Authors note
So yeah, it's been a while hasn't it? I try to update as fast as I can but please excuse me if it's gonna take a while. That's just how it's going to be! I won't abandon this fanfic!
(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ So don't worry about that…
Guest/Timcanpy: Aaaah, D. Gray-Man! I to am a fan, I too am a fan of Timcanpy! He's just too adorable! (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)... That aside I to noticed some of the grammar and spelling errors, I hope that I'll get better though. And thanks for the warning, I'll be carefull!
AnimePanic: Yeah, it's great that I found a way to fix that, I didn't want it to feel so rushed. I hoped for a detailed sensation when reading this so I hope that there won't be any in ir anymore (◦'ںˉ◦).
BabyNightmareLady: MAUHAHAHAHA! ლ(｀∀´ლ), I hope to see your reaction at the end! MAUHAHAHAHA! Thx for the compliment btw.
Previously:
"Well, my mother's on a business trip and my father doesn't have time to make me lunch. And the only thing I can make is eggs so I can't really expect any home made food." "Then Kuroko, why doesn't your parents give you an allowance big enough for you to buy a lunch?" Akashi-kun says with a commanding voice. "My mother gave me an allowance before she left and father gave me some money yesterday." I respond without a hint of hesitation in my voice.
"Really but is it enough? Akashi-kun says while leaning his head back. "Actually Kuroko I'll be straightforward with you. Will you get any proper food at all?"
* Kuroko PoV *
"Um, well I, you see-" I was interrupted by a loud "Teeeeeetsuuuuuuu-kuuuun!" As well as a peach haired girl suddenly ramming me from behind, somehow without hitting the chair or hurling me straight forward. "Momoi-san could you please-" I interrupted myself by realising that this was the perfect opportunity to get out of the previous conversation. So I just have to pick of where I left off. 'Right here goes nothing.' "step out with me for a second?" Momoi-san looks at me with a mild surprised face. "Huh? Yeah, actually I want to talk with you in private too." She agrees with me. 'Good! Now the others can't object. I'll have to hurry though, otherwise they'll say something to catch Momoi-san's attention.' I quickly run out of the dining hall and into the school's corridor without letting anyone at the lunch table say anything.
"So Momoi-san what do you want to talk about?" I ask politely while trying to think of something to speak with her after she's done. "No it's alright if you go first." She says while waving her hands in front of her face. "No for I'm pretty sure that I know what you're going to say, and if I'm correct then the thing I'm going to talk about falls flat on its head." 'More like I'm trying to buy myself some time to come up with something.' "But that gives you all the more reason to go fi-" I interrupt her by raising my hand and then tell her: "I presume that you're here to apologise for yesterday or give some sort of clearing of what you meant yesterday, however Momoi-san it's alright. You don't need to apologise nor do you need to clear things up. I completely understand what you mean and I did not take any offence either." Momoi-san takes a sigh of relief and then asks me: "Alright, but you do now that you have to show a lot more effort out there today. I mean, Akashi-kun seemed calm when I talked to him after I went chasing after you yesterday but I tell by his eyes that he was not so pleased with you." I tilt my head and say: "Yes, I understand that my work yesterday was lamentable. However I have a request for you Momoi-san." As I say that her face lights up like a puppy about to go for a walk. "Yes! What is it Tetsu-kun?" She holds my hands together and looks at me with anticipation. "My family are having somewhat of a financial problem right now and due to some unfortunate circumstances. Which I predict that you'll probably hear from the other's. And due to my family problems I probably won't be having anything to eat for lunch this coming week." That is what I told her however on the inside... 'I can't believe that I'm lying straight to Momoi-san's face!'
"What? That's! Tetsu-kun are you going to be alright?" She holds my hand tighter as she said that. "Yes, I will." 'Liar.' "However it looks like the others are getting the wrong idea, and well, I don't really want to tell them about my family problems… So I was wondering if you could tell them." I give Momoi-san a face with a hint of despair to signify that it's a uncomfortable subject so that she'll pass that on to the others so that no one will pry into this matter any further. "Uh, yeah sure! But you know Tetsu-kun how will you survive this week without lunch?" She lets go of my hands and puts one hand underneath her chin. "I'll manage somehow." As I said that I could feel my thigh burning up, it slowly spread like wildfire over to my hip. 'I have to go. NOW!' "Well I'll be back soon Momoi-san, make sure you'll tell them." I say while rushing over to the bathroom.
