"Talking"

'Thoughts'

'Flashbacks'

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Kise was annoyed. First off, that powerful presence he felt wasn't Kagami. While he was no joke, and that slightly worried him, he wasn't the one who he felt. Second, his Kurokocchi was on this joke of a team! She could be so good on his team. They could stand up to the others!

But, this wasn't the thing that upset him the most. No, what upset him the most was that someone was rubbing her head! She never let anyone do this but this no name person! He even saw a small, almost unnoticeable, unless you knew Kurokocchi, smile on her face! He knew what to do.

"Give us Kurokocchi."

Ha, that would show him, she would join his team and leave this no name. He closed his eyes as he walked toward her, surely this guy would leave her alone. 'Oh, crap, imagine if Akashi found out, haha, I'll just conveniently forget.'

Knowing he would be just a few feet in front of Kurokocchi, he opened his eyes. Everyone behind Kurokocchi was shocked. Everyone but this fellow blonde. He didn't even look phased!

"Oi! Who do you think you are? Let go of Kurokocchi!" He was angry now, this guy, did he not know who he was?

"No."

Kise looked appalled. The blonde didn't say that, that meant-

"But, Kurokocchi, y-you, you, never let us do that."

A single word set Kise into in his usual self. "Kurokocchi, do you not love me anymore, is that why you left, it's all my fault, I'm a horrible person." He started to cry into his sleeve, sad that Kuroko had left him.

The whole Seirin team deadpanned, this was a Miracle player?

Kise realized something, "Who are you anyway?"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meet you." He gave Kise a grin.

Kise's eyes widened, this was one of the few people Akashi was wary of? But he looks so harmle- Was this the presence he felt? He didn't feel it now, but there was something about him, he knew it.

His eyes narrowed, "Who are you really?"

"Maa, don't worry about it." Naruto waved him off. Kise saw eye twitches and tick marks from the players behind him Naruto, it seemed like he answered like this a lot.

Realizing his question wasn't going to get answered, Kise turned his attention back to Kuroko.

"I'm serious Kurokocchi, come join us, I miss playing with you, I'm sure we could go far together. We could win everything."

Sighing, Kuroko responded, "I'm sorry Kise-kun, I'm staying here." Blushing every so slightly. "Besides, I promised Kagami-kun that we would beat the Generation of Miracles. There's a reason I left, maybe you'll find out when we win."

The Seirin team was still flabbergasted, so much was going on, and they had never heard Kuroko say so much.

When nobody said anything for a few moments, her blush increased and she put her head into Naruto's shoulder, reverting to her old habits when put on the spot.

Naruto smiled down to her, there was the Kuroko-chan he knew so well.

Kise stood there shocked again. Something has changed Kurokocchi. Her behavior was unexpected. In all his years of playing with her and getting coaching from her, she had never done that. It had to be Naruto. She never acted this shy.

As much as he hated doing this, he was going to call Akashi. The five of them swore to look over Kurokocchi and this wasn't normal. He wasn't looking forward to this.

"I see. I guess if I beat you, you'll come back to your senses." With that being said, Kise walked away.

"Naruto-kun, why did you want to meet me here?" Kuroko said as she made herself known. Naruto was shooting the ball from the three-point line, each shot followed by a satisfying swoosh.

He turned towards her, not even slightly scared from her unexpected appearance. He was the one person she could never misdirect and he always felt her presence.

"Well, if I'm going to train you, I need to know your skills."

"You already know my skills, besides from misdirection and passing, I'm not good at anything else." That got a laugh from him.

"Oh, come on, I know you very well, you have more skills then you let on. There's no point in hiding it. If I'm going to train you, I'll need to know everything."

Sighing she replied, "Fine, it's not like I could ever hide anything to you." She looked down, slightly depressed. She really didn't want anyone to know. She planned on pulling out her moves when the team needed them most. Before Naruto had left, he could read her like a book and it looked like nothing had changed.

"Don't look so sad, let's just play."

Passing the ball to her, both of them took their positions.

