Title: Black Rose and White Memories

By: Judaiteito

Pairing/s: KuroKaga (KurokoxKagami),AkaMi (AkashixMibuchi), MidoTaka (MidorimaxTakao), Muramuro (MurasakibaraxHimuro), AoIma (AominexImayoshi), KasaKi (KasamatsuxKise), HyuIzu (HyuugaxIzuki)

Summary:

When the clock strikes midnight at 12 of December, time will stop and the story will end in 12 minutes and 12 seconds.

Kagami Taiga, a 17 year old second year high school student, was recently having strange dreams, from the way a red haired girl lived until the way she died. Coincidently, he started having these dreams on the day he arrived in a place called 'Yuki no Yume'. Are these dreams only just mere dreams or maybe...

... It means something else?

In which the KuroBasu characters will experience a situation straight out from a horror story, love unexpectedly bloomed and misunderstandings will be solved.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kuroko no Basuke and its characters. Though, the place 'Yuki no Yume' is just a figment of my imagination. :3

Warning: Shounen-ai, possible OOC, wrong grammar... errors... I think that's it?

Author's Notes:

Judai: Hi guys! Chapter 3 of BRaWM is here! I'm sorry if I updated this story this late... I was busy for the exams these past few days... Sorry... *bows*. Thanks for reviewing and reading this story, by the way. :3

Tsuna: have fun reading this story minna!

Judai and Tsuna: Enjoy~!

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Recap:

"Since Sei-chan insists, I'll tell you about it."

"But I'll say this first. The rumors about the joker-killer abducting girls were true. But it's not just any girls. It's either a black haired girl or a red haired girl."

"Is it because Hikari was a red haired girl?" Takao asked. Reo looked thoughtful for a moment the shrugged his shoulders.

"Probably. Anyway, these girls were abducted in different timelines. Some says it's every 11:30 PM but some says it's during midnight. But in the end, those girls were killed and their bodies went missing."

"And that's why nobody visits the mansion in the middle of the forest; for fear that they will be the next one to be killed." Izuki added.

"Ok, enough of that. What about the other version of the story you were talking about?" Hyuuga asked. Unnoticed by everyone, Reo, Imayoshi and Izuki looked down and smiled softly.

"It's the original story of the King, Queen, Jack, Ace and Joker. The story of the Black Rose."

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DreamNight 3: Story of the Black Rose

"Well, as you recall, Imayoshi-san said that Prince Akari, Hikari and Rei were childhood friends. But the truth is, there were actually five of them. Prince Akari, Hikari, Rei, Prince Kage and Rei's personal servant, Ichiru."

"Prince Kage was the eldest of the five. He has blue colored hair and eyes that reminded them of the color of the sky, a pale complex and a soft, gentle smile that made the other four relax upon seeing it.

Ichiru, Prince Akari and Rei were at the same age. Ichiru, despite being a servant, has an attractive feature, with his darker than black colored hair and icy blue colored eyes that seem to see through you. And Hikari was the youngest of them all."

"When they were still young, the five of them always played the 'Royalty Game'."

"Royalty Game?" Kise asked.

"Its the game where the 'Joker' chases the 'King' and 'Queen', who were assign to look for the item the 'Joker' has hidden, with the 'Ace' and 'Jack' as their guards, right?" Kasamatsu said. Reo nodded his head.

"Eh? Senpai knew about the 'Royalty Game'? How?"

"I played it once with Kobori and Moriyama. Those two pretty much demanded me to be the 'Joker'." Kasamatsu said, a tick mark slowly appearing on his head upon recalling the times he played the game with Kobori and Moriyama.

"Well, in the 'Royalty Game', the 'Joker' should 'kill or capture' the 'King' and 'Queen' in order to win the game. But, the 'Jack' and 'Ace' were the ones 'protecting or sacrificing' themselves in order for 'King and Queen' to find the missing item that the 'Joker' hid." Imayoshi explained.

"Well, in the story's case, the 'King' was Prince Akari, the 'Queen' was Hikari, the 'Ace' was Ichiru, the 'Jack' was Prince Kage and, because of too much demand, the 'Joker' was Rei." Reo continued.

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"Hey, everyone! Look! Ichi made me a mask!" shouted an excited black haired boy named Rei, running towards the children's usual meeting place with 4 mask clutched on his hand. Behind him, another black haired boy, named Ichiru, was walking in a normal way while chuckling at his young master's behavior.

"Tsk. Rei-kun, if you keep acting boisterous, your prettiness will be in vain." remarked a smirking red haired prince named Akari. Beside him, a red haired girl, Hikari, was giggling at them.

"I might be on Akari-kun's side on this one, Rei-kun. Your male suitors will be devastated to find their 'beauty' to be acting like this." a blue haired prince, named Kage, said. The newly arrived Rei pouted at them and punched Akari and Kage on their arms.

