Tory: Hello everyone.
Tara: Hi!
Tory: Since me and my sister have been obsessed with Kuroko no Basket for the past three months, we decided to finally write a story.
Tara: 'We'? It was your idea. I wanted to write a story for Free!, but no!
Tory: Anyway, we hope you'll enjoy the story.
Tara: They better because we worked hard on this!
Tory: 'We'? I was the one who typed it all...
Tara: Whatever. Here's the summary:
People often say you won't know how much something means to you until it's to late. Kagami Taiga finally understands it's not the 'what', but the 'who'.
Tory: Ok. Here is the disclaimer-
Disclaimer: We do not own Kuroko no Basket. If we did, you wouldn't want to know what we would do...
Tara: On with the story!
Kagami had woken up this morning feeling uneasy. He was just lying in bed thinking. He had the urge to call in sick today even though he wasn't sick at all. It wasn't that he didn't want to go to school and see his horrendous grade. If anything, they had gotten better thanks to a certain bluennette.
That was the problem, the bluennette.
Kagami had had a fight with his shadow Kuroko Tetsuya. It had been a simple fight, it had even been about each other's eating habits. It was over at Maji Burger on Friday. They had been sitting in comfortable silence eating until Kuroko had decided to comment on how Kagami eats to much.
The argument didn't start out heated, but only God himself knows how it got that way. The argument they had was a fuzzy memory to Kagami, but that wasn't what bothered him. It was what he had ended up saying at the end of the argument that he had regretted.
"No wonder Aomine left you behind"
Of course he hadn't meant it at all in the first place. He had said it in the heat of the moment, but regardless he had said it.
The reaction he ended up getting was an expression not seen often on the bluennett. Hurt was evident on the shadow's face and what he said next, left Kagami utterly speechless and feeling empty. He had replied to the insult in a soft tone.
"I'm sorry I try..."
Kuroko then got up without saying anything else and walked out of the fast food restaurant.
Kuroko and Kagami hadn't spoken to each other since then and now it was Monday. They had school and they sat near each other, plus basketball practice. No use in avoiding each other. I'll just apologize to Kuroko when I see him, it was all my fault after all.
With that thought, Kagami got up from his bed to get ready for school. Before heading into the restroom to shower for school, Kagami glanced at his calendar hanging on the wall. Kagami noted that winter break was near.
Today was December 15th.
When Kagami had arrived to his classroom, he was quite surprised to not see Kuroko there. Usually Kuroko would've been here before Kagami.
Kagaim took his seat and waited. As time passed, homeroom started and Kuroko was yet to arrive. The teacher had started roll call. It was going smoothly until it fell upon a certain name.
"Kuroko Tetsuya." the teacher called out.
He didn't get a response which didn't surprise him for he could never hear him for some reason.
"It looks like he's absent today." the teacher trailed off etching his pencil near the paper to mark him absent. Once he got there he stopped and lingered there. He waited and expected Kuroko to suddenly appear near him and simply say 'I've been here the whole time.' The whole class anticipated the sudden appearance, but it never came.
"I guess he really isn't here." the teacher finished and with that, the man marked Kuroko absent.
Kagami had thought that was odd, Kuroko almost never missed school. Kuroko was a above average student in school and of course a great basket ball partner. He would try to not miss school to avoid extra homework (and more intense training from Aida). It had to be something serious for Kuroko to miss school.
'He must be really sick.' thought Kagami.
With that, Kagami continued on with the rest of his school day noting to go to Kuroko's house after practice to see if the small boy was okay.
Once everyone came out of the locker room, Aida Riko the couch announce a few things on how to improve their skills before lifting her whistle to start training. Before she could though, she was interrupted.
"Um, Where's Kuroko?" Furihata asked. The team looked around for him to suddenly appear, but instead they got a reply from Kagami.
"He's absent today."
The others looked at Kagami with questioning looks.
"Why?" Furihata had questioned.
"I have no idea. Honestly, we haven't seen or spoke to each other in days." Kagami answered.
The rest of the team found this strange. Those two were basically inseparable. It was like the two were dating each other in which, they didn't mind. They found that if the two do actually date one another, their teamwork would be amazing.
Kagami wouldn't admit it, but he had a thing for his little partner. It started ever since they had won the Winter cup and Kuroko had kept his promise to make their team the best in Japan. He had been so happy at the revelation, that he had ended up hugging the pale boy. When he had realized what he had done, he quickly let go. what he got was a smiled that graced the small boy's face. It sent the red-head's mind into a fuzzy haze and his face to heat up at the heavenly sight.
