Dead or Alive
Pairings: GoM x Kuroko
Summary:
In the southern part of Texas, lies the Generation of Sheriffs. They're the most feared group of Sheriffs in an old town called Teiko. They have a great reputation since all of them had outstanding individual skills. Town Mayor, Riko, gave a rather cunning mission for them. To find the phantom thief on the loose nearby.
Author's Notes:
FINALLY! I updated this! Well, enjoy le folks since I have nothing to say o.o
oh! And grammar mistakes!
Disclaimer: i do not own KNB but if I had the chance, I would oblige~
"Akashicchi, are we there yet?" A certain blondie whined as he walked sluggishly along with two other lazy bums. Akashi narrowed his eyes and shook his head.
"Not yet. But maybe if Ryouta, Daiki and Atsushi can walk a little faster, then we would've arrived there in no time." The redhead said with a smirk, elevating his hand and tucking one strand of hair behind his ear. Kise all but whined louder, resulting in three red knives being thrown at him which was dodged out of instincts and an innocent Akashi walking in front.
Heeding Akashi's request, all three walked normally and were surprised when they arrived quite quickly. They arrived at a big building, almost the same as their Sheriff Headquarters, with an orderly designed and clean exterior, it seemed clean inside too. All prodigies complimented it internally. To think that just one Sheriff designed this. Yes, it was this Kuroko Tetsuya who designed most buildings in the Seirin. You may call him a Sheriff-Architect, he may even be a prodigy. Now the five prodigies really wanted to meet this Kuroko Tetsuya.
"Let's go inside now, shall we?" Midorima reminded, his bandaged hands already on the handles of the doors. All nodded and the carrot opened the doors, they were invited by an office-like interior. Too office-y for them since this is the western part and they don't do office-y types.
They walked inside and they expected all the people around them to stare at them and whisper around, but no, they ignored them fully and went on by their businesses. They were quite used to the atmosphere when they were the center of attention and they were not quite used to...this. Akashi sighed and strolled formally to the front desk. Wow, such a formal building but poorly dressed workers.
"May I help you?" The girl in the front asked boredly while filing her nails.
"We have an...appointment with Kuroko Tetsuya?" Akashi asked smoothly, trying to be as formal as possible. It made the girl stop and stare at him with a weird look in her face. Until she covered her mouth, snickering for awhile, then laughed hard until tears were brimming in her eyes. Akashi's eyes twitched and for once in forever, he thanked that the other workers or people did not look their way at all, being ignorant they are. The other four were either embarrased or having their nerves struck in slight annoyance.
"Ahahahahaha! Oh my gosh! The way you said it and the way your face and figure is all formal and shit! This isn't London shorty, this is the west and the way you talk ain't gonna get you some shit at all! Ohgod hahahaha!"
Akashi snapped, taking his red knives out of his pockets and throwing it forward at such a smooth speed that you won't even see it coming. The knives planted and dug itself at the cemented wall with small cracks in the side and the girl's eyes widened at the air of death that was coming to her that second. She looked at Akashi and regretted it. The aura around the heterochromatic eyed emperor glinted in pure annoyance and detestation as his other hand held a knife that was directed at the girl's throat.
"I don't care if you're a girl or an asshole, but you have no right to say that to me, commoner. One more slip from that disgusting rotten mouth of yours then I'll dig this shit up your throat and bath in the showers of your own blood with my pals over here like we have no care for shitholes. We'll cut you up in pieces so hard that your grandchildren will feel it." Akashi threatened and tilted the knife closer until it shone in everyone's eyes dangerously. The girl gulped and nodded carefully, trying to make not one more mistake for her dear life.
Akashi was not the one to curse and he was always formal and stuff, very different from all the cowboys out there, but making him snap can change everything.
"Akashicchi, everyone's looking." And indeed everyone was. They looked at him in both dismay and fury in their eyes at the threat. Some of them even looked like they're ready to attack at any second now. Akashi smirked lightly and removed the knife from the girl't throat, making her gasp in relief. He raised his knife, shoulder level in front of his mouth and touched his lips with it, smiling bittersweetly at the people around him.
