Chapter

After another clean defeat, Teiko stormed the through the games pretty easily with the enemy teams not giving almost any resistance, they were pretty nervous for the first couple of games but after a playing week by week it just made things work way better, Zen thought it was pretty boring since none of the teams he knew or heard of in his past life showed up yet.

Teiko was won a lot of recognition and they won fans from their district each time they played, most of their games they won from a big difference of points and this made the journals make a big hype all this time saying that they were a team full of promising players and that they would have a chance to get through the group stage, which is the next thing after the preliminaries.

Looking at the news about them. Most players were smiling from ear to ear like Aomine who shouted like a mad man each time he saw a picture of himself, Midorima didn't bother with those things so Zen assumed that he was reading magazines or something about the horoscope like always, as for the others they were happy everyone except Murasakibara who simply didn't care his only passion was sweets and anything unrelated was music to his ears, he was in a bit of strife with the other ones since his remarks were quite harsh against people who like the sport, but that is how he is he says he hates the sport and that he plays it because he is good at it, but he listens surprisingly to the ones better than him like Nijimura, Akashi and Zen, although the interactions with Zen are only in the court since Zen only hangs out with Momo and no one else.

Right now Zen was in training with everyone else, Zen was doing a drill by himself while Nijimura was getting pestered by Aomine for a 1 v 1, this until Momo came with a paper and gave it to the Coach, after looking at the paper the Head coach Naoto Sanada yelled to the players in the 1st string. ''Guys gather up.'' after 1 minute everyone was in a semi-circle looking facing the coach.

''What is wrong Coach?'' said Nijimura slightly tired because of a noise tan kid who didn't let him go even for the slightest second.

''Well, our final game for the preliminaries will be against Dojimazaki Junior High,'' he said in a matter of fact tone.

Hearing this name it picked Zen's interest since he heard this from somewhere in his previous life.' hm? I think I know this team... But I don't remember well...'' some people saw that Zen had a reaction so the most talkative of them all didn't hesitate and asked.

''Oh.. to get a reaction from our cold prince they should be strong,'' said Aomine getting fired up and became expectant.

The others couldn't help but nod in agreement, it was one of those times where Aomine actually got something right. Momo just chuckled because of the nickname that Aomine called Zen.

Truth be told Zen didn't care about this nickname, it all began when they started to get attention, everyone had their own set of fans but the majority of Zen fans were girls, he was tall for his age, handsome at a top model level, he was charismatic in the field, but when he came out of the court or the game ended he could have his indifferent and emotionless look that charmed the girls, some girls even tried to talk to him but to get rejected in a fraction of seconds, without even a hint of hesitation, it wasn't like they were confessing but it looked the same, after a couple of rounds of this happening someone began calling him that and now it stuck up with him, in the beginning, people called him that to tease him but after all this time they just got used to it, Zen didn't even bother with correcting them.

'Zen, have you heard of them?'' The coach asked him genuinely curious about it, in which Zen simply responded with a ''No.''

The coach simply brushed it off and began giving the team an inspirational speech about how they shouldn't be nervous and how good they were and that they didn't have to think about the next game differently from the other ones. He only gave this speech because normally players would be nervous or feel pressure in the first final they play, at least that's what he thought.

The players from the 1st string completely ignored him, even Akashi who normally listened completely shut down on what the man was saying since it wasn't useful information.

Momo did her homework like the perfect analyst that she was and gave the people a full report on the players and their weaknesses, this was a usual occurrence for them since she did this for them almost every week, no one knew how she got the time to gather the information but she somehow got it and it was something the players used, some of them at least.

After the training was done and they finished showering Zen left the locker room after saying bye to the team, at the gate He found Momo who was waiting for him since they had plans after training, it was late but they didn't even bother with it. When Momo realized her date was approaching she couldn't help but smile and say in a teasing tone, ''Don't feel any shame in making a girl wait for you, your majesty?''

Hearing this Zen just rolled his eyes before getting his revenge, ''No need to say that I have crossed half the country in a single day, battlefields and shed blood just to see my princess today.'' in which he grabbed her hand before placing one knee on the ground like he was going to propose to her. Momo grew redder and redder, she began touching one of her cheeks with the other hand since she felt reluctant to take the other one back.

After a couple of minutes, she came back to reality and hit Zen with a couple of soft punches before turning to the direction they were supposed to go and began walking in hurried steps and said softly ''Meanie..'', Obviously what she said didn't go unnoticed by Zen since he had a good hearing but he didn't return before smiling warmly and following her.

Their destination was a convenience store when they arrived at their destination Zen told Momo to wait outside and bought a double popsicle before returning.

Opening the popsicle and giving one to Momo, Zen couldn't help but say ''Let's do a competition, let's see if one of us wins something, the winner as a wish what do you think?'' Momo simply nodded but wasn't hopeful since there was a change both of them didn't get anything.

They slowly ate their icecream (ye popsicle is ice cream.) and chatted with each other enjoying each other company, When they finished both of them looked and saw if any of them won.

Looking at her popsicle stick Momo couldn't help but sigh '' Well I never won in these things, I don't know why I even accepted this.'' hearing her Zen chuckled before looking at his own stick. In which had written Winner with a crown, showing it to her Zen said '' I never lose and besides Lady luck likes me.'' Looking at his stick she couldn't help but agape with her mouth doing an 'O', before becoming a little dejected, Zen realized that and gave her the stick with a smile, she was about to retort but Zen interrupted her and said ''You are the winner, so what is your wish?''

She thought for some time with the index finger in her pursed lips ''Well I really want a hug, we never did anything like that before.''

Zen was slightly taken by surprise by her bold actions but he did was to break that barrier but felt shy, mustering his courage he and approached her with his eyes locked on hers and with his hands wide open, and they embraced each other, feeling their warmth and hearing each other's heartbeats that were beating fast like they were competing on what heart would beat faster, Momo had a better position since she was shorter with her 165 cms in height, she was embracing him hard not wanting to let go and closed her eyes to feel the moment. Meanwhile Zen didn't know how to do it well but after some time he placed one hand on the back of her neck gently and the other on top of her waist not touching any private part since he is a gentleman. (Virgin) They stayed like this for a long time not caring at all.

In the distance, there could be seen a woman with heat sensor binocles (she rich don't question the rich people.) she was looking at this scene while sniffing, and talking to a maid.

**Sniff** ''My baby boy is growing up so fast it looks like it was just yesterday he was in my arms saying he loved me..**sniff** now he is hugging another girl **sniff** hey Veronica he is cheating on me already. *sniff*'' Shiori said to the maid who was looking at her with no reaction but in her mind, she was thinking ' It wasn't yesterday don't make it seem like it was years ago he said he loved you today... *sigh* She knows its the girl Satsuki but just wants to tease me, I don't know why she drags me each time they go do something together... I need a holiday.'

[Author here is another advice in love for the Bois, be gentle in the first hug don't bear hug the girl you like ... that's sad you have to place your hands in an intimate way but affectionate at the same time. I'm GURU of LOVE hear me out that's why I'm single. If she doesn't like you she is going to Thanos you out of her friend's list... FIGHTING! ;_; but fear not.

Stalking mother part 2]

[Author: My exams ended, and I wrote this in a hurry not going to lie, ill try uploading more often but I'm working in another novel (World Crisis) which will take most of my time, for now, ill upload it slowly but more than before so fear not.]