Kuroko wanted to scream in frustration but he wasn't even allowed that. He couldn't do anything. He felt so fuzzy and heavy like he was swimming through a thick, endless fog, his sight blurred and infuriatingly unclear. And whenever he tried to overcome the fog, fight it, he was flooded by images of blood, death and a terrible, agonizing sense of guilt. Kuroko knew that these were just images that his brother had fabricated to keep him his prisoner but they still had a crushing effect on him. Through the haze he could feel helplessness and frustration of five Teiko who were once known as the Crownless Kings of the clans as they shifted and attacked his human friends from Serin whose outrage and determination were so strong he could almost taste it.

Stop it! Kuroko begged silently, prevented from even the simple act of speaking. This battle that he was feeling, but unable to see, occurring around him should have not even be happening but could do nothing about.

Hyuuga smoothly ducked the sharp claws of Crow Teiko then drew a pistol from his backpack and aimed it at the bird Teiko. Izuki himself was just barely dodging the sharp white teeth and claws of the both the black fox and leopard. Mitobe somehow had obtained a rather large staff and was wielded it as gentle as he could, doing his best to keep Kiyoshi, currently a brown badger, busy and at a safe distance from himself as well as the others. Koganei and Furihata had conveniently vanished, more than likely keeping out of the way with Furihata's illusions.

"Koganei!" Tatsuya shouted suddenly from his position holding off the massive bull Teiko with a simple but solid staff. "Now would be as good of a time as any!" With cat-like grace said boy suddenly appeared, vaulted over the massive Teiko bull and landed a truly impressive flying dropkick to Chihiro who had still been standing next to Tetsuya.

"What are you-?!" Chihiro had begun to say angrily but hadn't the chance to finish since his ended up being slammed to the floor by Koagnei's impressive kick. The impact of his head meeting the ground easily knocked Chihiro unconscious. The cat-like teen then wasted no time in tying up the the grey wolf Teiko.

They knew! Kuroko thought silently and managed a weak smile. He could already feel his mind clearing and regaining control of himself with his twin now unconscious.

Then it was like a switch had been flipped. Suddenly all the of the shifted Teiko seemed to loose it. It was the collars, it had to be the Serin players and Tatsuya realized in a worriedly. Separating Chihiro from Kuroko must have signaled them to go into a frenzy somehow. The black fox snarled wildly then leapt and Izuki with a new surge of rage and wildness.

"No! Don't hurt them!" Kuroko pleaded, his voice thin and weak from lack of use. But no one heard him. Izuki dodged the claws of the leopard Teiko only for the fox Teiko viciously sink it's teeth into the sharp-eyed human's shoulder making him scream in pain. Mitobe looked over, worried for his teammate but in doing so was distracted and was shoved painfully against the back wall of the room by the now very frenzied Teiko badger Kiyoshi. The crow was screeching and slashed away at Hyuuga mercilessly, adding one cut after another to his body.

"This all my fault." Kuroko lamented and rasped weakly as he tried to stand but found that he legs would not support him just yet. He would have surely hit the floor head first if Koganei hadn't been there to catch him.

"No it's not Kuroko-kun! It's not over yet, we're strong and we're not leaving without you!" The Serin second year said with a confidence that Kuroko found unbelievably comforting.

"Come on Kuroko-kun, let's get you out of here." Kuroko turned to see Furihata slipping him under him and helping him stand. Koganei supported his other side with a silent smile. "That door has to lead somewhere, right?" Furihata asked nodding his head towards the door that Chihiro and the Crownless Kings had come through that was behind the chair Kuroko had been seated in.

"It's a lift-" Kuroko stopped to cough shakily, it scrapped his throat raw but he pressed on. "It's a lift of some kind that goes up to a large building."

"Okay, well that sounds like a elevator to me…. So up it is then." Koganei said with a determined nod which Furihata copied but with a slight tremble, the Serin freshman really didn't like stressful situations. Furihata then pulled the door open and as he did two metal sheets slid aside for them. It was defiantly an elevator. They entered the small metal box as quickly as they could but then Koganei hesitated. He couldn't they just leave the others…

"Go! Get Kuroko-kun out of here! We'll be fine!" Izuki shouted at them, holding a hand to his still bleeding shoulder.

