A/N: After watching the scene where Tohma comes to comfort Eiri in New York after Kitazawa's death and when he was in the hospital, I decided to write this:
The sound of your ragged sobs tears my heart out
I curse myself for not being able to protect you
I was the responsible one
The older one
Who unknowingly led you to him,
Like a lab to slaughter
I can't get back what you lost
The innocence the bastard took from you
I trusted you within his care
How was I, Tohma Seguchi, to know
Kitazawa was such a monster
A betrayer of such innocence
And a drunk to match
For years we've each born these scars
Yours was different from mine
And mine from yours
Your pain is a mental one
As is mine
But my pain is one of guilt
And it is a guilt that outweighs all else
I can never quite forgive my self for
What happened to you in
New York, Eiri
I wish I could make it up to you
But innocence once lost cannot
Be taken back
I say, "Gomen nasai." a thousand times
Doing penance for my faulty
Judgment,
Within my own heart.
But we are meant to suffer
I am meant to suffer.
For you see
Guilt becomes me…
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