Heroes

Superhero AU. Kasamatsu is the first human ever to be accepted into their little superhero group and Aomine comes to terms with his feelings for the human.

Aomine has powers most people wish they had: super speed, super strength, and the Zone. Kasamatsu had no powers at all; but had the skills that many still wished they had: Intelligence, strength, agility, and not to mention possibly the best hand-to-hand combat experience.

This was why Aomine could not understand how simple it seemed, the way that Kasamatsu had him pinned down in a matter of minutes, cuffed with his face pushed into the cold, hard ground of the training area.

"Fuck." Aomine cursed quietly, his breath hitching as Kasamatsu moved his cuffed hand higher up his back, a brief flash of pain shooting up his arm. He wiggled, trying to loosen the grip of the older teen, but Kasamatsu would not let go. Eventually, he stopped struggling when he realized that no matter how much he did, Kasamatsu would not relent. If he went too far, Kasamatsu might even break his arm. Maybe.

"Watch your language, brat." Kasamatsu scolded him softly, finally letting go and easily pushing himself off of Aomine who was still face-first on the floor. He dusted his clothing off and pulled the key out of his pocket. "Do you want this?"

Aomine gave him a look, which made Kasamatsu smile. The older teen threw the key far away, towards the corner of the room. "The hell-" Aomine began, but was cut off when Kasamatsu rolled him over onto his back, so he was facing him.

"Do you think you can get out of those cuffs?" He asked quietly, sounding unsure at first. Aomine arched his eyebrow, wondering if this was one of his stupid training-tests that he liked doing. Moving so fast that he started to vibrate would be able to get him out of those handcuffs, and possible through the floor if he did it right. But speeding molecules like that was not something Aomine could do… at least, not yet.

"Maybe with some practice." Aomine replied, not wanting to say flat out that no, he couldn't. He kept his scowl in place, looking anywhere but the other boy. "Can you?" Immediately, Aomine regretted asking his question. He knew Kasamatsu could do it; he's seen him do it, after all. Somehow picking the lock on the handcuffs, although Aomine had no idea where he got the small pick from. As if to humor him, Kasamatsu did not reply, only smiled and crouched next to Aomine.

"I'll be back later." He announced simply before standing straight up. Aomine practically zipped into an upright position, tugging at his wrists to try and free his hands. He opened his mouth, about to complain and bitch at Kasamatsu, but the human teenager just looked at him, eyes narrowed and mouth in a firm line. Aomine's complaint never left his lips as he watched the steely-blue eyed boy walk away and leave him alone in the room. Or, at least, he thought he was alone.

"Aomine-kun."

Aomine jolted, falling back on his cuffed hands, wincing from the pain as he turned to look at the shadow of their team. "Tetsu! I swear-" His threat was cut off when he noticed Kuroko dangling the small silver key in his fingers, a smug looking smile on the pale boy's face.

"I saw the whole thing, Aomine-kun." Kuroko said, tilting his head down at his friend and crime-fighting, ass-kicking team mate.

Aomine scoffed, "Of course you did." He muttered out, rolling just slightly so his weight was not on his hands. He ignored the pain of the metal handcuffs, digging into his wrists and biting at his skin, observing Kuroko who appeared to be staring at the small key to Aomine's freedom. Of course he had been watching. Kuroko was always watching someone. He could go invisible for ages, and now one would know he was there, waiting and watching silently and patiently. "Hey," He spoke suddenly, watching as Kuroko's light blue orbs moved in his direction. "Are you gonna free me now?"

Kuroko looked away, appearing to think about it, making Aomine curse mentally. "No. I'm sorry, Aomine-kun. But Kasamatsu-san told me not to interfere with your training."

"Bullshit-" Before he could continue, Kuroko showed him his phone, a text from the older human saying exactly that. Aomine growled in frustration and pulled and thrashed about until he got too tired and in pain to care. He watched Kuroko watch him, suddenly feeling like he was under inspection. He looked away and glared at the wall. "I hate him." He muttered quietly, voice wavering as he evened out his breathing from his strain.

