Chapter 2
"So, indeed what kind of person that Akashi is actually?"
A blue-haired boy doesn't flinch, continues through his reflection of contemplation that dominates his sky blue eyes. He then turned his blank gazes at a person in opposite, it tells slightly bitterness before he opened his mouth.
"It's actually quite complex to be understandable, Kagami-kun….. In a glance, Akashi-kun was what people called 'perfection'. He exceed in all areas, achieved what most of all thought was impossible to reach. His extraordinary blast everything in his way without failed and his verity never once been questioned. Maybe he isn't a human, or perhaps….he is. But there's one thing I always held my credence about Akashi-kun…."his expression overcast within shine that illuminates his face.
"That there's never a perfect thing in this world that could stay last forever."
Concerns
Darkness
It was the thing that currently devours him.
An entity of black horizon floating his stiff body in nothingness, tossed it as void liquid winding. He felt only solitude, without any slight of supposedly peacefulness. It's odd.
Paint of recollections was disappeared.
He tried to gains his frail memories, to no avail, body drowning in catatonic. Desperate hit a principle between illusionary.
"Seijuro….."
Cryptic voice is calling his name.
"Those tears of yours shall be erased."
Frozen blood tingling on his ears, he could feel his arms trying to create a single stretch.
"Emotions are never been allowed to exist."
His eyes widen in fear, witnessing the familiarity. The same word that was full of mercilessly, his utopia freedom caged in reality.
"Consequences are going to be doing in infallible if you invaded it again. Next time there will be no mercy. You should have understood this."
His father turned his head to his direction, these eyes are cold without feelings, tells only hollow and remorseless stares. It struck him when seconds ticked.
He could just shivers in helplessness as an abyss of vacuum immersing him into endless darkness.
Sounds of footsteps running echoed through unstained white walls in desolate hallway, creating non restlessness atmosphere between occupants. Great panic spread in mind of two persons, who was stepping hastily without a speck of cessation, passing every glass doors. That paces gradually come to an end when a destination room is seen from corners of two pairs of green and sky blue eyes which soon reached end of corridors.
Red rays radiating behind writing is still on. It doesn't take too much for the smaller teen between both persons to figures it out. Which he ensured the other did same. He brings himself to left side of the alley and put his small body slowly by touching one of silver-colored seats which cling with wall. His seat position is undoubtedly well-mannered. Legs were straight into floor with clasped hands placed on his thigh. A casual position for person in waits.
It is usually covered his attitude effectively, relying on of a calm and collected scenery, if it wasn't for one thing. His half face that full of dark shadow cast down and shows oppositeness. Eyes of the blue-haired boy didn't glance towards the cold metal door which screaming only an invisible line between life and death. Concerns weighed down milieu in the room.
A trice of green-attire people out and enter the surgery room is caught as glimpse of lightning in his head. Stares are in unconfused and hesitation expressed that his mind isn't in serenely. The person with him earlier was stood in contrast position, brisket adhere with that cold wall of hospital. His emerald eyes muse gazes into net floor, but there's more than that. He was one of causes of his presence.
The second reason musses his nerves.
Option to meet one of his former teammates before Interhigh champions wasn't one of his expectations. Let alone share in same place only both. He never expected anything when out of Maji Burger's door, including wondering with mind sensing the familiarity of shooter's green color. But the news struck on him more. He has strong satisfaction around Midorima's own feelings.
They picked up a Hikari train destination from Tokyo to Kyoto around at 2 p.m before he witnessed landscape alongside them slip by. He took in the same current position as now, gaze disposed toward transparent window, and brooded in mixed emotions. While chaos drowned himself, Midorima apparently did the same. Those two didn't share too much contact, but coherent enough to remind each other when they arrived.
The thing to do after that is a paid to Taxi. It didn't significant, they just said to what they're heading, Kanto Kyoto Hospital, and driver just seize the money. They searched receptionist, nodded politely to her after she gave them the information they needs. He called Kagami first beforehand, handled a tempered nagging from the red-haired male in wise tone, but leaved his points straightly.
His feelings are anything but equivocal.
As a matter of fact, it divided into two: Crestfallen and Fear.
Crestfallen still slipped beneath his hesitation, but fear of losing person who dear in his life sinks him to the bottom.
That news was incised shock and fear upon him, leaving him froze for a moment of what he heard from Midorima. He assuredly followed his footsteps in threshold of consciousness, only aware to ensure his former captain's safeness to even forgetting his unprepared will.
Akashi has been brought to hospital, life-threatened, and is in critical condition, stood between barriers which screaming death.
It isn't a lie when he honest that he still has disappointment spread between his minds when his former captain chose to let darkness parenthesize his light side. But Kuroko couldn't bring himself to hate Akashi. No matter what the reason is, he couldn't just abandon him. Their crucial relationship from it times had learned something unpleasant.
Out of all lines that crossed miracles, Akashi's parallel distance was always simply farthest.
