A big mountain of food in a plate, Kagami took his dinner to the table, where a tiny purple-haired male was sitting on, busy munching on a cookie with a sour look on his face. He sighed as he put down the plate on the surface and motioned a chair back to sit there. “You’re still sulking over the fact that Tatsuya will only be able to get here tomorrow?”
“Just leave me alone already,” barked Murasakibara’s tiny voice, turning his back to the redhead as he took a big mouthful of the chocolate chips cookie. “Why is Akita so far away from Tokyo in the first place? Even if it was Aka-chin who asked me to come, I shouldn’t have. Then I wouldn’t be in this mess!”
“None of you would be, actually,” pointed out Kagami as he delightfully chewed his food. “You were the one who brought the jelly beans to the gathering, right?”
“If you are going to start to shift the blame to someone, then shift it to Muro-chin’s parents, since they were the ones who sent him all those jelly bean packages from America in the first place,” grudgingly said Murasakibara, but a disgusted expression soon popped up in his face at the thought of the enormous quantity of jelly beans he had eaten due to it. “But I don’t really care about that right now. I just want to return to Akita and break this curse the soonest I can.”
“Then the person you’re crushing on is from Akita?” asked Kagami, looking down to his plate as he gathered more food on his chopsticks to eat.
“They aren’t from Akita but they are currently there,” answered Murasakibara, munching on his cookie once again. The person he was currently crushing on was actually the person who would come to get him tomorrow to take him back to Akita but he wouldn’t say that out loud. Not to Kagami. “But that doesn’t have anything to do with you, does it?”
Kagami immediately felt a vein pop out on his forehead at the purple-haired male’s words and he angrily banged his fist on the table while motioning his chopsticks down from his mouth. “Hey! Who’s the one that got dragged to this mess even while not having anything to do with it!? Who’s the one that took you home and is giving you food and a place to sleep!? HUH!? You should be a little bit more grateful to me, you asshole!”
“I only came with you because Muro-chin knows where your apartment is,” groaned Murasakibara, a sour look once again appearing on his features. “If I could have chosen any other person, I would have gone with them instead.”
“Oh… I sure am starting to agree with Kise…” mumbled Kagami as he stuffed more food on his mouth and vigorously chewed it, his foot tapping on the floor with how irked he felt at the moment. “We really should have put you on a box and shipped you to Akita. Without any food or water or any protective filling inside…!”
“Don’t worry, I’m starting to regret it myself not having accepted Kise-chin’s suggestion,” also mumbled Murasakibara, turning his back even more to the redhead while quickly munching on the cookie. In between bites, he softly mumbled in an almost inaudible voice, “I want Muro-chin to come to get me but I don’t want him to meet Kagami… That’s why I’m so angry at the moment!”
-.-
“Ahh… I’m tired~” sighed Kise as he dropped his body down to his bed. After a few seconds had passed, he got up to a sitting position and started undressing the hot and stuffy jacket that he had been using pretty much all day.
After his second meeting with his former teammates had ended and as he was going home while talking with his manager, he was forced to go to his agency headquarters before returning to his house, since the excuse of ‘I have dog’s ears and tail at the moment so I can’t do any work in the meantime’ just wasn’t cutting it. After also meeting with his manager and arranging everything to put his modelling job on hold, he could finally return to his house, the sun already well set and the moon high in the sky.
“Ugh… This is awful…” mumbled Kise as he saw his current appearance in the mirror of his bedroom. He got up from the bed and walked closer to it, a pair of golden ears on the top of his head and a tail jutting out from his pants. Even his canines felt sharper than before while inside of his mouth, every so often hurting his tongue while he spoke. “Why do I have to suffer like this…? Not only have I had an unrequited love for close to a year and now I have to confess to him while with this appearance… My life is too unfortunate for me to even be able to laugh at it!!!”
Kise turned his back to the mirror and quickly marched back to his bed, rumbling around through his jacket’s pockets as he searched for his cell phone. When he found the electronic device, he intently stared at it, gulping down hard as he gathered enough guts to make the phone call he had been avoiding during the whole day.
