『 Dying of Asphyxiation was seriously not my goal in life. 』
Neither was meeting a Governor of the Afterlife and getting sent to another world for a second chance at life.
Drew was assaulted by a group of men for reasons she didn't understand. Drown...
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78. Perspectives
Takeshi
Takeshi has been Rei-deprived, if he could say so himself. They'd been stuck in the future for a very long while now, and he's only seen Rei once. They didn't even have very much of a conversation that time.
Throughout Choice and even after, Rei seemed to have found a replacement best friend in Russo. They stuck together and were very similar in personality. They seemed to have better bonding than Takeshi and Rei sometimes.
Takeshi really didn't know if this was what could be called jealousy.
Either way-- he hadn't been able to find a chance to talk to Rei in a while. Even after they'd returned from Choice and gathered for a semblance of peace in the base, Rei and Russo had quickly left the scene before anyone could put a word in. Together.
Rei and Russo were strange. Confusing-- no, right after Choice, when Irie had explained the events of the future--
How did Rei and Russo know things? They spoke as if they'd known this would happen; or as if this had already happened to them before. They spoke as if they already knew it.
How did they know?
Once again, it was just them two.
Them two, and Takeshi had no place there.
This whole time, Rei had been carrying a very heavy secret behind his back. Rei was keeping a gargantuan secret from Takeshi, and Takeshi hadn't even noticed.
Takeshi didn't even realize how big of a burden that small, frail back was shouldering.
He was such a failure of a friend. Such a terrible excuse of one. No--
Could he still call himself Rei's friend?
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Tsuna
Tsuna was always slightly wimpy, no matter what. However, he was one to always worry about people he was with. He was one that couldn't leave people alone; leave someone behind.
When Russo and Rei were told they couldn't come into the Realtor, he had the urge to step out too. He had the urge to ask everyone else if they'd be willing to find a different spot where Rei and Russo could be with them too--
Rei shot him a smile, as if he'd read Tsuna's intentions.
With that moment of hesitation, Tsuna didn't make it in time. Kawahira shut the door, and Gokudera was pulling his toward the back of a bookshelf.
He was worried the whole time, not just for Zakuro who was about to find them-- but also for the ones left outside. How were they? Where were they? Why were they out?
Tsuna was worried sick.
He didn't even want Rei here. If anyone, anyone but Rei should have been sent here into the future. Rei was weak-- physically, he was evidently doing worse by the day. It had been ages since he was well enough to do a live show.
