Yay nice to meet you everyone! I'm not a newbie but not a profesional one too, but finally I can finish this! This story is inspired by a comic made by Taamo with the same title, but with my own storyline and of course..Kurokaga will make it different with their basketball! oh yeah, there won't be any Kiseki no sedai taking part in this, so if you're not Kurokaga fans, you'd better leave now. I'm sorry for my bad english! Please dont blame me too much on it, okay?

Disclaimer : Fujimaki Tadatoshi sensei, I do not own Kurobasu

Kagami became a little too melancholic here

Ah, and could you spare the typo? Heheh

The Boy From the Sleeping Country

What is that kid doing there alone?

Little Kagami wondered as he walked pass a mini basketball court. He saw a kid –maybe around his age too?- holding a ball and just stared offly at the ring. This is the first time Kagami walked to that street, and there's not so many person who went there. Only himself, walking down the road that afternoon.

"Hey you there" Kagami actually came to the kid. The other kid's expression weren't changing at all, but now he came to stare at Kagami rather than the ring. "What are you doing here?"

"Ah" wow,he actually speak? at a second Kagami thought he was a ghost or something." I am playing basketball"

"Basketball? I've played that one time in my school and that's boring" Kagami wavered his hand to the smaller boy.

"No it's not" the kid gave the ball to Kagami. "I actually were thinking to search for someone to play together, it is boring if you play it alone by yourself"

"I don't say I want to-" but when Kagami saw that sparkling blue eyes of that kid, Kagami was hesitating for a moment. "Okay then" he finally said, nodding. The other boy seemed happy.

They played it for hours, unconciously. Kagami always grumbled when his shots missed. Kuroko laughed at that. And Kagami found this was interesting. Basket is interesting. Especially when I play it with him, he thought.

"It's getting late" the boy stopped dribbling his ball. "We should go home"

"Ehh?" Kagami pouted. He truly enjoyed the game,though.

"We can play again tomorrow, at the same time" the blue haired boy smiled gently.

"Really? Okay! That's a promise then!" Kagami didn't know why he became really excited about it, but he put up his pinky finger after all.

"Um, I promise" they joined their pinky finger and say goodbye.

Kagami went home to find that he was going to move to America the following day. The parents told him before, but he just remember it when he saw all the things in his house were packed.

"But mom, I was having this promise with that kid! To play again with him tomorrow!" Kagami protested as his mom pat his head.

"No, we'll have to leave at early morning,dear. I told it to you already by yesterday right?"

"But..but.."

"Quit complaining and go to bed" Kagami couldn't answer that. He felt really guilty but he couldn't do anything against his mother.

'I'm sorry, but I can't keep our promise..I hope you just get angry at me, making you wait all day long, and forget me the very next day, and find new friends..maybe?' Kagami's mind wandered as the plane started to take off. But he didn't truly hoped for that. Maybe what he truly wished was..to meet that kid again, someday.

That was happened ten years ago, when kagami was just six years old. He grew into a big tall guy who loved basketball very much, and yeah..he forgot that kid easily after all.

He played it at America and became fond of it. He even found his rival-who became his big bro- Himuro, and he was a great player. But then Himuro suddenly said that he wants to challenge Kagami and if Kagami win, he will stop being Kagami's big bro, because big bro have to be stronger than his younger. Kagami knew he was better, far far better than Himuro. He knew that if they're going to a duel, he would win. He didn't want that. He wanted Himuro to stay as his big bro. If playing meant losing then it was better for himto not playing at all.

So he didn't come to the duel. He left for Japan. He felt really sad but now he really hate it. Basketball.

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"You there! Your body.. you're perfect as a basketball player!" a brown haired girl pointed at him the first day he came to his new school, Seirin Highschool. It was really crowded and full of extraculicullar's member scouting new member.

" Join the basketball club! I know you play basketball stuff! Am I right?" the girl said again, with louder voice this time. It pissed kagami off.

