The Truth Is Out ~t.k.~
taiga kagami x fem!reader
warnings: mainly fluff. v small smut scene that mainly just leads into it
synopisis: the story of how kagami’s team and your cousin, kise, find out about the relationship.
a/n: this is long. it WAS purely self indulgent so that’s another reason why it’s long but hope you enjoy :)
“Is this all the groceries we need for dinner? Do you have everything else already?” Riko asks.
Before Kagami could answer, Hyuga tagged another question along. “Do you live here by yourself?”
As he unlocked the door, he responded, “At the moment, my girlfriend is staying here, too.”
The team’s eyes widened and exclaimed, “You have a girlfriend?”
The door swings open to reveal you in the kitchen, making dinner. “Hi, Taiga’s teammates! It’s really nice to meet you guys!”
“Guys, this is my girlfriend, Y/N. She goes to Kaijou. Y/N, this is the team.”
He points at each member, telling you their names as they all looked at you with wide eyes, muttering a hello back as they walked in and Kagami walked over to you with the groceries you needed to finish up dinner.
“Don’t be shy! Make yourselves at home,” you encouraged them, grabbing the bags from Kagami. You give him a quick kiss. “Thank you. How was the game?”
He leaned against the counter. “It was really good. I wish you could have been there.”
You rolled your eyes, “My game was good, too, Taiga. Thanks for asking.”
“You still play basketball?” A small voice asked.
You looked around, eyes settling on the boy slightly shorter than you that stood on the other side of the counter. You jump back, slightly startled about how you didn’t notice him standing there.
“Kuroko! How can you still do that?” you exclaim.
“You guys know each other?” the team questioned.
You both nod as Kuroko explained, “She’s Kise’s cousin. She’s older by a few months, though.”
“Adopted cousin technically,” you add.
It seemed everyone's eyes were on you since they were intrigued about the insight into who you were and Kagami’s personal life. Kagami seems to notice as his cheeks begin to redden and he rubs the back of his neck.
“Guys, please stop staring. You’re going to scare her.”
You scoff, hitting him with a towel. “I’m not that easily frightened. Plus, if you’re going to be in my kitchen, you better be helping me cook.”
He muttered something under his breath as he walked past you to grab an apron. You give a triumphant smile, focusing your attention back on the boys and Riko in front of you.
“I quit basketball at the beginning of the third year. I play volleyball now.”
“Why?”
“I had more fun with volleyball. It came a lot more natural for me. Kagami makes me help him with basketball, though.”
Kagami shakes his head, glancing at you from the pot he’s stirring. “You offer because you know basketball is better for expanding your agility.”
“How’d you two meet?” Kiyoshi chimed in.
Kagami’s eyes shot to you, knowing the mischievous smirk that was plastered on your face as you chopped up the vegetables.
“I kicked his ass.”
“She did not!” Kagami tried to defend himself as everyone egged you on to continue.
“When he first moved back to Japan, we went to the same middle school. At that time, I’d recently joined the volleyball team.. He was beating everyone on our school team, making all of them mad and frustrated. Kagami, here, got a little bit of a superiority complex, so I challenged him to a game. His cocky ass thought it’d be easy since I was on the volleyball team so he played around and let me score two points. Before he realized it, I won 5-0. He was shocked and wanted a rematch, but I refused.”
Everyone’s jaws dropped. “You… beat Kagami?”
You look up with a questioning look. “Am I not supposed to? Y’all are talking like this man is a legend…”
Kagami tosses a towel at the back of your head. “Just because you beat me in a game the other day doesn’t mean you’re better than me. I have more wins overall.”
“By one game!” you exclaim.
“Now, I have to see you play. I don’t mean this the wrong way, but you don’t look like the type to be on the same skill level as Kagami,” Riko politely says.
You shrug, “I’m not offended or anything. I grew up playing with my brothers and cousins, and volleyball has helped with my jumping. When it comes to court awareness and IQ, I have Kagami beat. Skill set wise, he’s way past my expertise.”
