WELCOOOOME BACK TO Mizuiro to Beni Koi! ASDFGHJKL *dances awkwardly in background* SO MANY REVIEEEEWSSS *rolls on them and hugs them* thank you very much. I'm so happy everyone liked the sudden turn of events even if well it was, sudden LOL. The complexity of the Midotaka pair is just beginning! Thank you to everyone who never stopped supporting Kicchin...WE 29 DAYS AWAY FROM CELEBRATING MY THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY HERE IN FANFICTION AS AN AUTHOR! Ahahaha I actually can't believe I've made it this far, and that is all because of everyone supporting and reading my works, so thank you soooo much! To everyone who are also reading my other works especially LION I have a huge announcement to make on the 29th for everyone.

Anyways, as for Foxluna 's request I would be compiling the songs used in Mizuiro to Beni Koi by album list LOL let's pretend they are all in one album. I would create an account in Megalink so that you may also download it album there. Ahahahaha I think I'm getting obssesed with this story as well. Anyways, I will announce when they are already done, I would also include the lyrics there for those who wish to sing along. However, please do not re-share it to anyone else and all the credits goes to the original composers, the cover artist and the original artist. What do you think?

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I AM GOING TO SEE BAOZI AND HANA AND I'M SOOOO NERVOUS I HOPE I DONT FREEZE IN FRONT OF THEM!

Chapter 23: Setsuna Trip

Takao stares at the music sheet in front of him with pursed lips. It has been two weeks, news about Midorima's engagement to this mystery person. News had it that Midorima had the engagement ever since but didn't say anything about it for a long time due to his career, people suspected it was to protect whoever this person is from the public eyes. Whenever anyone seems to bring up the topic Takao would feel this strange pinching sensation in his chest, as if reality wants to wake to him. This is what the truth is.

Whatever happened that night, it was a mistake.

Takao didn't realize the slight tremble in his hands, his legs betrayed him and he found himself falling back to his seat, the drafts for his new chapter of his manga sprawled in his desk. He couldn't do it. He couldn't think of happy thoughts to create the feeling for his readers. It felt wrong.

He felt utterly betrayed by fate.

If he didn't run that night he wondered if anything would have been different. If he didn't leave Midorima, if he only told him what he really felt for him since the beginning, would it have been different? Pitiful and choked tears erupted from Takao's lips as he hides behind the sheets of his composition.

He knows Kuroko had been trying his best to show sympathy and understanding towards Takao's situation. He doubts Kuroko has not figured it out himself, how deep this runs for him. He could see it in the way he pauses, taking in consideration his own words, his eyes full of concern for him. However, nothing really could mend him right then. It was stupid and pathetic, but it's also painfully true.

He had jumped into a quick sand and right now there is no way to get out.

He's drowning.

Suffocating.

Takao wiped out his tears as he try to force himself to be alright. He raised his head remembering the concerned looks Kuroko and the rest of the band gave him, he didn't want to worry them any further. Unfortunately, the problem with them is they had too much heart for their own good. If they see him like this, especially Kuroko, surely they would do something.

It is nothing they should be really concerned of.

Really.

He's alright, right?

Biting his lower lip, Takao tried to stand again, he read the first lines of his composition and felt a pain in his chest.

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Two months later…

"Muro-chin what are you…oh."

Himuro stood in front of a record store eyes staring at the familiar photograph printed in an A3 poster, next to it a screen flashing a scene from the new released MV of Hikari no Ou. A small sly smiles plays in the raven haired photographer and model's lips, after a whole month, the band managed to create another ground breaking music.

"This one will be included in their album, right?"

"Yeah, I think so." Murasakibara answered lazily as he slid his hands inside the pocket of his dark blue denim pants. "Hm?"

"What is it, Atsushi?"

"Kuro-chin…is letting others compose."

Himuro who have very minimal ideas about the music industry raised an eyebrow in question.

