Yellow Diamonds [AkaKuro Fanfiction]

Chapter 6

Thank you for all the comments, votes, adds, and reads! I only edited this chapter once, because I'm too excited to write the chapters next to this. lol

Disclaimer: I do not own Kuroko no Basuke. Fujimaki Tadatoshi-sensei owns it. The only thing I own is this story.

I do not own the cover photo either. Credits go to their respective owners.

Warning: Grammatical errors, limited vocabulary, unbetaed. Prepare your hearts. :3

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Kise noticed the dragged glance Akashi was sending to the direction the bluenette was taken away. "Ohh~ Ogino-kun, are you interested in Kurokocchi?" The blonde bartender had a knowing grin plastered on his face as he impishly asked.

Kurokocchi was long gone and Akashi had lost the opportunity to question him. Well, there was still Kise who he can ask about the said person. From the looks of it, the bartender was stupid enough to not suspect him after almost mentioning the name "Ogiwara." "Maybe, I am," Akashi replied with a pleasant, indicative smile.

"I knew it! Isn't Kurokocchi adorable?" Kise's eyes were glimmering with annoying fondness for the bluenette.

Akashi hated the look, but he needed to know everything he could about the bluenette. He can't let the first clue slip his grasp for a second time.

That isn't how he works. That isn't how an Akashi works.

"He's the most adorable person ever, don't you think?" Kise continued rambling on. "This place, honestly, doesn't suit him. Kurokocchi's too kind, you know? He's just... surrounded with the wrong people," the bartender's expression turned gloomy as he spoke. He was wiping a new cocktail glass with a clean cloth, waiting for the next customer he will serve. "Since Ogiwaracchi passed away, Kurokocchi's been busy with a lot of customers. Good thing, Kagamicchi's still here, but..."

Akashi thought he has seen a pair of dog ears fold in dejection atop the blonde's head. He immediately shook the cringeworthy thought off his mind. "Come again?" Akashi mirrored the sympathetic expression. "Ogiwaracchi" and "Kagamicchi?" That sounds like... Akashi clasped his fingers together on top of the counter. All ears, and attentively listening. Does he mean Ogiwara Shigehiro and Kagami Taiga? Does that mean–

"Ohh–" Kise's face flushed a dust of pink. "I meant Ogiwara-kun and Kagami-kun. I apologize, Ogino-kun," the blonde scratched his cheek with an index finger. "I have this habit of adding '–cchi' to the names of the person I respect."

"Is that so?" I see. Then, it wasn't 'Kurokocchi,' but 'Kuroko-kun,' was it? "Don't worry, it wasn't a problem at all," Akashi faked a chuckle, but nobody would notice that the action was false. "Won't you also call me Oginocchi, then?" He requested in a flirtatious tone. He immediately regretted the very act. It was too foreign to him... and, honestly, it sounded disgusting even to his own ears.

"Ehh~ What's this? Ogino-kun, are you flirting with me?" Kise replied with a mischievous grin.

Akashi felt a vein pop on top of his head. He clutched his stomach as he laughed. "No, it was just a joke. I believe I did mention that the one I'm interested in is–"

"Kurokocchi," Kise finished the redhead's sentence for him. "Though, that's too bad for you, Ogino-kun," Kise returned the martini glass he had been wiping back to the set.

Akashi felt his eyebrow quirk. "And why is that?"

Kise broadly smiled as if he was about to boast about something. "Because... Kurokocchi is–"