Code 002: The hope of the new Star

"O-oi! Don't sleep here!

"Gomen, my eyes felt heavy..."

At Kagami's bewildered expression, the boy couldn't help but smile weakly as he felt his consciousness slips away. Darkness soon take over for the teal-head and the red-head was left hanging for his own devices, hanging his jaw down.

"Tch, he passed out."

Letting out a huff, Kagami assesses his surroundings, noting the unconscious bodies he had left behind earlier in the bloody mess he had plunge himself into. He just hoped that they make it through (well he is, after all, a good-natured guy too). Even though they did attacked him first, it's not enough reason to begrudge them for it.

He then heard a bark and turns to the source of it.

When he met those, eerily familiar, ice-blue orbs, Kagami flinched wildly and scoot away as far as he could but all of his efforts were thrown to vain. Those creepy similar shades of blue belong to the [odd] mutt with those hell-crazy mechanical tentacles.

"Arf!" It barked and Kagami blanched.

"A-a... a...are you saying that we must g-get him to a safe place?"

"Arf!"

"Tch, Fine!"

Arranging the bundle in his arms, Kagami, hesitantly, beckons the [dog] to follow him.

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Aida Riko was smiling.

Kagami knows it's bad news if his teenage "girl" coach is in her full blown cheerful grin. Everyone knows of that, and Kagami couldn't help but sweat cold buckets of ice as he think of an excuse as to what happened and what took him so long.

"Etto... Coa-"

"Good job, Kagami-kun!"

"Ehh?!"

Kagami was bewildered. What 'job' has she meant? He failed to pick the new basketballs according to his errand, more so he had returned late and was looking like a mess bundled together with a stranger on tow and a damn dog tailing them, so what's good does the girl in front of him was implying?

"You've successfully retrieved the [basketballs]."

'Eh?'

The coach smirked and directed her face to the sleeping boy in his arms, and Kagami instantly knew something was definitely off.

"Do you know of him Coach?" he asked and all he got was a knowing smile, unlike the previous one, as she signaled him to follow her, the mutt too.

They entered the Seirin's gymnasium and quickly enter a door Kagami never once noticed. Said door led into multiple corridors and hallways alike, and for once he wished that he should pay more attention to his surroundings as to avoid getting lost or getting tangled again in a sort of crap like earlier.

When they arrived in the last corridor, Coach Aida turns to him and whispers in a serious tone.

"No matter what, what you see, hear not learn must never be known to others, got it?"

Kagami could only nod as she once again look forward and resumed walking. He has no qualms about that as he can sense a cold foreboding coming from the demeanor of her voice. So after making sure that Kuroko was comfortable in his current position, Kagami continued to follow Aida's lead.

Finally they arrived at a simple oak door, and the girl knocks, once, then twice.

The door swung open only to reveal a sour-faced Hyuuga-senpai.

"How did it go?"

"Can't you see?"

Aida pointed at Kagami and the sleeping boy in his arms with her thumb. She seems irritated for some reason, Kagami thought.

Hyuuga, their basketball team's captain, gives him a look and lets out a huff.

"Are you sure you are not tailed?"

'Eh? Tailed?'

Kagami ponders for a moment. Confused. Tailed by whom? By those white-guys? How did Hyuuga-senpai know that?

"Idiot! Don't spew it here! Kagami-kun, hurry up and go inside!" Aida smacked Hyuuga's head and orders around in which the two boys can't help but shudder and quickly enter the room.

Aida checked the doorstep before entering too. Once settled, she told Kagami to lay the unconscious Kuroko in an unoccupied bench in which he complied to. Later he would get his answers, promised her.

Then the next thing she did made him jump from where he stood.

Like what happen to the dog earlier, Aida, once situating in front of the teal-head close her eyes then opened it again. After that, her once brown irises turned into nothingness as the whites spread leaving the pupil black. As if opening a mechanical lock, the onyx pupil rotates, gradually growing engulfing the whites.

[ACTIVATING ANALYSIS CODE: Begin]

Matrix code started running in the hollow orbs as she kneeled down to face the slumbering bluenette.

[Subject has acquired two gunshots near the viscera; no further damage in the region. AFFIRMATIVE: no hemorrhage damage detected.]

Aida spoke in a monotone voice, which makes Kagami wonders of what Aida might truly be.

She then turns to him, no, the [mutt] near his legs.

[Connecting to Code #2; assessing data.]

As if mimicking Aida's actions, the dog's eyes repeat the sequence earlier.

[Data Accepted: Code #2 SLEEP MODE]

And the dog just did that.

Aida stood up and brushes some unseen dirt in her Seirin uniform and face Kagami who was gaping like a fish out of water and Hyuuga who looks nonchalant.

"You [synched] with him did you?"

That term, he had heard of that once. At the time when...

"E-eh? How did you know of that Coach?! Are you one of those [white-coat army]?!"

Kagami sputtered not noticing the amused and offended looks from Aida and Hyuuga respectively.

