Chapter Six

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"Studying at your place?" Daiki wished he had heard wrong, but the black haired girl nods her head vigorously. The basketball player could feel the wrinkling of his nose in distaste of having to study. "Why?"

"Because if I have to help Kise-kun study, then I should help his friends too," Noa's eyes wander across the small gathering of teens, and Daiki swears her eyes linger on him longer and her nose wrinkled slightly. "It's the most polite thing I can do."

"But I don't want to study." Atsushi says rather bluntly. He wanted to crush the shorter girl when her answer is a simple 'don't care'. But he couldn't do that. If he did, who would do his math home-work? So Atsushi stays silent as Noa continued to talk about what she had planned.

"I know that Mura-kun and Kise-kun need help with maths," Noa murmurs, biting her thumb. "But the rest of you need to tell me what is you need me to help you with."

"Oh! You could help me with my history, Hinata-chan. I've been wanting to correct a few things." Satsuki pipes up from beside a still scowling Daiki. Looking to the dark skinned teen, Satsuki gives Daiki a once-over. "Aomine-kun needs help with almost every subject though."

"Momoi, don't go saying stuff like that." Daiki snaps, giving the pink haired girl a glare. "I don't need help. This doesn't make any sense, anyway!"

"I think it is a wise idea for you to go, Aomine-kun." Seijuro's voice has the small group looking behind them to see he had somehow appeared in the once nearly empty gym without any one noticing. "A study group should help you improve your grades. You do know if you do not improve, you won't be able to play."

Instead of answering the captain, Daiki looks away grumbling under his breath something incoherent while crossing his arms across his chest. Noa knew that that was his way of saying he would be coming and she lets a smirk come to her face.

"I do not mind attending. Maybe Hinata-san can give me a few pointers on the math quiz I'll be taking next Monday." Tetsuya comments.

"Uwah, if Kurokocchi is going then I'm definitely going!" Ryōta exclaims from beside Noa, who looks up at him with a glare.

"Even if Kuroko-kun wasn't coming, you were still coming, baka." The blonde winces from the harsh hit to his shoulder courtesy of a now annoyed Noa. Huffing, the girl turns her attention to the silent green haired boy who stood a little away from the group. Feeling eyes on him, Shintaro looks up to find that the small group was now looking at him.

"I will not be coming." He states, looking back down to the book in his hand that he was currently reading.

"Eh? But, Midorin, don't you want to take a look at my notes?" Satsuki asks, furrowing her brows as her lips pull down in a frown. It wouldn't be the same without Shintaro there.

"I do not need them." Looking to the group, Shintaro narrows his eyes slightly. "And there's not a chance any of you could change my mind."

"I can't believe you made me change my mind." The group look to the clearly annoyed green haired boy with dead pan looks.

"You'll enjoy it. Trust me, Midorimacchi!"his arm around the boy's neck, a big smile placed on his lips, the only blonde of the group continues to walk pulling a rather reluctant and annoyed Shintaro with him. "Noacchi's place is totally cool."

"Get your hands off me." Shoving his teammate's hand from off of him, Shintaro fixes the collar of his white shirt.

"Is that your lucky item for today, Midorin?" Satsuki asks, eyeing the brown messenger bag that the three-pointer had with him. As if feeling her eyes on his bag, Shintaro places a hand over the bag.

"It is." No other words are said and the group continue to walk in silence until...

"You have got to be kidding me. This is her house?!" Daiki's shout of disbelief has Tetsuya moving a little away from him. He would not like to lose his hearing due his teammate's loudness.

"Yep." Ryōta doesn't seem to be bothered by the open-mouthed reaction of the dark skinned teen, and instead moves to open the gate that leads into the large yard.

"B-but.." Satsuki, feeling sorry for her childhood friend, leads the still stuttering teen through the gate.

"Hina-chin's house is big." Atsushi finally speaks, though his mouth is full from the chips he has stored in a package in his hand.

The cream coating of the paint shines as the sun beats down on it, causing the teenagers to squint. Uniquely twisting fencing keeps the house enclosed, neatly trimmed hedges surrounds the house. The roof is peaked, slanting down at an angle. The windows have a royal purple curtains hanging on the other side of them, drawn so that the sunlight can stream through.

