[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