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Most would think rich people would prefer to have their sleepovers at a fellow rich person's mansion, in a room resembling a grand hotel suite, first having high-class dinner with your fellow sleepover mates and then talking about their family businesses.
That did not apply to the rich people in Kuroko Tetsuya's house right now.
In fact, what was happening was the complete opposite of that belief.
"So... why did we end up playing cards again?"
"Just for fun... I think."
"What's up with that?"
"Might as well finish the game, Aomine-kun, there's no turning back."
"Akashicchi and Midorimacchi are so serious over there..." Kise looked at the two said people, playing shogi.
"It's already obvious, Akashicchi would win."
"Aomine-kun, pick a card already..." Kuroko Tetsuya was holding two cards, one was the safe card, and one was the joker card.
There was no money betted on the game, so Aomine Daiki didn't really worry about losing anything. What he didn't want was him being looked on as a lame-o again, just when he had lost a game to Kuroko earlier too. It always seemed to be him ending up on a tight spot, and he resorted to the famous world-wide method.
"Eenie,meenie,minie,mo. Which card shall decide my fate today?" He ended up picking the card to his right side, he closed his eyes.
"THIS IS IT, MY REPUTATION DEPENDS ON THIS MOMENT!" Aomine Daiki screamed in his mind.
"Aominecchi, you don't have to worry about anything... Kurokocchi will go easy on you next time."
"Minechin, open your eyes already."
Aomine opened his eyes to see Murasakibara smirking in front of his face, and he saw the joker card in his hand.
"I LOST AGAIN!" Aomine whined.
"You didn't, Murasakibara switched the cards." Midorima said, who was also losing to Akashi Seijuro in shogi for the 100th time.
"Midochin, you spoiled the fun..."
"Midorimacchi, I bet you're losing, aren't you?" Kise smiled with a sparkly aura.
"I'm not losing, I already lost.." Midorima said, obviously annoyed, not because he lost, but because they didn't have to say he lost in front of his face, especially if the one using it against him was just a lucky "excuse" of a person, at least, that sums up how most people view Kise Ryouta.
But they didn't know hidden beneath that happy-go-lucky, childish-like personality was a person who just wanted everyone to get along. He was somehow happy that now they were just sitting like this relaxing, not having to think about competition and problems, and he was somehow glad most of them took Kuroko out of their mind once in a while.
But his vision of them being a happy-go-lucky bunch not thinking about competing for Kuroko was impossible, especially since the next game was a very evil game indeed.
"Everyone, what should we play next?" Kuroko asked. He was unaware that his question, pure and without any suspicious intent, actually gave birth to a more sinister plan.
"Of course, when you say sleep-over, you say truth or dare."
"We'll settle it with rock papers scissors~!" Kise actively joined the discussion,
"Oh well," he thought to himself. "What's important is to have some fun!"
Their idea of fun was totally different from the normal type of fun.
And so...
"Rock, paper, scissors!" Normally, rock, paper, scissors composed of hands taking the form of rock, scissors, or paper. But what came out of Akashi's hand was a combination of rock and scissor.
The rest knew Akashi Seijuro somehow had a habit of carrying numerous scissors with him, taking it to advantage, they all chose rock, but Kuroko didn't know, he innocently chose paper.
"Akashicchi... what's that supposed to be?"
"Rock... But, why did my scissors betray me at this moment?!"
"Akachin, scissors don't appear out of nowhere, you must have had them in your hand the whole time."
"Scissor or rock or whatever, Akashi, anything other than rock, paper, or scissors is against the rules. You're it."
"...You'll pay for this, Daiki, I have my own rules."
"Such as?"
"I always win."
"Well, you're not the king this time, we're playing as equals, what do you say?"
"Humph... I have no choice..." Akashi Seijuro never really played Truth or Dare, so he didn't know which was the better evil.
"Truth, or, dare?"
"...Which is safer?"
