Chapter 12
Edited by Phoebe.
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"What is this?" A blond man said when he came back to his apartment he shared with his girlfriend. There was nothing left in that apartment except a tall male with tanned skin.
"Oi Tetsu, he's back already." He heard the tan male shouted to someone. Tetsu? He has another accomplice with him?
"Who are you?"
"Welcome back, Kise Ryota-kun" he saw someone with a smaller figure appeared from the next room. This must be the 'Tetsu'.
"What are you doing in here?" Kise, the blond male, asked again. "I have nothing to offer you"
"Actually, you have a lot to offer us." This Tetsu said to Kise. Kise got more surprised when 'Tetsu' opened the jacket to reveal her gender. At first Kise thought that Tetsu was one really pretty boy, but those low lumps on her chest proved him wrong.
"I want you to work with us"
"I already have a job." Kise said. He turned to look at the taller male that had been watching his every move before continuing speaking "Who sent you here?"
"Akashi Seijuro." That one name sent chills down his bone. "You managed to breach into our security system and Akashi-kun was more than interested to hire you."
"But I-"
"Shut up pretty boy. You know that your boss already gone bankrupt and he wouldn't mind selling you to the corrupted police for few million bucks." The tan male said harshly. That shut Kise immediately. How did these people find out about the news? Kise was at shock when he found out about it.
"That's why we would like to offer you a deal." Kise snapped back to reality when he heard this Tetsu speak. "You work with us, and we will save your girlfriend from your boss."
"Ex-girlfriend' Kise corrected her. But she didn't seem to be fazed by the news. She must have known about the extra news regarding his personal life.
"And if I refused?" Kise asked the girl.
"Then we have no choice but to kill you." he heard the girl said. Few seconds later, Kise could see a small handgun was pointed at him. The tanned male also lifted up a larger gun and he had it pointed at Kise.
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Present time.
"Excuse me. Can I meet with Kuroko Tetsumi?" Kagami Taiga asked the receptionist. He was told by Momoi to come to the company today because Kuroko finally came back to the office.
"Do you have an appointment with Kuroko-sama?"
"I don't," Kagami said honestly, "but Momoi Satsuki told me to come today."
"Ah! You should go to Momoi-sama's office then. She has been expecting you." The receptionist said after she saw the note on her table. Kagami wanted to ask more but the girl had already gone to the other people that were waiting to ask her something.
He had been to this office few times, enough for him to remember where Momoi's office would be. On his way to Momoi's office, he saw a very familiar green haired male. Kagami remembered that the man was supposed to be Akashi's Secretary or something like that since he didn't really understand office position.
"Oi." he called. But the man didn't seem to listen to him
"Oi, Green hair." Kagami tried again. He still didn't turn around to look at Kagami.
"OI GREEN HAIRED MEGANE!" Finally Kagami screamed at the top of his lung. This time, he saw the guy turn around to look at Kagami. By then, Kagami saw that he had been talking to a female and that she looked really messy. Her face looked tired and she looked like she hadn't brushed her hair for a while.
"What do you want?" Midorima said.
"Are you okay?" Kagami asked to the woman. But that woman only gave him the fiercest smile before she pulled Midorima with her.
"Wait," Kagami caught her hand before she could walk away from him.
"What's wrong with the people in this company? I just want to meet with Kise!" she said with frustration in her voice.
"I told you. Kise and Akashi is working right now. You'll have to wait until they have finished their job." Midorima told her.
"What? I didn't feel safe with a big chested woman as my 'guard' and a sick pervert as my father's guard!" she shouted again.
"Go back to your room." Midorima ordered once again.
"I refuse to do that." The woman said stubbornly.
"Kise has done everything in his power to help you." Midorima said to her. "You should appreciate it. He tried his best to help you despite the fact that you cheated on him and destroyed everything he had."
"I know. but-". "There you are, I was worried that someone had kidnapped you!" Momoi came from one of the rooms as she greeted the woman. "Kagami-kun, please come to my office. Akashi-kun has a job for you."
"But I am working for Seirin."
"Akashi-kun said if you want to meet with Tetsu-chan, you have to accept this job." Momoi told him, "Otherwise, Akashi-kun will not let you be anywhere near his office."
"Huh? He couldn't do that!" Kagami protested.
"He could do that." He heard the woman speak.
"It isn't a hard job. You are used to do this job, Kagami-kun." Momoi encourage him as she gave him a small Smartphone. "The details are inside. And you will be paid twice the price you normally get too."
"Now this company gives free phones to their workers?" The woman said with the sarcastic tone.
"I've never liked you, but Tetsu-chan called me and begged me to take care of you." Finally Momoi had enough of that woman's sarcastic remarks and her attempt to escape. "If you want to die, just die alone. Don't come to Kise-kun in the first place."
