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

Chapter 27

Kuroko's P.O.V

I honestly hate sleeping.
There's always the possibility that you may never wake up, the fact that you're resting while someone may need your help that instant, and there's the dreams and nightmares. Haunting memories and sickly fears that your soul reveals.

I've read once that dreams are feelings you push in the back of your head, forget or just ignore being delivered to you by the depths of your being, telling you the things even you didn't know you feared. Or something like that, I think.

Nightmares give me headaches and overwhelming feelings like anxiousness, nervousness and paranoia. It makes my day unenjoyable and awkward, not to mention idiotic.

While memories confuse me, putting aside the fact that I don't really like to remember, they have me thinking why am I reseeing things, why do I have to think hard on some details. What am I missing?

All in all, sleep is dangerous. Especially for an emotionless person like me.
It disrupts my so-called proffesionalism in acting and the way I think. It makes me alert.
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Like now for example.

The dream realm has brought me back to my mother's grave. Back to that boy.
It's all I've been seeing in my sleep ever since I woke up two days ago.
I am kind of happy that I'm not seeing the news of my mother or how her burial went, but I'd rather have a dreamless sleep over a confusing one.
What's more, the red haired boy looks very, and I mean very familiar.
I have his name at the tip of my tounge, yet I don't know it. It annoys me.
A lot.

'Mother...' The word repeats itself on the redhead's lips all over again. Why...?
She's not!

"Tetsuya!"

'Who are you?' He turned around.

'She's not your mother.' Authority dripped from his voice.

'She's mine!' Red eyes burned holes in my skull.

"Tetsuya!"
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I opened my eyes slowly, the white ceiling regreeting me once more. Blinking a few times, I noticed that the mop of red heir wasn't beside me like last time.
So he left, a sad smile formed on my lips.
Of course he would...
Shuffling cought my attention and from the corner of my eye I was aware that the light coming from the window was being blocked by something.

By someone.

"Akashi-kun..." Wincing at the hoarse voice I had, I waited for his response.
And to say the least, I was shocked from his eyes.
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Same colors as...
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"Tetsuya, good morning." He greeted, cutting off my thinking, but not the panic that came in waves, one thing he seemed to notice. Akashi-kun advanced towards me, grasping my shoulders in a firm grip, telling me to take deep breaths as it became a lot harder to breathe.
Red hair...
Crimson eyes...
How had I not noticed it before?
They're the same person...

"Tetsuya hey, can you hear me?" I weakly nodded, slowly catching my breath. "Good. Are you ok? Does it hurt anywhere?" A shake of the head and a few more were answers to his questions before I was as calm as I could get (with the new information in mind). "Here." A glass of water was handed to me and I nodded in thanks before gulping it down in one go. The cold liquid did wonders to my dry throat and I couldn't help but to sigh in content which earned a chuckle from my usually stoic and serious friend. I handed him the now empty glass, secretly observing him.
He looked like an actual human,unlike before, well dressed and properly cleaned. The bags under his eyes nearly invisible, his emotions seemed genuine. As I realised that, I also realized that I was the cause of him straining himself before, making it hard not to frown.
He was also observing me, seeing if I was really ok or not, a gleam of disapproval in his eyes from time to time. I must've looked really, really bad. Oh well...

"...Did you... Did you have a nightmare?"
The team captain questioned, opting to look ahead of him instead of looking at me. Feeling the questioning look I was directing at him, he let out a small smile and explained. "You were tossing and mumbling in your sleep. I tried to wake you up but you were too stubborn to. You slept peacefully after a while though, so I didn't pester you much." He looked at me expectantly. "So?"
I sighed through my nose, looking down at my lap.
"You could say that I guess..." Before the redhead had a chance to ask what, I asked him my own question.

"Akashi-kun... Is... is there something I should know?" Our eyes met, there was a hint of suprise and panic in his crimson ones. "Something you're not telling me?"
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"Why the sudden question?" He asked after a short period of silence.
I told him about the boy, explaining as best as I could and telling him about their similiarities, how I thought they were one and the same.
He smiled in the end, the one thing I didn't expect. "That's because we are." He said, confirming my suspicions. But... "How...?"

Why?

"We're twins Tetsuya."

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What?!

The words flew out of his mouth like it was a normal thing to tell a friend of yours that you two are twins.
It's not!
We're not! How could that be possible?

Oh.

Oh!

"Pfft! Hahahah!" I let a few giggles escape me for indeed he got me there. "Akashi-kun, that was a good one indeed!"
"What... what are you talking about, Tetsuya?" His eyes looked at me as if I'd grown a second head, looking completely lost on what to do.
"You made a joke. And you say you have no sense of humor." He kept looking at me funnily. "You were joking... Right?"
It was his turn to sigh it seems, letting me know he was really not joking. "You... you're not... but..."

It was his turn to explain. And he did so in detail. He told me how the man I called my father was not even related to me. He told me how their... our family suffered because of his plans and obsession. How he only found out a few weeks prior...

And he welcomed me with open arms, offered to take me out of my miserable life of shadows.
Gave me a home.
A real home...

I will be updating once every week in honour of those going through exams at the moment.
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Enjoy.