A Cold Shadow
Kuroko had always been different, strange, an enigma. His parents knew him to be different as soon as he was born on January 31st. His body was cold, not warm like any other newborn child. It was as if he had been laid in a blizzard before being handed to his mother's awaiting hands. He was proven even more different than anyone originally thought when he was two years old.
He had just had his second birthday two weeks previous, and he was outside with his parents. It was snowing, but Kuroko wasn't showing any signs of being cold even though he was only wearing a thin shirt and shorts. His body temperature didn't change, and he behaved as if it was summer. He didn't shiver, didn't sneeze, didn't catch a cold, didn't complain. In fact, he seemed happier with the cold than he did in heat. It wasn't until he turned five that anyone knew why.
This time it was the summer six months after his fifth birthday, and he was sitting in the living room. His parents had gotten new jobs abroad, and had little time to be with him. Now was one of those times that they had to hire a babysitter to watch after him. His babysitter was in the room with him when he complained that it was too hot. The babysitter was confused, as it was only sixty seven degrees in the house. Her confusion turned to shock as Kuroko raised a hand into the air, and it began to snow. Inside the house. The babysitter had told the parents about it, and they realized that Kuroko had a special ability only seen one before, many centuries ago. He had the ability to use anything pertaining to ice, snow or anything cold at his will.
Everything was just fine until a mere year later Kuroko had an accident with is ability. He was playing with his babysitter when it went wrong. She had slipped on the ice inside the house, and he attempted to catch her fall with his ability. His aim was off, and he struck his caretaker in the heart with it instead. His parents found him a few hours later on a trip home, crying in fear in a corner of the room he struck his babysitter in. His parents were horrified when they saw her lying, dead, on the kitchen floor. He was told to never use his powers around other people again, and was given black wristbands to help him control his power. Another babysitter was not hired again after that incident, leaving Kuroko to fend for himself until his parents returned again.
It was when he was ten years old that he was truly left alone. His parents had been home for Christmas for the first time in three years, and they had stayed for a week before returning to work. While they were on the plane, a blizzard formed in the middle of their flight. The pilot lost control of the plane, sending all three of them into the ocean below. The news was broken to Kuroko on his eleventh birthday via a news report he was watching in the television. After that incident, he was no longer Kuroko. He was simply an emotionless shadow that was invisible unless he spoke, the real Kuroko buried deeply under his exterior.
He continued going to school, and found joy in a sport called Basketball. He spent his middle school days at Teiko playing said sport, and had been welcomed into a group of people that were the closest thing he had to friends. He was recognized by the five other boys as the phantom sixth member of the Generation of Miracles, a group of –previously- five basketball prodigies. His closest almost-friend was Aomine Daiki, the light to his shadow. Aomine was his most compatible partner. This all changed when the Generation of Miracle's views changed as well. They no longer wanted to work as a team, which was all Kuroko's basketball was centered around. They all began to believe that victory was best earned individually, and even Aomine had stopped working with Kuroko, leaving him alone yet again. The entire thing was extremely painful for him, and he grew to hate basketball. Hating something you loved was even more painful yet, so he quit the Teiko basketball team. He left, never intending to return. Instead, he went to a new school, one that only just formed last year. Seirin Academy, the place where everything would change.