Miracle

Kasamatsu works at a bar called Miracle and he has to train the new bartender, Aomine.

"Yukio, you don't mind picking up extra shifts in order to train our new bartender, right?" Kasamatsu cringed, lowering the bottle of vodka in his hands as he turned to face the owner of the popular bar – Miracle.

"I don't mind." The steely-blue eyed male spoke, placing the bottle where it belonged as he gave the owner his full attention. In truth, the 21 year old did mind. He had an essay to write as well as needing to study for a very important test at his university. On top of those, Kasamatsu also had to attend practice with the basketball club he joined at his university, but, life was life – it had obstacles to throw at everyone, whether they liked it or not.

"That's great, Yukio." The handsome business owner smiled, patting his back. "Our new bartender will be here tomorrow around 8:00 PM."

"Okay. Should I come in an hour early so I could prep for him?"

"See-" The man laughed, petting Kasamatsu's short dark locks of hair. "- This is why I hired you. You're smarter than I am."

Kasamatsu snorted, pushing his bosses hand off his head, "I just like to be prepared, that's all." He stated, grabbing an unopened bottle of gin in order to start on a drink order for another customer.

"Great, see you tomorrow." With that, the owner left without another word. Kasamatsu continued on with his order before someone came up behind him, covering his eyes. "Guess who~?"

Kasamatsu sighed, "Is it Kise?"

"Ehh…"

"It's pretty obvious from your voice, Kise-kun." Another voice entered the conversation, just as said blond removed his hands from blocking Kasamatsu's vision.

"So mean, Kurokocchi!" Kise pouted.

Kuroko shrugged as he handed Kasamatsu a piece of paper, putting his tray down in order to fix his tie. "I'm just saying that you have an indistinguishable voice, is all." The pale blue haired 19 year old stated. "Oh, Kasamatsu-san, I'm also going to need to add a rainbow drink to that." Kuroko directed his attention to Kasamatsu, leaning against the bar that separated him from the other two.

Kasamatsu nodded, already starting on the list of drinks table six had ordered. "Got it. Kise, do you want to start that for me?"

"Roger!" The blond saluted, shifting over to his own space to start mixing the various alcohols to create the rainbow colors of their specialty drink. Kasamatsu nodded and put the finished drinks onto Kuroko's tray, moving to finish up the last few on the list.

Once the bartender finished with his drinks, he took the small lighter he kept in his pocket and grabbed the glass Kise offered to him. Kasamatsu proceeded to light the top on fire, a brilliant red flame flickering to life above the rainbow layers beneath.

"Thanks." Kuroko took the tray and walked back to his table, handing everyone their drinks. Kasamatsu watched form behind the bar before tearing his gaze away to clean up the minuscule droplets of alcohol that got spilled.

A few hours passed by in a breeze, thanks to all the customers that kept it busy – and now Kasamatsu's shift was over. The raven head cleaned his station and went into the employee lounge, running into Akashi. The redhead was practically the co-owner of Miracle. The only thing stopping Akashi from becoming the full owner was his father's friendship with the owner.

"Evening, Yukio." Akashi greeted him, a small sliver of a smile on his face.

"Hey. Are you working or observing?" Kasamatsu asked, finding himself rather curious as to what the redhead was doing.

"Working. Nothing better to do," Akashi spoke with a small shrug. "Anyway, have a nice night." The monochromatic eyed 19 year old said, walking out of the employee lounge.

"You too." Kasamatsu whispered, despite Akashi already being out of sight. The steel-blue eyed young adult changed out of his uniform and gathered his belongings before departing from the ever-infamous bar he was worked at for nearly four years.

Loud music is what woke Kasamatsu with a start. The raven head sprang up and slapped the alarm clock until it was silenced and the only sound was the pounding of his head and the blood rushing in his ears. Kasamatsu groaned and rubbed at his eyes tiredly, feeling utterly exhausted. 'I knew I shouldn't have stayed up until five in the morning to try and finish my persuasive essay…' One look at the time made Kasamatsu regret his decision even more. He stifled a yawn as he groggily got out of bed, standing and walking over to his dresser to fish out a clean uniform since his one from yesterday was slightly dirty.

Kasamatsu went into the shared bathroom, passing by his roommate's room. He knew by now that his roommate was still out, since it was nearly 6:10 in the evening, and his roommate was at his evening classes. Kasamatsu took a shower and dried off, putting his clean uniform on. Once he was dressed, Kasamatsu ate a quick meal before grabbing his things. He departed around 6:30 and stepped into the bar with ten minutes to 7:00. The bartender put his bag away into his locker and headed out to the bar. Kasamatsu greeted everyone who was on shift and began to get everything he needed ready for the arrival of their new bartender.

