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Chapter 11: Chaser

The sound of the punch striking on the air is sharp. The loud crash of the body against the floor comes soon. Kiyoshi quietly watches in the corner, arms crossed over his chest. His mind reels back a few days ago. His lips press in a straight line.

He remembers Kuroko in all his smallness, crouched in a corner, shoulders shaking as he pours his heart out to him. He was reduced to that form all due to Kagami Taiga, their Kagami Taiga who probably knew nothing pass outside the basketball court, their oblivious ace.

Kuroko Tetsuya a mystery in flesh has fallen in the mercy of Kagami Taiga.

There is no mistaking it now, Kiyoshi looks at his hand. Kuroko Tetsuya has the hands of a person who is an expert of combat. It is almost surprising especially for someone like Kuroko, his body is almost similar to Furihata, he didn't have much of visible muscle, his height is almost short for his age. Anyone can be fooled, anyone. If he wasn't that close to him, if he wasn't that cautious he would have missed it too. Kuroko Testuya is a highly trained individual who could—can—kill Kagami at will and yet…

No, he…it's the only logical explanation, however if that is his goal then how come those expression those…emotions. It seems too genuine to be a farce.

Is he wrong about him or they were simply caught in Kuroko's grand scheme?

"Hey."

Kiyoshi hears Aida Riko greets him, he turns to her and finds her walking to him. The brunette looks at him with a concerned expression. It has been a long while since Kiyoshi stepped foot in the Aida family owned dojo. When Kiyoshi was younger, he used to train under Aida's family and he is exceptional. His big built and power often reduces his opponents easily, however his growing need for stronger and more powerful opponents became danger to others. As soon as Kiyoshi noticed this thirst he stepped down.

"I hope you don't mind me hanging around." Kiyoshi says with a smile.

Aida shakes her head, "That's fine but I'm really bothered, what brings you here now?"

Kiyoshi sighs. Honestly, he doesn't really want to discuss this. If possible he wants to keep this secret to himself especially back then he doesn't know what Kuroko's intentions really are but now…

"I think we should talk to Kagami."

"Huh?" Aida raises an eyebrow, "Ah he had a fight with his friend, but I mean that idiot has probably very few friends, I guess he didn't know better. I've let him off hook this time."

"That's not what I mean." Kiyoshi says.

"Then what?"

"Kuroko wants to kill Kagami."

"Ha?"

Kiyoshi shakes his head, he knows this sounds ridiculous. However, why would someone like Kuroko suddenly appear out of the thin air, enrol in Seirin—in Kagami's class—and suddenly become close to him. It is suspicious from the beginning and those hands…He is definitely no ordinary kid.

"Do you remember Haizaki Shougo?"

Aida shivers at the name of that kid. Haizaki Shougo once stood against Kiyoshi, the boy is the son of a prominent martial artist, raised to remember every weakness of the human body from external force, his eyes sneers at his opponent, cold and merciless. He would not bat an eye before breaking, crushing and putting down a man who is twice his built.

"When I saw his eyes, I knew that he would not hesitate to injure me—or kill." Kiyoshi feels the ache of his injury that day, he broke his knee that day. That was his first lose. "When I saw Kuroko, when I looked at his eyes and touched his hand I felt the exact fright I felt when I saw Haizaki."

"T-That's…how? I did not notice, he's just…no I mean Kuroko—"

"He's good at concealing them for normal people, but when he saw me, he was alarmed—he knew me."

"You're just overanalysing."

Aida says and turns her back at Kiyoshi.

"And if I'm not?"

Aida stops.

"What will we do if I'm not? Riko, what if I'm not?"

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"What's gotten to you?"

Aomine asks as he wipes off the sweat off his forehead with his shirt. He looks again at Kagami who stood in the three points area while dribbling the ball, the red head's eyes is fixated on the hoop with an expression that's mixture of irritation and something else. Aomine has been good friends with Kagami for a while now, though none of them would ever admit to that.

Aomine met Kagami through Kise, the blonde model whose father is an American, often returns to America during his long vacations to see his family there and apparently the two were neighbours. Kise and Aomine have been in a relationship for quite some time, when Aomine once joined Kise in his vacation he met Kagami and basically played basketball every afternoon until the couple's last day in America. The three kept in touch since then until Kagami came back to Japan.

After returning to Japan, Kagami found out the two were each other high school's basketball aces. The blonde model is Kaijo's ace while Aomine is Too Academy's.

