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ok so what if haiza switched schools and started going to kiridai after everything in the anime (failing to take the title of "member of GOM" from kise and all) - would he decide to join the kiridai team on his own or would the boys kind of have to drag him into joining them? (if the latter then how much would they have to annoy/convince haiza until he would finally give up)
Haizaki keeps coming back to the courts. Perhaps, he can’t help himself; perhaps, it’s just because he’s got nowhere else to go - there’s too many people on the roof, and he needs to get away from these new posh-fuck-classmates of his. 
Except, no matter how many times he comes to this part of the campus, he never actually makes it into the gym. The squeaking of the shoes inside halts his step, torments him quietly. He walks away with his hands in his pockets, and spits on the ground for good measure.
Sometimes, before he leaves, he looks in - only a glance or two. It’s normal team practice, from the looks of it, despite what he’s heard about the Kirisaki Daichi basketball team. For a bunch of dudes who are renowned for being the closest you get to murderers in high school sports, they sure do look like they’ve having fun. He sees them throwing arms around one another’s shoulders, or giving each other a thumbs up after the ball slips through the hoop; he hears, albeit muffled by the door, shouts of “nice one, Zaki!” (Hearing ‘Zaki’ hurts, just a little. No one calls him by the nickname. Hell, no one would tell him ‘nice one’ either.)
And it’s on one of these visits to the gym - a detour between his final class of the day and the school gates - that he gets caught in the act.
“Hey, I know you,” a pink-haired guy grins at him, traps Haizaki between the wall and his body, and then takes a closer look, “actually, no, do I? Right, yeah, I do. You’re that Generation of Miracles reject, aren’t you? What was your name again?”
Haizaki brings his fists out of his pockets, and attempts to shoulder past the player. Except, for a guy Haizaki’s height and of not too heavy a build, pink guy is surprisingly strong. He grabs the back of Haizaki’s collar, and wrenches him back, like he’s a mother dog holding a puppy.
“Oi, captain,” he calls, swinging the gym doors open, “guess who I found poking around.”
At least, no introductions are needed between Haizaki Shougo and Hanamiya Makoto - even Haizaki, who never attends (and, thus, is rarely invited to) strategy meetings looking at the opponent team, knows this guy’s name.
“It’s good to meet you at last,” Hanamiya purrs, shaking Haizaki’s hand, holding it firmly with two hands, not quite crushing the boy’s bones but not far from it, “I’ve heard a lot of good things about you.”
“Bullshit,” replies Haizaki, who hasn’t even heard his mother say something good about him recently.
“Good, of course, being subjective.” As Hanamiya talks, Haizaki can’t pull his gaze away from his senior’s, though he’s acutely aware of everyone else’s gaze on him - there’s no more of the squeaking of shoes, or bouncing of balls. “You were unlucky, you know? Getting stuck with those ‘genius’ bastards, when you were young, being inhibited in your chance to play, and then getting stuck with a bunch of imagine-less idiots.”
“Sure.”
“Them, and their ‘I live and would die for basketball’ attitudes, “my way is the only way”, their purism and elitism. It sucks, right?”
Hanamiya’s eyes bore into him. There’s a slight grin across the captain’s lips; when his tongue flicks out to lick his lips, Haizaki’s caught by the animalistic instinct that he’s caught in the lair of a snake.
“What are you getting at?”
“You’ve been stuck playing with fools like that for too long; no wonder you don’t like basketball anymore. But, it’s different with us. We do what we want on the court - and we get away with it. And we could use a man with your natural talent.”
“You lot break people’s fucking knees.”
“Is that a problem for you?”
Haizaki pauses. He’s suddenly ashamed of his own sentence - so blatantly manipulated by years of having listened to those ‘miracle’ bastards, just parroting off their bullshit, even though he knows that, when he’s watched Kiridai matches in the past, he’s never been repulsed by their manner. The only emotion he experienced watching those matches was envy.
“You better not bench me,” Haizaki says now.
“I’ll do what’s best for the team,” Hanamiya’s voice continues with its sweetness, its silkiness, “but I’ll make your talents shine.”
In the back, Haizaki’s new teammates have started practicing again. The rustling of their clothes as they jostle against one another, the swing of the net as the ball slips through: suddenly, Haizaki’s swollen with a yearning to be the one making those sounds too. He imagines himself winning the Winter Cup, in a year from now, scoring a slam dunk, his elbow falling down onto Kise’s forehead in the final seconds of the match. Revenge.


“Your silence is a yes then?”
Haizaki nods, raises his hand to run his tongue down his thumb, “I’m in.”
A ball comes their way. It’s in Haizaki’s hands before Haizaki recognises that he’s grinning, and it’s only when he tosses it back, that he realises he’s been wearing his basketball trainers this whole time. He’s been wearing them every day at this new school, just for this moment.
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The real question is how would they woo their crush???
you’re very right, anon, that is an important question indeed
Hanamiya Makoto
sees himself as too ‘wanted’ to need to woo
seriously needs to woo cause no one wants him otherwise
would probably arrange for his crush to be in an awkward situation with the team and then save them
plus, of course, a tad of emotional manipulation every here and there
Seto Kentaro
holds his crush’s bag for them
lets them borrow his notes (but only if they beg enough)
mildly indulges in conversation which means he does more than just grunt without interest
buys lunch for them
acts completely casual and nonchalant throughout
Hara Kazuya
a string of compliments every day (but most of them are …inappropriate)
very touchy-feely
arms around their waist, head on their shoulder
way too many pick up lines for anyone’s sanity
flirty gestures
Furuhashi Kojiro
he just doesn’t woo
the most he will do is not blatantly ignore his crush
Yamazaki Hiroshi
super protective over them because he thinks it’s helpful
“can i help?” “can i help?”
buys them treats and tiny gifts (and blushes crazily whilst doing so)
tries to make jokes so they’ll laugh but usually stutters too much to make them funny
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