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[ramenkage]

 [ There is silence for a long, long time--He'd died, on that trip. He should be dead. Yet...here he was, a-ok. Breathing. Alive

The hell... ]

Hey...is everyone who went on that exploration trip okay? I--[ I died. I should be dead. ]--wanted to make sure those skin stealing bastards didn't get their hands on [ sakura ] anyone else, yeah? Just...let me know everything turned out okay. 






Heh...they couldn't keep me down for long, huh? Yeah yeah, I'm too cool to be gone for good. [ He tries to sound boastful. Obnoxious.  Like himself. It sounds forced, though. He's too worried about Sakura and the others.




If they had died...would they come back, too? ]

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[ramenkage]

[ ...Is that really you?

After... you left we got attacked by raiders.

Things just.. happened.





I don't blame you for not being there.

The cut. The way she was acting, as though he might not be real...it hurt to think about. He didn't want to imagine the possibility, the chance that the fake him had hurt her in some way, attacked her while her guard was down. So he denies it. There's no way. Maybe one of the others noticed. Maybe...B-Besides, Sakura...would tell him, right? She wouldn't lie about--




Only she would, and he knows it. She did when he's lost control and hurt her, and she would to it again. To spare his feelings. to make sure things stayed okay. So the chance of something happening and her not saying a word about it? It wasn't something he should rule out.

And Marco. Marco had been evasive too.

...


His face goes pale, color and expression draining from it until there's just a look of pure shock and pain, his hands shaking slightly at his sides, until he clenches them into a fist to keep them from doing so. ]