It really depended on who you were playing with, and reminder, if your playmates were people like them, truth or dare would be a terrifying nightmare indeed.
But it was almost impossible to make Akashi Seijuro scared, so they decided to talk about it without Akashi hearing.
"So, what should we do?" Aomine Daiki found the game rather horrifying, due to previous experiences from childhood days. Some things like taking a step into the girls' comfort room, he did, and a girl mistook him for a pervert.
No, he was a pervert, but not that bad of a pervert, a good behaved pervert.
"Everyone, go easy on Akashi-kun..." Kuroko suggested.
"If we go easy on Akashi, we'll be the ones ending up losing the game." Midorima was careful with treating Akashi Seijuro, he knew well enough of what Akashi Seijuro was capable of.
"Is there even winning or losing in truth or dare?" Kise chuckled.
"Nah... I don't think so. Akachin, judging him, I think he'll probably choose dare."
"Then... I know the perfect dare." Aomine nodded to himself.
"What is it, Aominecchi?"
"Can I give him the dare?"
"Yeah, any objections?"
"None."
And so...
"So, Akashicchi? Truth or dare?"
"Hmm... since there is almost nothing I can't do, dare." Akashi answered. He didn't know his self-confidence would be his doom.
"Woah, Murasakibaracchi was right!"
"About what?" Akashi asked suspiciously, he eyed Kise and Murasakibara with a glare.
"Nothing, Akashicchi..."
"Well, then Aomine Daiki, do the honors."
"Akashi Seijuro, I want you to kiss Tetsu on the cheek."
"NOOOO, AOMINECCHI, THAT WAS UNHEARD OF!"
"Kisses are invalid, this is basically illegal." Midorima reprimanded Aomine, but deep inside him, he just didn't want to see his lucky item for the day getting dirtied by the lips of others.
Yes, coincidentally, Midorima's lucky "item" today was said to be a friend who was an Aquarius. He found it rather odd for the horoscope to consider a person a lucky item, but he was faithful to his beliefs, that was the kind of person Midorima was.
"Since when did I consider Kuroko my friend?" Midorima suddenly asked himself. He shoved away the thought from his head, concentrating to reality.
"Then... Kiss-"
"Kisses are not allowed, Minechin."
"That's not fair, when I was in elementary, someone asked me to kiss the blackboard!"
"The blackboard and this are two different cases."
"Down with that person! Cut his or her head off!"
"C'mon, don't say that when that person's not here... What good will it do me?! That was a long time ago..." Aomine never really had much happy memories. Even though that truth or dare he had was rather odd, it was also his first time playing with other people his age.
He was grateful he got to experience the fun again, and he was going to make sure this experience would stay in his mind forever.
"Okay fine... Why don't you try this, Akashi? Bring Tetsu with you and knock at the neighbour's doorstep, leave Tetsu there and hide, see what the neighbour's reaction will be and apologize there afterwards. How's that?"
"I'm sure the neighbour will fawn at how cute Kurokocchi is~!"
"Kise, you'll be the one doing that, don't push your ideals onto others."
"...I'll do it." Akashi stood up and carried Kuroko, piggy-back style.
"A-akashi-kun... this feels..."
"Stay at ease, Tetsuya. Whatever that neighbour does to you, I'll give it back to him or her 100 times more painful."
"That's not it, Akashi-kun, it's just that... it somehow feels good..." Kuroko said that because it had been a while since he actually rode on someone's back.
Not since his parents divorced... due to certain reasons.
Remembering it made him sad, but he knew it was long in the past. It still haunted him, how people would soon abandon him anyway, but he knew better than to think that about his friends.
"I see, well, hold on tight." Akashi smiled to himself, now he felt not as the one who was easily controlled by anger and desire of destruction, but as a person who was free of the bad things in the world.
~After Akashi and Kuroko were headed for the neighbour's house~
"Akashicchi must have done it by now."
