“Nnn…” Kuroko shifted his body against the soft cushion he was lying on and wrapped his body with the blanket around him, starting to slowly wake up. He covered his head with the blanket, popping it outside once again a few minutes later while opening one of his teal eyes. The light entering inside of his bedroom through the window told him that it was evening already.
He turned his body around and absentmindedly stared to the ceiling of his room. He just had the weirdest dream of his entire life. Something about all of them having gotten cursed by jelly beans and then having to confess to the person they were in love with. Kise had dog ears, Murasakibara had shrunken, Aomine was acting and talking like a girl, Midorima… well, he didn’t really manage to figure out what was wrong with him but he could remember that it was something along the lines of bad luck… Akashi was talking with idioms only and he was…
“…Ngh… Oh my god… I’ll never stay in bed sleeping for more than necessary ever again,” mumbled Kuroko while burying his face on his pillow. Yes, that was definitely the most embarrassing dream he had ever had in his entire life. Dreaming about getting extremely turned on when meeting Akashi and then being kissed by him all of a sudden…
Blushing madly, the bluenette pulled the blankets from on top of him and stepped out of the bed. He was starting to walk to his bedroom’s door so he could apologize to his family for staying in bed all day when he noticed something strange. He wasn’t dressed in his sleeping wear. It was in normal outdoor clothes. Did I forget to change when I went to bed last night?
He thought closely about it but couldn’t really recall if he had changed after the gathering or not. He had been so tired about dealing with Aomine’s tries of teasing Kise with the photos and the endless loophole of arguing between all of them that sometimes popped up because of it that maybe he just went to bed without changing out of his clothes.
Opening the door, Kuroko put that subject out of his mind and exited his bedroom, motioning downstairs to the kitchen, where he could faintly hear someone cooking. His mother was most likely preparing dinner. When he stepped inside the kitchen area, his mother noticed his presence right away.
“Oh, Tetsuya. You’re finally awake, sweetie,” greeted his mother, turning around to face the bluenette slightly more while mixing the insides of a pan with a wooden spoon. “Are you feeling better now?”
“Eh? I’m feeling fine,” answered Kuroko, completely lost on the conversation. He had indeed slept way more than it was usual for him, even taking into account that it was a weekend, but that didn’t explain the slight worry in his mother’s voice. “I apologize for sleeping for so long. Do you need help setting the table?”
“Don’t worry about it, Tetsuya,” said his mother, smiling softly at him. She took the spoon out of the pan and put the lid on top of it, fully turning around while fixing slightly her apron. “Have you called your friend to thank him for helping you?”
“Eh?”
“Earlier, when you went out to meet with your former teammates and Kagami-kun, Akashi-kun had to bring you home by taxi because you suddenly collapsed,” explained his mother, looking at the bluenette with worried teal eyes. “You should go call him to thank him for his help. And to tell him that you’re feeling better now. Akashi-kun was talking in a quite peculiar way but it was obvious that he was really worried about you. You should also tell your other friends that you’re already feeling better, just in case they’re worried about you.”
“Ah… Y-Yes, I will,” acknowledged Kuroko with a quick nod, slowly starting to walk back to the place where he had come from. “M-Maybe I should do it now, before dinner time. I don’t want to interrupt them while they’re eating.”
“Of course, Tetsuya. Dinner will be ready in about an hour so please come downstairs by then,” said his mother, smiling to the bluenette in acknowledgement. When she saw her son disappear in the corridor, she added, “If you’re going to read, please set an alarm in your cell phone, or you’ll forget completely about dinner. Like it usually happens.”
“Okay,” answered Kuroko while quickly running up the stairs back to his bedroom. As soon as he reached the door, he entered inside of the room and hurriedly closed the door behind himself, pressing his back strongly against it while covering the massive blush that his features housed.
It wasn’t a dream!, inwardly screamed Kuroko as he let his body slump down to a sitting position on the floor, still clutching at his face. I really got turned on by Akashi-kun and then m-masturbated in the bathroom of a café, only to get turned on by Akashi-kun once again and get k-k-kissed by him…!
“I… I kissed Akashi-kun…” softly mumbled the bluenette, his blush intensifying by a tenfold. He took a deep breath and let his hands slide down from his face, allowing them to fall on top of his legs. “He has also realized what my curse is… He… Akashi-kun probably took pity on me and kissed me to help me out… How? Just how am I supposed to confess to him after all that…?”
He looked up to near his bed, where his things had been put on, and quickly got up and walked over to them. He searched around in his bag for his cell phone and took it out, where awaited him a bottomless list of missed calls from Aomine, Kise, Momoi, Kagami… and Akashi.
