"Is he back?" as he heard a faint noise coming from upstairs, Kuroko brushed his half-lidded eyes and whispered to the flickering fire in the fireplace. "Calcifer?"
The bundle of fire in front of him didn't answer so Kuroko walked closer to add two fire-woods to the heart of the spark.
"Ungh", the fire shifted a bit, ablaze with a fresh spark coming from the aid of the woods. "Yeah, I think so"
Kuroko's eyes widened in happiness as he rose from his feet and ran upstairs quietly to the exact room next to the bathroom.
"Howl?" Kuroko nervously knocked the door. The light from the moon outside the window helped him to see things around him.
"Howl?" Kuroko tried again to no avail. There was no answer but a rustling sound coming from the room. Kuroko bit his lip desperately.
Tonight, again, he was thrown to some other dimension in his weird dream and he turned out to be another female character –again. Kuroko was sure that the only solution to solve this ridiculous nightmare was to find out through the other character inside his dream. Kuroko hoped that if he tried to converse with other character, maybe he would find other people who also had been trapped inside the dream.
And that was when it dawned on Kuroko. Kuroko had a hunch about the other person who presented himself on his dream. Though the probability was not high and it was purely a gamble, Kuroko had no choice but to try it.
"A-Akashi-kun?"
There was a pause from the room and Kuroko felt like his heart sunk deep when the door in front of him creaked open.
"Tetsuya?"
Kuroko's eyes widened as he saw the captain of his basketball team, whom he just had the ridiculous talk with few hours ago in the afternoon after practice, peeked from behind the door and with a cold icy voice questioned Kuroko's wellbeing.
"Is that you, Tetsuya?"
Kuroko stared down to his reflection on the window next to him, sighed by the appearance of skirt and braided hair. "Yes"
The door opened wide with a scowled young man's grip on the door knob tightened. "Care to tell me where are we right now?"
Kuroko stepped back a bit to give a little room to the other character so that the scenery outside the window came to the sight. The vast blue midnight sky and mountain and trees and beautiful scenery graced their curious glances. Kuroko's attention then darted to the other window which was showing them the view of midnight city. As if on cue, Akashi stared to the other window and heads slightly taken aback by the surprise –how could you expect different sceneries from two windows placed adjacent to each others?
As much as he declared that he was the emperor and that he was always right, Akashi had to admit that there was the time that he wasn't knowledgeable enough to explain the bizarre fact in front of him – and he believed that this was the time he couldn't rely on his brain. Akashi then inclined himself to Kuroko, demanding an answer to his previous question.
"I believe we are currently in the world of..", Kuroko gulped, his eyes blinked in fright. "Howl's Moving Castle"
Connect
By fancyshipper
random drabble akakuro
"So..", one of Akashi's leg kicked out a gold crown and few necklaces from the way and stared at the body-sized mirror in the room. There he saw a drop-dead gorgeous young man with a dark hair and flashy clothes standing in the space who had supposed to be Akashi Seijuro's mirror image. "..I am Howl?"
Kuroko swept the whole room filled with gold and treasures and expensive gifts then stared back to supposed to be Akashi. "Yes"
"And you are..", Akashi tried to suppress a smirk. "Sophie?"
Kuroko, fully seated on the edge of the bed, curled his fingers on his feminine dress and nodded slowly. Now that the situation of the dream where they landed on was all clear, Akashi could at least analyze their next move. Eventhough he was not into fictional works, Akashi did know one or two things about Howl's Moving Castle.
"At least I am young Sophie", Kuroko mumbled. He couldn't imagine if he was about to find himself as old Sophie –old lady with wrinkles and painful backache.
"What do we do now, Akashi-kun?" Kuroko stared to heterochromatic eyes next to him. The only semblance of Akashi in his Howl state was that unique eyes pattern. It was as if Akashi was not turned into Howl completely.
Akashi sighed. He combed his black hair to the back of his head –somehow the new hair style was making him uncomfortable, but wow he was so damn right gorgeous when unconsciously combed his hair back. "Did you remember how to get out from the previous one?"
Kuroko tilted his head, thinking. "The Doraemon dream?"