"I wonder what happened?"
"Hmm... Let's take a look." They peeked through the window and saw Akashi leave Kuroko by the doorstep.
"Huh? Why does Akashicchi seem reluctant?"
"That's because he knows he's not doing the right thing." Aomine said.
"Now I just noticed, we're so lucky to have a friend like Kurokocchi..."
"I don't really consider him a-"
"Don't lie to yourself, Midorimacchi, you know it's true. We all do, we'd better not let go of Kurokocchi, he'll be playing hard-to-get."
"He doesn't even know how complicated he is, that Tetsu, but that's why we like him don't we?"
"Don't think you'll get Kurochin without getting hurt."
"We all know that, we really do."
~What's happening next door~
Hayami was a lady in her late 30s, she had lost her son to sickness. Three years have passed, and even now, she held the picture of her son in her hands. She thought back to three years ago, today was the exact day her son had died.
So you can imagine what her expression would be when she saw a boy who somehow looked like her son on her house's doorstep.
"Hibiki?" she whispered to herself. She blinked and she realized it wasn't her son.
"Umm... who's Hibiki?" It was the first time she saw this teal-haired boy in front of her, she was sure of it.
"Ah... it's nothing... were you the one who knocked?"
"No... it was A-"
"It was me, I'm sorry for the nuisance, you see, my friends next door gave this to me as a dare, I'm sorry if we bothered you. Well then, good-"
"Wait, who exactly are you two?" Hayami was confused, she didn't remember the house next door being occupied.
"Ah... I'm Akashi Seijuro, and he's Kuroko Tetsuya."
"Kuroko-kun huh... I knew your mother, we used to be friends in high school. She promised to herself that if she'd had a boy, she would name him Tetsuya. To think... How long has it been I wonder..."
"...You knew my mother?"
"Yes... it's been a while since I'd last seen her though, is she well?"
"...To be honest, I don't know, miss. Both of my parents disappeared when I was 5."
"I'm sorry to hear that... for a moment I thought you were my son back there. You have the same eyes... Enough about that, good night to the two of you, make sure not to trouble the other people around here with your dares."
"Yes ma'am, we'll make sure we don't overdo our... foolishness."
~And so...~
"What was that about, Tetsuya?"
"...To be honest, I don't know. I only have a few memories involving my parents, and most were of them fighting. I don't have that much memories of my past, I woke up in that orphanage. I grew up there as well, it was only recently I started living independent of others..."
"...Is that so? Did you ever wonder what your parents were like?" It certainly piqued Akashi Seijuro's interest, it was how he noticed he didn't know much about their dear phantom like they thought they did.
"I do remember their physical features, but in my memories, the conversations are inaudible, almost completely etched."
"Don't worry, you're part of our family now. You see those fools up there looking at us? However foolish or idiotic they may be, they're part of it too." Akashi Seijuro pointed at the rest who were peeking through the window.
"Thank you, Akashi-kun... Well, we can't keep them waiting, can we?"
"You're right, they'll be anticipating your return."
~Back in the house~
"How did it turn out? I bet the neighbours next door were gaping at how cute and innocent Tetsu was."
"Aomine-kun, what does that mean?"
"Nothing, just... something." Aomine smiled to himself.
"...The neighbour thought Tetsuya was her son."
"Hmm... but why?"
"WHAT?! BUT KUROKOCCHI IS MY WAIFU! WHY DON'T I KNOW MY MOTHER IN LAW?!"
"We get the message, Kisechin..."
"Why didn't anyone invite me to the wedding? This is an outrage, I would have ruined the wedding into pieces... And that includes killing the groom."
"Akashicchi... it was just a joke... a joke..."
"And besides, do you not know what the word thought means? Don't make assumptions..."
"Okay fine, that dare was done, so, who's next?"
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!"
"Yay~ Aominecchi's turn!"
"Yikes, aw fine... truth."
