avail. Even in his sleep the taller man had a strong grip and wouldn't loosen it at all.

He stilled and wondered. This was the first night after the attack, that he didn't had his nightmare. He couldn't quite fathom out why, but currently something else caught his attention.

Since Daiki seemed to still sleep soundly, Taiga use the time and looked at him more closely in the dim light what emitted from the still glowing ember.

His face was of a masculine beauty, high cheekbones complimented his features and his chin tapered slightly. The dark eyebrows were relaxed and Taiga was amazed how peaceful the guy looked in his sleep. He gave in to his urge and leaned his face closer, trapping it to the crook of Daiki's neck and inhaled deeply the musky scent of the other. Somehow his eyelids felt heavy and he closed them, drifting off into another dreamless slumber.

Waking up to a cold bed, without the body heat of another person, was what he was used to. But this time it shocked him greatly. There, were a tanned man should be lying, was no one.

His red eyes searched frantically for the other, but the little cave was empty. Taiga jumped up from their resting place and ran outside.

"Yo, kitty. Had nice dreams?" Taiga turned on his heels, when he heard the already familiar deep voice behind him. His eyes shot up and after that his unique eyebrows.

"What are you doing, you dimwit? You should be resting and not climbing up on rocks."

The tanned man was sitting on top of the cave on a large stone. He put his pinky in his ear and looked to the side. "Ah, whatever. Only lying around was boring."

"Ha? That is your reason for endangering the healing of your wound?" Taiga couldn't believe him, but at the same time he was a bit amazed that the Aomine's guy recovered so fast.

Daiki looked at him and suddenly jumped down, landing right before the redhead. His face came closer and Taiga froze on the spot. His heart skipped a beat, only to double its pounding in his chest.

"If something happens to me, you will be there to take care of me, right? So, there is no harm in moving around a bit." Then he stepped back and stretched his sore muscles. "Aha, I feel stiff. Oi, Taiga make me breakfast!", he ordered over his shoulder and walked back into the cavern.

Taiga's head was lowered, his bangs shielding his eyes and he clenched his fists at his sides. He shivered in anger and gritted his teeth. 'Here I'm worried and he just does whatever he likes. And what the hell was that? Am I his fucking wife?' He grumbled and cursed, but his own growling abdomen let him obey and the fact that he still used the fishes of the other.

Daiki on the other hand, had different reasons why he had left to go outside.

When he woke up from his deep sleep, he found the redhead clutched to his body. Sunkissed arms and legs were put around him, holding him close. In their little cocoon of fur, Taiga's smell, closeness and how he snuggled his face into the crook of his neck, had him almost lose his composure.

He was definitely attracted to the redhead, but in his current condition he was no match for him, if the Kagami's guy fought back. So Daiki decided to wait. Maybe it would get even more fun to tease his hotheaded companion.

He had untangled the limbs around him and slowly gotten up. Pain had vibrated from his back through his body, but he forced himself to his feet. It would get better, he reassured himself and stepped out into the morning sun.

When he saw the redhead dashing out of the cave a little while later, with worry on his face, he felt happy and wanted to hug him, what was completely out of character for him, he noted so himself.

Because of that he didn't do it. Instead more teasing was up. And now he was sitting again on his fur blankets and watched the other making breakfast. It was nice to see the hothead calm and absorbed in his task, but he also liked it when he exploded with fury at him.

For Daiki it was a special kind of thrill, to tease the guy and see how he would react.

TBC