A/N: Hello again. Well, personally, I don't like this chapter as much, and might change it soon. And thank you so much for the reviews and fav./follow. I never have thought I would get that many...
Also, I know some people who read this think it was quite similar to the KnB fanfic, "Shadow Queen" by TunaForDesert, I have read that fanfic as well, and I pretty much like it. But remember, this Fic is a Dark!Kuroko, so the theme is similar, but I assure you that it story wouldn't be the same, or that similar.
**Also, despite the story is mainly AllxKuro, I'm not sure if it should be KiyoshixHyuuga, or should they also like Kuroko and be his puppet. Though Kiyoshi in this chap. is already Kuroko's piece, should he and Hyuuga be more 'brotherly love,' or 'romance love'?
Note: gramma error, OOC-ness, Dark!Kuroko, Yaoi-ness, Kuro x All, etc.
Warning: Kiyoshi x Hyuuga. Might change later, but up to the readers' opinions.
Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basuke isn't mine.
Of Manipulation and Obsession.
Chapter 2 – Of Meeting and The Beginning of New Start.
Seirin didn't know what hits them.
Kuroko didn't hand in his application to the basketball team on the first day of school like every other recruit.
Of course he would do it his own way.
- S -
"You are Kagami Taiga?"
Kagami looks up from his foods to the owner of the emotionless but strangely enchanted voice. "Can I help you?" he quirk his spilt eye brow. The guy standing before him is… gorgeous? No, his appearance is beyond using that word. If Kagami has to describe him in one word, this guy would be 'irresistible'. But that aside, Kagami preferred boobs over dick.
And then the guy smile.
That changed his thought entirely.
"I need you."
"I'll give you anything."
That evening, Kagami Taiga had made a vow with the devil. And he didn't regret it.
- H -
"Kagami-kun," Aida Riko said, annoyed. "You said you want to talk to me? Well, spilt it out already. I still have classes left!"
"Well," Bakagami scratches his head awkwardly, "it's not really me who want to talk to you, it's Kuroko."
"Who?" Do we have a person with such a name in this school?
"That would be me, Aida-san."
Both Kagami and Riko were startled by the voice, and the brunette was even more surprised when she saw person standing in the shadow of the room. Strange, she thought, I didn't feel any presence of the third person when I came in until just a second ago. It's like this guy doesn't have any presence at all! She was only able to make out the lower half of the boy's face. But there was something special about this guy, he seems to be… angelic?
The boy took a step forward, but she still can't see his face well.
"My name is Kuroko Tetsuya, Aida-san. Please to make your acquaintance."
"Pleasure's all mine." She answers warily, still on guard.
"You might wonder why I have Kagami-kun here," Riko takes a quick glance at her junior, and was surprise to see that the boy has his head bow low.
Although she hasn't had the chance to get to know the new members of the club much yet, she can tell since the first time she saw Kagami that he is the arrogant and overconfident type, not the one who would go bowing down to anyone. This Kuroko guy is special. Her attention shrift to Kuroko again as he speak.
"To ask you to come all the way here from your classroom, just for a talk. But if you want to win against any match with the Generation of Miracles," her ears perk up at the name, "you might want to hear me out."
"Alright, but you might want to make this quick, Kuroko-kun." Riko's eyes narrowed in suspicions. The boy raises his slender point finger up to make a one. "You only need to one thing, follow my orders."
"Uh-huh."
"And put me in the team, if you please."
"I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous." Riko crossed her arms over her chest. "And it's already past the time to summit the application, Kuroko-kun. Now if that is all, please excuse me…"
She glares at Kagami when he moved to block her exit part with his big body, then turn around ehrn she heard the other occupant of the room moved out from the shadow. Her eyes widen in shock when she saw his face. And when he smile, she could only stare dumbly. "That could change, couldn't it, Aida-san."
It wasn't a question. It was a statement.
"Of course."
- A -
"A match between the senior and the freshmen?"
"That's right, Kuroko. Will you participate?"
"Why should I, Kagami-kun?" Kuroko asks calmly as he writes something on his notebook.
"Right, sorry." The redhead rub his neck awkwardly, before noticing what the younger of the two's current activity. "What are you doing, Kuroko?"
Kuroko merely glance up, "It's none of your concern, Kagami-kun."
Kagami swallowed, did he do something wrong?
"Oh, and I advise you to go talk to Aida-san about being an official member."
"What?"
Kuroko glance up at Kagami from under his thick eyelashes, his beautiful baby blue eyes slightly reflect annoyed. Kagami gulps, Kuroko looks very… sexy. "Just do as I say." He said with his usual monotone voice.
"Yes."
- D -
Aida Riko looks out the window of the bus, lost in thought.
Kuroko Tetsuya. How can she miss him? That strange aura, one that you just have to follow…
She'd saw the said prodigies group once, and if this Kuroko guy was truly one of the… she would have notice.
Someone is looking, her instinct told her. Riko carefully glance back. Her eyes went wide. Right outside, she saw her blue hair junior looking at her with a slight dissatisfied frown on his mouth, one that wouldn't be notice if you don't have observant eyes like her.
'I will never doubt you again, Kuroko-sama." Riko found herself vowing silently, and blink her eyes rapidly. What am I doing?
When she focused on where she thought she saw the boy again, he wasn't there. Oh well, she thought trying to calm herself down, we'll see at tomorrow's match.
