Hey~! I don't have much to say this time, so enjoy chapter seventeen!

Chapter Seventeen, The Trip.

About two weeks passed with little incident. Much to Akashi's pleasure, nobody brought up the article, Akashi finally found time to relax as the highly anticipated field trip was finally upon them. The whole school was buzzing as the first years got ready for their trip.

'I can't wait!'

'I here there's a beautiful beach nearby.'

'I'm so excited, we need to go shopping when we get there!'

'Okay!'

Everyone was talking about the trip, the second and third years watched and smiled, remembering their own field trip.

'Akashi-kun, are you ready yet?' Kuroko asked curiously.

'Oh, Tetsuya, yes, I'm almost done, you can go without me...' Akashi said turning around and facing the other boy.

'No, it's fine. I just wanted to know...' Kuroko sat on his bed, while Akashi finished looking through his bag.

Akashi was going through his bag, making sure everything was in place, he knew that he should have done it the night before, but he was up late reading over Kuroko's homework for him, so he forgot to check. Which is also why Kuroko was rushing to finish his packing earlier in the morning. Akashi silently cursed himself for sleeping in.

Once he was satisfied that everything was in place, he stood. 'I'm done now, are you ready to go?' He asked Kuroko, who nodded and stood up as well.

They left the room together, locking the door behind them. 'Let's go, pick up Kise-kun, there's no way him or Aomine-kun are finished yet.'

Akashi nodded reluctantly. He really didn't want to see Daiki, but he followed the smaller boy anyway.

They arrived and Kuroko knocked on the door. Entering when they heard Kise's voice yell 'Come in!'

Kise stuck his head out of the bathroom, a towel wrapped around his head, a hairdryer in hand. 'Kuroko-chii! Did you come to check on us?'

He nodded. 'Sorry Kise-kun, but I didn't think either of you would be ready yet.'

'Well, if someone woke up when the alarm went off, maybe he would be ready!' He called over his shoulder.

'I'm almost done! If you woke me up than this wouldn't be a problem, so stop yer whinin'!' Aomine's voice shouted back from the bathroom.

Kise rolled his eyes. 'Sorry, we'll be done in a minute, Aomine-chii's just finishing in the shower.'

Akashi raised an eyebrow. 'He's in the shower... and you're in the bathroom, doing what exactly?'

A blush formed on Kise's cheeks. 'Well, we're pressed for time, and it's not like there isn't a shower curtain... besides we're both boys, and I need to dry my hair.'

'Ah, I see. Very interesting, Ryouta...' Akashi said casting his eyes to the side.

'Ooh Stop, you're so mean!' Kise said. slamming the bathroom door.

Akashi snickered into his hand as he heard Kise snap at Aomine for asking what was wrong.

'Ryouta, how is he going to get out of the shower with you in there?' Akashi called.

'Shut up!' He heard Kise yell at him.

Kuroko couldn't help but join in with Akashi's laughter as they listened to Kise yell at Aomine for being nosy.

Kise came out of the bathroom his face burning red. 'Oh, Akashi-chii, you're so mean! Please stop laughing at me!' He added, blushing even more.

After a few more minutes of torturing Kise, Aomine came out of the bathroom and they made their way to the front doors, where they had promised to meet the other two.

As they made their way down the halls Akashi listened to the other boys talk about the trip and how much fun it was going to be, all the things they wanted to do.

'What about you, Akashi-kun? Is there anything you want to do?' Kuroko asked.

'Me? Not really, whatever you want to do, Tetsuya.' Akashi answered shortly.

'That can't be true! I'm sure there's something you want to do, Akashi-chii!' Kise exclaimed.

Akahsi shrugged. 'Not really...' He trailed off, thinking of how he would rather spend his time alone with Kuroko.

'What took you four so long?' Midorima demanded when they arrived at the front doors.

'Aomine-kun, and Kise-kun.' Kuroko replied dryly.

'Of course.' Midorima sighed.

Murasakibara shook his head. 'Ki-chin... you're annoying, stop taking so long... even I was ready before you...'