"Kuro-chin used to be the one who composes for the band before, but…that isn't something Kuro-chin would compose." Murasakibara answers as he listens to the beat of the music. He didn't know how to explain it, but Kuroko's composition were usually tough and had this tinge of bitterness to the world, but this one is entirely different. Murasakibara couldn't feel the coldness that Kuroko's usual composition would have, instead it was really welcoming, warm and youthful. "Someone else wrote composed this song."

"You can tell, huh?" Himuro asked looking at the screen.

"Yes."

Himuro didn't say anything anymore and decided to just watch the new music video of Hikari no Ou. He couldn't help but smile, he didn't know that Kagami would be that serious with his dreams. He might have used uncanny ways to make him admit the value of the people he had come in contact with but in the end Himuro found himself satisfied with his surrogate brother's answer.

"Kuroko, huh."

Himuro's smile widen as he heard Kagami's voice on the speakers of the store as he sung the lines of their newest song—

Even if you make an enemy out of the entire world,

Believe only in me.

"Muro-chin."

"Yes, after you."

Himuro said before turning and taking Murasakibara's hand in his.

He doesn't doubt how much Kuroko feels for Kagami, the question is does Kagami realize the depths of his own feelings for the other? Just how long, he wonders until they both realize it?

"Do you wanna make a bet?"

"On what?" Murasakibara asked lazily as he pulls Himuro closer to his side.

"Kagami and Kuroko."

Murasakibara hums for almost half a minute, clearly understanding what Himuro meant about the bet. Himuro laughs watching the purple haired model take in consideration of all plausible factors. He hates losing bets after all.

"Before the end of the year."

Himuro sighs, "That's unfair, it's a very wide span of time."

"But it's a time frame."

"Okay I bet four months."

Murasakibara laughs, "You don't know how stubborn Kuro-chin can be."

As the two walks away from the record store the music video replays.

The screen turns black for a second before the instrument started playing again. The screen slowly shifts to an image of a long haired woman wearing a white dress, and a man kneeling before her wearing a dark blue coat as Kagami starts to sing the first part of the song. As the first part of the song ended, the camera shifts to a show Takao wearing a white tunic and dark ragged pants paired with leather boots standing between the two with wide eyes. As the Kagami's voice faded into the back, the image dissolves into an image of a Christian Church's altar with its rose patterned stained glasses, the title appears in the screen in kanji—

Love Scenario.

The next scene appears and Takao is shown to have climbed a tree connecting to a balcony, upon reaching there the woman in white dress appears running towards him with a smile. As if mimicking Kagami's singing the lyrics, Takao mouthed the lyrics telling it to the girl. Then the girl turns and the man in the blue coat appears grabbing the woman away from Takao. The camera shifts to the man, then into the man's glaring eyes. The camera shifts back to Takao and focuses on him, his eyes wide in shock and horror for a moment before it was painted in anger and disgust.

As the chorus blares, the scene changes into night, a full moon is seen behind Takao as the other stood in the very same balcony, his index finger pressed against his lips and a smile spreads across his lips. The camera zooms away showing the woman standing there facing him as if she had been waiting for him. The scene quickly changes, this time Takao is seen offering his hand to the woman, which the woman takes. The camera shifts closer, Takao cups the woman's cheeks in his hands and a gentle smile cross his face.

"Even if it were an answer that deceives the world…"

The screen turns black and the English words flashes in the screen before it returns showing Takao holding hands with the woman as they run away.

As the first part of the song ends, the scene changes again back into the image of the rose patterned stain glass, the camera slowly slips from the glass to the empty altar that seemed to have been taken by nature itself, down to the floor where Takao and the woman lay, Takao lay on his back with one hand in his side and the other slightly raised, beside him the woman lays on her side, hands in front of her and the other slightly close to Takao's. Small balls of lights started showering them until the whole screen fades to white.

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"Thank you for coming today!"

The four all bowed their heads at the host sitting across them. The music video took undoubtedly shorter than their first, perhaps it helped that they had previous experience now with filming, though ultimately it was almost just Takao. Kuroko actually didn't mind, he didn't really felt good about filming. Though the song had only been digitally released they have gone to the second most popular downloaded song. Aida didn't hide her satisfaction over this.

"Thank you for having us." The four said in unison.

