The Life Hacker System 25 Meeting Maya

Nerves and excitement filled him.

Walking out of cla.s.s down the school corridor there was gasps and stares from the people filling it.

Taka continued forward, pace now quickening as a soft smile emerged on his face, thoughts racing through his mind at a speed not quantifiable by modern day science.

Due to the increased activity in his mind his eyes began alternating colours from gold to silver, to silver then gold. As the sea of people saw this the parted in awe mesmerised by what they saw.

The people in Taka's cla.s.s were even more fascinated by the fact that the once handsome yet cold and indifferent devil from their cla.s.s now had the softest of smiles playing on his face.

Taka's perception of time seemed to s.h.i.+ft. Every second for everyone else felt like an eternity to him. Maybe it was the systems doing or maybe it was his own, but he really didn't even care at this point.

To Taka the world around him had zoned out, his body moving on auto-pilot. He'd even zoned out the system.

Taka finally reached the end of the corridor, arriving at the double doors which he felt had taken an eternity to reach; he stopped and sighed reached out and pushed his way through.

Taking a few steps out and rounding a corner, only to walk into someone.

BANG.

Taka's mind stopped processing everything and I mean everything. No thought ran through his head almost as if a robot had its coding wiped.

Her figure in front of him.

Wind blew releasing cascading cherry blossom petals through the air surrounding the two.

Time stopped in that moment as if the universe was taking a picture.

Looking at her without blinking worrying that she might disappear again.

Memories emerging which he'd long since thought forgotten.

Memories of his best friend.

The person who brought him back to the light.

Made him good.

Protected him from his rage, from his animalistic blood l.u.s.t.

Protected him from the darkness that lay deep within his soul.

The darkness that had made an appearance just recently in the incident at the research inst.i.tute.

The reaper, as it was known in his previous life time.

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Taka was frozen by the sight of her. Eventually regaining his thought processes he managed to stand only to once again gaze at her as time appeared to slow once again.

Maya was still as beautiful as he remembered, in fact his memories didn't do justice to just how beautiful she was.

Her blue eyes aglow with warmth that could warm a hundred homes in the dead of winter.

Her hair golden settling on her shoulders while it s.h.i.+mmered like it was actually made, from the rays of the sun.

Her lips always in a casual smirk, gave the impression they were mocking any idiot, who tried anything funny.

Her clothes casual yet somehow not dimming her beauty in the least.

Now this took awhile to describe but it all happened in the matter of seconds.

Taka offered his hand to help her up; which she grabbed willingly.

Merely to stand up and stare into his eyes.

Her eyes fixated onto his for several seconds.

A smile bloomed on her face when she said the words that sent a s.h.i.+ver through Taka's very soul.

Maya spoke in almost a purr.

"Took you long enough, Ay Taka"

Taka's eyes widened shock filling them as warning sounds were ringing out from the system.