Part 1
Kagami never categorized himself as a kind person. Sure, he didn’t mind helping an old lady to cross a street or gave up his seat for a pregnant lady, but most of the time, he didn’t care. He spent the majority of his life being alone anyway, making trip from country to country with his sailing yacht, hunting waves across the world so he could do the thing he loved the most in the whole world; surfing.
So, he wasn’t really sure why he was trapped in this situation right now; with a weird teenager with baby blue hair in the passenger seat of a car he rent during his stay in this island, and a huge Siberian husky on said teenager’s lap.
Well, it all started when Kagami was getting ready to ride the first wave that morning, and he found a very huge dog lying on the beach. Kagami hated dog, so he supposed to not care about that dog and just focused on the wave coming, but the dog whimpered in pain and Kagami felt pity. That, and suddenly a scrawny kid with blue hair appeared and said, “Please help us,” while looking at him with his big and round blue eyes, pleading with an expression that Kagami couldn’t even say no to. The kid wouldn’t be able to lift the huge dog anyway, seeing how scrawny he was.
So, here they were. Kagami drove the kid to the nearest vet the kid told him to go to.
“It’s six in the morning, kid. Are you sure this vet is open?” Kagami asked, though he still drove anyway.
“Aomine-kun will always open for Nigou. And I’m not a kid. I’m nineteen, and my name is Kuroko Tetsuya.”
Huh, doesn’t look like it, Kagami thought absent mindedly as he was giving the kid—Kuroko—a sideway glance. “I’m Kagami Taiga.” Kagami decided to be polite and introduced himself in return despite that he was still thinking that Kuroko looked like a fourteen-year-old instead. Not that he actually care if Kuroko was lying to himself about his age.
The vet that Kuroko meant was pretty close; it took ten minutes driving to get there. Kagami quickly got out from the car and opened the passenger seat door for Kuroko. Reluctantly, he carried the dog out (he already carried it earlier and he was glad the dog was unconscious so he didn’t really mind), while Kuroko ran to the front door of the clinic to open the door. Kagami frowned at the fact that it was still very early in the morning and the clinic didn’t even lock the door, but all thought disappeared from his mind once he saw who greeted them inside.
Kagami loved sea. Like he said, he spent the majority of his life on the sea, sailing, surfing, diving, anything related to the deep blue. And he never saw a pair of eyes so blue like that, and Kagami felt like he could get lost in it forever. The gaze was sharp and drowning and Kagami just couldn’t tear his eyes off of him. Too bad he only glanced at Kagami for a few seconds.
“Tetsu,” the man said once he saw Kuroko stood before Kagami. “What happened?” His voice was a nice baritone. Just like the deep rumble of storm in the middle of the ocean.
“Nigou,” Kuroko said, turned towards Kagami, to the dog that was still unconscious and whimpering. “I think he ate something bad. Can you help him, Aomine-kun?”
Aomine. Kagami made sure to remember that name.
Aomine frowned a little and gestured to the backroom so they could follow them. “Lay him down here,” Aomine instructed to Kagami this time as he put on his elastic gloves, and Kagami complied, happy to get rid of the dog.
Aomine took his time examining the dog, and while he did it, he whispered soothing things to the dog’s ear. His voice was still deep, but softer around the edge, too bad Kagami couldn’t make out what he said.
“He ate a fishbone it seems, and something stuck in his throat. I’m gonna make him to throw everything up,” Aomine declared after a while. “You two better wait outside because I’m sure it’s not gonna be a pleasant sight to see.”
Kagami agreed to that, because who would want to watch a dog throwing up anyway but he couldn’t tear his gaze away from Aomine so he was stuck standing there, until Aomine looked up at him and frowned deeper. “What are you still doing here? Get out.”
So, Kagami got out, and looked for Kuroko.
“Kuroko,” he called when he found the kid sitting in the waiting room. “Do you think your dog needs to do some regular check up after this?”
Kuroko nodded. “Yes. I always try to take Nigou here every day anyway. Not for check up, but Nigou loves Aomine-kun. But it’s kind of hard to do that because I have class most days, so I only take him here once a week.”
“I’ll take him here when you’re in class tomorrow.”
“Really? You’re very kind, Kagami-kun. Thank you.”
Kagami didn’t even know why he offered that. He wasn’t a kind person, remember?
(Or probably he knew but pushed the knowledge to the back of his head.)
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Based on this drabble I wrote last year.
