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Kira watched the teenager on the roof in horror. "Rei!" She shouted. "Get down from there!" She wanted to run to him, but her feet were frozen in place by some invisible ice. Why was he doing this?! Why was he going to commit suicide?!
Rei stood on the edge of the building. The wind whipped his shaggy blond hair and rustled his scarf as he looked down at the street below. Then he turned to Kira, his face soft but cold at the same time.
"I am not Rei," he said quietly. Then he laughed. "Although I'm quite sure that you would like that, wouldn't you, Kira Aso? Rei is your everything. . .the very essence of your life. It doesn't matter about some dead apparition like me. . ."
". . .Sei. . .?" Kira wondered. The boy nodded. Then he leaned forward, body seeming to fold into the wind. Kira gasped. "NO SEI! DON'T! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!"
His foot caught on the ledge, just keeping him from tumbling to his death far below. He leered at her, his cold blue eyes that were so familiar taunting her fear.
"Oh, I don't?" The scarf he had been wearing fell the 30 stories to the ground, getting swept away by the traffic. "I think I know exactly what I'm doing. The world doesn't need another Rei," he spat. He turned back to the open air. "Especially not an evil one. I will leave Rei with the perfect wound. To remind him. . .that I am waiting for him. . .in hell." Then he stepped forward into nothingness.
". . .I'll keep in contact through you, Kira Aso. . .for you have the same spirit as I."
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Kira woke, gasping and clutching at her loose nightgown. She felt frantically for Rei, her husband of three years. He moaned and brushed her hand away, muttering "It's three in the morning. . .we did it before bed. . ."
"It's not that, Rei!" She shook him with all the strength her thin arms could muster. Exasperated and scared, she leaned down and spoke right into his ear. "I dreamed about Sei."
Abruptly he was wide awake. "You what?!" He demanded, brushing his blond hair out of his eyes. "What did you dream about Sei?!"
Kira shrank back at the look in his eyes, but then gulped and continued. "I dreamed of the day. . .of the day he committed suicide." She hid her face in her hands. "Oh, Rei, it was horrible! He was on the edge of a building. . .and he said he was leaving you the perfect wound -" She clamped a hand over her mouth. She had sworn secrecy against revealing what Sei had said in his suicide note, which had been carefully sealed away in his room down the hall. Well at least I know it wasn't completely out of the blue. . .
Rei gave her a strange look. "The perfect wound?"
Kira shook her head violently. "No, sorry. That's not what he said," she lied. "He said. . .uh. . .oh I can't remember!" Tears streamed down her pale cheeks in torrents.
Sighing, Rei drew her forward into a tight embrace. "Shh. . .it's ok, you don't have to tell me. Suicide is a hard thing to witness, Kira, even in a dream." He rocked her slightly, then said in a voice that was barely a whisper, "believe me, I know."
Kira buried her face into his chest. "It must have been horrible to witness it for real. . ."
"Don't talk about that."
Kira took the warning and was silent. Slowly her tears subsided, and Rei released her.
"Now try to get some sleep. It was just a nightmare; it will go away." He turned over and was asleep in seconds.
Kira, on the other hand, laid awake, staring up at the ceiling. How creepy. . .she thought. I wonder if that's what the real suicide was like? Or did I just imagine it? Oh God, I hope I imagined it. . .and what did Sei mean by he was going to keep in touch through me? This is so weird. . . She felt her eyelids drooping and sleep coming to claim her consciousness. As her eyes slid shut, she thought she heard laughter coming from Sei's room.
"That's it, Kira Aso, just keep pretending I'm not real. See where it gets you."
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