"Woah, how come you never told us your family was rich?" The newcomers stood in front of the large metal gate, mouths gaping as they looked inside the manor's perimeter. Two large water fountains that were placed on the manor's walkway illuminated with various colors. The garden was comprised of flowery hedges that were designed in a maze-like fashion. The manor was painted in a light gray tone and the group could easily see some of the servants running around from place to place carrying various objects.
"You never asked Riko-san, and I am quite glad you did not for you would ask about my family occupation next." Kuroko stated as the gates finally opened for them after a long process of checks by the security guards that were in the security towers next to gate. The guards had confiscated all electronics from the group to which Kuroko ensured that the phones shall be returned after they are cleared of any signs of tracking and hacks that could endanger the residents of the manor.
"Ah, welcome back Master Tetsuya." One of the servants had ran up to the group as they walked down the large pathway, bowing in front of teal boy. She also spotted the other Miracles and had bowed in front of him as well, "And it has been quite a while since I've seen you all, especially you Akashi; you've used to visit all the time during the first two years of middle school." The lady slightly pinched at the red-head's right cheek, "My you've gotten taller since I've last seen you. You're almost taller than me now." She gave a small laugh. The group was surprised when Akashi simply rolled his eyes at the lady's good-hearted banter.
"Yes, it has been a while, Hajima-sama, but I highly prefer that you stop." Akashi stated as he moved his head away from Hajima, who chuckled lightly.
"And still as polite as I remember just like Master Tetsuya." Hearing a bark, the woman looked up to see Nigou in Riko's grasp. His tail wagged in excitement
"Now what do we have here, another dog Master Tetsuya." She walked up to grab the dog, staring into its blank blue eyes, "He is quite cute, but didn't your parents say no more strays."
"I have been taking good care of him, Hajima-sama. Nigou is also Seirin's mascot so it would be wrong to abandon him."
"Nigou? That means Number 2, right?" Kuroko nodded, "So who is Number 1?"
"I am." Hajima looked back and forth between Nigou and Kuroko, he focus narrowing on the similar eye between the dog and the phantom man. She let out a chuckle in realization.
"I see now, you two have the exact same eyes. I can barely tell the two of you apart."
"Gomen, Hajima-sama, but we have a meeting to conduct."
"Oh, sorry fellows. I'll lead you right to the room." She stated as she led the group inside the house.
Seirin and Takao stood with mouths agape when they saw what appeared to be the manor's living room. A chandelier hung overhead, but the light from outside made it unnecessary for the moment. A large fireplace was placed on the right side of the room while a large flat screen was attached to the opposite side. In between were two large leather couch, a few arm chairs, and a large love seat that faced in the direction of the tv; a jaguar-pelted rug was placed between the furniture.
Kuroko felt a small blush appear on his face when he felt Akashi elbow him softly.
They followed the lady up the spiral stairs and turned toward the left-wing of the hall. On the way they had passed a man that could nearly rival Murisakibara in height.
"Ah, Master Tetsuya it has been awhile." The man bowed.
"You do not need to do that Masoma-sama." Kuroko stated as Masoma straightened himself. Kuroko gestured to the gagged man that was being carried by Aomine once more, "Could you please bring the spy to the interrogation room? And please ensure he behaves."
"As you wish young master." Masoma nodded before hauling the man onto his shoulder and walking downstairs. The group followed Hajima down the hall, passing a few doors, before stopping at the fourth door.
"I shall leave you be. Lunch shall be ready in about an hour." The lady stated as she left the group to do her other tasks.
The meeting room had a variety of seats from couches pushed along the wall to beanbag chairs scattered across the floor. Several computers lined the wall farthest from the door and above was a flat screen. The room had no windows. Two different type of lights decorated the room: the brighter ones were placed in rows along the ceiling while dimmer ones were wrapped along the walls near the intersection between wall and ceiling. A table sat in front of one of the couches with a laptop placed on top.
Aomine and Kise quickly claimed a beanbag for themselves while Akashi sat on the couch in front of the table. The former captain gestured for Kuroko to sit beside him as Momoi took the seat to the right of the couch and Midorima the left. Murisakibara sat in the chair next to Midorima and opened a compartment in the wall that was filled with different kinds of snacks, much to the newcomers shock.
