Author's note: I write this whenever I find time so updates will be frequent, the least will be once a week but it will usually be more than that.
disclaimer and warnings in first chapter.
Pov will be changing to different people sometimes in the story. Usually it's obvious who it is at the start but if it is confusing I can put so and so's pov before each section
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Hooking my arm over my head at the right angle, the ball I had shot made a nice arc through the air before passing straight into the net. Almost perfect, I thought. That's what it always is: almost perfect. I tsked before walking over to where the ball ended up.
Another day pretending like nothing was wrong. Another day pretending that nothing could stand in the way or affect the great Akashi Seijuro, captain of Teiko's basketball team, and of the group that has been recently dubbed "Generation of Miracles". It was exhausting, but it had to be done because no matter what, I will prevent these secrets from taking over my life. Keeping them hidden is the only way I'll be able to make it through.
Bending down to pick up the basketball, my thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a sharp stinging pain running down the course of my lower back. I cursed, quickly grabbing my backside to try to ease the pain, but only to experience a wet feeling intensifying in between my thighs. I panicked, bringing my hand up, only to see what I was desperately hoping for it not to be.
Blood, dripping down my legs. I hastily made my way to the locker room; I was a total mess. My anxious thoughts flew everywhere from, "Has it only started bleeding now or did it reopen earlier when everyone was here?" to, "If it did, then did it leak through? Did anyone notice?"
While my mind was overreacting and coming up with multiple worries and anxieties that my reasonable mind knew were pointless, but were still continuing anyways, I kicked off my shoes and stripped off my clothes as fast as I was able to, while the many needles of pain continued to attack my lower back.
After getting my clothes off, I worked my attention to the various bandages wrapped around my body, giving me the appearance of a child's failed attempt at dressing up as a mummy for Halloween. The bandages around my thighs, which had been invisible under my clothes, were starting to bleed red. Bringing my sports bag with me, I made my way to the sinks, where I carefully unwrapped my mummified body of the dirty bandages. Thanking the universe that the coach gave me a key for me to lock up with, instead of someone else coming in to do that, I exposed my nude and beaten body.
~Beaten~
I had arrived back at school. I noticed the gym lights were still on, but my Ruby was nowhere to be seen. After entering the slightly ajar door, I entered the gym and then started my search for my wristband.
A while later, I found it under the bench where I had gone to sit before I passed out from all that running the losing team of the scrimmage had to do, which Akashi didn't participate in, again. Where is he, I thought. I knew he stayed after, but he would have locked up if he wasn't here.
I made my way over to the locker room, knowing that's where he most likely is, but once I reached the door, for some reason an instinct of mine told me to be discrete and not let the redhead see me. So, increasing my lack of presence, I quietly made my way into the room.
Going from locker to locker, I made my way across the room until I got near the bathroom area. Peeking out from the side of the locker, I saw a sight that at first excited me, but then made way to an unbearable amount of anger and worry.
There, standing a few feet away with his back towards me, was the point guard. He was naked, though I couldn't see his bottom half because it was behind a trash can. Even though that was the part that had excited me, my joy had faded when I saw what littered my Ruby's perfect body.
Multiple bruises and healing scars. I felt such an immense hatred and anger towards whoever did that to my Ruby that I nearly lost control in revealing my presence by grabbing Akashi and demanding he tell me who did this to him. But I didn't, even though I wanted to desperately. However, once he went towards the sinks, revealing to me his whole body, I noticed something that made me snap.
Along his inner thighs were streaks of blood coming from, most likely, his asshole. That was what made me step out from behind the lockers, revealing myself. How dare anyone lay a finger on what's mine! I seethed. Even though he isn't yours yet, reminded a voice in my head that I decided to ignore.
"Kuroko!"
I came out of my murderous thoughts when I heard my redhead's voice. He was holding a shirt in front of him, preventing me from seeing the worst of the injuries. He sounded nervous, but he had also been able to snap his appearance into that of superiority.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, more like stated, with a surprisingly unwavering voice, but it held slight anger.
"Akashi-kun..." I moved towards my captain, but he moved back. I had been mostly able to mask my emotions in my face and voice, but some of the intense rage had managed to make it's way into my voice.
"Kuroko, I suggest you leave. This is none of your business and it doesn't pertain to you," Akashi had a composed face even if the only shield he had was his shirt that he had clenched in his hand, which tightened, being the only indication that he was nervous and angry. At himself or me, I wasn't sure.
"Doesn't pertain to me?" I say in a dry voice, inching towards him, "And how does the Captain of our team, and also my friend, being injured not pertain to me?" the anger had managed to defeat my defenses and was shown clearly in my voice and face now.
