I am going to upload this chapter no matter what. I said that I will upload a chapter per week or even more in the future since I know what to write about after this chapter. The last 3 chapters were just build up to what happened during the Winter Cup. I hope you like this chapter :D.

Chapter 3

America

The plane trip was ok, if you subtract the back pain I had after the plane. I had first-class so they had everything from movies, bathroom and food service, I got some comments about my back and my neck, but I lied most of the time. When I got out of the plane, I got my luggage and took a cab to… I think to New York."

"Do you have any picture?" Tesume wondered as she learned near him.

"I do have some, but I will show you after the story," Kuroko replied as he pushed her away. "Anyway, I was there because they wanted me to get some treatment pills for both my back and for my depression in order I can play basketball and to play the Winter Cup.

My doctor paid for my room and that was when the sad part of America happened, well at least one part of it. You see my room was at the heart of… New York. There were many skyscraper and building, but many strip clubs and rumors of rape and brutal murders. I guess that the rumors are true. I heard a cream from the room next to me. I first thought it was just the neighbors doing something, but I heard some words like 'stop it' or 'don't kill me.' I ran towards the next room and kicked the door open.

Inside was a scared boy on the red couch and her mother scared, hugging the boy. On the floor, was a body, not lifeless, but a pool of blood on him. I called the police and the ambulance and try to help the father. I asked then what happened, but they don't know since they just saw a person with a mask and cut his back. I stopped mid-way putting pressure on him since in reminded me of the incident and what happened to me"

Everyone went silent. They were picturing what happened to Kuroko in that room. Horrified, Akashi asked Kuroko, "Is he ok?"

"Yes, luckily. I heard that he went out of the hospital a week later with some minor cuts and nothing broken or punctured, but that is beside the point."

"Why are you telling us this story? It is not that sad, and it felt like that it is irrelevant." Aomine asked as he grabbed some juice.

"One, you are a heartless person that is not afraid of death and two, it is just a small part of a bigger picture of what happened during the Winter Cup.," Kuroko paused and then continue on" After the incident, they gave me the treatment and they gave me the address to the counselor."

"How was it? I heard that it was a harsh place to go. Was it bad or was it good but boring?" Momoi asked as she slumps on the couch.

"I was great, it had a really good atmosphere of happiness with other people and the counselor was very nice and gave me everything I needed to be happy. They were there just to change my life. The people there were exactly like me. They been through the same thing as I been, something even worse. The stories were very close to me, especially a guy named Thomas.

Thomas was an orphan. His mother died at birth and his father was very drunk and smoked cigarettes during his life and got into trouble with drugs. He was moved to an orphanage because of the State of New York Court. He had a really bad time over there, being neglected all the time with the other people over there, just like his father and his mother. He would break stuff, the children would blame him for everything, and he would get into fights. The people who own the orphanage try to kick him out, but the state doesn't permit that.

He tried to be good and change his way the people look at him by getting good grades and changing his attitude toward the other child, do chords, but all of the 13 children were basically bulling him until he was a teenager. One day, he brought to himself did somewhat the same thing I did too myself. He took a whole bottle of sleeping pills and tries to drown himself in the bathtub. One of the orphans were found him in the bathroom and called the police. There were wondering why he was so quiet, but what they found what happened to him."

"So basically, what you kind of did to yourself," Tesume shouted as she grab some orange juice from the fridge.

"Yeah, it kind of touched my heart, but the reason why I am telling you this is because that I told him my story, and he said if I told my story, he would tell him his and play basketball with me. So we play basketball. I taught him how to do some passes I do and taught me how… to shoot." Kuroko recollected. Everyone laughed since everyone knows that Kuroko can't shoot. The only time they remember him shooting a ball and making the shot over Murasakibara (or should I saw through him)

"How did that work out for you?" Midorima joked, "Can you shoot as good as me?"

"Well, if you saw the finals of my game, you would see that I was pretty decent." Kuroko replied back. His face went blank. He did remember seeing the game on the second deck of the court and what he is capable of." I'll get into that later in the story. Anyways, we practiced for an hour, and played together with other people from the counselor.

"Other than basketball and your life, he was New York City?" Momoi asked

"You have been asking me about that, haven't you? Well like I said, there were strip clubs and rape cases on where I live, but other than that it was very much bright, and well tall. There were tall buildings to say the least. There were bright lights and had a lot of flashing colors."

"Did you see any attractions on anything special?" Kise questioned as he grab a glass an pour some orange juice.

"I saw the Big Apple and what was it called… oh the Statue of Liberty. I also saw an NBA game. They are really good and their defense and offence are really solid and their plays are much better than ours. I think that they are much better than us."

"Oh course they are. They are in the NBA, but I think believe that we could get in. Well, most of us could get in," Kise laughed.

"Yeah, you can laugh now, but when I getting I'll be at my mansion laughing at you," Aomine dreamed as he picked of the remaining sushi on the platter.

