A/N: Sorry for the late update, I know I promise to update within the week last week but I got stuck on writing another fiction towards this three pairs. Aokaga, this is the continuation for Kuroko's birthday but it would be published in a different story. MidoTaka, the story would be full of humor and many more, though that would only be a one-shot. Of course AkaKuro is in the list also, Two ficlets for the pair. I just don't know when I can publish these stories since all are still on their way.
That's all, Thank you, R & R please.
But after the entire wait you can now go on and enjoy this update.
Warning: Wrong grammars, typos and many more stupid things I may have done in here.
Disclaimer: Kuroko no Basket is not mine.
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"Red and golden" was the words that escaped Kuroko's lips before few of his forgotten memories assaulted his mind.
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Gunshots, he can hear gunshots everywhere. The shut door could do nothing to minimize the noise. The shower room where silence usually reigns produces no comfort for the noises still reach there, Next was the master's bedroom but even under the bed it had produced no console for the noises still reach there. The last resort was the closet. The closet where silence and darkness reigns.
Gunshots, he can hear gunshots everywhere even inside the cramped closet where darkness usually reigns, one can also add silence but anyone should exclude that right then because of the gunshots heard almost everywhere.
Inside the closet a very young Kuroko was putting on a brave face even though no one could see it because of the surrounding blackness.
"Everything's going to be all right. Tetsuya is here to protect you." Kuroko says as he continued to muffle the ears of someone using his own tiny little hands , hoping that it could reduce the loud gunshots heard almost everywhere. He was in the brink of his tears but he's trying his best not to cry hoping that the young boy of his same age would not be scared.
"I know, don't worry. I am here to protect you as you are here to protect me." The young boy at Kuroko's front said then he muffled Kuroko's ear using his own tiny little hands reducing the magnitude of the sounds produced by the gunshots.
How Kuroko wish that he could see the profile of the young boy but given that they are in a cramped dark place there was no hope for that. The other boy's composure had provided Kuroko his own calmness, the intensity of the situation momentarily forgotten.
The peace inside the young Kuroko's heart and mind only lasted for a minute or two. He was reminded of the danger when he felt a vibration at his back, a vibration as he suppose was from banging the closet.
Knowing that there was a good chance of the one banging the closet being one of the perpetrators he removed the other boy's hand from his ear and put it by the ear of the boy himself. He made the action again for the other ear. Then he forced the other kid to blink his eyes close the same way one does to someone who died with open eyelids.
"Stay here," then Kuroko added, "Please" for he knows that the boy doesn't like to be commanded the same way as he doesn't like to be pushed around. All words were said loud enough for the kid to hear but not much of a noise for the person outside to hear it. "Please do not open your eyes and continue on covering your ears."
The nodding of the boy was a go signal for Kuroko; he then pushed open the closet door towards his side careful not to open the other door to not reveal the other child inside. That mere action of him made him wondered on why the perpetrator didn't just open the closet right away.
When Kuroko got out of the closet the sight that welcomed him was a body of man on his late twenties, sprawled across the floor with blood slowly seeping through his clothes, who continued on banging the closet but he was now too weak to produce much of a rattle on the thing.
As Kuroko was too young to see too much gore and blood he was too shock by the sight that he had not noticed that the man was already holding his legs until the man pulled Kuroko towards his self, which became the cause of Kuroko losing his footing and which made him sit down.
"Where is he?" the young man asked, "Is he still inside the closet?"
Kuroko did not answer and no move was done by him, more like he could not answer and he could not move. The young small boy was still too shocked and too scared to do anything at all. Kuroko was even surprised that he continued breathing that time.
Kuroko's silence was enough for the young man to confirm his guess, he then starts to stand up but he was too weak to do it fast enough before a bullet had grazed his left shoulder causing him to lean by the wall in a sitting position.
"Damn, I really should start wearing glasses." The voice was enough for Kuroko to let out a sigh of relief. "Why is it that you are not with the guards I asked for?" the man asked rhetorically. The young Kuroko wishes to see the face of the person who just entered the room. However due to shock he could still not move. He could only see the two sets of foot by the door, one of an adult and a young child almost his same age. "Where is he Kuroko?"
The young Kuroko knew on what the new person in the room is referring to, knowing that he is already safe around the company of the man, he pointed the closet without hesitation.
The man then right away made his way towards the closet to fetch the hidden other boy inside. "This is another reason why I hate leaving things to amateurs." The new person opened the closet door and carried the other boy. The man really had not minded the other person by the wall currently trying his best to stop the flow of the blood seeping through his clothes.
"Let's go Kuroko." With that the man made his exit towards the door.
Kuroko was trying his best to stand up, however he was still in shock and his body is still paralyzed causing him to be unable to walk.
The man on the floor noticed Kuroko's state "I swear to you boy. Red and golden would be the cause of your death and it will be a very painful death. Red and golden would cause the loss of everything you treasure. Stop protecting him. Red and golden is dangerous."
"Don't mind his blabber; he is just a dying person wanting to put you into trauma from this." It was another voice of a kid. In some ways Kuroko knew that the kid was the child by the door a moment ago and Kuroko can tell that he is also safe around the kid.
The kid helped Kuroko to stand up, apparently the bluenette was not that stoned into his place to make it hard for the other kid to help him move.
"I think I have forgotten something." The man who saved Kuroko from his earlier predicament came back inside the room still carrying the other kid with Kuroko at the time of serious danger. "Oh yeah, didn't I say let's go?" He looked at the two children who are still inside the room. He was about to make his leave again but stopped to look inside again. "Yes, now I remember." Then he pointed his gun towards the man. "You should die."
"I told you, careful of the Red and Golden." That was the last words of the bloody man leaning on the wall and sitting on the floor.
