Hello everyone!
First, I would like to apologize for my previous emotional outburst about some stupid PM that ruined my day. I feel so ashamed to have burst out like that.
Second, another apology to those who have been waiting for Love diary towards Marriage Darkness. Due to some totally unexpected and unwanted incident involving my computer going bonker and in need of a major reboot, the existence of all of my files, including notes and written chapters, was wiped off the surface of the Earth. And I was so incompetent and careless that I didn't back up anything... So now, I shall bow down to apologize to my beloved readers. That fic upload will be temporarily delayed until i finished writing the first chapter...
So sorry everyone...
Disclaimer: I do not own Kuroko no Basuke for it belongs to Fujimaka Tadatoshi.
Enjoy the story. R&R,plz.
Chapter 12: This isn't good!
There have been countless occasions that Akashi found himself speechless and unable to believe what his ears recently registered. One perfect example for that was the time when his crazy duo of parents dropped an unsuspected bomb of him engaged to another guy, namely Kuroko Tetsuya, and expected them to go all out like little bunnies. Seriously, what kind of insane parents would do that? And at the moment, he, again, came to face with another outrageous statement: he was apparently being stalked by, judging from the voice, a guy! Akashi was used to being stalked by hordes of fangirls, but now, guys wouldn't leave him alone. Did that mean his handsomeness had transcended the barrier of gender and captured the hearts of other men? That was so…COOL! His absoluteness had finally extended to his masculine charm.
Just when Akashi was about to do a Bitch-I'm-Fabulous hair flip, his ears were assaulted with another horrifying piece of information: his fiancé was currently in great danger, which, unsurprisingly, immediately turned on Akashi's protective mode.
"What do you mean by "grave danger"? Does it mean that Tetsuya is in a life-and-death situation?", the redhead spoke grimly. At this point, Akashi had completely forgotten about the issue whether he could trust this guy's word or not. All that mattered to him now was his fiancé's safety, which all of his instinct told was endangered by some unknown force.
"No, his life is not threatened but your relationship with him is. In addition to that, if you don't take action soon, I'm afraid his innocence and chastity won't be intact after this incident."
Did that shady man just mention the forbidden word "chastity" a.k.a virginity? Ok, this had officially turned into a fucking HUGE trouble! After all he had done to preserve the bluenette's innocence and purity, there was no way he was gonna let some unknown jerks that didn't know their place defile his fiancé's holy body, let alone his chastity. Because that right exclusively belonged to one and only person in this world, and that would be him, Akashi Seijurou.
However, as the redhead was plotting the punishment for the insolent bastard that dared laid his dirty hand on his Tetsuya, the trust issue suddenly crossed his mind and stopped all of his current train of thought. Now that he thought about it, who was this man and why was he warning him about Kuroko's dangerous predicament? And how did he have Kuroko's phone number? If Akashi remembered correctly, the bluenette had shared his phone number to a few people, whom Akashi certainly knew very well. If that was the case, then this whole thing of warning Akashi had become really fishy. It could be a prank played by his teammate or maybe, when Akashi was led to completely believing that his fiancé was kidnapped, suddenly some guys would pop out of nowhere and announced that "You have been trolled!". Even the mere thought of being tricked left a bad taste in Akashi's mouth and made him want to spit. In fact, he just mentally spitted.
As if reading Akashi's thought, the man on the other line heaved out a sigh and continued speaking. "Akashi-sama, we are on your side. You can believe us. In fact, we only want the best for you and Kuroko-sama. I don't want to come across as commanding, but for the sake of Kuroko-sama, I suggest that you should believe us and follow our guide or else, I'm afraid you will end up regretting for the rest of your life", the man said slowly and darkly.
At this point, Akashi was in a great dilemma whether he should take this guy's advice or not as he weighed up the consequences of two options. In the end, the redhead chose to listen to the man's word; Kuroko's safety right now was his utmost priority and if Akashi was actually being tricked, it would still be better than coming to his fiancé's rescue too late. If anything ever happened to the small bluenette, it was certain that the redhead would never be able to forgive himself.
