Here is the One-Shot, I've been promising.
The Team of Gods.
I do not own Kuroko no Basket.
Enjoy!
Over 40 years in the future from the main plot, six individuals sighed, knowing their youths were long behind them and they were now seen as old man.
But they weren't just any old men.
These six individuals were in fact, Akashi Seijuro, Murasakibara Atsushi, Aomine Daiki, Midorima Shintaro, Kuroko Testuya and Kagami Taiga, despite their old age, they were legends in the basketball world, not a single player, in today basketball, didn't know their names, some even regarded them as Gods.
Gods of the basketball world.
But even though they, who were called, Gods were mortal and like any mortal, they weren't immune to the harsh effects of time, once at their peak, a place where nobody could stop them and all they could do was play against each other for top spot and like all athlete's, they know that when you're at your peak, then crashing down to earth was even harsher, they could no longer run as long as they could previously and had started missing shots that they would have made easily a couple of months ago.
Their bodies grow weaker and easier to break, to the point they were all forced to retire and hang up their Basketball shoes, it was especially hard for Basketball idiots such as Aomine and Kagami, who followed Basketball like a religion.
They want from Number one in the world to the bottom of league.
But they didn't give up on Basketball so easily, most of them except for Akashi who was understandable, took a team under their own wing, to carry on their legacies until their bodies couldn't even run anymore but they were happy knowing they had left suitable players to take their place.
Now within their sixties, they were all classed as old men, the only action they ever got these days was when people come around, hoping to do book reports on them and reminding them of what they all lacked.
The ability to play basketball.
Akashi had entered retirement not, all that long ago, after leaving the future of the family business to his two sons, Kise had long ago quit his career as a model and sometimes agreed to give advice to the much younger generation of aspiring models, Aomine like Kagami was really walking around aimless with no purpose in life, Midorima was the proud owner of a horoscope shop but even he wasn't as passionate as he was in his youth and had begun to lose faith in his lucky items and Horoscopes, not for the first time was he found, rethink his whole life and what could have been if he didn't relay on Horoscopes so much but Murasakibara was the worst of all.
He had been forced to give up on his sweets.
His body could no longer handle the huge intakes of sugar to sustain his massive height, leaving him shorter than average than men his age, his body didn't have the energy to cover all the massive amounts of sugar, the built up sugar was damaging his health but he refused to see reason.
His candy was the one thing that kept him going, for most of his life, it was there for him whenever he felt sad and depressed and was always ready to cheer him and he would be damned if he let it go.
Even if he had visited the hospital more than two times a week and was constantly told by doctors to get rid of the sweets.
But Murasakibara was stubborn so out of worry for his health.
They brought in the big guns.
Akashi Seijuro.
Akashi did even take two steps into the house, before he ordered Aomine and Kise to hold Murasakibara down while he and Kuroko went searching for candy and anything full of sugar, the sugary treats were all dumped outside in a pile, where Murasakibara could see them.
Akashi took out a lighter and burned the pile to the ground.
Murasakibara was devastated.
His one true love was burning before his very eyes and as a result he went on a rampage, Akashi had to quickly knock him out by a blow to the back of his neck.
He than took it upon himself to appoint himself as Murasakibara money accountant, making sure Murasakibara couldn't use any money to buy more sweets and then proceed to threaten anyone who the purple haired man could use to get sweets from.
Murasakibara was all but a dead corps for a year due to the symptoms of sugar with drawl, Akashi did everything he could to prevent Murasakibara from committing suicide even going as far as moving in.
It was hard seeing the man so dejected and lifeless but Akashi had to shove the purple haired man in the right direction and Murasakibara started to recover from sugar withdrawal after ben threatened to attend therapy session to get over his loss of sugar.
Just six years ago, Murasakibara had been declared clean from Sugar in his system and no longer felt the urge to snack wherever he went, spending time trying to catch up on all those years of knowledge he missed with a good book, every once in a while.
Something that had the rest of them looking at him like he had grown two heads with each big word he used, with pride in his voice.
Kuroko on the other hand had taken up gardening.
Yep all of their lives was pretty much useless at the moment.
They all often found themselves, looking at the much younger generation with envy, wishing that they could go back, back to a time, where they didn't have that many responsibilities, could play without limits, redo some of the years of youth and play Basketball like there was no tomorrow.
If they could go back, one more time and play than they would all die without any regrets and accept their fates with a smile.
But what were the chances of that happening?
Little did they know, their wish was about to come true.