Gunshots, the last shot he heard were when a bullet made a hole between the eyes of the perpetrator. Then after that darkness and silence reigned within him.
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"Red and golden"Again Kuroko muttered the color of Akashi's eyes. However, Akashi's eye color wasn't in his mind now. It was the warning of the man who died.
Be careful of red and golden was what the man said.
"Red and golden" Kuroko whispered to nobody in particular at all.
Akashi knew that people who are related to dangerous organizations knows about or have heard the rumor about the red and golden eye. Every person that had heard of it had tried their own best to get their hands on the prize. People had believed that the red and golden eye have the ability to grant anyone's wish. Many had hunted for their own set of red and golden eyes. People said some had their own wishes, revive their dead love ones but up until now there was no proof of the legend really happening.
Akashi knows that the hunt was the reason for him being the only one left in that particular blood line. However Akashi remember of a young man from his past, who's face he really can't remember, had brought him to Akashi corporation's owner telling Akashi-san everything about the young Seijurou. Akashi-san accepted Seijurou's condition and predicament and took him in as his own child. After he was taken in Seijurou lived his own life doing nothing to upset the people who adopted him with their whole heart and treated him as their own. Akashi-san did everything he can to protect the little Seijurou and the protection up till now had not stopped.
Akashi knows that showing his eyes to Kuroko is not a very wise move at all but in order to confirm his suspicion towards Kuroko this was the only thing he could do to know the truth right away.
Kuroko's stop and shock from seeing Akashi's eyes was enough for the redhead to think that his assumption from the start was correct. He had thought that Kuroko was an assassin. After all he was familiar with the presence the pale boy gives. "You're an assassin."
Murasakibara stopped eating and took a defensive stance right away after hearing what Akashi said. He made Akashi took a few steps backward ready to protect him from the small man. However he was stopped when his sight landed on Kuroko.
Kuroko had not heard of Akashi's words a while ago for he continues to hear the dead man's warning from the red and golden.
"Red and Golden, "he continued on muttering "Red and Golden, Red and Golden Red and Golden."
"Aka-chin," Atsushi looked at the he is guarding "I think something's wrong with him."
Akashi was smart enough to notice Kuroko's continued mutterings. Forgetting his assumptions a while ago, since he thinks that he is wrong again, he made his way closer towards Kuroko's front and looked at him their faces mere inches apart.
"Everything's going to be all right." Those few words can always calm him down so Akashi expected that it would work the same way towards Kuroko.
"Red and Golden," Kuroko's sight landed on Akashi's eyes. The sight that welcomed Kuroko did not do any good at all only that it had worsened Kuroko's hysteria more. "Red and golden is dangerous." Then Kuroko continued to mutter this few again and again.
"I know. Don't worry; I am here to protect you." Akashi doesn't know why he had said those words. The words just slipped his tongue as if his mind knows that it was the only way to bring Kuroko back to normal.
"Red and golden… is..." Kuroko stopped when Akashi's word reached him. He remembers the child from his returned memories
"I know, don't worry. I am here to protect you as you are here to protect me."
Akashi's words calmed him down the same way as the words of the child from his memory did. "Are you that child?"
"What Akashi did not understand Kuroko's question. It seems like Kuroko is someone who is full of surprises. Akashi though.
Kuroko just shook his head when he realized what had happened, "Sorry for that. I swear it's not your eyes that are dangerous. The color just triggered some pretty bad memories." Kuroko explained.
Aside from the warning which is now making him more alert of his surrounding, the memories of the other people in his remembering doesn't have any face on them. It was either too dark or too blurred the only clear face was that of the man who died. There were one young man and two kids at the age of six. The voice of the young man who saved him at that time was recognizable. It was the voice that talks to him in his dreams or at times of darkness.
Kuroko doesn't know if the memories that had returned can be a very helpful piece in regaining all that was lost.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Akashi asked when Kuroko had again stopped moving at his place.
"Sorry," Kuroko apologized again. "Can I borrow a phone?" Kuroko asked. He had brought no phone with him at lunch since he thought that he can only make small contact at Akashi that time.
Akashi gave Kuroko the phone that was handed to him by Atsushi. The phone was taken by Kuroko who right away dialed a number from his mind. "Hello Hyuuga-kun." Kuroko started and prepared himself for a mouthful of words that was about to berate him.
"Kuroko just tell me where you are and we will go there right away." Hyuuga's voice that was full of worry made Kuroko smile. It was a given that his sempai would worry for his safety as it was also a given for his lectures in their company. Worry and Lectures are always together for Hyuuga. "Kuroko?"
"Don't worry about me sempai. I'm fine. "Kuroko said. " Can you tell Alex to contact Mrs. Izuki? " the request was not a request at all it was a protocol and reminder for Hyuuga to make arrangements for Kuroko's other job for he had already made contact with his current target and need to do a cover up for his real job.
"Ok." Hyuuga replied right away.
"I will go home now so stop worrying." Kuroko dropped the call and returned the phone he had borrowed to Akashi. "Thank you for all but I really need to go home now."
"Welcome. Can I offer you a ride to your home?" Akashi asked.
"You don't need to go through such troubles Akashi-kun. I will go home by myself."
Akashi just nodded, "Can you at least introduce yourself to me formally? "
The moment Akashi asked for his name again Kuroko knew that this was the chance that he should take to make a somewhat permanent contact to Akashi. "I am Kuroko Tetsuya, I teach at Seirin high."
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A/N: Hello everyone sorry if the words in here gets jumbled I just really want to update this fiction now. You see guys I really want to finish this fiction before classes start but it seems like it would take quite a while before this ends. I already have the final chapter for this however so you can expect that this fiction will get finished no matter what. I just don't know when. So yeah wait for the next chapter. I don't know when but I will try my best to update as soon as I can.
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