Hey this is my first story with Casshern Sins.

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Summary:After years, Casshern's spirit breaks and he believes he has no salvation b/c he is immortal. Beaten and broken, he runs away from Lyuze and Ringo to search for an answer to his final question before he let's himself rot. He finds himself heading for Dio. But what he doesn't know, is that his question shapes out a future he might not be loooking forward to.

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Chapter 1: Kyou wa ashita desu 今日は明日です (Today is Tomorrow)

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Pov-Casshern

I couldn't believe it. I was struck down. Tears trickled down my face, one by one into the bloodly puddle below me. The impertinentness that Dio expressed was beyond anything I ever witnessed before. I was flabbergasted. How come everything we went through was nothing compared to what just happened moments ago...?

I thought...no, I truely believed that what I felt was something different. And even though I don't feel anything physically, pain lingered in my chest. The emotions I should feel don't compremend at all. I still have that fluttery feeling in my stomach. I should be angry...but I'm not. I'm actually...happy.

Lyuze should be here, but instead it's him...

Why him? Why does he take away my pain?! He's giving me this aching in my chest...right where my heart is...

Do I feel grief? I shouldn't be...I truely hate him...but at the same time, I feel that fluttery feeling when his image appears in my mind...

What does this feeling mean? Ringo said it before...it was-

Love.

...

Love...love...love...

Why do I feel fear for the first time...?

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Out in the dying world, lie the remains of the souls who helped shape it with the only thing that kept life thriving.

Love.

Love was the key to more than the eye could see. Friendships, fight and even death. Death could not survive without life, and life cannot survive without death. So when the ruin was introduced to these flourishing souls, love vanished from the world, and was replaced with hatred. With this hatred, death took over and the balance became off. Using this unbalanceness, survival was kicked out of every option. Those who survive face a challenge; to either survive with fear, or live with love. Most feared death, so their chances of survival became slim. With those who chose to live with the remains of love, found a spark in the world that had them thriving for years until they landed in their salvation. One that had them smiling when the sunlight around them dimmed away forever.

Death was our final salvation. For both man and machine, it was a key away from all the sins that covered the world like the darkness of night.

But for one, lone soul, death was the one kicked out as an option. He would forever search for a new, final salvation until all life vanished from exitence.

Though he thrived like the remainders that chose living instead of surviving, he still didn't understand one key concept that allowed life to live in the first place.

And that was love.

What is love?

Was it a drug? Was it a weapon? Could it hurt you? Could it save you?

Casshern didn't know. He questioned its name for as long as he could remember. From the time when he was forced around by straving robots, to when he first met Ringo. It was a question he believed would never be answered. It was the spark he kept living off of. But now, it was something he was trying to survive off of.

What is love?

Ringo said it to him everyday.

"Casshern! I love you!"

She would scream in his face.

Even Lyuze said it every now and then.

"Casshern, I love you..."

But her's was different. He felt that that 'love' had a different meaning.

So now there was two versions of love. Which meant he had two questions now.

The word 'love' scrambled his mind. Casshern had a feeling that told him it was something he needed in order to find a true salvation. It had to be something important at least. Something he was missing out on.

He knew others had found their salvation using 'love'. Like the two robots that used to own friendier. They held hands and repeated the same sentence back to each other. Each with a type that brought tears to your eyes.

Casshern remembered this. He wanted to know what its meaning was, and what it felt to own it...

He layed on dirt under a rusty building with Ohji, Ringo, Friendier and Lyuze. She layed right next to him. His arm wrapped by hers.

He couldn't help but stare intently at her every night. He hoped that maybe seeing her features in the moonlight will tigger something in his mind that hasn't been triggered yet. Like the feeling love might give to person.

Casshern sighed with hopelessness. He gave up on life after a while. Seeing how everyone he knew found or will find a salvation, just puts him in a place where trying didn't exist, and that giving up was the only option.

Giving up felt better when he knew he didn't have to help others to their salvation. It hurt to see that.

But what would Casshern know about pain? He was immortal and no cut or wound that was inflicted apon him gave him grief or even left a scar. He was forever stuck in a circle that represented his life.

No end.

What did it feel like to die? What did it feel like to love?

Those were the questions that let him wake up every day, because there was some hope behind them.

Hope that he has seen before.

Well, he did witness hope that a certain person believed in, in order to find his salvation. He survived, no, lived off of this hope. This person found a path in every direction that lead him to his answers. And that person was-

Dio.

