KChan: Hey, I've been busy with real life, but since I have been reading a lot of Kuroko no Basket lately, I decided to make a fanfic for it. I will add that I own nothing of Kuroko no Basket, except for my own character: Hiro. Please read and enjoy and I will update this is people really like it (review please).

Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basket belongs solely to FUJIMAKI Tadatoshi, a very wonderful manga writer and artist.

The Comet

(Kuroko No Basket Fanfic)

Why did I find joy in the comet that goes through a hoop? When I held the comet for the first time, I was happy, but then as I continued to play with the comet with others, I always won and eventually grew bored. I always win and that is no fun and yet, I continue to play hoping to feel the joy I felt when I first saw and held the comet. I want to feel the joy again before my end.

Chapter 1: Daiki's date?

The sound of a basketball hitting the gym's ground echoed throughout the gym of Seirin High School and the commanding voice of the Seirin High School's coach, Riko Aida, echoed in the ears of the players. Riko would blow her whistle to yell out an order to change positions or to pass the ball before observing from the side.

The players of Seirin High School were considered the best and were known as the best in the basketball league since their victory against the Generation of Miracles in the Winter Cup. Even though they were considered the best, Riko forced the players to continue to improve the strong points in basketball. Out of these best players, who were now considered as legends, were Kuroko Tetsuya, the Phantom Sixth Man of the Generation of Miracles, and Kagami Taiga, the transfer student who defeated the Generation of Miracles. The others had their own individual talents, but it was these two that eventually made the ruthless and unmotivated Generation of Miracles make a turn for the best.

On that very day, they were practicing for an upcoming basketball tournament only granted to those that have managed to make the paper front lines. It was obvious that the Generation of Miracles' schools were also in the rooster for the tournament and that made the Seirin Basketball team even more motivated to train hard.

The second years and the first years battled each other to improve their stamina and strength by the orders of Riko and it was obvious that the second years once again had the upper hand, even though the first years had Kuroko and Kagami on their side.

Hyuuga, the captain of the team and second year, would shot three pointers making Kagami, who was in charge of marking him, yell out curses and in turn get scolded by Riko.

Kuroko would watch Kagami's outburst with an emotionless look, but then smile at his best friend and light. This smile, however, faded when he spotted a familiar face standing next to the gym door where Tetsuya #2 or Nigou, the team's dog and mascot, was sitting at.

"Momoi-San," muttered Kuroko, getting the others' attention. They followed Kuroko's gaze and saw Satsuki Momoi, the manager of Too Academy and former manager of the Generation of Miracles, standing at the doorway with Nigou wagging his tail next to her.

Riko was the first to approach Momoi and asked, "Why are you here?" Momoi was silent, before she ran pass Riko and wrapped her arms around Kuroko saying, "Tetsu-Kun." Momoi's rather large chest pressed against Kuroko as she hugged him tightly around his neck, but all Kuroko stated, bluntly, was, "Momoi-San, I can't breathe." Momoi apologized separating from Kuroko, while his team mates looked on with envy and thinking of ways for Kuroko to drop dead.

Riko, while shaking in slight annoyance, asked, looking at Momoi, "Can you please tell us why you are here?" Momoi nodded finally taking notice of the coach.

Momoi looked at Kuroko with teary eyes and stated, "I think Dai-Chan is returning to his old ways."

Kuroko's eyes widened asking, "What do you mean?"

"Dai-Chan is skipping practice and when I tell him to come he says he is busy. It's like he's turning back into his bad self," cried Momoi.

Kagami clenched his fist saying, "Oh hell no! It took two games for us to beat him and if he goes back to his old ways, I will break his skull." Kuroko managed to calm down Kagami before he burst into angry flames and then glanced back at Momoi.

"Can you explain in more detail like when did this start?" asked Kuroko in a calm tone. Momoi nodded.

