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Silent Presence Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

"Hey, Tetsu-kun, are you free this Saturday?" Momoi Satsuki had asked out of the blue one day, shocking all of Teikou's basketball regulars that were hovering in the vicinity of the two members of Student Council.

Lately, at the insistence of both Momoi and Kise and the acceptance of the other members of the Generation of Miracles, Kuroko had started coming to watch the Teikou basketball practices on days when he didn't have any Student Council meetings or events that required him to physically be at the venue. Most of the time, he would bring along stacks and stacks of papers - Aomine, who had always thought that Student Council Presidents didn't really do much except flaunt authority and take credit for organising school festivals, was taken back by the sheer amount of paperwork required for that position - to do as the basketball club members continued their normal practice sessions, oblivious to the presence of the supposedly most powerful student in the school.

Kuroko mentally checked through his schedule for that day before responding, "I think so. Why? Is there a problem, Momoi-san?"

The pink-haired manager grinned before announcing, "Alright! Then let's all play a game of basketball at the streetball courts on Saturday."

This proclamation was met with a few confused blinks, blank looks and a finely-raised red eyebrow. Aomine was the first to respond to his childhood friend's decision by sounding out his usual 'tch' and saying, "Oi, what brought this on, Satsuki?"

The girl huffed and narrowed her eyes. "Well, Tetsu-kun has taking time to come over to see our practices even though he has so much work to do. Let's all treat him to a game of basketball, shan't we? Tetsu-kun told me that he liked basketball."

It was then that Kuroko decided to speak up for himself. "Momoi-san, although I do like basketball very much, I must confess that I have zero talent for the sport."

"But that doesn't mean that you can't play a fun and easy-going game, does it, Tetsuya?" Akashi decided to back Momoi up. For some strange reason, he really wanted to spend more time with the bluehead.

"Yes, but I'd only just be hindrance to the other players," Kuroko pointed out.

"Well, we could always teach you, Kurokocchi," Kise added his two cents, smiling brightly at the smaller male.

"I thought I already told you to stop calling me that, Kise-kun."

"So mean!" The blond was crying out his usual crocodile tears before saying, "And I thought that I already explained that I call you that because I respect you, Kurokocchi?"

After spending time with the small bluehead, Kise decided that he really liked and respected the other male for always being so calm and able to handle Aomine that left that taller blue-haired boy quaking at the sheer mention of 'detention'.

"See, you idiot? Even Kuroko finds it annoying," Teikou's shooting guard sighed as his comment resulted in more tears being shed. "And I guess it wouldn't be too bad to have you play, Kuroko, even if you are as bad as you say. Not that I want you around anyways."

Kuroko had to smile that the greenhead's obviously tsundere attitude. Despite being a straight-forward and blunt person, Kuroko had a become used to Midorima's speech and actions rather quickly and just accepted it as part of the shooting ace's personality and preference. Just like how he easily accepted Midorima's strange obsession with horoscope - Oha Asa, in particular - without too much questions.

Maybe that's why the people who knew and noticed Kuroko ended up liking him despite his blunt attitude. He cared and accepted them as they were and wouldn't try to change them unless he felt that it was unethical or morally wrong. Take his response to Aomine's boob fetish for example. He was not really disgusted with the tanned male himself, but he did lecture him on how Aomine would easily be mistaken as a pervert, to which Momoi quipped that "Dai-chan already is a pervert."

Kuroko felt a large hand pat his head as he looked up and met Murasakibara's violet eyes that were looking at him seriously. "Although I don't particularly like people with little talent playing basketball, I don't mind Kuro-chin playing with us," Murasakibara admitted. "Because Kuro-chin's nice and he always gives me snacks after practice."

Of course, the way to a man's heart was through his stomach, after all. In actuality, Kuroko had only given the purple-haired giant the snacks after practice to stop Murasakibara's habit of eating during practice.

"So it's settled then," Akashi smiled charmingly at Kuroko. "You'll be coming with us for a friendly game this Saturday."

"I don't have a choice, do I?" Kuroko sighed but Akashi caught a small smile light up the boy's face.