"I'd really appreciate it if you all'd keep quiet about this." At the background, Kise, Aomine, and Murasakibara tried to convince the people with unsaid and desperate gestures to follow him and never mess with Akashi, ever.
"What's going on here?" A soft voice asked that made everyone jump. Some of the people didn't look surprised at all, like they were used to it. Akashi's eyes widened, Murasakibara munched to a halt on his chocotale bar, Kise squealed, Midorima's glasses was close to making a crack, and Aomine jumped a bit and yelped.
Another one who's voice was the loudest growled and grabbed air like it was him grabbing someone's collar and cursed, "Stop doing that! I'm still not used to it and you know that!"
'Wait, air?' All the prodigies thought with a raised eyebrow. As seconds go, a figure can be seen who's collar was stretched beyond limits by the growling man. A pale boy who's hair is a rare shade of cerulean with also his eyes. He's almost unnoticable that even Akashi's Emperor Eyes couldn't see him for a second. Akashi walked past the other people and directed his gaze and attention to the cute teal-haired boy.
"Kurokooooo! I swear to god if you pull that shit again I'll- What?!"
"So you're Kuroko Tetsuya? I hope that we didn't scare you that much, it wasn't our intention, really." Akashi ignored the other red haired guy and smiled at Kuroko. The said boy nodded his head and half smiled back.
"Yes, I am. I didn't know what happened so I'm sorry if I didn't fulfil your wish of threatening me too." Kuroko said innocently that made another twitch evident in Akashi's eyes. The redhead was about to talk, but was interrupted by the tall redhead who grabbed his collar too.
"The hell man?! I was talking to him! You think that you can just interrupt like an asshole shorty?!" The redhead shook him around and muttered more curses, until there were at least five weapons directed at his head and neck. He stopped shaking Akashi and turned his head backwards to see twin daggers, two pistols, and one shotgun directed at his neck. The weapons were held by none other but the four prodigies, excepting Akashi.
"Let Akashi / Akashicchi / Akachin go you bastard." They all said in monstrous unison. There was a terrifying aura behind them and the redhead gulped. He felt another aura and a sharp metal screaming bloody murder in his Adam's apple. He directed his gaze in front and saw a wide-eyed Akashi who looked like a murderer who cares nothing about mercy.
"Let. Me. Go." Akashi poured pure malice in each word and thruster the red knife forward some more until the skin broke a little bit in his throat. The redhead let him go and jumped backwards, gasping for air at the tension. Kuroko went to his side and tried calming him down.
Akashi brushed his collar as if to straighten it in order, and glared down at both of them. "No one should ever look down at me. I am absolute and no one will oppose me, for I will kill those disguisting people who does without mercy.
Now tell me, where is Kuroko Tetsuya?"
Kuroko blinked and raised his right hand, "I'm right here..."
Aomine chuckled darkly, finally letting the other four have some action in the scene too, "Do you expect us to believe that?! There's no way that you would be the Sheriff in this town!"
"Its impossible, boy." Midorima lowered his shotgun and pushed up his glasses.
"He's so cuuuute! There's no way a cutie like him be the most feared person in Seirin right?" Kise gasped and put his pistol back in his leather cover.
"He looks edible, can I eat him?" Murasakibara said with a lazy attempt to put his gun back in the leather belt.
Akashi raised his right hand to gesture silence at them. He eyed the tealhaired boy looking innocently at them and tilted head in confusion, "Where is Kuroko Tetsuya?"
"I'm right here."
"Where is Kuroko Tetsuya?" He asked again, sounding a little threatening.
"Here.
"Where is he."
"For the third time, he is right in front of you!" The other redhead in the floor growled in annoyance, "Stop repeating your question, it's annoying!"
