Crossover : xxxHolic.
Characters : Kuroko Tetsuya, Kagami Taiga, Akashi Seijuurou, and Momoi Satsuki.
Pairing : Kagami/Kuroko. (just a hint)
Rate : T
Words : 2698
Summary : Hello, Journal. It's me again, Kagami Taiga. Today I met a boy that could see spirits, who also had a presence like a ghost himself. And what do you know, I don't like him much.
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[1 April 20xx]
Hello, Journal. May I call you Journal? Because I don't want to call you Diary. It's girly, you see. And look at me, I'm talking to a book like I am to a person. Looks like I'm losing my mind already.
Okay, first, I'm Kagami Taiga. Though I have Japanese heritage, I was born and raised in America. So sue me if I still can't read or write kanji. Oh, I'm also a returnee, that's right, I'm in Japan now.
Today is the first day I'm entering high school, and attending orientation is required. And it's really suck, because everywhere I go, people seem very afraid of me. Is it because my appearance or what?
And I will burn you if you say it's because my eyebrows. I mean it.
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[10 April 20xx]
Hello again, Dia- I mean Journal! Today is very interesting. I met this boy, and I don't know why but I always feel annoyed every time I see him. Well, when I can see him, of course. You see, he has this condition that makes him nearly invisible. Everything about him is nothing, transparent like a ghost. It's fortunate the others can see him too, or I will think he's really a ghost.
And apparently he likes to exploit this flaw of his, because he loves to give anyone, especially me, heart attack. Today alone he had surprised me 12 times already.
Fucker.
And this is the first day I notice him.
Well, it's not that I hate him, but I don't like him either.
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[11 April 20xx]
I learn that the name of the invisible boy is Kuroko Tetsuya.
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[12 April 20xx]
I don't like him. Really. He is very annoying with his lack of presence.
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[13 April 20xx]
I've already said this, but I don't like him.
Then, why my eyes couldn't turn away from him? I don't know why this Kuroko has attracted my attention, bothersome as he is. All I know is that I can't stop watching him.
It sounds like I'm a stalker. Well, I assure you I'm not, I'll tell you.
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[14 April 20xx]
I joined the basketball club, and what do you know, everything inside the club is crazy.
Can you imagine it, the first thing the coach said after introduction is for us to take off our shirt?! And after that she ordered us to voice our goal in front of all the school and that we should confess naked in front everyone should we fail in reaching the said goal!
Maybe I should join other club, what do you think?
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[15 April 20xx]
Damn, I have to admit that Kuroko is quite cool.
He is in basketball club too, like me. And the first impression of him about his basketball play is he's sooooooo weeeak I almost cried to see that.
But then, the coach hold a match between the first year and second year, and I instantly change my mind when I saw his real play. That misdirection of him… damn… it made me speechless.
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[21 April 20xx]
Alex called me and said that Tatsuya is going to Japan.
I don't know what I feel after hear that.
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[25 April 20xx]
KUROKO, YOU TEME!
HOW DARE YOU THREW THAT… THAT MONSTER AT ME! I'LL CRUSH YOU! I SWEAR!
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[28 May 20xx]
Hello, Journal. It's been a while.
It's been a very cold day, and it's raining so hard too.
But I found something that I'm sure will change my opinion today.
I found Kuroko, still dressed in his school uniform, kneeling by the riverbank. He had no umbrella. He dripped with rain and looked pitiful, so I walked closer to offer my assistance.
But I halt in shock. He was holding a dead dog in his arms and crying, with head bowed, murmuring to himself about how everyone he knows and loved had died or disappeared. Murmuring about that it's only a matter of time before, like them, he fears that he might leave this world someday. That he too will die like the dog, alone.
I swear I could feel my heart clenched.
I'm really stupid. Of course he was all alone. With his unfortunate condition, it's surely hard for him to get noticed more over to get a friend. And I heard he was no longer had parents.
I've decided that he will not alone. That I won't let him be alone, if I can help it.
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[30 May 20xx]
Well, I didn't expect that it's very easy to befriend with Kuroko, despite our clashed nature.
I've already feel we're best friend. Really.
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[6 June 20xx]
Sometimes Kuroko is so weird, I notice this after become his friend for this week.
He has a habit to talk with nobody. And I often saw him running like someone chased him, though there's no one behind him.
It's freaking me out, you know.
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[15 June 20xx]
There is a warlock who knew my grandfather. His name is Seijuurou Akashi, I don't know if it's his real name or not. He is strong and wise, but creepy as hell, especially with his mismatched cat-like eyes. His business is wish-granting, and his shop can only be seen by those who have needed it. Akashi is bound by the idea of hitsuzen, of fate as a matter of inevitability, and he lives by the law of fair compensation: every wish has an exact price.
