Hey, I´m sorry for the wait, this chapter was just really hard to write because Midorim is a character I really find hard to write^^ and university also kept me kind of busy, but well here I am and I hope you enjoy the chapter, although I really don´t know what the hell I wrote there :D

Well enjoy and thanks for your reviews, I really appreciate them!

"The stars mean well with cancer. But there is movement in your constellation, nothing and anything could happen. Watch out for surprises! There may be more to it than it seems. Lucky Item: A magnifier."

With a rattle the bus set off. It was just half five, but the sun already sent reddish light over the streets and drenched everything in light orange. There were only a few people on the same bus as Midorima-an old couple with their grandkids, a few adolescents in high school uniforms and three businessmen, probably all on their way home. Light chatting over Christmas, cakes, presents and party´s reached Midorimas ear. Sighing he pushed his glasses up his nose and stared out of the window. Because under weird circumstances he had forgotten his mp3 player and ear phones and even his book, so now he suffered the consequences- listening to meaningless chatters of pubescent teenage girls.
Well, he couldn´t care less.
In a way he should have expected something weird from the beginning, since Oha-Asa was never wrong and the rest of his day was just normal-Annoying, but normal. Breakfast had been short, his little sister has been annoying, their father wasn´t home and school was like always. The test had been easy and Takao had been annoying, talking all the time and chanting "Shin-chan, Shin-chan" like some prayer, which did nothing to someone who didn´t believe in god.
Again he sighed. Well, he wouldn´t ever admit it but he did actually count Takao as a friend but the other was annoying and mischievous in his own way, always talking his way into and out of issues he shouldn´t have participated in. But Silence and no talking could be a real blessing from time to time-maybe even most of the time.
He didn´t quite knew what he preferred-silence or no talking, but he did prefer both of them above talking. When he told Takao about that issue he had just laughed and questioned what the difference between silence and "not talking" was, but since he actually asked the question Midorima didn´t bother answering it. There wouldn´t have been an end to that discussion since both of them were kind of stubborn even when Takao was good at hiding it and sometimes really sneaky with his remarks.
Well after that normal day he should have expected something drastic to happen, he did was warned but still…when he received Kagamis call surprise would be an understatement when he would be asked to describe the emotion he felt.
In contrast to Takao he wouldn´t call Kagami a friend-sure he didn´t hate him either but just because he talked and played with him a few times didn´t make the fiery red head his friend. And Kagami wasn´t someone who he would call a good character even if he had his good qualities and in a way he needed to have them because otherwise Kuroko wouldn´t have made him his light. Although… Aomine had been Kurokos light too, but well…
But what had surprised Midorima even more was that he actually had given in to Kagamis request and was now on his way to the redhead.
Maybe it had been the so out of his character behaviour-the light quivering in his voice, the stammering of apologies or the shy undertone in his normally so aggressive and loud voice. He didn´t know, but he right now he lived through the consequences and suffered under the noises from the bus which seemed to be too old to still be used in this business. It would be a long trip and it was hopefully worth it.

Due to the season the sun had nearly disappeared behind the horizon as he finally stepped out of the bus and made his way to Kagamis apartment. The other had sent him a short map to describe the way from the station to his apartment so Midorima would have fewer problems finding the way. He had to admit that maybe Kagami wasn´t as stupid as he had thought. But maybe he just had his bright moments from time to time like everyone else.
The bare trees he passed seemed to be randomly distributed along the street and looked like dancers who were reaching out for their partner with long bony arms, but seemed unable to find them- maybe because their good season was over and now they were nothing but skeletons of their usual selves. Just a shadow of their beauty.

Midorima shook his head to get rid of these disturbing and alien thoughts. He finally has reached Kagamis apartment and even though he had the impression that the other wouldn´t be poor-he did live alone, when Kuroko had told the truth- the apartment complex did surprised him.
"Second surprise for the day, huh…", he mumbled as he searched for Kagamis name between the other twenty names on the address board.
The answer came immediately.

"Yes?"

"Kagami, it´s me."

"A-ah M-Midorima, I´ll open the door."

And there was the stuttering again. Midorima frowned.

"That would be helpful"

"Ah, yes…"

The door buzzed and Midorima made his way up to the third floor. The staircase was surprisingly clean and wide with big windows that opened the view on the street and bright lamps integrated in the ceiling to light the way even in the dark.
After 36 steps, 12 windows and 18 lights he reached Kagamis foor. After just one knock he could hear hurried steps seemingly making their way to the door as their got louder and louder. Then the door opened and Midorima released a breath he didn´t know he was holding.
With a quiet squeak the door opened a few centimetres.

