➪ 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐴 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑡 ᵏⁿᵇ ᵃᵘ

Chapter 1

Staring out the window of the classroom, with eyes full of boredom, Kagami took note of how unproductive his life had been since his return to Japan. Back in the States, he was a different person. 

Someone full of life and vigor, someone passionate about basketball, someone who was genuinely happy. Had it not been for 'that incident', maybe he would have still been on the courts of L.A. playing his heart out.

"Ahem, I take it there must be something outside that's far more interesting than my class, Kagami-kun."

The teacher frowned at the teen who stared back at her with uncaring eyes, not even the least bit shaken or nervous that he'd been called out.

"No, sensei. Just staring at a bug on the window." His answer incited quiet giggles around the class but the teacher's face only turned uglier.

"Is that so? Then I hope you'll be able to catch the bug – during your afternoon detention."

Kagami just shrugged and rested his face on his palm. It's not the first time he'd gotten detention nor will it be the last. That's why he just didn't care. 

Nothing really mattered to him anymore, so why be so worked up over measly detentions? Getting in trouble with teachers is not worth mulling over and it's easier to just accept it.

The teacher could only click her tongue at the boy and continued on with the lesson. Although Kagami lacked formalities and was often distracted during class, the boy had never really done anything exceptionally...bad. 

He turned in his homework on time, he hardly ever came late and he didn't get into fights. His marks were...average at best aside from his English ones which could make it into the nineties. As expected from someone who lived in America for a lot of their life.

Kagami was a transfer student who only arrived in the second year of Junior High. Based on his looks alone, the staff were worried they received another troublesome student like the boy Haizaki, but they were thankful this new kid seemed disinterested in delinquency matters. If anything, they were more worried since the boy had yet to join any club and seemed like a loner.

His tall and muscular build was enough to get the P.E. teacher chasing after him to join a sports club but the boy outright refused and stealthily avoided the man. Kagami had no interest in joining any clubs but his luck was running out.

 He knew it was required to join a club since it was part of the rules and regulations of the school, and he had successfully been avoiding it for a while.

Until now that is.

"Kagami-kun, I understand that you'd just returned from America so you may not have been aware of how things work here but it has been two months since you've arrived. I think you've been here long enough to settle down so now, you must fulfill the student requirement of joining a club." The homeroom teacher for Kagami's year sat at his desk and stared up at the teen.

"...I understand, sensei." Kagami muttered with a grimace. "I'll join the cooking club then."

"Good, the uh- what? Not a sports one?"

"Not interested in sports. I'll join the cooking club," replied the red-head.

The teacher blinked, not bothering to hide his surprise, but handed the boy an application form.

"Here's the application form. Fill it out and give to Handa-sensei, the club's advisor."

"Hai."

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Kagami left the office and ruffled his hair with a sigh. 'Cooking club. At least it's better than a sports one.'