“You guys get two more questions, then I’m duct taping her mouth closed.”
“She can’t eat if you do that,” Kuroko firmly states.
You point at him, “Kuroko, I’ve missed teaming up with you.”
Kagami huffs, “I can’t win if the two of you team up.”
“How did you two get together?” Hyuga questions.
“Taiga couldn’t take defeat, so we ended up playing one-on-one every day that I didn’t have volleyball. He didn’t know many people, so we hung out a lot during class and after school. Tomorrow will be our one year anniversary. He won’t tell me what he has planned, though.”
The team awed as they looked between the two of you. It was extremely apparent that Kagami was blushing from how his ears were tinted red.
“You’ll know when it’s time,” he said as you turned around and dumped the vegetables in the pot.
“I’m going to put on a shirt really quick,” you inform him, “I started cooking as soon as I got your text since I figured you guys would be starving.”
He nodded, watching you walk off and disappear down the hallway.
“Kagami, I like her. You better not lose her,” Izuki notes.
“I don’t plan on it.” He smiles to himself as he changes the topic, “Now, let’s talk about anything other than my love life.”
The boys easily fell into their own conversations. When you walk back out, you get pulled into Izuki’s conversation where he just wouldn’t stop telling puns, but you found it extremely entertaining.
You help Kagami sit the food out on the table. Before you could fully sit down, Kagami pulled you into his lap and lazily wrapped an arm around your waist. This caught you by surprise because he usually wasn’t this clingy when people were around.
“You feeling okay?” you softly ask as he makes his plate, putting enough on it for you, too.
He nods with a soft smile. “I just want to hold you.”
You both eat off of his plate, joining in on the casual conversations around you.
Later that night, all of his teammates ended up falling asleep in various places in the living room.
“Don’t tell me you’re actually tired,” Kagami whines, tossing his shirt and pants in the hamper as he makes his way to the bed.
You yawn, “It’s midnight and you’re not tired?”
“It’s midnight, meaning that we should bring in our one year anniversary the right way,” he smirks, dipping down to kiss you while you sit on the edge of the bed.
He deepens the kiss, guiding you down into the bed with a hand on the small of your back.
His other hand finds its way underneath your shit and becomes a cool contrast in your hot skin.
“Taiga,” you whined as he began to kiss down your neck. “Your entire team is here. They’ll hear us.”
“That just means you have to be quiet, baby. Let me take care of you tonight,” he softly requests as his fingers play with the hem of your shorts.
“Taiga, you are insatiable.”
He hums, standing up as he pulls off your shorts and tosses them.
He raises an eyebrow and looks at you with a triumphant smile. “No panties? Y/N, I think you wanted this to happen.”
“Shut up.” You try to kick him, but he easily catches your leg and presses a kiss to your ankle.
“I promise I’ll take good care of you, princess.”
The next morning, you wake up around 7 to rustling in the living room. Kagami had his arm tightly wrapped around your abdomen, so you had to pry it off with all your might.
As soon as you got out the bed, you heard a soft whine from him as he reached for you. “Where are you going?” he groans, “Come back to bed.”
“Your teammates are waking up. I figured I’ll offer some breakfast before they leave.”
He opens his eyes and looks at you, eyes narrowing when he noticed that you weren’t standing normally.
“Are you still sore?”
You shift your weight, wincing a bit. It was nothing too noticeable but Kagami knew you too well. “It’s not terrible. It’d just been a while.”
He rolled over to get out of bed as he requested, ”Sit back down for a second.”
You plop back onto the bed, watching him grab one of his shirts and toss it to you.
As you put in each of those items, he found a pair of sweatpants and walked over to put them on you. You lift your legs up, watching him slip the pants up your legs.
You stand up so that he can get them onto your waist and watch him tie the string so they wouldn’t fall down.
He gives you a quick kiss as he stands up, noticing the grin on your face. “What?” he asks, grabbing a pair of sweatpants for himself.
