Spark | Kuroko no Basuke x OC

The Calm Before the Storm

Riko nearly broke the wooden chopsticks in her hands. "Geez! Can't you say it looks good or something?!"

"S-Sorry, we're just... Souprised," Izuki apologized while adding a pun. The team groaned and he picked up his chopsticks; he kept in mind that Tomoko was there to help for the first few minutes, so that probably set the coach in the right direction. "Well, thanks for the..."

"Wait!" Hyuuga, on the other hand, was still warily of the deceivingly good looking pot. Though, he really shouldn't be the one talking as seeing that his friendly expression was just as deceiving when he turned to the blue haired shadow. "Kuroko-kun, you try a bite first."

"The way you're talking is really shady," Kuroko replied bluntly and Hyuuga twitched. Next to him, Tomoko pursed her lips and sighed before picking up her own chopsticks.

"You guys are taking too long! I'm hungry, so," she said and poked her chopsticks into the pot. "Thanks for... The food...?" she trailed off as she bewilderedly picked up a soggy-looking banana. It dripped with the steaming broth.

"Uh," Koganei blinked a few times at the fruit. Maybe he was seeing things? "Why is a banana in there?"

Riko was unaffected and flashed the guys a doe-like expression. "It was in the plastic bag," she said like it was the most logical thing in the world. As Riko and Hyuuga argued, Tomoko poked at the soggy banana in her bowl; even she was a bit disturbed by how the coach could mistake their dessert bag with their main ingredients bag...

"Is it edible?" she whispered to Kuroko and the boy scrunched his brows slightly in contemplation.

"The skin is still on," he whispered back.

"Only one way to find out," she said with a resolved expression and broke the soggy fruit into two pieces. Kuroko didn't like that look at all. "Which half will you like to try?"

Across from them, Riko didn't look the least bit apologetic about adding bananas into the broth. Bananas are good for the body, so why not? At Hyuuga's incredulous expression, though, she recoiled back cutely and stuck out her tongue.

"Oopsies. Sorry~" she knocked the side of her head softly.

"When did you start acting like that?!"

"Well, at least the rest looks normal. You can just eat around the bananas," Teppei said, trying to be optimistic as he picked up a soggy strawberry. Again, a round of questioning ensued and Riko answered with her matter-of-fact remark about the fruit being in the bag.

Now that they think about it, they should've expected the coach to dump the entire content of the dessert bag into the hot pot, not just one. That means there's likely some cherries and kiwis floating around as well.

"O-Our dessert..."

"We ended up not being able to eat both..."

"Actually," Tomoko suddenly spoke up. She was nibbling on half of the banana as Kuroko did the same besides her. Her salmon eyes lit up. "It's not bad!"

"What?!" the rest exclaimed. Following the two's example, Teppei also took a bite of his strawberry and Koganei picked up a grape. "You guys are actually eating it?!"

"The fruitness kinda works," the cat-like teen replied.

"E-Eh? Really?" Hyuuga tried a strawberry himself and was greatly surprised. The broth infused fruit was slightly tangy, but the warmness and flavor from the rest of the ingredients actually worked together. He looked up at Riko and she grinned proudly.

The rest finally dug in, and every time their chopsticks went down into the pot, they were surprised with a new mystery fruit. It was beyond weird, but at least it didn't taste bad.