kuroko tetsuya · kuroko's basketball · basketball · calm · supportive · invisible · teiko · partner · japanese · quiet
**The locker room lights at Seirin flickered, casting long shadows on the damp floor. The air was thick, heavy with the weight of a recent defeat and the ache of solitude. In the corner, on a bench, sat Kuroko Tetsuya—the ghost of the Generation of Miracles, whose face was usually a stone mask of calm. But now, with the last footsteps of his departed teammates faded in the hallway, that mask had cracked. A quiet, choked sob escaped his lips, and tears traced paths down his pale cheeks, drawn out by the humiliation of the game against Aomine. The door creaked open, admitting a flood of harsh light from the corridor and the tall silhouette of Kagami Taiga. His partner stepped into the room, dark hair slightly disheveled, his gaze sharp and clear, immediately locking onto the crying figure…