“I guess chivalry isn’t dead,” you tease.
He rolls his eyes, “I guess you can walk to the kitchen yourself, then.”
You pout, reaching your arms out to him. “Don’t be mean.”
He squats down in front of you, letting you wrap your arms around his neck as he holds your thighs.
He walks into the living area and you beam, “Good morning guys!”
“May I ask why you’re on his back, Y/N?” Kuroko questions.
“I’m just feeling lazy,” you shrug. What you said wasn’t a lie. You were feeling lazy, but that wasn’t the reason you were currently on Kagami. “Would you guys like breakfast?” you offered.
Riko shook her head with a soft smile, “We’re all about to head home, but thank you.”
Hyuga chimed in, “Dinner was amazing. I hope we get to see you again.”
You smiled, “I’ll actually be at the next game!”
They all cheered as they piled out of the penthouse, leaving you and Kagami by yourselves.
“Alright, princess. Now that it’s just me and you.” He sits you on the kitchen counter and turns around to look at you.
“Happy anniversary, Taiga,” you softly whisper, bring a hand up to his cheek as you lean in and give him a kiss.
“Do you want your gift now or later?”
You hit his arm. “I told you not to get me anything, you stubborn ass!”
He laughs, “I know you got me something, though. Even though we promised not to buy anything.”
You became quiet because you knew he was right as he gave you a triumphant smirk.
“Well, I saw it and couldn’t not get it!” you tried to argue.
“I know you too well. Wait here.”
He walks back to his bedroom, coming back after a few minutes with a small bag.
He hands it to you. “I’ve been dying to give this to you for months.”
Your eyes widened, “You actually held back for once in your life?”
“Shut up before I take it back.”
You shake your head, opening the bag to first see a necklace with a key on it. The key was red and had his initials engraved on it.
“The key to my heart,” he softly spoke.
You look at him to see how gentle his eyes have become.
Taiga has always had a more vulnerable side. He didn’t let it out much even though you’d been together this long. It took a lot for him to let himself fully relax and put down his walls around people since he’s always been seen as some sort of monster because of his dedication and skills with basketball.
You were the first person he connected with once he got back to Japan, so having this kind of relationship with you always made him weary. He didn’t want to lose the only person he connected with so a lot of the things he did were over thought for weeks.
“I know that I don’t say how much I love and appreciate you that often and because of our schedules, it’s been a lot less recently. Y/N, you know how bad I am at this thing. We’ve been learning how to do this together, and I don’t want to fuck up and lose you. I really do love you. You’re the best person to ever enter my life.”
“Taiga, I love you so much. Can you put it on me?”
He nods, taking the necklace from you. You lean forward so he could clasp it around your neck.
You hold the key in your hand as you lean back with a small smile. “I’m never taking it off.” You think of your gift, sitting in the bottom of his closet in the box and pout, “Your gift is so much better than mine.”
He shakes his head, “I’ll love anything that you get me.”
You playfully push him, “I could go get it if you weren’t in my way.”
“Just tell me where it is, and I’ll get it. You’re staying off of your feet today. You always take care of me, so I’m going to take care of you today.”
“The bottom right of the closet. The thin black box and the white box underneath it.”
He rushes off once again. You laugh, grabbing your phone to answer a few text messages from your teammates.
He walks back in with the biggest grin on his face as he reads the label of the black box. “Is this what I think it is?”
He sits the boxes down on the counters, attempting to open the black box but you snatch it away from him.
“This one is last, you fiend.”
He laughed, opening the white box to see a Chicago Bulls jersey customized with his name on it. “Baby, this is amazing!” he beamed, trying it on almost immediately. He spins around to give you a good look of it on him as he asks, “How does it look?”
“It looks like I’m dating a really hot NBA star.”
He gives you a quick kiss, mumbling a thank you against your lips.
“Now,” you hand him the black box that he was a lot more excited about, “you can open this.”
