Month 23

Somewhere in Teiko Corp. one of the practice room were being used by a certain group of youngsters. The Generation of Miracles, there were four of them facing a large mirror, Atsushi the drummer a tall teen probably heighted around 2 meters. Next to the drum set, stood a certain lively blonde, Kise on his keyboard lays a few pieces of scores, his fingers professionally dance on the keyboard, their leader or they call him the red shrimp leader Akashi due to his height being the shortest among them all, playing the guitar bassist, in front of them stood a midnight blue haired, tanned teen, Aomine, the lead singer and guitarist of the band.

It has been several days since Akashi informed about Tetsuki. Aomine still wondering what is his leader hiding from him, and what is going on with Tetsuki. Usually Akashi would refuse any proposal regarding musician wanting to be in their band even being their composer but why the sudden change? Why Tetsuki of all people? How come Tetsuki did not told him about this?

From the corner of his eyes, he stole a few glances to the bassist next to him, while his mind full of questions. He shrugged it off, he has more important tasks to do, the impossible task on finishing the song in 5 months. He continues to sing accordingly to what he has memorized back then.

You take everything away

Stop

What else do you want from me?

You're my strongest enemy

You and I are fighting inside of me

And again, someone is motionlessly

He can feel something is missing; this song is different from the songs he has sung before. It needed something. They have been repeating the same crap over and over today. Akashi was not pleased with it.

The wounds from that day that emitted pain

Unable to prevent them, they're here, not gotten rid of

I hide as to conceal them and run from place to place Every day

A Rainy day, where the rain doesn't stop

Suddenly

"Man, you guys sucks, I thought the GoM supposed to be sounding better than this."

A certain rough voice breached into their practice room, all four of them stopped and looked at the door, revealing a dark red haired teen, matching his fiery crimson orb, he was pretty tall, and he was holding a guitar bag on his shoulder. Wearing a black jacket, a red shirt with a ring necklace around his neck, as well as using a black jean, he looked like some street punk the way he dressed up.

"Who the heck are you barging into our practice room?" Aomine burst out in annoyance when some random stranger telling them, they sucked.

"Taiga, you have to knock first before you enter someone room" a soft voice was heard outside the practice room, the tall teen was blocking the doorway, preventing the GoM poking their head out for that voice.

"You sure this is the GoM? Can't believe you actually let them sing your songs." The teen called Taiga commented as he smirked as Aomine who was tempted to punch the stranger in the face right there right now.

"Stop being so mean, Taiga! Can you move please, you're blocking the door" the owner of the soft voice pushed the teen out of the doorway.

"Yea yea, quit pushing me." Taiga said as he moved away from the door after being pushed by a smaller teen behind him.

Kise and Atsushi eyes widened.

"Tetsukichii/Tetsuchin!" they both synched. There she was, standing there at the door smiling at them.

"We meet again."

Akashi walked towards the two guests he has been expecting to arrive today. "Tetsuki. Taiga." He said acknowledging their arrival.

"Akashi, who the hell is he?"

"He's your new guitarist as of today. He's Kagami Taiga."

"Yo." Kagami raised his hand as he waved a small hi to Akashi members. Kise sweat dropped, Aomine was fuming in anger.

"Hey, Tetsuchin, what are you doing here?" Atsushi went towards the short blunette. Tetsuki looked up at the tall giant then she starts searching for something in her handbag.

"Here, for you, Atsushi." She said as she handed over a pack of chips to Atsushi, he received it happily.

"Tetsukichii, you haven't answered Atsushichii question yet." Kise reprimands her; before she can answer she was cut off.

"She's GoM composer from now on. The song I have given you a week ago, belong to her. She was the one who wrote all of it." Akashi explained. A long silent pause crept into the room.

"EHH?"

Atsushi was munching on the chips, Akashi just stood there in annoyance while Aomine just sighed, while Kise screaming on top of his lungs on the news.

"But but...Tetsukichii, I invited you the other day, you refused" he wailed as he has both of his hands on the blunette shoulder.

Tetsuki lets out a small giggle, before she starts explaining. "Akashi here has enlisted me into GoM as a composer but under one condition, I want Kagami Taiga to be in the band as well."

"So from now on, we will work together" she then gave them a smile as she bowed a little.

