I won't follow
Chapter 1 – "I can't follow you wherever you go"
Bold is for serious speech.
Bold italicized is for serious thought.
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By the way this story's title belongs to the secret someone, it's one of their songs and will hopefully make sense later, but there is no way that I own anything aside from the idea of this fic, and the oc's. Enjoy it!
A boy with blue hair and a blank expression woke up with much hesitation, he did not want to leave home today. But it was his first day at a new school so he had to go, no matter how much of an important day it was to him. He slumped back on his bed and placed a pillow on his face, 'Why today of all days?' he questioned himself.
Suddenly there was a knock on his door, "Tetsu-chan, are you up yet? Mao, even Yuki-chan is up" a women's voice came from the other side of the door.
'Tetsu-chan' grumbled slightly but got up and stretched before replying to the voice, "Hai kaa-chan, I'm up! I take it Yuki-chan is with you?"
"Got it in one Tetsu-chan! You might want to hurry if you want to spend time with him this morning!" the woman said before taking off down the stairs.
The bluenette sighed but stood up, his room was bland for him, there were his things on one side of the room, as for the other side though…well we'll get to that later. Something caught his eye on his bedside table. A simple black picture frame with a photograph of five other people aside from himself. He smiled sadly at it before looking at the other photograph next to it, light caught the glass as he grabbed it. A single tear made its way down the bluenettes face before he wiped it away, placing the picture frame back on the bedside table but face down this time.
'I can't think of him, or them, at all today. It's me starting a new chapter on my life and no one is going to stop me from making my own path!' The boy thought to himself before making his way to his bathroom and started to get ready for the day.
Later the bluenette found himself at the kitchen table with his obaa-san, ojii-san, and his otou-san. His okaa-san was in the kitchen finishing the last few touches on breakfast.
"Good morning Tetsu-chan" his ojii-san said smiling at him.
"Ohaiyo ojii-san, obaa-chan, otou-san" he replied smiling only slightly.
"Good morning tetsu, have some tea it's wonderful for days like today's" His obaa-chan said pouring him a cup of tea, which he took gratefully.
"Tetsuya…" his father said, gaining his attention.
"Hai?"
"Are you sure you want to go? You could always go next year, or even continue to be homeschooled." His father said. He had been asking the same questions for a month now.
"No, I'm not sure I want to go, but I need to go otou-san. I can't be stuck here forever hiding because I'm scared." Tetsuya replied looking his father in the eye to know that he was serious.
His father sighed, knowing that his son got his stubbornness from him and his wife, not to mention his parents.
"Was worth a shot, then at least let me take you to school otherwise you'll be really late on your first day."
"Hai otou-san"
"Taka-kun leave Tetsu-chan alone with that already, he's a grown man now, and a man needs to make tough choices. See he's already more of a man than you were at his age." His beautiful wife deadpanned coming into the dining room carrying an infant that couldn't be more than a year old. Though he loved his wife he sometimes wished she wasn't so blunt.
Meet the Kuroko's. A happy family of six plus one dog. First there's Kuroko Hiroki, founder of Kuro Enterprises. In his younger days he had black hair, and obviously he still his blue eyes. Second is Kuroko Himiko nee Fujihara. A women born with albinism, meaning she has red eyes and white hair. She also has a very bad sensitivity to the sun, doesn't mean that she doesn't go out it means that she just burns easily than others. She's known for her blank and blunt comments.
Next is their son, Kuroko Takahiro, current president of Kuro Enterprises. He had inherited his mother's albinism trait and her blank face. His wife, Kuroko Hime nee Fujika, was the current CEO of the family company. She had dark blue hair with equally dark blue eyes. She was also a huge writer of underground BL novels. And a bit sadistic.
They have one son, Kuroko Tetsuya, a light haired bluenette boy with baby blue eyes, he had inherited the family 'blank face' and his grandmother's bluntness. He's the shortest one in the Kuroko family, standing at a five foot four while his relatives towered over him at five foot six or six foot. Lastly there was Kuroko Naoyuki, a one year old baby as of today. He already had the Kuroko family 'blank face' and everyone was pretty sure he would inherit the bluntness as well. He had light blue hair with tints of red in it, as well having two different colored eyes, a genetic trait called Heterochromia. One eye was a baby blue color the other a golden, reddish hue color. And the last, but not least, was Nigou, a Siberian husky pup no more than a few months old. He looked exactly like Tetsuya.
Ten minutes had passed and everyone was eating breakfast. It was a delicious meal; vanilla pancakes with syrup and milk. Tetsuya's favorite American breakfast. Hime was looking at the clock and gasped: "Ah! Tetsu-chan you're going to be late on your first day! Here, kaa-san will take you too school it's too far to walk and get there on time. Ja ne minna!" With that Hime grabbed Naoyuki and her son and set off to Seirin High school, Tetsuya's new school for the next two and a half years. Completely forgetting that her husband offered to take their son. Poor Takahiro…
"Kaa-chan…" Tetsuya began then trailed off as Naoyuki was placed gently in his arm.
