"You're late, Kise." Aomine let out a growl. The bluenette doesn't look a bit pleased. He had been waiting for 3 minutes, and Aomine wasn't exactly a patient man. Kise only let out a small smile play in his lips- a sheepish grin that looks a bit... fearful? And why is his senpai here? "You're the Kaijou guy- captain right?" Aomine could slightly remember the man who had led him to a foul- the short, yet hot-tempered and brave guy.

"Are you being Kise's chaperon?" Like him or not, he doesn't really appreciate his one-on-one practice match interrupted.

"Yeah- this stupid junior of mine ask me to come here." Kasamatsu explained offhandedly. Truth be told, he never want to come and interrupt their tete-a-tete.

"What?" Aomine was pissed. "Is he afraid of being alone with me?"

Why wasn't the blond saying anything?

Kise shook his head. He wanted to be alone with Aomine- joke with him, teases him. But he couldn't. He never knew being so close with someone yet not being able to interact with them would be so painful. Maybe he should start empathizing with the story of little mermaid.

Kasamatsu cast a glance to Kise that said, "It wouldn't work, Kise. This is too much of a pain. Handle it yourself."

Kise, alarmed, whispered to Kasamatsu, "Senpai, please- Aominecchi, he-"

For some reason, the way they whispered behind Aomine pisses him even more. He dislike it, how the two of them seemed to close. Maybe he was just territorial- and he considered Kise and the whole generation of miracles as his territory. But actually, he doesn't feel that way when he saw Midorima hanging around with his friends. So maybe its just Kise and Kuroko.

"Enough chattering. Let's just play, Kise." Aomine seethed, his teeth showing. A hostile posture, a predature's glare.

Kasamatsu looked at Aomine thoughtfully for a minute, before saying, "Alright, Aomine, I'll leave him with you." And a knowing smile flashes on his lips.

Aomine towered over Kise- who's blinking for a second and who's about to turn around to stop his senpai from leaving. "What is he, your father or something?"

Kise opened his lips, trying to reply, yet nothing came out of his lips. Instead a choking sensation came through his throat, constricting. He spluttered out a cough, his tongue felt like burning.

"Oi, Kise." A hand touched him, "What is it?"

Kise's skin immediately bristled from the touch. He felt like he had touched a boiling stove.

He felt as if he had been pricked by needles.

"Senpai-" He find himself shouting, "Senpai, help-"

Tears was forming on his eyes, and his chest felt like it had been crushed mercilessly. In an instance, Kasamatsu came and Kise immediately hugs him.

"Senpai- I-" His last words were whispered on the other's ear, "Aominecchi, I can't touch him."

"Kise, what the hell's wrong with you?" Aomine asks, he hates the fact that Kise didn't hug him and hug Kasamatsu instead. But his anger doesn't conceal his concern. Kise looks to be in pain when he touches him.

"Sorry, Aomine, things got out of hand." Kasamatsu said, "I'll be taking him away. He's not feeling well."

"And who are you to know that?" Aomine growled, "Hell- he met me first than he met you." Yet he trusts you more than he trusts me, that part was left unsaid.

"There's no need to be jealous, Aomine." Kasamatsu said- slightly pissed. "Its not at all what you think it is."

"Then fucking explain it to me."

"I will-" Kasamatsu said, and hits Aomine by the head. This boy is seriously pissing him off, "And don't use that word against me when you're fucking younger than me."

"Senpai, don't hit Aominecchi." Kise said, releasing his grip from the other man, frowning on him.

But that only earned a punch on his head. "Don't say that when you're the source of all this headache, dumbass."

Aomine swallowed all his anger, "So what's happening."

"Kise here got cursed. By a girl whose heart he broke." Kasamatsu said.

"Senpai-" Kise begged, don't tell Aominecchi about the love part.

"I know he deserves that. But that kind of lie is so stupid." Aomine said, "So what's the curse about?"

"He's not allowed to touch and talk to the person he cares about." Kasamatsu said.

The knowledge descended on Aomine slowly, his face turning a deeper shade of red. "C-care?"

Kise was also turning very very red. He hoped he could dig a hole and disappear.

"Yeah." Kasamatsu said. "He obviously cares a lot about you that he simply can't leave you alone- even though he knew he can't talk or touch you- that's why he asked me to accompany him to a stupid one-on-one match, what- are you still jealous?"

"I-I'm not jealous, dammit." Aomine said, burying his face in his hands. In a very manly way, of course. "To begin with, I'm not even gay."

Kise knew the fact- yet when Kise hear it firsthand it hurts. Before he knew it, his eyes were already stinging.

Kasamatsu said, "The fact that he cares for you doesn't mean that he is interested sexually in you. But you immediately assumed that-" For some reasons, he felt guilty that he just broke Kise's hopes, so he said that, but before he finished his words, Kise was already covering his lips.

"Its enough, senpai." There's a tremble in those words, and it didn't took much for Kasamatsu to notice that Kise's crying in the inside. "Let's just leave."

"I get it, Kise." Kasamatsu said, dragging the blond away.

And Aomine was left feeling more lonely than ever before.