The host bows her head back, as some of the highlights of the music video flashes behind them on the wide screen. Furihata curiously peeks at before turning to Takao to point at the screen.

"A few months back you released your first single which was Solution and that ranked second to Aomine Daiki's come back single Lips, and now Hikari no Ou takes the music industry by a storm again." The female host said excitedly. She turns to the camera for a second and smiling before turning back to the four boys. "So tell us about your new music video."

Kagami bows his head cuing that it would be him to answer, "Uhm, hello, I'm Kagami…desu. Uh, well about the new music video, the song is titled Love Scenario and it will be used for an anime opening this coming fall." Kagami explains, "It's actually just….well Takao."

The band laughs including the host.

"But you'll see more after the official release." Furihata adds.

"Wow, something to look forward to!" The host exclaims. "Is it also true that this time, the bassist, uhm…" the host turns to her cue cards before raising her head and smiling at the four, "Takao-san, was it, wrote the song?"

The three except Takao nodded. Furihata passed Takao the microphone which he gratefully accepted.

"Yes," Takao answered, "I mostly wrote the song but Kuroko taught me."

"It's usually Kuroko-kun who writes the song." Furihata adds.

The host nods her head, "So this is your first time ever writing a song Takao-san?"

Takao nodded sheepishly, "Yes."

"I couldn't actually tell!" The host exclaims, "The words were really great and even the rhythm is very catchy!"

"T-Thank you." Takao replies with a small smile.

"So tell us something about the behind the scenes?"

The four all look together, before anyone could say anything Kuroko snatches Kagami's microphone and took the opportunity. "First we want to deeply apologize to the actress to whom Takao-kun was assigned with." Kuroko said clearly remembering how many takes it took for them to able to get the shot correct. Kagami laughs at the memory.

"D-Don't sell me out Kuroko!" Takao whines.

The host laughs whole heartedly finding Kuroko's poker face and tone of voice comedic. Kuroko turns to Takao and couldn't help but let a small smile spread across his lips. Takao have a lot of talent in him and potential in acting, this he could tell as a stage actor but it has a tremendous improvement, especially when he works around women. Though the females were easily smitten by Takao's cheery smiles, it was obvious that Takao is not used to being quite touchy feely with them.

"Most of the scenes were Takao-kun and it would always end up having to be retaken for about two or five times per scene." Kuroko elaborates, "Takao-kun usually would burst out laughing."

"Ugh, don't even remind me." Takao whines in the corner.

"Oh, this is the question a lot of us had in mind, why only Takao-san?" The host asks.

"Because Kagami-kun is a terrible actor." Kuroko answers flatly making the rest of the studio laugh except Kagami who groans in the corner.

"We tried having Kagami-kun do it but we gave up after several attempts." Furihata said feeling a sweat trickle down his forehead. He remembers the awkwardness Kagami had all the time when he was asked to act with the woman. It took too many attempts to even count that Aida just gave up in the end asked Takao instead. "Originally it was Kagami-kun but we gave up after a few takes."

"And the sight for the music video is a Christian Church in Nagoya?"

The four nodded, "We had lots of fun there," Kagami said as a photo of him wearing a plain white shirt and basketball shorts were flashed on the screen behind the them, Kuroko could be seen in the background holding a water bottle and a white baseball cap over his head, behind them is a sign showing Nagoya station. "The weather was in our side."

"I've never been into a Christian Church before." Furihata adds smiling sheepishly, "It was my first time and I really liked the whole place."

"That's true," Takao says, "Furi took lots of pictures there."

"Furihata-san is very cute, right?" The host said chuckling, "How does it feel like to be called as the baby of the band Furihata-san?"

Everyone giggled except Furihata who blushes to the tips off his ears at the remark. It wasn't a secret anymore, that the fans found Furihata as the most endearing face of the band, and soon he got the label—baby of the band, female fans would call him cute in their posts and tweets online.

"He's very shy about it." Takao said teasing further making Furihata blush even more.

"Aw, so cute!"

Everyone laughed again.