Kise and Atsushi was happy with Tetsuki presence, Akashi was talking to Kagami, while Aomine just sighed as he leaned against the wall as he looks at the blunette standing in the middle of the group.

"Let's restart the practice once again." Akashi said as Tetsuki took her seat at the side of the room while each of them went to their designated instruments and spots.

"You better not sound stupid again." Kagami said as he plugged in his red guitar cord. Aomine send him a glare, ended up them both in glare contest until Akashi released his wrath upon the two idiots.

With the addition of Kagami into the group, they sounded better than they were earlier. Since he covered Aomine guitar playing part, Tetsuki watched them as each of them played their part skillfully.

You don't understand

This pain

"Anyway, one of these days you're going to end up forgetting" You say that

Who are you trying to worry?

You definitely get in my way

And stop my train of thoughts

And I can't focus anymore

Understand?

Aomine cannot help himself but to keep stealing glances towards the blunette that was sitting at the side, listening to them, especially to him singing. He then puts his focus on the practice, the band moral was beyond what she expects, and they were amazing.

"I never thought the song I wrote would sound much better with them singing it." She thought as she smiled, looking at the lead singer.

"Especially with you singing them, Aomine," She continued thought to herself.

Trauma

You take everything away

Stop

What else do you want from me?

You're my strongest enemy

You and I are fighting inside of me

And again, someone is motionlessly

Peeping from somewhere I'm sure

I don't care

The next time we meet,

It'll be the end

"This is the song she wrote for us, for me to sing but why the lyrics sounded sad?" Aomine thought while he sang the lyrics followed by the band members' instrument playing. Akashi and Kagami sang some few verse of the song while playing their guitars.

It was intense, even though it was just a practice but the intensity was there. They were sweating, the room supposed to be cold yet sweats kept falling from their forehead, their shirts were wet.

At any rate until I rot away

I'll just live with these unerasable memories

Be it provisions that live through an inferiority complex

I'll struggle and squirm and, Go my way

I sighed but my colors won't fade

The ending part of the song and instruments were heavy, staffs that were passing by the practice room took a look at the small window at the door to see who was practicing. They were amazed.

After they finished their song practice, a small soft clap was heard; they looked, Tetsuki looking so happy.

"You guys sounded amazing! I still can't believe that were the song I wrote." She said as the guitarists puts down their guitars while she passed them each a bottle of water that was sitting on the table.

"Tetsukichii, lyrics are great!" Kise complimented as he was beamed with smiles towards the blunette.

"Kise, your tempo kept going at the wrong pace, Atsushi, your drumming is not hard enough. Put some energy into it." Akashi said while his members took a drink. He wiped his sweats off using the towel Tetsuki gave him.

"There's several spots that you need to fix but all in all it sounded better than I expected. You can always ask me to help you with it" She said as she handed over a towel to Aomine, then she noticed, Aomine has not said much to her ever since she arrived earlier. It was lunch time; they all decided to take a break and left the room.

"Aomin-"she was about to say something before she got cut off by Kise who cling on her.

"Let's go for lunch!" He said as he was about to drag the poor blunette towards the door.

"Sorry Kise but I have something else to do during lunch, maybe some other time" She said. Kise pouted.

"I promise!" Feeling bad, Tetsuki assured him that she will join him some other time.

"Let's go Kisechin~~~" Atsushi then grabbed Kise by the collar, dragging him down the hallway.

"Eh but I want-"Tetsuki can hear the blonde whining while being dragged by the tall giant towards the elevator, she then closes the door; Aomine was still in the practice room, sitting near the window looking outside.

"Aomine…"

"Why didn't you tell me about you becoming our composer?"

Tetsuki looked at him before she took a seat at the grand piano that was in the corner of the room. She then press on one of the key. Aomine turned his gaze towards the blunette not far from him; he was still amazed by how beautiful she is no matter how pale she is.

"It was a sudden decision. Akashi called me one day, somehow he manage to convince me to join the GoM."

"What's the difference between me and that shrimp? I invited you many times but you kept turning it down by why Akashi?"

Tetsuki were silent. Aomine was pissed off. The room atmosphere was heavy.

"Both you and Akashi is hiding something from me and it's pissing me off!" Aomine said as he threw the towel to the floor.