"Eh? But truth is no fun..."
"It depends on how you view that option, well, I'll make sure to ask him thoroughly." Akashi smiled in an evil way.
"I'm in your hands..." Aomine shuddered, he reluctantly held out his hands, and Akashi Seijuro squeezed them with all his might.
"Ow, Ow, Ow, SHEEEET, it hurts! WHERE'S THE QUESTION?! YOU HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED YET!"
"Oh... I'm sorry, my hands just... wanted to squeeze something... heh."
"That was on purpose, bastard."
"Daiki, did you just call me a bastard?"
"No, I didn't, Akashi-sama." He rolled his eyes, if he remembered right, the audible range of human hearing was really sensitive.
"Well then, what do you like about Tetsuya? Everyone in this room has the right to know, Tetsuya is no exception. Right, Tetsuya?"
"I suppose I am curious as well..." Kuroko timidly answered.
"There you have it, Kurochin says it all."
"...I like everything about him." Aomine said nervously, he shifted slightly from his current position.
"A more.. specific answer please." Akashi tightened his grip and squeezed harder.
"WHAT DID I DO TO YOU TO MAKE YOU DO THIS TO ME?!"
"Oh, you didn't do anything, I'm doing this out of pure curiosity, as they say, curiosity kills."
"Akashcchi, you're being scary..."
"I almost pity Aomine Daiki, to have Akashi do that to him..."
"How do you say this... unlike me, he's not lazy, he's hardworking, he's freaking innocent it's annoying, he's too dense for his own good it makes you want to protect him, he's the sort of person who manages just by working hard, even if it meant having to start from the very beginning. I respect him in that way."
"Respect, and not anything else?"
"That's two questions already." Aomine Daiki complained, Akashi glared back at his response, but he knew he had to play fair.
He was a fair person... sort of.
But no one ever said playing games needed to be fair, did they?
However, the good side of Akashi Seijuro felt he had to let it slip... for now.
"Phew..." Aomine breathe out in relief as Akashi Seijuro let go of his two hands. He rubbed them to each other and blowed on them, looking at them with an expression of pity. He looked like he wanted to soothe his hands and cry for them.
"Aomine," Aomine Daiki came back to his senses when he heard Midorima Shintarou call his name. It was once again time for rock paper sccissors.
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!"
"Midorimacchi, good luck in trying to survive."
"Humph, my luck is on first place today, and I am sure Oha-Asa will not fail me."
"Fine, fine, so Midochin, truth or dare?"
"Truth, I am not a liar." After Midorima's self-confident statement, the rest couldn't help but laugh, they shot him questionable looks.
"We'll see about that..."
"Who's got a good question for Midorima?"
"Midorima-kun, can I be the one?"
If most people heard that, it would most probably come to a misunderstanding.
"Kurokocchi, you felt that way about Midorimacchi?! I'm heartbroken, my life is done for! Midorimacchi, why are you so lucky?"
"Huh? Did I say something wrong? I had something I wanted to ask Midorima-kun..."
"Kurochin, how can you do that?"
"Do what, Murasakibara-kun?"
"Get in an embarrassing situation and yet get out of it without a scratch, along with managing to pull it off in an innocent way." Aomine said, because he always seemed to get killed when he did something wrong.
It was supposed to be that way but he always asked himself why his mentor was like that.
Not that he had a problem with it, he admired his mentor for having that trait of his.
As a person, Aomine Daiki had a lot of things left to learn.
"Here I go, Midorima-kun..."
"Kurokocchi, why are you so nervous? When you're not the one being questioned..."
"It's just that... Midorima-kun, I don't want him to get offended by my question."
"Don't worry Kuroko, try me."
"Well then... Midorima-kun, is there a particular reason why you're so attached to lucky items?"
"Oh... so that was it... that's such a kind question."
"No, that's where you're wrong. Asking someone like Midorimacchi a question like that is like asking a person the reason why he or she needed to breath."
