Light and Shadow

Shadow of an Echo

A/N I introduce the sexualities of key characters in this chapter, and for clarification purposes and the desire not to spoil there will be more information in an ending authors note rather than here. Also I have run into a little error with the timeline that I have figured out how to fix. I ran into the problem where setting it after the winter cup means I need to hold tryouts for new players to make it consistent. I don't want a flood of OC's so I may introduce a few but they will be flat and in the background. Also I accidentally held Kasamatsu back a year so just pretend he was a second year during canon.

Chapter Nine

All I Need To Know

One long train ride, three wrong turns, and a stop for lunch with another couple stops for more snacks later and the Yosen duo finally managed to make it to Seirin a few hours before classes would be over. A bit more trial and error had them finding the gym, sitting on the front steps waiting for the basketball club to arrive for practice. Himuro taking the opportunity to call their coach and explain enough of what was going on he knew they were in for a rant when they got back to Yosen, but she wasn't so mad she would use her bamboo sword to turn them into living piñatas.

Himuro wasn't sure how much of a coincidence it was that both himself and his brother had ended up on teams coached by women. Alex had been a large influence on them, she was practically their mother, and while a lot of male athletes he knew had trouble getting used to a female coach, Kagami and him hadn't had that problem.

The wait was a bit boring, but ended up being worth it to see the shock on Kagami's face at seeing the two of them calmly sitting in front of their gym.

"What are you doing here?" He asked with a wide happy grin once the surprise had worked itself out of his system.

"We were in the neighborhood and decided to stop by," Himuro responded calmly, rising from the steps and swinging his bag up on his shoulder before turning to Hyuuga and Riko, "Hope you don't mind a few extras at your practice today." He spoke respectfully.

Riko nodded, "We don't mind, but you're the first ones to come without me setting up a meeting, did your coach or Akashi-kun ask you to come today?" It was unusual for a team to show up at another school without a formal invitation, the only ones she could see ordering it were either the coach of Yosen or the still slightly feared captain of Rakuzan.

"Ah no, we are probably going to get yelled at when we get back," Himuro admitted, "But we wanted to come and at least if you allow us to join you we won't be considered actually skipping practice."

"Wait, if you made it here already that means you did skip school," Hyuuga accused, there was nothing particularly important about that day to suggest they had sanctioned time off.

This time Murasakibara answered with a shrug, "Muro-chin and I haven't missed anything before this, we can handle a day."

"It's good to see you again Murasakibara-kun, Himuro-kun," Kuroko greeted coming up to stand beside Kagami, hiding a smile at the wide-eyed look shown his way from the dark haired brother, but his former teammate didn't outwardly react. Murasakibara might not always know exactly where Kuroko was, but he was used to him popping up out of nowhere so he was less apt to jump, it was just too much effort.

"Hello Kuro-chin," Murasakibara responded, before taking another bite of his maiubo.

"Well you might as well come in if you're here anyway," Hyuuga gave in, resisting the urge to facepalm. These juniors were going to be the death of him, and most of the truly difficult ones shouldn't even have been his responsibility to look after, but someone had to keep them from getting into too much trouble.

With all the noise everyone was making piling into the gym, Kagami was able to talk to his brother in a very quiet voice, "Why are you really here?"

"Because you needed me to be," Himuro responded, "Or you wouldn't have contacted me at four in the morning."

Kagami rubbed at the back of his reddening neck, just knowing if the reaction was spotted he would be questioned and potentially thoroughly humiliated. "Ah, yeah, sorry."

"I think the words you are looking for are thank you. Don't worry, I'll make sure you don't screw up too badly." Himuro teased watching the red keep creeping up to spread to Kagami's cheeks this time in irritation, barely managing to keep his face calm and serene when all he wanted to do was laugh at Kagami's familiar temper; he was so easy to rile up and Himuro found it highly amusing.

There was no time for further conversation as they reached the locker rooms, getting ready for practice together. There was some teasing and banter, before they were soon spilling out onto the court to cluster around Riko, waiting for the plan she had no doubt been concocting ever since she realized she had such a good opportunity to evaluate new players show up at their front door.

The previous visitors had been invited guests, keeping her somewhat overdriven instincts to gather information in check. These two had practically volunteered for her scrutiny and she was looking forward to getting her metaphoric claws into them. This would be the first time she got a good long look at one of the Miracles without clothing obstructing her skill, and would finally have something to compare the astounding stats of Kagami to.