I walk through the male designated bathroom door to check what was wrong. There were multiple wounds stretching from my left thigh nearly all the way up to my hip. It was nothing serious, just my wound acting up a bit. I didn't really know what to do but I decide to cool it down with water, I think it helped because the fiery hold on my leg was toned down. Now it only stings a bit, at least I can walk around relatively normal now.
I wander over to the dining hall where everyone is waiting for me, in spite of that they still can't see me. I walk up to them and see that they are quite distressed. "Everyone, is something the matter?" I inquired while I take a seat. "Eh, Kurokocchi?!" Kise-kun exclaimed. "Hey Tetsu! Why didn't you tell us that your family ar-" Aomine-kun was cut off by Momoi-san jabbing him in the gut followed with her whispering something to him, probably telling him not to bring up my personal subject. 'Good, it's working.' I think while smirking on the inside. "Hey Kuroko if you want to you could take some food from me, not that I really care a lot, I'm just thinking about the team." Midorima-kun kindly offers, despite of his tsundere [1] personality. "Hey no fair! I wanna give Kurokocchi some food too-ssu!" Kise-kun annoyingly complains. Murasakibara-kun, Aomine-kun and Momoi-san all complains that they want to help me with my food problem. Aomine-kun stating that as my light he should be the one to help me, Momoi-san objecting stating that she should take care of her 'future husband,' Midorima-kun affirmed that as he has most experience in health (with his father being a doctor) that he should be the one to help me, Murasakibara-kun saying that he wants to help me because he's an expert when it comes to food and Kise-kun declared that as my (self-proclaimed) best friend he should give me food. However Akashi-kun disclosed the conversation not by telling everyone that he would be the person to grant me food but rather by saying: "We could all pitch in and help Kuroko." Silence swept the room until Aomine-kun said: "But I-" "Daiki." Akashi-kun stated firmly.
"Well if you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way." I try to escape the situation, I sit up, turn around and begin walking. "Kuroko, are you really declining our offer?" Akashi-kun grabs my shoulder. 'Well yeah, I'm not all that sure if my parents will allow it.' I turn around and see that everyone is throwing me untrustworthy glares at me, especially Akashi-kun. It seems like trying to trick everyone especially Akashi-kun will be harder than I anticipated. "Not really, I merely want to not be a bother to any of you." I reply and bow as politely as possible. "It's no problem Kuro-chin, I wanna help you anyway." Murasakibara-kun protested and put his giant hand on my head. I push his hand away and he grabbed my other shoulder, after which he and Akashi-kun pulled me over to the dining table. By the time I sat down someone had already rooted through my bag and got my bento box out, everyone were taking food out of their bento to give me a lunch. I look down and start to wander off into my thoughts. 'Well I should be grateful, even if they will give me only the food that they don't want. After all that's what mother and father do to me whenever they actually feed me, either it's food that tastes disgusting, just something they don't like for example eggs or it's leftovers from their plates.' But when I look up again it's actually normal food, not some half eaten pieces of meat or weird looking rice grains, just normal everyday food, well sort of. Murasakibara-kun's sacrifices were consisting of sweetish food while Akashi-kun's were obviously top of the line type of food.
"Wait, hey Satsuki? Aomine-kun quickly turned to Momoi-san flustered. "What is it Dai-chan?" Momoi-san asked with a blatant oblivious face and tone. "Did you put some food for Tetsu?" "Yeah, of course I did!" She states angrily and puts her hands on her hip. "Hey, Tetsu look out there's some serious hazardous material in your bento box." I start to become concerned after Aomine-kun called Momoi-san's food 'hazardous material.' "Eeeh Mine-chin, I didn't know that you knew those kinds of words, I suppose that you're not so much of a Ahomine as I thought." Murasakibara-kun plainly stated. "HEY! I'm not stupid!" Aomine-kun made a pathetic rebuttal to which everyone just stared at him in disappointment. "If you must know Dai-chan, I don't actually make my own food, my parents do." Momoi-san informed Ahomine-kun, to which he responded with a heartfelt sigh.
After I ate the lunch which was oh so benevolently given to me my, I was on my way back to my classroom when I got an SMS for Terumi.
