I've had this idea rolling around in my mind for a bit and after visiting the AkaKuro Fanpage on Tumblr and listening to the Undertale OST I decided to start writing it out. Updates won't be very regular, especially since I'm still planning a lot of things out and I'm uploading this because I hate being inactive for extended periods of time.

So enjoy this little AU, I don't think it'll be very cute, but I'm very passionate about Phantom Menace Kuroko.

Chapter 1: On Tetsuya

When Tetsuya Kuroko was born, he was smaller than average child with an incredibly pale complexion that baffled his tan father and tastefully dark mother. His hair was a shock of messy teal and his eyes were a startlingly cold pale blue that glowed even in the nauseatingly bright light of the delivery room. He was quiet and still, so much so that the nurses were certain that he had been born still, however, upon conducting the required checkup, it was found that he was perfectly fine. The child however, was born with weak lungs and so, the nurses put him into an incubator to ensure that he was breathing well on his own.

All was well, until the doctor was making his rounds and discovered that the incubator labelled 'Kuroko Tetsuya' was empty. Needless to say, there was a huge panic as the staff attempted to locate the missing infant and after three hours of being unable to successfully locate the child, the police were called in. The nurses explained that the boy was very distinctive, with bright, near florescent blue hair and porcelain skin and even with that impossible description the police were unable to find the child, no matter how hard they searched.

It would be three more hours before a passing nurse would hear a small, yet powerful wail coming from the nursery.

Tetsuya had never moved. He had been there the entire time.

When Tetsuya was three, his parents were frustrated with his random disappearing acts since no matter what they did; it was difficult keeping track of a toddler who could unconsciously become invisible. In the end Tetsuya's mother sewed jingle bells into the sleeves of all of his shirts and, since the boy was rather adamant about letting his hair grow, she made him wear a kanzashi that was decorated with cat bells and a charm for good luck.

His parents were unsurprised that their son was a polite and traditional one, after all, Tetsuya's father ran a tea house and his mother was a saleswoman who was quickly climbing the business ladder. Tetsuya's father instilled in him at a young age the importance of health, both mental and physical and he stressed that because of Tetsuya's weak lungs, he should become even stronger.

Tetsuya's father enrolled him in mixed martial arts before he could even form proper sentences and Tetsuya, who was eager to make his father proud, excelled at it.

His shisho was a commanding man who took note of Tetsuya's special needs (it's hard to forget when a four year old boy with blazing hair sneaks up on a master of the arts) and he usually had Tetsuya sit out group practices since the boy disappeared in the fray of eager elementary and middle schoolers too easily. For Tetsuya, the shisho had him do special stamina building exercises and work on his presence and composure.

At the age of five, Tetsuya began hearing the voices.

It was a constant static in the back of his mind that had been building until, one day, while he was swinging in the park under his father's supervision, the bells he had grown accustomed to tinkling merrily in his ears, he heard an unfamiliar voice whisper, 'I wonder what I should do for dinner tonight?'

He was startled so badly at the sound that he jumped and fell off of the swing, scraping his knee and breaking the skin above his eye, much to the horror of his father. His dad fussed over him and softly murmured question in his ears to ensure that he was fine, but Tetsuya wasn't paying attention to that, all he could hear was the panicky babble that was racing through his father's mind. It was painful, all the white noise, so much so that he had to tell his dad that he was more than fine and that he had had worse from his MMA lessons.

As he grew, things escalated. He could hear the inane chatter of everyone, of the large Tokyo crowds and of the pretty ladies that worked in his father's shop. It bothered him so much that he developed something akin to social anxiety, refusing to go outside unless he wore headphones or was going straight to a quiet place. He could hear the passing thoughts of his mother, who often had a man named Yoshino on her mind and it didn't help that by the time he was seven, the jingle bells didn't work anymore. He found that things around him started disappearing with him and his mother was slowly getting more frustrated with his worsening condition.

Tetsuya's father began missing him, and Tetsuya, unable to do anything about it, decided to learn how to fend for himself. He'd read and learn and memorize and when he woke up one morning to find that he could hear his mother's voice in his head, even though she was in a room upstairs he crawled through the window and ran as far away from his house as possible.

He ran through the streets barefooted, mind overwhelmed with the constant noise that flew around his head until he came to a small park and collapsed in a pile of tired flesh and heavy breaths. It was only when he smelt burned copper that he realized his nose was gushing blood from the noise and that's when he began to understand what this would mean.

He curled himself into a small ball of teal and white and cried. Cried because he could still hear the morning commute in his head, even though they were nearly five meters away, cried because he didn't understand even after all that reading why he was stuck with this curse, cried because the noise wouldn't stop, even though he tried so hard to tune it out.

He sat there until the blood had dried under his nose and the static had dulled to a dull hum in the back of his mind. A small pigeon had landed on his knee while he was sitting and the bird had hopped about him cautiously for a few minutes. Tetsuya had stiffened as the bird busily made its way around him before he heard a scratchy cooing vibrating in his head. The bird mumbled something along the lines of 'what a strange figure' making the boy smile at the bird's musing and making the bird startle at the prospect of a moving figure. The bird cooed again and Tetsuya heard the irritated remarks about the 'stupidly wasteful humans' before he broke down and told the bird that he was in fact, human and that he agreed that his kind were indeed wasteful.

The bird was so shocked at the response that its feathers ruffled causing it to puff out and make Tetsuya laugh even louder. In the end, the bird decided to roost in Tetsuya's messy hair as compensation for tricking her ("I did no such thing, you decided I was a statue on your own, Tori-san") and the boy, after feeling the noon sun on his skin decided that it was time to go home.

It was only when he arrived on his street that he realized that he had been gone for over six hours and his parents knew nothing of his whereabouts. He ran back to his home and slammed the door open, already shouting reassurances that he was alright when he took in the fact that his parents were completely relaxed. He walked into the house and stubbornly ignored the rather rude comments that his new bird friend was making on their choice in décor, walking directly to his father who was drinking tea and pulling on his shirt to get his attention, since he knew from experience that calling wouldn't get anything done.

His father ignored him, apparently not even feeling the shirt tugging and when he climbed onto the kitchen table ("Is this normal in human households, Tetsun?" "…Yes") his mother didn't even flinch when his sandy feet nearly fell into her eggs.

Tetsuya even actively read them to see if they were punishing him for leaving without their permission but their minds were other places, his mother thinking about what she was doing in the evening and his father reading silently. The teal haired boy climbed down the table and picked up the now silent bird and went to his room silently.

They had completely forgotten about him.

We got to establish a little bit about Tetsuya in this one. He doesn't have misdirection or a weak presence, it's straight up invisibility and it even affects those around him, like a Vanishing Drive on steroids. I also gave him mind reading powers because Tetsu is a blunt little shit and I really can't wait to see him embarrass the GoM and Seirin.

All the members of the GoM will have different powers, even the Uncrowned Kings and certain other characters will have powers. This is a Superpower AU after all, but I'll be focusing on the GoM and Seirin because I love them and AkaKuro is a weakness of mine. Anyway, in the next chapter, Kuroko meets a very special carrot. So… yeah~!