Authors Note

Yeah, I take for ever making these chapters but take it easy! Hopefully I'll get them of a LOT sooner than it has been. Keyword: Hopefully. That being said I'm still going to work on this! Yeh, so here's the reviews from the last chapter.

mayrigane: Sorry, I don't work that fast so you'll have to wait a while... BUT! I will not give up! I shall try to keep a steady pace!

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Previously:

It was kind of strange, Aomine-kun is fast, REALLY fast, and flexible too.

"Hello Terumi, I do not know what I shall cook for food for father. I also don't have enough money to buy father some sort takeout or anything in general, but I'm sure that I can fix something. - Tetsuya Kuroko"

"So Akashi-kun what are we making?"

"Traditionally made Swedish meatballs, with a compromisation."

When the dish was finished I thought that it would taste good but Akashi-kun just stared at it in disbelief. He advised me not to eat it as it would probably knock me out however it was already too late.

Akashi-kun was correct and moments later my vision turned black and I passed out. The last thing I heard was Akashi-kun's frantic yelling.

*Kuroko POV*

"Ugh." I grunt while slowly opening my eyes, I had such a wonderful dream about playing basketball with my team when a strangely odd yet familiar sound woke me up. I look around and see that I'm in the nurse's office. I also note that I'm all by my lonesome self, strange since no one would leave me alone in here, especially since the nurse wasn't here today.

I get up from the hard white bed that I was lying on and spot a plastic lunch box in front of me.

"Remember to stay healthy. - Akashi"

'He didn't have to, I'll be fine,' I then feel a strange and all too familiar buzz in my pant's side pocket, I hastily look up at the clock in the room.

'Oh no.'

I start dashing out of the room and back home. I roughly take my phone out and see that I have missed a few calls and 10 messages from Kise-kun, pretty much the same for Momoi-san, a message from Akashi-kun, two missed calls and a message from Aomine-kun and 17 missed calls and 23 messages from Father.

'This is bad, it's way past time for father to get his dinner. I can only pray that it won't be as bad as I think it will be.'

Right now, as of this moment I'm so happy for all those times Akashi-kun made me sprint around the gym. For every second that I'm not at home when father is, is a rougher punishment from him. So luckily Akashi-kun has significantly helped me out by diminishing the period of time it would take me to get to father, if it weren't for Akashi-kun then I, then I would. Ugh, I don't even want to think about it.

I soon found myself outside my house, shakingly holding the handle of the front door. As soon as I turned the handle the door flung open with tremendous force causing me to fall to the floor inside the house.

"Where the hell have you been kid?"

I look up and see father spitting hateful words at me.

"I- I was at school father."

Father approached me as I starting crawling backwards to the wall.

"Is that so? Well according to the information that your school gave me school should've ended around 2 hours ago. How do explain that kid?"

My arms started to go upwards to protect myself while father came closer and closer.

"I had my club activities father."

I said weakly as my arms are now fully in front of my face.

"Oh so you've joined a club… How nice. Since when did you start going to this club Tetsuya, and why didn't you tell me or your mother?"

Father was now hovering above me both his hands were formed into fists as he glared at me.

"Since I started at Teiko, I didn't think that you or mother would be all that interested in what I was doing at school so I choose not to bother you or mother."

Father chuckled in a response.

"Well you earn some good points for the last one kid, you shouldn't bother me or your mother. However now I'm slightly concerned, what club are you in?"

I'm surprised, why would father care about what club I'm in? I lower my arms as it seems to be a peaceful conversation for once.

"I'm in the basketball clu-"

I was cut of by father's sudden burst of laughter.

"YOU?! IN THE BASKETBALL CLUB? Ooh, Tetsuya I didn't know you actually had a sense of humor!"

As father's laughter died down I told him that I wasn't kidding.

"Huh? What, but how can you be in the basketball club with that body of yours? I mean you're so-"

Father cut himself off, closed the front door behind him and grabbed me by throat, all of this happened in a flash. Father forcefully and slowly lifted me up from the floor.

"Nobody saw your wounds, did they?"

I try to lift myself up by putting my hands on his arms.

"No father, I focus a lot to keep myself hidden when I'm changing."

"Heh, for once your lack of presence worked for the family."

Father's hold loosened a bit allowing a good chance to fill my lungs with oxygen.

"Misdirection."

"Huh?"

I repeat what I said before with a clearer tone.

"Misdirection, like what magicians do? Not really fitting since you're not diverging one's attention but rather slipping away from one's."

