Whowwww finally..I can finish the first chapter! *sobsob* it took me a very long time. As usual, i have soooo many assignment in my hand, I barely sleep, and I had to go to some deserted village near nowhere to do some charity works for days. And after that I caught a cold, so yeah, it has been a long time since my first story ended right?

Everytime I write this, my mind always get messed up with the paper I do for homework..gosh i wish i could have more holidays..

*cough*sorry for my blabbering. This is a fantasy story, AU, inspired by Hanakisou, a visual novel game and it was made into comic too, if you want to check (I recommend it!). It's such a sad, beautiful story..even though in the manga the protagonist, hanashiro is way more innocent than he really is in the game, haha. If you know the story already, maybe you can guess what this story about..but of course it will be different in many ways, for it is KagaKuro!

I'll try to update soon..maybe..

Ah, for you who read this fanfic of mine for the first time, I should tell you to spare my clumsiness on typing, or even my grammar, heheh..

Now as I promised you, here is the story!

The Boy at The End of The World

Chapter 1 Runaway

The white flower petals fallen like a snow. Two figures looked in the mid of the flower rain, seemed like hopeless, it felt like they would dissappear by anytime swallowed by the 'snow'.

They ran faster, and faster.

As fast as they could, while holding each other's hand.

"Ka...Kagami-kun.. Can't we take a break?" the smaller boy panted, it sure was hard to keep the same pace with the guy infront of him.

"They can be here anytime, Kuroko. We've gotta hurry" the redhead was going full speed.

"But..It's hard to me to run with this clothes.." True indeed, he wears a blue yukata which suit with his hair, so he couldn't be that eager like Kagami.

"Ah..Sorry, I forgot" Kagami stopped for a second. After a single breath of relief from Kuroko, Kagami hold him up, bridal style, and continued running.

"Wha—Kagami-kun, put me down, this is so embarassing!" Kuroko blushed a little. He gripped Kagami's clothes so he wouldn't fell.

"It's faster this way" Kagami chuckled. Kuroko was as light as a fur, he thought, so it was no big deal for him to run at his full speed while holding him.

"Geez, Kagami-kun.." Kuroko wanted to protest, but he finally keep silent, actually defend himself from the winds that blew at him because of the speed running. As the wind became pretty weak, he looked up to the sky, with countless flower petals falling on him.

"Kagami-kun.. where are we going now?" he said, looked a bit worried.

" We're going to this friends of mine. Don't worry, he'll help us, for sure. He even like my true brother"

"Your.. friend, huh.." Kuroko still felt reassured.

" Are you doubting me?" Kagami looked back, teasingly. Kuroko then blushed.

"O..Of course not! Let's hurry, Kagami-kun!"

"You're right" Kagami chuckled.

Meanwhile, somewhere else...

"Have you found them yet?" a loud voice came from a tall, dark-skinned man with a blue formal soldier suit.

"No..Nossir! We're very sorry!" his underling, Sakurai, apologized while shivering from the dark aura made by Aomine.

"Che! So useless!" the man, Aomine, grumbled and turned away.

" Aominecchi! I can't find them here too!" suddenly a blonde haired man appeared from the other direction, accompanied by a black haired man shorter than him.

" Same here~" then a tall, purple haired man came too from the opposite direction.

" Arggh! You're all just useless!" Aomine scolded them. His mood were in a pretty bad state.

"Wha~? So cruel! You didn't find them yourself right? So you are useless too, Ahominecchi!"

"Whadya say Kise?" Aomine grabbed Kise's collar, about to punch him on the face.

"I said Ahominecchi!"

"You should call me the great Aomine sama, you jerk! I'm your capt'n after all!"

"No way"

"Wha?"

" Stop fighting, you guys. It makes my ears sick, geez.." a green haired man suddenly stood beside them, pushed his glasses up. "You two sure have so much time to argue, have you forgotten what we really up to?"

"But Midorimacchi~ Ahominecchi is~"

" Yeah, right, and you didn't even do anything til now! Why don't you use your leg to search, not jumping into other's business!" Aomine barked, looked very irritated.

"I leave all the searching work to Takao, it's easier this way"

"Lazy bumps"

"Call it smart, you idiot-duo"

"What did you say?" Aomine and Kise said at the same time, and the ended up staring at each other.

"Fighting is bad, guys~" Murasakibara said while chomping his biscuit.

"Right! why are we fighting? We don't have much time! The ceremony should be tomorrow!" Aomine suddenly grumbled again. "We have to find him, or else.."

"I know, Aominecchi.. Let's just continue our search okay?" Kise looked up to the front path.

"Kurokocchi.."

