Hello to everyone out there. This is my first Kuroko no Basuke fanfic. I am currently also writing a fanfic for Harry Potter so if you're interested, you can check it out. I might take a long time to update seeing school is starting soon but I hope you'll all like my stories enough to bare with me. I just started out so I would love to hear your thoughts on my stories for me to improve so if you can, please review.

Kuroko no Basuke and it's characters belongs to Fujimaki Tadatoshi. Thank you very much. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

It was the start of a new school year. The cherry blossoms floated down onto the pavement in front of Teiko Middle School. New students wandered around as many older students handed out information on their respective clubs. In the crowd, a boy with blue hair walked forward, unnoticed. He bumped into a few people on the way but no one showed signs of seeing him. A tan boy with dark blue hair was talking to a pink-haired girl when the pale, blue-haired boy bumped into the other boy and apologized before continuing on. The tan boy turned his head around with an apology on his lips but stopped when he saw no one near. Confused he turned back around and walked away with the pink-haired girl.

The pale, blue-haired boy continued walking as he read his book. Ignoring the conversation between a green-haired boy who carried a phone book and a book club member. He passed on, not noticing a purple-haired giant and a yellow-haired boy with a large crowd around them. Near the entrance, a red-haired boy was dropped off by an expensive-looking car. The six new students all headed for the school building, not knowing how much their lives would be entwined with each other.

After the entrance ceremony, the students all went to their respective classes. Kuroko Tetsuya, the name of the pale, blue-haired boy, finally closed the book as he glanced around the classroom. The teacher has yet to arrive and the students were all in different crowds already making new friends. A few times, he was almost sat on before he made his presence known and the student moves on, instantly forgetting about him once again. This didn't faze Kuroko. He continued to watch the interactions between his classmates, noting the crowd around a yellow-haired boy, and green-haired boy was sitting primly with, for some strange reason, a phone book in his lap. As he continued watching, he suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder. Kuroko turned around calmly and came face to face with a boy with a pair of sharp red eyes and red hair.

The boy gave a smile as he asked, "May I sit here?" and indicated to the seat next to Kuroko.

Kuroko blinked a bit for it was unusual for people to notice him before nodding. The other boy smiled a bit before sitting down. After he placed his bag down on the desk, he turned back to Kuroko and said, "I'm Akashi Seijuro, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Kuroko started at Akashi for a bit before replying, "Kuroko Tetsuya, it's a pleasure to meet you, Akashi-kun."

At this point the home room teacher came in and the class turned their attention to her when she coughed. The teacher called roll and nearly had a heart attack when Kuroko finally was able to make his existence known to her. Akashi seemed to narrow his eyes at Kuroko when that happened with a glint in them. Kuroko calmly ignored it, although he had a feeling that it probably didn't mean anything good for him.

During lunch, Kuroko went up to the school roof and sat down next to the rail. He got out his lunch box and sighed. Akashi Seijuro had tried to join him but he had escaped with his misdirection technique. He probably wanted to question Kuroko's presence, or lack off. It seemed Kuroko had caught his attention from the first meeting and Kuroko is not very happy about it.

He finished his lunch quickly, as he only had a boiled egg, and was sipping on the vanilla shake he had bought from the cafeteria. He looked over the school ground from his viewpoint and was enjoying the silence when the door was slammed open by a tanned, dark-blue haired boy. With him was a pink-haired girl and the two were arguing about something along the lines of sleeping in class. The two didn't notice Kuroko and sat down near him with their lunch while continuing to argue. Kuroko tried to ignore them but after a few minutes, he got a bit annoyed. He turned toward the two and said, "Excuse me, can you keep it down, you're too loud."

The reaction he got were like everyone else. The two froze, finally seeing Kuroko, before turning pale and starting to scream about some ghost coming to hunt them. The tanned boy curled himself up into a ball and started praying while the girl backed away, screaming at the top of her lungs. Kuroko winced a bit at the sound but said calmly, "Please stop making a fuzz. You're hurting my ears and I'm pretty sure it's rude to call someone a ghost. The last time I checked, I'm very much alive."

The two stopped after that, both looked at him sheepishly before the girl said, "Sorry! I'm Momoi Satsuki and this," she indicated to the boy, "is Aomine Daiki. And you are?"

Kuroko gave a small nod of acknowledgement before saying, "Kuroko Testuya. It's good to meet you Momoi-san, Aomine-kun."