“O-Okay, I-I can do this,” reminded himself Kise, starting to fiddle through his contact list in search of a number in particular. “I’m a famous model, who has been confessed to by a lot of girls. So it should be easy for me to confess too, right? Yeah, it will be easy. I’m handsome, I’m super cool and I’m always surrounded by fans. Confessing to Senpai will be suuuuuuuper easy!!”
When the blonde found the number he was searching for, his thumb remained frozen in the air, not pressing the button that would start the call. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes tightly, pressing his finger down on the phone. Kise put the device on his ear (the human one) and impatiently waited for the call to connect.
“What is it, Kise?” suddenly sounded Kasamatsu Yukio’s voice from the other side of the cell phone.
“Ah! Senpai, good evening!” greeted Kise, a happy and satisfied smile popping up in his features. He looked down to his back and saw his tail also happily moving left and right, creating a tapping sound when it hit the mattress of his bed. The blonde quickly grabbed it and stuffed it underneath his rear. “U-Um, do you think we can meet tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow?” repeated Kasamatsu, his voice a little bit reluctant. “I’m busy with the final preparations for college. I don’t have the time for that right now.”
“O-Oh, is that so…” mumbled Kise, feeling the ears on top of his head suddenly getting totally down-casted. He softly cleared his throat and lifted his head slightly once again. “R-Right now, I’m having some troubles with… stuff. So I wanted to ask you some bits of advice on it. Actually… the troublesome mess I got involved on is so complicated that I had to cancel all of my modelling gigs for the time being.”
“What?” interjected Kasamatsu, his voice painted with surprise. “What happened? Did you get hurt or something? Will you be able to go to the basketball practices or is that also impossible for you at the moment?”
“I don’t know,” answered Kise, his mind full of hesitation at his next words. “But! I think that if we meet and I get to talk with you, Senpai, I will be able to solve everything and return to my daily life right away! The modelling and the basketball practices included! …Though I’ll probably isolate myself on my bed for the rest of the week afterwards… Anyway! When do you have the time to meet?”
“Ah… If it’s like that, I guess it can’t be helped…” ended up conceding Kasamatsu, releasing a quick sigh. “I think I can make a little bit of time for you tomorrow. Where do you want to meet?”
“Can it be in Kaijou?” requested Kise almost instantly. Meeting in his high school would be the safest bet he could make since they could occupy an unused gym or classroom and the older male would be easily allowed inside – he was an alumnus of that school, after all. It also meant that he wouldn’t have to walk around in the street more than necessary while covered by jackets to hide his current appearance.
“I guess. But isn’t tomorrow the beginning of the school year?” asked Kasamatsu.
“It doesn’t matter! I want to solve this mess the quickest I can, Senpai!” blurted Kise, his voice a little bit panicky. “You’re probably going to laugh at how I currently am but it’s the only way out! Please come to Kaijou tomorrow! Please, please, please~!”
“Okay! I get it! Stop being so persistent and annoying on it!” yelled Kasamatsu, getting irked at the blonde’s insistence on the meeting. “Why do I have such a needy kouhai, I wonder… I’ll be in front of the main gate after classes. Is that good enough for you?”
“Thank you, Senpai~!” said Kise, his tail slipping from underneath his body and once again wagging around, this time in a much more frenetic motion. The blonde didn’t even seem to have noticed such. “I’ll see you tomorrow then. Good bye~!!!”
“Yeah, bye,” acknowledged Kasamatsu, pressing the end call button almost right away after saying that.
“YES! I DID IT!” loudly celebrated Kise, jumping out of his bed to a standing up position. “The second hardest challenge has been cleared! Now I need to work my way around the hardest one. Which is… confessing to Kasamatsu-senpai.”
-.-
With a muffled thud, Midorima dropped his school bag to on top of his bed. He clasped his hands against one another several times and nodded his head in approval to his hard work on its preparation – the school bag was probably five times heavier than usual, but he had quick fixes prepared to every single eventuality that he might suffer in the following day as he went to his classes. He had even studied the map of his area to choose the safest route to use to avoid unnecessary life-threatening situations until he reached the school grounds.
