Thank you for reading, reviewing, following and adding this to your favorite stories! TT_TT I can't say I'm not jealous to other authors who are so talented and got over 10+ reviews even in the first chapters (and keeps it coming). My fault for being an amateur one, huhuhu!

But still, I'm contented with the outcome. At least someone out there liked my story. I love you guys, and here's Chapter 8 (I have a hunch that this is short though)!

ShinseiShinwa: Ahahaha! Thanks! I even couldn't hold my fangirl squealing when I wrote this! But wait, what's wrong with my plot twists? Aren't they.. twisting enough? Sorry about that if it doesn't meet your expectations, I'll try harder next time. But I'd like to tell you though that I'm still prepping things up, that's why it's still (a little bit) boring. And maybe it gets more boring because after one or two operations we will have some throwback arc for IRB, but I hope my feels train would drown you lol!

Rinfantasy: Hihihi, I have my reasons for that but well, I'm not going to answer you right now. The story will answer you :)

siscarilia: Thank you and your welcome! But as of now, I'd have the AkaKuroAka moment in minimum or plain implications because if I did make an AkaKuroAka moment right here and now, that would cause some implications, ne? Don't worry though, if everything gets well between the characters, there will be an AkaKuroAka moment :)

TO MY OTHER READERS: Thanks for reading my story in the shadows! You're a big help to my first AkaKuro multi-fanfic! But well, I won't hurt you if you do review! I just bark, I just bite, but I won't eat! Hahaha... Pagkat ikaw lang ang minamahal ko o aking diwataaaa... *singing Diwata by Abra ft. Chito Miranda* (Please ignore my last remark ;)..)


~CHAPTER 8~

Whistle. "Break time!"

The Battlefront members in training made a grateful noise and slumped everywhere to get a break from their training in hell. It was like they were in real army.

Hyuuga sighed at what he's seeing in front of him. It's Kuroko puking out his breakfast. "Kuroko, you're low in stamina."

"But it's surprising. He was able to hold out last night." Kiyoshi also commented, wiping his sweat.

"Maybe because of the mapo tofu he ate after the operation?" Himuro said.

"Or maybe because of Sadist's scent!" Kagami added.

Kuroko stopped puking and turned to Kagami with cold, piercing eyes. "One more about what happened last night and I'll reincarnate you to an earthworm."

But Kagami just scoffed at Kuroko's threat. "Oh really?"

"I'd like you to know that I don't have any sense of humor Kagami-kun."

"Well if Tet-chan didn't hugged Sadist-chan, the Rakuzan faction weren't able to gather food coupons and we would have been punished." Mibuchi said after he drunk his water bottle.

"Yeah! Kuroko's our hero!" They heard Izuki shout and then they cheered. But even before Kuroko could calm them down, Mayuzumi's cold voice was heard.

"Don't compliment that bastard like that, you idiots." Mayuzumi said. "He's like that. He's angelic and all at first, but in the end he will be the reason why the Battlefront and its efforts will go to waste."

"Why do you think so, Mayuzumi-senpai?" Kagami asked.

"It's what he did to me." The gray-haired third year answered while frowning. "I told you before, he's the cause of my death."

"Mayuzumi-kun."

Kuroko looked down. "I-if I really am the cause of your death, t-then I'm sorry-"

"Ah, I hope your 'sorry' will bring my life back and get me out of this shit called Afterlife…" Mayuzumi said coldly and sarcastically.

"Mayuzumi. Kun."

Finally hearing that voice, Furihata squeaked. "U-uhmm, M-m-mayuzumi-s-senpai."

"…but sadly, I'm still here, so apology not accepted."

All of them heard a female voice saying "Ah, okay." and the next thing they knew is that Mayuzumi is already lying his back on the floor. Looking up, he saw Riko smiling smugly while showing a rope's end. He realized that the rope Riko held was connected to the rope around his feet.

"Mayuzumi-kun, next time I'll call the Kirisaki Daichi personally if you won't listen to me again." Riko said.

"Tch, fine." Mayuzumi said reluctantly.

"What does senpai mean by that?" Kuroko asked to Hyuuga while Mayuzumi stood up and removed the rope in his feet (background scene xD).

"Kirisaki Daichi and the Battlefront made an alliance for the sake of information gathering, but that doesn't mean we don't hate them." Hyuuga explained.

