Into Your Arms- Prologue
(So it's going to be short .. sorry for the long update, im kinda putting down notes cuz yeah I really did not expect to get this far ahahaha, so please have some patient on me X)
This marks the end of that depressing arc and the beginning of a new one !
This basically is about Kuroko finding happiness, but of course the road to happiness is not an easy one I mean … just look at 'One Piece' hahahaha.
So a quick recap of the past 10 chappies .. so kuroko's dirty laundry has been cleared up, tho don't hold back from asking questions and I will make sure to clear those up too.
Dmitri and Adrian's role has been cleared.
Kuroko's physical injures are known .
Kuroko's Mentality has made a quick cameo and will play a large role from here on out .. but a little Akashi lovin can fix that XD im so excited for the akakuro .. so hold on to your favorite fluffy stuffed toys and your choice of chocolate treats and I bestow on to you
INTO YOUR ARMS
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-Kuroko POV-
The Ocean, a beautiful untamed beauty, one of the wonders of the world, no matter how much humans disrupts it, it somehow maintains it beauty. But like everything else, it will perish it may not be or the next million years .. it will eventually happened. Everything destroys everything, nothing is safe Im not sa-
"Tetsuya!"
the sound of someone shouting my name snaps me out of my plummeting thoughts.
"huh?", I face the person who called for me, who happened to be standing next to me that's when I noticed the grip on my shoulder, Dmitri, and he looked very worried.
"What's wrong?", I asked sounding very dumb.
"Tetsu, I called your name several times…",Dmitri explains.
Hearing this I realized what just happened, I was drifting again, it is a term Dmitri and I use o explain my unstable plane that is my mind, Dmitri once explained it was like running in a straight line on the Grand Canyon, the drop is fast and the climb is tiring and slow but ill also have my neutral straight moments until the another sudden drop.
"sorry, I was just admiring the ocean when I started drifting. Thanks for the save"
The day when everyone learned about my past 14 years and Dmitri an Adrian's real identity, everyone seemed to just connect together and went with the flow, everyone got along, but me. They may know the basics of my absence but the next part will be much more difficult to explain I mean it took Dmitri 10 years to understand. It 's hard to understand one's mind when they don't know themselves.
Before everyone went to go home or the night, Akashi invited/ordered us to come along or their long Holiday at Akashi's Exclusive Hotel Resort, Apparently it was so extravagant it was in the list of the Mythical 7 Star accommodation list. Akashi has reserved the VIP cottages area to avoid attention.
When I asked why I was given a clear reminder how Famous they have become. Especially Aomine, Kagami and Kise, Kise maybe a Director of his own company now but from time to time he would do a job or two. Not to mention how Aomine and Kagami are Pro Players. But Momoi pulled me aside and explained how it was mostly to avoid attention towards Akashi, Most of his 'Business associates' visits the resort.
So now it is Monday, the second week in japan and im in a place that doesn't look like japan, but they promised it was japan.
Everyone is finishing their unpacking and told me to just relax and look around the beach, we have our own private beach infront of our cottages. The couples are sharing a cottage, Murasakibara and Himuro, Kise and Aomine, Midorima and Takao, shockingly Kagami and Momoi, when I found out about this I nearly had a heart attack.
Apparently unlike everyone else they just got into their relationship just 4 months ago and very much in their honey moon period. When I found out about their relationship my heart was racing from the shock but only increased when I found out Akashi is very much single, It even dared to leap a few times.
'ok I need to control myself im a bit too happy about this', scolding myself.
The highlight of that night though was when everyone was just leaving.
-flashback- Kuroko POV-
Right after dinner everyone sat together to just talk about everything and nothing at the same time. No one seem to want to talk about me for the rest of the night. Right now they were probably digesting not only the food they just ate but also all the information they just learned.
Aomine seem to distance himself away from Little Adrian as much as possible, it was like Kagami around Dogs.
Finally after everyone sat around just hoking and talking to one another we decided we should retire for the night, everyone needed It. That is until Momoi brought up their plans for the next half a year.
"Oh!, Tetsu-kun! You should come with us next week!" Momoi gasped as she clapped her hands in delight.
Suddenly all hell broke loose.
One after another everyone started to throw in suggestions and excitement seem to radiate once again from everyone, and just like in the past I seemed to stay in the background just listening next thing I know I have plans for the next months at one of Akashi's Grand hotels.
Everyone got more and more excited, as plans of going shopping with Momoi for some beach gear for us Russian men including Adrian and cottage rental and some other stuff I blocked out because a more pressing matter has come up with this Holiday plans….
The Beach. The Sea. The Ocean.
Suddenly my chest seem to tighten and my breathing laboured. My anxiety was spiking.
