It's the wrong time, for somebody new.
It's a small crime, and I got no excuse.
Is that alright?
Yeah…
Give my gun away when it's loaded?
That alright?
Yeah.
If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it?
That alright?
Yeah.
Give my gun away when it's loaded?
Is that alright?
Yeah…
With you?
No.
[Damien Rice – 9 Crimes]
.oOo.
|Chapter One: The Rules and Nightmares|
"Come out, come out, where every you are"
The man chuckled and snickered while walking around the room, he was getting excited.
He checked under the bed, behind the curtains and even behind the room's door. But then he made a quick turn and walked in front of the closet, and placed his hands on the knobs.
The boy whimpered knowing he was going to be found. The closet doors opened, reviling the boy who was hiding inside. The smell of smoke and gasoline entered the room, flames arose in the room.
"Found you."
Kuroko flung up from his futon. He gasped for air and covered his face with his hands. His gaze ran through the room, everyone was sleeping. He wiped of sweat from his forehead and stood up. It hurt to stand, you could hear his skin crisp underneath his dress shirt and jeans.
Kuroko gently opened the door and exited the room. 'So this really was a school huh' Kuroko thought.
He made his way to the roof top, it was hard to find the stairs in the dark, and he was on unfamiliar grounds, so it took a while. But he made it.
There he stood on the roof, gazing up on the stars above.
"It must be nice to be free and just roam around" Kuroko said and hummed in his own muse. Kuroko scratched his back, he flinched. He lifted up his dress shirt to look at his red-blackish skin. He let his shirt fall back down and he lifted one of his sleeves up, reviling an red-blackish color on his skin. He inhaled the smell of his skin, indeed it still smelt like smoke.
He walked to the roofs edge and looked down. If he fell he would certainly die, or end up in really bad condition. Kuroko hummed once again and lift his foot. His foot travelled over the edge. Just when Kuroko was about to put pressure to his foot so he would fall down, somebody spoke up.
"You know if you want to commit suicide, we have a place for that."
Kuroko stepped down and turned around to face the one who spoke up. Midorima.
"It's not nice to clean after a corpse, you know." Midorima stated "If you really want to commit suicide, I can show you where to do it. No one will bother…"
Then Midorima turned around and looked back, telling Kuroko to follow.
They made their way outside from the school and walked in to the woods, that was behind the school.
They must have walked for a long time, even Kuroko felt dizzy walking such a long way. The night was cold and the forest seemed hateful. Kuroko just wanted to end it fast.
"Ehm…" Midorima huffed trying to get Kurokos attention, of course, he would never admit that.
Kuroko lifted his gaze to look at Midorima. And there they stood, up on a cliff.
Kuroko walked to the cliffs end and looked down, it was a long fall, but you could clearly see what laid down there. Bloody, twitched, miss-formed corpses, the corpses' eyes seemed to gaze up on Kuroko. He felt sick, he stepped back and threw up. Kuroko fell on his knees and took a deep breath. He shouldn't have done that, because now the rotten smell came to his senses. He threw up once more.
"If you really want to commit suicide, this is where you'll do it. No one will bother, we will respect your choice. But if you choose to survive and life, even during the hard times, we will be there for you." Midorima decided to speak up "You know we all here, tried to commit suicide at least once"
Kuroko's head hung low, like he was ashamed. He murmured a small 'I'm sorry'. Midorima seemed to hear this.
"You know, Kuroko. I usually don't tell this to complete strangers, but maybe I can tell this to you." Midorima sat down and leaned his back against a tree.
"I come from a pretty wealthy family, we owned a hospital. My mother and father were both doctors there…"
"Mom, mom. Look what I made!" Midorima sang, showing of his bad-ass drawing to his mother.
His mother just hummed and patted his head and continued writing reports and journals to her patients. Midorima poked his mother and tried to ask again. 'It's beautiful dear' she said, not even caring to look at her sons drawing.
Midoria often felt alone home, no one really had time for him. His older brother got priced and respected from both parents, because he was doing great in Medical Collage. Little did his parents know that the older brother drank alcohol with his friends, laid with many women and stole homework and reports from other studients. The teacher didn't know this either, not even the thought of 'The famous Midorimas son' would be doing such.
But Midorima knew, he knew his brother better than anyone, maybe even better than his brother himself. Midorima tried to talk to his parents about it, but he would always end up being kicked or slapped.
"My honey wouldn't do such things. He's mammas dear, instead of you." mother shouted.
"Pappas more proud of him than he is of you! Go away, hopefully you get hit by a truck or something" father stated.
He would always try to talk to his parents about this when his brother wasn't home, but sooner or later, brother found out about this. His brother would hit him hard, nothing to bother if a bruise came, because his parents wouldn't give a fuck about it. His brother would drag him to his brother's parties and make him watch his brother getting laid or end up being forced to drink alcohol. Midorima would always get the blames from his parents.
"Why are you going against us?"
"Why can't you be a good son like your brother?"
"Why did I get a child like you?"
"Why can't you just disappear and die, you're ruining our family name!"
Midorima started studying in the same Medical school his brother had gone too. Midorima always scored a perfect 100 on each test. Trying to get his parents attention, trying to be the perfect son to them. But that never happened.
After Midorima graduated he tried to get a job from his parents hospital, but he didn't make it.
"No one want's to be treated by a shitty brat like you. GET OUT!"
It was enough for him, Midorima commited suicide a week after that.
