Despite her curiousity about what her Tetsu-kun has to talk about with Akashi, Momoi heads to the kitchen and dedicates herself into preparing for breakfast.
Although, under normal circumstances, Kuroko would refrain from asking her to do a dangerous thing, or Akashi would have stopped Momoi before heading out and given her a different task.
After all, the look of horror on Midorima and Kise's faces are terrifying, even Momoi notices something is wrong.
"Mo- Momoicchi! Good morning~" Kise rushes to cut everything he can reach, and boil or stir or cook them as fast as he can, so then Momoi would only be left to plating them. She can't mess that up, can she?
"What are you doing in the kitchen?" Midorima even goes as far as blocking the way into the cooking area.
"Good morning, everyone!~ And Midorin, you're kind of in my way." Momoi tries to find an opening, but it proves to be useless, especially when she's up against one of the strongest defense. "Midorin!" Momoi pouts.
"Uhm, Midorimacchi has a question for you!" He has to keep Momoi occupied somehow to stop her from going into the kitchen, and Midorima is being way too obvious.
"What is it, Midorin?" Momoi gives up and takes a seat by the counter, and decides to watch the boys cooking if they don't want her to help that much.
The megane sighs in relief and asks what has been bothering him since last night. "May I ask what you were doing in Kuroko and Kise's room last night?"
"Eh!?" Now that he brought it up, Momoi was wondering about that herself just a moment ago. She remembers going into her own room after the spicy food incident, but she went back out to help the boys with the cleaning. She noticed Kuroko was missing once she took her eyes off of him just for a few seconds, so maybe she went looking for him and ended up sleeping with him? That's ridiculous! So what exactly happened last night? "To be honest, I'm not really sure."
"I saw you went into the room and never got out nanodayo."
"Well, I was looking for Tetsu-kun! And I-"
"And you fell asleep in my bed-ssu." Kise joins in, as he just remembers something different about last night. Momoi did sleep in his bed and he... oh.
"I did?" Momoi hits her forehead once she remembers what happened. She went into the room and found Kuroko was already asleep, and..and, she can't just walk away from that, can she!? So she settled down in Kise's bed and she was planning to just watch Kuroko a bit longer, but her exhaustion from the day took over so she fell asleep! But how did she end up sleeping in Kuroko's bed!? Not that she's complaining, but it was still embarrassing!
"I'm sorry, Momoicchi. Normally I would've moved you into your own room, but I was too tired so I kind of.. I thought I was helping...?" Kise drops the utensils he was holding and bolts away from the kitchen as Momoi is chasing him.
Midorima grunts and took over Kise's job a bit frantically, since the foods decided to be ready at pretty much the same time.
"Mido-chin~" Murasakibara drags his feet and settles himself where Momoi was at a minute ago and yawns. "Busy, Mido-chin?"
"Don't just watch there! Help me or I'll burn your food nanodayo!"
"Eh~? Should I?" He yawns again.
"Oi, have you seen Akashi?" Aomine appears out of nowhere and grabs a piece of meat Midorima is working on,"Oh, this is really good, Midorima."
Midorima is too startled to be mad about Aomine's sudden appearance, not to mention he just ate without his permission, so he only glares at the bluenet while holding a spatula like a bat.
"What are you doing? You're gonna burn those."
"Can't any of you help me!? I'm not your maidservant or anything nanodayo!"
"Hey, I'm just searching for my missing roommate." But Aomine still helps Midorima with the foods, the poor boy almost drops some of the dishes and Aomine doesn't really want to help him redo everything.
"You seem to be getting along better with Akashi lately, Aomine."
"Hm? You think so?"
They are almost done plating, and Midorima is relieved Kise is keeping Momoi busy. For what he knows Momoi can turn their foods to be inedible by just touching them.
"You two have been spending a lot of time together nanodayo."
"You can't sabotage Aka-chin all the time, Mine-chin. I wanna play with Aka-chin too."
"We're going to the beach again today nanodayo. You two and Kagami better come this time."
"Yeah, yeah, sure." Aomine shrugs. He only wants to know where Akashi is right now. He expected him to scold him or to just get angry in general for what he did last night, but the lack of reaction from the boy makes Aomine uneasy. If Akashi decides to not want to talk to him again, he's screwed.
"It smells really good in here!" Kagami scratches his stomach and yawns. He's way too hungry to be sleeping and the smell is making it really harder for him to not get up from the bed.
"None of you can eat until everyone is here." Midorima is worried the three of them would just hoard the foods. And with Kagami's apetite, it won't take long before they empty all the plates.
A low click is heard, and Midorima is never so relieved. Akashi is standing by the door, half-frozen, because everyone decides to focus their attention to him.
"Is something wrong?" He asks Midorima, the only one who looks stressed out among the group.
"Yay~ Aka-chin is finally here~"
Kagami gives the giant a weird look. Murasakibara looks like a spoiled brat who finally gets to see his mother after being lost.
"I just want to gather everyone first before breakfast nanodayo."
