Mikan came early to school, entering the school gates as she went inside the main entrance of the building, walking towards her shoe locker, she changed her shoes. Then she saw Murasakibara changing his shoes, she walked towards him.

"Good morning, Murasakibara-kun!" she greeted him with a smile gracing her face.

"Hm? Oh, good morning, Saku-chin." he replied.

Mikan stretched her arms and gave him a small basket of rice balls inside, the tall guy had a complexed look and was surprised by her act of kindness.

"Murasakibara-kun, take this! I made it with my lunch earlier, it's because your always hungry." she said, smiling.

Mikan suddenly froze, she begins to think about why she repulsively gave him a rice balls and started panicking.

Oh no! I acted without thinking and even did something weird...

"I-I'm sorry...homemade rice balls can be gross, right?"

"No, It's not. You just surprised me, that's all."

His not grossed by it...?

Murasakibara began to eat the food given by him, for a few seconds, he gave back the basket to her.

"Thanks for the delicious food." he told her, wiping the rice on his cheek.

S-So fast... she thought as she stared at the empty basket with no specks of rice left.

"Why don't you try making it for the others, too? Oh...but that'll be too much—"

"I want to! But...will they eat it?"

Murasakibara gave her a soft, small smile as he patted her orange locks like a little kid.

"You worry too much." he said.

♛♛♛

    "Who is the one who locked the storage room last Friday?!"

    Midorima had a fiery look on his face, he was pissed, like extremely pissed as he began interrogating the first stringers that we're likely practicing in the gym last Friday.

    "Not me. I went home early with Satsuki." Aomine says as Satsuki nodded along his statement.

    "It's not me, I also went home right away after practice." Akashi said.

    "Not me either." Murasakibara said as he was eating maiubo.

    "Clearly not me." Nijimura said.

    "I didn't went to practice last Friday, I was busy going on a date with one of my chicks!" Haizaki boasted.

    That only leaves up to Kise, who  silently tip toed towards the gym doors to escape from Midorima's wrath, but it was too late as the green haired male spotted his blonde locks.

    "Kise! Are you the one who locked the storage room?!" Midorima's loud voice roared through the gym.

    Slowly, the blonde turned to Midorima who had teary eyes, he was also sweating bullets.

    "Y-Yes! I'm the one who locked the storage room...p-please don't kill me!" he yells frankly, running away from the scary carrot guy.

    "But what's the ruckus about the locking the storage room, Midorin? Did something happened?" Satsuki asked.

    "Did something happened? I and Sakura were locked in storage room last Friday! That's what happened, Nanodayo."

    Aomine, Kise and Murasakibara had a surprised look on their faces, they were making a terrified expression as if they were watching a horror movie.

    "What the fuck? Seriously?!" Aomine cussed, surprised.

    "Yeah. Seriously. We were in such a tight position." Midorima pushed up his glasses and sighed.

    The dark blue haired male walked towards Mikan and grabbed both of her shoulders, shaking her.

    "Are you okay, Sakura?! Did that bastard do something to you?" he worriedly said.

    "Are you talking ill about me?" Midorima retorted.

   "N-Nothing happened, Aomine-kun. Really. We were just locked, seriously. There's no reason to fuse about this." she explained calmly.

   "That's a relief, Saku-chin. If something happened, I'll..." he took a hard bite on the maiubo while glaring at Midorima.

    "You'll what?" she sweat dropped.

    "Sakura-chii! I'm so sorry! I didn't want to lock you in the storage room with Midorima-chii!" Kise hurriedly run towards her and was about to  attack her with his bear hugs when Aomine pulled her out of his way as he tripped on his own foot.

    "What are you doing, Aomine-chii! I'm trying to apologize to Sakura-chii!" he argues as he sprung back on his feet.

    "No, I should be asking that. What are you doing? Attacking her with a hug like that?" Aomine said.

    "It's my way of apologizing to her!" he says while hitting the air multiple times, adorably.

