Intertwined Destiny

Chapter 4: The 'Akashi' name

Chapter 4: The 'Akashi' name.

Kagami examined the miracles for the slightest discrepancy. He imagined there would be a possibility of the miracles tricking him into giving up Kuroko. "Kuroko and that devil are married?"

The miracles were emitting high intensity of aura. They had strong confidence in their abilities, possessing high intense impression of the wild. Teiko were superior in various aspects of strength.

"Poor Kagamicchi. Kagamicchi and the rest of Seirin didn't possess a bond deep enough for Kuroko to trust with his life." Kise said with a bright smile. Among the five miracles, Kise possess great skills of deception and transformation. He could bring out hurtful things with a bright smile on his face. Such is a characteristic of fox spirit.

"Your expression must be telling us 'how can it be possible'." said Midorima.

"That would be a normal reaction! We've just first years in high school. He's barely seventeen!" Kagami had barked at the miracles.

"That's not right, Kagamin~" a girl with pink hair had crouched behind Kagami and pulled him onto his feet. "Nice to meet you, I am Teiko's personal information broker, Momoi Satsuki." The girl grinned.

"Stop calling me weird names! My name is Kagami!" Kagami growled. Kagami had enough of the miracles' giving him weird nicknames.

"Don't you wanna know about Tetsu-kun?" Momoi pushed Kagami's switch. "We'll talk about Tetsu-kun. But you're not getting anywhere. Afterall, he's quite worried about you after chasing all the way from Seirin. It was unheard of. Even Akashi-kun was shocked, you see."

Momoi's words got Kagami to shut up and settled down on the chair he was pointed to him by Momoi. He had no choice but to join the table filled with monsters and devils. It was going to be a long night. The miracles began telling their tale.

The miracles met Kuroko for the first time when he was still a mere child six years of age. Kuroko was presented to Teiko as a human sacrifice in exchange for the flourishing of their capital, resources.... and love. Akashi was a strong word. The name 'Akashi' wield power. Many had feared him, even by whispering his name. His name had become a curse, his name was used in the vast trickery and mockery. Children were taught to fear them, avoid unlucky places and forbidden to go near children who bear the curse. Humans decided they were born to be sacrifices to please the raging devil. It was the name of the raging devil who reside in the lands of Teiko, where the lands were deemed forbidden by the grand elders who had learnt their lessons from their dreadful past.

The miracles were horrified. They had imagined the poor boy had been badly abused, bullied and looked down. On their own kind. Kise and Aomine had snapped, threatened to kill them who dared to harm Kuroko in their presence. They have felt the affinity the boy had towards them. Although they had only met for few seconds, the miracles could feel the strong bond from the small child. The miracles had easily guessed the hardships of the suddenly orphaned boy had experienced with only an evil uncle as his living guardian. Kuroko's appearance had merely confirmed the miracles' detective skills. He was barely skin and bones when he was offered to Akashi.

"Aomine, Kise. Stop it. We shall accept this boy." Akashi had told them. He glared the humans with his emperor's eye. "This is the only time you shall be pardoned. The next time we shall meet will be in your afterlife."

The biological reactions of humans experiencing fear had begun to show. The involuntary tremors, sweaty palms, fast heartbeat and the nervousness could not reach to a halt, the humans had experienced the shivers of the coldness and callousness of the devil. One of them was the tyrant supreme ruler of Kirisaki Daiichi which Akashi had identified as Kuroko's uncle. Greed had overcome the love of their blood.