A/N: Hello, this is the first ever story that I have written and feel that it's good enough to submit so far. please be kind and tell me what you think. I came up while in class, just being a normal student who daydream instead of learning. I was curious as to how it would have been if Kuroko was the one manipulating the GoM and others. After all, he is a shadow. And no one would notice if he did something. Also, I feel like Kuroko should be smart, like intelligent. IQ of over 200 or something... just sayin'
Note: gramma error, OOC-ness, Dark!Kuroko, Yaoi-ness, Kuro x All, etc.
Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basuke isn't mine.
Of Manipulation and Obsession.
Chapter 1. Of Parting, Delivering News and Confusion.
Shadow. Quite a nickname, don't you think?
People might believe shadow is created by light. But what they overlooked is that shadow can be everywhere, whether it's light or dark, strong or dim. Being in the shadow, people wouldn't notice you, adding up to his lack of presence. He can observe them silently. Lead and manipulate them to do just as he wants without anyone else noticing. Just as he wants them to.
As the light began to glow brighter, the shadow shift longer.
But when it gets too bright, the shadow began to vanish…
And he doesn't like that.
He wants them down.
- S -
"Tetsuya, you want to see me?"
Akashi Seijurou scans the locker room, trying to search for the person who he supposed to meet. It was useless, that much he knew. Even with his Emperor Eye, if he does not 'allow' you to see him, it is impossible to even see his shadow. "Tetsuya." He tries again.
After minutes pass, his patient began to wear thin. Akashi cross his arm and wait impatiently. Until he feel a pair of slender arms slip around his waist. "Akashi-kun." Akashi heard his Tetsuya greets softly, and couldn't help but feel toxin by the (slightly) shorter boy's voice. So he shift in the boy's embraced and try to turn around to capture Tetsuya's lip with his own. But Tetsuya hold him firmly, and with only one word from the boy, he stop; "Stay."
"Tetsuya?" Akashi tries to peak at the boy's beautiful face, but the feeling of something tucked into his hand got his attention. "Tetsuya, what is this?"
Akashi could almost feel the shorter boy's give a small (beautiful) smile, (he regret not seeing it), and feel a shiver when Tetsuya pasted a ghost kiss at the back of his neck.
"Goodbye, Akashi-kun."
And with those parting words, Tetsuya was gone. All trace of him being in the room just a second ago was gone. Even his locker, Akashi noted, was empty. Everything, except the two pieces of paper in his hand.
He looks at the first piece and his eyes widen in shock.
- H -
"The fuck are you saying, Akashi?" Bellowed Aomine Daiki, "Tetsu would never do something like that!"
"Shut up, Daiki."
Aomine – though he would never accept it – is on the edge of a mental break down. The new about Tetsu was too much, 'Akashi isn't telling the Truth. He is just playing with my mind.'
His Tetsu, his best friend.
The kind and supporting Tetsu.
The determined and basketball idiot Tetsu.
The beautiful and understanding Tetsu.
The Tetsu that he loved.
Tetsu would never leave Aomine when he knows he needs him the most.
Tetsu would never give up on their basketball.
Tetsu would never give up on him.
Aomine believes he know Tetsu and what Tetsu would do. Akashi doesn't. Akashi is lying.
"I-if this," God! He was so shaken, he actually spluttered! The usual over-confident Aomine would never splutter! "If this is a joke or a way to get me back to practice again…" he swallows and smirk shakily, "I'm telling you I'm not going to fall for it."
Akashi was silent. A small weight on the tan boy's shoulder was suddenly lifted…
'Hah!' Aomine thought smugly, 'I'm right! This is just a trick!'
The next time he sees his teal hair friend, he's going to gives the boy a punishment…(all in that dirty head of his)
….just to be dump on him again in a greater weight when Akashi hand him a paper.
His eyes widen in disbelieve, and for the first time in his life, Aomine Daiki is speechless.
- A -
Kise Ryouta is crying.
Not whining or sobbing pathetically. His face was cover in tear, yes, but there isn't any sound escaping his mount. He was in the state of shock.
It's all start when Akashicchi approach him on the break between classes and told him to follow to the club room.
Kise was, of course, confuse. After all, out court, Akashicchi barely interact with him. He has a suspicious the captain doesn't like him much.
But Kise followed him nonetheless, he was curious as to what it might be about. Though he still want to use his free time to find his beloved Kurokocchi.
When they enter the club room – only been used by the GoM the past 3 years, he glance around the room fondly – Akashicchi waste no time talking, only showing him a piece of paper.
He smiles his usual bright (annoying) smile and accepts the paper. But only after reading the top sentence, his smile became force. It was beginning to be harder just to keep his happy-go-lucky façade on.
"W- What is this, Akashicchi?" He manages through shaky breath and smile. "Funny joke, right? It's not April 1st yet. That's not good, Akashicchi!"
"Clearly you are not as dumb as you let out, Ryouta." Akashi, still his back to him and looking out through the window, reply calmly. "You are close enough to me to know I do not make joke."
"You mean…" Kise close his eyes and open them again, but the word printed on the paper didn't change, "this is true?"
