A/N: First time writing a Kurobasu story. I've watched the whole series and couldn't wait for the third season! I hope you like this story.

The setting is inspired by the manga Almighty X10 by Mizuto Aqua. Any resemblances to said manga are rightfully the author's.

And I do not own Kuroko no Basket.

Chapter one: The Beginning

It was Monday afternoon, a few hours after school ended which was at one PM. Momoi Satsuki, a young female with long, cherry blossom colored hair was striding calmly from the Headmaster's room to a certain room not far away. She went inside and then rummaged her pocket for a key to one of the lockers inside the abandoned room.

It's funny how an elite, and secretive organization like them had some shady secret base with an entrance like that. An unused, dusty old room.

But then again, being a manager for them sure is handful, she thought as she tried to steady the papers that were grasped in her arms, at the same time her other hand desperately searching for the key.

After founding it she unlocked one of the metal locker and nipped over inside. Making sure she had turned on the lights by a switch on the wall, she locked back the door and then went down the stairs to a hidden room.

When she arrived, two of the members were already present.

"Ah, Momoicchi!" A blond greeted her while combing his hair and facing the mirror. She smiled at her friend.

"Ki-chan! You arrive early today, and you too Midorin." She remarked as she dusted off her uniform, earning a light chuckle from the blond, and a grunt from the other male.

Midorima Shintaro pushed up his glasses with his bandaged hand. "I come here only for the internet connection."

"Don't lie, Midorimacchi, you know that our dorm's WiFi is the fastest." Kise Ryota said with a sigh which earned a reply, "There's too much user so it became slow."

Momoi just giggled a bit, before coughed to attract their attention.

"Okay guys, I just got back from Shirogane-sensei and he told me we have a new mission." She began, and her words immediately halted any of Kise and Midorima's activities for a second or two, before both of them continued it once again.

Momoi shuffled her papers again, and informed her teammates "Keyword of this mission is searching'."

Midorima almost smirked after hearing the keyword. Searching and tracking had been his specialty after all. Meanwhile Kise was still listening to their manager intently.

"Our client is Kuroko Toshiyuki-sama."

The blond stopped combing his hair as hazel eyes already left the mirror, now staring at his manager. "Kuroko? As in, the Kuroko?"

"Yes, the founder and current chairman of Kuroko Insurance Company."

Kise stroke his chin. "Hee... That's interesting. And who're we going to search?"

"Actually, he wants us to search for his own daughter; Kuroko Tetsuka." Momoi informed them as both boys put on quizzical expression.

"His daughter? Why?" Midorima mused to his manager.

"Well, that's because this girl has been missing since a few months ago. The report says Kuroko Tetsuka had enrolled normal private schools and public schools until her father decided her to enroll home school. She was clearly not pleased with her father's decision, and one day, on the first day of new school year, just a few months ago, she ran away from her house."

"Didn't her father try to find her before coming to us for help?" Kise asked as he plopped down on one of the sofas. He would think Kuroko Toshiyuki as doofus if the man really didn't try anything.

"Of course he did. In fact, he'd sent his personal bodyguards but they all failed to catch her. They did succeed in locating her, but they 'always lost sight of her eventually'." Momoi informed them, quoting the words of her client's bodyguards that were written in the papers.

Both males' eyes grew wide slightly in shock. Now that's unlikely, a normal high school girl managed to evade professionally trained bodyguards. What did she do to escape from them? Even people that were good at hiding couldn't go that far.

That meant the problem didn't lie on locating her, but it actually lied on catching her. The question is; who will do it?

"Midorin, you will do the tracking as usual." Their manager said, walking towards a table where the green-haired teen sitting. "The data you'll be needing in the tracking is here; physical appearances, when she was last seen, pictures, even a little bit of CCTV recordings, but I'm sure you can find more by yourself! Oh, and it says that Kuroko Tetsuka always wears uniforms, she wears different one each day to hide herself, so be keen on it, Midorin. Ganbatte ne! " She winked at her friend as she handed out a few sheets of papers containing data which Midorima needed.

"Momoicchi, what about the on-field mission? Who will carry it out and bring our target to her father?" Kise asked. "You know this is not my field. Aominecchi and Murasakibaracchi are still on their mission, and—"

"I will do it."

An authoritative voice cut Kise's words as the three turned their heads in shock. There stood the leader of their team Akashi Seijuro with his usual cold expression.

