Hello!~ This is going to be the last chapter for middle school... awww! This was all basically a prologue thought. High School is going to start. Inoue is going to have MAJOR changes but she will go back to normal! Ok this is also going to be a lot of time skips and changes with everyone. Again I'm so sorry for my grammar mistakes and if the stories confusing. Also romance will mostly start in Highschool, this is just puppy love I would say.
If you're having trouble visualizing Inoue's hair just look at Mizore from rosario+vampire just white.
SPOILER ALERT: Manga chapters
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN KUROKO NO BASUKE OR THE IDEAS (only my oc) full credit goes to the creator
Time skip to about a month! When Inoue's released from the hospital and trained hard!
Tetsuya watched his only girl teammate with a grave look. She kept on grabbing balls and throwing them into the hoops, missing some but 90% of the time getting it in. It had been like this for what seemed the longest time.
"Tetsuya, you should come and try shooting some of these. You never know, it could go in." Ah yes, that new name she called him. In fact she called everyone a different name now. It went kind of like this.
Kuroko-kun to Tetsuya
Sei-kun to Sei
Dai-chan to Daiki
Midorima-senpai to Midorima
Mura-kun to Mura
Momoi-san to Mo-kun and Kise stayed the same. Her spiky white hair swished as she jumped up to throw a three pointer, smirking as it went in. Yes, that was new too. Ichigo smirked, something that the 'new' her did unlike the other. None the less he still stayed with her like he always did, and she did as well. New self or not she still needed a companion and he did as well, Aomine was gone leaving them both for each other. Not that she minded him being gone.
"Its almost closing time." Turning around after the ball went in she smiled, something she didn't often anymore. "Sei, I was just practicing I'll go now if its closing time. Thanks for telling me Sei." Looking at his gold and crimson colored eyes he said, "Such practice for you is unnecessary is it not? Didn't you score 20 points last game? Oh, I see Tetsuya is here with you as usual." Seijuro replied looking into her light blue orbs.
"You're right, but unlike you I'm not strong physically or nearly as talented as you. I have to practice sometimes in order to get better, and I will get better. Tetsuya is to watch, haven't you noticed that we hang out a lot?" Everyone noticed, that Aomine and Inoue had became overboard distance and her being with Kuroko almost 24/7.
Time skip to a new year.
Gom: Grade 9 15
Inoue: Grade 8 14
(japanese middle school sorry idk)
"Tetsuya! Today was just the opening ceremony, lets head back home together. We could get popsicles on the way." Ichigo stated grabbing his hand as he gave a faint nod.
While they were walking down the street eating blue popsicles Kuroko suddenly said something that they almost never talked about. "Have you talked to Aomine-kun lately?" The spiky haired girl stop walking and turned to him confused. Like she didn't recall the name, as if she had no memory of the blue haired teen or what Kuroko was even talking about.
"No, what makes you want to talk about this so suddenly Tetsuya? Did he do something to you?" Her voice dripping with venom at the end. Yes, another new thing that she had. Being aggressive and thinking for the worst. It was like she had no memory of the times they had spent together as friends. Not only Ichigo though, everyone else as well.
"Nothing, Inoue-san do you remember what you asked me a while ago?" Due to the new question it took hime a few seconds to process and remember. "No, what did I ask?" Seeing Kurokos pained expression she blinked and shook her hands repeating, "I'm sorry I truly don't remember! Was it really important? I'm sorry I'm afraid I don't recall asking you much a while ago." Again Kurokos expression was filled with but he controlled himself by saying, "No, it wasn't anything important please don't worry so much. Anyways this is where we part ways is it not?" She nodded and walked of waving goodbye.
Just then he saw something that made his heart ache. A visual, of all of the gom. Murasakibara walking normally saying something, Aomine laughing pushing Kise who grabbed onto Midorima for support while Inoue scolded Daiki. Momoi was sighing looking at Akashi who was talking to him. Then he remember what Inoue ask that while ago.
"Dai-chan...must be feeling a bit down. I mean he's such a great friend to us, so you don't really need a reason to talk to him right? We'll...always be together right? Everyone loves basketball...and even after this we'll still have fun together right?!" Ichigo's voice sounded frantic and panicked, almost as if she thought that they would be together and have fun.
'I'm sorry I lied to you Inoue-san' He thought as tears brimmed in his eyes watching her walk away.
Time skip to the Nationals District Preliminaries the first match, Momoi pov
"There monsters...the generation of miracles." A man cried from the crowd looking at the score. Teiko-109 and Doujmazaki with 5 points.
