Yeah I mean ONE WAY TICKET by ONE OK ROCK, yeah, love you too ahahhaha

Chapter 28: One Way Ticket

The sound of ambulance is loud, he can smell the faint scent of gasoline in the air. It's hard to breathe. He tries to open his eyes and he sees the world upside down, he can hear people talking but he can't understand them.

He closes his eyes as he tries to remember everything that happened before.

He remembers the boy with brown hair at his tutor's home, he sneaked him some chocolate bars and told him it was his favourite but his parents never let him. He remembers they were the cheap convenience store kind of chocolates but he didn't mind, he looks so happy when he accepted it. He told him about his secret, about the song he's composing for him, for their friendship. He told him that he told his mother about him and that she would want to meet him someday too.

He remembers finishing the lectures while the brown haired boy hid behind the door of the room, he listened until the lecture finished. He remembers bidding his tutor goodbye and waiting for his driver to get him home. He remembers the door opening and he was welcomed by the sight of his mother, she looks better and she hugged him and ushered him inside the car.

He remembers telling her about the boy, he remembers telling him how the strange boy quickly learned the piece he made for him. He remembers her laugh and the bright light coming to the side of the car…he remember hearing a loud crashing noise.

When he opens his eyes he sees the door being forcefully opened, he hears a man talking but he doesn't understand him. He looks to his side and he sees his mother, her red hair disarray and tainted with blood, her white dress were tattered and stained with cuts of glass and mud. She's not awake.

"Okaa-sama…" he distinctively remembers uttering those words but as if it was quiet and silent, she doesn't wake. She doesn't move.

He feels someone fumbles in his seatbelt hurriedly. And he is freed from it. He quickly grabs his mother's hand weakly shaking her.

"You must let go!" he hears a man says, he feels a larger hand grab his hand and tears it away from his mother's arms before pulling him out of the cramped and toppled vehicle.

He was too weak to protest, he feels as he was lifted out and rush somewhere. From the corner of his eyes he sees a truck in the side of the road and their car barely even recognizable is upside down.

And then he hears someone scream—then he saw fire.

His eyes went wide and he reaches to it, he could feel the merciless heat of the fire as it eats away the last bit of what was his…and his sanity.

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"We cannot say for sure." The man in a white lab coat says behind the one way mirror. In the other side a familiar red haired boy sits in the middle of the room staring at nothing. "In some cases the patients regain full recollection and in some they do regain and recover…but only partial. We don't want you to get your hopes too high Akashi-san."

"How long will it take?"

The doctor sighs, "It depends on every individual, for some, it would take weeks, months, some even years or decades."

"And his head injury, what is the extent?"

"We can't say for sure, until symptoms manifest."

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Furihata stares at the sleeping figure in the bed. He holds his phone in his hand debating whether or not he should inform Kuroko and the others about what happened. He wasn't sure either what happened. For a moment he thought he found the answer to all the questions he had, he thought he finally found Sei but suddenly he found himself lost in more questions as Akashi loses consciousness right in the middle of their conversation leaving him with vague words such as save me.

From what should he save him from?

"Furihata-san?"

Furihata looks up and sees a man in a white coat comes in. The brunet stands up to bow at the man, probably the doctor the maids called.

"I am Namikawa, Akashi's doctor." The man walks towards Furihata and looks to Akashi. "Would you tell me what happened?"

Furihata begins from their meeting back in the convienence store, he doesn't elaborate much until they arrived in the music room.

"You two were not close?"

"I…" Furihata doesn't know how to answer that. "No…I don't think so."

"Hm, why is that?"

"Kuroko…he is more…he went to the same school as Akashi-san and I am friends with Kuroko."

"Why do I feel like you know Akashi-kun then?"

Furihata's air is caught in his throat as the doctor said those words. He turns to look at him and he sports him with a smile.

"Do you know what kind of doctor I am, Furihata-kun?"

"I-I don't…I just told the maids—"

"There is nothing to worry." The man says, "But you see this is not unusual for Akashi-kun's case."

"What do you mean?"

"I am a psychiatrist Furihata-kun."

