A/N:

Me: Hello, my name is Etsuko and this is my new story The Tiger and The Shadow. I really like the idea of having the Generation of Miracles as Kuroko's brothers. I know there are many that are protective of him but I don't read a lot where they are thier siblings.

Emiko: So she made this story.

Youta: And if you like it then read it. You don't then don't.

Me: I hope you guys do like it. I try my best haha. Even though English is my first language my grammer sucks which is why I write to get better and to write because I like it.

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Me: I hope you all like this new story and I hope you all have a good Thanksgiving and a good day!

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Summery

Akashi Tetsuya is from the rich while Mibuchi Taiga is middle class. They meet at school and fall in love but Tetsuya's brother's forbid to be with someone who isn't rich. When Tetsuya's brothers set him up with someone else, will Taiga let them separate their love? Will Taiga's brothers help Tetsuya's brothers realize their mistake and maybe fall in love too?

The Akashi Family

Seijuro Akashi 22

Shintaro Midorima 21

Atsushi Murasakibara 20

Tetsuya Kuroko 17

The Mibuchi Family

Tatsuya Himura 18

Taiga Kagami 17

Prologue

The school year is about to begin and a small baby blue hair and eyes with porcelain skin boy is in the living room reading a book. His name is Tetsuya Akashi and he is 17 years old. He's going to be a junior in high school when it begins. He is quiet and respectful but he has a low presence which makes people forget him. He loves his five older brothers brothers who are very unique.

His oldest brother is Seijuro Akashi and he is 22 years old with red hair and eyes with peach skin. He's the second shortest even though he's the oldest. He is the head of Akashi family, company, and heading to be world champion at shogi. Despite all the things he does he's very kind and helpful towards his brothers though when he's angry they say his right eye turns yellow.

His second oldest brother is Shintaro Akashi and he is 21 years old with green hair and eyes with glasses and peachy skin. He is the second tallest out of the six. He is in medical school currently to be a doctor. Yet he's not a normal guy, you see he has an obsession with horoscopes and takes them seriously. Over all he's a tsundure with others but really does care about his brothers.

His third oldest brother is Atsushi Akashi and he is 20 years old with long purple hair and eyes with a slight tan. He is the tallest out of his brothers. He is going to culinary school to be a pastry maker. He is very childish for his age and is in love with sweets. He loves his brothers so he gives them treats and helps them out when he's not being childish and stubborn.

His fourth oldest brother is Ryota Akashi at the age of 19 years old with yellow hair and eyes with light skin. He is going to start his first year of flight school as well as being a model. He's the fourth tallest out of his brother's. He's bubbly and hyper like a puppy. He loves to annoy his family but will be serious when he needs to be.

His fifth older brother is Daiki Akashi and he is 18 years old with dark blue hair and eyes with tan skin. He will be a senior in high school and star of the basketball club. He's the third tallest out of his brothers. He's a troublemaker but has a good heart.

The five older brothers had a lot in common but one major thing was that they loved and protected their baby brother Tetsuya.

So while Tetsuya is reading his book, his brother Seijuro comes in. He smiles and walks up to him.

"Tetsuya, I see you're reading today. Wouldn't you rather go outside?" Seijuro asks him.

"I'm fine reading Sei-nii-san." Tetsuya says as he looks up from his book and looks at him.

"Well can you do me a favor and go with Atsushi to the store?" Seijuro asks.

"Why can't you go with him? I mean I'll go and all but why can't you?"

"I have a practice game with Shintaro before my match." He smiles.

"Okay Sei-nii-san. I'll go with Atsu-nii-san." He puts his book down and gets up. He smiles slightly at his brother. "Good luck on your practice match and match Sei-nii-san."

"My dear Tetsuya with that I'm sure I'll win." Seijuro smiles and kisses his head before leaving the room.

Tetsuya walks to the front of the mansion doors to put on his shoes. He see's Atsushi already putting his shoes on. He goes up to him and pokes his arm. Atsushi froze before looking down.

"Ah Tetsu-chin you're coming shopping with me?" Atsushi asks once he saw his little brother.

"Yes Atsu-nii-san. Sei-nii-san asked me to go with you. I think he thinks you'll spend it all on treats again."

"That was one time." Atsushi pouts slightly.

"Either way it will be fun. We can get yummy treats too." Tetsuya smiles.

Atsushi smiled and nods. "Okay. Come on. We'll take the car. I found a new store that sells awesome vanilla candy."

Tetsuya opens the door a bit quickly. "What are we waiting for?"

"Tetsu-chin you need your shoes first." Atsushi chuckles and ruffles his hair. He leans down and helps Tetsuya put his shoes on.

"We'll take Sei-niichin's car." Atsushi smiles.

"Did he say we can?" Tetsuya asks as Atsushi just smiles and shows him the keys.