"That's because in basketball I do divert my opponent's attention, hence the name misdirection."

"Sounds like a mighty weapon, so I presume that you're high up on the food chain there."

I don't understand, is he praising me for getting far or is it something else?

"Yes, I'm in the first string, currently I'm one of the starters as well."

Father's grip on my throat tightened slightly.

"Damn, that puts a wrench in my plans. Wait, if you're on of the starters that means you would need real gear. Right?"

I nod as a response.

"Really? And where did you get this money to buy all that gear Tetsuya? You didn't use the money your mother and I gave you? Right?"

Father's hold grew stronger and stronger for each second.

"N- no, sister gave me the basketball shoes and the rest as a present for me-e."

I struggle at the end as father was grasp on my throat intensified, it grew so strong that he was now choking me harshly.

"So, you used TERUMI'S money. HUH?!"

For each passing second father's strangle magnified.

"F- fath- ther, pl- pl- ple- lease."

Father catapulted me towards the stairs at the other end of the room. I put one hand on my head and another around my throat to check how bad the wounds were while trying to get up, it was to no avail as father kicked me down.

I beg him to stop, I could barely breathe as is.

"So you're in pain Tetsuya? Don't worry, you won't be in pain. After I'm done with you you'll be in pure agony."

As father said that he pulled his belt of and held it in both of his hands. "Now you have a choice kid, either you could turn around, take of your shirt and jacket yourself or I could do it."

N- no, father and mother may have punished me harshly before but not like this!

"W- wait father, I -I -"

"Time's up kido."

"Wait, no. PLEASE FATHER!"

At the same time with Aomine, Kise and Momoi -

*3rd Pov*

"AOMINECCHI!" Kise screamed as he ran after his rival.

"Huh, Kise? What are you doing here?"

Aomine and Kise were outside a convenience store.

"I can ask you the same thing." Aomine's shoulders slightly dipped as he told Kise that he was thrown out of the store.

"Hahaha, how did that happen?" Kise pointed at Aomine as he held the other hand on his stomach while chuckling.

"That's none of your business Kise! And stop laughing!" He kept on laughing anyway until Aomine grabbed a basketball from his bag (I don't know, I just presume that he's always lugging one around, so where else to keep it than his bag?!) and threw it at Kise so that fell to the ground.

"Aw-ssu… So what were you doing in the store anyway?"

"I was getting some kind of snack or something with Satsuki, also some food that Satsuki can actually cook without giving food poisoning. It's for Tetsu if couldn't guess already."

"Speaking of which where IS Kurokocchi?" Aomine then looked at him strangely.

"Why would I know where Tetsu is?" Kise jumped up as response to Aomine's ridiculous statement.

"Whatcha mean, 'Why would I know where Tetsu is?' Kurokocchi's your best friend and you two along with Momoicchi always hang out together."

Aomine turned his head away from Kise. "Well I'm sure he's busy with more important stuff, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't want to be bothered now would he?" Kise sprung up and went close to Aomine.

"Aominecchi, are you lying to me?" Aomine jerked back at Kise's sudden movement.

"Wh- what? No I'm not… Besides Tetsu needs some space for now, I mean with his family problems and all that."

"You just don't know how to deal with the problem right? You probably decided that taking a step back to examine the situation would be the ideal thing to do now, am I right?" Aomine froze as Kise was exactly correct.

'Damn how could he be spot on like that?'

"And what if I am?" Aomine responded to Kise as his bluff was just blown and he didn't know what to do.

"It's in these situations where should support him, I mean just think of all the horrible things that Kurokocchi must be going through right now!"

"Take it easy Kise, it's just some economical problems. It's not like Tetsu's getting hurt or is depressed."

"How could you be so sure about that?!"

"Kise. It's. Not. That. Bad. I mean, he's getting proper food next week so it can't be THAT bad." Kise crossed his arms and turned his head.

"Yeah I guess, but maybe I should lend Kurokocchi some money just in case…"

Aomine grabbed Kise's shoulder and turned him around.

"We shouldn't go prying our nose in other people's business, especially not Tetsu's. I mean he seems pretty adamant about not talking about his family."

Aomine lets go of Kise's shoulder and he put his hand to his own chin.

"Yeah, now that you mention it Kurokocchi has never talked about his family, does he? Maybe we should go and visit th-"

"Kise… If Tetsu doesn't want to talk about it then we shouldn't go and press him on the matter. He'll come around eventually, they always do."

Kise smiled with amusement.