Aomine gave a grunt before starting his lunch and Momoi turned to reprimand him of being rude. Kuroko, seeing he had finished his vanilla milkshake, excused himself, not that they noticed. He threw the empty cup away and headed back to class. Five minutes before the next class started, Akashi came back into the classroom with a green-haired classmate. He noticed Kuroko and immediately narrowed his eyes a bit before heading over. The green-haired student walked back to his own seat, pushing his glasses up a bit although it slid right back down. Akashi sat down and asked, "Where were you during lunch, Kuroko?"

"I was on the rooftop, Akashi-kun." Kuroko replied calmly.

"Is that so, then let me join you tomorrow." Akashi said, equally as calm.

The two stared at each other. Kuroko felt a bit uncomfortable under Akashi's scrutiny. It was as though Akashi was dissecting him, leaving him, feeling naked, with those scarlet eyes. Of course, Kuroko did not let any of his feelings show on his face but he did give a small sigh of relief when the teacher came into the classroom, starting the next class.

After class, the students all left the classroom, excited to be signing up for the new clubs. As Kuroko walked down the busy hall toward the main gym where the basketball trial would be hold, he bumped into the yellow-haired boy who was walking around aimlessly. He fell to the ground with a small thump and the yellow-haired boy glanced around confusedly before glancing down and catching sight of him. He blinked his yellow eyes in surprise before smiling and said, "Sorry! I didn't see you there! Are you alright?"

Kuroko looked up at him and said, "I'm fine." Picking up his school bag, which he dropped, he stood up, bowed, and walked on. Before turning the corner, he turned around and said, "Please don't smile if you don't feel like it, Kise-kun. It's rather annoying."

Kise stared at the back of the boy's head in surprise, his smile dropping only to be replaced with a genuine smile before he bounded over to the boy and said, "You're amazing to notice it! Nee, nee, what's your name? You seem to already know mine. By the way, how did you know my name?"

Kuroko's eyes narrowed a bit in annoyance at the questions but answered them all calmly, "My name's Kuroko Tetsuya, Kise-kun. I happen to know your name because we're in the same class."

Kise's eyes widened in surprise again but quickly reverted back to normal as he smiled widely and said, "Eh! We're in the same class? I didn't know!" A lightbulb seemed to go up in his head as he said, "Ah! Nee, Kuroko-kun, what club are you joining!"

"Basketball." Came Kuroko's curt reply.

"Hmm, then let's join together! It's not like I've decided on what to join yet, anyways. Although I'm sure basketball won't be too challenging, I'll join anyways. You're interesting enough for now, Kuroko-kun."

Kuroko's eyebrow twitched a bit in annoyance, and continued on with Kise next to him, beaming. It was the first time Kise had met someone who can see through his acts. Being a model and a fast learner, he had perfected the act of a smile down to perfection that even the actors can't tell if it was real or fake. Kuroko was definitely interesting, even though he seemed to have a weak presence, and he needed something to ease his boredom while at school so he'll stick around him for now. Plus, he seems like someone useful for scaring away annoying fan girls with his ghost like presence. Of course, he hadn't earned his respect yet so he'll leave the "–chii" out for now.

Together the two arrived at the basketball court to a massive crowd of boys. Kuroko blinked in surprise. Were all these people here to join the basketball club? Never the less, he walked in with Kise following him like a puppy. He saw Akashi and the green-haired boy, Midorima Shintaro, and walked over to them.

Akashi saw Kuroko as he came closer and widened his eyes a bit. It was surprising to see Kuroko here. He didn't seem to have a lot of strength and seemed rather weak to be playing basketball. The only thing that was unusual about him is that, although seemingly weak, he didn't feel anything from the pale boy's presence. In fact, Akashi would have missed him had he not paid attention to his surroundings. Kuroko Tetsuya, Akashi decided, is a very unusual specimen.

Akashi's eyes narrowed when he saw the yellow-haired classmate next to Kuroko. He asked Kuroko about Kise Ryouta and learned that they had bumped into each other, literally. He introduced Kuroko to Midorima who gave a small nod at Kuroko's bow. A whistle caught their attention and they turned to the coach and captain at the front of the gym.

"Attention," Nijimura, the current second year captain, called out, "We will be starting our tryout now. As we seem to have a big group, we want everyone to split into groups of twenty and head to the gym assigned to the group."