She smirked slightly, "I should warn you though, you might be surprised." With that said, she disappeared. Smirking, she knew she finally caught him off guard. Only Momoi had seen this and she was really impressed.

She frowned, when she found herself still in front of him, the now, annoying grin on his face.

"But, what?" Her shock must of been prevalent on her face as Naruto quickly responded.

"Don't worry about that Kuroko-chan, if that was anyone else that would be an easy drive. This deals a bit with misdirection, right?"

Still dribbling the ball, she replied, "Yeah, a bit, it's better with teammates, where it's easier to misdirect them or at least, that's how I think it's going to work. I see that it still needs some improvement." How? Even if there were no teammates with her, she still should be able to pass him with her Vanishing Drive.

"I'm too used to your presence. It's good, but like I said, if that had been anyone else, you would of scored, no doubt."

She smiled, slightly reasured. All her hard work payed off and if Naruto said it was good, she would believe him.

"Hmm, I see, how's your shooting skills, did you ever improve them?"

With that being said, he backed off of her and she shot from the three point line and made it, easily.

"Keep going, run around and shoot from everywhere."

She smiled smugly, she knew he wasn't expecting her to shoot, she wasn't able to make anything when he knew her before. She moved around the court, seamlessly transitioning from receiving the ball to shooting it. He watched her gracefully make her shots, smiling. Maybe, Teiko didn't screw her over as much as he thought.

Seeing that she was shooting fine, he moved forward, "Now, what if I'm guarding you?"

She tried dribbling around him, but proved ineffective, not matter what she did. A crossover here, a spin move there, for a second, she thought she had caught him off guard and took a shot. The ball harmlessly shot off to the side, the ball not even getting close to the basket. Naruto looked over at her, a smirk on his face, "You did miss that layup on purpose, right?"

"Of course I did! I'm not that bad, I knew Kagami-kun was behind me. I had to play it off or Kise-kun would get suspicious. Only Aoimine-kun knows I'm better then I let on, and, maybe Akashi-kun too."

"Oh, you're better then you let on?" Naruto said, catching her slip up.

'Dammit! I didn't mean to say that.'

She sighed, it's like he knew all her secrets. Deciding that Naruto wasn't going to give up unless he saw something good, she picked up the ball. "Come on, lets keep going."

She started to dribble and then dashed to the far side of the court, Naruto hot on her heels. She committed and pulled out her pass-like shot, unhappy to say the least. Her self named 'Phantom Shot,' quickly shot out of her hands. Naruto tried to stop her, only to find the ball passing right through his hand, like it wasn't even there.

The shot slid right through the hoop, the bouncing of the ball was all the could be heard on the court.

Naruto stared wide-eyed, "That was incredible. How do you shoot like that? What's the range? When is it ineffective? What's the name of that shot? How do you even shoot like that?"

She had never seen him so amazed. She was expecting him to block the shot, in all honesty.

Mumbling, slightly embarrassed, Kuroko said,

"I just shot like a pass, before I learned how to properly shoot that was how I did shoot. Aomine-kun help me, until he forced me to shoot in the correct stance." She will never let him down for that, that was so many weeks in hell.

"Once I was done learning to shoot correctly, I was messing around and came up with that. I call it the 'Phantom Shot,' and I've never used it against anyone, besides you now," she finished.

"Is there a reason you play in the shadows? You could easily be a good player." Especially if his instincts felt right.

"Akashi-kun told me to play this way, he said it what I was best at. And if I change too much, I'll" she stopped and clenched her fist, biting into the skin. "I'll," choking on her words again she started to hyperventilate. Her fears being too strong.

She felt Naruto's arms wrap around her and she immediately flew into him, where she felt safe. She heard him quietly whisper into her ear, saying, "It's okay."

Then the wall stopping her words broke, "I'll become like them. They abandoned me and I never want that to happen to anyone. I couldn't even finish the third season because of it." Her breathing finally slowed down.