"Alright, what the hell is going on here?" Kagami stated as he took one of the bean bag chairs, but made sure to keep his distance from the ganguro. Akashi looked to Kuroko.
"I believe it is right for you to tell them; they are your team." Kuroko nodded before looking toward the waiting group.
"This is a very important secret and any leak of this information can endanger you all and us. You promise to keep this hidden." Seirin and Takao nodded in agreement, "My family come from a long line of secret agents and, as of the middle of first-year back in Teiko, the other Miracles became members of the organization."
"Secret agents!" Kuroko slightly flinched back at the loud shouting, but that was to be expected. Even his former teammates had done so when they had first learned of his family's occupation.
"W-wait a minute," Eyes turned to Furihata who, at that moment, wished that he could disappear, but the nervous point-guard continued, "h-how did the other M-miracles become s-secret a-agents."
Momoi scratched at her chin nervously as she smiled, "Well, we kind of followed Tetsu-kun to his house one day."
"Yeah, we wanted to see Kurokocchi's house; not even Akashicchi knew much about Kurokocchi's family background that Kurokocchi didn't share with us already."
"Yes, the only information I could access were school files and certain legal files, but anything pertaining to his social status or his family's occupation were hidden from view. I do not like to be kept in the dark about many things."
"With the number of basketballs he goes through after practice, I always thought that Tetsu was either rich or had family that were in the sports business."
"Well I could care little about Kuroko's family." Midorima stated, though the others could easily tell that he was lying.
"Such a Tsundere." Many thought while Takao laughed at his partner's reaction.
"Shin-chan, you're being such a tsundere." The hawk-eye owner continued to laugh, much to Midorima's annoyance.
"No I am not!"
"Yes you are Tsundere-chan."
"Hey," Kagami interrupted, "what happened when you guys followed Kuroko to his place?"
"Gomen, Kagami-kun, but that is classified information." Kuroko replied. Kagami's eyes narrowed in a mix of disappointment and irritation. Akashi looked to Kuroko with a smug smile.
"Tetsuya, sometimes I question your sense of humor." Kuroko slowly blinked at the statement.
"I don't have a sense of humor, Akashi-kun."
Akashi rolled his eyes, muttering a "sure you don't" before turning his attention to Seirin's ace, "Well, on the day we followed Tetsuya he had received a call and had to leave practice early. This was before we began to value individual plays over teamwork so it was quite rare for anyone to attempt to skip practice.
Teiko's first stringers were currently practicing in the first string gym. Nijimura had a meeting with the coach about the next upcoming match and so the current captain had left Akashi in charge of supervising the first stringers and ensuring they were practicing. As usual, Haizaki was skipping once more, and Akashi actually felt a little sorry for the beating Nijimura would've give the brutish starter when he returned.
The red-head was currently watching a 3-vs-3 match: one side consisting Murisakibara and two other first stringers while the other consisted of Kuroko, Aomine, and another first stringer. He found it interesting how well Aomine and Kuroko were working well together, even though Kuroko had recently joined the first stringers about two and a half weeks ago. Midorima was currently sitting out, stating that Oha Asa predicted that something life-changing will happen to Cancers if they weren't careful; he held his lucky item, rope, tightly.
The game was soon paused when ringing was heard amongst the sound of bouncing balls, swishing nets, and pounding feet.
"Ah, sorry Akashi-kun, but I believe that is my phone." Kuroko stated as he ran over to his bag.
"We are in the middle of practice, Kuroko." Akashi stated as Kuroko fished his phone out from his bag.
"Hai, Akashi, I understand, but they only call me during this time if it was important; may I please answer it?" Akashi sighed.
"Very well, make it quick though." Kuroko nodded before walking away to answer the phone in a more secluded area. The call had took up only a few seconds, but it seemed those few seconds was enough to cause Kuroko to start packing up his stuff.
"Sorry, Akashi-kun, but I have to leave practice early; something happened at my house and I need to go quickly." The phantom member didn't wait for the vice-captain's response as he quickly rushed out the gym. The mini-match was put on hold and Aomine and Murisakibara had walked over to Akashi as the other first stringers continued practice.
"Oi, what's up with Tetsu?" Aomine asked as he continued to stare at the door Kuroko had left through moments ago.