"I presume that your parents knowledge about detective work that's flowing through your veins is acting up."

"Yeah, yeah, just cuz my mom's a lawyer and my father's a detective doesn't mean that I'm a genius. However Tetsu's going to confess about his family, as long as we're staying close to him that is."

"Like what you're doing right now?"

"Just giving him some space for a while."

Then an electric door opened beside them and out came one Satsuki Momoi.

"I got some popsicles for us, oh Ki-chan! What are you doing here?"

Kise turned to face Momoi.

"Well, I was just walking around when some of my fans saw me, naturally it had to be the crazy ones so I started running."

"WAIT?! Does that mean that they're coming here?!" Aomine was getting more and more stressed by the second, he 'lost his shit' when Kise affirmed Aomine's suspicions.

"SHIT! Time to go!"

Momi seemed confused at Aomine's distress. "Why, they're only fans how bad could it get?" Momoi stated naively.

"You've never seen Kise's crazy fans, have you?"

"So what? It's not like it's important or anythi-" Momoi was interrupted by a sudden scream.

"WHO'S THAT?!" It was a fan that screamed and pointed at Momoi, and she attracted attention of the other crazed fans.

"Yeah who is that? A friend maybe?"

"No way, it has to be some BITCH trying to seduce my Ryouta!"

"Eh?" Momoi seemed really surprised, I mean of course she's Kise's friend I mean they were just casualing talking to each other, it doesn't warrant any investigation or anything!

"Why that little, who's the other guy?!"

The one fan that thought that Momoi might just be some friend recognised Aomine as Kise's teammate, the other's however: "He must be trying to take Kise away as well, he and that BITCH is trying to take MY Kise away!"

Aomine put his open hands in front of him and shook them. "N- no I'm just-"

One of the crazy fan girls starting shouting that Aomine was trying to delude them with his lies, she proceed with starting to dash straight at them.

"R- RUN!" Kise shouted as he pulled the dumbfounded Momoi that was previously frozen on the spot.

Aomine tried to run as fast as he could, he could hear his heart thumping and the wind flowing through his hair. It felt great, (even though he was being hunted down,) but as soon as he looked back he saw Momoi and Kise weren't as fast as he was. He also saw one of the demented fangirls were about to attack Momoi.

He turned around put his feet to the ground to decelerate his movement, just to start sprinting after having a perfect foothold. Kise also saw the mad girl aiming for Momoi and pulled her closer to him, Aomine was about to punch the berserk girl but realised that it was wrong and settled for a push.

Kise and Aomine were to busy to notice another one sneaking up from behind, this one was crafty. Successfully bypassing Kise's protection and hit Momoi despite her fast reflexes by pulling her leg up.

"AARGH! My leg!" Momoi was gripping her leg in pain, Kise hurdled the attacker back to shadows from which she came, only to have her perfectly landing on her feet like a cat.

Aomine quickly examined the situation and clearly concluded that Momoi wasn't running any time soon and picked her up bridal style, (since she wouldn't let go of her leg he couldn't give her a piggyback ride. )

Aomine then broke for it, he ignored Momoi's screams of 'going slower' as well as Kise's screams of terror coupled with a couple 'wait for me's.

They all ran and ran, avoiding maniacs and obstacles they set up. Aomine was having trouble coordinating and running with Momoi at the same time and to be honest he wished that he could go faster, however he had priorities.

They came to a point where every turn leads to one or two loonies.

They were losing hope, it seemed as if there was no way out.

Aomine went first in every alley, corner, e.t.c. (since he's still faster than Kise even though he's carrying Momoi) so luckily Kise didn't get trapped since Aomine only made it out of every alley thanks to his speed, but no matter where they went they was ALWAYS someone there.

They were cornered.

Aomine saw the armed girls approaching them. He was stepping back and could feel Momoi's trembles shake through his arms, making him all the more nervous. Kise was finally caught up with the two of them, he put his hand on Aomine's shoulder as a means to hold himself up from all the constant running, change of pase, turning, and an attempt to keep up with Aomine.

"He, hu, hu, Ao-, Aomi, hu, Aomine, huuu. Aominecchi, we're-."

Aomine didn't even turn around to face Kise when he said: "Yeah, I know."

Aomine was swinging around, trying to find a way out of this mess when he saw a blue haze coloured girl in a dark alley way waving at him. She held up a board in big, clear, red fluorescent paint, it said:

"Don't move! Run towards me on our signal."

'WHAT SIGNAL?!'