"Hey lil bro what are you going to make for food for dad today? The only thing you know how to make are eggs, and dad quite clearly hates eggs. (￣︿￣) You know you can order food instead of making it, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't mind. Message me A.S.A.P. (^-^*)/ - Terumi Kuroko"
I would order food I had the money to do so, however it's clear that I don't.
"Hello Terumi, I do not know what I shall cook for food for father. I also don't have enough money to buy father some sort takeout or anything in general, but I'm sure that I can fix something. - Tetsuya Kuroko"
About 0.2 seconds later Terumi messaged me back.
"Σ(°△°|||)︴that's not good Tet-chan! You shouldn't risk things like that! Who knows what's going to happen when you give him bad food twice (/_＼)?! Don't worry I'll send catering services to our house! And what do you mean by 'I don't have enough money to buy food for father?' You HAVE to tell me IMMEDIATELY! You got that(╬ Ò ‸ Ó)?! - Terumi Kuroko"
'Uh oh, this isn't a good sign. Maybe I should tell Terumi about my money problem... But I don't want her to get the wrong idea. I mean it's not like I can't buy anything, it's just less than any normal person would have.'
"Don't worry Terumi, I'll survive. It's nothing big, besides mother's coming home in 6 days time. You don't need to waste your money on food, I actually have a idea what I should make father for food today. I'll see you later. - Tetsuya Kuroko"
I felt bad lying to Terumi like that, but I don't want her to waste money, I'm not worth it. I close my phone and head over to my designated classroom, but before I get there I get another message. I get frustrated seeing how come Terumi is always messaging me so much so when I open my phone I was about to lecture her on how it's bad to mesage when you're doing something important, after all anything that concerns me is worthless. But then I see that I was wrong for it was not Terumi who messaged me, it was Akashi-kun.
"Kuroko, I expect you to meet me after the qualifier today in front of the school. Don't be late. - Seijuro Akashi"
'Oh well what can I do? After all Akashi-kun may be kind but he's not tolerant for anything that he deems suspicious, and I presume that today I was VERY suspicious.' I thought to myself as I put my phone on mute and shove it down my pant's pocket. And with that the last lessons for the day past by nearly instantaneously, I and the rest of the team prepare ourselves for what's to come and now it was time for the second round for the qualifiers, and I was definitely not prepared for another day like the one yesterday.
As I enter Kojimachi Junior High School's gym I see that there's a big audience there to see the famous Teiko Middle School's basketball club's regulars, as evident by the audiences whispers and shouts. We follow our coach who goes over to the Kojimachi's basketball coach to converse over the basketball plan. It barely was 15 minutes until the game had begun and I was at the bleachers, waiting to be called in while I observed the other's. It was kind of strange, Aomine-kun is fast, REALLY fast, and flexible too. I look and see that for every dunk Aomine-kun does the other players spirit diminishes slowly and steadily, and just like me the other's just stand in awe of Aomine-kun's strength. For some strange reason my body told me that Aomine-kun's newfound strength wasn't a good one, but I don't understand what it means. What could be so bad that I would get this peculiar pain in my stomach? The match was over in a blink of an eye, I barely got play, but that wasn't the bad thing. We completely demolished them, more than yesterday. 92 - 13 in our favor, Aomine-kun was merciless on the battlefield, or was it that he hadn't realised how strong he had become? On a positive note I was doing better than yesterday, my face stung a bit from time to time but I could barely feel any pain in my shoulder or leg. Well I was barely using the shoulder I was hurt with so I should be fine, for now anyway. Once we were fished with all of the formalities and got changed I was sneaking around to see if the others had anything to say about me today. Luckily they didn't, it was mostly about Aomine-kun's performance, it seems that I was overshadowed. Huh that's ironic a shadow that became overshadowed, well more like I was slowly fading away.
I shake the horrible feeling in my head away and headed back home until I realised my meeting with Akashi-kun in a couple of minutes. I rush back hoping that he would be late as usual, but when I reached the school's entrance I see a red-headed boy standing in front of the gate, tapping his shoes in frustration and looking around for someone. I walk over to him and notice that he can't see me. I sigh and tap him on his shoulder, I see that his eyes shrunk a bit for at least a second but it was for such a small moment that I barely realised it.