"In case you guys forgot, I'm clearly a boy! That's why I act like one! Tch."

"Yeah, yeah, we know it already. Sheesh, no need to physically hurt us..." Prince Akari said while rubbing the spot the black haired boy punched.

"So, what is it that you want us to look at?"

Rei's mood immediately brightened and he presented them the mask he was holding. It was a white mask of a grinning Joker. The others looked at it with awe.

"Ichi made it for me! He said it will make our game much more realistic!"

"Wow, Ichiru-kun sure is artistic."

"Ichiru-kun is amazing."

"Rei-kun sure is lucky to have you with him, Ichiru-kun."

"Of course, Ichi is amazing and artistic! He's part of my family, after all!" Rei exclaimed proudly making his personal servant blush in embarrassment.

"Young master Reio, maybe we should start playing the game now?" Ichiru said, still feeling embarrassed. Rei grinned and wore his mask while saying,

"Let the Royalty Game begin!"

With that, the others started running away from him and the 'Joker' hid the item for today while singing a song.

"Tick tock tick tock

Comes the music from the clock

Tick tock tick tock

You better start to run~

Tick tock tick tock

Comes the ticking of the clock

Tick tock tick tock

The fun has just began~

Tick tock tick tock

Comes the music from the clock

Tick tock tick tock

Lets start from the top~

Tick tock tick tock

Comes the ticking of the clock

Tick tock tick tock

You better start to run~

Tick tock tick tock

Comes the music from the clock

Tick tock tick tock

The fun has just began~

Tick tock tick tock

Comes the ticking of the clock

Tick tock tick tock

Your time is up!"

"The Joker has arrived, ready or not, here I come!"

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Few years went by and Prince Kage became 18 years old. Prince Akari, Rei and Ichiru became 17 and Hikari became 16.

Although they become somewhat older and matured, they still played the 'Royalty Game'. They still see each other at their meeting place. The old cherry blossom tree in the middle of the field filled with black roses.

"Hey, everyone, what's your favorite color?" Ichiru asked out of the blue, opening his eyes to see the calm face of his young master, Rei, who was reading a book. The black haired servant was lying on the grass beside his young master, although at first he was offered by Rei to sleep on his lap but the flustered servant refused.

"Favorite color? Hmmm... I dont know." Reio said, closing his book. He shrugged his shoulders and looked at Ichiru.

"Maybe... Red?"

Ichiru hmm-ed and looked at Prince Kage, who was assisting Hikari in making a flower crown.

"Well... My favorite color is red too." the blue haired prince said. The black haired, violet eyed teen smirked at him.

"I wonder why..."

The prince suddenly blushed while Rei chuckled.

"How about Prince Akari and Hikari? What's your favorite color?" Ichiru asked, slowly sitting up and leaned on the tree behind them. The red haired prince was sitting a little ways away from the crown flower making duo (Hikari and Prince Kage), holding a delicate looking black rose.

"Yeah, now that I think about it, I dont know what is Akari and Hikari's favorite color." Rei said, looking at the aforementioned teens with curious gaze.

"My favorite color?" the red haired prince said, smiling at the black rose he was currently holding.

"Well, obviously its black. After all..." this time, Prince Akari looked straight at Rei, with a twinkle of a certain emotion on his eyes.

"It's the color of your hair and this rose."

Rei blinked and blushed, making Ichiru, Prince Akari and Prince Kage laugh. Hikari just chuckled.

"Please stop doing that..." Rei mumbled, still flustered.

"What about Hikari-chan?" Ichiru asked, after he stopped laughing.

"My favorite color?" the only female of the group said. She smiled while twirling the rose she was currently holding with her fingers.

"Of course, it's black. After all, its Rei-kun's hair color and also..." the girl trailed off and stopped twirling the rose.

"Its the color of the black rose."

Once again, Ichiru, Prince Akari and Prince Kage laughed at the red-face Rei.

"Mou, will you guys stop saying things like that?"

"But young master's hair color is indeed beautiful, as beautiful as the black rose. After all, the day you were born was also the day these flowers bloomed." Ichiru said, smiling at his beloved master. Despite his slight anger at them, Rei smiled.

"Well, what is Ichi's favorite color?"

His personal servant smiled brightly at him and said,

"Black of course!"

And everyone laughed. They were happy that day, each doing the things they loved and they kept talking until the sun set. Everything was perfect.

Until that one fateful day that changed everyone's lives.

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"Eh? Hikari-chan and Prince Akari are engaged?!" exclaimed a shocked Ichiru. His black haired young master nodded his head, his expression so upset. The black haired servant grabbed Rei's hand and started to drag him somewhere.

"Wait! Ichi! Where are we going?!"

"To the garden! We're going to clarify this to Hikari-chan and Prince Akari if it's true or not!"

But the scene they witnessed as they arrived clearly clarified the earlier statement.

