Hey Guys~! I want to thank you all for all the wonderful support I got from chapter one~! To those of you who left reviews, thanks, they were really awesome! And thanks to all those who followed me and the one's who put me in your favourites! I hope you all enjoy chapter two!
Once again, the rights belong to Tadatoshi Fujimaki.
Chapter Two, The Roommate.
'Hello, I'm Kuroko Tetsuya, I believe I'm your new roommate,' He kept his eyes on Akashi as he spoke.
'Oh! Kuroko-chii!' Kise exclaimed 'This is perfect! I hadn't realized this was your room, maybe if you told me these things I could have been telling him great things about you!'
Kuroko's eyes drifted over to where Kise stood, 'Oh, Kise-kun, I didn't notice you.'
A look of over-exaggerated hurt appeared on his face. Though Kuroko ignored the fake hurt as his eyes played back on Akashi.
Akashi, who had spaced out trying to figure out how he hadn't noticed Kuroko in the first place, realized the blue-haired boy staring at him with interest. 'I'm Akashi Seijuro,' he said for the third (and hopefully last) time that day. He watched Kuroko, wondering why he was staring at him. 'Well, I hope we can get along...' He tried to smile, though it come out looking as if it pained him to be happy and welcoming.
'Yes, I do as well,' his eyes traveled slowly down Akashi's body and back up again, settling once more on his eyes. 'You have interesting eyes,' he finally said.
Akashi spoke through clenched teeth, 'I am well aware of that. Thank you.' Though it seemed lost on the other boy that Akashi was annoyed, 'I assumed you did, considering you most likely have come in contact with a mirror at one point.' He spoke with a calm voice, his eyes not straying from the other boy eyes. Akashi's eyes flashed dangerously, but said nothing at this. Kuroko raised his eyebrow ever so slightly, but also said nothing.
'Alright! I think you two will be fine on your own so... I'll just go...' Kise tried to slip out unnoticed, but was caught by Akashi's better-then-average vision, 'You're leaving? I thought you wanted to help me unpack.' Slight threat laced in his words. The truth was that Akashi didn't want help, he just didn't want to be alone with the other boy. But before Kise could give in to the deathly glare, Kuroko stood up, 'Kise-kun, you can leave, I'll help Akashi-kun unpack.'
'Oh, okay... thanks! Bye Akashi, take good care of him Kuroko-chii~!' He scurried out of the room with that terrifying glare etched into his mind.
'Shit, now I'm stuck with him.' He thought bitterly. 'Don't worry about it, I can do it myself.' He studied the now standing boy through a sidelong glance, seeing the he was shorter then him by just a few inches. He had soft, light-blue hair that fell easily to the left, his skin was pale, looking as if it would shine if caught in the sunlight, and his shockingly blue eyes sat perfectly on his blank, unreadable face.
'It's all right, unless you don't want me going through your stuff.' Kuroko said watching the taller boy's movements. Akashi had his back to him, sensing the other boy's eyes on him, he still refused to turn around, he didn't like the way Kuroko stared at him. Akashi shifted uncomfortably, not quite sure how to answer. Finally he gave in and turned around. He jumped in surprise, not realizing how close Kuroko was to him, they were practically touching nose-to-nose.
'D-do you need something?' Akashi stammered, annoyed with himself for letting his voice shake.
'No,' Kuroko replied, Akashi stared at him for a few moments before saying anything. 'Why are you standing so... close?' Akashi tried to sound casual then swore under his breath knowing he hadn't accomplished it.
'Am I?' Akashi thought he could see just the slightest bit of amusement in his eyes.
'Is he amused? That bastard, he's practically mocking me! I really wish I could poke out those pretty eyes.' He stopped for a moment realizing what just went through his head, 'Pretty!? Did I, Akashi Seijuro just admit to thinking something was pretty? Not just something, but someone?. He pondered this for a moment 'Well, I didn't say it aloud,' he thought dryly, 'Like that makes it better.' And then to add fuel to the fire, he felt his face heating up.
'Are you okay, Akashi-kun?' Kuroko asked his mouth twisting subtly upwards. It takes a highly trained eye to read Kuroko's emotions, and he liked it that way.
Akashi looked away, at a loss for words. Not that this boy was the reason for his blush, Akashi was simply raised to believe that an attraction for anything or anyone was considered weak, much less another boy! His father would kill him if he dared to even use the word cute while speaking of another boy. 'Yes, I'm quite fine, thank you. Now if I may,' he went to step to the side, but tripped on one of his bags and fell backwards.
Thump!
'Ow...' a small voice mumbled under Akashi, once the red-haired boy's vision cleared he saw the smaller boy underneath him.
Akashi voice caught just as he was about to apologize, there was something about the boy sprawled on the floor underneath him that stopped him in his tracks. He looked so..defenseless!
'Ow..' Kuroko repeated opening his eyes, he staring directly into Akashi's eyes. 'You're kind of heavy,' he breathed.
