The Tigers That Fell in Love [Toradoki!] - Chapter 3

~CHAPTER 3~

Taiga walked to the entrance of the indoor sports hall. She cautiously slid open the door. The sliding of the door caught the team’s members’ attention. Everyone turned their heads to her.

“Ehhh--- so short..”

“Is she really a high schooler?”

“Wait, she’s wearing Seirin’s uniform?”

Mutters could be heard. They were expecting Taiga to come, but they couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

“Hey, stop those useless mutters,” Kagami said as he walked up to her. “She’s Mizuki Taiga. The one you’re all waiting for.”

“....” There was an awkward silence.

“EHHHHHHHH----?!!” Everyone else screamed in shock except for Kuroko.

“You didn’t make a mistake, DID YOU?!!” Hyuuga shook Kagami’s shoulders hard.

“She can’t be that short!!” Koganei commented.

Mitobe gave a surprised look.

“You can't trust a tiger. You never know when she might be lion,” Izuki made a lame pun, writing on his notepad. This fueled Taiga’s anger.

“IZUKI! Don’t give our guests a bad impression!” Hyuuga hit Izuki’s head.

“URUSAAAAIII!” Taiga, with menacing eyes, swung her right leg towards Izuki’s hips, making him fall onto the wooden floor.

“AHH!! THE FIRST TIME IZUKI GOT PUNISHED FOR HIS PUNS!” Everyone shouted in unison. Izuki got up, caressing his injured body part.

“AREN’T YOU ALL MAKING A PUN RIGHT NOW?!!” Riko shouted from behind. She saw Mizuki, with Izuki slowly getting up. “Izuki, what happened?!”

“She kicked me...” Izuki sweatdropped. “Because of my pun...”

“You deserve it,” Riko said, biting her teeth and clenching her hard fist, with an aura of fire surrounding her. “By the way, is that.. Mizuki... Taiga?” She looked at Taiga.

“Sou dayo,” Taiga confirmed. “But everyone here’s weird.”

“But I think she’s kind of violent,” Kuroko commented.

“It’s her first day here, so..” Kagami said.

Riko understood what she meant. “Okay then, let’s introduce ourselves...”

They finished their introductions, with Taiga giving nicknames in her mind.

“Well then, time for my introduction,” Taiga folded her arms. “My name’s Mizuki Taiga, as you all know. Now, take off your shirts.” She instructed.

“Ehh?!” Riko was shocked.

De-Deja vu?!! Everyone thought.

“Just hurry up and do it!” Taiga shouted, pointing at them. Beads of cold perspiration dropped down from their forehead. They gulped a little. Meanwhile, Riko felt a little curious as what Taiga could do.

“H-hai...” they agreed, taking off their shirts.

Taiga’s POV

Numbers filled my vision. Stamina, Speed, Attack, Strength, Defense, Accuracy.... Yep, my numbers are based on MMORPGs.

I pointed to four-eyes. “Your accuracy is quite good..” He looked shocked. “Eh, well, I always shoot 3-pointers...”

“3-pointers? What’s that..?” I asked, feeling confused.

“Ah, for that, we’ll explain to you later,” Riko said.

I went off to comment on each of the member’s abilties, shocking them. Now it was Bakagami and Kuroko’s turn.

Checking Bakagami’s stats, my eyes were lighting up. He’s special.... In fact, his stats are glowing brightly! I figured he’d make a good partner. “Eh...” I moved on Kuroko.

I gasped with my mouth agape. How is he... “Your stats are too low! How are you in the Generation of Miracles(GOM)?!”

“Generation of... Miracles?” Everyone was in shock. Shit, I carelessly mentioned the GOM!

“How did you know them?” Kuroko asked. “We’ve never mentioned anything about it to you before.”

“Argh--- Urusai!” I scolded out of recklessness. “I-I’ve read about them somewhere on a magazine before...”

Everyone looked rather skeptical.

“Uhm.... Let’s explain how I can help you guys during games now..” I sweatdropped, looking away. “Do you see the strand of hair shaped like a heart on my head?”

“Yeah, but it looks weird,” Kagami commented. I raised my eyebrows and tried to suppressed the anger. I could’ve killed him by now if looks could kill.

“Anyway, did you know that there’s an invisible battlefield just right next to the basketball court? Like, a virtual gaming world?”

Everyone was baffled. Invisible? What kind of sorcery is this?

“I don’t know how it works, but it’s like science fiction.....Hi-tech stuff. The heart-shaped strand of hair... well, I don’t know either. This virtual world can be triggered anywhere. Once it’s triggered, I’ll be able to enter the world. Only those who can access the invisible battlefield will be able to come into contact with me inside. We use weapons inside.. like in those MMORPGs. I excel in using a sword or katana, so of course I’m good in short-ranged battles, but kind of bad at long-ranged battles My In-game Name(IGN) is Shana.”

They were pretty shocked. Well, that’s of course.. this technology hasn’t been released to the public yet. It’s a lot like... virtual gaming.