"Akashi-kun," Momoi break the silence. "Did you say you would do the mission?"

The red head nodded at her. "That's correct."

"You never do missions, Akashi, since you are the leader. What's with the sudden change?" Midorima inquired, eyes sneering at the shorter teen. And their leader only smiled.

"Let's just say sometimes I want to try doing mission, just like you all. And it is a fortunate coincidence that we receive a mission from an important client like this." With his secretive smile, he explained to his teammates who were staring at him confusedly. "So I thought this would be a good chance."

Momoi sighed. "I understood. Well then, should I explain the mission detail once again, Akashi-kun?"

"No need. I have heard your explanation earlier. I will catch and bring back Kuroko Tetsuka by myself right after I receive information from Shintaro."

"But are you sure about doing this alone? This is your first on-field mission, after all. Maybe we could wait for Dai-chan, he could accompany you—"

"I assure you I can catch her all by myself. This could be my first mission, but I never fail at anything, and it will never happen." Akashi almost glared at her with his heterochromatic eyes, red and gold blazing with authority. "Don't question me, Satsuki."

The pinked haired girl flinched at the tone, and she only nodded in her fear. For some reason, even though she and other four members had known Akashi since middle school, she was still afraid of her own friend, especially when he glared like that.

Kise and Midorima both sighed at the scene before them. Meanwhile the greenhead tried to focus on his tracking instead, Kise decided to leave the room, and started to stride towards his room in the secret base to rest before shouting, "Ja, I'll be in my room then. Work hard, Midorimacchi, Momoicchi and Akashicchi!"

With those words Kise had somehow broke the heavy tension. His teammates stared, then Midorima and Akashi nodded at him.

The pink haired teen waved at her friend, "Un! Bye-bye Ki-chan!" And then she turned to their leader. "Okay then, Akashi-kun. As soon as Midorin finishes his work I'll send the results to you and you can begin your mission." She explained while realizing that the tension had somehow decreased because of Kise.

"Very well. I'll be waiting, Shintaro. It'll be better if you finish it soon, since we don't want to make our client wait for too long." Akashi demanded subtly.

The tracker only murmured "Understood." and his eyes were back on the computer screen again.

Satisfied with the answer, Akashi went to his room. The door slammed with an echoing thud.

And Momoi let out the breath she had been holding. Feeling relieved, she went to Midorima's desk and offered her help.

(Only to be rejected by the male.)

"Ne, Midorin... I wonder why does Akashi-kun suddenly want to do a mission." Momoi sat on an empty chair in front of the desk and put her elbow on the surface, fingers intertwining. "He's never interested in doing missions before, even though it's from important clients."

The greenhead sighed at her. "I have no idea," he said as fingers continued to type on the keyboard. "But knowing Akashi, he must have had a plan in his mind. He might be up to something."

"...Well, for Akashi-kun that's not really surprising."

Midorima nodded.

"Let's see what he's up to in this mission."

Meanwhile in the streets of Tokyo, specifically in Shibuya, a young female with baby blue hair shivered slightly.

I have a bad feeling…

The girl, Kuroko Tetsuka tried to shrug off the intuition as she stood up from the chair she was sitting at a small café, she patted out the imaginary dust on her skirt, then took the bill which she had already paid before walking out to the streets of Shibuya.

Today she wore a sailor uniform, summer version, of course due to the searing heat in the season. If she weren't mistaken, the uniform she wore is from Seirin high school. Different from the other school uniforms she got from usually second-hand stores, she got Seirin's uniform from a student there; her acquaintance, whose name is Aida Riko.

She met her when Riko accidentally spilled soda on the light-bluehead, after apologizing and even offering to wash the soaked clothes, she brought Tetsuka to the stranger's house and borrowed her some of her shirts. They chatted and Tetsuka told the older girl about her situation, and then Riko decided to lend her one of her uniforms (she had more than one apparently).

Riko also offered her to transfer to Seirin, if she wanted to. Tetsuka had said that she was interested, and would think about it.

But, the young female actually had problem in that. She didn't even know whether she could just transfer schools like she wanted.

Tetsuka checked her cellphone, seeing the time. It was three PM, finding nothing to do, she decided to visit the nearest theatre to watch a movie—

…

—Only to stop on her tracks when she felt a shiver down her spine. That was the second time for that day. Tetsuka increased her awareness to her surroundings, which made her guess that someone was currently following her.

