After escaping from Kagami's apartment Kuroko was just walking along the streets, head aching, feeling not-so-okay. He really had a horrible hangover. Why did he even drink so much? Alcohol tastes bad.

Maybe it was because of that red-haired man. He wanted to have fun with him.

Whatever his reason was, because of being drunk he had failed his mission. And now he had to tell about it to his boss, face to face. He knew that it wouldn't go well. He was totally scared, feeling anxious.

Cars drove by and all the people in the streets ignored him completely. Well, its not usual that some stranger comes to talk to you about the last week or one's love life. Especially when you smell like alcohol and look like you've just gotten up from a grave

All of sudden a familiar voice called his name, as happily as usual. When Tetsuya turned around, he saw a friend of his running towards him. Blonde man, his friend, Ryota Kise.

Breathing a bit heavily than usually he placed his both hands on smaller one's shoulders, looking deep into those blue eyes. Such a wide smile decorated his lips.

"Kurokocchi...! Kurokocchi! Guess what!? Guess what!?" he asked with a reply, sounding like a broken disk. But before Kuroko even managed to reply, he was already answering himself.

"He finally asked me out! We're finally dating officially!" blonde said very excitedly. It was more than easy to see all that happiness in his eyes. Kise had totally been waiting for this to happen for a bit longer than a week or a month.

Normally even the friend, who that kind of stuff was told to, would be very excited for his friend, but Kuroko isn't that kind of a guy. Of course he was happy, but not enough to show it.

"Who is it this time?" he just asked calmly, hinting with his words on all those part-time-girlfriends Kise had had since he had started modeling and became popular among young girls

Ryota snorted silently, purely annoyed as his hands left the other's shoulders.

"You know... Well of course you know him... Um... Well... You remember that one guy from my class when we were still in middle school...? You were with him in the same club at some point... Aomine Daiki" he mumbled with a slight blush covering his cheeks

Well of course Tetsuya knew him. They were such a good friends at some point, but then something happened and they couldn't get along at all anymore.

"Aomine-kun? Well that's great. I wish luck for you guys. Hopefully he can take a good care of you" Kuroko said with a totally straight face, not showing any emotions.

It didn't surprise him at all that Kise was dating some other guy instead of a girl. Somehow it was obvious. Ryota had actually never been that kind of a guy who would have seemed totally straight.

Well, the gender doesn't matter as long as the relationship works.

"Of course he will! Aominecchi is so sweet and perfect! Even if he's sometimes a bit cold... I still love him so much! His look always makes my heart melt and his voice makes me feel totally weak..." he kept on telling, pure love dripping in his voice.

Is that how love feels like?

"I'm actually on my way to his place. Are you going this way? Want to walk with me?" blonde asked, smiling.

"I'm sorry. I'm turning to left here. I have some work stuff to do and I'm in a hurry, so..." Tetsuya answered quickly.

Kise's eyebrows turned slightly upwards as he said goodbye and continued to walk straight as the other turned to a smaller street.

ooooooooooooooooooo

After entering a big building, made of tiles, Kuroko found his way to his boss' office. Almost two meters tall man, dark haired man in his early fifties sat in his chair. Man raised his eyes to Tetsuya as he heard the door open.

"Well, how did it go? Do you have the reports?" the man asked with a low voice

Tetsuya closed the door behind him, keeping his gaze lowered. He couldn't get the words out of his mouth in a while that felt like an eternity. His heart raced like a crazy.

"...I failed..." he finally said, silently, stressed.

The man slowly rose up from his chair, taking a few steps towards the other.

"Excuse me? I bet I heard something wrong" he said so calmly and slowly that it was damn distressing.

"..I didn't... kill him. My target is still alive" he replied even more silently.

Not even a second did pass after those words before the longer man punched him into his face with a fist, making Tetsuya to fall down on the floor.

"What!? Why the hell did you let him live!? You useless piece of shit! When I tell you to do something, you do it, even if it costs your own life!" the boss shouted so loudly it almost hurt his ears.

"I'm sorry. I just... I drank too much. I swear that it won't happen again" he promised. The man answered with a few kicks into Tetsuya's stomach.

"You bastard! Just a simple fucking sorry isn't enough! Even taking your life instead wouldn't be enough! You'll pay for this! When you get back home you wish you'd never betrayed me! You'll never drink again! Next time I'll really kill you!" he kept on shouting.

Kuroko couldn't do anything but listen and take all that pain. And wish that it would be over soon.