"I don't know, but it has to be important for him to leave out in such a rush like that." A small frown appeared on Akashi's face.
"Kuro-chin doesn't skip practice." Murisakibara added, munching on some chips.
"I think we should follow, knowing Kuroko if someone was robbing his place he's bound to try to stop 'em, and he might get killed in the process." Aomine stated, remembering the teal-head's tendency to attempt to stop someone from bullying others, even if he was bound to get beaten up as a result.
"This is Kuroko's problem, we have no need to keep an eye on him-nanodayo." Midorima stated. Akashi raised one eyebrow, knowing that while the green-haired shooter acted indifferent, he was worried for Kuroko's safety.
"Misaki-san," one of the first stringers ran over to Akashi, "I need you to keep practice running. We're going to make sure that nothing happens to Kuroko."
"But what will Nijimura-kun say?"
"He knows about Kuroko's tendency to get into trouble, he'll understand." Akashi stated. Misaki reluctantly agreed and the others hurried to catch up with Kuroko.
For Aomine, it wasn't the first time he tried to follow Kuroko to his house after hours of practice, but he often failed to halfway through. Kuroko often disappeared from his sight and Aomine had to retrace his steps to try to make it back in time to his house, occasionally stopping to get a new issues of his magazine. However, this time it seemed that keeping up with Kuroko was a lot easier. Aomine realized that Kuroko was purposely disappearing on him and growled slightly in frustration. They continued following the boy until they came to an office-building smaller in comparison to its neighbors. Kuroko had quickly whipped out his phone once more, muttered something quickly to the person on the other end, and quickly ended the call before he looked to the others who were attempting to hide inside one of the nearby alley, which was hard to do so with their multi-colored hair that received stares from other people.
"Please come out, your attempt to hide is actually quite embarrassing." Kuroko stated as they walked up to him.
"Kuroko, what is so important that you had to leave practice early?" Akashi questioned.
"Sorry Akashi-kun, I will explain everything soon." Akashi raised an eyebrow at Kuroko's response; while the boy was usually expressionless, he could tell that Kuroko had expected them to come.
"Were you expecting us to follow?"
"I was expecting Aomine-kun at the very least, but I knew that the rest of you would follow quickly. It would not be safe to have my friends out in the open at this moment."
"What do you mean by that Tetsu?" Kuroko did not answer, instead looking down the street in search of his ride.
"Ah, there it is." Aomine and Midorima's mouth dropped open, Murisakibara stopped chewing on his snacks for a moment, and Akashi's eyes widened slightly as they noticed a black limousine pulling up to them.
"Wait, you own a limo?!" Aomine and Midorima stated at the same time, the former shouting while the latter had responded in a quieter manner but still retained his shock.
"Does that mean Kuro-chin's family is rich like Aka-chin's family?"
"Well, not exactly in the same manner since my family do not exactly own a business, but I suppose so." Kuroko stated as a butler had gotten out of the driver seat to open the door for Kuroko, much to the teal-head's displeasure.
"I have modified the interior to your requests, Master Kuroko." Kuroko sighed.
"Thank you Takashi-sama, but please refrain from calling me that; I don't like it."
"But it would be rude to not show my respects, Master Kuroko."
Kuroko shook his head in defeat before looking at the others, "Come on, they're expecting us at the manor."
"Manor?!"
"Damn, Tetsu, this house is huge." Aomine stated as he looked around at the decorations and furniture.
"Do your family import all of these exotic decorations?" Akashi ask as he noticed the polar bear rug that sat in the living room.
"No, my parents travel out a lot and so they tend to take a few things back as souvenirs. The polar bear rug was one they got from their trip to Canada; they had it made fresh on a special request."
"Wait, you mean it came off of an actual polar bear." Aomine eyes widened. Kuroko nodded.
"Yes, though they usually keep a rug for only a few weeks before giving it away; last month we had lion's rug and I believe that they're gonna have a Siberian tiger one next."
"Are they currently away-nanodayo?" Midorima asked as he pushed up his glasses slightly.
"Yes, but the servant are all very nice and they keep me company. Occasionally he comes over, spends the night from time to time."
"Who is 'he'?" Akashi grunted slightly in anger when he noticed that Kuroko had ignored his question, instead leading them up the stairs.
