Well sorry: first for taking this long to update and second because I probably would make this story longer than I thought it would be, I was planning on jumping to the match Seirin vs. Rakuzan but if I did that then the story probably would turn in pairing less one so you would have to wait a bit more to read about that one-on-one. Third I am sorry for my mistakes, my first language is not English and my English is all based on self study by reading fan fiction.

I read Kuroko no basket's 245 chapter and I was quite irritated and to add to that I failed an exam(I was too depressed to write so that's why I didn't update) so in this bad mood I hope I have made a good chapter, half way through it my mood changed by the way. Also this chapter might be the last from Kuroko's point of view so enjoy… (You might have noted but I actually suck at writing from someone's point of view and this two chapters are another evidence to prove that :D)

A little spoiler for later chapter(don't read of you don't want to): "I am done lying in the shadows… I don't want to watch other people outshining me anymore. I am joining the side of the lights by playing my basket and I have a promise to keep… once upon a time I sword that I would steal the nickname 'King of the Court', it's about time I keep that promise!" ~ Kuroko said to ….

Well here one more spoiler:

"Did you come up with a plan?" Kagami asked as he stood next to Kuroko who looked at him and smiled.

"Something like that… I am just itching to put Akashi-kun in his rightful place… I am done with laying low. Seirin got a test of desperation and not its Rakuzan's time to. This match would be our win and I will make sure of it." Kuroko said quietly so only Kagami could hear him, while Kagami's eyes widen at the excitement that had filled Kuroko's eyes.

Chapter 1

Meeting a new Friend

Even though I had lost all my want to play basket- joining Seirin, practicing and playing with them brought back the fun and the wish to play again.

At the beginning I wasn't very sure if I should keep on going with basket and with Kagami's suggestion that I should give up on it my doubt deepened but then we played against our sempais and I know that I helped even a little in beating them, so that led me into believing that I would be useful to this team in the future, even though I still didn't have my old style of basket back.

That day after hearing that Kagami wanted to beat Generation of miracles I was feeling very happy and contend with choosing this team. I knew that my current style needs a light, so I decided that that light would be Kagami-kun, he had the talent and even more he had bottomless chances of improvement and he was kindda like me- a guy who doesn't give up in front of stronger opponents and wishes to fight until the end.

Then, so soon after joining the team, we had to play against Kise-kun and I was burning with desire to win, never before had I wished to win a match this much, but I guess that I was still very angry because that match against Shige's team and I wanted to show them what it's like to lose, I wanted to get them down to the earth and show them the reality that winning or losing is uncertain until the very end of the match and when I stood one-on-one against Kise I had half a mind to try and use what I could draw from my old style but that could have forfeit our match if I couldn't pull it out and so I decided to continue with the plan and back tip the ball from his hands but I didn't expect to be knocked out of the game so soon after… just where was my mind not to react in time and move away from his hand? I have to say that I was lucky to wake up soon and thanks to my treatment, that even now is pain in the ass, I had gotten used to feeling pain to some extent, so I could keep on playing. Surprisingly enough we won that match and I felt the happiness of the victory for the first time in a while.

Soon after I had that talk with Kise and it kind of opened my eyes, for some kind of reason I had started to think of them as the worst people but that talk cleared my mind somehow. Kise wasn't a bad person he just believe in different things than me. He pointed that Kagami would probably one day change but somehow I felt like smirking 'Kagami isn't like you or anyone else of Generation of miracles, he knows that there are stronger people than him, he knows that basket is played by a team not by one person and if someday he changes that way of thinking I will just show him that he is wrong, I wouldn't stand and watch from the side wines, like I had to in middle school, when that happen I will remind him of the truth. I would never let him turn into the way Aomine did, not him' somehow my heart was telling me that I wouldn't be able to bear it if Kagami abounded me that way and when he pretty much said that I just needed to stay by his side, even though he meant in basket, I felt like butterflies were going around in my stomach.

Then again I had to stay true to my word sooner than I thought, in our match against Shutoku Kagami went and said that he didn't need team play and arrogantly said that he was the only one who could keep his grounds against Shutoku, that pissed me off so I hit him and give him a piece of my mind, I didn't think he would hit me too but thanks to that I almost bust into a fit of laugh cause I thought that I finally understood why his hair is red – he is too much hot headed that even his hair turned red, nice explanation, right?

What I didn't expect was facing Aomine this soon and when I found out that our match was against him I feared we might lose, I know Kagami is incredible and his basket is a high leveled one but he was injured I stood no chance against Aomine even if I tried to use my old style – I haven't used it for six years, there is no way I can play it like before even if I had almost completely healed.

I was a little pissed as Aomine didn't show up at the beginning, so I thought if I could draw some of my old style and tried to jump the way I used to at the beginning of the match but I was actually surprised that it was so short and part of me got already crushed in the beginning of the game… My jumping now was even shorter than the time I jumped in elementary school even though I am supposed to be much higher and stronger now… could I ever get back my old style?