Kise flushed. 'It wasn't me! It was Aomine-chii! I expected him to be awake when I got out of the shower, but he slept right through the alarm! So, I had to spend ten minutes trying to wake him up!' He defended himself.

Aomine scoffed. 'Well, who's fault is that? It shouldn't take someone ten minutes to wake another person up, idiot.'

'It wouldn't have taken ten minutes if you weren't so damn lazy!'

Midorima sighed. 'I'm sorry I asked... can we go?'

The two boys continued to bicker until Kuroko reached up and pinched Aomine's ear. 'Aomine-kun... just say sorry to Kise-kun so we can leave.'

Aomine scowled at the smaller boy before turning towards Kise. 'Sorry, Kise, I didn't mean to ruin yer schedule...'

'Whatever, we're here now, no trouble.' The blonde replied with a sigh.

'Can we go now...?' Murasakibara whined. 'Muro-chin's waiting...'

'Would you stop complaining? You're driving me insane.' Said Midorima irritably.

'Perhaps we should go now?' Akashi cut in before Murasakibara could reply.

Kuroko nodded. 'I agree. Let's go.'

He pushed opened the doors and made his way towards the sea of students waiting to leave.

Akashi turned towards the other boys. 'Shall we go then?'

'I can see Muro-chin... let's go.' Murasakibara said, following Kuroko down the steps.

Midoriam sighed again. 'Well, let's get this over with.'

And with that they all started to brave through the crowd.

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'It doesn't get any easier, Himuro.' Imayoshi told the other boy when he found him rubbing his temples.

Himuro shook his head. 'I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I didn't expect it to be this tiring...' He admittted.

Imayoshi dug around his bag until he found pain killers. 'No one ever does.' He handed them to the other boy who accepted them with a greatful nod. 'Keep them, I have extra.' Imayoshi told him.

'Why? Do you usually carry drugs around with you?' Himuro asked with a smile.

'Only when I have to attend the trip.' He said with a sigh.

'How come you're doing it instead of Nijimura?' Himuro asked as they climbed on the bus.

'Oh, he's doing it as well, but I think it must be because of Ryota that the Headmistress wanted more representatives this year. So she added more representatives this year. I did it last year because Nijimura was sick.' Imayoshi sighed agian. 'It looks like I can't ecsape, no matter how hard I try.'

Himuro smiled. 'You are such a drama queen.'

'I hope you aren't flirting with me when you have that obnoxious boyfriend already.'

'I would never flirt with you, and Atsushi's not obnoxious, he's cute.'

Imayoshi shook his head. 'Whatever, just remember, you're the only one who thinks that.'

'So, how many reps do they have this year?' Himuro asked, knowing it was futile to argue with him, changed the subject.

'I think they have at least four for each bus, two male and two female, from second and third year.' Imayoshi said, he pulled out a letter and examined it. 'Yes, right here eight overall.'

Himuro whistled. 'That's a lot, they usually only have like, three or four. Jeez, why eight?'

'Like I said, I think it must be because of Ryouta, or maybe because of...' Imayoshi trailed off.

'Maybe what?' Himuro asked annoyed, he hated when Imayoshi did things like that. 'Is something going on.'

Imayoshi thought about it for a minute before answering, 'Well, things seem to have gotten pretty interesting recently. For one thing... when you went through the locker files, I was confused, then you said something about Akashi Seijuro, so I went to check his locker, sure enough there was something written there, though very faded, and it looks like it's been there for sometime. And then there was the article, now, I find it very strange that someone put that up there, which made me think someone must have something against Akashi.'

Himuro stared at Imayoshi silently. He always forgot how smart the other boy was.

'So,' Imayoshi continued, 'after all this evidence that someone was "bulling" Akashi, I asked around, and according to one of the students on the basketball team, which as you know, I'm part of, told me that a while back they heading to practice, when upon seeing Aomine they stopped to talk, as they left apparently he saw "the one with red hair" as he put it. Fall forward as if pushed down the stairs.'