I know, I know, it sounds like a fiction, but apparently it's a real deal.
And this Akashi has contacted me today for a favor.
As it turns out, Kuroko is this Akashi's assistant, and Akashi told me that I might be of help to him. He explained to me that Kuroko attracts spirits, his lack of presence condition also did not help him at all, and that I have latent exorcist power that I inherited from my grandfather.
This revelation is surprising me, indeed. But if I can help Kuroko, I would.
And what you know, Akashi gave us a mission, and that mission is to investigating the Angel Game at a nearby school.
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[16 June 20xx]
I'm tired… the mission last night really draining my energy.
Kuroko apologized to me today, and treat me a 4 kg steak after school as thanks.
It's really delicious.
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[17 June 20xx]
I met a girl that sometimes hangout with Kuroko today. Her name is Momoi Satsuki. At first I didn't take much notice of her, but something bothers me about her. She put up a cute, sunny, cheerful face every day. Her disposition never changes, and her idle chat fills up time agreeably but lacks meaning. Her very words feel shallow. It's like she is very careful to make sure that the connections she made are nothing more than skin deep.
I have a bad feeling about this girl. Truly.
But, looks like Kuroko doesn't aware any of this. Or maybe it's just my feeling?
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[21 June 20xx]
Kuroko took me to a strange hydrangea for a mission from Akashi. A tall, long lived, hydrangea with crimson petals. I met my first ayakashi today. It's Ame Warashi, spirit of rain. She claims that the hydrangea is dying. And not just the only tool we have is Momoi's hair ties, we also have no idea how to use them. And that Akashi never bothered to say at all.
Barely five minutes after Kuroko and I have been investigating, Kuroko is dragged under the hydrangea and disappear.
Honestly, I freak out.
And because of that, I began digging. There's no shovel, so I just using my hands.
It's stupid, I know, but I have to save him!
If Akashi didn't show up, I'd still be digging till tomorrow. He gave me some unsolicited advice (damn, him) of which I'm in dire need or I will never find him that way. He told me to wait, and while I do so, to hold Momoi's hair tie at one end.
I didn't believe him at first. It sounded dumb, it looked dumb.
But I still did it, anyway. And for hours I wait. The rain stops and pours and stops again. I drenched, soaking, and wet. Oh, and sneezing too.
And when Kuroko's body fades back into existence, clutching the other end of my ribbon, I don't know whether I want to yell at him or hug him. But I resist my urge, especially when I saw a skeleton had attached itself to Kuroko's other wrist.
A SKELETON. Imagine it!
And I have a feeling that this is still not the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
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[ 17 July 20xx]
Akashi suddenly announced that it's time for a vacation. And he said it with a creepy smile on his face. Kuroko wanted to go to the beach, making me blanched as did he aware the sea is absolutely no good for him because it's filled with spirits?
And he can't even swim too.
Momoi is with us. I better keep watch her and always by Kuroko's side.
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[17 July 20xx (20.00)]
GHOOOOST! GHOOOOOOOOSTS EVERYWHERE!
DAMN IT! I SHOULD'VE KNOWN THAT IF AKASHI GIVING YOU CREEPY SMILE WHILE HE SAID VACATION, THEN THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GORE GOING ON!
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[18 July 20xx]
Damn you, Akashi-teme!
Fuck you, Momoi!
And screw you, Kuroko!
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[23 July 20xx]
Kuroko is so frustrating.
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[30 July 20xx]
It's a boring day. There's no chores. There's no mission. I can't play basketball. I can't practicing my shooting skill. I can't do anything.
Where's Kuroko when you need him?
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[9 August 20xx]
Akashi is gone for a business trip. Kuroko is alone, and he behaved as usual. That's it, until he started coughing, and a fever falls over him that won't go away.
And I don't know why. He himself too.
The sickness which Kuroko suffered did not look natural. It makes me suspicious.
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[11 August 20xx]
My intuition was right, the disease is not natural. Apparently Kuroko always met this woman every after school, and the woman is who make him sick. After watching them, I know.
The woman knows.
Kuroko knows.
But they say nothing.
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[15 August 20xx]
Damn it! I can't hold it anymore! She's killing him! Poisoning him slowly! Kuroko knows also about this, but he still didn't say anything! He cares for her so much he doesn't care for his life enough! I don't know what I should do! She gives him something he has not felt for a long time. She gives him the love of a mother. And I'm reluctant to do something.
If I let her, Kuroko's going die. But if I kill her, he will hate me forever.