The plan wasn’t bulletproof since he didn’t really know what to expect of the magnitude of this curse but he was ready to fight for survival until the very end. And to end his disastrous curse, he would have to…
Midorima took a quick peek to his cell phone, which remained abandoned on top of his desk, and adjusted his glasses. He walked over in its direction and picked up the device, intently staring at it while holding it on his hand. He had yet to contact Takao Kazunari to warn him to not come to his house to pick him up on the rickshaw – having life-threatening bad luck was already hard to deal with while alone, he didn’t need the actual source of why he had been affected the curse to also be susceptible to worsen or get affected by it too.
Sighing deeply, Midorima started writing on his cell phone, pressing the send button for the text to be delivered to Takao. As he was lowering his cell phone back to the desk, the device beeped and vibrated with a newly received text. Midorima could only roll his eyes at how quickly the smaller male had answered.
[Takao: What do you mean ‘Don’t bother coming to my house to pick me up in the near future’, Shin-chan~!! I don’t remember breaking any of your lucky items recently!!]
Midorima sighed while adjusting his glasses, a soft mumbling exiting his lips as he worked his way around his cell phone to write an answer to that text.
[Midorima: Just do what I’m telling you to do! I probably will have to somehow talk about it with you so leave me alone for now so I can think about it.]
Midorima was about to put his cell phone back on the desk once again so he could give a final check to his very much packed school bag when the electronic device vibrated once again. “Ugh…!”
[Takao: Are you in some sort of trouble right now? If you need the super good advice of Takao Kazunari-sama, I’m all ears for what’s troubling our old lil’ Shin-chan~]
“This damn fool…” grumbled Midorima, preparing his fingers to type a reply to that message but before he could start writing it, a new text from the raven-haired male arrived.
[Takao: Now in all seriousness, if you’re really in some sort of a mess, you know you can count on my and our teammates’ support and help on it, right? That’s what it means to be a team, after all. Sweet dreams, Shin-chan~ (^_-)]
A soft smile on his features, Midorima wrote a final text for the smaller male and then finally was able to put the cell phone back on the surface of his desk, turning around so he could finish preparing to face Hell in the next day.
[Midorima: Good night. I’ll talk it over with you tomorrow but I highly doubt it will be the sort of trouble that you’re expecting to hear from me.]
-.-
After having taken a shower and dressed her pyjamas, Momoi knocked on the tanned male’s bedroom’s door and stepped inside. When she closed the door and looked over to the tanned male’s bed, she found him hugging his pillow with an extremely sulking expression on his face, his body also clothed with his sleeping wear.
“What’s the matter, Dai-chan?” asked Momoi, still feeling a little bit awkward about having to address to her childhood friend as if he was a girl and not the over 190cm male he truly was. “I already told you that we could have a slumber party. I’m even already dressed in my pyjamas and everything!”
“But… But, Sat-chan!!” started whining Aomine, a dissatisfied look on his face as he looked over to the pink-haired girl. “I asked you to have a bath with me and you said no! I wanted to wash your hair and for you to wash my hair and to talk with each other while we played with the foam~!!”
“Ah… R-Right… B-But I think I’ve gained a little bit of weight recently so I don’t feel comfortable with other people seeing me completely naked right now. You understand how I feel, don’t you?” hesitantly explained Momoi, a cold sweat covering her forehead at the painfully cringe-worthy image that had appeared in her brain due to Aomine’s previous request.
Please don’t traumatize me more than I already am, Dai-chan…!, begged Momoi in the back of her mind as she observed the tanned male puckering his lips while pouting.
“You don’t really seem to have gained any weight, though,” said Aomine, an extremely displeased tone in his voice.
“Anyways, Dai-chan…” started Momoi, trying to change the topic of the conversation to something more comfortable for her to talk about. Since she was going to stay for the night in Aomine’s house, she should use this opportunity to find a way to break the tanned male’s curse the quickest possible. So right now, she had set as her mission to find out who was the male that her childhood friend was currently crushing on… as incredulously as that may sound. “Since we are having a slumber party, we need to gossip!”
“Oh, gossips! I like the sound of that!” cheerfully added Aomine, his head immediately perking up at those words. “What do you want to gossip about, Sat-chan?”