"I hope Kage-kun visits soon." the red haired girl said, twirling a red rose on her hand. Behind her was Prince Akari, looking at her with a soft look.

"You must really be in love with him, Hikari-chan." The red haired teen said, smiling at the blushing girl.

"Yeah, but not as much as I love you, Akari-kun."

The red haired prince's smile widened.

"I love you too, Hikari-chan."

And Prince Akari hugged Hikari lovingly from behind, while the said girl leaned with a sad looking Ichiru behind him.

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The black haired, violet eyed teen was curled up on his bed, crying his eyes out with his personal servant sitting beside him, trying to comfort his young master.

"I can't believe she's in love with Akari! I thought... I thought..." Rei mumbled, his tears still streaming down his face as he continued to sob.

"I see." Ichiru said looking at the crying boy sympathetically.

"Don't worry; everything will work out just fine. And you'll never cry like this ever again."

The violet eyed teen stopped sobbing and looked at his servant. The black haired servant wiped his master's tears and gathered him to his arms.

"We just have to talk things through, ok?"

The black haired master nodded his head, his eyes slowly becoming hazy as if he was in some sort of trance.

"Yeah, talk things through."

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"So? What happened?" asked a curious Takao. Reo shrugged.

"Well, the part where all of the families were killed happened. The primary suspect of the crime was Rei since the joker mask that the killer was wearing was his."

"Hmmm... Now that I think about it, didn't they said that for everybody that was kidnapped and killed, a black rose was left on the place the victim was last seen?" Izuki said. Reo and Imayoshi hmm-ed then nodded their heads.

"Yeah, I remember that."

"So, Rei was the killer?" Kasamatsu asked. The trio (Imayoshi, Reo and Izuki) shrugged.

"It wasn't really proven. And the killer wasn't actually found."

"How about Prince Kage? Was he killed too?" Kise asked.

"His body wasn't found but they said he wasn't actually on the mansion that day."

"I see..."

Everyone was quiet for how many minutes, silently contemplating the whole story. Suddenly, Akashi clapped his hands gaining the whole group's attention.

"I have a proposal to everyone."

They all looked at him, silently praying that whatever Akashi propose, it wasn't something dangerous.

"Since we already have the horror story telling today, how bout we have a test of courage tomorrow evening. At the exact location where the massacre happened. I'm curious at the mystery the place had given."

They all paled and immediately protested.

"But, Akashiocchi!"

"Akashi, it's dangerous!"

"Aka-chin, it's troublesome..."

"I'm totally in!"

Everyone stopped their protests when they heard the excited comment of Takao. They stared at him disbelievingly.

"Bakao..."

"What? It sounds exciting!"

"I agree with Takao-kun."

This time, their stares drifted at Kuroko, who remained emotionless.

"I guess, it sounds interesting." Himuro said.

"B-but! Tatsuya!" a shivering Kagami said, hugging his brother-figure.

"Don't worry, Taiga, if something happens, I'll protect you." the black haired Yosen shooting guard commented smiling reassuringly at the redhead Seirin Ace while patting his head.

Suddenly, a shiver ran down his spine as he felt an intensifying dark aura directed at him. He looked around and saw Kuroko staring at him with his eyes black and cold.

'Taiga, I think you better stop hugging me now...' thought a sweat dropping Himuro. He, then, felt someone snake their arms around him and hug him from behind.

"If Muro-chin will join, I'll join too." came the lazy comment of Murasakibara.

"I see. Anyone else who would like to join?" Akashi asked, looking at them with his glinting eyes. The others looked away and kept until...

Snip! Snip!

... Akashi Seijuro let out his scissors.

"Ok, we're going!"

"Good." Akashi said, seemingly pleased as he hid his scissors.

"Lets all meet at 11:00 tomorrow evening, in the entrance. Don't be late." the redhead Rakuzan captain said as he stood up. He motioned for Reo to do the same and the confused Rakuzan shooting guard complied.

Akashi was about to walk out the door when he stopped and turned to the remaining occupants of the room.

"And by the way, those who won't appear tomorrow will receive a punishment worse than death."

With that, Akashi walked out the door with a sweat dropping Reo behind him, leaving a group of scared teens inside the room.

'I think Akashi/ Akashicchi/ Aka-chin/ Akashi-kun is way scarier than the killer himself.'

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Author's Notes:

Judai: 3, 2, 1... And CUT! And that's a wrap! Chapter 3 now updated! Once again, I'm sorry for the late update! *bows*

Tsuna: We hope you enjoyed Chapter 3! I wonder what will happen to them now that Akashi-san decided to have the Test of Courage ... *chuckles* I hope they survive.

Judai: yeah... since the place they will be having their Test of Courage is in the forest towards 'that' mansion.

Tsuna: well, Review minna! *mumbles* to make Judai-chan happy and energize...

Judai and Tsuna: Ja ne~!

-+Incarnation of Death+-