Dinner

Argh*

I groaned as I bent down to untie my shoes. The preliminaries were about 2 months away and the coach had increased the training yet again. I don't really know what happened last year but I know the coach was really pissed about it. He mentioned losing to our rival school or something.

But, you don't have to take out your anger on us and try to kill us coach, I thought in my head.

"Kaen, why did you come back so late? I remember telling you to come home early today, we are going to Satsuki's house for dinner ."My mum said to me, looking rushed.

"I had practice mum, the coach just upped it again." I replied.

"OKOK. Quickly go and take a shower. I'm going to give you 5 minutes, we are already late!" My mum started urging me.

I rushed up the stairs but I heard my parents talking in the background.

"Dear, why did you only give him 5 minutes, you know we are 30 minutes early?"

"You have to rush him, if not he will take forever to finish bathing."

Bloody hell! You know I'm a boy right, it's the bro code to never take more than 10 minutes in the toilet unless in emergencies like having a stomachache.

30 minutes later, I found myself shabbily dressed in Satsuki's house. Aomine's family was here to, and today we were celebrating our entering into middle school.

I was sitting on a couch, with Aomine and Satsuki wolfing down some chicken wings.

"Damn these KFC chicken wings are sick. Satsuki, you are on diet right, gimme your skin, you are gonna grow real fat if you eat them ."I exclaimed.

"Screw you Kaen! Eveybody knows the skin is the best part of the meal, guilt tripping me won't work ."Satsuki retorted.

"Yo Kaen, where the hell have you been man! I go to the court every weekend and I never see you there." Aomine said angrily.

I held up both my hands and said:" My bad, I'll probably start going back to the court in about a months time. My body is trying to get used to the training. Every weekend, I feel so sore that I can't leave the house."

"I kinda understand what you mean. The training in middle school is way more than what we did before. You know Aomine and I joined the school team." Satsuki said happily.

"That's great! I knew you could make it. Aomine, I hope you joined the first team in your school cause I did." I replied.

"Yeah, I'm one of the rare phenoms who joined the team in the first year. But you know this year there were 3 other's who also made it to the team!" Aomine said.

"You will never believe this. There's this super tall giant who has purple hair. He is our age but is 2.1 meters tall already, crazy right?" Satsuki said.

"There's also this green haired guy. He's pretty tall but his shooting is insane. He make's like 8 out of 10 open threes. He is probably more accurate than you Kaen."

"Oh there also this really short point guard. He makes the craziest passes....."

I looked and Aomine and Satsuki rambling on and on about their team. Well, I would too if I was them.

"But do you know who our captain is?" Aomine suddenly turned to me and asked.

"Nope, am I supposed to know?" I knew Teikos captain was good but he wasn't anything special in the anime.

"Well he is the current number one player in the entire middle school scene and he is insane. I couldn't even stay in front of him once. He is an all rounder. He can dribble, shoot and score in the paint, I don't know how to defend him." Aomine replied.

Damn, luckily Aomine reminded me or I would have underestimated him in a real game. If Aomine could not keep up with him, I would only be able to keep up with him slightly. The captain of thteam was Nijimura, he would not be a threat to me next year but I was only a first year this year. How could I forget.

"Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. Kaen, you go to Azabu middle school right, did you know our schools are rivals. Our schools are the top 2 teams in Tokyo and our school won your school in preliminaries finals last year." Satsuki said.

Ohhhh. No wonder the coach was so pissed. Seems like we did not even make it to the nationals last year. What kind of information was my form teacher giving me, didn't he say the team went to the nationals?

"Eh, I guess I'm going to meet you guys in a match sooner or later. I'm going to be aiming for a starting position on my team so you guys better not expect me to go any easy on you." I said with a grin and stuck out my fist.

"Don't you dare go easy on us. It won't be any fun if you do." Aomine replied and we bumped our fists.

I wanted to talk more about basketball but I had a feeling Satsuki would be left out eventually, so I decided to change the topic.

"Hey Satsuki, did Aomine make any new friends in middle school or is he still trying to act like a gangster?" I asked.

"What the hell did you say! This is how I act naturally!" Aomine retorted.

"Yeah, did you know during the first day in school, the teacher asked Aomine to introduced himself and guess what he said?" Satsuki left me hanging, she then continued.

"He went like, If you are not interested in basketball leave me alone, I have no time to be with you." She said, attempting to imitate Aomine.

I burst out laughing." HAHAHAHAHA! Aomine is having trouble making friends, you can't keep relying on me and Satsuki forever you know!"

" Hey, shut up man. Don't gotta keep digging it in."

"Well on the topic of making friends. Satsuki, you are a girl right, how come I have no trouble talking to you but there's this one girl that keeps ignoring me." I turned to ask satsuki.

"Huh, Satsuki just looks like a girl on the outside but is a boy on the inside." Aomine chirped.

"Ooooh. Kaen, you trying to hit up girls, you know you are only 12 years old right." Satsuki teased.

"Well, if you want to talk to a girl, there are a few tips you must remember." Satsuki then started rambling about the right method to approach, conversation starters .....

I had to take down all these notes in my head as they may come in useful when approaching Miku in the future.

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Gimme your power stones dawg, it feels nice to get them.