All Japanese will be listed at the bottom with their meanings.
Kuroko No Kai
Chapter ONE: Riba-suta-n Jijitsu (Reverse Time)
It had been three years since he cam to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin Akashi. His mother had died giving birth to him and his father had died in his fist year of Teikō Middle School. Kuroko had been at school during a basketball practice when he had gotten a visit from police.
Now everyone from back then were attending different schools, he himself was now in Seirin. Though he still go on well with Akashi it was a little wierd being in the same house, eating meals with him and heading to different schools. Suddenly a light weight bumped into him and he backed up and appologized with a bow.
"Gommen, I wasn't watching where I was going." he replied to an elderly lady standing in front of him.
"No to worry dear, though you look a little down.' She responded with a sad smile. She reached out and grasped Kurokos hand and held it firm. The scarf on her salt and pepper head waved slightly in the wind but her green eyes sparkeled. 'You have been through so much already up to this point young man. Please let me help you.' She let go of his hand and reached into her purse. Kuroko was about to decline when she pulled out golden powder and blew it into his face. 'Be sure to get home soon, within the next two hours dear."
"Ah, eh, arigato. Have a nice day." he was a little stunned the powder didn't sting his eyes or feel like it even landed on him.
Finally reaching the large but quaint house he took off his shoes and placed them aside. "Tadaima." He called as he headed up the steps to his room. A faint "Okaerinasa." came from his aunt in the kitchen. Feeling tired from practice he set down his bag and promptly collapsed onto his bed and fell asleep.
A few hours later he woke to a knock at his door. "Testuya, are you asleep? Dinner is ready come down.' Akashi stood at the door waiting for a response, when none came he slowly opened the door.
"Mm, Akashi? Gomen I was asleep." Kuroko sat up and could feel his shirt slide down and over his shoulder.
"Tetsuya?" Akashi stared at the five year old on the bed, this was surreal.
"Eh?' Kuroko looked down at his hands they were so small and he was drownding in his shirt and pants. 'Oh, how did this happen?' The elderly lady with the misterious powder flashed before his eyes. 'Could it have been that lady with her wierd powder?"
"Who was that? What did she do to you Tetsuya?" Akashi came in and turned on the light and sat down beside him. After hearing the entire story he looked deep in thought. "Come with me." Akashi demanded and stood up and picked a five year old Kuroko heading to his room.
Akashi place him down on his bed and rummaged in his closet and pulled down a box from his top shelf. Opening the box he pulled out a blue and white stripped shirt and blue overalls. He reached over to Kuroko and pulled the over sized shirt off letting him sit there naked like the day he was borne.
"I have more cloths in the attic, there were my favorites when I was your age. Your a little smaller then I was at that age but they should fit well enough. I'll have to grab underpants as well." He replied with a smille. Kuroko cover himself with his small hands and blushed.
Once dressed Akashi picked him up and headed down the steps. "We'll have to explain this to Okasan, nothing we can do right now perhaps see if this has happened to anyone else and go from there." Kuroko just nodded and marveled at how high up he felt while in Akashi's arms.
"Okasan?" Akashi called as he entered the dinning room. Their plates had been made and set out. She sat at the table and looked up, once she noticed the blunette in his arms she jumped up confused and worried.
"Who's that Seijuuro?"
"Tetsuya, seems he's changed a bit. The only thing he can recall that may be of importance is an elderly lady he came across. Seems she knew something of his past and decided to help."
"I don't beleive this, this isn't something one sees on a normal day. What are we going to do?" She brushed aside Kurokos hair from his face and smilled at his shy smile. The shock finnaly set in and she backed up and collapsed into a near by chair at the table.
"The only thing we can do is search for answers, pehaps the library, the internet, Tetsuyas mentioned one of his team mates' father is a lawyer in America we could contact him as well. You also have your contacts as well and lots of them are on the crazy side so they must know something."
"True, Anne was always into the Occult she even went to an American university to get a degree in it. I'll see what I can do, for now you'll just have to take him with you to school and look after him. I'm sure you can think of something to tell your principle. For now come and eat."
Akashi placed Kuroko into a seat beside him and reached over to cut his steak and backed potato."Is Otosan still at work?"
"Hai, he'll be back later tonight."
"Arigato." Kuroko smiled a big and wide grin as he grabbed his fork so much like the five year old he now was and attempted to eat his dinner. Being as short as he was now, his legs were folded underneath him on the chair and he giggled as Akashi's mother laughed at his cuteness.
Once dinner was done Kuroko begged Akashi to go out to the park with him untill bedtime. Sighing he ran up the steps and pulled on the cord to lower the trap that led to the attick. Heading to the back right he opened a box labled "Seijuuro's shoes" and pulled out a pair of small sneakers and headed back down to put them on his small cousins feet. For once he was glab his mother kept everything from his childhood.
With Kuroko holding onto his hand, he held his basketball with the other that he had grabbed on his way down. The park also had a court and was about a block away. Kuroko was excitedly bouncing beside him. Once they got into the court Kuroko ran to the middle and bounced again.
"Aka-nii-chan ball!" He called.
"Be carfull Tetsu." Akashi replied and gently tossed the ball.
Kuroko attempted to bounce the ball but he was much too short to complete the task properly. Having a sudden idea he grabbed the ball with both hands and bounced the ball with all his might. The ball his the pavement and came rocketting back at him. Before the ball could hit him in the face akashi grabbed the ball.
"Shall we roll it back and forth Tetsu?" Kuroko grined and sat down.
Kise was on his way home from another photo shoot, he dcided since the weather was nice out it was a good day to walk. Blue and red hair caught his eye as he passed by the local park near his house.
"Kurokocchi and Akashicchi?" Kise ran into the park and stopped at the court. His mouth dropped in surprise, this could not be Kuroko Tetsuya. "Akashicchi, who is that? Looks like Kurokocchi."
"It is Tetsu, it's a long story."
Sitting down to goin the rolling game he replied "I have time." Soon enough things had been cleared up and Kurokos attention had gone to the smings accross the park.
Running after Kuroko to the other side was very tiresome but Akashi seemed to still be able to keep up with him and pushed him on the swings. Kise laughed as Kuroko squealled in delight.
"He seems so much more emotional, more happy then he did before. What happened to him to make him that way?"
"I'm not sure, when Tetsu and I first grew apart it was about when we were 9. I remember asking what was wrong with him back then. Okasan just said something happened when Tetsu was 5. She never said what but it seemed like she knew the full story. I haven't asked again since then."
"Aka-nii-chan is sad now?" Kuroko looked back from his spot in the swing. Stopping the movement with his feet he got up and walked over to Akashi who procedded to kneal down to his height. "You don't need to worry Aka-nii-chan I don't remember what happened either. My father refussed to tell me about the memories I was missing." Kuroko seemed so much more mature then he had just moments ago. and then turned around and ran to the sand box to begin a big castle.
"What was that Akashicchi?"
"I think he still remembers everything as if he were still his proper age, but the 5 year old in him takes controll most of the time. When he first changed into a 5 year old he still seemed normal. It's time to head back we have school tomorrow."
"Will Kurokocchi be comming with you like this?"
"Hai, we'll see you tomorrow. Come Tetsu time for bed."
Kuroko frowned but crawled out of the box and held up his arms. akashi taking the hint picked him up into his arms. "Night Kise-nii-chan." Kuroko called with a wide yawn and returned the wave as they headed their seperate ways.
Tadaima - I'm Home
Okaerinasa - Welcome Home
Arigato - Thanks
Nii-Chan - Brother
