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Chapter 7: Hope dies last
The group that went to freed Kise from jail returned to Akashi's home, and there were their friends, with the giant purple haired keeping an eye on them.
"Kise-kun!" Momoi almost jumped to Kise's side, worried. "I was waiting for you all! We were very concerned about you!"
"I-I'm fine now -ssu" the blonde scratched the back of his head
"Aka-chin I kept an eye on them as you told~" Murasakibara said in a lazy, cheerful tone.
"Good job." The red haired answered "Now…"
"Eh-ssu?" Kise interrupted. "Why are those people here? Aren't they friends of yours?" the blonde glanced to GoM members "Kagamicchi and Momoicchi weren't supposed to be the ones to know about us?"
Kaijou's ace was lost in that situation, he was told that no one should now about them, yet there were exactly four people who were intruders on Akashi's house and they didn't seemed surprised by seeing his appearance.
"Just what… Have I missed here?" Kise asked bewildered.
After some explanations, that Kuroko, Aomine and Kagami kindly did…
"Eh? –ssu" he whined "Why it was only me and Akashicchi that haven't met any friend?! So unfair! And Midorimacchi met two of them!" he bawled as if accusing the green haired of some crime.
"It's not something to be proud of!" Midorima retorted adjusting his glasses.
"Hey you two! It's not time to start a fight!" Aomine grumbled.
"But he's right" Momoi mumbled "Only Kise-kun and Akashi-kun haven't met friends, which means less trouble for you guys… "
"…" Akashi sighed heavily "To tell the truth… I've met some acquaintances too…"
"EH?!" everyone exclaimed in surprise.
"I've met Reo, Kotarou and Eikichi…"
"The three uncrowned kings?!" Takao's jaw dropped.
"Unfair! Unfair!" Kise protested "Why was I the one who couldn't' met friends?!-suu" he cried out loud
"And what happened? Why they didn't come with you?" Kagami asked nervous, ignoring the blonde's protest.
"I would explain since they had already seen this adult form, but then they said they would be going somewhere… They also seemed nervous… I wonder why…" Akashi had a puzzled expression.
"U-uh…" Kagami trembled in fear.
Each person in that room knew exactly why the red haired friend's haven't asked anything… They could wonder perfectly the scene.
"It's quite obvious they were afraid of you…" they thought in unison. "Of course they would just pretend they didn't see a thing…"
"Well, but how about turning you back?" Miyaji broke the tense air around GoM members"
"We've tried some things… But it didn't worked…" the pink haired girl said in a sad tone.
"What haven't you tried yet?" Himuro asked.
"We searched legends about curses; we threw a coin into the fountain again…" Aomine was the one to respond.
"But where did you find the legends?" Miyaji was still lost in the conversation
"On the internet!" Kise replied.
"Did you try exorcism? If it's a curse…" Takao suggested.
"No, and also, we didn't find that suspicious sorcerer that was on the temple when we went there the second time…-nanodayo" the green haired said frowning.
"You should search on books… Perhaps if it's an old book it might have the solution you need…" Sakurai pronounced shy, shrinking his shoulders.
"Ah?!" The tanned man growled.
"I-I'm sorry!" Sakurai cried.
"No…" A low voice sounded from nowhere.
"G-gah!" Aomine almost had a heart attack.
"Actually if we search on library or bookstores we could find valuable information…" Kuroko said with his flat voice
"Library…?~" Murasakibara asked while munching.
"It's a possibility…" Akashi confirmed.
"So we will search on books?" Kise asked reluctantly
"Yes!" a smile has born on Momoi's face "If it's a curse, there's a lot of old books telling legends about this!"
"I hope so…" Aomine mumbled.
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The next morning,
GoM friend's appeared as promised (or as Akashi made them swear) to help them finding a book that could possibly contain a way to release them from their curse.
"We will split up in four groups…" Akashi ordered
And the groups were: Akashi, Sakurai and Kise; Momoi, Aomine and Kuroko; Murasakibara, Himuro and Kagami; Midorima, Takao and Miyaji.
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Akashi's group,
At city's downtown
"Eh? -ssu" the blonde was confused, reading a book.
Kise, Sakurai and Akashi were in a public library of the city, searching for old books with legends and about curses.
"I can't find anything about fountains…" Sakurai said in an unhappy tone.
"So boring~" the blonde wailed sited on a chair "I want to go back to normal now!" he flounced his legs, impatiently.
"Quiet." Akashi said in threatening tone "I'm trying to read do not disturb me…" he gazed coldly at the two who were talking.
"I-ieek! I'm sorry!"
Sakurai hid himself behind Kise, and the blond trembled of fear remembering the last punishment he had received.
"H-He's scary-ssu" the model gulped.
"Y-yes…" the brunette nodded in agreement.
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Kuroko's group
At the east side of the city
Momoi was walking beside Kuroko, trying to not lose sight of him, even when he is an adult, he still has that low presence. Aomine was walking ahead, bored.
Some suspicious teenagers were looking directly at Momoi, whispering something. Kuroko looked discretely at those teens, with his blank face. They approached Momoi, catching her attention.
"…" she frowned. From their looks, she knew well what they wanted. It pissed her off.
"Hey lil' girl, do you wanna hang around with us?" one of the teens smiled mischievously.
"No. Excuse me…" she would walk away those teens, but a hand grasped her wrist.
"Come on! Let's play a little…" the teen was grasping the girl's wrist.
"Let me go..." she struggled.
