Kise Ryouta was leisurely humming a song while giving the final touches to his bedroom. In about twenty minutes, visitors were expected to arrive at his house and he definitely didn’t want to show anything that could shame him. Especially since Aomine Daiki was one of the people invited and he just had this annoying habit of searching for embarrassing items in other people’s houses. And if he found out his collection of secretly taken photos of a certain someone, he wouldn’t get off of his case for the rest of his life.
He won’t search around in my desk, where all I have are my school books, right?, wondered the blonde while staring to the wooden furniture. He kept staring at it, thinking if he should change the hiding location or not, but the sudden ringing of his house’s doorbell caught his attention.
Smiling from ear to ear, Kise immediately exited his bedroom and went down the stairs to open the front door. “Oh! Kurokocchi! Midorimacchi! You’re here<3”
“Hello, Kise-kun. Thank you for having us today,” greeted Kuroko Tetsuya, giving a quick bow with his head.
“Hmph.” Midorima Shintarou simply adjusted his glasses and averted his face from the blonde’s shininess. “Let’s just get this stupid reunion over with.”
“Don’t call it ‘stupid’, Midorimacchi~! And it’s not a ‘reunion’, it’s a ce~le~bra~tion~!!” corrected Kise, opening further the door and moving aside so that his first two guests could come inside of his house. “Oh, my parents aren’t home today and will only get back quite late, so you can be as noisy as you want.”
“I don’t think you should be saying that to us, Kise-kun,” deadpanned Kuroko, stepping inside of the genkan and exchanging his outdoor shoes for the slippers that the owner of the house provided him. He picked up once again the paper bag he was carrying and gave it to Kise. “Here are some things for the ‘celebration’.”
“Thanks, Kurokocchi<3 Let’s see what it is~” Kise opened the paper bag and peeked inside. “Geh! You brought vanilla milkshakes?”
“Of course I did. You know I can’t go without drinking at least four cups of vanilla milkshake a day,” answered Kuroko, a completely serious look on his face. “But don’t worry, I already drank two today, so I can share some of what’s there. Please keep them in the refrigerator until everyone arrives.”
“Yes, yes,” acknowledged the blonde, releasing a soft sigh as he observed the bluenette coming further inside of his house. He started walking to the kitchen but suddenly another paper bag came in his direction and stopped him from moving forward.
“Here,” said Midorima while once again adjusting his glasses, holding with his hand said paper bag. “It would be rude of me if I didn’t bring anything.”
“I see you’re still the same tsundere as always, Midorimacchi,” pointed out Kise while laughing softly. “But thanks a lot! What was it that you brought?”
“Everybody’s lucky items from Oha Asa,” answered the green-haired male, a proud look displayed on the entirety of his body, from head to toes. “Yours is that small scale model of a dial phone, by the way.”
“R-Right… I’ll take them upstairs after I put the milkshakes in the fridge,” awkwardly acknowledged the blonde, closing the bag once again. He really had no idea why would Midorima bring something like that to a gathering but asking him to explain would probably be troublesome so he just let it be.
After putting all seven vanilla milkshakes inside of the refrigerator (where he had to adjust a countless number of ingredients already stored there so they could all fit inside), Kise led his two former teammates up to his bedroom.
“Tadah~! It’s all cleaned up!” pointed out the blonde while he opened the door, his arms stretched in its direction to make it seem like he had gone out of his way to do it (which was actually true).
“You only cleaned your room because you were afraid that Aomine-kun would start teasing you again after he snooped around in your stuff, didn’t you?” deadpanned Kuroko, looking intently to the taller male.
“Ugh… N-No, I just wanted my r-room to be in tip-top shape,” stuttered the taller male, averting the judging blank look of the bluenette.
“Then it doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that last time Aomine came to your house, he continuously bugged you about a certain ‘funny-looking underpants’ during basketball practice?” asked Midorima, raising slightly an eyebrow, a small smirk surfacing in his features.