It was interesting to see the looks of shock on the Yosen player's faces as they were very seriously asked to strip off their shirts. Himuro glancing back and forth between his brother and the small but intimidating coach impatiently waiting for their compliance.

"Just do it Tatsuya or she won't ever let us play," Kagami advised. "We all had to when we joined."

Seeing that Murasakibara was already complying, being too lazy to argue or worry about such a simple request, he sighed and lifted his shirt off, leaning forward and shaking his head a bit to cover more of his eyes with his hair so he couldn't actually watch the eyes roving over him.

Riko found herself impressed, and attempted to suppress the truly manic grin threatening to surface at the potential in front of her. Himuro had very respectable numbers and he had truly honed his body to be about as good as it was going to get for his level of physical maturity. Her plans for him were more along the lines of how she could set him up to maintain that high performance level as he aged.

When her special eyes landed on Murasakibara two words escaped her that shocked even Hyuuga and Kiyoshi, "Holy shit."

"Ah Riko, did you just swear?" Hyuuga couldn't help but ask in almost tentative confusion.

It was Riko's turn to fight down a blush. "Maybe, but really, I have never seen numbers like his." That caught Himuro's attention.

"What do you mean his numbers?" He inquired curiously.

Kagami answered him, "She doesn't have us take our shirts off to ogle us. She can see our physical condition compared to our potential just by looking. That's the numbers she's talking about." He looked at his coach like she was a dangerous wild animal. "She hasn't reacted like that before though."

"Murasakibara-kun you have the highest potential I have ever seen," Riko informed, managing to pull herself together enough there was merely a tone of awe in her voice rather than outright gushing. Her eyes narrowed soon after saying that though, "But you've barely developed half of it."

Now that had the rest of the Seirin team, minus Kuroko because he already knew, bringing their gaze sharply to the giant center. It was hard to imagine a more intimidating monster, and he was only using half of what he could? That was a terrifying thought.

Murasakibara didn't look fazed, just pulled his shirt back on haphazardly. "As long as I win, why does it matter?"

As one every member of Seirin's basketball team stepped back a few paces; Himuro following suit when he noticed the move, slipping his shirt back on as he did so.

"Physical conditioning is not about winning!" Riko attempted to drive the point into Murasakibara's admittedly thick skull. "It is about making sure your body can keep up with what you ask it to do. All of you Miracles have the same problem, more skill than physical development, and that is why you hurt yourselves. Remember our game? You did exactly the same thing Kagami did when he first started learning his high jumps. You stressed your system so badly you couldn't rise up even one more time. With the potential you have that should have been easy for you."

She turned her gaze back to Himuro, the six foot tall power forward found himself with the incredible urge to cower after seeing her have the guts to give Atsushi an old fashioned dressing down. A lot like his own coach now that he thought about it. "You though. I can see you were guided by a pro to get where you are. Your stats are almost exactly equal to your potential. You're good enough you could have slacked just like those idiots and still won, making the risk of getting injured more pronounced, but you have obviously trained hard to protect yourself. Very nice work."

Okay he hadn't expected that one. He knew he was good, but not quite to the level of the Miracles, and here was Kagami's coach comparing him directly to them. "Thank you." He managed to reply politely, covering his surprise due to a large amount of practice.

He was surprised once again for her to shoot a glare at Kagami, "You should follow his example Bakagami; you still have a lot of work to do if you want to match his level of conditioning."

"Taiga is better than me," He couldn't help but make a very calm interruption.

She turned back to him, "That's not how this works. Winning or losing is not as important here as being the best you can be personally. When we bring that together it makes us stronger. He might have beaten you in one game, but you truly gave everything you had while he didn't. Not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't. You beat him in ability compared to potential, for me that means more than having access to strength that you don't bother to develop." Here there was another gaze at Murasakibara filled with the thrill of a good challenge.

"Riko do you have what you need?" Hyuuga prompted, attempting to sway the visit to more productive things such as you know actually practicing.

She nodded, "Yes. I'd like to try something a little different with these two, we have a heavy defense player paired with a heavy offense. I think it would be interesting to split them apart and add in some of ours. Kagami, Izuki, and Koganei you're on Himuro-kun's side; Kuroko, Hyuuga, and Mitobe on Murasakibara-kun's." She wanted to see what would happen pairing Kagami with his brother, and Kuroko with his old teammate.