"Midorima?" A voice came from inside the room and Midorima frowned at the unsteadiness in that voice.

"Did you expected someone else?"

"No, no of course not, uh before you come in… can you promise me something?"

Midorimas frown deepened. He was getting annoyed right now.

"What is it?"

"Don´t freak out…please"

Midorima would describe himself as a curious human being, even if he avoids letting it show but he was curious. Curious about how the human body managed to function even under great pressure and in the face of a serious burn or how the human brains physic was normally the same for everyone but one would be so much stupider than the other or how he could improve his shooting skills and what physic laws he had to consider to shoot a basketball through a hoop.
And right no he was really curious what Kagami was hiding that had him so on the edge.

"I promise I won´t freak out."

"A-alright, then please come in…"

The door opened further, so the gap was big enough to let Midorima through. Okay-so now was the moment of truth. He would lie if he said he wasn´t nervous if he interpreted the itching in his stomach correct, but Midorima really wanted to know what was wrong.
The door closed and Midorima finally caught a glance of the other guy.
With a hoodie over his head, a huge jacket wrapped around his body and his eyes on the ground he looked like a little kid who had been caught stealing his favourite sweets from the store on the corner of the street.

"Okay, what is wrong-I hope it was worth it, because the way to your apartment was a real pain."

Kagamis whole body twitched at the sound of his voice, which sounded colder than Midorima had intended but he constantly grew more tired of the strange behaviour the other showed. The red head drew a deep breath and released the air from his lungs in a long "haaah" before he looked Midorima in the eyes. Warm anxious red met cool analysing green and the frown reappeared on Midorimas face. Hopefully he wouldn´t get a muscle ache in his face because he was so unused to that kind of expression-what kind of things makes this stupid oaf make me do?

"Okay… maybe we should go into the living room" Kagami whispered and went pass Midorima, expecting him to follow. Which he did because right now he really wanted to know.

He didn´t know what to expect of Kagamis apartment but surely not the clean and tidy room he entered. The room was wide with a black coach in the middle on which Midorima took a seat as Kagami signed him to take one.

"D-do you want something to drink?"

Midorima didn´t want something to drink but Kagami looked like he needed to give him something to drink, so he nodded shortly and took the time to look around in the room. Just now he noticed how… empty the apartment seemed. Sure, it was clean and bright but there wasn´t really much furniture or objects that naturally belonged into the room of 16 year old teenager. The only things that seemed to fit Kagamis character were the magazines the lay on the glass table in front of the coach. Basketball, basketball and basketball again. Midorima struggled with his attempt to supress a smile, but succeeded in the end. He truly was a basketball idiot. Nearing footsteps announced the arrival of the redhead and Midorima straightened his back.

"I hope Soda is okay."

"Yes."

"G-good."

Glancing at Kagamis face he took a shot sip of his drink before placing it on the table.

"Kagami, what is wrong?"

"Y-yes o-okay…"

"I won´t "freak out", as you said so please tell me before I will take the next bus back."

Kagami fidgeted with his the ends of his sweater but nodded anyway.

"Yeah, sorry to ask you to come here but there was no other way…"

Midorimas pulse increased as Kagami raised his hands to his hood and slowly pulled it down, revealing the mess of his red hair and… what?
Midorima blinked. Once, twice… huh?
Ears.
Fluffy red ears stuck out of red spikey hair.

"D-don´t stare so much…please"

"Well… do you listen to Oha-Asa?"

Now it was Kagamis time to blink at him with a dumbstruck expression on his expressive face. Red big eyes stared incredulous at him and it took Kagami exactly one minute to react to Midorimas statement and the green haired one couldn´t even blame him.

"What?"

"Your ears… it´s your lucky item for today. You are a Leo if I recall."

Another minute passed in which the two just stared at each other before Kagami started laughing. And not just any laughing-a full hearted laugh which send tears to red eyes and did strange things to Midorimas stomach which he politely ignored.

"Oh man, I guess I should have expected something like this but that was hilarious. I didn´t know you actually had something like humour."

"That´s rich, coming from someone like you." Midorima stated and managed to get his posture back, regulating his breathing and normalizing his pulse.

"Oi, I just made a you compliment and you insult me!"

"I don´t think a statement about my humour coming from someone like you could be called a compliment but we´re getting off the topic, if your head…attire" If someone could call that, "isn´t that what I asked it would be… then…"

"It´s real" Kagami said, even though he looked like he still wanted to argue with Midorima about his sense of humour he seemed to want that topic of his head. Probably literally.

