Shuffle Meme Drabbles
Tagged by akitshi
Put your music into shuffle, list down the first twenty songs that play.
Oh, I remember this meme from LJ! It was pretty fun doing drabbles with these, so I think I'll try that with Kuroko no Basuke. The people I tag can just put down their songs though, if they feel like doing this :) As always no pressure.
I tag: aiwritingfic, half-sleeping, jcminwell, percontations, and unresponding.
Balloons – Dong Bang Shin Gi
Though time passes
Though I forgot
Will it be possible to contain it in the yellow balloon
They made a promise to stand on the court together. It was such a childish promise. Such a naïve thing to think.
When did he forget it?
Forget the memories of just playing basketball. With none of the burden to win and none of the pressure to lose.
When did they forget? How fun it was to play basketball.
“I can’t remember how to catch your passes.”
Neither can I.
“If it’s you, you can surely melt the ice.”
Can he? To pin his hopes on the basketball that brought them together and pulled them apart.
He had to try.
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Burn My Dread – Kawamura Yumi (Persona series)
I will break the chain
And run till I see the sunlight again.
I lift my face and run to the sunlight.
Himuro had never asked Murasakibara how he felt about Himuro’s ring. That to Himuro basketball was a way to prove himself; to prove that he was worthy as Kagami’s big brother. Even if winning meant he would no longer be his brother.
He never needed to. Murasakibara wasn’t crude enough to butt into Himuro’s business, but Himuro felt his censure nonetheless. He’d known all along that he was being selfish.
But it was the only way for him to escape the poisonous envy that threatens to choke him. Once it was all over, he can start again. He has to.
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Betrayal – Atobe Keigo (Prince of Tennis)
I won’t believe anyone anymore
I can’t love anyone anymore
I won’t search for unseen stars in this world
The same morning still comes, the same evening still comes
Even though I still dream
Reality is still smiling faintly as it betrays this heart
Where does Kuroko get off looking at me like that. How dare Momoi try to lecture me.
I’ve done nothing wrong. It’s not my fault. This is the goal. This is what we’re trying to achieve. To be good at basketball, better than everyone else. We are supposed to win.
If people choose to despair, if they choose to give up, that’s their problem. That’s their fault.
Why do I need to feel bad about other people not trying hard enough. Why won’t they try harder, why won’t they fight more, why won’t they play basketball.
It’s not my fault.
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Love in the Ice – Dong Bang Shin Gi
I’d hug your hardened heart tightly in my arms forever
Against the wall of reality
Even the coldest of hearts
At the end of the flowing tears
The fuzzy stream of light
Shines brightly in the darkness
Passing through that time
Afterwards, beyond the tears, beyond the despair, Ogiwara remembers being embarrassed. Ashamed that he had said something so self-righteous to Akashi.
“Do you have fun playing basketball?”
What right did he have to say that, when he couldn’t even give them a good match? Basketball is a team sport with two sides. It’s not basketball if only one side is doing anything.
He’d wanted to melt that ice. In Kuroko, in Akashi, in all of them. Because it hurt to see them like that, when they love basketball just as much as everyone else.
But he didn’t have the right.
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Utsushi E – Aragaki Yui
If tomorrow and yesterday were to swap
If after today comes yesterday
Would I be able to meet you again
Tell me, if what I’m searching for
And what you’re searching for
And whatever we found together
Like this endless, wide ocean
Were all accepted, even though we should be able to come together in forgiveness
He tells Kuroko that there are two Akashi Seijuurous. He is lying.
The other Akashi Seijuurou, the one who made time for others, and cared about things that didn’t matter towards victory, the one who had feelings, is gone.
Ever since that day he lost against Murasakibara, the other him had disappeared. He will never appear again. That is the fate of those who lose while bearing the Akashi name.
He will never meet him again. It is regrettable, but inevitable. There could have been no other end on the event of his loss.
There is only one Akashi Seijuurou.
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Witch Doctor – Alvin and the Chipmunks
Yeah you've been keeping love from me
And that's not very smart!
(Not very smart)
So I went out and found myself
Someone who'd tell me how to win your heart!
(Whoa! Yeah!)
Moriyama has three folders of links on his laptop. The first folder has links about how women think and what they want in a man. The second folder has links that explain how to have women all over you. The third folder has ones with women that act like those Moriyama has met in real life.
Moriyama’s long since learned that those trying to explain women, but had examples that act nothing like the ones he actually knew – and nothing like the ones Kise actually knew – weren’t worth the trouble.
But hope springs eternal. So they stay on his laptop.
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Ganganganbatte – NEWS
Shopping date, if it’s for you
Waiting and carrying are both WELCOME
Men should be quiet and walk on the side by the road
The main point is being a gentleman
Riko wasn’t expecting both Kiyoshi and Hyuuga to show up. She invited them. She wants them there. But she didn’t expect them to be.