The team has gotten stronger. Although the line up hasn't changed, they seem like a completely different team. There are no passes instead they shoot for their own, and with that they're still crushing their opponents. But although their victories are more overwhelming than before...no one smiles anymore. Emothnessly they do their job. Achieving the victory that they are expected to do. There isn't even the slightest chance that they will lose. They'll most likely continue winning like this throughout the preliminaries. And perhaps...during the real thing as well. Testu-kun playing in matches too, but his only role as a substitute, to conserve the main players strength. He understands this too yet he continues to play diligently during the time he is granted. I haven't seen his smile either for a long time. Same with Inoue-chan...she's improved so much, but shes still clumsy. What happened to them all?
"You know~ haven't they become boring~? Games." I turn to Mura-kun as he was changing with wondering what he meant.
"Huh? Our opponents being weak ain't a new thing is it?" Aomine-kun said causing me to look down sad. "But, yeah lately I've been feeling that way too." Ki-chan chimed in "Now that its become so easy to win I don't feel motivated at all!~" How could they say that?
"Hm..oh then how about this? For the next match why don't we compete to see who can score the most points? We can bet something random, like snacks or something." Ki-chan suggested making my eyes widen. Thats just toying with the other team who was working hard! "Sure why not. At least It'll make it less boring right?" Aomine said turning his head.
"What about you Midorima-chii?"
"How foolish. I will continue to devote myself to my three pointers even without such a pointless excuse."
"That sounds interesting. Perhaps I should join in as well." Akashi-kun said making me and Ki-chan say eh? At the corner of my eye I can see Mura-kun eyeing him. "How unusual for Akashi-chii to be interested in the sort of thing...you know what you're agreeing to right?" As on cue Akashi-kuns famous (and sexy) smirk was on his face.
"I dont mind. I have no complaints as long as we win the matches. In fact, it would be more problematic if you guys lost your motivation. If it would draw attention back to the game, I might even encourage this kind of behavior. Do not be irritated Shintarou. It is trivial entertainment." I feel for Midorima, this isn't a thing they should do. They should never need this type of motivation. Never. They didn't even need motivation before…
"I'll tell Inoue-chii about it, oh yeah, what about Kuroko-chii?" Aomine shrugged buttoning his jacket. "Even if he was here its not like he could participate in the bet. So who cares?~" With that said, I left and almost slammed the door.
To the after the second match! No ones pov
"Kuro-chin what's wrong?~" Murasakibara asked looking back at him but still walking. When Inoue heard the words "What's wrong" and his name her ears perked up but didn't open her eyes. "During today's match… Why did you do somthing like that? I feel that its not quite right." Tetsu said pouring out a bit of his true feelings. Ichigo opened her eyes and turned to him, almost grasping a bit of her old self.
"What are you talking about Kuroko-chii? Its just for fun, for fun! Just spicing up another wise boring you know?" Ryouta laughed turning around as well. But that didn't satisfy his question. "But I feel that playing in that manner, is disrespectful to our opponents."
"Tetsuya..." Ichigo said starting to regret participating in the bet. Maybe she had changed but her feeling for him did not. She would never want to make him sad or uncomfortable, thats just how much she liked him. Uncertainly her regret and sympathy disappeared after Aomine said somthing. "Why? Ain't it the other way? Isn't it Tetsu who used to say not to go easy on them? Were just having some fun so we can be motivated to play, even against small fry." Daiki said silencing Kuroko.
It is august now. The national inter school sports tournament, "Nationals" for short has begun. "Look its teikou… whoa." They were just as talented last year but they were still very much middle school students when talking to reporters. But this year they emit the aura of a top professional team...its impossible to believe that they're still in middle school!
"Whoa Teikou really is amazing huh…"
As everyone sat down and took off their jackets the head coach began to talk. "Listen carefully. No matter what happens give your all in this match. This is the crucial first match. Don't give them even the slightest chance of catching you off guard." He said looking at everyone. "Understood, is everyone else clear? Lets go." And then the match started. And soon the score was unbelievable.
"Aw man...looks like we took them a little too seriously huh…" Kise said.
"See~." Murasakibara said yawning.
"As expected they're not worth shit...should we do that again starting from the next game?" Aomine asked.
"Well senpai?" Inoue asked cracking her neck.
"Hmph!" Was his only answer.
"Lets go. Were lining up." Akashi said and hey all obliged to shake hands. The score was 198 to 8…
As the coaches eyes widened and eyebrows furrowed he thought something. 'This might be the first time all of them have played at full strength simultaneously. They're stronger than I ever imagined possible...no, they're too strong! Its not just that either. Its as if the pressure from last year of not being able to lose at the nationals has completely disappeared. Is their talent so overwhelming that it even crushes this pressure? In such a terrifying team...am I, as a coach...even remotely necessary?'