“So do other schools have people like you?” Izuki asked.

“Nope,” I answered. “But I still have to train my skills, because there’s 1 person I have to defeat in this upcoming Inter High.”

End of Taiga’s POV

  The other members asked Taiga some questions and she answered them all. Then, they decided to resume their practice.

Riko walked up to Taiga and put her hands on Taiga’s shoulder. “Ne, I just wanna ask you, how do you calculate these stats?”

“Hmm, I organise them in a game-like manner,” Taiga answered. “Like those MMORPGs.... Stamina, Speed, Attack, Strength, Defense, Accuracy. You could say I like playing these type of games.”

“I see, so you have experience,” Riko nodded her head. “Well, I have experience too! But I don’t organise it like that.”

“Mm...”

Riko and Taiga both exchanged information as they watched the boys train.

“Right, you said you had to defeat 1 person on the upcoming Inter High, so... who’s that?” Riko asked.

“...” Taiga hesitated for a while. “It’s a secret.”

“Well.. it’s okay if you don’t tell me... but why must it be basketball?” Riko inquired even more further.

“Because it’s the only way I can find that person,” Taiga answered honestly, although she felt a little irritated.

Then Riko went on to explain further about basketball to Taiga. I know how it works, but I don’t seem to have a knack for it....

~END OF CHAPTER 3~

A/N: More romance scenes coming up! I won’t elaborate much on the basketball action, instead, I will focus on the romance. Unless it’s the last round xD

Love Miracles - Chapter 2

~CHAPTER 2~

Rai’s POV

The moment I stepped out of the school gates, I yawned loudly. Because school is tiring. I wished it didn’t exist... Except for OAGS of course.

“Let’s get home quickly,” Ichigo-chan suggested. “I’m starving.” She felt her stomach grumble like an old man.

“Me too.” I sighed. It was just the start of my first high school year and I was looking forward to the summer holidays already. Nevertheless, I was a little excited about the LMC members. You see, someone related to Baki(A/N: In case you didn’t know... Baki = Baka + Kise) was there. His imouto. I smiled to myself. I can feel my romance life going like a bed of roses!

We were walking along a street which were selling food. The fragrance and aroma filled the air.  And we had to suppress our hunger inside.

Changing the topic to make myself less hungrier, I asked, “Ne, did you watch the latest episode of [insert anime here]?”

There was no reply. I turned to my side, only to find her missing.

“Ichigo-chan?!! Ichigo-chan?!! Ichigo-chaaaannnn!!!” I shouted, panicking, fearing something might’ve happened to her. What is she, Kuroko the 2nd?!! To my relief, I spotted her admiring the lovely sweets and chocolates outside a sweets shop. She was drooling a lot like a dog which was seeing doggy treats-- okay, maybe not so much, but you guessed it. I did a facedesk-- oops, I mean an epic facepalm. (Since there weren’t any desks...)

Ichigo-chan noticed me doing the epic facepalm. She laughed a little. “Gomen, gomen. I just can’t...” She stopped, looking at the fabulous sweets, hinting to me that she wanted to buy them.

“Hora, you spent almost all of your money on sweets today at school,” I gave her a stop-wasting-your-money-on-sweets look. “You’re going to be bankrupt soon if you continue doing this!” Then I tried dragging her away, like I always do when she’s tempted with sweets. She’s easily tempted with food, especially sweets, you know.

“Nooooooo! SWEETS-SAMAAAAA!!!!” She cried as I dragged her away. Well, I have more strength than her, so...

“Raicchi!! Ichigocchi!!” a familiar voice called out. My mood instantly went to the highest point. I swear I’ve heard this voice somewhere before.... AHH!!! How could I’ve forgotten?!! IT’S BAKI!!

We turned our heads to the direction of the voice. I was smiling from ear to ear.

The crowd dispersed and there it was - Baki and Kuroko, standing right beside each other, wearing their respective school’s uniforms, and Baki was waving happily.

“BAKI!!”

“Kuroko-senpai!!” Both of us shouted as the same time as we ran to the both of them.

“Long time no see,” Kuroko greeted. “Ichigo-san, Rai-san.”

“Long time no see too!” Ichigo-chan greeted back. We decided to walk together, and chat at same time.

After chattering like monkeys for a while, Ichigo-chan suddenly asked, “That reminds me... Kuroko-senpai, why are you with Kise-senpai?”

“.....” Kuroko stopped to think for a moment. “He kidnapped me.”

“Wha--?!! I didn’t kidnap him!” Baki protested.

“Kuroko, stop bullying Baki!” I pouted.

“But Kise-kun is annoying.”

“Waahhh!! Kurokocchi, you’re so mean~!”

“Kuroko-senpai is so kawaii~” Ichigo commented, in the world of her own fantasies.

End of Rai’s POV

Ichigo’s POV

“Let’s go to Kuroko-senpai’s house!” I suggested.

“Its been a while since I have been to Kurokocchi’s houseee!!!” Kise squealed in delight, flapping his arms wildly in the air. “Like... in 1 or 2 years!”

