Am I Not Good Enough?
Zero-Two Aomine Daiki remembered the days he spent with his beloved professor.
"Testing, testing."
Zero-Two had woken up to those monotonous voice, asking if he could hear him. Asking him to wake up. Or only endless murmur of 'testing' said to his ears. He opened his eyes, blinked once, twice, thrice, and booted all of his data up. He kept on blinking, trying to make sense of a new world full of colors instead of the black-and-green combination of numbers he was used to. And then, Zero-Two woke up to him.
Zero-Two knew who he was. His name was carved in the motherboard within his chest, his brain was practically made by the wires and circuits held by those hands. That fragile-looking human with pale face and blue eyes was his professor.
"Identification please." He asked, his voice sounded… polite? Like he was asking for a favor instead of ordering him. Affection and pride flooded those pool of azure-colored eyes as he touched Zero-Two's main frame. Zero-Two blinked once before nodding.
"Light Series, serial number Zero-Two, specification: Power Charge type." He recited from memory. There was a proud smile before those pale hand made its way to Zero-Two's face. "Requesting Access to Configuration Mode." Zero-Two's body tensed, his mind whirring as fast as his i1020 quintuple core allowed and spoke. "Password required."
"Six-Five-Teikou-Touou, 'You are my brightest light'." Zero-Two nodded once. "Access Granted. What would you like to do?"
The tealhead took a deep breath, his smile going even wider from the previous one. "I'm going to give you name, okay?" Zero-Two nodded once more. There was no way he could say no to the person who had created him, anyway.
"Serial Number Zero Two, your name will be Aomine Daiki, written in the kanji of Blue Peak and Great Brilliance. Do you copy?"
Zero-Two closed his eyes, several kanjis made its way to his brain as it registered itself there as his identity. He nodded once more, his eyes opening once again to see the teal-haired professor. "Copy. New identification complete. Would you want me to repeat my identification?"
The teal-haired professor nodded, tears pooling in the corner of his eyes.
"Light Series, serial number Zero-Two, specification: Power Charge type…" Those tears started to fell down, trickling down his sickly white face and down to his white lab-coat. "Name: Aomine Daiki." The professor leaped up from his seat just beside Zero- Aomine and hugged him tight, circling his thin hands on Aomine's neck.
"Pleased to meet you, Aomine-kun…" The professor's voice was soft and low, but it was also shaking. And judging by his wet shoulder, he must be crying. "My name is Kuroko Tetsuya, I am your creator."
And that was how Aomine fell for the fragile human for the first time.