Midorima tried to hung himself, that explains the rope burns around his neck, and behind his ears too.
But just when he was passing out, so close to dying, someone ripped him downwards, giving him the strangling feeling. The ropes dug deeper in to his neck, and the rope broke.
Midorima later woke up in a white room, a hospital. His mother was crying in the back ground, crying, murmuring apologizes. She had learnt how his big brother really was. She begged him to forgive her.
A doctor he never seen before stood next to him.
"Have you given up? Do you really want to die?"
"Death is more comforting than that shitty excuse of a family" Midorima said and closed his eyes to sleep. All he could hear was his mother screaming for him. But there was no father, nor brother seen in that room.
"After that I woke up here. That was four years ago" Midorima finished.
Midorima lifted his gaze to look where Kuroko was, but he wasn't there. He got shocked when he felt two arms wrapping around him. Kuroko gave Midorima a hug.
"Thank you for telling me" Kuroko started. "Thank you"
"S-sha-shall we go back or do you want to…?" Midorima questioned.
"Let's go back.. Let's just go back, ok?" Kuroko gave a weak smile.
Morning came fast after Kuroko and Midorima had come back to the school.
After eating dried fish the group had catched, Akashi explained to Kuroko how things work around here.
"This island has two shores. One here and one on the other side, they drop off the suicidal ones here and criminals on the other side, so I suggest that you don't walk over to the others territory. There's actually a sign down the shore, it explained to us why we were sent here." Akashi started.
"Wh-what did the sign say?" Kuroko questioned.
"Oh right, you didn't see it, because we brought you up here. We saw you lying down the shore.."
"Nene, we were really surprised that they sent someone on this side, there hasn't been many cases dropped here. Now days they only drop criminals to the other side." Kise said and waved his hand to get others attention. Kurokos gaze turned towards Kise, but soon turned back towards Akashi.
"Ahem..The sign said something like :
'Everyone on the island. You have given up your right and duty to live so therefore you were placed on this island. You are marked as dead in our country, there-fore, your ID in this county has been taken away.
Our country has no reason to protect your rights as human beings anymore.
There's a 5km radius where you have absolute freedom. You cannot leave this 5km radius, otherwide it will be treated as violation of territorial waters. Therefore, we cannot guarantee your safety.
–Japanese goverment'" Akashi said nodding, he remembered the sign correctly. "Later we found out that the other side is where the criminals are kept."
Kuroko gulped. He was lucky that he was sent to this side. They would have all the right to put him to the other side of the island, after all he had done.
"Maah… We chose to live, and we do team work to get food and such. Well those who don't do anything, they don't get anything. You know. And girls and women, well there are few, but they have their rights as well, unlike the women on the other side are whores to the 'Leader' on the other side. We treat our people equally, unlike there" Aomine stated.
"So Kurokocchi, what do you want to do, are you good at swimming, join me, my group goes fishing. There's also, quards, farmers, builders and those who find and make weapons. What do you want to do" Kise asked.
"Uh… I think I'll hunt my own food." Kuroko murmured.
"So you're a hunter? There aren't many that even have patience or guts to go up against the animals in the forest." Midorima pushed his glasses.
"Mh…Are you sure you can clean the guts out and stuff without throwing up? ~ " Murasakibara said, he was munching leaves. You get good amount of water from the leaves, so you don't have to be afraid that you'll dehydrate.
Kuroko thought about the man in his last nightmare. "Yes, I'm pretty sure." he answered.
"Are you sure he's up for it? He has been gone for an awful long time.." Kise murmured, he was holding a net full of fish. Aomine and Kise were cutting the fish stomach and cleaned the guts out and pressed the fish against sea rock, there's salt on the rocks. After that they put the fish in a glass box they've found years ago, and left the fish to dry there.
"Actually I'm already here." Kuroko stated "I've been here for a long time."
Kise seemed to jump out of his skin and gave of a small whimper. Aomines eyes widened.
"Seriously, you gotta do something about that voice of yours. You sound so hoarse." Aomine said.
Kise noticed how Kuroko flinched.
"So did you get anything?"
"Yea.. I got two deers. I had to get Murasakibara to help me carry one. I'm smoking them in an abandoned hut next to the school" Kuroko said and pointed at a small hut where smoke roamed out from the open door.
"Eh..? How did you kill two deers? Are you come kind of a professional hunter?" Kise murmured.
"No this was my first time trying." Kuroko answered honestly. "But my weak pretense and using misdirection it's pretty easy to get them down if you're quiet and patient." his face was calm.
"But I buried their heads in the ground, even though they have many proteins and nutrition in the head." Kuroko said lastly.
"Why?" they asked him.
"To thank them that I can survive another day."
"Come out, come out, where ever you are!"
"Oh, I found you!"
"…"
Kuroko gasped for air. Fuck, he had another nightmare, he ripped small amount of teal hair.
"Ah hell they hurt…" Kuroko murmured and looked under his shirt.
Kuroko walked up the forest to the cliff, he really wanted to end it. But he knew that if he went up there, he would regret and walk back after throwing up a few times. What he didn't think of was that a certain blood-red head man stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down.
"Ah. Tetsuya. Want to end it together with me?" the man let out a hand for Kuroko to hold.
Unconsciously Kuroko leaned forward to hold the man's hand.
"Maybe it won't be so lonely if we died together? Ne? Tetsuya?"
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