Akashi looked at the remaining background people for affirmation and they all nodded nervously. Akashi sighed and looked at Kuroko again, "So I have been told. But there may also be a chance that this is a lie. So I'd like to ask something of you, Kuroko Tetsuya."
"What is it?" Kuroko tilted his head again in confusion and curiosity.
Akashi put his left hand at his chest and pointed at the other four, "Challenge us, the Generation of Sherrifs. I want to see how truly worthy you are."
Everyone gasped and the redhead in the floor spluttered. "W-What?! That's impossible!"
Kuroko raised his hand to quiet everyone down, "Its fine Kagami-kun. I wanted to test them out too. Just let the others know that they should stay inside their houses to secure safety in the central Seirin. That's where we will be holding our challenge, it's quite spacey there."
Kagami nodded, stood up, and directed himself in the door. "Yeah sure!"
"Oh and Kagami-kun?"
Kagami stopped mid step. The five prodigies stared at both of them.
"Get those ready for me, will you?" Kuroko smirked and eyes widening holding a psychotic intent which was unusual for his blunt personality and quiet part. Akashi was quite surpised at the change, and so is the other four.
Kagami's eyes widened at the change too, but then laughed hard, smiling too when he stopped, "Yeah sure! But you owe me at Maji Burger later!" And with a wave, he got off.
Akashi's eyes narrowed at Kuroko, who's still holding that smirk. Then glanced at the other people in the lobby, they looked pretty terrified. He looked back at his four followers, who all had a challenging look in their faces.
"I won't go easy on you..."
"Me too. In Oha-Asa's list of lucky zodiacs today, Cancers were in second place."
"I'll crush you first then eat you like cotton candy."
"I may be the newbie of this group, but that doesn't mean that I'm useless..."
They all had playful but scary faces directed towards Kuroko. Akashi looked back at Kuroko, who now is back in his blunt personality, all calm and shit. But it had a slight evidence of pride.
This is a really... interesting meeting indeed, for Akashi.
Kuroko sighed, standing in the middle of the battle field. He eyed all his five opponents in the other side. It was the typical cowboy cliches in movies, where the villagers will be hiding and watching at the battle and the air becoming nervously tense. He only held one dagger, one pistol on his leather belt, and one scarf in his hands. He wrapped the scarf on his neck properly and glared at the five.
Akashi held nothing in his hands, and was just crossing his arms. Kise went into slight fighting stance, twin daggers in hand. Aomine stood boredly, the twin pistols still in its buckle. Murasakibara yawned and slung the chain, connecting to the big metal spiked ball, in his shoulders and yawned. Midorima put one triple barreled bullets in his shotgun.
The battle has started long ago, but they just settled on observing each other, waiting for one to make a move. No one moved for five minutes and the others were getting a bit impatient. Kuroko was unmoving, like he was waiting for someone. Well, turns out, it was true.
"Kurokooooo!" A nearing voice was heard behind Kuroko, that made the light blunette look back and smile. Kagami was running in a distance towards them, bringing a metal accessory of some sort. His running was stuttering a bit and was really glad when he finally arrived at Kuroko's side.
"Thank you Kagami-kun."
"God, this fucker is heavy as hell! You owe me twenty burgers later! That hill isn't small at all you lying asshole!" Kagami dropped the metal accessories, which were both arm plates. When it touched the ground, it crashed. Not the accessory, but the cemented road itself, the cracks evident and big, it made a rather big crater on the ground.
The prodigies, except Akashi, stared, dumbfounded and mouths hanging open at the crater. 'Kagami carried those in the whole entire desert hill? Just what level of endurance does he have? They stared some more as Kuroko got the two arm plates as if it was a feather, and fixed it in his arms. What. The. Hell.
It was a simple armplate, thin and swirling designs on top. Nothing special. But this was special for Kuroko, really special. The special and extraordinary thing about this, is that it weights twenty kilograms each armplate. The teal haired boy kissed his arm plates before waving his hand to gesture Kagami to get the fuck off.
