I just got to write this down, ugh, I was reading this novel for the past few days (that explains for the late update, and it had influenced me again)

Warning: GoMxKagami (Enough said) though eventual AoKaga of KiKaga (depends)

Disclaimer: The boys are not mine

A/N: This is an AU so expect Ooc-ness. If you want to stick within the original story and hate or don't like the idea of GoMxKagami or AoKaga or KiKaga , then don't read. No flames please, you've been warned.

-Taiga's Past-

It was the happiest day of my life. I can still remember it clearly like it was yesterday and not nine years ago. We were celebrating my older brother's eleventh birthday. Our mom told us that dad will be home at around 8 in that evening, and that was good news since dad always came home after midnight because of his work at the plantation.

We're not rich. We barely made it. My mom had to sell one of her two books and even the dress she had just to buy a whole chicken and a small chocolate cake for Tatsuya's day. Our parents always do that, they always try to save as much money as they can but when it comes to us, they simply don't care. I guess that's how lucky we are.

While mom is cooking the chicken, Tatsuya and I decided to play basketball at the worn out court around the corner of our house. I can still remember how much I enjoyed that time. Tatsuya started teaching me how to dribble correctly while running.

"Taiga! You won't make it to the Grand Camp if you're so lousy like that Taiga." He mocked me.

Oh yes, we were also celebrating the fact that he got admitted to Yosen Military School, with scholarship grant of course. You see, here in Japan, when you turn ten, the government will give you sets of exams. If you got superior marks, then they'll offer you a scholarship grant to the three grandest schools: Rakuzan, Yosen, and Touo.

If you get an average score, there are still other schools that would admit you, though you can't enter the other three; it was only for the prodigies. If you fail, then the government will send you to labor camps, and until you reach the age of 65, you have to work there. Dad is working there.

"I'll make it!" I shouted to him and pick up the ball again.

We played more. He tried to catch me while I run with the ball. It was fun, really fun.

I pick up the ball again, and throw it at Tatsuya's direction. He tried to stop me, and I did try to stop myself. But it was too late. I already threw the ball before I realized that a police officer is walking in that direction. It hit his stupid face big time.

With swift moves, he was already in front of me. He was scowling. He raised his fists and readied for a punch. I should've run, I should've apologized, but I didn't. That's how stubborn I was, well even now. I look at him straight in the eye, which made him angrier than he already was.

Tatsuya intervene. He tried to calm down the ugly officer. "We're so sorry about that sir!" He raised his hands in surrender. "He's just eight, he don't know what he's doing."

It's not surprising at all, since Tatsuya really hate fights. What an irony, he'll be staying at Yosen's Grand Camp after a month. The officer just shove him off.

"Shut up!" He shouted at my brother. He then faces me and continued what he was planning. He punched me, hard, at the jaw. I stumbled backwards. And I felt a kick in my stomach. I even stop breathing for a couple of seconds. Damn, that hurts.

Tatsuya tried again. "Sir, please stop it!" His voice was shaking. "I'll pay you, with anything I've got!"

I tried to shout at him. It was so pathetic because it was an accident, and the officer is too stupid to let a ball hit his face thrown by a kid. I tried but I can't. Damn him.

But that stopped the officer and smiled wickedly at my brother. Then later, our mother came running towards us. She's holding a very dirty pouch with cash money inside. That was all we got!

The officer took what's inside, everything. But he demanded more. "It seems that you're cooking?"

"Yes sir." Our mother whispered.

"Let me take a look at it then." He chuckled.

After a few minutes, my mom held a medium box of Tupperware. "I'm taking it then." Then the police left.

My mom looked at me first, coldly, before going back to our house.

I stayed there. I'm mad. Why are we so helpless! And then I felt Tatsuya's hard grip on my shoulders, he's shaking me.

"Why did you do that?" He snarled.

I glared back at him. "It was an accident oniichan!"

"No, I didn't mean that Taiga. Why did you glare at the police officer?!"

"Well, it was his fault in the first place. He's too stupid to see the ball coming!"

He sighed and then hugged me tight. I can feel him shaking. "Don't do that again little brother. You hear me?"

"Why? It's not that it was my—"

"Just don't. They're officers, they have the power to do the things they had to do."

"But—"
"I don't want them hurting you Taiga. So please, stay out of trouble okay?"

We stayed like that for a moment. I cried too. Not because of the pain that I'm feeling but because my brother's day was ruined because of me.

"I'm sorry about your chicken Oniichan."

"It's okay. I'll buy tons of it when we're already rich. He smiled and carried me back home in a piggyback.

"Oniichan?" I whispered.

"Hmn?"

"I'm sorry."

Later that night, we received a letter from the government carried by a soldier this time. Our mom stared at it for a few minutes, eyes wide, with labored breathing. And then she cried. The letter stated that the government just sent my dad to the war fronts, to work for the barrack's construction.

We had no power. We didn't say a word to the officer at all. I was too you to understand that my dad will never go home again. Too young to know how much the government controls our lives, us, the poor.

Later that night, I accidentally poured some rubbing alcohol at the ice that was supposed to be used for my bruises. And I was amazed when it caught fire instantly; the fire came from the lamp next to it. An idea came up immediately.

I put some ice in one of my dad's old socks, balled it up at the size of my knuckles. I wet it with alcohol and let the fire touch it. Then I used my sling-shot to directly hit a police car in the streets. No one noticed the fire before it was already big. There's no evidence left. That was the first crime I did. And I've never felt so happy.