His keen observations skills helped him realized that his former captain always over-extent himself beyond limit, separated with most of them. Midorima was the same. They have different kind of methods though. Sometimes he could find Akashi in reverse road, enforce himself to expose orders. The word "no" isn't foreign in his ears on most persuasive situations. Kuroko wondered if Akashi himself had limit.
Victory was the thing that obviously valid in Teiko. Kuroko couldn't miss every letter that plastered in that white wall. He once neutral but now hates it. That declaration is red and destructive. Akashi's tough mask was described by that phrase.
One thing that he ensured, these high expectations and merciless rules that appeared through them construed something pitiless.
The red-haired wasn't all to blame. Their circumstances were in right place.
He feels sadness washing all over him, seeing what had been pressed through Akashi's transparent cover.
Will Akashi survive? Can he pull it through? That fears is eaten him quickly.
Sound of metal door pushes open interrupted his fragment reveries that trapped him. He and Midorima immediately turned their concentration of thought and found that the red-light already turned off. The surgery was done. Kuroko could feel his nervousness raises up. Steps can be hear by them as Midorima Shinji walks passed the room, hands moved to remove a face mask, revealing his tired yet relieved expression.
It wasn't a bad sign, isn't it?
"Father, how is Akashi's condition?" Midorima released his previously unanswered question, without ado and non-calm manners obviously come forward right on his face. Kuroko could tell Midorima preserve hard his apprehensiveness passed his veins.
The older Midorima doesn't giving an appropriate responds, instead guide both of their gazes to the room behind him. A stretcher can be seen being pulled by some nurses, full of machines that attached to someone lying unconsciously upon it. Both of them didn't bother to avert a look at him as incapacity and cringe forced them to permit the now-vulnerable teen being brought away to other place.
"Akashi Seijuro is now successfully out of his critical condition."
Midorima Shinji's words turned their attention at him in a second.
"His heart beat had stopped once during the surgery clinically less than two minutes, but we succeed to circulated oxygen into his heart and brain enough to not created brain death. But the pills that he took were quite a lot. Although the dose levels aren't too high and we managed to spell it out from his body, those pills still had some effects to his nerves, especially on volunteer neurons. A comatose state has occurred on him by intoxication. He's in unconscious state right now. We can't predict when he would wake up."
Their expression set in a horror.
He's only watching them in full of understanding, but kept an elegant mask on his face.
"I'm going to do some of further examination on his brain. I will soon tell you about his condition in more detailed once I have suitable time." Pauses him, briefly has something important which going on in his mind but quickly brushed it off, didn't want to tell those two teens.
"You can only allow to visits him around two or three hours later. Both of you can wait at outside of his private room which his father owned on upper floor. Nurses will be to one to tell you when the time is up. Right now, I have some many works to do. Excuse me first."
Kuroko and Midorima could only see his body go away in restlessness expression that binding with grieve.
Midorima wasn't sure of how he should react to what his father had told him at first. His mind was just dropped by at some anxiety which result his riot, on his belief that Kuroko only as disquietude as him once the young teen holding such facial expressions. One glance filed at the body lay in hospital bed, watched only a gentle rise and fall of the chest that indicates his life signs.
Green line cardiogram is quietly beeping on the black screen of meter life, rhythmically up and down along with the heartbeat. Various tubes and IV hooked to his wrist and chest, gives proper nutrition and medicine to his body. A transparent mask covered half of his face, practically giving a sight of dew breath condense on it while help him to take oxygen. His face looks so pale and sleeping peacefully under the oxygen mask, which Midorima didn't have anticipated but conceived to have heart harmed.
Comatose and indeterminate possibility to gains consciousness make him worried sickly to bottom of his stomach. He never have been see him this pale in his life, looking this delicate as strand that was on verge of its fall. Not even when Midorima saw the red-haired teen how unbearable exhausted was written on his expression after the numerous endless of assignments.
However, Akashi is simply erratic.
There were so many years recognize pattern of him, but end up approved fallacious route. Their favorite synchronization in many topics: Shogi, Basketball, Grades, Piano, Arts, Literatures, most of things that people represent as high-classy. Of course, as it well, Akashi still maintain as overwhelming victorious. It was always an easy conclusion. Midorima even doubted if he knew Akashi well enough as his closest person (Or that's what he considered it if wasn't Kuroko appertain).
He is now still in safe frontier, which Midorima think that it's either luck of fate or Akashi's beyond specialization. His father said that this only a momentary coma, and he will get full recovery after some muscles therapies. Midorima is quiet grateful about the revelation, but his concerns wasn't just based on that.
It was the fact that Akashi deliberated swallowed those pills, be acquainted by ricks. So, what thing other than it was denote of suicide attempt?
Has Akashi finally reached his efflux?
The former captain has been feeling very oppressed, silently depressed because carefree time was cut from him. But there's never once flashed in his mind that Akashi would plug it all out, unless something triggered. Or was it only Midorima's own miscalculating? He's not sure.
"Midorima-kun?"
He practically fixes his gaze at source of the calm voice's owner and finds the phantom player sitting at the chair on corner, blue eyes are staring at him in maze.
