Hiya! So, I know that it has been a long wait for the last chapter, and this has been saved up for a while since this prompt gave me a spark that allowed me to vomit words. This is actually an apology at the speed which I'm writing, so hope you all bear with me! This is actually for a guest, that sadly, I cannot PM. :( I truly hope it's what you wanted though, guest!
Eh, on another more depressing hand, this fic is not for the fainthearted. I was in an angsty, kill-off-the-mains mood (as always) when I was writing this, so watch out. ^-^'
Disclaimer: Yeah. It's mine. Because it's totally logical to post fanfiction about your own manga. Mhmm.
Pairing: Slight Kagami x Himuro, Kagami x GOM Bromance
Warnings: Fem!Angel!Kagami, Angst, Major Character Death
Closing her eyes, Kagami took a deep breath, feeling her grace leave her. Her momentum dropped before she started to speed up, the tips of her hair flaming at the resistance. She let her body relax. This is the end, she thought, resigned, before finally sighing a breath and then keeping still. Crossing her hands over her chest, Kagami straightened herself, before allowing herself to drop. To fall from grace.
Meanwhile, unknowing of Kagami's inner turmoil, Akashi looked up from the shogi board in front of him a vague curiosity instilled in him at muffled thump he thought he had heard. With a look to the sleeping members of his basketball team, he chuckled a little at their sleeping positions. Murasakibara was characteristically sprawled out on the bed, drool dripping from his mouth, Kuroko's was ramrod straight, as was Midorima's, whilst Aomine and Kise were practically both tangled into the sheets at impossible positions.
Another thump sounded. Curiosity now piqued, Akashi to looked up to see a white dressed figure on his porch. Heart skipping a beat, he tensed in his seat, still looking at the ethereal looking woman in front of him. Opening the window with a squeak, Akashi called out, voice startlingly loud amongst the sound of the cicadas and the dripping of the morning due, 'who are you?'
The figure looked shocked, still and tense under her white robes, before speaking hesitantly, brushing her red hair behind her ear almost bashfully, 'Taiga.'
Akashi's brow furrowed. What an unusual name! Wasn't that a guy name? However, he wouldn't question Taiga about her name. There were more pressing matters at hand. 'Why are you here?'
'I fell from grace,' Kagami said promptly before walking towards him. The distance between them closed, and when the other neared, Akashi unconsciously leant in, eyes drooping at Kagami's almost mystical smell. However, he was startled out of his reverie when he realized that Kagami was looking at him and smiling knowingly. Flushing slightly uncharacteristically, Akashi backed away until he was at an appropriate distance before clearing his throat.
Kagami chucked, sadness underlining her voice but at the same time still managing to sound angelic in the stillness of morning air, 'That happens to mortals a lot. Angels secrete a sort of smell that smells attractive to mortals.'
'So, you're not a mortal,' Akashi half stated, half asked.
'No. I'm an angel,' Kagami said serenely.
Ah. That explains it, Akashi thought wryly before repeating, 'so you're not a mortal. I see.'
Silence reigned, before Akashi let out a sight and gestured back at the house, 'well, we can't have you standing outside, can we? You should come in.'
Turning around, Akashi stalked back to the house, not looking back. If Taiga wanted to come, she would come. If she wanted to leave, so be it. Frankly, she seemed a little crazy. She wasn't really an angel. Angels were definitely not real. She was probably just a homeless someone wanting a place to stay. Akashi smirked. Taiga was obviously a fake name. A stage name, maybe. Maybe she was a stripper.
Reaching the room he had shared with his teammates, he nudged Midorima's arm with his sock-covered foot, sending Midorima jolting upwards at the force, before wordlessly motioning him to send the others into consciousness.
Akashi leant down, mouth ghosting a hot gust of breath onto the other as he whispered into the other's ear, 'there's an angel on our doorstep.'
Sending a quizzical look, Midorima did nothing more but peer out of the window to look at Kagami, standing patiently and humming a cheerful tune on the doorstep of Akashi's house.
Akashi smiled, he knew why he chose Midorima as his vice-captain. Inviting Kagami in, he dawdled awhile, waiting for Kagami's wide eyed, slack jawed wonder to cease. When Kagami finally acquiesced and followed Akashi's leisurely pace to the bedroom, Akashi was met with the sight of a stoic Kuroko ruthlessly hitting Kise who was whining, head buried resolutely into his pillow.
