A/N i'm very sorry for the super late update of this story my sister accidentally deleted all of my notes on this story and so i had to re-read this from the very beginning and write from scratch this chapter(T^T) it got me depressed. so im sorry if there are any confusing parts, feel free to review it, i will try to answer them. Once again this is unbetaed and unedited...thank you for reading this story and for being patient waiting here goes chapter eight.

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Chapter eight

Opening his eyes after days of sleep he tried adjusting his eyes to his surroundings. Aomine was awake and alive this made him smile a bit, but when he tried sitting up he realized something heavy on his stomach. Trying to get up he saw the blonde idiot sleeping peacefully without a care in the world, he smirked at this.

'Well waking up and seeing this face everyday might not be such a bad thing', he thought while he weakly patted the blonde's head softly making sure that Kise would not wake. His smile was wide when he saw the satisfied expression of the blonde when he began caressing his hair.

'How cute', then without any hesitation he leaned down and kissed the soft, pale cheek of the blonde and when he pulled away instinct too over him as he raised his hand toward his head to shield himself when a sudden pillow was thrown at him.

"What th-", and his expression changed to that of shock. "Mi—midorima"

'He saw me didn't he?', the green-head smirking confirmed his thoughts and his eyebrows twitched.

'What do i do?'

'Why don't this two idiots just say they love one another already..so annoying', Midorima thought as he sighed and glared at both of them but then continued to gaze at the flower he is currently holding.

'I wonder how he is faring. I hope he is alright.', Midorima thought deeply and another sigh escaped his lips.

"Don't you know that when you sigh a small amount of happiness escapes as well?", Aomine stated as he continued on caressing the blonde's hair with a soft expression on his face. Midorima looked at him gaping as if not comprehending that Aomine just spoke those words.

"I did not know you had such an intellect Aomine", he said while fixing his glasses once again and shaking his head and assumed that the blue-head did not utter those words.

"Shut up Midorima", he said lightly and the green-head was surprised at this. Usually when he would bring up his intellect the blue-head would be easily riled up but this time was different.

"What happened to you? Did Kuroko accidentally transfer some of my intellect to you?"

'Just by thinking of that makes a shiver ran to my spine', Midorima hugging himself.

"Someone used to tell that to me before, idiot", his expression turned mellow and Midorima saw this and decided no longer to tease the blue-head and he fixed his glasses to listen to his friend.

"You know of my past Midorima...having demon blood in my veins. Although they showed that they respected me in actuality they feared me"

"I know..you don't have to tell me over again...", their silence was soon destroyed when an overly energetic Momoi entered their room.

"Dai-chan!", she was about to crush the blue-head with a huge hug but then saw what he was currently doing with Kise's hair. She stopped abruptly making Taiga who was behind her make a sudden stop as well.

"What the hell Satsuki", and when Taiga saw it as well his mouth opened, wide.

"So—so cuuute!", she squealed, because of her noise the blonde stirred and began to wake. He properly sat up rubbing his eyes and when he opened them he was met with blue eyes that were looking at him. When he realized that Aomine was awake a huge smile graced his beautiful face and without him noticing he hugged the blue-head tightly, making sure that he really was awake.

"Aominecchhi!", this made the them both stumble at the bed and Momoi gasped at this and Taiga's expression was that of full of horror while Midorima used to them, merely ignored them and began playing with the flowers.

When Kise finally released him, he saw a deep red blush on the blue-head's face and that was when he realized what he had just done and he turned red too.

"Kyaaa!", Momoi squeaked once again and she began teasing the two non-stop while Aomine kept on telling her to shut up but to no avail.


"Akashi-kun, let us go", the teal-head stated when he entered the room that Akashi was occupying. He knocked several times but no one was answering so he decided to go inside. As soon as he opened the door his breath hitched at his throat, there he was sleeping soundly on the couch without a care in the world. The moonlight illuminated on him which made is red-hair stand out even more than it already is, his pale skin was smooth and unblemished (unlike my face LOL), and his breathing was at ease and the teal-head thought twice whether or not to awaken the red-head. And so he decided to let the red-head rest for a while.

