After gotten beaten by his boss, after hours and hours of unbearable pain, after thousand kicks Kuroko finally was able to leave. He slowly walked towards his house, face covered in bruises and two or three small scraches. His whole body was full of bruises, full of pain. It was close that he even wouldn't been able to walk. However, every step was still unbeliavably painful.

It was already late night. Everything around him was dark, dyed in thousand shades of gray, black and dark blue. Air felt so cold on his skin, almost freezing.

Clouds hid all stars behind them, not letting thm to shine. In the halfway home it started to rain, hard.

Waterdrops wet his hair, his skin, his clothes as he slowly walked on the street, alone. After a while the pain became so unstandable that he just had to sit down even tough he knew that he would get a fever. He just couldn't walk.

He sat down on a bench, closing his eyes slowly. He heard his own heartbeat too clearly in his ears. The voice was so loud that it almost covered the sound of waterdrops hitting the cold ground.

Kuroko touched his other cheek gently, feeling its hotness with his soft fingertips. He didn't know what to think, what to feel. Everything felt so meaningless, empty. He didn't know what to do with life anymore. Even if he was able to keep his job, he felt like he had lost eveerything.

Or maybe he hadn't ever had anything, and now finally realized it?

No family, no friends (except Kise) who to spend his time with, no love.

Isn't that pretty much nothing?

Maybe he should just give up on everything and kill himself instead of those guys who his boss always told him to kill? Those good guys with wives and children? Those guys who had never done anything bad.

It probably would be better. No one would even realize his dissappearence.

All of sudden the rain stopped. Tetsuya rose his face to the sky to see if all those stars were now there, able to be seen, shining their light on this dark world full of shadows. He opened his eyelids slowly.

Stars. So much stars.

But those stars weren't in the sky. They were painted on the inner side of an umbrella.

"...Are you okay?" A strong voice asked suddenly.

Kuroko knew that voice. He had heard it before, and not so long time before.

Kagami. Taiga Kagami.

"I'm fine" he replied quickly as he stood up, without looking at the man even once.

He had to get away without letting Taiga to recognize him. If the other noticed that he was the guy from the party, the guy who had given him a blowjob... Well, who knows what would happen. But it would be embarassing enough to make him take his own life.

Tetsuya tried to start walking away, but his legs resisted. His own leags betrayed him. He fell, but just a second before his body could have hit the ground, Kagami grabbed him, pulled him close to himself, letting the umbrella to fall on the wet ground.

And the rain continued.

"You're fine? You really think that I believe that kind of bullshit?" He asked with a small grin on his lips

Kuroko tried to keep his face turned away as his heart raced fast. He just wanted to get vack home and sleep everything away.

Taiga helped the other to sit back on the wet bench

"….Hey... Aren't you Kuroko?" he finally asked making Tetsuya's heart to skip one beat. "I-I'm really sorry that I forced you to do something like that, but... I really was drunk and... horny... Please forgive me" he apologized with and awkward, short laugh.

Tetsuya just sat there, face towards the ground. He just wanted to get somewhere where would be warm and dry. He wanted to get home. He would get a fever if he had to sit in the rain for even a few more minutes.

"...You must be cold. Would you like to come to my place...? I could offer some tea to you. And dry clothes" the redhead offered quickly, getting just a cold glance for an answer.

It just made Taiga laugh silently.

"Don't worry. I won't do anything like that this time. I'm all sober" he said still smiling.

Kuroko kept his mouth shut, not saying anything to other. Taiga sighed deeply as he quickly, but gently, took the other to his arms.

"What are you doing? Put me down!" Kuroko commanded, but anyway he wrapped his arms around the red haired man's neck, trying to hold on. He didn't want to fall down.

"You will catch a cold if you don't get anything dry to wear. Trust me, I won't do anything like that to you again. I just want to help"

Kuroko resisted a bit at first, but after meeting such a loyal look in Taiga's eyes he finally agreed. The other smirked as he started to walk again towards his apartment without his umbrella. Waterdrops fell on him, his clothes and hair, making him feel a bit cold. But he still tried to keep the bluenette close to himself, just to keep him warm.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Kagami laid the smaller one on his couch as gently as he could. Kuroko kept his gaze away from Taiga.

