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A/N: Hi guys, I am back with a story which is actually a complete rewrite of "Poison of Unrequited Love" with a happy ending. I hope you'll like it. The plot is still the same. POVs will be added only where more detailed explanation will be needed. Thank you. I hope you like the chapter. It's a multi-chaptered story :)

Bond of Love: Chapter 01

"Fate brings two wandering hearts closer and when those hearts mingle together and start beating as one then love blossoms.

Love isn't about searching for someone to live with. It's actually finding someone you can't live without."

Kyoko saw the man of her dreams right in front of her eyes, the reason of her racing heart, the man who in fact was her heart beat. He was standing outside a coffee shop. The man by the name of Ren Tsuruga, her first and last love but forbidden love also.

He was the owner of her heart but she was forced to keep her love for him to herself.

The age gap between them was too much. She was 18 whereas he was 30. She knew he would never love her as he was her professor, her class teacher, her elder but she was a captive of love at first sight. She herself didn't know why her heart felt that way about him.

Kyoko's heart stopped when she saw him. How could just a sight of him do this to her? She didn't know herself. All she knew was that her heart wanted to follow him everywhere, to be around him forever, to hear his voice and to see his face but it wasn't possible because he didn't like her company. It bothered him whenever he found her around even though she just looked at him from afar, keeping herself distant not to disturb him but it still annoyed him.

Ren looked up causing her to step back. Kyoko's heart bounced to step out of her chest. He really was the cure of her longing heart.

She found him smiling at her and her heart rate quickened. His mesmerizing brown eyes met hers and she let herself swing in the depth of his brown eyes. Her heart melted right away. He was the only one who possessed the power of pulling the strings of her heart just by a single look.

His smile stirred up all the pent up emotions once again.

Ren's face brightened when he looked at her direction. "Does he feel the same way about me?" Kyoko's heart pounded in her chest and her cheeks turned red as she somehow managed to wave at him. His grin widened as he moved forward.

"Tsuruga-sensei…."Kyoko spoke shyly but she got no response because he walked straight passed her.

Kyoko turned with her heart still beating as madly as it was before and watched him rushing towards a woman who was none other than Itsumi Momose, another professor of her college.

They shared a hug and Ren pulled away to whisper something into her ear. She could see the beet red face of her female-professor as he bent down to peck her lips quickly before holding her hand.

Kyoko couldn't help but smile as the couple walked away. He already had someone he loved that's why he'd remained indifferent to her. He already had a happy relationship.

Kyoko closed her eyes, diminishing the strong urge to cry and turned to walk away with a decision to accept the principal's offer and transfer oversees to complete her studies there. She didn't have any place in his life when he was the only one mattered the most to her. She knew she would never be able to live without him but she couldn't be selfish. His happiness was hers. Her love for him was pure and she didn't want to impure it by forcing her way into his life through her unrequited feelings.

Kyoko's POV:

The sun ray shone brightly on to the busy road. People passed by me but I didn't pay attention. I wasn't interested. I continued to walk on the street, passing by multiple shops hurriedly until my gaze fell upon him and I stopped dead in my track, unable to move as if someone had glued my feet to the ground.

It was him standing outside a coffee shop, my teacher and my life.

My heart skipped a beat at his sight and practically stopped.

I felt butterflies roaming around in the pit of my stomach. I'd seen him after two weeks.

I wanted to reach out and throw my arms around him but I held myself back since he didn't like it when I was around.

I was contented just to see his face once again. My heart finally felt at peace.

Then suddenly, he looked at me and smiled, my heart beat raced and blood rushed to my cheeks.

I waved at him timidly and his grin widened as he walked towards me.

He felt the same way…? My subconscious came up with an indolent thought to comfort my wild commanding heart as I mustered the courage to speak to him but he didn't even acknowledge my presence and walked passed me as if I were invisible.

I turned to watch him rushing towards my professor Itsumi Momose.

It hurt.

They shared a gentle one-armed hug.

It hurt so much.

His lips moved towards her ear to whisper something and then kissed her lightly.

It hurt so deeply. It felt like someone had put me on fire. His ignorance and indifference burned me to bones.

He pulled away and took her hand to walk away.

It hurt beyond imagination. I felt abandoned when he'd never promised to claim me as his.

He ignored me completely as if I wasn't there.

It hurt.

He had become the reason of my existence. I didn't know why but I couldn't imagine one second of my life without seeing his face.

It hurt because he wasn't mine.

A sharp knife was plunged deeper into my heart, slicing my heart into pieces.

A sudden stab of pain encircled my whole body and I felt an abrupt urge to cry but suppressed it at once. I wasn't allowed to even whimper or show any other sign of discomfort. My love for him didn't allow me to be selfish. He had the right to choose.

My feelings for him were pure and belonged to me only. Those feelings were meant to be kept hidden deeper inside my heart.

Those feelings were not for public display. I didn't want to cause any trouble for him at college that's why I'd always kept myself at fair distance but close enough to be able to watch him. I didn't want to insult my love. He'd already been taken. I didn't know that and kept pestering him non-stop for last few months.

I finally understood. My love was one-sided. He'd never felt anything for me. I was just his student and nothing else.

I smiled as I watched them walking away together as a couple. It was a signal for me to leave him alone.

He had a life to live. I was nothing to him. I felt betrayed when he'd never confessed his love to me.