"Wow," Satsuki mumbles, removing her hand from Daiki as she notices a marble fountain sitting towards the right side of the lawn. An angel holding a flower was perched on top, looking up towards the sky. Water spurted from its other hand, which lay gently out in front of it, as if waiting for someone to take it in return. The water fell gently towards the crystal blue pool beneath it, causing ripples to form and wave out until they were no more. "It's really pretty."

"Hey guys!" Their attention turns to a figure running up to them and almost everyone is taken back from the almost always goofy dark haired girl wearing a pleated white skirt and yellow blouse, white pumps on her feet. It seems only Ryōta is not surprised as he gives the girl a hug while chattering away about his walk to her house with the group.

"Um, we should head inside, right?" Looking around, Noa frowns seeing that someone is missing. "Where's Akashi-san?"

"He couldn't make it." Shintaro speaks up, his slight surprise disappearing.

"Oh," Noa blinks seeing the gaping Daiki and her frown deepens before she turns to Satsuki. "What's wrong with him?"

"Don't mind him, Hinata-chan." Satsuki smiles taking hold of Daiki's arm again as they begin to walk toward the double doors that lead into the home. "He's just a bit surprised, that's all."

"Right..."

"You have a basketball court?!" Daiki really couldn't help the outburst. What was Hinata Noa doing with a basketball court when she didn't even like the sport?!

"Well, yeah." Noa moves a little away from Daiki as his shouting kind of freaked her out a bit."My older brother plays basketball and well..."

Her hand gestures to the fenced off area that Daiki couldn't take his eyes off from. At the moment, Noa was showing them around her backyard (which Daiki corrects is like a park) when he had interrupted her speech on why they had a pond dedicated to koi fish to loudly exclaim why was there a basketball court.

"Naokicchi is actually pretty good. He's even helping me practice too!" Ryōta quips in trying to be helpful. "It's a shame he isn't home right now, though."

"Oh? How come?" Satsuki looks to Noa.

"He's away at school in Akita." Noa answers, beginning to walk away. The group follows with Satsuki dragging Daiki away once again. "He should be home tomorrow. As of now, we got the whole house to ourselves!"

Shintaro's eyes narrow. "I thought you brought us here to study?"

"Well... we don't have to study right away, do we?" Noa looks to the green haired boy and grins. "My mother is actually an Astrologist, Midori-kun. I could show you a few of her stuff if you want to..."

He really shouldn't be so interested in it, but... "I don't see why not." Shintaro relents, pushing his glasses up and looking away just as Noa does a fist bump with Ryōta.

"What about me, Hina-chin?" Atsushi was kind of annoyed that he wasn't getting any of the black haired girl's attention. He didn't want to look at any astrologist work, that was for sure.

"Oh how could I forget about you, Mura-kun?" Noa moves over to purple haired giant with a grin on her face. "I have a whole pantry of goods waiting just for you."

That seemed to get Atsushi going as he quickly asked her where this heavenly place is located before running off to find it.

"I'll go make sure he doesn't make a mess, Noacchi." Soon, Ryōta is off following Atsushi leaving the small group just at the entrance of the house from the back.

"Oh, Kuroko-kun, do you-" Noa blinks seeing the space beside her where the blue haired phantom should be is empty. "Oi, where's Kuroko-kun?"

"Dammit, that idiot must have gotten himself lost." grumbled Daiki who had gotten over his stupor and was now searching the area with his eyes for his friend.

"We should go look for him!" Satsuki's worried look has Daiki sighing before he finally agrees and the two are off, leaving just Noa and Shintaro.

"Hmm... So let's go look at my mother's study, Midori-kun?" A single nod and the last two of the group disappear inside the house.

It was quite an eventful day for the group of friends. Daiki never got over his surprise of Noa being rich, Ryōta made the whole group sit down to listen to him do Karoke -which wasn't all that bad, Shintaro had become a fan of Maiko Hinata's work, Satsuki never stopped questioning Noa about the rest of her family, and Tetsuya had been found in the pantry with Atsushi as they had a quarrel over which sweets were the best.

Yes, it was quite an eventful day and most of all, they had not even picked up one book, much to Shintaro's annoyance.

"Who's this?" Satsuki asks, picking up a picture from off the rather grand looking fireplace. Noa walks over and looks at it before smiling.

"That's my Oji-chan, Hinata Maji." Noa says rather fondly, taking the picture from Satsuki and placing it back onto the granite surface. "People say that he's a lot like me."

"Then he must be annoying." Noa gives Daiki a glare which the boy ignores and instead focuses on the game Shintaro had somehow convinced him to play- chess.