"It started sometime after the Winter Cup. We were running laps around the neighborhood, but then suddenly Dai-Chan would separate saying he had something to do and then disappear. After that, he began to buy sweets and leave practice early and one time he bought a teddy bear. The bear might have been for his pillow to sleep on the roof, but he wasn't there, so he must have found another place to sleep."

All of them were silent as they listened to Momoi's recollection of Daiki Aomine, a member of the Generation of Miracles and Ace of Too Academy. She only stopped talking when Kuroko placed a hand on her right shoulder and asked, "This is just a simple question: Does he only leave practices early during the weekend?" Momoi nodded asking, "How did you know?"

"Well Daiki once told me in middle school that weekends are meant for dates," stated Kuroko. Gasps of disbelief filled the gym.

"You mean, Aomine has a girlfriend!"

"Maybe it was a one night stand."

"A weekend date really is the end."

"THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!"

Riko blew her whistle silencing the team. Riko looked at Momoi making her slightly flinch and asked, "Could Kuroko be right?" Momoi thought a while and then stated, "It does make sense, but that would be even worse since we need to practice during the weekends for the tournament and knowing Dai-Chan, this girl might have F-Cup breasts and he would never ditch her."

Momoi glanced at Kuroko and asked, with sparkling eyes, "Can you please help me convince Dai-Chan to practice on weekends again? You two are the closes after all." Kuroko nodded and then glanced at Riko saying, "As long as coach is OK with it." Riko nodded, but she suddenly smiled and announced, "As long as all of us get to go!"

The entire team cheered, especially Kagami, who was curious on who the mystery girl was as were the others. Kuroko, on the other hand, was just concerned for his old light's well-being.

Momoi thanked them with a smile and then showed her touch screen cellphone.

"I placed a tracking device in Dai-Chan's phone so you can follow him no problem," stated Momoi making the team look at her in disbelief and realize that they should check their phones whenever she visited for any spy devices.

After changing their clothes from practice, all of Seiren plus Momoi began to follow the trace displayed in Momoi's phone. As they walked, some people passing by stared at them with confusion in their eyes and some with concern since the sight of a group of boys following a girl made it seem like they were stalking the poor girl with the cellphone.

Momoi stopped in her tracks and pointed toward a candy store saying, "He's in there right now." Indeed, Daiki was inside the store scooping out peach flavored candies into a clear plastic bag.

"His girl must have a sweet tooth," stated Koganei, the cat like team mate of the team. The others nodded in agreement.

Daiki headed for the register, but stopped when he spotted a bowl of vanilla flavored sweets that were new additions to the store. Daiki scooped out some of the vanilla candies and headed to the register pulling out his wallet in the process.

After Daiki paid, he began to exit the store, while the others moved to the side hiding behind random objects like mailboxes and bushes. Daiki exited the store, beginning to run down the sidewalk.

"Let's go," stated Riko and Momoi getting ready to tail Daiki again, but stopped when Hyuuga asked, "Where's Kuroko?" The team froze and then looked through the window of the candy store. Kuroko was at the register paying for the same vanilla flavored candies Daiki bought along with a large vanilla milkshake.

"KUROKO!"

The tailing began once again, but this time Kuroko was practically being dragged by an enraged Kagami. Kuroko sipped his vanilla milkshake with a blank look with the bag of vanilla candies dangling from his left arm.

"Seriously Kuroko; we do not do pit stops when we are tailing someone," scolded Kagami, but Kuroko just stated, bluntly, "But these candies were brand new and the vanilla milkshake was a bonus." Kagami had to fight the urge to throw his shadow into the air out of frustration.

Momoi, on the other hand, pointed forward saying, "Dai-Chan's location is getting close." They ventured forward and caught sight of Daiki approaching a basketball court, where a small boy maybe around the age of an elementary student, was shooting baskets. They picked up their pace and ducked down staring at Daiki's back.

"Is he supposed to meet her here?" whispered Kagami with Kuroko still in his hold.