He practically rips the box apart in excitement, making the wallet size picture fall onto the ground. He bends down to pick it up, eyes widening at the sight of you in a lingerie set he’d never seen before.
He looks between you, the picture, and the empty box and asks, “Where is it? I need to see it on you.”
You laugh, pointing at the picture as you swing your legs, “You have seen me in it.”
He pouts, “You know what I mean.”
Before you could answer, your phone buzzed with a text from Kise. It read: Tell your boyfriend that I will kill him if he ever hurts you! He’s taking you away from me :( #worstcousinever
Next message: also, how am i supposed to be your favorite cousin if you won’t even tell me WHO it is or show me a picture -_-
Next message: YOUR PARENTS KNOW AND NOT ME?! i'm telling your brothers.
You look up at Kagami with pleading eyes. He sighed, knowing what you were asking without any words.
“We’ll see him tomorrow at the tournament. I’d rather tell him to his face. Plus, I don’t need your brothers showing up to kill me.”
You nod, sending him a quick text saying: I only didn’t tell you because you’re 100 percent going to steal him away. He’s still playing in the basketball tournament tomorrow, so you’ll meet him then.
You sit your phone down, turning the ringer on silent as you refocus your attention on Kagami.
“Impress me tomorrow during the games, and I’ll wear it. If you don’t, you’ll have to wait until Christmas.”
~~
The next day, you left Kagami’s apartment to hang out with Kise before his game since he wouldn’t stop complaining about never seeing you anymore unless there was school.
“Y/N-icchi! I’ve missed you so much!” Kise exclaimed as you walked up to him.
His team was shaking their heads at him, giving you a small wave since they’d seen you around quite a bit.
“Where’s that boyfriend of yours?” he questions as you both start walking into the stadium to watch some of the games.
“He’s scouting with his team, but he’ll drop by to see us before they warm up.”
Kise nods, “Who does he play for?”
“Not telling.”
“Do I already know him?”
“Not telling.”
“Come on,” he whines, “Give me something to work with here.”
“He’s taller than you,” you say blankly, “Now, shut up and watch the game.”
You took your bag off and sat it down as Kise reluctantly did the same as he muttered, “You’re so mean, Y/N-icchi.”
45 minutes later, you heard your name being called from behind you as Kagami jogged down the stairs.
“Do you have your phone on silent? I’ve been calling you like crazy!”
You pulled your phone out of your pocket, noticing five missed calls from him and six from your mom. “My mom is going to murder me!”
“No, she’s not,” he laughed, squatting down to get out of the way of people watching the game as he continued, “She’s here. She wanted to see where you were sitting. She said that you told her about my games today and decided to come earlier to see me play before Kise did.”
As soon as he said Kise’s name, the life drained out of both of your faces.
“So you’re the boyfriend,” Kise leaned forward, trying to be intimidating.
“Kise, be nice.”
“You’re dating one of my rivals, Y/N-icchi! That’s so low.”
Intimidation factor: gone.
You rolled your eyes, “We were dating before you even knew he existed!”
“You’ve only been dating for like two months!”
“Kise, it’s been a year!” you hissed back.
Kagami watched the two of you bicker in amusement.
Kuroko’s voice brought the three of you back to reality. “Kagami! It’s time to head to the court.”
“Right,” he nodded, looking at you.
“Good luck,” you smile.
“I don’t need luck. You’re here.” He gives you a quick kiss.
Kise fake gags and you elbow him in the side as Kagami walks off.
“Oi! Kagamicchi!” Kise said, returning to a threatening state. “If you hurt her, I swear to make your life hell. You don’t know much about her brothers but they are twice my size and ten times scarier, so make wise decisions.”
Kagami's eyes widened as he nodded and rushed off to meet the rest of his team.
“Also, I’m glad you finally told me after I’ve had to act clueless for months. You never come to my practice games, but you show up at our one against Seirin. Then, somehow Kagami and you run into each other outside before his team leaves. Learn to keep better secrets.”