Synopsis: Akashi is the one who found Kuroko and wants to own him more than anyone else. For him, they were tied by fate. What will he do when knowing that Kuroko actually his twin brother that separated from him since born? AkaKuro pairing.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kuroko no Basket. It owns by the original author. I only owns the OCs and the story. This story has no effect with the original story. The picture is not mine. Thanks for am7ji in DeviantART for this beautiful cover artwork.
Chapter 8
I woke up. In the right side of me, there was Tetsuya, hugging my arm like it was one of his pillows. I patted his teal heal and moved to his cheek. He was no longer in his emotional state. He certainly so tired after crying and yelling at me like he was not Tetsuya I knew. It's normal since he tried to be more honest to me, showing his emotion, his true feeling to me. I accepted that because I want him to depend on myself more and more.
'Pity you.' I want to cry whenever I remembered how that woman treated my only brother. The reason for me to make that woman in despair was growing slowly but surely. I would not let that woman in peace.
I left the bed after leaving a soft kiss in Tetsuya's forehead. I unbuttoned my pajama and walked to the bathroom. I laid my body to the big bathtub which already contained water. Furusawa or other maids certainly prepared this for me or Tetsuya. I sighed and deepened my head to the water, then thinking about what to do with the woman.
Kill her? No, I couldn't kill someone recklessly. It wasn't something my father taught to me. Give her money? If father said that she wasn't after money, she would do the same this time. Threaten her? It can be, but I need something to be able to threaten her, something crucial that she would depend with all her might.
Tap tap tap tap…
Someone was coming to the bathroom. It was Furusawa bringing a napkin with him.
"Seijuuro-sama, your breakfast is already prepared. Do you want to have your breakfast at your room or dining room?" He asked politely.
"Is father at home?" I asked back.
"No. Master is in Taiwan right now. He will return on Wednesday."
"Didn't he hear about Tetsuya?"
"He has, but it isn't something too crucial than his meeting with our new customer."
As I expected, even Tetsuya came back to him, he treated him like me. Father always like that, thinking about me no more than a legitimate son who will success his company. I hated him being such a cold father. I wished that he would not treat Tetsuya like me. He already got his pain in his childhood life. I couldn't bear he suffer even more.
"Then, bring our breakfast here. I will go to school today." I replied then.
"I'll prepare everything."
Furusawa bowed slightly and excused himself.
Another one was coming after Furusawa closed the door. It was Tetsuya. He was awaken with his messy hair. He rubbed his eyes and looked at me.
"Sei-kun, my body is sticky. I want take a bath too. May I come in?" He asked me for permission.
"Are you already okay with your fever?" I made sure. He nodded.
"Then, coming." He unbuttoned his pajamas and moved to the bathtub in front me. He was a little bit nervous, but I could slightly see his blushing cheeks.
"Don't be embarrassed. We're twin after all. Maybe we didn't take bath together when we're children, but I'll make sure we'll pay every moment we cannot make in our childhood life." I caressed his blushing cheeks softly causing the color deepened.
"Thank you, Sei-kun."
I really wanted to touch his pale skin, maybe kissed it or bit it, but I ended up with releasing my hand and poured liquid soap to the bathtub. I needed to settle more important thing soon. Tetsuya was my priority because the first thing I want to do was erasing that woman from Tetsuya's live forever.
Search everything about that woman.
I send that message to my subordinates who quickly moved and gave a full report to me after school.
"Akashi, we have something to talk." Shintarou brought his lucky item and approached me after leaving the class.
"What is it?" I replied as soon as I realized what he was bringing as his lucky item. It was a white snake stuffed animal with green spot everywhere. It was funny but I tried not to laugh.
"I know it's not my business and I don't care about it, but why Kuroko always go home with you? Your house is far from his. Although I'm not really know where he lives, but he always take the train to the opposite direction to your home. That's no way you drop him everyday. It's so strange nanodayo." He touched the tip of his glasses uneasily.
I stared at him directly at his eyes indicating that I 'don't want to be asked why'. It made him struggle a little but he tried to be as strong as rock with his tsundere acts.
"So, you want to know why?" I moved forward, grabbed his snake stuffed animal, and stared at him directly from the angle he couldn't resist.
"Yes nanodayo." He tried to reply soon in worry and touched his glasses again.
"It's because he was―"
"Sei-kun, Midorima-kun, what are you doing here?" Tetsuya popped up from nowhere. He was standing besides us.
Shintarou looked in surprise not because of his coming from nowhere but because Tetsuya called me by my first name, not Akashi-kun like before.
