Happy Eid Mubarak! New Installment for 'If Kagami Goes to Teikou' (Pg-13; Kagami/GoM, Kaga/Niji)
If Kagami Goes to Teikou
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Rating: T/Pg-13
Genre: Humor/Romance
Pairing: GoM/Kagami or Kagami/Gom
Summary: If Kagami transfers to Teikou when he returns from America, it probably happens this way…
Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basuke © Tadatoshi Fujimaki
Warning: language, light shounen ai implication, etc…
A/N: Gaaah! Sorry for taking so LONG to update (although I believe it’s faster than the previous one). Anyway, Happy Eid Mubarak for all Moslem (I know it’s kinda late, but since it’s still in Syawal Month, I think it still counts). Also, sorry if I’ve ever made mistakes that offended you readers in anyway. Let’s open a clean sheet to ‘get in touch’ with each other starting from now. No hard feelings, kay?
Saa, please enjoy this new installment for the story!
Eleventh Impression: Nijimura Shuuzou
As for Nijimura, meeting Kagami would most likely go like this…
Nijimura was the elected captain of Teikou Basketball Club before Akashi Seijuurou took the reign in his second year. Nijimura was currently in third year and even though he was just a regular member at this moment, he still had a say in the team formation and strategy, as important as Akashi’s. Yep, he was well liked by all the basketball members (except maybe that one rabble-rouser which wasn’t in the club anymore but Nijimura would be damned if he let that gray haired idiot got himself into trouble over and over again simply because Nijimura didn’t watch over him). Even all the GoM members respected Nijimura to some degree, especially Akashi. For some reason the GoM captain was really fond of him.
Anyway, it was a right choice to give up Nijimura’s supposed position to Akashi because the red haired boy led the Teikou basketball club to absolute victory, especially when Nijimura couldn’t really concentrate in the club matter because of his father’s condition. He trusted Akashi’s judgment and was completely relaxed even though he would retire soon. Yes, after the All Middle tournament in winter, he would officially resign from Teikou basketball club.
Now though, Nijimura still had lots of things to offer for his basketball club, together with all the GoM and the first stringers. He couldn’t slack off just because the head coach and the coach gave him some lenient to skip practice whenever he was needed to take care of his father in the hospital.
At this moment, Nijimura was in the said hospital, having just dropped by his father room to deliver some clean clothes and then taken the dirty ones to be sent to the laundry service. When he was walking back to his father room and passed the receptionist desk, he bumped into a very tall teen, taller than him even, causing Nijimura to blink in surprise.
That teen, with red-dark brown hair, intense facial expression and strange split eyebrows, seemed taken aback too when he turned to face Nijimura. Apparently he was just about to turn up a form or something on the receptionist when Nijimura bumped him. He blinked twice before nodding, “Senpai (1),” and then greeted him.
Nijimura blinked again, rather stunned now. Senpai?-He didn’t even know this guy to be familiar enough with suddenly being called his senior. Who?
It seemed that Nijimura’s confusion got through the taller teen because he raised his funny red eyebrows in wonder. “You are a third year in Teikou Middle, right?” he asked.
Nijimura was quite perturbed the knowledge. “Yes, but how do you know that?” He narrowed his eyes, suddenly feeling rather suspicious.
“Huh? You don’t remember me? We met yesterday morning, see… when I was with Haizaki in that park-”
That immediately jogged Nijimura’s memory as he punched his palm in recollection. “Ah! You are Haizaki’s friend that was about to skip school with him yesterday!” and he gradually glared sourly at him now. “You’re a bad boy just like that trouble-magnet…”
“Wow, wait a damn minute--please! I wasn’t about to follow him skipping school when you picked him up yesterday!” the dual colored haired boy immediately protested in indignant look.
“But you were both some good couples of blocks away from school…!” Nijimura argued, frowning deeper.
“That was because we were pursued by some gangsters! If we didn’t run away, they would have beaten the shit out of us and who knew what would happen to our lives!” the other explained, his face paling slightly as he seemed to remember the horror of yesterday event.
