Say that I love you

-x-

"Kise-kun, look here" his fans called him when he started his training. He waved at those fans and Kasamatsu instantly kicked him.

"ouch, senpai" Kise rub his head. "you will kill me with those kicks"

"you should practice harder! We will have a practice match next week. You have to make a good impression" Kasamatsu screamed at the poor blonde.

"of course I will. I had reduced the amount of modeling job I got"

" is it okay? Your agency won't like it" Kasamatsu asked Kise. He is worried because Kise has been such a big name. And he is signed with a famous modeling agency.

"kinda"

-x-

"Kise-kun" as usual, after his practice lots of girl come to his place and asked for his autograph. Kise smiled at greet at them, the way he used to make them swoon over him. But something unusual catch his attention, a black haired girl with waist length hair. She is a rare kind of beauty just like a Japanese doll.

"Kise-kun?" one of his fan girl asked him. Kise smiled and excused himself. he went to greet the girl that catch his attention. But Kasamatsu come as drag him back, Kise should help with the cleaning after with the other first year player.

-x-

The next day, Kise was wondering around in every class. He is determined to find that girl; she must be a student if he saw her around the gym. But he failed to find her even when he visited the second and third year classes. When he thought back, he couldn't remember whether she used the same uniform or not.

Kise heard the bell rang and he decided to halt his search and return to his class. He didn't pay any attention to his surrounding until his homeroom teacher told the class that they have the new student, she was late because she was just finished her middle school in other country.

"Please introduce yourself" Kise heard his teacher said to the new student.

"My name is Karen Yuki. Don't worry about teaching my Japanese, I can speak fluent Japanese and English" Kise heard the new student said. She has an unusual name for Japanese. Kise lifted his head to see the new student, and he saw the girl that he had been searching the whole morning. She is taller than the average Japanese girl, she must be around 178cm tall. Kise noticed that the boys around him already planned to ask her out.

"Yuki-san, why don't you wear your uniform?" one of the student asked. Kise just noticed that she is wearing a white button shirt and normal grey skirt that still hung above her knee.

"they must custom fit the uniform. All of them are too short for me"

That explain why the teacher didn't mind her using shorter skirt Kise thought.

" Yuki-san, how tall are you?" one of the boy asked.

"178cm"

"hai hai, let's start the first period now" the teacher dismissed the student before they asked her another question. "Yuki-san, you could sit in the second row, next to Kise-san"

Both the girl and the boy screamed. Kise ignored the class and focused on watching the girl that will be seated next to him. when she took at seat next to him, he could see she didn't wear any make up at all.

"please stop watching me" the girl suddenly told Kise. When she turned her head to him, Kise gaped. She is beautiful Kise thought.

-x-

That day, Kise's class had a gym period and they have to change to their gym clothes. Kise noticed that most of the girl didn't talk to Yuki. Then he remembered about Yuki's problem with Japanese sized clothes, he has the same problem too with his height.

"Yukicchi"

"what do you want Kise-san? Please don't put cchi on my name"

"do you have your gym clothes?" Kise ignored her when she said to not put –cchi after her name.

"I have. I asked for custom fitting before I arrived here."

"let's go to the gym together" Kise said happily. He noticed the glare Yuki get whenever she walked alone. Has it always be like this for her? Kise noticed she didn't give her answer but she let him walk together with her.

" Yukicchi, do you know we have a big basketball gym in Kaijo?"

"basketball?" Yuki seemed interested when she heard basketball.

"yeah. we have a strong team in here. Our coach is—" Kise talked and explaining to her about the gym and basketball team to her. she didn't give away any emotion to him, but Kise didn't realized that Yuki has give him a small smile after they have to parted way to their changing room

-x-

"look at her, that's too short, right?"

" she has a slim leg."

Kise heard various comment from his classmate about Yuki. It seems in just a few hours after meeting her, the girl have developed a mutual hatred for Yuki. This is shown clearly when Yuki have to be paired with other girl. she was the last girl and she need to find her partner in male student. Kise saw some of the male student already make a perverted comment about her.

"Yukicchi~ paired with me?" Kise happily said to Yuki. She didn't say anything, she just nodded her head.

-x-

At the end of the school, Kise noticed that none of the girl talked to Yuki. They seemed to avoid her or glaring at her.