'S-sorry, I didn't mean to, I swear.' Akashi said, clearly panicking.
'I know, it's fine.' He spoke in the same breathless voice making Akashi worry that he's heavier then the other boy let on.
'I'll just get off... wait.. you were in front of me, and I fell backwards, how are you under me?' he asked giving him a quizzical look.
'Well, I saw you falling so I went to catch you but I got us all turned around and I guess this happened.' He shrugged, like it didn't matter.
Thinking about it now Akashi did feel something and thought he saw a flash of blue. He fixed Kuroko with a accusatory stare. 'Why did you try catch me?'
Kuroko was confused. 'Why not? You were falling, it was the decent thing to do.'
'Nonsense! People don't do things to be "nice" They do things in order to get something in return.' Akashi said matter-of-factly.
Kuroko stared at him in silent consideration. 'No, I just didn't want you to hurt yourself.' He said evenly.
Akashi looked at him for a few moments. 'Okay, say that is the case, why the hell would you try to catch me? you're smaller then me and by the looks of it, not very strong!'
'No, I have the strength of a baby bird' He said with a straight face.
Akashi stared at him, and with no warning, started to laugh. His shoulders shaking, his head falling right into Kuroko's shoulder, he was laughing so much that his stomach hurt, but he didn't care, he hadn't laughed like this in ages. Shortly Kuroko couldn't help but join in. Both of their body shaking with uncontrollable laughter. Neither of them had realized they were still on the floor.
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Aomine Daiki walked down the halls of the school cursing Kise, and thinking about the boy he had met only hours before. He could tell from the first meeting, that he'd have to work really hard to get himself to like the boy. From the way that he obviously looked down on him, to the way he seemed to sneer, and drawl every word with a sarcastic twine as if he honestly believed everyone was wasting his time. He reminded him of someone, he just couldn't remember who.
Hearing a noise, he looked up to see one of his friends from middle school. As he went to go talk to him, he realized he was already talking to someone else, and they were standing quite close to each other. Which is always concerning, considering Aomine's friend dwarfs everyone who he stands next to.
Standing at 6'10 Murasakibara Atsushi was the tallest person on the school grounds. Though his size didn't reflect his personality, He was constantly eating some kind of junk food, he slacks off during school, sometimes it seems like he's asleep more often then he's awake. But despite all that, everything seems to come easy to him. He's good at sports, gets good grades and even though he's not really all that likeable, he's quite popular.
Aomine tried to leave, not wanting to interrupt whatever was going on, but the smaller one noticed him. Staring at him gave his location away to the giant. Murasakibara looked behind him to see his old friend standing there trying to blend in with the shadow behind him.
'Mine-chin? What's up?' He asked in his childish drawl.
'Ah, Murasakibara, nice to see ya. How ya been, big guy?' He asked, trying really hard not to sound awkward.
'Fine, I guess, I was forced to come to school early, something about if I want to sleep all day I have to do it where my family can't see me wasting my life away.' A small smirk slid on to his face.
'Ahem,' the boy cleared his throat behind Murasakibara, 'Are you going to introduce me, or just continue pretending I don't exist?
'Oh,' he feigned surprise, 'I forgot you were here, Muro-chin. Mine-chin this is Muro-chin.'
'Muro-chin?' Aomine thought, 'He must be important.' Murasakibara only added the "chin" at the end of your decided nickname if he thought highly of you, the one's he considered his friends.
'Atsushi, that's not my name.' He scolded, but was beaming all the same.
'Atsushi? Yer using his first name? Who the hell are you?' He hadn't meant to sound rude, but sometimes he couldn't help it.
'I'm Himuro Tatsuya, I'll be going into my second year of high school here.' His voice was kind and leveled.
'Me and Muro-chin were just talking, do you need something?' he stared at him obviously trying to send him some kind of message, but Aomine couldn't catch whatever it was supposed to be.
'So.. how do you know each other?' It wasn't like Aomine to be curious, but it was different with Murasakibara.
'Oh, you know, we met at the end of last year, we've been talking, became friends and all that...' He trailed off looking away from Aomine.
'Atsushi! Are you ashamed of me?' Himuro looked offended and slightly amused. 'Me and Atsushi met at the end of last year like he said, but we started going out during the summer.'
Aomine looked slightly shocked at this news, but as Murasakibara turned away blushing slightly he regained his composure, 'That's cool, good job, big guy.' Murasakibara looked over at him and gave a small smile.
'Ah! Cute!' Himuro yelled out of nowhere. 'Isn't he just the cutest!?' He wrapped his arms around the much taller boy's neck and kissed him full of the mouth. Aomine was taken aback, scary sure, but cute? Never a word he would use to explain the giant. Though Murasakibara didn't seem to mind, as he had wrapped his arms around the smaller and started kissing him back.