Naruto stared up at the sky, 'How does this even happen. When I left her in their care, I never expected things to turn out like this. Was I wrong leaving Kuroko-chan with Akashi? Something changed after I left and not for the better.'

She wasn't sure how much time had passed before saying, "Thank you, Naruto-kun. I," she hesitated, "I really needed that."

"Good, because, when your team needs you, you're going to need to use these skills." She tried to interrupt. "No, there will be a time, when the team can't beat someone, you will be that person."

'But if not, I'm going to slowly take them down until there is nothing left. I will never forgive Akashi for what he's done to you. I told him to watch over her. This wasn't what I imagined. She could of been so great. Her love of basketball is like no other, instead of shining in the light like she should, she plays in the shadow, afraid.'

"But, what if…" She trailed off.

"Don't worry, I'm here for good, I won't let you become what they've turned into. It's not only me, our teammates will be there to help. Seirin has good players." She smiled at him, he didn't know how much that meant.

"Now, when were you going to tell me you can use The Zone?"

Dread fell over her.

"What, how do you know that?" There was no way. She went into for a little bit, the smallest amount of time and all she did was pass faster. There was no way her knew! But here he was, telling her that he knew.

"What do you think I did in America?"

"I, I don't know." She honestly replied

"Do you know who my parents are?" Her head snapped up, that didn't seem relevant.

"I thought you were an orphan."

Chuckling, "Yes, but an orphan still comes from parents. My parents were Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki."

A gasp came from Kuroko. "But, they wer-"

"Some of the greatest basketball players in the world, yes. Once a friend told me about who I was, I had to go find out more about them. So I traveled to America where they played and I met my father's trainer. Then I trained under him for a few years."

Still shell-shocked all she could reply with was, "Who?"

"Jiraiya."

"Ryota-kun, why have you called me?" An annoyed Akashi asked.

"What? I can't just call you?"

"Ryota-kun, if this a joke..." The threat hanging the air.

"No! No, this is about Kurokocchi."

Akashi sighed, he was going to get a call about this a lot more in the foreseeable future, "Ryota-kun, I know Tetsuka-chan went to Seirin, I can't say I'm happy about it, but she was insistent on it."

"No Akashi-kun, this is about a player on their team."

"Ryota-kun, I know about Kagami, he's nothing to worry about, I'm sure even you can be him."

Kise's eye twitched. "Of course I beat him, who do you think I am? I wouldn't let him beat me."

Akashi's voice gained a deadly tone, "Then your wasting my time Ryota-kun, I'm going to hang up now."

"No, no, no, no wait! Remember that time when you told the five of us to be wary of one person? Akashi-kun, he was there!"

"What?"

"Akashi-kun, who is Naruto Uzumaki?"

Akashi became pale. Naruto-kun was back?

"Naruto-kun was the one who named us the Generation of Miracles."

Akashi was standing on the court at Teiko, in awe, he was so excited to play.

"Okay," the famed Shuzo Nijimura stepped forward, "we're going to be hold some some five on fives between first years to determine your skills."

He started to separate the groups into five, "Seijuro Akashi, Atsushi Murasakibara, Diaki Aomine, Shintaro Midorima and Shogo Haizaki, you will be one team."

He continued to make groups, until he paused and sighed. "Naruto-kun, while you may actually be a first year, you've played with us enough, we know your skills."

"Oh, come on Nijimura-senpai! I can't play with my soon to be teammates?"

"No, there would be 26 of you if you played. It'll be easier if you don't."

Akashi frowned. That seemed like an unfair advantage. Seeing that the rest of the first years weren't going to step up. He decided to.

"Nijimura-senpai, how come he's not playing with us? It seems unfair that he won't be tested with us."

Nijimura smirked. "As I said there's no need. Naruto-kun would destroy you guys. He should have been playing with us before, but he was too young. I've seen him play, he doesn't need to be test."

"Nijimura-senpai! I'm not that good." He finally stepped forward and walked to Nijimura. As he passed the group that Akashi was in, he paused.

