You show up to the gym expecting light training and cleanup.

Instead, balloons. Streamers. A cake that’s already leaning sideways because someone, Kagami, carried it too fast.

“Surprise!” they yell, kind of off-sync, kind of perfect.

Turns out it’s for you — a thank-you for everything: managing schedules, taping ankles, putting up with their nonsense. Riko insists it was Kuroko’s idea. Kuroko insists it was everyone’s.

Izuki hands you a handmade “MVP of Our Sanity” certificate. Hyuuga says it was Kagami’s idea and Kagami yells that it was not. Mitobe just gives you a thumbs-up.

You blink, caught off guard.

Then Kuroko, standing quietly beside you, says:

"You’re part of the reason we’re still a team."

And just like that, the chaos is sweet.