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Chapter 7-Friend or Foe
Dense Forest-12:18pm-Somewhere in Tokyo
The dark blue haired boy was steadily making his way to the address on his phone. Well, more like a quick jog. The boy preferred not to tire himself out before he even reached his mission location. After about ten minutes of continuous running the dark blue haired boy heard a tree branch crack in the distance. He stopped running and stood in place, unmoving. He listened intently for another branch breaking.
Nothing was heard at first, other than the sound of the wind cackling in the distance and the sound of softly swaying trees.
"Who's there?" The male thought in alarm. "Who was running through the forest at this late hour?" Well, he was. But he had a good reason to. It was for a job. But for someone else to be here it was quite strange. Very strange. The boy tensed.
Snap
There it was again. He was not alone. Someone was definitely there, someone was definitely around. Aomine dropped to the ground in full attention. He stared in the direction of the cracking tree branches in hopes of catching a view of whatever was making the sounds at this ungodly hour. He observed and held his breath as the bushes about 2 feet away from him started to shake softly. The boy watched in anticipation as a head started to peek out from behind the bushes.
The male held his breath.
Before the figure could notice him, Aomine jumped forward towards the figure, sword in hand, ready for the attack.
Oomph
Aomine landed squarely on top of the dark figure and held his sword up to the figure's throat. Should the figure make any sudden movements, the dark blue haired would not hesitate to slash his or her throat. Aomine waited for his eyes to adjust to the darkness before getting a good look at the person he was sitting on. He eyes widened at the sight of the teal haired boy he was on top of.
The teal haired boy looked to be about 16. He was still wearing his school uniform, minus the tie. And his leg was twisted at an odd angle. His mouth was caked in dried blood and his head seemed to have a large bruise at the side. The boy looked a mess.
"Oi. He's seen better days."
Aomise blinked at the sight of the teal haired boy.
The teal haired boy lay motionless on the ground. He was barely conscious from the concussion earlier and his leg was throbbing immensely from him jumping from the window of the abandoned building. He held his breath waiting for the dark blue haired boy to put him out of him misery. This was how he was going to die. He knew it. After his efforts of getting away from his kidnappers he was going to be killed by some random passerby in the forest.
"Who are you? And why are you here?" The dark blue haired boy asked with a hint of suspicion in his voice. As he spoke he slowly edged the sword closer to the teal head's throat. The sword was now digging into the bluenette's throat which was beginning to draw a thin line of blood. Not enough to kill, but enough to heed as a warning.
The teal head squirmed under the coldness of the sword under his throat. He feared that the teen would kill him at any second. He contemplated reaching for his knives but he only had one left after his fight with his kidnappers. In addition, the knife was tucked away safely in his sock for easy access. Which at the moment was not a good idea because his attacker was sitting squarely on top of both of his legs. He was trapped. He needed to figure out how to get away…and fast.
Kuroko lay on the ground thinking intently before looking up at the male. His azure orbs were blank and his expression deadpan.
"I am Kuroko."
Silence.
"As to why I am here. I could ask you the same thing." The blunette stated monotonously, gazing at the other boy in distrust.
The dark blue haired boy sat there dumbfounded and speechless. He could feel his anger rising with every passing second.
"You little shit! I could kill you at any second now if I wanted to." He retorted without delay, digging his legs deeper in the much smaller male's legs. The smaller male flinched at the pain.
"Short tempered?" Kuroko thought to himself. However, this might just be the moment he was waiting for. This was his chance to escape. He could put the dark skinned boy's temper to good use. His mind started to race thinking about his next plan of action and his heart beat quickened. It was now or never.
"But you won't." The bluenette answered, leaning closer to Aomine's face. The dark blue haired boy gulped at the closeness of the teal blue haired boy's face. He could feel his face flushing a light shade of pink and he turned away from the bluenette.
"You don't know wha-" Aomine stopped speaking midsentence while as the bluenette took a deep breath.
Before he could finish a pair of warm lips touched his own. His eyes widened in astonishment and Aomine jumped backwards immediately, wiping his lips.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" He yelled at the teal head completely distraught still wiping his lips.
"A distraction." The teal haired boy answered, completely expressionless.
Before Aomine could respond, Kuroko quickly untied the chloroform cloth around his neck and stuffed it in Aomine's mouth. Aomine was unable to resist given the boy's sudden quick reflexes. The dark haired boy attempted to fight back against the blunentte, but he was much too fast and the chloroform was much too strong.
In a matter of seconds, Aomine began to drift off to sleep.
"Gomen no Sai!" Kuroko said to the teen that was barely clinging onto consciousness. "I am truly sorry for kissing you. That was completely inappropriate. I hope you can forgive me." The boy said politely while wiping his lips on his sleeve.