"Hai?"
"Do you think I should go ahead with my plan?" He asked with a blank face but his eyes showing many emotions going by in a flash.
"Mm-hmm, I think it would be a good thing to knock some sense into those bakas! If anyone can do it it's you Tetsu-chan, isn't that right Yuki-chan?"
"Right! Right!"
With that matter of the mind settled Tetsuya held tightly to Yuki, smiling a soft and rare smile at him and his mother.
AT SEIRIN HIGH SCHOOL
Hime and Tetsuya made it record time (Not even a traffic cop could stop them, and they tried), Hime parked right in front of the school, allowing Tetsuya to buckle in Yuki in his seat and grab his bag before taking off again after a wave and an 'I love you' goodbye. Tetsuya took a deep breath and walked into the office, getting a schedule and a map from the lady at the desk, who screamed not noticing him, before someone came and escorted him to his classroom.
With his escort knocking on the door Tetsuya noticed a sign that said "Come join the Seirin Basketball Club, You won't be disappointed!"
Taking a second, or was it a third, deep breath that day Tetsuya walked into the classroom, no one noticing his appearance.
"Urm, we were supposed to have a transfer student, but I don't see him" the teacher said looking confused.
"Um, excuse me I'm right here" Tetsuya said waving his hand slightly, making everyone turn a white color and making him mentally sweat dropped.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't see you there, well please introduce yourself"
"Ohaiyo gozaimasu, I am Kuroko Tetsuya, please treat me well" He introduced himself with a blank face.
Tetsuya was told to sit behind a tall red-head with lightning bolt eyebrows, his name was Kagami Taiga. He didn't acknowledge Tetsuya's presence, mainly because he was asleep at his desk, as well as the fact that Tetsuya had no presence.
And the day passed by slowly, Tetsuya's phone kept vibrating though. Apparently his mother wanted her son to see how Naoyuki was doing on his birthday. And aside from a quick text message to his mother during lunch break, saying that he was going to try out for the basketball club that afternoon, and you know, scaring people white, nothing really happened.
TIME SKIP: AFTER SCHOOL.
Tetsuya gulped silently as he approached Aida Riko, the apparent coach of the Seirin Basketball club, even if she was only a second year, he needed to try out for this club if his plan were to succeed.
"Anno, Riko-san?" he said hesitantly, getting a surprised yell from the teenage girl.
"Ah yes, how can I help you..?" She replied once she calmed down.
"Is it possible for me to still tryout for the basketball club?"
"You? I mean yeah sure you can, but are you sure?"
"Hai, I played in middle school but I might be rusty. I had to leave halfway through my last year due to medical reasons, and I haven't touched a basketball since."
"Well if you're sure. You can try out right now actually. I was going to make them train hard today but, I suppose we'll do both."
"Arigatou Riko-san" Tetsuya said happily, his blank face breaking into a small smile, which caused the young coach to blush somewhat. But that didn't last long as she grabbed Tetsuya's hand and dragged him to the gym.
After Tetsuya was properly changed, he went out to greet the rest of the team. Riko had them do a practice match. The perfect opportunity for Tetsuya to show them who he was. The phantom of Teiko.
Everyone was shocked when they couldn't find him on the court and it was only when Kagami, who was on the same team as Tetsuya, scored did they know what happened. It was after Tetsuya explained what middle school he came from did most of them go into shocked faces. Even Riko and she had an inkling.
"Wow Kuroko, that was amazing!"
"Damn straight we need someone like you on our team!"
Comments like this made Tetsuya want to break out in a blush. Not to say that he wasn't used to it but everyone was complete strangers right now to him. As the compliments continued the coach had made her decision. Nodding her head, Riko clapped her hands bringing everyone's attention to her, "I think we've all made a decision. Welcome to the team Kuroko-kun!"
To everyone's surprise, a smile grew on the bluenettes face as everyone was busy cheering. A sudden clapping was heard, not from Riko this time, but from a group of four; three adults and a baby. A women who seemed to be in her late twenty's, a baby in her arm, and an aging couple behind her. All four were smiling surprisingly. Upon seeing Tetsuya the baby grew fussy in the woman's arms, his arms waving and trying to grab the bluenette. Much to the amusement of the adults.
Tetsuya hid a smile as he walked over to the group, to the Seirin group's surprise.
"Okaa-san, Oji-san, Obaa-san, what are you doing here?" He asked taking the tiny bluenette from the woman.
"We came to see you try out Tetsu-chan. Your mother wanted you to have moral support in case the worst happened. Not that we thought it would but it was better to be safe than sorry." Hiroki said
"Yes, when your mother said you were going to try to get on the basketball team, we almost didn't believe it Tetsu." Himiko said, giving a small smile to her grandson.
"Kaa-san…" Tetsuya started but was cut off by his mother saying;
"Hush Tetsu-chan, besides I brought Yuki-chan~", before presenting the baby to her son.
Tetsuya looked at the baby in his mother's arms, let out another deep sigh, before taking him from her and cuddling him close in his arms. This caused Yuki to let out a content sigh, before giggling and breaking out into a large smile.