"Psychia—"

"What you witnessed is what we call an episode." The man says, "The patient…Akashi Seijuuro, you must understand, has a dissociative personality disorder."

"Dissociative…personality disorder?"

"Normally speaking about the client's case is forbidden especially without their consent. However, as you can see, you are a special case."

"What do you mean?"

The doctor puts his hands in his pocket and looks at the sleeping figure.

"Furihata-san, I hope that you know that when Akashi-kun wakes up again there is a very big chance that he might not remember you or what happened tonight."

Furrihata's eyes widen. Not remember—is that what has happened these few years. Is that why Akashi doesn't seem to recall him at all, was that why he doesn't seem the way he was before? He's going to forget what happened tonight when he wakes up…Akashi won't remember what they talked about. He would…he would hate him again.

"I'm sorry Furihata-san."


Aida's eyebrow twitched at the sight as an unfamiliar car drives towards their tent. The dark sedan's door opens revealing Takao in a dark ripped jeans and simple black shirt over white long sleeves. The dark haired bassist closes the passenger door and moves stands there, until the driver's door opens revealing a tall figure in a gray baseball cap and dark sunglasses wearing a white hoodie jacket and plain blue jeans. Takao says something and laughs before waving to the man and walking towards Aida.

"Morning sachou!"

"You're in a good mood." Aida says raising a brow at the man who just brought Takao to their shoot, who leaned to the car and watches quietly.

"O-Oh uhm, i-it's nothing."

"Uh-huh," Aida says with a smirk, "it definitely has nothing to do with Midorima-san there, right?"

Aida's smirk grows wider as he finds Takao's usual mischievous smile paints with a different expression, with shameless blush painting him red. Aida quirks her eyebrow.

"H-How did you—"

"You guys think he can be hidden with that lame disguise?"

Aida laughs and points at where Midorima is standing. Takao turns and sees Kuroko approaching Midorima and greeting the other casually, the oblivious green head visibly stiffen.

"See, obvious."

"W-Well h-he was curious."

Aida nods, "Yeah, sure, but isn't his girlfriend worried. I mean he should be hanging out with her instead, right?"

"Oh." Takao finds himself smiling, "I can assure you she's alright with this."

"Really?" Aida says, "So you know who is the mystery lover, huh?"

Takao laughs and shrugs, "I-I'm going to get ready."

Aida laughs and pats Takao's back, "Yeah, of course."

Takao smiles and waves to Aida before going into their tent to change. Today is their second shoot for the promotional video for their new music video due on the same date as their live. Aida planned to release the music video along with the live to create more hype to the audience who are coming, after all they expect a full house sold out performance. Aida turns to look at Kuroko who is now engaging in a conversation with Midorima.

Kuroko's relationship with his previous band mates has improved significantly during the past few months which are very surprising after what happened between them. Somehow Kagami and the rest's presence allowed this change to happen. There was a point that Aida thought the crack that brought by the breakup of the band would never be mended, that the six would just continue to drift farther, and farther apart.

Aida smiles at herself as he sees Kagami joins the two's conversation, Kagami's bright grin is contagious and almost had the Kuroko smiling too, Midorima backs away saying something about how stupid the two are. Kuroko puts a hand over his lips with a very teasing smile behind that hand, making the green haired musician flinch and turn away in embarrassment.

Kintsugiru. The word is stuck in Aida's mind as she looks at Kuroko right now. The art of mending broken pieces with gold and knowing an piece is more beautiful for being broken once.

Hikari no Ou is Kuroko's gold, it is his mending mold.

"Ah, Aida-san!"

Aida turns from the three and looks to the assistant director, the young woman smiles at her with papers in her hand. She starts to explain to Aida how the shoot will fold. The woman smiles as the detail comes piece by piece in her mind as she looks at the sight. The cameras are all set, the lights are now being set.

The first shoot is in the pool side in a private resort owned by Kiyoshi's family. The refreshing background of the pool will be utilized as well as the simple minimalist design of the small house behind it. The band will be playing behind the background with four cameras set, one if focused to record the band playing with the whole background seen in the frame, the second will be a bit farther from the second and is focused to capture the interaction of the band, the third will be focus on each members.

