A/N: みんな!元気ですか?First of all, thank you for continuing to support me, eventhough I rarely checked fanfiction nowadays! I'm really sorry this took so long. I've been thinking as to how to insert GOM's presence and leaving an impact on you readers before Yuri swoon Yuuki and this becomes Of Yuri and Courage : Extra Miracles ahuehuehue /slapped
Anyways, I'm reading each and every comment that you so kindly took time and wrote. They really makes me happy, especially if I'm having such a bad day or my games troll me up to the point I want to punch the screen/phone /slapped again
ありがとう。
Kagami and Yuuki were at the arcade after the school-hours. Kuroko wanted to come, but Yuuki brushed him off. She thought she needed a change of pace, one that did not involve any basketball-related.
Yet, Kagami tagged along because he was worried about her and her denseness.
In his mind, Yuuki could be kidnapped and she wouldn't even realized it until the kidnappers chopped her into 18-pieces.
That's how scary Yuuki's denseness could be.
"You know..." Yuuki threw another ball into the hoop while the points continue to count up in the big, red LED screen. "This is why I don't want to date any basketball player."
Despite not being a basketball player herself, Yuuki sure got herself involved with too much basketball stuff – she's friends with Generation of Miracles, hangout with Kagami, and having a fiancee who played – which she preferred to left out the last detail from anyone's knowing.
Kagami chuckled. "Tell that to the six idiot prodigies asking you out." Now that was a hella of oxymoron Kagami used. And Yuuki couldn't help but concurred with him.
" .ha." Yuuki sarcastically laughed. "It's not that I wouldn't accept them. I mean, they're tall, dark and handsome – which doesn't fit for Akashi, Midorima, Murasakibara, Kuroko or Kise."
"Sounds like you're biased towards Aomine." Kagami cut her off.
"But, I can't date them." Yuuki ignored Kagami's remark.
"Why?" Kagami asked. "It's not like they can't handle rejection." Then he paused at the words. The alter-ego fo Akashi might not take rejection that well. And Kagami shuddered at what Akashi might do.
"Because..." Yuuki threw the last ball at Kagami hard, asking the red-headed power forward to shoot. Kagami didn't object and shoot without putting much effort."There's one dangerous bastard on the loose now." And the ball went into the hoop smoothly.
Achoo!
Yuri sneezed and caused his butler to cocked his eyebrow at him. "Having a cold, young master?" Ivan handed him a handkerchief, to which Yuri accepted.
"Maybe." Yuri snorted out his mucus into the handkerchief and gave it back to Ivan. He moved around the room aimlessly and picked up a clean, lying fork on the food cart earlier for breakfast. It's been his habit to play with whatever he got in his hand. And this time, it's a silver fork. "Or Yuuki could be badmouthing me hahaha."
Ivan looked at his childhood friend with blank face. "After all the information I've gathered, you're still dilly-dallying. Could it be you're hesitating?"
Yuri dropped the fork that he's been playing with and he looked at Ivan with unfazed face, making the latter having a hard time to read what's on Yuri's mind. "Not really." He said that with uninterested face and picked up the fork and continued to play with it. "But I guess you got a point. I should make my introduction." His eyes turned sharp as if he could see his prey. "Let's just hope Yuuki didn't kill me in my sleep after this."
As usual, Momoi was busy gathering data to prepare her team for the next Inter-High. There's still a few months left, but it wouldn't hurt to start early.
After all, after suffering a lost battle with Kuroko, the rest of Generation of Miracles would certainly get stronger.
They're already strong alone, and now they're combining team play. Especially Kise, Midorima and Akashi.
Akashi was the scariest of all.
While she was humming browing her cellphone, reading every details about every teams participating, their key players and their strategies, her cellphone received another email. Momoi thought it was one of her sources updating his or her report, but she was shocked to see the image attached with the mail.
She quickly made a run for it while contacting Yuuki at the same time!
Huff! Huff!
Yuuki arrived at the hospital with her school uniform still on. She was having ice-cream when Momoi's call got to her. Her face turned pale as she received the news about Nijimura's been injured and fighting for his life as the operation's been conducted on him now.
So, she ran, leaving her half-finished ice-cream behind. And she ran as fast as she could.
"Satsuki!" Yuuki called out with a hoarse voice. She didn't even wait up on the elevator and rode a four flight of stairs. Her voice clearly struggling to come out and her legs were as good as giving up on her.
"Yuuki-chan!" Momoi immediately attended to Yuuki and before Yuuki could collapsed, Murasakibara first supported her from behind.
"Yuuki-chin shouldn't forced herself."
"Mukkun's right." Momoi felt relieved and worried at the same. "You should take a sit first."
