CHAPTER 11 ( ALTERNATE ENDING)
Everyone rushed over to the house where Kuroko was held captive. Kise continued to bang on the door when Kagami pushed the blonde aside. "Move over, Kise."
Before Kagami punched the glass, Akashi grabbed his arm and pulled him back slightly. "Wait, hold on a second." The taller redhead turned to him, wearing an impatient expression. "We should split up into two groups, just in case Atsushi is waiting for us." Everyone nodded in agreement. "Ryouta, you come with me. The rest of you proceed with caution and head in through the front door."
Kise followed Akashi to the backyard of the house. Kise gave Akashi a boost up over the fence, and the latter landed to his feet softly. He opened the gate from the other side and both proceeded to open the back door.
Meanwhile, Kagami punched through the glass and fiddled the lock from inside. The door opened slowly, making a loud creaky sound. Aomine grimaced at the pungent smell that waffled in his nostrils and held his nose. "Something smells like shit?!" he snapped and Midorima shushed him quietly.
Kagami pointed to a direction with his head and the other two nodded. Aomine and Midorima went off together towards the kitchen while Kagami headed for the living room. Aomine and MIdorima entered the kitchen and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The door to the walk-in pantry swayed a bit thus Aomine went further into the kitchen to check it out. He poked his head inside the small pantry room; resulting in finding nothing unusual. Just before he closed the door, he felt warm liquid splatter across his arm and turned to the side seeing Midorima collapsing with an axe wedged in his head. Aomine's eyes widened as blood sprayed out from the shooting guard's body.
"Hey Mine-chin, what are you doing here?" a lazy familiar sounding voice sounded and the owner of the voice took out the axe from the green haired male's body and walked towards Aomine.
"What the fuck, Murasakibara?!" he yelled but Murasakibara ignored him and twirled the axe around in his hand. Aomine panicked and grabbed a nearby potted plant on the dinner table.
"Really, Mine-chin?" he chuckled and slowly cornered the tanned male. Whilst Murasakibara swung the axe again, Aomine ducked just in time, sliding away under the table. The axe was stuck in the wall and the giant growled angrily, turning around in search of his escaped victim.
Aomine slid out from the table and made a run for it, but a large hand grabbed his shirt collar and threw him back to the opposite direction. Aomine flew across the room and smashed into the wall. He struggled to get up when he felt a foot step on his back pushing him back down. "Damn it! M-Murasakibara!" he cried and the giant pressed harder, feeling the bones in him crack. Aomine choked, struggling to reach the broken glass on the floor.
"Is Mine-chin here to take Kuro-chin too?" Murasakibara asked in his calmest voice. AOmine gasped and he thrashed under him; fingers twitching around as he wheezed for air. "Kuro-chin is mine!" he screamed and pressed full strength, driving his foot into Aomine's body. Blood splattered across the floor and over the white walls from the impact.
" Murasakibara!" the giant turned around, rolling his eyes seeing Kagami staring wide eyes at the scene before him. "How could-"
"Ugh...let's make this quick..." Murasakibara grumbled and grabbed the axe from the wall and stepped over Aomine's body. He trailed the axe across the floor making a long drippy red line along the tiles. Kagami backed away, partially tripping over Midorima's limbs on the floor and scurried back as quickly as he could.
"Enough of this Murasakibara! What are you doing?!" Kagami shouted and Murasakibara lunged for the redhead. Kagami barely moved away in time and managed to scuttle to the side, heading towards the stairs. He quickly ran up the stairs feeling copious amounts of sweat drip down his body. He slipped on the carpeted steps and cursed as he crawled back up, before a large hand grabbed his ankle in an iron grip vice. Kagami didn't have time to turn his head as Murasakibara yanked him back down the steps. "Don't do this!" he screamed.
Murasakibara raised the axe again and smashed it down on his face. Blood sprayed all over the place and the giant felt the warm substance splatter across his face. He breathed deep and kicked the immobile body off to the side. He raised his head when the sound of the back door opened. He narrowed his eyes and picked up his axe again and blended in the shadows.