"Okay, I believe you. However, if you ever try to pull the wool over my eyes", Akashi's tone turned menacing, "you will suffer the most horrible consequences. No matter where you hide, I will find you and make sure you pay for what you've done. Understood?"
"You have our words that we will never betray you, Akashi-sama. Now as to what you should do next…"
Akashi concentrated his hearing sense to prepare for what the other said next, despite his mind wondering why the man always used "we" rather than "I". Oh well, he could always ask later.
-o0o-
At the moment, Kuroko was staring at his four kidnappers, whom donned on their faces masks like those he saw in the SailorMoon show. A few minutes ago, once getting fed up with waiting him to wake up, the guy decided to rudely kick him on the back, which was supposed to snap him from the dreamland but was not successful because he was already awake. Thinking it would not be good to let them know he was feigning unconscious, Kuroko chose to go with the flow and pretended he just woke up from being kicked on the back with a loud yawn. And that was how he ended up looking at the four Sailormoon-masked faces, which was, in the bluenette's opinion, downright weird. Judging from those masks, they could be members of hardcore Sailor Moon fanclub, who might have mistook him for some evil villain trying to dominate the world and decided to kidnap him to prevent world disaster, though that possibility was highly unlikely. Speaking of Sailor Moon, Kuroko used to greatly enjoy watching that series, to the point of collecting all the related merchandise and dragging his friends, namely Kagami and Himuro-both of whom somehow developed a trauma towards such sparkling show, to his house to watch the anime. Kuroko still remembered during the show, Kagami kept wondering how Sailormoon's miniskirt was able to defy Newton's law of gravity when the blond was obviously being hung upside down by an ugly villain.
The blue-haired teenager cast his around to take in the kidnappers' appearance: one busty blond, one girl with black long hair tied into a pony tail (why did that girl look so familiar?), one fat brunette and a silver-haired guy. They were standing with theirs crossed to their chest, looking every bit haughty. Probably to intimidate Kuroko, which they failed miserably.
"So can anyone tell me who these people are? Sailor Moon's fanatic cosplayers?", Kuroko thought in his head.
And his question was then answered.
"To protect Akashi-sama from danger of this world." This sounds interesting
"To unite all Akashi-sama's fans within our nation." OMG
"To protect the absoluteness of truth and love." LOL
"We are Akashi-sama's lovely guardians, champions of justice! On behalf of the great Akashi-sama, we will right wrongs and triumph over evils!" ROFL
And then they made weird dramatic postures of power rangers. XD
Kuroko sweatdropped. The scene in front of him was just so wrong in many ways that the bluenette couldn't help but feel embarrassed watching it. But at least, he got the answer he needed. So, they were Akashi's crazy fangirls and …fanboy, huh? Woa, even guy could not escape his fiancé's sexy hotness, Kuroko mentally applauded. But what was up with them dressing up and speaking like Sailor Moon? And wasn't their motto a complete rip-off from Sailormoon and Pokemon, if Kuroko remembered correctly? Would they get sued for plagiarizing the animes? Whatever, it was not his business anyway.
The black-haired girl made her way to him and once she had arrived, Kuroko craned his neck up to get the full view of the girl's face. The raven was standing with arms akimbo, her right hip pointing up cockily, haughtiness evidence in her posture. In fact, she reminded Kuroko of the Heart Queen from Alice in Wonderland, although this version was punkier (eh, was this word even in Oxford dictionary) and bitchier. However, this girl was definitely familiar; Kuroko tried to rack his brain for any recollection where he might have met her but to no success.
"Your name is Kuroko Tetsuya, right?", the girl didn't bother to hide her distaste in her tone.