'This is probably the first time he got to rest properly. For him to not even feel my presence he must be truly tired.', walking slowly and quietly towards the couch where the red-head slept he summoned a blanket from thin air and gently, softly placed the blanket on the sleeping red-head.

When he was about to leave he felt a hand wrapping itself to his wrist and when he turned back he saw heterochromatic eyes staring at him. A swirl of emotions was going through Kuroko's mind at the moment but he hid it easily with his blank face.

"Where are you going?", Akashi said slowly rubbing his thumb to the teal-head's wrist.

"Leaving"

"Stay", and the teal-head sighed as he began walking to the opposite couch to sit there, the red-head still holding onto his wrist. The red-head smirked at this and he tugged his wrist, Kuroko was startled at this and waited for the impact but the only thing he felt were warm arms that were wrapped around his waist.

Akashi pulled him and now he was facing Kuroko's back more specifically his nape. They were now both lying on the couch together Akashi tightening his hold on the teal-head.

"Akashi-kun, please release me", the teal-head stated currently not pleased with the situation he was in but was a bit surprised by it.

"No way", he whispered closely to the teal-head's ear, which made the teal-head shiver at the sudden contact. Akashi was pleased that he has this kind of effect on the teal-head.

"You disturbed my sleep so this is your punishment", the teal-head sighed.

"I did not know you had such a childish mind sometimes Akashi-kun", Kuroko tried to talk to the red-head so he might find a chance for him to escape, but when Akashi did not respond he grew worried.

"Akashi-kun?", not hearing a response he turned so that he could face the red-head only to see that he was already sleeping and he still has an iron grip on him. He tried his best to pry his hands but the more he tried the more it tightened, so he gave up and just stared at the sleeping red-head's face observing.

'His face is really pale...and he has thick and long eyelashes', he tried to slowly touch the red-head's eyelashes and he found them really beautiful, his hand leaned on his cheek.

'He looked so at peace...he really is handsome', the teal-head realized his thoughts and shook his head to clear it.

"I wonder—no matter how I try to stay away from you, nor no matter how far you push me away. You always get me to return to you...", Kuroko's eyes widened and he touched his lips.

'What did I just say?', Kuroko realized he spoke those words unconsciously, he held his head as he could feel the pain when he was trying to remember.

Then he looked at the sleeping face of the red-head then thought 'He is dangerous...'

He shook his head profusely to get those memories out of his head 'I can't allow things to happen..i don't want him to end up like him...'

With these thoughts in mind the teal-head did his best and wriggled his way out of the red-head's clutches. Before he left the room he fixed his crumpled clothes and took the blanket that has fallen off and placed it at the red-head once again, his eyes were devoid of emotion as he did this.

"Don't worry Akashi-kun...I will surely bring Mayuzumi Chihiro back to you. A contract between us is unnecessary...we are both necessary pillars of the realms to be balanced after all", then he lowered his hand to touch the red-head's cheek and gave a small smile.

"I won't allow you to die...", he swiftly removed his hands and began walking towards the door deep in thought.

'Who would've thought that the day would come that there is a magic even I cannot dispel', he sighed and thought of any clues as to who would be capable of doing it. Not knowing that a certain red-head slowly opened his eyes hearing every single word that he said.

Hearing the door closed and the teal-head's presence no longer felt he slowly rose up from his 'fake sleep' and sat up he placed his hand on top of one of his folded feet.

"Unnecessary huh?", he looked up at the unchanging moon in the sky, his eyes covered by his bangs.

"Then why did you sound as if you were in pain...Kuroko", for once Akashi Seijurou could not figure out what was on another beings mind, then he mused.