“Hm… Why don’t we talk about our experiences with romance?” innocently asked Momoi while trying to suppress the mischievous smirk that wanted to pop up in her lips. “It’s such a shock to find out that Tetsu-kun is currently in love with someone… I just had my first heartbreak…”
“You should have had that heartbreak a long time ago, then…” mumbled Aomine under his breath while averting looking to the pink-haired girl. Kuroko had been crushing on Akashi for years now, after all. He really had to wonder what sort of taste in men Kuroko had to fall for such a… messed up human being. “Don’t worry, Sat-chan! You’ll find the right person for you eventually! Everybody does~”
“That’s true!” cheerfully agreed Momoi, flashing a quick smile to the tanned male. “Then have you found the right person for you, Dai-chan?”
“…” Instead of answering, Aomine simply started to pull the pillow on his arms upwards, slowly covering his face with it.
“Oh, don’t be shy about it! It’s just the two of us right now, having a g-girls talk,” tried to reassure Momoi, feeling an incredible urge to slap herself over the things she had to say in order to communicate and make the tanned male spill the beans over who was the male he’s in love with. All for the sake of preventing Aomine from committing suicide like a samurai when the curse was broken. When she saw that the tanned male continued to silently hide his face on the pillow, she started to have an extremely bad feeling over it. “Um… Dai-chan? Is perhaps the person you are crushing on right now… Tetsu-kun?”
“What? Tetsu-chan?” repeated Aomine, his voice slightly muffled by the pillow. He very slowly started to pull the pillow back down and stared at the pink-haired girl with a completely baffled expression on his features. “How could I think of my cute little former shadow like that? I admit that I think that he’s super adorable and our compatibility in basketball is the best of the best. I also like him veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery much… but I don’t like him in the I-want-to-marry-you-and-have-cute-children-with-you sort of way.”
“Is that so?” sighed Momoi with relief. It was extremely awkward to hear the tanned male talk about the bluenette in such a fond and honest way, which was completely different from his usual way to talk about others, regardless of his proximity with them, but how happy she felt that she wouldn’t have to help her male childhood friend to confess to the person she had been in love with since middle school… “Then, who is it that you want to marry and have cute children with?”
Aomine quickly hid his face in the pillow once again, tightly hugging it. “…ami-chan…”
“Eh…?” interjected Momoi, her mouth gaping wide open. The tanned male’s voice had been very muffled, due to the pillow, but… did she really hear what she thought she did? “U-Um… Can you please repeat it?”
“It’s Kagami-chan, okay!?” yelled Aomine as he yanked the pillow out of his face, an extremely red blush on his tanned cheeks.
“K-Kagamin…? Eh? What? No way…” incredulously mumbled Momoi, her pink eyes also open wide in surprise. “I-I mean… You’re always arguing with each other… And you won against him in the Inter-High only to lose afterwards in the Winter Cup. H-How come you’re… in love with him?”
“How should I know!?” yelped Aomine, a blush still present in his feature but less accentuated now that he had voiced out to someone else for the first time who he had been crushing on. “I like to argue with him! His food is really delicious, even if that annoys me to no end! He was the first person to actually win against me in basketball! And… And… For the love of god, have you seen his body!? I totally have the hots for all of those well-defined muscles~ Just the thought of it alone makes my body all—“
“Okay, I get it!” interrupted Momoi almost instantly, fearing that she would get to hear more than she actually wanted to know. She took a deep breath and started to let that information sink in her brain. “So have you found a way to confess to him already?”
“No, I don’t think I will ever confess to him,” denied Aomine, letting his body slump down to the bed sideways while holding the pillow close to his chest.
“Why not!? You need to break this curse the quickest you can!” yelped Momoi immediately, panic starting to invade her brain completely after hearing such a thing. She and everyone else couldn’t afford to let the tanned male remain with that personality shift for the rest of his life. It would be unbearable to see such a thing happening.
“Because…” started mumbling Aomine, a pained look on his face as he pulled the pillow closer to his chin and leaned his head on it. “I think Kagami-chan likes Tetsu-chan…”
With a muffled thud, Midorima dropped his school bag to on top of his bed. He clasped his hands against one another several times and nodded his head in approval to his hard work on its preparation – the school bag was probably five times heavier than usual, but he had quick fixes prepared to every single eventuality that he might suffer in the following day as he went to his classes. He had even studied the map of his area to choose the safest route to use to avoid unnecessary life-threatening situations until he reached the school grounds.
