This pairing needs more love.
Disclaimer: If DRRR was mine, this pairing would be so darn official.
He was always a little out of reach.
Mikado was always in the brightest places, where the light touched him in soft rays and smooth caresses. He was always the diligent one who worked his way up while Kida spent away his days humming at the bottom. Never too far away; not close enough. A pace behind, a step ahead. Somewhere where Kida's lame jokes and cheesy pickup lines were audible but nowhere where his silent pleas for help and sobs of pain were ever heard. Kida was always with Mikado, Mikado was always with Kida, and they were best friends who were always together.
But he was still out of his reach.
And it bothered Kida. It bothered him that Mikado wasn't close enough. It bothered him that Mikado was beyond his fingertips. It bothered him that Mikado was too far away, on the other side of the bright screen filled with hiragana and kanji and a stupid binary code. It bothers him that Mikado is here with him yet beyond where his fingertips can graze.
He wants to reach Mikado so badly. The nightmares are real and Ikebukuro is too dark for Kida to keep on fighting. But he has to stay up on his feet because if he doesn't, he never will reach Mikado at all. So Kida grits his teeth and keeps on going.