"Ahh...Chihiro you were right", he let himself grin for a while. "A challenging puzzle indeed"


The following night, the teal-head was nowhere to be seen, and the others were already recuperating from their injuries and are getting better. As usual Hyuuga had been assigned to take good care of them and he find it very stressful to do the cooking for the purple-head so he merely allowed them to cook their own food as the other members of the castle were the ones who provided the necessary food for them.

"Ne ne Hyuugacchi, where is Kurokocchi?", the blonde said whining as he sat down on one of the chairs at the makeshift waiting room that Hyuuga made for them. All the others now out of the clinic and they stared at him waiting for an answer.

"His Majesty is probably at the Nursery", and they all had a look of wonder in their faces.

"EH?", Kise, Aomine and Momoi was the ones who said this.

"Since I am no longer his Guardian he is probably checking on them and making sure that Aida won't overwork them", he had a horrified expression when he mentioned about the 'overwork', and held himself to stop the chill.

"Heeeh? So Kurokocchi is good with kids?", the blonde asked once again and then an idea popped into his head.

"Ne ne can we visit them?", Hyuuga became annoyed and a tick formed on his head.

"We can come on follow me", said Taiga and Hyuuga's tick grew and he wanted to reprimand Taiga that it was time for the conclave so they are not to be disturbed but when he was about to shout when he looked where they were before they were all gone.

"THAT BAKATAIGA", he said clenching his knuckles, but the abruptly loosened when he heard a voice in his head.

"What is wrong?", his face became serious and his eyes became clouded by his glasses as he fixed it.

'I need your help for the preparation', said the worried voice of Alex.

"Yes, I will prepare everything in place of Aida"

'Where is she anyway?', she inquired her curiosity piqued.

"She is managing the Conclave"

'What? Why is there a need for a new Guardian? What happened to my stupid student?'

"He is fine, though he gave up half of his Demon blood to a human"

'Tsk! At a time like this when we needed all the power we need', she spoke as if she was biting her fingernails and Hyuuga thought it really is a bad time.

'What about Tatsuya?', and this made Hyuuga snap back from his thoughts.

"Still no sign of him ever since His Majesty disappeared", he said thinking where the other Guardian has been.

'Well this truly is troublesome...', she sighed then continued. 'As soon as they finish up the matter in the Human realm call the search party back, we need all of their strength to stop it from occurring'

"But don't you think that what is happening at the Human realm is all connected to His Majesty, somehow?"

'I don't know...but I hope it is not', hearing this Hyuuga clutched his head to prevent a headache from starting.

"Let us talk about this later, Alex-sama, I will now head there now", and he disconnected their connection and began heading to the underground wing of the castle.


Akashi Seijurou continued walking around the castle searching for the teal-head's presence, when he thought that he could not find it he successfully did. As soon as he headed to that direction he saw the others headed there as well.

"Shintarou, where are all of you headed?", they all stopped in their tracks upon hearing the red-head's voice.

"Ah Akashicchi we are going to visit Kurokocchi", the blonde enthusiastically said not allowing the green-head to answer the question.

"Are you all well now to be moving about?", the red-head said glancing at all of them.

"Yes/Yeah", Momoi, Midorima and Aomine said at once then weirdly stared at each other. They did not notice Taiga who looked up in the air as he began smelling.

"Oh damn", he cussed in a whisper but it did not go unnoticed by Momoi.

"Taiga-kun stop cursing", she pouted. "What is wrong anyway?"

"They are currently having the conclave, we cannot enter", he said crossing his arms.

"What is a Conclave?", they all asked except for the red-head who merely looked at him interested.

"Well uh..it is uh..", he said noticing that all the stares were right at him he felt pressured to answer.

"It a Secret meeting, but here in this realm it is an honourable match to determine who is the strongest to be suitable of becoming His Majesty's Guardian", Aida appeared out of nowhere explaining what it is. She was holding what seemed to be a chart of some sorts and wearing glasses that sparkled in the light as she fixed it.