"Humph, it's because you're my lucky item, and I can't seem to let go of it, no matter what I do. W-well, are you all satisfied?!"
"Midorimacchi's blushing!"
"Midochin, that was so... corny." Murasakibara munched on his pocky.
"I don't want to hear that from you!" Midorima regretted answering. "But... there is an actual reason you know."
"Would you mind telling us, Midorima-kun?"
"D-Don't ask that of me with your puppy eyes... I- I guess I have no choice. Fine... It's simple, it's because for my whole life, I've been unlucky."
"...Huh?"
"It all started when I was in the second grade, I hadn't known all of you yet. It was about the time when I started to learn fortune telling, my predictions were accurate. The cards foretold my next days would be unlucky, after that, a lot of things started happening. A bucket of water was poured down on me just because a girl on the stairs bumped onto it, it fell down on my unlucky head, and after that, a certain parasite named Kazunari Takao transferred into our class. He started tailing me everywhere I went, I was annoyed. I was so unlucky to end up falling for a guy like him."
"MIDORIMACCHI WAS IN LOVE! It's so hot in here... I'm melting." Kise said enthusiastically.
"Shut up, going on... *ahem*"
"Was that *ahem* really necessary?"
"My life turned more and more unlucky, it went ultra mega unlucky when I was told I had to transfer to Teiko Middle School, and at that time, I was rather close to that parasite. I didn't want to experience that again, so I started being obsessed with items that increased luck, but still, to think my other person would come just when the first person disappeared from my life... fate is evil indeed."
"That was so sad..." Kise sniffed, he was crying. Crying tears of joy. "Tissues please..." he said in a sarcastic way.
"Midochin, don't cry after this..."
"What do you all think of me?!"
"A lucky-item obsessed megane tsundere weirdo who keep talking about horoscopes here and there." Aomine was honest about it. "But there's nothing wrong about that, because that's what makes you the annoying person you are."
"Midorima-kun, I think that's not very convincing."
"Tetsuya, what does that mean? Are you not satisfied?"
"...Not exactly... it's just that... you choose your own destiny, don't you? Lucky items don't decide the future, you do, Midorima-kun. You choose the path you take, it's what led people to where they are now."
"Yes, yes, Kuroko, I know that. But it might take more than your words to cure me now..."
"Take Midochin to the psychiatrist!"
"I'm not retarded, I don't see why I need to go to the psychiatrist."
"This'll be the last truth or dare, it's getting too chaotic."
"Agreed."
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!"
"Ah."
"Kurokocchi's it!"
"So, truth or dare?"
"...What should I choose... I wonder?" Kuroko Tetsuya pondered.
Either way, Kuroko Tetsuya was going to have a hard time.
But they wouldn't let their dear phantom have a hard time.
"It's okay, Kurokocchi, we promise we'll go easy on you~!"
"Kise-kun, that's not very reassuring..."
"So, Tetsu, what'll it be?"
"...Truth, I guess."
"That one's easy,"
"There's only one question we have in mind."
They all seemed to be in agreement, and unfortunately, the certain someone Kuroko Tetsuya said was going to have a hard time staying with the others peacefully tonight.
Because...
"Kurochin/Tetsu/Kurokocchi/Tetsuya/Kuroko, who do you like the most among us?"
"...Everyone, you seem to always like questions like these."
"Ahaha... ahaha..."
"The answer?"
"It'll obviously be me."
"No, it'll be me, screw all of you, we and Tetsu are best buds, aren't we, Tetsu?"
"...I suppose that is true, it is true Aomine-kun is a good student, and he's easier to manage."
"Eh? But I'm Kurokocchi's waifu! Who cares about being a student? Bah, I bet I'm the only one who's ever played hide and seek with Kurokocchi in this room."
"Who cares about hide and seek? I was the only one who gave Kurochin vanilla shakes everyday!"