“Gangsters?” Nijimura was terrifically aghast. What the fuck did Haizaki do that caused those hooligans to come after him?
“I don’t know the detail since Haizaki didn’t tell me anything, but seriously, if I hadn’t taken him running away with me yesterday, he’d have been in serious mess,” the crimson eyed boy shrugged, huffing slightly.
Nijimura took a deep breath before letting out a long suffering sigh at the impending headache. He massaged his temple just to relieve some knots on his nerves. “Seriously, that stupid delinquent…!” he muttered darkly. “How come the brat always manages to land into trouble at every corner?”
“Well, at least he is resilient enough to survive the consequence,” the other teen grinned widely, showing off his nicely lined white teeth and slightly pointy canine, like a big cat, and causing his sharp feature to enhance in friendly manner with the ways those eyes crinkled.
“I supposed so…” Nijimura couldn’t help but agree despite still feeling like he should give some lesson to his troublesome, stupid kouhai (2) about appropriate social conduct for his own good. God knew what kind of disaster that kid was capable of pulling off his own life just by opening his goddamn rude mouth.
Then, there was silence for a few seconds between them until Nijimura grew curious. “Are you friends with Haizaki?” he had to ask while assessing the red head’s feature more significantly, needing to know if the boy was a bad or good influence for the problematic junior.
“Yeah, well… we just met yesterday and exchanged names. Rather than friends, acquaintances are more appropriate, I think. But, I got to admit that he was an interesting fella despite being a pain,” the kid snorted.
“A pain in the ass to be precise,” Nijimura grunted while nodding, sighing again. “It’s really hard to keep that guy in line. I wonder how he was raised to be that stubborn…” he continued morosely. The other teen chuckled at that, causing Nijimura to glower. “The hell is so funny?”
“No, well… senpai sounds like his mom,” and his chuckling escalated into outright laughing, as if there was no tomorrow, to Nijimura’s utter annoyance. But he let it slide this time, since the younger teen had such melodious voice, and it sounded very nice as he laughed.
Though, Nijimura quickly realized that he hadn’t known who this kid was. Silly of him. How could he forget his manner like that? His mom would roll in her grave if she saw it. “Say… what’s your name? I don’t think I’ve heard it yet.”
“Oh, yeah. I haven’t heard senpai’s name as well. Mine’s Kagami Taiga, Class 2-C Teikou Middle; what about you, senpai?”
“Nijimura Shuuzou, Class 3-A Teikou Middle,” Nijimura introduced himself with a slight bow while the kid immediately mimicked his polite gesture.
“Sorry bout’ the language, Nijimura-senpai. Still learning to speak keigo,” Kagami scratched his head sheepishly.
“No wonder your speech is weird,” Nijimura laughed quietly then, rather surprised that he found Kagami’s attempt to speak proper (despite being awkward) endearing instead of rude or annoying.
“But…” suddenly Kagami sniggered, looking enormously amused as he stared at Nijimura more closely, meaningfully.
“What?” Nijimura raised one of his eyebrows, puzzled.
“Nijimura-senpai’s name… I’m almost positive that senpai is in Teikou basketball club,” Kagami continued snickering despite his effort to hold it down by covering his mouth.
“Huh? How do you know that?” Nijimura was perplexed.
“Eh, no way! Seriously?!” Now Kagami made a hilarious expression as he cracked in hard laughter. “Oh my god! How fitting! Nijimura in the center of the Miracle Rainbow!” and he continued cackling like a mad boy, causing Nijimura to get flustered since they became an instant attention grabber with such boisterous voice of his companion.
“He-hey! Be quiet, moronic kouhai! You’re too noisy! The nurses are glaring at us, idiot!” Nijimura gave the red haired teen a light slap on the back of his head before dragging the still guffawing Kagami away from the crowd that had started to gather around them to watch the spectacle.
“Nnh… -chuckle- sorry, senpai…!” Kagami seemed to try very hard to hold back, but the occasional snicker still escaped his mouth despite the hand covering it. “It’s just too funny to pass up!”
