Disclaimer: If I owned Kuroko no Basket, would I sit in my father's study, using his computer?
Characters: Akashi, Fem!Kuroko.
Warning: ... OK, I'll just assume that I have done nothing wrong. A lot of cheesy stuff ahead. Prepare yourselves. Really.
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"Who are you?"
"I'm obviously Akashi Seijuurou, Tetsuna."
In all honesty, Kuroko Tetsuna has never loved Akashi Seijuurou until he changes into another one, calling her first name for the first time.
In years later, she will come to realize that this is the reason why she couldn't stop him: her love wasn't strong enough, it wasn't there. She merely admired him, perhaps even more than she did to Aomine, so she was blinded by it. She was young and small and naïve, who lied to herself that she was observant enough what love is. All she knows is that Akashi has discovered her talent, has helped her go through the difficulty, has defended her when the whispers rising around and she feels indebt.
But she doesn't love him. She just lied to herself, over and over.
And she thinks Akashi knows it, too. His eyes never miss.
Tetsuna often dreams of future, and almost sees it: an image of herself, strong and confident and independent. And she has a goal.
But then, the Akashi Seijuurou she knows just disappears.
It's still him, of course, but she feels strange. Tetsuna takes pride in being observant, but she isn't sure what she's seeing. Every pain, every sorrow, and the dimming hope presents behind his eyes. She hears the terrible rawness of his voice when he calls her Tetsuna and right then she knows what he can do, what he must do.
She is startled, but doesn't scare.
(Because she gets the feeling that she has caught the glimpse of the real Akashi before darkness.)
She falls in love.
Just like that.
O0O
In all honestly, Akashi Seijuurou has loved Kuroko Tetsuna since the instant moments he saw her in the gym.
He thinks she is the most pretty girl he has ever seen and she is the only girl he knows who looks adorable when she's crying. Her voice is soft and her eyes colors his world with blue: blue, like the sky, like sapphires. He feels dizzy, but it's a good kind of dizzy. (Slowly, he falls for her courage, her determination and her heart, but it's far away in the future.)
But he doesn't understand.
(Akashi does understand, but he refuses to see it. Victory is the only language that Teikou understands, and he lets himself be drifted away, too far for her to catch, to far for him to reach her hands.)
He is still Akashi Seijuurou, but she starts avoiding him like a ghost, to the point that she wants to resign from the basketball club and disappears. And he shuts his heart, tries to hate her, see her as another pawn of his game, and almost succeeds.
Just almost.
But then he takes part in the Winter Cup, feeling more powerful than he has ever been and he sees her, her hair cut and blank eyes burning with the burning passion that only he can see. And she has her new light, who also makes her shine.
(Even before, she has always been shining.)
Akashi Seijuurou smiles.
It's good.
He has expected that. Tetsuna was born to be strong and brave like that.
He loves her all over again.
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Kagami Taiga isn't dense. He knows all of it. When Kuroko and Akashi stare at each other across the court, he tells them to get a goddamn room.
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a/n: No matter what, Kagami is dense.
Don't judge me.
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