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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      Kuroko_no_Basuke_|_Kuroko's_Basketball
  Relationship:
      Aomine_Daiki/Kagami_Taiga
  Character:
      Aomine_Daiki, Kagami_Taiga, Kuroko_Tetsuya, Kiseki_no_Sedai_|_Generation
      of_Miracles
  Additional Tags:
      Romance, Angst, Drama, Fluff, Smut, WISH_-_Clamp_is_mentioned, Kokuyo_x
      Hisui_mentioned, Violence, Family_Drama
  Stats:
      Published: 2016-04-06 Updated: 2016-04-12 Chapters: 2/? Words: 3125
****** I.C.U - Nameless Love Song Of Golden Flowers on Emerald Grass ******
by gungidino
Summary
     Frozen Ice
     .
     Deep Blue Sea
     .
     Memories of You
     .
     "Why did the demon do that ?"
     .
     "Because it is a custom in his world"
Notes
     Disclaimer: I do not own Kuroko no Basuke and the characters, plus,
     the original stories (the prequel) belongs to FlyAndDontLookBack
     I was haunted by 2 Angst AoKaga fic of FlyAndDontLookBack. No,
     serious, I was haunted. So I don't know if I should kiss
     FlyAndDontLookBack for the incredible fics or should I punch
     FlyAndDontLookBack in the face ... before reading those 2, I swore
     that Three Steps Backward and Behind Those Closed Door are my limit
     of Angst. Yet again, I was lured, I was (somehow) seduced, ... and I
     paid the price ... and I even felt the sinful bliss ... of an M ... I
     cried a lot ... it's like an SM play in an SM room for me ... the
     blissful pain ... if you guys know what I mean
     And what makes it more ... pitiful of me ... was I was listening to a
     very *dot dot dot* Vietnamese song that has been covered and
     translated into Japanese while reading 2 Angst fics of
     FlyAndDontLookBack ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZiNVJaPbU
     It is the worst and the most stupid thing I've ever done in my whole
     life ... Yet ironically, I was inspired to write this Sequel
     Thank you FlyAndDontLookBack, a million hearts to you
  This work was inspired by
      I_See_You by FlyAndDontLookBack
***** Prologue *****
Your eyes, the contradiction between beauty and roughness, are frozen crystal
ice behind a forbidden secret door in my heart that nobody is allowed to knock
.
Far longer than forever, my love for you is boundless, not even the deep blue
sea can compete
.
As memories of you, is carved and imprinted on 'me'
.
My everything
.
You are mine
.
I am yours
.
For better or worse
***** Day 1: The Lass *****
Sunlight pierced through the curtain and landed softly on his skin, white duvet
tickled each millimeters of flesh. Darkness was there but it didn’t affect him
much, his alarm went off as he reached out, feeling his way on the bedside
table to turn the thing off. Then his cell phone rang.
“Hello ?”, he picked up to press the green button’s position he remembered
“Good morning, Kagami-kun, are you awake ?”. A flat voice asked. “I believe I
am calling at the right time”
Taiga smiled, “You called after one second my alarm sound was turned off”, he
seemed a bit sleepy. Kagami massaged the skins that covered his used-to-exist
functioned orbs, now just white irises, to rub out the tiredness in the morning
and yawned. “Where are you ?”
“In Toronto, and preparing to head for the airport. Anyway, Aomine-kun wants to
talk to you, I’ll let him on the phone”
“Okay”, he dazingly replied, his mouth curved a light line.
There was a rustling sound before Taiga heard the voice he want to hear,
“Morning, sleepy head. Or should I say Bakagami”. It was husky and endearing as
always.
“Hmph ! Never can be nice for your life once, Ahomine. Hey there, big kitty”.
Taiga couldn’t help but teased the other.
Daiki just groaned and scowled at the same time yet without any heat, “That’s
not my favored nickname, you know” and earned a sweet honey chuckle to his
ears, “You mean one of the monikers ?” Taiga asked
It had been seven years since the incident happened, they were separated for
five years long during that time. After coming back to Japan, Taiga, together
with Daiki decided to stay at Kuroko’s condo, they had had great times
together, together hand in hand, walking through the neighborhood and places
despite Daiki’s practice schedule and paper works at university. What Taiga
didn’t expect was the tanned male spent 3 months convincing his parents to let
him start his life, along with basketball career, with his lover in LA
 
“I really don’t mind staying in Japan”, Taiga said
“It’ll take too long, I can’t wait”, the tanned male returned to keeping tracks
of the list of necessities for his upcoming plan.