Didn’t they have anything better to do than help her shop for her dad?
They could be playing basketball.
But they’re here. So Riko smiles, and lets Hyuuga carry the bag with the glasses, and lets Kiyoshi walk between them and the road.
It’s just a fantasy, just playing at being a couple. But they are both here and Riko won’t be the one to drive them away.
At least it’s easier with two of them.
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Wander – Kanjani8
When I got off in the middle of the ride, the young man in front of my eyes
With arms full and laughing
I recognise him, I knew who he was at a glance
Remember that this was how I laughed and the answer is there
Yes, the thing that was important to me
I wanted to make beautiful flowers bloom
Kuroko’s punch hurt. He’s a tiny slip of a guy, but he knows how to punch.
Kagami should have known better than to underestimate quiet people.
Kuroko wasn’t wrong either. Not really. And the thing that hurt more than his fist was his words.
When did Kagami forget? When did Kagami stop laughing over basketball?
It doesn’t matter. He has what he wants right here. If he can’t win then that’s all the better. Because it will feel all the better when he does. When they do.
Kagami doesn’t want a match that he’s not happy about winning ever again.
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Hadakanbou – Yamashita Tomohisa
Speaking falteringly is fine, being straightforward is fine
If we can be connected by our real intentions
Stop lying, and bring it all out
Hanamiya knew he was being played. He knew he was falling into Imayoshi’s trap.
But it was such a relief to be himself and have everyone know who he really was.
It was worth thanking Imayoshi for that. Even if it’s what Imayoshi wanted.
Without that, Hanamiya might never have been able to create the Kirisaki that he had now. He might never have found the…not friends…cohorts he had now.
He also had to thank Imayoshi for the idea of being captain and coach. Though Hanamiya went a step further and cut out the middle-man entirely. Why make it complicated?
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I LOVE YOU – Tezuka Kunimitsu (Prince of Tennis)
Even when I got irritated because we’re so far apart
The one who always smiled at me
Was you
On days when Kuroko was particularly tired, particular hopeless, he would go through his phone. He had a folder just for all of Ogiwara’s texts to him, and he would read them again and again. Until he had the strength to do this for another day.
On other days, when he was too tired, too hopeless, he would take out the letters Ogiwara had written. A kid’s handwriting, a kid’s vocabulary that spoke of things that were no longer a part of Kuroko’s life.
But he still believed. That they would stand together on that court. And that was enough.
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Only You – Aragaki Yui
Only you, it’s true
Come here, why can’t the correct thing
Get through to you
It’s the opposite isn’t it
Only you, just that
I won’t chase you anymore, probably I won’t chase
In front of him, Akashi looks down coolly from his position at the top and says,
“I wish to be your enemy.”
He does not take Midorima’s hand.
Midorima knows.
He has lost. He has lost the game and he has lost Akashi.
He doesn’t know which hurts more.
No, he does.
Losing hurts. Losing always hurts. And because he lost he is that much further from Akashi again. Like always.
Takao’s crying, and apologising. Midorima is sorry too. Because he never had the capability to comfort. Even without the excuse of tears, Midorima couldn’t have given what he needed.
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Oosaka Romanesque – Kanjani8
You said that the speech of this city was rough
But I can’t change
Because I’ll say ‘Love ya’
Imayoshi, he asked, why do you speak with a Kansai dialect?
Obstinacy, I guess? I have my pride, I suppose.
Do you really? he said. Even though you don’t care what people think of you.
I care.
You don’t act like it, he said.
I have my pride.
Do you miss it? he said. Is that why you speak it.
Why not? I can love too.
What do you love, Imayoshi?
Basketball, of course. Didn’t I come all this way for it? That’s true love, don’t you think?
I guess it is, he said. No regrets?
No regrets for love.
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Kanadenaru (Perform and sound) – EGOIST
The seven suns sank
The sky and earth and sea
Ah, are erased
In the end, the Generation of Miracles’ winning streak remained just that. A miracle.
Teikou lost the following year and has been losing ever since.
Akashi went to Rakuzan.
Midorima went to Shuutoku.
Aomine went to Touou.
Murasakibara went to Yousen.
Kise went to Kaijou.
Even Haizaki went to Fukuda Sougou.
And those who remember, those who ask, Kuroko went to Seirin.
Teikou rises, Teikou falls. And those who’re left behind, shadowed by that bright light, left bare without that deep shadow, can do nothing but pick up the pieces.
Teikou? The school the Generation of Miracles went to, right?
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Shiawase Neiro (Sound of Happiness) – Orange Range (Code Geass)
Thank you, from my heart
That I have a present is thanks to everyone
Thank you, from my heart
Next, I will give everyone happiness
Today’s street basketball day. Right now it’s a three-on-three with Kuroko, Kagami, and Kiyoshi against Akashi, Aomine, and Murasakibara. On the side-lines, Takao, Kise, and Wakamatsu await their turn. Further back, with the crowd forming around them, are the others waiting even longer for their’s.