“...”

“Its confirmed!” Rai-chan bursted in happiness, jumping up and down excitedly.

By the time we reached his house (and lost him over nine thousand times), it was already early evening. We decided to eat dinner, so we sat at the dining table, talking incessantly as we waited for Kuroko-senpai to finish cooking.

“As expected of Kurokocchi... His apartment is so neat and tidy!” Kise commented, smiling. “Not like Murasakibaracchi... his room‘s filled with wrappers everywhere.” He felt a little disgusted at the thought of it.

The only dish on the table was eggs - 4 delicious hard boiled eggs with soya sauce and a half burnt egg yolk.

“I can make a mean hard boiled egg,” Kuroko-senpai reminded, with his apron still on. He then proceeded to untie it, and he sat down in front of the dining table, picking up his fork.

Kuroko-senpai pushed the plate with the burnt egg yolk to Kise-senpai. ”I never knew Kuroko-senpai was so mean...” I thoughted out loud.

“Kise-kun is really annoying.” Kuroko gave a lame excuse, munching on the hard boiled egg.

“How am I annoying??!!” Kise-senpai cried - for the hundredth time today, “KUROKOCCHI YOU MEANIEEEEEE~!!!”

“Ah, Kuroko-senpai--” I turned to my side. He was nowhere to be seen, like he disappeared into thin air or something. “K-Kuroko-senpai?!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!!”

“What is this, the one millionth time we lost him today?!” Rai-chan shouted in frustration, facepalming hard.

Kise-senpai facedesked - but that was the wrong thing to do. He’d forgotten that there was a plate of a ROTTEN egg yolk on the table. The rotten egg yolk was smeared all over his face, and the pungent smell filled the air.

“PFFFFTTTT!!!” I laughed my head off till my stomach hurt upon seeing Kise-senpai’s face. “OH MY GOD!!!” I shed a few tears because I was laughing so hard. I didn’t regret laughing at him, although Rai-chan’s probably gonna kill me for saying that.

“You meanie!!!” Kise-senpai cried, trying to wipe the egg away. “Anyway, we need to find Kurokocchi!”

We searched high and low for him, like a predator and a prey. That reminds me... Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jaeger! (A/N: It translates to ‘Are you the food? No, we are the hunters!’ But it can also be translated to ‘They are the prey and we are the hunters!’.) I giggled at the thought of it. He’s the prey, and we’re the hunters!

“What are you giggling about?” a voice suddenly popped out, startling me. I jumped in fear.

“K-Kuroko-senpai?!” I screamed, pointing at him. “Where were you?!” I caught Rai-chan and Kise-senpai’s attention, and they turned their heads towards me.

“Ah, there you are!! Kuroko/Kurokocchi!!!!” Both Rai-chan and Kise-senpai shouted at the same time.

“Kise-kun... why does your face smells like... rotten egg?” Kuroko-senpai made an innocent remark.

“Oh my god, I don’t want to see an egg in my life anymore!!” Kise shouted in despair. His day was totally ruined by eggs. “First, Kurokocchi, where did you go?! We were looking high and low for you!”

“.... Etto... I just went to the toilet...” Kuroko-senpai looked confused, tilting his head a little, with his index finger brushing against his cheeks.

End of Ichigo’s POV

Right... we’ve totally forgotten he’s practically a ghost.... All 3 of them sweatdropped. He’s not called the ‘Phantom Sixth Man’ for nothing....

~END OF CHAPTER 2~

A/N: Kuroko is practically a ghost. Ehehe ^w^ By the way, Raicchi wrote some of the stuff here ^o^ Here are 2 NG scenes!

I love how Kuroko bullies Kise and I'm not sorry~

NG Scene 1

Kuroko: *arranges plates of hard-boiled eggs onto the dining table for everyone* Here... take a bite everyone.

Everyone: *takes a bite*

*EVERYONE FAINTS AND THERE’S A DEATH AURA SURROUNDING THEM*

Riko: *comes into the dining room* Huh..? What happened to everyone? Didn’t you guys liked my hard-boiled eggs?

Kuroko: I’m sorry everyone, but Coach wanted to practice her cooking skills-- *dies*

Ichigo: She’s a deadly cook-- *dies*

Rai: What did she put inside? It’s a massacre of flavours-- *dies*

Kise: I can taste soap--*dies*

Riko: Soap...? I think I accidentally poured some inside the eggs...

NG Scene 2

Ichigo: Ah, Kuroko-senpai-- *turns to her side* *finds him missing* KUROKO-SENPAI!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!!!

Kise: YAYYY!!! He’s not there to bully me anymore!!! ^o^

Rai: *laughing* Baki, you’re kind of evil~ But it does make sense in a way....

Kuroko: Ano... I just stood out of my chair... and I heard what you all said.... *cringing a little* *dark aura*

Ichigo, Kise & Rai: *JUMPS IN SHOCK* 

Wonder if anyone survived Kuroko's wrath.....