Disclaimer: The usual statment. I don't anything but the words written here and the ambigous character.

Here's a small challenge to the readers. Though is should be pretty easy to figure out, if I wrote this right, but who is the male main character in here? Leave a review and tell me your answer! This is also help me to get to know you guys a little better and such. The only purpose is not to get reviews, though they would be nice.

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Before we knew it, it turned into tradition

You would leave and I would see you off"I'm off."

I stood at the other end of the dimly lit hallway, merely watching your dark form reach further into the darkness for your shoes. It was in that moment I wondered when I would see you again.

"Be safe," I replied.

You looked up, a surprised expression on your face. You hadn't expected me to be up so early to see you off.

"Stay out of trouble," you grinned while turning towards the door.

I couldn't help but frown at your comment. I wanted to say that to you. You who always took insane risks in order to get the job done. You, the blundering fool. You, the hidden expert. You… one of six guardians destined to protect the boss. Yet I can't voice any of my concerns for you. All I am able to do is stand by the door and watch you leave, reminding you of our promise… our tradition.

"Come back alive," I whispered so quietly that even my ears strained to hear.

Yet the small up-turn of your lips told me you knew what I said. It didn't matter whether you heard it or not, you knew the words would come. Without another word I felt you rough hand clasp over mine. You slowly raised it to your lips and placed a gentle kiss upon the back of my hand and gave it a small squeeze.

"I promise."

With that you were gone.

Forever was a word that was non-existent in our world

It was too painful to say

It was raining.

It seemed as if buckets of water were being emptied down from the stone grey, nearly black, sky. In a way the rain seems much like you. Oddly enough, it soaks everything through yet keeps other things dry. In a way it reminds me of you. The way it washes all the bad things away from the world, the way it dances as it falls around me when I twirl around in it, all reminds me of you. In a way the rain seems to have picked up on your personality as well.

"Ah~ it's refreshing," I would whisper to myself.

It's all your fault that rainy days now seem a little more cheerful mixed with serious now. Before it had just been gloomy, wet and annoying. Even the rain brings change where ever it goes… just like you. The only thing that is different between the two of you is that the rain is with me.

You are not.

Solemn are the days not spent with you

Waiting is all I can do

You told me to stay out of your world, whatever that was. Ever since the death of your father, you had been that way. That's when you finally saw the real idea behind the "game" you thought all of you constantly played. It was one game you never wanted me to play or ever get involved in.

Even as the years passed by we were the same. You would leave and I would wait. Long and endless were the days were you were absent from my side. Yet still I waited. Desperately hoping onto the hope that we had placed, many years before, in that ragged baseball. It was the only thing I had left of you after you gone away.

"I'm off," you would say.

"Be safe," I would reply.

You would laugh, "Stay out of trouble."

I would smile sadly and whisper, "Come back alive."

Only things left

Are the ring and tears

Besides the rain and that old baseball, I have two other things that keep you close when you are away. The ring that you battled so fiercely for and my tears.

It is to them I would now whisper, Good bye.