"Eh?~ " he grinned "And what if I don't?"
"Let go of her…" a voice came from his side.
"Wha— AH!" the teen got scared with the bluenette man looking at him with a blank face.
"Let her go." Kuroko said firmly.
Beside his height and his flat face, that bluenette gave a sensation of superiority, slightly furrowing his brows and with an unbreakable confidence displaying on his light-blue eyes.
"Wha-what's with this guy?!" the teen pushed Momoi, letting her go.
Kuroko hold the girl's shoulders, without averting his gaze from the teenagers which looked puzzled.
"Tetsu-kun?" the pink haired girl looked above, to see his face.
"Ah… So…" Momoi blushed "Tetsu-kun in his adult form is so… Kyah! Kyaaahhhhhh! I-It's too much for me…" then, she fainted with a happy face.
"Momoi-san?" Kuroko hold the girl.
"What's going on here?"
The voice came from the tanned man who appeared, scaring the teenagers.
"What are you doin-" Aomine growled at the teen boys but stopped when he saw his childhood friend on Kuroko's arms. "What?!"
"She fainted…" the bluenette said in a worried tone.
"Hey… Your bastards…" he howled angrily "Just what did you do to Satsuki?!"
And in a matter of seconds, the boys were running screaming like girls to not witness the fury of the tall, big tanned man.
"Hum… Why is she with this happy face, anyways…?" Aomine calmed down looked to the girl,
"I have no idea…" Kuroko said with a slight perplexed face.
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Kagami's group
At the south side of the city
Himuro and Kagami were standing on the sidewalk, looking at the giant purple haired. Murasakibara was pressing his hands and face against a glass wall of a sweet's store.
"Ah~" Yosen's ace was drooling.
He put his index finger on the corner of his mouth, with glowing eyes while seeing those colorful sweets.
"Is he always like this?" a drop of sweat rolled down the redhead's face.
"Hahahaha" the redhead's brother laughed
"Muro-chin… I don't have money to buy candies…" the purple haired giant came saying with a sad face.
"Here…" Himuro picked money from his pocket and handed to the giant "You can buy some with this…"
"Thank you Muro-chin~" the giant smiled and ran to acquire some food.
"Don't spoil him!" Kagami shouted "We need to find a library and a cure for this curse otherwise we will be killed today!"
"Don't be so harsh, Taiga…" he said wearing a slight worried expression over his face "He must be nervous inside with this whole situation, give him some time… He's not very mature, you know…" he smiled again
"…" the red haired sighed heavily, seeking some patience.
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Midorima's group
On the north side of the city
The green haired was walking along with his two teenagers friends. They found a library and started their search.
They've been reading books for hours, but couldn't find anything useful, not even a clue about how to turn back. Miyaji sighed tiredly after closing his fifth book, and Takao yawned after the second.
"I can do it alone…-nanodayo" Shuutoku's ace said without taking off his eyes from the book he was reading.
"Uh?"
Takao and Miyaji exchanged glances, worriedly.
"No way we would let you alone Shin-chan!" the black haired smiled cheerfully
"It's troublesome, but we offered our help, right?" the blond suspired.
"Why are trying to help me?" Midorima frowned in confusion, closing the book he was reading until now. "It has nothing to do with you, it's my and my friend's problem… You don't need to help."
"Of course it is our problem too! We're friends, right?" Takao said with a confident tone and his cheerful bright smile.
"…" the green haired adjusted his glasses, embarrassed. "…"
"Ah-" Miyaji face-slapped himself because of his friend's shyness
"A-ah, and of course, mainly because you're our team's ace, right?" Takao smiled "We can't play with our ace out of courts!"
"I've thought so…" Midorima sighed in relief "I can't prohibit you of helping then…" he opened the book and started reading again
"Sheesh…" Takao sighed on his mind "Shin-can is still so helpless when it comes to friendship… He's such a tsundere…"
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Sometime after,
At a snack bar
The GoM and their friends were together, with a depressed air around them, sighing and thinking profoundly at their failure.
"I'm sorry…" Momoi sunk on her chair "We said we would help, but we didn't after all…"
"I'm sorry…" Sakurai mimicked the pink haired.
"But I feel so useless knowing that we couldn't do anything to help…" Takao got depressed
"If we had stopped you before throwing that coin…" Kagami frowned in frustration
"It's not your fault…" Kuroko's voice caught their attention "You spent your time trying to help us to release from this curse… That's enough" a soft smile formed on his face
"No matter the result, we are grateful for your help." Akashi said, surprising everyone.
"But, it feels like a waste of time for them since we couldn't get any result…" Kise sighed. "If we could, at least find that sorcerer…-ssu" he looked down.
"Yeah…" Aomine crossed his arms, thinking about the suspicious sorcerer.
Kaijou's blond, lifted his eyes to look through the glass window from that snack bar, when he saw the outside, a bright light seemed to reach his face and his eyes widened in shock.
"Eh-ssu?" he whispered. "T-That …" he pointed his finger to the outside.
It was when GoM member's gaze looked at the outside, and saw the same thing as Kise… A brow haired man, walking on the sidewalk right on the other side of the street…
"That man…" Akashi narrowed his eyes
They were sure he was the same man who was on the temple on that fatidic day … They could never forget his face because he knew that the GoM would suffer some kind of misfortune… And so he could know about a way to turn them back…
When they thought the destiny had abandoned them, a new chance was given to them, but will this man promptly help them?
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