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"Sir, the Boss is here."
The sunlit hair was tossed back behind his shoulders as Kei rose from the shadowed chair he was sitting in. "Sho."
"Kei...you've returned."
"Yes."
"For how long?"
"..."
Forever, Sho willed. Say the word 'forever.'
Kei stood, clothed in shadows. He had requested to wait in a room with no windows. He knew Sho wanted him to stay forever, but he was a creature of the dark, drawn from the light by a single bite of treachery. It was his destiny to move in and out of people's lives. Rather, people changed and lived and died, even his mentor. He loved Sho, but did not love him so much that he would keep him forever at his side. That is what Kei told himself, for he wanted to deny that he had any feelings for Sho. Rather, he loved Sho so much that he would not sacrifice his happiness in exchange for his own satisfaction. Even if he had satisfaction, it would be fleeting, like the sensation and taste of blood in his body. He would have to leave soon anyway, in the sense of human time, and he needed to harden his heart against parting...again.
Knowing Kei would not answer a question if he chose to, Sho asked, "Why are you here?"
Kei smiled, knowing Sho was choosing to ignore the original question. "I will be here forever."
"What?"
"But you will not. You have the short lifespan of a human, and I have an eternal life until the end of time."
"What are you saying, Kei?" Kei's words echoed menacingly off his ears. He could make no sense of them, but the melody of the words warned him.
"Good-bye, Sho," Kei whispered into Sho's ear as he ran into space and time away from Sho.
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"Ni..." Kei breathed, looking with shock at Son.
Son stared back at him, his mind responding, "He didn't fire! It was a game! He's my brother! I wouldn't have shot if I had known..." Yet he knew that it was a doomed game, just like man was cursed with an inevitable fate. Death.
"Die," Kei whispered. Die, die, die.
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"Sho," Kei murmured, holding his body like a delicate piece of art, created personally by fate itself.
"Kei..." Sho coughed. "You came back..."
"Stay with me, Sho," Kei whispered.
Sho shook his head, knowing what Kei was offering. He had lived his life, and now it was time to die. There was a flow of life in his body from the time he was born, and now, it was time for it to ebb for eternity.
"Sho..." Kei pleaded.
He smiled one last time, then closed his eyes, weary.
"Sho!" Kei cried, clutching his empty shell to his body, as if eternity could seep from his body to Sho's body. Hot tears dripped onto Sho's face, as if he was crying with Kei. The sun rose in the windows surrounding them, the sunlight uncovering the layers of shadow on Kei, bit by bit. But he didn't care. All he wanted was to be with Sho.
sayonara... naiteta kinou made no boku
shizuka ni me o tojite
AN: Did you like this chapter? If you didn't know, the part after the break was the part in the movie where Sho and Son were having a gunfight (the deliciousness of Wang Leehom...). I couldn't remember exactly what happened, but I remembered enough (after a while) that Sho almost died after the gunfight. Some OCC (or is it OOC)-ness, but...yeah. Hope you liked it! If you did, tell me! See you next chapter!