In a slightly shaky voice, Akashi, knowing his demand wasn't going to work, decided to plead, but not pathetically (for Akashi would rather die than act pathetic). "Kuroko... Please, just go. Go and pretend you didn't see anything. Do it for me."
"No," I had managed to back him into a wall as I continued moving forward.
"No? If you don't leave now, I'll double, no, triple your quota for tomorrow's practice!" Akashi threatened, but his voice had a little desperate strain to it. My Ruby's composed appearance was starting to fall apart when he noticed that I had trapped him against the wall, in between two sinks. "Fine. Just what do you want from me? What will it take to make you leave?" he choked out when I said nothing, moving right in front of him.
His choked voice managed to snap me out of my furious trance of taking in all those blemishes caused by this person I now wanted to find and kill. "What? Why would I want something from you? Can I not help a friend?" I watched as my words painted a confused and shocked expression on my beloved's face. What he said next made me believe death was too merciful a punishment for whoever was behind those injuries.
"So, you don't want anything? You're not going to use this, this weakness, against me?" he said it with such a truly shocked and confused voice that I nearly burst into tears and hugged him tightly to never let him go. For what kind of pain has that person put my Ruby into to make him not trust anyone that has good intentions?
"No, I would never do that, Akashi-kun. I care about you and seeing you hurt, hurts me as well. Here, let me prove it by treating your injuries," I had quickly added the last part when doubt had started showing on his face. I moved to get paper towels and started to wet them enough under the faucet, so I could wipe off the blood.
"I don't..."
"Just let me do this, Akashi-kun. If I do anything besides treat your wounds, you can quadruple my training tomorrow." I said cutting him off. I would most likely die if my training menu was quadrupled, but I knew the only other thing that I could have been tempted to do was to make love to him right then and there if I wasn't so filled with concern and anger.
"No. Kuroko, I'm fine just leave," he stated in a firm tone.
"Why don't you trust me? Please, just let me help you and then we won't speak about this later, okay?" I pleaded hopefully.
"Why won't you just go? Please, just…" Akashi snapped his mouth shut to prevent the strangled voice from continuing.
"I won't hurt you, I won't ask questions, and I won't use this against you," I started to bring a hand up to my Ruby's face to reassure him, but when I saw him flinch, my hand retreated.
"...You promise that's all you want, is to help me?" he questioned suspiciously. " And you promise you wont mention this to anyone?"
"Akashi-kun there is nothing else I would want from you." Except you, my thoughts added. "And I would never even think about telling anyone" I said desperately.
"...Fine. However, if you do something suspicious, I would not think twice about making you pay tomorrow," he finalized.
"Hai, Akashi-kun. I would never dare cross you."
Good thing I was focused on those two emotions, concern and anger, because when I somehow convinced Akashi to go on all fours so I could clean his blood soaked bottom, I had a view that, other than the injuries, were only ever seen in my wet dreams. I knelt behind him, and with a full view of his ass, I took one of the damp paper towels and started to dab at his stained left thigh.
He shivered and made a small gasp, most likely from the cold wetness, and I would like to think that it was caused by my loving touch from my other hand on his hip to steady him. He was tense, like he was waiting for me to take advantage of his weakened state and use it to take down his high image. That thought made my eyes water, along with his pained whimpers he was desperately trying to stop, but failing when I dabbed near his abused hole.
The pained sounds and amount of blood were enough to prevent me from filling with lust and getting hard with such a sight: him on all fours with his ass slightly raised, eyes slightly watery, and whimpers coming from his clenched mouth. I knew that he was probably feeling extremely embarrassed and would make me pay later for it, but I didn't care. No way was I going to let my redhead deal with this alone.
Going through a bunch of paper towels, I managed to rid his beautiful skin of the red stains. I then took the bandages, and some ointment that he told me were in his bag, and started applying them to his numerous wounds. The thought of how he managed to hide all these and how he had probably hid the immense pain he constantly felt only made me admire his strength even more.
After I bandaged him, he said a quiet "Thank you," and quickly got dressed. Without talking even once, we turned off the lights and locked up the building before splitting ways to go home.
I felt odd. At first, I was slightly happy because I knew something about Akashi no one else did, and that made me feel closer to him, but the way he remained silent throughout the whole ordeal had me worried. If only I knew what horrors his secrets would cause, I would not have let him out of my sight that night.
Preview:
Akashi-kun...no this was not him.
"You're back, Tetsuya." The impostor smiled in a way that caused unpleasant shivers to run down my spine.
"Who are you?" I choked, for this wasn't my Ruby. Only appearance wise did he look the same, except instead of two ruby red eyes his left eye was now a golden yellow.
For those who've read the manga you might be able to predict what happens to him ;D.
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