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:
Its been a long long looooong time since I've updated, I know, and I'm sorry about that T-T
but i do have a pretty good reason, that will remain a mystery since its kind of personal, so I hope all of you would understand since all of us have their own personal secrets, may it be family, friends, or you yourself.
anyways, this chapter is kind of rushed because I wrote this for two days, taking away my free time :((((
This chapter will commence on the first part of their mission. Enjoy~
DISCLAIMER: I do now own Kuroko no Basket nor the characters. But all pairings are my babies, no arguments.
Btw, thank you thank you THANK YOU for all your reviews! It made me have a spark in my mind to write more! And for one particular reviewer Ramaxy18-chan, I'm not really that knowledgable about Modern Cowboy stuff, so I just rely on my imagination on that one :)
"Kuroko Tetsuya, 16 years old, descended from the Japanese Tribe on the Eastern Side."
Kuroko sat on the rotatable chair that came with the wooden office desk. He looked the same as before, except that he has a black eyepatch at his left eye, which remained unquestioned. The prodigies demanded an introduction, so he had nothing to do but pay heed to it. The other prodigies were scattered around the room, Aomine and Kise sitting on both chairs in front of the desk, Murasakibara sitting on the big sofa in the side with Midorima, and Akashi leaning on the wall behind the desk, next to Kuroko.
"Japanese Tribe, just like all of us. It's an honor to meet another one of our people. The Japanese Tribe are truly talented and remarkable people, so its no surprise that you're one of us." Akashi aforementioned, clearly with an amused tone. "And it's quite obvious with your name."
"Any hobbies Kurokocchi?" Kise asked excitedly, if in the imaginary world, you would see dog ears perked up and a tail wagging behind him. It made Kuroko want to smile gently to, but his face still has that poker face.
"Ummm, reading, hunting, cooking, taking care of children and pets, assasinating enemies, torturing, slicing up parts, dismembering, experimenting, removing the orga-" Kuroko was cut off by a tanned hand trying to cover his mouth.
"Ok shit! I get it, you're innocent and sadistic at the same time!" The tanned sheriff chuckled nervously, scratching his head. Kise began to admire him as sparkles can be seen next to him, "That's so cool Kurokocchi!" It was no surprise, Kise's kind of also innocent and sadistic. The others didn't comment about the topic, then Midorima broke the silence.
"Your horoscope?" Midorima pushed back his glasses.
Kuroko seemed kind of confused at why he was questioning something so out of the topic, but nonetheless, answered, "Uhm... My birthday is January 31, so..."
"Aquarius then. Aquarius' place in today's horoscope is 3rd, your lucky item will be a red scarf." Midorima's eyes lingered on the cloth in Kuroko's neck, specifically on the red scarf. "Ah, you've followed Oha Asa's predictions..." Midorima looked quite surprised at that.
'Oha Asa? Lucky item..?' Kuroko thought confusingly, his first impression on the carrot is 'weird'.
"Ahhh... Don't mind him Kurochin, he's just a horoscope fairy. Pretty ugly fairy~" Murasakibara mused as he munched on the quite odd flavor of potato chips. The loud crunch of the chips made Kuroko flinch and glower intensely, fearing that a bit or more of those chips fall down on the floor and feed on the ants. Kuroko is quite a clean freak and if you spilled mud on him, you'd either be faced with your worst nightmare or he will be your worst nightmare. Being sadistic is key.
"Atsushi, stop eating for now. We still have time later." Akashi scolded darkly, Murasakibara probably noticed this and folded the opening of the chips right away and hid it. The redhead turned to the light bluenette and smiled apologizingly, "I apologize for his actions, he's just a gluttonous giant." A deep noise of dissapproval came from the purple giant.
Kuroko groaned lightly in annoyance, "Well, are 20 questions done yet or no? We really need to work on the plan..." He lifted his pale hand to his cheeks and rested his cheek in his hand quite boredly. All prodigies in the room didn't miss the bored tone in it.
"Agreed. Akashi, will you discuss the case?" Midorima favored Akashi, the redhead stopped leaning against the wall and leaned against the table at Kuroko's side next. Kuroko let out an uncomfortable sigh and backed away a bit from Akashi. The redhead smirked at this and purposely leaned towards Kuroko a bit more. An indescribable aura is emitting from the other four rainbow colored occupants of the room.