"Yukicchi, you should come to my basketball practice" Kise whispered to her. she looked surprised, then Kise could see a rosy pink colored her cheek when she smiled. It caught him off guard. And for the first time, Kise Ryouta flustered in front of a girl.

"let's go. Or Kasamatsu-senpai will kicked me again" Kise said in hurry. He avoid seeing Yuki's eyes, he would act like a blabbering idiots if he did that.

"we will have a practice match with Seirin high" their coach announce. Yuki was seated in the bench. She has been happy to saw the training in Kaijo. Hayakawa was seen several times to flirt with Yuki, but he was rejected immediately. Kasamatsu looked flustered and messed up his training most of the time.

"Kise, who is that girl?" Kasamatsu whispered to Kise.

"Yukicchi? She is my new classmate"

"Kise-san. I have to get back. I will see you tomorrow"

"Wait Yukicchi, I will walk you back" Kise packed his bag. "just wait. I have to change first"

"don't worry about it. I am used to walk alone" Yuki told him. then Kise saw Kasamatsu stopped her and offered to walk her home. And Yuki couldn't disagree with Kasamatsu because he is already changed. And Kasamatsu insisted that it is not safe for her to walk left the gym together.

Kise couldn't take his eyes off his team captain until he was disappeared from his point of view.

-x-

"Yukicchi" Kise said the first thing he entered his classroom. He saw her already using her school outfit and she didn't look too out of place with it. "do you have something to do this afternoon?"

"I might watch the basketball practice again" Yuki said while she put the book she had been reading.

"do you want to come with me? You have to see Kurokocchi" Kise said excitedly.

"kurokocchi?"

"my teammate from middle school. He is an amazing player. I want you to meet him."

"okay" Yuki couldn't say no to the excited look Kise give to her. she saw Kise smiled widely when the bell suddenly rang.

-x-

When they arrived in Seirin, Kise and Yuki attract too many attention from the student in Seirin high. Kise was known as a model while Yuki with her unusual height and pretty face.

"Kise-san, I don't think we could secretly watch Kuroko-san playing" Yuki said while she saw how many attention she get. Kise told her earlier that he want to watch Kuroko secretly.

Inside the gym, Yuki saw a very different atmosphere from Kaijo's gym. She could see one female student trained them. then she saw a very eye catching red head player and he has played the game wildly.

"let's watched from here" Kise told Yuki. He put down his bag and leaned to the stage behind him. Yuki followed him.

"anou, are you Kise Ryouta?" Yuki saw a group of Seirin's female student visiting them. some of them bring a magazine and a pen with them.

"eeh" Kise look back and forth between Yuki and his fans. It seems Yuki didn't know about his job as a model. "yeah.."

"can you signed this for me?" the girl pull a magazine with them. then her friend pull out the same magazine. And suddenly Yuki could see a line of girls wanted to asked for Kise's signature.

"who are you?" the girl said when she saw Yuki standing next to Kise. "are you his girlfriend?"

"no. " Kise heard Yuki answered them coldly. Then Kise catched Kuroko's eyes and Kuroko greeted him.

"sorry, err.. Could you leave me for a minutes?" Kise asked his fans. Then as suddenly as before, the fans leaving the gym and the boy could see Yuki standing next to Kise.

"what are you doing?" one of the player asked Kise.

"when I heard our school will be playing against Seirin. I remembered Kurokocchi went here" Kise said. he walk to the group. "Yukicchi, come here" Kise called her. Yuki walked to where Kise was standing and the boy in basketball team gaped at the female standing before them.

"Yukicchi, this is Kurokocchi. We were the best of friend in middle school".

"my name is Yuki Karen" Yuki introduced herself. "Kuroko Tetsuya" Yuki heard the blue haired player answered.

Yuki watched the blue haired player in front of her. Kuroko didn't seem to check her out like any other player, nor did he seem to care that the girl standing in front of him is taller than him.

"Kise Ryouta. Though he started playing basketball in his second year of middle school, his exceptional physical ability and sense get him to Teiko as regular in a heartbeat" Yuki heard one of the Seirin's player read an article in a sport magazine. "when he has less experience than the other four, he's rapidly improving al-a rounder"

"since your second year?" Yuki asked Kise.

