As Caith-chan has asked, I wanna make a clarification teehee! Aomine knew about Kuroko's condition coz he's like, the husband of Kise. :3 Same as Kagami and Momoi, Kise probably told them too, since they're all friends. And of course, it's given that the secret stays in the group. No paparazzi allowed hahaha XD

Thank you so much to all those who favorited and followed this piece of asdfghjkl LOL

AnetteRuby, thank you for the review! Now that you mentioned it, it got me thinking too. Hahaha. XD

Akemi the stalker hahaha I love you! But sorry look likes your AkaKuro scene won't happen anytime soon. Hihihi I'll try tho ^3^

To you guest-san, oh I wish I knew your name! I want to thank you properly! I'm glad Aomine's POV sounds like him. I really try hard to not make them OOCs!

Disclaimer: If KnB were mine, it would be hentai. Joking! And the awesome picture belongs to its rightful owner!

THANK YOU SAPPHYRE-CHAN FOR EDITING THIS CHAP MWAAH~ *-*

Chapter 9:

Akashi POV

Finally, my beloved has started talking again. He is still the quiet, monotonous Tetsuya, but at least he responds to my questions. He spaces out occasionally, but I can bring him back to reality by saying his name or touching his hand. Miraculously, he doesn't flinch. We don't mention anything about his attempted kidnapping or the 8-year imprisonment.

Taiga constantly chats about random things, like basketball or basketball (I come to the conclusion that what little brain he has is filled with only this sport.) He also brings up some of their high school memories, and Tetsuya will sometimes smile or make a deadpan comment. It seems that they're really good friends, and I can only watch like a stranger when they exchange insults. I have this overwhelming urge to cut Taiga's cheek with my scissors. (Jealousy? Hah! I am Akashi Seijuurou and I do not get jealous. You would do well to be reminded.)

Hours after Daiki left, another (loud) person arrives at our room. A strange flash of pink blurs across the room and suddenly I felt furious at the female hugging my Tetsuya.

"Tetsu-kun! I missed you!"

Ah, it's only Satsuki. I met them when Ryouta asked for my help 4 years ago, when I had just taken over Father's company. Ryouta had modelled for one of my companies' products, and I first met him in a gala. At that time, the act of "befriending" him was a sham, for my true agenda was to locate Tetsuya. To get his trust, I offered my help if he had any problems. The next day, he, Daiki and Satsuki came into my office to ask for my assistance in finding their friend Tetsuya. That's how I learned he was kidnapped after his high school graduation. Taiga had never met me so he doesn't know that they asked for my help.

"Satsuki, I believe you have some catching up to do with Tetsuya. I have to leave and I won't be back until tomorrow evening. Would the two of you mind watching over Tetsuya?"

"Ahh Akashi-kun~! Of course, of course! Thank you so much for finding Tetsu-kun for us! I'm really grateful!"

I go to my beloved and cup his cheek. His eyes tell me not to leave. But I have important matters to attend to, like killing a few people who hurt my Tetsuya. "I'm sorry, love, but I really have to go. I'll be back, I promise." I kiss his hand. Out of the corner of my eye I see Taiga cringe and Satsuki's eyes widen.

"Do me a favor and don't leave this room without people accompanying you. I'll allow you to drink vanilla milkshakes but only in moderation, alright?" I tell him. He sighs and nods.

"Keep my heart safe." I kiss his forehead and he blushes. I almost didn't want to leave, but my revenge can no longer wait.

"Hi Aka-chin~" The purple-haired giant, a world-renowned patisserie named Murasakibara Atsushi greets me as I climb at the back of the car. He also likes to protect me since I helped him succeed, and he had has made himself my personal bodyguard. His lover Himuro Tatsuya, who's good with anything gadget-related and is an agent officer in the Japanese Intelligence Agency, nods from the passenger seat.

"Let's go, Atsushi. Tatsuya, the location?"

"Shibuya. I confirmed it and one of them is there."

"Only one?" I ask quietly and the temperature in the car immediately drops to zero. Tatsuya flinches.

"Forgive me, Akashi-san. They kept giving me false locations and jamming my locators."

"Fine. You'll have to perform better next time." I warn him. He sighs in relief and nods.

I suddenly felt this strange feeling, a bad premonition of sorts. I have already reduced my chances of failure to 10%, because I have devised this ambush almost perfectly. Therefore it is nearly impossible to fail. Yet my guts tell me that luck is going to be on their side. Heh, I'm beginning to think like Shintaro. I do not need luck. I am absolute.

I recall things as we travel to distract myself. I searched for Tetsuya in my high school days and I learned he attended Seirin Private High School in Tokyo. But I never went there to see him. I was probably still remorseful about leaving him to relocate in Kyoto.

In my college days, the pressure my father put on my studies became heavier than before, as I was to take over the company. I had to go overseas for my degree, so I couldn't keep tabs with Tetsuya's life regularly. I occasionally tried to locate which university he went to, but I couldn't seem to find him. He had disappeared without a trace. And as much as I wanted to focus on finding him, I couldn't just abandon my studies. My search would have to wait.

When I came back to Japan, I was determined to find him and finally show myself, and apologize for all the rubbish I had done to him. Thus I was heartbroken when the trio told me Tetsuya had been kidnapped. I figured out that it's the reason why I couldn't find him. My world literally came crashing down. I felt as if my life force has been cut off, and I didn't want to live anymore. I hated the world, and I wanted to burn it down for making Tetsuya suffer.

