Whats hidden behind the shadows

chapter 7

Chapter 7

The training camp ended without any difficulties. Although, the last 2 days Saito didn't reply to Kuroko's calls. He was a bit worried, but shrugged it off since Saito was gonna pick him up after camp so he could just ask then. Or he thought.

Kuroko waited for half an hour before deciding to give up and catch a bus, he was way more worried now.

As he got home he immediately dropped his bag in his room, noticing that Haru wasn't there. He walked to the door next to him and knocked on the door.

Ito opened the door in surprise "hey Kuroko, what do you want?"

"Is Saito-kun home?" Kuroko replied politely

"No he's on time out" ito said and then shut the door.

Kuroko was left in shock and knocked on the door again.

"O my god what do you want? I got a girl here you know" ito said irritated

"Why is Saito on time out?!" Kuroko asked in worry.

"He got in a fight with Haru, they're both on time out for a week, he comes back thursday. Now leave me alone!" And the door was shut again.

Kuroko was left alone with a weird feeling in his stomach, Time out was when someone misbehaved in a group home. He'll be send to a different type of group home, in a different city, and no phones allowed. It was basically like grounding but different.

He tried to shrug it off but he felt too curious, and maybe a bit guilty? What if it was his fault..

Kuroko entered his room again, he now saw that it was a mess again, then he saw the the picture's he hung up next to his bed were torn away. He raised an eyebrow at this but let it go, now he saw a shattered photo frame on the ground. He rushed to it and saw that it was the picture of him and his dad.

Back when he was alive, Kuroko and his father were inseperable, as you can see on the picture. He treasured all his father's stuff carefully, his dad framed this picture himself, and now it was shattered in pieces.

Kuroko tried to clean it carefully but he slipped and got a big shard of glass in his hand. The pain stung and he got blood on the picture, he quickly ran to the bathroom to clean up his wound, he was completely stressed out, everything was going wrong, he was panicking.

Picture was gone, and so was Saito and his dad. Great. Kuroko tried his best to calm down, he washed the blood off, bandaged it and then sat on the bathroom floor to calm down. He now realised he was clean for an entire week, he felt a bit proud. He always felt guilty when he relapsed, and he didn't want to relapse now.

Kuroko sat on the floor, eyes wide open and hugging his knees. He looked at everything that was in the bathroom, it was quite a mess considering that 8 boys from 14-19 were sharing it. He looked at the 3 in one gel from Ito, all the different hair care products of Haru and the body gel (that smelled bad but nobody wanted to say) it of Saito.

He then looked at the towels, some nearly hung up, some on the floor. He looked at the sink and the different tooth brushes, he always kept his own in his room since he didn't want anyone accidentally using it. He looked at the skin care products, it was still a mystery who's those are. Somebody one day put them there but never used it, maybe it was from one of the girls.

Kuroko sighed softly as he calmed down, Saito taught him this, to look and identify everything around him when he wanted to relapse. Kuroko calmed down at the thought that Saito will be back in 4 days, 4 days would not be super long. Kuroko stood up and walked away, going to clean the picture.

(the next day, at school)

Kuroko walked to his class, he had a bandaged hand, it was bandaged really messy. He walked in his class, he has maths with Midorima. He sat down and waited for the rest of the people to arrive, he read a book when he suddenly saw someone in front of him.

"Midorima-kun?"

"What happened to your hand? Not like I really care.." Midorima said while looking away.

"I got glass in it." Kuroko replied, looking right in his eyes.

"Who bandaged it so poorly?" Midorima said while taking the seat in front of him and turning it around. He sat down and grabbed kuroko's hand, he reached in his bag with the other.

"I did" kuroko said curiously.

"Well, you suck at bandaging. Here let me fix it" midorima said while bandaging kuroko's hand perfectly.

"There you go, I don't really care but you should take good care of yourself and your wounds." Midorima left to sit at his usual table.

Kuroko smiled softly as he looked at his hand, he threw away the old bandages that were now spread on his table.

A bit short oepsies