"Aominecchii! Come here already!" Kise asked with a playful tone in his voice. He was sitting alone in the living room of his boyfriend all alone, while the dark haired one was in the kitchen, preparing dinner for them.

Three months.

They had already been dating for three months. It's a pretty long time, at least for them.

Aomine has always been that kind of a guy who just gets bored in weeks. He doesn't want to stare at the same face from the month to another. He needs changes.

Kise's pretty much the same. He has so many girls around him and he wants to try out as many as possible, even if he doesn't like any of them. Maybe he does it to see if he could fall in love with someone he doesn't actually even know.

But this relationship is a bit different. Neither one of them feels a need to change their partner. Neither one wants to cheat on each other. Both of them want to continue and see if this could really work out for a bit longer.

But it won't.

Nine days has passed since the blonde went out with his best friend to drink coffee. Nine days has passed since they talked about everything from porn to politics. Nine days.

Today is the deadline.

Today is their anniversary day.

- – -

The living room was decorated beautifully. It was very gloomy there. Just some, maybe twenty or thirty candles light up the room. On the table, on the bookshelves, around the floor was laying tens of red petals of rose. It's so damn romantic.

Outside was dark. No light rays got in through the glass.

It's like they had separated themselves from the reality.

TV was shut. Classic radio channel played some silent, peaceful songs on the background. Ryota listened to them eyelids gently closed as his heart beat a bit harder than usually. He could hear its sound in his ears

It was so warm. It was so comfortable being there.

"Shut up and wait!" Aomine shouted from the fully lighted kitchen, but he didn't sound angry or anything. It just isn't his style to say sweet words and be all lovey-dovey in any situation. He has grown up to keep on a rough cover.

Nights like this isn't something he'd suggest or plan. It's all thanks to Kise's romantic soul that they're even spending this night together. It's all thanks to Kise that the living room of his small apartment looks like that – it's usually a pure mess. Clothes, books, socks, porn magazines and pens laying on the floor without no coordination.

Thanks to Kise, this will probably be one of the best nights in their lives.

With a warm scent flowing up from the kitchen, Aomine finally walked to the living room. He stripped his deep grey apron that has some stains on it.

"It'll be ready in half an hour" the man muttered silently, hinting on the food that's heating up in the oven.

Kise focused his smiling, gold eyes to the face of his lover, still sitting on a soft, chocolate colored sofa that's made for two persons.

"I can't wait," the blonde said silently, asking the other to sit down next to him.

Aomine didn't have to think about what Kise was requesting with his eyes for even a second. He lowered his eyelids a bit as he sat down, right next to the model, his model.

Oh god, how much he would have been ready to give if he could get some pictures of his model that were made just for his eyes. Just for his lonely nights, so he could even imagine the other to be there with him, having fun.

Maybe someday he could ask it.

"...I've done too many things today" Daiki complained silently, pressing his back against the sofa, raising his face towards the roof. The look on his face was really tired. If Kise wasn't there, he'd probably fall asleep. He wasn't that kind of an energetic guy who'd do a lot of stuff every day. No, he never did anything, and even then he needed at least one nap a day.

He was lazy as shit.

"Oh c'mon, Aominecci! I've done everything for us today! Only thing you've done was that you walked to that small shop on the opposite of your apartment and put that food in the oven" Kise laughed silently as he pressed himself against the taller one's strong body. He tried to keep his gaze at Aomine's face.

"But it's way too much for me. I want some sleep" the darker one muttered with a squeaking voice. Even if he liked sitting there, next to Kise while the air around them was almost poisoned with the romantic scent of candles, roses, and home made food, he couldn't say that. He had to look cool. It happened always subconsciously.

"Don't you dare to fall asleep! We have to eat and take a bath together and then we'll make out through the night" Ryota said without no unsureness in the tone of his voice. All the things Kise did list wasn't anything that Aomine would enjoy that much, but the last thing mentioned got his attention.

"You really think so?" Daiki muttered, a small grin turning his corners of the mouth a bit upwards without him even noticing. He finally opened his eyes completely and focused the intense, but tired gaze of his dark eyes to his lovers face.

"Yes" Kise's passion towards everything that Aomine liked. That guy had always energy for anything, he was always ready for anything, he'd always take everything seriously – sometimes maybe a bit too seriously. It was something that Aomine liked about him among all of the other things he had learned about the other one during these three months.

Saying a thing like that with a straight face was something that Aomine really enjoyed hearing.

Kise really seemed to love the last time they made out. He's desperate to get some more.

"Well, if you want it that badly..." the darker man said with a small grin on his lips, leaning slowly towards the other. He slowly brought his other hand to Kise's farther shoulder, getting second by second closer to his body, being pulled to his warmth like a positive side of magnet pulls the negative side to it. He could sense how Ryota's heart started to beat a bit faster as he finally pulled him for an intense kiss.