The following game was good, especially when she watched Kagami and Himuro sync up. She now completely understood why Kagami hadn't had any issues with pairing as closely as he did with Kuroko, he already had a history with linking up and working in close tandem with another player.

Every time she looked at Murasakibara though she was tempted to beat some sense into him. He was a good player, but had little motivation. He wasn't coming out from under the net at all, leaving Hyuuga and Mitobe to try and break through the opposition. To their credit they were holding up well under the strain. What had not been told to Kuroko and Kagami was before Kiyoshi was injured and they needed a center, Mitobe had been their power forward with Tsuchida as small forward. During the tumultuous time trying to scramble together a viable team, Mitobe took center, Tsuchida took PF, and Koganei was put in as SF. Tsuchida was good enough at rebounds they attempted to have him as center, but he wasn't quite tall enough, Mitobe was the only one left with the height to manage to hold the spot.

"I think I need to talk to Akashi, and soon," Riko noted to Kiyoshi who was sitting glumly on the bench, but it said something about the amount of pain he was in that he hadn't even tried to argue with her about putting him in the match.

"About Murasakibara?" That particular reaction Riko had given to her evaluation of him was rather spectacular.

"Well him, and the others too," Riko admitted. "I tried to get what I could from the other three that came, and they really do all have the same problem. Their training regimen can't keep up with their talents. He's worked with them the most and should have a good idea how to retailor their efforts, I'd like to bring dad into it too. We shouldn't allow them to hurt themselves because they have abilities that would normally only manifest on a fully matured body. Kagami is a little better off, he got here still mostly raw so I had a chance to condition him throughout his blooming; he's older than the Miracles were when they started getting good so he was that much more equipped to handle it."

"I thought you were mad at him?" After what Kise, Aomine, and Midorima had discussed about their ex-captain it had taken quite a bit of effort to calm Riko down from hopping the next train to Rakuzan so she could give Akashi a piece of her mind.

"Oh I am," She assured, "But he would still be the best for the job. I want a consult not a takeover, if he thinks that's what will happen then he has another thing coming. This is his chance to redeem himself and prove the Miracles' loyalty is well placed."

Kiyoshi nodded, "Alright, that makes sense." He agreed before going silent and watching the game.

It looked like Himuro was guiding Kagami into pressing every one of Murasakibara's buttons, trying to lure him onto offense. Kuroko seemed to be of the same mind as he often passed backwards giving him good chances to drive forward only to be denied with him redirecting the pass.

Attempting to provoke the giant was giving all the others a good work out. The only way he could be truly tempted is if he felt his side was in danger of losing, except there was no way anyone on his team would willingly throw a game just to get him to that point. Winning was not everything, but having pride in giving your all was the cornerstone of Seirin's basketball as Riko had explained to the Yosen players.

A few shouted commands and the brothers attempted a new tactic, instead of gunning for Murasakibara, they went for Kuroko. If they could shut down his passes then Murasakibara could be forced onto the wider court to make up for the shortfall.

Easier said than done. Kuroko was good, they had all known that, but when he realized what Kagami and Himuro were trying to do he kicked it up a notch. He would reach his playing limit sooner, but it might make it that much more challenging.

Kagami, as much as he didn't want to admit it, was taking a page out of Aomine's book. He was the only one to truly defeat the vanishing drive, shutting it down was not the same as stopping it while Kuroko was doing everything right, and he had done it by closing his eyes and running off instinct.

For Kagami, this was a game where he had an advantage that Aomine didn't. He could read two people on the court, one was Kuroko, and the other was his brother. Every time he managed to intercept a pass from his shadow he could have it flying towards Himuro almost as soon as he touched it. Aomine played alone, Kagami did not, and that was what made their styles truly different no matter how similarly they thought.

Murasakibara was lazy, but not stupid, he knew what they were trying to get him to do since Seirin had done it to him before. He was refusing to let himself be baited this time, just sent a baleful glare to Himuro as he took a shot again.

Then he saw them ganging up on Kuroko. That irritated him. Kuroko was no damsel in distress that needed saving, he was a good player with his own confidence, but Murasakibara didn't like that they were using him to try and flush him out. Perfectly legal, but still distasteful in his opinion, if he wanted to come out he would but he just didn't want to.