Every time the red-head so much as looked at the bluennete, his heart rate would quicken and if Kuroko looked back, Kagami's face would take on a light shade of pink. The thought of Kuroko one day catching Kagami staring at the shadow was embarrassing enough. Whenever Kuroko decides to place a light smile on his soft lips, Kagami would feel like he's past cloud nine and would have the urge smile right back.
"We sort of had a fight." Kagami said to answer their looks.
When Kagami mentioned the fight, they understood. This happens sometime. They would fight, not talk for a day or two, one of them would apologize (most times Kagami) and they go back to being partners. Even so, Kagami had mentioned not talking for more than two days and that has got them worried.
"I'll go to the office and ask about Kuroko." says Hyuuga breaking the silence. With that he leave and practice starts.
Not long after, Hyuuga comes back and he looks like he had just experienced a near death experience. He hesitantly walked over to Aida who was worried at the look he gave her. Hyuuga told her something and Riko blew her whistle signaling everyone to gather around. Everyone gathered around, confused as to why they were called. Hyuuga looks over everyone, then started talking, reluctantly.
"I had asked the women up at the desk to see if Kuroko called in sick." he had started. He then looked down for a brief moment. He then looked back up and looked pained before continuing.
"It appears. That Kuroko has been missing for the past 36 hours."
The news settle in for a while. Dread settle into the pit of everyone's stomache. Kagami's mind froze.
"What?" Kagami thought this was some kind of joke, a cruel one at that, but the look on Hyuuga said this was no joke. He hardly ever joked. Aida started to tear up from the news, while the rest the team just simply stood in a silence full of dread.
"It's what I said." was Hyuuga's response.
At this Kagami started to freak out. He started yelling about random things about Kuroko and how he was strong and would never go missing. It was a while until Aida and Hyuuga were able to calm him down. Kagami couldn't believe this. How could his partner just disappear like that? How could the love of his life be gone? This shouldn't be happening was all Kagami could think.
"What are we supposed to do now?" asked Koganei, even his cat-like face looking sad.
"I'm not sure." mumbled Izuki.
Kagami was still feeling his world was just tumbling down. While thinking how the blue haired teen, he then thought of a blue haired women. Kuroko's mom! The women has her son missing. She was probably devastated. She was probably the one who called to report her son missing. She most likely needed some company.
"We should visit Kuroko's home." Kagami said firmly, finally calmed down. "Kuroko's mom must be feeling horrible from the fact that her only son is missing."
Everyone considered this, it would be good to pay their respect for Kuroko's family after what they've been through. Everyone eventually agreed to do so, cutting practice short since they didn't have the energy to even shoot a basket anymore.
After changing, the team headed to Kuroko's house. As the group walked, Kagami trailed behind the group slow enough to be last and fast enough to keep with the pace. He stayed there and kept quiet. Everyone else in the group chatted quietly, some talking about Kuroko and why he might missing and others obviously avoiding the subject.
As they neared Kuroko's house, Riko decided to fall back with Kagami. Kagami noticed this and decided to speak up.
"Hi Riko." Kagami greeted.
"Hey Kagami." she replied. She was quiet for a bit until she spoke up again. "So, about Kuroko," she started, "It must be hard to take in the information."
"It is." Kagami said. "Even though I feel, empty," he said looking at his hands as if they held an answer he needed. He continued, " The one who I'm worried about is Aysel."
Riko gave Kagami a cofused look until he answered, " Kuroko's mom is named Aysel. She's from Greece. She moved from there to here for school. She eventually met Kuroko's dad and it was love at first sight."
Riko smiled at this. Even though Kagami was scared and confused, he was still able to make light conversation. He must visit Kuroko a lot to know about the blunnette's parents.
"That's good to hear." she said. "Are you sure you'll be ok?"
"To be honest, I don't know." was all Kagami said. He wore a worried look. How could this happen to the most precious person in the world to him.
"Well, at least he isn't dead." Riko stated with a saddened look on her face.
"I just hope you're right." was Kagami's replied. They finally arrived at Kuroko's house. Riko was the one who rang the doorbell. Once the door opened, they were met with a short young woman with long light blue hair. She had the appearance of a foreigner. She however looked tired and seemed lifeless.
The woman looked up at the teens in front of her. She let her eyes wonder until they landed on the red head. As soon as her eyes landed they widened and she then sprinted to him, in which Kagami was quick to embrace her. The women once in the comfort of the red head's hug, broke down in to tears.
"Oh, Kagami!" she exclaimed.
"Shh, It's ok Aysel." Kagami started saying comforting words to the young mother.
