Red Blood Charmer | Killer!Akashi x Kuroko | discontinued

3: Ring-a-Ring O'Roses

"Tetsu-kun...? Tetsu-kun..?"

"Tetsu-kun!"

"Hmm?" Kuroko blinked as he stared at his coworker beside him, "Momoi-san..?"

Momoi sighed placed her hands on her hips, "Gee! Are you okay Tetsu-kun you've been spacing out lately!"

"Was I?" The bluenette tilted his head. The pink haired woman let out another sigh, beginning to walk away.
"You're lucky we knew eachother as childhood friends, I could've hit you!"

"Momoi-sensei! I need help!" They both turned to the child who was tugging at Momoi's outfit. She was on the verge of tears and her knee was grazed.

"Oh my! Let me get you cleaned up shall we?" Momoi gave a comforting smiled as she led the girl into the school building. Kuroko stood there in the middle of the playground; watching over the hoards of children playing and laughing.

A group of children was playing tag, others, duck duck goose, pass the parcel, hide and seek and even some were playing with their own board games that they brought to school. He observed every child, fascinated. His childhood wasn't like this at all, no one really wanted to play with Kuroko, even Akashi refused too.

"Speaking of Akashi... Maybe I could call him this time..." Kuroko trailed off, he dug his hand into his pocket to find his phone but froze as soon as he heard singing.

"Ring-a-ring O'Roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down!"

Kuroko looked at the five children, two girls, three boys, singing to their hearts content. "I... Know this song..." He muttered, continuing to watch them as they looped the lines.

However, something caught the teal haired adult off guard, it wasn't their singing, or how they skipped around in a circle. It was their faces which disturbed him, they weren't smiling at all, they were frowning with wide eyes darting everywhere.

"Blood is red,
Bruises are blue,
Don't say no..."

Kuroko gulped at the sudden change of the lyrics, the children were now staring straight dead at him. Grinning from ear to ear. "W-What on earth..?" Kuroko took a few steps back, seriously creeped out.

The five kids broke apart from the circle and formed a line, still holding eachother's hands tightly. They marched towards him. Kuroko gasped and cowered back slightly, he could feel the atmosphere getting colder, "What the hell is going on?"

"Oh my god!" Kuroko whispered as the five slowly began to distort; pure, red blood pouring on the ground. Each kid was at least missing an important part of their bodies.

The first had his leg torn off, the second had her arms pulled out, third had her ears missing, fourth also had his fingers missing and the last kid which scared him the most, had his eyes ripped out.

"Why did you do this?"

"I-I didn't do anything-"

"WHY?!"

"I told you, I didn't do anything... I would never do something so cruel to poor innocent children!"

"Then... You're not the Red Blood Charmer?"

"Oh my goodness! He did that to all of you?!" Kuroko shook in fear, why didn't he run when he had the chance to?

"H-Help us... He..."

"TETSU-KUN!"

Kuroko yelped when he felt a hand perched on his shoulder, he glanced at a concerned Momoi. 

"You idiot! What are you doing out here? I can't handle the children by myself!"

The boy ignored what she said and peeked behind Momoi at the five... Wait...

"Huh? Where are they?" Kuroko was sure they we're just in front of him.

"Who?" Momoi questioned with a frown.

"The five children who were singing Ring-a-Ring O'Roses..."

"Tetsu-kun, the children had already gone in a while ago, there shouldn't be anyone out in the playground..."

Kuroko scanned around the playground, she was right, no one was outside at all. "But they were right here..."

Momoi breathed out and lightly squeezed his shoulder, "Tetsu-kun, I think you should rest, it's a good idea anyways considering that you did encounter him, I would be scared to the bone too..."

"B-But..." Kuroko paused and gave up, "Okay, T-Thank you..."

Momoi smiled and waved him off before returning back inside.

Kuroko hesitated and looked around again to find them, it was hopeless, guess he was imagining things.

"Hmm? What's that?" The bluenette caught sight of a silhouette, he squinted at it and immediately noticed the spiky red hair, "Don't tell me... Hey! Are you lost?!"

The figure looked startled at the unexpected voice, it took a glimpse of the teacher and scrambled away.

Kuroko blinked twice, "Could he actually be Aka-.. No... He couldn't be..."

"His aura felt, strange... And sinister..."

____Time skip____

"What is going on with me today?" Kuroko slammed his face onto the pillow, breathing in it's fruity scent.

"What were these children trying to say?" He pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration, "Was I hallucinating? And who really was that man?"

Click!

Kuroko turned his head round to the bedroom door... It creaked as it swung open.

A shadowy figure emerged, staring right down at him.

Kuroko gasped at the shadow before him...

"Oh my god..."

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To be continued..?