"Well, out last mission wasn't exactly authorized by the organization." Kise stated, "It was more of a self-proclaimed mission by Akashicchi when he learned somebody was leaking out information on us-ssu."
Akashi nodded, "We've recently apprehended a few from the traitorous circle; and thanks to Tetsuya we have one less traitor to deal with.
"Wait, you've killed a guy." Kagami shouted as he stared at his basketball partner with widened eyes.
"It's the normal results from a person of my abilities, Kagami-kun." Kuroko stated, "I specialize in assassination and spying and I have been known to make people disappear when necessary." Akashi gave a smug smirk as he patted Kuroko's head, much to the teal boy's displeasure.
"And that is why I've recommended that you be my personal assassin." Kuroko roughly knocked the offending hand aside, eyes narrowed at his ex-captain.
"Please do not do that, Akashi-kun. I might get upset."
"Do what, Tetsuya?" Akashi gave a sly grin as he patted Kuroko's head once more. Teiko's shadow roughly grasped the wrist and glared at the still smiling Akashi.
"Stop or I shall have your leadership of the team revoked and put you on suspension."
"Tetsuya-"
"I have done it before, Akashi-kun." Kuroko threatened. Red and light blue bore into each other while the rest watched in amusement, disinterest, or bewilderment.
After a few seconds of staring, Akashi sighed and, once Kuroko released his wrist, raised his hands in defeat.
"Fine Tetsuya."
Kagami stuttered slightly, staring at the scene in confusion. Not only did Akashi admit defeat with little argument, but Kuroko had threatened his former captain into submission, "Wait, he can do that?"
"Although Akashi is the leader of the group, Kuroko remain the final decision when it pertains to us in the organization. The Kuroko family is an important part of the organization for generations and they think highly of their suggestions and decisions." Midorima stated as he adjusted his glasses slightly, tightening his grip on the binoculars, "Kuroko is well aware of that and uses it to threaten Akashi, and none of it are empty threats."
"Yeah, one time Akashicchi got suspended for two weeks and Kurokocchi took command. He was still very angry with Akashicchi and accidently took it out on us-ssu." Kise whined slightly as he thought back to one of the worse time of his middle school years, "We've never been so happy to have Akashicchi back."
Seirin and Takao were shocked by the news, and Kagami thought back to the first time he saw Kuroko mad during the Kiraski Daichi game. He shivered. The boy may have demolished Hanamiya's Spider Web, but he didn't seem to be capable of possibly traumatizing others to the point that made Akashi look like the nicer choice.
He never wanted to test the extent of the Phantom man's anger.
"Ryouta, you training menu has now been tripled for a week."
"B-but…"
"Quadrupled, and I'll extend it to two weeks if I must." Red eyes glared at the model and Kise slumped into the bean bag chair in submission.
"Hey," Attention turned to Koganei, "weren't you going to tell us the story." Kise perked up.
"Oh yeah," He placed on hand on his chin in thought, "I think this started when Akashicchi called us sometime last week,"
"Ugh, why did Akashi call us this time?" Aomine groaned as he and the others (minus Akashi and Kuroko) made their way to their pseudo-meeting place, "The new issue just came out today and I was planning on getting it so I have something to distract me during class. He stumbled forward slightly when Momoi stuck him on the head, "Gah, what was that for Satsuki?"
"Is your head always filled with perverted thoughts, Dai-chan; don't answer." Momoi huffed slightly before returning the American newspaper to Midorima, "Akashi-kun called us in the middle of practices demanding our presence and stating that this meeting is mandatory."
"Like if that ganguro actually practice." Midorima stated. Kise laughed in agreement.
"Aominecchi is acting like an Ahominecchi." Kise continued to laugh, earning an annoyed growl from Aomine.
"Shut up you idiot." He then turned to Midorima, "And I have you know that I do go to practice." He turned to face forward, mumbling slightly, "I still have to open that damn second door; I will not let that Bakagami show me off."
