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~CHAPTER 7~
The last lyrics of the song went with more than 20 seconds of the song's rythm of electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano and the cheering slash sobs of the crowd.
Momoi, who was also wiping her own tears, said. "You know what, I'm sorry to make you cry. But the question is, is the song wonderful?"
Loud 'yes' were heard from the crowds.
"Don't worry because this second song will cheer you up!"
They did shouted and cheered again while they hastily wiped their tears.
And then the second song started…
(A/N: Play 'A Thousand Enemies', still sang by Yui. Don't want to write the lyrics for your comfort)
…when Kuroko suddenly showed the knife and threatened to stab Akashi, to which the latter countered with just his right hand to stop Kuroko's left hand which held the knife by holding his wrist.
Akashi then looked at the other way and saw bullets flying so fast, targeting him and surprisingly Kuroko too. And because Kuroko was ahead of him, he's most likely the first one to be hit.
"That Mayuzumi!" Riko cursed seeing this on her laptop (their laptop instantly measures the trajectory, distance whatsoever of the bullets or weapons), together with the wide-eyed Seirin top faction.
"What are you doing, Mayuzumi?!" Nebuya shouted at the gray-haired man who maintained his poker face.
"Sorry, I thought we're just doing target practice."
"Your punishment will be quadrapled!" Riko angrily shouted on his earpiece and Mayuzumi could only cuss to that.
The first bullet was just an inch to Kuroko when…
"Atsushi, FLEIJA."
…a defensive expanding purple buff suddenly appeared around Akashi and Kuroko and deflected all bullets back to the one who shooted them. It continued to expand until it reached in 1 kilometer radius. The whole school was engulfed by the purple circle light, but the student body were oblivious. Knowing this, the Rakuzan faction immediately took cover from the bullets coming back to them.
"Sadi-chan's reacting too fast!" Mibuchi shouted as soon as the buff was dissolving slowly. "But wait, where's Tet-chan?"
"He's… he's dangling on the edge of the bridge!" Hayama answered with his mouth agape.
"Wha-?!" The Rakuzan faction looked at the edge and saw Kuroko's hands holding tightly on the edge of the bridge like there's no forever.
"The impact of FLEIJA buff affected Kuroko since he's holding a weapon. Kuroko used the knife to attack Sadist-kun but because he used the expanding buff, it deflected to Kuroko." Riko said, frowning at the screen. "Luckily he dodged it at the last minute, but it caused him to almost fall from the bridge."
"We have to save Tet-chan!"
"But how?" Hayama asked.
"This is tricky but you have to attack Sadist first in order to save Kuroko. Sadist doesn't have any 'blind spot' and he seems to be always looking at Kuroko." Riko commanded. "But I have to remind you Mayuzumi-kun, no shooting at Kuroko."
"Whatever." Mayuzumi replied, but he knew better than to do something against the order, again.
"Then…"
Numerous bullets were flying towards the redhead's position. The bullets were fast, but a glowing circle surrounding Akashi's mismatched irises made it very, very slow. Seeing the trajectory, the distance of the bullets and where it aimed, he deflected it all with his red scissors showed up from his opened right hand, slicing up all the bullets.
Murasakibara, who gave the buff to Akashi, just stood there on the rooftop seeing this, his hair flowing with the wind. The Yosen faction, who were sneaking behind him, moved to attack him, but was encountered with his weapon that emerged from his hands. It was a purple sword with it's sharp edges imitating large thorns called Rosethorns.
"Gah!" Himuro said with a forced voice, but smiled all the way. "Why don't you make your sword shorter?"
"Short or long, you'll still lose." Murasakibara said lazily and pushed the sword to their way, tossing them aside lying on the cemented ground of rooftop.
"Fuck." Wei cursed and wiped the blood that came out from his lips.
"I can't believe you lost with just a push." The purple-haired teen said and eventually his sword became a golden hammer and slowly raised it up the sky.
"It's the Mjolnir, Thor's Hammer!" Kagami warned on their earpiece. "Guys, watch out!"
A determined yell was immediately heard after Kagami's warning and it turns out that Okamura suddenly charged to Murasakibara, but the latter blocked it with his golden hammer.
"I won't let you!" Okamura shouted. "I will defeat you, the Generation of Miracles, and God himself!"
Murasakibara frowned. "You don't know what you're talking about."
