Broken Little Things.
Prompt 1: Rumors I
"Hey, have you heard?"
"Heard what?"
"About that, you know, the famous couple in the freshmen year!"
"Ehhh? Which one? Kirigiri-san and Naegi-kun?"
"No! I'm talking about them, Class C's Ogiwara-kun and Kuroko-kun!"
"Ohhhh them! Of course I heard about them!"
Rumor Number 1: Ogiwara-kun and Kuroko-kun is never apart other than their club activities. Kuroko-kun is in the library committee and Ogiwara-kun is in the cooking club. And usually, if the other's club activities finished earlier, he will definitely come to the other's clubroom and went home together.
Kamiki Shizuru walked towards the library, a slightly irritated expression across her face. Her short gray skirt fluttered as she walked in a fast pace so as not to miss the librarian with the last shift. She really didn't want to find ten books about Showa Era that she needed to read by the end of the week by herself.
It was clumsy of her to forget this assignment, especially when it was a student-teaching class taught by the fearsome student council president, Akashi Seijuurou.
She then waved her head from right to left, trying to find anyone who might see her running in the corridor, when she found none, she dashed her way into the library.
The library of Rakuzan High School was big, a tad bigger than most other schools. Kamiki made her way to the librarian's desk, trying to find the last librarian of the day.
"Um, excuse me...?" She sounded, but there was nobody to hear her. "Excuse me...?" She repeated again.
Suddenly, there was a tug on her sleeve, and she jumped onto the librarian's desk. Damn her habits as a gymnast kicked in so hard.
A hollow-looking pair of azure eyes bore into her own as the owner of those beautiful orbs tilted his head to the side. Do you need something? She seemed to understand what he was saying, even without him actually saying anything.
"W-when did you get there...?" She asked as he jumped back down from the table, a confused expression plastered across her face. The light blue-haired boy only stared at his feet and then back to her. I have been here for a while though... maybe.
"Um, are you the librarian?" A nod. Kamiki then took a time to let her eyes travel down to the boy's nametag;
Librarian
Kuroko Tetsuya
"Um, Kuroko-kun. Can you help me find books about Showa Era? I mean, I'm required to read ten books and then write off the conclusions about them before concluding them into one solid essay, but... since I'm a bit pressed in time, I want to find just one book from which I can just conclude everything..." She rambled, but Kuroko-kun only nodded politely and gestured her to follow him.
When they arrived in one of the bookshelf, Kuroko-kun took out three books, all of them about Showa Era and yet not as thick as others Kamiki had seen before.
"Um, this is...?" Kuroko-kun then stacked them from the thinnest to the thickest, each of them had been bookmarked with various notes, it was as if... "Did you use this to make your assignment?" There was another nod.
Kamiki then bowed to the small boy, a gratitude smile wide on her face. "Thank you, Kuroko-kun! Here, I'll give you the cookies I made in my club as a gratitude, okay?" She handed him a small plastic bag of cookies, which the boy took with a respectful bow.
"Well, I better get started, then! Thank you so much, Kuroko-kun!" She ran towards the exit, only to bump into another member of Class C. She hurriedly apologize before running away to start on her assignment, only to remember that she had left her bag in the librarian's desk.
Kamiki ran back to the library, only to find the two rumored couple holding hands with one another as they made their way out.
That had been the first spark of the rumor, told by Kamiki Shizuru of Class 2-D.
oOo
Nishijou Haruna was the prima donna of the cooking club. With a clumsy personality and lack of any cooking skills aside from desserts, she was the main attraction of the otherwise ordinary club.
Some guys joined the club only to be around her, but her eyes were always glued to that raven-haired boy who was currently struggling to ice a vanilla cake they had been tasked to make today.
Ogiwara Shigehiro, that was his name. A boy one year under her with a happy- yet haunted- baby blue eyes and a grin across his face. He had join the cooking club and came out as a prodigious, yet clumsy, cook. He came the latest to the club, and yet leave the earliest. Ogiwara-kun always left as soon as his dish was plated.
Nishijou didn't fix her eyes on him because she was attracted to him, not at all. The reason she always stared was because she felt somehow there was something missing whenever he saw that boy.
He hurriedly iced his cake in a delicate black-and-white frosting with a shape of a pair of piyos talking to one another. He smiled at his creation before yelling out to the club leader that he was done and he will be going home.
Club practice ended a little bit late today, Nishijou admitted, but she had never seen Ogiwara-kun in a hurry before, it made her curious.
"Whoa, Kuroko! Sorry for not picking you up!" Ogiwara-kun spoke to nobody as he packed his cake, but she caught him glancing to the door behind her with an apologetic expression. Nishijou turned to see no one. No one was there.
But then when Ogiwara-kun was almost finished with his packing, the club leader ran towards Ogiwara-kun's table and smiled. "Kuroko-kun! Are you picking up Ogiwara-kun?" Nishijou squinted her eyes and finally took notice of a boy standing quietly on the corner of Ogiwara-kun's corner. He had the most adorable powder blue hair and a pair of striking azure eyes.
The blue-haired boy nodded once as Shizuru asked him a question with a beaming smile across her face. But when Ogiwara-kun was finished, they linked their hands together and bid an adieu to the club, all the while holding hands with one another.
Nishijou walked towards her best friend with a confused expression across her face. "Shizuru-chan..."
"Hmm? What's up, Haruna-chan?"
"Who're they? Are they...?"
"Whoa, Haruna, haven't you heard of them? They're Ogiwara-kun and Kuroko-kun of the freshman year! Do you know that club activities is the only hours they spend away from one another? Romantic, right?!" Shizuru-chan sighed dreamily. Both of them had bonded through their love for BL, after all...
"Could it be they... pick each other up in their club activities if the others ran late?"
"Yeah! And then they'll walk home together! Plot twist is Ogiwara-kun actually lives with Kuroko-kun!"
"Whoa! That's a valid idea! Awesome!"
And that was how Nishijou Haruna spread rumors across the sophomore year that Ogiwara-kun and Kuroko-kun of the freshman year were dating.
And neither Kamiki Shizuru and Nishijou Haruna knew that Ogiwara Shigehiro is indeed living with Kuroko Tetsuya.
Next:
Rumor Number 2: Ogiwara-kun understands what Kuroko-kun is thinking and always replies back out loud even without the smaller boy talking.
Rumor Number 3: Kuroko-kun will visibly flash an anger to anyone who mentions the word "basketball" in Ogiwara-kun's presence.
I'm making this fic a drabble-series concerning Ogiwara and Kuroko's life in Rakuzan. Some chapters will be fluffy, others angsty, others scary. Thanks to Fumus-00 for the awesome idea!
I think some of it will be written in a random character's point of view like this chapter, at least in Part 1 which centers around rumors that had been accumulated thanks to Ogiwara and Kuroko's love love relationship in Rakuzan.
And there will be Akashi as well, at least I've planned him to be in it.
Feel free to suggest a name for the characters who will narrate the story, and I'm also open to suggestions regarding the rumors!