Phantom of the underworld

chapter 28

"Alright," Riko started, gaining attention of the basketball players, "First up this training camp is supposed to be a week-long camp. Second thing is that there will be two teams to the court; the court will be used according to the teams training schedule."

"What about the fourth court?" 

"The fourth court will be dedicated to practice matches so it may not interrupt any other team practice." The Tōō couch answered.

"Third and finally, we'll be having a group activates to promote cooperation in the team as well as to get properly know other team better." The Yōsen coach concluded, "Are there any questions?" 

Since no one said anything, the Rakuzan coach spoke up, "Alright then, we'll break apart into our teams for practice and after lunch we'll discuss about the first potential practice match of the training camp."

The training camp of death...I mean heaven. 

"Alright," Riko began. The boys and Tetsuki had just finish up their warm up session. "Before we get started, -look at Tetsuki- Tetsuki-chan, is there anything else that we should know?" Eyes were now turned to the phantom girl.

"You should restrict any physical abuse you wish to inflict me to training regime; my uncle may misinterpret the abuse as a threat and attempt to kill you." Tetsuki answered bluntly, "Otherwise, any other information is classified and will only be shared if the situation call for it." 

"Your joking right?" Fukuda questioned.

"She's not." Kagami remembered when Tetsuki explained vaguely how overprotective her uncle could get. 

"Oi!" Seirin turned to look over at Shutoku side of the court, Miyagi shouting at them, "Does that mean Takao off limits too?" Kazunari, though smiling, appeared to be fidgeting while the rest of Shutoku seemed indifferent. 

Nakatani simply sighed at his players.

"As long as its not serious injury you may deal with him however you wish; unless specified he is your team charge during training camp periods." 

"You heard that Ōtsubo, bring out the pineapples." 

"Tet-chan whyy!?" Tetsuki shrugged indifferently at Kazunari. 

Seirin watched in slight amusement as Miyagi proceed to chase Kazunari around the gym, armed with pineapples. Hyuuga even thought it was an effective method to deal with annoyances. Shutoku seemed to have sadly accepted this as part of their small forward behavior to their kouhai. 

Meanwhile in the second gym, Yukio and, to a lesser extent, Shoichi, were pestered by their teammates. 

And since both coaches and Momoi held some interest in getting any useful information out of the former captains they decided to delay their practice session. 

"Kasamatsu-senpai, how come you never told me you were close to Kurokocchi?"

"Oi, shut up idiot; I'm still trying to figure out how that creep of a captain knew more about Tetsu than I do." 

Of course, Kise and Aomine were the first to badger the captains. The discovery that two people who should've been complete strangers to their former teammates had a well developed history and knew more about Tetsuki then Tetsuki former teammates.

"I've met Tetsuki under different circumstances then you have; thus, it's obvious that I'll know some things that you didn't." Shoichi smirked, noticing the warning glare from Yukio. 

"How did you meet?" Susa questioned.

"I met her around the same time she was working on getting Teiko first string. I was curious about this employer Hanamiya loved to 'talk' about so I asked to follow to his job, and my dear kouhai gladly accepted."