Kuroko woke up in a panic. He turned frantically in every direction, expect to see the girls threatening him like he remembered.

"It's alright. They're gone now." He turned to see Kagami looking at him. "Some other lady showed up just as you passed out, and they took off." When Kuroko failed to give a response, Kagami continued. "You seemed to get pretty shaken up all of the sudden. Did you remember something?"

"Yeah." He told Kagami what he had remembered as he slowly made his way inside his apartment, with Kagami following him.

"That's…that's criminal!" Kagami exclaimed once they were inside and Kuroko had finished telling his tale.

"I know," Kuroko answered, adjusting his position on the living room chair. "But…if I really did break a promise to them, then perhaps they have reason to despise me."

"No they don't!" Kagami defended him. "You lost your memories; it's not your fault you couldn't keep your promise! And even if you were to ask them what your promise was, they'd probably take advantage of your memory loss and lie to you. This is all the more reason why we need to keep the fact that you have amnesia a secret. Your team members don't seem like bad people, but we don't really know what any of them are like. And now that we know someone is after you, there is extra risk that if you tell anyone that information could make it back to them."

"I know," Kuroko answered. "I don't know what promise I made to them, but I broke it. And because of that, I either hurt them or broke their trust…"

"Those aren't the kind of people you should trust to begin with," Kagami tried to reason with him.

Kuroko decided to just drop the subject. It'd be better to wait until Kagami had calmed down a little before trying to bring it up again.


When Kuroko arrive for practice the next day, he found only Momoi and Midorima had arrived.

"Do you feel better today, Kuroko?" Midorima asked him.

"I do. Sorry for making you both worry. It might take me little while to be up to speed again but…"

"It's okay." Momoi declared. "We'll help you out."

Kuroko smiled his thanks at her when he noticed Midorima frowning. "There's something different about you," Midorima declared to the shorter male. "If you asked me what it was I couldn't tell you, but it definitely feels as though something about you has changed."

Kuroko was nervous. He thought people were finally starting to stop suspecting him, but it appeared Midorima was sharper than the others. Momoi saved him from replying. "Well, he's been spacing out a lot, but that's not too unusual for him so…" Thank you Momoi! Kuroko tried to send his thoughts to her through sheer brainpower.

"That's true…" Midorima declared, although he didn't look convinced. But just as he finished speaking the others began filing into the gym, saving Kuroko from further interrogation.

"Now that everyone's here, I want to talk about the trip a little bit," Momoi stated. Trip? What trip? Kuroko panicked. "It will be a three day – two night island stay," Momoi continued. "I thought it would be good for everyone to relax a little before we gear up for our next game."

"I'd rather kill time at home," Aomine declared.

"Aomine, don't be such a killjoy," Momoi pouted.

"Your cooking is going to kill us all!" Aomine argued back. Their arguing was drowned out as Kuroko was pulled into another memory.

He and Aomine were sitting on a park bench. It was dark out, and Kuroko was listening to Aomine speak. "I…" Aomine started, "killed someone."

He was pulled back into the present when he noticed Momoi's hand being waved back and forth in front of his face. "Tetsu-kun, what's wrong?" she asked him. "You don't look well."

"N-nothing," he answered far more shakily than he would have liked. "N-nothing at all." Momoi seemed to take his words at face-value as she continued talking about the trip, but he barely heard her.

"I hope it's not going to rain," Murasakibara spoke up. "Kuro-chin would be sad if it rained and he couldn't see it."

Kuroko hadn't really been paying much attention to the topic, but he found his attention forced back when Murasakibara referred to him. "See what?" he asked.

"What do you mean see what?" Aomine looked at him like he was insane. "You've been looking forward to this for weeks!"

"I have?" This wasn't good. Were they still talking about the trip? He didn't know.

"You said you wanted to see the meteor shower, didn't you Kuro-chin?" Murasakibara asked looking at him.

"Y-yeah, that's right," Kuroko said, deciding to just go along with it. "I must have forgotten."

"You've been forgetting too much lately," Murasakibara told him worriedly.

"According to the weekly weather report, it should be mostly clear," Midorima said.

"I'm sure it'll be beautiful!" Kise spoke up. "I'm can't wait for it," he said turning to smile at Kuroko. Kuroko aimed a small smile back at him.

"Hey," Kise asked turning to Aomine and changing the topic, "are you all right with your classes? I heard you skipped again."

"None of your business."

"Midorimacchi is good at school," Kise declared. "You should have him help you."

I don't mind, but organize your questions beforehand," Midorima said pushing up his glasses. "That way, I won't waste my time teaching you what you already know."

"Guys this meeting is supposed to be about the trip!" Momoi complained. "We can yell at Aomine later. I wanted us to all spend some time together to improve our inter-team relations. We don't see each other outside of practice that often, after all. It will be good for us."

I don't know if this trip is a good idea or not. I might help me regain more memories, but being with everyone for 3 days with no breaks might cause everyone to realize I have amnesia. I have a bad feeling about this…


Kuroko talked about the day's events with Kagami on the way home.

"Are you going to be okay on this trip?" Kagami asked.

"I don't know. I think it may be inevitable that everyone thinks I'm acting weird."

"Just try to avoid having more contact with Midorima or Aomine than necessary. They sound like they suspect something," Kagami said. "It also might be a good idea to try and ask more questions that could give us hints about your memories.

"It would be nice if I knew what to ask…" Kuroko commented sadly.

"I'm sorry," Kagami suddenly said. "I said I'd do my best to help you, but I haven't really accomplished anything," he remarked sullenly.

"That's not true. It's a huge help having you here. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't talk about this to anyone." It was true. Although he had practically just met Kagami, he already felt like a friend. He couldn't imagine trying to face all this by himself.

"I'm happy that you said that," Kagami said smiling faintly, seeming to be in better spirits. "But we still can't seem to recover any helpful memories."

"That's true," Kuroko said beginning to enter the crossswalk. He couldn't help smiling though at the fact that he didn't have to face this alone. Suddenly he heard a car horn blare loudly. He turned to see it coming straight for him, and it didn't look as though it was going to stop.

"Watch out!" Kagami yelled and move in from of Kuroko as though to shield him. Not that it would do any good. He had shut his eyes and braced himself for the impact when he felt an arm pull him back.

"The light is red." Kuroko turned to look at the speaker, who had just saved his life. It was a male about the same age and height as him, which was unusual considering he was so short. He had somewhat spiky red hair, and was smiling at Kuroko as one would an old friend.

"I'm sorry," Kuroko apologized.

"It's dangerous to space out like that. This has happened before too," the stranger said. Before? Do I know him? Kuroko couldn't remember, but that wasn't surprising. The stranger certainly seemed to know him though.

"You don't remember me, do you?" The stranger stated sadly. There was a pause. "Of course not," he seemed to say to himself with a sad smile on his face. "I'll let you be on your way then," he said and turned to leave in the opposite direction from Kuroko's home.

"Have you met him before?" Kagami asked watching him go. "I feel like he as some sort of connection with you."

Although Kuroko couldn't remember ever meeting that person before, he felt like he should remember. When he'd looked at him, he couldn't help but feel the strangest sense of déjà vu. "Me too," he replied to Kagami's second question. "And I don't think this will be the last we see of him."


Author's note: Sorry this chapter was so short. But we got to see Akashi finally, so you can forgive me, right? I'm not going to be able to update this fast again; the absolute earliest I could have the next chapter done by is late Wednesday, but even that is pretty unlikely. But I wanted to hurry up and get this chapter out so I could get all the important players introduced.

Next chapter...Kuroko gets a kiss! But I'm not telling who it's from. Feel free to guess in your reviews!