Wow, what a story. This . . . is so much more than I expected. For such a short piece, you've packed so much emotion and so much development into it. My goodness, the feels are too much — honestly, I am so glad this didn't happen (I was so near tears), but the way you wrote it made it seem so believable. Just a small twist and this might've been what we ended up with. I applaud you. Awesome job.

This was so sad. I am hurt on the inside.

Despair.

;A; KAGAMI NUUU.

Ugh this was beautiful just so retrospective and personal help this was super good.

Wow. This story is just...amazing. I can't really describe it, but I love it :3

oww shit this is just to much sad i truly hope this is not to happen in the original

Haunting, chilling perfection. This truly is what Kuroko and Kagami could have been in a more heartbreaking, cynical world. The inclusion of Aomine was the topping on the cake. It's not often where you see a portrayal of him as a monster, but in this story, that's what he is here, and it works. Aomine's cruelty made me flinch.

Watching Kagami change for the worse was so heartbreaking. Especially the part where he broke down and called himself weak. He KNEW what was happening to him and he couldn't stop it either. Oh, and how Kuroko always just keeps believing... *sniff* And the last lines - even though I already knew what they were going to be - felt so beautiful in context.

This also happens to be my favourite paragraph:

'Grief once felt so strange, seemingly taking over the chemistry of the body to live uninvited in the bones, fades as time passes. It lingers, only arising in moments of realization that once again, you haven't thought properly of what it is that has gone missing. Then, with tremendous precision, it hits you where it hurts the most, in the memories you haven't realized you miss.'

You write with so much truth it hurts. BAH THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING I COULD DO WHY YOU SO AWESOME GJHBDJBIGJNDINIJFNKIJD

Don't ever say your writing ain't good, bro, because it totally is, and it almost made me cry today.

Ah, I took longer to read the entire thing than I should have. I have to say, I love this, doro. I can safely say it's the best thing I've read for a long while. Like I told you, I realised that I missed your writing. I missed this solid flow, the way your writing is just natural and how it makes sense and nothing, nothing is out of place. It's subtly is amazing, and it reminds me that I've still got a lot to learn.

With all my due love and respect, happy first published fic of your seventeenth year, onee-chan!