After that, Teikou brezzed through their second match. Even in the nationals they remained unrivaled. Even the league matches reserved only for the elite representatives of their respective districts proved no match for Teiko, who won as easily as stepping through an open door. On the second day. The competition adopts a tournament format.
With their ace, Ogiwara as their central pillar, Meikou is a well balanced good team. With excellent teamwork as their deadly weapon they continued to their winning streak and earned their ticket to the playoffs.
On the other hand, in a different stadium… This goes without saying, but Teiko continued to win as though it was only natural. However, they did not play all out like they did in their first match again. Just like the preliminaries they used individual plays to score points, and played to see who could get the most points for their own entertainment. Even if the opposing team was frustrated at being toyed with, they could only watch the point difference widened mercilessly.
To the 'Generation of Miracles' they weren't unworthy of being considered opponents, they weren't even worth looking at. At long last the third day, the final day arrives.
"DEFENSE! DEFENSE!" The point was 65 for Meiko and 66 for Kyosen.
"ATTACK GET THE BALL EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU!" The coached yelled trying to motivate them. "AARGH!" Ogiwara screamed grabbing the ball and throwing to another teammate, who scored the last point making them have 67 points. "IT'S GAME OVER! MEIKOU'S HEADED FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIPS!" Everyone cheered as Ogiwara thought to himself, 'I did it Kuroko! Its finally time for us to fulfill our promise!'
"Looks like our opponent in the championships is some team called Meiko."
"Huh?~ Well in the end it doesn't matter who it is right?~" Hearing Kise and Atsushi talk like that Kuroko clenched his fist, Inoue furrowed her brows as she saw it. As Kuroko walked over to the coach he asked him, "I want to play from the start." The head coach was surprised at first but agreed none the less.
As Aomine and Atsushi were benched first there eyes squinted at two twins passing by Kuroko, Kise and Inoue. "Aren't those guys…?" Aomine asked leaning in but a certain giant interrupted him. "Aren't they the twins who gave us trouble during last year's finals?~" Kurko step in front of them on accident and then they'd saw him.
"We'll take revenge for last time!" The first one said.
"We'll drag those other two in from the bench before you know it!" The second one said. Out of instinct Ichigou step in front of Kuroko, a woman's motherly instinct she called it. They smirked at her and walked away. As the game began they already had 54 points and the other team had 28. "WHOA THEY MADE IT! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
"THAT ASIDE HOW IS EVERYBODY ON THE TEAM SO GOOD?"
"EVEN WITH SOME OF THE MIRACLE ON THE BENCH, TEIKOS STILL LEADING!"
"THEY'RE TOO STRONG!"
As ogiwara watched them play he thought something. 'Were you so amazing?! Well yeah its incredible but...Kuroko why? Why aren't you smiling? And is this really Teiko?! It's true that they're ridiculously strong, they even have a girl thats strong! But...no ones making passes other than Kurko. They're all over the place...'
"Teiko member substitution." A robotic voice said. "Now they're benching Inoue, Akashi, Kise and Midorima too? Are you serious, in the end Aomine and Murasakibara never played?!" The announcer said making Kise a little mad.
"Hey, aren't you guys taking it a little too easy?!" Kise huffed out pouting Ichigo following close behind nodding along with Midorima.
"What's the problem? The wins already ours anyway." Aomine sighed on the bench. Both of the twins grade and clenched their teeth.
'Shit! Shit why?! We devoted ourselves down to our blood and tears to basketball this past year! Why aren't we good enough?! SHIT, SHIT! SHIT…!' And in that moment he took the ball and raised his hands in front of Kurko. Momoi and Inoue turned around confused but then shocked.
"AU UGHHHH!" Screamed the teen. And then it happened. The ball made a sickening noise as it connected with tetsuya's head. Imately he fell over and everyone's eyes widened. Inoue's mouth dropped open and her browns went upside down as she, no they all screamed his name.
"KUROKO!"
Time skip to the medical unit (where kuroko is)
Inoue patiently waited outside the door with Momoi, none of them talking but standing outside of the door. They looked up and saw a black haired teen form the other teen.
"Is Kuroko-kun here?" He asked as Momoi looked up and Inoue cocked her head. "Ah...yes. But he still hasn't woken up yet…" He finished looking sad and Inoue looking back down.