“Great gifts come to the patient ones”
“I don’t need great gifts, I want the greatest gifts and I’m gonna goddamn get
them on my own”
“So you don’t like my gifts”, Taiga deadpanned. “Are you gonna give me some ?”,
asked the tanned male, looking quite hopeful. Taiga furrowed his eye-brows,
“Daiki ?”, he hesitantly reached his hands out. The bluenette somehow got the
idea and leaned forward, his head touched Taiga’s hands. And a smack of century
happened to Daiki.
“Ow ~ !!! What was that for ??? Damn it, Bakagami !”
“Shut up, Ahomine. You know why you deserve it”, Taiga shook his head.
Taiga went silence for a moment, knowing too well why the person in front of
him was so promptly taking his chance to go to the States. “You know … I can
assure with your ability, the National team will immediately let you in the
first string to compete overseas, Daiki. We can stay here, in your familiar
environment, me and Kuroko can continue to live normally, it’s not like we
haven’t lived here before, and you can pursue what you want without staying far
from your family … The promise we’ve made doesn’t mention that you have to be
an NBA success”
A halt, looking up as Daiki simply caressed someone sitting right there besides
him into a hug and rested his chin on soft burgundy hair, slightly inhaled;
Taiga’s face lingered in the blue haired male’s nape and he took in the musky
scent of cologne, a bit spicy citrus and undeniable soothing lavender, his
eyes’ muscle relaxed as Daiki’s voice lulled his ears to a dazing comfort,
Taiga’s arms wrapped gently yet firm around his lover. “I know. But this is
what I want to do” came the determined answer from Daiki, using fingers drawing
circles on Taiga’s back, his other hand playing with the redhead’s hair, “You
told me to use your eyes well, and you trust me. So keep trusting me, Taiga”.
Not this time, never in this universe’s wildest dream would he let Taiga
sacrifice another time for him, he’d be damned to allow the same thing happen
again. Daiki bet his life on that.
Kuroko then scared the living hell out of them by cheering with a monotone
voice that had hidden enthusiasm, agreeing with his former light’s decision. A
week later, Alexandra Garcia flew to Japan with a surprised company to help all
three of them packing for their stuffs.
More surprisingly, turned out Daiki was not the only one wanting to continue
and develop the basketball career out of Japan at all. Midorima Shintarou,
Takao Kazunari, Murasakibara Atsushi, Hayama Kotaro, Hanamiya Makoto (this left
the couple in extreme dumbfounded) and last but not least, an obvious Himuro
Tatsuya were the official players, or Alex’s pupils getting training for
professional tournaments and the golden goal dreamed by every basketball
players, the NBA Championship. The Aidas were extremely thrilled with Touou
Ace’s idea, so was Momoi Satsuki, Daiki’s childhood friend with sister
separated at birth as she eagerly wanted to be the manager along with Riko for
the team.
Taiga didn’t know why but he was undoubtedly suspicious about his mentor’s
purpose when she gave the group another goddamn crazy announcement that not
only Japanese ex-member of National team Aida Kagetora was participating in the
co-training process of her dream team, Harasawa Katsunori would be a great
support their journey, she had dragged the coach of Touou Academy to the
gathering destination. Taiga nearly threw his cane at Alex if Himuro was not
there to calm him down. Although, no one could blame the redhead’s reaction
towards the news since ever coming here, asides from assembling ‘stray puppies’
to transform them into ‘majestic hounds’ (Midorima’s vein throbbed on his
forehead, Hanamiya’s fists turned white, yet Hayama and Takao just laughed it
off, Murasakibara was too fascinated with his popsicle to even concern), the
glorious WNBA player had been flirting with the Touou’s coach; not to mention
the way both of them interact made everybody broke into cold sweats, Daiki had
to excuse himself and hastily pulled Taiga’s arm and headed for the exit to go
get some fresh air outside whenever Alex and coach Harasawa began their hot and
cold interacting.
The whole crew started their flight to the States a week after, here they
jumped into training and practicing games at Alex’s district; what’s more, like
Taiga and Himuro used to learn, Alex threw each of them sheep in the middle of
wolves to steel themselves, then she put them together and survive through
every street tournaments. Two bucks every one-on-one, ten bucks a match to 30,
five grands in cash each tournament. It had gone for a year, with a help in
funding and making investment on the team from Akashi Seijuuro, who now the
President of the Akashi Group, and then they made their debut in the basketball
world, became the first exceptional rookie team to participate in the NBA
Playoffs
 
“I hate them. And why do basketball players have to have their monikers ? We
ain’t MMA fighters !” Daiki said annoyingly.