“Shut it, brat! Sheesh… now I have to look for an alternative way to go to my father’s room…!” Nijimura grumbled in irritation while Kagami’s expression gradually turned somber at the admittance.
“Senpai’s father is in the hospital?” there was only genuine curiosity and maybe a slight worry in his tone, so he didn’t sound too nosy.
“Yeah, but his condition is stable and improving, so it’s alright,” Nijimura didn’t really think about it when he reassured Kagami. He just didn’t want to dwell too deeply in that matter.
“That’s good then.” Kagami smiled, looking slightly relieved. Nijimura gave him a small smile as well in return, feeling that Kagami’s intention and compassion was quite nice.
“Oh, right… how come you know about the-,” Nijimura paused before snorting as he realized how Kagami had called the GoM earlier, “-Miracle Rainbow?” he couldn’t help cracking as well at the nickname, feeling really funny. “Are you in the club as well?”
Kagami shook his head, “Nah, just know bout them. Ah, Akashi invited me to join, though…” he tilted his head aside slightly, appearing to recall. “But I turned him down.”
Nijimura almost choked as he heard that. “You turned Akashi’s invitation down?!” he gaped, having a very hard time believing it. Well, since he knew how Akashi operated; he was the king of absolute after all. “How… why?” he was still opening and closing his mouth in perplexity.
“Well, Teikou basketball team is already strong as it is, what with the GoM being there. Having me around them doesn’t make any difference. Besides, it will be more appealing to be their rival rather than just their teammate. Strong basketball players need strong rivals, no?” Kagami grinned again, looking completely unabashed with his reply.
Nijimura didn’t know if he should be impressed or offended. In one aspect, Kagami’s reasoning sounded cool (rather naïve, but still cool), yet in the other hand… it was a total waste! After all, only a handful fellows could really interest Akashi. Dumping a golden opportunity to get a regular position in the Teikou basketball club which had more than 100 competitors for the title was ridiculously supercilious and downright stupid.
“Well… if you say so…” Nijimura looked the other way. He didn’t have any right to judge Kagami, though. Every person had his own circumstance after all. “But, to think that you actually turned Akashi down and still lives to tell the tale… you’re not just a regular brat, then,” he shook his head at that.
“Really? I think Akashi is quite nice if he drops his pretentious ‘obey me or else’ act. Well, all the GoM members are weird to some extent, but they are quite fascinating… I guess. Oh, and the most interesting one is that invisible guy, Kuroko!” Kagami beamed slightly as he spoke.
“Kuroko?” Nijimura raised his eyebrows high at that. Of all GoM members, he picked Kuroko as the most interesting? The kid with the thinnest presence? What was wrong with this guy’s perception?
“Yeah, somehow, he just impressed me,” Kagami’s grin didn’t falter as he continued, pouring out his opinion about all the GoM members one by one until he was satisfied. “Anyway, the most intriguing part is all their surnames represent their hair colors, except Kuroko, but Nijimura’s senpai hair is not in rainbow color as well, so I guess it’s just coincidence?”
“Now that you said it, indeed… though I’m still quite wondering how their hair color turned that way. After all, how the hell there are green and blue hair, really? They must have dyed them.” Nijimura rolled his eyes at that while Kagami laughed again.
“But, it’s really like a fate, don’t you think, senpai? The GoM members represent the colors that will turn into Niji (3) if they line up. It’s as if they were there just for you,” Kagami chuckled again and Nijimura widened his eyes at the frightening twist of fate. Indeed, if Kagami put it down like that…
Nijimura smiled heartily as the realization dawned on him. “Maybe you’re right…” then he chuckled, feeling very good with their conversation. Really, his juniors were all very adorable, even Haizaki, despite being bothersome most of the time. He just couldn’t leave them alone.
Nijimura vaguely noticed that Kagami also smiled with him, and his heart warmed at the gentle look. “Thanks for telling me all of these,” he said, rather amazed that the initially intense kid could make such expression. He was the epitome of ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, seriously.
