But I don't have main character hair! Kuroko help me!

Sports and Introductions

Chapter 6

A/N *stops readers fall once again* Sorry for the late update. I had an archery competition and I didn't have time to write. Please forgive me! I'll try to do better. In any case, you need to be forewarned. My main characters generally have tragic back-stories. So, good luck with that! *shoves reader off again*

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"Vyliana? I have a quick question for you" I was still wiping my face off when Riko-senpai asked, so I had to speak through the towel.

"Okoff, shuut." I meant to say 'Ok, shoot." She got my meaning and went ahead and asked her question.

"Were you running the whole time?"

"yeah"

"At that pace?"

"Yeah"

'Seriously? Our practice lasts for several hours!'

"Yeah, I noticed." I stood up and saw that everyone had circled up around us. They were looking at my chest, no not my chest. They were looking at my stomach. At my scars. When I sweat, they show up more vividly against my skin. I forgot and messed up, now they're going to ask questions I can't answer. Internally sighing I prepared for the barrage of questions that was going to come. Luckily Riko noticed my struggle and quickly swept aside their chance to ask.

"Vyliana, are you in any sports? Track? Cross country?"

"No, I just run for fun. I can't stand the half-ass way sprinters practice, throwers complaints about running a single lap and cross country is to short of a race, I can't get to my pace." I stated plainly, I knew it was harsh but I was still reeling from my mess up. She looked at me for a second before responding.

"Oh. If you're open to other sports.....you should join the basketball team. We can use your speed and stamina." She chuckled as she said her next sentence, "Hehe, you won't find wusses like that in MY gym." She grinned at the team evilly. They shivered and nodded in agreement, to scared to do otherwise. I thought carefully, weighing whether it would be worth it to be cliché and join or to break the mold and do my own thing. I quickly came to the conclusion that I would rather be cliché and with Kuroko and the others, besides this may be my only chance to get to know these people.

"Isn't this a boys team though?"

"Yes, but, no offense, you do look like a guy...we can get a uniform adjusted to help hide it too!" She was really hyped to get me on the team.

"It's ok. I get that a lot and ok I'll join..." Before I could finish Riko-senpai gave me a huge hug.

"Yesss!" I pulled out of her hug and held my hand up.

"But only on one condition." She eyed me before nodding, "If we get caught, I will take all the blame. You guys have to pretend that you never knew I was a girl."

"I can't allow that. It's as much our fault as it is yours!"

"Then I'm sorry. I can't allow Seirin fall because of me, besides how are you supposed to become the best in Japan if you have such a scandal?" I hit two buttons with one strike. Riko gave in to my condition.

"Fine, fine. We'll decide how to deal with that issue when it rolls around ok? Fair enough?"

"Agreed."

"Now all of you, go change before you catch a cold." We headed to locker room together, but Kagami stopped me outside the door.

"Where are you going?"

"To change my clothes, coach's orders." I pushed passed him and into the locker room. All the guys froze in mid-shirt removal. I ignored them and walked over to my bag. I grabbed my clothes and pulled off my running shirt. I still had my bra on under it so I wasn't worried. I went over to a stall to change into the rest of my clothes. When I emerged the guys were still staring dumbstruck, "What? I'm just changing my clothes. Nothing inappropriate, geez" They still were frozen, "I'm leaving ok. So you can go back to changing" As I walked out I muttered to myself "Seriously guys, it's just a bra. I didn't strip naked or anything."

After everyone finished getting changed we met in the gym. The rest of the team was still uncomfortable with me so I offered to take them out to eat at Maji burger, they perked up at that. We walked down to the nearest Maji Burger In a huge cluster. Kuroko walked beside me.

"Kuroko" he turned to me.

"Yes?"

"oh, nevermind."

"ok..."

Shortly after we arrived, ordered and sat down. As we ate, we started talking about random stuff. It was a lot of fun. As the talking started to die down I motioned that I wanted to say something. "Hey, I'm Vyliana Nyx. It looks like I am going to be joining your team soon. Please take care of me and I apologize for earlier. When I was younger I lived in a really small town and the only school within a reasonable distance from where I lived was a boys only school. They bent the rules and allowed me to go there but I still had to change with the guys in their locker room. I would normally do just what I did here, I'd take my clothes and change in a stall. I forgot that this wasn't home and I didn't think before barging in, I'm sorry. Please forgive me." They stared at me until the captain coughed into his hand and responded.

"ah.. well...umm...it's ok. It was just a little.....shocking that's all, but please, uh, *cough* try not to do that again." He was blushing. "Oh and I'm Junpei Hyuuga. I am the captain of the Seirin basketball team. Just call me captain."

"Ok, I will and call me by my first name, please." I paused and looked at the rest of the team, "That goes for the rest of you guys too, just call me Vyliana." I smiled and they smiled back. Riko clapped her hands.

"Alrighty, I want everyone to introduce themselves to Vyliana. You already know Koga, Kagami, Junpei, and Kuroko. So let's start with Izuki." Izuki stood up.

"Hai. I'm Shun Izuki. I play point guard and my skill is Eagle Eye. Nice to meet you, Vyliana" We bowed to each other.

"Nice to meet you too, Izuki-senpai." Shinji stood up and motioned towards Mitobe

"You already know me, but this is Rinnosuke Mitobe. He plays center and his skill is the hook shot." Mitobe nodded.

"Hi, I am Satoshi Tsuchida. I play power forward and my skill is with rebounding." I smiled.

"Hi, Tsucchi." His eyes widened.

"How'd you know my nickname?"

"One of my old friends was named Tsunada and their nickname was Tsucchi. I just thought it would fit you." I lied quickly. 'I thought I had a handle on this!'

"oh...." He sat back down and contemplated my response. RIko got a little impatient and blurted out,

"This is Koki Furiharta, Hiroshi Fukuda, and Koichi Kawahara. They play point guard, center, and small forward." We all looked at her, "What?! You guys were taking too long." We sighed. And she got a frustration mark on her head, "That's it everyone, Go home and sleep. You have double practice tomorrow!"

"EEEHHH?" Everyone started to scramble to get their stuff. So Riko wouldn't triple our practice. I started laughing as I walked out the door.