Kise immediately grabbed Kuroko and said, "Let's be in the same team, Kuroko-kun!"

Akashi decided to have Kuroko on his group for this time with Midorima and Kise. They were joined by a few other first years including Aomine and a purple giant who had bags of snacks and looked bored. The group went through drills of dribbling, shooting and footwork. It soon became apparent that Kuroko was rather bad at it. In fact, he had missed all his shoots also he had shot with the right form and he kept tripping during the running. By the end of it, he looked like he didn't have any energy left.

Nijimura Shuzo, the current captain, couldn't believe how bad the kid by the name of Kuroko Tetsuya is. According to his application, he had some experience in basketball self-taught but no matter what, how can he be this bad? Aomine Daiki also had self-taught through street basketball but even though his form is a bit off, he can at least make the basket, although he does dunk too much. The only thing the boy seemed good at would be scaring his opponent to death by pretending to be a ghost. Without doubt, Nijimura thought, he'll be in third string and probably would be out before the year ends. He then checked the time before blowing the whistle. Once everyone had gathered, he said, "Alright, we will now have a few practice matches so I can see how you will do in games."

Kuroko perked up a bit hearing this. He became as excited as everyone although a few who were tired groaned. Akashi gave a small smirk as though he was given a challenge. Midorima used a finger to push up the middle of his glasses. Murasakibara Atsushi, the purple giant, was pouting because he had his snacks taken away at the beginning of the tryout. Aomine was almost shaking with joy and Kise looked really interested. As he had no basketball experience, he had watched the other players and had noticed how well Aomine is. Of course, that was between the times when he was trying not to laugh at how bad Kuroko was.

Nijimura split of the lower classmen into four groups. They were to play against one of the other teams until one team reached thirty points. He randomly separately the students and blinked when he somehow put the most promising players together with the worst one in group B. Ah well, it'll be good for them to show good judgement and not send Kuroko out to play so he won't have to worry about him.

Kuroko currently paid no attention to the fact that his possibility of a potion on the Teiko basketball club was next to zero. He looked toward Akashi, who had taken upon the position of the 'captain' for strategizing purposes and called out, "Akashi-kun."

Akashi looked over to him, a bit annoyed with the interruption and said, "What is it, Kuroko."

"Can you put me on for the match please?" Kuroko asked.

Akashi looked surprised. Kuroko hadn't shown that he would be very useful in the drills and yet he seemed to be rather calm about it all. It was all rather intriguing and Akashi would like to see exactly what Kuroko had planned

"Very well," Akashi said, "however, if you hold the team back, I will substitute you out."

Kuroko gave a small smile and said, "Understood, Akashi-kun." He turned to the rest of the group and said, "If you see me, please pass the ball to me."

Kise, Aomine, Midorima, and Murasakibara looked confused but nodded their heads.

Nijimura looked at the group in surprise. Instead of Akashi Seijuro, they're using Kuroko Tetsuya? It seems the rest of the group was confused as well but going along with it. Aomine looked like he could care less who he plays with as long as he can play. Kise looked confusedly between the red-haired boy and Kuroko as though unsure of what's going on. Murasakibara didn't seem to pay attention to anything and continued to look bored. Only Midorima Shintaro seemed to truly worry about this decision as he kept frowning at Akashi.

The other team seemed to also have chosen their starting players. None of the players were bad on group A, Nijimura mused, but the game would probably go to group "B" even with the liability by the name of Kuroko Tetsuya. The red head, Akashi Seijuro, seemed to be very good with strategies from the ways he had seen him go about the drills but what was he thinking putting him on first?

As the teams lined up, a boy from group "A" suddenly shouted, "Hey, I thought you're supposed to have five players?"

"We do have five players." Kuroko piped up causing everyone to look at him in surprise. Everyone except for the captain and group "A" screamed. Whispers erupted from the groups as they finally noticed the fifth player. Nijimura raised an eyebrow. Yep, the kid would make a good phantom.

Murasakibara stood at the center towering over the unfortunate boy from group "A". When the whistle blew, he easily got hold of the ball. Catching the sight of Kuroko's pastel-blue hair, he threw the ball in his direction.

Kuroko had just got pass his guard when he saw the ball coming and immediately got into position. With a simple tap, he sent the ball flying toward Aomine who ran pass his guard and caught the pass and dunked it. Everyone stared at the game with one thought, "What in the world is going on?"