A/N: hi everyone! welcome :)
if you're reading this, you've finished banana fish and you're emotionally unstable with the ending. that's why i wrote a new little ending based by the picture above. i did change it a little though :)
enjoy! <3
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Ash.
I am very worried because I haven't seen you and I don't know if you are okay. You said to me before, "We live in different worlds." But I am not sure if that is true. We are from different countries, and our skin and eyes are a different colour. But so what?
We are friends. Ain't that enough? What else do we need?
I am very happy I came to America. I made many friends here. And above all, I met you Ash.
You asked me many times if you scare me. But I never felt scared of you, not even once, from the first time I met you. Actually I always felt that you are hurt, much more than me - that your spirit is wounded. I know you are much smarter than me, and bigger, and stronger - but even so - I always wanted to protect you. Funny, isn't it?
But what did I want to protect you from?
I think I wanted to protect you from your future. Because your fate was sweeping you away, like a flood. Do you remember telling me about the leopard in that Hemingway book? He died at the top of the mountain, and you said he knew that he will never go back down. But I said you are not that leopard, and that you can change your future.
It's true, Ash. You can change your fate. You are not alone, Ash. My soul is always with you.
Eiji
Ash feels the life drain out of his body when he sits down on the hard chair of the library, blood seeping out of his stab wound. He holds the letter close to him, blood already covering some words. He keeps reading the last phrases over and over again. Tears fall down on the paper.
His only source of happiness, and he'll never see him again.
Thanks to Eiji, he felt like a normal person. He finally found that part of himself, hidden away because of the pain he went through that he has to call his life. Whenever Eiji is near, his kindness and honesty flows right through him. Eiji is the only person that does everything for him - that cared for him - and wanted nothing in return.
Ash couldn't believe how lucky he was when he got to know Eiji. But now he has to leave him.
He couldn't even say goodbye properly.
He doesn't really want to leave Eiji, but at the same time, he's happy this is how his life ends. All the pain and shit he's been through, he just couldn't go on anymore.
So with all those thoughts in mind, Ash closed his eyes and let his head fall on the table.
May we meet again, Eiji.
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"Sir, you can't sleep here!"
"Oh my god!"
"A young man was found at the New York public library with a stab wound, needs medical attention NOW!"
"HURRY!"
"We need to stitch the wound, he already lost lots of blood!"
"WE'RE LOSING HIM!"
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Dear Ash.. | AshxEiji One Shot (English)
FanfictionThe ending to Banana Fish but better.