"Want to drive?" He asks.

"Shin-nii-san says I'm not ready. I drive to fast."

"Come on. You need practice Tetsu-chin." Atsushi smiles and gives him the keys.

Tetsuya smiles slightly as they go for the drive.

Atsushi smiles as they park in front of the shopping center.

"Woah I did it." Tetsuya smiles as he turns off the car.

"I told you you would be fine." Atsushi pats his head before taking out some snacks. "Let's go in."

"Um shouldn't you leave them here. That way we can carry more?" Tetsuya asked.

"Hm but I'm hungry." Atsushi says as he opens a bag of chips.

"Then just take the chips and you'll get more in the store." Tetsuya says.

"Hmm fine." He says as they get out of the car.

Soon they go in the shopping center and head to the new store.

"Atsu-nii-san does Sei-nii-san know we came to this place?" Tetsuya asks as he holds on to Atsushi's shirt so he would get lost or "disappear" on him.

"Doesn't matter where we get the food as long as we get it. Besides what Sei-niichin doesn't know he'll find out later but won't punish us." Atsushi rubs his head. "We'll be fine."

"Don't touch my hair with your dirty hands Atsu-nii-san." He pouts slightly.

Atsushi just laughed and walked him to the new store. Atsushi took his list out and gave it to Tetsuya who reads it. "Okay let's get a shopping cart and get all the fruits first."

Atsushi nods and grabs a cart before taking him to the fruit section.

"I'll get these while you get those Okay?" Tetsuya says as Atsushi nods and goes to get the fruit.

Tetsuya goes to the strawberries and picks some out.

"I still can't believe the watermelon is squared." Tetsuya heard a loud voice say. He turns around to see a guy with dark red hair with a little black in the bottom. He has tanish skin and a tall muscular figure.

"Taiga its natural here." He saw another guy next to him with black hair and bangs the covered one of his eyes. He has tanish skin and is also tall but a little shorter than the other.

"Not back home in America." The Taiga fellow said.

"We're not in America anymore. We are in Japan." The other smiled gently.

"You get confused too!" He half yelled.

"Go on and get the strawberries while I pick out the watermelon then." He smiles and picks out some watermelon and puts them in one cart.

"Yeah yeah." Taiga takes another cart and goes next to Tetsuya. He doesn't notice him of course.

Tetsuya just grabs some strawberries and goes to see where Atsushi went.

Atsushi went to grab the watermelon and looked them over. "Hmm." He looked intensely.

The guy with the black hair was still picking the watermelons.

"Which one will Sei-niichin want?" He asked himself as he looked it over.

"Doing shopping for your brother?" The guy asked.

"Yeah. Sei-niichin only likes perfection. So does Shin-neechin." Atsushi said.

"Well I think these look perfect." He pointed at the ones on the top.

Atsushi nods and puts them in his cart. "Thanks. I need three big ones and a really small one. Tetsu-chin doesn't eat a lot but me, Ta-chin, and Dai-chin eat a lot."

The guy chuckled and helps him pick them out.

Atsushi smiles proudly. "Thank you." He said. "I'm Akashi Atsushi."

"I'm Mibuchi Tatsuya." Tatsuya smiled.

Atsushi blinked a bit before smiling back before realizing something. He looks for the strawberries and doesn't see Tetsuya. "Uh oh."

"What's wrong?" He said looking at the direction where the strawberries are only to find his brother Taiga there.

"Tetsu-chin was suppose to be there. He's a ghost so he gets lost easily and because he's small I can't find him quickly. Sei-niichin is going to kill me." He groaned.

"We'll help you find him. Oi Taiga!" He called his brother. Taiga looks over and goes to him.

"Your boyfriend?" Atsushi asked.

"No he's my baby brother." Tatsuya smiled.

"That's not a baby." Atsushi said as Taiga goes to them.

"Uh who is he?" Taiga asked.

"This is Akashi Atsushi. He lost his brother so let's help him find him." Tatsuya said.

"If he's a giant like him I don't think he's that hard to find." Taiga looks at him.

"Tetsu-chin is really small. He was suppose to be at the strawberries." Atsushi said.

"I didn't see anyone there." Taiga said.

"He might be near by. How does he look like?" Tatsuya asked.

"He's small, pale skin. Baby blue hair and eyes. His name is Tetsu-chin. He's also a ghost so he's really hard to find." Atsushi said.

"Ghost?" Taiga looks at Tatsuya who shrugged and smiled.

"Well let's go look for him." Tatsuya said. They nodded and went to look for Tetsuya.

"Tetsu-chin!" Atsushi calls out.

"Tetsu-chin!" Tatsuya copies him.

"Tetsu-chin?" Kagami looked around.

"Sei-niichin is gonna kill me if Tetsu-chin is hurt." Atsushi sighed.

"Is Tetsu-chin your little brother?" Tatsuya asked.

