A/N Hey, everyone…It's my first hikaru no go fanfic so I hope I didn't do too badly…Anyway, please support me, ne? Anyway the timeline is sort of au so please bear with me people. Btw, Hikaru and Akira are both around 17 in here.
Two figures sat at opposite ends, at different sides of the battlefield. It was a game of wit and skill. A game that bound two very different souls and brought them closer. But at that moment, it was not the time for a truce; it was the time for determining the stronger of the two.
One could almost feel the tense atmosphere in the air. It was almost thick enough to cut through with a knife.
"Shindou," acknowledged a boy with hair so green it was almost black.
"Touya," acknowledged his opponent, a boy whose hair was a mix of blond and black.
Their eyes shone with determination. Both brown, but relatively different. When the clock began to tick, signaling the start of the game, all they could do was think of how long they had waited for that moment.
They were rivals with a burning passion for winning against the other that even they did not know what to make of. But it did not matter, they were facing against each other now with no one else standing in between them. It was just the two of them in their own world at that moment.
Years of thinking of this day had fueled their passion even more. Why this was so, they did not know. They never did dwell on the subconscious thoughts in their mind, choosing instead to ignore it for fear of what it meant.
Unknown to them, their subconscious thoughts were about to be discovered. By whom? Why, by them, of course. As their meeting had been chanced by fate, fate in term had decided the path of what was to come for the both of them.
The slight cough from one of the spectators brought them out of their thoughts. As their hands began reaching for the small black and white pieces, they pushed whatever subconscious thoughts aside. But unknown to them, the hands of fate were already ticking.
Staring into each others eyes; seeing only determination in the other, they never noticed their hands that were moving rapidly closer to the pieces were also inches away from the other.
This was it, the start of the battle. The start of something they had spent hours, days, weeks, months and now even years waiting for. This was what it all came down to. And as fate had promised this was as well, the 'start'.
Their hearts racing, their eyes a determined gaze, their breaths held in anticipation, they were ready to start the game. But at the moment their hands accidentally met, time seemed to stop. Their eyes widened in surprise, their hearts stopped a beat and all they could do was stare into each others eye; eyes that held surprise and confusion.
Their subconscious thoughts flooded their minds and in turn became conscious thoughts. Not once did they move their hand away from the other. And so it was, the start fate had promised them.
a/n Hi guys, hope you liked my starting. I actually planned it to be a oneshot but if you want me to continue please inform me.