He could feel his heartbeat through the sensitive skin of his reddish lips, soft lips.

They examined each other's mouths and lips completely using only their beating tongues and lips. The kiss neither of them had ever had like before lasted over a minute, maybe a two, or three. The time disappeared around them.

Finally Kise had to pull himself a bit further to get some air. His body was screaming for some air. He was about to lose his consciousness due the air loss in his blood. He breathed heavily, other hand squeezing the fabric of Daiki's shirt tightly on his other shoulder.

But he didn't let the insensitivity between them to end. He gently sink his white teeth in Aomine's lower lip, biting it for a few seconds, before he finally let the other's mouth completely alone. Eyes closed, heart beating, lungs bringing more and more oxygen to his cells.

The moment was perfect.

They were looking deep inside other's eyes, gaze full of lust, love, intensivity. They needed to be there. It was just as important to them as breathing is for everyone, or as everyone needs food to live.

Aomine was Kise's food, his meal for tonight. He slowly licked his own upper lip, staring right at his handsome, strong characterics with his golden eyes. Some reddish blush decorated his cheeks. It looked just like someon had put some make up on his face to bring some colour, but it was all natural this time. It was his own body who had put that colour there.

And Daiki couldn't help but stare. Ryota looked somehow a bit pathetic when he was looking at him with desperate eyes like that, like begging for more without any words said. It made his other corner of his mouth to turn up a bit, slowly.

He tried to hide his own excitement and heartbeat.

He tried to look calm, almost cold, but he couldn't. Not this time.

He also wanted more. Wanted so badly that it overcame his self-control.

With his breathing still a bit heavier than usually, he pressed his lips again on Kise's mouth, this time he let the kiss become more rough. He squeezed his eyelids together as he pulled his blonde model-boyfriend closer with all his power. He almost forced him to a really, really rough, almost a brutal kiss.

But Kise didn't fight back.

His lips danced with Daiki's owns, following their steps, making the dance perfectly coordinated. If it had been some kind of a competition, they had probably won.

But it didn't last long. Both of them lost their breaths in less than a half of a minute. They had to pull away, both unwillingly.

A deep silence surrounded them as they held each other close, again just fancying each other's eyes like a child does for the stars.

"Let's skip that fucking bath and the dinner. I want you way too much. I want you now" Aomine murmured with a pretty aggressive tone in his voice. Kise sighed silently just for the mental pleasure he got from hearing a thing like that.

"Please... Take me already" the blonde whispered, begging Daiki with his eyes. He didn't let go of his shirt for even a second. He wanted to be close, stay close, get closer.

Damn, he wanted Aomine so badly.

The darker man didn't hesitate for even a tenth of a second. He brought his other hand to Kise's back of a head, wrapped his fingers tightly around his heir, pulling it tightly. Sweet pain in the skin of his head made the model moan silently, as he raised his face towards the roof, following Daiki's hand. He felt how those soft lips were placed on the skin of his neck.

Aomine liked, kissed, bit his skin. He clearly wasn't afraid of leaving marks after him. He clearly didn't give a fuck if Kise had any photo-shoots during the next few days, and if he had to be modeling with his neck shining in different shades of purple and blue.

"A-a..." Ryota whined with a pitched tone as he closed his eyes tightly. Hiss palms were searching for a place to stay on Daiki's shoulders, head, upper back, without finding a good spot. He was helpless as a virgin.

Aomine continued to massage the other's neck with his mouth, roughly, no thought of pulling back for a while. He loved hearing, how he actually could make Kise sound like he was fucked with just small, teasing touches.

But suddenly, way too quickly Daiki pulled his head away, leaving the sensitive neck without any touching. Kise opened his eyes a bit, biting his lower lip with his white teeth very embarrassed. His heart beat like a maniac. "...Why did you stop?" young man whispered silently, clearly wanting more. He loved the way Aomine bit and sucked his skin, making his mind go white with the sweet pain he caused.

"...Where are the condoms?" Daiki asked silently, whispered against his boyfriend's skin. He wasn't that kind of a guy who would neglect using the protection. No, he didn't want to get any kinds of diseases that would be with him until the end of time.

"...What? Didn't you bring them with you?" Ryota asked whispering. He had thought for the whole time that Daiki would take those things with him. No, he hadn't had any idea that he should have brought them.

"...Fuck it.. It seems like we don't have any..." the man murmured gritting his teeth really annoyed. Realizing a thing like that was a total mood killer. He wanted to be closer to the love of his life, but no way it would happen if they didn't have condoms.