"His girl must know his liking for basketball to let him make the meeting place here."

They believed Daiki would go to a bench in the basketball court to get ready for his date, but to their surprise, he dumped his basketball bag on the bench and approached the small boy playing basketball.

"Oi!" called Daiki. The boy caught the basketball after it went through the hoop and glanced at Daiki with a blank expression.

"You again?" asked the boy. Daiki smirked and stated, "Let's play another game." Everyone gasped when they realized that Daiki's "date" was actually a match against this little boy, but some were doubtful, especially Kagami.

"Maybe he wants to play against the kid to kill some time before his date shows up," stated Kagami in a rather hopeful tone. Some of them nodded in agreement.

The small boy frowned at Daiki saying, "I don't want to play with you. You're weak."

This time they all turned pale. This small boy, who was way smaller than Daiki, just insulted the ace of Too Academy. To their surprise, instead of beating the kid senseless, Daiki just chuckled and stated, in a proud tone, "I had a feeling you would say that." Daiki whipped out the bag of peach candies stating, "If you play against me then these sweets are yours."

The boy stared at the bag of candies and gave a reluctant nod.

Daiki cheered, while the others watching were struck speechless.

"So there's no date. Aomine-Kun just wanted to play a match against a kid."

Momoi puffed her cheeks in annoyance and muttered, "I can't believe this. He can't get better in basketball by playing against a kid." Riko nodded in agreement. The team's faces were filled with disappointment, while Kuroko looked at Daiki and the boy who prepared for the match.

The boy bounced the basketball up and down while staring at Daiki and then bounced the ball to him saying, "You can have the ball first." Daiki nodded grasping the orange ball between his strong hands. Immediately, Daiki rushed forward with the basketball to the opposite basket of the court. The speed he was going was unbelievably fast that it was hard to pinpoint him from other point of views, but his form became noticeable when the basketball in his hand was snatched from him by the boy. Daiki had no time to react as the boy rushed past Daiki driving the ball forward. Daiki ran after the boy, but when it seemed that Daiki could steal the ball, the boy ducked past Daiki and then shot up tossing the ball toward the basket. The ball hit the rim of the basket before falling into it. The ball bounced back into the boy's hand and then the boy looked at Daiki saying, "I win."

Daiki smirked saying, "One more time."

"No."

"I'll add vanilla candies for another round."

"Deal."

Daiki and the boy were once again in a one on one match. As they began to play again, Seirin's Basketball team and Momoi were struck speechless.

"That kid was able to beat Aomine-Kun!" exclaimed the entire team, except for Kuroko, who stared at the new match between the two in observance. Riko examined the match closely as well and as the boy stole the ball from Daiki again, she frowned and stated, "This makes no sense. That kid's physical status is nothing compared to Aomine. Aomine should have the upper hand." Momoi nodded in agreement as she observed as well.

The ball was once again thrown into the basket in the boy's favor. Daiki was breathing heavily as he smirked at the boy.

The boy glanced at Daiki and held out his hand saying, "Can I have the candy now?" Daiki chuckled and headed to the bench covered in sweat, but the moment he had the candies in hand, he heard a loud annoying voice yell out, "You're done just like that!" Daiki knew that voice and looked at the entrance of the basketball court only to see the entire Seirin team along with Momoi. Daiki's look turned from confusion into annoyance.

"Why are you guys here?" demanded Daiki in a roaring voice. Kuroko was the one to speak saying, "Momoi-San was worried about you, so she called me."

Daiki glared at Momoi making her give out a small squeak.

"I can understand Kuroko coming, but why is everyone here?" yelled Daiki.

"They wanted to come," stated Kuroko before beginning to sip from his vanilla milkshake. Daiki groaned in dissatisfaction.

"Who are these guys?"