The plan wasn’t bulletproof since he didn’t really know what to expect of the magnitude of this curse but he was ready to fight for survival until the very end. And to end his disastrous curse, he would have to…
Midorima took a quick peek to his cell phone, which remained abandoned on top of his desk, and adjusted his glasses. He walked over in its direction and picked up the device, intently staring at it while holding it on his hand. He had yet to contact Takao Kazunari to warn him to not come to his house to pick him up on the rickshaw – having life-threatening bad luck was already hard to deal with while alone, he didn’t need the actual source of why he had been affected the curse to also be susceptible to worsen or get affected by it too.
Sighing deeply, Midorima started writing on his cell phone, pressing the send button for the text to be delivered to Takao. As he was lowering his cell phone back to the desk, the device beeped and vibrated with a newly received text. Midorima could only roll his eyes at how quickly the smaller male had answered.
[Takao: What do you mean ‘Don’t bother coming to my house to pick me up in the near future’, Shin-chan~!! I don’t remember breaking any of your lucky items recently!!]
Midorima sighed while adjusting his glasses, a soft mumbling exiting his lips as he worked his way around his cell phone to write an answer to that text.
[Midorima: Just do what I’m telling you to do! I probably will have to somehow talk about it with you so leave me alone for now so I can think about it.]
Midorima was about to put his cell phone back on the desk once again so he could give a final check to his very much packed school bag when the electronic device vibrated once again. “Ugh…!”
[Takao: Are you in some sort of trouble right now? If you need the super good advice of Takao Kazunari-sama, I’m all ears for what’s troubling our old lil’ Shin-chan~]
“This damn fool…” grumbled Midorima, preparing his fingers to type a reply to that message but before he could start writing it, a new text from the raven-haired male arrived.
[Takao: Now in all seriousness, if you’re really in some sort of a mess, you know you can count on my and our teammates’ support and help on it, right? That’s what it means to be a team, after all. Sweet dreams, Shin-chan~ (^_-)]
A soft smile on his features, Midorima wrote a final text for the smaller male and then finally was able to put the cell phone back on the surface of his desk, turning around so he could finish preparing to face Hell in the next day.
[Midorima: Good night. I’ll talk it over with you tomorrow but I highly doubt it will be the sort of trouble that you’re expecting to hear from me.]
-.-
After having taken a shower and dressed her pyjamas, Momoi knocked on the tanned male’s bedroom’s door and stepped inside. When she closed the door and looked over to the tanned male’s bed, she found him hugging his pillow with an extremely sulking expression on his face, his body also clothed with his sleeping wear.
“What’s the matter, Dai-chan?” asked Momoi, still feeling a little bit awkward about having to address to her childhood friend as if he was a girl and not the over 190cm male he truly was. “I already told you that we could have a slumber party. I’m even already dressed in my pyjamas and everything!”
“But… But, Sat-chan!!” started whining Aomine, a dissatisfied look on his face as he looked over to the pink-haired girl. “I asked you to have a bath with me and you said no! I wanted to wash your hair and for you to wash my hair and to talk with each other while we played with the foam~!!”
“Ah… R-Right… B-But I think I’ve gained a little bit of weight recently so I don’t feel comfortable with other people seeing me completely naked right now. You understand how I feel, don’t you?” hesitantly explained Momoi, a cold sweat covering her forehead at the painfully cringe-worthy image that had appeared in her brain due to Aomine’s previous request.
Please don’t traumatize me more than I already am, Dai-chan…!, begged Momoi in the back of her mind as she observed the tanned male puckering his lips while pouting.
“You don’t really seem to have gained any weight, though,” said Aomine, an extremely displeased tone in his voice.
“Anyways, Dai-chan…” started Momoi, trying to change the topic of the conversation to something more comfortable for her to talk about. Since she was going to stay for the night in Aomine’s house, she should use this opportunity to find a way to break the tanned male’s curse the quickest possible. So right now, she had set as her mission to find out who was the male that her childhood friend was currently crushing on… as incredulously as that may sound. “Since we are having a slumber party, we need to gossip!”
