32OOOkay, I kinda lied. I wuz writing this and it hit my 8 page max. Sooo sleepover chappy is next! This is all just Kuroko and Seijuro (and his family).
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ALSO if you have any ideas or any strange weird things or whatever your twisted reader minds would like to suggest for the sleepover, I am open for suggestions!
It's been such a long time since I've seen this place, but it's still as grand and empty as I last saw it. It was an old style residence probably in the family for a very long time, but the residence is only of the Sei-kun…his mother, who is an successful flower arranger and pottery maker, his father, the founder/CEO of the Akashi Corporation, both are not home much, and…I wonder if he's still here…
"Welcome back, Ms. Kuroko. Beautiful as always." He smiled and bowed, it was him! His once white-blonde hair still tied back while his bangs curled over one of his eyes, he was European and was a high ranking butler in his old days. I would guess more for his looks than his service.
"Dorian-san!" I bowed back. He was old when I last saw him, and he still looked the same, it was strange he was always an old man to me…but he was a princely old man, a flirt and such, but he was also very sarcastic and sadistic probably where Sei-kun gets his women skills from. "Ano…if you don't mind…how old are you now?"
"Is that an order hime-sama?" Still as cynical as ever. "Ladies first."
"15."
"95 and still young." He kissed my hand and winked.
"I see that." I giggled.
"Come. The lady and the master finally came home just to see you. Beware though my lady has a stick up her arse about having been called home from her studio in the garden in the middle of her 'zone' time."
"Oh I see." This was no good, Ms. Akashi never liked me anyway, she always called me plain and creepy while Mr. Akashi liked how I was doll like and silent but still had a firm hand. Or so they said…
"Are you ready?" Dorian-san asked, I nodded, I might as well get it over with. "Pardon my intrusion master, my lady, but Ms. Kuroko is here."
"Send her in." Mr. Akashi's voice curt and booming voice ordered. I automatically stiffened. "Hello Tetsuya."
"Hello sir." I bowed in his direction.
"Ah, hello to you too Ms. Kuroko." Ms. Kuroko said with a fake smile, I knew she was trying to be spiteful, I am not dense.
"Hello to you too, Lady Akashi." I nodded and bowed again in her direction.
"How are your studies?" Mr. Akashi got straight to the point.
"In the top 25 percentile sir." I assured him.
"Ah~weren't you in the top 25 the last time? No improvement there."
"Yoko, I am sure you're being too critical. Middle school is much more competitive than primary school."
"Oh, my mistake." She looked away and rolled her eyes.
"And how are you and Seijuro getting along?"
"We do not have classes together, so we barely see each other, but lately we've been frequenting."
"Oh I see, as you know Tetsuya, I have eyes everywhere." Strange my father says that as well. "I heard you are playing basketball with Seijuro."
"Yes sir." I admitted.
"How is that so? It is an all boys basketball team."
"I am crossdressing, the school made a mix up and gave me a boys uniform because of my name."
"How shameful! Do you know what effect it would have on Seijuro if he were seen together!"
"I have taken that in account, ma'am. I am a teammate of Seijuro's, he is a captain of the basketball team after all, and it is not uncommon." I informed her.
"Has Seijuro been seeing you romantically?" Mr. Akashi went on.
"As of late he has made small advances, but he is cautious when I am in…"
"Drag." Ms. Kuroko jumped in.
"…Boys…clothes…I was going to say." I blinked, she was vicious today.
"I do not mind the crossdressing..." He began.
"Kamui!"
"Yoko, I am speaking." He warned. "However, you are not crossdressing outside of school, are you?"
"No sir."
"That is all that I wanted to know, Yoko, it is your turn." I stood and left the room, leaving me with the woman who probably hates me the most in this world.
"Strip." She ordered. I stood and dropped my kimono on the floor. "So quick, you have no shame do you?"
"No ma'am. I am simply being complaint since it is clear that you do not want to be here for very much longer."
"Good girl." She nodded. "What. Are. These?" It is such a habit, I forgot not to put them on after I showered.
"Ace wraps, ma'am, they are in the way when playing, so I wrap them up." She 'tsked' and continued around me.
"As usual, you're small framed, and now you're starting to become toned, instead of soft. Fix that. What cup size are you?" She looked at my bare body.
"B."
"Hmph, barely enough to be in the way, don't you say? Oh yeah, it's because your posing as a boy." She poked at the side of my wrapped breasts. "And this isn't your real hair is it?" She yanked a bit hard on my fake ponytail.
"No ma'am."