Dio lived to fight Casshern. Dio lived to know what it felt like to be the strongest, to be the best.

Dio at least found what his salvation was.

Death after defeating.

Dying after defeating Casshern. Though Casshern couldn't die, it was something Dio thrived off of...

Then Casshern sat up, his arm still straddled by Lyuze. He frowned at her image.

She reminded him or his true self. A machine created for killing who would probably never understand what love is.

He sighed and pulled his arm out from her grasp. He then looked to his side at Ringo who cuddled up with Friendier.

Tears wielded in his eyes. She was always so happy. Even with the ruin taking away the beauty of the world, she still found the spark that allowed her to live. He could tell that she knew what love was.

He clenched his fist and grit his teeth. He needed to know! He craved the answer he is longing for.

But now, with his final dicision, maybe he might reach his answer. A true happiness he's been waiting for.

Soon, maybe, I will know. He thought.

He stood and walked to the door. He grabbed the rusty handle, and paused. He looked back and at ones that helped him through his tough times. A lone tear trickled down his cheek. He motioned his vision back to the door and opened it.

Shutting it quietly, he turned to his side where Ringo's garden was.

Even those flowers understand love, for if not, they wouldn't be here. He thought.

He frowned apon there colorful image. More tears trickled down his cheeks.

If it weren't for Dio's ambition, Casshern would probably be rotting in a hole where death flourished.

The white suited cyborg looked forward where the sun rose. He began in the direction.

Where the life of the sun was, is where the the truth behind his salvation layed.

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After several days, Casshern walked with a limp on a plateau that lead him to Dio.

The limp appeared when Casshern decided to give up at one point, but the hope sparked back up again when a light summer breeze struck him in the direction where Dio was. Something was urging him on, and with that, he used it to continue. But he still had his doubts. He wanted to stop, but yet, he wanted to keep going. The fight betwwen those two things now leave him looking like he was ready to except death.

Limping made him feel like he could experience pain, which made him feel like he had a purpose in life.

Dio was close, he could feel it. A large structure lied ahead in the distance. He stopped and stared at it. He could feel an ominous wind emmiting from where Dio was.

With that feeling, Casshern gingerly smiled.

I must continue... He thought enthusiastically.

And in no time soon did he reach two large gates. But by then, the ambition vanished, and now he was a walking hollow full of nothing but misery. His body was beaten and broken.

He should've felt happy to be where Dio was, but instead, he felt like giving up again.

His spark dimmed away.

Now, Casshern just stood, head bent over in shame. Tears flooded his eyes again. He bit his lip to stop them, but it was too much.

Tears, one by one, formed dark-colored dots by his feet. He sobbed and sniffled.

Why did I even bother...

Then a voice crushed the silence.

"It's Casshern! Kill Casshern!"

He looked up to see dozens of robots rushing towards him. Casshern didn't move.

It was probably Dio's army, out to devour or kill him.

He didn't care anymore...

The first robot jumped high into the air and landed on him. His body was crushed into the earth below. The weight the was breaking all his bones still didn't give him grief.

He lied still as the robot jumped off and a few more came and repeated the action.

The rest soon caught up and the fight to kill him began. One grabbed him out of the ground and clamped down on his neck and legs and pulled his body in different directions. His spine extended and broke as the robot laughed harshly.

Only his tears were moving into the wind. His body though, was moving away from exitence.

The robots, one by one, torchured him. Ripping him apart until he was nothing.

Again, he was thrown down into the earth, crushed by the weight of dozens of machines.

One grabbed him and held him up high, to throw him down again. But instead, the robot just held him high.

He looked down at the ground to see Dio standing, arms crossed and staring right at him.

Then suddenly, Casshern was lowered down to the ground. Unable to stand, he collapes to his knees. He keeps his eyes focused on Dio's greenish-colored orbs.

The robots back away.

"Lord Dio..." Some murmured.

Dio frowned at Casshern's image and said,"I've never seen you so broken before, Casshern. Come here to fight? Or has my army pleased you already."

Casshern's tears came like a waterfall to his eyes, following the same streak down his cheeks.

Dio's eyes widened. He clenched his fist,"Why the hell have you come here?"

Casshern sobbed as he tried to speak, but her words were choked into the back of his throat. He whispered out his words.

"I c-came here to as-sk you a q-question..."

The blue suited cyborg chuckled,"Like what? What could be so important to ask me? Unless it is to either fight me or kill you. Anything but that and I stop caring."