"There has been incidents of a serial killer and renown thief, the Phantom Thief. The identity of this cunning thief is still unknown, which is one of the points in our mission. Recently, there has been a kidnapping incident in Touou district. Momoi Satsuki, the daughter of the town mayor, Momoi Daisuke." Akashi lifted his other unused hand to his jean pocket and took out a quite old photo of both father and daughter of the Momoi family. The father, Daisuke is holding Satsuki's hand up to his lips and lightly kissing it. "And I have to say he's pretty desperate. His little princess isn't by his side anymore and somewhere in a dangerous place instead."
Kuroko's right eye stared at the photo with a hollow emotion and looked back at Akashi, silently asking if that's all. Akashi paused and thought for a while and then brushed back a strand of hair to the back of his ear. "We were also asked to bring the Phantom Thief, dead or alive at a reasonable award."
Kuroko nodded then stood up, the red scarf on his neck swaying in the gentle rhythm of his movements. "This might be a tricky mission, I won't be surprised if one of us gets home severely injured, missing a body part, or even dead." Everyone flinched at the way Kuroko said it. Pure sadistic, that's how they wanted to describe the tealhaired boy, even Akashi.
"I have all of the files of my people here in Seirin and Touou Districts, we can look over all of them to at least find a suspect or some unclassified information." The pale hands of the teal haired boy wandered about the big-ass library behind his desk. "Who knows, he might be just in front of us and he could just attack anytime, anywhere. Since he is unknown."
"Well it looks like we have to be careful, right Midorimacchi?~" The blonde puppy turned to Midorima and smirked.
"I'd really appreciate it if Kise wouldn't come back alive. Less burden for me." Midorima shot at Kise, making the blonde grip at his own heart and shout 'Meanie meanie!' at Midorima.
"Wait, but how do we find that Phantom Thief? Even the best detectives couldn't track him down for over 5 years from now. Is it even possible for us?" Aomine questioned as he used his pinky to plug his ear and drill it lightly symbolizing boredom and annoyance.
"Minechin's so lazy. But he does have a point. One chip for you Minechin for being so smart." Murasakibara threw one chip at Aomine with such accuracy that the tanned sheriff doesn't need to move at all and just open his mouth. The chip went inside his mouth and he closed it with a crunch, making Kuroko flinch again.
Kuroko turned to Aomine and glared at him with such thick intensity it could be cut with a knife. Aomine seemed to notice this murderous glare and swallowed the chip that was unchewed quickly, making him choke on the needle-like sensation. Murasakibara quickly hid his chips and chuckled at the scene. Kise put his arms in his stomach as he laughed hard, so hard he even fell down the chair and laughed at the floor.
"Tetsu... N-never do that a-again..." Aomine held his throat and massaged it, hoping the pain would soon decrease.
Kuroko's glare suddenly turned into a blunt angered look, "Can we please stop this foolishness already? I'm tired of this and I want to take this case seriously. All of you take this case seriously too, or I will think of all of you as nothing but rainbow coloured, small brained babboons."
Something sharp suddenly planted in the tealhaired boy's neck, making him lean backwards and grab the hand with such speed you won't even see it. The light bluenette looked at the red knife that the hand gripped and his gaze went upwards until he saw Akashi's ever-so-kind smile directed to him. Kuroko returned to his usual bluntness after that and requested, "Akashi-kun, please discipline your pawns a little bit. I want the mission straight to the point and no interruptions or any foolishness present."
'Who are you calling pawns?!' The others shouted internally, fearing that they may get sliced if expressed externally. The light bluenette walked back to his spinning chair and say down, putting down multiple clear books that the others weren't aware that he was carrying, even Akashi. While lightly scratching his eyepatched side of eye, he spoke, "I should be gathering 5 of my mostly suspected people, but each and everyone of us has our own opinions of suspects so I just picked up 12 of those people who is most likely in the suspect list. I'll discuss them all to you and you all could add some details to back down or put up the evidence that he may be the suspect. We can question each and every one. May it be his or her relatives, friends, or themselves. Then, if we thought it all up and decide on 6 certain ones, then we can spy, or possibly torture them each. I prefer torture though, it's the most easy and quick way."
