I dare you to move.
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor.
I dare you to move.
Like today never happened.
Today never happened before.
- Switchfoot, Dare You To Move
"Eight plus four.." Satoshi began. He looked at his Papa, Tetsuya, hoping he would give him the answer.
"No, no." Tetsuya told Satoshi. "Use your fingers if you can't figure it out, I'm not going to help you."
"Um.." Satoshi began glancing around the room and then to his tiny fingers.
"Tw.." Tetsuya tried giving him a hint.
"Two?" asked Satoshi.
Tetsuya sighed. "It's twelve. We're not doing subtraction."
"Right!" Satoshi cheered as he wrote down the answer to his last math problem for the night.
"Satoshi, I can't help you all the time, okay? You need to learn this. What will happen when you have a test on this?" Tetsuya asked.
Satoshi giggled. "The teacher already told us there's not test on this."
Just like Ryouta, Tetsuya thought. He'd ask Tetsuya for "help" on his homework when all he really did was copy the answers, never learning anything.
"Papa?" Satoshi snapped Tetsuya out of his thoughts.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Are you lonely?" Satoshi asked.
"..Eh?" Tetsuya questioned.
"You know..Reiko-chan's grandpa passed away the other day and she said her grandma felt very lonely after that, so.." Satoshi explained.
"Eh.." Satoshi had known he didn't have a second parent. Tetsuya had once shown Satoshi a picture of him, though. But Satoshi was very confused as to why he didn't have a mother in his life. It was very complicated to explain it to Satoshi at his age.
Tetsuya patted his son's head. "I miss your daddy, but I am not lonely. I still have you and Uncle Kagami and the others.. Don't worry."
Satoshi smiled and put away his school work. He then ran into his bedroom, getting ready for Tetsuya to read him a bedtime story.
"Here you go, Koemi-chan." Tetsuya handed the small girl a bright red lollipop.
"Thank you, Tetsuya-sensei!" The girl squealed. "This is my favorite kind!"
Tetsuya waved goodbye to his last student as she walked away with her mother.
Tetsuya had always wanted to become a kindergarten teacher after the loss of his first child. He had wanted to get to understand children better since he knew he wasn't going to live his life without having any. Even thought Tetsuya had been hesitant about having another child after going through the pain of losing the first one, Ryouta would simply not stop to fulfill his dream of wanting to start a family with his beloved.
It was sad though. Ryouta was so excited when Tetsuya was first pregnant. Then it died.
Ryouta was even happier when Tetsuya was pregnant the second time. He knew they would pull through this pregnancy without any problems. Ryouta knew. Then Ryouta died.
Before ever getting to meet his child.
It was a hard life for Tetsuya after that. Even though being a teacher was quite a common job, it didn't pay nearly as much as a doctor or a professinal basketball player. He had to use the money for things such as apartment rent so they could have a home and food so they won't starve. Satoshi'd listen to children got them the latest new video game or how they just visited Disneyland.
He'd recently just visited Midorima and Takao the other day. They lived in a very big and nice house with three children, whom Satoshi played with the entire time. Two biological sons and a girl they adopted only a month ago.
After that, he'd wondered if Ryouta hadn't died, would his life would've been like that? Ryouta was a model after all, so he did make quite the salary. They'd probably live in a big house instead of the cramped one he currently lives in. Instead of Satoshi being an only child, would they have more children? Whenever Tetsuya actually did have the money to buy toys or video games for Satoshi, he still seemed pretty bored. He had no one to play with.
Tetsuya sighed.
Even though it's been five years, Tetsuya had never stopped thinking about what his life could've been.
Why?
Tetsuya and Ryouta were both equally good people so.. why?
"Papa!" Tetsuya heard Satoshi stomp in his room.
"What is it?" He asked, spinning his chair around to face Satoshi.
"Papa, look at the time, it's nine! I'm really hungry!" Satoshi whined.
"Oh, forgive me. I was checking over the kid's work. We'll go get something, okay?" Tetsuya reached for his coat and Satoshi ran to the front door, putting his shoes on.
They made their way into the building. Satoshi ran to find a seat while Tetsuya stood in line and waited to order.
Tetsuya felt a tug on his coat. "Papa, our table is that one by the window, kay?"
Tetsuya smiled. "Okay.." Tetsuya examined Satoshi's face. "Where'd you get that bruise?"
"I fell." Satoshi replied, quickly as ever.
"Is someone picking on you? Am I going to have to call the school?" Tetsuya asked.
"No, Papa!" Satoshi said, moving Tetsuya's hand away from his face and running back to the table.
Tetsuya sighed. It was no doubt he got those bruises from someone. You don't get bruises like that just from falling. And that definitely wasn't like Satoshi to respond that quickly.
Tetsuya looked to his left and saw a policeman in line. He was shuffling through his pocket until his wallet dropped to the floor.
Tetsuya picked up the wallet. "Officer, you dropped your wallet."
The officer spun around.
"Tetsu..?"
Tetsuya froze.
That nickname, that nickname. Only a certain someone could only call him that.
He looked back and saw his old partner, Aomine Daiki.
The Aomine Daiki who he had drifted apart from.
Aomine Daiki who had never bothered to show up to his wedding or even congratulate him.
Aomine Daiki who had never bothered to show up to Ryouta's funereal or even call and asked how Tetsuya was handling it.
"Aomine-kun.." Tetsuya finally spoke.
Sorry! D: Was this too short? . I'm going through MAJOR writer's block right now. ;3;
Anyway, thanks for the favorites, follows, and reviews!
HipsterL: Eh.. yes! But he isn't called Mama, haha. :D Thanks for reading! c:
Aliyss: Thank you so much! ;-; I am! :D Thanks for reading! c:
Calico Neko: Yes! ^w^ Thanks a lot, Kikuro, Aokuro, and MidoTaka are my most favorite ships in KnB! u Thanks for reading! c:
Shion Amamiya: I know, huh! Kise's my favorite. ;3; Your idea also sounds nice. ^^ I've actually never read an AoKuro mpreg before.. o.o But many Kikuro/KuroKaga ones.. Anyway, thanks for reading! c:
