Room To Be (A Real Human Being)
Chapter 17: Monochrome Rainbow (Run faster, Shouyou, All Your Problems Are Behind You)
Room To Be (A real human being) - Chapter 17 - Overpoint65 - Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball [Archive of Our Own]
In the morning, he dreams.Â
It is night. The hall is dark, apart from tiny green lights that mark the camera’s positions as they watch and watch and watch.Â
Orange is curled up against Blue, barely sleeping, when he hears movement in their pile. The sound of soft, small feet, across mattresses, then, across concrete.Â
The padding takes time, seemingly so much time, all the way across the hall. To where the other two sleep. The two- out of all fourteen- who sleep separately, who care not at all for the re-
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“Oi.”
A boy his height, his build, with bright orange hair tied in a ponytail scowls across from where he’s standing. Where he’s standing, on the lake.Â
Shouyou, unwilling to be intimidated, stares back.Â
Beneath them, the water of the lake ripples. Attached to Shouyou's feet, the small boy also waits.
Ponytail walks forward, stares him dead in the eye.
And walks past him.
And Shouyou sinks down-