Midorima blinked and repeated slowly, "It´s…real."

"Yes, I woke up with these… things this morning."

Kagami said quietly and cowered in front of Midorima on the floor.

"They won´t get off and seem to… grow out of my head."

"Out… of your head."

His voice seemed to give his incredulity away, because Kagami looked up at him with a look Midorima could only describe as pleading. He swallowed. He shouldn´t get so weak to that face like he felt right now.

"I know it sounds unbelievable but… they´re real and they won´t get off!"

Red eyes were tearing up as Kagami stood up and nervously went up and down the room, tearing at his shirt as the words poured out his mouth.

"Th-there was something wrong with me the whole weekend-my head hurt and, and my whole body hurt and something was wrong, but I didn´t know what and this morning I woke up and the pain was worse than before but, but different, you know? And-and then when I looked in the mirror and suddenly there were these ears and I really didn´t know what was going on and, and they won´t come off, they´re actually moving!"

Kagami bowed down in front Midorima, pointing at the ears which were-actually-twitching slightly front and back. Midorima swallowed and continued to stare. He didn´t know what to say. But it seemed he didn´t need to because Kagami returned to his babbling again.

"And they even grew since this morning. They were much smaller before and-and, I first researched in the internet but-fuck-there was really nothing helpful. The results were just terrifying and-oh" The red head stopped with his story and turned his back to Midorima.

"The, the ears aren´t the only things that appeared this morning-there´s more…" Again his voice melted into a shyer tone as Kagami shrugged of his jacket.

"There´s also a-a tail…"

Now Midorima felt like his brain was being overloaded and that was an experience he never had before but this was too much.
First red cat ears and now… a tail, also in burning red and if he would be in his right mind he would find humour in this colourful circumstance. But right now… he was out of it.
It was twitching-the tail was twitching from the one side to the other as Midorima followed the movements with his eyes, then it went away as Kagami turned around and faced him again.

All Midorima could see in his eyes was desperation and fear. So much fear, pleading for Midorima to… yes to what?
To "not freak out"?

"So…you woke up this morning, having a tail and cat ears attached to your body?" He summarised Kagamis uncoordinated telling in one sentence. His voice betrayed his expressionless face, slightly quivering and sounding rough on the edges.

"Y-Yes"

"And they won´t come off…"

"No… I actually feel it when I touch them, y´know? So I guess they really grew out of my body."

Midorima nodded and took a huge gulp from the Soda water. There he had his promised surprise.

"Seems like Oha-Asa is never wrong…" he mumbled.

"Huh?"

"Nothing, just… nothing uhm… well but why did you call me? Wouldn´t it had been better to call Kuroko since you´re closer to him?"

Kagami looked slightly surprised at the question.

"Uh yeah, but I thought that you might know about that stuff ´cause you want to be a doctor, right? So I thought you have more-ah-knowledge on something like this, even if it´s totally creepy."

That was actual quiet thoughtful for an idiot like Kagami and Midorima wondered how much time he had spent on that decision although a little part admired the other for the braveness of actually calling someone who he even wasn´t close to just because it seemed the most logical thing to do. And Kagami was far from being known for his logical thinking. Well, he was right about Midorima being the one with the most knowledge on medical or body regarding issues although Akashi might also be able to figure out this problem. But he could see the reason why Kagami wouldn´t call Akashi-their first meeting had been worse than theirs and even though Akashi did change after the winter cup their personalities clashed even harder than Midorimas and Kagamis.

"Well, that was an unexpected mature decision of you Kagami." Midorima stated and could instantly see the veins popping on Kagamis face and the other gritted his teeth in annoyance.

"Shuddup, don´t act all high and mighty there!" he growled and Midorima would have come with a wicked backfire but right now Kagamis angry twitching ears caught his attention and he reached out with one hand, planning to touch the fluffy organ and was surprise that it was indeed soft and…nice.
With his thumb he rubbed small circles on the inner ear while he petted the outer fur with two bandaged fingers. It was… nice. Usually he didn´t like cats, they were annoying, moody and perfidious. He never wanted to pet them, because he never could tell where these little beasts had been, but this was rather nice.

"They really are attached to your head…" he murmured and let his finger slide to the spot where the ear shaded into the scalp.

"y-y-yes, told you so right?"

Something in his voice made Midorima look at the others face and he instantly drew his hands back. Kagamis face was as red as his hair; a blush adorned his cheeks and even reached his human ears, his eyes seemed a little cloudy and Kagamis breath came out in short puffs.

