360 Degrees Prologue

I'm in love.

So in love that it's really all i think about. So much that even now when I'm supposed to be working and make a living for myself, I can't concentrate even if i tried!

Lets back up a bit.

My name is Riku Kuroyami. Short silver hair, green eyes, 6'1, slender, and weigh in at 182 pounds. I am almost seventeen years old and i just got hired as an undercover cop/private investigator about four months ago. The person whom I am in love with is also in the same business as I am....but with a lot more experience.

Okay, about twelve more years of experience.

You see- the person I am in love with is currently thirty three years old. On top of that, he's a man- like myself.

Did I mention we've barely spoken more than two sentences to one another? yah, he doesn't know I love him.     

I know i know I KNOW what your thinking. But us ending up working together was destiny.

Let me elaborate. When i was only nine years old my mom would drive me down to the park  and I would lay in the grass next to me favorite tree. I had decided to venture off into another area of the park and ended up falling asleep under another tree, and when i woke up- the sun was going down and mom was gone. I ran back and forth throughout the park, but as time passed, i couldn't find her. Scared and alone i made my way over to a park bench and tried to calm myself down. Tears started to fall involuntarily down my face before i sensed someone approaching me....

~FLASHBACK~

"Hey kiddo. It's getting dark. Better run along home now." mumbled the man as he lit his cigarette.

The man is intimidating. He has dark grey hair and stubble along his jawline. He is also wearing a suit but looks in no shape to be on his way to work or coming back from it. 'Either way, I...'

"I can't. I'm lost." Tears started to swell up in my eyes again. "I don't know my way home from here. It's about a ten minute drive, but we just moved there and...and.." Just before i felt like I was going to start crying, i felt a hand rest itself on the top of my head. I looked up at the man, who was now putting out his just-lit cigarette with his other hand. "Everything's gonna be okay kiddo. You can rest easy. I'm going to help you, alright?"

I was so relieved in that moment that i clang onto the strangers arm. "Thank you" I said as i tried to act cool and fight back my blush.

~END OF FLASHBACK~

The man ended up getting a hold of the mom, who had thought id run off and was all the way across town informing the police i was missing. When waiting for my mom i ended up falling asleep in the strangers arms. It was warm. Safe. Even when mom had gotten there and woke me up, i didn't want to leave that warmth. Before we parted our separate ways, i gave the stranger my shark tooth necklace (my prized possession) and thanked him. "That necklace will fight all the bad away! So keep it safe!" I had said.

He smiled as he looked down at me. It made me aware of his bright blue eyes. He chuckled quietly. "I'll take good care of this, you take care of yourself."

I promised myself i would grow up to be a man who helped others and was just as kind as the stranger that day. To be warm and comforting to people who need help- even to people you don't know.

Its been seven years since that time. So when I saw that he worked in the same place i did, i knew it was fate.

I know what your thinking. It's been a long time. He could be different. He may not even remember.

None of those things matter though. Not when your in love. From the moment I saw him again, I had already decided i was going to confess. And now that I'm settled into work, I'm finally ready.

Zak Amock. Age 33, 6'5ft, strong and 250pounds of sexy, is mine.