"...Are we doing it without them...?" Kise asked even more silent questions, not having any idea of where the situation would now lead. Aomine just snorted silently before he slowly leaned away. The look in his eyes told about how damn angry he was inside.

"Hell no. I'm going to buy some" Daiki muttered quickly before he stood up, leaving the other alone on the sofa. Kise looked at him with a bit widened eyes, like a puppy would look at his owner when they left him alone. "I will do it quickly" the dark-haired man added before turning his back to the other.

Kise got up from the sofa too, following Aomine to the door that leaded outside. He saw how he was already pulling on his jacket, shoes already protecting his feet. When he was ready to go, he walked to the blonde and pressed a rough kiss on his lips that told well how much he wanted him. Other palm found its way to Ryota's right buttock and squeezed it hard before he pulled away, again.

"I'll be back in ten minutes. Wait for me" he promised and left in a heartbeat.

Kise was all alone again. He'd be alone for ten minutes.

Well, he would have a perfect time to take a bath now.

He slowly walked from the hallway to the bathroom. The male turned the lights on after him, before taking off his clothes. Different pieces of fabric fell down on the warm floor. Instead of a well dressed up blonde there was standing now a naked young man. His slender, but still muscular body was perfect, his scarless skin was like an angel's. He was perfect in every way.

When the warm steam started to fill the room, Ryota sink his body in the water of the bath. The water touched his body everywhere, held him close, safe. It felt so good, so relaxing. The warmth and the softness of it made every each muscle to relax completely. The blonde closed his eyelids gently, listening to the silence that was drifting around the space. He was all alone, without Aomine, but it actually felt good. He had some time to be alone, some time to just relax before evening would become simply perfect. Daiki would carry him to the bedroom and they would be one until the sunrise. It'd be just perfect.

Minutes passed slowly by. Second by second he felt himself even more relaxed. He had no energy to move even one finger of his. The steam made him melt completely. Cheeks turned bright red he breathed heavily, heart hitting against his bones inside his chest. He wanted to get up, but he couldn't. The hotness had sucked his every drop of energy away, secretly, without him actually even noticing it. He was powerless, alone. He could hear his own heartbeat way too clearly. It didn't feel good anymore being there.

Aomine would come back soon. He would help him back up before he'd lose his consciousness.

Everything started to go around and around. It felt like he had been in a ship when there was an awful storm outside. Kise opened his eyes, but he didn't even see well. He saw different spots of colors on the walls and on the ceiling. In the corners of his eyes was just black, deep black. It started to get very scary.

"A...mine...cchi..." he tried to whine, beg for help before everything would actually turn black. But the voice that left his mouth was silent, really silent, too silent. He couldn't hear it even himself.

But he could hear how the door opened. Aomine probably came back with those condoms. He would search his boyfriend and help him out of the bath in 10, 9, 8...

Footsteps got closer every second.

But it wasn't Aomine who came. It was the man who was there to kill the other person in the apartment. It was the deadline, and Kuroko had to do it. He had to take the life of his best friend, or something awful would happen. He didn't want to even imagine what his boss would do if he failed his mission again. No, it was the best to just kill him.

It'd be over soon. It wouldn't hurt. He'd try to be as gentle as possible. The best model he knew would go to a better place in minutes.

The beating heart of his had been hardened completely for this. He didn't let himself think about this. He tried to block every each of thoughts that tried to fill up his mind. He kept his eyes locked straight forward as he walked. One step, two steps, three steps, raised hand, opened door that lead to the bathroom.

And Kise was there. He was laying there, looking like he had fallen asleep. He didn't get up, he didn't even turn his face to him. He seemed half dead already.

Tetsuya walked to him through the hot steam in the room. He stood next to the bath, looking straight at Kise's nearly closed, golden eyes. He looked tired. Heavy breathing went between separated, rosy lips. He stared at the blue haired boy like he had taken some drugs and his mind had gone high. He tried to tilt his head a bit, clearly tried to communicate with him, clearly tried to say something.

Ryota couldn't believe his eyes. What was Kuroko even doing here? No, this was his and Aomine's night. He was just imagining things. He had lost his control over his mind completely. It wasn't true. His friend wasn't standing there, no. It was probably his love, but his brains changed his appearance in his eyes for some reason.

"...A...A...mi..n..." he tried to whisper, tried to ask if he really was there.

He couldn't react when a gun was raised to point his forehead. He just stared nowhere with his empty eyes. "A...A...ne..." he tried and tried desperately, not being able to get even Daiki's name out of his mouth.

Sharp and loud noise and everything actually went black in his eyes. His eyelids closed, his breathing stopped, his thoughts flew somewhere from his brains. Every muscle completely relaxed he laid there, breathless, dead, but still beautiful as the red blood started to flow out of the hole in his head. Hot water in the bathtub turned red. There was blood splattered even on the walls.