"But what about Kagami-san and Kuroko-san, people had been calling you guys the power duo right after the very successful release of your first single Solution, what do you think about it?"

Kagami glances at Kuroko as if asking for some sort of help to the other, however Kuroko remained placid. Kagami chews on his lips before deciding to answer with his own thoughts, "Well, it kinda gets me nervous, I mean all after that it feels like the expectation of the fans are getting really high for us—we are doing our best to meet that, but still it kinda makes me nervous." Kagami took a deep breath before continuing, "But as long as we're together I'm pretty sure we can do anything."

"Wow that's very nice to hear from Kagami-kun."

"He has some really wise words despite what he looks." Kuroko mutters making the host chuckle at the two's dog-cat attitudes towards each other.

"Kuroko you little—"

"So, would you like to invite everyone to the official release of Love Scenario's full MV?"

Takao smiles and took the microhphone, "Yes, please do tune in to—"

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"Thank you!" The host bows at the four one last time right after the live interview.

The four all bow back in unison as acknowledgement before the woman excuses herself. Kagami raises his head first sighing loudly, he looked around watching the busy studio in preparation for the next segment. He could never get used to this nauseating sight of running people and tons of voices speaking all at the same time.

"I wanna go home." Kagami says sounding like he had been deep fry in his own oil. Kuroko frowns and quickly sent a jab in Kagami's side causing the other to groan in pain. "What the hell?"

"It you didn't cave in to Aomine-kun's invitation to play basketball so late at night then maybe you wouldn't be complaining." Kuroko replies before turning towards the exit with a quiet huff.

Kagami jogs quickly to follow the teal haired musician who is clearly pissed.

"You are just angry we didn't invite you too!" Kagami says.

Kuroko stops and turns to Kagami with a really deep frown accompanied with crease in his eyebrows and a dark aura around him. Kagami flinched at the sight, yes, he is mad about that. Takao and Furihata who is watching the two couldn't help but fear for Kagami's safety in Kuroko's hands right then. After the incident with Aomine's live, when everything sorted itself out, somehow Aomine found his way back to Kuroko's life in a more subtle way, however the dark skinned former member of Generation of Miracles would usually invite Kagami in his shenanigans involving sports. Kuroko hated this due to the fact that the red head musician would not ask Kuroko to accompany him.

They are really like an old married couple—Takao and Furihata thought to themselves as they watch Kagami follow Kuroko as he apologizes like a husband who cheated on his wife over a pachinko machine.

"Maybe you should follow them." Takao mutters quietly.

Furihata nods in agreement.

"Make sure Kuroko doesn't kill Kagami yet, okay?" Takao says as he places a hand over the brunette's shoulder. "I'll go back and tend to our stuffs back in the dressing room."

"I agree." Furihata replied before following the two.

As soon as Furihata is out of sight, Takao turns out to the other exit to go to the dressing rooms. Lately Kuroko and Kagami's relationship had becoming really close—no close would be an understatement. Kagami basically knows everyone in Kuroko's life, and during their trip to Nagoya for the shoot of the music video—Kagami came in the station with Kuroko in the same cab and they even shared the same bag. Half of Kuroko's clothes were in Kagami's bag and they share water bottles. They were practically attached to each other.

Only a blind would not see the two's deep tie.

Takao bet even Aomine had known of this by now.

Takao stops in his way as he blinkes, wait, he thought, if someone like Aomine already know surely…Kuroko would already know of this…right? Kuroko is not stupid, he is the most observant person Takao had met in his life, surely he had seen the way Kagami acts around him.

"Excuse me."

Takao gasps as a certain unfamiliar voice sliced through his train of thoughts. The raven haired bassist turns to the source of the voice as he clutch his chest, his heart beating rapidly from the shock. Takao felt the shock simmers as he found himself staring to one of the most beautiful pair of blue he had seen in his life.

"Hello."

The man greets him with a smile. Takao couldn't help but admire the foreign looking person in front of him, his height is relatively close to Kagami's though his body is a bit more like Kise's, lean. A mop of ginger locks covered his head. Takao stares, charming he thought to himself.

"H-Hi." Takao replies.