    "I-It's okay, Kise-kun...just make sure next time to check first if someone is still inside the storage room before you lock it." she told him.

    Kise wrapped his arms around her stomach and begged for his forgiveness, bubbly tears were rolling down his cheeks.

    "Yeah! I will! I'm sorry for putting you in that situation!" he apologized.

    "Hey Kise! Sakura said that it's okay, let go of her now!" Aomine said, glaring at him.

    "It's not okay. He still hasn't apologized to me yet." Midorima scoffed.

    Kise unwrapped his arms around her as he stood up in front of Midorima, bowing continuously.

    "I'm so sorry, Midorima-chii! I won't do it again!" he apologized.

    "I guess that solves the case, huh?" Satsuki says as she giggled.

    "Seriously, you cause too much trouble for everyone." Nijimura sighed.

    "You should be careful next time, Kise." Akashi said.

Haizaki didn't said anything as he only snickered at Kise's actions, the blonde once again spatted multiple apologies to the two.

"Anyway, let's continue our practice. Everyone, go in the court." The captain, Nijimura, loudly said.

"Kuroko is not here again? Seriously, that guy..." the black haired man said as he scratched the back of his head.

"I am here."

Everyone turned to where the voice was coming from and to see a light blue haired boy with matching baby blue eyes, standing quietly beside the orange haired girl.

"How long have you been standing there?!" everyone exclaimed, surprised.

"I've been standing here since the start." he nonchalantly said.

"W-Who is this guy?" Mikan asked, completely surprised.

How come I didn't noticed him when he was standing beside me?!

"You haven't met Tetsu yet, haven't you?" Aomine says.

"This is Kuroko-chii, my trainer." Kise introduced the young blue haired boy to Mikan.

"His full name is Kuroko Tetsuya-kun, Sakura-san. He is our invisible regular." Satsuki added.

Then Mikan flashed a friendly smile as she introduced herself to Kuroko.

"My name is Sakura Mikan, it's nice to meet you, Kuroko-kun."

She held out her hand for him as he shook it, then he was staring at her intently for quite a long time now while holding hands. This made her a little bit uncomfortable.

"Um...Kuroko-kun?" she said.

Why does it feel like...he's staring at me? Is there something in my face?

"Kuroko-chii! Why are you staring at Sakura-chii so much?! Did your heart skipped a beat, like throbbing hard?" Kise joked as he slung his arm around his trainer.

"You're holding hands with each other for too long!" Aomine grumpily said as they separated their hands.

"Staring at her like that makes you suspicious." Murasakibara commented.

"Oha Asa said that Aquarius will come to remember something, apparently, they had the most fortunate luck for today, nanodayo." Midorima informed as he pushed up his glasses.

"This is ridiculous. Let's continue practice, everyone." Akashi scoffed as he dribbled a basketball and run towards the court.

The rest of the first stringers run towards the court and begin to practice and honing this skills, the two female managers sat on the corner and begun fixing the prep works.

"Sakura-san, let's go get the towels from the laundry." Satsuki said.

"O-Okay." she replied as they both stood up and walked to the laundry room.

♛♛♛

"Say...do you have a crush on Tetsu-kun?"

Mikan looked at her with a confused expression and shook her head. "I just met him earlier, Satsuki-san...I don't have a crush on him."

"Oh, I see..."

"Why did you asked?"

A light blush appeared on her face as she smiled at her happily, like a maiden who was love struck.

"I have a crush on Tetsu-kun."

Mikan stopped at her tracks as she looked at Satsuki, with a light blush on her face and was so surprised.

"What? Really?"

"Please don't tell it to anyone!"

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

"I know you won't."

The two continued to walk while holding a basket of cleaned towels, Mikan was busy pondering her thoughts.

Satsuki-san has a crush on Kuroko-kun, huh? I wonder what kind of person he is...

Then a towel accidentally fell from Mikan's basket, another hand reached it as the towel went back to its place.

"Whoa. Do be careful."

They turned around to see a red haired male behind them, he smiled at the two girls as he was coincidently walking through the hallways.