“Don’t remind me of that!!! Aominecchi made my life hellish during weeks because of that!” yelped Kise in a panic, covering his face with his hands. “So what if I don’t want to be a laughingstock for the rest of my life? I have that right, don’t I?”
“So you’re admitting that you have something in your room that could be used against you,” added Kuroko, a small smirk also tugging his lips upwards.
“Y-Y… You’re all so mean to me~!” cried out the blonde. He really had to wonder if in his past life he had committed a treacherous deed or something along those lines for his karma to be so negative in his current one. Or maybe it was just his terrible bad luck having met his teammates. But well, so many things would be different right now if I hadn’t joined Teikou’s basketball club that I don’t feel regretful at all about it~
“Okay, I’m sorry, Kise-kun. I won’t tell Aomine-kun that you’re hiding something cringe-worthy in your room,” assured the bluenette, the smirk turning into a soft smile. “Midorima-kun also won’t say anything. Right, Midorima-kun?”
“Hmph! If it stops Aomine from making a total ruckus, then, of course, I won’t,” agreed the taller male.
“Kurokocchi, you’re the best!!” cheered Kise, a bright smile almost covering his whole face. “I don’t know what I would do witho—“
Suddenly, the doorbell sounded one more time. A second later, it buzzed again. The way the person was abusing of the electronic device, all of them exchanged glances.
“Speaking of the devil…” mumbled Midorima, rolling slightly his eyes while motioning inside of the blonde’s bedroom and sitting down on one of the pillows put down on the floor.
“I’ll go answer the door~” happily announced the blonde, starting to walk back to the first floor. “Kurokocchi, just get inside of the room already and make yourself at home!”
Kuroko observed the taller male cheerfully go downstairs and then turned around to walk inside of the other male’s bedroom, motioning to one of the pillows and also sitting down on it as the green-haired male had.
After a few seconds of complete silence, the ground started to tremble slightly as two sets of heavy footsteps started to climb the stairs furiously. When the bluenette and green-haired male turned their faces in the door’s direction, they saw Aomine Daiki running inside of the room through it.
“No way in hell I’ll do what you’re telling me, Kise! I’ll find your weakness once again and use it against you for the rest of your life!” yelled Aomine in a matter-of-factly tone, looking to outside of the room in the stairs' direction.
“Nooooo! Kurokocchi, please stop Aominecchi! Stop him before I have to emigrate to another planet!” The voice was coming from the corridor and it was sounding gradually closer each heavy footstep made.
“Tetsu can’t stop me if he’s not here, Kise!” chanted the tanned male while sticking his tongue out to the blonde.
“Aomine-kun, please stop teasing Kise-kun,” deadpanned Kuroko, appearing suddenly (or at least so it seemed to the taller male) beside the smirking basketball player.
“Woah, Tetsu! You’re here already!” yelped Aomine, his body jumping slightly at the scare of the magical appearance of the bluenette. “I noticed Midorima was already here but I didn’t notice you at all. Like usual, I guess.”
Seeing the happy grin in the tanned male’s face, Kuroko softly smiled at him too. He walked right back to the inside of the bedroom and sat once again in the pillow. “Aomine-kun, please behave at least today. I’m sure you will have another opportunity to find out Kise-kun’s weakness throughout the next few years.”
“Ehhh… Isn’t this supposed to be a gathering to have fun?” complained Aomine, departing from the door to move over to the two sitting males at the same time the blonde appeared at the door while carrying in his arms two plastic bags full of potato chips and other savoury snacks.
“A-Aominecchi, n-not fair!” complained Kise, panting tremendously as he entered inside of the bedroom. “You can’t just suddenly throw the potato chips in the air and simply dart to my room like that!!”
“It’s first come, first serve, Kise!” laughed Aomine, sitting down in a pillow next to the bluenette.
“Aomine-kun, I don’t think that idiom is usually used that way,” deadpanned Kuroko, motioning his elbow up to the low table beside him as he observed the start of the incoming ‘battle’ that this day would become, for the looks of it.