Xxxxxxxx

" Kagami-kun, are you sure we're not lost?" they went into a dark forest, and can barely see where to walk. Kagami was still holding Kuroko in his bridal-style. Well, it'll be so hard for Kuroko to walk with his yukata in this messed up forest.

"I'm pretty sure it's this way..well. it's been a long time since I came here, though"

"So we are lost"

"Hey! What's with that conclusion! I said I'm sure it's this..Whoaa!"

Kagami's feet slipped as he didn't realize they were in the verge of a cliff, and alas, they fell down. But as soon as he realized it, Kagami put Kuroko up on his falling body, so he was in the bottom and will fall first to protect Kuroko.

In no time, they fell down to the bottom of the cliff. The hit with the ground make Kagami felt dizzy and lost his conciousness, after he felt some pain all over his body.

"Kagami-kun!" was the last thing he heard before he lost sight and everything turned into black..

Xxxxx

" Kagami! Stop playing around or we're gonna be late for the ceremony!" Hyuuga, his guard (or maybe much like his babysitter) yelled as he ran around chasing a cat. They were in the middle of their journey to the North Temple.

"Yeahhh" the 7 years old Kagami pouted and continued following Hyuuga. "How long we should be walking, by the way? I'm tired~"

"Almost there" Hyuuga pointed at the front direction. "See up the mountain there? It's the North Temple, our destination"

The temple looked so big, even from an enormous distance they looked it from.

They walked again, and soon reached the Temple's front gate. They were welcomed by the guards and let in.

The inside was more amazing. It was full of blooming sakura trees along the the temple's building was magnificent too, even if it was build from woods 100years ago, it was still looked strong. Little Kagami was amazed by the looks of the temple. 'it looked so gorgeous, and shining..' he thought

They came in to the temple, welcomed again by some people, who led them to the main room for the event. But the temple was so big, and Kagami couldn't help that he was really curious and silently left Hyuuga ang the tourguide, who were still chatting about something he didn't understand along the way.

"Whoaa! Here is so cool, too!" he had found a library, countless empty room (maybe bedrooms for guest) and a storage full of antique goods. He had went deeper to the temple from what he thought. The inner building was dark, and empty. And he suddenly realized that he forgot the way back. So he got lost after all.

"Eh? I'm sure it was this way, but I ended up in the same place.." he scratched his head, looked confused. "And I found no one here, too.. "

He suddenly heard a sobbing voice from the door he hadn't checked before. He shrieked. 'It's not weird that this old temple had one or two ghost!' he cried in his heart. He was really scared of that being-called ghost or something like that.

But the crying voice was..sad, for his ears, and he suddenly had the courage to check it, thanks to his curiousness and he didn't want to admit, but he was worried about the crying person-whatever he is.

And he opened the door.

.

He couldn't believe his eyes.

The door was leading to the inner garden, and with blooming sakura trees, too and many kind of flower around it. The biggest sakura tree was in the center, and he saw someone stood under it, crying.

It was a little boy-around his age maybe?- with a white long kimono and light blue hair, he was wet all over, and he sobbed, tried to not make voice, but Kagami could still hear it. The figure was very pretty in Kagami's eyes, that he lost his mind for minutes.

And when he finally grasped his mind again, he approached the little kid under the tree.

"Are you crying because you are wet?"

The other boy turned to him, his face wet of his tears. And he looked surprised by Kagami's appearance.

'he looks cuter from closer distance' Kagami thought to himself.

"Wh..Who are you?" the boy tried to wipe his tears, but the tears kept flowing from his beauty blue iris.

"Me?I'm Kagami, nice to meet you"

"Kagami-kun, why are you here then?"

"Don't be so polite with me.. I'm lost, by the way" Kagami showed a proud pose.

"Lost.." the boy chuckled "Why are you so proud about that? Ahaha" and he laughed, which was make Kagami's heart throbbing.

"Do..don't laugh!" Kagami blushed. "Why are you so wet? Here, I'll dry you"

Kagami wiped the boy's body with his handkerchief. The boy looked surprised.

"Oh..it's fine though!" He pushed Kagami a little. "I was just finished the ritual in the holy pool, so I got wet like this"

"But you'll get sick if you stay like that!" Kagami insisted, wiping the cold boy from the dripping water.

"..You're so kind, you know, Kagami-kun" the boy smiled.

"Eh? Really?" Kagami blushed again. But he smiled too.

"Are you here for the ceremony?"

"Now that you mention it..Hyuuga-san said about ceremony too, but I didn't understamd what he talked about, nor that why I came her for in the first place. So..maybe yes"

The boy looked a little sad.

"I'm going to attend it too, so I'll take you there" the boy walked away, and Kagami could just stare.

"You're still wet"

"It's alright, I said it, right?" and now he put a cold face. "Are you coming or not?"