Instead of looking around her, Tetsuka took steps towards one of the malls near her. Entering the mall, she searched the bookstore and visited it.

Inside, while browsing some novels she focused on her surroundings, she could still notice the presence of her stalker. She confirmed it. Someone was indeed following her. And of course, it must be one of her father's lackeys.

Ah, this wouldn't be that difficult.

Or so she thought.

Akashi watched his target exited the bookstore, as he started to move as well. Kuroko Tetsuka was exactly like what he thought. She had a small presence that he realized when he just started following her at the beginning, he actually almost lost the girl a few times before he got used to her invisibility. Appearance wise, she was not striking, she was plain, even though her baby blue colored hair was a bit eye-catching.

And he could feel something from her.

Something, like a potential, but more of unusual skill, if he could say it like that.

He was definitely interested in her, that's for sure.

Kuroko Tetsuka exited the mall, to the streets and he could see the girl slowed her steps. He followed her a little more, copying the tempo of her steps. After a few moments, the girl stopped. And she just stood there.

Akashi narrowed his eyes.

And then she turned around.

"…So, when will you stop following me?"

The question actually almost took the redhead by surprise. He smirked, feet already striding towards a certain maiden, as he revealed himself in a rather classy way, just the way he is.

"My, my," his velvety voice mused. "That's surprising."

A pair of light blue eyes stared at him, possibly in a (very) slight alarm though it was almost unseen by Akashi. "No, you are not surprised. You knew I have realized your presence from a while ago." She spoke monotonously.

The statement only made his smirk wider. He discovered something new about her again, that his client (or target) was a lot more perceptive than he had thought. Perhaps that is exactly why even her father's personal bodyguards had always failed—let alone to catch—to find her.

The fact that his client had given up on his own personal bodyguards and leaving the task to a group of teenagers almost made Akashi feed his pride.

But being a humble person he was, he didn't.

Instead, he felt honored. Akashi thought Kuroko Toshiyuki had made a right choice to give this task to them.

Now, now, let us professionals do the job.

But of course, he will make sure the way he did his job would put Kuroko Toshiyuki's personal bodyguards to shame.

"Kuroko Tetsuka-san, yes?" Akashi asked.

Ah, the redhead realize he automatically called her with the suffix '-san' instead of '-sama' like it was supposed to be. He refused to call anyone with '-sama'. No, not Akashi. Everyone in this job could call their clients with such suffix, but not Akashi Seijuro.

The bluenette before him didn't even flinch at him approaching her. Her expression had not changed at all, still remained indifferent as usual. Originally he wanted to praise her apathetic attitude, but then he chose to put on a business-tinted smile.

"Please forgive my rudeness to follow you like that," he began smoothly. "It must have caused inconvenience to you."

"What business do you have here with me?" Tetsuka asked straightforwardly, eyes still bore into his scarlet ones, unwavering.

He actually had to retain himself from responding with his usual authority-themed words and intonation, especially since she looked at him straight in the eyes. Then he answered her, "Kuroko Toshiyuki-san asked me to bring you back home. And I am sent from Almighty Company, you may call me No. 4."

A frown appeared on her lips, and he could guess that she was rather displeased by his answer. "I see." She nothing but murmured quietly before raising her chin and stared at him directly again, voice bold and clear as she raised her voice, "But I refuse to come with you."

Tetsuka saw the male's eyes of red and yellow widened slightly before he set down his head, his fringes hid some part of his actually good-looking face.

"Forgive me, Miss," he began, voice dropping low. Then he rose up his head, and smiled pleasantly, which made Tetsuka almost shivered. "But I cannot let my client be disappointed."

That's what it all took for Kuroko Tetsuka to start sprinting away from the redhead. Akashi, being his reflexive self immediately ran to catch up his target.

Being less visible than many people actually brought advantages to Tetsuka today. She was not a fast runner, but she was actually very agile, and with people not realizing her presence it'd been quite easy to get through the mass of crowd in Shibuya.

But of course, only running wouldn't make him stop catching her.

She turned one of the corners on the street, eyes darting between the streets and behind her. A certain redhead appeared from the corner and Tetsuka almost cursed inwardly before she sped up her dashing.

As her stamina started to betray her legs, the baby-blue haired female had to think up another plan to escape. And due to her aching legs, she knew she had to decrease the running.

