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Shinohara Mayumi

It was the day our match against Seirin would begin. We all were in the locker room, well, except one guy.

"What?! Aomine-kun's not here yet?!" Momoi asked out loudly.

Imayoshi held up his phone. "He won't answer, no matter how many times I call." The captain said.

"That bastard…" Wakamatsu said and clutched his hand into a fist.

"Sorry, sorry. It's my fault." Sakurai started to apologize.

"Mayumi-chan! Can you try calling him?" Momoi turned towards me.

I looked down at my hands, on my lap. "Can't you call him instead, Satsuki-chan?" I asked. I didn't want to talk to him at the moment. I had been avoiding him since I slapped him. I regret it so much.

Momoi looked at me confused, before rushing out of the room to call him. Momoi didn't know anything about the slap. I hadn't told her and I assume that Aomine didn't either. After a while later Imayoshi walked out too.

When Momoi and Imayoshi came back, we all headed out to the court. I sat down on the bench, beside my uncle and Momoi. I saw Kagami and waved at him slightly, he have a smile and walked towards Wakamatsu. I slowly put my hand down and gave a desperate sigh. Wonder how I should make up with Aomine…

The match started but I didn't really pay that much interest. I actually wanted to see Aomine. In a way, I wanted our team to win, but I also wanted us to lose. Maybe it would change Aomine's attitude, I don't know. He may start coming to practices and stops looking down on people.

After a while later, Seirin made a member change, and then Aomine appeared. He wrapped an arm around Kagami's shoulders.

"That's it, show some spirit." I heard him say. I expected him to be a bit later. "So you can entertain me, even a little." He said, with a smirk.

"You bastard! Aomine!" Kagami said and shoved his arm away from him.

"You're finally here? Hurry up and get ready so you can play!" Imayoshi said.

"What? But you're winning." He turned towards the captain and said. "There is one minute left in the second quarter, anyway."

"No, you have to play." My uncle said, with a small smirk.

"Fine." Aomine said and took off his bag and threw it on the bench and took off his sweater and threw it on Momoi. "Well, then… Let's go." He said. He turned to look at me for a moment and then turned back to the court.

"Too Academy, member change!" Aomine walked into the court, after tugging his shirt in his shorts. I watched him, as he walked cockily with a smirk on his face. He walked up to Kuroko.

"Yo, Tetsu. It's good to see you again. I was wondering what face you'd make." Kuroko just stared at Aomine, determined. "I like it. You look ready to go." Aomine said.

"Hai. I promised Momoi-san." Kuroko said.

Aomine chuckled, before saying some more things to him. When the game started again, everyone let Aomine and Kagami play a one-on-one. When Aomine got the ball, he gave Kagami a smirk, before starting to play. I straightened up in my seat and watched carefully.

Aomine passed everyone easily and was just about to dunk, when Kagami stopped him. I saw Aomine's surprise, which was rare to see. He wouldn't get surprised by another basketball player so easily.

After Seirin got the ball and passed it around, and in the end passed it to Kuroko which used his Ignite Pass to pass it to Kagami, Kagami jumped up to make a dunk, but this time Aomine stopped him. I saw Aomine's grin. Was he finally having fun? I wondered, hopefully.

The second quarter ended and Aomine looked disappointed that he couldn't make a score. Aomine turned towards Seirin and was really surprised by their abilities. At least he thought that they weren't bad.

We all went to the locker room.

"Ryo, did you bring them?" Aomine asked.

"H-Hai!" He said and handed his honey dipped lemon slices to Aomine.

"Thanks." Aomine said and took one slice. "Ah! These are really delicious."

Suddenly Wakamatsu popped up. "Aomine, what are you eating?!" He yelled out and took the box out of Sakurai's hands. "You haven't played enough to need to replenish yourself! And, Sakurai, don't make him food! Shinohara is supposed to do that! What are you, his manager?" He said and turned around to eat the lemon slices.

I glanced over at Aomine, which did the same. Our eyes locked for a second, before I turned away, looking a little upset.

After Wakamatsu ate a few of the slices, Imayoshi wanted some too. "Give me some." He said, but Wakamatsu just ignored him.