With that, they continued to slash their swords while the other members of Yosen faction took this distraction to prepare their guns and fired at the titan, however the Rosethorns sword emerged from the other hand of the tall teen and deflected the bullets using it. But because of it, the bullets went straight to Okamura's back.
"Okamura-san/senpai!"
The latter collapsed, and the three of them immediately showed a defensive stance, and they continued to fight. Sword and hammer against swords and bullets.
Midorima's currently hiding from the wall just beside the window. If you dare to look out of the window, in 100 meter range you could see the Shutoku faction continuously shooting the Disciplinary Committee office. He could not get his sniper because it was hidden on the cabinet on the other side of the room.
Thinking something about distraction, he took the vase beside him and threw it outside. When you're asking who got hit by the vase…
"That Tsundere!" Otsubo shouted in rage when he got hit by the vase and it broke on head. Of course it caught the attention of Shutoku faction. "Just he wait when we'll have pineapples!"
Takao 'tsk'ed and fired his sniper, but Midorima quickly hid, missing the shot. "The Seiho faction should make machine guns next time."
Midorima smirked, a bow and arrows emerging from his hand and shoulders, and aimed at the sky. "Murasakibara, buff!"
Eventually a violet buff surrounded Midorima for about three meter radius and it stayed on him. He then showed up at the window, chanted which made his arrow glow, and then released it from the bow after aiming it to Kuroko. The Shutoku faction, seeing this, started to shoot both Midorima and arrow which split into two. Yet they cannot hit Midorima since he had the buff and the arrow doesn't seem to change its trajectory even after many times of being hit by bullets.
"Not that I care but…" Midorima adjusted his glasses, oblivious on the bullets which were deflected by the buff. "…Akashi will kill me if I will not do that."
"Oh no! Kuroko will-"
"No." Riko stopped Hyuuga from saying any horrible thing. "Trust me. Tsundere won't do it to Kuroko."
How's the latter?
He's about to slip from the bridge when the two arrows landed in front of him and became steels that looked like it was a part of the bridge. Kuroko then held on the two standing steels immediately and then tried his futile attempt of getting up.
Behind him was Midorima shooting the Shutoku faction with his bow and arrow, while above was Murasakibara shutting down the Yosen faction with his Mjolnir and Rosethorns, while in front of him was Akashi slicing up bullets using his scissor.
He knew their abilities because of the papers Riko gave him, but what should he need to do to at least stop this?
"Crybaby's power is copying other people's fighting moves or abilities." Riko explained. "Ganguro's weapons are speed and agility. He could attack people so fast and in any form too. Titan's powers are defensive buffs, the Mjolnir, or Thor's Hammer, that could create lightning, storms and hurricanes, and the Rosethorns sword. His defensive buffs are of two types. One is the normal buff which prevent all bullets from the buff user, while the other was called FLEIJA. This buff could be only used once per every person."
"Every person? You mean other people could use his buffs?" Kuroko asked.
"Not quite, because only the GoM members are allowed. And they were only given those buffs if Titan's around, but that doesn't prevent him to be the only member of GoM who lets the other members use his power."
"How about Tsundere?"
"Oh, that Tsun-Tsun? He has wide range of eyesight that always made him bullseye, guns, and his favorite bow and arrows." Riko said. "But that arrows are special because he could change that arrows to whatever he wants by chanting. Like, a chant and it would be a long-length ropes a second after he releases it. He also had sniper with missile-like bullets that will continuously chase you."
"That's…" Kuroko said, but shut his mouth.
"Cool? I know because it is. But my most favorite is Sadist's power. You know why?"
Now he's intrigued. "Why?"
"He has this ability called Emperor Eye, which, to my deduction, predicts the line of eyesight, and the trajectory of bullets and/or weapons." Riko said with a little smile on her lips. "Not just that, his Ankle Break make people fall to the floor with just a look or a touch if he wants to."
"How did you know about this?"
"One time, we tried to infiltrate Sadist's dorm and got this data on his computer, but it's incomplete. We saw other things and tried to get it, but we never thought that he's there, so we did not accomplish the mission and got detention in the end." Riko replied. "But you know…"
"What?"
Kuroko stood up and looked around, amazed now that he saw how powerful Generation of Miracles really is.