“Heheh, yeah… Senpai is a good senior, after all. I think I understand why they like you,” Kagami grinned again and Nijimura’s felt the heat rise to his cheeks at the compliment. Damn. He hoped he wasn’t blushing right then.
“Shaddup,” he swatted at Kagami’s arm and the red head laughed some more at Nijimura’s self-conscious gesture.
They parted ways when Nijimura arrived at his father’s room doorstep.
“See you at school tomorrow, senpai. Hope your father gets better soon,” Kagami said good bye before he left with a wave of his hand.
Nijimura waved back. “Be careful on your way home,” he warned and he caught a faint chuckle followed by a mumble of ‘mother hen’ from the brat that exasperated him slightly, but he just shook his head at Kagami’s antics.
“Well, at least he’s a fun kid. It’s actually kind of refreshing to be able to talk about my juniors so much freely, and from such different perspective as well. How… interesting.” Nijimura chuckled again, before he opened the door and went inside to tend to his father’s need in a pleasant mood.
I definitely have to talk to him more often. Kagami Taiga… what an intriguing brat.
End of Eleventh Impression
Additional notes:1)Senpai: senior
2)Kouhai: junior
3)Niji: rainbow
A/N: Hyaaa… how challenging this installment was to make. Honestly, I’m not informed enough of Nijimura’s character to write him right, since in the manga, he has limited panels-time. So forgive me if he seems oOC in this story. Also, I did say in the previous chapter that Nijimura’s Impression would be in the same situation as Haizaki’s, but I called off the idea because this is easier to make and I think showing Kagami’s compassionate side to Nijimura’s father condition will earn Kagami more points in Nijimura’s book of beloved juniors *lol*. Also, because there are multiple requests for an omake for every impression, I think I’ll put those in separate chapter. So, I’ll mark this one-shot collection ‘COMPLETE’ for now. If there’s an idea to add to the piles later, I’ll put it in an update.
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Oh, hold on! I haven’t put Kagami’s Impression here! *shocked* How could I forget?! Well, it won’t be complete without an impression from the center main character, will it? Then, it’s not done yet. One more chapter, dedicated for Kagami’s Impression before I mark this story COMPLETE then! See you at next impression!
Part 12
Part 10
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Rating: T/Pg-13
Genre: Humor/Romance
Pairing: GoM/Kagami or Kagami/Gom
Summary: If Kagami transfers to Teikou when he returns from America, it probably happens this way…
Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basuke © Tadatoshi Fujimaki
Warning: language, light shounen ai implication, etc…
A/N: Gaaah! Sorry for taking so LONG to update (although I believe it’s faster than the previous one). Anyway, Happy Eid Mubarak for all Moslem (I know it’s kinda late, but since it’s still in Syawal Month, I think it still counts). Also, sorry if I’ve ever made mistakes that offended you readers in anyway. Let’s open a clean sheet to ‘get in touch’ with each other starting from now. No hard feelings, kay?
Saa, please enjoy this new installment for the story!
Eleventh Impression: Nijimura Shuuzou
As for Nijimura, meeting Kagami would most likely go like this…
Nijimura was the elected captain of Teikou Basketball Club before Akashi Seijuurou took the reign in his second year. Nijimura was currently in third year and even though he was just a regular member at this moment, he still had a say in the team formation and strategy, as important as Akashi’s. Yep, he was well liked by all the basketball members (except maybe that one rabble-rouser which wasn’t in the club anymore but Nijimura would be damned if he let that gray haired idiot got himself into trouble over and over again simply because Nijimura didn’t watch over him). Even all the GoM members respected Nijimura to some degree, especially Akashi. For some reason the GoM captain was really fond of him.
Anyway, it was a right choice to give up Nijimura’s supposed position to Akashi because the red haired boy led the Teikou basketball club to absolute victory, especially when Nijimura couldn’t really concentrate in the club matter because of his father’s condition. He trusted Akashi’s judgment and was completely relaxed even though he would retire soon. Yes, after the All Middle tournament in winter, he would officially resign from Teikou basketball club.
Now though, Nijimura still had lots of things to offer for his basketball club, together with all the GoM and the first stringers. He couldn’t slack off just because the head coach and the coach gave him some lenient to skip practice whenever he was needed to take care of his father in the hospital.