Taiga snickered while listening to his lover’s childishness, he probably was
pouting. “Deal with it, Panther. That’s how public media works here”
“Not again with the Panther thing, Taiga. For once I am not an animal, I’m a
human being”, Taiga heard the other groaned
“Really now …” Taiga asked rhetorically “… like how you appeared on your
challenge with the Clippers, threatened them with your killing aura and
terrified them while warming up by arrogantly provoked their power forward to
play a ‘friendly’ one-on-one with you? I swear to God, Daiki, your personality
is a dick towards others, you’re gonna get into troubles in the long run if not
short, and you’re such a jerk to scoff with sarcasm and walked away like that
after totally smashed the guy” Taiga added, “And what’s with the score ? Were
you trying to get us in deep shit ?”
“Oi, don’t blame me. It was blonde mama’s idea”
Daiki internally mused over the memory.
It was on a chilly day in September last year, the team was having their
training camping by the sea, and coincidently they met some basketball players
who were also there practicing to fully prepare for their next game. Daiki
didn’t even bother to listen to Takao’s rambling about whether they were
members of Los Angeles Clippers or not, if they were one of the competitors in
the tournament, he would crashed them anyway, until he caught on their words
about his team, Alex’s team.
A basketball team whose coach was a woman.
A basketball team that only had weak dwarves and one giant pig.
Was that even a team ? Or a bunch of bitches and little runts ?
It was a wonder Alex could keep a straight face not caring anything they were
bad-mouthing, though it was an absolute mistake if the team thought Daiki would
peacefully settled by writing down in the memo to pay those goddamn punks a
visit later in the near future.
Their coach was a woman, but an ex-WNBA player.
Weak or strong, everything would be decided on court.
This wouldn’t be a team if the sport they chose to pursue was a single player
one.
Aomine Daiki strutted with his almighty towards one of them, his hand elegantly
shifted the ball and launched it breezed over one of the player’s face, leaving
a scratch of cut as the victim stared horridly at the tanned male, the blue
head’s eyes fired with bloodthirst and challenged them for a one-on-three. Of
course, it was a perfect touchdown with the advantage for Daiki. Furthermore,
Alex smirked eagerly to the point all of LA Clippers members eventually
gathered more crowdedly since the commotion they were making, this situation
also meant journalists hiding somewhere near the area to squeeze some fresh
juice, she couldn’t calm down from the adrenaline rush that currently racing
through her body. Let’s do some good deeds for everyone, she thought. With a
sharp pointed look, the blonde woman flicked her finger at Clippers' coach,
proudly demanded a revenge match between them, the losing team had to make an
official public apology to the winners, and made up for them by donating half
of their winning money to a charity organization.
Taiga spitted his water out and choked himself a bit when he heard the news. As
a result, the red haired male couldn’t sleep for days before his lover figured
out a solution to make him less worried and get distracted. For Alex, she was
chewed out by him for a continuing three days. Taiga never doubted his mentor’s
coaching, she carried great responsibility and she damn well could handle it,
but usually she just felt the irresistible merciless intention to riled up some
troubles then gone for good, leaving him and Tatsuya struggling to get over the
hard times. For both of them, they were Alex’s pupils for quite a time, they
had been through all of it, it wouldn’t hurt them much now as it had been back
then; still, Daiki and the other were a different case. No one could persuade
Taiga to cope up with the revenge match until Daiki decided to lured him into
hot, intimated morning make-outs and slow, sensual sex at weekends.
Then came the hot news all over the media, Alexandra Garcia’s biggest legacy
for the basketball industry and the debut of her comeback, the LASS – Lady
Alexandra’s Shiva Slayers. The team name was also a sensitive subject to
mention, it sounds great at first, but when people decided to speak it short …
well, even Taiga’s blood pressure rose again, and he was definitely positive
that Alex did it on purpose. Yet the team had no choice but to accept it.
They perfectly won with the score of 120 – 20. It had caused an uproar and
inflamed every single basketball team in the States with hunger of playing
against the ‘miracle’ rookie; according to the media, it seemed like Alex’s
rookie did let their opponents run wild and do nothing for the first quarter
yet tried to keep them down at 20 points, and then began the second quarter to
the fourth, the Clippers couldn’t make any more points for the team. A cold
bucket of water to Los Angeles Clippers’ face. Alex later decided to leak some
profiles about her boys, as a result, amazing records and backgrounds while
they were in Japan were dig up and thoroughly looked over, Generation of
Miracle, 17-year-old high schoolers slam dunked the Jabberwock with 1 point
gap, the longest three point shot, etc . In one month, they got invited for
fifteen or sixteen practice matches. The whole league was on fire.
Daiki clicked his tongue, “Tch ! Those bastards deserved it. And I played nice
with the Warriors, so how’s that make me a dick ?”
Taiga quirked his eye-brows though knew that Daiki couldn’t see it, “Correct me
if I’m wrong but I think Steve Kerr and Rick Welts do have a big part in the
reason why you tried to be 10 times less handful than normal”
“… Well, you know… ”, Daiki hesitated.