Having been told that I am disappointing for not changing my style and then Aomine rubbed it even more by saying that my basket would never win against him I can't say it didn't hurt or it didn't tighten my heart with depression, I've had my share of feeling desperate and useless, having to completely give up on my basketball style and almost giving up on basket, and then having to learn a basket that was far from my real one. I used to be the ace of the team and the one the team counted on while the new style I had to learn counted on team play and I needed someone to make the points for me because if it was me the one making the points my misdirection would have turned useless in the first two minutes but even if I had felt desperation, shame, sadness, helplessness so many times after I had gotten injured I still hated it and didn't want to feel it ever again yet here I am feeling it all over again.

Even thought I had already eased my mind that there is more than high chance of losing to Aomine I never thought I would feel this useless, for the first time I felt like I was the one who dragged the team down, with my first team I used to be the one pulling the team forward now even though I love this team and its players I pulled them down with being so weak and helpless. After Kagami got benched I kept on fighting Aomine, I knew very well it was already useless, the way I am now is helpless against him but I've already had to give up on so many things in my life that I just can't handle giving up easily ever again even if I knew it was useless. No matter how much I had tried to ease my mind on losing, I never thought he would actually double our points.

Once again my spirit was driven into despair at just how hopeless I was and I can't say that Kagami's words didn't add anything to that feeling… so the next day I got up early and made my way to the Hospital that I had gotten so used to coming to, that it even felt like a second home but I was in such a deep thought that I didn't play any mind to my road and I bumped into a boy not much older than me, his face looked familiar like I had seen it somewhere but I couldn't find it in my mind to even try to remember where, so I apologized and passed him to go to my doctors.

Once I entered the room she smiled at me. "Come and sit down, Tetsuya-kun." She said gently as she pointed the examining bed and I slowly made my way to it.

"I know I haven't gone through complete check in one year and I haven't felt any pain in my leg for a while now, so what I mean is I want to go through complete check up and I want you to tell me if I can start trying to take back my old style of playing, even if it was just a bit from it. Will my body be able to hold it now? I want to know the answers for that…" I said seriously as I looked at her and she smiled at me reassuring.

"I thought about making you go through complete check for a while, I did note that in your treatment exercises you don't feel pain and do them quite easily and today I have no other patience, so let's go and confirm if you can or can't play more serious and hard basket then your current… but even I give you the okay you have to know that you need to get your old style slowly, you haven't played like that for years if you go too much at it from the first second you might end up with a ticked to the hospital again, so be careful, Tetsuya." She said as she got up and we left the room to go through many other rooms and through many examines.

A couple of hours later she held all my results in her hands and looked at them, I felt my body tremble with all the feeling I was feeling and as her face changed to one of disbelieve I flinched, was I doomed?

"This is more than I expected, I thought I had too much of a high look at your condition but to think that those expectation could be even less than the reality. Kuroko, through the years your tear in the meniscus had slightly started to heal, the reason for that was because your body was still in the very early face of your growing up but even though I believed one day you would be more than good enough to not even have to think about the tear in the meniscus this results amaze me. The results of your test show that the tear had completely healed. You can more than try to gain parts of you old style. Kuroko if you don't try to do it through one night, you can completely regain your through basket and who knows maybe you could make it even stronger than ever. You don't need to keep going through the treatment anymore neither do you need to keep on coming each two weeks for a quick check up. Congrats, Tetsuya!" She said with such a deep smile and a few tears of happiness fall from her eyes but I couldn't see clearly anymore because tears were falling from my eyes too.

'So miracles do happen… I am so happy I could die! God even though I don't believe much in you, if this is your doing, thank you. I never even dreamed that I would be told this words…' Tetsuya thought as he looked at the sky.

"I just hope I don't wake up in my bed now..." He whispered and his doctor busted in laughter.

"You aren't dreaming, Tetsuya-kun." She said gently as she hugged me and I hugged her back.

"Thank you." I whispered and she shushed me telling me that I have nothing to thank her for. After that we talk for a little bit and she made me promise that I have to visit her from time to time, to which I agreed without even having to think it over, she was great, gentle person that I counted as a dear friend.

After saying my goodbye to her I went back to the gym, just wanting to hold the ball again and when I did I stood in the three point zone and looked at the hoop… so many times did I go by purposefully missing it that I had much trouble getting that habit out. I sighed loudly and struck the ball toward the hoop and when it missed I pretty much sweet dropped. 'Getting back would be harder than I thought… with having gained so many troublesome habits through those six years.' I thought and I was surprised as a voice behind me talked.

"Wahahaha, just like I heard. You really can't do anything besides passes. I got a video of the game from Riko. Ain't it good? At least I like your way of playing. You are not wrong. You just lack the experience, right?" Said the guy and my eyes widen.