Kuroko arched his eyebrow. "Do you?" He asked, sounding slightly amused. Aomine frowned at that, looking away. Kuroko's faint smirk widened as he turned away, studying the key in his hand. "Even though Kasamatsu-san is human, he is still pretty strong and fast."

"Not as strong or fast like me." Aomine retorted.

"True," Kuroko nodded, "But he is smarter than you, Aomine-kun."

"Tch."

"He's also more emotionally prepared than you, for anything. He can get us out of a situation in a matter of seconds with that quick-thinking brain of his. He even outmatches Akashi-kun in that aspect." Aomine tensed, knowing that that was a sensitive subject for everyone.

Someone being better than Akashi was something no one liked, especially Akashi. The only reason the others did not like someone being better than Akashi, Aomine especially, was because Akashi would always take his anger out on them; sending them on difficult missions or simply banning them from doing anything. Or worst of all, acting as maid – being forced to clean up after everyone and everything.

"Your point?" Aomine stressed out, just wanting Kuroko to spit out whatever he was getting at. Hearing Kuroko say how awesome and talented and epic Kasamatsu was compared to them, a group of some of the best teenaged metahumans who existed, was beginning to get on his nerves. Yet, at the same time, he felt somehow proud that they could have such a person, such a pure and normal human, with no super powers at all, on their team.

Kuroko clearing his throat pulled Aomine's attention back to his friend, looking up at him quizzically. "My point is that you need to realize your feelings for Kasamatsu-san."

Aomine sputtered, nearly choking on his own spit as he tried to speak; only nothing could come out but choked and odd-sounding gargling noises. He stopped trying to speak and briefly wondered if Kuroko had some sort of spell over him, a power they never knew he had, but no, he didn't. Taking a shaky breath, Aomine spoke, quietly at first, "I don't have any feelings." He whispered.

Kuroko rolled his eyes, walking towards the door of their large training room. "Keep telling yourself that, Aomine-kun. It isn't exactly a secret that you stare at him and stuff." Aomine balked at that, turning his glare to the ceiling.

"I don't stare." He responded icily. "And I don't know what stuff you're referring to."

"I could say it-"

"No." Aomine glared at Kuroko, wanting nothing more than to get out of the restrains and 'spar' with his fellow metahuman. "I don't have feelings." The dark skinned teenager repeated, sitting up slowly, painfully.

Kuroko only smiled at him, not in a mocking way, but in that – I'm your best friend, Aomine-kun. I'm always on your side – kind of way. Aomine grumbled to himself and looked away, not wanting to see that smile any longer than needed, else he start getting all confused about his 'apparent feelings' for the only pure human on the team.

Damn. He was already beginning to get confused. He inwardly cursed Tetsu, thinking that the blue haired metahuman did this on purpose, to get the gears in his brain turning and to make him think about the pure human.

Okay, so… Maybe he did like him. Just a little bit, though. The human was not really anything special, after all. He held no powers like they did. The only good thing was that his 'hero-persona' outfit consisted of a tight-fitting, black and blue body suit that seemed to hug just the right places, especially right where- Aomine quickly shook his head, chasing the thoughts and images out of his mind as his cheeks burned.

He looked around hastily, noticing that Kuroko had left. That, or he simply went into shadow mode and disappeared from sight again, watching Aomine from somewhere in the room, amused and silent. The thought made Aomine paranoid but at the same time feel more motivated to get out of the restraining handcuffs. After all, if he did, then maybe Kasamatsu would praise him.

I wrote criminal-related stuff yesterday, so I decided to go with heroes today~ Also, may or may not have gotten that vibrating-out-of-handcuffs thing from a certain Kid Flash and/or Impulse. OTL Sorry, I've been reading too many Young Justice fics (mostly to do with Dick…. Lemme rephrase that. "Mostly to do with Robin." 8D Keheheh~)

Also, if anyone got confused with the metahuman and pure human things, I'll just say that metahuman is still 'human' with super powers and the like (at least, this is what my dear neighbor google told me lol), and by pure human, I mean that Kasamatsu is 100% human with no super powers what so ever. :D

~WinterAssassin~