"It seemed that one of the organization's most wanted criminals had attempted an assassination attempt on the head of the Akashi Corporation, your father." Kuroko stated as he led the group right before opening the second door, "A former employee before he was fired a decade ago if my information is correct."
Aomine and Midorima gasped at the sight of a man tied to a chair with chains, a bunch of men in black suits and sunglasses surrounding the man to ensure that he made no attempt to escape. Murisakibara nearly choked on his maibo and Akashi eyes had widened with clear shock on his face. Red eyes spotted a familiar figure amongst the sea of agents.
"Father." Akashi muttered slightly, causing the elder Akashi to lift his head up from the newspaper he was reading to look at his son.
"Seijuuro, I didn't know you were friends with a Kuroko." Akashi-san stated, causing Akashi to furrow his eyebrows slightly in confusion.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Agent Phantom," one of the agents interrupted as he walked up to Kuroko, bowing slightly while the tied up man attempted to escape from his confinement in what appeared to be worry, "we are sorry to interrupt your practice but the organization has been unable to glean any information from the criminal about who hired him to assassinate Akashi Masaomi; thus, we had brought him here in hopes that you could get him to talk."
"It should be no problem; I have a proposition for you as well Akashi-san, but I require everyone to step out the room to avoid any unnecessary side-effects."
"And that's how we learned that Kuroko was a secret agent." Akashi finished.
"Hey, whatever happened to the man?" Koganei asked.
"He's currently in the mental hospital being treated." Kuroko stated as he sipped on a milkshake that he got from who knows where, "He is currently in a very bright room, too scared of his own shadow; he's not one of the first."
"Tetsuya, when did you get the milkshake?"
"Before the part when you guys first arrived at the manor." Kuroko stated.
"Wait, what did you do to that guy?!" Kagami asked with wide eyes, jaw nearly dropping at the thought that Kuroko had traumatized so much that they were stuck in a mental ward.
"The guy pissed me off at attempting a life at Akashi's father."
'Note to self, never ever piss off Kuroko.' The group thought.
"Hey, what type of proposition did you and Akashi's dad make?" Riko asked.
"I asked that Akashi-kun be allowed to be a member of the organization and in return I shall act as Akashi-kun's bodyguard and personal assassin, though I have certain rules regarding who I assassinate." Kuroko stated.
"And that made it simpler when we started dating." Akashi stated as he wrapped one arm around Kuroko, who simply ignored Akashi's action. The Miracles could practically hear jaws dropping to the floor at the moment.
"YOU GUYS DATED?!"
"At the start of second year, but we had broken up around our third year." Kuroko stated.
"I saw it more as a break from each other." Akashi stated as he leaned into Kuroko, causing the teal head to push the other off of him forcefully.
"Akashi-kun, you and I both know that it wasn't a simple break. I requested a year-long leave for the very reason that you guys were becoming too arrogant with you skills." Akashi rolled his eyes, but made no attempt to get closer to Kuroko.
"How did Kise and Momoi become members then?" Izuki asked.
"I invited Momoi-san because of her ability at gathering information, and it have significantly improved since she joined. As for Kise-kun, it would make it easier if all the Miracles were a part of the organization instead of trying to hide it, though I had to make a deal with his manager that no harm will come to his career." Kuroko explained.
"Anyway, the reason why I had requested for them to come today was because Momoi and I had decrypted the information in the briefcase that we had received last night. The Generation of Miracles will be staying here at the Kuroko manor until we have determined the members of the traitorous circle. Atsushi and I will have our school work sent here while the others are free to attend their designated schools, but are to return here afterward unless they inform Momoi, Tetsuya, or me about it." Akashi stated.
"You guys are welcome to stay here as well. My family has a gym built on the grounds and I can state that Seirin is having a training camp for a few weeks."
"Ah, sure Kuroko, let me just inform my dad." Riko stated.
"Already done." Kuroko replied, "I have inform all you parents that you are currently spending the night at my place. They are welcome to visit, but please keep the information about us being secret agents. I don't want to take drastic measures against you."
"Since we got all that out of the way, what type of missions do you guys go on?" Kagami asked.
"Oh we go one lots of missions, sometimes traveling the world because of what we have to do." Kise said, "I can't remember in clear details about the ones when we were still in middle school, but the last one we went on was the first since our third year at Teiko-ssu."