"You should take those clothes off. If you sleep with that wet clothes, you'll probably get sick" Kagami said, while taking his own shirt off. He left it laying on the table.

Almost half naked he stared the other one, with a slight smile on his lips. He really had an unbeliavably good body. Everyone would probably fuck with him if they had a chance.

As Tetsuya realized what he was actually thinking, he quickly turned his face away, some blush on his cheeks. He grabbed his shirt with both hands and pulled it off, letting the other one to see his slender, unprotected upper body, full of bruises and tiny wounds form earlier.

Redhead couldn't help but stare. Those bruises on such a soft-looking skin weren't beautiful. They seemed to be painful.

Who had done something like that to him?

"Strip also your pants. I'm sure they're not very comfortable to wear at the momen" he said while his heart beated a bit faster than usually. "I'll get you something to wear" he mumbled as he turned his back to the smaller one, disappearing to his bedroom.

Tetsuya slowly took off his cold pants, also his boxer shorts. Now he was sitting there, all naked, hair still dripping some water in someone's apartment. Someone's who he had met just some time ago, who he didn't even actually know, who he had given a blowjob while being drunk.

Just thinking avout it made him feel very uncomfortable. Heart tried to force its way out of the chest. Small hands tried to protect his crotch from the furniture's looks.

Taiga returned soon from his bedroom, carrying a white t-shirt and a towel in his hands. As his eyes met the bluenette's naked, slender body, his heart skipped a beat. Cheeks turned a bit pinkish.

"O-oi... Here's your shirt" he said quickly, finally turning his red eyes elsewhere. Kuroko grabbed the shirt from the longer one's hand, and quickly hid his body under its fiber.

"Thank you. You're so kind" he thanked, some sarcasm hidden behind his words, while pulling the shirt lower to hid the most critical places. He didn't want anyone to see that part of him – ever.

Kagami sat slowly on the couch, cheeks stil red as he placed the towel onto Tetsuyas head. He gently pulled him closer, trying to dry his hair.

"What are you doing...? I can do that by myself" Tetsuya said quickly as his face turned even more red.

"Just... Let me do this" redhead requested silently.

After those words a complete silence filled the room. It was so silent that you could almost hear the walls whispering something in their own langue to others.

Bluenette squeezed the white shirt into his fists while his head almost rested against Kagami's chest. His heart was about to burst out breaking his bones.

Taiga just stared the smaller one's head as he gently dried his head with a soft, white towel. He had never experienced anything like this before. He usually brought girls to his apartment, not guys. And when he did so, they both were usually drunk, or at least the other one, the girl, was. Then they maybe ate something, and right after they had some passionate, rough sex, full of desire, lacking all the emotions.

Today he had brought a guy, a guy he knew from earlier, a guy who had given his mouth to him. They were both sober now.

The atmosphere in the room was strange, different than ever before. The moment made his heart beat harder and faster than ever before. His cheeks' skin had turner to warm red. His face felt so hot that it would have probably been possible to fry some eggs on his forehead.

"...Sorry for this" Kuroko apologized silently, trying to break the uncomfortable silence.

"It's okay" the other man answered afred waiting a few seconds. After that the whole room was all speechless again.

"...Should we go to bed already? It's getting pretty late already.." Taiga mentioned, desperately trying to make the moment less awkward.

"...Okay. But pleas let me sleep this time" Tetsuya almost whispered under the towel, making Kagami's face to turn even more red, if that was possible. He quickly pulled his hands and the towel away from blue hair.

"Don't worry. I won't touch you like that ever again" he promised, letting a tiny laughter to escape from his lips. Once again he took Tetsuya in his arms, trying not to hurt him any more. He tried to avoid touching those bruises, painful marks.

Redhead carried him all the way to his bedroom, turning off the lights after them. He laid the other onto his soft bed, once again.

Tetsuya turned his face away as Kagami laid next to him and pulled a big planket on their bodies. He could feel his warmth.

"Good night, Kuroko" Taiga whispered right into the smaller one's ear.

He didn't get a response.