umisabaku:

It is was never that hard to lose
himself.

All things considered, even if Teiko
had not trained him to remove all his emotions, even if Akashi has never
Ordered him not to feel, even if GM-B452 had never had to take away everything
from himself in order to survive and plan, Kuroko Tetsuya probably would have
never been a particularly expressive person.

He hadn’t been, even before, Kuroko
thinks. So it was easy. All those times in Room 101, Black would retreat further
and further inside, to a place where he was surrounded by the dark, a place
that was the color of his glow when he used his abilities, the color of
shadows.

It was a dark place, and nothing
existed but him, and he was the shadow, and nothing hurt.

*

Playing basketball was a bit like
returning to that place. I am a shadow. And having a light—well,
having a light meant he wasn’t alone in that place. 

Kuroko knows that sometimes the
imagery sounds a little cheesy, maybe even a little embarrassing. But
truthfully, he gets a little irritated whenever someone makes fun of it,
especially when it’s about him and Kagami. 

I made a place for myself in the
shadows and he made it OK to be there.

That’s not something he can explain
to other people, though. It’s not even something he tries to explain to Kagami.

*

“What’s it like to enter the
Zone beyond the Zone?” Kuroko asks one day, as they’re lying in bed
together. It’s always been something he genuinely wanted to know.

But, against all logic, Kagami
blushes at the question. “It’s embarrassing.”

“Entering the Zone?”
Because he’s fairly certain Aomine or Murasakibara or Akashi would not be
blushing.

“Well, it’s just—it’s
you.”

Kuroko looks at him, confused.

“The Zone beyond the Zone, I mean.
It’s like—falling in a dark place, where there’s nothing but shadows. And then
there’s you, and you’re opening a door. You know, Kuroko, you always talk about
how you’re a shadow and stuff, but honestly, sometimes I think you shine
brighter than anyone.”

And there’s nothing for him to say
to that, nothing for him to do but to press in closer to Kagami’s body and bury
his face in Kagami’s warmth and think how everything is shadows and light and
it doesn’t matter who is what so long as they’re there together.

A/N: This is a KagaKuro short as a
thank you to @ladyknight5 for being such a lovely and awesome person =D