"I win again." Shintaro announces, once again taking the last piece of Daiki's off the board with his king.

"No way! I want a rematch!" Daiki snaps, glaring down at the glass-made board.

"Didn't you already have your rematch, Aomine-kun?" Tetsuya asks from his place on coach where he had been reading a book that Noa had lent him earlier that day. He didn't even look up when a piece from the game is sent flying at him and he instead ducks avoiding it.

"Mine-chin is a sore loser." Atsushi says while eating from a bag of chips as he looked at the game from the same table that the two played the game. Daiki sends him a glare which Atsushi pokes his tongue out at.

"Noacchi, when are Maiko-san and Sadao-san coming home?" Ryōta asks, curiously looking through the selection of DVDs by the flat screen in the living room.

"Don't know." mumbled Noa moving to take a seat on the floor while Satsuki continued to look at the pictures. "Otou-san won't be home until late like usual."

"Speaking of your father, what does he do, Hinata-chan?" Satsuki asks, turning to look at the girl who now had positioned herself to lie on the carpeted floor. "You did tell us your mother is an Astrologist."

"He's the president of the International Kendo Federation." Noa answers, not even looking to see why all had gone quiet.

"Your father is who?" Sitting up, Noa frowns seeing all attention had turned to her awaiting to see if what she had just said was a joke.

"He's the President of the International Kendo Federation." She repeats, now wary of what her friends might do next.

"I can't believe this." Daiki mutters, his head hitting the table with a thud.

"You should believe it, Aominecchi." Ryōta found his teammate's reaction funny if the way his eyes held amusement while looking at the blue haired boy. "Noacchi is actually an accomplished kendo practitioner."

"Really?" Daiki looks to the person in question who nods her head while getting to her feet.

"Actually, when we entered middle-school, the kendo club had badgered Noacchi for almost five months to join their club. She beat them up after awhile when they-" Ryōta is cut off as Noa slaps a hand over his mouth while glaring at him.

"Don't talk about that, Kise! No one needs to hear that." Letting go of her hold around his mouth after seeing that he had gone quiet, Noa turns to the small group and smiles. "Enough about that stuff. Who wants cake?"

"Noa-chan, where are all the maids?" Maiko looks to her daughter who sat watching television with a bag of chips in her hand. The woman had just arrived home to find her home empty and awfully quiet to only find Noa cleaning up the kitchen.

"I had everyone take the day off as I had some friends over." Noa answers not looking away from the television, stuffing her mouth with salted chips.

"What? How come you didn't tell me?" Maiko steps in front of the television, seeing that her daughter had not answer her, a frown appearing on her face. "I haven't met any of them ever since you joined Middle school."

"Maybe because she embarrassed of us." Namie pouts, poking her head out from underneath a pillow she had thrown over her face from her place on the sofa beside her sister. "I would've loved to meet them."

"That wasn't very nice of you to invite your friends and not tell me about it, Noa-chan." Maiko's frown deepens seeing her youngest daughter only roll her eyes before getting to her feet.

"What's the big deal with me having friends over? If it's such a big deal, next time I'll tell you, okay?" Noa's eyebrow twitches when her mother pulls her into a hug.

"Great! I can't wait to meet them!"

"Yippe..." Noa mutters, nose scrunching up in distaste.

It wasn't like she didn't want her family to meet her friends, it was just that...

"It'll have to be a day when your father has the day off thought," Maiko doesn't notice how her daughter stiffens at the sound of her father actually being apart of the plans. "I'll have to make sure he doesn't bail also knowing him."

... Hinata Sadao wasn't someone who particularly liked any of his daughter's friends.

"I hope Kise-kun will be there." Namie says dreamily, letting out a sigh.

Especially Kise Ryōta.

*hides behind computer* please don't kill me!

How long has it been? Sorry for such a late ( I mean LATE) update . Please forgive me!

So I also changed the title to 'Queer' for obvious reasons :3 Hope you guys on't mind?

Anyway... So Noa-chan is rich :3 Honestly don't know if that is terrible or not? And the fact that her father is the President of FIK (International Kendo Federation)... and she's kinda good at it too... and her brother is a basketball player and goes to Yosen! :p

So much info on her family tho: Her uncle will be a big part of the canon plot when she attends high school tho so look forward for that.

That's all I gotta say! PLEASE REVIEW AND i LOVE YOU GUYS!