Sighing, Akashi spoke, 'wake up, Ryouta. We have company.'
'Eh…?' Kise's lidded eyes peeled open to show golden orbs, still hazy with sleep, 'who is it?'
Akashi didn't deem his yellow-haired teammate a reply. Instead, he sighed before sticking out his hand, pulling Kise upright.
Sticking his head out of the doorway, Akashi saw Kagami still standing in the spot where he had left him, staring around complacently. A fond exasperation tugged at Akashi's heart, 'come on. Meet my schoolmates.'
'Taiga, meet Ryouta, Shintarou, Daichi and Atsushi,' Akashi gestured to each of them and they each gave a nod, or smile to the red-head.
Nodding, Taiga smiled at the all of them before she ventured further into the room and plopped down on one of the sleeping bags like she owned the place.
Containing a sigh, Akashi once again prompted, 'can you tell us what happened to you? Do you have somewhere to return to?'
Kagami shook her head, eyes dimming at his words, 'my brothers and sisters…they cast me out. Because I-they wanted to get rid of humanity. Now that God is gone, many of their allegiances have swerved. I refused.' Kagami took another breath, 'they said that if I wanted to side with the humans, then I had no right to be an angel.'
Midorima looked at Akashi at that statement, gaze probing, 'angels are not real. They're mythical creatures.'
Kagami bristled, 'I am an angel! Humanity hasn't been visited by angels since the death of Jesus Christ, but I assure you, we are very much real! I have seen the rise and fall of eras. I have seen the way humanity developed, how the worlds have evolved, how the universe has changing. You have no right to say that angels do not exist because of your own misguided views, child.'
Flinching at the outburst, Midorima settled, a little sullen but mollified, 'I'm sorry.'
Belatedly, Akashi realised that Kagami's eyes were glowing red.
A sigh from Kagami, 'I'm sorry, Midorima Shinatarou. I understand your hesitance to believe the legitimacy of my kind. We haven't been known to man since twenty centuries ago, after all.' Kagami reassured the green-haired shooter before scowling, 'however, my wings have just been forcibly torn off by my own brothers and sisters and I have just been named a traitor by my kind. It would be best if you did not mention anything about the said subject at all.'
Turning to Akashi, Kagami said, 'is there anywhere you can direct me to? Someplace as to where I can stay for now?'
For some reason, Akashi felt compelled to help, a sense of pity and empathy running through him, 'you can stay here. With me.'
Kagami sent him a half knowing, half grateful smile, the former so apparent that it left Akashi wondering whether him agreeing was because of Kagami's manipulation.
Immediately, retorts sounded, Aomine's voice being the loudest, 'oi, how the hell are you going to support her? She might have been an angel, but now that she's not one, he's got to eat, and sleep and basically function. That's a drag on your expenses.'
Akashi scowled. However, it was not because Aomine was irrational, it was because he was totally and utterly right.
However, Kagami cut Akashi out of his musings, 'it's alright. I don't need to eat. Or sleep. Or function.' A glare was sent in Aomine's general direction, 'I'm alright.'
And as if she had something to prove, Kagami repeated himself, crimson lashes casting a dark shadow across her face, 'I'm alright.'
Soon, it was obvious that Kagami needed to do said things and on the overall 'function' as a normal human being.
It wasn't even two hours later when Midorima found Kagami sitting in a puddle of her own urine, looking more than confused. Four hours later, Kagami's stomach had grumbled and she had looked at her own stomach in anger, eyes accusing, as if it grumbling was the reason why everything had gone wrong for him.
It looked hugely comical, and it would have been funny, but it wasn't because it was Kagami, and no one laughed. Akashi had never been more thankful that his friends were his friends.
Kagami had worked her ass off for the next few months, doing whatever she could here and there, and finally, with a little aid from the Generation of Miracles, bought a small, dingy flat in the middle of nowhere. However, that was not too bad, as she would stay with Akashi, usually sleeping over at his house more often than not.
During the time that Kagami did so, Akashi taught her the basics of basketball. It was surprising that Kagami not only picked it up quickly, but since rose to Aomine's level. Unknowingly, Aomine came to Akashi's a lot more after that, spending hours and hours playing basketball with the ex-angel. The latter played with a strange ferocity, a wide berth from her usual wide eyed endearment. It wasn't until evening, when the sun set to the point that both of them couldn't see the hoop without squinting, that the two basketball rivals came home, drenched in sweat but with huge smiles plastered over both their faces.