"We can get arrested for that. Think about it." Akashi argued solemnly, making a point.
Kuroko blinked once, then twice, "This is a mission and the others doesn't have any right to interfere us...perhaps...we would be arresting ourselves. I'm the only sheriff in this town and the Touou District." The tealhaired boy cupped his own chin in thought and then he mused, "You know, that's not a bad idea. You guys do all the torture until one of them confesses, I arrest all of you, Kuroko Tetsuya gets all. You can go home now."
"Hell no!" Aomine, Kise, Murasakibara and Midorima stood up and shouted at once, making them sit down once again and curse at themselves, slightly fearing the wrath of Kuroko, if there is. But Kuroko just sat there, lips tugging upwards sweetly, and chuckled, "I'm just kidding. I hope we can all work well together though. I really love cooperation and teamwork...so..yeah..." Kuroko glanced down with a smile.
You should've thought that the other's reactions are either interesting or pretty obvious; Aomine's face exploded with a big red blush, Kise's eyes teared up and he fainted with the same big red blush, Midorima's glasses cracked and he slammed his face on the wall, Murasakibara ignored his daze directed to his snacks, instead, his eyes lingered to Kuroko and dazed about eating him instead, and lastly, Akashi put his hand in his pocket to take out a white hanky, dabbing it lightly under his nose to remove the dripping blood that came out.
Truth to be told, it is true. Kuroko has a soft spot for teamwork and cooperation. Since he mostly grew up alone, he really wished to have comrades. Wish granted when Kagami Taiga was added into his life as his assistant. Kuroko's first impression at Kagami is that he is such a huge asshole that he can even fit a hundred dicks in it. They used to fight a lot and even leave bruises and wounds here and there, then treat aid to each other after their fights. That's how they got close, you may call them the best frienemy duo of Seirin. It was even a fact from their so-called fangirls that they have at least slept together once a month, and its true. They do fuck, mostly Kagami being the seme and Kuroko being the uke, but they only do it to pent up their sexual frustration or needs. They only trust each other so they came to each other for problems or advice. One would think they were brothers if not for the hair color and height differences since both of them were huge asses; one quiet demon troll king and one big-mouthed demon ogre king. No one would mess with them though, their skills, abilities, and strength is one of a kind, what more if they were teamed up together.
The said redheaded demon ogre king opened the door rather violently and yawned, "Oi Kuroko, here's the milkshake you wanted." The prodigies recollected themselves into order and glanced at Kagami, who did have a regular sized milkshake in hand.
Kagami walked toward Kuroko, ignoring the stares directed at him and placed the milkshake in the table. He eyed Kuroko's figure up and down and the intensity of the stares got higher, it was until Kagami sighed deeply and narrowed his eyes at Kuroko, "You really need to eat more, here." A wrapped cheeseburger suddenly appeared in his hand and he threw it at Kuroko, who caught it without even looking and while he's already sipping his vanilla milkshake.
Kuroko smiled sweetly again while the straw is still in his lips, which oddly made the cute aura thrice effective. You could just say that the other five had much more interesting reactions at that and a grinning Kagami. Kagami knew Kuroko's cuteness and that Kuroko's being completely dense about it. And he also knew the effect of it to the surrounding people. The cuteness aura never affected Kagami since he only thought of Kuroko as a brother, and he was quite used to it. Yes, he did have feelings for Kuroko last time, but that was way back. And Kuroko either never returned it and was too dense to even notice the hints, so Kagami just gave up and moved on, which was pretty easy.
Truth also, is that Kagami's dense as Kuroko. So is he really moving on? Or are his feelings just hidden deep into his heart, waiting to be awakened? 'Nah, not really.' Kagami thought with a chuckle and helped Kuroko mental discipline the other prodigies.
Kuroko, now seated in his office chair with his cheek resting in his arm, looked boredly at the other prodigies who calmed their tits. "Is everything in order now? I'm getting really really impatient..." He made sure to rise the accent as to if say that he's really getting annoyed. No one spoke for five minutes, then Kuroko made an approving nod.