Aomine's mind was thinking intensely as of that moment and couldn't think straightly partially due to the stress, he came to the conclusion that he didn't have anything to lose so he went along with the girl's plan.

Aomine stopped in his tracks as he waited for the "signal." Kise and Momoi grew more and more distressed as the fangirls were now running towards them, Aomine tried to keep cool and observe where the signal would come from.

He then heard sirens going off and repetitive, loud, bangs coming from behind him, he figured that now was a good time as ever to bolt since everyone was distracted.

Aomine headed towards the smokey blue haired girl in the alley way. He threw Momoi over his shoulders and held her with one hand and Kise with his other, (Kise didn't notice the girl so there's now way that he'd be able to keep up with Aomine, he'd be in the same situation as the fangirls. Distracted and in disarray.) The somber blue haired girl was way in front of Aomine threw every twist and turn there was in his way from freedom.

*Time skip, cuz I'm too lazy to write another running scene*

Aomine was at a park with the rest of the gang, including the fast and mysterious girl.

"Looks like we're out of the woods, for now anyway." The strange girl said to them.

"Yeah, thanks by the way. I don't know how we would've gotten out of that situation. Like, seriously! Who were those people?" Aomine thanked the girl by bowing and slowly putting Momoi down, he also went closer to Kise to interrogate him.

"Like I told before you Aominecchi, they're just some happy and a bit delusional fans. I'm sure that they didn't mean to hurt us." Aomine looked at him with a shocked and hateful expression.

"Yeah, yeah totally! They weren't trying to BUTCHER US!"

"It's just a simple misunderstanding."

"Yeah, they must be saints, after all, why would they try to slaughter us? Your fans are crazy Kise, why isn't there a bodyguard with you everywhere you go? I'm pretty sure you would need one or two for your fans."

Kise looked depressed due to Aomine insulting his fans.

"Aominecchi…" Suddenly a new voice spoke up.

"They were just a small portion of Kise-san's fans. Besides he practically has two bodyguards."

Everyone turned to see that the mysterious person that saved them was speaking.

"I- I do?" Then suddenly the gang heard some rustling in some bushes not far from them.

"Ah geez, I thought we lost them." Aomine remarked while taking a stance of defense in front of the injured Momoi.

Suddenly it stopped and everyone relaxed just for a moment hoping that if would just be some harmless miniature forest creature. However in that moment of hesitation a brightly coloured hooded figure appeared and dashed straight at them. Aomine countered this and was about to throw a punch, however the assailant foresaw that and dodged swiftly while going for Momoi. Then the hooded figure reached inside its jacket and was about to pull something out, Aomine reached out to the supposed attacker but his plans were thwarted by the one who saved him and the rest. Kise also tried to help but was tripped by the one restraining Aomine. The one dashing towards Momoi was inching closer while Momoi was trying to protect herself, she closed her eyes as she was preparing for the impact, but it never came.

Instead of a weapon being in the "attacker's" hands there was a paper notebook.

"Could I please get your autograph!" Momoi got a good look at the mysterious person with a grilly voice bowing in front of her.

"U- uh, I don't understand." The one restraining Aomine let go of him and said: "She wants your autograph…" Aomine then turned around to face everyone.

"THEN WHY DID YOU RUN AT HER LIKE A HOOLIGAN?!"

"She was happy…"

"WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!"

The brightly coloured sweatshirt girl took of her hood.

"Hello Blue dude! The name's Yoshiko Sato!" She stood straight up with one foot bend out while giving a salute. She had magenta coloured hair and pink eyes, her skin was like Kuroko's. Sato quickly went over to the other girl and pulled herself down to her level.

"This my friends is Miyako Sato, we're twins!" Miyako had hazy blue hair and dark grayish lime eyes, she had the same skin colour as her twin. The expression she had was the same as Kuroko's, that meaning that she was a Kuudere. [1]

"But you two don't look alike."

"Oh, that's because we're fraternal twins, it has something to do with the egg and stuff so that we don't look identical." No one understood her so the other sister changed the subject.

"That signal from before was Yoshiko who put of a couple firecracker and turned on a megaphones siren, we were collaborating in getting you three out of there." Yoshiko let go of her sister and then went close up to Kise.

"Yeah, after all we're Yellow Man's bodyguards! Protecting him from the inside out!" Yoshiko was suddenly doing kung-fu and karate moves while saying all of that, Kise then wondered what she meant by that.

"Um, what do you mean 'protecting him from the inside out!'?"