"I-I`m sorry, they´re sensitive-maybe because they´re still growing but I-I don´t know…"

Midorima swallowed.

-What an appealing sight…he would look good between white bed sheets, quivering and drenching them with sweat and tears

-Oh, please shut up…

"R-right, I´m sorry for suddenly grabbing-It wasn´t adequate." His own voice didn´t seem right, the usual coldness had melted into unsure stuttering which Midorima wasn´t suited for, so the already awkward situation became even worse.

"I-it´s alright, you didn´t know so…"

In contrast to Midorima Kagami seemed to have grabbed a hold of himself quite easily again and he ran his finger through his hair, paying extra attention to not touch his ears again as he continued talking.

"This is so fucked up…" he sighed and Midorima didn´t even bother to scold him for his language because he couldn´t have said it better.

"Well, at first I grateful that you actually came, I have to admit that I didn´t expect that much and you didn´t freak out like I was afraid you would, so… thank you!"

The red head smiled with such sincerity at him that it made Midorima feel even worse having impure thoughts about the guy just one moment ago. But he still couldn´t help the fluttering in his stomach-maybe he grew an upset stomach.

"Well… it´s not like I wanted to help. But I was told that I would face a surprise today and since my day was quite normal until you called it was obvious that my encounter with you would be the surprise and I would be stupid to ignore the order of the stars."

"O-Oh, right… thanks anyway I guess, but do you, do you have any idea what is going on with me?"

Thank whoever for Kagami to be as dense as bread Midorima thought as he again focused on Kagamis ears and tails.

"Well, I would say that´s something I haven´t encountered so far. And I´m quite sure that no one has seen something like this… If something like that had happened before I would say we would know or at least I would."

Kagami visibly swallowed. "Yeah, I thought so. If the internet doesn´t know-who does, huh?" He grinned at him in a desperate manner that made Midorimas heart clench-he really needed a medical check-up. When was the last time he visited a doctor-Outside of his own home?
If he thought about it, it was already a few months ago. The only short check-up he done was after the winter cup.

"Hmh, at first let me investigate your… animal acquirements a little closer." With a short movement of his bandaged hand he assigned Kagami to sit next to him on the coach who grumbled in obvious distaste of being ordered around but sat next to him anyway, hands clenched on his thighs and eyes downwards, staring at his hands with an intensity that Midorima was afraid he would burn through them.
He sighed and pushed up his glasses. "Don´t be so tense Kagami, you wanted my help, remember?"

"I know!" Kagami shouted, finally looking at Midorima and the green haired boy needed to supress a light chuckle as he saw how red the face of the other was.

"Don´t laugh! It´s not funny!"

Midorima raised one eyebrow, "Don´t accuse me of something so silly Kagami, why should I laugh when there isn´t anything funny to laugh at?"

"Keh, ´bet you never laugh anyway!" the other snorted and pointed with his finger at Midorimas forehead. "You get wrinkles if you frown so much, y´know?"

The other thin eyebrow followed. "I don´t want that from you, anyway…" He took Kagami´s forefinger, which was still pointing at his brow. "First, you don´t point at other people like that Kagami, your mother didn´t teach you? Second… were your fingernails always this long?"

Midorima could see the exact way Kagami was processing the message.
One blink, his outer ears took in the sound of his words-the sound waves to be exact-triggering auditory and neuronal responses. Second blink-traveling through the oval window into the inner ear, moving the hair cells due to vibration of the basilar membrane. Third blink-arrival in the cortex and the temporal lobe.

"HAAAAAH?!"

Reaction.

"H-huh? Really, what the… urh, no!" Totally shocked Kagami stared at his hands and now Midorima did chuckle. "That is shocking you?" he pointed at the red ears, "After you already had dealt with these?"
Kagami scowled at him. "Well, I had time to adjust."
"Anyway, now sit still and let me have a look at your tail and ears."

Kagami nodded but still blushed lightly when Midorima again touched his ears. "Th-they´re sensitive, so be careful, ´kay?"
"I know already" he stated while pressing Kagamis head down, "bow you´re head. That way I can see it better."
"Yeah, yeah…" the other grumbled but did as he was told.
It was interesting, Midorima had already seen that the ears were really attached to his head, but right now he could even see the blue and still a little bit hot veins in the root of the ear. As he touched it, the Kagami flinched but kept still short after and the Shooting Guard could feel the vein pulsing under his fingertips. "Is that okay?", he mumbled, words he didn´t choose to say but left his mouth anyway.
As much as the other made him angry he also made him lose his cool head. Even with Takao he could keep that charade up, but Kagami got under his skin and he couldn't determine if in a bad or a good way.
"Y-yes…" a hushed whisper came from behind red bangs.