Shock was clear on Himuro's face. 'What the hell? He could have broken his neck!'

Imayoshi nodded. 'But apparently Murasakibara caught him.'

Himuro smiled, 'Of course he did.'

'Anyways,' Imayoshi said, ignoring Himuro, 'I thought that was all very shifty so I told the Headmistress I think we were having trouble with a few of the students, and it was getting to the point of violence, I told I didn't know the culprit yet, but I would keep an eye open. I of course didn't tell her who the victim was either, I didn't want her to call him to the office, not until I knew what was going on, I also didn't want her calling his father, he's a very busy man, and not a very friendly one from what I heard either.'

'God, Imayoshi, I forgot how creepy you could be.' Himuro said, shaking his head.

Imayoshi smiled. 'Well, I'm just excited, I'm interested to see what's going to happen next.'

Himuro shuddered, 'You really creep me out.'

'Good, that makes me very happy.'

'Shut up.'

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The time passed slowly, after Akashi's fifth straight win in cards Kise finally threw the cards down. 'How do you keep winning?!' He exclaimed.

Akashi smiled, 'Well, I do always win.'

'Is that so? I would like you to play Aomine-chii sometime, according to him, nobody can beat him either.'

'I find that hard to believe.' Akashi said, glancing at Aomine, a smirk pulling at his lips.

Aomine snorted,' Well, someone's cocky.'

Akashi smiled at him. 'For good reason.'

'Really? I don't believe that for a second.'

'I could probably beat you.' The redhead said.

'Yeah right, no one can beat me.'

'Ha, which one of is cocky now?' Akashi replied.

The tanned teen laughed. 'I don't know, he who knows everything. You tell me.'

Akashi smiled before realizing that he was having a normal conversation with Aomine, and enjoying it to! It seemed that Aomine realized this as well, the two boys turned away from each other and went silent.

Kuroko sighed. He was really hopfull when he saw the two boys getting along, but now they were ignoring each other again, and this time they were ignoring each other on purpose!

He rubbed his sore temples, and called up to the front of the bus. 'Excuse me? Do either of you have any pain killers?'

Nijimura glanced over. 'One second.' He went through his bag as a tall boy, Kuroko didn't recognize stood up. He walked over and handed the the smaller boy two pills. 'Here you go, do you have anything to drink?'

Kuroko nodded and accepted the pills. 'Thank you. Senpai...?'

'Mm-hm, I'm the second year representative, Mibuchi Reo.'

Akashi glanced up at the newcomer. 'I thought Tatsuya was the second year representative.'

Mibuchi turned towards Akashi. 'He is, but the Headmistress wanted more reps this year, and no matter how hard I tried, Hyuuga was "sick" and couldn't do it. So here I am.' He smiled ruefully, as if he'd rather be anywhere but here.

Akashi examined Mibuchi. His long hair that fell to his chin. he had gentle eyes and looked very relaxed. But Akashi got the feeling this man didn't like misbehavior.

'You must be part of the council.' He stated.

Mibuchi nodded, 'How'd you guess?'

The redhead shrugged, 'I just assumed that all the representatives were.' He smiled. 'This school seems proud of it's council.'

'Yes, well, only the best and the brightest is allowed on the council. We don't accept sloppy seconds.' He smiled at Akashi. 'I'm sure you understand how that works.'

The redhead nodded.

'Great, I'll see you around then, Nijimura's starting to tap his foot.'

"Oh lord, Go quickly, before he starts clearing his throat.'

The black-haired teen stared silently at Akashi before laughing. 'Finally, someone understands, you're cute, I like you.' He winked and made his way back to his seat next to Nijimura.

Akashi turned towards Kuroko, 'Does your head hurt?'

'Yes, but it should be fine. Don't worry about it.'

Midorima pushed his glasses up. 'I hope so, we're just about there.'

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Well, that's all for now, tell me what you think!

We're finally getting close to the end, I hope to wrap it up in three or four more chapters, it's been a really long time since I started writing... I hope you can stay with me 'till the end!