32 Awkward situation

"Argghhhh." I groaned as I got out of bed. My body was battered from the 1v1 matches yesterday, especially the last one. Memories of it flashed through my mind.

Kiyoshi backing me down into the paint, ramming into me with his overwhelming size and strength advantage. Once he got down low, he would pump fake, get me in the air and score an easy basket.

I tried my best to defend him, I really did. I used all the strength I could muster in my body to stand against him but to no avail. There really was a huge difference between levels 4 and 7 in strength. It felt like going up against a wall. Luckily I don't play at the center position or I will just get bullied.

The crazy thing was that Kiyoshi was not the strongest center among the uncrowned kings. If I remember correctly there was another player called Eikichi Nebuya who was much stronger than Kiyoshi. I'm pretty sure he's going to be a level 9 or something for strength.

Well, all in all I got trashed in the finals yesterday. The score was 11-4. I only got the ball for about 3 possessions. Kiyoshi scored so efficiently yesterday that he missed only once. Screw this, once I get my daily missions level 5 badge I'm going to go on an upgrading spree. All my levels are going to increase so fast that no one would be able to stand in my way.

I did my daily morning routine of brushing my teeth and taking a quick bath before heading downstairs to eat my breakfast with my parents.

"So Kaen, what are you planning to do today?" My mother asked me while I was woofing down a couple of pancakes.

"Hm, I don't know. I guess I'm going to read my manga, play some games then hit the court in the evening." I replied.

"Stop doing such unproductive things like reading your manga. You should be spending your time studying instead..." My mother started to nag about studying like all parents do. I knew that she was concerned about my future but my goddamn exams just ended like a day ago.

"Well, since you are so free why don't you go look after Satsuki today." My father said.

"What? What happened to her?" I asked and immediately checked my phone.

I looked and immediately saw a string on whatsapp messages which I forgot to check. Some were from Aomine and some were from Satsuki.

Apparently Satsuki had fallen sick and was resting at home by herself at the moment. Aomine had to attend training so there was no one at home to take care of her. Well, I guess no one but me.

"Alright, I guess I'll go to her house today then." I sighed reluctantly. All my plans for today had gone down the drain, instead of watching anime I had to take care of Satsuki now.

About an hour later, I was standing outside Satsuki's house and rung the doorbell. A tired looking Satsuki opened the door and let me in.

"Here you go I brought you some snacks." I said putting a bag of snacks on the floor.

"Hey Kaen! You do know that I'm sick right and can't possibly eat snacks! Why the hell did you bring snacks for? Shouldn't you be bringing me medicine instead!" Satsuki started grumbling at me.

Crap, she's really moody when she's sick huh.

"Hold up, hold up, relax man. You could always eat the snacks when you recover. And I ain't a doctor man, there's no way I'm going to buy medicine for you. I could have bought you the wrong one and made your condition worse. Anyway, you already visited the doctor so why do you need more medicine?" I said smoothly, managing to get her to calm down.

"Hmph, fine. I guess your reasons are fine, well come to my room now and take care of me." She said, grabbing my hand and dragging me to her room.

Woah, woah, woah. This is wrong. I'm a freaking teenager man, this is just sending wrong signals all over the place.

Satsuki lead me to her room and lay on her bed. She then started taking off her shirt.

Shit.

"SATSUKI! STOP!" I yelled and she looked at me in bewilderment.

"IM A BOY AND YOU ARE A GIRL! YOU DON'T STRIP IN FRONT OF ME!" I continued.

Satsuki then realized what had happened. Her face turned bright red in embarrassment and she hit under her bedsheets.

Shit this is awkward. This is damn freaking awkward. The images of Satsuki taking off her shirt stuck in my mind.

"U-mm-mm. S-orr-yy." Satsuki mumbled. Crap how do I diffuse the situation now.

"I-it's okay. I-i only saw up to your belly, y-you can relax." I stuttered out a crappy excuse. It was the best one that I could think of off the top of my head.

"Y-you sure?"

"Yeah"

Silence, there was nothing but silence for the next 5 minutes. I just stood there next to her bed while she hid herself under her sheets. I really wish I was at home watching some anime right about now.

"S-so how you'd fall sick?" I asked. I tried my best, I wracked my brain and this was the best question that I came up with.

"I-i don't know? Maybe its because I was too stressed out from the exams, maybe I was overworked from club or maybe I caught it randomly down the street. I don't know?" She replied.

"Oh exams huh. You studied pretty hard for that right. I remember seeing your instagram story where you were studying at like 12am. How do you even work so hard?" I continued, sensing an opportunity to finally get rid of the awkwardness.

Satsuki: "Not everyone is like you Kaen. I don't know how you do it but I doubt there are many people as smart as you. Normal people like me, we actually got to work hard to achieve something good you know."

"Don't give me that man, I'm pretty sure you are just as smart as me or maybe even smarter. I couldn't even think of one of those basketball plays you draw up. But do you want to bet on the exams though?" I said.

"How much you wanna bet?" She asked.

"Hm, how about the loser has to buy the winner a free lunch. Alright?" I asked.

"yeah."

There was silence once again but this round much shorter.

"Hey Kaen, I'm going to trust that you didn't see anything alright. But even if you did this changes nothing right?" Satsuki asked.

"Yeah, I'm still one of your good friends. One small thing like this changes nothing." I said.

Satsuki then turned around and faced me for the first time in what felt like ages and I felt a huge sense of accomplishment pass through me.

"Now could you help me get my medicine, I feel like crap"

__ At night_

I lay on my bed thinking of what happened today. Suddenly, the image of what happened today flashed through my mind. If it wasn't obvious, I had lied. I didn't just see her belly, I saw everything.

Damn, she's hot. She's got some decent assets.

What the hell are you thinking Kaen. She's your childhood friend, this cliché crap isn't supposed to happen.

This was when I realized this was my first time seeing Satsuki as a woman.

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Alright so the voting was over and it was an overwhelmingly in favor of Satsuki. So here is the teaser. But just saying, I have never dated anyone before so there is quick a high chance there will be no love interest. Ballislyfe.

If you touched a basketball before, gimme your power stone.