Author's note: This is a one-shot I wrote waiting for class and thought it would be fun to upload. It's not very organized, but I hope you enjoy it when you read it. It's just a fun little story and it's not the only one that I plan to upload. This just happened to be the one I wanted the most.

*Chained*

I will remember a time….

When we were all happy….

The game was fast paced, no one could change the end score, but that didn't stop us from trying. We wouldn't give up till the sound of the buzzer. It was at the time I felt regret, for abandoning them with the thought that I'd bring them happiness. It was all pretty words in the end.

"You're basketball does work better with mine," the sounds reverberate within me. Shattering my very core at the words I didn't want to hear. My arms and legs feeling heavy, as if I were chained just by those words.

That can't be true. I can't be that weak, no matter what anyone says. What can I do to prove that this isn't all I can do?

"Kuroko, you should stop passing the ball to me," the person I thought I could count on, tore away even more of my heart. Shifting my own pity and regret into an even deeper hole.

To think, I'm really this weak. I can't beat any of them and I can't help the one person I made that promise to. Why did I make that promise for anyways? Wasn't it my selfishness from the start? I just asked someone without the consent or the thought of the other party in question.

"Hey, Kuroko, why did you choose me as your light?" he asked.

"You're right, I didn't have to pick you as my light. It could have been anyone," I said betraying no emotion that I was feeling.

"I thought you'd say that," he said tossing the ball to me.

"It could have been anyone, I wander why you?" I spoke my thoughts.

"Eh! You don't like me being you light?" he asked as I him a soft smile with no words to answer as I tossed him the ball high. Knowing that he picked up the high ball and dunked it in. A smile just like always gracing his lips pulling me toward him. A light feeling lifting deep inside me, so small to even notice.

I felt freer than when I was in middle school. I was always hiding the shadow, encouraging and helping my lights through the games. It became lonelier and lonelier as they stopped believing in me. Making my existence smaller and eventually I wasn't of use to them anymore.

Kagami-kun is really amazing. Just as, or maybe more than the Generation of Miracles. A true light.

"Akashi-kun found your hidden potential?" the coach asked as I nodded in response.

"He must be super strong," a sempai said.

"More so than you can imagine. Even now, I can't explain what he is like," I said felling the same heaviness I'd felt when going against and losing to Aomine-kun.

"We'll definitely win," Kagami-kun said and everyone around me agreed. I looked at them. The heavy feeling slowly fading away.

I am a shadow that assists the light, what was the first person to tell me that? When did I end up living in the shadows of the great people around me. I was nothing compared to them, not a genius, just a normal student with an outward hollow presence. Going through life without being noticed had been fine till those dual colored eyes found me. At the time they weren't dual colored but normal irises. It was his words that put me in the empty world I was now living.

On court my eyes locked with the heterochromatic red and gold irises. They were the all knowing, all seeing eyes that even the Generation of Miracles were afraid of. He was the presence that put everyone to their fullest potential. It was our former captain that was more amazing then anyone really could understand.

Was it necessary to keep me in a mindset of being the invisible, unnoticeable, but powerful shadow with passing capabilities? Was it really okay to make me the being I am now?

The two teams lined up their starting members.

Wasn't I just as strong? Couldn't I get stronger? So why did everything end up the way they did? Chaining me to them with the words light and shadow. Forcing me to disregard my true power. My true potential.

"Tetsuya," his voice held the same, usual tone, as well as an undertone I could not place.

"Akashi-kun," I bowed in respect to my former captain. Despite everything, my respect is greater than anything else.

"Don't hold back, you aren't the confined prodigy I raised anymore," he said in a whisper that I could only hear. My eyes raising to his colorful, alluring eyes. My own surprise showing, barely, on my face.

"I won't, Akashi-kun," I said as the game started with the jump ball. It landed quickly into our hands. My own weight caring me on the court, a loosening feeling on my whole body, as if the chains were really coming off. The chain I slowly chipped away till I've found my place. By the side of a team that cares for the sport and the people who enjoy playing it too.

Goodbye to the Shadow I'd lived as, and welcome to the light I'd create for myself.

I remember a time when we were happy….

It all had been fake….

I won't regret that fake happiness…

I was all a part of us even now.

End Note: I want to hear feed back, to see what other's think about this. Maybe I'll upload more like this if I find the time.