At this moment, Nijimura was in the said hospital, having just dropped by his father room to deliver some clean clothes and then taken the dirty ones to be sent to the laundry service. When he was walking back to his father room and passed the receptionist desk, he bumped into a very tall teen, taller than him even, causing Nijimura to blink in surprise.
That teen, with red-dark brown hair, intense facial expression and strange split eyebrows, seemed taken aback too when he turned to face Nijimura. Apparently he was just about to turn up a form or something on the receptionist when Nijimura bumped him. He blinked twice before nodding, “Senpai (1),” and then greeted him.
Nijimura blinked again, rather stunned now. Senpai?-He didn’t even know this guy to be familiar enough with suddenly being called his senior. Who?
It seemed that Nijimura’s confusion got through the taller teen because he raised his funny red eyebrows in wonder. “You are a third year in Teikou Middle, right?” he asked.
Nijimura was quite perturbed the knowledge. “Yes, but how do you know that?” He narrowed his eyes, suddenly feeling rather suspicious.
“Huh? You don’t remember me? We met yesterday morning, see… when I was with Haizaki in that park-”
That immediately jogged Nijimura’s memory as he punched his palm in recollection. “Ah! You are Haizaki’s friend that was about to skip school with him yesterday!” and he gradually glared sourly at him now. “You’re a bad boy just like that trouble-magnet…”
“Wow, wait a damn minute--please! I wasn’t about to follow him skipping school when you picked him up yesterday!” the dual colored haired boy immediately protested in indignant look.
“But you were both some good couples of blocks away from school…!” Nijimura argued, frowning deeper.
“That was because we were pursued by some gangsters! If we didn’t run away, they would have beaten the shit out of us and who knew what would happen to our lives!” the other explained, his face paling slightly as he seemed to remember the horror of yesterday event.
“Gangsters?” Nijimura was terrifically aghast. What the fuck did Haizaki do that caused those hooligans to come after him?
“I don’t know the detail since Haizaki didn’t tell me anything, but seriously, if I hadn’t taken him running away with me yesterday, he’d have been in serious mess,” the crimson eyed boy shrugged, huffing slightly.
Nijimura took a deep breath before letting out a long suffering sigh at the impending headache. He massaged his temple just to relieve some knots on his nerves. “Seriously, that stupid delinquent…!” he muttered darkly. “How come the brat always manages to land into trouble at every corner?”
“Well, at least he is resilient enough to survive the consequence,” the other teen grinned widely, showing off his nicely lined white teeth and slightly pointy canine, like a big cat, and causing his sharp feature to enhance in friendly manner with the ways those eyes crinkled.
“I supposed so…” Nijimura couldn’t help but agree despite still feeling like he should give some lesson to his troublesome, stupid kouhai (2) about appropriate social conduct for his own good. God knew what kind of disaster that kid was capable of pulling off his own life just by opening his goddamn rude mouth.
Then, there was silence for a few seconds between them until Nijimura grew curious. “Are you friends with Haizaki?” he had to ask while assessing the red head’s feature more significantly, needing to know if the boy was a bad or good influence for the problematic junior.
“Yeah, well… we just met yesterday and exchanged names. Rather than friends, acquaintances are more appropriate, I think. But, I got to admit that he was an interesting fella despite being a pain,” the kid snorted.
“A pain in the ass to be precise,” Nijimura grunted while nodding, sighing again. “It’s really hard to keep that guy in line. I wonder how he was raised to be that stubborn…” he continued morosely. The other teen chuckled at that, causing Nijimura to glower. “The hell is so funny?”
“No, well… senpai sounds like his mom,” and his chuckling escalated into outright laughing, as if there was no tomorrow, to Nijimura’s utter annoyance. But he let it slide this time, since the younger teen had such melodious voice, and it sounded very nice as he laughed.
Though, Nijimura quickly realized that he hadn’t known who this kid was. Silly of him. How could he forget his manner like that? His mom would roll in her grave if she saw it. “Say… what’s your name? I don’t think I’ve heard it yet.”