Before Kuroko could make his answer, the girl had already interrupted him, "Of course, it's you, bitch. How can I forget that ugly bitchy of face of yours when you're so close to Akashi-sama? This afternoon, my lovely interaction time with Akashi-sama was rudely cut off because of your blatant public bitchy seduction with his Highness."
Oh, now he remembered her! She was that Akashi's fangirl that offered him her hand-made bento this afternoon. What was her name again? Ikoe Chinou. Kicho Nokoe. Urgh, his head hurt. And what was that girl's problem with the word "bitch"? She was like "Bitch this, bitch that, bitch everywhere"; this girl's adjective vocabulary seriously needed some major improvement. Moreover, what happened to the sweet shy seemingly harmless Nadeshiko-like girl that took notice of his fiancé's dry lips? It seemed as if this girl was just pretending to act like that in front of her crush and when she was faced with an imminent threat to her relationship(?) with him, she decided to reveal her true color and turned on her bitchy-mode, which included her being a whiny bitch and ranting everyone as bitches.
Pointing her finger whose nails was painted in red- Kuroko was very sure her nails weren't polished this afternoon but she could probably be using fake nails- at Kuroko's face, Queen Peach (because Kuroko was a gentleman with fine manner and Peach kinda rhymed with Bitch) continued her accusing speech, "You bitch, how dare you taint our beloved holy Akashi-sama with your dirty gayness?"
Kuroko gave her his most dumbfounded, or blankest, expression that he could muster while trying to ignore the sense of foreboding creeping up his mind. Could it be these people know about his and Akashi's engagement?
Taking Kuroko's emotionless face as some attempt to feign innocence, the busty blond whose shirt looked a little too tight stepped up and put her hand on Queen Peach's shoulder, "If you just talk and point at him, there is no way this buffoon will ever confess his crime; he can always pretend to not know anything and claim he's innocent. When dealing with this kind of people, what you need is proof- proof of his evil doings towards our great Seijurou-sama being caught red-handed- to show him so that he has no way to deny his crime."
Then this blond stepped up, sticking her voluptuous chest out proudly and pointing her finger- how many times he had been pointed at today, Kuroko mentally sighed- very close at the bluenette's nose bridge.
"We got every evidence of your shameful act, you filthy infidel. Confess your sin now or suffer from my "Moon Sparkling Sensation"", the blond twirled skillfully like a pole dancer and raised one arm into the air, as if she were summoning sparkle from the heaven to attack Kuroko. Too bad for her, the bluenette was still sitting there in all of his glorious poker-faceness.
What came next was totally a surprise. Apparently, the blond's boobies decided to grow bigger at that particular moment, making the shirt unable to contain them and one button to, literally, shoot out and gracelessly hit Kuroko's face.
"HENTAI ALERT! ", Kuroko screamed in the privacy of his mind.
It was not like the Kuroko felt any particularly adventurous to "explore" the under beauty but the bluenette just happened to be "conveniently" sitting in front of her exposed bra-clad chest and therefore got the view full of meat and laces. And came the loud girly shriek of embarrassment, episode 1. The small bluenette wished his hands were free so that he could cover his ears.
"You pervert", the blond accused, "My chest is exclusively for Seijurou-sama to look, not you…you dirty pervert!". The girl hastily used her hands to cover her chest and turned around, in attempt to hide her shame, only to give Kuroko another view full of teddy bear and strawberries. Woa, talking about childishness in the choice of panties!
And unsurprisingly came episode 2 of "The scream"! Kuroko wished a fairy would appear and give him a set of earplugs because if this kind of ear-deafening screaming continued, the bluenette was definitely gonna suffer from severe earbleed.