Kise covered his mouth when he saw the horrendous sight in front of him. "Oh my God...!" tears streamed down his face and Akashi also had his eyes widened in shock. "N-no... Midorimacchi...Aominecchi..!" The butchered corpses of their former teammates laid silent and immobile in the blood covered room.
"Atsushi!" Akashi yelled into the darkening house, earning silence to the angry outbursts. Akashi's eyes twitched when he noticed something move down the hall. He moved slightly forward to his ex-teammates. "Listen Ryouta, go and find Tetsuya, I am almost certain he's kept in the basement..." he bent down to brush Aomine's and Midorima's lids down to close them.
"W-what a-about you, Akashicchi?!" Kise cried, still shaking from the shock of his friends.
Akashi took a deep breath and continued to gaze down the hall. "I'll deal with this monster..." he muttered and quietly went to the kitchen drawers to find a knife. "Take one with you too." Kise nodded and he couldn't stop looking at his fallen friends. The red head gripped his arm and squeezed it tight. "Be strong...for Tetsuya..." The blonde nodded and both began to walk down the hall.
Akashi went first, and stealthily walked close to the walls, seeing another dead body in the corner catching his eye. Kagami Taiga. Akashi gripped the knife in his hands harder and directed Kise towards the basement door. Kise looked away from Kagami's corpse on the floor and slowly opened the door to the basement. Kise's heart pounded faster against his chest as he made his down the squeaky stairs. Akashi was behind him, constantly checking behind in case Murasakibara appeared. The redhead then grabbed Kise's shoulder, halting the latter in his tracks. "He's down here..." he said quietly. "Let me go first." he ran his hands across the wall leading down hoping to find a light switch.
Kise gulped and followed him. He heard faint rummaging sounds below and tried to keep up with the redhead. Suddenly there was a loud crash and Kise panicked and scurried down the stairs recklessly. He incidentally grazed the light switch and it flicked on. Kise saw Akashi was face first on the floor. "Akashicchi!"
"Ryouta, behind you!" Akashi groaned and Kise turned around just in time before Murasakibara slammed his axe on the floor.
"Stop this, Murasakibaracchi!" Kise yelled and the giant gripped the weapon tighter. Akashi got up and held his bleeding head.
"Go find Tetsuya, I'll handle him..." he moved in front of Kise. Kise contemplated but Akashi pushed him slightly. "Go Ryouta!"
Kise nodded and quickly ran around the corner of the vast room. "I'm not going to let you win again, Aka-chin..." Murasakibara muttered not caring Kise was out of his sight. He took the axe out from the floor but the redhead stood his ground, completely not intimidated by the deranged giant.
"Never in a million years have I expected you to become like this, Atsushi..." Akashi narrowed his eyes, scowling at his former teammate. "Kidnapping Tetsuya...and murdering your former teammates in cold blood?!"
"Anything for Kuro-chin..." Murasakibara smiled and swung his axe at him immediately, but Akashi easily ducked away and slid under his legs with plenty of time to attack. Murasakibara's eyes widened and he turned around, and with fast reflexes, he blocked the incoming knife with his arm. The knife stabbed deep into his arm and Murasakibara screamed in pain. Akashi took the time to kick the axe out of his other hand, sending it flying somewhere in the room.
Akashi watched Murasakibara wither below him. Murasakibara grabbed the knife from his arm and swiped it swiftly, hoping to slice a part of Akashi, but the redhead speedily dodged them. Murasakibara stood back up and lunged for the smaller male. Akashi's eye glowed and ducked the swipe of the knife, and knocked it out of his hands. The giant growled in frustration and swung his hand, backhanding Akashi in the face. Akashi spat the blood from his mouth and stood his ground.
Murasakibara kicked a nearby chair towards Akashi, and the smaller male jumped away in time, but Murasakibara predicted the direction of his dodge. With a large hand he grabbed the fiery red hair and smashed him in to the wall. Blood spurted from Akashi's body, and Murasakibara picked him back up with his neck, holding him up high.
Akashi's forehead bled and he waved his arms around to let him go. Murasakibara tilted his head with a smile on his face. "Blood looks nice on Aka-chin..." he eyed Akashi's legs dangle in the air as his ex-captain struggled to get out.