"Now…" Riko's voice alerted them. "…we'll proceed to the HQ for operation planning. Let's go guys."

Little did they know that there are flickering light that circled Kuroko's iris just like Akashi's Emperor Eye, but it only happened for a few seconds before it vanished. And while it happened, he saw some movements behind the tree just 20-30 meters away from them. It was the gray-haired man chewing bubble gum that he saw last operation. In reflex he quickfired the tree using a pistol, making the Battlefront shocked.


"Hey."

Seijuurou snapped up from his daze and looked at Yuuri, who was wearing Seijuurou's uniform and now tying his black necktie. "What?"

"Still thinking about what we saw last night?"

Seijuurou sighed and opened the first drawer of his bedside table. "I couldn't help but to think that since Tetsuya wouldn't really experience hardships there than in Afterlife. Tetsuya would have continued his life in basketball, joined Seirin High basketball team, met Taiga and made him as the replacement for Daiki, and fought against us and everyone in InterHigh and Winter Cup, and won."

Yuuri sighed and shook his head, facing the mirror. "If we did not activate the Future World last night, then you're not having any eyebags now." He said and proceeded to comb his hair.

"Are you teasing me Yuuri?"

The latter smirked and puts down his comb. "I'd like you to know, Seijuurou, that I still don't have any sense of humor."

The heterochromatic teen didn't say anything and instead threw something to Yuuri, in which the latter caught easily. But he widened his eyes when he realized what he just caught. "This…"

"Tetsuya dropped that necklace the first time we met here in Afterlife and I don't have any chance to return it to him, but I'm sure you'll do anything to give it back to him."

Yuuri kept silent and pulled out the same identical necklace he wears that was hidden by his uniform. "Of course I will."

Both of them heard a gunshot which isn't faraway from the campus. Curious, Yuuri walked towards the window and saw the Battlefront members looking at Kuroko, who held a gun and fired at the tree. Using his Emperor Eye, he saw someone hidden at the tree.

"A member of Kirisaki Daichi…" Yuuri murmured then smiled proudly. "Seijuurou…"

"Yeah." The latter said smugly beside him. "He exceeded my expectations, again."

"Just remember Kuroko is mine."

"Nope, mine"

"Mine."

A snip. "What did you say?"

"Kuroko's mine."

Sigh. "We could just share."

Yuuri raised his eyebrow then smirked. "So, you ready for a threesome?"


"What are you doing Kuroko?" Kagami said, frowning and confused to why he did that.

"There's someone behind that tree, observing us." The teal-haired teen answered.

Riko and Hyuuga frowned too. "How did you know?" The latter asked.

"I saw him."

Hyuuga looked at the tree Kuroko fired. "I saw no one, Kuroko, stop joking."

"Like I said Hyuuga-senpai, I have no sense of humor." Kuroko explained and walked towards the tree, but before he halted there was an almost unnoticeable movement. "He… got away."

"I can see." Riko said, also seeing the movement. "But we'll catch him next time. Let's go, we're not going to waste any more time."

They agreed and continued to walk again, but Kuroko gave the fired tree one last look. "Sorry for firing at you, tree."

"Kuroko, why are you talking at the tree?!"

Riko and Hyuuga looked at each other, thinking only one thought.

Kuroko's abilities are now showing up, but I never expected to be this soon.


"Without overfeeding Okamura-kun, Kagami-kun and Nebuya-kun…" Riko glanced at the three fast-eating people (SFX by Kagami: What?!). "…the food coupons you gathered are enough to feed us for a month or so. Good job guys."

Cheers were heard in the room.

"Even so, why did you call us here to talk about operation?" Kasamatsu asked that died down the cheers.

"Because our last Operation Miracle Area Infiltration failed." As soon as Riko finished her sentence, the Battlefront logo emerged from the screen behind her before displaying the operation title (Please add SFX XD). "We need to have more information possible to increase the number of chances to win this war. We will attack at 1830 hours tonight, so Momoi-kun…"

"Yes?"

"Better memorize at least two or three songs, and now we won't need any clearances."

Kuroko frowned. "But why? Isn't it against the school rules to do something like that without permission?"

"Kuroko, being a Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes won't help this operation at all. And I'm sure Sadist will do something to Titan so that he won't give us clearance." Hyuuga answered. "Also, if we always follow the school rules too much, it's a factor that we vanish here and reincarnated as animals."