The theme for the video is longing, however instead of being the usual gloom filled longing, Aida thought it would be more fitting for the band to do something more unconventional, a longing that portrays acceptance, a longing that portrays the understanding of one's worth, and nothing could show that but a bright and refreshing environment.

"That's great!" Aida says happily. The assistant director nods in agreement. "The boys will be done in a minute."

"We still have ten minutes, it's fine." The woman says and returns to her post.

Aida turns around and finds Takao emerging from their makeshift dressing room, Takao is without his usual all dark and gray wardrobe, the raven haired bassist is now wearing a plain white shirt paired with a ash cardigan that reaches down his thighs and a white pants folded in the hems revealing his slender ankles. Aida smiles and gives him a thumbs up. As soon as he leaves the tent, he is followed with Furihata in a plain white statement shirt and brown cropped jeans. Furihata's style unlike the three were less and simpler.

"I'm sorry for making everyone wait." Furihata says as he approaches Aida. "I woke up late."

Aida laughs, "Oh I don't mind!" she says sarcastically.

Both Takao and Furihata know that isn't true at all, she mind. Aida Riko is always on the dot and she hates late—yeah she probably hates them now, is what they think.

Aida calls Kuroko and Kagami to where she stood and starts to explain how the shoot will go for today. If they get lucky and finish the shoot in the pool side before the end of the day, they will continue for the second half.

"So basically just do as you usually would." Aida says. "We can't afford to waste reels of film, so no bullshitting during the shoot."

Takao snickers before the band answers in unison—

"Yes ma'am!"

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As soon as everyone got into the position, the director stood behind the first camera man and starts to gesture the cue. Kagami takes a breathe in, he closes his eyes as he sees the man counts down from three. He inhales the scent of the water from the pool behind them. He holds the microphone stand and lowers his head slightly, he hears Kuroko taps his foot on the floor, and he opens his eyes slowly, he looks at the camera as he hears Kuroko's strumming beside him which is soon joined by Takao's. He doesn't count, he feels it in his chest and it was his cue.

Kagami starts to sing, eyes never leaving the camera, as if he's talking to someone, someone he truly knows, someone he's been dying to meet.

Aida who is standing behind the Director smiles at the perfection that is now being recorded by the forth camera which is focusing into Kagami's profile, the slightly possessive and seductive way he is letting those words slip his lips, and his eyes brighten by the natural light.

As it reaches the chorus, the camera zooms into Furihata who struck the drums with a fevor, head moving into the beat, inevitably, the brunet finds himself looking at the camera moving towards him but instead of his usual shy demeanour, he nods his head and flashes the camera a very small and meek smile. Aida laughs as she sees the scene from the small panels of screen in front of her. Furihata really has his own charm a kind of reserve and modest kind of charm, a variant of Kuroko's innocent and cute charm.

In the interlude, the fourth camera moves towards Kuroko who is focused in strumming his guitar, Aida almost laugh as the camera caught the glimpse of Kuroko's slightly open shirt, the two unbuttoned pins of his white dress shirt shows his very flawless and milky white skin. Aida could almost hear women screaming on top of their lungs when they see this.

Thankfully, the first shoot took only a couple of takes and two breaks in between. The Director gave the four a standing ovation right after, Aida has to stop herself from throwing herself at the four, she never thought they were honestly going to put on a one day shoot. The four rushes to see the preview of their works and they all laughed on their serious faces and not so awesome expression which they think are lame but for the Director is quite handsome.

"So good news, we're ahead by twenty minutes so, that means more time for rest and waiting for the others."

"Others?"

Kuroko raises an eyebrow and turns at Kagami who just asked the question at their manager. Takao chuckles and did the same.

"What?" Kagami asks, "I thought—"

Kagami is quickly silenced by a ball of paper throw at his head.

"Seriously, sometimes I wonder if you have an early onset of dementia or you're deaf, or you're just stupid."

"Maybe all of the above." Kuroko mumbles and sighs, he turns and looks at Kagami, "Kagami-kun when we were discussing the music video we're you listening?"

"W-What of course I wa—Okay, m-maybe a little."

Aida groans loudly in frustration. She wanted to slam her head to the nearest wall, is it possible for anyone to be this stupid? She look at Kagami and frowns, well it can't be helped now, can it?