"That won't be necessary, Midorin! We're here~"
Momoi is skipping into the room, her sudden change of mood is soon explained as Kise follows after, slumping all the way to the dining table, with two bumps on his head.
"You're so lame, Kise. Got beat up by a girl?"
"Shut up, Aominecchi! She.. She's.." a monster . But of course, he can't say that out loud.
"Wait, where's Kuroko?" Kagami looks around cautiously, he doesn't want to be startled everytime he spots him.
"He will join us later." Akashi smiles inwardly. It wasn't much, but Kagami was the first to notice Kuroko is missing, not even Momoi was aware of it as fast.
"Oh. Well, let's dig in then! Oi, Akashi. Don't just keep standing there!" Kagami grabs a plate and walks over to Akashi's side, then offers the said plate. "Here."
"Oi, butler. Where's mine?" Aomine chuckles as Kagami death-glares him. What's with him, acting silly and attempting to spoil Akashi like that.
"Stay out of this, dumbass!"
"You don't need to do this." How stupid can Kagami get!? He's doing it like it's a normal thing to do, isn't everyone going to be suspicious from now on?
"What's with you? Acting all nice to Aka-chin now~"
"Thank you, Kagami. I'm going to eat in my room."
"Wait, why?"
"And I want you to accompany me."
"M-Me?" Kagami looks around and points to himself, unsure if Akashi refers to him or Aomine.
"Yes, I need to talk to you."
While everyone senses trouble is coming to the poor boy, Aomine frowns and holds himself from protesting, and Kagami is feeling anxious, and excited, but he doesn't have a good feeling about this.
"S-So, what's up?"
Kagami already grabbed his share of food and settles himself in Akashi's bed, and to his surprise, Akashi sits down right next to him.
"I know you don't like me that way."
Kagami is grateful he already swallowed the food in his mouth, or he would've choked. What kind of conversation starter is that? "What are you talking about? As much as I hate saying this, I do like you, Akashi." His apetite is slowly decreasing, discussing about this matter with the person he's crushing on, isn't exactly what he's expecting first thing in the morning - breakfast comes first, then serious stuff comes after, in his opinion.
"I doubt it."
"Oi, I know you're genius and all, but you don't know my feelings."
"I'm sorry."
"Why are you suddenly apologizing?"
"You're...nice, Kagami, but..."
"Ah!? Are you turning me down already?" Even telling him he's nice and all, that's only making things worse!
"I..." Akashi hasn't been making eye contacts with Kagami ever since they entered the room, he grips his plate tighter, then takes a deep breath before continuing, "Daiki.. I like.."
What's with that messed up confession!? Did he just say he likes Aomine!? How on earth can Akashi fall for that pervy Aomine!? Is he into that stuff!? How he wish he could ask all the questions, but the fact that Akashi just rejected him is starting to sink in and...
It hurts.
"I see.. Well, I wish you guys the best then." In the end, that's all Kagami can say.
Later after breakfast, Akashi quickly takes Kagami's unfinished meal and dumps it into the trash bin. There is no way he will let anyone -especially Aomine- know Kagami isn't in his best mood. He has no idea how much impact his rejection has on the boy, to be honest he didn't think Kagami was near that serious, but he did what he needed to be done, in secret too.
Only, he forgot one crucial thing.
He didn't remember to tell Kagami to keep quiet about it. What if he told Aomine about his confession!? He certainly cannot allow that to happen.
He walks around the house in search for Kagami, a few minutes has passed and he still hasn't found him, his panic is starting to grow.
Where could he be? There is only one place he hasn't checked, his bedroom. Before he opens the door realization just hits him. Now that he thinks about it, he hasn't seen Aomine anywhere. He slams open the door quickly and curses inwardly, at the scene in front of him.
Aomine and Kagami, sitting in their own beds, seemingly they just had a serious conversation before Akashi barges in. Akashi's eyebrow twitches, why did the two decide now is the right time to get along with each other?
"Daiki, Kagami, what are you two doing here?" His heart never beats as fast as it is beating now. He's scared. He'd rather fail at something and have his father scold him or even punish him - anything, anything but this.
And there it is, Aomine grins at his direction.
Akashi is dumb-founded for a moment, Aomine is looking even more amused, Kagami is confused by the whole situation.
Akashi feels a blush forming, his ears are heating up and he hates the butterfly feelings in his stomach. He doesn't know what to do, even breathing takes a lot of efforts.
Kagami scratches his head. He thought Akashi already confessed to Aomine in secret already, or something. But judging by how stiff Akashi's body is and how red his face is... Well, maybe he shouldn't have told Aomine after all? But he was only grumpily congratulating Aomine.
Aomine just heard the news a second ago before Akashi shows up. He locks his gaze with Akashi's and the boy is getting redder and redder by the second. So Kagami isn't messing around with him. It's a bit too unbelievable, but Akashi's priceless expression confirms it is true. His eyes soften as he finally realizes his crush isn't one sided.
"I like you too, Akashi."
AN : The summary doesn't have anything to do with my story anymore haha~ I apparently changed the plot of this story thanks to you guys and your comments and inputs. I actually like it a lot better, because it is going into a more serious direction~