AN : I hope I clear the confusion from the last chapter here~
What happened last night is a little bit hazy, she can't remember clearly after she burnt her tongue - for some reason someone decided to dump a whole bottle of tobasco into her food, she probably went off to her room and being too extremely angry, she had forgotten the little details. She hasn't found the culprit yet, but she will hunt them down even if it's the last thing she can do.
She wakes up to the steady rise and fall of someone's chest. Oh, no. Did I perhaps go into the wrong room?
She lifts her head up slowly and, bracing herself by biting her lower lip hard, she dares herself to look at the person below her. An angel greets her sore eyes, due to the bright light emitting from the body - which, of course, only exists in Momoi's eyes.
"T-Tetsu-kun!?"
The pale bluenet opens his eyes slowly, Kya! He can't be more adorable, can he!?, his eyes widens at the sight in front of him.
"Why is Momoi-san here?" He raises a hand to rub his sleepy eyes, before getting up and gently moves Momoi off from on top of his body.
However, before Momoi can explain him that she has no idea how she ended up in Kuroko and Kise's room, Momoi spots something in the corner that causes her to shriek inhumanly.
Kuroko, as calmly as ever, turns his head around sharply and finds the cause to Momoi's overly loud reaction.
The corner is occupied by none other than Akashi Seijuro, who is staring at them intently, for a yet unknown reason.
"Momoi-san, if you don't mind, would you please help Kise-kun and Midorima-kun preparing for breakfast?"
And of course, Momoi can't not oblige Kuroko's polite request.
"Is there something you need to talk with me about, Akashi-kun?" Kuroko asks as soon as Momoi is out of the room. Kuroko suspects this will be something related to Aomine. The one person who has so far succeded into making Akashi acting like a normal teenager who's experiencing the sweet beginning of love life. Kuroko hopes Aomine hasn't done something out of the line yet.
And thus, the flashback begins.
Last night...
"Psst! Oi, Aomine!" Kagami drags Aomine into their bedroom when the guy is wandering around the kitchen, to get some more drink.
"Hands off me, bastard!" Aomine struggles to escape from the other's grip, but before he can put a serious effort into it, Kagami already closes the door.
"If you're using some dirty tricks to win this competition, Aomine, I won't forgive you." He grabs Aomine's shirt and stares him down while he's gritting his teeth, to prevent him from beating up the bluenet. He hates losing more than anything, but he won't mind as much if he is playing a fair game.
"If you're referring to my charm, then I'm fuckin' guilty, alright." Aomine smirks and raises his arms in defeat.
"Promise me something, Aomine." He manages to ignore his extremely irritating arrogant response, it wasn't easy, but he needs to get to the point.
"Hm? What is it?" Aomine slaps Kagami's hands away from him.
Kagami backs away and sighs, "Tomorrow is gonna be my turn."
"To sleep with Akashi? Don't talk to me, talk to him." Aomine shrugs and lays down in his bed. It's not like they have to share Akashi or something. And if the boy ever finds out about this... he'd rather not think about it. Akashi can be crazy scary sometimes, actually he is the most intimidating person he's ever known, no one, not even he really wants to mess around with him. But for that same reason, he never so desires to make someone submit to him.
"Oi, have you been listening to me?"
How he wish Kagami would just shut up. "Shut up, Kagami." He's bored, maybe he should see what Akashi's up to.
"You-! You're really getting on my nerves."
"How are you with Tetsu?" He is far too lazy to get up, so to prevent himself to fall asleep -because there is no way he will miss all the fun he's been looking forward to- he would occupy himself, and the only choice he has right now is to try to make a conversation with the annoying bastard.
"Te- Kuroko? Huh? Why do you wanna know anyway!? And besides, there's nothing going on between us! You're making things awkward, Aomine!" Kagami scratches his head furiously, Kuroko is about the only one who's nice to him in this hell they call reunion, if Aomine's planning to make things worse for him, he won't let it happen.
Aomine only yawns in response to Kagami's angry rants. "Akashi is sure taking his time, isn't he?" He chooses to talk to the ceiling instead, less troublesome for him.
"Kuroko is just a friend.. Kuroko is just a friend.. Aomine is an asshole.. Kuroko is just a friend.." Kagami buries his head in his hands. Kuroko did grill all those foods especially for him, didn't he? He even offered to listen to all his problems, too. Well, that's what a good friend would do, right? They help each other out. But why on earth would he go through the trouble to give him a present, a plush of all things? He must've used a lot of his allowances in that arcade.. Kuroko..
"Oh? I never expected you two to be here."
Aomine immediately quit talking to the ceiling, Kagami stops overthinking the issue, the two focus their attention at once at the person standing by the door.
"Akashi~! I've been waiting for you." Aomine replies almost too happily, it even bothers him a bit.
"Not only you two didn't help with the preparations, you now decided to leave the party early so you won't have to clean up?"
And Aomine thought Akashi was ready for bed.
The two then rush out of the room to help the others, not quite peacefully as Momoi keeps complaining and lecturing them about how they should not be as lazy as this, even Kise and Midorima join in later on. Murasakibara gives each of them a tiny candy bar because he feels bad for the two poor boys, which are unfortunately confiscated by Akashi, saying something about them not deserving a treat for hiding themselves to get away from their chores. Kuroko, well, Kuroko is feeling a bit uncomfortable and Akashi allows him to rest, without anyone noticing, not that anyone will with his weak presence.
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"Will you lie down here already?"
Aomine and Akashi seem to be having a sort of staring contest, Aomine is already comfortably lying down, Akashi is standing by the bed and refuses to move from his current position.