"Yeah. He's the baby of the family. Everyone is protective of him. He drove today too." Atsushi said.

"We'll find him." Tatsuya said as they walked.

Taiga walked behind them before baby blue hair caught his eyes in the candy aisle.

"Um guys I think I found him!" Taiga called and follows the baby blue haired boy. He didn't notice that Atsushi and Tatsuya didn't hear him.

Tetsuya sighed. He couldn't find Atsushi anywhere so he went to the candy aisle. "Atsu-nii-san where are you?" He held the strawberries close before a hand went on his shoulder. He looked up to see the guy before.

"You're Tetsu-chin Right?" He asked.

Tetsuya blinked before nodding. "Yes. May I ask why?"

"Your brother is a giant dude with purple hair right?" He asked.

Tetsuya nodded.

"Great. He's looking for you." Taiga said before turning around. "Uh oh."

"Um how do you know Atsu-nii-san?" Tetsuya asked.

"He asked us to help him find you." Taiga sighed. "But I think I lost them. They were right behind me."

"I see. Maybe I should call him…" he feels his pants. "I left my phone at home." He sighed.

"Come on. Let's find them together since I have to find my brother too." Taiga said. "Here you can put your strawberries in the cart so you won't get tired."

Tetsuya nods and puts them in. "Thank you."

Taiga nods as they start to walk.

"So your brother says you're a gho-" he turned to see him gone. "Eh?" He looked around. "Oh great I lost him."

"I'm right next to you." Tetsuya said on the other side of him. Taiga jumped and looked at him freaked out.

"You are a ghost!" Taiga screamed.

Tetsuya put his finger over his lips and makes a shh motion.

Taiga's eyebrow twitched and grabbed his head. "You're messing with me aren't you."

"I'm not. I just have low presence." Tetsuya said.

Taiga glared slightly before grabbing his hand. "There so I won't lose you."

Tetsuya had a light blush on but nodded.

Taiga takes him as they look for Atsushi and Tatsuya.

"Great now Taiga is lost." Tatsuya sighed and took out his phone.

Atsushi looked at him. "You're gonna call him?"

"Yeah. Hey maybe he found your brother." He said as he called Taiga.

Taiga's phone rang as he grabbed it. "Ah it's my brother." He said before answering. "Yo Tatsuya. Where are you guys?"

"We are by the cereal. Where are you?" Tatsuya asked. "Oh and did you find Tetsu-chin?"

"Yeah I found him. He was in the candy aisle." Taiga said.

"My brother found him. Tetsu-chin was in the candy aisle." Tatsuya smiled.

"I promised him we get vanilla candy." He grabbed the phone. "Tai-chin stay in the candy aisle. We're on our way." He hung up and gave the phone to Tatsuya.

"Tai-chin?" Taiga was shocked as he looked at the phone.

"Atsu-nii-san adds the suffix -chin to the people he likes." Tetsuya said.

"Wait so Tetsu-chin isn't your name?" He asked as he walks them back to the candy aisle.

"No. My name is Akashi Tetsuya." Tetsuya said.

"Ahh I'm Tai- Wait it's the other way, I'm Mibuchi Taiga."

"You're not from Japan?" Tetsuya asked.

"I am but my dad moved us to America when I was little though we moved back in the summer. I'm starting junior year this year." Taiga said.

"That's cool. I'm starting as a junior this year too." Tetsuya smiles. "Though I've lived in Japan all my life."

Taiga smiled. "You should visit America. It's fun."

"Sei-nii-san says it's dangerous though." Tetsuya said.

"Well every place has their bad side. Even the nice ones. It's all about perspective I guess." Taiga smiled.

"You're a very deep person aren't you Taiga-kun." Tetsuya said.

"Sh-shut up!" He slightly blushed and walked faster to the candy aisle. They were their first since they were closer. Tetsuya saw the vanilla and tried to go to it but Taiga was still holding his hand.

"Nope. I'm not letting go until your brother gets here. No more disappearing."

"Can we at least go to the vanilla candy?" He asked and pointed that it was right in front of them.

"Fine." He said as they go to it.

Tetsuya looks at them and starts picking some out.

Taiga was about to comment on how many he was getting before he felt a big hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Atsushi and Tatsuya.

"Tetsu-chin." He pushed Taiga aside and picks Tetsuya up. "Don't disappear on me again. You're to small for me to find. You're not hurt right? Sei-niichin will be mad if you're hurt."

"I'm fine Atsu-nii-san." Tetsuya hugs him back. "Taiga-kun was nice enough to keep me from not disappearing again."

Atsushi nodded and turns to Taiga and Tatsuya. "Thank you for helping me and finding Tetsu-chin."

"I'm sorry for the trouble I caused you two." Tetsuya bowed.