Just go already you idiots!" Hyuuga fired three more rounds at the crow Teiko when it tried to go after them. What could he do? So before he could stop himself Koganei closed his eyes tight and hit one of the many buttons, praying that he had hit the right one, whichever button that might have been.

The metal doors slammed shut and then they began to move slowly upwards.

-x-

"You think you can stand on your own now Kuroko-kun?" Koganei asked the pale wolf Teiko with a worried expression as they heard a ding of the elevator announcing that they had reached their destination, wherever that might be. Not one of them dared to voice the worry they all felt by leaving the others behind even it had been at their own request.

"Hai, Koganei-Sempai. I can manage in a fight too if it comes to it." Kuroko answered after a moment of silence and removed himself from the other two teens support to stand shakily. His voice still had a rasp to it but, like his legs, it was defiantly much stronger than a few minutes ago.

"That's good to hear Kuroko-kun." Furihata said with a warm smile and placed a hand on both Koganei and Kuroko's shoulders. "I'll keep us invisible for as long as I can…" The nervous shaking was back but the Serin freshmen defiantly had more control over his fear now. Both Koganei and Kuroko nodded and they all pressed forward together when the elevator doors slid open to a dimly lit hallway.

They walked fast to the door at the end of the hallway and as slowly and as cautiously as they could opened it. They all gagged at the smell that hit their noses, an overwhelming coppery stench.

Blood. And lots of it.

But the smell wasn't the worst of it, not by a long shot. The room they had entered was what looked to be a massive lab, everything a sterile, bleached white. Everything that is except four exam tables which each had a bloody, unquestionably dead Teiko on them. All of the bodies were covered his injuries that could only be described as torturous. The blood from the said injuries drenched the tables and the floor beneath them.

"Wha-t-t is this?" Koganei choked, feeling the bile rise in his throat and a look of terror spread across his face. He slowly almost painfully turned to look at Furihata and Kuroko. Furihata had fallen to his knees, now shaking uncontrollably and looked all too close to throwing up the contents of his stomach but Kuroko seemed to have become frozen in place. Koganei would have thought that Chihrio was controlling Kuroko again if he hadn't kicked the said Teiko unconscious himself.

"Kuroko-kun…?"

"I-I knew them… I knew them…" Kuroko whispered with an expression with so painful it was heartbreaking. For Kuroko, someone who rarely expressed his emotions openly, to make such an expression only made it all the more unbearable to see. "They suddenly disappeared about a week before I met Kagami-kun…" He said as he slowly approached one of the bodies. With a quivering hand he closed the lifeless eyes shut and whispered some word that Koganei didn't know, but was able to guess their meaning. It was a prayer for the dead. Still moving at an agonizingly slow pace Kuroko did the same for the other three bodies. Kogenei didn't speak a word as he did this.

When Kuroko had finished Furihata seemed to have recovered some. His shaking had stopped and was standing up again but was unable to look up from the floor without turning green. For that Koganei couldn't blame him, he felt sick himself just being in this room let alone looking dead bodies.

"Kuroko-kun… I think we shouldn't-" He stopped mid sentence when he caught the distant sound of heavy footfalls and loud chatter. "Get down!" He hissed in a panic, grabbing Furihata and Kuroko and shoved them and himself behind one of the exam tables, out of sight. And just in time too for not a moment later they heard a lock being turned and door being opened.

"Wow, will you look at this mess?! Jeez, the boss sure can get carried away…" One voice said. "This is the third bunch this month."

"Well they were pure-bloods this time. Harder to hold back, yah know?" Another voice laughed maliciously.

"Yeah but we're the ones who have up after it, what a pain…" A third voice complained. The footsteps grew closer.

Shit! Koganei swore silently to himself as he realized there was really no way they were going to be able to sneak out of the room unspotted by the three men sent to clean up the blood and dead bodies without some action. He really wished that the rest of the Serin team was with them… But they weren't. Koganei wasn't the leader type but now he would have to be to get them out of this mess.