"…" Akashi walks pass Kise toward the door without looking at him, taking the cursed paper with him in the process. "Take your time, Ryouta."
The words his captain said to him was slightly softer than his normal tone. Kise has been in the world of acting long enough to pick up the hidden message or emotion on one's word. And he realizes that Akashi was as shaken up as he is. "And do not leave this room, unless you finish shedding tears."
Kise blinks and touch his face. It's wet; he note, still in daze. He was crying without without himself noticing. Real tears, not crocodile tears like every other times.
He clenches his slightly wet hand.
Kurokocchi is gone.
And he's not sure if he would see him ever again.
- D -
"I cannot accept this."
"Believe in what you want, Shintarou," Akashi closes his eyes and turn his back to walk away, "I am merely delivering the news to the other regulars. As it is about the departure of one of us."
"Still, this is unacceptable." Midorima Shintarou adjusts his glasses. "We all know Kuroko, Akashi. He isn't one to do this."
"We know what we believed him to be, Shintarou, not his real self. He's a mystery even I cannot figure it out." The redhead hand him a paper without turning around. "Perhaps you want to see it for yourself?"
Midorima accept the paper. After seems like hours for him, he realized he was only able to digest the first sentence of the paper, then hand it back to his captain without missing a beat.
"I need sometime for myself, Akashi." He managed to say.
Akashi nodded, accepting the request. "Suit yourself," he said and left the gym, leaving the shooting guard to be by himself.
Midorima picks up a ball from the ground.
He shoots.
He missed.
"Tsk."
- O -
Munch, munch.
"Do you understand me, Atsushi?"
Munch, munch.
"Do not make me repeat myself, Atsushi."
Murasakibara Atsushi sighs, he stuff his face with another handful of chips. "Yeah, Aka-chin, I heard you."
"You know what I mean, Atsushi."
Murasakibara takes his time in answering. He finished the bag of chips, "ah, I ran out." He complains at the empty bag of chips in his hand.
As he reaches for something else, he asks, "so, Kuro-chin is really gone?"
"I do not lie, if that is what you are implying."
"Nah, just want to be sure," he put some candy in his mouth. "I trust Aka-chin."
"You're taking this quite well," comment the captain, then he glance at his watch. "I have other matters to attend to." He give the taller of the two a parting nod and left.
'Tetsuya quit the club.'
He gritted his teeth a little too hard.
The lollipop break.
"Ah."
- W -
Momoi Satsuki had taken the news better than Akashi had expected.
She didn't bust in to tears, nor did she accuse him of lying. She had simply smiles sadly and nods.
"I figure Tetsu-kun would do something like this, it's only about matter of time," she said. "He did gave out hints here and there."
Akashi pinned her with a glare. "And why have I not been informed about this, Satsuki?"
Momoi only smiles sadly at her captain, "because you are not where my loyalty lies."
Akashi could only answer with gritted teeth, clenched hands and three simple words.
"Very well, then."
- S -
Believe it or not, Akashi understands Momoi. After all, they are in a similar circumstance. To tell the truth, most likely everyone who, at least seen the bluenette, is in the same boat as they are.
Since he first laid his eyes on Kuroko Tetsuya, he can feel that he is being pulled in to a trap where he willingly falls. A trap that you can't escape.
Being his prisoners, you will gladly do anything just to make him please. Just a smile is enough as your life token.
The Generation of Miracles. Did you actually believe that they gain the name just through basketballs? The first string members know best, they did saw him mostly as often as the starting member did.
If you doubt him…
Akashi train of thought drift to his former captain, no longer attending Teiko and now he is at who know where…
Worse, if tried oppose him.
The redhead had experience Tetsuya's wrath first-handed along with the other members after the end of the Inter High of their second year.
He is still furious, somehow, at Tetsuya, for caring for his 'childhood' friend.
When Tetsuya had 'ask' him to "not hold back." They did precisely at what they were told to… just might not be the way Tetsuya had wanted.
Tetsuya had said it like he'd cared for this 'friend' of his. While he had naught toward them, his best pieces. Akashi had saw green. He couldn't, wouldn't, accept the fact that Tetsuya may have cared for someone that is not them. That is not him.
Why the useless trash?
When Tetsuya found out about what they did to this Ogiwara-kun, he was, if anything, furious. And that was worse than death itself.
Akashi sighs. Is this a punishment? If so, what is it for? Did they, or one of them, did anything to displease Tetsuya? If he left them, then it must mean they did something completely unacceptable, that even the ever-so-patient Tetsuya wouldn't stand it.
That something might have made Tetsuya hated them…
The redhead couldn't pinpoint to what their mistake was. They'd done everything Tetsuya tell them to. And they were careful as not to make him mad. Where had it gone wrong?
Then, there is also the 'Goodbye' thing. Getting kissed from Tetsuya, doesn't matter what kind of kiss or where Tetsuya has placed them, it was the highest prize someone could have asked for.
'Or maybe," a little part of him whispered. 'Tetsuya was just bored with us.'
"No," he refused to listen, "we are the best of our generation."
'Perhaps he'd found another.'
"No. It can't be. We are the best! The only one Tetsuya needed!"
But the voice still bothers him nonetheless.
-end-