"...I see, thanks." He said looking at Inoue straight in the eyes making her blink. She would have questioned him but she had seen him talking to Kuroko so it was ok.
"Um...are you an acquaintance of Tetsu-kun's?" Satsuki asked putting his hand on his chest, something he did. But before he could answer another question was asked. "And who might you be…?" He looked up to met gold and crimson eyes.
"What business do you have with Tetsuya?" Akashi asked right in front of him. It was like the air stipend. Momoi looked at him wide eyed and Inoue removed all eye contact. "I'm Ogiwara Shigehiro from Meikou middle. I came to see how my friend's doing." He answered looking affected by Akashi. Ichigo's ears perked up at the name and his confidence now turning to him. "From our opponent in the finals...Ogiwara?" He said realizing his name a bit. "...I see. So that's why Tetsuya acted the way he did in the previous match." Ichigo said softly but it could be heard. Confused and curious he turned around to face the snow haired princess. "Do you know about me?" The black hair teen asked looking exponent.
"It was pure coincidence, but I heard about you from Tetsuya before. He doesn't like talking about his past though. So I may be the only one who knows." She replied blushing a bit knowing that she knows something about Kuroko that no one else does. "Though it seems you both were looking forward to playing each other. Unfortunately, Tetsuya will be sitting the next match out. Well either way the result will be the same. I wish you the best of luck." Akashi finished making Inoue pout, she wanted to still talk.
As Ichigo saw that this was going to continue on she step inside before coming out smiling. "Sei! Tetsuya's woken up!" They all nodded, leaving Ogiwara outside.
"Tetsuya how do you feel?" Akashi asked making Kuroko turn his head.
"Akashi-kun...Momoi-san and Inoue-san. The match..."
"We won of course. The finals will be starting in five minutes. I'm afraid thats why the others can't be here right now." Akashi said as he took a seat near him on the bed.
"I'll play too!" Kuroko yelled throwing off the blankets and getting up. "Tetsu-kun!" Momoi yelled as Inoue rushed over to grab his shoulders and lightly put him back to bed, but he wouldn't budge. "I won't allow it. The doctor said to rest. Don't make a fuss about it, and go back to sleep.
"But-!"
"I just met him in the hall with Inoue. We should definitely play again. He wanted me to tell you that." Seeing Kuroko's eyes widen hime's eyes soften and she gently laid him back onto the bed. All his reply was a simple 'I see'. And with that Akashi and Inoue took off, well she didn't want to but had to. But as they reached the door he called both of their names.
"What is it?" Akashi asked looking back with Inoue.
"The finals...please take them seriously. Please." He pleaded making them confused. "...Are you sure? Regardless of what the point difference may be?" Ichigo asked plainly as he nodded. "He wouldn't want you to go easy on him. I'm certain that's what he would say." Akashi looked and turned around opening the door.
"I understand. I'll show them...Teikou's strength." After they left they talked to the other GOM about his situation, none the less they all agreed. When they lined up they all smirked, not a sexual one but a, 'Your going down' one.
"Now, we shall commence the final match between Teikou middle school and Meikou middle school."
Back to Kuroko!
Black. It was all he saw until his eyes slowly adjusted to the light only to see a familiar head of pink. His name was called out at he sat up. "...Th...the match...what happened?" His voice was weak and soft but was hearable.
"Tetsu-kun! You should be moving around yet! The fourth quarter just started. I think we're leading by a lot..."
"I'm going to go check."
"Tetsu-kun! I believe there should be a screen showing the match near by."
"Even if I can't play...I wish to see the end with my own eyes."
"Tetsu-kun…" He shouldn't have went. But he had too. Just seeing it on the TV made him worry. So when he went charging in he saw something he shouldn't have.
"Jeez, even though we set it up so you guys could go out with a bang…" Aomine sighed walking away. "Don't be like that! Look, they matched up! Mission accomplished!" Kise chimed throwing his arms around Inoue making her smirk. 'Matched up?! No it can't be!' Ogiwara said looking at the scoreboard.
Teikou with 111 points.
Meikou with 11 points.
"The scores of both teams… The digits are all… one… Thats all they wanted to do…? Then those points that they lost… They did that on purpose?! From the start they were just...playing with us? Relieving their boredom...with that kind of number crunching game. We were as toys to them." He finished crying.
Time skip to after graduation and everyones at the gym except Kuroko.
"From now on, we are all enemies. The next time we meet, it'll be on the high school national stage." Seijuro said to all of his teammates, well the ones who were the gom.