"D'aho! Do you think we'll be one of those jerks? Ha! In their dreams!"

"Hyuuga is right. We want nothing to do with them... if only we can." Aida sighed.

Okay, that really confused Kagami.

"So uhh, C-coach, what is that exactly? Who is that guy? And most importantly, WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ALL OF THIS?!"

The two seniors in his front share a look at his hysterical exclamation.

Coach Aida was about to snswer when the seemingky sleeping bluenette chose to stir and turn, and in their wake, opens up hus clear sky-blue eyes.

"Ohayou."

The boy casually addresses the gaping Kagami and the perplexed teens behind him, catching the gaze of the only girl in the room, focusing in the one question that came into his mind once their eyes met.

"Are you [SUBJECT 00C-2]?"

"Good Morning to you too, actually it's already [15:16] by now and yes that is me, Subject 0011-15, neo-carrier of the eve gene, Kuroko Tetsuya."

The brunette girl replied together with a playful bow. Hyuuga's scowl pressed into a tight line by the time and Kagami... well...

"Wait, wait, wait, wait! You knew each other?!"

"No." "Not at all."

Kuroko and Aida said at the same time. The latter keeping his stone-face facade while the other smiling, one in which Kagami translates as; you dare question me, hell hath no fury.

Kagami began to sweat and he gulped. Angering one [devil coach] is one of the deadly sins in the basketball world after all.

He was saved when the bespectacled captain of Seirin clears his throat, effectively catching their attention...

"Just shut up for once Kagami! We know you are confused and all but you just heard Riko, you would soon get your answers!"

... or not.

"B-but! The heck is what Coach just did?! Is she like this shrimp?!" Kagami spouted, with Kuroko muttering a, "I'm not a shrimp." in the background.

Hyuuga and Aida stare at each other carefully, and after a few seconds of silence, the brunette girl looks at him in the eyes.

"I should explain everything once everyone is here..."

"Bu-!"

Kagami shouted but was cut off when Aida held up a hand and gives him an evil stare.

"... do remember my words earlier Ka-ga-mi-kun. Knowledge is both a gift an a [curse]. Once you got it, there's no backing down, it's either in your death or a tragic cliche amnesia that you can revoke it. I'm asking you this only question, Are you ready for the consequences?"

"The hell... I'm already this deep and I'd be damned if I back down after this all, besides..."

Kagami looks and jerks a thumb at Kuroko.

"I've already synched with this guy right? I'm pretty much involved already."

The girl in his front looks awfully shocked as well the boy besides her.

"Wha- what?!"

"I don't know Kagami-kun can think like that, so serious I can't actually believe it."

"Me too, hey Riko, does this [synching] thing have something to do with this?"

"No,. Glasses-san."

Kuroko, after being silent for a moment answers Hyuuga instead of Aida, then turns to Kagami, sparkles in his eyes.

"Of course! What do you think I am?! A no-brain basketball idiot?!" And what was that for?

Kagami sputtered, cheeks dusted in a pink shade from his embarrassment (frustration).

Aida clears her throat.

"So you're asking about [us] right?"

Kagani, forgetting the earlier predicament nodded while Aida took one look at Kuroko and spoke in a clear tone.

"We, the Seirin basketball club's seniors, are what made up the [RESISTANCE]. Organization of Liberation dedicated to fight the current government. Home of the weak and refuge for the [Voids] seeking for freedom."

Shock was an understatement if one were to notice Kagami's reaction to that. True, there may be conflict within Japan's government but Seirin? Having a resistance group? The heck.

"Hey, there's more to it, don't be carried away!" Hyuuga annoyingly remarked, leaning on the doorway. He must have noticed his reaction, Kagami thinks. What Aida had detailed onto him has a certain ring into it, until one word completely caught his attention.

"Voids? You mean... people like Kuroko?" he gulped looking at the said boy who has a downcasted expression and Kagami can't stop wondering about the wound inflicted upon the smaller boy, it wasn't that dangerous if he can withstand it, right?

"Yes, and you know what? I'm one too, a [fugitive] to be exact..."

With a feral grin, Aida stares at Kagami and he knew in that instant, the life he knew will never be the same because fate is a big bully and it will never allow him to ever live peacefully from now on.

"... we're beings created for the [fall of mankind]."

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[Earlier]

He watches in a safe distance as the red- head took his [precious] out of his sight in an enclosed building.

A teal blue crystalline dagger was twirling dangerously in his right hand. Two amber eyes twitch in anger as he realized his mistake for not acting fast when he knew something was amiss at the Teikou laboratory. Well past is past and now he'll just have to make do.

"I'll get you back..."

Whispering he started to move.

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A/N: Yea, two months not updating. Very good just very good. Well school sucks but still it felt good if all your hard work pays up even more so if you top the class whohoo~

Anyways~ what do you think; can I take the path to KurokoXHarem or just one pairing?

Okay with that, See you next update~

Lovelots~

NishikaYui