Even though Midrima was eying the ears quite close he had the feeling he couldn´t see everything, everything was still too small. Too small…
He nearly groaned-Of course.
"Wait here a moment" he told Kagami as he got up to fetch his jacket. With the magnifier in his hand he came back. Of course Oha-Asa prepared him for everything-it surely wasn´t his lucky item for nothing.
"It really grows out of your head…" he mumbled while changing from his inspection of the right to the left ear. They were both nearly the same, a little difference in the thickness of the veins but still the same.
"Told ya…"
"Hmh, interesting… turn around, so I can look at your tail." He ordered and cleaned the magnifier which fogged from his breathing.
"Yes, Sir…" the red head mocked him lightly but Midorima didn´t pay attention to it, instead focused his attention on the red tail which happily swung from the right to the left. Interesting.
With one movement, before even thinking, so deep in this so new and interesting finding, he pulled down Kagamis pants, which already hang at half eight.
The other shrieked, turning his head around and grabbing Midorimas hands which already reached out to inspect the base of Kagamis tail.
"Oi! What do you think you´re doing!" Kagami shouted and Midorima raised his eyes at his rather red face.
He´s blushing a lot today… or maybe he never saw that before.
"You wanted my help, so I need to take a look at you tail." He stated.
"B-but, don´t pull down my pants like that!"
Midorima sighed. "I´m not really looking at you right now Kagami, if that´s what you´re afraid of. It´s more like looking at an object, okay? You don´t need to be embarrassed."
Kagami swallowed, casting his eyes to the floor again.
"Okay, but give a guy a warning before you pull down his pants, would ya? I don´t know what you´re thinking when you don´t tell me…"
For a few seconds Midorima stared at the back of the teen in front of him.
"... I´m touching your tail now." He announced.
"Yes, I know-you don´t need to narrate it!" Kagami bit out.
"I thought you needed a warning."
"Keh, cheeky bastard", the red head mumbled and Midorima could hear a hiss when his fingertips touched the base of the cat tail. He shivered-he really didn´t like cats, but it wasn´t as bad as he thought it would be.

Just as the ears the veins were visible if he pushed the hair back. And it felt just as hot, probably still growing. With his hands he followed the tail to its tip, the feeling was just like the first and last time he touched a cat´s tail, just thicker and longer-more like the tail of a tiger or a lion-A tiger. Well that was funny; maybe he should laugh at that, but not right now-not when he discovered something really interesting.
Something else would be pretty interesting too…
Midorime nearly smirked, but reminded himself in the last second not to do so and the pulled. Someone would say the reaction was hilarious.
Kagami shrieked. Loud and high-like a girl.
Red, furious eyes turned at him, giving him the best glare the other got before jumping off the coach and screaming and insulting him with the whole vocabulary the other got-so the tirade ended after barely two minutes.
"So it really is connected to you over afferent pathways." Midorima stated unfazed by the numerous insults the other had thrown at his head.
"Aff-afferent what?" Thrown back by the remark Kagami blinked at him, completely forgotten about his pride.
"Afferent", Midorima repeated, " the nerves that lead towards your brain, but anyway-I would"

His coming suggestion was disturbed by a loud noise sounding through the house.
"Do you expect someone else, Kagami?" He asked although he already knew the answer by the way the smaller boy has jumped as he had heard the sound.
"No-no, I don´t…" he mumbled, the surprise and shock melting off his face, leaving a frowning and slightly wondering expression behind.
"I´ll be right back.." he called as he made his way to the door.
"Right, right", Midorima reached for his glass, now feeling how the stress he unconsciously lived through since Kagami had shown him his changings falling on his shoulder making him feel so heavy and tired. Sighing he leaned back-what a day.

