Surprise?

Kagami's Feelings

The hotel was beautiful – that was no doubt; and Kagami and Midorima seemed extremely out-of-place. They continued walking into corridors after corridors, making both boys anticipate and fear what was going to happen.

Midorima had expected to be hearing countless sounds of... sex beyond the closed doors, but to his amazement, the corridor was silent except for the faint hum of music.

They must have some really good sound proof systems in the rooms, as expected from a high class love hotel.

They passed countless doors, and finally reached a lift as the attendee pressed the 'up' button, and stepped inside as the doors slid open and pressed a button and came out again.

They were motioned into the open doors as the attendee stayed respectfully outside the lift. A button to a floor 99 had already been pressed for them.

"I hope you enjoy your stay here, sirs. There are only two rooms on that floor, which are each labelled with your names. Be sure to enter the correct rooms, sirs." She paused and smiled brightly at them. "You should really double check and make sure to enter the correct rooms!" The door slid close.

"You know... I'm sure she winked at the end." Kagami groaned in horror as the lift started to move upwards.

"...Why did she repeat that twice..?" Midorima frowned, obviously confused.

A slow song started to play as the lift continued to move upwards, passing each floor with a pleasant 'ding!'

Kagami settled his head at the spotless lift mirror as he tried to push down the sudden fear that overtook him

Yes, Kagami the fearless tiger was afraid. Laugh all you want, but he was filled with a sudden fear of losing his shadow, Kuroko...

He put a hand on his beating heart, unfamiliar with the sudden pain that had put him in a daze the entire trip to the hotel.

He didn't know what was going on. Kagami had never experienced this feeling before. The whole of his life before this was filled with basketball since Himuro had introduced him to it since young in America. Other than basketball, there was only eat, go to school, basketball again, and sleep. Of course, there were his parents as well. They understood him well and wanted to be by his side, but they were just too busy. He understood, and occasionally talked to them over Skype or even by the phone.

But this time, the thoughts of Kuroko had been filling him, making him dizzy and confused. Some gentle thoughts of Kuroko with him, smiling happily; and some painful thoughts of Kuroko and Takao, on the same bed, each doing something unorthodox...

The tiger in Kagami's heart roared again, desperate to get his feelings across, acknowledged and heard. The roaring tiger pulled and struggled across the chains in Kagami's heart, restricting its feelings and its freedom to love... by fear. The heavy chains pulled the tiger back after so many years of slumber, now finally awakened by heartache...

His thoughts were finally broken as Midorima called him in an annoyed tone, obviously impatient.

"If you don't want to get off, then you should go back down." Midorima snapped, pushing his glasses up.

For a moment, Kagami thought Midorima looked... sad. Deciding that it was a trick of light, (Hey, it's Midorima, he probably didn't even have feelings to begin with.) Kagami stepped off the lift into the soft red carpet that adorned the entire floor, reaching an end with the two doors in front of them.

Both of them knew that it was time to face the truth that hid beyond the two closed doors.