It was dead silent. Kuroko couldn't help but stare at his best friend, his beautiful, great best friend, an emotionless expression on his face. He wanted to cry deep inside of his soul, but he didn't let himself. It was his duty to do this. If he hadn't done this now, someone else could maybe have done it just some days later, but not as painlessly as he did. Someone could have tortured his best friend for hours before actually letting him go.

No. That was something he didn't want to. It was better like this.

"I'm home!" someone shouted from the door. Aomine had come back, just a bit late to save Kise, just a bit early to let Kuroko escape. Tetsuya froze completely for some seconds. What could he do now? He was standing in the bathroom, gun in his hand, Kise laying dead right in front of him. There was no windows, no other doors where he could have escaped.

The only way to get out was to make another sacrifice.

Just seconds after the dark man stood at the doorway. Bright look in his eyes faded in seconds and his face turned pale. He didn't feel well.

Was that even true? The sight in front of him was something you could see in movies, but no, not in real life. Seeing something like that wasn't something he had planned. No, he didn't want to. No. No. No!

Kise's face was dyed with his own blood, so was his golden hair. The water in the bathtub looked like strawberry juice, thick kind of. The guy standing between them was his friend from the childhood. He was Kise's best friend.

What kind of best friend does something like that?!

"WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE!?" Daiki yelled, pure shock written all over his face. He couldn't believe that. He didn't know how to handle all that what he was seeing. "I'm going to call the cops!" he added before turning his back. He felt like he wanted to throw up, but he couldn't let that happen before he had asked for some help.

Bang!

Another dead body in the house.

He had no choice. He had to kill him.

Tetsuya finally hid his gun inside of his bag. He secretly bit his lower lip as he closed the lights of the bathroom behind him and walked past the bleeding corpse. The blood from his head started to make a lake around his body.

He didn't look back as he walked away like he had done nothing. He left the dead alone, not disturbing them.

ooooooooooooo

About half of an hour later he reached his own apartment. He calmly opened his door and closed it. He calmly took his shoes off and walked to his dark bedroom. But in seconds he broke completely. He fell on the floor on his knees as tears started to fell on his cheeks. He pressed his forehead against the ground, eyelids tightly pressed together.

Tetsuya was hurting. Hurting so bad from the inside. It was like he was being ripped in pieces slowly, with no mercy. He yelled, he cried in the dark without no idea what to do. He couldn't take this. He had just killed his best friend and a friend from his past.

Breathing became harder and harder by every second as he finally started to think about what just had happened.

"What have I done...? What the hell have I done...!?" young man repeated again and again through his tears. His whole body was shaking.

No, he had to get his thoughts somewhere else before he'd lose his mind. The right hand, shaking hand reached towards the pocket of his jeans, picking his phone, bringing it to his face. He had to message his mom, and randomly send a message where he'd say how much he missed her, and how much he was missing her food, especially his chicken sauce and rice. He had to think something else.

Two messages. Someone had missed him.

The other message was from his best friend. It was some days old, because Kuroko hadn't had time to check his phone lately. He had been doing other stuff, like planning how he'd kill his best friend, how to kill a guy who was like the most important person for him in the world. That message was from Kise, from his best friend, from the guy he had just killed.

"You have seemed to be down lately, Kurokocchi. Call me if you want to talk"

Reading the message didn't help him to hold his tears in. No, it made him break down even more. He screamed without hearing his own voice. He was so damn shocked, he couldn't keep himself together. Saliva started to drip out of his mouth. He couldn't even swallow, he had forgotten how one does it.

"Call me if you want to talk"

How much he would have been ready to give if he could have actually been able to do that. Kise had always been there for him. Kise was always the one to cheer him up. And he'd probably been there for

him right now, if he just was still alive.

Now there wasn't anyone for him. Not anyone.

Without no idea of how many minutes, or even hours passed, Tetsuya just cried on the floor. It took too much time to get even a tiny hold of his emotions, to swallow even a few of his tears.

He slowly brought the phone again to his face Another message.

"I'm sorry for not calling you earlier. But would you want to go out with me?"

That message was from Kagami Taiga. Kuroko had thought that he had forgotten him completely. That he was somewhat looking down on him or something. And now he was asking him out.

Tetsuya couldn't help but stare at the screen for minutes with his blurred eyes before he could think. Kagami wanted to go out with him.

Well, what would he lose if he agreed? Well, Taiga could find out his dirty little secret and become scared of him. He'd tell about it to the cops. He'd get arrested. His life would get ruined.

But if that was to happen, he would deserve it. He didn't enjoy a good life after what he had done.

He decided to give it a try.

Fingers wrote slowly a short, but clear answer before he send the message back to the redhead.

"Yes. "