Aomine quietly crept away thinking of going to visit his close friend, Kuroko Tetsuya. He'd been friends with the smaller boy since the beginning of middle school, when they met they had clicked instantly, and he's not ashamed to admit they went out for a while but called it off, worried it wasn't working and didn't want to damage their long standing friendship. But that didn't stop the slight crush and the fact he was ridiculously overprotective. He just wanted Kuroko to find the right person, but both of their friends secretly knew there was no way in hell Aomine would ever give his approval.
He walked down the dorms looking for the right room when he bumped into someone, knocking the smaller boy down. 'Eh, You okay Sakurai?' he stuck out a hand to the boy.
'Sorry! I wasn't looking I didn't mean to walk into you! Sorry!' He bowed, tears in his eyes.
'Whatever, don't worry and stop sayin' sorry. God,' He walked past him towards the room he knew to be Kuroko's, Sakurai following him apologizing quietly.
He walked up to Kuroko's door opening it he walked in, 'Hey, Tetsu, I was wonderin' if you wanted-' he stopped looking down at the sleeping figure of Kuroko on the ground underneath another boy, a certain red-haired boy. He made his decision, he didn't like Akashi Seijuro.
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Kuroko woke up to the sound of a door closing. He looked around but there didn't seem to be any disturbance in the room. His eyes drifted to the boy lying on top of him. Peaceful sleep on his damp face, Kuroko paused for a moment worried that the other boy was crying, but feeling his own face made him think he laughed himself into tears. He smiled, he hadn't laughed like that in ages and this boy was the one that made him.
There was something strange about this boy, the way he laughed barely able to hold himself up as if he didn't laugh often. The way he noticed him sitting on his bed even know he didn't want to be noticed, and when Kuroko doesn't want to be noticed, you don't notice him. It's just a gift he was born with, at first he never tried to be unseen it just happened, his mother would be calling him not realizing he was standing right next to her, they called attendance, and started to write him down as not present until he would stand up and say loudly, 'I'm Kuroko Tetsuya.' it saddened him, but he got use to it. But every now and then he would purposely hide, fade into the background. But this boy, this Akashi saw him even though he was hiding.
Said boy had started to stir, squirming against the smaller boy muttering. Kuroko couldn't help but think of how cute he was.
His sleepy looking eyes fluttered opened taking in the view under him. 'Hi.' Kuroko said suddenly at a loss for words. Beautiful, watchful eyes staring straight into his own, making him feel exposed, something he's never felt before, just as people can't see him when they finally do they then have a hard time trying to read him. 'Hey.' Akashi mumbled sleepily, he buried his head in Kuroko's shoulder as he stretched out the rest of his body. Kuroko stayed where he was, feeling heat rising into his face, he stopped for a minute. 'Why is my face so hot all of the sudden? I can't be blushing... no one's seen me blush in years...' He thought to himself. 'Um, did you sleep well?' he finally stammered out lamely.
'Huh? Oh yes, I guess. Thank you, Te-Te-Tetsuyaa~' He yawned widely.
The blush only got thicker on his face as he heard his first name being thrown out so casually. 'Pardon? What did you just say?' The blue-haired boy asked, he wasn't sure why he asked him to repeat himself. He heard him perfectly well the first time.
'I said, oh yes, I guess. Thank you, Tetsuya.' He answered matching what he said word for word. He seemed to like doing everything perfectly right.
'Oh, um... okay... you're welcome...' he finished lamely.
'Oh, I think I'll get off now.' Now it was Akashi's turn to blush.
Kuroko, then realized he was still underneath the bigger boy. 'Oh, uh, yeah.' he breathed.
Akashi sat up stretching his arm above his head, Kuroko watched his flexing biceps, noting that Akashi obviously took good care of his body.
Akashi looked down and realized that sitting on top of Kuroko looked worse then when he was lying down. He finally slid off rubbing the cramps in his legs. He seemed to be thinking then obviously coming to an decision stuck out his hand like the perfect gentleman.
Taking the hand Kuroko got back to his feet. 'So, what do you want in return?' Kuroko asked bluntly.
'What do you mean?' Was the reply
'You told me you don't help someone unless you get something in return, and you helped me up.' Kuroko explained logically.
'I don't want anything, I was just returning the favour, even know it obviously wasn't going work you still tried to catch me and that counts for something. I also never actually said I was one of those people, but for future reference, I am.' Akashi answered calmly.
Kuroko smirked his hidden smirk. 'This guy tries so hard to be hateful that it's just a mixture of cute and sad.'
'Have you seen around the school? If not I can give you a tour, that way Kise-kun doesn't have to do it and you won't have to deal with him anymore than necessary.' His voice was uncaring but there was slight hope in his features, barely noticable of course, but still there.
Akashi stared at him for a good long moment before he answered. 'Alright, just because you look so hopeful.'
He walked out of the room unaware of the shock that he left behind him.
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Well that's all! I hope you enjoyed chapter two!