A/N: We're finally at chapter 9! I never would have gotten this far without support from you guys! Thanks as usual for the favs, follows and reviews xD so then, enjoy! :D
Warning: Un-betaed so pardon the misspellings or grammatical errors ehehe
Disclaimer: Knb isn't mine! If it was, Akakuro would be canon muahahaha
Chapter 9: Generation of Miracles
Dinner time
"Aomine-kun, Midorima-kun, Murasakibara-kun and Akashi-kun?" Kuroko stared at the group of rainbow haired people gathered around the table.
"What about me, Kurokocchi?" A certain fox whined.
"Ah, forgive me Kise-kun." Kuroko replied in a not so sorry tone.
"So mean~" A whiny voice could be heard from the background.
"Come and join us, Tetsuya. I presume you had already met everyone here, correct?" Akashi gave a knowing smile (psychotic smirk in everyone else's vision).
"Yo, Tetsu!" Aomine grinned widely. Midorima simply nodded towards Kuroko while Kise was literally bouncing up and down his chair and invited Kuroko to sit next to him. "Let's just eat already, Kuro-chin~" Murasakibara pushed the bluenette down on an empty chair before taking his own seat at the table.
"Meet the Generation of Miracles, Tetsuya." Akashi said with his hands folded under his chin. He was sitting at the opposite of the large rectangular mahogany table.
"Generation of Miracles?" Kuroko repeated. Then, it finally dawned to him.
Now that Akashi-kun had mentioned it, he had heard about the GoM before, an infamous group of five powerful youkai rumoured to be led by an aggressive and bloodthirsty demon. That was what Kuroko had been made to believe anyway. He thought that it was simply a myth passed around since last year.
About a year ago, the exorcist and youkai world was shaken up by a new group of four most vicious and infamous youkai led by a prominent exorcist of the Akashi family. It was shocking enough that these youkai had actually agreed to be commanded by a mere human. What was the most astonishing fact was that none of the four youkai had form an official contract with the exorcist as servants and master by exchanging their blood.
It was simply unheard of as relationships between an exorcist and a youkai are shaky and fragile. One wrong step could lead to betrayal and commonly, death by each other hands. Since the five of them are connected only by the words loyalty and trust, hence they were nicknamed as the Generation of Miracles.
Green with jealousy and hatred, exorcists from other clans and factions started spreading rumours that the young flaming redhaired heir of the Akashi had actually sold his soul to the demon or that he had became a youkai himself by slaughtering a thousand of innocent youkai.
Akashi himself, however, did not bother with the groundless rumours which soon died away in the end. Only he and the other four knew the real story behind their relationship and he would like it to remain that way.
As soon as they started dinner, the table became very lively with Kise's and Aomine's constant bickering and food stealing, Midorima's snappy remarks to the two loud youkai as well as Murasakibara's whining for seconds. Meanwhile, Akashi and Kuroko ate in comfortable silence, both seemed to enjoy the company of the rest of the members.
Kuroko could not help but smile fondly. It was as if they were one big family. He had never experience family gathering or eating together with lots of people before. It had always been only him and his grandmother. Just the two of them on New Year, Christmas and other festive seasons. He wondered if he would be able to spend his life with the rest of them.
'I hope our bonds will always connect us together no matter when and where.'
He caught Akashi looking at him and giving him an understanding smile. Kuroko felt his eyes stung with tears. He smiled gratefully in return. How thankful he was to have met the redhead. Suddenly, he saw a glimpse of a man resembling Akashi-kun for a split second.
'Eh? Who was that..?' Kuroko stared into the distance, not noticing Akashi had got up from his seat and moved towards him. All other eyes were watching with pure interest. No one could blame them since it was not always they get to see the cold-hearted 'Red King' showing his emotions so openly.
"Tetsuya, are you alright?" Akashi caressed his cheek once more, Kuroko unconsciously leaning into the fearsome leader's touch.
"Yes..." replied Kuroko looking slightly dazed. 'Who was it again? That person...is Akashi-kun's..?'
"I have some important business to attend to now so take good care of Tetsuya, everyone." Akashi ordered the rest of the members with a surprisingly but sickeningly sweet smile.
Exact translation: Touch him and you'll wish you should have never been born. Do not touch what's mine. *snips, snips*
Everyone except Kuroko nodded immediately. Rule number one: Never disobey Akashi's orders. That is if you value your dear life. Or hair. Once, Kise did something that pissed the redhead off and he woke up the next morning with hairless tails that he had to keep them hidden for a month due to embarrassment.
Please take care, Akashi-kun." Kuroko spoke out, he was already missing him. Wait, that's not quite right. His cheeks turned a rosy red colour. Had he become attached to the redhead?
"I'll be going then." Akashi smiled to the bluenette once more before he left the table and small chatters could be heard almost instantaneously.
"Wonder if Akashicchi is dealing with that guy again?"
"Huh, he should just lemme beat that bastard into a pulp."
"Brute force is not the only solution, Aomine. I'm sure Akashi has a better way of handling that person-nanodayo."
"Ehh~ I don't like that guy. Aka-chin should just finish him off~"
"Who is this person all of you are talking about?" Kuroko's interest was piqued. Everyone contemplated for a while before Kise decided it was best not to keep a secret from his sweet dear Kurokocchi.
"His name is Haizaki Shougo. He's an underground weapon dealer-ssu. Illegal trading is his game." The blonde explained a bit to the clueless bluenette.
"Oi, Kise!" Aomine retorted, he was giving a disagreed glare to the nine-tailed fox.
"What~? It's best to tell Kurokocchi sooner or later since he'll be living with us! Akashicchi said so; that there should be no secrets between us, right?" Kise defended.
"Kise-chin's right, Mine-chin~" The purple ogre said boringly while putting his right cheek flat on the table. "We should not be so secretive with each other~"
"Then, we might as well tell Kuroko all about it properly." Midorima joined in the conversation and nodded in agreement after thinking for some time.
"If you guys say so. I just don't want Tetsu to get hurt unnecessarily." Aomine reluctantly agreed. Haizaki was bad news, Tetsu's existence must be hidden by the cunning youkai no matter what. Even he knew that much.
"Thank you for your concern, Aomine-kun but do tell me more about this Haizaki-san." Kuroko insisted. Why did the name sounded so oddly familiar? Yet, he was sure it's his first time hearing the name. Something was bugging him but he did not know what exactly.
So, Kuroko was determined to find out the truth.
To be continued...
A/N: And that's all for now~ so please share your thoughts or comments for this chapter. I really love reading them and of course I appreciate every single one of them~ Hontouni arigato-gozaimasu! :)
So Haizaki has come into the picture! I don't know if I should make him the bad guy or not. But maybe I should. With a little bit of twist~ *raises eyebrows*
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Till then, take care everyone~ I'll see you guys in a week *teary-eyed* :'3
