“Well, other than finding a way to take Murasakibaracchi back to Akita, then I think we have most of everything set and explained,” pointed out Kise while giving a quick slurp to the drink that he went to get meanwhile.
“Why don’t we ask Tatsuya to come to get him?” said Kagami, while peering down to the purple-haired male. “He already knows where I live. So you can stay in my apartment until that happens, Murasakibara.”
“Geh… I don’t really like that idea…” mumbled Murasakibara under his breath while he looked with a suspicious look to the redhead. It wasn’t the idea of going to Kagami’s apartment that was bothering him… it was the fact that Himuro would have to go there to take him to Akita once again.
“I don’t really see any other option, Murasakibara-tan,” pointed out Aomine, giving soft pats to the purple-haired male’s head with his finger. “Do you want more sweets~? Or snacks~? I can go get them for you if you want to eat more~”
“You’re totally thinking of me as a cute pet, aren’t you, Mine-chin?” grudgingly said Murasakibara, glaring to the tanned male with his petite purple eyes.
“Of course not~!” defended himself Aomine right away. He looked to the others sitting in the table, who were looking right back at him with a disbelieving expression, and then puffed his cheeks. “Okay, so I am! But he’s so cute right now!! I can’t resist feeding him when he looks like a little squirrel while eating~ It’s just… so kyuuuute<3”
Hearing the tanned male squealing like a girl while clutching at his face and shaking his body left and right, all of those present in the table felt a shudder crawl up their spines. It was extremely creepy to see a muscle-head like Aomine act in such a girly way.
“A~ny~way~ I think I will go get another cake for me~” happily announced Aomine as he picked up his used plate and cutlery. He got up from his seat, but the knife started to slide down from the plate and fell on top of the table. However, the moment the metal tableware fell on the wooden surface, it bounced up in the air once again and came flashing in the green-haired male’s direction.
“…!” Midorima didn’t even have time to react. He saw from the corner of his eyes as the knife passed just a few millimetres away from his head and was stabbed in the wall behind him. He motioned his trembling hand up and adjusted his glasses. “I-I think it’s time for me to return home, close myself in my room and not come out of there ever again. For safety reasons, of course.”
“W-Will you even be able to return safely home, Midorin?” asked Momoi, completely shocked over what just happened right in front of her eyes… for the fifth time since the green-haired male arrived at the café. It appeared that Midorima’s curse was the most life-threatening one out of all of them. Well, probably, since she didn’t know what happened to Kuroko nor what type of curse he had.
“I have to,” acknowledged Midorima, dropping his hand down and gathering his things to leave. “School starts once again tomorrow, so I obviously can't stay closed in my room forever. However, if I want to survive, I will need to make preparations for every single eventuality that I may face until I… well, you know what I have to do! So until that time, I just have to keep on living, in a way.”
“That sounds hard…” confessed Aomine, feeling a tinge of pity for the taller male. Then he smiled brightly to all of those who were in the table. “I’m so lucky that I haven’t been affected in a weird way, like all of you were~”
“Right…” deadpanned both Kagami and Kise, rolling their eyes slightly at the tanned male’s words. The personality shift had occurred in such a way that Aomine simply didn’t remember nor recognized how his true personality truly was.
“Anyway, I wish you all good luck on… confessing,” finally said Midorima while getting up from his seat. He readily started to walk to the counter to pay for the things he had eaten.
“Ah, Midorin! Wait a sec!” Momoi suddenly got up from her seat too and started to follow after the green-haired male. She was so worried about Midorima’s current extremely life-threatening bad luck that she was going to volunteer herself to go partly home with him (Aomine obviously going along with them, since she just couldn’t leave him to his own devices at the moment).
“Hey, Kagami-chan!” suddenly called Aomine, skirting around in the table and sitting in the chair next to the redhead. He stared intently to the other male and then shyly dropped his eyes once again, playing with his fingers in an embarrassed motion. “You… You know what Tetsu-chan’s curse is, don’t you?”
