Over and Over Again with You

Chapter 2

"Tetsuyacchi does the same thing everyday."

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"We're home." Daiki yelled as he walked through the front door while carrying Kuroko's bags of art supplies that the bluenette bought while they were in town. Kuroko followed closely behind as they went to the kitchen to greet thier father Satoshi and other brother Taiga.

Their miniature husky, Nigou, eagerly barked welcoming them home. The puppy rubbed against Kuroko's legs until the bluenette bent down and scratched behind his ears. Nigou was adopted on the first birthday Kuroko had after his mother passed away. Satoshi and his brothers had taken Kuroko to the animal shelter that day and told him he could adopt any pet he wanted as his birthday present. Kuroko fell in love with the husky puppy as soon as his blue eyes meet the puppy's extremely similar blue eyes. Taiga of course having a fear of dogs tried his hardest to convinve Kuroko to get a cat instead, but the red head couldn't even get his little brother to move away from the puppy's cage.

"You two are home late." Satoshi said as he looked up from the newspaper he was reading. At least that's what it looked like from Kuroko's perspective. The date in the upper right hand corner of the paper was October 13th of last year, and Satoshi had re-read the paper so many times he knew the articles by heart. However to aid in Kuroko's understanding of what day it was Satoshi pretended to read the paper anyway.

"Yeah well we would have been home sooner if Tetsu didn't spend an eternity in the paint section. Seriously, Tetsu is the only person I know who spends an hour looking at paint and only ends up buying three of the same color." Daiki complained as he slumped down in the kitchen chair next to their father.

"Daiki-nii is mean." Kuroko said still petting Nigou. "And the paints are not the same color. One is crimson, one is scarlet and one is imperial red."

"Whatever." Daiki said as he picked up an orange out of the fruit bowl on the table and started peeling it. "All I know is it took you an hour too buy three bottles of red paint."

"I didn't just buy paint. I also got two new sets of brushes and a new paint pallet." Kruroko mummbled loud enough that only his father heard him.

"You're lucky it only took an hour. Last time I took him, we were there for two and a half hours while Tetsuya got into a debate with the store owner about which kind of paint was better; oil or acrylic. Then when Tetsuya saw that they got new canvses in, he bought twelve; and guess who had to carry them." Taiga said causing Kuroko to pout slightly due to his older brothers teasing. Since both of his brothers were now within his reach Kuroko took the opportunity to jab both of them in the ribs causing them to yell out in pain. All Satoshi could do was chuckle at the actions of his three boys.

"There is nothing wrong with being passionate about something." Satoshi said as he patted his youngest boy on the head.

"Oh before I forget, you know how we had to have the wall in the living room repaired after Daiki and Taiga managed to break through the drywall during one of their competitive moments." Satoshi said. "Well the company I hired fixed it yesterday. The wall still needs to be painted though; and I was thinking I could have Daiki and Taiga do it."

"Huh?!" Both the older btothers said at the same time interrupting Satoshi.

"...But then they would just get into a competition over who could paint faster and its would end up looking so sloppy that it would need to be redone again anyway. So I was thinking why not let my very talented youngest son paint one of his own original pictures on the wall instead. Your mother always used to say that the room could use some color. You could paint whatever you..."

"Um dad, Tetsuya left the room to go get his art supplies as soon as he heard you say 'youngest son paint'." Taiga said. Sure enough when Satoshi looked at the spot Tetsuya had been he saw not a trace of the bluenette. There was a slight ruckus coming from the living room and when the three older males peeked around the corner they saw Kuroko laying down an old sheet to protect the floor, moving the lamp and turning it on to illuminate his work space and setting up the paints he was planning to use. It made the older males happy to see Kuroko so focused on something he loved to do.