"Ha, ha, ha are you talking about me. Anyways, I video tape some of the plays on tape so my team could look at it and make some plays. We did well at some of them, but most were very difficult and hard to execute, but that is not important yet.

After the game, I had to go back to my apartment since I had to go back to sleep, but when I open my sheet I saw it was one of the people of the counselor. I think her name as Betty. I was in shock that someone knew that I was at the counseling and knew one of the people here. Also, that the person that killed her knew where I lived.

"Did you have any idea how she died? How did she even get inside your room? Why are their murders in that part of town?" Akashi interrogated him curiously what happened to her.

"The police said that my door was pickpocketed from a bobby pin and the body was dragged from one place to another. As to your final question, I don't know how she died and if I knew, it would take months or weeks on how she died. They said that I should take my luggage and leave this place as fast as possible. So I took my stuff and headed out.

I was traumatized by what I saw and the person that did this had no heart or soul. When I boarded on that pane, well, let's just say, did you see the local newspaper on…" Kuroko picked his phone out of his pocket to look at the calendar and continued,"2014, August 6, or anywhere near that date."

Everyone shook there head no. Nobody read the newspaper for years. They read some magazine, articles on the computer, and some books for upcoming exams, but never a newspaper. "Of course you haven't. Well, Tesume, can you turn on your laptop?" he asked. She got out her laptop and turned it on. He whispered in her ear what to type on Google.

"Tesume, want to tell the story?" He told Tesume. She started rambling.

"When he boarded the plane, he was doing fine for the first 30 mines of the plane ride," she started as she was typing on the computer like she playing chopsticks very slowly on the piano." A few minutes later, one of the engine was busted and the commander lost control of the airplane,. Everyone started to panic when they heard the news and started to run around the airplane .The fight attended that were clam try to keep everything down and keep everyone in place, but everyone was too scared to think that they are going to land safely.. Kuroko, according to him, just stood there doing nothing in the plane with the entire ruckus, but I highly doubt it.

The plane was at the altitude of 4,000 feet when people started to get out of the airplane. I wouldn't blame them since that they were about to die because they were going to land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean according to this article. Luckily, Kuroko got one of the last parachutes from under his seat and jumped and somehow deploy his parachute. He landed in the ocean, of course, but the hardest part of the incident happened, trying to get to shore. Yes, they saw an island on the shore, but a human eye could be tricked by an illusion on the ocean.

Everyone had an inflatable boat with them with some food and water just in case for this reason. The people though were more worried of surviving this than actually taking care of themselves."

They were all in shock "I don't believe you, let me see that article." She turned the computer over and there was an article in the Japan Times with a picture of people on the ocean in distress with hard waves and lightning striking down on the ocean. They saw in the background the plane falling in the distance.

"Can I continue on?" Tesume asked. They all nodded. She continued," The people scrambled to get their luggage, people crying and people trying to get on someone boat. They knew that they were at the verge of death. Everyone calm down and help one another as we sailed to shore. Everyone calmed down after hours of rowing. They ration of the food and drank the water bottle just to keep us alive, yet the weather, the ocean and the waves were the one that took the lives."

"After the countless days, I and what looked like 30 people came closer and closer to land to the point to that they were on the beach," Kuroko took over the story. "When we actually got onto the land, it felt like I was in heaven and for the countless days I was stuck in sea, I felt like that I was in hell and back. Luckily, the Winter Cup was weeks away and was around the corner. I guess you can say that that year was as lucky as Midorima charms that he had for the past 2 years."

"Can I see that article again?" Akashi questioned. She turned the computer over and put it on the table. Minutes later after reading it, they had a face in which they were both socked and survived.

"How the hell did are you still playing basketball Kuroko? One day you committed suicide in your house, the next day you are rowing your boat to the Japan Island just to save 30 to 40 lives on an inflatable boat," Murasakibara blurted.

"A better question is how you are still alive? Like you said, you burned and in hell and survived," Kise coughed

"Well, if you saw the finals of the Winter Cup, you would see what happened to me?" Then there were silence. Tesume was confused, since she doesn't watch basketball.

"The shadow… I never wanted to be reminded of that Kuroko, or even that figured," Aomine shuddered.

"Well, I have to meet some friends at the mall, so bye!" Momoi said. They all said their farewell and she left the house.

"So Tesume want to come with us?" She nodded her head and everyone stood up. They put on their shoes and started to walk back to Kuroko's place. "You don't know what happened? Well, I wouldn't be surprised since you never watch basketball. You only follow it." They reached a corner store near Tesume house. "Want to buy something?"

Finally, I'm done with this chapter. At this part forward, I know what do now. So, I will try my best to upload faster my chapters and see I can free up some more time on my schedule to write more. Hopefully, school won't catch up with me. I hope you like this chapter and write a review or PM me or just favorite and follow my story.