“Oh, yeah. I haven’t heard senpai’s name as well. Mine’s Kagami Taiga, Class 2-C Teikou Middle; what about you, senpai?”
“Nijimura Shuuzou, Class 3-A Teikou Middle,” Nijimura introduced himself with a slight bow while the kid immediately mimicked his polite gesture.
“Sorry bout’ the language, Nijimura-senpai. Still learning to speak keigo,” Kagami scratched his head sheepishly.
“No wonder your speech is weird,” Nijimura laughed quietly then, rather surprised that he found Kagami’s attempt to speak proper (despite being awkward) endearing instead of rude or annoying.
“But…” suddenly Kagami sniggered, looking enormously amused as he stared at Nijimura more closely, meaningfully.
“What?” Nijimura raised one of his eyebrows, puzzled.
“Nijimura-senpai’s name… I’m almost positive that senpai is in Teikou basketball club,” Kagami continued snickering despite his effort to hold it down by covering his mouth.
“Huh? How do you know that?” Nijimura was perplexed.
“Eh, no way! Seriously?!” Now Kagami made a hilarious expression as he cracked in hard laughter. “Oh my god! How fitting! Nijimura in the center of the Miracle Rainbow!” and he continued cackling like a mad boy, causing Nijimura to get flustered since they became an instant attention grabber with such boisterous voice of his companion.
“He-hey! Be quiet, moronic kouhai! You’re too noisy! The nurses are glaring at us, idiot!” Nijimura gave the red haired teen a light slap on the back of his head before dragging the still guffawing Kagami away from the crowd that had started to gather around them to watch the spectacle.
“Nnh… -chuckle- sorry, senpai…!” Kagami seemed to try very hard to hold back, but the occasional snicker still escaped his mouth despite the hand covering it. “It’s just too funny to pass up!”
“Shut it, brat! Sheesh… now I have to look for an alternative way to go to my father’s room…!” Nijimura grumbled in irritation while Kagami’s expression gradually turned somber at the admittance.
“Senpai’s father is in the hospital?” there was only genuine curiosity and maybe a slight worry in his tone, so he didn’t sound too nosy.
“Yeah, but his condition is stable and improving, so it’s alright,” Nijimura didn’t really think about it when he reassured Kagami. He just didn’t want to dwell too deeply in that matter.
“That’s good then.” Kagami smiled, looking slightly relieved. Nijimura gave him a small smile as well in return, feeling that Kagami’s intention and compassion was quite nice.
“Oh, right… how come you know about the-,” Nijimura paused before snorting as he realized how Kagami had called the GoM earlier, “-Miracle Rainbow?” he couldn’t help cracking as well at the nickname, feeling really funny. “Are you in the club as well?”
Kagami shook his head, “Nah, just know bout them. Ah, Akashi invited me to join, though…” he tilted his head aside slightly, appearing to recall. “But I turned him down.”
Nijimura almost choked as he heard that. “You turned Akashi’s invitation down?!” he gaped, having a very hard time believing it. Well, since he knew how Akashi operated; he was the king of absolute after all. “How… why?” he was still opening and closing his mouth in perplexity.
“Well, Teikou basketball team is already strong as it is, what with the GoM being there. Having me around them doesn’t make any difference. Besides, it will be more appealing to be their rival rather than just their teammate. Strong basketball players need strong rivals, no?” Kagami grinned again, looking completely unabashed with his reply.
Nijimura didn’t know if he should be impressed or offended. In one aspect, Kagami’s reasoning sounded cool (rather naïve, but still cool), yet in the other hand… it was a total waste! After all, only a handful fellows could really interest Akashi. Dumping a golden opportunity to get a regular position in the Teikou basketball club which had more than 100 competitors for the title was ridiculously supercilious and downright stupid.
“Well… if you say so…” Nijimura looked the other way. He didn’t have any right to judge Kagami, though. Every person had his own circumstance after all. “But, to think that you actually turned Akashi down and still lives to tell the tale… you’re not just a regular brat, then,” he shook his head at that.