They were all in their respect homes, drinking tea or watering flowers, when all of their phones came alive at the same time.
They all picked it up to find they had received a text from an unknown number.
Out of their own curiosity, they opened it and came upon a message that looked like a joke.
Hello Valued Customer-san!
Out of the millions of people on Earth, we have decided to give you one Golden Ticket!
All you have to do is answer one question.
If you were to go back in time, what would you do?
"What the hell?" Aomine said.
"Is this some kind of joke?" Midorima said.
"….." Kuroko continue to stare at the message.
"Is this some advertisement for a game?" Kagami said.
"How did they get my phone number?" Kise asked.
"Is this a Willy Wonka advert?" Murasakibara said.
"I do not appreciate being interrupted" Akashi said.
They all thought about deleting the message and getting on with their lives but eventually curiosity got the better of all of them.
As they all looked at that one sentence.
'If you were to go back in time, what would you do?'
They were more focused on the sentence then the prize of a Golden ticket and did something crazy.
They answered.
They all imputed one sentence.
I would play basketball with everyone as I am.
The phones suddenly overheated and they all dropped their phones.
Everything went black around them.
#over forty years in past#
In the small town of Arse-en-Re in France, it had long begun to darken, everyone had long shut their doors, ready to float off to dream land, even the usually boat tour rides around the town had long finished.
Everything was quiet and not at all the bustling town, it was well known for. The night was cool and street lights were barely visible.
Everything normal.
If you didn't count the fact that four cloaked figures were running through the town, each holding one or two basket each.
They all ran towards a small warehouse and placed all the baskets in a circle in the middle, to reveal, the baskets weren't empty as first thought, but were actually carrying each a small child that couldn't have been more than a year old.
The most distinct features of the small children were the colour of their hair, light blue, red, green, purple, yellow and dark blue, there was even one baby that had a mixture of red and black in his hair.
These were the toddle version of the players that would one day be regarded as Gods.
"Do we have to do this?" One cloak woman asked, with groan.
"We have to suck up, this is the boss's orders" One cloak man said, before mumbling. "Even though I told him this was a bad idea"
"They did say, they wanted to go back as they were. The all still adults but they just look like brats" Another Cloak man said, trying to convince himself that what he was doing wasn't crazy.
"We have to do this, or the other pair of brats would disappear forever. Who knows what the timeline would be like in the future" One Cloak man said, he seemed to be the voice of reason.
"So who's adopting who?" The woman asked, getting out a dagger ready to slit her wrist.
"I've had brats in the past so this is really no different for me" One man said, looking at the 'children', "I'll take the kid with the green haired" taking the dagger and drawing blood from his arm as he did the same for the unsuspecting 'child' and let his blood flow into the child wound.
"I'll take the dark blue haired kid and that kid" one of the man said, pointing at Kagami and grinned. "Something tells me, they would hate being related to each other" he took the dagger and did the same.
"I'll take light blue haired, cutie" The woman said, looking at Kuroko, he was just too adorable.
"Than that leaves me with that purple haired kid and that red head, Akashi something" The leader said, as he slit his own wrist, when they had all chosen their new 'children', the words on the dagger, glowed golden to finalise the contract.
On the other side of the world, the babies who disappeared had miraculously returned to their parents.
"It's best to take them to a location, that isn't so cold" The leader said, as they all took their new 'children' and went in search for a warmer location.
The 'Children' had no idea what just happened.
#2 days later#
It had taken them, a day for the adults turned toddlers to wake up and brace themselves from the shocks and screams that came from their new situation.
Mostly Aomine and Kagami where screaming while the rest had to cover their ears.
It had taken them another full day to explain their situation to the adults in much shorter and younger bodies.
"So let me get this straight" Midorima said, secretly thankfully that his sight had been returned back to him and he wasn't wearing glasses. "We're all in the past as one year Old's, while there are another version of ourselves out there. We all had to be blood adopted to allow the two version to exist"
It was very scary to see a seemly one year old child, look at you with so much understanding of an a fully grown adult.
"Surely there is a rule against this, didn't you basically kidnap us" Midorima said.
"In many ways, yes" The woman who had blue hair and blue eyes just like Kuroko said.
"And surely you have a way to get us back to our time line" Akashi said, with a scary smile looking at the man who was sporting his hair colour but Murasakibara eyes, many swore they heard the sound of snipping in the background, it had been so long since Akashi had held his signature scissors in his hands in a threatening way.
