Chapter 6...
Holy Crap! I'm so sorry I haven't updated lately, but I've been so busy and sick that I lost my voice. I'll try harder to be quicker.
Okay. Back to the future we go.
New News
Warnings: Deep stuff, I guess. Cussing, walls, other stuff... Idk...
In two chapters, the Winter Championship will begin and it will be kinda... spacy from then on. You'll see what I mean later. But this is where Chapter Four left off.
Now Start!
Chapter 6 Of Answers and Questions
(No POV)
Previous on 'The American Cousin'
"Rocky-chan may I talk to you in private?"
(Seirin Gym, Girl's Locker Room, Now)
"What's up, Tomoko?" Rocky asked Kuroko as she leaned against the lockers. Her glasses, previously discarded on the bench for the fight, were now back on her face, covering her ruby eyes.
"What happened?" Kuroko deadpanned back. She crossed her arms over her crest.
'Damn it! She knows. Sei-kun must have texted her or something.' Rocky thought in English. (AN: I believe that unless you're thinking about what to say in an other language, I doubt you will be thinking in another language. This at least applies to me, so this is how I will write.) Rocky's eyebrows twitched a bit in frustration. If anyone who didn't know her well would've thought nothing of it, but Kuroko wasn't one of those people. The American tried to cover her panic with a light-hearted smirk. "What do you mean?"
"What happened between Akashi-kun and you?" Kuroko asked again in her deadpanned tone.
"What is this, Whose Line Is It(1)?" Rocky snapped back, still avoiding the question.
"What?" Kuroko asked, slightly confused.
"See?"Rocky pointed out in English.
"What?" Now Kuroko was very confused. Despite knowing Rocky and Kagami, Kuroko had always failed to pick up any English.
"See?" Rocky repeated in Japanese.
"No." Kuroko ended the detour, now slightly glaring at Rocky. "Rosa May (AN: Like the month, not the Asian name.) Akashi, what happened? You promised to stay by his side, and you're not the type of person to break promises." Kuroko asked with much force, enough to barely scare Rocky. Barely.
Not only did it barely scare, but more importantly, it pushed the wrong button.
"Fine. We had a fight! He was... controlling me! He's never done this before. He wanted to force me into an arranged marriage! He wanted me to marry some rich, corporate brat so "we" could expand the Akashi empire! He's become such a monster!" Rocky snapped back at Kuroko, thoroughly shocking the latter. "He's not Sei-kun! I promised Sei-kun, not that monster! I don't know what changed him. All I know is the one week I went home, everything went to hell!" Tears brimmed her pigment less eyes (Not that Kuroko could tell with the blacked-out glasses in the way).
Before Kuroko could reply to the outburst, Rocky stormed off.
Crash!"Fuck!" She screamed as she ran into the lockers. Crunch!The poor locker that had the misfortune of being the one that Rocky had run into just now had a gigantic dent in it. Once the door was found, Rocky left the room, mumbling something about paying for the damage later.
Kuroko could only stare at the dent in fear. She was afraid because she knew she was the cause of Rocky's present pain. She could hear said albino yelling for Kagami to take her home. Riko was yelling at the new co-coach/manager to not interrupt their training. Kagami and Hyuga was trying to calm the coach down. Kuroko slowly sat down on the bench, losing herself in painful memories.
(Now, In the Gym)
"Let me just take her to wherever she's staying." Kagami turned to Rocky. "So where are you staying anyways?"
"Ahomine's."
"What?!" Everyone on the Seiren basketball team stared at their new addition.
"What? he and I were close in middle school. Besides he lives closer to Seirin than Midorima-kun. You know, Tiger, you and him are a lot alike, but you're much sweeter." Kagami blushed at this. "And more skittish than him. Arf! Arf!" Everyone giggled and snickered at this but Kagami.
"You know about Kagami's cynophobia(2)?" Koganei asked, still trying to muffle his laughter.
"Know about it? I'm the one who save him from the mutt." Rocky beamed back. As she took a trip down memory lane, the others realized that was the first real smile they had seen from her, and that she was very beautiful with a true smile on her face. "Anyways, Let's go, Tiger. I'll make sure he finishes his training later." She called back to Riko as she tried to walkout the gym alone.
"Watch-" Hyuga tried to warn the blind girl, but he was too late.
Bonk! "Fuck!"Rocky cursed.
"-Out for the wall." Hyuga finished. He sighed. 'The rest of the year shall be interesting with her here,' Hyuga thought.
After Rocky reoriented herself, she and Kagami left for Aomine's. Riko then realized that Kuroko had not come out of the locker room. Riko blew her whistle for the boys to get back to training and then headed for the girl's locker room.
Upon entering, Riko quickly spotted the teal-head girl sitting on the bench.
"Oi, what are you doing? You're suppose to be practicing," Riko called out to her golden egg(3).
Kuroko rose up from her spot and sluggishly trudged out. Riko noticed this and stopped said person as she passed the coach.
"What's wrong? Did something happen while you two talked?" Riko asked out of concern for her only female player.
"It's my fault." This was all Riko got for an answer. Kuroko tried to go forward again, but she was stopped once again.
Riko sighed. "Just go home. If you're going to be like this, you might get hurt. I don't need you injured when we're this close to the Winter Championship." While the coach's words may have seem shallow for many, Kuroko knew that she was looking out for her.
"Okay." Kuroko turned around and changed back into her normal clothes. Right before she left the room, Riko spoke again.
"If you ever want or need to talk to anyone, you do know everyone in this gym, including I, are willing to listen, right?" Kuroko didn't even turn to face the brunette.
"All that needs to be said is that the person I love and I made a mistake for which Rocky is now suffering for." With that she left, more quite than a ghost.
Riko knew there was more to the story, but what and how to ask about it was the problem. For now she pushed it to the back of her mind and focus on her team who were currently in the gym.
Done! Okay I start write Chapter 7 Tomorrow.
1) Look it up on YouTube. It is so funny. For my story, I use one of their segments where all they do is ask questions. It will be funnier when you watch it.
2) the formal name for Fear of dogs
3) Small reference to episode one
Sorry this is short, but I wrote this in a hurry.
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