"I'm comiiinggg!" Kagami ran behind him. "Hey, i don't know your name yet!"

"Kuroko" he turned back. "It's nice to meet you too.. but you shouldn't get near me"

"Why? I wanna be you friend!"

"..."

"Is that why you are crying? you don't have any friends?"

"The ceremony is about to start, let's go.." he avoided the question, and continued walking, but Kagami could see his sad face, everytime he mentioned the ceremony.

What is this ceremony about, anyway?

Xxxxxxxxxxxx

"The ceremony..what.."

"Kagami-kun!" the voice brought Kagami back to his conciousness, he opened his eyes slowly, as he saw Kuroko's worried face infront of him.

"Kuroko..?"

"Thank goodness you're alright!" Kuroko let out a relieved sigh. "I was really worried, you know"

"What happened..oh yeah we fell off a clif..Oww!" Kagami felt a sharp pain in his hand, and there his hand lay bandaged.

"You're really lucky that it's only your hand that is wounded"

"Huh..this is.." Kagami suddenly looked around and turned back to Kuroko. "Where is this?"

They were inside a neat room, and Kagami just realized that he was laying on a bed. Kuroko sat beside his bed.

"Oh..this is." Kuroko's words was cut, when the door was opened.

There came in a black haired guy, some of his hair hide his left eye.

"Ah, you finally wake up, Taiga" he then smiled gently and put down the cups he brought on a tray. "want some hot chocolate?"

"Tatsuya!" Kagami was surprised.

"Yeah, thanks" Kuroko calmly took one of it.

"Wait, wait, so, how can I be here?"

"Oh, I found you and this cute kid under the cliff, which is near to my house here" the being-called Tatsuya just replied happily

"Gosh.." Kagami sighed heavily.

"Is Himuro-kun your friend who you were talking about, Kagami-kun?" Kuroko cut in

"Yep"

"Hmm..so we came to the right place, I was worried when we got lost in the forest back then.."

"hey! Who said we were lost?"

" Ahaha, Kuroko-kun, Taiga always had a bad memory about direction since he was little you know" Himuro laughed beside them.

"I know, he was lost the first time we met" Kuroko giggled.

"uhh, you guys making fun of me~!" Kagami pouted.

The first time we met? Yeah..so that dream..was about it?

Back then I didn't know about the ceremony at all..

If only I could realize 'it' sooner..

"Well, it's been a long time since you came here, can I help you, Taiga?" Himuro coughed, stopping himself from the laugh.

"Umm.. I can't say the details but..Kuroko..no..we are being chased by the priests..and I thought we could hide here for a while.."

"Oh my! Are you two eloping then?"

"Yea—Wha? Tatsuyaaa! That's not it~!" Kagami blushed, his face were really red. Himuro smiled again then.

"Well, of course you can stay as you like, Taiga, and Kuroko-kun too, I'm happy that Taiga has you as his important person"

Kuroko put a slight blush and nodded.

Kagami yelled again at Himuro, and Himuro just chuckled teasingly. "Ah, it's almost evening! I must make dinner! Kuroko-kun, what would you like to eat?"

"Anything's fine"

"Then, a warm soup will do?"

"That sounds delicious to me"

"Okay, I'll make it for you~ take your time, then!"

Himuro rushed to the door and dissappear as the door's closed.

"..Sorry, he's always like that" Kagami covered his face with his hand.

"Don't worry, I like him, though. He's so kind to us"

"yeah, he's like an older brother to me, always cared for me and getting worried"

"Such a nice person.." Kuroko's expression saddened."Is it alright..if we didn't tell him the truth?"

"...I don't want to involve him in this matter.."

"You're right.." He leaned at Kagami's shoulder. "If he's..because of me.."

"Don't worry, they won't find us..even if they do, I'll protect you" Kagami's hand wrapped Kuroko's shoulder. They felt each other's warmth.

"We'll always be together..Kuroko.."

"Even if this world doesn't allow us..I won't ever let you disappear.."

Kagami's words made Kuroko smiled a little.

Xxxxxxxx

"Whoaaa!" Midorima screamed as something hit his chest. Apparently, he was being struck by a hawk and fell down, with the bird at the top of him.

The hawk then suddenly changed into a human.

"Shin-chan!"the bird-now human- called him.

"Ta-ka-oo..I said to not hit me like that again, didn't I?" Midorima seemed angry, and Takao could just pouted.

"I find them" he replied

"Huh? Really?"

"Yeah, they're resting in a house down the cliff right now"

"...We should get going"

"Eh? Eh? You don't wanna call the others first?"

"Nope, I'll face him by myself"

Midorima stood up, and walked with a dtermination in his eyes. "Show me the way, Takao"

TBC

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