"H-huh, Kuroko?"
Green eyes snapped open. Well, he should have expected it since the two players grew closer and closer, even more after the winter cup and since Kagami obviously had been busy with something at the weekend and had probably been absent on his school day his little shadow was worried and being the straight forward kind of boy he was, he uninvited visited his light. Seems like the physical laws did count for their relationship.
Sometimes Midorima caught himself wondering just how close the two really were…
"H-huh? Ah, well… I-I didn´t feel very good so…" A short pause followed in which Midorima took another sip of his soda.
"Uh, sorry I didn´t think about it…"
"Oi, don´t call me stupid, baka!" Another pause-this grew tiring, it was obvious Kuroko was waiting in front of the door, so why did they keep talking about the inter face? Sooner or later Kuroko would know about Kagami anyway and there was no way Kagami didn´t know that-even Kagamis stupidity could go this far.
"O-okay, but… please, don´t… don´t freak out okay? I-I know this is strange, but… ah well, you will see…" Kagamis voice grew quieter with every word until Midorima could barely understand him. His voice jumping back into the unsure and shy tone Midorima was faced with only a short time ago.
But, who could blame him? He must have been terrified after all these transformations happened to his body.
"Uh, Midorima? Kuroko is coming up!" He heard the red head calling.
"Yes, your conversation was loud and clear, Kagami."
"Ah, right… Sorry about that."
He sighed, "Those apologies don´t suit you Kagami, I already told you."
"Well, pardon, I was just trying to be nice, Asshole!" was shouted back and the opening of the door cut off Midorimas not so nice response.
"K-Kuroko… Hey…"
Then there was a long moment of silence, in which you could have heard a needle falling down. If Kagami would have one, which Midorima doubted to no end because he didn´t look like someone who would actually sit down and sew. Rather he would be the type to kill himself with it or before that could happen threw the needle away, just to step on it a few days later and maybe then kill himself.

"It actually suits you Kagami-kun."

Well, that was an interesting reaction although it was kind of true even when Midorima didn´t want to admit it. He quickly glanced into the small corridor and caught a view of Kagamis "red as his hair face", which he seemed to think of as quite fashionable today since Midorima saw it about hundred times already. But it didn´t grow old, even more-it would be interesting to find out if Kagami possessed any ability of controlling the blood which apparently rushed rather easily into his head and to determine the different kind of blushed Kagami was able to do. Indeed, quit interesting.

"Ha-Haaaaaah?!"

Midorima sighed. Didn´t more blood circulation stand for more activity in the area? But well, Kagami already defeated one medical fact Midorima thought to be quit steady, so why not defeating one more? If you´re already at it.

"That, that´s not a costume or something like that!"

With his head resting on his hand Midorima kept his gaze at the open entrance to the corridor. It wasn´t really hard to imagine what scene was playing behind the wall.

Kagami, with his already red face would be fuming in annoyance with clenched fists and Kuroko would just look at him with that stoic face of his, silently judging Kagami for his loss of control.

"I never said it was."

"Then what do you wanna say?!"

"It´s really rude to accuse your guest of dishonesty before even inviting him in, don´t you think Kagami-kun?"

Sneaky, sneaky Kuroko… and of course his remark didn´t miss the target.

"I didn´t even invite you! You came on your own!"

"Because Kagami-kun didn´t answer my mails, calls, missed our appointment on Saturday and didn´t come to school. I grew worried."

The honest and so straight forward answer gave Kagami the last push, making him lose his balance and on the same time make him go back to his one from before.

"Ah… yeah. Sorry about that."

"I accept your apology since I see the reason, but please give me a sign that you´re still alive the next time you undergo such a drastic… change."

"You´re always so dramatic Kuroko… I´m not going to die so easily."

"Maybe, but you´re still an idiot. You told me, that you did have a few near to death experiences in America."

"Ah, that, yeah-well and-don´t call me an idiot, would you?!"

Midorima sighed, maybe he should interfere. Who knew how long they could keep these bickering up.

"Kagami, I would say that Kuroko was right when he said that it was rude to keep a guest in the corridor." Midorima raised his voice for the first time since Kuroko had arrived.

"Good evening, Midorima-kun." The teal headed boy greeted him, keeping his usual emotionless face on, but after knowing the small guy for a long time Midorima could tell the other was surprised to see him here-well he himself was-but there was also something else he couldn´t put his finger on.
They stared at each other until a rough voice from behind Kuroko coughed, trying to chase the uncomfortable silence away Midorima himself didn´t really had noticed entering. But now being caught and pulled out of it-even in an insensitive way- he couldn´t deny that he didn´t really… appreciate of Kuroko being here.

"So Kagami-kun…" Kuroko seemingly caught himself a little faster than Midorima did and turned to his light. "I thought something might be wrong, but that…" he eyed the other from head to toe, taking in the fluffy red ears which twitched at the unwanted attention and the visible part of the tail which stood up in attention as soon as Kagamis name was called.
A gentle smile appeared on Kurokos face. Short and if he would have blinked Midorima would have missed it-like Kagami apparently did- but still a smile, giving his face nearly a… loving expression, but still containing a hue of bittersweet longing.