Miracles

It really is boring. All the home works, all the drills, everything is a piece of cake. That's why skipping lectures and trainings is my top priority now. "Man, if they let us graduate in no time, I guess we'd be able to surpass our seniors."

"Aominecchi, you're too confident-ssu." Kise said while opening chocolates that came from his admirers.

"What? You mean you want to stay here even though we already know the drills and trainings?" I asked him. "Not that you care, but it's too boring here inside."

The door opened, Akashi, Midorima, and Murasakibara entered. We are the five prodigies, the miracles the whole nation is talking about after having a perfect mark in our exams. No one, in our generation can match our intellectual capacities and physical abilities. Only experience, that's the only part where our seniors are ahead of us.

Murasakibara showed us a wanted poster. I snorted.

"What are you laughing at?" He glared at me while pushing his eyeglasses.

"What?" I laughed more. "Last time I check, they had a different picture of this guy."

"That's because they don't know him-ssu." Kise interjected, reaching for the paper.

Murasakibara kept on eating while Akashi and Midorima play chess in the table near the window.

"But I think he's really cool-ssu!" Once again, Kise starts to tell us his admiration to this criminal.

"What are you talking about?" I rolled my eyes.

"Well, you see, the government is certain that he's also a teenager!" He smiled dreamily. I think he had a crush on this mysterious guy. "This light-san!"

"-San? You talk like you admire him, why don't you use your usual Cchi thing?"

"It's because he's still a criminal. And the moment we graduate, we'll be enemies." His eyes widened. "I'll be the one who'll catch him!"

Again, I rolled my eyes. I can't help but to admire the physical and mental prowess of this criminal as well. You see, he really made the government look stupid and useless. He doesn't use any military equipment at all that's why it's hard to trace him. No fingerprints left, and even if there was, there's no match. Though, what I respect about this one is that he may be a thief and he made us look bad, but he never killed a person.

"Last night, he robbed a bank." Akashi said.

"Really?" I said. It was more than a tone of sarcasm rather than question.

"This criminal, jumped at a four story building and used the sewers to escape." He added.

"Wow" Kise voiced out what I thought. "That high? And yet no one managed to catch him-ssu?"

Akashi shrugged. "Even though he had a superhuman agility, I'm sure he's still hurt. Though it really amazes me how he got inside without making a fuss. After that jump, he headed under the sewers, he must had taken enough turns before going to his destination, also not touching the walls. They lost track of him."

"Man, I really want to catch this guy." I said. "If I did that, I'd be a hero." I snorted.

"I want to see him too. I want to ask him why he wasted such talents." Midorima said.

…..

Two days after that talk, the five of us were called by our superiors.

"I would like to give you this task. If you succeed, you'll be able to graduate as early as you can imagine."

"Okay, I'm listening." I said, the other just look at the commander.

"Last night, Light had managed to get something inside the barracks of Yosen."

My eyes widened at that. No one can ever infiltrate that place without being caught. "Light-san?" Kise said, with amazement in his tone.

"Yes, that criminal managed to get something important to our government." He added.

"Something?" Akashi repeated. "What is that something sir?"

"For once, Mr. Akashi, don't ask question."

Akashi fell silent, but I know he hated the treatment.

"So what do you want us to do?" Murasakibara said.

"I want you to capture him." He smiled. "Alive of course."

"That's all?" Midorima asked. "And we'll graduate?"

"With flying colors and high positions." He smiled oh so sweetly. "If you can capture him."

"We will capture him." I said, excitement started to rise wake me. This is the moment I've been waiting for.

"What's the lead sir?" Again, it was Akashi who asked the important questions.

The commander opened the small drawer in his table and took a small box. He opened it and showed us what's inside.

"A necklace." I said. It was a silver chained necklace with a silver ring.

"I believe he left that while he's on doing his dirty work inside the barracks." He handed the necklace to Akashi. "You can visit the place and start investigating. I'll give you two weeks to capture him, and if not, you'll repeat a whole year in this military school. Dismiss."

We all stand straight and salute. "Sir yes sir!"

The mysterious boy, he will be our first assignment. I can't wait to face him.

Enemy

I almost laughed at the "wanted" picture hanging at the walls of a small supermarket. It was a picture of a boy, with black hair and black skin. Underneath states, "Wanted: Light" and in a smaller font, his crimes were listed.

I know that the authorities were looking for me, ever since I destroyed one of their fighting planes when I was thirteen, I am seventeen now. I made them look foolish, that's why they hate me so much. They'd pay millions just to catch me. Their problem though, they don't know what I really look like.

Nobody knew I was Kagami Taiga except for my partner. My mom and Tatsuya thought that I'm dead, they're living at Seirin now, one of the biggest and richest cities of the country.

I failed the exam when I was ten. My mom cried, even Tetsuya tried to talk to his superiors, but once you were mark as a reject of the society, troops will gather you around, together with your fellow rejects and sent you to labor camps. But believe me, there's no such thing as labor camps, only concentration camps. They're eradicating or annihilating us.

But I managed to escape thanks to my speed and agility and Kuroko Tatsuya. We manage to survive in the streets of Kaijou using my own abilities, while he made sure to tend to my wounds. What happened didn't destroy us, it made us stronger.

"Kagami-kun, let's go." I look at Kuroko and nodded.

Another thing, I heard that there are five boys who aced the exams. That was a first time, since no one, not in the history of this country, had ever received perfect scores until them. Well, they're not my problem anymore, if I'm correct, they're probably living a celebrity life inside their chosen military school.

(TBC)

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