hello. Glad people enjoyed it. kiba-chan, here you go. This and the next one are darker and connected. I hope you enjoy.
Title: Last Hope
Rating: T
Characters: Akito, Agito, Ikki, Kaito
Summary: Agito prays for their souls.
Fragmented
2. Last Hope
If only Ikki knew. He had been their last chance, their last hope for survival. AKira was gone, following the path of a human. Kaito-nii had been losing it more and more every day. Akito couldn't have taken much more pain and Agito was miserable from watching due to Akito's refusal to let Agito suffer in his place. They had just wanted to live with their brother, but Kaito had wanted revenge. He wanted revenge for reasons that Akito couldn't bear to ask or understand. If he told them, Akito feared he would just stop loving him altogether and that would break his heart like glass. He did not want to stop caring for the person who had saved him, who had taken him from deep underwater into the safety of the well.
So, he had to get out. They watched and waited for their chance. They found it not long after, in the form of an arrest. Agito had not wanted to fight the Bulls because they did not interest him. Akito had told him to try. This was one of their only times outside after all. Reluctantly, the shark had obeyed.
And he had been right. Just as the pair had been right a second time when their brother came to take what was his. The sky was a place of safety for them, for now. They could smile, they could laugh and be free. But it wouldn't be forever. Until then, they would place their lives and their trust with Ikki.
And he had proven it to them. Over and over, when he had saved them from Kaito, when he had created Kogarasumaru, when he helped get the Regalia back and saved Akira.... there were numerous times he had shown it to them.
However the possibility of betrayal was high. Both knew it. If that happened, Akito had made an oath Agito hoped he would never see through. If Ikki and Kogarasumaru betrayed them, Akito would lock away his heart for good to the outside world, kill all members of Kogarasumaru with his own two hands, and return to Kaito-nii to destroy all Storm Riders. Agito did not want to see his own Onii-chan destroy everything and then live with nothing left to lose.
So Agito had prayed for the first time. He prayed to the God he didn't know that they could trust these people. They were his last hope for Akito's pain-filled soul and for his own as well.