A Reason To Live
Continued from here. @crayolasiren
“ You shouldn’t be fighting or living for me.”
Her words stung, feeling this sharp pain within his heart that reminded the Replica how real he was - how he truly was standing here, with the person that made him want to live - that made him want to fight.
“Don’t say that!” His voice came up just a little bit as he reached out to take her hand in his, as though his heart told him to; aching for her touch and desperate to convince her that she was wrong. He didn’t believe that and he didn’t want her to.
“Namine, you’ve given me a reason to live and a reason to fight.” He said without hesitation, gently lowering her hand. “I don’t blame you for anything that happened to me. I blame the Organization; they created me and you were doing what they told you to do, but you…you helped me become more than just some replica. I was able to feel things because of you.” Anger, sadness, joy, pain…
“And even though you created those memories, they’re real to me. I’m me because of you. I…I’m something because of you, Namine.” And he’d never think differently. Because even when the Organization only wanted to use him for their own mission, Namine was different - she was his friend, she was the reason he wanted to be here.
Without saying anything more, Hiroto reached behind him and pulled out the charm she had given him all that time ago; the charm he kept with him, and kept safe, to this day.