"Yes, and the concert would also easily catch the attention of Generation of Miracles, so it will be easy to infiltrate their dorms." Riko seconded. "So Kuroko, I want you to help the Pinkish Nightmare before their forbidden concert tonight, is that okay?"

The teal-haired teen nodded in approval.

"That's good. Every faction knew what dorm are they going to infiltrate, and the Seirin Top Faction will join every faction on infiltrating the Miracles' dorms." Riko said and stood from her seat. "Meeting adjourned."

As expected, Kuroko was the last one who left in the Battlefront office, but before he could step outside, Riko called him out.

"Kuroko-kun?"

He spun around. "Yes senpai?"

"Did you feel any changes when you hugged Sadist-kun?"

Kuroko was startled at the question, but quickly regained his composure. "His expression, his stature, feelings too, maybe, but still I didn't feel anything drastic changes like changing personality."

Riko made a I'm-in-a-deep-thought face and hummed. "So what's left is that Sadist-kun might have a twin, or he's using a special yellow contact lens that grants him power or something."

"I… I don't think the last thought is a possibility." Kuroko said.

"Why?"

"While he was fighting against Rakuzan, there's something circle that glowed around the both of his iris, so I don't really think his special yellow contact lens exists." He explained.

"So that means you are open to the possibility that Sadist has a twin?" Riko said. "And what do we call him? Sadist #2?"

"I think we need to confirm that first before calling someone Sadist #2-kun."

Riko sighed. "Okay. Oh, before I forgot, tomorrow we'll conduct training, so be early and don't be absent because I won't tolerate mistakes. Also…" She threw a certain magazine to Kuroko, to which the latter caught easily. "…read that book. You might find something interesting there."


~REAL WORLD~

"This isn't needed, Tsubaki-obaa-san."

Kuroko Tsubaki just smiled at Nijimura, who was so shy at accepting a cup of coffee and a plate of food (fastfood consisting of rice and beef steak) which were placed in front of him.

"Oh come on, it's okay Nijimura-kun." Kuroko's grandmother said assuringly to the raven-haired teen. "I don't even think this is enough payment for looking out on my grandson."

Nijimura stared at the food in front of him with a blank face before closing his eyes and sighed. "Okay. Thanks for the food."

It wasn't until Nijimura took a bite on the steak when Tsubaki started to talk. "So… how's the savior of my grandchild?"

He swallowed the food first before answering. "Akashi suffered the same attack as Kuroko earlier, same time too. But he's okay and stable now, although he had to be observed because of that incident."

"That's strange." Tsubaki commented.

"Akashi-san and the doctors thought so too, so they'll run some tests if ever something happened like that again while they're under observation."

"His father visited?"

He nodded. "For a while, but he immediately left." Nijimura answered. "So I called Haizaki to do the look out, because something might happen while I'm out."

Tsubaki nodded in understanding. "You should rest for a while, Nijimura-kun. Looking after three patients with different private rooms is hard. Don't worry about Tetsuya-chan, because his parents will be here for the next two days."

Nijimura played at his steak after hearing that. "I know, but I'm still worried about that Akashi. If Haizaki or I wasn't there, no one looks out after him, and his previous private nurse sucks because she always slept. In addition, my father wouldn't listen to anyone but me when it comes on taking care of himself."

"That's why I'm telling you to at least take some short naps, even just on your father's room." Tsubaki advised. "You're still a young man but you already have very big eyebags. And you shouldn't problem our problems you know. But I really want to thank you for looking after Tetsuya-chan and his savior. You're really kind."

Nijimura nodded. "It's nothing really. They helped me a lot too. Thank you also for worrying but as much as possible I'd like to help you."

"If that's what you like, young guy." Tsubaki said. "Now finish your food, you're getting thinner day by day you know…"


~AFTERLIFE~

Damn. It.

If anyone heard Kuroko curse, especially the Battlefront members (except Mayuzumi, because I'm sure he'll just shrug and roll his eyes) they would widen their eyes and shake him until the world ends and ask 'Who are you and what have you done to Kuroko Tetsuya?' (the most likely people to do that is Kagami and Momoi).

Why did he curse inwardly and secretly anyway?

