The Miracle's EMPRESS (Kuroko No Basket FanFic)

Chapter 11

*Yuki's POV*

It's been only 5 minutes, but the five on the court are already catching their breaths raggedly

Mitobe and Taiga's defense are strong, but not strong enough to prevent the opponent's attacks

Taiga and Tetsu's offense are doing good, with the help of Hyuga's threes and Izuki's twos for scoring

'But with this fast-paced play, and Taiga's condition, I'm certain that we'll lose this game'

Taiga's so worked up that he's playing with strong offense, and that's the problem

"Coach," Riko then turned to me, while my eyes' still on the game. "We need a time out. If this continues, the gap of the scores will only widen, and we'll eventually lose. Taiga needs to calm down. Though he's doing good in offense, I'm certain that it'll be useless. Ryota's copying his moves, with a 100% more precise, so the more Taiga play that hard, the more Ryota will play harder. With this high-paced play, both our defense and offense will certainly break" she just nod at me and walked towards the acting-officials of the game

'tsk. I forgot Tetsu's limit'

Hyuga suddenly threw the ball out of bounds, and a 'Seirin time out' was announced

I watched them sat beside me, as the other boys immediately gave them gym towels and water tumblers

I flinched on my seat when I heard Kaijou's coach yell

"What the hell are you doing?! How many points are you gonna let them take?! Is the defense asleep?! Huh?!"

I looked at my right wrist and winced a bit as I slightly massaged it

'Aho. I forgot about my wrist earlier because of my freaking emotion. Tch'

I focused when Riko began to instruct as the team, with her game chart, showing a box-and-one formation

"We have to deal with Kise-kun first" she started, with a worried tone

"I can't believe Kagami can't handle the guy himself. Should we put another guy on him?" with Hyuga's words, Taiga immediately protest

"What? Hey, wait... please"

"Please?" Riko and I repeats in question

"Iya, there is a way" we all turned to Tetsu after hearing those words

"What do you mean?" Riko asked in anticipation

"They have a weakness"

"Weakness?" again, Riko repeats wondering about Tetsu's words

"What? You should've told us sooner" Hyuga said pertaining to Tetsu, but the latter cut him off

"No, to be honest, I'm not even sure you could call it a weakness. Either way, I'm sorry. There's another problem" he then looked at me as if he knew that I'm aware of what he meant

"*sigh*..." the team's attention then went on me. "Because of the unexpectedly high-paced play, his effectiveness is already wearing off"

"N-nani??" Hyuga asked in disbelief, as the others has worried faces

"Why didn't you tell us something so important sooner?!" Riko exclaimed, as she head-locked me on her right arm, and Tetsu's on her left arm

"Sumimasen, you didn't ask" Tetsu replied, as his body tremble

"Do you not say anything, unless you're asked?!"