Kagami Taiga had always been fascinated with ballerinas. From their tutus to their pointed toes to their grace, there was something peaceful and serene about them. He never admitted it to anyone though. He would be called sissy, gay and other such words. Kagami was not ready to be called such things so he kept his addiction private. On most Sunday evening when he was done practicing with Himuro he would sneak out to a ballet concert without letting his parents know.
There was one ballerina who caught his eyes particularly. She was a Russian ballerina and her blue eyes always managed to captivate Kagami. She was about five years older than him so that made her around twenty. But the problem was she did not a word of English. She was a part of the travelling Russian ballet troupe. Kagami wanted to be noticed by her.
Kagami had never seen anything so peaceful and beautiful at the same time. The girls who played basketball with him were strong, harsh and not the least bit delicate. Himuro had dated several of them. His type of girl was a strong girl but Kagami had always preferred the more delicate and fragile ones. Elegance was necessary in a girl if she wished to impress him.
Kagami learnt her name the second day he had come to view her performance. Tanya Peshkov. It sounded alien on his tongue yet there was something exotic and mysterious about her name that reminded Kagami so much of the girl herself. He often mentally scolded himself for falling in love so easily. Appearances can be deceiving he often reminded himself. But he was so drunk on the idea that only her love could save him for his dull and grey life. Kagami found himself reading books about Russian culture and he felt like whacking himself. As if learning about her culture would provide him with the liquid courage to speak to his lady love.
Tanya distracted Kagami from every aspect of hs life. When the teacher was printing algebraic functions on the white board he imagined Tanya dancing on the plus and minus signs. When the history teacher was teaching Russian history he imagined himself as the tsar and Tanya as the tsarist.
He was starting to bubble courage to talk to her when his father announced that they would be shifting to Japan. There ended the story of Kagami's first love.