A/N- This is my first fanfiction ever so please go easy on me. This is just a prologue I want to try. Depending on what your reaction will be, I might or might not continue this. See you guys at the end notes!

Summary- Kuroko Tetsuya dies temporarily. When coming back to the living, he realizes that he's still half-dead. With a body that has no signs of life, how will he change the Generation of Miracles?

Phantom

Prologue

After Teiko vs Meiko Match…

"Why… did you have to play that kind of game?" questioned Kuroko.

"The difference between our strength is huge anyway. No matter what we do the results won't change." answered Akashi.

"Having to play seriously even though they're so much weaker than us is sort of..." Kise trailed off.

"-Of course it's much more boring if we went all out. You're too nice, Kuro-chin~ Right Mido-chin?" Murasakibara continued for Kise.

"I only do my best to fulfill my role." Midorima replied nonchalantly.

"Why is it that the stronger ones can't enjoy the match? It's their fault they can't make a comeback. I even want them to apologize for such a sorry excuse of a match." answers Aomine with a bored face.

Kuroko stays quiet for a moment. "Still, to me, that match's victory was much more worse than all the hardships I've had to go through." He pauses, then continues, "I don't want to see that scene again. It's impossible to forget everything so... I'll quit basketball."

oOoOo

Kuroko was on his way home from leaving his resignation letter in Coach Sanada's office. He kept replaying the end of the Interhigh finals in his mind.

'...Kuroko...' Ogiwara's heart-wrenching expression played in Kuroko's mind until…

Beep beep beep

A truck's honking was the only warning he had. The next moment his body was slammed, pushing air out of his lungs, and leaving him with excruciating pain.

Kuroko couldn't comprehend what was going on around his surroundings. All he could see was black spots filling his vision until he passed out.

oOoOo

It was cold. Shivers went down Kuroko's spine as he rubbed his hands together in a fruitless effort to warm them. His surroundings were unfamiliar. He stood on black, murky lake with a thick fog around him. He had no idea where he was.

He thought back to his last memories, and gasped.

He was dead.

The change in scenery would support that claim. There was also the fact Kuroko couldn't feel any life in his body. No heartbeat, no weight, no blood rushing in his veins. He was lifeless.

But there was the question of where this place could lead him. He couldn't tell whether he was in hell or heaven. How would he even know what either of those places looked like.

"Nii-chan!"

Kuroko tensed at the unexpected high pitched voice. He turned to face no one.

"Mo~ I'm right here!"

Kuroko looked down to a child… A child. In such a spooky place. Then a thought came to him. 'Is she the same as me? Dead?'

"Hah? I'm not dead. I'm the guardian of this place. What do Japanese call it again? Shingimi?" The child answered as if reading his thoughts (cause there's no way his expression gave anything away).

"I think you're referring to Shinigami."

"Yeah! That's it! I'm something like that." The child beamed at Kuroko.

"So… I' m really dead?" asked Kuroko with a bit of hesitancy.

The child gave him a sad smile and answered, "Yeah… sorry Nii-chan." Something clicked in her expression that had her giving Kuroko a toothy grin. "Ah, but you don't have to be! Your death was kinda unintentional, so you can go back to the living if you want to!"

Kuroko wasn't expecting that. He had sort of come to terms that he was dead, and he just felt like he was just pranked on. "I'm not permanently like this?"

"Nope! Hehe!" giggled the child.

Kuroko still had on his blank face, but there was a relaxed aura around him. "Then, if it's not too much trouble, could you lead me the way back?"

"Of course!"

The child took hold of Kuroko's hand and ran happily through the fog. The fog cleared as they made their way through. Soon, they reached a part of the lake where it was clear blue, much like the living world's.

The child turned to him as they stepped on the blue lake. "Hopefully, I won't have to see you again, Nii-chan!" The child gave a big grin. "See ya!"

Kuroko's hand was released and as soon as it was, he dropped into the clear blue lake. He was drowning and tried to keep air in his lungs, but realized how pointless it was considering he's half-dead. As Kuroko relaxed, darkness once again took over his vision.

oOoOo

"Mm," Kuroko stirs awake to find a white ceiling and a clinical smell. It was obvious he was in a hospital room. He was groggy from the drugs but was still able to observe his surroundings a bit more.

He roamed his eyes around the room, and shifted in his bed to support the crane of his neck. He noticed the deathly silence in the room. Not even the heart monitor was obnoxiously beeping… 'What?'

Kuroko turned his head to the machine beside the bed. Honestly, he should've freaked out, would have freaked out, but the amount of shock was enough to freeze him physically and mentally.

The heart monitor was completely silent with no heart rate.

As Kuroko gathered his thoughts, the only words that uttered from his mouth was…

"What the fuck." (Aomine would be so proud of his upgrade in vocabulary)

End Notes- So? What'd ya think? I'm sorry (Not really) for the ooc Kuroko at the end, but even as Kuroko as he is, I don't think he would just keep a blank face at the fact that he's DEAD. Like I said before, depending on what you guys think, I'll continue this. I was originally going to have Kuroko transparent instead of being in a dead body. Tell me if you guys still want that, I'll squeeze it in somehow.