"Let's start this then, our first suspect,-" He opened and placed the file on the top to face them, "- Sakurai Ryo. Current bar waiter at Ganguro Bar in the Touou District. He has low presence that sometimes, no one notices him. That is one point for him being the suspect as the Phantom Thief, since low presence is its speciality."
"Like you." Midorima noted, suspicions are present in his eyes.
Kuroko nodded, "Yes, like me." He read a line in Sakurai's files and continued, "He once was a childhood friend of Momoi-san, now treated as merely an acquaintance since she gained new friends easily as time goes by. Sakurai hides behind her shadow mostly, that's because more and more people recognize him as Momoi's pawn and most likely forgotten."
Murasakibara frowned, "So your saying that jealousy or revenge is what's suspicious about him?"
"Actions speak louder than words, never judge a book by its cover, I know. But this is a case, not even one mere detail shouldn't be missed. Jealousy or emotions are nothing but a note to me. I don't really care what others think." The light bluenette shrugged as he flipped through the files.
"Scary scary~Kurokocchi is scary~" Kise giggled as he hid behind his hands, "I like it~" He licked his lips at that. Aomine wrinkled his nose in distaste, "What the fuck? Bring your playboy tendencies elsewhere and not in front of Tetsu!"
"Everyone please shut up. As I was saying, do all of you have any objections about him being a suspect? Well, Aomine-kun?" Kuroko eyed Aomine of all people in the room and everyone followed his gaze. Aomine tensed up a little bit.
"What? Why me?" Aomine grumbled.
Kuroko smirked and pointed at the dark bluenette boredly, "Oh come on Ao-chan, we all know that you're one of those childhood friends of Momoi, surely you have something in defense or additional suspicions to place to Sakurai."
Aomine flinched at the unusual but familiar nickname given to him by the light bluenette. He released his breath nervously and stated, "I have nothing to say about this. Just...whatever happens will happen. I don't really care."
Kuroko's smile widened and he clapped two times, "Very good, very good." His poker face replaced his smiling face too soon they didn't even see it. "Now for our second suspect, Haizaki Shougo." Akashi's eyes widened at that and he slammed his hands on the table, where Haizaki's file was lying.
"What does he have to do with all of this? He barely knew Momoi..." The heterochromatic redhead refrained himself from shouting. Kuroko flinched a bit when Akashi slammed his hands, "Will you stop doing that? Fuck, that kind of surprised me..." Kuroko massaged his temples and groaned, "And like
I said, I don't really care if you have any mutual relationships with him or if you both're fuck buddies or something, he's still a suspect."
"But...wh-"
"I was about to explain when you slammed your tiny hands on the table. Haizaki, because he's a maniac."
Akashi seemed to have to say something rather angry at the insult but was silenced with a flying knife cutting his cheek.
"There you go again, dammit. I think even you need disciplining." Kuroko massaged his temples harder this time, "He's a womanizer, Momoi has a perfect body. And him being a thief is one more point, he's holding her for ransom while having fun with her, so why would he decline that. It's like a fair crime. But the only problem is, how?"
"How what?" Akashi seemed to behave this time, regretting his show of emotions a while ago.
"How did he kidnap her if he's currently in jail now?"
Everyone hummed in response to him, but surprised that the information last night came to the light bluenette quite quickly. Kuroko close Haizaki's file quickly as the tense aura of the heterochromatic red haired emperor became noticeable.
"Well, its obvious that all of you have no objections by the looks of your faces, so I'll go on. The third suspect, Izuki Shun." He opened Izuki's file for everyone to see, but was interrupted as the door opened.
"Izuki? Never have suspected him before..." Kagami chewed on his burger rather noisily and messily. Kuroko flinched at the dirty dark redhead and Kagami laughed at Kuroko's glare. "Hahaha! Don't worry, I won't make a mess, promise!" Kagami grinned, showing the mess he is as he sat down on an empty seat next to Murasakibara.
"You better, or else you'll need to take good caution at your eyes, who know who'll pluck them out and blend them into an eyeball milkshake." Kuroko's smile twitched at the thought and relished the idea. It made him more amused as Kagami choked on his burger and muttered curses and death threats to Kuroko.
