Note: Unedited. No Beta. Slow update. Crossover KnB KHR.


Dedicated to: ILoveRebornNarutoKProject, for the prompt of Kagami confronting the thugs instead of Kuroko. Not in detail like you asked but I really don't think they're gonna freak out since just looking at Kagami's size makes them see clearly that he'll be okay even if a fight breaks out. They'll just perhaps feel murderous because their Sky felt the need to intevene.


Flickering Lights

09:

"Anyway! Why did you suddenly decide to kidnap Kuroko?" Kagami asked almost immediately just to dispel the... weird atmosphere after a few minutes of staring down at the two teens in front of him.

He wasn't really that irritated or even angry at Kise since he knew, even before their practice game, that the blonde would not stop trying to talk privately to Kuroko because of the tension between them. For some reason though, his statement from earlier not only made Kuroko smile at him with that rare, soft smile but Kise was also looking at him close in awe.

It's making him uncomfortable. It's just easier to... dispel the... cheesy atmosphere by acting irritable and commenting on how Kuroko was kidnapped.

It worked effectively like he knew it would.

"Isn't it alright, just for a little while?" Kise asked, snapping from his awestruck look to give him a pout. His eyes though still looked to be glinting. Kagami didn't comment on it.

"We couldn't go back because of that!" he indignantly said.

"Kurokocchi followed me though," the blonde retorted.

"You looked down Kise-kun. I can't help but follow," Kuroko said in a deadpanned voice, patting Kise on his shoulder. The blonde gave the teal haired teen a kicked look that Kagami interpreted as dog-like. He resisted the urge to snicker. "Kurokocchi is so mean!" Kise pouted.

"I am not," came Kuroko's blunt reply.

Kagami, while rolling his eyes, was about to intervene with Kise's childlike whines when he saw, at the corner of his eye, that the teens playing basketball on the court just beside them was now being bullied by thug-looking adult.

What's with those thugs? he couldn't help but ask inwardly, frowning at the way they played. He scowled at how they blatantly cheated and kicked the teens playing with them when they were called out as playing unfairly. Scum.

He had already managed to get control on his reckless actions and impulses back in the US with Alex and Tatsuya helping him with his temper since it usually gets him in trouble, but he couldn't help it this time. There is roughness in street basketball, that's true but the way those thugs were playing is something that he couldn't condone and forgive.

It's not street basketball. It's outright cheating and never has a place in the sport.

Ignoring the two people he was talking to not just a few seconds earlier, he stomped towards the group and snatched the ball from one of the thugs before pulling the one whose feet was on one of the teen's back roughly away.

"What the-?!"

"What kind of player are you?!" he demanded, scowling angrily at them. They gaped as they looked up at him, but then their expression changed completely.

"Haa?! What the hell are you doing you bastard?" the... thug made a face at him, closing in on his face trying to intimidate him. He gave a fierce glare, bouncing the ball in his hand hard on the floor and the guy made an abrupt step back to avoid it.

"What the hell?!"

"Let's play a game," he said.

"Oh," he heard a derisive chuckle and he saw the other thug looking at him in amusement. "So there still are people like you. Alright, let's play a game."

"Kagami-kun," Kagami barely resisted the urge to curse as he heard Kuroko's voice closer to him. He really should be used to his friend appearing out of nowhere and he is. But sometimes, when his attention is focused elsewhere, he could sneak up on him. Kagami feels like Kuroko does it for amusement.

"Mind if we join in?" Kise said with a smile but his eyes was staring at him, almost like its glittering flecks of gold and violet but Kagami just figured that it might just be a trick of the light or that he might just be seeing things. The only thing he is sure of is that Kise is watching him almost intensely, something within almost wanting him to react yet he couldn't understand what.

"I can take care of this," he said, looking at them both. He couldn't help worrying about them eventhough he knew that it's not necessary. They are his friends (yes, he counts Kise in it too) and he would always worry for them.

"You are being reckless Kagami-kun," Kuroko bluntly stated, eyes going dark and there it was again, eyes flashing with flecks of his blue and indigo. He shook his head lightly and blinked rapidly. Maybe he's just tired of he's seeing things...

No. He had to teach this thugs a lesson. Basketball is played for fun, not humiliation. They do not have the right to destroy the sport he loves.

"I can take care of them."

"We know," Kuroko said, looking at him intently.

"We just want to help so this would end faster," Kise chirped, flashing his signature polite, model smile at them. Kagami sighed but nodded at them. If he's stubborn, they are too. He might as well just let them. It's not as if teaching these thugs a lesson would be dangerous for them.

Besides, he does want it to finish faster. They have to go back or coach would give them punishment for leaving them alone.

"OI! You wanna play or not?!"

"5 on 3 is okay right?" Kise cheerfully asked.

