Pull of the Heart - Chapter 1
Kuroko gets hit by a motorcycle after playing basketball with Aomine. Aomine goes to the hospital to see Kuroko. The injury isn't serious .. right? Shounen ai, read at your own risk! T for swearing ! This is also when Aomine and Kuroko are still in middle school.
Foreword: Hello, I'm meganchuu ! This is my first fanfic, so please enjoy it even though I'm a newbie~ I never imagined I'd ever want to start writing my own story but hey, there is a first for everything, right ? Since its summer I've had a lot of time on my hands so I decided to try something new. Writing a story for my current favorite OTP, Aokuro!
Also there might be some small punctuation errors since I'm not too sure about quotations and such. Please put up with me~
"I'll see you tomorrow, Tetsu."
Kuroko gives him a tiny smile. "Alright."
They bump fists and as he walks away from Kuroko, Aomine scoops up his basketball. It is around eight o'clock in the evening as Aomine and Kuroko part from the basketball courts. Teiko had a match earlier that day against another middle school (which they won, of course), but Aomine and Kuroko still practiced together anyways.
Recently, Aomine felt a bit strange since he seemed to unconsciously staring at Kuroko's blue eyes or pale skin. Like a part inside of Aomine was pulling him towards the shorter boy. Today he felt the pull once again when he saw Kuroko's slender neck and face covered in sweat. However, he usually managed to brush it off before the tug became stronger.
"Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep," he thinks to himself as he walks but dismisses the thought shortly after. About fifteen minutes later, it begins to rain heavily.
"I wonder if Tetsu reached home already," he wonders as he starts to run to his apartment. The weird feeling had already disappeared into the back of his mind, long forgotten.
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Its around ten at night when Aomine gets out of the shower. There are still water drops resting on his dark blue hair and falling down his tanned skin.
His apartment isn't a big one, but he doesn't mind. It took him a long time to convince his parents to allow him to live by himself. He stares out of his apartment's balcony when he sees a flash of thunder which illuminates the heavy rain fall.
"Its still raining so hard," Aomine thinks to himself as he reaches to grab the cell off his messy bed. Just as he reaches for the dark blue cellphone the device rings, surprising Aomine. He peers at the caller's name and picks up. Its Momoi Satsuki, manager of Teiko's besketball team and his childhood friend.
"Aomine-kun?" Her voice is cracked, like she'd been crying recently.
"..What happened to you, Satsuki?" Usually, Momoi did not call him unless it was something urgent.
"Its not about what happened to me.. It's about what happened to Tetsu-kun," she says before exhaling a long breath.
"..What do you mean, Satsuki?" Aomine starts to feel panic.
"When he was running home this evening, Tetsu-kun.. He got hit by a motorcycle," her voice breaks on the last few words.
"I was walking back home after getting some groceries when I saw a familiar looking blue haired boy sprawled in the middle of the intersection," she momentarily paused but continued on, "I realized.. it was Tetsu-kun!" she starts to cry, loud and wailing.
Aomine's head starts to reel and almost drops the phone. He feels sick, like something is wedged inside his throat. He can barely choke out the words to ask her which hospital and room. As soon as he finds out, Aomine charges out the door, onto the street, and into the rain.
"No.. this can't be happening!" he thinks to himself as he grits his teeth and runs against the rain.
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It takes Aomine ten minutes flat to get to the hospital. Usually it would take about twenty or so, but he didn't (or more like, couldn't) stop running. While he checks for which floor to go to, the rain which collected on his body and clothes as he ran leaves a tiny puddle on the floor around his shoes. Aomine is completely drenched and the nurses are giving him dirty looks for making the hospital floor slippery but he could care less.
"Tetsu.. I need to see Tetsu," he thinks as he runs up the stairs to the third floor, not bothering to wait for the elevator.
When Aomine finally reaches Room 304, he practically bursts in to see Momoi talking to the doctor (or was). Now they just stared at him in surprise. But Aomine sees past them as his gaze rests on the blue haired boy on the hospital bed.
Although Kuroko normally looked delicate with his pale skin and small figure, he looked especially fragile hooked up to the hospital machines. His usual wide eyes which held his strong gaze were closed, the gaze gone as well. His breathing came out in small shallow breaths and every time it did, a small beep would come out of the machine beside the hospital bed. He was still in the same white t-shirt and black shorts Aomine saw him in earlier at the baskeball court. However, now his arms and legs were wrapped in bandages and crimson blood was clearly visible on his shirt.
"Aomine-kun!" Momoi cries as she runs up to him, gripping the front of his shirt with tears still running down her face. The doctor approaches them and introduces himself but Aomine doesn't pay attention. All he can do is gaze at Kuroko's small body on the hospital bed to make sure it wouldn't suddenly break. However, he does catch the words 'large amount of blood loss but he'll survive." Momoi is sobbing into Aomine's shoulder as the doctor leaves to attend to another emergency patien but he doesn't care. He still feels numb after seeing Kuroko and hearing the doctor's words.
Momoi eventually lets go of Aomine and leaves, telling him she'd let him be with Kuroko since she already had the chance to before. She promises she'll return early tomorrow to check on Kuroko since her parents refused to let her sleep at the hospital.
"You should go home and get some rest too, Aomime-kun. I'll notify the other members tomorrow," she tells him as she exits the room and slides the door shut. Finally, him and Kuroko are alone.
As Aomine slowly walks toward the hospital bed, the only sounds that could be heard were the beeping of Kuroko's heart monitor and his own sneakers squeaking loudly against the while tiles. When he finally reaches Kuroko's bed, all Aomine can do is stare down at him.
"How could all of this have happened to you?" he wonders aloud. "It seemed like a normal day until all of this happened," Aomine speaks audibly to himself before closing his eyes and letting out a sigh.
Okay, first chapter completed ! Hopefully you found it interesting enough to keep reading the next chapter when it comes out~ please look forward to it! Reviews are also nice, they help me improve my writing! They also inspire me to finish writing following chapters quicker, aha c: