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Chapter 3: Name Not Exist
Its morning, sunlight peeked through the gap between the closed curtains and waking up the tiger. The split eye browed teen grunt in his wake up process and almost decide to drift back to the dreamland, he will, if the vision of the only two girls in the villa making breakfast not suddenly come to his mind. He immediately open his eyes and about to bolt to the kitchen and saving their dear live when he realize a pair of pure blue orbs just centimeters away from his crimson one.
"Gaahhh!" shout the redhead ungracefully. Waking up the other redhead in the room as per results.
The owner of the twin blue orbs only blink once and tilt his head slightly, seems like not uncomfortable even the sightless with their current proximity. He not even does anything to widen their almost non existence distance.
"What the fuck?! What the hell do you do on my face?!" yell Kagami, face reddens considerably.
"Mind your language, Taiga, its only morning." reprimand Akashi from his own bed while still yawning; he's not fully awake yet.
"Watching you." said the teal haired male deadpanned.
"What?!"
"Your eyebrow is different than the other, there are four of it." Another deadpanned verbal jab from the pale boy.
"Teme…!" growl Kagami, his hand twitched in the urge to clamp the eerily beautiful face before him to shove him off. Embracement, entrancement, and irritation mixed up together.
Akashi frown at the teal haired boy reply earlier, something feels odd there. "What do you mean by the other?" ask the heterochromatic eyed teen suspiciously.
Twin blue orbs finally drifted away from the crimson one. The owner slowly sits down, now facing Akashi, he blinks once slowly before abruptly said, "Your eyes, it also different, they have two different colors."
Akashi perplexed at the unexpected retort, in such an expressionless manner to boots. "Yes, it is. Now tell me, what do you mean by the other?"
The pale male tilts his head a little. "I've been watching all of you while you're sleep. You all looked different."
"Of course we are! Do you think we're some kind of mass prod clone or something?!" splutter Kagami bewildered.
"Clone?" another slight tilt of the blue eyed boy. That, would made the two redhead blush, one inwardly while the other being downright obvious, if not for the oddness of this conversation turn on.
"And what do you think you're doing? Watching us in our sleep?! Are you brain damaged or what?" shout the taller of the three, baffled, bewildered, anger, worry, utterly confuse, he don't know what to feel about this anymore.
"Can't I?" ask the pale bluenette innocently.
"Of course you can't! Are you some kind of freak!?" shout the exasperated tall redhead.
The shorter redhead frown at thins lack of common sense the smaller boy displayed. "Calm down, Taiga. And you, what is your name?"
"I don't have a name." said the boy as if he not just spoke up something completely worrisome.
"Do you mean you can't remember your name?" ask Akashi cautiously as he picks his word carefully. Perhaps this boy had memory loss?
"No, I don't have one." said the boy without even an ounce of hesitation in his incredulous answer.
"How can you don't have one?! What your friends calling you? Your family?" ask the bewildered Kagami.
"I don't have one either." State the pale bluenette as if he just announces weather.
"What…" Kagami unable to complete his words, but the question is clear. The answer he got just too shocking.
"Friend, family, I don't have one." Repeat the mysterious boy.
The room becomes silent. Two redheads hardly realizing the implication of the bluenette calm words. The taller one, who has less brain capacity, got a very hard time to understand the situation. But once he do, accepting it as a fact was even far more difficult. How could there be a person who has no name? For have no name to be called with, it must be lonely.
The shorter redhead visibly flinches and widens his eyes at that impossible statement. There is no way any living human could possibly survive without name, family, or friends. Even Mogly who raised by wolves has a name. What is this boy?
Akashi decides to address this issue latter, when he has enough information about this odd boy. "That's enough for now, Taiga. Why don't you make us breakfast?" he said to the taller redhead who currently still lost in thought.
"… Yeah… I guess you're right, Akashi."
"Of course I am. Now you better hurry before Satsuki and Aida do something unfixable."
"Shit! You're right…" yell the tiger as he bolt out of their room to the kitchen.
"Manners, Taiga… really, someday I think I'll wash clean Taiga's and Daiki's mouth with hydrogen peroxide." Mutter Akashi even when the said teens unable to hear him. If they do, there is a high chance he'll heard someone muttering 'yes, mother' behind him. Putting aside those thought, he face the teal haired boy and ask, "So, what should I call you?"
"Anything you like, I don't care."
"Is that so…"
Kagami could hardly believe what he heard earlier. Did that boy just said that he doesn't have a name?! No parents, no family, no friends?! How could that be? What kind of life he live in?! That must be lonely.
His line of thought abruptly ending when he arrive at the kitchen. Apparently, those earlier incident at the bedroom delay him so much that Mitobe senpai and Tatsuya already starting to make some breakfast. Better than those two girls that take the initiative actually.
"Ohayou, Taiga. It's rare to see you're late for making breakfast." Greet Himuro with a smile.
"Well, things happened…" answer Kagami sheepishly as he scratches the back of his head in guilty manner.
"Is it about the drown boy last night?" ask Himuro curiously. The teal haired boy just so mystifying and pique his curiosity more than he think possible.
"Yeah… sort of…" reply the redhead reluctantly.
The older male frown at that answer. "So? How is he?"
"Fine… I guess?" Kagami's voice full of uncertainty, he can't even look at his brother in the eye.
"That's can't be considered as answer, Taiga…" retort Himuro exasperatedly.
Kagami could only heave a sigh. "I know… I know… but I just don't know, ok…?" he said desperately, pleading with his eyes to drop the subject.
Uncomfortable silence emanating in the kitchen. Not complete silence, actually, sound of sizzling pan still could be heard, but that's it. The two teenager stood still uncomfortably while Mitobe rather panickingly eyeing those two with concern.
"So, what for breakfast?" ask Kagami as he awkwardly changing the topic.
Himuro sighed in resign manner and smile to his little brother. "Well, Mitobe senpai make some fried rice, I think it will go well with tamagoyaki. Do you think we need to make some miso soup?"
Kagami think about that combination and frown. "Fried rice with miso soup? I don't know about that… what do you think senpai?"
Before anyone could response to that question. A toneless voice call to one of them out of blue.
"Eyebrow-kun."
The three of them immediately stop talking and frown, looking around to try locating the source of the voice.
Feeling some familiarity in the voice, Kagami have a suspect of who the owner of the voice is. Not to mention the nick name that bastard use. He looking around looking for a mop of teal, only to got nothing. His scowl gone deeper, "Oi… show your self will you?"
"Right here."
Eerily calm voice drawn Kagami to look at his right, only to find the smaller bluenette not even an arm away from him, staring him with his big blue eyes that always look so mystifying for the redhead. "Gah! Teme! Since when did you standing there? And what the hell did you mean by Eyebrow-kun?!"
"Because your eyebrow are weird, Eyebrow-kun."
Kagami literally face palmed at that retort. "Yeah yeah… you already told me that, but I have a name, got it? It's Kagami, Kagami Taiga."
"Kagami-kun then." Decide the pale bluenette.
"Whatever." Said the taller redhead with resigned sigh. He then looks at the teal haired boy, now with incredulous expression instead. "Anyway, what the hell with that bed hair of yours?" he ask.
"Bed hair?" asks the small bluenette innocently, complete with a slight cute tilt oh his head.
Kagami pull all his will power to ignore the utter cuteness in front of him. "Oi, Akashi." He arched an eyebrow, asking the other redhead about this outrageous mess of teal flock.
"He gets away before I manage to drag him to the bathroom." Answer Akashi calmly as he entered the kitchen in slow pace.
"Ohayou, Akashi." Greet Himuro.
"Ohayou Tatsuya, Rinnosuke-senpai." Greet Akashi, which Mitobe answer by a nod and smile.
Meanwhile, a scowling Kagami acted like a mother hen and point at the oblivious bluenette. "You, why don't you wash your face first? And fix that ridiculous bed hair of yours."
"I smell something good." Said the teal haired male deadpanned.
"What are you!? A dog?" ask the incredulous Kagami.
The teal haired boy only tilts his head slightly, wondering why he being compared with a four legged creature.
Himuro smacked the taller redhead in the head with a spatula. "Don't be ridiculous, Taiga. He might be just hungry, right? Umm…"
The teal haired boy only blinks once and continuously stares at the unvoiced question about his name.
Sensing the confusion in the air, Akashi decides to step in. "Introduction can come later, Tatsuya." Cut Akashi firmly.
"Ah…? Ok then…" agreed Himuro rather reluctantly.
"Now, why don't you come with me to wake up the others and let them finish make ours breakfast?" ask Akashi to the bluenette who currently eyeing the sizzling fried rice with huge interest. Made him wonder if the said boy never saw it before, which in truth is down right on the mark.
"Breakfast? As in the one that I smell good?" ask the odd boy eagerly.
Akashi eyes went noticeably wider for a short moment. "Yes."
"Is it edible?" ask the teal haired male deadpanned, but with considerable eagerness within.
Akashi never would have thought of that question came up from any sane human alive. He also never thought that he'll get more incredulous question than the previous one. "Of course." Answer the redhead as he tries his best to maintain his composure.
"Then I'll come with you."
As the two smaller teen made their way to the others' room, weird silence befall on the kitchen.
"Did he just ask if breakfast is edible?" ask the disbelieving Himuro.
Kagami outwardly sigh heavily. "Yeah… he just did…" He really, really doesn't know what's going on anymore. That boy is… odd? No, he's more than that. He even might just pass beyond human's logic and nature. What is he…?
This boy is an enigma. A very rare occurrence where he, Akashi Seijurou, couldn't understand a thing. The pale petite boy that currently following him obediently to the bathroom easily defy most common thing.
First, he bluntly states himself as nameless, parentless, and friendless.
Second, he looks at almost everything in the villa as if he never seen one before, including them. He even states that he watched them in their sleeps.
Third, he has no apparent expression and hard to notice presence.
Fourth, he mesmerized all persons at the first sight, which is if the said person could spot him in the first place.
Fifth, he mesmerized him, Akashi Seijurou of all people. Render him speechless.
Sixth, he…
"We are here." While the redhead musing at the enigma that step lightly, almost inaudibly behind him, their short journey to bathroom meets its end.
The pale bluenette only look at him with his ever nonexistence expression, but a slight curiosity glint in his blue orbs.
"Bathroom. You need to wash your face, and fix that bed hairs of yours." Advise Akashi firmly.
"Kagami-kun also said that. What bed hair?"
Akashi inwardly sighs for the umpteenth time this morning and resigns himself to the fate. "That ridiculous state of your hair that is. See for yourself." Said the slightly taller teen as he point at the mirror inside the bathroom.
The teal haired boy complies and walks to the mirror. "Ah…" His eyes widen for a fraction of seconds. Not just the stated of his hair, his overall reflection rather intriguing him. He know his reflection enough, but seeing through mirror certainly different that seeing within water. "Up land is just too dry for them." Mutter the pale bluenette quietly.
"Pardon me?"
"The air just too dry. Water will do." Said the boy affirmatively.
"Is that so…" trail Akashi suspiciously. Did he just heard… up land?
The next thing is proofed to be much more than a challenge. The teal mop just refused to comply with gravity force and soaring up to random direction instead. There even some point where Akashi almost ran out of patience and need to hold the urge to just cut the disobedience flock with a sharp scissor for their own good. Almost being the punctuation here, and that tell a lot, since he very rarely does even when facing this unruly bunch at daily basis.
After what feels like a decades for the redhead, all of his hard efforts finally bears fruits. The teal mane finally looks much more presentable than its early state this morning. This truly teaches him a lesson where successful hard working efforts really taste sweeter than easily claimed victory. Something that he never felt, or even thought would felt, ever. Those just add to the oddity of the boy.
"Done."
The owner of the disorderly teal locks offers no assistance through Akashi's hard battle. The slightly smaller boy only stayed still and watching the redhead struggles through the mirror with sheer curiosity.
"Come, let's fetch the others."
"Hai."
Much to Akashi's displeasure, most of them are already awake by now. His struggle seems to went as long as he felt it is. Well, not quite a decade pass, but still some considerably long time though. Even so, they still found one sleeping prey. The darkest among them all, Aomine Daiki, sleeping soundly on his bed, oblivious to the upcoming mayhem up on his way.
The vertically challenged redhead walks silently to his prey. His genius brain running full gear to crafts the best 'present' for the sleeping ganguro. But thinking back at the bet they made yesterday, he revise his brilliant plan to a milder one.
"Do you want to wake him up" ask Akashi to the teal haired boy with an evil smirk that never mean good to anyone who being the target.
"Can I?" ask the pale bluenette innocently.
"Feel free to do anything you like." Reply the redhead boldly.
Amuse glint appear at the twin blue orbs that used to remain closed almost all the time. Contrast with his nonexistence expression, he just felt exited at the free reign he get. He not quite get how human normally interact, but if he got permission, that should be alright, right?
The teal haired boy crouches down beside the sleeping Aomine. He curiously poked the other teen on his cheek couples of times. When he not get any response, he start to experimentally poke at his nose, his forehead, and even pried open his eyelids, try to peek at Aomine's eye.
"His eye is the same color as his hair."
Akashi frowned at the obvious statement the pale bluenette made. The more he looks at it, the more he saw how the shorter boy behaves as if he never meet any other people before. But that just doesn't make any sense, right?
The pale bluenette continue his ministration towards the sleeping ganguro. He pinch his right cheek and pulled it to any direction possible, made Aomine's face a weird one, much to Akashi's amusement while the victim himself only grumble incoherently.
The shortest boy of the three then even moves more boldly. He closed Aomine's nose with one hand while his other hand cover his mouth. In this apparent attempt of murder, the culprit only stares on his poor victim innocently and curiously.
The redhead witness only arched an eyebrow and waits for the navy haired victim to choose between two, wake up or die. He inwardly smiles at the pale boy choice of action, just the type of his threat, only in more silence and innocence manner.
Seconds tick by, and Aomine's face transform into weird hue before he finally awake and gasp heavily for air.
"What the…" His morning curse got cut short, two pure blue orbs staring down on his in dangerously close proximity.
Akashi feels like having de ja vu.
"Ohayou gozaimasu, dark-kun." greet the smaller boy calmly, don't bothered a bit by their proximity.
"What?!" exclaimed the stunned Aomine after a while.
"Your skin is very dark, different than the others." Stated the teal haired boy bluntly, just like before.
Akashi gets stunned in the intense feels of de ja vu rushing after him. 'There he goes again with his quirk in calling people. I wonder what he'll call me if I haven't introduced myself…' marvel the redhead inwardly. 'Guess I'll cut it short this time. I'll also need to introduce the other to this boy before any unwanted ocurance happened.'
"Wake up, Daiki, we'll having breakfast."
At the mention of breakfast, the pale boy suddenly loses interest to the dark skinned human before him. Before anyone could notice, he was missing from Aomine's side and instantly standing beside Akashi. Eyes gleaming excitedly on his expressionless face.
"Breakfast." Repeat the smaller boy eagerly, almost like a child.
Akashi can't help but smile with this childishly cute and endearing act the other unconsciously made.
"Yes, breakfast, I'm sure Taiga and the others are done and waiting for us." said the redhead to the eager boy beside him. He then averts his eyes to the still rather stunned ganguro. "Daiki, go wash your face and join us in a minute." Said Akashi curtly before he retreat to the dining room with the teal haired boy instantly following him. Leaving behind a gaped Aomine Daiki.
Unaware to the obscure scene at the other side of the villa, Aida Riko sit comfortably on a sofa, watching TV while waiting for breakfast as she banned from kitchen.
"What are you watching, Riko?" ask a passing by Kiyoshi.
"Just morning news, Teppei."
"Still the same?" ask the tall brunette with rather distressed face.
"Still the same. This chain of disaster not decreased even the slightest." Said Riko as she huft a sigh.
"They're escalated huh?"
"Yeah…" trail Riko gravely.
Silence engulfing the two as the morning news continues to relay a lot of disaster that happened around the world. Ranged from a small scale floods to rampaging storm that destroyed several cities. Not to mention the alarming amount of food supply in most part of the world and other economical regression.
"Hey, Teppei, do you realize something peculiar about all these ordeal?" ask Riko after awhile.
"That they are all disaster?" answer Kiyoshi sheepishly.
Riko rolled her eyes at that obvious answer. "No, not that."
"Then?" ask the tall brunette curiously.
"That all of them oddly related to water, directly or indirectly." Answer Riko solemnly.
Kiyoshi's face becomes serious as he think about Riko's suspicion thoroughly. "Now that you mention it…"
"Odd right?"
"Yeah… it is…"
Breakfast time, and usual chaos ensue. This unruly bunch even tosses around some tamagoyaki, aiming it to enter the tiger's mouth. One of it perfectly enters the target, courtesy of a certain greenhead that tired of all the chaos and hoping to end the ridiculous game by winning it.
Kiyoshi and some of them only laugh out loud at few moments where the tamagoyaki went to another place instead. Like when a couple of it landing gracefully at the same time on both Kagami's eyes, made him looks like wearing a weird yellow nerd glasses. Kagami look at his brother suspiciously after he put the two tamagoyaki to its respectful place: his stomach. But the raven haired teen wear his perfect poker face and continue eating like nothing happened, so Kagami can't do anything about that.
In the meantime, the teal haired boy only watched all those ordeal with his trademark lack of expression face, coupled with twin blue orbs that gleaming with so much amusement.
The other occupants of the room have at least checked on the pale bluenette thrice along the messy breakfast. They are not completely mesmerized as when they first saw him, but the eerily attraction are still there. Not as strong, but exist all the same, much to their confusion.
After the last plate cleaned up, and the last tamagoyaki went flying to the tiger's den, everyone's excitement and curiosity are clearly emanating in the air. Before another havoc occurred, Akashi decides to step in and save the oblivious bluenette from prying teen around him.
"Before I start our introduction, I think I'll remind you all of the bet we made before our journey to the lake last night." said the heterochromatic eyes owner with a slightly sadistic smirk.
Three persons with three different hair colors flinch almost violently at that. The three teens that much taller than the redhead went noticeably paler almost instantly, even the most dark skinned among them. One of them just this close to crack his glasses, while the other one felt like about to throw out all the tamagoyaki inside his stomach.
Complete opposite of their reaction, a certain brunette girl smirk along with Akashi, amused devilish gleam in her eyes. And a raven haired teen wearing a white hair band stifle up a laugh while his exceptional eyes glinting full of mischief.
The other, sans one oblivious being, could only pray for the soon-to-be-victim grave.
"I believe you all remember it. Now, for introduction, from my right are: Midorima Shintarou," start Akashi.
A tall teen with green hair nod at the pale boy direction.
"Takao Kazunari,"
A raven haired teen with medium long hair that tucked with a hair band grins and raises his hand. "Yahoo~"
"Izuki Shun,"
A black haired teen with sharp eyes smile at him. "He come late for dinner and just realized that it was a missed steak. Yosh, kittakore~"
"Kiyoshi Teppei,"
A tall teen with thick eyebrow and goofy smile smiles even wider at him.
"Aida Riko,"
Brunette girl with short hair smile at him. "Yoroshiku~"
"Hyuga Junpei,"
A scowling bespectacled teen with black spiky hair nod at him.
"Mitobe Ryuunosuke",
A tall teen with calming face smiles warmly at him.
"Koganei Shinji,"
A cat-like teen smiles and waves at him.
"Kise Ryouta,"
A handsome blonde with golden eyes and pierced left ear waves enthuastically at him. "Nice to meet you-ssu~"
"Aomine Daiki,"
A scowling dark skinned teen with navy hair and dark blue eyes greet him. "Osu…"
"Momoi Satsuki,"
A pink haired girl beams happily at him. "Satsuki-chan is fine, yoroshiku~"
"Murasakibara Atsushi,"
A very tall teen with shoulder length purple hair nodded at him as he still munching some snack even after breakfast.
"Himuro Tatsuya,"
A raven haired teen with quite long bangs that cover his left eye smile at him.
"and you already know Taiga."
"Yo." Greet Kagami curtly to the boy.
"Minna, this boy had no name. Feel free to call him what you like before we could find a name for him." Introduce Akashi. This is, by no means, is the most outrageous introduction he ever made.
"Yoroshiku onegai shimasu." Said the teal haired teen with a curt bow, face deadpanned, completely oblivious with the incredulous looks he get from all of them, save Akashi and Kagami who already know beforehand.
end of chapter three
A/n:
Ne, how do you think? So… umm… as you read, they will call Kuroko randomly for some chapters till I could put motion on how they could call him Tetsuya. (Thanks for Ann to give me this idea) Since Kuroko here is a non human entity that is. So, could you suggest me what should they called him? I run out of ideas, again. Sorry.
Please help me put WHO, called him WHAT.
Example: (not fix yet)
Kagami – water boy
Akashi –
Kise – cutie-chi
Aomine - brat
Midorima -
Murasakibara – sweet-chin
Momoi -
Riko -
Himuro -
Takao -
Hyuga – blue brat
Kiyoshi -
Izuki -
Mitobe - … [the easiest to decide: blank]
Koganei –
Thanks for your help. ^_^
*the pun in Izuki-kun introduction is not originally mine. I'm completely at loss if you ask me to made one. That one was inspired by the one I search at punofthedaydotcom, with slight change to it.
See you at next chapter~