Disclaimer:I do not own Kuroko no Basket or the characters

Rated M

Summary: His eyes blankly starring back at me, I feel like I'm being sucked into those eyes like a black hole, and I just can't bear to tear my gaze away.. As much as I'd like to.

Chapter 1

Kagami POV

Once again the coach never ceases to amaze me, how she can pull strings to get practice matches against powerful teams like Kaijou is beyond me but I can't complain. Having a reason to go one-on-one against Kise is more than a treat, every time I see that guy he just keeps getting better and better at such a short period of time too, it's really amazing to see the skills of the Generation of Miracles but out of all of them, Kise is the one I can get along with the most. Yeah he is rather pretty confident about his skills, why wouldn't he be? He has the talent but even though he is confident he's not arrogant or ignorant like the others except for Kuroko of course.

"Feels like yesterday we walked on these grounds!" Koga excitedly states.

Walking through Kaijou High's grounds is making me even more excited just knowing in a few minutes I'll be facing against Kise. Knowing him, he's probably going to use that perfect copy or will he? The fact that it's just a practice match will he go all out? I want to see if I can stop him this time, even though I was in the zone the last time we played against each other I was not able to stop him once in his perfect copy. I want to go all out again.

As we enter Kaijou's gym, something feels odd, unlike last time we came here the gym was full of noise of players practicing right now the gym was silent. None of the Kaijou players had their jerseys on and all wore a grim expression on their face. I looked at Kuroko and a quick glance to the others; I could tell they had the same uneasy feeling as I did as the Kaijou's coach walked to us.

"I'm afraid there won't be any practice match today." He says with a low voice with a gloomy expression to match it.

"Err- why not? Is there something wrong?" The coach asks, I could not tell if she was annoyed or disappointed.

"Where is Kise-kun?" Kuroko's question caught me by surprised, for a moment I had forgotten that he was standing next to me but something was wrong by the reaction of the team as they jolted their heads to look into our direction to only lower their heads as if in shame, this did not feel right.

"Kise…" The Kaijou coach broke the long silence as he searched for his words. "Kise is missing…"

"What do you mean missing?" I felt my stomach drop and before I could stop myself the question blurted out, it was insensitive and I knew all too well what the coach had meant but no, I just can't accept that. It had to be some sort of mistake.

"He did not enter his home last night…" Kasamatsu quietly spoke not bothering to even look at us.

"There won't be any practice for today…" The coach says as he turns around and makes his way towards the exit.

"I'm going to look for Kise." Kasamatsu declared as he stormed out of the gym followed by the rest of the team. Even though Kuroko did not say a word I could tell that Kise's disappearance worried him, of all the people here who knew him the best, it was Kuroko.

"We should help Kaijou in search for Kise."

"I agree coach so who's in?" Hyuuga asks.

"Whoa guys! Don't jump to conclusion here! Kise just probably got some sort of bratty tantrum or something. He's probably going to show up any time soon." Kawahara nervously blurts out as he scratches his head as if he was hoping that it would hide his embarrassment for stating something of such.

"Kise-kun would not do something like that." Kuroko's voice was in a tone I had never heard from him before, he was concerned and I did not blame him. He pulls out his phone from his pocket quickly flipping it open and dials a number which was probably Kise's. After a few seconds he flips the phone and puts it back in his pockets with a worried expression plastered on his face. "Just the fact that he's not answering, I don't like it."

Aomine POV

"Thanks Tetsu, I'll look on my end." What a mess this has turn out to be… I dial Kise's number once Tetsu hung up; all I got was an endless ringing followed by Kise's voice mail. It sure was not like Kise to not answer his phone, okay maybe sometimes he would be unreachable but he always called back without delay. Tetsu had been calling Kise none stop but nothing. I don't know why I was calling him over and over again, each time I received the exact same thing, an almost endless ringing. I never hated the sound so much as I do right now, what the hell are you up to Kise? I just can't help but feel like this is just not like you to play hide and seek like this.

"Dai-chan, do you have any idea where we could look?" Satsuki asks, her face screams with worriedness but she is fighting to keep her emotions in check. We've known Kise for so long now; he was always after me in Teiko for one-on-one matches and with those times, even though Kise would get angry or upset he never disappeared like this. Even if he did to get some alone time, he would never ignore our phone calls.

"I don't know Satsuki…" Was all I could answer her as I continued to dial his number. Come on Kise just pick up the damn phone already!

"I asked the team if they would help in searching, they said yes."

"That's good." Yeah good, looks like everyone in the area were looking for Kise. Tetsu had called Midorima for information earlier, even though Midorima acts like he does not care he did not sound to reluctant to go on a search party with the rest of Shoutoku from what Tetsu had told me. He even took on the liberty of calling Murasakibara and Akashi to ask if they knew anything. Honestly it would have surprised me if Murasakibara actually knew something but even Akashi had no clue but Midorima told Tetsu that Akashi would keep an eye and ear open for anything in particular.

As we walked a familiar sound caught my ear, I suddenly stop and turn towards an alley ignoring Satsuki's questions. I cut the call and the sound stopped, maybe all this stress is started to get to me as I redial Kise's number, after a few seconds here it was again the same familiar sound and I cut the call again followed by silence.

"Dai-chan you're scaring me."

"Satsuki stay here." I tell her as I enter the alley, redialling the number followed by the familiar sound again… I knew that sound. I knew it all too well but… No… It's just a coincidence is what I keep telling myself as I keep walking towards the sound as it stops when I get Kise's voice mail.

I suddenly feel strange, I feel numb, and I feel like I'm stuck in ice. Garbage on the ground covered with a tarp so neatly placed and yet so poorly covered as my eyes is stuck on the glimpse of filthy blonde hair that lay uncovered. I put my phone in my pocket as I slowly reach for the tarp, carefully pulling it to reveal what I had feared but knew deep down. Kise… His eyes blankly starring back at me, I feel like I'm being sucked into those eyes like a black hole, and I just can't bear to tear my gaze away.. As much as I'd like to. His face his smeared with blood, his once golden hair is now stained crimson… Blood so much blood, all I see is red and those empty eyes staring back at me.

"Aomine-kun!" A voice snaps me back to reality, how long had he been there I wonder?

"It's him… It's Kise…" Was all I could manage to say, unable to turn my gaze away. Kise… What happen?

I will end chapter 1 like this, tell me what you think about it, leave a review ;)