I never thought I would return to thank you...

Chapter 18

Am I finally dying?…

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Akashi's P.O.V

“Oi Akashi!” I heard the annoyed tone of a certain greenette and turned to it's owner a few feet away from me.
“Shintaro. You're late.” We agreed to meet up to discuss about Tetsuya's situation.
It took him some time to stop rambling on about how he didn't care but he had nothing better to do, but at least he's here now.
“I-I am not! We were going to meet up at-”
“7:45.” I interrupted. “It's 7:46.” Heaven knows how much I'm trying to hold back a smirk at his panicked face.

“It's a good thing this is about Tetsuya and we have to finish sooner rather than later, or I would have had you running 60 laps around the school for each second of tardiness.” A sigh escapes me, while he slowly makes himself comfortable at the couch opposite of mine.
“Why are we here, Akashi?” The greenette asked.
“Why, didn't I just tell you why?” A fun fact: despite the situation, I can never stop teasing Shintaro. Watching him hold back his anger is way too amusing.
“I mean the club Akashi!”
“I don't like that tone of yours, Shintaro. Change it.” I watch him with stern eyes as he bit back yet another sarcastic reply, before answering him. “My father is here. He had some business and wanted me to tag along. Don't worry, we'll be out of here in a matter of minutes.”

The loud music boomed through the place, bodies moved to the beat while I and Shintaro discussed about our next move.
“I still don't get why we're not reporting this to the headmaster instead.” He said. “He'll get expelled and this thing is over and done with.”
“It won't work. The possibility of the bastard leaving Tetsuya alone is low.” I reasoned. “He doesn't care about school, he's hell bent on revenge.”
“But Akashi-”
“He needs to be taught a lesson Shintaro.” In the first time ever since I took control, the both of us agree, Shintaro and everyone else can go to hell if they want to, but we're not going to stand still and let the bastard get away with hurting our brother. “We'll fight fire with fire.”

Look out Haizaki.
“This just got personal.”

Not even the booming music could scare away the silence that took over. But my friend however, he could. And he did.
“…What's going on Akashi?” He asked. “This feels weird.” I let a smirk take oved my features as Shintaro looked at me with that look.
“So you noticed.” The greenette in front of me opened his mouth to ask more, but never got the chance as I continued. “Tetsuya and I are deeply conected to each other. The Akashi blood doesn't lie, Shintaro.”

And with that, silence scared any words away for the rest of the night.

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“Are you going to tell the others?” He asked as the city's air filled our lungs. After getting out of the club, we silently made our way to Tetsuya's ‘house’. Having to attend to some business matters, I couldn't further interrogate that man.

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“Tetsuya, wait!” I followed after the running tealnette.
“Akashi-kun, thank you for taking care of me, but please leave me alone. I have to take care of something.” Tetsuya panted out his words.
“Tetsuya!” I grabbed his wrist, stopping him from going further away. We were out of the mansion now, a few feet away from the front door. “You're sick! You need to rest.”
“I'll rest later, I can take care of myself!”
“With all that I've gathered, no! You can't!”

“Let go, Akashi-kun!” He yelled, wrigling his wrist out of my hold.
“Fine.” I said, crossing my arms over my chest, stopping his movements from confusion.
“Fine?”
“Fine, I'll take you home myself.” With that, I went on ahead, leaving him stuttering behind me, trying to refuse.
In the end, as expected, I won and we were inside the limo on the way to his house.

The ride was quiet. He kept avoiding my gaze as millions of questions rose in my mind, but I knew he wouldn't answer any. Not yet at least.

The driver stopped infront of his house, Tetsuya hurried to get out even before we had fully stopped. A man was waiting in front of his door, leaning against it to be exact, arms crossed over his chest, mixed emotions on his face; amusement, anger, confusion and excitment.
I wouldn't like the man, I decided.

“Kuroko-kun. You're finally here.” He said in a low pitched voice, as if trying to sound threatening and, maybe he did, to Tetsuya, as he stuttered over his words while I closed the door a little too hard.
“I'm s-sorry fo-r be-being late, s-sir.”
“You think I care? Your time's up. Where are my money Kuroko-kun?” He questioned, making Tetsuya flinch.

I really, really didn't like the man.

“P-please, giv-give me a bit more t-time. I-I'll pay yo-you I promise.” My brother begged him, making the guy even more amused than he already was.
“More time? MORE TIME?! I'VE GIVEN YOU MORE TIME SINCE A MONTH AGO, KUROKO! WHERE ARE MY MONEY, HUH? WHERE ARE THEY?” He yelled, grabbing Tetsuya's wrist and squezing it tightly, making the small teen yelp and cry out in pain, waking a sleeping beast behind him. Namely, me.

In a blink of an eye I was on top of him, twisting his hand behind his back and ignoring his demands. No one orders me around after all.
“You dare hurt him, you filthy piece of garbage, you dare?!” All I saw was red, so much red that even Tetsuya couldn't stop me as I was ready to break his arm.

Suddenly, a force collided with my side, catching me off guard and making me turn to the ome responsible for it.
“Teysuya.” As I was there, still on top of the man, I knew immidietly that the best course of action was to retreat as lighting seemed to flash it his blue eyes. Hesitating, I got off the man, glaring guns at him.

Whatever Tetsuya said next went unheard by the two of us, our eyes clashing with murderous intent.
“Kuroko-kun, I need those money you know.” He said, eyes still locked in mine.
“I know but-”
“Of course. How much?” Moving in front of my little brother, I glared up at his face.
“W-wha-?”
“Hahaha, what? You gonna pay his rent or something?” So that's what's going on, I thought as he interrupted Tetsuya once more.
“Pay his rent you say?” My smirk grew large enough to rival a cheshire cat's. “I'll buy the house. Just state the price.” His yellow teeth shiwed through his smile.
“One billion.” He said.

That's more than what the school is worth and he's comparing this piece of garbage to it.

“Deal, now-”
“ENOUGH!!!” Before I even knew it, my foot slipped and I fell on the ground, my cheek stinged as I stared up at the one person I was ignoring this whole meeting.
Tetsuya.
Before I could even utter a word, he beat me to it.
“That's quite enough Akashi-kun! I'm begging you, just leave!!” His fists clenched at his sides, his lips quivering. “Please leave.” Not giving me room to protest, he turned to the man. “Sir, let's talk inside.”
I got up as the door closed behind them, ironically, keeping me in the dark.
How I wanted to get inside and finish what I intended to do earlier and, I might've, if my phone didn't ring at that moment, signalling I had to leave for my father's meeting.
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That punch threw me way off guard, I thought putting my hamd on my cheek.

“Oi, Akashi.” The tsundere greenette called me back to reality, reminding me that I had to give an answer.
“I don't know yet. I might.” I answered. “It'll be official soon anyways.” He hummed in understanding.
“And why did you tell me?”
I let a smile form on my face, pondering on the question for a bit as even I didn't quite understand the reason behind it.
“Shintaro.” I said. “You are my childhood friend after all. I trust you.”

“…Never say something like that again. It's weird nanodayo.”

“Really captain Akashi, even I'm weirded out.” said a voice behind us, suprising me a bit.
“What a suprise.”

“Ninjimura senpai.”

Sry you guys! I know I promised to reveal what happened to Tetsuya but this just got too long and I had to stop here or else ot'd get boring!!!
😭