"Talking"

'Thoughts'

'Flashbacks'

Hello everyone! I finally got time to sit down and actually write a story. Thank you all for taking the time to read this. So without further ado. I present you, The Brightest Light!

Oh, and I don't own Naruto or Kuroko no Basuke.

"You guys! Take off your shirts!"

A stiff silenced followed, until:

"Maa, getting friendly with us already Aida-chan?" Naruto said, a huge grin on his face, getting a noticeable twitch from her.

"Well, I guess I can obliged." Taking the initiative he took off his shirt, prompting the rest of the first-years to follow.

He watched as Aida started down the line making her observations as she goes. He chuckled slightly, she was pretty good.

"What? How did she know that?" One of the members asked

"Her dad's a sports trainer. She lives for this stuff," replied Hyuga.

When she finally stopped in front of Kagami, he saw her freeze, for like a few minutes. It actually got kind of creepy.

Kagami was built well, but the Generation of Miracles were much better. One thing Kagami had going for him was his height. He only reached just past his shoulder.'Bigger isn't always better.'

Seeing that she wasn't going to snap out of it he said, "See something you like Aida-chan?"

Snapping out of her daze, her eyes continued to the last member.

"Uzumaki-san," she gave him a deadly glare, "I don't think I like you acting so friendly."

He smile in response. His smile didn't fade when she walked up to him, trying to observe him, only to see her eyes widen.

'Uzumaki Naruto, hmm,' she looked down at his application. Under his reason to play, all it said was, 'Maa, don't worry about it.'

A tick mark appeared on her face. 'I can't read him and I have no information on him. This is unusual. Who are you?'

The grin never left his face as he thought, 'You won't be seeing anything from me, I'm not here to play.'

"What's wrong coach?" Naruto asked. He reached his hand out and put it atop of Kuroko's head, he felt her pout and sighed a bit.

She was being smart, 'I'm surprised she's holding herself so well, I see her skills at being manipulative haven't gotten worse.'

"Nothing," she muttered, thoroughly confused. How do you even hide stats? It was like he never even took his shirt off. He did have stats, don't get her wrong, there was numbers associated with each part of his body, but the first two numbers were hidden. For all she could know, he could be anywhere from 5,000 to even possibly, 10,000.

From what she could observe he looked well built, his arms were lean, the muscles obvious from his arms, he legs were sharp and she could see how much time he put into his speed. He would be scary fast with legs like those and his midsection looked normal for a basketball player. He was much shorter than Kagami standing around 5'6''. If she had to guess, he would be about the same strength as him. He had bright yellow hair and from his height, she assumed he played point guard.

While she was trying to gauge his strength, he couldn't help but laugh as he knew nobody notice Kuroko.

"Hey, don't forget her," he patted her head, hands going through her hair, it was as soft as he remember.

"Her?" Everyone followed his arm, their eyes finally settling on a girl.

She was pretty short, shorter than even Naruto who seemed like he was the shortest here. She had beautiful teal hair that reached down her back and her face looked fragile, like she could easily be shattered. Her arms and legs were pristine and there was no obvious muscle on them. Her stomach was flat and while it was hard to tell by just looking at it, Aida could see the work that was put in there. One thing bother Aida, not that she seemingly appeared out of nowhere, nor the fact that Uzumaki saw her there. No, what bother her, was the fact that she was beautiful.

"Wah!"

"Uzumaki-san, please stop that," slightly glaring at Naruto.

'Uzumaki-san, huh.' He sighed

Not taking his hand off her head, he laughed saying, "Who would of thought the Phantom Princess was so cute?"

He thought, 'I might as well play along, I'm sure she has her reasons.'

While the two of them bantered back and forth, Aida and the rest of the team couldn't help but think one thing: when did she get there?

She was about to check out her stats, when she noticed one thing, "Where is your shirt?"

"You said to take it off," Kuroko deadpanned.

"But, what? The, guys, y-you know!"

The mentioned guys all of a sudden found the ground very interesting.

Kuroko had given up on stopping Naruto from rubbing her head, and gave Aida a blank stare and no response.

Regaining her senses, she looked over Kuroko's stats. A frown creased her face, 'This doesn't make any sense. These aren't the stats of a Generation of Miracles' member.'

She would have to talk to her dad later. 'Wait! If what she said was true, Teiko had a female on their team. Why did nobody know this?' She vaguely heard stories about the phantom sixth player, she expected something more.

Before finishing up, she noticed one more thing, 'She's bigger than me by at least two cups.' A deathly aura appeared around her, silencing the gym.

"Ahhaha, couch, you're scaring everyone."

"What was they Hyuga-kun?"

"Nothing!"

Slap!

"Naruto-kun, what are you doing here after all these years?"

He rubbed his face, he deserved that.

