Kaito 16 - grow up and blow away [Video]

[last_was_hope]

[The video turns on to show Kaito sprawled across his bed on his back, arms and legs spread out like a starfish and staring up at the ceiling. He's wearing just a short sleeve blue shirt and jeans and judging from the slightly blue tinge of his fingertips and lips, he's more than a little cold

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[last_was_hope]

It's like... have you ever had something so important to you - a keepsake or a photograph or something - that you want to hold it close to your heart and never ever let it go, because it took so long for you to find it and you're afraid that you might lose it again?

And, the thing is, you start worrying about it, growing paranoid. Afraid that everyone's out to take it from you - because people ARE out to take it from you, and the same people that hid it away from you the first time - so afraid that you can't trust your family, can't trust... this person, that you know doesn't want to take it from you, just wants to study it a bit, maybe help you fix it. Because it's been broken for so very long.

But you're afraid. So terrified that you're paralyzed and can't say a word. And so you run, because that's all you know, all you can do, and they deserve better, deserve that light in the dark, but you don't want them to see the bogeyman hiding in the shadows...

[He trails off, grimacing slightly. It's fairly obvious he's been needing to say a lot of this for a very long time.]

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[endureandwait]

[Winry looks thoughtful at the initial question, listening as Kaito talks.]

I guess I can sort of understand. I really treasure the photos I have of my parents, for example. And with Ed and Al, since there aren't many. But I can't say anyone has wanted to take them or anything.

I think, it might be worth showing them though, if you know they deserve it, as you have said, Kaito.

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[last_was_hope]

[He fidgets a little.]

But it's not an item. It's a fact. A... state of being, I suppose.

It's not what I have, it's who I am.

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[endureandwait]

Hm? Oh. Well, in that case, you definately should say something if it is that important, Kaito.

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[last_was_hope]

... you think so? He won't hate me?

He was always telling me about how he wanted to arrest me.

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[endureandwait]

Arrest you? Kaito, what did you do?

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[last_was_hope]

[His voice is very small now.] Only what I had to.

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[endureandwait]

Meaning, what?

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[last_was_hope]

Basically? Cause a scene, paint a target on my back, find a legend.

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[endureandwait]

Now why does that sound so familiar...?

I see.

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[last_was_hope]

They killed my dad for it.

[Strongly, fiercely.] I don't want anyone else to die, Winry. Not a single person.

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[endureandwait]

They killed him? For what? Kaito, I don't think I quite get it. But....I'm sorry, I know how it feels, to lose your parents.

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[last_was_hope]

Because he wouldn't let them win either.

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[endureandwait]

I see. You want to keep your father's legacy going, don't you, Kaito? I can understand that, to some extent.

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[last_was_hope]

Thank you.

I'll - I'll think about what you said. Promise.

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[endureandwait]

Alright, good.