The dark skinned teen sighs as he hears the ball bounced against the side of the ring. That was Kagami's third miss today. The red head may not be the best scorer when it comes to three points but he does not miss consecutively.

"Are you gonna talk about it or you'll just keep glaring daggers at the hoop until your eyeballs fall off?"

Kagami doesn't answer Aomine which is also something new. The red head always has something to say back. The red head sighs and walks to the bench. He sits down and draped a towel over his face.

"I fucked up."

"I pretty much get that," Aomine replies almost rolling his eyes, "When did you not."

Kagami doesn't even bother to answer that instead raised his middle finger at the other.

"You gotta be more specific." Aomine says.

Kagami sighs and removes the towel out of his face. He looks at his friend who looks at him as usual—like he's a shit. That aside, Kagami finds himself wondering. When Kagami met Kise, the blonde admitted that he has a boyfriend. It didn't shock Kagami, not that he looked anything remotely close to the stereotype gays or queers, but the fact that Kagami was the kind of person who rarely even cared about what people's sexuality, after all he believes that the only thing that divides people is their behaviour and respect towards themselves and others.

He found the two's relationship quite something, Kise isn't always with Aomine. The blonde studies in a different school and works as a model, Kise spends a week of his vacation in US and leaves Aomine with only a few days before Kise has to return back to his work. However, never once they looked as if they were growing tired of each other. Maybe their relationship isn't perfect, Aomine would whine about how extra Kise can be a times, sometimes Kise calls Kagami to complain how Aomine makes their shared apartment look like a horrible mess.

They could argue over almost anything.

"Who confessed to who?" Kagami asks making Aomine raised an eyebrow.

"What?" Aomine asks, "The hell do you mean?"

"You and Kise I mean." Kagami says, "Who confessed first?"

Aomine almost choked in his own breath, he feels blush creep in his cheeks as he remembers that very day.

"W-Why you wanna know now?" Aomine says almost grumbling.

"I'll tell you if you tell me."

"The fuck?" Aomine curses, "No shit you tell me first—"

"I asked first." Kagami replies, "Besides why you chicken now?"

Aomine sighs and flops down next to Kagami, he glares at the red head, "If you fucking tell Kise I told you, I will tie your balls to a rock and hang you upside down to some tree."

Kagami doesn't say anything. He waits until Aomine starts talking.

When Aomine met Kise it wasn't really something someone would call romantic.

Aomine isn't anybody's son, he was Aomine Keitaro's son. His father's work on the construction business is only a farce, the truth is he works underground. His mother often told his father to quit it but his quitting for someone as deep as he is would be very difficult. Staying has more pros than leaving. Basically, friends were not Aomine's specialty, his mother often told him he got his father's short fuse.

Due to his father's work, Aomine inevitably got mixed in trouble, and then one day on his way back home, he saw him. No, no, not Kise but someone that made his blood boil—Haizaki Shougo. The son of a hired killer dressed as a professional martial artist always seems to just click all the bad buttons for Aomine. He saw him there, hands on the collar of another middle school student, and he just felt like landing a punch on the face of that proud self-assured asshole.

Later after a few bruises and Haizaki's bleeding nose, he found Haizaki's victim grabbing him and going in for a run—that was Kise. The blonde explained that Haizaki's girlfriend apparently decided he likes the blonde better and that made the idiot angry enough to corner Kise.

Aomine didn't know, it was stupid, he still too high from the brawl and asked the blonde to play basketball with him.

He didn't know when exactly he fell for him, he just did.

When it happened, Kise and he was just playing basketball. Kise got defeated, they were sitting in the middle off the court, there was a towel draped around the blonde's neck. He was wearing his shirt too, it was one of those borrowed items that just seem too nice on the other to ask to be returned. He was laughing while telling him something that happened during the blonde's photoshoot, then he blurted it out.

"I like you. We should date."

"I did." Aomine answers finally.

"How did he react?"

"Ha? Well he thought I was joking for good three days until I had to spell it out for him."

"Spell it out, how?"

Aomine smirks at Kagami, "Oh you wouldn't want to know."

Kagami blushed to the tips of his ears, okay, he really obviously don't want to know what happened there.

"Why you asking anyways?"

Kagami is quiet making Aomine even more curious. Kagami never really asked about how their relationship came to be, instead Kagami often treated their relationship more like a normal one. Aomine was honestly shock to know from Kise that he found a friend whom he had told about their relationship and did not bat an eye, instead replied with a question on how long have they been together and how were things between them.