“…ugh…” groaned Kuroko, giving up halfway through the list and closing his cell phone.
What was he supposed to do now? How could he solve this problem? He couldn’t exactly avoid Akashi for the rest of his life. For once, the redhead wouldn’t allow it to happen and, even if he tried, Akashi would know right away that he was doing it. A nasty surprise could very well knock at his front door if such happened. So he desperately needed to find a way to confess without leaving any permanent damage to their friendship.
Because one thing was liking someone and confessing to that person. Another was literally going into heat like a rabbit whenever that person was around. If Akashi knew that the reason why he was that aroused was because of him… he would most likely get disgusted by him.
So Akashi returning to Kyoto was a blessing. The redhead would obviously need to return, seeing as the new school year would begin in the following day and, being the student council president of Rakuzan, as well as the captain of the basketball club, Akashi had to be present in the opening ceremony. That would give Kuroko time to formulate some sort of plan for this.
And for that… he needed information.
Kuroko once again opened his cell phone and started going through his contact list. Calling Momoi would usually be his first choice when searching for info on anything but he couldn’t ask for her help this time. She would start questioning him about what happened in the bathroom and he didn’t want her to know about anything of what had occurred there. Aomine was also out of the question, with his current personality. The rest of them also wouldn’t be safe bets. All that was left was the other person who knew of his curse.
He dialled the number and put his cell phone on his ear, waiting for the call to connect. He didn’t even need to wait five seconds.
“Kuroko!” almost yelled Kagami from the other side of the device, causing the bluenette to put distance between the phone and his ear. “Are you okay? What happened? Where are you right now? Did Akashi take you home or—“
“Kagami-kun, please calm down,” interrupted Kuroko, heaving a soft sigh. The redhead could be such a worrywart at times. “I’m at my house. Where else would I be?”
“Ah, no, it’s just… It was Akashi who took you back home so I just… Never mind that! How are you feeling? And what the heck happened in the bathroom?” started explaining Kagami in a quite hesitant voice, but soon going back to his never-ending questions. “I couldn’t prevent Akashi from going to the bathroom, sorry about that. But what happened for you to come out of there in his arms, unconscious?”
“Please, Kagami-kun… Don’t ask about that…” embarrassingly answered Kuroko, hiding his face with his free hand. “Just… my brain sort of entered in short-circuit and my body crashed down with it. Think of it as simply that and don’t make any more questions about it. Please.”
“O-Okay… Also, Akashi knows about your curse,” informed Kagami, with an apologetical voice. “While we were waiting for the taxi, I asked him if he knew and he… well, I didn’t understand half of what he said but he said he figured out what type of curse it is. I’m not sure if he understands that it only works with him around or not, though.”
“Yes, taking into account what happened in the bathroom, I already expected such,” sighed Kuroko, dropping his body in his bed. He must have slept for hours straight but he was already starting to feel tired once again. “And you tried your best, Kagami-kun. Thank you very much for your help.”
“Don’t sweat it. You would do the same for any of us if we were in your situation, right?” said Kagami, his voice a little bit more chipper. “Well, some of us are indeed in that situation, but in a different way.”
“Yes, that’s true,” acknowledged Kuroko with a soft nod of his head. He lifted his body to a sitting position on the bed and looked down to the floor of his bedroom, not having any other place to look at the moment. “Kagami-kun, could you please explain better what’s happening right now? You told me in the bathroom that the curse would be broken if I confessed to Akashi-kun but I don’t understand why.”
“Momoi found on the Internet an article in a blog about superstitions and other types of weird phenomenon about a brand of American jelly beans said to have a very rare item,” started explaining Kagami. “There it gave a little introduction of it but I don’t think that’s really what you want to hear about. It was written there that the jelly beans grant the deepest wish that a person has, which, in these jelly beans’ case, is achieving a successful relationship with the person you’re in love with. So you’ll be cursed until you confess.”
“I see,” acknowledged Kuroko, motioning his hand up to chin as he closely thought about what the redhead had said. “Isn’t there any way of cheating the process?”
“Am I really talking with Kuroko Tetsuya right now?” teased Kagami while laughing. “I wouldn’t expect that to be your first thought on how to solve all this crap.”
“If you were in my position, you would immediately think like that, Kagami-kun,” deadpanned Kuroko, rolling slightly his eyes. “How do you exactly expect me to confess to Akashi-kun without resorting to cheating? If I see him or hear his voice, I instantly enter into… well, you know what I mean. So is there any other method that can be used to confess?”
