Author's Note; So, yes. I've started with a Kise story. I love this guy so much, it's impossible not to love him. And this story came to me when I was sitting in literature class, reading Rumi's poetry. How many of you are enchanted with Rumi? Ah, the lines, the meaning, the depth!

He's the reason I attempt romance.

So, waiting for KnB season 3 is just too hard, so why not write a story? I've got an Aomine and Murasakibara story in mind as well, but I'll post that depending on how well this goes. Hehe. (I've also got Tatsuya, Midorima, Takao, Kuroko, Akashi, Kagami, Kasamatsu, Kiyoshi and Imayoshi). The poem that the prologue starts out with is written by Rumi - Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, and known more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.*wikipedia*

The whole poem is like this -

"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along."

So I've tried my best to keep Ryota in character, and I think I've done a good job. For now. And I would appreciate it if you'd review on what you think about this story and how it's progressing. I'll try and keep my updates quick too. Toodles, for now~!

Prologue; A Glance.

[...lovers don't finally meet somewhere...]

The girl stared at the book she found on her desk and wondered who the person was. Their names couldn't have been mismatched; their names weren't even of the same letters. The girl sighed and stuffed the book inside her bag, knowing just where to find the said person since after all, the person was her classmate.

This was a prank, she believed and didn't care about it half as much as she should and walked to the gym where the person would most probably be since it was an hour after school and he was a basketball player. It still didn't occur to her why it was his book that landed up with her. Ryota Kise never even spoke to her before, and all of a sudden she has his mathematics book.

Ignoring a burning temptation to open the book and find out if he was really that good in math like they said he was, the girl scanned her eyes over the blonde male's writing in his class work and was marveled with his writing. Every single one of the problem was similar to how she solved it. Similar to how the teacher would solve it in class. In fact, it was almost as if the teacher himself solved it for the male.

On reaching the gym, the girl noticed she wasn't the only girl there. She sighed and stepped in to find several other girls screeching out one player's name in particular, and the said player ignored it as if it was something he was used to, which he might have been. She walked a step closer to the gym only to be pulled back and her eyes widened with the sudden change of pace. "What the-"

"What do you think you're doing here, Morine?"A nasty sounding voice rang in her ears, and the girl who was now situated firmly on the ground, didn't move. She held the book tightly, and surprisingly that went unseen by the group of girls who were now surrounding her. "Here to see our Kise-kun?" The way she dragged the last bit of his name made Morine want to puke, since she hadn't ever heard of something so annoying before. The girl stood up, and brushed her skirt and turned to the one who pushed her down and said, "I don't have to explain anything to the likes of you."

And thus, another type of screeching could be heard now, and this was what made the basketball players stop playing and turn to see what the ruckus was about. One player in particular was to be blamed for this, both the Captain and Coach of the team had deduced and the Coach yelled at the group of girls, "That's it! Next time onwards, those who don't have business in the gym aren't allowed!" the girls slowly but begrudgingly made their ways out of the gym room, and Morine stood behind and that alerted Kise's attention.

"I think she wants to confess to you, Kise." Somebody from his team said and Kise sighed, this was the fifth girl that day. Morine stood unmoving, and her gaze was fixed on the blonde and she didn't look like she was here to tell him she liked him. She had no expression on her face, and he wondered what she wanted. Even so, Kise was used to being wanted and this was almost getting to him, though he would never state it.

"She was the reason the fight began, she said something to one of your fan-girls and the girls went berserk."Kise didn't move from his spot, and Morine grew tired. She begrudgingly walked over to the blonde and stood a few feet before him when the male said, "Shouldn't we go somewhere private-"He felt something hard hit on his face and then a sharp voice said, "I wasn't here to confess to you, I was here to return your math class work book, because it was on my desk by mistake."

With that, she turned on her heel and walked off, leaving behind the entire basketball team dazed, even the Captain and Coach who themselves were shocked with what happened. Kise blinked and followed the girl's tread until she left and then he heard someone from behind him mutter, "So there are girls who don't like Kise after all…" Kise then felt a slight burn on his forehead.

That girl had given him a paper cut.

[...they're in each other, all along...]