Hello guys, it's me Tory. My sister is finally gone.

I just wanted to say that yes, the update was pretty quick. And yes, I am mean for doing something so mean to Kuroko. I am ashamed.

Anyway, I'd like to thank those who have favorited, followed and reviewed. You are important to me. I hope by the end of this, you will all have a new favorite author (or authors since it's me and my sis).

Disclaimer: Neither Tara or Tory own Kuroko no Basket. If that were to happen, Tory would have Kuroko and Kagami be more than just friends.

I hope you enjoy.

-Tory M.

It was December 16th morning. It was a cold morning. Most people would want to stay in the warmth of their bed than to get up in to the cold winter air that had some how found it's way into their homes.

Kise was no exception, but that wasn't why he wouldn't get out of bed. Sure, he would rather stay in bed than to get up and get ready for school, but for some reason Kise had a bad feeling in his gut.

Kise felt like something bad is about to happen. He's had these gut feeling before. He would get these on the days he would have a match with someone whom he eventually lost to, be it Kuroko or Aomine. This gut feeling was similar, but it seemed to be full of dread.

Maybe I'll fail my test today...

Determined with the guess he made, Kise finally got out of his warm bed and rushed to get ready. He showered and put on his school uniform. After grabbing his school bag, Kise was about to tell his parents he was leaving until he had gotten a text from Akashi.

"Uh oh." Kise mumbled to himself. When Akashi text him, it was never good.

"Let's see what he has to say." Kise then flipped open his phone to read the message, having the same feeling he had when he had woken up.

From: Akashi
Subject: Urgent
Go to your TV and change it to channel 27, NOW.

With that, Kise felt his fears being confirmed.

Murasakibara had woken up and had lazily gotten out of bed. He didn't want to go to school today. It was only four more days until winter break. Nothing important was happening (to him). Eventually, Murasakibara had the thought of his friend Himuro cross his mind and his mood turned around. Now he was eager (or as eager as he can get) and decided to get ready for school.

Once Murasakibara was ready he decided to watch TV before going to school since he still had some time left before school started. He settled to watching an episode of Pokemon while eating some breakfast and snacks. It was on a scene of Ash and Pikachu blasting Team Rocket away, when his phone vibrated in his pocket indicating he got a text. He pulled out his phone and checked the message.

From: Akashi
Subject: Urgent
Go to your TV and change it to channel 27, NOW.

He groaned in annoyance and laziness until he decided to do what he was told, seeing as it was wise to not to disobey the red-headed teen. He changed the channel to reveal the news and it's top story.

He should have kept watching the Anime because his eagerness from before was gone before he could even process what he had eventually heard.

After checking his horoscope (and being displeased seeing as how Cancer ended up being ranked pretty low for the day), Midorima started off the morning feeling irritated. Seeing as how the lucky item of the day was a stuffed bunny, he headed over to his sister's room after changing for school to see if she would willingly lend one of her stuffed animals for the day.

He had knocked on the door to be greeted by the pouty face of his sister.

"Onee-chan is mean." she had complained in a childish voice even though she was fourteen years of age.

"How am I mean?" Midorima questioned his sister.

"Simple, you came over here to ask me to either come down for dinner or to barrow one of my plushies for your lucky item of the day. I'm pretty sure it's morning and the last time I checked, we never had dinner for breakfast."

"So, how am I mean?" His sister's ranting was starting to annoy him.

"I never get anything in return..."

Midorima sighed. She was so immature for her age. After promising to do her chores for the day, Midorima was finally able to get the stuffed toy. He headed down stairs to begin his breakfast.

When he had finally reached the bottom of the stairs, his phone rang. He reached into his pocket to open his phone to read the text while heading in the direction of the kitchen.

When he had sat down at his spot at the table, he had pulled up the message while reaching over for a piece of toast that was in front of him. The message was from Akashi. That's odd. Midorima thought it was odd for Akashi to contact him so early in the day. None the less, he read the message sent to him.

From: Akashi
Subject: Urgent
Go to your TV and change it to channel 27, NOW.

Midorima felt his heart start to race. Somehow the message sounded like Akashi was...

Pleading.

Aomine was eating breakfast this fine Tuesday morning, all ready for school. He hadn't wanted to get up early, but he had headed to bed early than he usually did last night, so...

Aomine was was half way done with his plate when he gets a text from Akashi. Most times Aomine tended to ignore the chores Akashi assigned him, even if it did come with a consequence later on. Most times it had to do with Tetsuya too and Aomine was just that lazy to not do it.

This time was different. Aomine actually found it rather strange for the sadistic boy to give him a chore so early in the morning. So, the dark skinned boy reached over to his phone that was lying next to his plate and unlocked the screen to read the message.

From: Akashi
Subject: Urgent
Go to your TV and change it to channel 27, NOW.

Aomine had scoffed at how serious he sounded, but followed the order anyways.