"Mine-chin is whining again." Murasakibara lazily stated as he continued to munch on his maiubo. He carried along several snack bags that Himuro had prepared for him for practice.
"Oi," Aomine turned to glare at the group once more, "will you guys just stop-"
"Daiki," Aomine froze in mid-sentence as he turned slowly to face his former captain who stood in front of the designated office building, "lower your voice; I don't need people to complain."
"He just called him/me by his/my name." The group thought in slight horror. Noticing the scared looks on his fellow agents' faces, Akashi raised one hand in attempt to calm them down while giving a wary smile.
"Do not worry, I'm the one in control; I've just happened to pick up a few things from my other self." They sighed in relief, "Anyway, you should get inside quickly. We have a 'guest' and I'm afraid that he may annoy-"
A girlish shriek echoed throughout the area. Everyone buy Akashi looked worry while the Rakuzan captain simply sighed.
"Too late." Akashi gave a small chuckled before turning to enter the building; the others quickly rushed behind him.
Majority of the employees and businessmen aware of the hidden nature of the building had continued on with their activities while those who were new had looked around in confusion, baffled by the unresponsive action from the other people and were thinking that the place was crazy.
The Miracles quickly made their way to the third floor and Aomine quickly slammed the fourth room's door open.
"Don't Tetsu/Tetsu-kun!"
"Kurokochii!"
"Kuroko don't!"
Murasakibara had paused in his eating, his snack hanging loosely between his mouth and hand. Akashi sighed at the scene before him. Seriously, he only left the Phantom man for about two minutes.
Kuroko had calmly turned around when the door was slammed open, cocking his head in an innocent and cute-like manner. The 'guest' that Akashi had previously mentioned was tied to a rotating dart board. Several daggers about 3 to be exact, appeared to have been thrown at him, each getting closer after each throw. Kuroko was lazily twirling a dagger in his hand at the moment, and the group realized that if they had come in at that second then the man would've been struck by the dagger.
"Is something the matter?" Kuroko asked blankly.
How the hell does he still looks so innocent even when torturing other?
"Wait a minute," Kagami interrupted as he pointed at Akashi, "you have a fucking torture room in that building." Akashi had pointed at Kuroko and responded.
"The building is owned and managed by the Kuroko family. Tetsuya had most of the third floor outfitted with different interrogation rooms. There are also two in the manor, which is where our uninvited guest is currently being held at." Seirin looked warily at their trump card, understanding that Kuroko is far from as saintly as he appears, at least in comparison to Kagami and the other Miracles.
"Kuroko is the group's best interrogator," Midorima added, "followed by Akashi and Kise. I am certain that some of Kuroko's 'interrogation' techniques have rubbed off on the idiot."
"So mean-ssu."
"What do you mean by that?" Riko asked.
"Let's just say he creates a twisted version of Good Cop, Bad Cop." Aomine lazily answered, slumping into the bean bag even more.
"The main point," Momoi states. "Is that people are fearful of even learning that they are to be interrogated by Tetsu-kun; hopefully you won't be on the receiving end of one of his interrogation of punishment like Dai-chan was."
"What did that Ahomine-"
"Ok," Aomine quickly sat back up as he looked to Kise in hopes that the blonde would prevent any embarrassing information from reaching Kagami, "don't we have story to tell."
"Hey!"
"What," Kuroko causally pointed the dagger at the man tied to the wheel, "he had admitted to some knowledge of the traitors." The man had frozen for a second in fear before struggling to get out of the straps.
"Traitors!" Aomine, Momoi, and Kise shouted. Midorima eyes had widened in shock. Murasakibara had resumed eating his snacks, giving little care to the new information.
"But there must've been more for him to end up in this…predicament." Akashi stated, cocking an eyebrow in question while an amused smirk graced his face. There was a pregnant pause, and for a short while there was no noise in the room, even the captive had stopped his struggling to listen to the teal boy's response.
"Well?"
"I was irritated by his insult and he was taxing my patience." Kuroko admitted, retaining his blank face. Akashi sighed at the response; he had expected that explanation.