However, setting all the screaming aside, that was a special kind of carelessness- Kuroko internally mused- but it could be that this blond secretly had a thing for flashing her undergarment or that this was her secret strategy to brainwash the bluenette into obeying her. Well, too bad for Sailor Flasher, because for all the Earth inhabitants and aliens' information, Kuroko was utterly, totally, completely and absolutely gay for Akashi! Yeah, you heard him right, he was gay for Akashi Seijurou! And he was very certain- his belief was so unshakable that the universal belief of pigs incapable of flying seemed shakable- that he would, until the day he descended into his grave, always remained gay for one and only, Akashi Seijurou. There was absolutely not a single minimum chance in hell of him ever, even drunk, unconscious, amnesic, and forced, changing his undying love for Akashi.
Not until the silver-haired guy, who was propably their pimp, stepped up and told Sailor Flasher to shut up did the blond stop screaming and started hugging Queen Peach for consolation for her lost(?) virginity. Kuroko let his gaze land on the silverette to have a better look of his supposed next torturer. This guy seemed to be the one standing out the most; aside from the fact that he was the only guy, the teen was the most dressed-up among them with many accessories: a top hat, a white mask, a white cravat, white gloves and a rose in his hand. Was he trying to cosplay as Tuxedo Mask?
Kuroko also noticed that following behind Monsieur Whiteglove was the final member of Sailor Quartet, a chubby brown-haired girl with fair skin. In the bluenette's opinion, the brunette emitted an aura resembling to those Irish-wait a second, Irish or Scottish- he encountered on American street. He hoped this girl wouldn't turn out to have bad temper like that Scottish Chemistry partner he had back in America. Oh, Kuroko still remembered the legendary "firework" caused by the combination of hydrogen peroxide, sodium iodide and a hasty partner with relatively little Chemistry prior knowledge.
"That's enough", Monsieur Whiteglove said, successfully capturing the bluenette's attention. "You", the silverette threw a nasty glare at Kuroko, "Let's see if you can still keep that poker-face facade of yours when we show you the evidence of your despicable act towards Akashi-sama."
Monsieur Whiteglove snapped his finger, signaling Sailor Ireland, no wait, Sailor Scotland, to come up and then, without any warning, Sailor Scotland harshly threw something at his face. See, Kuroko was right; Sailor Scotland did have a bad temper.
Casting his gaze on the objects having hit his face, Kuroko widened his eyes as he realized that they were photos, and not just any photos. Every photo was candid shot of him and Akashi together, ranging from them having lunch together, practicing basketball and him sneaking kiss on Akashi's cheek. There was even photo of Akashi and him in an embrace on the rooftop this afternoon being taken from behind the door. "This isn't good", Kuroko thought as he tried to come up with something to remedy the situation. This time, he must be careful with his words; otherwise, one wrong misleading sentence could adversely affect Akashi's reputation and bring about countless imminent troubles.
The best course of action for him to take right now was to stall as much time as possible for him to come up with a plan and…for Akashi to come to his rescue.
-o0o-
"Those wretched fools, once I know your identity, you're gonna pay dearly for this."
At the moment, Akashi was hurriedly going through the school hallway and checking every damn classroom for any sign of his fiancé. Thinking about his previous conversation with the people that claimed to be on his side brought another scowl to his handsome face. Honestly! When Akashi was told to follow their so-called instruction, the young teen was expecting them to offer their whole-heart dedicated assistance, not to drop him some half-assed hint about Kuroko's location and then, promptly hang up. Not to mention they dared block both Akashi's and Kuroko's phone numbers to prevent the redhead from calling them again. Those jerks, wait until he punished Tetsuya's kidnappers and then it was their turn to suffer his wrath.
So what was the hint that Akashi received from those guys?
"A guy had kidnapped Kuroko-sama while he was on the way to the gym. He was now inside a large room with four weirdly-dressed people with every bad intention to make Kuroko-sama suffer, so please hurry up. By the way, that room is located in the school building. Good luck Akashi-sama."
Really, you called that help? At least, they could give a more specific description of Kuroko's location, not some "large room, weird people, school building". Where was he supposed to start the search when Teiko school block is one giant building with four vast floors and many classrooms? And it didn't help that school was over now, which meant the kidnappers could be in any classroom as long as it was empty.
