First timer. Go easy on me. YAOI. BOY X BOY. Please don't read if you dislike this genre.

Disclaimer: I don't own KnB.

Chapter 1

Kuroko Tetsuya walked through the hallway towards the Art Faculty project room. This was the second time he came to the project room in his college mainly because he was not a student of Art, no, he was just a part-time model there. He thought back to the reason why he agreed to become a part-time model. Well, it all started when his friend or considerably best friend commented him.

~Flashback~

"How come you still haven't gotten yourself a girlfriend or maybe boyfriend yet?" Kagami Taiga asked. Their lectured ended the same time that day so they decided to drop by the Maji Burger to eat dinner before going home. They were walking through the hallway in their campus before Kagami blurted the question out.

Kuroko stared at his friend with his usual stoic face. He didn't saw that coming so the words that escape his mouth were only, "Why?"

Kagami stopped in his track, "Why, you asked? Well…" He looked at Kuroko with a somewhat worried expression and scratch his head before saying, "…you're already 19 years old."

"I'm still young," Kuroko stated.

"No, it's not that! I mean we'll be leaving college after one and a half year if we were to count this year. Alex told me that once we entered the world of adult, we have little time to search for our partner save for the person who had one," Kagami said. "Also, your lack of presence isn't helping! It's a huge disadvantage if you want to find yourselves a partner."

Kuroko gave a smile at this. He now knew how sincerely worried Kagami were about him. Before he could give his reply, two students walked past them. One of them bumped into Kuroko sending him stumbling forward. Kagami steadied Kuroko by firmly holding his friend's shoulder before shouting angrily at the two students, "Oi! Watch where you're going!"

The two students started to panic. They bow and apologized before running away for their lives. Kagami huffed at them and diverted his gaze back to Kuroko. "Now, see what I mean?"

Kuroko got his footing back before muttering, "Thanks," and said, "But, it's not really my fault if they didn't see me. I'm particularly invisible in everyone eyes."

"Hmph. You're right. If only there's something that could make people notice you…" Kagami trailed off when his eyes caught something in the advertisement board. He stepped forward and yanked the paper that had caught his attention before saying, "This is it!"

There is currently a question marked on top of Kuroko's head as he tried to figure out what his friend had found to be a solution for the unnoticeable him. As he tried to inched closer to Kagami, Kagami flung the paper he was holding to Kuroko's face as his grinned a victorious grin.

Kuroko took the paper from Kagami and got even more confused when he read them, "Part-time model for fine art for the Art Faculty student's project?"

"Yeah! With this, there's no way the people won't look at you! Besides you'll earn some pocket money, plus some point in extracurricular activities and you might also make some new friends. What's there to lose?" Kagami beamed.

Kuroko contemplated the information for a second. It sounded ridiculous at first and he still thinks it as ridiculous now but extracurricular points plus extra pocket money didn't make it sound so bad. His usual emotionless face might make him suitable for the job. He took a glance towards his friend. Kagami looked like he's ready to burst into one angry fit if Kuroko even muttered something as close to 'no'. Truthfully, Kuroko really didn't plan on saying 'no', he considered a 'perhaps' but seeing that he might lessen his friend worried over him if he were to agree, he said, "Yes, I'll try that."

Kagami breathed a sighed of relief and said, "Well, you better tell the Art Lecturer about this tomorrow. Now that this have settled let's go grab some dinner and go home. As a reward for you agreeing to take this job, I'll treat you a cup of vanilla milkshake," as he started to walk again.

At this, Kuroko eyes glittered and he began walking faster to catch up to Kagami's long strides. He said, "Why don't you make it two cups?"

Kagami snorted and said, "Don't push your luck," as he saw Kuroko pouted he added, "Perhaps when you actually got yourself hooked up on someone," with a sly grin.

~End of flashback~

Kuroko smiled as he approached the Art Project room. The first time he came here, he had surprised the entire art student by his lack of presence. They didn't notice him until he spoke to introduce himself. Before, he had surprised the Art Lecturer by suddenly standing next to him and greeted him. The lecturer said that nobody would like to take the job because it was required for the model to sit still for a long time and when Kuroko told him that he didn't particularly minded, the lecturer beamed with happiness and told him he can come by in the evening as not to clash with his class.

If there were any regret for Kuroko in agreeing to take this job, which was close to none, there's still one thing that particularly bothered him. He opened the door to the project room. When nobody seemed to notice him, he walked to the center of the room and sat on the chair for the model to use. He was trying to adjust his sitting positioned as the same as the first time he came here when a girl, a poor soul who was just trying to fix the angle of her canvas, looked up at where he was and screamed in surprised. All of the students inside the room became alarmed and got up from their seat. When they noticed Kuroko, most of them got startled and a few of the student sighed.

"Calm down you guys, it's just Kuroko," Hyuuga, a senior who was assigned in overseeing the junior while they worked on the project tried to calm down the uproar in the room.

"Kuroko-kun, when did you get here?" one of the student asked after the situation had calmed down a bit.

"I've been here for awhile now," Kuroko told them matter-of-factly.

Hyuuga sighed at this and said, "Next time please do tell us that you're there. Someone is really to get a heart attack one of these days."

Kuroko nodded and said, "I'll be careful next time."

The students have beginning to ready themselves to start drawing when Kuroko noticed a figure at the corner of his eyes. The figure seemed unfazed by the commotion as he had already noticed Kuroko since he entered the room. Kuroko didn't know how he knew that this person knew he was there. He fought back the urged to make eye contact with the person, because he knew that person was watching him, but he couldn't resist as he stared back.

He regretted his action because when his blue eyes made contact with a paired of red and golden eyes, he started feeling weird. Perhaps it was the intense gaze that person was giving him or his radiating aura that held superiority. Either way, Kuroko had noticed this feeling since the first time he came here. Almost as if a person had opened a can of soda inside his stomach and reached for his chest. This was the thing that bothered him the most.

End. For now...