Yuuki looked at Momoi with teary eyes. "Nijimura...how is he? Is the surgery's done? Is he alright?!" A sudden bombardment of question rained upon Momoi.
"He's still in the operation room." Akashi spoke up from behind Momoi. "Satsuki is right. You need to rest your legs or they won't last."
Yuuki gave up, knowing her friends were right. She let Murasakibara dragged her to the nearest chair and sat beside Kise. Her mind went blank and her eyes were empty. She was and empty shell now. She couldn't hear anything. She couldn't see anything.
"Did you find out who did this, Satsuki?" Aomine asked. At a time like this, Momoi's vast information network was a great advantage to have.
Momoi shook her head. "I'm sorry. I couldn't find anything. The email was a dupe. And the IP address was masked through different proxies as to not get detected." Momoi glanced at the gloomy Yuuki. "Whoever this was, it's a pro."
"But it was weird, isn't it?" Kise's voice was just as stressed as the rest of the members. "It's Nijimura-senpai we're talking about. Who could have hate him this much?!"
Nijimura was stabbed on his way back from convenience store. The blade was purposedly broken and left in his heart so that it would bleed even more. Not only that, there were bruises all over his body. What's worse was the culprit stepped on his fingers. There were chances that he might not be able to use both of his hand any longer.
"This looks personal. Anyways, you should be careful as well. Though the motive looks unclear, there is possibility that the culprit is aiming basketball players."
Momoi flipped open her cellphone. "More importantly, isn't this email a bit weird?" She showed the email she received earlier to the guys. Aside from the picture of Nijimura was bleeding to death, there was a black rose lying next to him.
"...Black rose...?" Midorima felt uneasiness stirred inside of him.
"In Russia, black rose with blood means revenge." Akashi stated a matter-of-fact.
"So this is really a revenge?" Aomine clenched his fist. "Son of a bitch!"
Akashi tried to calm the situation down. "As I was saying, exercise extra caution. This guy might attack again."
No one nod. No one shake their head. Everyone just took Akashi's advice in silence. And Akashi? He looked at Yuuki with something in his mind.
Black rose also carried the meaning of 'you are mine forever'.
If the black rose at the scene means 'special love', Akashi knew Nijimura was just a collateral damage. The true target was, Kurosaki Yuuki!
Yuri puffed his cheek in boredom. In his hand was custom knife that he's proud of. The handle was carved with golden dragon that was made with pure gold!
And there were a dozen of them in his collection to boot!
"Yuri-sama." Ivan put his right hand on top of his chest and bowed. "As per your instruction, I've took care of the nuisance that's getting in your way."
Yuri was moving the knife in-between his fingers back and forth. His eyes were looking ath the white ceiling. "Did you send the flower as well?"
"Yes. Exactly like how you wanted. A bloody black rose."
"Good." Yuri caught the knife in his palm and threw it on the dart board. The rest of the darts fell to the carpeted floor due to the force exerted into the knife. "This is only a greeting. There's more to come."
Ivan back to his standing-straight position after he's done reporting. "What about Yuuki-sama?"
"Yuuki is smart. She should have figured out things by now. And also..." Ivan was still waiting for Yuri to finish. "If your data was accurate, there should be one more person who knows what am I up to."
It was 11pm. In the study room, Akashi was busy with his international study. After an hour of reading into Hungary's political warfare, he took off his reading glasses and stared into his own reflection in the lenses.
To be precise, his eyes were perfect. It was 20/20.
But Yuuki said he looked better in glasses. The lenses brought out the beauty of his red eyes even more.
Well, not like he's going to say that's the reason he's getting a fake glasses in the first place.
Back to his own thought. Nijimura was stable after going under 14-hours operation. There were complications but the doctors managed to keep him alive. All that's left was to wait for him to regain consciousness.
Then, there's the black rose. It could either mean revenge, or love. Either way, Akashi had a very bad feeling about both of them.
And what's worse, the black rose apparently became a trend nowadays. Gangs used them to pick fights, or retaliated on one another. The culprit probably had attention deficit disorder that he had to think of this way so that his presence's being acknowledged.
The main question was, if it's revenge, why Kurosaki Yuuki?
Akashi was aware of Yuuki's lineage. A granddaughter of famous descendant of Russia, a genius to top it off and her twin wasn't too shabby either. The only slack was her mother eloped with her father and got cut off from the family.
But still, it wasn't enough for all this ruckus to happen.
Unless...
Akashi frantically dugged out his research on Yuuki's past. His eyes were scrutinizing the details of each words, each lines. And when he read the last page, it all started to make sense as to why Yuuki was targetted.
Kurosaki Yuuki. Or rather, Vandekof Yuuki. The one and only heir to Vandekof's empire once she turned 18.