"Thank you, Akashi-kun. But what are you doing here? What about the practice?" Mikan asked.

"I just grabbed something from the faculty, the others are still practicing." Akashi replied as he was holding a clipped folder in his hand.

"Oh, okay." she answered.

"I better get going now. See you two later." he said as he started walking ahead of them.

"Um...Akashi-kun!"

The red haired guy stopped on his tracks as he slightly turned around after hearing his name got called.

"Good luck in practice!"

He smiled. "Thanks."

He continued walking ahead as Mikan felt her cheeks heat up intensely, Satsuki noticed this as she grinned at her blushing friend.

"What are you blushing for, Sakura-san? Do you have a crush on Akashi-kun?" she teasingly said.

"I-I don't have a crush on him!" the orange haired girl blurted, blushing.

"Yet." Satsuki teased.

"It's nothing like that, Satsuki-san." she sweat dropped.

"Really now?" the pink haired girl laughed as they continued walking.

They reached the gym as the doors opened from inside, revealing a tanned guy with dark blue hair, he was full of sweat and was exhausted from practice.

"Dai-chan, where are you going?" Satsuki asked.

"Satsuki! Good timing. Lend me a towel, I'm so sweaty." Aomine said as he snagged a towel from Satsuki's basket and wiped away his sweat.

Towel. Mikan was reminded again about the incident, she clutched on the basket she was holding and glanced at Aomine who was wiping his sweat.

"What's wrong, Sakura? You seem to be out of daze." Aomine said.

"I-It's nothing." Mikan said as she walked inside of the gym with Satsuki.

♛♛♛

The next day, Mikan gave the basketball club her homemade rice balls for them to eat. Everyone had a delighted expression on their faces.

"Wow, this rice balls so are good. They have so much filling." Aomine complimented.

"This is so delicious! Best rice balls I've ever tasted!" Kise cheerfully said.

"T-The rice ball is not so bad, nanodayo. You have cooking skills." Midorima pushed his glasses up.

"Yummy!" Murasakibara said as he was binge eating the rice balls.

"Did you made this, Sakura?" Akashi asked as he took a bite from the rice ball.

"Yes! I woke up really early to make those, I'm glad that everyone liked it." Mikan answered, relieved.

The red haired boy smiled at her as she blushed, but what he said next made her blush even more.

"You'll make a good wife someday."

    Mikan was left speechless from that, she lowered her head and was blushing furiously. You can see steam coming out from her face like a hotpot.

    Satsuki walked towards her while eating a rice ball, she saw how red Mikan's face was. It was like Akashi's hair, so bright red.

    "Are you okay, Sakura-san? You're face is so bright red." she said.

    "I-I'm fine...Satsuki-san!" Mikan says, blushing even more.

    "Is it okay if I get some rice ball, too?" Satsuki asked.

    The blush faded from her cheeks as she smiled at her warmly and nodded.

    "Yeah, of course! I made it for everyone." she told her.

   "Thank you for doing so much for such a short time, thanks to you, my injury is healing quickly." Satsuki smiled at her, grateful.

   That's right...I'm only a temporary manager, my last day is this Friday.

    "How does it taste, Kuroko-chii?!"

   "Isn't Sakura's rice balls delicious, Tetsu?"

   Mikan turned around when she heard her name got mentioned, she saw Aomine, Kise, and Kuroko eating some rice balls that she made.

  "Yes, it's delicious." Kuroko said.

   "Kyaaah!" she heard a squeal beside her, to see Satsuki staring at Kuroko while blushing.

   "What's wrong, Satsuki-san?" the orange haired girl asked.

   "Hey, Sakura-san...what do you think of Tetsu-kun?"

   "What I think of...Kuroko-kun?"

   Mikan turned to the short, blue haired player of Teiko's basketball club. He was munching the rice ball slowly, savoring the taste. She doesn't know what she feels about him either.

   Kuroko Tetsuya, he is quiet and mysterious. I don't really know much about him.