[A/N: This takes place in America. This is how "Ash" convinced Kuroko to go visit Japan again. Oh, and this is all in English, because library computers don't have the ability to type in a different language. I don't know about your libraries, though. Is that just for mine?]
Ash: Yo
Ash: Blu
BluPhoenix: Hello.
Ash: You hear what happened at El Paso
BluPhoenix: I don't need someone on the other side of the world to tell me what happened in my own country.
Ash: Yea, yea
Ash: I was just worried
BluPhoenix: I can look after myself.
Ash: That doesn't mean my heart doesn't stop every time some shit like that happens in the US
Ash: Seriously
Ash: What if it had been you
BluPhoenix: You know I would have been fine. No one knows who I am. They would have treated me and I would say I'm a foreigner. In Japanese. That should get my message across.
Ash: Does America have a system for that
BluPhoenix: Fuck knows.
Ash: That's what I mean
BluPhoenix: Ash, calm down. You sound like my grandmother when she told me to join Instagram. I don't need two mothers.
Ash: Good
Ash: That was the best damn thing she could have told you
BluPhoenix: Because I met you, "the best damn man on earth that has ever has and will exist"?
Ash: Is that even a question
BluPhoenix: Yes.
Ash: So mean
BluPhoenix: Ash, just because I've known you for a several months now doesn't make you the best man I've ever met.
Ash: Then who is
BluPhoenix: ...
Ash: AHA SEE
BluPhoenix: Will you calm down. I can practically hear your obnoxious laughter from over here.
Ash: I've just reread our conversation and realized you changed the subject without my notice
BluPhoenix: Just now? Don't you have amazing eyesight? Or was that just your ego talking.
Ash: Shut up
Ash: I have awesome eyesight
Ash: Srsly tho Blu
Ash: What if you never got to meet your amazing past self because you'd died
BluPhoenix: I assure you, nothing would have been lost on my behalf.
BluPhoenix: Because I'd be dead.
Ash: Blu
BluPhoenix: What?
Ash: And I'd never get to meet you face-to-face
BluPhoenix: We can meet right now. Video chat.
Ash: Hell no
Ash: International calls cost an arm and a leg
BluPhoenix: I know for a fact that most places in America won't sell their network for an arm and a leg. You should sic the police on your companies. Maybe switch?
Ash: That's not what I meant Blu and you know that
BluPhoenix: Is that so?
Ash: Yes
BluPhoenix: I beg to differ.
Ash: Declined
Ash: Anyways
Ash: You should go back to Japan
BluPhoenix: Where did this come from? And no. I'm perfectly fine here, thank you very much. Talking to you with library computers, snatching food every day or so, this is my life. I don't need to move across the world to do the exact same thing.
Ash: So don't
Ash: Come back and meet your family, friends
BluPhoenix: I don't need to. I'm fine right where I am. I don't need to talk to a bunch of random Japanese people I've never met.
Ash: Technically, you have met them before
BluPhoenix: Psychologically, I have never even seen them before. I see no reason to now.
Ash: Come on Blu
Ash: Would you have been able to live with yourself knowing that you never made amends to your old life
BluPhoenix: I am perfectly happy accepting the Before is done and gone. There's nothing that can be changed or done about it. The only thing that matters is the After.
Ash: Would you be okay with your family and friends believing your dead
BluPhoenix: XXXXXX XXXXXXX practically did die. He died on the plane crash, and I was born. And you spelled "you're" wrong. You spelled it as "your".
Ash: Fuck off smart-ass
Ash: If you had died at El Paso, or anywhere in general
Ash: I wouldn't be able to help you, because I don't know much about your profile, and I have to refuse to accept any information except for in person
BluPhoenix: Why is that?
Ash: Because it's a thing in my family
Ash: They have to deem you worthy to be my friend. Now back to the topic at hand
BluPhoenix: I don't know...
BluPhoenix: On one hand, I can't wait to see what I was like back in Japan. But on the other... who knows who I was? I'm already so invisible. What if that was because I made that choice? If I did, why?
Ash: Then this is your chance to find out
Ash: This could be a big clue to help you make your identity
Ash: My best friend lost one of his best friends
Ash: He blamed himself every which way. He believed he had caused it somehow and now there is no way to find the truth
Ash: And I wanted to help him so bad but I couldn't. I didn't know his friend very well beyond a few basic things
Ash: All I could do was watch as he drowned in his guilt and mourning
Ash: You can't let that happen to your friends
Ash: You can't let then stay in their guilt and mourning. It's not fair to them
BluPhoenix: But you're my friend. My Before friends are no longer my friends. Wouldn't it be better to leave that perfect image of me in their head than taint their minds with my current image?
Ash: Maybe
Ash: But maybe they'd fall in love with this version of you
Ash: Just like me
Ash: Just try
Ash: Don't leave them with nothing
Ash: Give them some closure
BluPhoenix: I can't afford an airfare. And no, I'm not plane-riding all the way to Japan.
Ash: I know you can't right now. But you can save up
BluPhoenix: But still. I'm reaching out to a bunch of people I don't know. I'm doing them a favor for a dead person.
Ash: Think of it as giving them condolences to their loss
Ash: Or that you're finally going to meet me
BluPhoenix: Face to face?
Ash: Yea
Ash: Come on Blu
Ash: Give them a chance
Ash: You're dissing people you've never met
BluPhoenix: That's the problem! They'll think they know me! They set up expectations about me that I'll never meet. I'm not XXXXXX XXXXXXX! I'm just Blu. And I sure as hell don't know them.
Ash: Just explain yourself
Ash: They'll understand
Ash: Otherwise why would you be friends with them
BluPhoenix: Good point.
BluPhoenix: But is it wrong to be nervous?
Ash: Absolutely not
Ash: I'm terrified too
BluPhoenix: Thank you for your support and utter faith.
Ash: No! Not because I don't believe in you. I do! But this is just such a daunting task ya know
BluPhoenix: Yes, I do. But... you're right. It's not fair for me to leave them like that.
Ash: That's the spirit
BluPhoenix: Don't you have school or some shit tomorrow?
Ash: Yea
Ash: But fuck that
BluPhoenix: When I reach Japan, I'll text you. Let you know where I am.
Ash: Yea
Ash: See you then
BluPhoenix: Til death do us part.
Ash: You still hooked on that
Ash: Til death do us part. ;p