"Ehhh, like a match or battle? Can we watch?", the blonde said and Aida sighed 'no use in trying to not let them'

"Fine but I demand respect, it is an ancient tradition of ours and you are not allowed to judge", then she headed up the stairs showing a huge dome, Kuroko was already seated watching the fight that has been ongoing.

"Wait", Kise's eyes bulged out and Aomine was gaping. Murasakibara stopped eating and Midorima fixed his glasses, Momoi burrowed her face in the chest of Taiga and Akashi was just looking at the scene impassively.

At the dome two children were fighting with their hardest, they looked tired with the sweat seen in their foreheads, there were also cuts here and there and they were already panting.

"How could you do this!?", Kise shouted at Aida.

"They are just children, Aidacchi!"

"I did not know you are doing such a thing, I feel so deceived", Murasakibara stated glaring at Aida.

"Aida-san, please stop this", Momoi pleaded, tears forming in her eyes.

"Stop it Satsuki, even Aida could not stop this even if she wanted to"

"Then Taiga-kun you did this too before?", Taiga sighed and closed his eyes and when he opened then he honestly replied.

"Yes...but...", he was cut off.

"All of you have some respect", they all stopped when the red-head spoke.

"But Akashi.."

"This is their way, and you need to accept that"

"To us Demons to die for our King is the greatest honour, for he is our life, our end and our beginning", Aida began explaining; she closed her eyes and gave a small smile.

"This is not a fight to the death, do you really think he would allow it?", she grinned at them.

"Eh?", they all said in unison, while the red-head merely grinned.

"What a naive King he is", Akashi said as he sat down and merely watched with amusement in his eyes.

"Our Majesty, changed that law dozens of years ago, this was just a fight the children ensued to learn of how strong they are, His majesty reluctantly agreed."

"A King loved by his subjects, huh?", Midorima stated.

"We all love him that is why we are willing to do anything for him", Aida said as she watched the scene as they all did.

The match was already over and the one kid was a blonde that has one of his fangs poking out of his mouth and the other child was a dark skinned one, he looked older than the blonde.

They all watched as Kuroko looked like he was scolding them and thy bowed in shame but then the teal-head patted them on the head with a small smile gracing his lips.

Akashi looking at the scene has a serene smile on his lips as he placed his hand on his chin.

"You really are making me want you more and more Kuroko", he said grinning not noticing the weird stares of the others who heard this and Aida's anger bubbling in. Aomine was gaping, Kise covered his nose, Midorima stiffened and Murasakibara bit his food a bit harder. While Momoi stopped herself from squealing and Taiga had a serious look on his face but he easily covered it up with a grin.

Kuroko and the two children began walking towards their direction to meet up with Aida, Kuoko noticed the group and a certain red-head's eyes on him.

"Riko-san, please heal these children", and Aida easily went on her way to heal the two children.

"Ah Your Majesty, were no longer children you know we are properly teenagers now", said the blonde pouting.

"Well fine, but its time I give you names, huh?", he wondered to himself and the two jumped in joy at this.

"OH you two stop moving or else I will make your training regime five times harder", hearing this the two stiffened and Kise laughed at this as he found them adorable.

"Done, now go clean yourselves the naming ceremony will be held at the throne room, His Majesty will be waiting for you two there"

"Yes!", the two said excited and ran to their rooms.

"Then if you will excuse me as well", said Aida as she excused herself to prepare the Naming ceremony.

"And I wanted to play with them while they are still in that form", Taiga murmured.

"What do you mean Taiga-kun"

"Well as soon as His Majesty names them they will fully grow into full fledged demons"

"Ah so you wanted to bully them while you are bigger and they are not", Aomine laughed. "What you scared they might get taller than you?"

"No Ahomine, I just want to teach them some things about being a guardian"

"Then please still do teach them even after you are no longer my Guardian, Taiga", Kuroko stated.

"Of course Your Majesty"

"By the way you have not forgotten your promise have you Kuroko", the green-head fixed his glasses as the covered his eyes.

