Bands of Black and Blue

by Classically Cliche

There is something about you that makes me willing to withstand the pain of both distance and time. But when all else falls away, you can remember that you once had me. 30themes with Aomine/Kuroko - varying between close friendship and strong romance.

1. seamlessly we begin anew

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BANDS OF black AND blue

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an aomine/kuroko anthology { 3oprompts } by classically cliche

format filched from dreamz ; prompts inspired by 52flavorsLJ

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o1 : seamlessly we begin anew

Although the summer sessions have already started, the Teikou locker rooms are as deserted as they'll ever be. There are a couple students, meandering in their lost little paths, they could be first years - or third years - it would hardly make a difference.

He towers over everyone else, number five jersey defiantly tossed over his undershirt, striding into the kingdom that used to be his own.

It makes sense, he reasons, because in a few short weeks, he will be attending high school, will naturally make first string on his team and go on to crush many futilely-fighting opponents. And he will do it alone, because he is the Ace of the Generation of Miracles and he does not need anyone.

'Aomine-kun,' he hears, snapping his head in the direction of the voice. There's a short little boy - bright blue eyes and mop of blue hair - and he looks nothing like him and Aomine refuses to think of the similarities because they do not exist.

All the same, he reaches his hand forth, attempting to grasp what he could never have.

"Traitor," he grinds out, believing every syllable.

The illusion vanishes faster than he can blink, and Aomine Daiki of the Generation of Miracles is left standing alone in his old locker room, closed fist around nothing but air, while the other athletes (who are here, no doubt, for summer training) awkwardly make their way around him.

"Excuse me," a nameless face in the crowd asks a neigh-invisible bystander. "Are you a student here at Teikou?"

There is a ghost of a smile, fluttering past his lips, before Kuroko Tetsuya politely shakes his head. "Not anymore, anyways," he replies - the same wispy expression on his face - before turning away. The Teikou student is unable - although he is impelled - to pose a single question, standing in silence as he watches - what he supposes to be his senior - make his way out of the middle school locker rooms.

It is a typical act of hubris, Aomine later thinks (after he refuses to believe his eyes), for a criminal to return to the scene of the crime.

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