My Eternity

For as long as I had known him, he took my breath away. No matter what he did, my heart would skip a beat. Even when he was in full on emperor mode, all I could do was be amazed by his presence and the fact that no matter what he did, he was in control.

It started when I met him in middle school. Though I lack the words to describe our encounter, if I had to sum it up in one word, it would be magical.

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For my whole life, I had gone unnoticed, always slipping under the radar. I was never above average, always just getting by with my studies. Even if my face shows none of my emotions, it doesn't mean I don't feel. Since I was a child, all I have known is darkness, I have always been a ghost. To cope with my complete loneliness, I found basketball. Though I was never particularly good, I was finally happy. I had found something that finally allowed me to exist and be known, even if only by an inanimate ball. I put all my frustrations, sorrows, dreams, into basketball, but once I entered middle school, everything came crashing down. I was sent to the third string with no hope of crawling my way back up.

Even if I was cast aside yet I again, I was not ready to give up, so I practiced, practiced more than anybody else. I was practically living in the third string gym. That is where I met Aomine Daiki. Though he was on the first string, an amazing group of young athletes who were surprisingly the same age as me, he was unexpectedly down to Earth. We became fast friends, and he helped me practice basketball.

Everything seemed to be looking up for me, expect for the fact that I wasn't improving. No matter how hard I tried, nothing made me better. And then, when I was close to the edge, ready to fall back into my pit of despair, I was pulled back into the light, and the first thing I remember seeing was the most beautiful pair of eyes I had ever seen.

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Those heterochromatic eyes that were full of life belonged to the one and only Akashi Seijuuro. He was also on the first string of the Teiko basketball club, but the only thing that I could register as I cast my empty eyes in his direction, was his sheer presence. The second thought that ran through my mind when I finally snapped out of my stupor, was that those beautiful eyes found me and locked on immediately. In a word, I was shocked. Completely and utterly, shocked.

How could he notice my presence right away when he didn't even know I existed? Even Aomine-kun had a hard time finding me sometimes and we were basically best friends. After my shock wore off, I stared into those beautiful red and yellow eyes, and from that day forward, my life changed forever.

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In my first year at Seirin, I found myself reflecting on my middle school years. At this point in time, I once again found myself on the edge of devastation. My friends had changed, they lost their love of basketball, and it seemed everyone was a one-man team. Even Akashi-kun. The always in control Akashi-kun, had changed the most. As if he was a different person. Even if he crushed my spirit as well as the others' love for basketball, I found that the one thing he couldn't ever crush, even after his change in personality, was my love. No, not my love for the game, but my love for him, which I discovered on my last day in Teiko, when I told him I'd be going to Seirin.

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Seirin and I have been slowly but surely helping the Generation of Miracles get their love of basketball back. Though this does make me happy, I am a greedy person, and the one thing I wish for the most, above all else, is to once again stare into those beautiful, lively eyes of my love. Not the cold, calculating ones that have been present for a while now, but the ones that saved me all those years ago. The ones that pulled me from my shell and thrust me into the light, the ones that saw me, the ones that really saw me.

I wanted to be the one to bring him back. I wanted to be the one he thanked, the one that filled up his mind, the one he couldn't get over, no matter what he did, or how hard he tried. I wanted to return the favor, and save him from himself. I wanted to be the one he gave his heart, the one he loved. I wanted to be to him what he was to me… My eternity…