-Akashi's House-

"Hahhhhhhh............." With a loud sigh, Shiroki plopped onto the bed of one of the too-big-for-a-guest-room, guest room prepared by Akashi(Or more like his maids). She had thought that Akashi must be happy because he gets to live in these kind of houses. 'But then again........' She sighed again remembering what Akashi said when they first entered the mansion.

-Flashback-

"Uwaaaaaaaa!! Sei! Your house is too huge!! Ah! Sratch that! Your mansion!" Shiroki's eyes sparkled at the sight of Akashi's mansion. The 9 foot wall serves as the fence with a few taller trees seen. The metal gate or the entrance gave out strange vibes that she couldn't really understand. The mansion has 4 stories and has a open air roof top.

"Is that so?" Was the only reply from the latter. He led them in with maids slightly fussing about who-knows-what behind him. 

"It must be nice~ Living in this huge mansion~" Then she noticed that Akashi's shoulder tensed slightly right after she had said it. Her smile dropped as her eyes narrowed. "Maybe" He didn't even turn to look at her and ordered one of the maid to show them to the guest rooms.

-Flashback ends-

'Something must have happened before...'

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-Akashi's POV-

I sat on the couch that was placed near the verenda of my room while staring out of it. I couldn't help but tense at the words that Shiroki said. "It must be nice~ Living in this huge mansion~" Her voice continuously played in my mind as I scoffed.

"Nice? Which part of this house is nice?" 'When there's not even one bit of family warmth or happiness. 'She's gone, 'He' rarely come home nowadays....' My heart ache at the thought. Even when I tried to ignore it, it would just get worse. 

The sun was starting to set as the color of the sky turned to orange-red. The sun ray shone into my room but I paid no heed on it. I just simply closed my eyes and tried to relax. A peaceful and quiet place always help me to relax.

"I watched the fall, grieving a spring in which you are born and meet me

In process of following after my memories, I recognized a photo

Of an innocent you and could not recall even what season it was after all

Nowadays, only you are silently projected onto the moon, onto flowers" 

'That voice... Ryuu...' Her beautiful and soft yet clear voice made me smiled slightly. She's seriously one mysterious girl who do things that we all(Yes, including me) won't expect. 

"Saying, 'I'll never reach my dreams'

I sighed - even with the root of my tongue

I'll hint all my hopes before they dry up

The night I did not get a response at all

I helf tight to the one small, cold scrap of life I had left."

I internally chuckled at the lyrics of the song. It was somehow similiar to me. I wonder if she sung this because of me? Then, unconsciously, I fell into slumber with the help of the song. 

-End of Akashi's POV-

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Grey and heterochromatic eyes stared at each other. A girl of his age with white hair was on top of him, as she had jumped down from the tree and accidently on to of him. To the girl, his eyes are the most beautiful pair she had seen in the whole decade and to the boy, her sliver-like grey eyes that look like wolfs eyes are far more astonishing that the real one itself. 

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"Sei-sama!!" The same girl who he met called out for him up at the same tree before jumping down on him

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"Ne Sei-sama.... Have I told you that your eyes is the most beautiful one I've ever seen in my whole life?" Deja vu? 

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"Sei-sama!! They're going to die if you continue torturing them like that!!!" She shouted at him, trying to stop him from killing their other childhood friends.

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"What do you mean?!" For once, her shout was filled with anger as she shouted at a raven-haired man.

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"Sei-sama, please forgive me..." Tears ran down her face. He, along with the other Miracles, with the presence of Nijimura, Kagami and another raven-head who he remembered as Yukimura Kori shouted for her to stop.

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A light red glow appeared from his palm as he hovered his hand over her forehead. 'I'm going to seal your memory, Ryuu-hime... See you soon, my beloved..' 

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"Aomine-kun" A certain teal head suddenly popped out of nowhere and scared the wits out the said tanned teen, sucessfully making him jumped. "UWAA TETSU!! STOP THAT!"

Only to be replied with a tilted head and "Stop what?" Aomine had enough of it and just facepalmed. It'll go nowhere if he tried to debate with Kuroko about his sudden appearances. "Nevermind...." He sighed. Kuroko looked as if he wanted to say something but it didn't come out of his mouth, everything stucked in his throat. 

"I watched the fall, grieving a spring in which you are born and meet me

In process of following after my memories, I recognized a photo

Of an innocent you and could not recall even what season it was after all

Nowadays, only you are silently projected onto the moon, onto flowers" 

The both of them turned towards the direction of the voice(which is nowhere). It was soft but it was clearly heard by the both of them, since it was very quiet, only one or two maids passing them with a slight bow and nothing more. 'Ryuu..' 

"Saying, 'I'll never reach my dreams'

I sighed - even with the root of my tongue

I'll hint all my hopes before they dry up

The night I did not get a response at all

I helf tight to the one small, cold scrap of life I had left."

