Disclaimer - NONE of the characters are mine, they belong to the Series 'Kuroko No Basket' which is made by the mangaka Tadatoshi Fujimaki. For those who have watched the Vocaloid song on which this is based, there may be spoilers. Have a good read!
Anything surrounded by [...] is a blessing.
"Long ago civilization angered God and so he took the nine components that made up the world and locked them away inside the 'Tower of Ai'. Seeking forgiveness a priest traveled towards the tower to plead with God, and so an agreement was made, every 15 years a 'Blessed Messiah' is created to travel towards the tower and retrieve the 'nine blessings' locked inside. So as the next Messiah, Kuroko Tetsuya shall travel towards the Tower and save this world from destruction."
So the Messiah heads towards the tower, along with 11 of his closest friends, Kagami Taiga the warrior, Fukuda Hiroshi, and Kawahara Koichi the twins, Furihata Kouki the artist, Izuki Shun the poet, Kiyoshi Teppei the monk, Koganei Shinji, and Tsuchida Satoshi the dancers, Mitobe Rinnosuke the musician, Aida Riko the tactician and Hyuuga Junpei the leader. Their reason for joining along was to fulfill their promise to 'share our joy and pain, through sickness and health.'
Opening the door containing the first blessing, the messiah reached his hands towards the pedestal, but a hand overlaps his. As he turned toward the leader of their group, confused, Hyuga only smirked back before pushing Kuroko past the doors, reaching his hands toward the [Blossoming Wave] of the sea, singing, 'We will face our fortune and pain as one.' as the doors closed in front of the messiah and the now 10 companions.
Confused, the Messiah moved towards the next door, and like their leader, the tactician moved forward as red began burning within her eyes, and she took the [Fiery Feast] even as the friends look on. At least until the Messiah turned to look at their remaining companions only to see them glaring at each other, and then the Messiah knew, that greed had taken over his friends' minds and that they were after the remaining 7 blessings.
The musician was next to find the [Graceful Sunlight], smiling happily even as their partners looked on with hate. Irritated, a dancer grabbed the other and ran off towards the [Restful Darkness] to never be seen again. Afraid of what may happen next the Messiah tried to persuade his remaining friends to not follow the same path, only to be told "Keeping it to yourself, we will not allow."
With most of the older kids gone, the monk was next, praying to the almighty [Trembling Earth], and finally, the poet laughed as he wrote to the [Ambiant Thunder]. With all the older members of the group betraying the Messiahs' trust, he knew that from then onwards that he would never be able to trust anyone else.
Meanwhile, the younger of the group conversed between themselves, contemplating how they had to quickly grab a blessing for themselves, further cracking the Messiah's heart and increasing his doubts.
The first of the younger members to reach for a blessing was the artist, clutching at the [Whirlwind Rondo] even as he looked back to stare at the others, or more importantly the twins. Feeling as if they were underneath their former friend, the twins left the warrior's side, claiming the [Silver Garden] with tears of what the messiah knew to be joy freezing on their faces.
Despite all the betrayal though, the one that hurt the most was the warriors. He had stayed by the messiah's side through all of the pain, and yet when they reached the [Quickening Magma] he seemed to glow from pride as he held onto the final blessing. With all nine blessings taken away, the Messiah walked to the top of the tower, holding a torch with its flame unlit, he walked towards the alter.
At the top of the tower, a ghostly figure appeared in front of the Messiah, to explain the fates of those that had taken the blessings, "To be swallowed by the sea, flames dance around you, falling onto your knees in the drought and losing you mind to the dark unknown. Devoured by the great earth, screaming as lightning struck you down, shredded by blades of the wind, with a body and heart frozen to the ground, and crawling through the fire, those are the fates that the Messiahs come to the tower ready to face."
With those words, Kuroko then cried, knowing that his friends did not leave him behind, but had kept the truth of what would befall him had he come alone. And with a broken heart, Kuroko passed on the cursed touch, feeling the sins of a promise never forgotten, he laughed towards the sky, for the 'nine blessings' were truly nine sorrows in disguise.
And the knowledge that the cycle would repeat in the end, and his friends' sacrifices were for not.
Authors' Note (It's just me rambling) - The reason I wrote this fanfic is that there are just not enough fanfics about just Seirin and their interactions, they mostly have the GOM included, which I'll be honest, I don't mind but they are not the reason I had to scroll through 40 pages of fanfic. So like I feel pretty okay about what I have written, originally thought, the idea was to have actual conversations between characters, but like, I didn't finish the anime nor did I read the manga so I have no idea how they interact with each other, so if somebody wants to make a fanfic dedicated to their actual interactions... Anyway, the character choices for which blessing they would take were decided on the spot, when I was originally listening to the song, I also couldn't decide if Furihata should have the [Whirlwind Rondo] or [Silver Garden] because I had ideas for both of them, but I just stuck to the first choice I made when listening to the song. About the song, I literally looked it up on the Vocaloid Wiki, plus the English lyrics, just so that I had an idea of what the plot was, so if you find wording similar to that, you know where it came from. Anyways, thanks for reading this fanfic, and I hope more stories with interactions between Seirin will pop up, Have a good day. (Somebody please make more Seirin-centric fanfics, I'm desperate for their interactions)