"Hey Nijimura-senpai! I think this team right here is going to be amazing." He pointed towards the group he was in. "So amazing, that I can easily call them a," he paused for dramatic effect, "Generation of Miracles."

Nijimura's eyes slightly widened. "Hmm, if you say so Naruto-kun, I'll keep an eye on them for you. Anything else you have to say or can we go?"

The mood suddenly shifted and Naruto frowned. "Actually yes, I think the team ought to know. Coach! I need to make an announcement."

"Naruto-kun, this better be important." Kozo Shirogane said. He brought the rest of the team over.

Akashi lost his focus on Naruto, he didn't realize that the Teiko basketball club had so many people, there was at least 80 people, all crowding around, seeing what Naruto had to say. 'Is he that good to draw the players to him like moths to a flame?'

Akashi focused his attention back on Naruto.

"I'm sorry. I won't be able to play with you guys this year."

"What!" It sounded like everyone in the gym yelled at the same time.

Shirogane laughed, "Naruto-kun, you're finally old enough to play with us, of course you can play."

Naruto look down, "I'm sorry coach," His bangs covered his eyes. "I can't play. There is a family issue and I was given a choice. It was an opportunity I don't think I'll get again and I'm moving to America."

Nijimura yelled getting over his shock and into his anger. "What? You mean after all this time you're going to throw it away for family! All this time?"

"I'm sorry Nijimura-senpai." He looked up and Nijimura gasped, tears were forming in his eyes. "This is incredibly important to me!" He chocked on a sob. "Besides," he looked over at Akashi. "This group of guys will take you as far as I could."

"Naruto-kun wa-" Nijimura was interrupted by Naruto.

"I'm sorry," he started to walk away and took one look back, a sad look on his face, before he ran right out of the gym.

"Is that it? You never saw him play though."

"Ryota-kun, shut up, I'm not finished."

"Sorry!"

Later the newly named, Generation of Miracles, dominated the court. Easily taking down all the first years and then they took down the current starting team, amazing everybody in the gym. It was the proudest Akashi had been in a long time.

The whole gym was silent. For the first time in forever, a group of first years were going to start at Teiko.

Akashi couldn't keep the smile off his face. This would make his dad proud.

He decided to stay a bit after practice. In the games he saw that his was shooting sub-par compared to others.

As he was in the middle of a shot, he heard the gym door open.

"Ahh, there you are Akashi-kun."

He turned and faced the new arrival.

Was that the guy who left? "You're Naruto right? Aren't you suppose to be gone?"

He saw a grin appear on Naruto's face. "No, I thought I would tell the team today, I'm actually leaving tomorrow." He paused.

"That doesn't matter, what matters is her."

Akashi couldn't help but wonder, her? It wasn't until he look closely that he noticed that a girl was hanging onto his arm.

'What? When did she get there?'

"This is Tetsuka Kuroko. She is my most precious person. I will be gone and I don't know for how long. I can feel that you guys," referring to the team he named, Generation of Miracles, "will be good. I want you and your team to watch over her. She is a very good player, but," he smiled and put a hand on her head, "she is very shy."

He heard her mumble, "Naruto-kun!" She pulled her head from the side of his body, she introduced herself.

"Hello, I'm Tetsuka Kuroko, please take care of me."

Still with his hand on her head Naruto spoke, "People make fun of her for trying to be on a boy's team. She is a incredible player, I would definitely want her on my team if I was playing."

Kuroko's blush darkened.

Now that Akashi got a good look at her, he noticed she was pretty. The blush on her face was adorable and her voice was like silk. He blushed a little himself, Naruto wanted him to take care of her?

"I want you to help her get better, get her over this shyness, I don't know when I'm going to get back so I'm leaving this task to you. Please watch over of her for me."

An immense presence dropped on him, making him fall on his knees.

'What is this, I can hardly breath. I can't move. I want to die. Help!' He looked up and saw blood red eye's piercing right through his soul.

A horrific voice cut straight through him. "If anything happens to her..."

"Naruto-kun! Stop it! You're scaring him!"

