Groaning softly, he squeezed his eyes tighter as he adjusted to the blinding bright light that shined on him. The pain throbbing in his head and sweat drops dripping down his flushed forehead and neck.

The faint sobs and cries became louder and the tapping sound against the floor came closer to him. The smell of wine and blueberries hit his nose as he was pulled into an embrace. But- he felt empty and blank, his crimson orbs were cold and darker. He even felt that there were bags under his eyes.

All he can focus on was what Kuroko had said.


"My poor child!" His mother cried into the crook of his neck, chanting apologizes and thanks.

Akashi gave his father a crooked smile, who was sitting on the chair settled beside the bed, as he softly ran his fingers through his mothers soft crimson-like hair. This has been going on for at least five minutes after his mother managed to snap him out of his daze. It seems it was only him and his parents in the room. Only the sounds of sobs and the monitors beeping ringed in his ears, it was completely awkward and tensed in the tightness of the room.

"W-why am I here?" Akashi throaty, dry raspy voice came out after he couldn't handle the tension. His father and mother both stared at him in shock, as if it he was suppose to know. But his father decided to answer.

"Well, you were missing for two days." His father slowly and steadily said, taking in the horrified expression blooming on Akashi's face.

"One of the janitors found you in janitor closet, with bruises and blood all over your uniform and body." The sobs of Akashi's mother spewed out.

"We were so worried." His father wrapped his around both him and his mother, holding them tight.


They stayed in the same position for a while until a nurse entered the room with a tray of porridge and medicine. She informed his parents that they're visiting time was over, which they sprawled kisses and pats all over him and left. Akashi watched out from the glass window from high in the building as he saw his mother and father enter the shiny, black limo and drive out pf the parking lot.

After eating and taking his medicine, he was tucked back into the bed and the nurse left the room. He tiredly glances over at the window, taking in the view of the outside world.


The color of the sky reminded him so much of Kuroko as he grinned to himself. Especially the white clouds reminded him of the glint in Kuroko's sky-blue eyes when they would lit up in excitement and happiness.

His vision began to blur as he felt his eyes beginning to droop. There, he felt asleep on the bed with a small smile graced on his face.


"Akashi-kun!" a shrilly cheerful voice called behind his back. He slowly snapped out of his daze and turned to his right to see Momoi Satsuki, his only friend, smiling at him.

"Guess what~!" She asked excitedly, her cherry pink eyes gleaming brightly than has Akashi ever seen. Noticing the flush on her cheeks and her fingers nervously twiddling, it probably had to do with something personal.

"Kagami-kun asked me out! OH my goodness, I can die in peace!" Momoi cried as she hopped around in place, shouting asdfghjkl and lkjhgfdsa. The latter just weakly smiled will he continued to listen to her and do his late homework.

Its been two days since he was out of the hospital, although there was really nothing strange about that, but-

Kuroko wasn't there.

He only dreamt of nothing but pitch darkness.


"-ey...hey...HEY!"

His small crimson bangs swayed as wind began to pick up once he sat up to the familiar voice.

"OI! You've dead for over 9000 years!" Akashi looked at the owner who was shading him with their shadow from the sun. His eyes widened and he quickly stood straight up, never tearing his eyes away from the person.

"Kuroko-kun.." Akashi smiled, the way the name rolled off his tongue made him feel good after not seeing the bluenette in his dreams for a while.

"Its been a while Akashi-kun." Kuroko grinned, not realizing that Akashi has had already stood up, which made the crimson-head try to stifle his laugh as he watch Kuroko grin at the spot on the grass where he had laid.

Akashi took a moment to observe to scenery. All around were trees, bushes, fallen leaves, dirt, and rocks. Which meant that they were probably in a forest. There, Kuroko sat on a large rock with his grin still plastered onto his face.

"Where've you been?"

"Here and there."

"Psh, flirting I believe?" Kuroko wiggled his eyebrows, not realizing that he's STILL looking at the ground.

"You know, you're looking at the ground and I'm not even laying there anymore.." Akashi snorted once he saw Kuroko's smug grin turn into a frown.

"Why didn't you tell me." Kuroko grumbled. He crossed his arms over his chest and looked away from where Akashi's voice was coming from. "I hate you."

Smiling, Akashi walked over to Kuroko as the leaves under his feet crunched with every step. He sat close to Kuroko, feeling an electric shock run through his body when he felt a source of warmth next to his thigh. The teen leaned over until his lips were nearly touching the bluenettes ear shell.

"Is there something I can, y'know, make it up to you?" He whispered softly, noticing and smiling when the shell turned red and the small movement coming from the latter.

Then, he felt a small but powerful jab that pushed him off of the rock and onto the ground of leaves. He rolled around until he started laughing happily when he saw the others lip quiver and his cheeks flushed.

"Shut UP!"


Its continuing to grow in his brain, every time we remove it, it will grow back either in the same spot or in the other parts.


a/n: OH MY GOD FIRST OF ALL HAPPY SUPER BELATED BIRTHDAY TO OUR CHILD KUROKO TETSUYA ;-; I SWEAR I EVEN HAVE IN MY CALENDAR ON MY PHONE ASSFGHKL.

Anyways, Im incredibly sorry for not updating for a month or two (probably more). School is just keeping me away, but enough of problems I hope you enjoyed this chapter, i'll try updating more often :)