"Ah Kuroko what took you so long?" Akashi-kun asks while putting his hands on his hips. "I forgot that I should meet you here so after the match with Kojimachi, I was on my way home, and I was halfway home when I remembered our meeting." I answer without breaking eye contact with my captain. "Alright, come with me then Kuroko." I follow Akashi into the school and over to the Home Ec. Room. "Um Akashi what are we doing here?" I tilt my head. "Well isn't it obvious Kuroko?" "Sorry but no, isn't so obvious. Could you elaborate?" My reply to Akashi-kun's statement was a 'Hmph' as he opened the slide door leading into the Home Ec. Room. Akashi-kun takes some kitchen utilities as well as some ingredients here and there and puts them on either on the stove or the kitchen counter.
"Akashi-kun what are you doing?" I ask him, however my mind was thinking of something else. 'Don't tell me he's going to make food for me? Will he do this often? I don't want to be a bother to him, after all that's what mother and father would tell me all the time.' "Well, I'm going to teach you how to make a simple lunch utilizing ingredients you find at your home." Akashi-kun replied proudly. I take a look at exactly what he has taken out, minced beef, an onion, milk, egg, pasta, a sauce, salt and pepper. "Akashi-kun I'm afraid that pasta is NOT a common ingredient here in Japan." "Really? Naporitan [2] is a popular japanese dish. Besides you should have access to pasta dough as it's similar to noodles." Akashi-kun clearly stated. "I'm sorry but I don't have pasta or noodle dough lying around in my house." And honestly why would I? "Is that so, strange. Both me, Ryouta and Shintarou all have noodle dough at home, I remember seeing it when I was at their place." Akashi-kun said while putting his hand on his chin. "But all three of you either have rich parents or are rich yourself." And even if my parents are big in the system they would barely spare me a penny. "Oh yeah, I guess so." Akashi-kun said and picked up the package to the minced meat. "So Akashi-kun what are we making?" Akashi-kun then turned around to face me and said: "Traditionally made Swedish meatballs, with a compromisation." A take a mental inhale as I try to think what Swedish is. "It's a country in the northern part of Europe, it's a part of the Scandinavian countries to be precise. Denmark is a part of this geographical area." Akashi-kun answers my mental question. "What do you mean by compromisation Akashi-kun?" I ask boldly. "Oh, you see traditionally a swedish meatball dish should be served with gravy and mashed potatoes. However it seems that the school was missing both potatoes and gravy so I settled for pasta and a sauce that I thought was suitable for this dish." Then I start to think if it could be even be called a traditional dish if it's missing two of its essential ingredients. "Well, I'm in the mood for something northern today, and the home Ec. teacher asked me to use up both the minced meat and the pasta so I'm convincing myself that this is indeed a swedish dish Kuroko." At this current point of time I'm unsure if I really am safe from Akashi-kun's all seeing and all knowing mind.
Akashi-kun opens the beef's package and tells me to start heating up the pan. I heat the stove up and go over to the kitchen counter, Akashi-kun told me to start cutting up the onion. But when I held the knife a cold shudder made itself throughout my entire body. I clench the knife harder and harder until my hand feels as if though it's going to draw blood, my eyes start to go blurry and shake as my hand does. Akashi-kun then tells me that he could take care of the cutting and I could tend to the meat. Other than some small incidents occurred everything went fine. Akashi-kun did tell me to not roll the meat to much or it would lose its consistency, he DID yell at me not to have to pans heat so high, or so low, he also lectured me on a whole bunch of stuff involving the sauce. When the dish was finished I thought that it would taste good but Akashi-kun just stared at it in disbelief. He advised me not to eat it as it would probably knock me out however it was already too late. After all I'm not one for wasting food, however Akashi-kun was correct and moments later my vision turned black and I passed out. The last thing I heard was Akashi-kun's frantic yelling.
So yeah, that's that. When I wrote this I didn't intend it to end so abruptly but beggars can't be choosers. Please point out anything bad or good you noticed in this fanfic, It'll help me out alot. That being said thanks for reading!
[1] Tsundere is a person who acts as if they don't care about anyone in particular, clearly by telling them that they're an idiot or saying that they don't care. But really they do.
[2] Naporitan is a popular japanese pasta dish.