Where oh where she should hide?

Going inside a store or building was truly risky, if her capturer missed her, it'd be safe. But if he even saw her went inside... It'd be dead end.

Finally running out of ideas and strength, Tetsuka decided on one, risky plan. She would blend with the crowd. She knew she had the ability to do so, since she had a small presence with no smell nor aura.

But still, it's a gamble, she thought solemnly as her legs kept running and running. If that guy managed to find her inside the crowd, it'd no less than a dead end-therefore, a game over.

Then again, gambling like this was still better than getting caught by his father, better than living in the hell on earth, named the Kuroko household. Better than her usual life living as the heiress of Kuroko family.

She had missed her freedom. She had claimed her freedom. And she wouldn't let it get away from her grasp.

Tetsuka turned another corner, halting her steps quickly.

And then she entered the crowding people of Tokyo.

Inside the crowds, she immediately went along walking with the pedestrians. She thought of something to hide her blue head, and she decided she would go along with a black wig that she brought with her. Quickly adjusting her wig, she then continued to walk inside the crowd.

So far, she had been safe. No redheads were seen.

It had been like this before, with her father's bodyguards. And usually after she blended in with the crowd, it would be game over for them. They would lost her and fail their mission once again. She was pretty use it would like that again.

After the throng of people became not that crowded anymore, and she realized she had walked quite a distance from the spot before, Tetsuka walked out and turned to find the nearest train station—

—Only to find her hand grasped by a certain redhead.

She glared at him, as he returned it, eyes hostile. How? How did he find her? She tried to pry her hand away to no avail. Much to her dismay, his grip got tighter.

"You cannot escape, Kuroko-san."

"Good afternoon, Kuroko Toshiyuki-sama."

Akashi stared at the pink-haired girl as she made a call to their client. He had finished his mission yesterday, even though it had some changes that were 'accidental'.

Not that he minded though.

"Yes, we are from Almighty Company and we would like to inform you about the progress of the search of Kuroko Tetsuka—Yes, yes. We have found her, Sir. In Shibuya, last night." She spoke in business-hinted tone. "However Sir, we have something to report.

As you requested, we used neither force nor violence to your daughter, but regrettably Kuroko Tetsuka does not want to come back to the house."

Smirking, Akashi could hear shouts of protest from the phone. Momoi started to look panic, and when she looked at their leader for help, he immediately gave a gesture to give the phone to him.

"Sir, it seems like our leader would like to speak with you. He personally will explain the situation to you, Sir. Excuse me." Panicking, Momoi almost tossed the phone to the redhead, which he caught without difficulties, but he was definitely not amused by Momoi's actions.

"Good afternoon, Sir. I am the leader of Almighty Company Senior Division, you may call me No. 4." Akashi introduced himself flawlessly and full of charisma he could hear Kuroko Toshiyuki's voice calmed down a bit after hearing him.

"Ah, yes. Could you please explain the situation? What did you mean by my daughter doesn't want to come home?"

"Very well Sir. Last night we had already talked to her, after we caught her, and she told us that she really minds to go back to the Kuroko Household, which she refused to explain why exactly." The redhead explained over the phone, "So to bring her back we had to bargain with her."

"Bargain? Can you explain more of this?"

"She will have her 'freedom' by not living in the Kuroko household—"

"Wait, what do you-"

"But in exchange, she will go to Teiko Academy. And I personally requested her to join Almighty Company Senior Division as a member." He heard a gasp from the phone.

"As one of you? Why my daughter? She never had any professional training of some sort."

"But she has the potential." Akashi said. "Will you approve of this?"

He heard nothing but silence, and a few sound of breathing. He decided to continue.

"She may not be living in your care. But at least you do not have to assign a professional bodyguard just to meet your daughter, since she will be living in the dormitory. And I assure you, Teiko Academy advances in both academics and non-academics. I am certain you have heard of this."

"Yes, I have, but…"

"Kuroko Tetsuka-san said herself that she will not mind if you visit her at Teiko."

"S-She said that?"

"Yes."

"Then... I suppose I could agree on this deal." The middle-aged men intoned.

Akashi let a smirk appeared on his lips.

"Thank you, No. 4."

"You are very welcome, Kuroko-san." And he put the phone off.

Momoi immediately came to his side, asking frantically. "He agrees, Akashi-kun?" The leader smirked, satisfied. "Of course."