"Tell me Kuroko, do you wish to be a man? It would certainly change your destiny, wouldn't it? If it is any consolation. I wish you were a man, as well." I never knew what I did to make her hate me so…she used to be so nice to me before the she was told that I was going to be Sei-kun's wife, they had kept it a secret from her…I always thought that is why, but now I'm not so sure…she sounds…jealous.
"No ma'am. I do not wish to be a man. It does not matter to me what gender I am, but if I did want to become a man, I wouldn't for that reason, because I can change my fate as a woman." I said frankly.
"Oh? So you're saying that you are fighting against this marriage? After all that sucking up to Kamui earlier…" She looked shocked for a moment but slipped into her usual tired look.
"Yes, my crossdressing and my grades are for myself and myself only." I nodded.
"I was once a Kuroko as well." She reminded me.
"I am aware you are my aunt." I nodded, she turned her head quickly to glare at me.
"Let me tell you, I was like you, you will fight and fight, and someday you will realize it is futile. Then when you get here you'll find it is not as bad, you bear a child, and you are left alone with all the riches and luxuries that the company can give. It is really not that bad." Her face went stone blank, she was lying, she hated this marriage, my uncle, and even though not much knew, she hated Seijuro.
"I will keep that in mind." I nodded, I didn't want to provoke her further.
"No, you won't." she said in a sing-song voice.
"I'm glad we could understand each other today, Auntie Yoko." I bowed.
"Did we? I don't recall." She opened a window and lit a cigarette.
"You gave me more inspiration to fight this." I smiled a bit.
"Did I?" She exhaled all the smoke out the window.
"Yes."
"Well I mean it when it's futile, don't be stupid, they'll target you and your loved ones, you'll give in." She was so sure…but her face looked like she was thinking hard about it.
"Yes, but I'm not like you." She had someone she loved already and she knew she was arranged to be married. So she fought fiercely for a few months putting pressure on her lover to give her up, and when he did, she gave up.
"Indeed, you aren't, you're smart." She frowned at the beautiful garden outside the window. "So, what are you going to do then? About my son? Unlike my Akashi, he likes you."
"He has a very sadistic way of expressing it." I said candidly.
"Trust me, that is how the Akashi show their love, my son is no different." The venom in her voice rose as she spoke about Sei-kun.
"I ignore his advances." I said decidedly.
"Hmph." She said simply. "Good girl."
"Excuse me?" I blinked.
"I said nothing, are you feeling well? Put on your clothes and get out of here." She straight out flung the still burning cigarette into the garden.
"It'll catch on fire!" I warned but she simply shrugged.
"Heh, I wish this whole place would catch on fire… I've tried everything and couldn't escape. So I loathe that you think your so special that you can evade this unhappy fate, but it repulses me even more that I believe that you can." Her face scrunched up and she looked really mad but also it was a look of helplessness, much like the face the opposing teams of the generation of miracles make during a match.
"Auntie…"
"Get out of here as fast as you can. Do you hear me?" She raised a brow at me, as to see if I got the double meaning.
"Yes ma'am." I had no idea she felt that way…was life as an Akashi wife so unhappy?
"Good girl." She smiled tiredly and made a half crazed expression, as the flames of the garden picked up and spread.
I closed the door quietly, and came face to face with Mr. Akashi.
"How did it go?" He asked.
"She set the garden on fire." I deadpanned.
"No matter, what I do, she is still unhappy. I think if given the chance she'd run away." She did once. I believe.
"You wouldn't allow that, would you?" I asked. "I-I'm sorry, that is not my place to say such a thing." I'm always used to speaking my mind to others, but this is the man who holds power over my parents and consequently myself, I will not worsen the burden for my parents by doing so.
"No, you are right. Tradition and business that is the top priority of an Akashi." He said firmly with no sense of regret. "Dorian will drive you home, so you can have time to prepare your house for that sleepover."
"Aren't you concerned about other men besides Sei-kun sleeping in my room?" I mentally slapped myself for doing it again.
"I disapprove of it greatly. But what I've learned from my wife, is that you can only ask for so much. As long as Seijuro is there, I am sure he will let no inappropriate events occur." He said with a sure nod. "Now go before it is too late."
"Goodbye sir."
"Goodbye Tetsuya."
At Kuroko-chans house!
"OH, My baby! How'd it go~?" Okaa-san jumped out the house to hug me tight. I am so glad I can come back to such a warm place. I could've sworn the Akashi residence was like it was in black and white or gray even, it was so dull and lonely feeling, nothing like the home I know.
"I got an okay, I think…" I hugged her back.
"I am glad." An familiar not my father voice said. I craned my head over okaa-san and spotted Sei-kun leaning on the door frame. What was he doing here?
"You're father had to work late, and Seijuro agreed to help set up the house for the sleepover! Isn't he sweet?" She squealed. Sweet? What happened to two face demon child?
