Kidou is my favourite character by far and his relationship with Kageyama has always interested me. I wanted to write something about his death but Inazuma went ahead of me and welcome home Kageyama. (or home, I think he's currently on a space ship? I am not keeping up with Galaxy but I assume that's what "galaxy" is about)

The anime said nothing but then absolutely nothing about Kidou's reaction that his old commander is actually not that and honestly that pisses me off. He's just standing side by side with him again like nothing happened.

So here we go, my vision so far as I can bring it to correct English.

Enjoy!


Kidou brushes his fingers over his wooden desk. It has been a long day for him, a long week to be more specific. He had been working almost non-stop, even though he had several warnings from both Sakuma and Gouenji.

Their worried speeches and phone calls to distract him from working did not really have effect on him, of course he appreciated the gesture but this time of the year was really too busy to abandon his work.

Kidou walks over to the coffee machine and finds an unused mug to use, which is surprising considering the amount of coffee he already had only today.

He smiles when his fingers cup the mug in his hands, the warmth feels pleasant against his cold fingers. The coffee tastes good, not as good as the ones that Sakuma usually makes, but it's good enough to enjoy it.

He sinks back in his chair. It is true that he hasn't slept much the past five days and coffee has helped him through most of the time. He tries not think of the embarrassing moment when he realised he fell asleep on his work and the paper work was done the moment he woke up. Sakuma never said a word about it though, Kidou can always count on him.

Kidou looks up from his work when he thinks he hears something, footsteps.
It is too late for any students or teachers to be around at this time and he had sent Sakuma home already. He might have come back to lecture him about the fact that he's still working while he promised Sakuma he'd go right after him a couple of hours ago.

The footsteps stop all of the sudden, Kidou knows the building, every room and every door, the person must be close. "Sakuma?" He calls out, waits a few seconds and when he doesn't get a respond he gets up from his chair.

But the hall is empty, which is strange because Kidou is certain that he heard something. He locks his office door behind him when he leaves the room. After taking a few steps he realises that there is really no-one there. Kidou sighs, he must have imagined it. Now that he already closed the door he might as well go home. It has been a while since the last time he slept in his own bed.

Kidou shoves his hands in his pockets to check if he has his phone. Since a couple of months he has a smartphone. He couldn't see the use of it for a long time but Sakuma insisted. Now he's glad with this new technology, it gives him the opportunity to work at any time. Sakuma literally slapped the palm of his hand against his forehead when he found out what Kidou was using his phone for, this hadn't been his intention at all.

While he's on his way to the exit of the building he hears it again, the footsteps. Slow but loud and clear. This time Kidou decides to follow his instincts and heads in the direction of the sound. But again, there's no-one.

He really wants to go home now, it must be the lack of sleep in combination with all the caffeine he had. Next time, Sakuma has to warn him before something like this happens again, he doesn't want to get overworked. Kidou shakes his head, glad that there's no-one at this point, he just admitted to himself that he might be, kind of, a workaholic.

"Kidou."

Kidou freezes on his spot. That voice. No, no it can't be. Kidou abruptly turns around and also this time there is no-one to be seen. But his voice was so familiar, too familiar. It's not possible, it's simply not possible that the voice he just heard belongs to that man.

"Kidou, come to me."

Kidou quickens his pace, his name echoes through the building and Kidou gets a strange feeling of a déjà vu. Ten years seem long but it feels like just yesterday that he was running though the streets from Italy. But this time it's on his own grounds, the place where he always felt safe before. The past still keeps haunting him, he'll never break free from that man's curse.

"Come back to me, Kidou, my creation."

"No!" He yells back and stops walking, which had almost come to running at this point. 'You're dead! Leave me alone! You don't own me! I am not your creation!" Kidou looks around and places his fist against his chest, he finds it difficult to breathe all of the sudden, while with his condition as a soccer player a little run shouldn't affect him much.

"And yet you returned to Teikoku, it won't take long before you'll also return to me, Kidou."

The hall, the doors, the high windows, everything starts to spin in front of his eyes. Kidou collapses on his knees and covers his eyes with his hands.

"Having trouble seeing, Kidou? You never had problems with your eyes when you were still wearing the goggles I gave to you."

His goggles. He stopped using them years ago, a new start with a new trademark. He never really missed them. But now, if he would only have them now he'd be able to—NO.

He just has to focus. It's just his imagination, all of this. Yes, that must be it. He's still dead, it's because of the lack of sleep that he's hallucinating now.

Evil laughter resounds through the halls.

"Shut up! Leave me alone!" Kidou makes himself smaller, hoping that this feeling will disappear if he just calms down. He has to think about nice things; soccer, the lunch appointment with his sister next week, the joy of coaching his own team.

Kidou starts to breathe slower and the heavy feeling in his chest becomes less, also, the noises are gone. Kidou is thankful for the silence, it helps him clear his mind.

When he thinks that he's calm enough he removes his hands from his eyes and allows himself to look up. He shouldn't have done that.

There, across the hall, a silhouette of a tall man in a light blue suit. It seems to be an old man with long, white hair tied in a low ponytail and a beard. On the right side of his face there is a huge scar, partially covered by a pair of sunglasses.

The man turns to him and gives him a board grin. There, right in front of him, there stands the man he thought was dead for ten years, the man he admired and feared, his Commander and a criminal, Kageyama Reiji.

What happened after that is something Kidou can't recall, because the moment he looked his old Commander right in the eye, Kidou lost consciousness.


If there are any spelling mistakes feel free to point them out, I don't have a second reader so I might read over my awesome typos some times.

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The second chapter will be up soon!

Angel