“Geez~ Midorimacchi, if Aominecchi starts to behave oddly, pin him down to the floor! You’re taller than him so I’m sure you can do it!” requested Kise as he put down the bags with the snacks on the floor near the other males.
“You do it. I don’t want to horse around with him. It would be a waste of my energy,” complained Midorima, adjusting his glasses. Those were one of the reason, but the major problem of doing such was the fact that today Virgo had a higher ranking in Oha Asa’s fortune-telling than Cancer. He hadn’t tempted fate for years now and it wasn’t going to be this day and this ‘celebration’ that would change his mind in that regard – lucky item with him or not.
“Argh, why isn’t anybody ever on my side?” started whining the blonde, a sulking expression on his face. He suddenly turned his attention on the small bluenette and stared at him with beckoning golden eyes. “Kurokocchi… You’ll help me… right?”
“I’ll do my best, Kise-kun,” assured Kuroko. Kise’s face was readily filled with happiness and he was starting to lung forward in his direction when the bluenette opened his mouth once again. “Ah, but if it gets too troublesome, I’m out.”
“Ugh… I have absolutely no one on my side… I’m just a pitiful creature who has been thrown aside by his supposed companions…” started mumbling Kise, turning around to go to one of the corners of his room. Once he reached the wall, he crouched down and continued to softly mumble and complain to himself as an ominous dark aura erupted all around him. “Even my own current teammates treat me badly… And I haven’t seen Kasamatsu-senpai for a week now… Ahhh… My life is over… I feel like my life force is being sucked out of me… Ahhh…”
“Pffft! Ahahahahaha!” started laughing Aomine, almost falling backwards with the trembling of his body.
“Aomine-kun, you shouldn’t laugh like that. He’ll start feeling even more down,” softly admonished Kuroko. He turned his face to the blonde and started directing some comforting words at him. “Kise-kun, don’t worry. You just have to put Murasakibara-kun on your side. And once Akashi-kun arrives, I don’t think Aomine-kun will continue to pester you.”
“Really?” Sniffing a little bit, Kise looked over his shoulder to the smaller male, tears in the corner of his eyes.
“Yes, really,” confirmed the bluenette, nodding his head softly in acknowledgement. “I’m sure they’re almost here. Please work hard to convince them to join your side. They’re powerful allies to have, after all.”
“Mhm, I’ll do my bes—“ His energy once again restored, Kise also nodded in agreement until the doorbell once again sounded. “Oh, one of them arrived! Or maybe both! I’ll go open the door!”
In a single motion, Kise got up once again and ran out of the room, his footsteps while going to the first floor reverberating through the floor once again. His laughing once again under control, Aomine looked over at Kuroko while wiping the tears that had formed in the corner of his eyes.
“You sure have gotten used to deal with Kise, Tetsu. That’s ‘Kurokocchiiii~’ for you,” teased the tanned male, a smirk erupting on his face. He motioned one of his feet to the floor and started to propel his body upwards, the smirk turning a few shades darker. “Now then~ Let’s find out what he’s got hidden in here~”
When Aomine was starting to move his body forward to the closest location to him that could be used to hide something, a hand came gripping on his pants. When he looked down, he saw the bluenette holding into him.
“Aomine-kun, please leave him alone for today. If he gets all depressed like that one more time, I don’t know if I’ll be able to put him back in a good mood again,” pleaded Kuroko, looking intently to the taller male.
“…” Aomine softly rolled his eyes and dropped his body down to the pillow once again, crossing his arms over his chest in a sulking motion. “Fine! I won’t go search around his room. But just for today! If I get another chance of coming to his house, I’ll find his weakness once again and tease the shit out of him for the rest of his life.”
“Thank you, Aomine-kun,” softly smiled Kuroko. After a few seconds of silence, they started to once again hear people going up the stairs. It sounded like there were more than two people so Murasakibara Atsushi and Akashi Seijuurou must have arrived at the same time. They did come from the same train station, since they had to travel from Akita and Kyoto, respectively, so it wasn’t all that surprising to see them coming together to Kise’s house.