A hand on my shoulder snaps lures my attention to the the owner od said hand. Dmitri.
"you okay?"
I stare at him, a fell his hand grip my shoulder indicating his worry. I battled to calm myself, trying to not freak out infront of everyone. Fortunately I won.
Assuring myself, 'it's alright, just because we're going to he beach, don't mean I have to swim, or get close to the water at all, I don't need to swim, I don't need to get in the water'.
I repeated this mantra in my head a couple of dozen times before answering Dmitri.
"yeah .. Im cool.", my reply was clipped and abrupt totally contradicting myself, Dmitri held my gaze a few more seconds, to confirm, and nodded reluctantly.
I stood by the door as I bid farewell to everyone as they all filled out saying byes and see yas. Aomine just refused to get no closer to me for I was holding onto an already sleeping Baby.
"Aomine-Kun, He's just a baby".
"a Mafia baby", he hissed quietly afraid to rouse the baby.
"oh for the love of- "
"Anyway, il' see ya tomorrow or something, im staying with kise tonight so we'll just be downstairs, feel ree to drop by", Aomine says as he makes his way to the elevator where Kise was waiting for Aomine.
"sure, maybe ill bring Adrian Along", my statement cause Aomine to almost faceplant which he recovered from and shot me a Don't you dare Face.
This made me laugh which made Kise laugh, my movement cause Adrian to squirm, and rouse rubbing his eyes with his tiny hand and catching sight of a Frightened aomine in the middle of my outside hallway, he looked like a statue. Not wanting to make sudden movements.
Adrian gave a sleepy giggle a waved goodbye to Aomine and returning to his slumber with in my arms. My little angel.
Looking back at Aomine his gaze seem to soften.
"G'night Kid. Tetsu"
"good night kurokocchi!"
When the elevator closed Dmitri chose that moment to take adrian from me.
"give 'em here, ill sleep with him tonight, you say goodbye to Akashi-kun"
At the mention of Akashi, I realized akashi was still on his way out of my condo not realizing he hasn't left.
That when I realized I was unconsciously avoiding Akashi after I realized that i… I cant even say it in my mind It was too embarrassing,
'was I always been this shy and, and , Frigid!?.. oh god' he's looking at me, now that I've given him a good look, my memories of him is perfect but it doesn't compare to seeing him in person… stop being a weirdo Tetsuya… great! Now im scolding myself… or maybe im still mental … mental for Akashi.. STOP!... man he's beautiful … and perfect..'
"…-Suya, Tets-…. TETSUYA !?"
Distracted by my rampaging thoughts, now all I see is Akashi's face, no literally, Akashi was all up on my grill. And now im Ghetto.
My blanking out seem to alarm Akashi cuz he suddenly took hold of both sides of my head, his eyes darting everywhere on my face checking for something out of the ordinary.
This caused me to go very still not allowing myself to move an inch, hell! A millimeter!
'don't want any accidental touching to happened…. Liar….. I swear im going to find you random voice in my head and I will hurt you!'
"Tetsuya, I demand you tell me what is the matter! You have turned very red and very very still!"
My shyness is making Akashi upset and worried, ow that he mentioned it my face was quite warm.
"i-… Im fine", taking a step back so he would let go of my face and making a s much space between us.
Giving him a smile, at least I hope I looked like a smile, but I have a feeling I look like im constipated. Spendid.
Akashi studies me a bit more, his scrutinizing was making me squirm out of nervousness. Damn Dmitri for leaving me Behind with Akashi alone and me feeling happy that im alone with the object of my wetdr—AFFECTION!
I really need to get a grip! Im a mess, I don't top my squirming Akashi will becoe aware of my feelings …. Since I have kinda Confessed back then and that led to –
Akashi smiled.
My eyes goes wide… that smile was not a good sign…
To my despair his smile goes a tad wider.
Shit! He knows!.
"I know.", Akashi says still smiling, crossing his arms.
I don't know how long we stood like that, we we're in a stalemate, waiting for each other to make a move. i don't know About Akashi but I have lost all ability to move , because my whole being was focused on recording every feature of this Red headed god's Smiling face. I may have ran out of brain space that's why I just staring at him like a twat.
Akashi sighs.
"I think we've both have had a long eventful day, well I know I have", Akashi says not loosing that stupid perfect smile!
He began to walk towards the door next to me, to my relies my heart rate begins to lower with every step he made closer and closer to the door, all this excitement is really bad for my heart. Akashi has always had a way of carrying himself even back when we were all just wet behind the ears, back when everything was simple when basketball was everything. But now maturity has added to Akashi's Appeal.. now he's just down right gorgeous and sexy, because I know that is illegal.. it has to be !