And I don't want him to hate me.
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[17 August 20xx]
I kill her.
I pulled the spirit gun that Akashi given to me, and using it to kill her.
Kuroko protected her using his body when I pulled the trigger, and I'm about to run over him to help him, but to my surprise the woman rushed in front of Kuroko and took the magic bullet for herself. She turned into golden light as Kuroko cradled the scraps of it that he could.
She really a good spirit, like Kuroko said, in spite of her nature.
I don't expect anything as I took his unconscious being to Akashi's place.
No, that's not true.
I'm afraid.
He must be detests me now.
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[18 August 20xx]
I have to strongly resist the temptation to avoid him.
Everyone called me "tiger", and as brave as it. But I know I'm a coward. All I want to do is run away before he can say a single word.
I know with one word, he could undo me.
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[18 August 20xx (12.00)]
Kuroko pulled me to our table in cafeteria.
And there is nothing left but tangled relief and sheer amazement enveloped me.
I won't forget, I will never forget what I did for him, and how he forgave me for it.
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[30 August 20xx]
We got entangled into the spider's grudge.
The one who supposed to get the grudge is me, I'm the one who destroyed the spider's home. I tried to hide it from Kuroko, but he found out anyway. And as preserve as he is, he took the grudge on myself. He didn't even ask me. Maybe he thought he should have received the grudge in the first place as the reason why I destroyed the spider's home was because of him.
But at least now I know he cares for me… a lot.
But still, how utterly stupid of him.
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[3 September 20xx]
The deal was failed. The entire underworld apparently wanted his eye, not mine. Kuroko draws spirits, so his eye will give them great power. My own eye would be worse than useless, as a latent exorcise, perhaps it might even be poisonous. But it's done. Kuroko's eye is probably lost forever. There's no chance of regaining Kuroko's eye.
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[5 September 20xx]
Akashi offered one last way. It's for me to give Kuroko half of my eye. Not 'half' in sense gouge my eye and implant it to his eye socket, but 'half' by sharing my sight with him.
Kuroko accept it, and I feel a little lighter inside.
Everything will be alright. In some ways, it will be better than alright.
I can see the spirits that Kuroko has avoided for all these years now. I have more of "an eye on him" than ever before.
And we are closer than ever.
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[1 October 20xx]
Bad luck has been pilling up lately. Even I noticed. This must be a particularly bad season for Momoi. Kuroko is worried, but he refuses to place blame on anyone but himself.
Akashi has grown more urgent, not that he looks it, and he drops hints about Momoi Satsuki's bad luck constantly. But Kuroko can make neither heads nor tails of it, and Akashi is not one to speak plain. There's a good chance that my exhortations, drawn from instinct rather than knowledge, would confuse him further. I would probably only convince him that Momoi is an innocent martyr, and that's not quite the exact truth. She knows exactly who she is and what she is risking. He's got to learn someday, and knowing Kuroko, it won't happen until he brushes right into the fire, and the experience is undeniable.
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[3 October 20xx]
He's falling! Damn it! He fell from the third floor window!
Though I always cautious towards Kuroko and Momoi these weeks, I still unprepared for it. Momoi just tapped Kuroko on the right shoulder, and disaster didn't happen immediately. It's such a gentle, normal gesture that I didn't quite notice either. But then Kuroko walked forward, and accidentally knocks into a window pane… with the right shoulder that Momoi touched. And he fell out the window, taking the entire window pane with him, and the pane shatters on the ground below.
Blood, blood, blood everywhere!
He fell and I'm too shock to move. If it's not because of the phone call from Akashi, Kuroko maybe…
He has already died… surely.
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[3 October 20xx (19.30)]
Kuroko has been saved. He's alive. With a price, of course. Or rather two prices.
Two very hurt and painful prices.
I give him blood as much as he lost, while Momoi bear the scars he would have.
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[3 October 20xx (11.00)]
He awakes, though for a moment, and speaks with Akashi and Momoi, before he fell asleep again.
Momoi is crying because this is new for her to have someone saying that he still want to be her friend despite he had experienced her bad luck.
That Kuroko… I don't think there's anyone who so kind hearted as him.
But, that's why I like him so much I'm ready to give my life for him.
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[5 October 20xx]
Kuroko made Momoi Satsuki a bird that will stay by her side forever, untouched by her bad luck.
And he also thanks me.
A/N :
I'm sure you know who become who in this story.
Hehe, Akashi as Yuuko… You too, do try to imagine Akashi as the dimensional witc- err… warlock.
And for Aprilia Echizen, about make KnB x KKM fic longer, I will consider it.