Midorima delivered the final blow to Shutoku faction by chanting to the five bows and when he released it, it became ropes that were tied all around the hands of Takao, Miyaji, Otsubo and Kimura. The fifth rope was tied to a sturdy branch of the tree behind the Shutoku faction, the other end tied on the window frame of Disciplinary Committee Office. Midorima removed his uniform jacket and used it as a glider (?) and ziplined to where the faction is.
As soon as he landed to the ground, he showed his pen knife. Takao closed his eyes, he thought that they're going to be mutilated (even if it doesn't hurt, you don't know if you could stand the view of blood gushing out from you even if you regenerate after a few minutes) but it turns out…
"I'm always lucky and I always win, because I always follow Oha-asa and bring my lucky item with me, which in today's case, this pen knife."
He actually listens to that ludicrous thing? The whole Shutoku faction except Miyaji thought.
"You should follow your fate. Man proposes, God disposes."
The last sentence woke up Otsubo's rage. "What do you mean by that?! That it's our fault we had unpleasant lives?!"
"Of course." Midorima adjusted his glasses and stared at them intently, still oblivious that Takao's secretly cutting the ropes on their hands which is on their backs. "It's the truth, why won't you accept it?"
"You don't know what we've been through, you cocky brat!" Miyaji shouted while wriggling. "Do you want me to skin you alive?!"
"Funny how you say that when you never knew what kind of lives we lived."
Takao widened his eyes and stopped cutting Kimura's ropes, startled at Midorima's statement. Kimura, who realized that Takao has been hit by Midorima's words, took the knife from Takao's hands and cut the rope himself before he held the rope and passed the knife to Miyaji.
"What does he mean by that?" Kagami murmured to himself, but Riko heard it anyways.
Murasakibara didn't even sweat while the Yosen faction almost reached their limit. Their knives were on the floor lying innocently while the guns already had no bullets left to reload. Their uniforms were cut, hair stood up and they looked like they painted charcoal on their skin.
Blame it to the lightning.
"It's bound for you to lose anyway, so just give up." Murasakibara said and got a pack of chips from his jacket's pocket. "Now you had to do detention~"
"I don't… care… about… d-detention… as long… as we… defeat you… and… your so-called… God… who… gave us… unfair… l-lives!" Okamura said in between pants.
"It's tiring and you always keep on losing, so why bother?" Murasakibara replied. "The life is also unfair to me and to us, so I don't know why do you want to do that."
The Rakuzan faction clicked the triggers of their guns, but not a bullet came out.
Nebuya 'tsk'ed. "We have to reload! Hu-"
"Reload faster and don't keep me waiting."
They turned in front of them and there was the owner of sophisticated voice, his mismatched eyes glowing through the darkness of the night and the Rakuzan faction couldn't help but to stare even if they don't want to.
His eyes are really attractive and mesmerizing, no doubt about that, damn it.
"But it doesn't matter anyway." Akashi said as he took a step closer then widened his eyes, and suddenly a white circle surrounded both of his irises. "Because you're about to fall down and know your place."
The standing Rakuzan faction suddenly fell down on their knees and butts while still staring on his glowing heterochromatic eyes.
"Fu-! I told you not to stare in his eyes remember?! Are you morons, stupid, idiots, or all of the above?!" Riko shouted in their earpiece and they're sure that she's facepalming right now.
"Now, I'll help Aka-chin on-" The purple-haired teen stopped talking when a little piece of paper dropped on his pack of chips. Picking it, he saw a tofu soup food coupon. Looking up the sky, he saw hundreds, maybe thousands of food coupons falling from the sky. It only indicates that the song played inside the school had ended.
The Yosen and Shutoku faction used the last ounce of their strength to catch the food coupons.
"Hmm, Aka-chin will-" Murasakibara was interrupted in his sentence once again when he saw something that made his and Midorima's jaw drop.
What is it anyways? Read below.
"Now, you have to accept your punishment." Akashi said and was about to stab Mayuzumi, which is in front of him, using his scissor when…
…a pair of vanilla-white arms surrounded his waist.
"What?!" Hyuuga couldn't help but to mutter while the other Seirin faction opened their eyes so wide except Riko, who just stared at the screen like nothing happened. They couldn't help but to curse at Shutoku, Yosen, Touou and Kaijou factions' luck because they're busy gathering food coupons.