Ignoring Kagami and the other's reactions, Kuroko continued, "Izuki is actually a ranked A spy and well known on most criminals of the Touou, Shuutoku, and Seirin Districts. Not that you know, Kagami-kun, since your mental abilities are quite low."
Kagami smiled evilly, "Don't be like that, I already know. We do have the same mindset, so whatever you know I know. Izuki has this special ability called the Eagle Eye, which makes his point of vision go upwards and its as if he's observing from above. He can see a wide area and can figure out even a little slip-up or hint in that area. His senses are also eagle-like as he can sense if there is a person in a far sphere-like field. His IQ isn't something to laugh at too, he can escape even in impossible situations."
Midorima narrowed his eyes and adjusted his glasses, "What makes him the suspect then? Surely he must have a connection to Momoi, they may be lifetime enemies or something. Skill isn't just something that can make a suspect, or you'll be affecting the most innocent ones."
Kuroko blinked and rubbed his eyepatch hiding his left eye, "Actually, his skills are actually what my suspicions are, including Takao Kazunari as the fourth suspect. Like I said, I don't really care who it is as long as I have suspicions, then I will pin him in the file. Even if its you Kagami-kun."
Kagami laughed, "Heh! There's no way it's going to be me! Kuroko does some hard-ass punishment and I don't ever want to witness that ever again!" He shuddered at the memory. The said light blunette smiled quite proudly of himself as he crossed his arms.
"But I don't understand. Why would you suspect them Kurokocchi? They seem friendly to me and I doubt that both of them don't hold a grudge on anyone."
"They are well known in the criminal underworld, as I have said. They might be payed to do that, or rather just over-using their skill to gain access to more money. Everyone greeds for money, be it rich or poor, even me." The light bluenette yawned.
Kuroko yawned, which left the others mentally drooling at the cute sight. The cute moan that left his pink plump lips as he sucked in a generous amount of air and stretched, a dust of pink coloring his cheek at the feeling of stretching his tired muscles and joints into a satisfying angle and relax.
"You're overworking again aren't you Kuroko? Make sure that you have a decent amount of sleep later." Kagami yawned as well, trying to hide his flushed cheeks. Akashi noted the extra protectiveness with envy and spoke up too.
"Tetsuya, is that true? It seems that I have to prepare a decent working and resting schedule just for you. As we are working at the same mission, I cannot just leave my teammate's health be. You should rest for now, and let us continue this tomorrow." Akashi smiled at him and was quite surprised when Kuroko returned it back, but hid the said surprise. It wasn't really a full smile, but just an upwards of the corners of the light bluenette's lips, which made a small cute dimple form in his right cheek. It was satisfying enough for Akashi to sense it as a genuine smile, maybe because of the teammate reference. The others silently hoped that Kuroko would agree and rest already, since they too, are tired and wanting to rest.
"Well... We still have enough time, so why not?" Kuroko stood up and gestured them to leave. "As we go through the four suspects, that I have discussed. We will go through the suspects houses or ask some relatives or friends or other connections that they have, be it a good or a bad guy. I will discuss the remaining as we walk or travel at their locations."
Everyone nodded in agreement, "Oh and Kagami-kun, you will be coming with us. I need you here in my side." Kuroko added. Kagami blushed as he nodded, but was unnoticed by the tealhaired boy. Aomine, Kise, Murasakibara, Akashi and Midorima looked at Kagami, jealousy present in their eyes.
"I'll see you all tomorrow then, prepare yourselves for the worst." Then they all left, leaving Kagami and Kuroko behind the silence.
But none of those five even acknowledged the mystery behind that eyepatched eye, not even Akashi. For all they know, it must be a solution for something, someone.
Author End Notes:
I hope I would update this sooner when I finish writing another chapter of my other fic, River Flows in You.
I was also planning on a Durarara! shizaya fanfic thats entitled 'Just Be Friends' and Highschool AU, but I realized that if I worked on too many fics at once, then slow updates will occur. So if I finish River Flows in You, Shizaya fangirls, be prepared for the most saddest fanfic I will ever write in the history of all my fanfics of Durarara! (Lol, that'll be my first), but it's mostly about Friendzone and stuff, so you know the drill.
More reviews makes me fired up to write the next chapter! :)
See you in the next chapter ;)