"Well, since you didn't use room six then it was only a moderate insult. Please put the dagger down and come to the meeting room." Kuroko nodded as he placed the dagger down on a nearby table. The man sighed in relief ,relaxing slightly since the boy was going to throw anymore dagger at him, before realizing he was still strapped to the rotating wheel and began to struggle once more, but the group had already left to the room next door.
"By the way, "Akashi began as he sat at the head of the table, looking at Kuroko, "why didn't you activate the sound-proof walls?"
"Because I knew that it would get the others to hurry inside." The others looked at the phantom in worry.
"I do question you sense of humor, Tetsuya." Kuroko cocked his head in confusion.
"What sense of humor?" Akashi shook his head slowly, chuckling slightly, before focusing his attention to the rest of the Miracles.
"As you have heard, we have traitors in the organization and we believe that they have leaked information on many agents, including us." Kise, Aomine, Momoi, and Midorima stiffened at the statement. Murasakibara had paused for a moment before continuing to eat his snacks, "We do not know how much of our personal information has been leaked, but Kuroko and I have been able to apprehend the man in the other room who we are certain has a connection to these traitors."
Eyes turned to the wall connecting room three and four as a series of clinks and rattling echoed in the room. A piece of the wall slowly began to rotate, revealing the wheel alongside the man. The wheel had stopped turning, leaving the man hanging upside down from the straps. After staring at the captive, six pair of eyes focused on Kuroko who had a remote in his hand.
"Tetsuya, when did you have that installed?"
"It has always been installed, we've just never had to use it before." Kuroko replied. Akashi sighed, internally questioning his former boyfriend's sanity and humor.
"And why, pray tell, did you activate it now?"
"Because I wanted to."
Well, he's one of the organization's most terrifying interrogator for a reason. Akashi decided he would question Kuroko for any other 'special' features that the boy had on this floor that he was unaware of.
"Very well, Daiki, would you remove the gag from the man's mouth." Aomine nodded as he stood up to do so. The man took a deep breath once the gag was off and glared at Kuroko.
"What the fuck is wrong with that kid; he should be in some sort of mental hospital or something."
"I'm guessing that you are unware of the name Phantom?" Akashi asked, smirking when he noticed the man stiffen.
"Of course I've heard that name before. What does that have to do with…" Brown eyes widened when he finally put the pieces together, "Wait, that kid's the notorious Phantom. Holy shit, I'm screwed. I did not sign up for this." He began to struggle once more, "I would've never agreed to this if I knew I was dealing with these people."
"Well we can do this the easy way or the hard way." The man looked to Akashi, a few sweat drops dripping to the floor, "You can either tell us everything you know about the people who hired you and come out mostly unscathed, or we'll have Kuroko 'interrogate' you and you'll most likely end up in a mental hospital." Akashi grinned when he noticed the man gulping in fear, "Your choice."
"Kuroko-san," a voice interrupted as knocking could be heard at the door, "lunch is ready for you guys." Hajime stated before the knocking stopped and footsteps could be heard walking away.
"I guess we should stop here for the time being." Kuroko stated. Several members of Seirin and Takao had groaned at the statement.
"Ah come on," Takao stated, "it was getting to the good part."
"Besides the fact of learning that Kuroko has a more twisted nature than Akashi, I thought it was pretty interesting." Riko stated.
"I know that you like messing with people but that's taking it to a whole different level." Kagami stated.
"It proves to be effective with troublesome prisoners." Kuroko replied as he sipped at another milkshake.
"That's not the problem, you have some twisted joy from torturing others." If he wasn't use to reading Kuroko, Kagami would've missed the small smirk that appeared on the boy's face for a second, "See, you even smirked."
"We should hurry down to the dining room, and would be wrong to let the food get too cold." Akashi stated as he stood up and began walking toward the door.
"Don't worry Kagami-kun, there's plenty of food for everyone; they're use to cooking for Aomine-kun when he's around."
"Oi, don't change the subject."