"Sorry."
"But I will be taking this." Kuroko said grabbing for Aomine's sword that now lay on the ground next to the male.
Kuroko picked up Aomine's sword and tucked it safely on his hip. After securely the weapon on his body the boy turned to the dark blue haired boy and apologized one last time before continuing his trek through the forest.
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The blonde kneeled quietly in front of the man. The room the two were in was decorated with intricate Japanese sayings and phrases. The Shiros gang symbol was placed in the middle of the wall and was seemingly given a place of honor unlike the other paintings and scrolls.
Kise's eyes wandered through all the books and figurines before looking back at the man before him.
The man was muscular and wide in stature. He sat on the futon sipping a cup of sake, sighing. The man looked up at Kise, with his eyes narrowing in interest. His eyes were full of color and vibrancy.
"What brings you here, Ryouta?" The man asked affectionately to the blonde.
"Umm—Kurokocchi—Uh Kuroko—he has been kidnapped." The blonde stammered. The boy bit his lip trying to hold back the tears. "I just thought you should know."
Immediately the man threw down the sake cup in a fiery fit of rage. The sake cup shattered and shards of pottery flew across the room. The warmth of his eyes were replaced with cold, unfeeling ones.
Kise was startled at the man's sudden change in attitude. He has never seen this side of him before. Well that was a lie. He has seen this side of the man before. Once. When Kuroko was...
The man's scream snapped Kise back to reality.
"RYOUTA! HOW COULD YOU?" The man screamed in anger.
Kise flinched at the man's words but he did not dare say a word. He did not want to anger the man any further.
"HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN?" He paused.
"AGAIN!"
Kise turned away from the man and stared at the broken sake cup shards. "How could he let this happen to Kuroko? Not again." He always failed in protecting Kuroko. Even after all that training. It was all for nothing.
"HOW COULD YOU?"
The man paused and breathed heavily.
"AS FOR AKASHI, IS HE DEAD? DID YOU KILL HIM YET?" The man yelled at the blonde.
"IS HE IN ON THIS? IS HE?"
Kise averted the man's gaze.
"No, he is still alive." The boy answered feverishly. "As for his motives and where his allies lie...I am still unsure."
"NO! NO! This cannot be happening. Not now. NOT NOW. "The man screamed to himself.
"I HAVE NOT TAKEN IT YET! I DID NOT GET IT YET! I WILL. I WILL GET IT!"
"THE BOY WILL ONLY GET IN MY WAY. I KNOW IT! HE NEEDS TO BE DEAD! HE NEEDS TO DIE!" The man flailed wildly.
"YOU NEED TO GET REVENGE! YOU NEED TO AVENGE…ME!"
In mid rage the man reached forward for the blonde. He grabbed the blonde's shirt and shook him violently.
"HE WILL ONLY GET IN MY WAY. HE WILL. HE WILL."
At the moment it seemed that the man was just yelling at himself. He dropped Kise to the floor and continued to scream loudly, kicking the shattered cup shards in wild directions. After about 10 minutes of screaming and thrashing the man seemed to calm down. The warmth and color of his eyes returned to his face but he looked evilly into the blonde's eyes. A smile crossing his lips.
"Your mission is you kill Akashi Seijuro. You understand?" The man muttered quivering a finger at the distressed Kise.
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Ring
The green haired boy stopped reading his horoscope book and sat up in his bed at the sound of his phone going off.
On instinct the boy picked up the phone and tapped the Answer button.
"Hello?" The boy asked through the phone.
"Hello?" The voice on the other phone asked somewhat offended.
"Is this any way to answer to a person who is helping you out? It makes me want to…crush you." The voice replied.
"Murasakibara." Midorima replied, unintentionally half sighing.
The voice on the other line seemed content and continued to munch on a bag of chips. All that could be heard through the phone were indistinct munching and chewing.
"After your phone call, Aka-chin called and filled me in with your current situation. He told me to find out more information about the kidnappers."
"Have you found anything?" The green haired asked, secretly thrilled. Though he would never show it.
Swallowing a mouthful of snacks, the purple haired boy continued to speak.
"I found out some information about the people Aka-chin told you about. Us about."
The purple haired boy stopped chomping on the bag of chips and quickly stuffed a lollipop in his mouth so he could speak and eat at the same time. He moved the phone from his hand to his shoulder and securely clamped the phone in place using his cheek freeing his right hand.
"Apparently, they are from the rival gang." The purple head said while clicking through numerous classified web pages.
"It says here that they are relatively defunct, but still have a few active members." Murasakibara read from the web page.
"Their gang name is….Kuros."
"Kuros? Go on."