"The next shoot will be inside the house, in the bedroom."

Kagami's eyes widen at the word, his jaw slacks and he bet he looks like a fish that has been pulled out of the water. Bed, seriously? He swallows hard, okay, well, it can't be worse right?

"Ah, can I have an early break?" Takao says.

"Sure, it's all Kagami's scene anyways." Aida answers and waves her hand to dismiss the brunet.

"W-Wait, what did you say?" Kagami asks.

Aida sighs, "The next scene as we have decided before—when you weren't listening—will feature just you, since you have the most athletic body."

"What does it has to do with that?"

"Everything." Furihata says smiling, he mouths a small apology afterwards making Kagami fear for his sanity.

"Don't tell me you're afraid of showing skin?" Aida says as she crosses her arm over her chest with a frown.

Kuroko snickers…albeit darkly. Kagami finds himself stealing a glance, and suddenly shifting his fear for his sanity, to his life. He swallows thickly and tries to fight a shudder run up his spine. How can someone so small make him fear for his life?

"That is totally fine, right Kagami-kun."

First of all, Kuroko Tetsuya doesn't use the word—totally, second, he is emitting a fucking dark aura from that stupidly small body. How. Kagami have no idea how someone so small be so godforsaken frightening. He doesn't even know why he even agreed to this if he is going to be this angry at him—and why is he even angry at him?!

Kagami fakes a smile, "Maybe you hate me more than I think." He mutters.

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Kuroko is well informed how the next scenes will be. He would be lying if he says it does not bother him at all, but…it's Kagami. He snorts to himself, he's probably the most virginal man he has ever met. If there is anything that will happen, he is a hundred and one sure that they will not be in any way sensual.

But then again, it's fun to tease and guilt him off.

"Kagami-kun doesn't look comfortable." Furihata whispers.

Kuroko looks at Kagami who is standing in the middle of the room getting dressed by the assistants.

"Isn't it amusing, a man his built so uncomfortable on filming an intimate scene in the bedroom with the opposite sex?"

Furihata laughs quietly making Kuroko smile. As soon, as the brunet's laughs quiets down, Kuroko turns his attention at Furihata.

Kuroko has pride himself as someone with exceptional observational skills. He finds this skill very useful in the music and entertainment industry. And there was something about the way Furihata is today, there seems something off. He seems…tired…maybe even sad.

"Furihata-kun." Kuroko says quietly as soon as Kagami shifts his glance away from them.

The brunet turns to Kuroko in confusion, "Y-Yes?"

Kuroko smiles, "If you want to talk about it, we're here."

The brunet's eyes widen at the teal haired musician's words. A warm feeling of belongingness spreads in the brunet's chest. He smiles back.

"Thank you."

Meanwhile as the two are having their own small conversation, Kagami's strange eyebrows twitch. He does not like how everything is transpiring, first of all, Kuroko and Furihata is watching him with amusement—plus a strange vibe coming from Kuroko. He tries to ignore it, keyword; tries, but of course with that impossibly large blue eyes unless you are blind you won't be able to ignore it. The second shoot as explained again by Aida, will cover the parts for the chorus, it will be slightly more sensual than the first part, it will tell a story of lovers who has to be used to being away from each other. Kagami will act as the main point of view, he would be remembering small idle and sometimes romantic days they shared when he and his acting lover were together.

First of all, Kagami has already proven that he is not the best person for acting and secondly he has never been half naked in any of his performance or their music video.

Kagami swallows thickly as he hears Aida from the other side of the room welcoming someone which he bets is the girl who he will be shooting with. He groans internally as he sees Furihata taps Kuroko's shoulder and points out to the door. Kuroko turns around and nods to whatever Furihata is whispering to him.

"Hello!" A female voice pipes up and greets the occupants of the room in English.

Kagami blinks. This voice is—

"Where must he be?"

Oh God, no.

"Here." He hears Aida says.

As soon as the woman steps into the room with Aida, Kagami knew he is bound to be dead the next morning.

"Ah Taiga!"

Well if he wasn't lucky enough—

"What the fuck are you doing here Alex?!"