Spark | Kuroko no Basuke x OC

Days of the Past

"Kuma-cchi and I are super close!" he declared and winked. "It's to the point where we call each other all the time and have late night conversations~!"

Seriously?! Fukuda was flabbergasted. He always thought that the girl and their shadow player were a thing, but it seems like she was already having a relationship with the small forward from Kaijo.

"Kise-kun's a good English tutor," Tomoko nodded, not refuting their phone calls but also revealing the nature of their conversations for the most part. "I always do our English homework last because it's so hard, but it works out because Kise-kun is usually out of practice or his modeling jobs later in the night. Fukuda-kun, if you need help on English today, you can ask Kise-kun!"

Kise whined after being so bluntly revealed. He gave the hopeful brown haired male a childish pout, "I don't give out my tutoring services for free. Kuma-cchi's the only exception!"

"But Fukuda-kun's super good at physics and math! Isn't it better to have friends that can help each other on different subjects?"

The blonde paled at the mention of those subjects and he sighed while giving the girl a helpless look. "I'll only help because you asked, Kuma-cchi~"

So basically, they help each other study sometimes, Fukuda cleared up the muddled relationship between the two. They walked inside the public library and he mentally cheered for his teammate, Kuroko, you're still in the running!

The library was silent when the three walked in and Tomoko went to the table near the window with a grin and set down all of her textbooks. The two males followed, but since Kise just came out from a job, he didn't bring anything with him. Fukuda wondered what the male was going to be doing for the majority of the time that he and Tomoko were going to study here and doing other subjects aside from English...

...He quickly found out.

"Kuma-cchi~" Kise called out again, counting this time it would be about the fifth time since they started to study about an hour ago. The male was very talkative and since he had nothing to do, he was keeping himself occupied by talking to the girl—who didn't seem to mind. "So Kana-neecchi asked me to invite you to her next shoot. It's not her fashion line but a friend of hers. We can model together again!"

"Eh, I think I'm good on modeling for now!" Tomoko laughed and waved his pout off. "Besides, I'm a total amateur."

"What? You're a natural. A total a goddess in front of the camera!"

"I'm not that good! But thank you for thinking so!"

Fukuda couldn't help but wonder about the two once more. The blonde was completely and obviously flirting with the girl, yet she was cluelessly taking it as a mere compliment. Besides, they were suppose to be studying and doing homework, but it somehow felt like he was the one left out of the couple's animate conversation when Kise was technically the add-on.

Did he just get demoted into a side character? There was no way he could compete with the model's radiance, after all. Kuroko, this guy totally outshines you in presence!

"Okuma-chan..." he called out to the girl and pointed at her unfinished math problem. "W-We're here to work, remember? Didn't you get a low score on the last math quiz?"

Tomoko's face twisted into a pained expression and she nodded feverently. "You're right, Fukuda-kun! I won't slack off!" she vowed and dove back into her math problems. The blonde next to her pouted and threw a small glare at Fukuda from behind his sunglasses.

He's totally angry at me for taking away her attention!

"So you're Kuma-cchi's classmate?" Kise asked as he rested his chin on his palms and stared into Fukuda's soul with furrowed brows. "Are you on the basketball team?"