"Sei-kun?" He mumbled in disbelief.
"Tetsuya, I'm sorry I have to work after school. Can you go home by yourself? I'll call another chauffeur to pick you up." I opened my cellphone to dial Furusawa's number, but Tetsuya shook his head as fast as I tried to open it.
"No need. I'll ride a train by myself."
"It's not safe. Your body is still not that strong."
"Okay, I'll be with Aomine-kun."
"Nooo!" I couldn't believe he would talk and eat popsicle with Daiki. No, I would never let they became closer than light-and-shadow in the court. It's better to let him with tsundere Shintarou.
"You'll be with Shintarou. His house is in the same direction with us."
"Us?" Shintarou widened his eyes again but I ignored him.
"Ah, that's right. Okay. I'll be with Midorima-kun."
"Wait! I don't understand. Actually what is your relationship nanodayo?" Shintarou asked loudly. He must be tired toyed by us all the time.
"We?"
I gave a glance to Tetsuya. We smiled and looked at Shintarou in unison.
"We're twin brothers." Tetsuya said it proudly but softly.
Shintarou dropped his lucky item. He froze for a moment and spoke more loudly later.
"There's no way I can believe that!"
It's okay leaving Tetsuya with a tsundere like Shintarou. I knew well how Shintarou felt to him. More or less he liked my Tetsuya, but there's no way he would spill out his feeling as directly as Daiki. Besides, I trusted him more than Daiki. Tetsuya should be safe with him.
"Seijuuro-sama, do you have something in mind?" Furusawa touched my shoulder as I woke up from my daydreaming.
"Not really. The most important thing is that woman." I looked at my lap. There was a printed report from my subordinates about Kuroko Aimi. I'd read it and understood why that woman acted so bad to Tetsuya, but it won't change my mind to crush her into pieces. My decision was final.
The car stopped in front of a big French restaurant. Furusawa opened the door for me and followed me to the restaurant. In the middle of the booked restaurant, Kuroko Aimi was there. If only in that situation, she was the only person there, I would let my hand grabbing a scissor and cut him until she died in pain. However, I would not do that in real life. I still had to go further to my future. Killing her here was absolutely meaningless.
That woman was silent even when I entered the restaurant with Furusawa. She looked at me with excitement, but I could see how hard she hated me as I do. Her eyes indicating the same imagination as me, that's to kill me if she was left alone with me in this restaurant. She moved her brown hair aside as I took a sit and looked at her black eyes directly. She had courage not to defy my existence and stared at me directly from her very own place.
Besides me, Furusawa bowed slightly in front of her.
"Long time no see, Kuroko-san."
That woman seemed ignoring Furusawa. She looked more excited at me, the son of the man who ruined her life. She set a smile and moved his beautiful small finger to the coffee cup. She drank it in a peace.
"So, what are you going to talk, Akashi junior?" She asked calmly.
I took the menu book and pointed some menu there. The waiter wrote it in a piece of paper and left us after nodded.
"Don't you be tired today, Mrs Kuroko? You are calling back to Japan just to meet a person like me." I tried to smile and acted friendly.
"Of course. I should come back yesterday, but I had another appointment so I was endured." She said calmly like she was the one who was innocent here. She took another sip of her coffee and placed the cup on the table.
"Oh I see. You must be a super busy business woman."
She didn't smile. She knew well that I was mocking her not giving a compliment.
"Actually, what do you want from me? Don't attempt to ruin my family again."
I shook my head.
"No, of course I don't intend to ruin your new family, Mrs Tachibana soon to be."
She widened her eyes.
"How do you know about that?"
"Well, having affair is not a good idea, Mrs Kuroko, especially to your dear young boss. You tried to fool him. You told him that you are a single woman without children, so you tried to lock your dear children at your house alone while you take pleasure with your boss in other countries. You are a pitiful mother."
She hit the table madly. She tried to hit my face too but Furusawa stopped her hand.
"Please don't hurt Seijuuro-sama." said Furusawa clearly with a stoic face.
That woman looked so depressed. She sat down again while trying to endure her anger.
"Say it! What do you want?"
"I want to take my brother back. That's all."
"There's no way I'll let that. He is my son for eternity." She glared at me, but I glared back.
"You never gave birth to him, you never acted as a good mother to him, and you never fulfilled your promised to him. I can't let my twin brother suffer that much because of your selfishness."
"Hey brat, I know him more than you. He loves me all the time, because if he promises to love me forever, he'll do it. Even I leave him, even I break my promise, he'll be a good boy that loves his mother. His love to me is absolute."