"What do you know about me?"
"I don't know all that much," Momoi told her, "But I know how miserable Ki-chan was the first time he joined our team," Momoi looked at the woman with the coldest glare she could give before she continued to speak, "And I am not planning to let Ki-chan undergo the same experience again."
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"It's nice to see you not trying to escape today, Tetsumi." Akashi greeted the teal haired woman while she was enjoying her tea time as she looked at the garden.
"I just learned that we have a beautiful garden." Kuroko answered.
"Then, why are you holding a phone with an active tracking program in it?" Busted. Akashi had seen the phone she had been hiding beneath her napkin.
"I was asking Kise-kun to track down his former boss."
"And what are you planning to do after you found him?" Akashi sat down as he prepared his own tea.
"Catch him?" Kuroko said as if it was the most obvious thing to do. She looked at Akashi, waiting for his reaction after hearing her answer.
"You will not leave the house until Takao says so," Akashi announced, "And I will be watching you today."
"I thought Akashi-kun is going to catch Kise's former boss?" Kuroko asked him. She instantly put her hand over her mouth; it was supposed to be a secret between her and Kise.
"I have prepared a countermeasure. I will not let you out of my sight until you have fully recovered." Akashi declared. Kuroko sighed and she hoped that whoever Akashi chose to do this job would be strong enough to handle the pressure.
Kuroko had no choice but to do finish the problem in her own way. But for now, she would be enjoying the tea with Akashi.
"How do you like the tea, Akashi-kun?"
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"What kind of job is this?" Kagami shouted. He was sure this kind of job will not be suitable for him, no matter what reason Akashi had in his mind.
"Undercover. Have you done this before?" Aomine whispered harshly.
"I have! But, why this? WHY?!"
Currently they were at one of the bar that Kise's former boss used to be at. Kagami read the job description; he had to pretend to be a waiter for this job, but he forget to read the extra detail at the bottom of the mail, it was told that he had to go to one of the Burlesque theaters and have to be shirtless in that place.
"Shut up! Do you think I enjoyed being groped by those women?" Aomine was clearly not happy with the condition. Suddenly Akashi decided that Murasakibara would be the one who guard the hospital patient because Kuroko was out from the undercover work until she was fully recovered.
"Gomen, Aominecchi." He heard Kise said from the receiver in his ear. "But you look good in that bunny ear."
"Huh? What bunny ear?" Aomine put his hand over his head and he instantly felt the fluffy thing. Aomine grabbed it and threw it to the floor as if his hand was burnt by it.
"You do look cute in that stuff." Kagami said mockingly to Aomine as he pointed at the ear. Someone must have put that ear when Aomine was too busy to escape the groping hands.
"SHUT UP!" Aomine shouted to Kagami. "Kise, find that bastard; I want to kill him as soon as possible"
"Easier said than done, Aominecchi. I've been looking through the security cameras and I haven't found him."
"Just find this bastard! I will be happy to kill him. Because of him, I have to go through this misery!" Aomine said angrily before he stormed out from the janitor room.
"Please hold on a little longer Aominecchi, Kagamicchi. Just a little longer." Kise mumbled.
"Why are you being so apologetic?" Kise heard Kagami speak, "Just do your job and we will do our job. don't worry about it"
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"Why are you helping me?" Momoi heard the woman questioned her.
"Because we couldn't kill you like Ki-chan" Momoi answered her question. "You still have you father waiting for you."
"Killing Ryota, huh? He's pretty much alive today."
"The only way to save Ki-chan at that time was to kill him. he already has a death certificate that he hands in his bedroom wall." Momoi looked at the woman before she continued. "The current Ki-chan is a ghost with many names. You could say that this is what Ki-chan paid to Tetsu-chan as the price for his sacrifice."
"Tetsu-chan, I want to meet this person…"
"I will not let you see Tetsu-chan." Momoi said.
"Why?" Momoi and the woman had a staring contest, to see who crumbled in first. And as usual, Momoi was the one who lost in it.
"FINE! I have something to tell you. You weren't supposed to know about this." Momoi sighed dejectedly before she spoke again, "Akashi-kun wants you to disappear."
"What?"
"We will give you monthly allowance until you find a job and we will take care of your father's bill until the end," Momoi stopped to see if she still followed, "but you have to disappear from this country, leaving no trace of your identity behind. You could choose where you want to move and who you want to be."
" Were you planning this? Who knows about this plan?"
"Just the four of us; Akashi-kun, Tetsu-chan, you and me" Momoi answered. "but I expect that Ki-chan will also know about this. And this was Akashi-kun's idea."
"There is no change in that plan, isn't it?" She asked Momoi. She knew that that would be the best for her and Kise. But she didn't know how hard it would be. How painful it was for her once she found out about the truth. How Kise managed to do this few years before was beyond her expectation. The guy she found under the rain, the one that wanted to kill himself for being a genius, became a completely different guy.