"Kuroko-kun you said you can fight?" He whispered as quickly and as quietly as he could. The pale wolf Teiko nodded silently. "Furihata-kun?" Another nod yes from the Serin freshman. "I think we should jump them as fast as we can so they won't raise the alarm and then try to get out of this building without being spotted. Think we can?"

Two more nods.

"Okay let's do this!" All three of them leapt their feet and charged the now very surprised men as fast as they could.

Kuroko was the first to reach his target. The pale Teiko didn't make time for any graceful moves, instead opting for a simple punch to the face. The man went down with only a small yelp. But apparently it was enough to catch his two companion's attention and one of them raced for a large red button on the wall.

"Oh no you don't!" Koganei shouted, kicking the man in the chest sending his flying far away from the button. But then last man standing managed to dodge a punch from Furihata and pressed the button that his companioned had failed to. A roaring siren sounded from everywhere. "Change of plans! We're making a run for it! Just get out of here as fast as you can!" Koganei screamed over the siren and all three of them ran out the door the three men had come through and out into a large hallway at breakneck speed. Koganei only just managed to slip though before the door clanged shut. They didn't stick around to see if it had locked.

-x-

The siren was still sounding, though not quite as loudly, as three of them raced down the wide, well-lit hallway. It looked like ones you might see in a very fancy office building, not that they really noticed as they were more busy with running for their lives and looking for anything resembling an exit. They soon gathered a group of dangerous-looking men with uniforms and guns on their tails. They got a good ten more yards down the hall before their pursuers caught up and pinned the three of them all to the smooth marble floor, forcing their arm behind their backs none too gently.

"What is going on?! I can't work with all this commotion!" A new voice shout angrily and marched closer to stand over them. "Yuki?!" A hand reached down and yanked Kuroko up by his pale blue hair right between his two wolf ears. Unflinchingly, Kuroko met the eyes of the man who had grabbed him so roughly. The man's eyes were the color of dried blood, a red so dark it was almost black. The man's face was quite handsome but had a sallow, unhealthy look about it which only made his hair which was a black as pitch stand out more. This man was by no means strong in any sense of the word but his eyes said it all, what he lacked in strength he well made up for in malice and bloodlust. Kuroko could hear man's repulsive desire for suffering as clearly as if the man had said them out loud. "No of course not." The man sneered and abruptly released his hold on Kuroko's hair, letting him drop to the floor with a painful thud. Furihata and Koganei both helped him to at least sit up on his knees as they were doing. "You have you mother's looks but that infuriating, calm expression is undoubtably all your father." That got the wolf Teiko's attention.

"How could you-" He began but for his troubles he was only slapped across the cheek. Hard.

"Did I say you could speak? Now, Tetsuya-kun why don't you be a good boy and tell me where my son is? Oh, and I should remind you that while you are too important to kill your friends are not." The man spoke with cruel smile.

"What do you mean? I don't even know who you are." There was a pause of silence.

Then the man suddenly burst into laugher, he seemed almost hysterical. "You really don't remember anything do you?! My name, if it pleases you, is Kiba Daizo. But my son I hear goes by his mother family name. I hear that he goes by the name Kagami Taiga."

The heart didn't lie. Without any doubt Kuroko Tetsuya knew, no matter how unpleasant, this man was who he claimed to be.

He was, at least physically speaking, Kagami Taiga's father.

But the moment of shock was ended by a loud explosion coming from somewhere on the lower floors of the building, followed by much shouting and gunfire. Suddenly guard ran in and whispered something in the dark-haired man's ear. A simple wave from him dismissed the messenger and with a growing sense of dread Kuroko, Furihata and Koganei watched as the cruel smile returned to his face.

"Well Tetsuya-kun it would seem my son has come to me all on his own and has even brought along a few friends. Let us go and greet them shall we?" With a snap of his fingers the three of them were hauled to their feet and forced into another elevator along with the man who called himself Kiba Daizo.

A/N- I am so sorry for the wait! *Bows profusely* This one was surprisingly hard to write so I really hope you all like it! Please leave a review and thanks for reading! Let me know what you think! :)