Still letting Kuroko outdo him felt a little too much like losing. They had argued so much over which of their methods were better that if he held back and their team lost it would go a long way towards proving Kuroko's point that effort was just as important, or more, as skill.

The sound of heavy pounding feet coming up behind him made Kuroko want to smile, if he wasn't working so hard to breathe that is. The ball he had just sent towards Hyuuga was scooped out of the air and slammed against the hardwood floor with a hard fast dribble, long strides carrying Murasakibara's powerful body towards the hoop, completely overwhelming Koganei and Izuki making them fall backwards, but they had managed to slow him down just enough Kagami and Himuro met his drive underneath the basket pressing hard. Surprisingly agile for his size Murasakibara dodged them both and slammed the ball into the hoop the swish of the net utterly drowned out by the titanic thump of his body coming back down to the ground.

There was a momentary pause of surprise from the action, but soon enough enthusiasm broke through shock and they were back to playing their hearts out. It was exhilarating to play on that caliber when it wasn't such high stakes any more.

Kiyoshi wondered vaguely if he might need to catch Riko she swooned so strongly watching Murasakibara finally deciding to show some of what he could do. All that potential right in front of her, in their gym, perfectly positioned for her to mold and work with.

There was definitely a bit of regret on her face when she had to call the match, Kuroko looked like he was about to pass out and some of the others weren't far behind. Murasakibara had been playing on offense for about five minutes, and with that their side finished fifteen points up.

Kagami and Murasakibara were still fired up though, they had brought out the monster and he wanted to go until he got to crush the opposition. Murasakibara was the poster child for be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. "One on one?" Kagami offered, staring him down and getting a challenging nod, childishness chased away to be replaced with competitiveness.

"Coach, can we stay out?" Kagami was excited and hopeful as he practically begged, just barely remembering they might want to get permission.

Who was she to deny such a golden opportunity? "Oh okay, but be careful you two, we don't have time to replace any hoops right now." The others sweat dropped as they realized she was not kidding.

"Atsushi, here," Himuro called out, fishing a hair-tie out of his pocket and tossing it to the Yosen center.

Murasakibara caught it and was in the middle of gathering his purple hair away from his face when he realized something that made him glare at his teammate again, "You planned this Muro-chin." That was not phrased as a question. Murasakibara knew the only reason Himuro would carry a hair-tie around is if he believed the center would end up playing his all.

"I had hoped," Himuro admitted blandly. "I wasn't sure if we could manage it though."

"You're not backing out are you?" Kagami challenged, wanting that heart pounding battle.

Purple eyes narrowed, "I'm going to crush you."

"Bring it on!" Kagami demanded wholeheartedly.

The two rushed back out on the court basketball in hand, leaving the others on the bench to marvel at the sheer amount of enthusiasm. A small smile was on Himuro's face, "I knew he would like it here."

"For someone who doesn't care about playing he looks almost as excited as Kagami," Koganei noted.

"It's not the game Atsushi likes, it's the feeling he gets when he plays and wins against a person who challenges him." Himuro revealed.

"Like Aomine?" Furihata asked curiously.

Himuro shrugged, "I don't know enough about him."

Kuroko answered the question for him, "They both do like beating someone who challenges them, but for Aomine-kun the game is important. He is competitive at everything but the only thing he really gets a thrill from is basketball, that's why he got so depressed when the thrill was gone because he couldn't find someone strong enough to challenge him."

"Could the same thing happen to Murasakibara if he is trained too much now?" Kiyoshi asked in concern, with a glance over at the plotting Riko.

"I don't think so," Kuroko evaluated. "That's not the way Murasakibara-kun thinks. Instead of getting depressed, he would be more likely to get into an actual competition with himself regarding training. Spin it right and it can be a challenge and he hates losing, if he is motivated in the right way forcefully enough he won't stop until he reaches that level."

"I take it that is how Akashi worked with him?" Hyuuga asked.

"Yes, but he didn't push him as hard as he could have," Kuroko confessed. "He can be motivated but it is very hard to do in the long term, and with him being so naturally good for a long time there was very little reason to argue too much with him."

"I still don't like that method," Riko insisted, "It's like Akashi had all of you training in the exact opposite way as you should have. Instead of working on conditioning and foundations, he pushed you so hard into winning you relied too much on talents your bodies were just not ready to handle."

Kuroko wanted to defend his ex-captain but he was running into a conundrum, "I'm sorry, you have the wrong idea about him. All I can tell you is Akashi-kun has a reason for the way he acted, but it is too personal for me to say anything specific without him giving permission."

