Kise was deathly scared of birds and anything bird-related. He had always been.

That's why he found himself dressed like a clown, standing right in front of Tokyo's most famous and busy mall, at the command of Aomine Daiki.

Sometimes Kise wondered just why he complied?!

And why had he ever told Ahominecchi about his phobia?

After half an hour of being snickered at by the passing people, he was on the verge of tears… He could't run away or change because the heartless Ahomine was watching from somewhere Kise couldn't see him. Only half an hour to go! That was the deal! Then Baka-Aominecchi won't have any excuse to keep me here ~ssu! the poor blond thought, comforting himself.

He wasn't going to get his much deserved break so easily though, for he could see none other than Haizaki Shougo coming in the distance. Groaning, he hoped that he would not recognize him and just pass by without paying any mind.

That wasn't gonna happen though. Haizaki, recognizing him despite the hideous disguise, smirked as he made his way towards the poor blond.

Although shaking with fear on the inside, Kise managed to keep his cool and pretended that he didn't see the looming threat. Haizaki had a special talent though. He knew everyone's worst fears from Teiko days, including his. Uh-oh!...Aominecchi!...Save me!

He had probably seen the obvious fear in the blonds' eyes: as he was getting closer, he bent down, picked something up and continued coming slowly, ominously towards Kise.

Kises' sixth sense was screaming that Haizaki had picked up a feather, but he chose to ignore it and keep looking ahead, instead of the direction where the silver-haired teen was coming from. He noticed too late, when Haizaki had come closer, with his evil, taunting smirk on, that it indeed was a feather!

The blond froze for a moment. He forgot to breathe. With every step Haizaki took, he could feel his heartbeat faster.

When he was a couple feet away, he held the hideous thing out towards Kise, grinning maniacally.

That was it!

Kise had instantly backed-up against the wall, screaming his lungs out; that didn't seem to stop Haizaki, who's grin only widened and moved even closer!

Now Kise was moving against the wall, away from the object of his nightmares, screaming at the top of his lungs- with Haizaki still following his movements!

Just as Kise thought he was at a safe-enough distance, he bolted towards the road…or tried to, because he ended up bumping into a hard, broad chest clad in a white v-neck tee-shirt. The figure wrapped a protective arm around the poor, shaking blond before moving him aside and stepping between him and Haizaki.

Knowing that he was safe, the pale-as-death blond let out a sigh of relief... Aominecchi so cool!...But what took him so long? I nearly had a heart-attack!

Grabbing Haizaki's feather-holding hand, Aomine glared at him and told him to drop the feather. Haizaki just scoffed and threw a punch at him, to throw him off-balance so he could continue scaring the living-hell out of Kise.

Aomine, however, wasn't so easy to throw-off and just twisted this hand, hard.

"Ow! Let go, bastard!" howled Haizaki in pain.

Aomine wasn't fazed. "Let go," he drawled almost lazily, but his rage was simmering as he gave a painful twist to his arm. "I'll break your arm if you don't," he added in a clipped tone, and seeing as Haizaki still held the offending feather in hand, intention not changed yet, he threw in a punch for good measure, "and you know I can do that."

Finally, Haizaki limply let go of the darned object, glaring daggers at Kise as he tried to soothe his hurt pride.

Giving him a shove backwards, Aomine let go and turned towards his sobbing blond, who had started crying when the oaf had lunged at him again, and hugged him tight. Just as they were about to go, Aomine turned back to the beat-up Haizaki and warned one last time "One more thing. You ever try to hurt or scare my Kise in any way, I'll put you on a hospital bed for good."