"Ow. I see that you're acting friendly now, Kuroko-chan," looking down at her, "You're even more like Akashi-kun than you'd like to imagine."

He immediately regretted his words. The slight narrowing of her brows, the way her fist clenched.

A hand came out of nowhere.

Another slap rang out in the silence.

She harshly spoke, "I am nothing like him. This is the first thing you say to me?"

She felt a hand on her head, slightly seething, tears stinging her eyes, the pain of what happened at Teiko was still too much for here to bear, "Naruto-kun take your head off my head," she choked out.

"Fine," he trailed his hand down to the side of her face, "look at me."

Her eyes slowly made her way to his, "Tears don't suit you," he softly spoke, carefully wiping them away from her eyes.

"It wasn't an insult. You're always thinking of the future, planning and scheming. Akashi-kun was always good at that, or he at least seemed that way and now I can see it's true. I know you hate what they've become, but I'll help you bring them back to playing like a team. I might have left for a while, but I still remember naming them."

"N-Naruto-kun," a tinge of pink hitting her cheeks, as she buried her head into his shoulder. He was always there for her.

She couldn't stop the tears from leaking out of her eyes, "thank you. What are you doing here?"

Chuckling lightly, he wrapped his arm around her. Standing there as she cried into him, he smiled. "It's been a long while," he paused and took a deep breath, "I'm sorry... I'm so, so sorry." His bangs fell over his eyes. Leaving her was his biggest regret.

"You never answered my question," she muffled into his shoulder.

"Let's just say, the Generation of Miracles needs a wake up call. I left when they were still growing. I don't know what happened to them but their final games, if you can even call them games." He scoffed.

"They were more like five agaisnt one and they were the one, not like it stopped them. Winning became way too much for Akashi-kun. But I think Kagami-kun can help us, he has the potential."

She pulled herself away, looking slightly bashful, "I was on the way to talk to him."

"Like Akashi-kun indeed."

She gave him a light glare and hit his shoulder while she asked, "Are you going to play again?"

"If it comes down to it, maybe, but, no, I'm here to improve your style."

She was just feeling better too.

"What?" Eye twitching, she wiped the remaining tears away and quickly remarked, "My styles pretty good."

Shaking his head, smiling, 'She still has her pride.'

"Yes, but what happens when the team can't use your skills effectively? It didn't happen when you played for Teiko, but, unfortunately, Seirin might not always be able to. Don't worry, the team won't have to know.

I'm sure you'll save it to see the looks on their face, when you blow past the 'Miracles,' believe it! Besides, Riko-chan is a good coach, she'll help everyone else, she won't be able to help you as much."

"How do you know?" He seems much more analytical than before.

"Your style is very unique. I know of people who specialize in Misdirection but they usually have well rounded skills, once their Misdirection loses it's effectiveness. I won't be able to improve your Misdirection, I think you're already one of the best I know. We are going to improve something else. Anyway," giving her his signature smile, he started to walk away, only to turn around and say, "don't you have a player to screw with?"

Watching his back fade away, she could help but think, 'Naruto-kun, what did you do in America?'

"What, we are playing the second-years? But, they made it to the finals even though they were a first year team!"

"We're so screwed."

"Maa, coach, since we have six first years, I'll sit out on this one." Naruto said, striding to stand next to the coach. "I'm not that good anyway."

Suspiciously watching him, Aida thought, 'Somethings fishy here, I have to keep an eye on him. He seems to know Kuroko-chan, but he's not a Miracle player. Well, maybe he doesn't know her, but she hardly talks to anyone else as much as she talks to him.'

Deep in her thoughts, the game commenced, shaking her out of them. Her eyes focused on the game, she saw watched Kagami, impressed by his skills. He alone allowed the first years to gain a slight lead by the first part of the game.

"Kagami-kun is pretty impressive." Naruto stated.

"Yes, but the second years are going easy, if Kagami-kun can't get the ball, he can't score. Hyuga-kun knows this. He isn't the captain for nothing."

Naruto smile, "I know."

She glanced at Naruto, slightly wary of that smile, it looked like he was scheming. She said nothing and continued to watch the game.

Part way through the second quarter, she look proud. She was happy that her returners were doing so well. Eyes widening, she watched a pass fly from nowhere and it let Furihata score, she felt uneasy.

She finally saw Kuroko and how she was passing. She let out a small gasp, 'This is the the power of the phantom player.' But, to have someone like this in front of her, along with Kagami, she let out a dreamy sigh. 'This year looks promising.'

When Kurko finally was on a breakaway, Aida held her breath, what more can she show us? What followed was the worst layup she had ever seen. She facepalmed, how do you miss such an easy layup?

Thankfully Kagami was there to follow it up, but still.

Beside her, Naruto let out a hearty laugh.

Chapter End.

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