"Yes. I already prepared everything." Momoi said.
"One last question, Momoi-san. What will you do about my ex-boss?"
"Do you really want to know?" Momoi asked her back. Momoi watched her standing there silently for a few minutes before she opened her mouth to give Momoi her answer.
"Not really. It doesn't really matter to me."
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"Why can't you find this man, Kise?!" Kagami finally lost his temper after an old lady tried to touch him in a place that she shouldn't have.
"It seemed he didn't come to this place," Kise mumbled. "But Akashicchi told me that he would be here."
"Is he a psychic? How did he know that this man would be here in the first place?" Kagami answered again.
"Baka! Don't shout in your receiver" Kagami heard Aomine's voice. "You'll make me go deaf!"
"It's better than losing my temper! These women tried to grope and feel me! I couldn't hit a woman!" Kagami hissed to the receiver when once again, someone was groping him.
"Akashicchi never makes a mistake. So what went wrong? Maybe Akashicchi spoke in riddle and code?" Kise mumbled. "What did Akashicchi tell you, Aominecchi?"
"He told me to follow your lead."
"And what did he told you, Kagami?" Kise asked the other person.
"If I want to meet with Kuroko, I have to do this job."
"Wait-" Aomine said when he realized something after processing the information in his head, "Is it a code?"
"Our target is not in this place." Kise told his partners. "Aominecchi, Kagami. Pack up and meet me in the hospital."
"Huh? Why the hospital?" Kagami followed Aomine to the back exit but he still didn't understand what just happened.
"That's where our target is! Akashicchi told Aominecchi to change places with Murasakibaracchi, because Murasakibaracchi and Kurokocchi was visiting that hospital. And Akashicchi told Kagami to do this job if he want to meet with Kurokocchi, because Kurokocchi has a scheduled check up time in the hospital today!" Kise explain. Aomine cursed under his breath as he sped up his car even more.
"Do you want me to pick you up, Kise?"
"I'm going to use my motorcycle." Kise said in hurry. Aomine could hear the rustling sound from the receiver and he knew that Kise was trying his best to arrive in the hospital before it was too late.
"Why would this Akashi speak in code? He could tell us directly." Kagami asked Aomine.
"At that time, Kise's woman was still snooping around our communication devices." Aomine said.
"But that's not all of it. Her father, there is no hope for him to live anymore." The two males heard Kise spoke through his receiver, "Takao found a trace of poison in her father's blood. Someone had been poisoning him for the past two weeks. But, according to the nurse, no one visited her father other than her."
"Are you saying she poisoned her own father?" Kagami said a little too loudly. He looked at Aomine, but there was no trace of surprise in his face. "There is no way she would do that to her own father."
"She was able to do that. Her father was the reason that she had to sell herself to her boss. She fooled herself by saying that all she did was to help her father. She used her father as a reason to live." Aomine suddenly said.
"She thought that her father 'sold' her to my boss. He was the one who introduced her to my former boss in the first place." Kagami heard Kise from his receiver. "Her reason to live was also her reason to her miserable life."
"I don't think I understand what you were saying…" Kagami scratched the back of his head. "So where is the girl now?"
"Witness protection program in England." Aomine and Kise said at the same time.
"Huh?" Kagami still didn't understand the situation.
"She chose to live in England. And we need to erase her past existence, so her enemy will not be looking for her." Kise said.
"What about her father then?"
"We don't know, but we have to make sure that her father is still alive once we arrive at the hospital." Kise answered.
"Why did we have to search for your former boss if she is already safe with her new identity?" Kagami asked again. Poke.
"Ah, it's Kurokocchi's/Tetsu's request." Kise and Aomine said at the same time again.
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"KUROKOCCHI?" Kise shouted as soon as he entered the hospital. In there, Kuroko was seated normally as she held a cup of vanilla milkshake in her hand.
"Hello, Kise-kun."
"What are you doing in here?" he asked. Then he looked around to see if her 'guard' was anywhere near her.
"I have just finished my mission" Kuroko told Kise. She finished her milkshake before she put it in the trash bin next to her. Mission? What kind of mission Kurokocchi was in? Kise thought as he processed all the information he had.
"Wait, are you-" Kise ran to one of the patients' room and he could see that the father was still sleeping. But this time, he couldn't hear any of the beeping sound from the machine. He went to check the man's pulse, but Kise couldn't felt any pulse coming from him.
"Where is the other man, Kurokocchi?"
"Do you really not know where he is, Kise-kun?" Kuroko asked Kise back. Kise knew very well where the man who had destroyed his past life was. In fact, he was looking at that man right then, he was seated in the middle of the people who were waiting to register to the hospital.