Kagami started to model with Kise shortly afterwards, realising that not only she was good at modelling, but the pay was more than enough for her. Soon, she was able to move into a more spacious flat than before. By then, the five of them had left middle school and gone off into different high schools. Akashi and Atsushi had left to different prefectures so they couldn't visit often, but day after day, unfailingly, Kise, Midorima and Aomine found themselves in Kagami's presence, just relaxing or talking about whatever.
Kagami met Himuro through Kise.
The man was a photographer, but if Kagami could be honest with herself, she would much rather if she was in charge of photographing him, not the other way around. One thing led to another, and Kagami realised, wrapped up in Himuro's loose arms and feeling utterly content that she was well and truly in love with him.
It wasn't like the other didn't care for her, but the aching sense that always wracked Kagami's bones whenever she was near him was not, she was sure, reciprocated in any way. This was proved true when Himuro broke it off with a soft smile, apologetic and soft and truly, truly sorry, that Kagami did not have the heart to hate him.
Himuro found a new girl, a bubbly, pink-haired girl with the name Moimoi Satsuki. Kagami wanted to hate her, but she found that she could not, as Moimoi was not only perfectly nice to her, but she had a good sense of humor and personality, worming her way into the ex-angel's life.
Himuro never told Moimoi what had happened between him and Kagami, but when she finally got the guts to tell Moimoi about it, she realised that she shouldn't have worried about telling it to her bubbly friend at all; not only was she supportive, but she was anything one could wish for in a best friend.
Life dragged on, slow and horrifyingly fast for Kagami, who had lived since forever, but things were okay. Kagami figured that if she never was able to revert back to an angel, her life was still a good one.
She was coping, and that was all that mattered.
Kagami was lonely.
Sighing, Kagami brushed her wavy hair behind her ear, gazing wistfully at the door, willing for it to open. Since the five had graduated from high school, they had all gone off to college. It was a new experience to them, she supposed.
Midorima had gone off to some college in Osaka. He remembered him waving to her, smiling in that tender, surprisingly sensitive way of his and promising her that he would visit. Aomine and Kise had promised her too, going all the way north to Hokkaido, attending a school that offered them a full scholarship for basketball. Kuroko and Akashi both ventured to Kyushu, the former studying English Literature, the latter studying Forensics.
Moimoi and Himuro had married early and were expecting a child late June. Kagami never realised how the facsimile things in life seemed to bother her now that she was turned mortal.
Kagami shook her head. They would come back to her, someday. They had to.
She was so lonely. So, so lonely.
A WOMAN FOUND DEAD ON ROUTE 58
On Tuesday, authorities identified the victim as the 29-year-old model Kagami Taiga.
That afternoon, Lieutenant Hondou confirmed that her death has been ruled a suicide. Lt. Hondou said on Wednesday morning, 'Right now, we believe that Ms. Kagami Taiga was a suicide; she had no notable contacts, and was likely not in her right mind when the suicide occurred.'
Police originally responded to a call at 8:20 a.m. on Monday about a woman lying on the ground near the edge of the lot. Responding officers discovered the body of Ms. Kagami Taiga,, according to police, on the side of the road of Route 58. According to police, identification was found with her body, but the legitimacy of said identification is unclear.
Lt. Hondou said Ms. Kagami Taiga was last seen on Saturday night at Izakuya, a bar located a few miles away from Route 58, claiming she was 'an angel of the Lord'. Her body was discovered on Monday morning on Route 58. It was not immediately clear if she was seen alive on Sunday.
Family members of Ms. Kagami Taiga could not be reached for comment.
I know, please don't kill me? ^-^' Hopefully it was to your liking, guest! Please leave a review to tell me what you thought or to supply me with a prompt!
On another hand, exams are coming up this April, and I'm pretty sure that I can't really post anything over the period of April-May. Hopefully you can bear with the slow speed! However, I truly promise that every prompt WILL BE DONE NO MATTER WHAT (unless I die, but eh, semantics). I will make all of you happy. I swear. I'm just postponing everything a little. Oops. xx