The song was sung by a guy named Shoose, who's voice are quite similiar to Akashi's. If they remembered correctly, the name of the song was 'While presumptuous-I want to be your lover'. Title long enough to annoy someone but though, it was quite calming. And meaningful. 

"Ne Aomine-kun.." Aomine hummed, signalling that he's listening to the teal head. "Ryuu-san is strong isn't she." He looked at Kuroko bewildered, not following whatever he was saying. "I meant as in her spirit. I've been observing her for quite a while now" Stalker? "And through the times, she's very different. Much different from most girl we met. Any, if I would say."

"Hnn~... I don't really get it but somehow, I felt that she is.. Throughout the weeks with her, she's like a light, that shone brightly out of nowhere..." Kuroko kept silence as Aomine just stared into obvilion. One would thought that Kuroko is ignoring Aomine but after their long time friendship, they could read each other in silence.

'Ryuu-hime....' was the one thing that was in Kuroko's mind. He suddenly remembered back the memories that suddenly flashed into his mind when they were in the car, right after they trip to the blacksmith shop.

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The others sat in silence, either sleeping or playing on their phone. As for Kuroko, he stared out of the window when he suddenly had a sharp pain in his head.

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Hast footsteps was heard as he turned to his back, only to see a certain whitenette, crashing into him with a loud 'Tetsu!!!!' And she snuggled into his chest.

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"Ryuu-hime, Akashi-sama would be angry" He tried to persuade Shiroki, as she continued hiding under the table covered with long white table cloth, in the garden. He was sitting there, reading while having tea until she came running towards him and hid under it. "Shussh!! But don't worry! He won't!"

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"The sky that embraces all.(A/N= KHR reference. IDC XP)" Kuroko blinked in confusion at the sudden words that came out of her lips. "Pardon?" She smiled at him "You heard me, 'The sky that embraces all', as the sky is you, Tetsu." "Why me and not Akashi-sama?" 'I thought he's your sky..?' "Sei-sama? Well, Sei-sama somehow is the sky... But.. He's more like a guardian angel, one that would stay alongside with the one who will he guard, forever. As for you, you're the sky because-" 

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"Tetsu. No matter what, protect Sei-sama. At all cost" She said with deep serious eyes.

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"Ryuu-hime!!!" The heart crushing shout of Akashi's, as they, all of them, watched their beloved princess, lost her light and fell on the ground. Voice caught in his throat. 

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"Tetsu, you're the sky because, the undeniable kindness that is in your heart, where you forgive and forget, even when the others had brought great pain onto you."

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'You're wrong, Ryuu-hime. I don't forgive... Because until now, I still can't forgive that guy...'

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Aomine, said nothing, knowing the longing for Ryuu lies deep in Kuroko's eyes. He just concentrated on the song, which sung by none other than the one who saved him from the depts of drowing in darkness. 

'Ryuu, you've never changed. After all these years' 

After the day Ryuu confronted him, memories have being flashing in his sleep for days, until he finally remembered. That she's the princess, who took her in, and let him be the knight of Akashi's, eventhough he's a cursed child. And because of her, everyone overlooked his past, accepted him, made him one of them. Because of her, he was able to move on, in the past life and now. 

She was his savior, and her beloved sister.

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Heaving slightly, Shiroki's eyes twitched in annoyance as 'Dammit. This song is slightly too slow. And how did Shoose managed to lengthen the lyrics is... Argh whatever..' Deciding to take get a drink, she walked out of the guest room and to the kitchen, to see if there's any water. 'Luckily I've good sense of direction... Not to brag though..'

Well, it really is a good thing as the whole mansion is huge. It most likely take five to ten minutes to get to the kitchen from her room. When she saw the glimsp of the kitchen, she fasten her footsteps until she was directly in front of it, where she immediately jaw dropped. It was-again- huge! Almost the same size as the living room, or is it? But anyway, other than that, the kitchen was sparkling, where the cooking utensils(Pot,fryingpan,etc.etc.), which are made out of metal, of course, glinted under the lighting. 

Everything was neatly place and it was spotless. Gosh, how they managed it was a mystery to Shiroki. But then again, it's not impossible anyway. Since it's Akashi's house and cue her rolling eyes at her sarcasm here.

But anyway, no one was there to guide her through the stuffs in the kitchen so she doesn't really knows which kettle or bottle or whatever holds water and did she mentioned that there's more than 4 of each?! Well, let's just say she's stuck in whether she should go and find Akashi or anyone for help or just figure it out herself.

She stood on her spot, which was a foot away from the kitchen door, her right pointer finger rubbed on her chapped lips with her left hand supporting the arm for a good whole 5 minutes. 'Oh crap it. I'm going to figure it out myself'. 

And so, she went towards the kettles which possibly holds the water. She pulled out each kettles' lid only to find them empty.

'Then what do you use them for if you have so many?!'

One last resort before she gives up and go ask for help, she when to the humongous fridge and opened it, where she found a bottle of water that hasn't being drunk before. She grin victoriously and drank the content of it, which she found herself choking on it when the door was slammed open with a loud bang by none other the blonde puppy.