I looked to Sei-kun and okaa-san, for okaa-san to say such a thing about Sei-kun….what did he do?
I walked in and the house was really clean, and my room especially so.
"He even went shopping with me for ingredients for dinner and snacks, and paid for them!" She squealed again. He did? I could feel a surprise coming along…perhaps he relieved the debt on us! Or maybe the marriage? No…that is too much to ask, I shall wait patiently to see.
"Thank you, Sei-kun." I tried to smiled but only managed a tight lipped side smirk.
"No, it is simply courtesy…Tetsuya." He added the last part a few seconds later, I guess the name problem is over now.
"I got to go take dinner to your father, Seijuro please make yourself at home!" Okaa-san yelled and zoomed out the door. Something was definitaley up…okaa-san would've taken me with her. She always spoke her opinion about Sei-kun and I being alone since my primary school graduation.
"Bye." I said to a shut door, what was with her?
"Tetsuya…" I heard Sei-kun call.
"Yes?" I answered.
"So you'll be sleeping next to me tonight, yes?" He asked with a smirk. Oh, yes, the sleepover…
"If possible I'd like to sleep on my bed." What a strange question, I suppose so, if there is no room.
"Ha, you're not like most girls, you know that? Most girls would blush and turn away." He commented as if he expected it.
"I know Sei-kun wouldn't do anything like that to me." I assured him.
"We're not kids anymore Tetsuya, I am a man now. I worry that you trust people too much because of this lifestyle you lead. I am capable of pushing you down and claiming what's mine, but I do not because I am a gentleman." A scissor scarring, name calling, sadistic, and possessive, gentleman? Do such things exist?
"Because you're an Akashi." I corrected.
"Wrong." He frowned. "I take great pride in my family name, but I do not let it define me. If it were my father he would've done so already, also if it was my father you'd already have a ring on your finger."
How foolish of me to have forgotten…I was supposed to be married at 15. Sei-kun postponed that, and also he hadn't told his father about my crossdressing. I have to admit that he has been more gentlemanly as of late…but why?
"So…why is it that you haven't?" I raised a brow.
"Because Tetsuya I don't love you yet. You interest me greatly and I like you a lot. But it occurred to me that I do not know you enough to love you and you me. So from now on I will get to know you better, see all sides of you and you me."
"And how do you intend to do that?" I asked half worried of the answer.
"I have asked permission from your mother and your father and they have accepted. As of today, I am a temporary resident of this household."
"B-But…" I was dumbstruck, Onii-san is going to be so mad, and him living here?! This is my hiding place from him and now he's going to live with me? J-just w-wha... he put a finger to my lips to silence the stuttering of my disorganized thoughts.
"I will be staying in Toshiro's room, if you need me. And I will be walking you to school from now on. So be prepared." He winked and made his way up to what was now his room.
I stormed off to the phone and called okaa-san. What is going on?!
"I am so sorry!" She cried immediately. "H-he suddenly came over and offer to pay half our debt off for rent, and then your father got mad and started yelling and he just stood there and took it and then he broke out and told us how much he loved you, it was sooo beautiful, the way he said it, there's was no way it was a lie! Just give him a chance honey, he really does care for you, it even brought your father to forgive him, FORGIVE him!"
"W-what did he say?" W-who is this? And where is my okaa-san?
"He said that he was worried that since you two don't have classes together and barely see each other that you would not see him romantically but only as a cousin. And actually said to please give him a chance to get you to fall in love with him, and him and your father laid down rules for the bet and there it was! If he can get you to fall in love with him by the end of the year then he will get our blessing and if he doesn't he'll pay all our debt!" She explained without breaks again.
"Are you sure you want me to give him a chance? Shouldn't I not fall in love with him? To be honest okaa-san, I am very confused right now."
"That is just how taken I was with his speech, I really do believe him despite his sadistic ways."
"Okaa-san…" My okaa-san is a strong woman and is amazingly stubborn, she is not one to be easily swayed by sweet words. Just what did Sei-kun say?
"I want you to be happy honey, I always have, debt or not. As long as your happy, I am happy, this is the first boy to take interest in your besides your brother, just give him a chance…no, it's not even that. See him as a man. That is all I am asking." If that's the case, how would that work with him living with me? If anything wouldn't it make me see him more as a cousin?
I don't get it, I truly don't…Sei-kun just said he didn't love me so…what is he up to?
So yep...that is the chappy, as usual let me know what you think, good or bad. Also, I am accepting suggestions and ideas on things that should happen at the sleepover. Such as perhaps some lovey dovey akakuro? Perhaps something ridiculously crazy like a random fight or kagami as the pizza man or something lol idk...just anything really:) PM or Review.