At some point, Akashi's frustration had reached its peak and the redhead, in the moment of his infuriation, slammed the door open a bit too forcefully, causing the object to crash against the wall with a loud thud.
Two pairs of bewildered eyes were looking at Akashi.
Two guys, one standing and one sitting on the table, were in a compromising position with their faces in close proximity. Judging from their position, they must be about to smooch when Akashi made his sudden entrance. The redhead immediately recognized them as they were members of the Disciplinary Committee who seemed to get along very well, but the teen didn't expect them to be this close. Well, that was just so gay, but tt was not like he was in any position to talk like that to them.
Upon seeing Akashi, those two's faces turned drastically pale and the one sitting on the table let out a yelp and then hid his face behind the other's back.
"A…Akashi-san, it's not what you think it is. I was just…eh…looking for the dust that flew into his eyes. Yeah, there is dust in his eye and I was just looking for it", the one standing explained stutteringly while looking as if he were on verge of peeing in his pant.
After that, an awkward silent atmosphere descended upon the scene with Akashi's intense stare and the other boys' insistence on looking at the ground as if waiting for it to open and suck them away from here. Realizing he was wasting time on something meaningless, Akashi cleared his throat to catch the others' attention.
"Sorry for suddenly barging in like that. I was in a hurry looking for someone. You might carry on what you were doing before being interrupted."
The mighty Student Council President's facial expression betrayed nothing as he turned on his heel to exit the room. However, before closing the door, Akashi didn't forget to add in, "I'm not one against same-sex relationship, so don't worry about me judging you. However, I suggest you lock the door next time if you don't want anyone to walk in your private lovie-dovie time."
With that, Akashi closed the door, leaving behind one shocked and embarrassed couple whose faces were as red as tomatoes. As the red-haired teen walked away, he could still make out the shrieking voice of embarrassment yelling "You idiot!" echoing the hallway. Despite being a little disturbed by what he just discovered, Akashi couldn't help but feel a tad unexpectedly grateful for the accident, which more or less helped him regain his composure needed to deal with the current situation.
"This isn't good", Akashi thought, "I cannot afford to waste any more second. If this keeps up, I won't be able to get to Tetsuya in time."
Right after thinking that, Kuroko's phone ringtone was played, signaling an incoming call and Akashi, catching glimpse of the familiar number, quickly pressed "Accept" button and yelled at the top of his lung at the device.
"Tell me where Tetsuya is NOW before I make your miserable pathetic life so miserable that you will desperately wish you are dead instead!"
Instead of being intimidated, the man on the other line chuckled, which in turn enraged Akashi even more. Who did these people think they were for staying so relaxed when someone else's life was in great danger?
"Please be patient, Akashi-sama. Mush as we love to reveal the full detail, we're also under the order to only provide you with just enough information for your search. Therefore, please understand us. This time, we call to give you another piece of hint that you may find useful. The person who ambushed Kuroko-sama has silver hair and has rather intense emotion towards you."
With those words, the man disconnected the call.
Silver hair…Intense emotion against him… That could only be…
"Haizaki Shougo", Akashi hissed through his gritted teeth.
Pressing the silverette's number quickly as if there was no tomorrow, Akashi waited for him to pick up but only received beeping sound, so the redhead immediately switched to Nijimura's number because the captain was the only person that was caring, or stupid, enough to keep an eye on Haizaki. However, to Akashi's blind fury, he was met the instant voicemail that chirped in an irritatingly cheerful tone: "Please leave a message for bla bla bla bla", which meant that bastard must still be on the court.
And from there, began Prince Akashi's sweaty quest back to the gym, where the evil villain was supposed to be. Good luck with your endeavor, Akashi-kun-we wish you the best!
TBC
Okay, that was weird. I was planning to finish the whole kidnapping incident in this chapter but it ended up dragging to the next chapter.
Anyway, every constructive review is appreciated because it will encourage me to write faster :D!