“Oh, gossips! I like the sound of that!” cheerfully added Aomine, his head immediately perking up at those words. “What do you want to gossip about, Sat-chan?”
“Hm… Why don’t we talk about our experiences with romance?” innocently asked Momoi while trying to suppress the mischievous smirk that wanted to pop up in her lips. “It’s such a shock to find out that Tetsu-kun is currently in love with someone… I just had my first heartbreak…”
“You should have had that heartbreak a long time ago, then…” mumbled Aomine under his breath while averting looking to the pink-haired girl. Kuroko had been crushing on Akashi for years now, after all. He really had to wonder what sort of taste in men Kuroko had to fall for such a… messed up human being. “Don’t worry, Sat-chan! You’ll find the right person for you eventually! Everybody does~”
“That’s true!” cheerfully agreed Momoi, flashing a quick smile to the tanned male. “Then have you found the right person for you, Dai-chan?”
“…” Instead of answering, Aomine simply started to pull the pillow on his arms upwards, slowly covering his face with it.
“Oh, don’t be shy about it! It’s just the two of us right now, having a g-girls talk,” tried to reassure Momoi, feeling an incredible urge to slap herself over the things she had to say in order to communicate and make the tanned male spill the beans over who was the male he’s in love with. All for the sake of preventing Aomine from committing suicide like a samurai when the curse was broken. When she saw that the tanned male continued to silently hide his face on the pillow, she started to have an extremely bad feeling over it. “Um… Dai-chan? Is perhaps the person you are crushing on right now… Tetsu-kun?”
“What? Tetsu-chan?” repeated Aomine, his voice slightly muffled by the pillow. He very slowly started to pull the pillow back down and stared at the pink-haired girl with a completely baffled expression on his features. “How could I think of my cute little former shadow like that? I admit that I think that he’s super adorable and our compatibility in basketball is the best of the best. I also like him veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery much… but I don’t like him in the I-want-to-marry-you-and-have-cute-children-with-you sort of way.”
“Is that so?” sighed Momoi with relief. It was extremely awkward to hear the tanned male talk about the bluenette in such a fond and honest way, which was completely different from his usual way to talk about others, regardless of his proximity with them, but how happy she felt that she wouldn’t have to help her male childhood friend to confess to the person she had been in love with since middle school… “Then, who is it that you want to marry and have cute children with?”
Aomine quickly hid his face in the pillow once again, tightly hugging it. “…ami-chan…”
“Eh…?” interjected Momoi, her mouth gaping wide open. The tanned male’s voice had been very muffled, due to the pillow, but… did she really hear what she thought she did? “U-Um… Can you please repeat it?”
“It’s Kagami-chan, okay!?” yelled Aomine as he yanked the pillow out of his face, an extremely red blush on his tanned cheeks.
“K-Kagamin…? Eh? What? No way…” incredulously mumbled Momoi, her pink eyes also open wide in surprise. “I-I mean… You’re always arguing with each other… And you won against him in the Inter-High only to lose afterwards in the Winter Cup. H-How come you’re… in love with him?”
“How should I know!?” yelped Aomine, a blush still present in his feature but less accentuated now that he had voiced out to someone else for the first time who he had been crushing on. “I like to argue with him! His food is really delicious, even if that annoys me to no end! He was the first person to actually win against me in basketball! And… And… For the love of god, have you seen his body!? I totally have the hots for all of those well-defined muscles~ Just the thought of it alone makes my body all—“
“Okay, I get it!” interrupted Momoi almost instantly, fearing that she would get to hear more than she actually wanted to know. She took a deep breath and started to let that information sink in her brain. “So have you found a way to confess to him already?”
“No, I don’t think I will ever confess to him,” denied Aomine, letting his body slump down to the bed sideways while holding the pillow close to his chest.
“Why not!? You need to break this curse the quickest you can!” yelped Momoi immediately, panic starting to invade her brain completely after hearing such a thing. She and everyone else couldn’t afford to let the tanned male remain with that personality shift for the rest of his life. It would be unbearable to see such a thing happening.
“Because…” started mumbling Aomine, a pained look on his face as he pulled the pillow closer to his chin and leaned his head on it. “I think Kagami-chan likes Tetsu-chan…”
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