“Eh?” interjected Kagami, looking over to the tanned male with slight surprise. “Ah… um… well…”
“What exactly is wrong with him? Is it something like Midorima-tan? Something life-threatening?” started questioning Aomine, tugging at the sleeves of the redhead’s clothes. “I’m really worried about him. He closed himself in the bathroom for a looooooong time and then when he came out, he was in such a state! So… what’s Tetsu-chan’s curse?”
“Yes, I’m also worried,” added Kise, looking with serious eyes to Kagami.
“…” Kagami suddenly felt an extremely painful grip on his chest as he observed the worry in the tanned male’s expression. Was it possible that the male Aomine was crushing on right now was…?
Aomine and Kuroko used to have a 'light-shadow' relationship during their middle school years. After Seirin defeated Touou, Aomine had helped Kuroko develop his shooting form. All three of them also met up from time to time to talk and hang out and he also knew that, every so often, Aomine and Kuroko met in the basketball court of that area to play some friendly games just the two of them.
So… was Aomine in love with Kuroko?
“I-I know of Kuroko’s curse but Akashi t-told me to not tell anyone about it,” finally answered Kagami, gulping down hard. He was probably swallowing down the fact that, for a brief second after he realized who the tanned male’s crush was, he wanted to tell them the embarrassing curse of the bluenette. And that was something that he would not do to his friend and teammate, no matter how much he was hurting right now.
“Eh~ Isn’t that unfair?” complained Kise right away, crossing his arms over his chest in a sulking motion. “Kurokocchi knows about our curses. Why can’t we know what is his?”
“I think it’s better if you don’t know,” added Kagami, averting the worried eyes of the tanned male.
“Is it really bad?” asked Aomine, giving one more squeeze to the redhead’s sleeve. “For Akashi-tan to ask you to keep it a secret… is it something really that bad?”
“I-It’s not bad per se, but… But I don’t think Kuroko would feel really comfortable about you knowing about his curse,” explained Kagami, one more stab being felt in his heart. “And I have a feeling that Akashi doesn’t want you to know about it for the exact same reason. And possibly because of other reasons…”
“I see…” softly acknowledged Aomine, releasing the other male’s clothes. “So Tetsu-chan really won’t be under the risk of dying because of his curse?”
“He won’t. So you don’t have to worry about him in that regard,” answered Kagami, nodding his head while not looking directly to the tanned male.
“So Kurokocchi’s curse is so embarrassing that he went into hiding in the bathroom and then… passed out because Akashicchi found out?” amusingly said Kise, playing with the straw on his drink. “Now I’m reeeeeeally curious about it~ Maybe I’ll try to meet up with Kurokocchi on a later time, so I can see him with the curse~”
I don’t think you will notice anything weird on him if Akashi’s not around, though, pointed out Kagami in the back of his mind, rolling his eyes slightly at the malevolence of the blonde in regards to teasing others.
“But well~ For now, I should deal with my own curse,” continued Kise, straightening his back on his seat and taking his cell phone out of his pocket. “First of all, I should warn my modelling agent that I won’t be able to work for the meantime. And then find an excuse good enough to force a meeting with Kasa— Umm, with my crush so I can confess to them. So, I’ll be taking my leave now~”
Humming a song, Kise got up from his seat and put the cell phone back in his pocket. He straightened his jacket, so he could certify himself that his ears and tail were still very well hidden and then picked up the rest of his belonging.
“Midorimacchi, Momocchi! I’m leaving~ Good luck with everything!” yelled Kise while opening the front door of the café. “Try not to get killed before you confess to your crush, Midorimacchi~”
“Shut up, Kise!” resounded the angry voice of the green-haired male from the counter area.
Kise simply snickered at the response and then gave a quick wave to the table where Kagami, Aomine and Murasakibara were still sitting on before fully exiting the shop.
“I don’t think he has realized that all of us already know that his crush is that senpai of his that graduated this year…” said Murasakibara as soon as the front door fully closed, rubbing his tired eyes with his tiny hands.