- O -
"You're all a pathetic bunch of jumping monkey." Kuroko gives the freshmen a full annoyed glare, though his face still remains emotionless. The glare brought the freshmen shivering and averting their eyes to everywhere but the angry boy in front of them. Even the senior, who had just notice him, feel shivers running down their spines. "From now on, pass me the ball."
"Wait, Kuroko!" Kagami ran to the small boy's side when he walk pass them without another glance. "You're going in? I thought you said –"
"Yes," Kuroko cut in, not even giving Kagami a glance as he continues walking to the court.
"But you said it's not worth –"
"Because you are so pathetic, you cannot even entertain me." He answers, "You have disappointed me Kagami-kun."
Kagami gulp and look down in shame.
"I'll give you only one more chance, redeem your worth."
"Yes," Kagami reply, trailing after Kuroko back inside the court. Followed by the three other freshmen.
Riko glance after them warily.
- O –
"No."
"Impossible."
"You got to be kidding me."
Kuroko ignore the murmured surrounding him. Instead, he glances at Kagami from the corner of his eyes. "You at this rate are no good for me." Kagami glances down, embarrassed. "The next time I step in to the court, you will improve."
"Yes."
"Aida-san will assist you." With that, he turns to the senior. "May I have a word with Hyuuga-san and Izuki-san?" And he swept off to the direction of the locker room.
The Seirin's captain and PG silently follow the bluenette, while the other seniors stare at them, dumbfound.
The gym fell in to silence until someone voice out the question that was on everyone's mind, "Who was that?"
And so, Aida Riko began the story.
No one notice Kagami clenching his hand, his nails diffing into the skin.
- W -
As the two senior enter the locker room, little did they know they're sewing their fate with the shadow.
- S -
Hyuuga scan the locker room for the sight of their mysterious freshman – or at least he think the boy is.
"Where is he?" Izuki questions, "I don't see him anywhere."
"Oi! Is he messing with us?"
"Who is he? Where is he?" Izuki asked, Hyuuga glare at his best friend, "You already asked the question twice, dumbass!"
"I can't see him, it's like he's invisible!"
"I'm really done with our joke, Izuki!"
"But puns are fun!"
Hyuuga hit him upside down, "dammit Izuki, I'm gonna kill you!"
Kuroko watch the two senior bickering with slight amusement. But he seen enough, it's time for him to announce his presence. So he simply took a step out of his friend – the shadow. Only for them to notice that he is in here, of course.
Just to hear the SG and the PG shriek and took a step back. "Y-you!" The SG point an accusing finger at the bluenette who just stare at them, unimpressed. "Where did you come from?"
"I was here before you," he simply replies, "You followed me here."
"Who are you?"
"I'm the good addition to the team."
A vain pop out of Hyuuga's forehead, ready to go in his clutch mode. What's his problem? So Izuki takes hold of the conversation instead, afraid for the poor boy's sanity, if he isn't insane already. "You know that not what he meant."
"And what I said is all you need to know. So please don't pry."
Hyuuga scoffs, this brat is annoying. Beating around the bushes and not answer his question directly. Hyuuga isn't the smartest, but he does know that the brat is playing game with him, and Hyuuga was not amused. "Look, if you want to mess with us, brat, then you should be prepare for –"
"Let's not use violent, shall we, Hyuuga-san. I merely want to talk to you."
"Then you should start talking seriously."
"I can't see why Kiyoshi-san hangout with you, but I understand why he choose you two for me." Kuroko said, eyeing the two seniors in front of him. "Now all you need to do is follow me and I will fulfill your dream."
"You know Kiyoshi?" Both the senior was shock, but it was Izuki who manage to ask the question. Hyuuga was standing still, gaping and eyes widen.
"Of course," Kuroko merely answer, slightly tilting his head to the side, "after all, it was me who send Kiyoshi-san to Seirin."
"What do you mean?" Izuki ask, puzzle.
"Well, Seirin is my next goal," Kuroko answer, "I want Seirin to be the best in Japan."
"How?"
"Well Izuki-san, who," he pause, "do you think is behind all the success these pass years of Teiko?"
"If it was you, obviously you would be attending other well-known school," Izuki point out.
Kuroko innerly smirk, "All those school has too much pride for their own good, it's too," he sighs, "…boring for me."
"But you can't be sure there would be someone with potential that you're looking for would attend a new school like this!"
"Oh, I know, Izuki-san, I always have my way."
Izuki shudder, he feels like he had, somehow, ask too many question.
"As I was saying, Kiyoshi-san came to Seirin to gather people like you for me," he continues, "what had happened to him last year were, unexpected. But I assure you, Hanamiya had already paid his price of injuring my piece."
Hyuuga was putting one and two together, he recalled his conversation with Kiyoshi after he was injured. So that's what he means. That's why his goal was only to get into the Inter-high, and not to win it. It wasn't because he doesn't believe, it because he was waiting for this brat! Finally, Hyuuga spoke, "so, you do know we would need Kiyoshi, right?"
"Yes, if you agree, I would make him well by the end of the next month."
Hyuuga consider the offer before nodding, "I do what you say."
"Hyuuga!" Izuki exclaim.
Kuroko smile, "Now it only you left, Izuki-san."
"…I… agree."
"Perfect."
- EnD -