"Not vanilla shake bribery again!"
"Please, I've set my eyes on Tetsuya ever since the fifth grade of elementary. I've known him since you were all strangers to him."
"Akachin, knowing is different from getting to know."
"I know that! And besides, I was the only one who was actually nice to him back then, even though you were all acting like bystanders just waiting for all the fuss to subside."
"You guys have known Tetsu since elementary?"
"Not really... well, we were his classmates for one year, but we never really talked to Kuroko."
"It was a joint curriculum between our school and Tetsuya's school which lasted for only one year, I suspect it was purely experimental. With the exception of Ryouta, yes we've known him since fifth grade of elementary school."
"Oh... but since when did you develop feelings for him?" Aomine blurted it out, he was curious. As they say, "keep your friends close, your enemies closer".
"I am not obliged to tell you that, as you can see, Tetsuya hasn't even decided on a proper answer yet. Well, Tetsuya, your verdict?"
"Don't make it sound like a court trial!"
"Hmm... Aomine-kun I think, I think I'm closest to Aomine-kun."
"THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! ASHDSGADGLDHF-"
"Kise, quit overreacting, it is Kuroko's decision. People have their own decisions, you can't change them... for now."
"Yes, we still have a chance."
"Wai~ Akachin understands..!"
"Well, that is the last question, so in the end, I win!" Aomine yawned, it was in fact, already 2:00 in the morning, they had been playing games nonstop.
"Don't think you've won, the battle is not yet over!"
They turned off the lights, Aomine was straight asleep. He slept on one of the futons, taking a weird position.
"He's unexpectedly a messy sleeper."
"That's not unexpected of Aomine."
"Everyone, I'm sleeping as well, good night... Should I sleep on one of the couches?"
"Nah, you should just sleep on the bed, we're fine here."
And before long, Kuroko Tetsuya was asleep.
And being asleep meant he was completely vulnerable.
"Uwaaa. Kurokocchi's sleeping face is soooo cute. I want to poke his cheek.."
"Stop, you'll wake him up..."
"On the other hand, that guy seems to be sleeping peacefully too..."
"His sleep will be peaceful no longer."
"Akashicchi, what do you have in mind?"
"Someone please fetch me a marker..."
"Here you go." Midorima handed Akashi the item he wanted.
~The next morning~
"Yo, everyone, how was your sleep?" And yet no one answered Aomine Daiki.
"Aomine-kun, you're awake? The rest already went home... Aomine-kun, what happened to your face?"
"Huh? Is something on my face?"
"Not just something... A lot of things..." Kuroko grabbed a mirror and gave it to Aomine.
He stared at his face in the mirror. And...
1.
2.
3.
"WHAT THE F***?! WHO THE HECK DID THIS SH*T TO ME?!"
"Aomine-kun, do you need to wash your face? The comfort room's over there, feel free to use it."
"AAAAH HOW THE HECK DO I ERASE THIS?! THIS MUST HAVE BEEN DONE BY THOSE BASTARDS. You'll pay for this someday, whoever did this!"
~Akashi Seijuro's mansion~
"Heh. I can hear Daiki screaming and cursing from miles away, he must be frustrated now."
"Akashi-sama, the car has been prepared."
He was headed to a certain hospital owned by Midorima's family, and in there was Shibuki Ren.
The fight wasn't over, and certain figures were plotting behind the shadows.
The enemy had yet to show it's true colors, but the enemy was always very good at doing that at the right time.
She figured that the time still wasn't right.
"Soon... very soon..."
Well, that was somehow long... next chapter will be the beach chapter, and you can pretty much guess what will happen :3 I'll leave it to your wild imagination ;)
I can't wait for episode 13 of the anime's s2, Akashi's finally making his ACTUAL appearance (aside from the tip-off, and the various slight teasers). January 4, hurry up and come! Oh, and Advanced Happy New Year to everyone :)
-BerryBliss