Outside of Academy City
Kuroko's father smirked. Taking his daughter out of Academy City wasn't going to be an easy task. Kuroko was a high level esper, a level 4 to be exact and not to mention her abilities were extremely rare and they were almost as valuable for research as a level 5 would be. There are exactly 58 teleporters and only 19 of which can teleport multiple objects at once, Kuroko was one of those few teleporters.
Now that was exactly why he was sitting in a with a representatives from Academy City and his assistant. He looked around the room. It was a plain business room with a large Chesnutt table that looked rather expensive and almost out of place in the bland room. There was a man with glasses and dark black hair, he wore an expensive black suite and black pants. The woman who stood next to him which he guessed was his assistant had long brown Chesnutt hair that went down the middle of her back. She wore a black suite just like the man but had a black skirt instead of pants.
The representative cleared his throat breaking the silence in the room. "Mr. Shirai Aoto-". "Just call me Aoto" Kuroko's dad remarked smugly. "Fine then Aoto" The male representative replied with annoyance. "I am Sakamoto Azuma ,and I assume you know why we've come here". The representative's assistant pulled out a large stack of documents and laid it in front of Aoto. "To put it bluntly, We cannot allow you to take Shirai Kuroko out of Academy City, she is way too valuable, and to put it simply…I guess you could say she IS property of Academy City". The last part of that sentence made Kuroko's smug smile drop. Aoto stayed quiet though, he knew if he had an angry outburst it would make the situation worst and satisfy the five people he saw in front of him that he considered scum.
"Your property you say…"
"Even if that is true, property can be…sold" He said smiling and interlocking his fingers
Azuma stared at him suspiciously he knew that the man in front of him was well known for his cleverness and his ability to deceive people, so he had to play his words carefully. "True some property can be bought. But, I doubt you have anything equivalent to the value of your daughters ability"
"Oohhh~" He hummed mockingly as he pulled out the suitcase that was sitting next to him "I beg to differ." He opened the suit case revealing stacks of money.
"There is exactly 3,095,700,000 yen here which is equivalent to 30,000,000million US dollars."
Azuma and his assistant stared with an awe struck face. Azuma knew Shirai Aoto was a very wealthy but he didn't exactly know just how wealthy.
Azuma cleared his throat "Yes that is a very… impressive amount of money but that isn't nearly enough to buy out one of Academy Cities precious test subjects"
"I thought as much." Aoto sighed calmly " I guess I'll just have to resort to plan B then"
Aoto twisted the handle of the suitcase. A keypad emerged from the side, Aoto typed in a 10-digit code and a secret compartment of the suitcase opened up.
'Damn rich people' Azuma thought to himself as he watched the suitcase change like a damn transformer.
Aoto reached inside and pulled out a few sheets of paper. A sly grin formed on his face
Azuma arched his eye brow "And that would be the thing that is supposedly just as valuable as one of the 19 strongest teleporters in the entire Academy City?"
"Just as valuable as maybe 10 of them in fact." He said handing Sakamoto the papers.
Azuma grabbed the papers, his curiosity getting the better of him. It took him a minute to finally figure out exactly what it was he was holding out in front of him. But when he did he regretted it.
His eyes slowly started to widen like he just witnessed a murder take place right in front of him.
"This is!-" Azuma shouted "Yes, it is a complete copy of all my research. How to successfully make an artificial being into a monsterous level six" A dark grin formed on his face.
"I was never informed that you were a former scientist from Academy City!" He half yelled looking up from the research documents.
" I assume it wasn't necessary for you to know" Aoto shrugged as he sat up from his chair and began walking toward the door.
"I expect to see my daughter exactly 3 days from now." He said as he grabbed the door knob.
"Wait!" Azuma yelled "The information on these research documents couldn't have been confirmed unless there was an actual experiment to take place." He whispered shaking with anger.
"Are you trying to say you successfully created an artificial being that is a level 6?!" He yelled shaking, with anger and fear.
"Who knows" Aoto replied with a dark grin on face as he stepped out of the room and closed the door.
"This is some kind of dark joke right?" He whispered to himself as walked towards the suitcase.
He slipped his hand into the secret compartment and found another piece of paper. When he pulled his hand out of the compartment, he realized it wasn't a piece of paper but an image of a girl.
The girl had reddish brown hair that was tied up in pigtails with a black ribbon. Realization dawned on him as he examined the image further.
He threw his hands in his pocket and pulled an image of Shirai Kuroko that the city had given him along with some basic information on the girl before he left to meet her father. He held the two pictures next to each other. They were exactly the same except the one that he found in the secret compartment of the suitcase had yellow eyes that looked like gold and the ribbons that held their hair up were two different colors.
"This has to be some dark joke right!?" He repeated to himself desperately.
Saten's Apartment
Misaka sat on floor. Saten had offered her to come in and make her dinner. Even though she desperately tried to decline the offer the younger girls persistence won her over.
Misaka could hear Saten as she hummed in the kitchen while she prepared the meal she was making for the two of them. They hadn't really said anything after they got into the house, only a few questions of what kinds of ingredients she preferred. There was only one conclusion Misaka could come up with, Saten was planning on bombarding her with questions while they were eating.
Misaka sighed and flopped on to her side limply and rolled around a few times before staring at the ceiling. The memories from just a few hours ago began to rush back into her head.
A scowl formed on her face and her hands clenched into fists.
Did Kuroko ever like be to begin with? Or was she just using me as a cover up to hide the fact that she was in a relationship with someone?
Was the Kuroko she knew, the Kuroko she lived with, a fake?
Misaka felt tears building up in the corner of her eyes, but quickly wiped them away when she heard Saten approaching.
"Misaka-san the foods rea-" She stopped in midsentence and took a few steps back.
"Such a scary looking face" She said as she made a dramatic pose
Misaka quickly straightened up her facial features into a fake smile "W-What are you talking about?!"
Misaka laughed nervously and sat up quickly. "So what did you make?" She asked quickly changing the subject.
Saten gave her a suspicion look but answered her anyways " I made a Japanese stew called Nikujaga"
"Oohhh~ That sounds good, Whats in it?"
"meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce" She stated Misaka's face lit up. And her mouth began to water has her stomach started to remember that the only food she had today was just a little bit of breakfast.
"Is it almost do-?!" Her question was answered when Saten layed a bowl front of her.
Misaka immediately grabbed the spoon and filled it with stew and shoved it her mouth But she regret it right afterwards.
The stew had just got done cooking and it was searing hot. "Dammit!" Misaka Gurgled as she forcibly swallowed it down.
Saten face-palmed.
Sorry this took so long even though I promised they'd come faster. But a lot of people made a lot of good points on how I should take my time on the story. I changed the plot a little in the story and it's going to be a lot longer than I was going to make it. And if there was some of you who didn't understand that whole part with picture, basically Kuroko's dad made a clone of Kuroko. Similar to Misaka's clones but the difference is Kuroko's clone is not weaker than her in fact she's A LOT stronger then she is. Im going to try to update a little faster than I did this time at least once a week. :P