"ah yeah, but that article was over exaggerated. I was the weakest amongst the other four. I was glad to be called the Generation of Miracle" Kise nervously said.

"Generation of Miracle? What is that?" Yuki asked Kise.

"ah, Yukicchi you were not in Japan. It was a title given to my basketball team in my middle school" Kise tried to explain it shortly. Yuki looked excited and interested when she hear about it.

"because I am the weakest, they bullied me and Kurokocchi all the time"

"that's not happened to me" Kuroko answer bluntly.

"what? It was just me?" Kise faked crying when he heard that.

"Maybe because you don't have any presence" Yuki said bluntly. But Kuroko didn't seemed to be bothered by her words.

"Yukicchi!' Kise pushed Yuki to her side and catch the ball that was dangerously aimed and close to where Yuki was standing. The ball was supposed to be aimed at Kise's direction but Yuki was standing too close to Kise. The only option to saved her from getting hit by that ball was to pushed her. Since Yuki was not prepared to be pushed, she lost her balance and fell down.

"Are you okay?" Kise run to where Yuki has fall and he kneeled down. he saw a scratch on Yuki's knee. "I am okay. Just a little scratch"

"Kagami-kun" the whole team shouted at the one who threw the ball.

"Sorry to interrupt your reunion. Don't tell me you came all the way here just to greeted us" the boy Yuki assumed to be Kagami, said.

"why don't you play a little game with me?"

" if a game you want" Kise stand and walked to where the read head was standing. Yuki could see he was furious. "I will gladly play against you and I make sure that I will beat you every time"

'Kise-kun" Yuki saw Kuroko was worried. The girl Yuki assumed was Seirin's manager come and brought a bandage to her. "sorry" she said to Yuki.

"don't worry about it" Yuki assured her. "but you don't have to endangered Yukicchi" Yuki heard Kise told the read head player.

"this could be bad" Yuki heard Kuroko suddenly said. she saw Kise and Kagami already in the playing mode. Kise dribbled the ball and he went passed Kagami. Then Yuki saw Kise copying exactly what Kagami did few minutes earlier. He turned around and he jumped to shoot the ball. Kagami tried to stop Kise but failed. And Kagami fell down to the floor.

"he learned to play as soon as he sees them and make it his own play" Yuki heard Kuroko explain to them. the whole team looked tense when they watched Kise's game.

"Kuroko, your friend way too good" one of the Seirin player said.

"I don't know that person. He has improved far more quickly than expected" Yuki heard Kuroko said. it seemed the goof ball is someone with amazing copying ability. Yuki now understand the meaning 'don't judge a book by its cover' when he watched Kise.

" this is disappointing" Kise said loudly. "after you endangered Yukicchi and challenged me, this is what I get?"

Then Kise walk to where Yuki was standing and he take a look at Kuroko. "Kurokocchi, I am disappointed in your choice. You should join Kaijo with me" Kise said. Yuki, who was standing next to Kuroko was surprised to hear that.

"I have to refuse. I promised Kagami-kun that I will beat the Generation of Miracle"

"is that so? This is so unlike you Kurokocchi." Kise shouted. Yuki could see how upset Kise with Kuroko's answer she decided to step in.

"Kise-san. This is what Kuroko-san has decided. You have to support him"

"Yukicchi.."

Suddenly Yuki could hear Kagami laughed and she feel irritated all the sudden. She did what other person never expected her. she slapped Kagami.

"Kagami-san, was it?" Yuki said calmly. " I was hoping to see a good game tomorrow"

Yuki used her index finger to pointed at Kagami's chest. Then with slow and deadly voice she said. "You should be able to beat the weakest of the bunch if you said you want to beat the whole Generation of Miracle. If you failed to do that, don't ever said you want to beat Generation of Miracle"

AN

I have been playing around with the idea of Kise fall in love.. and then this story happen..
it's hard to develop Yuki.. and it took lots of time to write this one chapter..

should I continue this? at first I want to make this as sister story for my other story "A king shadow" when I realized.. the height factor in this

and I have another idea planned for this story and that story.. soo I decided to put the story in Kaijo. then the more I watched kurobasu.. the more interesting it is to make the story set in Kaijo

also.. a little spoiler.. I had this idea to changed the match between Kaijo and Seirin .