Title: Choice
Summary: Cut me down, but it's you who'll have further to fall
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The choice seemed easy. Five thousand lives pitted against one. Five thousand lives that loved him, bled for him, and would die for him. Kyouya possesses exactly none of those sentiments, but Dino loves him anyway, defends his delusion fiercely, argues he's got enough love for the two of them. But Kyouya is so far removed from the spectrum of human emotion that Dino knows it's not true. It will never be enough, because zero times infinity was still zero.
Still, he's got enough love for the two of them, because sometimes it's easier to live in denial.
A barrage of bullets flies at the lone man, but Dino knows Kyouya, knows his strength. None will touch him, that much is clear. The air is thick with smoke; it rings with the clatter of bullets deflected by tonfas, and spent shells hail upon the ground.
The choice seemed easy, but both Kyouya and Dino's men took up equal residence in Dino's soul, one part breath and one part blood. Either way, he would lose half of his lifeline tonight.
He raises his arm, points the gun in a direction he never thought it would point. Perhaps Kyouya doesn't really believe Dino would do it, or perhaps he simply allows it, allows the cold metal to sink past yielding flesh and rip through vital organs, and the latter seems more plausible because the skylark does not make mistakes. He was one to live and die on his own terms, and the disdainful quirk of Kyouya's mouth, which only Dino can translate as a smirk, confirms this.
He goes down with nothing more than a sickening thud that only reminds Dino of just how mortal Kyouya actually is, and the picture is all wrong because the pallid shade of death does not suit Kyouya's lips. Even as life seeps from him, his will does not waver, not even when warm arms slide beneath his neck and cradles his head. He dies quietly, save for stilted breaths, not once acknowledges the one bent over him in mourning.
10 years ago, Dino might have wept, but as the light dulls in those perpetually troubled gray eyes, Hibari Kyouya takes with him half of Dino's humanity.
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A/N: Inspired by David Guetta's Titanium, which is probably quite obvious from the description.
