Author's Note: Not one of my favorites, but the prompt was challenging. This is set when there's a little more starting to go on between Shogo and Mitsu.

Shogo x Mitsuko

Prompt: I'll write my character speaking a poem to yours or vice versa.

"Whatcha working on, Mitsu?"

Mitsuko jumped and flipped over the sheet of paper she'd just finished writing on. "Nothing," she said nonchalantly.

Shogo Kawada took a seat across from her. "Doesn't sound like nothing," he commented. "Can I see?"

Mitsuko bit her lip. "I don't know if you should…"

"Read it to me, then?" Shogo asked. "Please? I'm curious."

Grimacing, Mitsuko picked up the paper. "Fine… I'm not sure how much you'll like it. You've been warned." After a moment's hesitation and some nervous fidgeting, she began to read.

"I don't think you know what you've done
Break me, build me up, tear me down again
Just stomp on my fucking heart, why don't you
But my eyes are dry

How many times does the cycle repeat
Before we figure all this out
I know I can't bring myself to walk away
It just gets harder

I want to focus on all the bad
The tears I've cried because of you
But I can't, because the hard truth is
That you saved me

This was never supposed to happen
No one was supposed to get through
You didn't just tear down the walls
You crushed them

I've spent forever in a dark place
Can't say I ever expected to crawl out
And then you show up out of the blue
To change it all

Guess I've got no choice but to stick around
Maybe it'll pay off in the end
Or maybe yet another piece of me will die
I think you're worth it

I still don't think I've been able to say
How much you've done, you saved me
The scariest thing of all is that I'm afraid
You'll never know."

Mitsuko cautiously lowered the paper, daring to peek at Shogo.

He was staring at her wordlessly, mouth hanging slightly open. "You wrote that?" he asked, stunned. Mitsuko nodded mutely.

Shogo shook his head and stood up, pulling her into a hug. She let out a sigh of relief — this wasn't the reaction she'd been afraid of — and rested her head on his chest… safe.