"I don't wanna. I WAS playin' but no more" Kagami walked off, leaving the still staring girl behind him.

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" Hey, why are you stop playing? Don't you want to play basketball again?" the girl found him again the following day. She brought a guy with glasses with him this time.

"Mind your business. I said that I'm not gonna join you guys so stop making ruckus about it already" Kagami highered his tone. Basket this and basket that. He didn't wanna hear those annoying words anymore.

"O..kay. Oh by the way, i'm Riko Aida, the club's couch, and he is Hyuga Junpei, the captain. But you can always join us you know. We'll welcome you warm-heartedly. So, anytime!" she said with a huge grin on her face. Well, we actually know that she was angered by kagami's reply though. Kagami turned away, didn't want to hear them talk more shit (for him)

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Kagami had this scary face all the time, like he was about ready to kill anyone who touched him. And he scolded everyone like the world's gonna end or what, even though they just made a little mistake.

No one had dared to get close to him. Not even speak. Kagami was everyone's number one must avoid person.

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Kagami walked home alone. Of course he had no friends. He just grumbled along the way about that girl-Riko- always following him, even brought her team with her to approach him anytime. Even though he said he would never join, countless times.

Unconciously he took the wrong path, and ended up in a really.. quiet, deserted place. He wondered if he had went to that road before, because it's seemed familiar to him, as he saw the mini basketball court there, but this time it looks dusky-maybe abandoned already?- and a teen boy holding a ball in his hand. Degg.The same blue hair and eyes like before.The memory from his childhood came up.

But this time he didn't just stared to the ring, he dribbled the ball a few times, and throw it to the ring. Out.

He tried once more time. Failed once again. Kagami couldn't stop staring at him. Shit, could it be—he stopped thinking when the other boy had realized his prescence. He blinked and walked closely to kagami. And kagami couldn't move his body. His mind was still off to the boy infront of him who suddenly said..

"Sorry, but is that ring broken or something? Cause i can't seem to throw the ball in to it"

. ?

And kagami laughed at it. The first time after he hadn't done it for a long time. But it's soo damn funny! He told his heart. The boy seemed disturbed by that.

"I'm serious here. We can't throw it in because it's broken right?"

"Of course not, you silly!" Kagami took the ball from the boy, and throw it to the ring. It was in.

"See?" Kagami grinned to the still shocking boy. Wait-what?did i just play basketball? He soonrealized. And why did i grin on him?

"That was cool" the boy smiled at him and take the ball back from the ground. Kagami frozened at the time. The smile..that's..

The boy throw the ball to the ring. And yeah, he failed. Again. His emotionless face now looked sad.

"And I couldn't do that..how sad"

Kagami began to trembling. What is this weird feeling?Deja vu?

"Mind to teach me how to do that?"

Is it the same boy from that time? And he don't remember me..

"Umm..hello?"

"Ah, yes?"

"I was asking if you could teach me how to shoot properly"

This is it. What Kagami feared. He didn't want to have business with other. But...but..

"Fi..fine" he answered shortly,didn't want to be heard weird. The boy smiled again, and Kagami couldn't stand that.

He then started to think if he was making the wrong decision or not, but he didn't felt it was bad either.

Kagami taught him, but he still failed at shooting. Kagami would tease him and Kuroko was still being persistent that it was the ring's fault. And kagami thought that was kinda..fun..but he didn't want to admit it.

"Whoops, it's time. I've got to go home now!" Kagami looked the time at his cellphone. Whoa, we've been doing this for that long already? Impossible! and why did I played basketball again?and I said no everytime other person asked me to!

"Right.." the blue haired boy stared at kagami with a sad, lonely expression. Not again, kagami thought.

"We can continue this tomorrow right? here? at the same time?"

The boy just nodded and smiled.

And Kagami continued to walked home with a smile on his face too-he didn't dare to think why.

And that's when the story began..

TBC