I was being selfish. I shouldn't be thinking like that. It was improper. My love for him was selfless. It didn't suit me to think that way.

Even though I seriously wanted to shove Itsumi sensei in the middle of traffic; I couldn't do it. She was my elder. She was my teacher and I respected her. She was his better match and I was happy to see the love of my life happy.

If he was happy in his relationship, I wouldn't deny him this happiness. Even though my heart broke, I was happy because he looked happy and that's all that mattered to me.

I turned to leave with the decision to leave this country and study abroad in America. I immediately decided to take the scholarship offer and avail it for my own good. I needed some time away.

4 years away from him.

4 years in America.

4 years of pure hell. No, not only 4 years but my entire life because he didn't belong to me. His heart, body, soul and thoughts belonged to someone else.

I was nowhere so it was better for me to move out of his life and leave him alone to enjoy his life properly.

I'd been nothing but a burden.

Ren's POV:

I was standing outside a coffee shop when my eyes caught a glimpse of the girl I loved more than my own life.

My heart threatened to stop at the sight of her. I wanted to forget about everything and just run to her and hug her tightly but I couldn't do so. I felt hypnotized. I wanted to go and tell her how I felt about her and assure her that her feelings weren't one sided but curses to my fate, I couldn't do that. I was forced to push her away. I was forced to act cold. I was forced to act like she didn't affect me one bit.

She looked like an angel. She looked so pure and so innocent. I wanted nothing else but her but I wasn't allowed.

I was her teacher and she was my student. We were 12 years apart.

She was young and lively while I was old and scarred.

I could see it in her eyes, her love for me, her pure selfless love for a cold-hearted man like me who never reciprocated her feelings and always pushed her away rudely.

Even though she'd always kept her distance and watched me from afar, I still insulted her everyday starting from the first day we met and I fell in love with her instantly.

I shouldn't have hurt her but I had no choice.

We couldn't be together. It was impossible. It was forbidden love. People would make fun of us. Cruel society would never let us be together happily. Love between an aged professor and his young student was prohibited.

Damn, it hurt.

Looking at her face hurt like hell.

Not being able to hold her in my arms hurt more than death.

Couldn't there be any way to bridge the age gap between us?

I couldn't be selfish. I couldn't let my feelings get the best of me. She was a brilliant student and had long way to brighten her career. I couldn't afford breaking her dreams with my own hands.

I had to act indifferent so that she could get over me and leave me alone to mourn.

I saw Itsumi-sensei waving towards me from afar so I fixed my gaze at her, ignoring the girl for whom my heart wanted to jump out of my chest.

I knew I was being unfair and rude because I was practically ignoring the girl I loved but I had no choice. I had to save her from myself. I had to save her before she could ruin her life by involving herself with me any further.

I smiled at Itsumi-sensei and walked towards her, evacuating Mogami Kyoko, the girl who held my heart.

My heart, my mind and my soul berated me for being horrible but I kicked the sour feeling aside and continued walking numbly until I stopped in front of Itsumi-sensei to hug her.

I could feel Kyoko's gaze on my back and my heart cursed me once again.

I moved forward and whispered to my colleague to 'play along' and quickly pecked her lips lightly and she didn't protest.

My heart wrecked. I could feel the burning pieces of my scattered heart.

Tears pricked my eyes but I blinked them away proficiently. I wanted to scream but I was an adult. I had to act like one. "I love you Mogami Kyoko. I love you to death. I wish I could tell you but we are ages apart. You'll be happier with someone else. I am sorry for banishing you from my life. You deserve so much better. You are angel who can't be with a devil like me but I still love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. It hurts. It hurts so much. I can't take it. I just want to be with you but I know I can't. It's not possible" My heart argued with me but I fought against its will and won over it because my heart wasn't whole anymore. It had already broken.

I reluctantly took Itsumi-sensei's hand and walked away before surrendering against the desire of my heart.

I hurt her. I broke her heart. She'd never forgive me. I didn't deserve her. A man like me didn't deserve a pure soul like Mogami Kyoko.

Bit by bit I felt myself dying as I walked away from her with a heavy heart.

Sitting in principal's office Lory Takarada, Kyoko inhaled sharply before looking at him with determination in her eyes as she spoke gently.

"I'd like to complete my studies in America Sir. Thank you for offering me the scholarship."

I wish you happiness Tsuruga-sensei. I won't bother you again. I am going far away. I'm taking my love for you with me to a place where no one will consider it forbidden. I'll love you for eternity, even if I have to live my life in solitude, I'll never forget about you. I'll have no one else in my life except you. My feelings for you will never change and I'll never let my love become a humiliation for you. Good bye. I don't have a heart to say it in person.

"Love is a pure emotion. When it happens, it consumes your entire being, leaving no chance of escape to get rid of it. The best thing about love is that it gives you the right to reject and make your own choices. True love never lets you down because it's a soul to soul or heart to heart connection which is free from the desire of physical contact, conflicts of age and selfish rules and regulations of so- called narrow-minded society. It is an eternal sacred binding of two individuals from soul to soul."

END of Chapter 01

That's it. I hope you'll like this re-write more than the original tragic story I previously posted here. You can read that one too before reading it. Please share your feelings about it. Thank you for reading "Poison of Unrequited Love" This story is rewrite of Poison of Unrequited Love and I promise this story has a happy ending :)

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