Scattered Fur

Chapter one: look who's back

The young cat slowly opened his eyes only to find more darkness beyond the seal of his eyelids,

"Where am I?" He wondered aloud not sensing another's presence in the cold room.

"Oh yeah that's right…." He mumbled in monotone remembering the events of earlier.

The light blue furred cat walked around the alleyway, grateful that none of the larger creatures noticed him as he went to the dumpster behind the restaurant.

"Humans barely eat any of their food in there…" He said blankly as he stared at the mass of disposed-of left overs. He picked out an object that smelled edible and with a grunt threw it to the ground prancing after it. He was about to sink the tiny teeth into his meal, but he froze as a large flapping of wings was heard. He looked over and spotted an enormous Raven staring at him, hunger shown in his eyes. Without so much as a caw, the Raven darted towards the tiny cat piercing his tail. The small blue feline squeaked out in pain before abandoning his meal and running as fast as he could into the street ripping his now bloody tail free. The Raven kept in pursuit managing to take a bite of the young toms hind legs a ear before the cat reached the open. The cat's heart thumped in his chest threading to break out as he ran screaming,

"Help!" No one seemed to hear him before he tripped over a metal pipe near the construction site and fell over unconscious.

His face turned into a slight pout at the memory

"Stupid Raven…" He muttered before standing up and stretching his legs, he noticed they were covered in some kind of white thick string, they still hurt though. And as he stood up his head throbbed uncontrollably, he toppled over and hit his chin on the hard surface mewing pitifully. As his dizziness started to fade a bright light appeared forcing him to use his paws to shield his eyes from the light. As they slowly got adjusted he silently studied his surroundings.

"Metal bars, it looks like a cage almost… And there are a lot more around me… Oh please tell me I-" he thought to himself before he was nearly thrown backwards by a booming voice in the room that seemed to be directed towards him.

" Well hellooooo Kuroko! Just couldn't stay away huh?" A female human with short brown hair said with joy, but upon closer inspection he could see the fury burning in her eyes.

"Hello Riko-San." He said with no particularly emotion as he stared at the owner of the store.

"So what happened to you being in Teiko?" She said her smile seemed to be slowly crushing her teeth.

"I left." He said blinking at her slowly.

"OH YOU left. Care to give me the privilege of knowing WHY?!" She creamed dropping her joyful facade.

"I...was not needed." He said hesitantly remembering the horror of what happened last year. His ears slowly turned down, but he pulled them back up determined to remain calm.

"Well that's Just GREAT! We already have enough troubles with the Serin council cutting out funds, SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO STAY YOU NEED TO HELP OUT!" She yelled at the small tom cat. Her voice caused slight murmurs from the other areas of the vast room.

"I am sorry if I am a nuisance, but I must point out it was not my choice to come back specifically here, but if it is needed I shall work for my stay here until someone gets me." He said with a small almost inaudible sigh as he walked up to the front of his little room.

"But if you wish for me to help in someway, I do not believe I can do it from in here." The blue fur ball said plainly staring at The tall brunette. She muttered various things that were a bit rude to the tom, but nevertheless she opened the door and walked out. Assuming he was meant to follow he jumped down and scampered after Riko, glad to see that known of the others really noticed him. He followed Riko's scent into a large meeting room, there were many people in the room along with her, he recognized a few from before.

"Hello Hyūga-San, Mitobe-San, Izuki-San, Koganei-San." He said bowing his head once he hopped up to the table to look at them. The four others (besides the red-haired one) gaped at the small cat.

"He can speak?" They exclaimed loudly as they walked up to the small cat, staring at him perplexed.

"I guess Kuroko's quite a CATch with the new guys." He said with a smirk.

"Go die!" Shouted Hyūga as he scolded Izuki for the bad pun. Kuroko's face Didn't change. He turned toward the three people staring at him, his fur fluffed up slightly from the attention, but with a. Long blink he look e at them,

"Yes I can speak amongst other things, my name is Kuroko Tetsuya, it is nice to meet you."

The trio only opened their eyes wider at being addressed by him, they seemed stuck in a trance before Koganei elbowed them and they spoke.

"Oh, um yes, I'm um…. F..F-Furihata Kōki." The man with brown hair stuttered.

"And I'm Kawahara Kōichi." Said the man with the shaved head.

"And I am F-Fukuda Hiroshi" spoke a brunette with uneven hair. The three stepped back together as they realized how rude they were being, but as soon as they stepped away Riko stared at The red head death in her eyes.

"Kagami go introduce yourself." She was practically hissing at the one named, Kagami. Kuroko turned to stare at him with blank eyes. The red haired male shuddered at the anger in her voice and walked up looking down at the small cat.

"Kagami Taiga…" He said simply before walking towards one of the chairs in the room.

"It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance Kagami-Kun" meowed the cat before turning back to Riko,

"What is it you want me to help with" he said with a slight downwards twitch of his ear. The Brunette turned away from Kagami, who she was practically setting on fire with her eyes, and informed the blue cat.

"We are running low on food at the shelter, hunt it, steal it, I don't care just find enough for a bunch of hungry animals and us." She ordered him before turning around and slumping back in her chair.

"Okay, sure Riko-San" he said with a small bow of his head before hopping off the table and trotting out of the meeting room, to the entrance where he hopped outside and ran to the forest.