"Right now, no" The man sporting Akashi and Murasakibara features said, the man know it was no good to lie to the seemly small one year old. "It takes a lot of power to send not one but six of you through time and de-aged you. The machine, needs a couple of years to rest before it starts gaining power so by my estimate, it would be at full power when your all-around, 28 years old"
"28 year's old!?" Kise exclaimed. "Doesn't that mean I have to go through elementary and have to deal with slobbering toddlers!?" they all unconsciously shuddered even Akashi, nobody was looking forward to that. Kise had changed over the years, he wasn't as happy as he was all those years ago, he was more serious than playful but he had his moments.
"But isn't this what you all wanted" The man sporting Kagami and Aomine features said, much to the two horror, at the relation that they were now both related. "Didn't you all wish to play basketball?"
They all exchanged looks in silence.
"Even though, you have to wait a couple of years to be able to play proper basketball. You'll still play, isn't that right? My cute and adorable son?" The woman said, pulling Kuroko into a hug much to his embarrassment as she cooed and began stroking his hair.
They all wanted to sweat drop at the help clear on Kuroko face.
"Surely, there must be catch" Murasakibara said, analysis the situation. "After all, we didn't just get to play basketball for free. There's always a catch"
"He's right" Midorima said.
"Well..." The leader said. "To be honest, we didn't say anything right way since the other you's are still toddlers who have yet to develop their personality fully but the older you get and your actions and speech line up with your other selves, the force might cause the universe to explode."
"WHAT!" They all said, looking shocked at the revelation.
"So what you're saying" Aomine said. "Since there are two version of us and the tip of the universe is very delicate, if we do anything to push that tip over, the world as we know it dies. Damn it, I should have brought the limited edition of Miku, when I had the chance" getting disbelieving looks from the rest. "What?" he said.
"And this is one of my new children" One man sighed. "I hope the other one is better"
"No he's not better. They're both idiots" Midorima said.
"AM NOT!" the two yelled, everyone ignored them.
"I'm sure you call all pull off. Your all very different from your younger selves, already" The woman said and it was true, Murasakibara had stopped taking sweets, Midorima didn't follow Horoscopes like some nut job, Kise was much more serious, Aomine, like Murasakibara had his porn collection burned right in front of him and replaced with 'gay' magazines, after that he could never look at a woman the same way ever again, Kuroko actually had presence and could be notice but he could also disappeared if he willed it, Akashi didn't constantly carry scissors everywhere he went and could now use any object just as effectively, Kagami know when to slow down when he was eating and didn't pack it all in and had developed a taste for fine dining.
"Surely you've taken into account that if we intend to go down the Basketball route once more, than we're eventually going to run into our past selves" Akashi said, knowing himself, his younger self would try to find out everything about them and Akashi didn't think he could face his now currently very much alive father, his father death was still a huge blow even if he know it would come someday.
That and it was just plain weird to see a much younger version of yourself.
"That's why we're here to help you acquire, awesome French accents!" One man yelled.
They all sweat dropped, clearly the man wasn't very bright.
The man than added "Oh, and also there is a failsafe in all of your minds, preventing you all from calling each other by your true names, those who became brothers through the adoptions, would address each other as such" getting horrified looks from a certain duo. "The seal also prevents you from talking about how your time travellers from the future, after all, we don't want the world to know about it us. Things would get very problematic if that happened"
Akashi had a look of understanding, even though he didn't know how to feel about having Murasakibara as his brother, obviously he was going to be the old one of the two.
"You know, this has been bothering me for a while" Kagami began, turning his head. "What is that?"
They turned to see what he was looking at.
There in the corner was pack of big bottles of hair dye.
"Obviously it's hair dye" Aomine said.
"I just wanted to make sure, my eyes weren't playing tricks on me" Kagami said. "But why is it here?"
Akashi wanted to roll his eyes as he walked over, at a much slower pace than what he was used to and pick up a blue dye, with a lot more strength that he should have had.
"Obviously to dye our hair, each of our hair colour is unique" Akashi said.
The rest unconsciously touch their hair for protection.
"Get that thing away from me!" Kise exclaimed, nobody touched his beautiful blond hair, nobody!
Akashi cracked a smile.
"I said" he began.
Everyone know when Akashi smiled, it was never a good thing.
The sound of scissors, played in the background.
The devil himself was behind him.
"We will dye our hair together"
"H-Hai, A-Akashi-san!"
And scene!
Finally the Team of Gods is over! I feel so sleepy but also satisfied. Please Review!