"I will bring you there after the Naming ceremony and you can ask all the questions you would like", then he left for the throne room.

"Hey Taichin can we watch the Naming ceremony?", asked Murasakibara looking bored.

"No, you guys can't the Naming ceremony is one on the most sacred Ceremonies here in the demon realm, sorry but no", the purple-head pouted then Aomine looked at the huge dome and grinned.

"How about we make use of this dome and have a match ourselves?", he said grinning while wiggling his eyebrows.

"I see where this is going", Midorima whispered.

Then they all started matches within themselves and when they did not think Akashi would participate they were wrong.


The winner of all their matches was none other than Akashi, as he expected. But he also found out that Momoi had grown stronger than before due to the blood of the demon now in her veins. Aomine was now getting a bit smarter with his moves, Midorima was as flawless as usual with his ability, Murasakibara was merely bored and did not participate much and Kise improved a lot despite being clumsy.

"Ah what did I tell you Nebuya, they are still here", a voice with extreme playfulness in it stated and they all looked for the source of it only to see the two children a while ago now fully grown.

"WAAA, that is sooo cool, ne ne Taigacchhi how did that happen?", the blonde inquired pointing at the two.

"heeh, that must be Kise-sama right?", the blonde said to his companion.

"The noisy one then yeah", said the dark-skinned Nebuya. They were both now wearing what looked like a knight's armour and a black cloak, at the forehead of Nebuya was the mark of a Guardian, while the blonde's mark was located at his neck reaching his jaw.

They both suddenly appeared in front of all of them at once without any of them noticing, and the blonde almost grinned at this.

"Waa you really are strong, to be able to notice us even when your powers here are weakened", they both stared at Akashi who was staring at them as well and when he grinned they both looked away.

"Ahaha how scary"

"So why don't you introduce yourselves?", Taiga said looking like a senpai to both of them and the blonde grinned all the more.

"Oh yeah we have to do that right?", then they both stood up straight and saluted at Taiga,

"I am Nebuya Eikichi, Taiga-senpai", the dark-skinned one said.

"Oh and I am Hayama Kotaro, nice to meet you all", while Nebuya looked like he has a huge respect for Taiga, Hayama on the other hand acts like a kid and kept on grinning his fang seen poking as always.

"His Majesty ordered us to escort you all to the gardens", Nebuya said still saluting.

"Lead the way then", Akashi said and they all followed his lead and began following Nebuya and Hayama.

"Will you two be joining us to the Human realm?", Midorima asked them.

"That is a given, Midorima-sama", Hayama smiled while he walked backward so he is now facing them.

"Hey amongst all of you who is the strongest?", without any word they all looked at the red-head who was silently walking in front of them.

"Hahah I see"

Hayama continued on making small talks with them until they reached the castle's garden. Midorima's jaw dropped at the sight, the flowers were blooming beautifully and they were emitting a light that shone in the night. There were a lot of different species of plants that he did not know existed, even if the moon was probably not present the flowers would continue on lighting the path.

When they reached the middle of the garden a huge Cherry blossom tree was blooming, and its petals were glowing with its own light, the scene itself was breath taking. But the only one that Akashi was staring was the teal-head who was looking up kindly at the tree and it looks as if the petals were going to surround him and envelop him in it. Akashi could not take his eyes away from him and the teal-head seemed to have noticed his stare and stared back at him as well—in that moment it felt as if they were the only ones in there, until the green-head coughed to get their attention.

"Akashi", he started serious the he looked back at the teal-head who was now merely looking at him.

"Then shall we begin, you said you would answer all of our questions, Kuroko", and the teal-head gave him a soft smile.

A/N sorry if it is a boring chapter and sorry if i cut it off from here, the next chapter will be up by tomorrow night as i am still writing it...it would be too long if i placed the rest to this chapter so i decided to place it at the next chapter.

Thank you for the review, those who favorited and followed this story i thank you all very much

-k^^