Akashi stops his advance just as he got next to me.
"Rest Well Tetsuya".
Everything lit up in the back ground, Akashi lifts a graceful hand to brush my hair aside, and looks into my eyes, reminding me of my dream, which only serve to make my face go warmer once again, that seemed to please Akashi as I he was hoping I would react that way just before he proceeded to what he planned.
I felt warm lips plant a quick lingering peck just by the corner of my lips.
Once again I was a statue, a blushing wide eyed statute.. basically a blushing gargoyle cuz now my mouth was open.
If a fly flew into my mouth right this moment I'd probably swallow it and not care.
"Goodnight.. Tetsuya", Akashi whispers in my ear low and husky, his lips was close enoughto brush my ear. His hot breath making me shiver.
I couldn't turn to see him leave, I hear Akashi chuckle behind me his foot steps getting farther an farther.. I didn't move when I heard the elevator ding, or when it closed and left. It wasn't until munites later that I realized.
I swallowed nervously… 'Im so screwed'
-End of Flashback- Kuroko POV-
Remembering that day was a daily occurrence for me, Dmitri has started fussing over me again because 'I turn red' a bit too much.
Unconsciously I touched the place where Akashi's warmth was permanently imprinted on the side of my lip.
"you're touching it again", the sound o Dmitri's voice made me jump in surprise, abruptly putting my arm down which only made it look more suspicious.
Gettting annoyed I turn to look behind me where Dmitri is holding some stuff that he is meant to put in one of the store house. Everyone was busy unpacking stuff for our long vacation, they insisted I shouldn't handle anything that would cause har to me .. everything was still fresh to them.
They were treating me like I just got out of the hospital.
Maybe going to the beach isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Gazing lovingly towards my newly united friends, I feel warmth entering inside me again, the warmth I yearned for desperately ever since Obaa-chan passed away, ever since the day I I sad goodbye to my resting grandparents. The warmth I vowed to regain by returning here in japan.
For once I was looking forward into the future.
Before I realized my lips were smiling, I've smiled more and more eery since I began preparations to return to japan, but this smile .. this smile is different… it was the same smile I used back before everything happened… it was the smile I used when I gazed upon a room full of the friends I made during my birthday.
As my eyes scan through the camp site I caught sight of a certain gorgeous red head, sexily leaning against the shed door looking all sexy like the sexy man he is, damn him for being taller than me now !
He seem to be already watching me when I saw him, and he didn't even slightly feel embarassed to be caught staring, at leaast I hope he was staring and likein- no loving what he was seeing, instead he threw me my favourite smile, some people wouldn't have never pulled that off in a million years but of course Akashi has been living that long cuz he absolutely nailed it. Damn him and is sexy beautiful self!.
"Tetsu…"
Suddenly a voice I haven't heard in more that a decade calls from behind me. Dread. Heavy feeing of Dread fills my very being as i hear a voice, a voice that sounds like it is being carried by the see breeze itself -a very haunting sound- slowly, I turn my numb body towards the voice, towards the sea.
I Stood a good few metre away from the water.
And the once empty space before me there stood a person. A woman. Between me and the wide open ocean stood a woman I havent seen in years, wearing tattered wet clothes, she was soaked she had sand all over her body and hair, she looked like she just crawled out of the ocean. She was pale blood, in places, her left foot twisted a way it shouldn't be, obviously dislocated and broken. There stood inront of the ocean is my Mother…. Except the ocean is now stained with blood and floating bodies of a slowly sinking plain.
"…Mom".
And then Everything was Black.
-Akashi POV-
"ok that was the last of it!", I heaved a sigh as the last of our holiday equipment is put away in our shed located between Mine and Tetsuya's Cabins. Though I wouldn't mind sharing a Cabin with my Tetsuya.
Ever since that faithful night I felt Tetsuya's silky pale skin against my lips, my lips has been tingling for more. God knows that little peck was no where near enough, it took everything in me to keep me from jumping him and just have a fulll on make out session on that sofa that ever so taunted me the whole time we were alone in that living room, apparently my so called 'Patience of a Saint' was apparently perishable within 3 seconds when it came to My Tetsuya.
The way he reacted towards me that night was all it took to give me all the hope in the world that told me that I still had a chance. That there was still something between us. That he was still My tetsuya even for a little. Dmitri in the other hand is another story. It seems Dmitri has been with Teutsuya since almost from the very beginning, their connection with each other is clearly something that was bonded through more than 10 years of friendship, they had a type of comradery that none of us in the GoM can even come close to.