"Yeah, I guess we could meet at the basketball courts near Maji Burger," Aomine said. "And we could go for lunch at Maji after the game."

"Having fast food for a meal is not very healthy, Daiki," Akashi glared icily at Teikou's basketball ace, to which the dark-bluehead only responded with a casual shrug.

"It's decided then," Akashi continued, looking at every single person - even Kuroko and Momoi's - face, "We'll meet there at 10 am on Saturday."

On a fine Saturday morning, a rough battle of basketball was being played on the streetball courts near a branch of the fast food chain know as Maji Burger. Kuroko, Aomine and Kise made up one team whilst the other team consisted of Akashi, Midorima and Murasakibara. Momoi was keeping track of the score and generally observing the player's overall performance.

After playing horrendously for the first few minutes and another fifteen minutes of the members of the Generation of Miracles trying to teach him how to shoot or dunk, Akashi pulled Kuroko to the side and told him to play to his specialties.

It was all over for Akashi's team after that. Once Kuroko had figured out using his low presence and tendency to disappear on court, he was able to steal most of the balls and pass them over to either Aomine and Kise. Even though Akashi had Murasakibara on his team, even the purple-head's overwhelming height and width and amazingly quick reflexed could not stop Aomine from making the baskets. While Murasakibara was distracted by Aomine, Kise would be able to score the points.

It made Akashi somewhat regret giving Kuroko that piece of advice. However, seeing the bluehead smile ever so radiantly made up for the redhead's bitter loss. And wasn't it he himself who kept stressing that it was just a friendly game, wasn't it?

After the game, the group headed over to the fast food hangout to have lunch, much to Akashi's greatest disapproval.

"Aren't you going to eat something, Tetsuya?" Five other pairs of eyes turned towards him as Akashi stared at the food in his hands.

"Vanilla Shake counts as food," Kuroko responded, holding up his cup of the beverage.

The basketball captain shook his head. "It's not enough, Tetsuya. Now, you buy a burger or something if you must."

"I just have a very poor appetite, Akashi-kun. I'm used to it," Kuroko tried to reassure the other.

Wrong move. Akashi was obviously neither pleased nor pacified. "That's very unhealthy," he argued. "It's not good for you to eat so little. Now, if you're not going to buy the burger yourself, then I shall go over to the counter right now and buy the largest, meatiest burger they sell. And I will make you eat it."

Kuroko was silent as Akashi stood up and was about to walk over to the store's cashier. Just as he stepped out of his chair, Kuroko said, "Wait up. I'll do it."

After buying a small but still decent burger, normal conversations resumed. Akashi only watched in amusement as Kuroko and Momoi started reprimanding Aomine after seeing the many magazines of Horikita Mai that would make even a monk blush. But Kuroko was no monk as he held up the magazine with a perfectly straight face and started scolding Aomine, with Momoi as support. Akashi observed how Aomine would easily brush off Kuroko's chastises with a sullen scowl as he tried to reach over to snatch the magazines out of the Student Council president's hands. He had failed every time and resorted to sulking.

Suddenly, something strange bloomed in Akashi's chest as watched the three, specifically Kuroko and Aomine, have such fun. He felt his heart constrict painfully and was slightly worried if there was something wrong with him. But he then brushed it off and decided that there wasn't really anything wrong. He just tried to relax and ignore the painful clenches of his heart as he watched Kuroko and Aomine chat so casually.

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MENTAL ILLNESS AND PROVIDING CARE TO LOVED ONES WITH SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

On this episode of Silent Presence, Rich Patricia revisits a story that he produced in 2008. As a child, he grew up in a household where he cared for a loved one who was suffering from serious mental health problems. He first noticed the changes when he was in 6th grade and they became very serious all throughout high school. In 2008, eleven years ago, he decided to produce a documentary film called Strive for Happiness. This film was his first attempt to open the dialogue about mental illness in our country and have others speak about their own experiences as caregivers for loved ones who also suffer from serious forms of mental illness. So, he decided for Mental Health Awareness Month to extract the audio from this documentary and replay it today as a podcast for all of you.

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