Normal POV:

"You are from the hospital today… the one I bumped into!" Kuroko exclaimed and Kiyoshi smirked.

"Yeah I am going to get discharged from it next week, so I wanted to drop by and when I was taking a looked I saw somewhat of a worried youngster. By the way my name is Kiyoshi Teppei." He said while eating candies.

"Are you hurt somewhere?" Kuroko asked worriedly as he looked Teppei.

"Kind of but that's nothing you should worry about, so how was your check up? Are you getting better?" Kiyoshi asked as now his eyes were looking worriedly at Tetsuya, whose eyes were wide with surprise.

"How?" He almost voicelessly asked.

"I got interested after bumping in you and the nurses were more than nice to share…" Kiyoshi answered with a gentle smile.

Flashback:

"Hum that…" Teppei started as he looked at the small retrieving back that soon entered a doctor's cabinet.

"Ah, that is Kuroko-kun, he is one of our regular patience. I am sure he didn't mean to bump into you. Please forgive him." one of the nurses, who were sitting on the register, said as she smiled slightly at Kiyoshi.

"Regular? Is he sick?" Teppei asked as he looked surprised at the nurses 'He indeed is the new first year in our team and Riko never said anything about him being unhealthy, is he keeping it secret? That wakes up my curiosity…' he thought.

"Well he is our regular for around 6 years, we all know him because all of us look up to him – you see he got injured when he was 10- having an ankle sprain in the left leg, which healed in a couple of weeks, what made us all proud to know him is that he had a torn meniscus and yet he didn't give up and continued playing basket, he had to completely change his style, so that he could let his leg slowly keep on healing but he didn't give up." One of the nurses said with a proud smile as she looked at the cabinet Kuroko had entered.

'To think that he was playing while injured…' Teppei thought and then another question come to mind "You said that he didn't give up on basket, but he had to change his style of playing… what was his style?"

"He was offensive player that never missed a point and yet no one could pass him when he was on defense… I am a basket fan and I used to know him and his family before he had to become regular to this hospital… I know a lot about the current basket players, the generations of miracles as everyone calls them, if Kuroko could play his real style they might as well lose all grounds because I don't think anyone would be able to beat him. His real style is unreadable even for his father, the player he learn all he knew from… Lately his doctor kept on saying that he was getting better, I just hope that soon she would say that he can go on and try to bring back his old style. That boy doesn't deserve the depression he had gone through for so long…" A nurse who had appeared out of nowhere said as she smiled sadly.

"You say that he learned his style from his father, what is his name? And how did Kuroko get injured?" Teppei asked as he looked at the nurse that had long black hair that reached her lower back and deep purple eyes.

"His father's name is Kuroko Daisuke, but if you know more about basket you might have heard for the player that was called 'King of the court', that's him." The nurse said and she smirked as Kiyoshi's eyes widen "Kuroko got injured in a game, his body was too little for the style he played and he went over his borders to the point that it was a miracle he could go back to the court."

'So he can be so amazing… I wish I could someday witness just what is Kuroko-kun capable of…' Teppei thought as he left the hospital.

End of flashback

Teppei quickly summarized what he had learned and smiled at the wide yes of his teammate.

"I wish I could one day see your real style…" He said with slight smirk but he soon had to rise his eyebrow at the smirk he got in return.

"I plan on taking back that style as soon as possible… you asked how my check up was- my doc told me that I was pretty much as good as new but regretfully that doesn't mean I would be able to magically play my old style right away. I've gained a lot of bad habits while playing this second style of mine and going passed them and then getting back my speed and strength won't be ease… I need time but I hope I would be ready at the right time. From tomorrow I will be starting on my training." Tetsuya proudly stated with such a pure smile, that he hadn't shown anyone for over six years.

"It's better if you train with someone and I know about you condition and also need some training myself, so if you have nothing against it, we can train together." Kiyoshi suggested and Kuroko looked surprised at him then he nodded.

"Well you pretty much know my secret, so why not. But I can't promise everyday training because I also plan on asking my father to train with me while he isn't busy with his company."

"That's okay with me. He is amazing player and he would help you hundred times more than I would." Kiyoshi answered and soon after, they both left the gym.

'I've got to ask Akiko-sensei to find more about Kiyoshi-sempai's condition and if he can get fully healed, it was thanks to her connection to America that she knew just what kind of treatment to give me so I could be healed, she might come up with something for sempai…' Kuroko thought having seen how Kiyoshi had winced from the pain in his leg.

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Did you like it? Sorry for taking this long but I had a little bit of trouble into getting this chapter started, I was thinking of so many ways it could have gone by until I wrote this…

I can't promise when I will be updating it can be in two days or a week but when I find the time I would write what comes to mind, so until next time