Chapter 70 - Meeting, Part 3 (1/2)

Shun took a break for a while before again moving to the court.

Shun smiled as he saw Aomine stretching.

Shun: ”So are you ready, Dai-chan~? Are you sure you don't want to make a bet? How about we make a bet every time we meet, it will be totally our thing.”

Aomine made an unpleasant face and said.

Aomine: ”How about we make not talking to each other when we meet our thing.”

Shun puffed his cheeks and said.

Shun: ”Come on, it was just a week, though I wouldn't do that for a single bite. In a way, you should be thankful to me.

In case of an apocalypse, you would be able to eat anything with the help of your iron stomach.”

Aomine felt that he could only get irritated hearing Shun's voice. He didn't think it was possible to feel anything other than irritation from listening to Shun's voice.

Aomine: ”Let's start playing before I go mad and end up hitting you.”

Shun chuckled and said.

Shun: ”You are no fun at all. Maybe I should have held back at the start, then I could have, exploited you a little more.”

Shun clapped his hands and said.

Shun: ”Okay, enough playing around, it's time to whoop some b.u.t.t. Dai-chan, I hope you would give me a better challenge.”

Aomine nodded and asked.

Aomine: ”Who is going to attack first?”

Shun thought about it and said.

Shun: ”I will go first this time.”

Aomine and Shun moved to the outside of the three-point arc, and Aomine passed the ball to Shun.

Shun smiled as he got the ball and started dribbling it on the spot. He widened his stance and bent his knees.

Aomine leaned down and got into a defensive stance, ready for Shun's incoming offense.

Shun dribbled the ball with his right hand on the spot a couple of times, then started his offense. He dribbled the ball between his legs and moved to the left.

Aomine moved into Shun's path, but Shun switched the ball back to his right hand and sidestepped to the left, making space between them. Shun held the ball in a shooting posture and jumped for a short.

Aomine was quick on the uptake and raised his hand to contest the shot, but the chances of him touching the ball were fifty-fifty, but Shun made the chances even worse by using the fadeaway 'Heaven' shot.

Shun was just outside the three-point arc, so when the ball landed in the net, he got two points.

It was Kise's first time seeing the 'Heaven' shot, so he was amazed by such a high fadeaway shot.

Kise: ”Whoa, that was a high release point for a fadeaway shot.”

While Kise was swooning at the 'Heaven' shot, Satsuki and Kuroko were thinking about something else.

Satsuki: 'The shooting form for that shot is different from last year, it has become higher and faster than the one he showed us in the finals.'

Kuroko: 'He made the copied move and integrated it into his own. Kageyama-kun is becoming more and more dangerous every time I hear about him.'

Aomine was also amazed by the sudden fadeaway shot.

Shun smiled towards Aomine and said.

Shun: ”The best position to shoot is away from any player that wants to contest your shooting. Basketball might be a contact sport, but the easiest scoring is away from any form of contact.”

Now it was Aomine's turn to attack, he got the ball from Shun and immediately did a crossover from left to right. Shun moved to the right, but Aomine once again did a right to left crossover and moved past Shun.

Shun wasn't the one to give after a single attempt, so from the same spot leaned his upper body to the limit and tipped the ball from Aomine's hand.

Shun knew that from his position that he won't be able to reach the ball before Aomine, so he didn't go after the ball and moved to a position near Aomine, where he could either hinder Aomine from driving to the hoop or contest a shoot from Aomine.

Aomine looked towards Shun's position and estimated that a shoot would have a higher chance at scoring that a drive to finish at the rim.

He hopped for a jump shot. Seeing that, Shun put as much force in his legs as he could and jumped to contest, as he had a run to back up his jump, he was able to put a finger onto the ball.

Aomine: 'Damn it, he touched the ball.'

Shun sprinted to the ball, which had bounced from the rim. Aomine was on his tail, running his best to catch up to the ball.

Shun got to the ball, first, now he had to clear it out of the foul line, which was the free-throw line extended.

Shun cleared the ball. Aomine caught up to him, ready to defend Shun from scoring.

This time Shun didn't go for getting past Aomine with a set of moves. He ran while protecting the ball from getting stolen, Aomine stuck to Shun as he dribbled to the rim.