i miss you

i miss you so far

and the collision of your kiss

that made it so hard

"Crow, you shouldn't allow yourself to get dirty like that. Once you come back to life you'll complain about being all filthy." Seto wasn't phased by the empty stare Crow had given him. It didn't bother him that his friend lie cold, slumped against the old, decaying wooden fence of the abandoned amusement park as if he himself belonged there; sharing the same fate as the peeling wood, rusty tracks, and fading paint of the forgotten park. He didn't find it unusual that the ever so talkative Crow didn't respond to any of his comments. Seto figured that he'd have plenty to say after he successfully resurrected him. The slight thought of it was enough to bring a smile to Seto's face as he continued to ineffectively pat the dirt off of Crow.

Seto slouched next to Crow, peering up at the sky. "The sky gives off a beautiful color at this time." The silence continued to linger. It had been several days since Crow shut off. Ever since, he has carried Crow everywhere he went. The bulky lifeless figure was a hassle to transport. Seto had been following the minimal clues Crow left behind. Time and time again, the clues lead him to a dead end. Sleep deprived and restless, the amethyst eyed boy was spiraling slowly into insanity.

Sai became a distant memory that Seto hardly thought about. He can barely recall the time he left her.

"You're still carrying that thing around?" Sai appeared to be displeased. It's been two days and Seto was still bent on "reviving" Crow. She honestly thought he would have been over it by now; it's not like they've known each other for very long anyway... from what Seto told her, he only chased him around a park for twenty minutes. She didn't even think she was that fond of Shin for the first twenty minutes of knowing him.

"You could never understand," Seto retorted surely. She wasn't there, she couldn't possibly know what she was talking about.

"Understand what?" Sai shot back. "There isn't anything to understand! You just need to let him go, Seto..." A pain shot through Sai's being as she thought of Shin. She could relate, it's just Seto was too thick-headed to understand. "You have other things to focus on, like stopping Glass Cage from happening again. Don't you want to find more survivors?"

Seto looked away, attempting to block out the nuisance that was Sai's voice. It was giving him a migraine. Couldn't she see what he was doing here? Crow was way more important then some ratty old dirt ridden flea balls that couldn't find their way out of their own homes. In his opinion, people like that deserved to be killed off. It's not like they'd do any better surviving on their own anyway.

"What about everyone else, Seto? Crow wasn't even alive to start with!"

Seto hurled a glare in Sai's direction. "Crow. is. not. dead." he said calmly, as if it was the most obvious fact at the moment. Consumed with rage, the boy turned around and made his way out of the building never looking back.

Sai was nowhere to be found after that.

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