Wiping my hands on the towel that was hanging over my shouldes I made my way out of the shed, making sure it was shut properly and locked, I they want something from in here they would have to come to me for them to make sure everything stays in order and nothing goes missing, meaning Daiki better not even think of making a single disorder in there.
Aomine by chance was walking pass me and I saw him shiver and looking confuse and sacred at the same time, he catches sight of my position when I stood before the shed hands still holding onto the lock, I give him my trade mark perfect smile, his dark complexion visibly pales, indicating that he got the messsage. 'make a mess in here, I will end you'
Letting go of the lock hearing it tink and dangle, I lean against the shed door and scanned the surroung it looked like a beach camp sight with 7 Cabins with a large wooden hut gazebo with a built in grill and stove and dining table where everyone will be dining together, but in case there are also kitchenettes inside each cabin the ground along the camp site was solid ground with grass and only turns into sand as it gets near the water on the beach.
Everyone was busy unpacking the last of their stuff and getting ready for lunch, starting the fire, and chopping ingredients. Everyone was laughing and having fun. Much more than last few years, we have all been out hanging out like this but some how during those hang outs one of us would point out the elephant in the room, how empty it is without their beloved shadow. But now that elephant has been evicted from said room.
I caught sight of the very person who haunted my mind 24/7, there he stood a beautifully broken being, my feelings for him was something that can be described by mere words, no words can express, it was simple nothing could compare. His pedestal was set up way up into the heavens where his very horizon was the very stars above while I stood down below with my fellow mortals. But for some odd miracle he took notice of me and reached for me so he could pull me up.
The day he disappeared, I realized I was standing on this pedestal I didn't belong on, Tetsuya ell down some where I didn't know of. I couldn't Protect him. I couldn't be anything for him.
Now Tetsuya has been living each day like a new beginning, he lives one day at a time, like a Majestic Phoenix.
I feel pressure on my upper arm, I had been digging my nails into my flesh, over the years I have developed my own demons. Probably not as severe as what Tetsuya is going through which only serves to prove how mighty My Phoenix is, even when the whole world was crumbling around him he stood strong, no matter how hard, how heavy, he fought and now he's within the same grasps as the ones he broke loose from before but this time, im NEVER letting go.
I continued to study My little Phoenix's who is now doing the exact same thing I was just before, studying the camp site and finally his eyes lands on me. A first he seem to get lost in his own world a variety of expressions passed his face, all extremely charming and cute, soon.. very soon you will return to you rightful place, Into My Ams.
Finally he seem to notice that I was also staring at him, I shot him a smile the smile especially reserved for him and only him.
this seem to cause Tetsuya to turn around and face the ocean behind him. The same night I kissed Tetsuya good night Dmitri pued me aside and gave me the low down on Tetsuya's relationship with the Beach which, nill. Ever since the accident the past 14 years Tetsuya has never been to the beach or any large body of water so it was unknown territory for dmitri, but He was certain that it would affect Tetsuya's mentality the majority of it was the question, but so far he's been fine. So far.
Tetsuya seem to stand in his position for almost a minute now unmoving. So I decided to surprise him from behind.
Making my way behind him making sure he doesn't hear me, when suddenly us when I was a few steps away from him, he makes a stumbling step, and I hear a sob the very sound broke my healing heart in two.
"…Mom."
'FUCK!'
Tetsuya began to stumble towards the ocean. I was quick to hold onto him, preventing him from getting any farther.
"Mom! Mom! .. *sob* nononono.. please im so—sorr-y.. *sob* *sob*there's too much blood .. you can't!, he was seeing his Dead Mother and taking to her and blood.. son of a …
I clutch his head with one had to hug him into my arms to calmhim.
"Tetsuya! There is no one there, it's ok don't cry.. DMITRI!", for once in my life I didn't know what to do, I called out for dmitri for help. I see Dmitri run into his cabin and I return my attenton back to the bluenette crying and trying to claw out of my arms, trying to get into the water
I rocked the sobbing mess in my arms, sitting on the sand, I did everything I could think of that would soothe my precious love. Placing his head between the crook of my neck, hugging him, rubbing his back and giving him kisses his crown, cheek, temple forehead. Anything for my love.. Anything.
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What do you guys think!? Should I drag on the mentally scarred arc of tetsuya where akashi does anything to replace all the bad memories and feelings or a whole arc of akashi courting tetsuya and Dmitri starting a love triangleand tetsuya trying to get over his physical appearance .. the scar and crap since they on the beach for 6 months !?
Once again sorry for my long disappearance, shit happened, my internet got cut of.. but now im back and Im back with force ! :D .. I will work hard to upload often !
Just remember I have a page in facebook where there are decent fanart of this fanfic and fanfics to come
Until next time !