First Miracles [Kuroko no Basuke FanFic]

Taiga Kagami 01

Taiga Kagami 01

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What's your type of girl?

Kagami: Eh...!? A-an elegant woma.... person, I guess.

(From Kuroko no Basuke Characters' Bible) 

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Taiga Kagami hated the warm weathers of America. But despite that, he still bears with it and plays basketball under such conditions. Himuro is teaching him well, and everything just seeps into him naturally.

Unfortunately, school is a different thing. Everything was in ENGLISH and he doesn't soak up as much as he does on basketball plays.

"Let's have a partner activity, class," The teacher says in ENGLISH, and Kagami does his best to comprehend it before he is left out.

Finally, the word 'partner' processed in his mind and he darts around looking for anybody vacant. He doesn't have much friends here in school, only those boys he plays with some time during dismissal, but he found them all paired with each other already.

"Taiga?" The teacher asks, "Still no partner yet?"

The simple questions are easy to understand, "Not yet," He murmurs.

"Then who else hasn't found a pair yet?"

A small, white hand was raised, and Kagami looks up from the crowd to see who owns it. The hand belonged to a petite girl with soft brown locks reaching her back. Her eyes were also as soft and as blue as the skies.

"Well, why don't you pair with Taiga then, Alice?" Ah, so that's her name.

Alice nods, strands of hair bouncing with her head, and she trots over to him. Kagami watches her with slight awe, seeing her every step somewhat defy gravity, and her form gracefully moving in sync with each other.

Kagami doesn't understand it though. All girls are like that.

"Hello," She says, American accent present in her voice.

Kagami looks up from the desk and replies, "Hey,"

She sits down beside him, movements still in slow motion, and Kagami couldn't help but wonder if she's just doing it to impress him.

Himuro once said that girls like to show off their grace and movements to boys to make themselves appear better. Boys often fall for it, but since Kagami now knows the trick, he won't fall for it that easily.

But something about her casual smile and innocent eyes tells him that it's not mere acting.

"Taiga," She starts, pushing the blank paper on the desk towards him, "You should start,"

He blinked, before remembering the instructions of the teacher during his thinking time. Draw your hobby.

"Okay then," He agrees and takes out a pencil, "No peeking, okay?"

Alice pouts a bit, "No fair! We're a pair!"

Kagami blinks again, the word 'pair' resounding in his mind for a while before he removed his hand from the paper, "Okay. But you should show me yours too!"

"Okay,"

A couple of minutes later, Kagami held up his masterpiece to Alice's face, grinning proudly. Alice stared at the paper for a while, cerulean eyes trying to comprehend the colorful scribbles on it.

"You... Like fishing?" She asked.

Kagami knew the word fishing anywhere, since his dad used to force him to join the outings, so he reacted, "No! It's basketball!"

Alice squeaked in surprise, "I see, I'm sorry,"

It was now Kagami's turn to pout, placing his work on the table beside him. Sure, he wasn't the best artist out there, but how can one mistake that orange basketball on the drawing as a fish? It was perfectly round for god's sake!

"What about your hobby?" He asked, almost challenging.

Alice smiled at him and started her work. He watched her from the sidelines, eyes fixated on her nimble fingers as they traced lines across the paper.

And now that he noticed it, her complexion was almost as pale as the paper beneath her arm.

"I like dancing," She said absentmindedly and she smiled as well.

Kagami looked at her focused expression, "What kind of dance?"

"Ballet,"

Oh.

He nodded slowly and then tried to recall what his mom and him watched way before. Ballet was gentle and soft, almost putting him to sleep with their fluid-like movements, but he also was ingtrueed with such moves.

Sometimes, he'd catch Himuro's basketball style being as elegant as those dancers.

"It suits you,"

Alice's wide blue eyes stared at him, mouth slightly agape, "Really?" She asked.

Kagami moved back, taken back with what he just said. He didn't mean to say it out loud. Still, he managed to nod through his embarassment, "Y-yeah...?"

Despite the unsure tone in Kagami's voice, Alice gave a pleasing laugh, sounding just like harps in his ears as she replied, "Thank you,"

Kagami doesn't know why, but even her lips seems to move gracefully.

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TBC