They just scoffed at them. It seemed that they now recovered from their shock of seeing an almost phantom teen appearing and the celebrity teenager. "That's more than okay," they said with a grin full of teeth.

Of course they lost miserably.

"Whoa! They destroyed them!" the teens Kagami helped earlier exclaimed. He lightly passed the ball to them when they were walking away from the court and gave them a grin.

"You'll get there," he said. They looked at him with wide eyes before bowing.

"Yes!"

"I've been telling you that's dangerous Kagami-kun," Kuroko said after a few seconds, voice almost sounding fond and exasperated.

"Hah?" he asked in confusion. Kuroko has been telling him that constantly without any warning and it sort of confuses the hell out of him. As far as he knew, there is nothing dangerous in what he had been doing whenever he pops in to say it.

"K-Kagamicchi!" He jerked to look at the wailing blonde model beside him and saw him crying a river of tears that Kagami was reasonably sure was fake.

Still... tears...

"Wh-what?!"

"You were so brave!" Kise wailed. Kagami cringed especially when he went ahead and hugged him. He squirmed.

"Cut it out Kise!" when the model's hug only tighetend, he gave Kuroko a look. He gave a sigh and mercifully helped him but doing that elbow thing that had Kise stumbling away and holding his stomach.

"Kurokocchi so mean!"

"Kagami-kun said to stop Kise-kun," Kuroko pointed out. He gave the model a sour look when he pouted at him.

"I wasn't being brave. They just got on my nerves. Basketball is supposed to be played for fun, not... not like that," both of them looked at him. Kise was giving him a quite complicated expression for someone who always looks so cheerful to the point of obnoxious and Kuroko was having that twitch that tells him he's thinking about things that makes him sad.

He wondered. What in the world happened to them to make them look like that when it comes to basketball? True, he doesn't know. Maybe it has something to do with their shared past. About that moniker 'Generation of Miracles' perhaps?

"Well, I better be going now Kurokocchi. I got to play with you again so I'm happy," he said with a wide smile. Kise gave him a look before he took something from his pocket and pressed it on him. He looked at it and saw that it was some sort of calling card. Only, it was scribbled on the side with what he thinks as Kise's handwriting. In it is a number that he says is his personal one and to call him.

"It's very nice to meet you Kagamicchi and I hope you call me," he says with an almost sincere smile. He then backed away from them, waved his hand and skipped away.

By the way...

"Kagamicchi?" he couldn't help saying in disbelief. The name sounded childish and cutesy that it's almost sickeningly sweet.

"Kise-kun adds that to the names of those he respected," Kuroko says. Before he could comment on it further, they heard the rest of Seirin calling them. He sighed and decided to let it go. He'll just get Kise to stop it with the -icchi if they ever meet again. "Let's go."

"Kagami-kun." The redhead stopped to look at his friend who was looking too serious.

"Hmm?"

"You're my Sky," he stated. Kagami gave him a confused look, uncertain what it meant, especially when he felt that Kuroko just gave 'Sky' a capital letter. A sense of importance.

"Uhuh," after a couple of seconds waiting for Kuroko to continue only for him to look at him full of expectation. He sighed and just answered. "Right. I'm your sky. What does that make you in this cryptic words of weather name?"

"Your rain. Or Mist. You choose. I have them both equally." Kagami chuckled a bit at seeing that Kuroko is completely serious and decided to just humour him. He thought about it for quite a few seconds. Rain makes him feel calm while mist gives him the feeling of confusion. Both kind of fits with his friend.

"How about both?"

"Don't be greedy Kagami-kun." Kuroko answered promptly. He gave his friend an amused look almost bordering on disbelief.

"You're really serious about this huh?" when he saw Kuroko giving him a solemn nod, he sighed once again and gave him a side=shoulder hug. "Alright, how about rain?" he said because out of the two, calmness stands out the most to him about Kuroko. His friend, whenever Kuroko is beside him, makes him feel calm. Like all his worries washes away.

"Okay," he said, his demeanour almost looking bright, his lips twitching slightly to give an impression of smile. Despite his confusion, he feels happy for his friend. Also, something inside him loosened at the smile of acknowledgement Kuroko gave him. It almost feels right.

Cryptic-euphemisms-about-weather-that-he-didn't-know-the-meaning-of aside.

"Then let's go before coach makes us run a hundred lap,"

They walked towards their team with a happy and light feeling.

TBC.

(Word Count: 1800)


A/N:

Well, despite hiatus, I decided to post it coz this chapter is finished.

Alright, Kuroko went ahead and revealed his flames. What do you think?

FL Fact: Kuroko has equal amounts of Rain and Mist flames. No primary and secondary. They are both his. It's up to Kagami to assign him what guardian he is. Kuroko is a dual-flame holder.

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P.S. Prompts! Give them to me!