“Really? I think Akashi is quite nice if he drops his pretentious ‘obey me or else’ act. Well, all the GoM members are weird to some extent, but they are quite fascinating… I guess. Oh, and the most interesting one is that invisible guy, Kuroko!” Kagami beamed slightly as he spoke.
“Kuroko?” Nijimura raised his eyebrows high at that. Of all GoM members, he picked Kuroko as the most interesting? The kid with the thinnest presence? What was wrong with this guy’s perception?
“Yeah, somehow, he just impressed me,” Kagami’s grin didn’t falter as he continued, pouring out his opinion about all the GoM members one by one until he was satisfied. “Anyway, the most intriguing part is all their surnames represent their hair colors, except Kuroko, but Nijimura’s senpai hair is not in rainbow color as well, so I guess it’s just coincidence?”
“Now that you said it, indeed… though I’m still quite wondering how their hair color turned that way. After all, how the hell there are green and blue hair, really? They must have dyed them.” Nijimura rolled his eyes at that while Kagami laughed again.
“But, it’s really like a fate, don’t you think, senpai? The GoM members represent the colors that will turn into Niji (3) if they line up. It’s as if they were there just for you,” Kagami chuckled again and Nijimura widened his eyes at the frightening twist of fate. Indeed, if Kagami put it down like that…
Nijimura smiled heartily as the realization dawned on him. “Maybe you’re right…” then he chuckled, feeling very good with their conversation. Really, his juniors were all very adorable, even Haizaki, despite being bothersome most of the time. He just couldn’t leave them alone.
Nijimura vaguely noticed that Kagami also smiled with him, and his heart warmed at the gentle look. “Thanks for telling me all of these,” he said, rather amazed that the initially intense kid could make such expression. He was the epitome of ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, seriously.
“Heheh, yeah… Senpai is a good senior, after all. I think I understand why they like you,” Kagami grinned again and Nijimura’s felt the heat rise to his cheeks at the compliment. Damn. He hoped he wasn’t blushing right then.
“Shaddup,” he swatted at Kagami’s arm and the red head laughed some more at Nijimura’s self-conscious gesture.
They parted ways when Nijimura arrived at his father’s room doorstep.
“See you at school tomorrow, senpai. Hope your father gets better soon,” Kagami said good bye before he left with a wave of his hand.
Nijimura waved back. “Be careful on your way home,” he warned and he caught a faint chuckle followed by a mumble of ‘mother hen’ from the brat that exasperated him slightly, but he just shook his head at Kagami’s antics.
“Well, at least he’s a fun kid. It’s actually kind of refreshing to be able to talk about my juniors so much freely, and from such different perspective as well. How… interesting.” Nijimura chuckled again, before he opened the door and went inside to tend to his father’s need in a pleasant mood.
I definitely have to talk to him more often. Kagami Taiga… what an intriguing brat.
End of Eleventh Impression
Additional notes:1)Senpai: senior
2)Kouhai: junior
3)Niji: rainbow
A/N: Hyaaa… how challenging this installment was to make. Honestly, I’m not informed enough of Nijimura’s character to write him right, since in the manga, he has limited panels-time. So forgive me if he seems oOC in this story. Also, I did say in the previous chapter that Nijimura’s Impression would be in the same situation as Haizaki’s, but I called off the idea because this is easier to make and I think showing Kagami’s compassionate side to Nijimura’s father condition will earn Kagami more points in Nijimura’s book of beloved juniors *lol*. Also, because there are multiple requests for an omake for every impression, I think I’ll put those in separate chapter. So, I’ll mark this one-shot collection ‘COMPLETE’ for now. If there’s an idea to add to the piles later, I’ll put it in an update.
…
…?
…?!
Oh, hold on! I haven’t put Kagami’s Impression here! *shocked* How could I forget?! Well, it won’t be complete without an impression from the center main character, will it? Then, it’s not done yet. One more chapter, dedicated for Kagami’s Impression before I mark this story COMPLETE then! See you at next impression!
Part 12
Part 10