Akashi nodded his head. "I wasn't remember about it since all I did was hiding behind the closet and not showing up eventhough Doraemon searched me down the whole house"
Kuroko bowed down his head, wanting to stifle his giggle at the mention of Doraemon from Akashi's mouth.
"What?"
"Ah, no, it was just..", Kuroko tried to avoid eye-contact. "You seemed more teenager, Akashi-kun"
"Huh?" Akashi stated in wonder. After bouncing back and forth within his room admiring the golden treasure and thrashing the disordered stuffs, Akashi decided to sit next to Kuroko who visibly tried to squirm in awkwardness from the close proximity.
"What do you mean?"
Kuroko's finger played harp on his braided hair, nervous. "Well, you usually seemed distant as a captain and your image was all about winning, authority, shogi, and heavy topics like politic or law"
Kuroko trailed off when Akashi's eyes blinked in awareness from the explanation. "So.. it's kind of out of character when you talked about stuffs like Doraemon.."
Akashi sighed –little did he know Kuroko caught a clue of disappointment and tried to make things up.
"But that was what made you more like a teenager now, Akashi-kun. I can assure you it was not a bad thing at all"
After the hurried reasoning from Kuroko, Akashi's lips crooked a bit in a small thin smile. He nodded in understanding and softly patted Kuroko's fluffy girl head. Eventhough Kuroko's appearance was all girly and very Sophie, behind the strain of grey silky hair, there laid a pair of eyes as calming as a deep ocean and blue sky. Kuroko Tetsuya's traces were still there, hidden beneath the turquoise marble.
"I know", Akashi flashed a glint of gratitude to the girl in front of him. "Thank you for your concern"
Kuroko stared down to his curled knuckles on his thigh, unable to look up at Akashi. The embarrassment, from both trying to defy the emperor and from casted as female character, crept up to him.
Sensing a discomfort atmosphere from his companion, Akashi coughed and looked up to one window in his room. "If I recall, there was this scene where Howl could walk on the air, wasn't there?"
Kuroko nodded and stared at Akashi who currently walked to the window.
"Akashi-kun?"
Akashi smirked from behind the curtain and jumped down from the windowsill. Kuroko stood abruptly from his seat and hurriedly checked the presence of Akashi Seijuro, of the Howl.
When Kuroko was about to shout in fright, he saw the wizard walked next to the chimney and waved his hand.
"If I'd known this sooner, maybe I can try some trick from Doraemon's pocket the night before"
Kuroko's brow furrowed upon the childish idea. Tonight was the night that Kuroko discovered the other side of Akashi Seijuro. A complete different Akashi Seijuro.
"Akashi-kun, why don't you come back inside and think about our next move?"
Kuroko glanced over the height from the edge of the window. Yet once his eyes met with the joyful heterochromatic eyes, Kuroko knew his persuasive attempt was all futile.
"If anything, it was obligatory for us to do this if we want to stop this weird dream-disease, right, Tetsuya?"
Akashi reached out a hand in front of Kuroko. With his skirt waved by the effect of night wind, Kuroko stared in disbelief to the scenery beneath the window. It was a big forest with cones of pines splayed in every corner and rapids current of river and big monstrous green hill everywhere –a total beautiful scenery to hike on your holiday and not to jump in the middle of the night.
Kuroko gulped as to consider the hand reached out in front of him.
"It will be okay", Akashi smiled, in Howl's smile. "Sophie"
By the rolling sound of Sophie came out from the flying man in front of him, Kuroko Sophie Tetsuya finally melted. He then carefully reached out to the hand and softly muttered, please take care of me, Howl-sama
Author's Note:
I have no idea what did I just write. I'm rewatching Howl's Moving Castle and then the idea of continuing this weird fict popped out (and yeah, if any of you aren't familiar with this show, you should watch this)
I don't care whether people will read this or not because in the next few chapters I'm going to go crazy and gonna cast Akashi-Kuroko in some weird animes HAHAHAH.
Last, I dedicated this chapter for Gentle Snow. You're the only one who wants to review this crappy fict eheheheh THANKYOU ILYSM 3