It was pretty simple. Akashi was being pressured himself, practically making a deal with a devil so he could keep playing basketball, he absolutely had to win. That drive coupled together with the fact he had been in physical training practically his whole life made it so the idea that others hadn't experienced that had honestly not occurred to him until too late.

Himuro had kept an eye on the court and by now he was completely sure Kagami was too engrossed in his match with Murasakibara to notice anything else. He tapped Kuroko on the shoulder, "Can I talk to you for a few minutes alone?" He inquired quietly.

Kuroko nodded and went over to Hyuuga, talking lowly, and receiving a shooing motion.

"We can use the locker room." Kuroko explained as he came back over. "Hyuuga-senpai will try to keep coach distracted."

"I take it you know what I wanted to talk to you about?" Himuro guessed once they were safely out of earshot.

"You're worried about Kagami-kun." Kuroko responded, settling on the long bench in front of his locker, Himuro sitting next to him.

He nodded at the shadow, "Yes, Taiga told me some of what happened. He was a little too worked up for detail though, so do you mind me asking what went on last night? I'm only asking so I can try and help him deal with it, he panics easily."

"Nothing that bad. He got caught up in the moment and decided to kiss me," Kuroko answered levelly. "He started apologizing right after it and he thought I'd want to leave immediately."

"Thought so," That was the confirmation Himuro had been looking for. "I want you to know Taiga does not do anything like that lightly, but he is very impulsive. He can't always control himself when he has strong emotions, and that can get him in trouble. You seem surprisingly calm about what happened but that is not often the case."

A slight blush made Kuroko's ears turn pink, "It's not exactly the first time something like that has happened. Just not with Kagami-kun."

"Oh? Now I'm curious," Himuro admitted. "You don't have to tell me though, I know it's personal."

Kuroko just shook his head, "It's not a big deal. I don't really hide it, but no one bothers to ask. Aomine-kun and Kise-kun have kissed me, and I have kissed Akashi-kun. We just spent so much time together and went through so much that things happened."

Himuro debated with himself a moment before deciding it was okay to ask, after all Kuroko had every right to not answer if he didn't want to, "Are you gay?"

Kuroko nodded and, because he trusted Himuro who had come so far just to take care of his little brother, he elaborated. "I am, so is Akashi-kun and Midorima-kun. Kise-kun will pretty much date anything, and Aomine-kun definitely prefers women but if he gets close enough to a male he might show a little interest. I don't know about Murasakibara-kun, as far as I know he didn't date in middle school or make any moves to try."

Himuro returned the favor in kind, "I'm straight, but Taiga is gay. He tries not to let anyone know. He did the same kind of impulsive thing to one of the other players back in LA and he got beat up for it, and I mean that literally. There was a group of them and they even managed to break one of his ribs before Alex and I could get there to stop them. I know he likes you a lot or he wouldn't have risked what he did, and I came here hoping to get your promise that even if you don't like him the same way you won't turn on him or give him away to someone who might hurt him like that again."

Kuroko had paled even more than he always was at hearing what his light had endured. "I would never let that happen to him. I like Kagami-kun, and wouldn't really mind trying for more, but even if I didn't I wouldn't allow him to get hurt. Also our biggest rivals are the ones with the least problems with it or we would all pretty much be hypocrites."

"I do kind of have to admit I'm a little surprised about how many of the Miracles are not straight," He confessed, having not expected it from the majority of them.

"Most of the time I just thought a lot of the incidents were brought on by too many emotions and not enough outlets, like after a really good game. Then we got to the point where we didn't bother to think about it, that's just the way we were." Kuroko tried to explain. The Miracles were all hot blooded and when games were over without them burning off enough energy it left them pumped up, add that to spending nearly every waking moment together and boundaries were crossed. They were young enough when they started getting intimate for it to be innocent and no big deal, and later on it had been happening for so long they didn't see any point in trying to change it.

Himuro responded slowly, "Taiga doesn't talk about it much, but one of the times he tried to get it off his chest he mentioned that he had gotten carried away and acted without thinking. It might not have even been the person specifically that was the problem, but they were playing on a public street court on a popular day, having other people see it might explain why it escalated so badly. The three of us never went back to that place again after that, and avoided that part of the city at all if we could. Taiga didn't ever want to see anyone from that day again, they knew his secret and already hurt him for it, and he didn't want that to happen again."