"It's not problem. It was fun." Tatsuya smiled. "We're just glad you're safe and we didn't have to call you over from the PA system."

Atsushi and Tetsuya blinked. "There's a PA system?" They asked at the same time.

"Yeah you didn't know?" Tatsuya asked.

"This is my first time here." Tetsuya said.

"This is my second time and I only went in for the candy." Atsushi said.

Tatsuya chuckled. "I see. Well they do just in case you guys lose each other."

"How do we know what it looks like?" Atsushi asked.

"Usually you'd find a worker and they'd help you." Taiga said.

"What do they look like?" Tetsuya asked.

"Have you never been shopping before?" Tatsuya asked.

"Not in this area." Atsushi said. "I come here for cheap snacks and yummy pastries."

"I follow him to make sure he doesn't spend all our money on snacks." Tetsuya said. "The prices in the store are really low too."

"Well we can help you guys shop if you want." Tatsuya said.

Atsushi looked at the time and nodded.

Tetsuya nodded as well. "Thank you. We would appreciate it."

"Ah but since we are already in the candy aisle." Atsushi started to pick out snacks left and right. Tetsuya did to but the majority was vanilla.

"Isn't that too much snacks?" Taiga asked.

"There's never too much." Atsushi said as half the cart was full of snacks.

Tatsuya just laughed. "Well you fit the pastry maker look that's for sure."

Atsushi smiles as they all shop together.

They walked out of the store with their shopping carts.

"This was fun." Tatsuya smiled.

"Yeah and we saved a lot of money." Atsushi smiled.

"We spent the rest on snacks." Tetsuya smiled.

"Yeah snacks for two weeks." Atsushi smiled.

"That's too much for two weeks." Taiga said.

"Maybe. I give it three weeks." Tetsuya said. "If Sei-nii-san doesn't find them."

"I still can't believe we all have four other siblings." Tatsuya chuckled.

"It's rare to find that here." Tetsuya said.

"Yeah but then again our family is weird too." Atsushi said as his phone vibrated. He looks. "Ah Shin-neechin." He answered. "Hey Shin-neechin."

"Atsushi you and Tetsuya have been gone for over four hours. It only takes and hour to do shopping and 30 minutes to get from the store to our house."

"We are at a different store it's far because we came in for the candy."

"I should have known." Shintaro sighed. "Hurry up and go home. Me and Seijuro will be home in two hours and your better have not bought a mountain of snacks again."

"So mean Shin-neechin. Fine we're walking to the car now. I'll make Sei-niichin's favorite dessert for his winning." Atsushi said.

"Good. He'll love it. Now go on home. And remind Tetsuya to not leave his phone at home. He could get lost and have no way of finding you." Shintaro said.

'That already happened but you don't need to know.' Atsushi thought. "I'll tell him."

"Oh and Seijuro is not pleased that you took his car without permission. Let alone let Tetsuya drive it."

"How did he-"

"It's our brother we are talking about. He knows everything. He's not mad but you both are going to have to apologize to him when we gets home."

"Yes Shin-neechin."

"Good now go on home."

"We bought red bean soup and bread." Atsushi said.

Shintaro smiles slightly. "Thank you. Now hurry up. You want to make Seijuro's favorite."

"Bye Shin-neechan." Atsushi smiled as they hung up. "Shin-neechan isn't mad anymore."

Tetsuya smiled. "I'm glad. It would be bad if he was."

"Is he scary or something?" Taiga asked.

"No but he'd make us do extra studying." Tetsuya said. "I don't mind it much but Atsu-nii-san, Ta-nii-san, and Dai-nii-san hate it."

"Which means we better get going Tetsu-chin." Atsushi said.

"Yes. Thank you both again." Tetsuya bowed.

"Haha we should be thanking you. You guys payed for our groceries." Tatsuya said. "Are you sure we can't pay you back?"

"You guys helped me find Tetsu-chin. He's more valuable than money." Atsushi rubs Tetsuya's head.

"Atsu-nii-san. Please stop messing with my hair." Tetsuya got annoyed but Atsushi continued.

Taiga laughed. "We'll see you guys around."

"Yeah see you around Taiga-kun. Tatsuya-san." Tetsuya bowed. Atsushi bowed too before taking Tetsuya back to the car.

"What a couple of odd brothers." Tatsuya chuckled.

"Think we'll see them again?" Taiga asked as they walked to their car.

"Who knows. I didn't get their numbers. Did you?" Tatsuya asked.

"Nope." Taiga said. "Damn I thought they were pretty cool for some weirdo's."

"You liked Tetsuya didn't you." Tatsuya smiled as they got to their car and opened the trunk.

Taiga blushed a bit. "He's okay."

"If it's meant to be Taiga you'll see him again." Tatsuya smiled.

"I doubt I'll meet him again. There is no way that will ever happen." Taiga said putting the groceries in the car.