"Kurokocchi, why don't you-" Kise stopped when Kuroko put her finger to her mouth to tell him to be quiet. Then he saw Kuroko pointed at the entrance door and Kise saw her.
"What is she doing in the hospital? I thought Momocchi already send her to England?" Kise thought. Then few moments later, his former boss rose up a gun from his jacket and pointed it at her.
It was just a few seconds after Kise's former boss pulled the trigger and the bullet flew in the woman's direction. Kise tried to run and pull the woman away. But Kuroko held him in his place. For the first time in his life, Kise felt something that he never thought he could feel.
Fear.
He feared that woman would die before she could understand how happy she could have been. Fear that she would not be able to smile again.
"Let me go Kurokocchi!" Kise screamed. Despite her injuries, Kuroko managed to hold Kise in place.
"Kise-kun, calm down!"
"I will not! This time, I will save her!" Kise tried to fight again and he accidentally hit Kuroko's injured leg. Kuroko yelped in pain as Kise run towards the woman. But once again, someone managed to grab his hand and stopped him from running. Kise was about to fight whoever caught him, when he saw a tan colored hand pulled him back.
"Open your eyes Kise; she is fine."
'Huh what are you talking about Aominecchi? That man shot her!" Kise shouted at his friend.
"Baka, what are you saying? She is just passed out"
"Huh?" Kise blinked. He watched the woman carefully and she was being held by a dark haired male and there was a movement in her chest.
She was still breathing
"Ryo-chan, don't worry about her." Mibuchi Reo said. He picked up the woman easily and he walked to where Kise was. "Do you want to say good bye to her?"
"I'd rather not." Kise played with a strand of her hair before he let it go. Mibuchi knew it was his cue to leave with the woman in his arms.
"Take care of her, Reocchi." Kise knew that Mibuchi would be watching her secretly for a few weeks until she was used to her new life. After that, Akashi would delete all the information about her involvement with his company.
"Oh, Ryo-chan," Kise heard Mibuchi call him, "Her new name will be Masami"
"'To become beautiful'. That name suits her better" Kise said with a really relieved expression on his face. maybe she finally get what she always dreamed of.
"What are we going to do about this?" Kagami asked as he picked up the small man in his arm. Even with the weight of that man, Kagami easily picked that man up by his collar.
"Shintaro will take care of him."
The temperature in that room suddenly dropped a few degrees as the red haired male walk inside. His expression was nothing but happy. Mibuchi had escaped before Akashi entered the room and Kise went to hide behind Aomine.
"Tetsumi."
"Ah, Akashi-kun…" Kuroko answered. It seemed Kuroko's voice was slightly shaky as she answered.
"I had a good nap today after drinking the tea you have made for me." Akashi said again as he inched closer to where Kuroko was standing. Kise and Aomine froze as Akashi walked pass them as his eyes were focused on Kuroko. "It was the best one hour nap I ever had"
"I thought that I had enough dosage to put Akashi-kun to sleep until tomorrow." Kuroko said.
"Is that so?" Akashi said when he had arrived in front of Kuroko, "Next time, you should put twice amount of that dosage."
"I will keep that in mind."
"You are grounded until the end of the week, Tetsumi." Akashi lifted up Kuroko's chin to make her look directly into his eyes, "I will make sure you never leave your room, and I will personally guard you from today."
"I understand. I am sorry, Akashi-kun." Kuroko said robotically. Akashi seemed to accept her answer as he let go of her chin and gave her a smile. It was more like a devilish smile rather than a forgiving smile with the cold eyes looking directly into Kuroko's eyes.
"I will leave this mess to you. I expect you to make sure there is no trace left from this trash." Akashi spoke. Aomine and Kise nodded furiously as their answer.
"Good. Shintaro will clean up the mess. Do whatever you want to this guy."
"Oi, is this your way to 'clean things up'?" Kagami called the small red haired male.
"Is there a problem?" Akashi turned around to look at Kagami. Even Kagami knew how thick the murderous aura coming from the smaller male in front of him was. Kagami prepared if suddenly sharp things appeared and the male in front of him might stab him.
"Akashi-kun, let him go." Kuroko grabbed his hand and pulled Akashi away from Kagami.
"Kagami-kun, thank you for helping us today." Kuroko said as she pulled Akashi away from Kagami. "Akashi-kun and I have to go now."
"But I-" Kagami said. Too late; Kuroko and Akashi already went out from the hospital before Kagami could finish his statement.
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AN: the end of this arc(finally!)
I hope you like this .
I have a question again. I am wondering whether I should put Takao as a male of female. I want to write him as a male but I feel a little weird making malexmale interaction (an not to mention, this mightbe my first time making this)
what do you think? I need you opinion for the next chapter
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