I do not own KnB. If I do, I would make Kuroko suffers.. Muahaha…
By the way, enjoy my new fanfic series since I always write about Inazuma Eleven, about soccer. This time it's gonna be basketball. Gosh, I 'm in love with a sport genre.

It is a usual practice of Seirin basketball club. Their coach, Aida Riko is focusing at their practice and shouting something about guarding and the offense. The practice match is between the first year and the second year.

Izuki pass the ball to Hyuga, their captain, "Nice pass, Izuki." He makes a position and ready to make a 3 pointer, "I'll make it in, no offense rookie." When he was about to shoot the ball, Kagami Taiga, runs towards him and jump like a wild tiger, "No you don't!"

Kagami catch the ball right after Hyuga trying to shoot it, "KUROKO!" he call his partner which is a bit far from them. Kagami pass the ball to that invisible boy, but Kuroko is spacing out and looking at another place. Kagami shout his name again, "KUROKO! THE BALL!"

Kuroko wake up from the dream, when he turns his head to Kagami, the ball already make it ways to his face.

THUD!

Kuroko sit at the bench with a towel covered with a blood coming from his nose. The members are worry, and Kagami walk in front of him, "What are you day-dreaming about, Kuroko?!". Kuroko just stare at Kagami, "You pass the ball too fast Kagami-kun. Lucky I didn't broke my nose." Kagami is twitch, " and whose fault do you think it is?! The hell are you doing when I was passed you the ball?"

"Kuroko, do you not feeling well? Your movement is kind of sloppy this few days. Are you okay?" Teppei asking him. As the founder of the club, and as the teammates, he really cares about the others especially Kagami and Kuroko. "I'm fine. I'm just tired." , say Kuroko as he trying to avoid eye contact with Teppei.

"Hmm… what are you doing, Kuroko?" ask Koganei, theie senior with a kitty mouth while he holding a ball. "I'm just not having enough sleep in this few days." Izuki comes forward and grab Kuroko's shoulder, "Not enough sleep? Did you watch a dirty videos or did you do something to Momoi-chan?" Then, someone grab Izuki's shoulder, " Izuki, don't taint that innocent boy with your dirty mind" Hyuga glare at him. "But captain, you're having a nosebleed too. Did you imagine Momoi-chan with her sexy pose?" Hyuga gulping, " O-of course not. I know her boobs can't be compared to our coach, and her sexiness isn't something we worried about and –"

THUMP!
"Did you say something about my appeal, Hyuga-kun?" a dark aura is around their coach, Aida Riko. She really hates it when the players compared her with Kuroko's girlfriend, Momoi (that's what they call Momoi, even though Kuroko keep explain that Momoi was his ex-manager.)

"Kuroko, are you okay?" ask Kagami. Kuroko look at Kagami. He knows that his duo partner is very worried about him, "Unn.. I'm fine. I'm just excited."

"Excited?"

"Well, I've got to play with Generations of Miracles and it against you guys, Seirin. I know it just a practice match against us, but I'm really excited to meet all of them once again." Kuroko is smiling. Kagami look at Kuroko's face. It's not a face of excited, but it was a face of fear. What are you hiding, Kuroko?

"Don't affect your plays Kuroko-kun. I've make an arrangement of our match. It will be on 5 days from now. Could you tell Akashi Seijurou?" the coach smiling while she stepped on Hyuga's back at the floor. "HYUUGA!" cried Izuki. "Unn.. I will tell him." Say Kuroko.

After their winning at Winter Cup, Seirin request a match from the Generation of Miracles. Akashi agreed and he said to informed him the date of the match. Seirin can't imagine how powerful were the Generation of Miracle. Only one of the players can make the opposite time lose and exhaust from the match, what if the whole players play as a team? "It's a worth match for the club" that's what coach said, but for the players; it's like they were gonna see hell.

The captain stand up and makes a command, "we got an extra practice tonight for a preparation for the Generation of Miracles match, I wonder if you all can join?"

"Huh? Of course we can!" "We will join" "Okay" all the members agree to join the extra practice.

"Yoosh! I'm ready! Let's increase our strength Kuroko!" Kagami is fired up. Kuroko raise his hand " Anoo… gomen.. I'll not join the extra practice."