"Takao…Kazunari?"

Takao nods. "Yeah."

The man smiles, and Takao couldn't help but be taken aback with the other's smile.

"Lucky!" The guy exclaims, "I thought I wouldn't get a chance to see you at all. I've tried to get a hold of you since your performance on the Battle of the Bands but I would always be late. I guess luck is in my side this time."

Takao is about to ask the stranger with ginger locks something when the man shoves a bouquet of red roses to the raven haired bassist.

"Eh?"

"For you!" The other says, "I'm a fan of yours!"

Takao blinks but nonetheless took the gift. He doesn't really know how to react, women would usually rain him with praise, but surely no one had ever…well given him flowers. He found a blush creeping in his cheeks. This is embarrassing, he thought to himself. What is there to say?

"Do you like them?"

"Y-Yes they're…pretty." Takao says shyly. He tries to sound as less awkward as possible, after all Aida told them that they should always smile and be thankful of receiving gifts and tokens from fans, unless they seem fishy. A charming guy with a nice smile doesn't seem fishy at all. "Thank you for coming all the way here, uhm…"

"Rei!"

Takao's eyes widen at the familiar voice. He could never mistake that voice for anyone else. Takao turns towards the source of the voice and found his eyes widening at the sight, his hands unconsciously gripped at the bouquet. His heart skips a beat as Midorima Shintaro walked towards them with long strides wearing a forest green knitted sweater.

"Ah, Shintaro." Rei says with his smile faltering.

Without second thoughts Midorima quickly grabs Rei's arm and pulls him away from the raven haired musician.

"Hey!" Both Takao and Rei exclaimed at Miodrima.

"What are you doing here?" Midorima asks with voice louder than usual. Takao quickly flinches at the very sign of the other's rage.

"That's none of your concern." Rei answers before shrugging Midorima's grip off.

"We're just talking." Takao says making Midorima turn to him with a deep scowl.

"Stay out of this." The Midorima said with a threatening growl.

Takao blinks, he found himself stepping back. Midorima had never before raised his voice like that on him. He had always been considerate even if Takao is annoying, never before he had shown such rage and hostility to him. And did that person just called Midorima in his first name?

Midorima grabs Rei's forearm again pulling him along, "Get away from him."

"No," Rei replies trying to push Midorima away, "What's your problem anyways?"

"Shin-chan stop it!" Takao said as he tried to pull the green haired musician away.

BLAG!

Rei's eyes widen as he found himself staring at Takao who fell in his side knocking a few props down. Midorima turns and his eyes widen in the sight. He had accidentally pushed the raven haired bassist in his resistance.

"Takao-san!" Rei exclaimed before running to Takao's side helping the other back in his feet. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Takao replies with a sheepish smile.

"Takao I—"

"No, I'm fine." Takao said a bit too loud cutting the green haired musician's voice. "I'm…fine."

Midorima couldn't move in his place. His eyes were on Takao. He didn't mean it. He really…didn't mean to hurt him like that. He was only there to see his manager who happens to be on the building when he heard that Rei went to the studio where Kuroko's band would be a guest for a live interview. He didn't want Takao to know about Rei.

He didn't mean to…hurt.

"I-I'm sorry I-I think I'm interrupting…" Takao said with a humorless chuckle. "E-Excuse me I…I'll go."

Takao bowed his head at Rei and then at Midorima before quickly slipping away from the two with Rei's now ruffled and messed bouquet. He isn't an idiot, he thought as he left. He could hear Midorima reprimanding the ginger head and the other bickering loudly back at him. Midorima never showed that kind of alarm towards someone's presence before, he had never raised his voice at Takao over someone.

"Did you saw what you did?!" Rei exclaims as he found Takao disappearing into the corner of the halls. "What are you even doing here?"

"Me?" Midorima exclaims back, "If you were not just such a prick to leave him alone."

"Oh, and so now you have control over who I want to see?"

"I don't care who you want to see."Midorima growls angrily and grabs Rei pulling him towards himself. He stares at his eyes threateningly. He could feel his body shake from anger.

"Just fucking leave Takao alone."