"I know you want to help him, but why are you the one telling me all this? Shouldn't it come from Kagami-kun?" Kuroko was worried his Light didn't trust him.

"Because I meant it when I said he doesn't talk about it. I think he needs to, but he won't bring it up himself. From talking with you I know you care and will help him if he starts trying to run away from those memories. I wanted you to know he will not willingly push you away, but he is terrified because of what has already happened, I think he is also worried that this time it won't be him that gets hurt it will be you. He couldn't live with himself if you got hurt because he lost control again." Himuro explained calmly, having expected the question.

"I'll do what I can," Kuroko promised. "I meant what I said too, I like him. I won't let him run away, especially now when I know what he is really running from. Can I ask something else?"

"Go ahead," Himuro allowed.

"What happened to the people that hurt Kagami-kun?" There was very controlled rage burning in the Shadow now that he allowed himself to feel it having gotten what he needed from Himuro.

"You won't like it," He warned.

"Please tell me?" Kuroko asked again, "I don't think I would like anything short of prison, but I kind of doubt that happened."

"Fine, nothing happened to them. Taiga wouldn't press charges, even his parents couldn't persuade him to do it. Taiga did not want to expose himself to scrutiny, there are quite a few people including some of the police that would hear that story and say it was his fault for instigating the whole thing. We know that is total bullshit, but we couldn't convince him to even try." Yes he swore, even he did it when he got worked up enough, thinking about the black eye, split lip, and the bruises all over his little brother's chest and back was a guaranteed way of doing that.

That was about the time Kagami and Murasakibara discovered them, and one look at the furious and concerned expressions on both his brother and his shadow told Kagami that Kuroko knew.

He tried to turn away from the pair, only to be blocked by the large body of Murasakibara keeping him from going anywhere for long enough Kuroko could get to him and wrap his arms around him from behind, resting his head against Kagami's shoulder blades and just staying there without a word. He held onto him tightly, and he planned to never let go. He had a feeling if Aomine or Kise ever figured out what happened to their best challenge fists would fly, and the thought of what Akashi might do had even him shuddering.

He turned enough to press a kiss against the tense muscle, "You are my Light and I will not allow anything to tarnish that. I am the only one that can be your shadow, not people who hurt you." He spoke quietly.

Murasakibara had left them alone to sit next to Himuro heavily. "Thank you Atsushi." Himuro said in appreciation, so quietly neither Kuroko nor Kagami could hear him.

"I did it for Kuro-chin," Murasakibara admitted. There might have been a little more planning involved in this little field trip than it had first appeared. Himuro had not told him everything, but it had been enough to convince him to be both distraction and blockade.

"I know," Himuro assured, "But this was for both of them." He looked at Kuroko comforting his brother and knew he had made the right choice, it had been a bit of a gamble, but it had been one that needed to happen. He smiled softly while waiting for them to collect themselves together enough to head back to practice. Answers vague about their whereabouts, but the seniors knew enough about their juniors to realize whatever had happened was very private and if they were going to say anything at all it should be on their terms.

A/N Okay, the sexualities I am going with for my characters are this:

Kuroko, Akashi, Kagami-homosexual; Midorima-demisexual (but homosexual in developing connections); Aomine-Very minor bisexuality; Kise-Pansexual; Murasakibara-Asexual

Now to clear up the whole pairing thing when involving an Asexual character, there are multiple levels of asexual and aromantic orientations. Asexual just means you have little or no actual sex drive, but that does not mean you can't have a romantic relationship.

Demisexual is a bit more complicated to understand if you're not one. This means you only feel sexual attraction after forming a very deep emotional bond. There is a difference between choosing not to have casual sex, and not wanting it at all. I call myself gay because at least most people know what that is, but my actual classification on the spectrum is Demi-homosexual like I made Midorima, the only difference being I'm a girl.

I decided to go with multiple kinds of orientations because it has begun to bother me that people assume there is only gay, straight, and bi (with bisexuality often debated as well) I am an officer in the alphabet soup that is the LGBTQIA organization at my college, and I take it seriously. I would like to shine a light on the lesser known ones so the people stumbling across my stories that belong to them know they are not alone, there is nothing sick or wrong with them, and there are in fact people willing to accept them. If you have questions or just want to have a nice discussion about it don't be shy about sending me a message, I like to hear from people.