They finally reached Kagami's home.

"Huh", commented Aomine.

"What?"

"No, it's just that, I was certain your house would be messy. But you actually keep it neat, huh ? I must say I'm quite surprised"

"Well, my mom has always been very strict with this stuff since I was a kid. So I kinda got used to cleaning up"

"Hmm… So she's in America now, right?"

"Yeah"

They headed to the kitchen.

Kagami opened the fridge to check out what all ingredients he had to work with. "Oh crap"

"What's wrong", asked Aomine.

"I forgot to buy meat"

"You can't eat a single meal without meat?"

"No, I thought you might have wanted to eat meat"

"Oh. I'm fine with anything". Aomine was actually taken aback by how considerate Kagami was. He imagined that they'd be having leftovers from the morning or afternoon.

"Hmm… Alright then, does rice, curry and miso soup sound good to you?"

"Yeah sure, that'd be great."

"I'll get started then"

Aomine wasn't sure if he was supposed to offer to help out though he wouldn't be of much help.

But he could atleast help with washing the rice and vegetables.

Kagami understood what Aomine was thinking about when he saw him fidgeting around.

'So cute! Arghhh…. I mean he looks like an idiot as he always does. Ok, something's seriously wrong with me'

"Oi! So?"

"Huh? So what?"

"I asked if you want help. Why can't you listen when people talk?"

"Oh sorry. No, that's alright. This won't take long. You can wait in the hall. The TV's there. Run along now and watch some cartoon or something"

"Why did I even bother?"

'Haha"

'So cute! NO, NO! Again? For the last time, no!'

'And what's the-oh, it's this late already? Oh yeah, we started our game later than usual today. The sun had already started setting when we were almost done playing. Will he be able to get a train back home? Should I ask him to just stay over? Tomorrow's Sunday so it's not like he's got school tomorrow. But wouldn't that be weird? Would I freak him out? Wait, what's there to freak out about? He's not a girl or it's not like I'm in- wait, I think I'm getting away from the topic here. Maybe I should just wait for him to ask to stay over? Whaaat? There's no way in the world, Aomine's gonna come over to me and ask,

"Hey Kagami, would it be alright if I spend the night here?" Yeah, right. No way! There is no way he'd ask something like that. He's someone who'd rather spend the night out in the cold rather than give up his pride and ask me something like that. Sigh… Now I'm just overthinking this. We'll just decide once we're done eating.'

Meanwhile, Aomine was just changing channels. There wasn't anything of his interest on at the moment.

"Hey… Dinner's ready."

"Coming…", Aomine called out while he turned off the TV..

"Itadakimasu…", they prayed and digged in hungrily.

(to be continued…)