"What do you want to say, Kuroko?"
The mystification quickly shut down, replaced by the same blank stares. "Nothing." he hisses.
Blinked knows as in an instant that the blue-haired boy was giving a hideous questions but decided to get rid of it. Midorima are full of guarantee whether his confusion is the same.
"Just phrase what you want to know, Kuroko. I will answer it."
"Had you inform others?"
Midorima sighs with confab informed that Kuroko wasn't actually vocalizes his inquire "Yes."
"Will they soon coming to here?"
"I already informed Momoi about this," Midorima informed, trying to sound as calm as possible so he didn't destabilize the situation ,as he just remembered right after he call Momoi and tell her the news about Akashi, her voices suddenly really sounded so frantic. "According to her, Aomine will come tomorrow right after his school ended. Kise said that he will come to the hospital at this night, he already asked the permission to his agency and manager from what I heard. I already tried to contact Murasakibara too. He mostly probably the same as Kise, although judging from distance between Akita and Kyoto, I expect he would leave early." ended him as the information went straight and quickly.
"I see."Kuroko muttered.
He wanted to soon shut himself when his mind starts aware of lack notification to the phantom player about the pills which he actually forgot as the result of his panic. Disorientated made him can't hold this vibrate too well.
"Were there supposedly anything you asked other than it, Kuroko?"
This time, it is Kuroko turn to face him.
He closed his eyes for a moment in conflict of his inner before he let out the words.
"Why would Akashi-kun to do that kind of action, Midorima-kun?" he hisses. The once blank blue eyes filled with sorrow and rupture, completely antagonism his expressionless face.
The green haired shooter's reply is nothing but temporary silence.
With that, his blue eyes are only takes a couple of seconds to realize his own action.
"I'm sorry." The blue haired murmured.
Midorima merely blinked. He knew he couldn't bring himself to answer that question as it kept swirling into uncertainty and heavy injunction. It's virtually a shame, that what he does is hide from what he perceives from eyes. The fact itself is oppressive and obscure, Midorima couldn't see what the truth inside. Attention is called back when he can finally only gave three unhelpful words to the emit eyes, as of course as it is well, useless and undeserved to be out.
"I don't know, Kuroko."
And all of that is so obvious, because nobody ever does too.
"You're still staying in here, Tanaka-san?"
The middle-aged man in black formal suit immediately exchange his gaze after he heard the baritone voice ringing through transparent and metal objects that encompass them in same area. He glances back at the black horizontal sphere decorated by beautiful sparking dots scattered around the scenery that seen through invisible glass. His body took language with full of regard, abide, and polite posture after a while.
"Yes, sir, this is my duties to oversee young master until his safeness ensured."
"I understand." he formed a gentle smile, help to constructed his already wise and favorable trait. The 37-year-old doctor began to take position of sit beside the butler, white coat waves elegantly and slowly when bare cold floor touch it. His hands are fixing his glasses thoroughly.
"You're really cares about Akashi-kun too." It sounds more a lot of statement from Midorima Shinji.
"Young master deserve some attentions in his life."
He was not directly speaks again, instead research some sentences that he feels quite curious right now.
"How he could buy all of the capsules? It didn't sell randomly, only certain pharmacies have it as those are quite dangerous and contained highly anti-biotic. Didn't he usually be supervised properly?"
"I apologized profusely for accidentally dropped my guard on him. I shouldn't give him that permission even if it was against his orders. My priority is to protect the young master and secure his health, not to let him slay and brought danger to his own life." Tanaka said as the guilt came upon him of his careless act.
The middle-aged head butler should have known that it was a big mistake to complied his order and permit the young heir of Akashi family to disappear in such messy and unstable state as it lead them to testify horror sight of his body lay on cold floor of balcony, with spill of the bottle contents was scattered around him.
Siren of ambulance was cleave the stillness of night streets when Akashi Seijuro's body get strapped tightly around stretcher, equipments and kits being placed beside him to support his body from being deteriorated by time. It was soon gone to the direction of Kanto Kyoto Hospital where Midorima's family owned it as one of its big branch. The hospital is one of the largest and well-facilitated in Japan, it has many conglomerates clients for their private treatments, and one of them is Akashi's. They keep a close partnership as the owner and biggest consumer for dozen years.
"It is okay, you didn't need to apologize. That wasn't your entirely fault."
Midorima Shinji in fact doesn't have belief that anyone could prevent him from performed that action. He then finally decided to inquire the main question that is most valuable for him to Tanaka, when he views his face.
"So, have you informed to Masaomi yet?"
The next answer enough to make him feels relieved from any of disastrous allegations.
Pheww! Finally I finished this chapter. I knew it must be sucks if you read it because I have so much stress of my homework that I couldn't think properly and feeling any emotions, so it affected my work. I'm so much sorry about this chapter because it is bad, but next time I promise I'm going to improve and doing it better.
Notes: Kagami also will include in Akashi's relationship of course, as Kuroko's current light, and maybe I will consider about Nijimura.
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