Miyako then spoke up. "There's a secret group of stalkers within your fanbase and we thought it was a good idea to keep track of them so that you wouldn't be injured. This isn't our first time helping you however. Nearly every single time you've been out there's always someone there, someone we have to make sure doesn't lose their nerves. I operate inside the group while Yoshiko observes them from the outside, like distracting them or leading them, or better yet leading you and your friends away from the danger."

Kise seemed really surprised by all of this, he was also surprised why the Yoshiko is calling him Yellow Man.

"Thanks Sato-san and S-Sato-san."

"Please, call us by our first names."

"N-no no no no, I can't!"

"It's fine, I mean it's just confusing calling us Sato-san. Besides this won't be our first time meeting each other. Oh yeah that's right!"

Yoshiko once more went over to Momoi.

"Please Princess Peach, (yes it's a Mario reference) could you give me your autograph?"

Momoi still as confused as before responded with:

"I don't understand why you would want it in the first place."

Yoshiko stood up and yelled at her: "WHY WOULDN'T I?! YOU ARE THE BEST ANALYSTS IN THE COUNTRY! I BOTH ENVY AND ADMIRE YOUR TALENT! SO PL-EEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASEEEEEEEE couldIhaveyourautograph?!"

Yoshiko said all of this so fast that it took time for Momoi to process all of the information.

"Basically since we've also been stalking Kise-san we also know about his basketball club team, naturally, we also know about Momoi and her skills. Yoshiko REALLY admires her, that's why she's so ecstatic."

Miyako said it so bluntly, she put it in a way that it was the obvious thing in the world. She then turned to her sister and told her to go to Midorima's house (which wasn't that far away) with Momoi, obviously Aomine and Kise protested against leaving Momoi with a total stranger. They all agreed to go together, of course the twins were pestering the others with questions they couldn't get from observing them. Naturally they had questions of their one, one could only know what they know for secrets.

In the end the five of them became friends and had a pleasant conversation after all the questions. That was after Midorima came along and saw how everyone was a mess, as well as the very conspicuous girls with them. He didn't even bother to understand the situation and just left while ignoring their yells of them trying to call him back.

*Kuroko PoV* Same time

It's cold. Really cold. In fact, I'm freezing, grated that's what happens when you're lying with half your face on the icy floor. I probably will have a cold when I get out of here.

That is if I don't die before that happens, I really don't want to. But looking at the bright side, the cold air is sort of cooling my whip lashed wounds, punches and hand marks from my previous suffering.

I wonder what Aomine-kun's doing, he's probably playing a one-on-one with Kise-kun now if I know them right. Momoi-san's probably the referee, it's always me or her who's the referee. Perhaps they're thinking about me, usually I'd be hanging out with them. Especially with Aomine-kun.

I wonder if they miss me, I hope that they do. Ah, my entire body has gone numb. I hate the basement. Every time mother or father hurt me during any warm or warmish seasons they always put me down here, to catch a cold.

That way it won't look so suspicious that I have a lot of layers on me. Honestly though, I don't want to involve anyone into this. I would only bother them. I can see that they do care about me, and I'm grateful of that! However I don't want to be a hassle to them, they'd probably hate me then, after all, that's what mother and father told me.

And they never lie.

Even if they may hurt me, they still love me. If they didn't they wouldn't give me any advice, or scold me when I do something wrong. Truthfully though, I don't want to be in this ice-cold basement. I want to get out of here!

Huh, I'm surprisingly tired. How long have I been in here? It doesn't matter, I'm tired and I really want to go to sleep. I'll just take a quick nap, it's not like I'm going to die. Right?

Author's Note:

If you're wondering what the Sato twins look like here's a link to my deviantart with the

picture intact! art/Sato-Twins-650644118?ga_submit_new=10%253A1481467907

Also I imagine Midorima going like this when he saw the gang: .

[1] Kuudere: Someone who's cold and emotionless, they rarely open up to anyone, (especially about their feelings I.E. love.) They are the opposite of Tsunderes since they act cold and very angry when it comes to their feelings. They should be not confused with Danderes since they are shy while Kuuderes are a bit more on the cool quiet scale.

One more thing, has anyone seen Erased? Or as it's called Boku Dake ga Inai Machi. I like how our protagonist figure out how the first original case went down. Hmm. Did you guys know that you could freeze to death.

Kuroko Alone + Freezing Cold Room + Not Keeping Himself Warm + Going To Sleep = ...Death? Are you guys getting the picture? I'll just leave it up to your imagination. C ya!