All Japanese will be listed at the bottom with their meanings.
Kuroko No Kai
Chapter TWO: Maboroshi Basuke (Phantom Basketball)
The next morning Kuroko woke up in the crook of Akashi's arms in his bed giving a stretch and a yawn he sat up and stared at his cousin. He smiled as he turned the alarm off and sat up beside him. With another yawn Kuroko crawled to the end of the bed and looked into the box looking at all the cloths.
"Anything you'd like to wear in there Tetsu?" he asked climbing out of bed and gathering his uniform.
With a shake of his head Akashi came over and pulled out beige shorts and a solid blue button up with a white muscle shirt. Placing them with his cloths he set them aside.
"Want to help me make the bed Tetsu? Then we'll go have a shower together okay?"
"Yay, shower with Aka-nii-chan."
Kuroko pulled a corner of the blanket to the edge of the bed while Akashi pulled the other. Climbing over the bed Kuroko straitened out the corners be the wall. Grabbing their cloths Akashi and Kuroko headed to the shower.
The bathroom was a fair size and the shower itself had built in sprayers angled in the ceiling and the two shortest walls to cover most of the shower area. A clear glass door and beige marble tiles with silver fixtures completed the room. It looked calm and comforting; a great place to wake up in the morning.
Sitting at breakfast, his father was reading the paper and smiled as they both came in and sat down. His mother had talked to his father about Kuroko the night before so seeing the young child was no surprise.
"ohayou." Akashi replied as he sat down.
"ohayou." Kuroko called with a small yawn.
"ohayou." Both parents replied.
"You'll be taking Tetsu with you to class today right? I'll call his school and tell them he's ill."
"Arigato Okasan. I plan to tell then Tetu is with us for a little bit because of family problems back home. And because of home schooling it's best to take him with me to school. We don't even know how long he'll be like this so it's better this way."
"Itadakimasu."
After breakfast Kuroko and Akashi headed to his school hand in hand. At the gates people all seemed to find them very interesting and feeling self concision Kuroko moved closer to his cousin.
"We have to stop by the principle first then we'll head to my first class. Okay?" Akashi lifted Kuroko into his arms and headed to the principle.
The principle looked at them oddly. It was true, Kuroko should have been placed in a day care or brought to his "Kindergarten". Kuroko kept quiet and close to his cousin. "I realize this but Tetsu's been through a lot and to suddenly drop him off with people he doesn't know could be dangerous. He's been through a lot and to keep his family life privet, please trust me when I say this is best. He's very well behaved when he's with me."
"Alright, but don't let this affect your studies. Here's a not for your teachers. You behave young man." the burly man directed to Kuroko and he gave a sharp nod.
Akashi knocked on the door, knowing he was late for first class he opened the door when the teacher called for him to enter. Holding onto Tetsu's hand he handed the note over. With a nod the teacher returned the note to him.
Akashi sat down at his desk and pulled Tetsu onto his lap and opened a notebook and put out a pen. Whispering to his cousin he told him "you can draw or what even in this until class is done." Kuroko shook his head.
"It's rude to do that to teachers right?" Akashi smiled.
Soon enough it was lunch time and bother of them sat on the roof of the school with the rest of the first tier of basketball players discussing the training schedule for that day after school and their plans for their first game.
Akashi placed an obento in front of Kuroko and handed him his chopsticks. Half way through his lunch Kuroko noticed an orange basketball rolling across the rooftop. Getting up he started to head for it to catch the ball not wanting it to roll off the roof.
Akashi looked over to notice Kuroko was gone looking around he seen his cousin running after something and heading to the fence at the edge of the roof. Jumping up he ran after him and pulled him up before he could run face first into he fence.
"What are you doing Tetsu? You nearly ran into the fence."
"Ball!" he pointed to the space beyond the fence. "A ball fell, I wanted to catch it."
"A ball isn't there it couldn't have fallen off the roof, the fence would have stopped it but nothing is there. See? The fence if attached to the roof there isn't any space for a ball to roll off." Kuroko looked again and cocked his head to the side and looked back up at Akashi.
"Gomen Aka-nii-chan, I really did see a ball." Kuroko frowned.
"Let's go finish lunch you can play with a ball after school okay?" Kuroko nodded and wiggled down from his arms to run back to his lunch.
Ohayou / ohayou gozaimas - Good Morning Morning
itadakimasu - I humbly receive said at meal times.
Gomen - Sorry
Arigato - Thanks
Okasan - Mother