The true intention of this operation is to know what the Generation of Miracles were before they were chosen, to know who Kuroko is on their lives and how he could affect the rainbow-haired group, and to confirm if Akashi had double personality or twin. Riko thought. But I only got the results of this mission was just because Sadist, and one time Tsundere, reacted on it.
"But you know…"
"What?"
"That day, I saw his two eyes red, not mismatched colors of red and gold." The brunette spilled. "And not just that, he gives off a different aura than the usual Sadist-kun."
Kuroko visibly frowned. "So you think that it was his twin or something?"
"Even if it's impossible because there's no school record of a student with another Akashi surname, I thought of that." Riko said. "I also thought that maybe he used contact lens or something, but in just one look I really saw the personality difference."
"Maybe…" Riko continued. "Maybe he really has a twin, but we had to do something to erase that 'maybe' in the sentence."
The Rakuzan faction, Murasakibara and Midorima widened their eyes too at the scene.
"Please…" Kuroko whispered, his voice cracking. "…please don't hurt them. Please… just me, not them…"
There's a long pause, with the food coupons falling from the sky like confetti. When the first coupon landed on the ground, Akashi showed a sad smile.
"I've already hurt you a million times before. I couldn't afford to do that again."
I looked at the paper in my hand before I inwardly sighed, contemplating my choice of words. I'm sorry Tetsuya, but I had to do this. "I appreciate that you bother to go to this seminar here in Akita just to personally pass your resignation letter to me, and I also appreciate that you decided to leave in the basketball club."
"Why?" Kuroko said with his monotone voice. "Is it because the weak like me isn't fit to be a part of the strongest basketball club?"
"Yes, and I'm glad you came to realize that." That's a lie, Akashi Seijuurou.
But it's for the best. We don't want Kuroko to die, right?
"I… see…" I suddenly felt the urge to wipe Tetsuya's tears, but resisted.
"I'll present this to the coach tomorrow, now if you'll excuse me." I said, but as soon as I turned my back, my own tears flowed from my cheeks.
I'm sorry Tetsuya.
No one knew that the Rakuzan, Shutoku and Yosen factions were slowly sneaking out and away while gathering the coupons as much as possible, as Midorima and Murasakibara were busy staring at the two hugging individuals.
"I… I don't want any fights against you and the Generation of Miracles." Kuroko said against the fabric of the uniform jacket. "I just wanted to remember everything, know myself and fight God for giving me… us… unreasonable life. We too… so please tell us… please tell us what we should do to face God."
The teal-haired teen doesn't want to admit it but damn, why do his enemy had to smell and look good?
The red-haired president wanted to answer that question, but to be honest he doesn't even know either…
…except for a way though. However today isn't the right time. But when? He wasn't sure either.
"Tetsuya… I-"
*Clank!* A can landed in front of them and suddenly smoke engulfed the both of them. Akashi doesn't even realized that Kuroko was already taken away by Nebuya until the smoke finally cleared.
"Akashi!" Midorima exclaimed as he ran together with Murasakibara to the red-haired when the smoke cleared. "Are you okay?"
He coughed a little before he stood up and spoke. "Yes, I am. By the way, did you got some evidence like the usual?"
"Had it video-ed."
"Delete it, together with the other evidences." The Student Council President ordered. "Throw away the material evidences and make sure no one will see them."
"But why?"
"Because…" Akashi looked at the two of them. "…detentions would only prevent Tetsuya from recovering his memories. You know that he didn't receive any detention before."
Midorima sighed. "You seem to think a lot like Yuuri these days."
"Speaking of, when can we visit Yuu-chin again?" Murasakibara said.
"You'll see him tomorrow." Akashi answered. "You can go rest now."
"Don't stare at my meal like that." I heard myself say at the one in front of me, who still had his face blurred much to my dismay.
"It can't be helped, Kuroko, and you know it."
"I know, I know." I facepalmed. "It's tofu soup, your favorite."
"I'm glad you know that."
"Still… it's mapo tofu. It's spicy, so spicy I don't even know if you can stand eating the whole bowl of this."
"Mapo tofu is a spicy tofu soup, Kuroko."
"Okay fine, I give up. I never win anyway." I pushed the mapo tofu soup in front of him. "Here. That's yours."
I suddenly saw a cup of vanilla milkshake and a large box of bento in front of me. "Thank you and you're welcome."
"Kuroko."