"If you're done sabotaging my space, I will." Akashi gives him a sharp look, reminding him of his promise.
Aomine shifts a little and says "there" while patting the space next to him. Akashi is still being doubtful, so he moves a bit more to make the other a bit more comfortable.
Akashi takes a deep breath before climbing into the bed, Aomine is still resting in the middle of the bed, but he suppose he can trust Aomine.
Turns out he didn't regret his decision, as he has been laying down there for quite a while, and Aomine hasn't even shifted a bit since then. He sighs inwardly in relief and he soon is falling asleep slowly.
But if he thought the night would end just like that, he was wrong, fortunately he remembers the reason he has to sleep with him tonight, therefore he is ready.
Aomine is indeed energetic even in his sleep, Akashi has to strike the guy in the elbow and knees a few times to get his body parts back to his side of bed. And that wakes Aomine up, Akashi almost groans out loud.
"Akashi." Aomine reaches out to Akashi's wrist and grabs it.
"What is it?" Sleepy Aomine is what Akashi has to be most careful of, agitating him will be the last thing he'll do.
"Adorable.." Aomine's hand moves up to Akashi's cheek then he starts caressing the soft surface.
"You..promised." He grabs Aomine's warm hand to stop the movement, although he can't deny he enjoys it, it's strangely soothing.
The hand then moves down to his neck and he starts circling his thumb on the nape of Akashi's neck, making him shiver at the touch. He, without being able to think clearly due to Aomine massaging his sensitive spot, closes the distance between them, as the other does the same.
When Akashi is finally able to realize what they are doing, Aomine quickly reaches to Akashi's chin with his other hand. Briefly running his finger on the underside of the chin, his fingers then brushes over Akashi's lips, he presses lightly before withdrawing.
The sudden absence of Aomine's touch is like a slap of reality for Akashi. What on earth were they doing just now? He glares at Aomine, and he wish he didn't.
With obvious lust clouding Aomine's eyes, he put his fingers that just brushed over Akashi's lips onto his own. He parts his lips then licks his fingers and winks. "I did the chore, Akashi. So I deserve a treat, don't I?"
Back to the present time...
Aomine broke his promise, yet Akashi didn't say anything about it. As a matter of fact, he is blushing hard at the moment and he is still unable to utter a single word for five minutes since Kuroko spoke to him.
"Akashi-kun, your legs will get cramped if you keep sitting like that."
His legs are cramping, but he doesn't care. He is frustrated at himself, for losing control of himself like this. He can't calm down his heart beats that beat faster and faster the more he thinks about what happened last night. Something about Aomine...drives Akashi insane.
"You can scream if you'd like, Akashi-kun. Admitting you like someone isn't easy for some people."
"I don't. Like him." Akashi almost growls. How does Kuroko interpret his frustration towards the guy as a crush? Although, as soon as he says that, he feels his face is burning up some more, he's worried he might have a fever.
"Akashi-kun is in denial."
"Tetsuya, are you making fun of me?"
"I'm helping you. I felt exactly how you are feeling right now when I found out I like Kagami-kun. Although not as extreme, if I remember correct."
"I find Daiki difficult to deal with. So for me to have such feeling towards him is kind of far-fetched. Don't you think so, Tetsuya?"
"And someone as unexpected as Aomine-kun intrigues you, doesn't it?"
"You'll have to be a bit more obvious if you want Kagami to notice you. He insists you're just being friendly as you have been all this time." He isn't really trying to change the subject. He just happens to remember about it so he brings it up, he is also impressed and rather creeped out by how well Kuroko understands how he feels.
"If you keep planning on being too sublte like this, I'll tell Kagami myself." He continues when Kuroko shows no signs of responding.
"I'm sorry, Akashi-kun, I'm really not sure what else to do." Kuroko buries his head into the pillow. It is a too rare and too cute of a sight Akashi almost gapes, he then smiles.
"Well, Daiki keeps making sure Kagami notice your efforts, so I suppose if you keep doing what you're doing, it'll be okay." He frankly has no idea how to make advances to a crush either.
"Ah, then-"
"But just to make sure, I'll let him know you have feelings for him." After all, Kagami will only get provoked by Aomine's taunting -from what Akashi has seen from the little stalking he has done- so before Kagami does something bolder, he has to stop him.
"No, please don't, Akashi-kun."
"I have no other choice." He hopes Kuroko will believe him, and just trust his decision.
"No, you do have another choice."
And this is why Akashi dislikes Aomine even more for causing a turmoil inside him, unabling him to come up with a better lie, or excuse. "No, I don't think so."
"You can confront Kagami-kun and tell him that you'll choose Aomine-kun."
Or maybe this is also Kagami's fault, for not being bright enough to pick up the hints Kuroko has been giving him, though there aren't so many of them.
"That doesn't sound right, Tetsuya."
"So you don't want to reject Kagami-kun just yet?"
"I have never had any feelings for him." Akashi replies quickly, to not cause any misunderstandings between him and Kuroko.
"I know. So, what will you do, Akashi-kun?"
Akashi sighs and gets up to let his blood flow normally, "Can't you...seduce him...or something.."
Akashi-kun is desperate.
"Um..you can teach me how-"
"What makes you think I know how to seduce someone?" Akashi snaps, he stares at Kuroko in disbelief.
"Because you suggested it, Akashi-kun."
Kuroko blinks his eyes a few times, while waiting for Akashi to snap back.
Akashi takes a deep breath a couple times, then mutters "do your best" before leaving the room.
"So Akashi-kun will finally confess." Kuroko crooks a small smile at the door Akashi just closed. He wishes he could do something as daring as that, but he's just not ready yet.