The Second Kagami (Kuroko no Basket/Basuke)

Chapter Twelve - Kiss

Sora:

We had just come home from the training camp with Mido-kun's team and let's just say it was super fun. I realised how cute Mido-kun always acts, I mean he's a tsundere. Me and Takao-kun loved teasing him about it but I kind of felt bad after it so I always apologised. Mido-kun, Takao-kun and I have bond quite a lot over those past days and we're quite close even though it was only a view days.

And now I'm in my room, just laying here on my bed. I was quite tired but I didn't want to sleep. Gosh, bipolar feelings. Pick one, sleep or no sleep. So I decided to stay up and just lay there contemplating my life.

I realised that I liked Ryou-kun. And it's been quite a while since I was in a relationship with someone and I don't know if I'm ready to be in a relationship with anybody else yet. My previous relationship was horrible and I never want to think about it again because those were some dark times where I was completely naïve and submissive. I didn't trust myself to be in a relationship either. What if I'm not enough? All of these thoughts filled my head making me panic to myself. I think I was almost to the point where I was going crazy when a ping from my phone broke me out of my trance.

Ryou-kun: Heyyy Soracchi! :DD How have you been? I've heard you guys got through to the quarter-finals, congrats! We made it through too and that means we'll meet sometime soon. Wanna meet up at Starbucks? Miss you xox

I felt my heart flutter at the 'xox' at the end of the message. Pretty stupid huh? Heart fluttering at a text message? I must really like him.

Me: Hiii ryou-kun! Congratulations to you too! I can't wait for us to verse each other :P Sure, meet up in front Starbucks at 12:25pm.

I guess it was a good idea for me to stay away because now I get to go see Ryou-kun. I was like acting like a twelve year old girl madly in love and it was quite embarrassing to admit that to myself but yes, that was what I felt like.

Oh I almost forgot that the team had made it to the quarter-finals but yeah that happened. And it wasn't that hard either so we're quite happy. I'm guessing it's because we haven't gone against any of the GoM teams yet.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I had to find something to wear. Slamming my closet door open, I rummaged through all my clothes until I found something appropriate for the occasion, something pretty but no too over the top. I rushed to put in on and brush out my nest of hair. Once all complete and grabbing my essentials I ran out the door.

As I was walking to the uh Starbucks I gave myself a pep talk. Don't be too obvious about liking him, you don't want to seem too clingy and thirsty. Don't do anything stupid. You know what just be yourself and if he doesn't like you that he's the stupid one, you're a catch Sora. I told myself all of these things before arriving at our designated meeting spot.

I saw that Ryou-kun had already ordered two drinks, one for obviously himself and I'm guessing the second one was for me. "That for me?" I asked him pointing at the Starbucks cup. He nodded smiling and handing it over to me. I sipped on it and it was the cotton candy frappuccino, and it was good. He stood up and signalled me to follow him. As we were walking I realised how awkward it was so I decided to break the ice by asking, "How are you?" He smiled at me and nodding told me, "I'm great." I smiled back at him. But then I realised how many smiles we were exchanging. Why are we just smiling? Why are we conversing? I started panicking a little when I was broken out of it when Ryou-kun was laughing.

"Eh? What wrong?" I wondered tilting my head to the side. "I-it's just that you're so cute." He wheezed grinning. I blushed and covered my blushing face with the palms of my hands. "Gosh why do you have to be so cute...?" He whispered making me blush even more. I think I was going to collapse because of how warm I was getting. "Hey Soracchi?" He questioned making me look up. "Yes?" I replied my eyes involuntarily moving to his lips which almost touched mine the other days. My heart beat started quickening and I was quite nervous.

We had stopped walking and were just staring at each other at this point. I just kept staring at his lips and thinking about the other day. I'm assuming that he was in the same state that I was in because he was looking at him lips as well and then back up to my eyes. "C-can I kiss you?" He whispered cupping my face in his hand. I nodded and closed my eyes waiting for the contact.

I felt fireworks explode in the background, gosh that was so cliché. His lips were so warm and soft that just moulded with mine and I kissed him back. His hands cupped my face closer as my arms went around his neck.

"Ahem!" Someone coughed making us jump away from each other. It was an old woman glaring at us. "Youngsters these days, so openly affectionate." The woman muttered under her breath. Ryou-kun and I both blushed at her. Ryou-kun looked at me and our eyes made eye-contact. "I'll take you home." He told me scratching the nape of his neck.

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"AHHH!!" I jumped onto my bed squealing. I started to punch the pillows and jumped up and down on my bed. "Yes, yes, yes!" Nii-chan walked into the room with his arms on his waist giving me a wtf look. "Ryou-kun just kissed me!" I squealed in his face jumping around. "What!?" Nii-chan shouted. "Yes!" I jumped up and hugged Nii-chan tightly. He reluctantly hugged back and then placed me down on the bed and sat on the edge of my bed. "Okay Sora, I'm only going to say this once. Use protection." Nii-chan said sternly. At the sound of the word protection, my eyes widened in shock but mostly embarrassment. "Nii-chan! It was just a kiss..." I ranted at him punching his chest. Nii-chan chuckled and grined but it slowly faded and he has a serious expression on his face. "Sora, will you allow me to beat him up if he hurts you?" Nii-chan asked sincerely. I stared at him wide eyed and smiled. "Of course but I doubt you'll be doing that anytime soon." I giggled.