Still feeling drowsy, Aomine got up and poured himself a cup of coffee before heading in the direction of the living room were the TV was located. He found his father watching the news when he had gotten there also drinking some coffee.

"Hey pops, can I barrow the TV real quick?" Aomine can only hope that his father woke up feeling relaxed.

"Sure, I got to get ready for work soon anyway." his father soon got up from the coach and headed to his room to get his stuff ready for the day. Aomine then grabbed the remote from the spot where his father was just sitting and headed over to stand in front of the TV. He changed it to channel twenty-seven just like Akashi had instructed him to, and was slightly annoyed to find it was just more news.

"Our top story, 25 teens reported missing in the same time span of 8 hours ranging from the ages of 14 to 18." the woman had stated on the television screen.

"All from the same area, the teens were all seen last on Saturday, December 16th."

Damn, Aomine thought. It's been four days since those kids had gone missing. Soon, the reporter started listing each of the teens who had gone missing in alphabetical order. She described basic information with pictures and when they were last seen. Aomine soon started wondering why he would he should care. It was tragic and all, but it didn't have to do with him.

Aomine soon found himself wanting the report to end so he could finish his breakfast and continue on with his day. That was until the report stated a certain name and showing a picture of a teen with teal colored hair.

"Kuroko Tetsuya. He is a male sixteen years of age. He has light blue hair, pale skin and a slight build.
He has the height of 163 cm and the weight of 57 kg.
He attends Seirin High School as a first year and is on the basketball team.
Kuroko was last seen at the 'Sunset' convenient store at 7:24 P.M.
If you see this boy, please call his parents with the number at the bottom of the screen."

When the information settled into his head, Aomine dropped his cup he was holding. It made contact with the floor and shattered, leaving bits of glass and puddles of coffee on the tile floor near his feet.

Aomine was shocked. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. His best friend who he had just made up with, was gone. His friend was missing and for a while now. His worst nightmare was coming true.

Aomine had just lost his best friend again.

"What do you mean you don't know?!" Aomine had started to raise his voice which in return, Kagami started to raise his voice as well.

"It's like I told you, I don't know what happened! All I know is that my best friend has gone missing!"

"How can you not know?! Tetsu is alway by your side!"

"He isn't always! We can't be around each other twenty-four/seven!"

"I knew I should have taken back Tetsu! You clearly don't have the qualities to be his light! You should always stay by his side no matter what!"

"You think I don't want to?! You think I don't try?!"

"ENOUGH!"

The heated argument between the two immediately stopped as they looked over at Himuro with shock. He had just about enough of these two.

The Generation of Miracles, Himuro, Takao and Moimoi had come over to Seirin to find out the details about Kuroko and to possibly help in anyway they can. When they had all arrived at the gym(at different times), they had all started to ask questions and it eventually lead to Aomine and Kagami yelling at one another.

"We all know that you two are stressed from the situation, but yelling isn't going to help. You making the girls cry!" He then pointed to the group to reveal Moimoi and Riko crying, only to notice something else.

"And Kise..."

With that, the room fell into an uncomfortable silence. Everyone in the room didn't know what to do. Except for the girls and Kise, everyone wouldn't dare speak a word. Midorima then sighed, breaking the tension.

"We should just drop it for now. Maybe if we go to Kuroko's house, we can find a way to help, as well as pay our respects."

"Shin-chan's right. Fighting never helped."

"Thank you two, mnh?" Himuro looked over at Murasakibara who had started hugging him from behind, hiding his head in the crook of the shorter boy's neck.

"Sad" was all the purple haired teen said. Himuro then got the message and started patting the teen on the head in a reassuring way, clearly worried for the giant. "It's ok.

"Oh Kise, come hear." Moimoi walked over to Kise and embraced him seeing as he wouldn't stop crying. Kise then started sobbing at the gesture and hugged back.

"I can't just sit still knowing our friend is in some sort of trouble!" Hyuuga tighten his fist of the hand that wasn't embracing the crying Riko.

"What are we supposed to do?" Teppei wanted to help, but how?

"Nothing..."

Everyone looked over at the short red-head in surprise. Akashi was surprisingly quiet the whole time being here. When they had all looked over, they got a shocking sight. Akashi after saying something so unlike him, was wearing a crestfallen expression. What was happening?

"Akashi, what are saying?" Furihata had questioned him.

"We can't do anything. No matter how much we do it won't change a thing. He's gone"

"Akashi, you have got to be kidding me. This isn't like you." Kise doesn't recognize this kind of Akashi.

"What's the use..." was all Akashi said leaving the room in a heavy atmosphere.

"We can't just leave behind Tetsu like that." Aomine didn't want to.

"You mean like you did?" Kagami would never let that detail fall.

"I understood what I did and I fixed it already! Tetsu is my best friend and now he's gone missing! I lost him again!" Aomine was losing his head. "This is all your fault!"

"How is it my fault!"