Kagami laughed again and slapped Kuroko's back, "Hey, beat those shitholes up for us would you?"
Kuroko smirked and twirled around with his arm out, hitting Kagami. Kagami choked and pain started to collide in his stomach, the force pushing him back in a big distance. He flew backwards and crashed in a building, making a big hole and cracks in the cemented manwork.
Mutters and exclamations of 'What the fuck?!'s can be heard from the Generation of Sheriffs. Kuroko stood and readied his fighting stance, not even looking at Kagami who shouted insults at him as he held his injured and bleeding arm. One thing unusual is that even when he was flewn across the street and crashed in a building, he didn't look wavered at all.
Akashi let his gaze sweep to Kuroko, who wasn't there anymore. The heterochromatic eyes widened and looked around hoping to spot the disappearing boy. Midorima, Kise, Aomine and Murasakibara may have noticed it too since they looked around also.
Kise gasped loudly as a big cloth covered his face behind him, the cloth tightened around his face and neck, behind stood Kuroko. It was as if boy was holding Kise hostage. Akashi grinned, 'Smart move...' Kise struggled in his hold and flailed his legs around, trying to kick the enemy. The other three can't move and attack fearing that they may hurt Kise, Akashi charged forward with his throwing knives. 'But not quite...!'
He ran to the side with a dashing speed and threw a knife at Kuroko, aiming for his leg. Kuroko then used another part of his scarf to throw it in air, making it fly and the knife digging in the scarf instead. With quickening speed, Kuroko snatched the knife from his scarf and kept it for future use.
He took the base of the wrapped scarf to pull it quite hard, making Kise spin as he was unwrapped. Kise spun, crashing at Aomine. Kuroko then took the chance to use the red knife and threw it down at both of their hands, which were unfortunately on top of each other, to pin them down. The knife dug itself at both Kise and Aomine's palms, making them tremble and scream in pain.
Midorima wavered at the harsh treatment and battle. He remembered to focus, so he turned his attention at Kuroko. The carrot jumped because Kuroko wasn't at where he should've been again, now he is walking quickly in front of Midorima. And before Midorima could raise one pistol, he was hit by a small armored arm, making him fly in the air for a short time and slide to the ground with pained friction.
The cemented ground where he slid painted a fading red, blood. The blood came from his arm which was exposed to the friction the most, making the skin break and bleed. He too screamed in pain.
Kuroko gasped when he was suddenly lifted in the air by a big titan-like figure. He looked back and saw Murasakibara ready to crush him back down.
Kuroko took a deep breath and kicked the air with power, making him swing back at almost the same power, using the opportunity to kick Murasakibara's face. The big hands holding him up flinched and squeezed his torso a bit harder, Kuroko gritted his teeth and moaned in pain.
Murasakibara blinked the pain away then he heard a shout, "Atsushi!" It was Akashi. Then all he saw was black and all he felt was pain. The arm plated arm made contact with Murasakibara's face. The grip tightened once again, but that did not waver Murasakibara. It did not waver Kuroko too, he got ready for another hit when suddenly, a knife dug itself in his left shoulder. The teal haired boy didn't scream in pain, he just grunted. The knife disappeared once it was stuck in the wound, then another knife embedded itself in his left leg. It disappeared once again. He did not scream.
Kuroko closed his eyes and opened one, trying to spot Akashi. He spotted him and kicked, directing at Akashi who was about to stab his right leg. Akashi evaded and stepped back, making him pause for awhile.
Murasakibara was ready to crash him down any moment, but Kuroko didn't allow that. He bit the big hands holding him, Murasakibara growled and let go of him, trying to sooth down his bloodied hand. Suddenly, Murasakibara fell down on the ground as he lost footing at that moment.
Kuroko was the one who hit his legs and made him fall. Now the boy in on top of the giant, his right armored arm in air. Murasakibara looked at the other's face, observing at the moving but voiceless lips. "Sleep." Kuroko mouthed and threw his right hand down, using the metal part of his arm hitting a spot at Murasakibara's head making him lose consciousness.