The raven haired male sure hoped that the new bartender his boss hired had some experience as well as a serving alcohol certificate. He knew all too well that the owner would often hire people based upon their looks – because hey, who doesn't like being served by good-looking bartenders?

Because of that, Kasamatsu put large amounts of work into training all the fired people with no real experience or anything, only for them to be fired later on for being incompetent. The only case that survived and that Kasamatsu had the pleasure of training was Kise. The blond learned everything quickly, which was great – not to mention he was a model, which people loved, apparently.

Once Kasamatsu finished setting everything up, he noticed that he still had nearly 15 minute left. He had an internal debate but soon decided that he would take a quick break before he began training the noob. After a boring and semi-uneventful 10 minute break, Kasamatsu walked back to his station, passing by their previous new bartender, Kagami. "Hey." The university student greeted the two-toned red headed male.

"Good evening, Kasamatsu. Er, san." Kagami quickly added the last part, smiling sheepishly. "How was your night?" He asked, pouring on of their much loved concoctions into a mixer.

"It was alright, I guess. I didn't get much sleep because I stayed up late writing an essay for class." Kasamatsu responded, smirking in amusement at the face Kagami made when he mentioned 'class'. Kasamatsu glanced at the time and looked around, wondering who their new addition was. He just realized that the owner never told him what the bartender looked like, or what his name was. At least, he will find out any minute now…

Five minutes later, an annoyed Kasamatsu was approached by a tall, tanned skin guy who looked around the same age as Kise and the others. He had dark blue hair with matching blue eyes and a scowl present on his face. Kasamatsu glared up at him, his crossed arms falling to rest on his hips. "You're late." He stated, his eye twitching from the rather aloof look he got.

"Only by a few minutes," The dark skinned teen shrugged nonchalantly. "Are you going to train me?"

"Yeah, I am. Next time, don't be late."

"Yeah, yeah. What-" The guy cringed from receiving an elbow to his gut. "The hell, man." He sneered, rubbing his side.

Kasamatsu ignored the taller teen's glare, "My name is Kasamatsu Yukio. You are?"

"… Aomine Daiki." Aomine introduced himself after pausing for a moment. "Just so you know, I've already bartended before, but it was for… an actual business."

Kasamatsu arched his eyebrow, "The way you say that sounds suspicious." He commented, turning around and motioning for Aomine to follow after him. "Do you know the basics? How much you should fill the cup, the types of drinks we make?"

Aomine frowned and shook his head, "I usually just guestimate it."

"Is that so… Well, no more guessing. I'll teach you how to do it properly."

"Will it take long?"

"Depends. Are you a quick study?"

"Are you a good teacher?"

"Hmph, brat." Kasamatsu smirked, lightly punching the dark skinned teen's arm. "Tonight it won't be that busy, so let's just see how you work."

The end of their shifts rolled up sooner than later and most of it had contained Aomine serving customers and ten getting smacked or scolded – Kasamatsu telling and showing him just how high to fill the shot glasses or how much liquid he needed to each element in a drink. Miracle was now closer, the last call over and the only people left in the infamous bar were its employees. Everyone begun to clean up, making the place sparkly and presentable for the next day.

Aomine was just about to leave, but Kasamatsu stopped him by pulling him back by his collar. "Ow, what?" Aomine grumbled, fixing his collar.

"Where do you think you're going? We still need to organize the receipts, count the money to make sure it all adds up, refill the bar and take out our garbage and recycling."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously." Aomine sighed and looked around before picking up the empty bottles around him and putting them inside a box that contained other empty glass bottles. Kasamatsu watched him for a moment then nodded to himself and began the ritual of cleaning his respective station. "You know, you're pretty good. You just need to learn how to do things at Miracle."

Aomine's stare lifted from the wet cloth in his hand and blinked; somewhat surprised that he was just complimented. "You think?" He asked, looking way from the shorter male, not wanting to admit his words made him feel slightly happy.

"Yes."

"I guess you aren't that bad of a teacher, Kasamatsu-senpai." Aomine stated, smirking at the look Kasamatsu gave him.

"Bad?" Kasamatsu questioned with a scoff. "I'm the best teacher you'll ever have, brat."

"Oh yeah? Prove it." Amine said as his eyes narrowed from his challenge.

"Don't worry; I'll be extra hard on you tomorrow."

"… What did I get myself into?"

"The lesson of the century."

Kasamatsu as a bartender is always good, right? Right. *proceeds to talk to self*

~WinterAssassin~