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Warning: Future yaoi (boyxboy). Rating might go up.
Kagami opened his eyes two weeks after New Years.
Aomine had been in school when he heard the news and it didn't take much for him to run all the way to the hospital without stopping.
When he made it to the hospital, Kagami had already fallen asleep. As he watched the other sleep soundly in his hospital bed, himself out of breath, he thought for a minute that the call he had gotten had been a cruel joke. That Kagami was still comatose and he was finally going crazy from the waiting, but Kagami's mother came to him with a smile and hugged him as she cried in joy.
As she hugged him, once more she told him that "yes, he opened his eyes".
It wasn't a cruel joke, the red-head had finally woken up and he couldn't describe the feeling he got. All he could do at that moment was excuse himself as he went to the bathroom and let all the emotions out. Kagami's mother didn't seem to mind and just smiled at him when he came back from the bathroom; all red-eyed and with a big smile on his face.
The doctor told them that cases like Kagami didn't wake up right away, but the more times he opened his eyes the more aware he became. Eventually he would be able stay awake. He also told them that until than they wouldn't know how much Kagami would remember; amnesia wasn't uncommon when comatose patients awoke.
All that the doctor told them was right.
The second time Kagami opened his eyes was two days after the first time and Aomine was actually there.
Aomine's heart felt as it stopped the moment those exhausted red eyes locked with his own blue ones.
He opened his mouth to tell the red-head something, anything, but his mind went blank and all he could do was stare wide-eyed at Kagami who was battling with himself to stay awake. Exhaustion won and the red-haired male was back asleep within a few minutes.
It was ridiculous how happy that single moment made him and Aomine was sure that crying was becoming the norm when it had something to do with Kagami.
By the second week Kagami was able to stay awake for at least an hour or more and it kept increasing the more times he woke up. During that time, Kagami spent a lot of it with his doctor and nurses. In their evaluation they found that the red-head was able to talk, and other than the fact that he was slightly weak, his ability to move seemed intact.
The only thing they found was that Kagami's memory seemed to suffer. He was able to recognize his mother, father, and even Himuro. Other than that though, he did not recognize anyone else.
Aomine was happy, at least he tried to be. It didn't change that fact that it hurt when the red-head looked straight at him and asked him who he was. As if being hit with bricks, he felt his throat close and eyes water. Closing his eyes he did his best to gather himself and not show the weakness within him. Opening his eyes he looked at the other and with a straight face, and voice slightly hoarse from suppressed emotions, he told him his name.
Kagami was released from the hospital on the second month of the new year.
He still had amnesia and his mother had decided to stay while Kagami's father did not have such luxury. His job demanded him back to America and he left reluctantly.
Aomine still went to visit Kagami everyday after school with Satsuki and Kuroko. To his displeasure they rarely got to be alone; seeing as Kagami's teammates visited just as much as well as some other friends. Though the more he went over, the more began to notice Kagami's gaze on him.
A sort of curious gaze.
"Were we close?" Kagami asked him out of the blue one day and in front of everyone.
Surprised and still not prepared to really talk to Kagami, no matter how much he had wanted to, he eloquently answered with a "huh?"
The red-head repeated his question as he moved to sit next to Aomine on the couch, fixating him with that curious face and waiting for his response. Feeling the gaze of everyone in the apartment on him, Aomine wrecked his now blank brain for an answer.
Had they been close?
Their relationship had always been sort of odd. They had spent a lot of time together, but they were either playing basketball or arguing with each other. He use to barge into the red-heads apartment waiting to be fed or simply just to be there, but they never really shared personal information with each other like "close" friends. Other than their names and some other little information, Aomine wasn't sure how to answer.
Especially since he didn't want to be just friends.
Scratching the back of his head, he lazily looked at the red-head before shrugging and saying: "Yeah, guess you can say that."
Unsatisfied with that answer Kagami scrunched up his eyebrows and didn't let Aomine to end it with just that.
"What kind of answer is that! Were we or were we not friends?" Kagami demanded.
Aomine quirked an eyebrow, not really understanding why the other was so insisting on wanting to know what they were. He never saw him question anyone else he didn't remember, the red-head had just accepted that they were all his friends. So why did his answer matter?
Looking at the others face carefully he tried to figure out the motive. A bit of hope that the red-head perhaps remembered who he was slipping in his heart, but all he could see was curiosity and frustration from not getting that fulfillment. Aomine wasn't sure why, but it sort of pissed him off.
Still he couldn't bring himself to quarrel with the red-head like he use to, and he knew the other well enough to know that no matter what answer he gave it would start some sort of fight because even now he could see it was still Kagami he was dealing with. But the fact that the other didn't so much know who he was dealing with made something within him hurt.
With a sigh Aomine got off the couch, slinging his bag over his shoulder, and walking to the door.
"Oi! where-"
"Yeah, Bakagmi we were friends," Aomine interrupted, as he looked back at the other male's shocked expression.
Finally finished this chapter! For some reason I wasn't satisfied with it and kept re-writing, but I think this one is okay (I hope). So yes even with Kagami waking up there will still be angst (poor Aomine doesn't get a break but that life for ya), but I'm hoping the slow romancing I plan on writing will make it sweet. Thanks for all the reviews/favs/follows :).