"Don't you dare to say that!" I stood up. "He cried, he suffered, and he collapsed because of you. He still loves you but what did you do to him? You set loneliness for him. He can't count on anyone except you but you are not with him when he needs you. You left him, you trashed him, you ignored him…I would never let such a mother in my brother's side!"
That woman was silent. She wanted to take back the flow of this quarrel, but she couldn't. Everything I say was correct and she was cornered.
"How many do you need to give him back to me? I'll buy Kuroko Tetsuya from you." I took a blank cheque and slammed it to the table.
"I don't need money. My son is irreplaceable."
"If so, why did you choose that man over your own son? Because you remember that he is the son of the man you hate? You begin to remember about that especially when Akashi's Group crushed the company you worked in and caused you to be the object of blame under your late husband name. Isn't it true? You began to bully Tetsuya whenever you got bullied at your company, because he is just another son of Akashi and he is not the son you bore in the past. He must be a scapegoat of your pain. You have something like that in your mind, right?"
"Stop! Stop!" She closed the access to her ears but I'm unstoppable. She had to pay every single thing of Tetsuya's suffer.
"No, I'm not done for."
I signed the cheque and threw it in front of her coffee cup.
"I'll let you write every number you like."
"No, I don't accept this!" She snapped this time.
"So, I'll make your boss know everything about your past. Tetsuya will not return to you because he is already attached to me and your relationship with you lover will end instantly. What will you choose, Kuroko Aimi-san? Take this money and leave Tetsuya forever or you'll lose everything like before? Choose!"
She looked at the cheque silently. When the time still flew constantly, that woman just stared at the cheque blankly.
"Please don't blame anything to me if you lose everything later. I already warn you. I'm not similar to my father. I'll crush everyone who defies me, whoever it is. Remember―" I moved my mouth to his left ear. "Whoever it is."
She frowned. She touched the cheque in hesitation.
"Okay." She sighed. "I'll never show my face to Tetsuya, and you have to vow to me that you will never show your face or trouble my new life again. You will shut your mouth as I do forever."
I grinned.
"Accepted."
She took the cheque and cried. I didn't understand her feeling because I was in my own joy. I didn't even know whether it was tears for joy or sadness. She was too unreasonable. Formerly, I thought that she would never let me have Tetsuya, but I understand her even more now. She was the worst woman ever. She was only thought of her safe place. She never put anything to save what are the most important matters to her. She was afraid to be in pain. I guessed that she took my brother only to take revenge to my father, not to love him as her own son. Then, about that man, she left Tetsuya and chose that man because he could give everything she wants. She wanted to be his wife, so he had to discard Tetsuya forever. This occasion was pretty good to her because she could discard Tetsuya and got very much money in the same time. It had to be the tears of joy.
"Tetsuya?"
I opened the door to find him sleeping in the sofa. He hugged a huge dog stuffed animal I'd never seen before. 'It must be Shintarou.' I guessed. I patted his teal head and smiled softly.
"Don't worry, Tetsuya. She will never meet you again. It will be a little bit hurt to you but you'll recover faster in my side." I mumbled softly. I moved to the bed and brought back a blanket. I put it on Tetsuya and kissed his smiling lips lightly. "Have a nice dream."
It's dooooneeeee! OMG, I'm pretty busy this last two weeks and I can hardly breathe. I wrote this chapter for three nights and it's done eventually *cries*. I want to say thank you *bows* to whoever leaves a review, favorites, or follows this story. It's increasing in every chapter and I'm so damn happy! There are so many fanservices in this chapter. I even put it in the last lines. And for that bath scene *nose bleed*, it was unexpectedly written. It was not in my draft but because I see many reviews like some fluffy scenes, I put it a little bit. And about Midorima's show. I think that he is a kind of interval before a storm *poor him*, but showing him here is out of draft too. In the first attempting, I put Kise in that scene, not Midorima, but I remember that Kise is still hidden somewhere because Kuroko and Akashi are still in the first year, so I changed it after writing three paragraphs. And for the next chapter, I'll hear my reader's wish. Please choose one of these plots for the next chapter. I'll make special Chapter 9 ,
Kuroko and Midorima's scene in the train (Kuroko's POV)
Kuroko and Akashi's more fluffy scenes, maybe they will go on a date or something (Akashi's POV)
Kuroko Aimi's Past Memories (Kuroko Aimi's POV)
Because of the polling, there will be no spoiler for the next chapter. Please choose one of them in your review. I'll wait the polling until Monday. See you in the next chapter and don't forget to leave a review!