“But he promised me seven different flavours! And in the end, all I got were six…” The complaining voice of the purple-haired giant sounded suddenly from the hallway.
“I already apologized, Murasakibara. The store was out of the strawberry shortcake with chocolate sauce flavoured Neru Neru Nerune.” Next followed the apologetic voice of the redhead.
So Akashi-kun used Neru Neru Nerune this time to bait Murasakibara-kun, inwardly chuckled Kuroko as the voices were steadily growing closer to the bedroom’s door.
“I’ll get it for you! I’ll totally get you a whole box of that flavour if you prevent Aominecchi from trashing my room in search of the phot— Ah, in search for something to use against me!” begged Kise’s voice. Soon he came into view from the inside of the room, walking backwards with his hands clasped together as he looked over to Murasakibara with puppy eyes.
“Really? But I have to return to Akita when the weekend ends. Can you get them for me before that happens?” asked the purple-haired male suspiciously, also coming into view, carrying even more bags in his hands than those that Aomine had brought earlier.
“You’re sleeping over at my house. I’ll take you to a store where my modelling connections work on and I’ll buy you as many Neru Neru Nerune as you want,” insisted Kise, stepping inside of the bedroom once again.
“Kise, I think you’re signing a deal with the devil. Murasakibara will show no qualms in using you as his wallet,” warned Akashi, finally coming into view by stepping inside of the bedroom, also carrying a plastic bag with him. “Hello, Kuroko, Midorima, Aomine.”
“Good afternoon, Akashi-kun, Murasakibara-kun,” greeted in returned Kuroko.
“Hello,” also greeted Midorima, adjusting his glasses.
“Yo, Akashi, Murasakibara. You sure have brought a lot of things to the gathering!” greeted Aomine, eyeing the bulging bags in the purple-haired male’s hands. He got up and went over in their directions, hitting Kise in the head on their way there.
“Ouch! What was that for!?” complained the blonde, rubbing his head on the place he was hit by the tanned male’s fist with his hand.
“Are you an idiot? Why are you making that kind of stupid deal with Murasakibara to convince him to ‘side with you’?” asked Aomine, peering to inside of one of the bag and taking from it a package of pocky. “Who guarantees you that I don’t have a hidden card up my sleeve to change things around?”
“Wha—!? No way!” gasped Kise, his face turning once again to a panicky expression.
“Of course there’s no way, Kise-kun. Aomine-kun is just teasing you,” pointed out Kuroko, rolling slightly his eyes. “He already promised me he won’t do anything like searching your room for whatever photos you’re hiding.”
“You’re the best, Kurok— Wait, you said ‘photos’? How did you know!?” The relaxed face of the blonde once again turned into panicky and his eyes danced around the room in search of his secrets photos, to see if they had come out of their hiding place for whatever reason.
“Kise, you were the one who said that it was photos that Aomine would search for,” explained Akashi, chuckling softly at Kuroko’s teasing and the amusing reaction that it brought out of the blonde.
“Eh~ So it’s photos this time, huh~” started the tanned male, putting a stick of pocky in his mouth and quickly biting into it. “What are they about? Peeping shots of your crush?”
“Ugh… T-T-T-They are only photos of my modelling work that came out funny…” lied Kise, averting the scrutinizing look from the other five males.
“Kise, that’s considered a crime,” softly admonished Midorima, shaking his head in disapproval.
“Uwah, I’m starting to get scared of spending the weekend in Kise-chin’s house…” mumbled Murasakibara while fully entering inside of the bedroom and setting the horde of bags near the ones already placed in the floor near the blonde’s wardrobe, feeling slightly crept out by the blonde’s stalking behaviour.
“Kise-kun… I’m disappointed in you…” confessed Kuroko, an expression full of pity in his face as he looked over to the taller blonde.
“To think I was the captain of such a mentally unstable person…” added Akashi, also shaking his head in disapproval as he put down the plastic bag and went over to the pillows in the floor to sit down.
“Y-Y-Y-You’re mistaken!!!!!”
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