"Oi, Kuroko who are these people?" Kagami asked confused.
"My, kaa-chan, Oji-san, and Obaa-san. Then there Naoyuki" the boy in question replied pointing to each person.
"Ah, Tetsu-chan I forgot Naoyuki's binky in the car, can you go get it for me?" Hime asked her son, whose reply was yes.
Once Tetsuya left, the three elder Kuroko's shared a glance and a collective nod: they could trust these people. You see the Kuroko family have always had a very good sense of character, that's how Hiroki got his business off of the ground in the first place. By making an excellent judge of character of his investors, they could trust these people. With everything.
"Ask your question Riko-san" Himiko said, staring at the Seirin coach.
"Is he the phantom of Teiko?"
"Hai, or he was until almost two years ago" Hime said sadly, thinking about how broken her son was when everything came out into the open.
"What we are about to tell you all cannot be shared, Tetsu already knows what we are going to tell you but we want to know that will you all will still accept him even after. We need your word for that" Himiko asked them bluntly.
The Seirin team shared a collective nod amongst themselves, whatever happened for the phantom to drop off the face of the planet like he had, he had to have a good reason.
"Good" all three adults shared a sigh of release.
"That baby, Naoyuki, he's Tetsuya's child"
"So he got someone pregnant?"
"No, he's the one that gave birth to Naoyuki, without the knowledge his father"
"Not like Naoyuki's dad would give a shit right now"
"Himiko-san/chan!" came the shocked yells of Hime and Hiroki.
"It's true and you know it. You see Seirin team, Tetsuya fell for one of his teammates. That teammate changed after a year of being together. When Tetsuya found out he was pregnant he knew he had to stop playing basketball. But he didn't know how to tell the father. Eventually it came to blows when his team basically abandoned him and left him alone. He was finally going to tell the father that he was pregnant with his child when he saw and heard something terrible." Himiko stated, taking a deep breath before continuing, "The father, the love of his life, conversing in a conversation with the vice-captain, granted Tetsuya knew that he eventually had to quit. But, to know that the man he loved with all his heart, was planning to help get him thrown out of the team…it well, it broke him. Tetsuya handed in his resignation to the coach the very next day and withdrew from Teiko the day after that. There's more to it but, for now that's all you need to know."
The Seirin team was at a lost. The father of Naoyuki had to of been a terrible person to talk about the one he loved like he had. Even though they had only known Kuroko for a short time, he seemed like the type of person who wouldn't show emotions all that often and who would take a while before actually showing someone what he was feeling.
"Bastard" Kagami said, "and his team did nothing about this?"
"His team were in on the conversation as well, that's why it took such a toll on him. Added to being hormonal and pregnant, well it caused an after effect on his heart." Hime said.
"We got him examined on his next visit to the doctor's, they looked at his heart and found a small tremor in it" Hiroki stated.
"Tetsuya's heart is literally broken, the doctor's said that it won't heal anytime soon" Himiko said "But there will be a time in which his heart will no longer be broken. Our idea is that if he fixes his old teammates so to speak, one by one over a long period of time, it will get better before being gone completely."
"We come to you with this in mind Seirin, help my son fix his teammates, make them go back to who they were, so that he may continue to live."
"What do you mean?" Riko asked.
"Tetsuya's heart has always been a frail thing, he cannot take much stress, but there's no stopping him when he sets his mind to something. We're fine with that, but sometimes he goes too far and winds up in the hospital. We want you to look out for him, be friends with him, and most of all help him with his goal" Hiroki said, finally smiling again.
Seirin looked at one another again and nodded before Hyuga stated "Well of course we'll be friends with him, we are his teammates after all."
"Yeah, we'll make sure he won't hurt himself"
"And we'll help him get his old friends back to how they were!"
The elder Kuroko's smiled at the team as they laughed. They were good people with still pure hearts, still loving basketball no matter if they lose or win. They could trust them with their precious child.
Just getting back from the family car, having heard the entire conversation, Tetsuya smiled gently as his son laid in his arms, peacefully asleep, as he stood at the Seirin gym opening. He looked at his child, before whispering, "Well Naoyuki, looks like this year will go exactly how papa planned it, huh?"
'And maybe, just maybe I can learn to trust people again...' he thought before walking closer to the group who welcomed him with open arms, minds and hearts.
End for now.
So folks how do you like it? Please tell me, like I really need to know. Umm, just to be clear also, this follows the main story line, just set like a year later so everyone is a year older. Also don't kill me, but I am called queen of crack for a reason (and no not because I do the drug: which I DON'T drugs are bad kiddies), so this story will try to follow the main story as much as possible.
Also, this is dedicated to my best friend Fred, because they've been helping me through a rough patch in life. They actually got me into this Anime to help me settle my mind. For that I want to thank them so much.
PS I haven't watched much of the series but I do enjoy it and I very much like it. I just get into fandoms more.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask I will do my best to answer them without revealing to much in the next chapter at the bottoms.