Eh? UWEHHHHHHHH!

"HA?! Why Kuroko-kun?!" Aida Riko goes in front of his face and asking him. "Coach, you're too close. I got a part time job tonight."

"Part-time job?"

Eh? UWEEHHHHHH?!

"P-Part-time job? It's not something a student should do. You're still a student, Kuroko. Didn't you get your expenses from your parents?" ask Teppei.

Kuroko looks down at the floor, it's kind of hard for him to say, " Err.. unn.. but I don't want to burden my parents, so I thought that I should at least help them."

"D-Didn't your mother worried? She might tell you to finish your study before working – " Kuroko glare at Riko before she finished the sentences.

"My mother was gone from this world when I was 7." Kuruko tell her with a deep voice and it makes Riko terrified. She never thought that Kuroko might scare her like that. Kuroko notice that her coach was shocked and the others were in a silence. He stood up and takes his belongings. " I'll be going now. Thanks for everything." Kuroko nod a bit and leave the gym.

"K-Kuroko." Even Kagami is stoned. He couldn't react when he was told about Kuroko's mother. "I.. I shouldn't ask him that," Riko looks down. Her eyes are watery. "It's not your fault, it just we push him at a wrong time" says Hyuga while holding Riko to his chest. " But, having that kind of problems, it must be hard to Kuroko." Say Izuki.

XXX

Kuroko walks to the usual route to his home. He takes out his cell phone and call Akashi, his former Generation of Miracles's captain.

"Hello, Akashi-kun…"

"Ah.. hello Tetsuya. How are you?"

"Unn.. I'm fine. Akashi-kun, the match will be on 5 days from now. Could you tell the others?"

"Ah..okay. I will tell Shintaro to inform the others."

"Unn.."

A moments of silence. Akashi knows that something wrong with his phantom player.

"Tetsuya, are you okay?"

"Huh? I-I'm okay, Akashi-kun. Why?"

"Nothing.. You're not as usual you, that is… Don't overwork yourself, Tetsuya."

"I'm not -"

"If there is something wrong, please call me. I'll always be with you."

"Ah..unn…Thanks, Akashi-kun.. See you soon."

"Okay, see you later, Tetsuya."

He put off his phone. Before he was about to put it to his pocket, his phone is ringing. He pick it up and he could see a mail. He open it, his hand is trembling

From : Dad

Subject : -

Message : Oii brat. Buy me a beer before you back home.

"Dad…" Kuroko just look down at his cell phone. "When you come home, my life would be miserable. Why can't you just go away from my life?"

To : Dad

Subject : Re. –

Message : I don't have money and I'm still underage, dad.

He send it to his dad. A few seconds later his phone is ringing.

From : Dad

Subject : Re. Re. –

Message : I don't care you bastard. If you don't bring me the beer, I kill you.

Kuroko sighing. He takes out some money from his wallet, "I have to cut my expenses for this month."

XXX

"Kyaaa! Kise-sama.. Please go out with me.."

"Kise-sama…" "Kise-kun…" " Kise-sama.."

A blonde haired boy, Kise Ryouta held one of his fangirl's hands, "Did you know that you have a beautiful face, princess?" "Gyaaa! Kise-sama just called me princess!"

Kise is kind of annoyed, he got a photo shooting near the Seirin High School and he thought he could see Kuroko, but all the fangirls keep clinging to him. "Ah, mou… I want to see Kurokochi soon, I can't wait for the match. I want to see him now." That's what he thought in his heart.

Suddenly, he see someone with a light blue haired going into an old shop, he can't believe it, "K-Kurokochi?" he rub his eyes. Was it an illusion? Did he miss Kurokochi so much till it make he saw someone like Kurokochi. "Excuse me, girls. Could you give me a moment?"

Kise is running to the shop. Is it really Kurokochi? He peeks at the shop's transparent window. "Kurokochi?!" Really.. It's not a dream. It is really Kurokochi. But, what is he doing here? Kise look at the things he buy, A BEER? W-Wait, we can't buy beer because we were still underage right? B-But this shop's owner didn't care much. A BEER? What the heck Kurokochi? Since when you drink that?!