The redhead narrowed his eyes and used all of his strength to kick his stomach. The kick landed successfully and Murasakibara bent over holding his stomach, letting Akashi go. Akashi coughed for air, but slid under his long legs again, grabbing the knife on the floor. Murasakibara growled louder and just as he turned around, he found blood dripping underneath him. His eyes were wide and he looked down seeing the knife was protruding through his chest.
He collapsed to his knees and Akashi pulled it out swiftly, throwing it somewhere. "Your own blood looks nice on you too, Atsushi..." Murasakibara dropped on all fours, clutching his chest and screamed in pain. "This obsession has gone on long enough..." he glanced back down at the trembling giant. "I will not kill you...your life will not satisfy my revenge against you..." he stepped over the giant body and made his way to find Kise and Tetsuya.
Kise found Kuroko tied up in one of the many closets in the basement. Kise gently ripped the tape off his mouth and removed the rope around his hands and feet. He hugged Kuroko tightly, feeling his cold, lithe body in his arms. "It's OK, I'm here, I'm here..."
"K-Kise-kun..." KUroko cried out and weakly hugged him back.
"Tetsuya..." both males turned and saw Akashi standing there with blood over his face and clothes.
"Akashicchi! Are you alright?!"
"I'm fine. Let's get Tetsuya out of here."
Kuroko nodded slowly before his eyes widened in absolute devastation. No words came out of his lips as he watched Akashi's head snap from his body. Kise yelled in horror as their former captain's head rolled across the floor towards them. Murasakibara stood there throwing Akashi's headless body towards them and limped his way to the other two. "Four down, one more to go, Kuro-chin~"
The bluenette shook his head at the realization of what he said. Every one of his friends and teammates...gone. The blonde pushed Kuroko further back, away from Murasakibara's reach as far as possible. "N-no, Kise-kun!" Kuroko held onto Kise's arm, preventing him from sliding any further. "Please, let him take me!"
"Like hell I'll let that happen!" Kise snapped and yanked the small hands off of him. "I'm going to kill that bastard...!" Kise held the knife in front of him; arms shaking in fear as the giant approached closer.
"I saved the best for last, Kuro-chin!" Murasakibara ran his bloody hand through his equally bloody hair, staring triumphantly at his long awaited prize.
"I...I don't want to lose you too..." The bluenette whimpered softly, just quiet enough for Kise to hear. Kise held Kuroko's hand tightly and turned his face halfway to get one last look at the blue haired boy.
"Don't cry, Kurokocchi." He said, wiping the streaming droplets from his face. "Cheer for me...just like how you used to in Teiko..."
Kuroko's eyes widened and felt Kise's hands slid from his own. "No...Kise-kun..!" he tried grasping the familiar warmth again but Kise stood back up with angered golden orbs.
Murasakibara was enraged with jealousy seeing the revolting sight in front of him. "You done yet?" he snarled and Kise gripped the knife tightly making his knuckles go white.
Kise didn't answer and steadied himself. Murasakibara shut the door, preventing both of them from escaping. The purple haired moved first, charging full throttle at the blonde. Kise moved in time, the edge of the axe grazing millimetres away from his shoulder. Kise elbowed Murasakibara's injured arm, making the axe drop to the ground. The giant gripped his arm and Kise took his knife and successfully stabbed him on his left shoulder.
Murasakibara roared in excruciating pain and managed to get a hold of fistful of blonde hair, and threw him across the room. Because the room was small, Kise crashed into the wall at full force. Murasakibara took out the knife from his shoulder and proceeded to the vulnerable blonde. Murasakibara took a hold of blonde hair and yanked him up viciously.
"No stop it! Let him go!" Kuroko screamed, and with all of his strength, he ran towards them and pulled at Murasakibara's arm so he would let him go. "It's me you want, right?! Leave him alone!"
Murasakibara stared down at the petite male, eyeing the desperate, pleading look on his face. Dark purple orbs continued to study light blue ones as he jutted his arm out, sinking the knife deep in Kise's chest. Kuroko's face turned pale and wide blue eyes became wider as he watched Kise drop to the floor. Kuroko caught Kise's body, collapsing down with him. He shuddered at the loss of his love. Everyone was gone. They were not as close anymore, but memories with everyone were still worth remembering. Late night ventures to the convenient store or street basketball games and other mundane activities were no more. KUroko felt the warm blood ooze out from Kise's body and onto his hands. "K-Kise-kun..."