“It’s probably because he only realizes the things his mouth is saying at the last minute and then tries to correct himself in a completely obvious way,” pointed out Kagami, shrugging his shoulders. “And I should be leaving too. Will you come or not, Murasakibara?”
“Ugh… I don’t really have any other choice, do I?” complained the purple-haired giant, getting up from his sitting position. “I don’t want to be shipped to Akita inside of a box.”
“Ehhh~!? Murasakibara-tan will get to go to Kagami-chan’s apartment again!?” shrieked Aomine all of a sudden, slamming his hands on the table. “I also want to go!!! I want to go! I want to go!”
“Ah… um… Maybe after the curse is broken you can come to my house too, Aomine,” interrupted Kagami, picking up the purple-haired male by the back of his clothes and putting him on the front pocket of his clothes.
“Really!? You promise?” asked Aomine while putting his face extremely close to the redhead’s, his eyes sparkling with anticipation.
“Ah… Y-Yeah, sure…” acknowledged Kagami, averting once again the eyes of the tanned male.
“Yay! You’re the best, Kagami-chan<3” celebrated Aomine, throwing himself to the redhead and wrapping his strong arms around him in a tight embrace. When he released Kagami a little bit and looked over to his face, he saw an unusual red colouring present in his features. “Is something the matter, Kagami-chan? Your face is suuuuuper re—“
“Hellooo? I’m here in the pocket… and you’re currently squeezing me to death…” complained Murasakibara’s muffled voice.
“…!” Kagami lunged his arms forward and grabbed the upper arms of the tanned male, pushing him away in a quick motion. “S-Sorry, Murasakibara.”
“My bad, Murasakibara-tan~ I forgot you were there since you’re so tiny right now~” apologized Aomine in a happy-go-lucky tone of voice.
Wiggling his body, Murasakibara popped his head out of the pocket and glared at the tanned male. “You don’t need to point out my height at the moment, Mine-chin. I’m starting to develop a complex with small and cute things because of you.”
“You are? Why?” asked Aomine, tilting his head slightly as he peered down to the purple-haired male. He motioned his hand forward and started rubbing the small cheek of the tiny male. “You are just so cute~ and adorable~ and petite~ I don’t think you will have any trouble with confessing to your crush with your current appearance~ Everybody would be delighted to hear a confession from such a cute lil’ thing<3”
“Kagami, let’s quickly go to your apartment and call Muro-chin,” sighed Murasakibara, wiggling back to the inside of the pocket. “I feel that if I spend any more time together with Mine-chin, I will search for ways to make his love be impossible to realize as revenge over the things he’s saying.”
“You definitely don’t pull any punches, do you?” half-joked Kagami as he picked up his own things to leave.
“Oh? So everybody is really leaving already?” suddenly sounded the voice of the pink-haired girl. She returned to the table together with Midorima, who had his arms crossed over his chest and a very frustrated expression on his face. “Then we should leave too. Dai-chan, are you ready?”
“I am~” happily acknowledged Aomine, grabbing his belongings. “Sat-chan, Sat-chan! Can we pass by the clothes store? Or a shoe store? Or buy more make-up? Or—“
“We’re going home,” strictly announced Momoi, starting to drag the tanned male by the arm to the door. “You already visited enough stores for the day before coming to the café. If Midorin is developing a phobia to go outside of his room and Mukkun an aversion to small and cute things, then I’m starting to get sick of shopping for clothes, shoes and accessories. At least if it will be done while accompanying you.”
“Eh~ You’re so mean, Sat-chan~” complained Aomine, crossing his arms over his chest and puffing his cheeks while being dragged to outside of the shop. “We only spent a few hours visiting different stores. Ah! Bye-bye, Kagami-chan<3”
“Ah… see ya…” answered Kagami hesitantly, also waving his hand back to the once again cheerful tanned male. After Momoi, Aomine and Midorima left the shop, he released a tired sigh and started to walk to the counter to pay his bill.
I have a feeling that these will be the most tiring and troublesome days of my whole life…
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