The presence lifted and he breathed a sigh of relief. He never wanted that to happen again. He looked over to Kuroko, a new light shining on her. How did she stop a monster like him?

"Sorry Kuroko-chan. This will be my final goodbye. I'm leaving for good after this. I'm," tears started to appear in both their eyes.

Akashi suddenly felt like he was intruding on something that nobody should see. They ignored him like he wasn't even there.

"I'm sorry. I promise I will be back. I promise. I promise. I promise." He started to sob. "I promise."

"Naruto-kun, I don't want you to go. I don't want you to leave me. Please stay." She started to bawl and flung herself into him.

"I can't."

Akashi could see that each time she sobbed into him he grew weaker and weaker, he wanted to stay.

"I can't," he repeated. He took Kuroko in his arms and started to walk away from him.

The last thing he heard him say was, "Let's go, I might be leaving to tomorrow, but we have the rest of the day to be together."

Now alone in the gym, Akashi finally comprehend what Naruto said. 'Take care of her? I don't know how to train anybody! What can I even train her in? I don't know if she is even good at basketball? He seems to think she's good but I didn't even see here today?' Akashi's sighed. 'I didn't even notice she was there and she walked in with him! I didn't even notice she was there? What? How could I not notice somebody like that! She had so little presence.'

Akashi let out a small gasp, he knew what to do! He would train Tetsuka-chan to be a shadow! No one would know she was even there. 'That would be so cool.'

Akashi returned back to shooting, a smile on his face. He couldn't have know that this wasn't what Naruto wanted. He didn't know how this decision would come back to haunt him.

Akashi's wanted to punch Ryota, he could hear him crying on the other side of the phone.

"I never saw Naruto-kun after that. Before Shuzo-kun passed his position of captain to me I asked him about Naruto-kun."

"Shuzo-senpai, wait! I have one question to ask you. Who is Naruto Uzumaki?"

Nijimura turned and faced Akashi. "Let me put it this way. Imagine if Naruto-kun stayed and the Generation of Miracles never came to Teiko. Nothing would of changed. Teiko would of won each championship with him alone. He was that good." He took a step forward and put a hand on his shoulder.

"There are two things I should warn you about. One, never get him angry. I'm scared of him when he's like that. And two, never, ever hurt Kuroko-chan. He is incredibly overprotective of her. I'm not sure what he would do if something happened to her."

Nijimura walked away, his days as Teiko's basketball captain, over.

There you go! A bit of back story about Naruto and Akashi. I'm sure some of you felt the foreboding sense at the end of this chapter. I've got some twists and turns prepared in the coming chapters, so once this beginning part is over, prepare yourself.

As always, thank you for reading and for all the people who reviewed thank you! I'll try to answer any questions you have.

long live Uzumaki clan: Thanks for the compliment! I got the same feeling when I looked at Naruto crossovers and didn't see any like this. To answer you question, I really have no idea. I'm throwing ideas around in my head and that pairing has come up in my head quite a bit. It seems like it's heading towards that way, but I can't say for certain.

Tru3Ph03niX: I hope you continue to like it! I recently watched Kuroko no Basuke and I loved it so much that it spawned this fanfic!

Pravda93: Thanks!

Aiyoukhyra: I'll try to keep it interesting!

RoyalTwinFangs: I don't want to give to much away but you got a feel for how good Naruto is in this chapter. I'm not too sure if I plan on giving him a nickname, if so I think it will how to do something with foxes, as it's really important in the show Naruto. I feel like it would cool to do, since I don't plan on using too much from the actual story of Naruto for a long time.

About Naruto's skill: We will get to see Naruto in action, I promise. It might not be for a few chapters but I have the perfect place in mind to at least showcase his skills. This is probably the hardest part for me. I want Naruto to be strong, but I don't want him to be completely overpowered. I'm also thinking of some cool ways to incorporate Naruto's skills into basketball skills. There's tons of possibilities but it's hard to keep it balanced.

Anyway, please review if you have the time, I greatly appreciate it! See you all next time!