"These are delicious! There's none left, baka!" He said to Aomine.

Aomine just turned towards me, still looking at me. "I don't want any more." He simply said which made Wakamatsu angry.

"Don't eat all of them." Imayoshi said and put a hand on his head.

Momoi came towards him with a box in her hands. "It's okay. I made some too." She said, with a smile.

"Oh, thanks." The captain said as Momoi opened the box. Imayoshi stared down at the box for a while, before turning around to face Sakurai. "Sakurai, do you have any more?"

"Sorry, I'm all out." He said and showed him the box.

Aomine stretched a little, before saying something. "Yeah, Satsuki's cooking is terrible." He said and walked towards me.

"Isn't this a level below cooking?!" Imayoshi complained.

Aomine sat beside me and stared at me, while I looked down on the floor. I didn't want to face him. I felt so embarrassed that I had slapped him. I also felt pretty awkward now, since he just sat there and stared at me. I decided to say something and opened my mouth.

"W-What do you want?" I asked, slowly, only so he could hear it. I still didn't look at him though.

He put his elbow on his thigh and rested his head on his hand. "I'm waiting for you to give me something to replenish myself." He said, looking at me with his bored expression.

I hesitantly took my bag and unzipped it. I had made him some rice balls, since he told me that he liked my rice balls.

"You've been avoiding me." He said, bluntly. "Is it because of what I did that day?" He asked me.

"Rather because of what I did." I corrected him.

He gave a sigh. "I'm not mad at you." He said and took a bite of the rice ball I gave him. I turned to face him, shocked. He wasn't mad? "I couldn't possibly be." He finished and turned to look somewhere else, with a small… blush?!

I gave him a warm smile, which he saw from the corner of his eye. "I'm really sorry that I slapped you." I said and put my hand on his thigh.

Aomine Daiki

Why did she have to make this so hard for me?! I felt a tingling sensation when her hand touched my thigh. I felt my face grow warmer.

"So…" I started and rubbed the back of my head a little. "Are we cool then?" I asked and turned to look at her. I watched her beautiful amber eyes as they blinked.

"Of course we are, baka!" She said, with a smile and gave me a soft punch on the arm. I smiled back at her and put my hand on her hand and squeezed it.

"By the way, the rice balls are delicious." I said and earned a blush from her. I just smiled.

"Come on, it's too early to relax." The coach clapped to get our attention. I turned my head towards him. "Let's talk about the second half." He said.

I stood up, still holding onto Shinohara's hand. "I'll pass." I said and made my way out, pulling Shinohara with me.

"Aomine, you bastard! Wait! And why are you taking Shinohara with you?!" Wakamatsu yelled. I turned around to face them.

"I'll make all my shots in the next quarter. That should do it, right?" I said, turning around to look at them. Then I turned to Wakamatsu. "And to answer your question… I'm taking her with me, because I just want to." I told him, earning a questioning look from the coach.

"You bastard!" The blond idiot cursed again. As usual.

The coach played with one of his bangs while answering me. "As long as you understand. Make sure you go and warm up."

"Okay." I said and walked out, dragging Shinohara with me.

"Aomine-kun!" Momoi said and ran after us. Once we were outside, I stretched a little. "I've had enough! I can't believe you were late! What do you think you're doing?" Momoi complained, which annoyed me. "We're up against Tetsu-kun's team! In the second half, you'd better-"

"Shut up. I know." I said and stretched a bit more. "I feel bad about what I did." I said which made both of the girls surprised. "I misread them a little. I should've shown up sooner." I said and turned my head to look at another direction.

"Well, if you understand it, it's okay. I'll be heading back now." She said and left us alone.

I turned to look at Shinohara who watched Momoi's leaving form. "You know, you're much less annoying than Satsuki. You don't talk that much when we're around people." I told her, with a smirk. "But when we're alone, you usually get on my nerves sometimes."

She pouted and crossed her arms. "Well, sorry!" She muttered and turned her head to the side. My smirk just grew, seeing her like that made me a little happy. We were back to the way we were before. Good.

"You can go in if you want. I'm gonna warm up here." I said and smirked.

"Why'd you drag me out here in the first place then?!" She yelled out, with a vein pop.

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