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Kibô
D.Gray-man
by D. Reed
In painful fits and starts, he caught the slightest snippets of hushed voices buzzing around him as he floated through the ether of his mind.
Innocence… lost… can't… exorcist…China…
His chest ached with each breath, holed heart pounding painfully. Doubted he'd last this long without his innocence. Suman hadn't.
Drifting, his dreams pulled him dully along to the inverted world. At first he thought it was hell. He deserved it for what he'd done, atonement for his many sins. Rinali was crying, and he couldn't reach her. A hand reached to him instead to stop him. Before he could scream, reality roared back at him, as did the intense pain and muffled voices.
I'm not… dead…?
He refused to allow himself to fully believe, but some small grain of hope still resounded deep within his soul. He still had control of his own body, even without the innocence.
And…I'm alive.
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Additional Note: "kibô" means "hope" in Japanese.