The boy grinned and stood up, laughter trying to bubble up his throat. He held it all back and kept his usual poker face, facing back at Akashi. Akashi's face was contorted in excitement.
"Finally... A worthy opponent..." Akashi charged forward and threw two knives with perfect accuracy. Kuroko jumped and dodged both of them then when he landed, he slammed his hands in the ground and lifted himself up. Kuroko kicked the other knife in Akashi's hand, and took it for his own, tumbling to the other side. His hands gripped the red knife and thrusted it forwards.
Akashi predicted this, putting out another knife and clashing with Kuroko. They both pushed and pushed, trying to make a space for them to thrust in. Efforts unheard, they still kept pushing, unmoving. Until Kuroko stepped backwards and withdrew the knife, he dodged the huge blow that was predicted.
The teal haired boy twirled to the left and stabbed Akashi's right shoulder. Akashi grunted in pain, "Ugh..." He kneeled down, tending to his right shoulder. They both heard some gasps from the background.
Kuroko stopped in a fighting stance with a smile in his face, "Just returning back the favor..." He gestured to his right shoulder. Akashi glared at him and his gold eye glinted.
"No one will ever look down on me. I am absolute, you're just a mere pest to my life." His heterochromatic eyes rose with his body, overpowering Kuroko's height. "And you know what we do to pests?"
As if by slow motion, Akashi sprinted forwards in oppressive speed. Kuroko had no time to react, he didn't understand it at all, why can't he move?
It was like the golden gaze upon him had the will to control.
The knife plunged at Kuroko's hip, making the bluenette scream out in pain. Blood splattered across the floor and Akashi's grinning face. "We eliminate them."
The red head yanked the knife back, drawing out more blood and making Kuroko collapse in the floor. Akashi watched Kuroko grip his fresh wound and groaning in detest and pain. Those once unemotional, maniacal and hope-filled eyes turned very dark. If only looks could kill, he might've been dead by now. Might.
"Kuroko!" Kagami shouted from the side, running up to his friend's side to tend at him. Kuroko merely smiled at Kagami to assure that he's fine. "Oi Kuroko! Stop this. Now. You're too injured to even be fighting!"
"I don't wanna." Kuroko childishly pouted and crossed his arms, ignoring the fact that his right shoulder is stabbed. Kagami's veins popped in anger and he let his hand clutch Kuroko's head tightly.
"You're going to listen to me whether you like it or not so shut up and stop!"
"I'm not giving you your burgers anymore. You're very mean and I don't like you no more."
"What the hell's with you?! And hell naw, I need them burgers! I'll take away your milkshakes then!"
"Milkshakes are my life Kagami-kun, if you take them away from me, I will personally gouge your eyes out and make them into an eyeball milkshake. Yum."
Kagami crumbled in the ground in disguist as the Sheriffs stared at them in surprise. Aomine and Kise managed to pull the knife off their hands and bandaged them, Murasakibara was woken up by Midorima, who's right arm is bandaged heavily too. Akashi just checked on his teammates, and nodded when all is okay and crystal clear. Then they heard arguing in the opposite side, Kuroko and Kagami. Their mouths, except Akashi, hanged open at the scene in front of them. Like, what happened to the Kuroko who has a psychotic grin when he battles and the bluntness when he doesn't? Now Kuroko's being all childish and stuff, which is actually...cute.
Kagami tended Kuroko's wounds as Kuroko gestured a surrender. "Okay, you all win. But I hope that I have reached your expectations. I look forward to working with you all." He bowed lightly, making the gesture as polite as possible, then going back at annoying Kagami who has been bandaging him.
All five prodigies thought, 'Reached our expectations? No way, you're waaaaaay different from what we have suspected.'
Interesting. They wanted to know more about this Kuroko.
And they will, obviously.
Authors End notes:
The next chapter will be all about what their plan will be in capturing the phantom thief and one big surprise~