“Oh, I see where you’re trying to get at. Like, a love letter or something?” added Kagami, perking up at the idea. If Kuroko didn’t have to directly confess to Akashi, the curse wouldn’t be able to affect him. “I think that would be a good method for you. But I think you would have to be the one to give it to him.”
“Eh? Why?” asked Kuroko, arching slightly an eyebrow in incomprehension.
“I don’t know… I just have this nagging feeling that if you use other people as go-betweens to break the curse, it will get worse or some shit like that,” explained Kagami, his voice a little bit heavier due to the worry he was feeling at that particular aspect. “This is a curse, after all. I don’t think it will be something that easily solved, the way all of you have been ‘altered’ in some way.”
“That makes sense,” acknowledged Kuroko with a quick nod. “I’m surprised you managed to think that up, Kagami-kun.”
“Hey! I’m not an idiot, okay? I can use my head from time to time!” roared Kagami, irked at what the bluenette was insinuating right now. “Besides… remember that magical pencil that I used for the tests? It was because of it that I started thinking about your curses like that. When someone tries to mess up with that killer pencil, it backfires on them, right? So it can also happen to all of you.”
“Yes, you did get to experience the wrath of Midorima-kun’s pencil at some point, didn’t you?” teased Kuroko, chuckling softly. “Right in your forehead.”
“Shut up! I never expected that magical pencils really exist—“
“Ah, please wait a second, Kagami-kun,” interrupted Kuroko all of a sudden, hearing his cell phone beeping softly against his ear, warning him that another call was being made to him at the moment. “Someone is trying to call me right now. Let me just quickly check who it is and warn them to call a little bit later.”
“Oh, okay,” acknowledged Kagami.
Kuroko took his phone from his ear and pressed the answer button, putting Kagami’s call on hold. “Yes, Kuroko Tetsuya speaking.”
“Kuroko, it’s Akashi,” sounded the smaller redhead’s voice from the other side of the device.
“…!” Feeling a wave of heat suddenly hit his insides, Kuroko clumsily ended the call with Akashi while almost slamming his free hand on his crotch, just so he could prevent any type of reaction to develop there again.
“Kuroko? Hey!” sounded the voice of Kagami from the cell phone. It seemed that when he had dropped the electric device on the bed, it had once again connected to the taller redhead’s call.
“K-Kagami-kun… I have… to go now…” said Kuroko after having picked up the phone with his trembling hands, his breathing already starting to get picked up due to having heard Akashi’s voice right on his ear.
“Okay…? Is something wrong?” asked Kagami in a hesitant tone. The bluenette could perfectly see that the redhead was arching an eyebrow at the moment.
“It’s nothing… Gh… I’ll see you… tomorrow at school… G-Goodbye,” hastily answered Kuroko, ending the call without waiting for a confirmation from Kagami. He let the cell phone slip from his hand and then dropped his body down to the bed once again, clutching at the untidy blankets. “Haa… If I get like this… with only hearing Akashi-kun’s… voice through the phone… Haa… I will never be able to… confess…”
As he tried to calm down both the heat in his body and his heavy breathing, his cell phone started to ring once again beside his head. He took a peek at it and exasperatedly sighed. Kuroko could imagine who was the person trying to call him right now very well. It could only be one person, actually.
So he just let it ring and ring, trying to think about something other than the redhead. Maybe he should try to think of something that made him feel sick. Like Riko’s and Momoi’s cooking. The last dish Seirin’s coach had tried to cook for them had almost been fatal for some of the basketball members. The bluenette could only congratulate their captain, Hyuuga Junpei, for being brave enough (or too weak to the brunette’s puppy eyes) to actually ask for seconds.
After his phone rang non-stop for minutes, the room finally was invaded by silence. Maybe Akashi had decided to make a small pause. Though Kuroko knew that he would soon begin once again with his persistent tries to get to talk with him since he knew that the bluenette was awake already. His phone gave one more ring, but this time it wasn’t a call… it was a text.
“…ugh…” Extremely reluctantly, Kuroko motioned his hands to the phone and checked his inbox. The name of the sender was obviously Akashi.
[I’ll be in your doorstep in 3 hours. A drowning man will clutch at a straw so pick up, Kuroko.]
“Why is it that Akashi-kun… likes to torment others, I wonder…” softly mumbled Kuroko while burying his face on his bed. The next time the phone would ring, he had to pick up the call. If he didn’t, the redhead would definitely show up at his doorstep. And then Hell would break loose.
The phone started to ring in his hand. Kuroko released a shaky breath and pressed the answer button, putting the cell phone on his ear with trembling hands.
“H-Hello?”
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