"Wasn´t really what I was expected. Would you care to elaborate?" For a moment only the echo of Kurokos polite voice seemed to lighten the room until Kagami sighed.
"Alright… do you want something to drink? This may take a while…"

"I expected such and yes, that would likeable."

Kagami sighed and rubbed his forehead, trying to chase away the stress which was making his entrance with a tight feeling around his head and a headache. It was already nine o´clock and in the end he had to throw Midorima and Kuroko out, who had seemed to be physical bonded to his couch and didn´t seem to really give a damn about his constant remarks about being tired and exhausted. And people told him he couldn´t take a hint.
But well, he was grateful for their help even though Kurokos reaction still scared him a bit. He had been too… normal. Sure, he never had shown many emotions but nevertheless it had been weird and the look in his eyes had also been quit strange. On the other hand, Kuroko always seemed to know more than he admitted and nearly always kept a cool head, the logic part of his brain-sometimes Kagami thought that this was the only part Kuroko had-keeping him always above the scenery.

Well, it wouldn´t do him any good thinking even more about this. He was goddamn tired.
"Just, washing these glasses and then right into bed…" he mumbled, blinking away the first attack of sleepiness. With the back of his hand he rubbed over his eyes, which dropped to invite him into the realm of Morpheus, but he still managed to keep them open. Where did that tiredness came from anyway? He didn´t even play basketball today…
"Huuh, when was the last time I didn´t play on one day?" he asked himself-not expecting an answer from his empty apartment. He couldn´t remember.
Silently he watched his hands doing all the work he had done so many times before, but he felt so far away. Everything was so dizzy. Was the world turning faster? He blinked and gave a strange sound as heat surged through his body. Shit, could it get any worse?
"Guess you need to wait for tomorrow to get clean", he told the dished waiting in the sink. Slowly turning around, trying not to move too fast so his head could compensate his surroundings, he made his way to the bedroom.
With careful movements het got rid of his pants and after that he ungraceful collapsed on his bed, slightly panting.
"Fuck…" he quietly cursed and pulled the sheets over his too hot body. When was the last day he was ill? The strange weekend didn´t count for sure since it wasn´t normal and Kagami would like to think about his life as a normal one.
"Well, doesn´t matter anyway…" he whispered before Morpheus did welcome him in his comforting darkness.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Slowly red eyes opened, glassy from fever and heavy from the sleep they were ripped off. Huh? Was there a sound? Tired and slightly confused what exactly has disturbed his sleep Kagami looked around. His room was pleasant dark, soothing is headache and body pain, which came with his fever. So, what…

"Oi, Bakagami! Open the door!"

Kagami blinked before anger took in his entire face. .Fuck.
What the hell did that bastard of Aomine Daiki do in front of his door?! And in addition his apartment door and not the main door. How the hell did get in? And why did he know where Kagami lived?

"Urgh…", he groaned. There was no way he could deal with that bastard right now. "I´m just going to ignore him. He won´t stay there forever…" he mumbled, turned over and closed his eyes again, eager to fall asleep again.
But it seemed that he underestimated Aomines persistency, because ten minutes later that bastard was still going at his door, chanting one Bakagami after another and banging his fist against the surface.
Kagamis right eyes twichted in anger. How does he dare to disturb my well-deserved sleep, at-he glanced at the clock on the window sill-eleven o´clock in the night and…