All eyes fell on the boy, who held the basketball between his small hands. Daiki cleared his throat and stated, "These people are acquaintances." Momoi immediately smacked the back of Daiki's head saying, "Stupid Dai-Chan, why can't you say friends?" Daiki's face was filled with rage at his childhood friend's assault, but he was even more enraged when he heard Kuroko say, "Ahomine is really cold."

"I don't want to hear that from you and don't you dare start calling me by that embarrassing nickname!" yelled Daiki with horns practically sprouting from his head.

As Daiki was raging, Kagami had approached the boy and asked, "So what's your name?"

The boy bounced the basketball against the pavement floor and stated, "My name is Hiro Murashito and yours?"

"Kagami Taiga, ace of Serin High School's basketball team."

The boy, Hiro, clicked his tongue making Kagami frown at the boy.

"I don't like Aces. They always lose to me," stated Hiro. Kagami was shaking in anger and then without thinking, snatched the ball from Hiro's hands and yelled, "Then I challenge you brat!"

All eyes fell on Kagami and Hiro.

"Are you serious Kagami?" asked Hyuuga. Kagami nodded with a fire burning in his eyes.

Daiki, who was also watching the scene, smirked and crossed his arms saying, "This should be interesting."

The others waited in anticipation, but the atmosphere was broken when Hiro stated, bluntly, "No way." All of them nearly fell over at the blunt statement.

"Why not?" exclaimed Kagami.

"I don't want to."

"But you played against Aomine!"

"He had something to offer."

Kagami immediately caught on to what Hiro was saying and, without warning, snatched Kuroko's bag of vanilla candies. Kuroko tried to retrieve it back, but Kagami held him back with hand and dangled the bag in front of Hiro.

"How about now?"

"Deal."

Kagami cheered, while Kuroko's form began to form a murderous aura at the theft of his beloved vanilla candies that he never got to even taste yet. Thoughts of revenge flowed through his mind like a river. The aura was so thick that his teammates thought that Kuroko was ready to snap Kagami's neck.

Kagami and Hiro stood before each other with the ball in Kagami's grasp. The match was ready to start, but before Kagami could even act, Nigou, who was with the team the whole time gave out a bark making Kagami gasp in surprise and toss the ball instead of bouncing it. Hiro caught the ball and shot a three pointer making Kagami yell out curses. Kagami glared daggers at the dog mascot, but his anger grew when he noticed that Kuroko was praising the dog.

He definitely did it on purpose!

Kagami glanced back at Hiro and saw Hiro gathering the candies and heading out of the basketball court.

"Wait a minute, I want another match. That match wasn't even fair."

Hiro glanced at Kagami and said, "Try again another time." With that, Hiro was out of sight. Kagami yelled out a slur of curses with his teammates trying to calm him down.

On the other hand, Momoi was speaking with Daiki with concern on her face.

"Were you really skipping practice to play against that kid?"

Daiki nodded and stated, "I'll keep challenging him until I win."

"You never won once?" exclaimed Momoi in disbelief. Daiki sighed and said, "He's really tough and I want to beat him since he reminds me of what I used to be." Daiki's face looked saddened and Momoi could tell that Daiki was thinking of the time when no one could beat him and how twisted his personality became.

Momoi clenched her fists in determination and stated, "Let me help you find a way to beat that kid." Daiki thanked Momoi and then added, "He only comes out here during the weekend Saturday, so I have time to make another strategy." Momoi and Daiki were in agreement.

To their surprise, Kagami approached them and stated, "Let me join in on this. I'll show that kid that I can win." Daiki chuckled saying, "Fine, but I don't expect much from you, Bakagami." Kagami growled ready to pounce on Daiki, but his teammates all held him back.

Kuroko stared at his friends and then glanced in the direction Hiro walked off to. Kuroko glanced down at Nigou and whispered, "He really did seem void of emotion huh?" Nigou nodded with a bark of affirmation. Kuroko began to wonder if this boy could withstand against Daiki and Kagami if they were working together.