“Yes, Daiki ?”, Taiga smirked, knowing too well what that voice implied., too
many meaning behind that attitude. It’s fun when he could swing around and play
with this full of oneself boyfriend’s mind.
“If they don’t act like an ass toward us, there’ll be no reason why I should be
a prick to them”, Daiki tried to state nonchalantly. Taiga couldn’t help but
giggled, “Aho, you shouldn’t care too much about what the other said. And
where’s your ‘Who cares about what you think’ stuff ? These are times when you
should fully make a good use of that unbearable attitude, Ahomine”
“Shut up, Bakagami”, Taiga could imagined Daiki picking his ears with the
little finger, “There are exceptions I don’t compromise with”
It was a great relief for Taiga. The redhead used to fear that after the
incident and five freaking years would change the way Daiki treat him, being a
worrywart and all, didn’t dare to have daily spats like they used to, had
verbal brawling and fighting each other over ridiculous minor stuffs. Turned
out they were fine. They still remained unchanged. And he was happy, the
content bliss they have satisfied both of them
“Aomine-kun, it’s time, we have to go or else we’ll miss the flight”, Kuroko
suddenly chirped in flatly, poked Daiki on his side.
“Oww oww !!! That hurts, Tetsu. God, you’re a shit sometimes”, Kuroko’s eyes
flashed a gleam, his fingers threatening to send throbbing pain again as they
were one second from interacting with Daiki’s clothes, “Okay, okay, I got it.
Stop it. No more. I’m serious. Hey ! Shit !!! That’s really hurt, man !!!”,
Daiki shivered from the last brief experience. Taiga on the other line tried to
muffle his laugh. “Alright jackass, if you keep laughing, you’re gonna regret
when I get back”
“Ooh ~ I’m scared now ~”, Taiga spoke fondly. “Go to the guys, I’ll talk to you
later, yeah ?”
“Fine, see you in 5 or 6 hours. I don’t know, depends on the check-in process”.
Taiga just sighed, “Go”
Taiga hung up his phone when there was a knock on the door to his room, “Kagami
? You’re awake ?”. A light brown head popped in, “Breakfast is ready. Need me
guide you to the bathroom ?”, the figure playfully said
Taiga smiled, “I’m in your hand, Kiyoshi-sempai”
The surprised company Alex dragged along was Kiyoshi Teppei, his senior. He and
Kuroko graduated in the same major, physical therapy, only Kuroko had a minor
degree in vision therapy to help Taiga while Kiyoshi managed to get one in
psychology. The support Kiyoshi offered lessened the pressure and worry about
Taiga for Kuroko when he was away with the team to some matches, Kuroko and
Kiyoshi had taken turn looking after Taiga since then.
Kiyoshi leaded him to a white wooden door, the elder male tapped lightly on the
surface to let Taiga know how close he was; Kiyoshi continued to move inside
the bathroom and used significant sounds to help Taiga distinguish and imagine
the objects all over the place.
The mansion they were living in was bought by Akashi, spacious rooms and
relaxing areas, modern in classic (typically the Akashi’s taste), fresh green
trees and flowers and massive windows and doors etc. In short, it was the house
of dream and they could not ask for more, enough for the whole team and their
managers and coaches to stay and live without worry, though it was highly
recommended not to be alone in the hallways at night (everybody freaked out
when Kuroko said this and curfew was an unspoken regulation that could never be
violated).
“Kenggg kenggg~”, came the bell ringing sound to Kagami’s ears, Kiyoshi said
“This is the fork,” Kagami received the metal thing, “the pancake is right in
front of you”, Kiyoshi gently pushed a hot cup to the right side, ten
centimeters away from the plate “And your morning coffee is still burning hot
so let it cool down before even touch it”
“Thank you for the meal, Teppei-san”, Kagami made his gratitude. “You’re
welcome”, and the brown haired male dug into his own breakfast. “When will they
be back ?”, Kiyoshi asked as he tasted the raspberry jam
“I think they’ve just arrived at the airport by now, half an hour to check in
and another check out, an almost 6 hour flight, one hour to be at home, I’d say
we’d see them at one or two”, Kagami answered
“Our market shopping should take approximately around one hour. We can buy and
make those guys’ favorite after the morning exercises”, Kiyoshi spin his fork
playfully, “That ganguro of yours will chew me out if I don’t fulfill his
notes”
Kagami chuckled, “Don’t mind him, and it sounds like a good plan”
Kiyoshi followed with an awkward smile, “Please tell me the recipe detailed
this time, or the team would never let me near the kitchen again. And you know
I’m not Momoi or Riko”
Kagami smiled, “I know”
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