"I think…No, I like someone."

Aomine's eyes widen, that is definitely new. Kagami has never shown interest in the opposite sex or anyone at that. The red head always talked about food and basketball. He has friends but he never saw anyone more than that.

"And you don't know how to confess?" Aomine asks.

Kagami groans. Ah, he is way passed that. On the second thought maybe he could have asked before letting his mouth ran.

"I like a guy."

"So? You don't want to be gay?"

Kagami shakes his head, "I don't give a shit about that but—"

"But what?"

"I think he might be straight and—I don't know I think I might have not been subtle a-and maybe I scared him?"

"You always scare people what's new." Aomine replies, "And what the hell did you do anyways?"

Silence….

"Seriously Kagami?"

"I may have…kissed him and forced him to like me?"

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The next moment were filled with unwarranted laughter coming from Aomine. The dark skinned basketball ace clutched his stomach as he laughs out loud, oh he wish Kise is here. His jaw almost hurts from laughing but the Kagami Taiga, the oblivious idiot who knew nothing aside from eating and dunking basketballs can actually be like that? Oh this would surely go down to history.

"You sound like the fucking bocchan you are." Aomine says in between laughs. "I don't even want to imagine because I bet I'm definitely laughing until tomorrow morning if I do."

"Yeah, haha, funny." Kagami replies sarcastically, "You do know I'm a bit emotionally hurt right now, yeah?"

Aomine waves his hand in dismissal at Kagami, "You're fine."

"Like hell I'm fine!" Kagami exclaims, "How do I even?"

"I don't know what the hell you mean but you just get around, if he doesn't like you then move on, better luck next time."

"Y-You don't get me, I…I can't like anyone else."

"Every first—" cough, "love, seems irreplaceable, but that's life, you don't get the things you want just because you like it. Didn't you say that before?"

"He's just. He's different."

"Uh-huh."

"And I…I know it's not that he doesn't like me."

Aomine chuckles, "So you think he likes you now?"

"No, seriously." Kagami says, "My gut tells me something off, when he told me he doesn't like me, I feel like I know he's lying."

"You're sounding creepier and creepier every second."

Kagami glares at Aomine, "Yeah says the gay man who despite the fact of being loyal, has kinks towards big boobs."

"Fuck you, is it illegal?"

Kagami sighs and rests his back against the backrest of the bench, he stares at the light of the street post. His hands unconsciously shoots to message his chest where his heart lays, hurt and rejected.

After the incident Kuroko just ran off, he didn't say anything.

A no would have been better than nothing, it's as if he has left him hanging there. Its ridiculous to say but he felt empty, like Kuroko just took a big chunk of him with him when he ran away.

"Can you just kill me now?" Kagami murmurs to the air.

"Well first of, it's not like you're not going to see this person again anyways, right?"

"He's in my class."

"Wow, well that would be awkward but that's how it works. It's either he will reciprocate or he will not. Whatever his answer is you have to get your balls together and accept that." Aomine says, "Or you can always be an asshole and force him."

"Fuck you."

"No thank you, I'm loyal." Aomine says grinning.

Kagami rolls his eyes and stand up from the bench. He starts to get his things together.

"Anyways whose the unlucky kid?"

Kagami doesn't answer for a while and busies himself packing back his things. Aomine hears his phone beep from his bag and he takes it. Kise texted him a picture of his new photobook making him smile. Looking up he finds Kagami almost done with his things.

"Thanks, I have a class tomorrow I should go." Kagami says.

"Sure, I'll wait for Kise here."

Kagami nods and slings his bag to himself, "About the guy…he's name's Kuroko Tetsuya."

Aomine blinks, that sounds familiar.

"See you two around, say hi to blondie for me."

As soon as Kagami bids his goodbye, Aomine's eyes widen. He almost dropped his phone on the ground.

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Kuroko Tetsuya…

He's heard of that name before definitely, it's a name very few are lucky enough to know or even speak of—Kuroko Tetsuya, the prodigy of the Kuroko Clan, the underground family that was raised and taught to kill. The name was often spoken in a hush, he was compared to his predecessor, Akashi-Kuroko Tetsumi for his stealth and efficiency that no other hired killers can achieve but he never showed his face in public before.

Aomine feels the sense of danger in the air.

When a predator leaves his den, he is most definitely hunting.