"Well, yea thats true but you don't need to be so hostile right away…" Kise said looking at him and everyone else. Well he didn't want Midorima, Inoue or Kuroko to be rude to him when they finally met! "It's pure coincidence we split up anyway.~" Murasakibara said shrugging but a little sad. "Coincidence? I think not. Even though there are an endless amount of basketball clubs, there are only a limited number of elite national level clubs. We should have had a pew overlaps in prospective schools. But despite that, there isn't a single one of us who thought of going to the same school as any of the others. Let me say this clearly for us all. I assume we all feel nearly the same way." Akashi started smirking as saying this. "To begin with, we despise being grouped together as the 'Generation of Miracles'. If we fight, some will emerge more dominant than others, and we all believe no one is superior to ourselves." As he continued he made eye contact with everyone. Aomine was making his usaul dicky and borad face. Midorima was glaring, his eyebrows going down. Ichigou was looking with hatred. Murasakibara looked down squirting and Kise was frowning.
"In order to prove that, we cannot be satisfied until we have eliminated all others. It has nothing to do with reason. It is instinct." Seijuro finished.
"Well...sounds right." Kise said emotheless.
"I guess." Aomine said just as emotionless.
"I'm not disagreeing, but I'm younger than you so you'll have to wait a year." Ichigo said darkly.
"I don't intend to object." Midorima pushed up his glasses.
"I bet Kuro-chin wouldn't understand though.~" Murasakibara said hearing Akashis attention. "Although what we seek is wholly different, it is inevitable that Tetsuya will also join this battle. It's not as though he has all of his answers yet, but even so, it seems that he has made a decision with the resolve that Kuroko's basketball shall not change. Ichigo, all of us agree that we shall wait for you until you become a freshmen. It's not like we needed the practice anyways."
Time skip to that night with Inoue
"Did you tell your friends goodbye dear?" Misaki opened the door smiling but frowning as she saw her on the plain dark blue blanket, hugging her knees looking out the window. Her head was turned to the side so she couldn't see her face.
"...Yes...I said goodbye mom." She replied not looking at her. Swallowing a lump in her mouth Misaki nodded and came inside shutting the door. "Well did you pack up everything? You should pack up your blanket, or are you going to bring that on the plane?" Her daughter said nothing but nodded. "You know...theres still some time before we leave for America, you should go see that pale boy named Kuroko…" After what seemed like forever her daughter turned to her mother and looked her in the eyes. Her mother had noticed the change but she could never shake it off. That change in her daughter's eyes. It hurt her heart as they were full of dominance and anger, completely flushing out all innocence. The day she heard that her daughter had been ganged up on still haunts her. She had expected those boys to be there with her, but only Kuroko was there. The others did come but that dark blue haired boy never did.
"...I'll go to his house." Hime said getting up and walking down stairs not caring if she was in her pajamas. "O-Ok! Just don't come home later than 7:30!" But Misaki heard no reply, the only replies he got was a sound of a closed door.
Ichigo walked out and into the night streets of Japan, heading to her favorite prince. When she reached it she stood in front of the well known large house, but not a mansion. Ringing the doorbell she patiently waited.
Then out came the shining shadow in her life, Kuroko Tetsuya. Smiling to herself she waved, him waving back.
"Inoue-san, what brings you here?"
"I came to say goodbye."
"I'm afraid I don't follow."
"I'm moving to America."
"...Why...why didn't you tell us sooner?" The snow haired girl flinched at his saddened tone. "...Sorry. After we won Nationals for our third time in a row I was going to tell you but you looked so, so hurt." Kuroko shut his door and walked over to her, opening the fence and stepping out standing before her. "Do...do the others know about this? Have you told them?" He asked taking her shoulders but let go when she shook her head. "They don't need to, I'll be back...I think. I told them to wait a year for me, they just don't know that I'm going. I highly doubt that they'll come to my house and see if I'll go have a 'playdate' with them. Were not like we used to be, hanging out and laughing… Sei pointed that out very well today. But I would never, ever, see you as my emnie Tetsuya. Because...because…" Kuroko was confused at the last part cocking his head.
"Because?"
"...I'll tell you in a couple years. But goodbye Tetsuya...wait for me?" He smiled at her words, a sad one but a genuine one at the end.
"Yes Inoue-san."
ITS DONE! (got feels) Oh my globe, everyone changed so much! What have I done… Since Inoue is a year younger than them I'm making them go to highschool but not join the basketball team! I'm so sorry, that must be confusing. Long story short they all graduated except Inoue, shes going to america. (to meet people and create drama)
But long story short the next chapter might take longer to update but it will be out! Spoiler alert: High School starts and Kagami comes when Inoue comes. Do they come together?