Casshern forced himsekf to his feet, wincing from some of his healing wounds.

He took a step closer. His eye never leaving Dio's.

"What is love...?" He asked in a mutter that was just higher than a whisper.

Dio froze.

What the hell? He thought.

This was unexpected and Dio was flabbergasted. What kind of question was that?! He didn't know how to react or what to say.

An eerie silence fell apon them. Dio only stared at the broken soul a few feet in front of him.

Casshern's sobbed on his tears, while trying to maintain his balance. His wobbly form struck something in Dio. He didn't feel anger anymore towards Casshern, but more like worriment.

What was wrong with him? Why was Casshern so broken? Why is he pleading with him, of all people...?

Dio didn't understand. But as long as Casshern was like that, there would be no way he could fight.

Dio didn't like that.

Casshern stopped himself and looked up into the rusty looking sky.

"What's my salvation?!" He screamed while collapsing down on his knees again.

Dio frowned. Why is Casshern asking me?

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"Dio, what the hell is wrong with you? Casshern's our enemy! Why are you helping him?!" Leda shouted at Dio

Dio frowned and walked pass her, heading towards an old room,"I'm not helping him, I'm fixing him up so I can fight him. I don't care how what happens to him, as long as he has ambition to fight." He responded.

Leda furrowed her brows. What is going on? He just walked right in the room with Casshern following behind, looking like a lost puppy...What's up?

Dio stopped at an old wooden door and opened it. Inside was a rusty, metal bed and a small chair in a concrete covered room that happened to have a broken window. He closed the door behind him and stopped at the bed.

There, Casshern sat on a dirty matress with his head held down in shame and his left arm chained to the bed post.

Dio shook his head at his actions. The truth was that he really was helping Casshern. He never witnessed a soul so broken before, and with the ruin, he hated to see it even more.

But what really lit the flame in him was the question Casshern all the way over to ask.

"What is love...?" He asked in a mutter that was just higher than a whisper.

Dio was still very surprised. But how he was going to resolve that while fixing him up was the bigger question.

The white-haired cyborg pulled up the wooden chair and sat down. Before he could say anything, Casshern spoke out.

"Which love should I get...? I would like the other one..." He asks. His voice full of sorrow.

"What do you mean?" Dio responds.

"Ringo says she loves me, and Lyuze says the same thing. But they both have different meanings."

Dio blinked in confusion. I think Casshern is taking this the wrong way...but I think I understand what he's trying to say...

Ringo must love him, but Lyuze must be in love with him. Dio thought.

Casshern looked up,"I think I understand Ringo's love, but not Lyuze's. Can you show me whather love is?"

Dio blushed brightly. He frowned at what he was about to do.

I can't believe I'm in a situation like this?!

He stands from the chair. He grabs Casshern's arm and stands him up.

Casshern looks up and Dio as he pulls his body into a hug. Casshern blinks in confusionat Dio's actions.

The blue suited one wraps his arm around Casshern tightly. His warm embrace making Casshern's body heat up like a burning fire.

Dio then places his open hand on Casshern's chest where his heart is. The blue-eyed cyborg's heart beats twice as fast from the touch.

"This is the type of love she is probably talking about. One that makes your body feel warmer, makes your heart beat faster and gives you a fluttery feeling in your stomach."

As Dio says this, his hands motions down Casshern's chest to his abdomen. Casshern's face turns bright pink from his gentle touchs. Casshern motioned his arms around Dio's waist and pulled him closer.

Dio says nothing as they stay in their positions for a few minutes. Then the green-eyed cyborg makes the action to pulls back a little.

Their faces now only inches away, brings Dio the fluttery feeling he just mentioned.

Casshern averts his eyes away,"My heart never used to beat faster when Lyuze says that to me, or when I'm around her. Are you doing something to make it like that?"

Dio frowns and pulls away from the embrace and steps back,"If you can't understand this, then you might as well go. I'm done. Come back when your ambition returns." He says very calmly as he turns for the door.

Casshern sits himself back down and looks at his wrist. He softly says,"But I don't want to kill the chain."

Dio looks back and grits his teeth. He then clenches his fist, eyes glowing bright. He screams,"You are strong enough to break it! Just like how your strong enough to break me!"

He turns around and slams the door open and closed again. Casshern winces at his anger.

He sighs and whispers,"All you had to do is ask is you really wanted me to stay..."

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Next chapter: Dio begins to fix Casshern to his old self again. But one method will be totally unexpected...

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