Kuroko is coming out from the shop. Kise quickly hide himself behind the shop's wall. He is still in a shock states. K-Kurokochi… he takes a peek. Kurokochi is heading home. He takes out his cellphone and calls someone.

"Osuuu…"

"AOMINECHHI! YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW! KUROKOCHI BUY A BEER! SINCE WHEN DID HE DRINK THAT? WHY THE OWNER LET HIM BUY THAT? AOMINECCHI!"

"Calm down Kise. I can't get it. What the hell are you talking about?"

"KUROKOCHI JUST BUY A BEER!"

Aomine's eyes are wide open, "WHAT?"

"Really.. He just headed home now. Since when Kurokochi can drink a beer?"

Aomine try to calm Kise. He know about it, a long time ago when he was still in Teiko,

"It's not him, Kise. It could be possibly one thing."

"Huh? It's not him?"

"His dad is coming back home. It's bad."

"Huh? What?! THAT BRUTAL DAD? He always hit Kurokochi, right?"

"Kise. Don't tell the others, especially Akashi. He might kill someone. Pretend that you never saw him. If Tetsu know that, he might be sad"

"Ah, but Aominechi, his dad might-"

" If we were trying to help him like we always do at the past, the one who will suffer the most of it was Tetsu."

"A-Aominechi…"

"Okay. Need to go now. Bye"

"Ahh! Aominechi!"

Aomine end their call. He looks at the orange sky, "Tetsu, hang in there." He lean his back at a one of the shop's wall, "Damn it. Where is Satsuki? I've been waiting her for ages."

"Mou, Aominechi! Don't cut it when I was talking." He put his cell phone to his pocket. With a soft voice, he talk to himself, "Kurokochi, like always, you never told them about it right?"

XXX

Kuroko is heading home. His face is emotionless. He is walking to the stairs to his house. It was a flat. It's not like he afford to rent any higher cost than that place. The entire flat looks old and only a few of the house can be rent, and the others, it's so old and no one wants to rent or buy the whole flat. He stops at the door-202. He looks around, not that he got any neighbours too. He was the only one rent the house of the second floor. He takes a key from his bag and opens the door,

"I'm back, dad."

His house was in a mess. He swear that he already tidy all things but his father will mess all that and trying to find something valuable to sell. His father is a gambler and a heavy drinker. Sometimes he would take a drug and woman. And of course, he didn't work and no place to live.

"Where the heck are you going you useless child?!"

"I'm buy you beer, dad. I'm going to work. Don't mess with my things again."

"Huh? Since when it become your things? Oy, give me your money."

"I don't have any money."

The answer is not satisfied his question. Kuroko is about to walk to his room. He comes closer to his son. When Kuroko is about to look at him, his dad choke his throat, "I said, give me your money, bastard."

Kuroko is out of oxygen, "Aaahhh…I-I don't have money"

Kuroko trying to get away from the big hand that choking him. His father hit him at the wall. A punch from his father just hit his jaw and his body. Kuroko can't fight him. He is so weak and can't do anything about it. He just lies with pain at the floor. He is coughing from the pains. His father takes his school's bag and throws everything out. His father takes his wallet which is fall from his bag, "huh? Only this little?" He check the bag again and he found an envelope hiding at edge of the bag, "Huh? What's this?" He takes the envelope and look inside of it, MONEY. Kuroko see that, he try to stand up, "No. It's my expenses for this month, I don't have anything. Please dad. Anything but not that. Please!" He cried at his father's leg.

His father is annoyed and kick his body , " Shut up, bastard. Haha.. Since when did you learn to hide this? What did you say? Expenses? Go to work bastard. Get a money and give me. Don't go to that damn school, go to work. Hear that?! Quit your stupid street ball or whatever it is. Haha!"

His father going out from the house with the money he took from Kuroko. Kuroko is still in pains, lying at the floor, he is holding his own body. His body and face full with bruise; his lip is bleeding. "It's not a stupid ball, it's a basketball." His tears flows to his cheek, he hug himself, "Mother, where are you. I miss you. I'm hurt. Dad always kicks me. Mother… Please come back"

Mother…

He cried out for his mother, even though he knows that his voice will never reach her.

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