Imperfect match // Daiki Aomine (Kuroko no Basuke)

12. Wake up

After arriving at her floor, she waddles to the right as he helps her until they reach her door. The floor is noisy, a few people hanging out outside of the next door where a party is raging which is probably where these guys came from.

She takes her key out of her purse but before she has time to open it, he takes it off her hand, opens the door and takes her inside. He is keen on not attracting attention and getting out of the way before the shady dudes come back.

Once in, she leans against the entrance cabinet and lets herself slide down ready to collapse. She is wasted. But he stops her before she hits the floor, lifts her and swings her over his shoulder.

"Weeeee!!" She chuckles clearly intoxicated.

Her apartment is not very big, well it's one room: a low table and cushions straight ahead, a kitchenette to the left and, to the right, ceiling high shelves separate the bedroom to the rest of the apartment, the bathroom straight to the right once in the bedroom.

Swinging her back off his shoulder, she falls on her soft bed laughing.

"You think it's funny?" He asks amused.

"Yes, weeeeeeee!"

Her eyes closed, she spreads and wriggles on her bed until she finds her pillow to lay her head on, while he looks through her cupboard finding a cup and pours her a glass of water.

"Here. Drink that before you sleep, that should help with the hangover tomorrow."

"I'm not drunk you know!" She slurs unable to focus on him sitting on the side of her bed as she sits up to drink.

"Sure." He smiles.

Once done, he takes the glass off her hand, before she lays down and places it on her bedside table after filling it up again. He then takes her boots off and pulls the blanket over her, but before he can go, she grabs his wrist.

"Stay." She whispers her eyes closed, nearly asleep.

After a pause, looking at her so peaceful, he brushes the hair off her forehead. She's cute. His thoughts are disturbed by loud voices coming from the corridor, the party next door not showing any sign of dying down.

Now that she's asleep, he walks to the front door and gets startled when he hears metallic sounds in the lock of the door.

Does she live with someone? Looking at her apartment, it's too small for two and her bed is a single.

Someone is trying to break in.

Looking around he finds a baseball bat next to the door which seems odd as she plays volleyball. Does she have a reason to have a baseball bat so handy?

He grabs it firmly and unlocks the door, opening it slowly only to face one of the guys from earlier, on his knees, with lock picking pins in hand.

"Can I help you?" Aomine asks with a menacing glare, the other guy quickly standing up.

"Wow!" The guy says, seeing the bat in his hand. "We were just trying to help a friend out."

Another guy steps forward peeking inside the appartment.

"Yeah, my... umh... my girlfriend, yeah! The guys told me she came home drunk so I just want to check on her." The new guy says.

Looking at his sleazy appearance, Aomine judges that he's definitely lying. He needs to make a quick decision to protect her.

"Well, MY girlfriend doesn't need help so you can move along." He says.

"What the fuck do you..." He starts, ready for a fight but soon interrupted by the other guy, restraining him and apologising now.