"Well, like I said, just a little. I think dad wanted me to be a writer like him, but they're both very excited for me in whatever I do. Dad's sometimes embarrassing about it. Mom couldn't go to all the tournaments, but she made the ones she could, and dad always made them. My sisters too, when they could. I'm very lucky."

He hums. "Akashicchi will stay in Japan; we've talked about it a little. He'll do a semester or two in the US, but he's planning on going to the University of Tokyo. Midorimacchi will probably go there too. I have no idea what Murasakibaracchi's going to do."

But the ones who Kuroko was closest to would be heading to another country and, in Kagami's case, going home. "You can e-mail anytime, you know. I'll try to get back to you as quickly as I can. And if I do get into the school I want, I have a few extra months to hang with you because their school year starts in the fall instead of the spring."