Thinking about it more thoroughly, it’s probably a bad idea only using up one court. By this point, half the group isn’t even going to get their turn today.
They should change this to a proper match with five members each.
But they can’t stop the game, none of them can. It’s too much fun.
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Ghost – The Academy Is…
There are fine lines I've seen we are stuck in between
With separate eyes to use and throw aside
How we die, nobody has to know
Who decides where everybody goes?
(Well, what if I don't?)
“This is the only way to beat Akashi-kun.”
“The only thing that can go up against the Emperor Eye is the Emperor Eye.”
It is the only possible way. It is the only possible solution.
The irony doesn’t escape Kuroko. It probably doesn’t escape any of them.
“I am Akashi Seijuurou, of course. Tetsuya.”
“There are two Akashi Seijuurous.”
“I have not changed. There have always been two of me, I simply switched around.”
Are there still two of you now, Akashi-kun? Still together, taking on the world as one?
There is a certain justice in killing Akashi-kun with himself.
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Elevator – David Archuleta
It's an endless ride
Sometimes it takes you up
Sometimes it tears you down inside
But it's the butterflies
That keep you feeling so alive, so alive
You gotta get back that high
Kise regrets things. People don’t believe him when he says so. But that doesn’t change the fact that Kise regrets.
He regrets lots of things.
Not being good enough. Not being the Ace Kaijou needs. Not winning. Never winning. Not when it counts. Not for Kasamatsu-sempai.
But one thing he doesn’t regret, he will never regret, is playing basketball.
That day, when Aominecchi sends the ball of Fate to the back of his head, when he follows that back and falls in love with his basketball, was the happiest day of his life.
He just hadn’t known it yet then.
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Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense (Love is Thrill, Shock, Suspense) – Aiuchi Rina (Detective Conan)
From you, from me, running from everything and arriving at
A place that is nowhere
An escape route isn’t needed anymore
Even if the tears flow, you know that I won’t, that nothing will break
Murasakibara would rather die than admit it. But he felt better after he cried.
Even though it was so ugly. So truthful. In those last few seconds, Murasakibara could do nothing but admit it, he wanted to play basketball. That honesty followed him after the match. That was the only reason he could see why he would cry.
Being truthful with himself wasn’t a habit of his. Nor did he want it to be.
But for those few seconds, it felt good. It felt freeing.
To give it his all, and cry from simple frustration because he lost.
How troublesome.
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TOPOP – Yasuda Shouta
If you think of it, immediate action!
What will happen, no need to worry about it!
Don’t think too much, Hi, immediate reply!
Appeal yourself, naturally it’s welcome
Go big, as long as you smile it’s fine!
Struck by the rain, blown by the wind, TOPOP!!!
Koganei isn’t stupid. He gets that something happened in the middle school basketball circuit. That made Hyuuga try to pretend he doesn’t care. That made Izuki care too much. That made Kiyoshi try to cover it with smiles and proclamations. That made Mitobe try to cover it with silence.
But Koganei wasn’t there. He never went through it. And because of that, he can pretend to not see it, the way everyone treats winning like it is an illusion that is about to disappear on them.
It’s fine. They’ll realise sooner or later. It’s all real.
They’ve won. They’re winners.
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Much Better – Jonas Brothers
Now I've got some enemies
And they're all friends suddenly
BFF's eternally but I'm not bitter
I believe that the road that people lead
Helps you find the one you need
You're much better
“You are the superior Phantom Sixthman,” Akashi had said to him once. “You outrank him in every aspect.”
And I listen to your orders so much better too, Mayuzumi had thought, but did not say.
Sometimes Mayuzumi wished he was a better person who did not care about Akashi praising him.
At least, Mayuzumi could warm his cold, bitter heart that Akashi was probably just as bitter about everything, even more maybe. Certainly, he cared more about winning and basketball than Mayuzumi ever did, or ever would.
And Mayuzumi would keep it that way too. Nothing good comes of caring.
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Tokeijikake no Umbrella (Clockwork Umbrella) – Arashi
Even if the rain keeps falling on the two of us
What’s important is that you’re here
Just warm up all the flowers of the future that bloomed for the two of us
Softly raise the gentle umbrella, let’s go
Takao doesn’t know what he expected from the Rakuzan match.
This was what he knew: Midorima had never won against Akashi. This mattered to him as much as Takao wanting to win against Midorima. But the difference was that Takao went from enemy to friend, while Akashi went from friend to enemy.
Maybe he expected Midorima to abandon them. Maybe he expected Midorima to use them as chess pieces. A continuation of the shougi game he always played with Akashi.
“I do not know of any that is a hindrance on this team.”
He didn’t expect this.
Midorima’s theirs now.
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Lyrics translated by me except the DBSK ones that I got from lyricsmode.com