The door opened, revealing Midorima. He walked to Akashi and asked him directly,

"This has been your plan from the start, isn't it?" His tone was nothing accusing, it was purely curiosity. Akashi found no offense in the question, and he only smiled meaningfully.

His vice-leader had already found out about it, hadn't he? The teen chuckled inwardly.

As expected from the perceptive Shintaro.

Everything was indeed going according to his plan. From him accepting the mission, until the target of the mission herself agreed to join their organization. Nothing went wrong.

But of course. Nothing will go wrong under his hands. Nothing will fail. He will never lose in anything, anything at all.

After all, Akashi Seijuro is absolute.

Kuroko Tetsuka stared at the wall in front of her, eyes empty.

She had finally accepted that male's offer. And to be honest, she didn't expect he would be interested in her.

"You cannot escape, Kuroko-san." He said coldly at her. She stared at him, eyes back to empty and almost expressionless as she got her temper in control again.

"I'm sorry, Number Four-kun. I don't want to go home." She expressed flatly.

"Do you hate you father that much?" the crimson-haired teen inquired, which made her raised an eyebrow.

"No, I don't hate him. I just don't like living in there." She answered truthfully. She didn't mind her father. Actually, she cared for him. But she loathed Kuroko Household, along with the waiters, maids, and butlers. She loathed them.

"How about I give you an offer?"

Tetsuka's eyebrows rose slightly. An offer? "What offer?" She demanded politely.

"Transfer to Teiko Academy, and you don't need to go back to your house." The Number Four said as the girl's aquamarine eyes went wide. "And one more thing, you will have to join us, Almighty Company."

"Why?"

He smirked.

"You have potential. And from the chase earlier, you have proven to me that your skill might be more than I imagine. That skill of yours caught my interest, Kuroko-san. We would need your help in our jobs and missions. That's why I want you to join."

Tetsuka thought that maybe their deal was not going to be that bad. Truthfully, she accepted the offer because of 60% wanting to get out of the house, and 40% curiosity of the organization. Or maybe it was actually 50:50.

…No. She was more interested in living out of the Kuroko household, of course.

(Voices in her head booed at her denial)

Anyway, after the light blue head accepted the offer, Akashi—he told her his name on their way back—led her back to this place, which turned out to be a secret room inside of the school building. They entered the place from another entrance, which was an old, unused stable or barn near the dormitory building. On their way to the base-camp, Akashi explained a bit about their organization.

Apparently, Almighty was a company where they train many young teenagers to excel in almost everything, which made them almost 'Almighty'—can do anything. There are three divisions; Junior Division—which was based in Middle School, Senior Division—High school, and the Main Division, which was based in mostly university level.

Tetsuka was going to join Senior Division, obviously, since she was in her second year.

But the team that she was going to join was different, according to Akashi. The team of six, including Akashi as their leader and a manager, consisted of especially skilled students.

People would call them the Elite Group of Almighty. And within the Almighty Company, they have a nickname; Generation of Miracles, since their skills and talents are just like miracles. (Tetsuka almost sweatdropped at this)

When they arrived at the base, Akashi explained something to a pink-haired girl, and then he told Tetsuka to stay in one of the empty rooms for the night.

And then they told her that the next day, she would be officially introduced to the team.

Which should be today.

Tetsuka heard a knock from the door, and she saw Akashi Seijuro.

"Tetsuka, it's time." He called. And for some reason Tetsuka forgot when did she allow him to call her by her first name. But not that she minded it that much.

She nodded at the redhead, before tying her long light blue hair into a ponytail, and then she stood up to follow the leader outside.

In the main hall which looked like a living room, two boys; one blonde and one wore glasses and had green hair were sat down on a sofa, and besides them standing was Momoi Satsuki who greeted her with a smile.

"Kuroko-san! Please come here." Momoi called her excitedly, probably happy with the existence of a fellow female in the group of boys.

Tetsuka could see the blonde's mouth gaped open. And the green haired boy's eyebrows furrowed. The newest member almost gulped.

"Okay, please introduce yourself. Don't be shy~"

The female nodded at the rosette. She took a deep breath, calming herself.

"My name is Kuroko Tetsuka. I will be Number Fifteen and will be training under the hands of Akashi-kun, a.k.a Number Four."

And that's how it all began.