"Because I trusted him to you and what do you do?! You lose him!"

"You think I did it on PURPOSE?!"

"It's a possible thought!"

"You know what?! That's one reason Kuroko left you! Has it ever crossed your mind that I miss him too?!"

"Well you sure as hell don't show it!"

"Well I miss him! Tell me, do you?!"

"Of course I do!"

"Really?!"

"Yes! I miss him to no end because-"

"Because what?!"

"BECAUSE!"

Aomine didn't finnish because at that moment he held his forehead. Tears brimmed his eyes until they slid down his cheeks. Aomine had been so stressed he had started to yell, but that wasn't enough for his body. Kagami just stared in shock. Aomine looked down in shame of being seen crying. He started to wipe away his tears hoping he could get rid of them, but was served useless as the tears wouldn't stop. He eventually let them fall.

He was surprised to feel a pat on the back. He had looked up from his downward glance to see Kagami patting his back. He was looking away, but Aomine was able to see his expression. It was one that said 'It's ok. I know how you feel'. Aomine just looked back down and continued to let the tears fall.

The group felt the atmosphere turn from intense to heavy. The whole ordeal was just one big giant mess. Even some of the toughest people of the group couldn't keep their heads on straight. They can only pray it won't get any worse when they get to Kuroko's house.

The meeting in the small house had thankfully been less stressful. The Generation of Miracles were able to get the slightest information. It wasn't enough to help, but it was something. After pay respect to Aysel, everyone had eventually left for home. All except Aomine.

Aysel, Kagami and Aysel were chatting in the living room while drinking tea. Aomine was talking to the young mother, asking if there was anything he could do to help. She had reassured him that Kagami was helping her plenty and that all they can do now was wait.

Aomine kept asking her if there was anything he could do. This kept going on for a while until she told him to just visit from time to time. Right after that, Kagami had noticed it getting dark outside and decided he should get dinner ready.

"I should get dinner ready." he got up from his seat and turned to head to the kitchen.

"You don't have to do that!" Aysel protested and started to get up, when Kagami gently pushed her back down.

"I don't mind. Besides, you need to relax. You've been stressing for the past four days." Kagami headed towards the kitchen.

"Let me help"

Kagami looked back at Aomine who started to get up from his seat. When Aomine was right next to him, he saw a pleading look and agreed to the extra help.

When they had gotten to the kitchen, Kagami had given Aomine instructions on what to do and they soon started dinner in silence. It wasn't until a little bit past halfway through that Aomine started to speak.

"Sorry about earlier. I just..." he started to drift from what he was saying.

"It's fine. I understand. I guess I overreacted too." Kagami knows how Aomine is feeling.

"I miss him"

Kagami looked over at Aomine. His face showed worry, opposite from his usual intense look. He had momentarily stopped what he was doing (which was stiring a sauce), only to continue.

"I miss him too."

After a couple minutes of silence Aomine decided to ask a question. "Kagami?"

"Mmh?"

"What's Tetsu to you?" He had a hunch on something and he wanted to make sure.

"What do you mean?"

"What does he feel like to you? Does he feel like you partner? Friend?"

"Well if you want my full opinion, I'd say he's more than my shadow. Even though he goes on and on about being a shadow. If I had to guess, I'd say he's my light."

Aomine lightly smiled at this, not stopping his work. "Can I ask you one more question?"

"Go right a head."

Aomine was pretty sure Kagami had a crush on their missing friend. He wasn't that stupid and dense. Right?

"Do you like Kuroko?" There was a pause from the red-head. He stopped his work for a slight moment before beginning again. They way he stopped all at once made it seemed like he was hesitating. After getting no response the dark blue-haired teen asked once again.

"Do you like Kuroko?"

"No." That surprised Aomine.

"But-"

"I love him."

Aomine looked over at Kagami in shock. Kagami just kept working with a straight face like what he said wasn't embarrassing, but the red on his cheeks gave it away. Aomine broadly smiled and let it go. They finished making dinner and sat down to eat with Aysel.

There wasn't much talking during the meal, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Aysel was relieved to both eat and have company to eat with. The two teens smiled at her from time to time. Eventually Aysel broke the ice and they started a conversation. She was even able to smile. She was great-full for the two friends of Kuroko.

Soon Aomine had to leave. They had bid farewell to Aomine when he had left. Kagami looked over at Aysel smiling in which she returned.

"You're smiling." He was glad of this.

"Yup."

It was nice to smile, even if it wasn't going to last long.

After heading to bed, Kagami was left with one thought before falling asleep.

I'm in love with Kuroko Tetsuya.

I kind of rushed in the end. I mean, I'm writing this at two in the morning.

Anyways, I hoped you guys enjoyed the quick update and don't expect the next one to be this soon. Just do what I do when I wait, either reread it or read another story and come back to this.

Please R&R as well as favorite and follow. Tell you friends too.

I love you all.

-Tory M.