He couldn't forget the fact that someone like him hugged a guy who's the Student Council President, one of the God's representative slash angels (their enemy in short) that is so good-looking, pleasant-smelling, kind, handsome, generous prince charming even though he-

Yeah, he praised an enemy for fuck's sake! That's the main reason why he cursed.

And not just that, whenever he remembers that, he'll have an internal blush which threatens to come out. Who wouldn't curse at that?

He wanted to jump out of the window and bang his head multiple times on the ground.

And why's the Algebra had to do problems on letters too?! They even renamed the alphabets/letters into variables! Didn't the Math had enough on infinite numbers?! The Math's being too… for the lack of right word… bratty these days. Oh come on, he wanted to go out now and breathe some fresh air!

He hoped that the one who invented the Algebra- no, Mathematics was reincarnated into an ant and was stepped in the ground countless times.

Also, he wanted to include this Humanoids who were so noisy.

"Does that mean he's just wearing contact lens?"

"Maybe. I mean, it's weird for a person to have mismatched eyes."

Are the girls talking about Akashi?

"Still, he's hot when he had red-and-golden eyes, isn't he?"

"Yeah, but I think he's hotter with both red eyes."

"No he's not."

"Yes he is!"

He's hot with both of his eyes complete and Kuroko does not care what's the color of Akashi's eyes because he's still hot, end of the ta-

Oh. Fuck.

Akashi was the only one who took notice when Kuroko banged his head on his desk.

What's his problem? He thought, frowning. Is he thinking about what happened to him and to Seijuurou last night?

The bell finally rang, signalling that the Math subject has now ended, so Kuroko immediately got up, took his things and raced to the door. But before he could even took a step out of the room, a hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Wait."

That voice…

Kuroko slowly turned to see Akashi behind him, but what surprised him more is that he felt that it's another person who held his shoulder. The redhead has both red eyes, and that he had bangs unlike the Akashi last night who doesn't had bangs and has heterochromatic eyes.

Is it possible to someone to grow his hair that long overnight?

"Kuroko, I've got something to give you."

Did he just heard it right? That Akashi called him by his last name and not the usual first name?

Kuroko badly wanted to ask the redhead the 'who are you' question. His action were so intriguing that he wanted to stay and know this guy more… unless…

He mentally sighed.

This guy is a mystery.

"What is it, Akashi-kun?"

The latter took something from his slacks' pocket and showed a necklace, and the pendant is a small cylinder with water. But there's something with the water… it looks like there's some red hairstrands inside it.

"This is yours. Remember the first time y- we met in the open campus?" Fuck, I slipped, Yuuri thought. Damn Kuroko for being so cute.

It's almost unnoticeable, but Kuroko noticed it, yet he nodded. "Why?"

Akashi-kun almost used 'you'. Though I have a hunch, I must know why, Kuroko thought.

"You wore this, but it was removed the time you fell down on the ground, so I took it and waited for the right time until I could give it to you." He offered the necklace to Kuroko. "So please take this back."

Kuroko nodded again and took the necklace. However when he touched the cylinder, he remembered something, but this time it's different.

Kuroko and someone under the rain… cylinders… reciting promises…

"I promise…"

"…I'll never do that…"

"…if ever I'll break that vow…"

"…please… cylinder…"

It's just some pieces of a certain memory.

This is really strange. If this necklace was really his, then why is it with him in the Afterlife? And why is the memory only broken pieces and not blurred but short and continuous?

"I'll take my leave then, Kuroko." The Student Council President said and walked past Kuroko, leaving the latter's mind in disarray.

He wanted to calm down his mind right. Now.


"Come on, hurry up! Tetsu-kun's might be there already waiting for us!" Momoi said while dragging Koganei literally. Behind them are Furihata and Tsuchida, who were talking about Kuroko's composition of songs.

"Do you think it's suspicious enough?" Tsuchida said and Momoi heard it.

The pinkette frowned at them. "What's suspicious?"

"I-I mean… We first saw Kuroko-san with the Generation of Miracles, then he claims that he never remembered anything except his name, and then yesterday he just showed up and offered to help us and then even showed us some of his compositions!" Furihata explained. "Isn't it suspicious?"

"No it's not."

Koganei raised his eyebrow. "Why do you think so, Momoi-san?"

"I'm not really a fast learner when it came to songs unlike what you guys think yesterday." Momoi said. "I already learned Tetsu-kun's compositions before I even came here."


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