The latter startled out of his thoughts and saw Kawahara, which is in across him in the table holding a spoon. In front of Kawahara is a bowl of ramen. "Are you okay? Is the mapo tofu so spicy?"
"I'm okay Kawahara-kun. Even though this mapo tofu is so spicy, the aftertaste is actually good." Kuroko stated as a matter-of-fact and scooped another spoon of mapo tofu before eating it, hiding the scorching pain on his tongue by his poker face.
Koganei chuckled. "I understand Kuroko. I mean, no one actually orders mapo tofu because it's so spicy."
"Don't worry Kawahara, because the actual reason why Kuroko's mind is flying is because he was distracted by how good-smelling Sadist is." Kagami said, but his statement had everyone silent.
And the silence became more eerie when Kuroko stood up and approached Kagami and then…
"Ouch!" Kagami touched the side where Kuroko jabbed him again. "What was that Kuroko?!"
"Are you jealous with the fact that Sadist-kun smells better than you? Or that you never had a chance to hug him?"
"Kuroko!"
Everyone at the table laughed at Kagami.
Kuroko smiled at this and headed back to his seat, but not before he saw someone with long gray hair that covered his eyes blowing bubble gum on his mouth on the canteen entrance peeking on them before leaving.
~REAL WORLD~
Nijimura facepalmed. He was just tending his sick father in the same hospital where Kuroko and Akashi were admitted (although his father was the one who first admitted). It's been a month since that tragedy happened and it was just three days ago when this kind of attack happened to Kuroko.
And now, both Kuroko and Akashi suffered the same thing, the former twice and the latter once.
Their heart and pulse rates suddenly went so fast that they were like running 40 laps around Mt. Fuji in just 5 minutes.
He went frantic when the doctor got out of Room 114, Akashi's room. "Sensei, how's Akashi?"
"What's your relationship with the patient?"
"H-he's my teammate. Akashi's father will be here sooner or later. So? How's he?"
The doctor frowned. "This is strange, so strange. He had the same attack with another patient named Kuroko Tetsuya. It seems like their bodies are conscious but their minds aren't. Still, I don't know what caused this."
"So… does that mean they will be awake soon?"
"To be honest, I don't know when, but if we will be patient, they're going to wake up so soon, I'm sure."
Nijimura nodded in understanding. "Thanks, sensei." He said before the doctor took his leave.
He sighed. He does not know if Akashi Masaomi would be happy by this news.
~AFTERLIFE~
Akashi sighed as he closed the door of his dorm and immediately collapsed on his bed.
"How lucky of you to be hugged by Kuroko, Seijuurou."
The latter opened his eyes and saw someone who looked a lot like him except that the other guy had same red ruby eyes, unlike Akashi who had mismatched red-and-golden eyes.
"You're still awake?" Akashi said, got up and sat down on the bed removing his shoes. "You should sleep by now."
"I'm waiting for you to arrive."
"For what?"
"So that I could know how does it feel."
Akashi smirked at him. "Tetsuya already hugged you before, so you already know how it felt. Warm, safe, it's like you don't want the time and him to move."
"As expected." He finally laid down. "You don't want to eat dinner?"
Akashi shook his head. "I already ate outside."
"Good night then."
"Good night…" Akashi smiled. "…Yuuri."
[1]Yuuri is indeed Oreshi. The reason why they are both in the Afterlife but not in one body is that Akashi had two different personalities, meaning he had both different souls (on my perspective, I mean there are two Akashis in one body and it was shown in Season 3 while fighting against Kuroko). Bokushi is dead but Oreshi isn't, which means Akashi Seijuurou (in real world) is in comatose and still had chances on living (the only GoM member who survived). That's why Oreshi is always on the dorm so that he's not going to be harmed.
[2]Yuuri means advantageous, better and profitable as well as lucrative.
[3]The reason why Oreshi, instead of Bokushi, used the 'Yuuri' name even though Oreshi is the original one, is because… that will be a spoiler xD Let's just say that Yuuri hated the name and wanted a new one ^_~
[4]I decided to write the flashbacks in POV type of writing because there's a tendency that I write flashbacks with different person remembering it. But this is only applicable in real world memories for my sake.
Question/Request: My request is still alive, and that is to give me some suggestions on traps :))) I have some ideas, but they're so common so come on, gimme some! (No pun intended)