The giant went to his knees and engulfed Kuroko's body with his arms. He hugged him tightly and snuggled his face in with Kuroko's. "It's OK, Kuro-chin...we're together now..." he cooed near the bluenette's ear.
Kuroko couldn't speak nor move. Everything became silent and his vision became fuzzy. This wasn't supposed to happen. If his friends didn't come for him...they wouldn't have to die. None of them deserved to die. "It's all my fault..." Kuroko continued to recite in his mind. "Kise-kun...everyone...is dead because of me..."
Murasakibara hauled the smaller boy into his arms and carried him up. "Let's go Kuro-chin...let me make you something sweet to eat." Kuroko let go of Kise's cold hands and watched the blonde's arm fall lifelessly onto the pavement. Murasakibara walked out of the room and headed for the stairs. The giant easily ignored the bloody corpses that surrounded the cement ground. Kuroko blankly stared at Akashi's headless body next to Kise. Both of their pools of blood began to merge together, filling the small room with their gore. Murasakibara reached up to the main floor and turned to the kitchen. Kuroko saw Kagami's body near the staircase, beaten to a pulp. His blood matching his hair, splattered across the steps of the stairs and on the railings. Making his way to the kitchen, there was Midorima's body, hacked at the skull and down to his chest. Murasakibara calmly and obliviously placed Kuroko on a chair and proceeded to rummage through the kitchen for some food.
Kuroko looked down and saw Aomine's body lying there. His chest had a gaping hole in it from Murasakibara's weight. The bluenette ignored the giant's question about which ice cream he would like. The giant didn't mind though and brought both greentea and vanilla flavours to Kuroko. Murasakibara took a spoon and fed him a chockfull of vanilla and brought it towards his mouth. "Say, 'ah', Kuro-chin." He said in a playful tune. Kuroko couldn't make himself move anymore. His mind and body stayed frozen in time as the same question replayed in his head; what is there to do now?
A few days have passed and Kuroko sat on the vast bed in Murasakibara's room at Akita. The police discovered the massacre in the house and jotted notes down and captured evidence at the crime scene. Himuro was reported missing a few days after. No one knew what happened to the Yosen's shooting guard. The police questioned Kuroko, but all Kuroko did, was stare blankly back at them. Why should he tell them anything? All they would do is arrest Murasakibara and put him in prison for life. No...Kuroko wouldn't want that to happen. Kuroko had a better way to make him pay for what he has done.
It was late one night and Murasakibara had gone out to get some snacks at a local convenient store. Kuroko was left in the dark dorm alone. Kuroko got out of bed and slowly made his way out to the main entrance. He was wearing Murasakibara's shirt which hung loosely on his smaller frame. He looked at the time, and there would only be minutes for Murasakibara to come back. Kuroko walked to the kitchen and pulled open the drawer, seeing eating utensils and cooking equipment. He picked up the large cook's knife as it deemed most appropriate. He held it in his bruised hands and stared at his reflection on the blade. The blank expression he would always wear looked damaged and lost. "I'll see you guys soon..." he whispered and plunged the blade deep into his heart. The feeling was cold at first, but he let the warmth of his blood consume him slowly. Before collapsing, he heard the front door open and items falling to the floor. His head made contact with the wooden tiles and fading blue eyes stared up at Murasakibara who was racing towards him. A small trickle came down his cheeks before shutting his eyes indefinitely. Why should Murasakibara go to prison knowing very well that his obsession is still out there breathing? He deserves to watch his love of his life disappear and never return to him. Surely he deserved it, why shouldn't he?
Murasakibara screamed in hurt and horror as he held the bloodied blue haired boy in his arms. "K-Kuro-chin..!" he held back his tears and hugged the boy dearly in his arms. Before Murasakibara did anything else, the door to his room was busted down. The police came in and aimed their guns at the purple haired male whose hands were bloodstained with Kuroko's blood. "N-no..!" was all the giant could say as he stared wide eyed at the police.
"Stand away from the body!" they ordered while they marched closer to him. "Hands above your head!"