"Ryuucchi~!!!!!! Akashicchi said to go out for dinner because the staffs are having an off day today~!!!"

"Ryou......." 

Let's just say, Kise was dead.

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"Sooo, what took you guys so long?" A tanned teen asked when a blonde who kept rubbing on his abdomen and torso which was punched by the whitenette appeared from the front door, where the others are waiting.

"Ehehehehe~ I somehow surprised Ryuucchi by accident and accidently made her choke on it...?" Kise sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck as he replied with slight uncertainty. "Yeah you did. Anyway where are we going?"

"For dinner" Akashi said in an uncaring tone, yet as if he's irritated of something though, Shiroki knew better. "Hurmm.... Then let's go to some streets' stalls for dinner" The red head suddenly turned his head towards her so fast that one would thought it would snap and fall appart, even for the red emperor. His heterochromatic eyes dead looked at her. 

"Hey, I know you guys are 'famous' and high class who always venture to those high class places for a meal or whatever but you should once a while go for dinner in these kind of places ya know" She retorted as a hand was placed on her hips. 

"We don't, though" Midorima commented, which was abruptly silenced by the dead look of the only girl in the group. 

"Fine then, let's get i-" "Annnnddd we'll walk there." Well, this had quite a lot of protest from Murasakibara, Kise and especially Aomine, who's lazy as hell, well, let's say the same to Murasakibara. "No buts. Let's go~!" 

She took the lead, uncaring that Akashi's currently glaring at her because she cut her sentence. When she was almost out of their side from the gate, she shouted "Are you guys coming or what!? If not, I'll go myself!" As she took out her head phone, tuning to the lowest volume but still hearable, and played a few songs sung by the Miracles she recorded on her phone after they changed. She hummed along with the music when she felt a tap on her shoulder. 

She turned towards the direction of the tap and saw Kuroko, she pushed down her headphone and turned it off. "Oh, you followed. Where're the others?" Somehow, she just couldn't be surprised by his sudden appearances. 

"At the back, grumbling san Akashi-kun, of course" She snickered at the last part but she knew that the red head was terribly irritated and agitated at her. "Of course" Sarcasm.

"Ano Ryuu-san. Could it be that you did it on purpose?" What he meant was that she ordered them to follow her leads but it was actually directed to Akashi. She chuckled. 

"Ahhh you knew~ Yep. It was on purpose" Kuroko asked her why, which she replied "Because, Sei was in a foul mood because of what I asked earlier on. I guess it brought out some kind of bad memories of his past. But though, I kindda noticed that his shoulder relaxed more than usual... I don't know why though..." 

'That because you are near him, Ryuu...' 

"Is that so..." 

"Uh hum~ Ahh well, I kindda felt guilty about it so yeah.." 

"By making him much more irritated?" 

"Hahaha! No no~ I did that to make him forget about it and plus, I doubt that those expensive places can make him relax. Or maybe yes but whatever. Though, I never would have thought he would be irritated" She chuckled "Might be because he's too used to be in control"

A ghost smile graced on the blue head's face "I guess so" And they chatted happily while the others continued grumbling at the back.

Aomine grumbled unintelligent things under his breathe while Kise slumped while walking. Murasakibara somehow kept on protecting his snacks from Who-knows-what(A/N = Crowsssss!). Midorima sighed for maybe the 10th times for the day while pushing up his spectacles. He peers over to his side and saw a really, really irritated Akashi narrowed his eyes on the two further front. But somehow, his gaze on the whitenette was really soft, as if he was admiring her or something. 

"Akashi. She's the one, right?" Midorima said softly only for the said latter to hear where his reply was a nodded. "Yes, that's Ryuu-hime alright. She's still the same as always." A soft smile that Midorima thought was long gone on the face of the red head when his fiancee died in the past for their sake, was plastered on his face. 

"Ah that reminds me, when did you remembered about it, Shintarou."

".... A day after she changed my perspectives about music." 

Akashi merely hummed in reply.

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A/N = Uhhhmmmmm Sorry for not updating for a long time!! *bow* Wellllll, I was settling the plot of my stories adding the fact that I wasn't exactly in the mood to write...? So yeah.

Other self : And how come you're able to update the others but not this one? 

Me : Oh shut up you. *push other self away*

Anywayssssssss..... If it's not troublesome for you, could you please read the author's note on 'My Dear Princess', my other story, and give me your choice or suggestions? I'm kindda stucked there. *sweat dropped* I'm not pestering nor forcing though. But please, if you have time, please review on it. Thank you *bow*

One random fact. I still suck at Plotting the stories so yeah. 

Another, I totally have no idea what happened up there so yeah.

And last. I kept on leaving the other's characters out as I type the story.... ==.... 

Ahhhh I've nothing else to say, I guess...? 

[I apologize for any spellings, grammars, etc.etc. mistakes!]

Till next time then!! Jaaaa!

[Other self : And when was that? Me: Can you not? ==]