"According to the articles here, the group went underground after the government found out about their illegal experiments and activities. It says here that they were looking for something."
"What do you mean something?"
"Well, I don't know exactly." The purple haired boy answered lazily. "The web page drops off after the first page and the second page is locked indefinitely."
"Pretty high security too." The boy added.
"Whatever the group was after is highly classified." Murasakibara said sucking on his lollipop loudly.
"Mido-chin. I wish they made more of this flavor." The boy said, seemingly distracted. "I mean, it's good but it's only sold for a limited time."
"Highly classified?" Midorima wondered to himself, ignoring Murasakibara's banter. "What were they after? Does it have anything to do with Kuroko?" His mind raced at all the possibilities.
"Murasakibara!" Midorima said, snapping the purple haired boy back into attention.
"Is there any way you can access the files?"
Murasakibara thought about it for a while. He continued to suck on his lollipop and thought about the matter intently. He folded his arms and leaned back on his computer chair gently.
"Well, I cannot say for certain. But I should be able to access the hidden files with some time." The boy answered, uninterested.
"How much time?" The green haired boy inquired.
"Well, given the nature of the security and my current inability to access the files, I say…" the boy trailed off.
"About 1-3 days."
"1-3 days? That's too long Murasakibara. We need to know as soon as possible." The green haired boy said in a panic. He tried to hide his panic, but it did not work because the eagerness in his tone was evident to the purple-haired boy.
The phone call fell silent. The only sounds that could be heard were the breathing on both ends of the phone. Well that, and Murasakibara's incessant sucking on the lollipop.
"I will try my best, Mido-chin." Murasakibara said apathetically. "Especially since Aka-chin promised me the cake from the shop near the train station once I find out enough information." The boy relished in his thoughts of the fresh cake. His mouth started to water.
Midorima's eyes twitched but he did not add to the purple haired boy's raging fantasy.
"Thank you." The green haired boy paused.
"I am glad we are still friends. Even after everything that has happened." The tsundere added, his voice softening. He was getting ready to hang up the phone before Murasakibara spoke up.
"Mido-chin. Don't worry okay? I sent in a friend for help. He is already on his way. Hopefully." The purple haired said before finally ending the phone call.
"What were the group looking for?" The green haired boy racked his brain for the answer. He tossed and turned on his bed thinking.
"Money? Power? What were they after? What did they want?"
"More importantly, what part did Kuroko play in all of this?" Midorima pondered. He started to get a really ominous feeling about the whole situation. Something fishy was going on. Somehow he knew that the bluenette was in some deep trouble. He just had to figure out what.
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The teen stood outside the abandoned building, glancing at the setting sun. Shades of orange and red flashed in the sky.
He needed to figure out his next plan of action. How to use the situation for his advantage. Sure the teal blue haired boy got away…but he knew exactly where the boy lived, where the boy grew up, and even where he went to school. The bluenette did not have many places to hide or go. He knew that when the time came he would be able to capture the bluenette once again easily.
The teen deliberated long and hard about his next moves.
At last, the teen figured out a solution. "Why come to the bluenette, when the bluenette could come to him?" The answer was simple.
With a smirk on his face the boy threw the white neck tie to the ground and stomped on it. He then proceeded to grind the neck tie farther and farther into the ground until it was barely visible and almost completely submerged in the dirt. Satisfied, the teen finally lifted his leg from the almost buried neck tire.
"Insects." He whispered to himself.
To Be Continued
P.S- The chapter turned out to be extra long…..The longest chapter so far. Haha.
Are you guys surprised that Murasakibara is the Moros ex-information broker? Did you see that coming? Did you?
I just realized Akashi has not been present in the story lately...Hmm, hopefully it all changes next chapter.
Author's Note- What did you all think of AoKuro's kiss? Hahah. I could not resist. I just really wanted it to happen. As I was writing the scene my mind kept saying, "KISS! KISS!" I said no brain, no kiss. It's not the right time…or is it? I mean Kuroko really needed to get away right? Sorry Aomine.
Once again, THANKS for reading. The Special One-Shot chapter will be released soon. A thousand sorries to the winner, I said the chapter will be updated with this chapter but it is not completed yet. The old one-shot was awful and I totally scratched it for the new one. As requested, it is mafia inspired…..
I am also working on a One-Shot called: Sorta Midorella which will be posted in about 2 weeks. Please check it out.
Also, how do you like the new writing style? I decided to focus less on dialogue and more on setting and emotion. Is it okay? I am not very confident about my writing.
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The next chapter is tentatively named: Wavering Feeling
Updated 4/5- Is this chapter bad? There was a significant drop in Reviews/Views for this chapter and I am getting a bit nervous. Is there anything wrong with it? Please tell me :'(