Murasakibara clutched Kuroko's bloodied fabric and immediately dashed into the opposite direction with the bluenette still in his arms. The police fired their guns and one of them shot into his right leg. Murasakibara crumpled down but kept Kuroko close to his body. Sweat poured down his forehead and as he took another step forward, the giant fell over again feeling the throbbing, numb sensation on the leg that was shot.
The police cornered him and he shook his head, holding Kuroko even closer to his chest. "Let go of the body!" one of them ordered again and Murasakibara shook his head glaring intensely at them. Before Murasakibara moved another inch, a second shot was fired and it hit his neck, causing the giant to fall back down. His vision became blurry and he felt his whole body becoming numb. All he could hear were broken sentences from the police. "Get...fucker...out of...sight..." Murasakibara's lids closed heavily and his hold on Kuroko loosened.
Purple orbs opened, slowly taking note at the different location he was in. Pitch black darkness engulfed him as he slowly came to realization where he may be. He tried moving, but it wouldn't budge. Something was constricting him from moving. It was an itchy material and it was suffocating to say the least. He twitched around in his binds and ultimately falling out of the metal bench and onto the floor. Murasakibara struggled around until glaring lights came on, blinding the giant making him growl under his breath.
"Rise and shine, sleeping beauty." Murasakibara turned his head upward seeing the little slot on the door open. A man peered inside, taking a good look at Murasakibara. He had pitch black hair and semi narrow eyes accompanied with a smirk on his face.
"Get me out! Kuro-chin needs me!" he screamed and the man shook his head.
"No can do, my friend. You just murdered the poor guy in cold blood." He said looking down at his notes.
"No! I didn't! I would never hurt Kuro-chin!" Murasakibara continued to scream. "Let me see Kuro-chin! I want to see him!"
"I'd quiet down if I were you." The man outside of the cell replied not removing his eyes from his notes. "With any case, you are sentenced to stay here for the rest of your life." Murasakibara's eyes widened and shook his head in denial. "And...you will not be taken to court, as we already have all the proof we need to convict you."
"W-why...I...I didn't..." Murasakibara's tears formed in his eyes and trickled across his scrunched up face. "I don't want to stay here! I don't want to!"
"Sorry buddy, I'm only following Kuroko-kun's wishes."
Murasakibara's eyes widened at the name and he jolted upright, looking intensely at the man outside. "Kuro-chin..?"
"Yeah, in his will, it stated that he wanted you to stay locked up and confined for the rest of your life." He said reading a packaged paper in his hands. "Probably wanted you to reflect on the monstrous deeds you did, no?" He replied simply before turning his head to the voice calling out for him.
"Yo, Nijimura-san! We need you back upstairs!" the other male said and the latter nodded in response. The dark haired looked back at Murasakibara who was silent and unmoving.
"Well, I'd love to chat, but I got to clean up the shit you created." He shut the lid and turned off the lights making the small prison cell completely dark again. Murasakibara bit his lip so hard it began to bleed. He couldn't control his frustration and anger inside of him. He withered on the ground, streams of hot tears flowed down his face. This is what Kuroko wanted. Kuroko wanted him to experience the pain to live on with the love of his life taken away from him. He wanted him to go through the loneliness and grueling times Kuroko had when he was abducted. With nowhere to run and hide, Murasakibara lived the rest of his life confined in the dark, solitary room all by himself. And thus, that was what Kuroko wanted all along. At long last, the sweet obsession was no more.
A/N: *peeks out from the desk* You guys hate me right? This ending turned out more brutal and depressing than I planned T^T To be honest, my story was supposed to end with a really major cliff-hanger, but I thought maybe I should wrap it up and finish it, so that's why I wrote 2 different endings. I had to listen to a lot of sad songs to really get Kuroko's feelings down. *sobs* TT_TT also so sorry for the character deaths and OOCness of Akashi. I really wanted it to be depressing and tragic... (Also I added Nijimura in here as well hehe)
Anyways, thank you all for sticking around and I hope the sad version lived up to some of your expectations, but this concludes 'The Sweet Obsession'! I have more ideas for other fics, so yeah~ hope to see you guys there! \^-^/