But there was a tiny hope that he's still alive. I made a new goal—and that is to find my beloved whatever it takes. I re-channeled my fury into creating my own empire, hell-bent on making my company grow so that I could have more resources to look for Tetsuya. I worked hard day and night, alternating between finding Tetsuya and governing my businesses. They say I'm a genius for making the company multi-billion rich, but that was because I had to be powerful. I had to make a name for myself, so that everyone who knew me would fear me. I envisioned each success leading me closer to Tetsuya. I also ventured into the underground world just to find him. In a span of two years, the name "Akashi Seijuurou" was well-known throughout the world, both by the public masses and secret organizations underground.

Through the illegal transactions in the mafia I created, I caught a glimpse of the group of people who abducted Tetsuya. It was two years ago when I was making a weapon trade deal with a gay pedophile that I discovered the people who had kidnapped my childhood sweetheart. He mentioned fucking this "cute little blue-haired boy" and thought maybe I should try buying prostitutes from his "favorite sex den". My blood boiled and after I got my information, I killed him with a bullet to his crotch and brain.

Finally, I got the lead I had been looking for and I went after these guys, but they were frustratingly smart. They always managed to slip out of my hands. After many attempts, I got lucky and I found the mansion where the "leader" supposedly was staying. As a result, Kazunari escaped from a base thousand of miles away from that mansion, because the guards at their prison were few. He begged me to save his friend "Tet-chan" and with that information, I confirmed that Tetsuya was indeed within this organization's clutches. I concentrated all my power in destroying them and saving my love.

They went radio-silent after Kazunari escaped and it took me twice as hard to find Tetsuya. I also had to thwart their assassination attempts targeting the hawkeyed boy and as well as myself. But I did manage to locate another base, and would have almost seen the "leader" of the kidnappers if he hadn't been quicker and shot my left eye. All I saw was jet black hair as I managed to shoot his back. Unfortunately, he escaped. Nevertheless, I successfully seized the building. Afterwards, I had to go to surgery and replace the useless eye.

Technology nowadays makes a whole eye transplant possible, and the recovery is much faster too. After a week in the hospital, the bandages were removed and I saw my new gold-colored eye (as there was no red orb available). Later, I was discharged and I went to work as if nothing happened, although people kept cowering when I walked into my office. Reo said I was now ten times scarier with my heterochromatic orbs, and my anger for not capturing the criminal only made more people stay away from me. That's good, I guess.

Two days after I left the hospital, I found Tetsuya in that dark alley. Thank the heavens. Now that he's here with me, I can finally unleash all my fury and nuclear-bomb all of my enemies.

We arrive at an apartment-type building and I halt my epiphany. "What's the status?" I ask as I put on my ear piece. "I'm already in the building Akashi. I'll send Himuro what I've scouted." Mayuzumi reports. Tatsuya opens a hologram of the blueprint of the building, and maneuvers it to show the heat signature scans, identifying how many people were inside and their locations. "I have also planted bombs. Everything is ready at your command."

I lay down the instructions for the raid. "Mayuzumi will disable the security system from the inside and overwrite it to Tatsuya's control. Once Tatsuya opens the doors, Hayama's men will go in at the back. Nebuya, kill all enemies who'll try to escape outside."

"Hai! I'm already on standby."

"Yes Akashi."

"Atsushi and I will go through the front. Are the snipers ready?"

"Yes." Nijimura confirms.

"Good. Where is the main target, Tatsuya?"

"On the top floor, third room to the right."

"He's mine. I want him alive, unless I accidentally kill him myself. Is everything clear?"

They mutter sounds of agreement. "On my count, 3… 2… 1… Go."

My men in black suits invade the building. The innocent citizens look at us suspiciously but I don't care. I adjust my black hat and sunglasses and step out of the car.

"The lobby's clear Akashi!"

"Security system disabled. You're free to go."

I enter the apartment and see people lying on the floor stained with blood. Hayama and his men shower the building with bullets. I aim at those still standing or running and mercilessly shoot their brains or hearts. The lobby is eerily quiet because of the silencers in the guns of my men. As I expected, they did not expect an ambush. I turn right and the elevator doors open for me.

"Atsushi, Akashi-san, there are five men on the top floor excluding the target."

Ding! I half-expected several guns pointed at us the moment the doors open but there were none.

Atsushi surveys the outside and bullets fly past him. So they were hiding. After a few moments of exchanging gunshots, Atsushi pulls out a specialized smoke bomb from his jumper suit and throws it at them. We put on gas masks.

We wait for several seconds then get out of the elevator. I head towards the room where my target is. Some people were still coughing in the hallway and I use my gun to put them out of their misery.

"Tatsuya, I'm here. Open the door."

The door slides and I step inside. I see a raven-haired man with glasses framing his squinting eyes and donning a lab coat, grinning like a Cheshire cat without showing his teeth. He raises his arms in surrender. This is not the leader I saw.

"Ara ara, looks like I've been caught."

I take off my mask while maintaining my gun pointed at him. I find him creepy, but I can be creepier.

"You're really good, Akashi. Out of all of us, you found me. That's saying something. This is the first time anyone have been this close to our organization."

"Who are you?"

"Me? Why, my name is Imayoshi Shoichi. And I'm a scientist, by the way."

"It was nice finally seeing you personally, Akashi Seijuurou, but you see, you have to let me go." His smile is really creepy. I glare at him menacingly.

"Why would we do that?" Atsushi asks.

"Because…"

Suddenly a video flashes on the wall behind him and bile rises to the back of my throat. What the-

"Akashi-kun!"

I see Takao Kazunari naked and bound tightly with ropes, bruises all over his body and his face a mixture of colors, from the black around his right eye, indigo bruises on his cheeks, and red blood dripping from his swollen lip. Tears run down continuously from his eyes.

"H-help me!"

Fin~

Lemme clarify, I like Imayoshi. Heck, I like everybody in KnB. Except for probably "Otou-san" hahaha XD