Title: 九月(September)

Pairing: Aka/Kuro (slightly Ao/Kuro in later chapters, and friendship Kise/Kuro).

Genre: Supernatural (don't wince at that yet XD)/ Romance /Hurt-Comfort?

Summary: Akashi attempted to have any contact with any living person around, but have yet to have a result. Apparently no one's sensitive enough to sense his presence. He learn that he can haunt an object, or a place, and he wondered whether if he tried enough, he can haunt people and having one of them come to contact with him.

Warning: Inconsistent tense, vocab misuse, high level abuse of grammar.

Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basuke (c) Fujimaki Tadatoshi, I don't own any of the characters,yo.

Chapter 3: The Emperor's Fall From Grace

He no longer bother to remember what day was it, since his agenda has never been this empty. Ever since the day he was forced to acknowledge that he had died, the red haired one had done nothing but attempting any contact possible with any living human around him. He had heard of stories about haunted place where people could see or hear voices of astral beings such as his present self, but everything he had done had yet to show any result.

The first day after Akashi realized his death, he wandered around the school, following wherever his teammates went. He tried to touch Nebuya, which he actually know was a futile thing. His hand once again went through the tall guy's arms, like how it did when he attempted to touch Hayama's shoulder the day before. He tried to call out to them, but none of them can hear him. When he tried to block their way, they just went through him as if there was nothing but thin air.

As someone who once stood at the highest place and having people serving him, he had never felt this way. He had never once ignored. Even when he wasn't talking to any of them, there would be one or two coming his way offering him a service, such as placing his towel, or offering him some honey lemon. His presence was a valuable thing. He knew how much he's worth. He had everyone's eyes on him, full of both admiration and envy.

But now, the emperor has fallen from his grace.

He's now nothing but an unrest spirit haunting a facility in his own school. Empty, lonely , and full of regrets. He had never regretted anything, since he was always right. He remembered Midorima's words back on the day when he faced the spectacled boy during his lifetime. "Don't talk as if you know everything when all you know was victory!" he said. He remembered he instantly rejected Midorima's words, because winners are validated and losers are denied. At first, those words slipped on his mind on a whim. But the more he stood there alone, the more those words rang loud in his head. Had he known everything, he would already know that a regret could taste this bitter.

Then again, what did he know apart from winning?

As a wandering soul, Akashi had too many times on his hands contemplating. About his past life, his current self, and wondering why he's still around. He thought it would be easier to just fade away and went into Nirvana or anywhere people say dead people went to, but in fact, he's still here.

He learned some facts about himself as a ghost during those times. He can't go anyway further than his school, but he somewhat can go to his house if he concentrated on the image of it. He saw his mother lit up the incense on his altar, sitting in front of it for some while and being quiet. He called out for her, but still, she can't hear him. Akashi left his mother be, considering there's nothing to do around, since he wasn't exactly that child who was close to his parents.

He can haunt the objects that had some value to him when he's alive. For instance, the jersey number 4 he had worn with pride. He can reappear in front of his locker if he thought of it enough, and it's a same theory with the rest of objects he considered valuable. He can haunt places that is memorable to him. He can appear in front of his grave, or the gym back on Teikou, in the same way he haunt an object.

And he wondered whether with the same theory, he can haunt people that is far away.

(A/N: That's all for this chapter, folks! The next one should be where Akashi tried to come into contact with his Teikou teammates XD.)