“Geeeeeeeeez~ Where did Tetsu-chan go to stop answering me!?” loudly complained Aomine as he also loudly slammed his hands on the surface of his desk. He returned his body back to his chair and leaned his forehead on the table, sighing exasperatedly. “Sat-chan told me to find a way to confess to Kagami-chan, even if he truly is love with Tetsu-chan, but… But how am I supposed to do that without Tetsu-chan’s help on the matter~!? They’re the ones who are partners in basketball! And classmates! And the light and shadow that even defeated me!! And… And Kagami-chan is in love with Tetsu-chan…”
“I-I don’t really get it but… I’m sorry!” apologized Sakurai Ryou as he also repeatedly bowed down his head to the tanned male. He had simply come to deliver the taller male’s bento and eat together with him, but he had found him with a whole new make-over – and it wasn’t only in terms of appearance. Actually, if only it was the small difference in semblance that was being noticed by everyone.
Aomine had gone through a completely 180-degree change from one day to another. His usual confident self was nowhere to be found and he continuously delved into deep thinking periods to make the smallest of decisions. The way he talked was as if he was a girl, his usual rough and violent dialect completely lost in the middle of cute remarks and soft words. He was still as loud as usual, but not in a manly way – he gave small and acute shrieks as he talked about how to solve his apparent romantic attraction with the first basketball player that had defeated him in his whole life.
“Ahhh… Why is my life so hard, even though I’m such a cute and beautiful teenage girl…” sighed Aomine, his forehead sluggishly being rubbed against his desk’s surface. “If it weren’t for this curse… I could continue to go about my life as usual forever… Me and Kagami-chan and Tetsu-chan meeting during the weekends… Playing basketball together… Not knowing who is in love with who… Or having to confess your first love to someone who is in love with your former partner and ‘shadow’ in basketball, the sport that I love the most… Ugh… Argh… Ngh…!”
“Um… Aomine-kun?” hesitantly called Sakurai, his face half-hidden behind his own bento box. When the taller male shifted his head against the desk just the slightest and peeked over in his direction with eyes slightly watery, the brunette softly cleared his throat and settled his food back in the table. “I-I’m not very in with this whole thing – I’m sorry! – and I’m also not an expert in romance – I’m sorry for that too! – but isn’t this how love is supposed to be?”
“Huh?” interjected Aomine, his head immediately being raised from the desk and looking over to the smaller male, who flinched visibly, with a completely lost expression on his face.
“I-I mean… I-It’s impossible for the person someone falls in love with to feel the same for them all the time, right?” tried to explain Sakurai, his body unconsciously motioning further away from the tanned male. “So, when we have an unrequited love, the best solution is letting it go. And if we can’t let it go, then we just have to summon all of our courage and confess to them, even if we know that we are going to be rejected. That rejection will help us move forward and find a new love, someone who will love us back just as much as we love them.”
“Saku-chan…” softly mumbled Aomine, his eyes even more open in surprise now. “You’re right…”
“Eh…? I am? And… ‘S-Saku-chan’…?” hesitantly questioned Sakurai, his brain going round and round at all the confusion that he was currently feelings towards yet more words from the new version of Aomine Daiki, the former ace of Teikou Middle School and current ace of Touou Academy.
“This is so not like the confident, cute and beautiful woman that I am!” suddenly yelled Aomine, getting up from his desk in a swift motion and making the chair tumble down to the floor. “Even if Kagami-chan is in love with Tetsu-chan and will reject me, I have to confess to him! And it’s more than obvious that I can’t give up! It would be against my personality and believes to just stop there! If Kagami-chan is in love with Tetsu-chan, then I’m going to make him fall for me! I swear to the moon and to the stars that I’m going to be the victorious queen of this love story! The only one who can beat me is me, even when it comes to romance! Ahahahahahaha!”
“E-Even if it’s weird, I’m glad that you’re feeling better, Aomine-kun,” softly said Sakurai, still extremely confused about everything that was succeeding right in front of his eyes. “Just please quickly return to your usual self, because I have the feeling that you can’t exactly play basketball like normal right now… I-I’m sorry!!!”
“Eh? Of course I can, Saku-chan!” announced Aomine, a dead serious expression on his face. He ripped a page from one of his notebooks and crumpled it up to form a paper ball. He then turned his body around just the slightest and threw the ball in the air in a trash can’s direction. “See? I can still play ba—“
The paper ball continued to climb and fly through the air… but it suddenly fell on top of an empty desk, not having travelled even half of the distance necessary to reach the opening and insides of the metal can.
“N-No way!!!!!” yelped Aomine furiously, his eyes open in shock and features twisted in disbelieve. He once again faced his desk and ripped another page, crumpling it into another ball and throwing it over to the same trash can – it was another missed shot. “No… No, no, no…! This can’t be real! This is a lie!!”
Three notebooks worth of ripped and crumpled pages later, Aomine had flooded the entire classroom with an endless sea of paper balls, none of them having reached the intended target. It was at that moment, his breath picked up due to the physical exertion and mental damage that each failed shot had caused in him, that the tanned male made a lifetime vow to himself.
“I… haa… I won’t let even 24 hours pass before I confess to Kagami-chan… Haa… If not… I will throw myself out of a bridge while tied to a 50 kilos block of cement.”
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