"He's gone! I haven't seen him in days! I'm so worried and... WAH!" Aysel broke down once again.
"It'll be fine." Kagami said softly. When Aysel was able to calm down, the group headed inside in which Aysel lead them to the living room.
Once they were all seated and situated, they all said their condolences. Once they were done, Aysel was able to thank them all. The women finally looking more peaceful but still had tears running down her cheeks.
The young beautiful woman was one who would smile at just about anything of good humor, was full of sadness. She was someone kind at heart and pure in nature. She was pretty, smart and young for her age. She married and had Kuroko when she was 19. She had moved to study abroad in Japan from Greece at an age of 17. She was a prodigie in Physics and was to attend a college in Japan.
There she met Kuroko Taiyou and it was love at first sight. They were able to get to know each other more thanks to the drama club where they had first met at. He had helped her with Japanese, while she helped him with his business degree. After dating for two years, they eventually became engaged turning Anthes Aysel to Kuroko Aysel. They then had a son whom they had named Kuroko Tetsuya.
Aysel having only one son worried her if something bad were to happen to him. Now that that was happening, she felt like her world was falling apart. Her only son she loved to bits was missing and possibly dead.
She had the urge to start wailing but with Kagami embracing her stopped the idea. He was such a nice kid.
"Not to be rude, but could you explain to us what happened?" asked Furihata asked the young blue haired women.
"No, not at all." she replied.
"Well, it was Saturday afternoon. It was around 7 P.M. I decided I should get dinner ready and I decided to make Kuroko's favorite since he seemed so sad ever since he came home on Friday."
With this everyone including Aysel looked over at Kagami. In response to the looks, Kagami looked away and had on a worried look. Aysel continued her explanation.
"I started cooking without realizing I was missing some ingredients. So I had asked Tetsuya to do a quick errand and buy what I needed at the convenient store. He soon left after saying, ' I'll be right back mum. Love you.'"
"The was the last thing he said to me and that was the last time I saw him."
"An hour later he hadn't come back and I was slightly worried. It shouldn't take that long, but I kept waiting in case he had run into a small problem and would arrive soon. I had waited all night long and it was soon 6:15 in the morning and that was when I knew he wasn't coming back."
Aysel soon started to tear up again. Soon enough, she broke down and hid her face against Kagami's shoulder. With this, Riko started to sob into Hyuuga's chest while he embraced her. Furihata had ended up lightly crying from the sight of the women crying while everyone else just felt pure sadness. Their star player and dear friend is suddenly gone and nowhere to be found.
Kagami felt like he was about to cry but didn't. He needed to stay strong for Aysel.
They just hope they can find him soon.
It started to get late, the result everyone leaving. They had all left one by one saying goodbye to Aysel. Everyone had eventually left. All except for Kagami.
Kagami and Kuroko were close enough to the point to were they go to each other's house every so often. With this. the result was Kagami getting to know Kuroko's parents. He got to know Kuroko's mom and how she's a stay at home physicist. As well as, knowing his dad was often away on business trips and is rarely at home.
Kagami was aware Aysel is a sensitive young women and knows with what she's going through, she needs someone there with her at the moment. Knowing Kuroko's dad, he'll try to get of work as soon as he hears the news, but will take time because of his job being strict.
Kagami had offered Aysel the company, in which she happily agreed. He would stay until Kuroko was found. He needed to be here when he comes back, and he will. He'll stay as long as he needed.
Since it was late to go get his stuff at the moment, Kagami had settle onto the couch with a blanket and a pillow that Aysel had lent him.
"Good night Kagami."
"Good night."
Aysel soon left for the stairs after turning the light off. Still in his uniform, Kagami made sure he heard the door to Aysel's room close before pulling out his phone. He looked though his contacts to find a certain person's name. When he found it he sent a text to the person. Not waiting for an answer, Kagami closed his phone and put it on the coffee table near him.
Kagami then closed his eyes in an attempt to sleep. After hours, sleep finally found Kagami and he was able to sleep getting his mind of the text he had just sent. He was wondering why he had sent it fully knowing he wouldn't get a reply.
From: Kagami
Subject: Please
Hey Kuroko? Where are you?
Tara: Tory, the characters seem a little OOC...
Tory: Well sorry for trying to make the story interesting.
Tara: And is Kuroko half Greek?
Tory: Yup.
Tara: That is awesome.
Tory: Well if we get enough reviews, I'll continue the story.
Tara: You do that, I have a project of my own.
Tory: What is it about?
Tara: The fans, or how you call it 'readers', will have to wait when I'm done.
Tory: Ok... I don't really care, as long as I can continue the story by myself.
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