"Shit!", he cursed while jumping out of the bed. A little too fast it seemed as he needed to catch himself and keep still a moment so the world would stop moving. Then he dashed off to pull the door open in one strong movement causing his disturber to stagger in momentary confusion, stumbling inside with a few little steps before catching himself just to meet furious red eyes, glaring at him with such fire that Aomine couldn´t help but smirking at the other in such an arrogant way that send Kagamis blood boiling.
"Gotcha, I knew you were home." Aomine declared, taking off his shoes and jacket and letting both fall carelessly to the floor before he went to explore the new unknown territory, also known as Kagamis apartment.
But before he could even take a step, Kagamis hand caught the others wrist in a bruising manner, pulling him back and smashing him against the door.
"What the fuck do you think you´re doing, asshole?! Banging on my door at eleven ´clock, when people are sleeping you shithead! Leave! Now!" Kagami screamed at the blue head, forgetting about the neighbours sleeping next door and who could probably hear his screaming. Hell, the whole apartment could hear him.
"My, my, I also like to bang something other than your door-it doesn´t really have the boobs for it, but you weren´t leaving me another chance-not opening the door and shit!" The other growled and freed his hand of Kagamis grip.
"Pervert!" Kagami scowled and took a step back, groaning as the movement made him feel dizzy again. Great, his self-declared archenemy at basketball was here, in the middle of the night-well, evening-and seeing him in his weakest state and…
Kagamis eyes snapped open. Shit! His ears and… fuck! He totally forgot. With big eyes he looked up at Aomine who had grown quiet after Kagamis insult and now was… staring at him.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck…" Kagami ranted inwardly. Shit!
"K-Kagami… there is…"
"I know!" he bit out , "It´s complicated and…"
"Haah, who would have thought you would be into that Kagami!" he heard Aomine and the shit eating grin the other had on his face made his stomach bubble in anger. "Trying to seduce me here, Kitty-Cat?" Aomine murmured, his voice dropping so deep that it even send chills down Kagamis spine and not the kind of chills he wanted.
"H-Huh?" he stuttered and awkwardly took two steps back. A distance Aomine quickly caught up to.
"Of course not!" He blurted out.
Why the hell do I feel like I need to defend myself? This is ridiculous!
"Hmh then…" Aomine raised one elegant hand to Kagamis one ear, "what is the reason for you to be wearing something like this, Kagami?" The touch was light as a feather, but still made Kagamis head spin and his body sweat. Deep blue eyes penetrating him with a hot gaze and everything seemed to be in a blur, slow and warm and… too warm, too slow and way too blurry. Aomines dark handsome-wait, handsome?!-face became indistinct and although he could see the mouth of the other moving, he couldn´t hear a word he was saying.
"Aomine…" he whispered, his voice low and rough, "I think I´m going to pass out…"
His eyes fluttered, his legs slowly gave out and everything became so heavy.
"And pick up your things from the floor bastard", he mumbled before everything became darkness again and warmness surrounded him. A body? It felt like arms, but who?

With a dramatic gesture Aomine wiped the not existing sweat from his forehead and stared at the heavy guy he just had carried to bed and who was now curling into a ball, pulling his leg up to his stomach and angled his arms, so he slept on one of his upper arms. Then he eyed the tail, which protectively curled around the boys' lower body and the ears which seemed finally relax.
He sighed-what the hell? He had tried to pull them off, only to discover there was no way he could and then he realized that they were reacting to his touch, tremor under his fingers or trying to escape them by moving annoyingly fast away.

"Well, no answers for that right now, so…" He took a look at the body of his favourite rival again (he would never tell anyone that kind of thing and deny it forceful but no one could steal his thoughts, huh?) and smirked. Well it had been a sight-being greeted by an angered Kagami, standing there only in his boxers and a T-Shirt with a red face and fiery eyes, which rivalled the furiousness of an animal which got ready for a fight, wasn´t that bad. But still… forgetting about their match this afternoon and not having the grace to even message, letting the other sit there on the court for over an hour wasn´t a nice thing to do. No one ever dared to make Aomine wait and he didn´t have the intention to begin making exceptions.

To go to the others house has been a one second decision, a thing Aomine was extremly good at, and to find it wasn´t as difficult as he thought it would be since they always played on the court which was near to Kagamis flat, as the other always said.
And as he now stared at the frame of the other Ace it was a goddamn decision. Sighing he pulled the covers over Kagamis sweating body. As he had collapsed against Aomines body he nearly burnt his own skin by the hotness pulsing from the other. This idiot ran a fucking high fever. And hadn´t Aomine been nice to ring him out of his healthy sleep. Which didn´t mean he felt guilty-well, maybe a little, but he would handle it like always: With persisted ignoring, another thing he was quit good at as long as it didn´t interfere with the things he desired to claim. And he really wasn´t sure about that anymore.
"Well, gonna deal with that tomorrow, huh?" he mumbled to himself, catching a quick glance on the others face-trying to ignore the strange tightness in his chest and throat. An angry Kagami was good, but this peaceful, although still a little painful expression due to the fever, was also good-maybe even better.
"What am I thinking", he whispered, closing the bedroom door behind him and going to the living room. School would be boring anyway and he was so curious about Kagamis cat things, so there was no helping it-he would sleep here and confront the other in the morning and maybe enjoy his angry face a little bit more.
Pulling the blanket he had found in an open box under the glass table in front of the sofa he closed his eyes. Tomorrow surely would be interesting. And he forgot to pick up his jacket-oh well…

Sooo, what did you think? Tell me, tell me, tell me! Just like Midorima I´m always curious! Any good or too strange or something?

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