"Aomine…how would you react if you know someday you wouldn't be able to sing or play your guitar anymore?"

"HA? What kind of question is that?"

"Akashi told me I can achieve my dream by joining GoM…he said tha—"she was cut off by Aomine.

"AKASHI THIS AKASHI THAT! JUST FUCKING TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON!" Aomine roared. Tetsuki orbs widened in fear the moment Aomine stood up and raised his voice. She was scared. Her hands tremble in front of her chest as if trying to protect herself from Aomine anger.

Kagami who was done with his lunch break, headed over to the practice room, he even bought a cup of vanilla milkshake for his childhood friend, Tetsuki who skipped lunch that day. As he was about to open the door he heard Aomine voice shouting in the practice room, he quickly opened and saw Aomine looking angry while Tetsuki was in a state of fear.

Then he noticed how pale Tetsuki is, she was sweating even though the air conditions were at its lowest temperature.

"What the fuck are you doing, Aomine!" Kagami hurried towards the blunette that was near the grand piano. The blunette was holding her front clothing, while her other hand was on the piano trying to support herself from falling, she pants softly, sweats running down her temples.

"Tetsuki, you okay?" Kagami asked as he gently supports the smaller girl frame, Aomine who was standing rooted to the floor can only watch.

"Oyy…what's going on with her?"Aomine turns pale and worried; the blunette that was always smiling and up and about is now trying her best to breath, she looked paler than the white towel on the floor.

"Just shut the hell up!" Kagami barked at him, he quickly turned his gaze towards the blunette next to him. Kagami quickly looked for Tetsuki handbag and saw it was on the chair near the exit, he stood up and when he was about to grab it, he heard a soft thud on the floor.

He turned sharply.

"TETSUKI!" Kagami and Aomine synched, they both ran towards the small blunette that is lying on the floor, trying to breath. Kagami gently picked her up and turn her on her back, she was panting. Aomine could feel fears in gathering in his stomach, he could not do anything.

All he can do was looking at Kagami searching through the blunette handbag for something and opened up a small packet of tablets.

"Aomine, get me a bottle of water! HURRY!" Kagami ordered, Aomine quickly get on his feet and saw a bottle of water on the table, he grabbed it and handed it over to the red head teen.

"Tetsukichii~~~I bought some cakes for yo—"Both Kise and Atsushi froze at the door, looking at the three teens on the floor, Tetsuki was there lying in Kagami arm, panting while he was trying to give her tablets and some water.

"TETSUKICHII!" Kise frantically calls out as he falls on his knees the moment he reached near the piano.

"Come on, work with me here Tetsuki!" Kagami hissed as his hands were trembling trying to wake the girl up. After a while Tetsuki pants slows down, her frowns lessen. Akashi who finally reached the practice room, eyes widened at the commotion in front of him.

"What's going on?" he demanded an answer.

Aomine looked away with guilt, Akashi noticed this but he shrugged it off as he went closer to Kagami and Tetsuki who is unconscious in his arm.

"Is she alright now?"

Kagami looked at the girl in his arm, "Yes, for now…I'll have to get her to see the doctor." He replied as he gently carries the girl into his arm in bridal style. All of them were focused on Tetsuki pale face.

"Will Tetsukichii be alright?" Kise asked worriedly as he brushed off the bangs on the blunette eyes, Kagami stayed silent.

"You may go." Akashi breaks the silence.

Everyone turned their heads to the shorter red head. Kagami nodded, as Atsushi and Kise quickly gather the two belongings and guitar. Kagami carefully exited the practice room after making sure Tetsuki head did not hit the wooden door edge followed by Atsushi and Kise looking worried, leaving Aomine and Akashi in the practice room.

"Daiki."

Aomine flinched at the heavy tone of his leader voice. He knows he was at fault for whatever just happened. He loses control of his anger. He got jealous. Jealous of Tetsuki kept mentioning Akashi name.

"I brought her in because I want to help her in achieving her dream; Our band are able to help her with it, even you. . ."

Before Akashi leaves the room with his guitar bag, he stopped.

"Tetsuki…is running out of time."

Aomine quickly turned his gaze towards the crimson teen at the door, "What do you mean?" he gulped.

"She will die soon."

With that Akashi left the room, leaving Aomine in disbelief.