emotional intense meme / accepting / @diamondborn :“ i can wait a thousand lifetimes for you. “
It stung to know that he has to leave in the first place but still it was something he had to do. Nothing to do with his ‘family’ in the yakuza and all to do with the circumstances of his biology. It came as such a shock to even him to find out that somewhere along the line there was demon blood in his ancestry. A dormant gene that chooses its fighter, but now Yusuke was nothing more than just a ticking time bomb because of this demonic blood. He’d lose minutes of his life because of his inability to control this newfound power and he’d be damned if he ever hurts Alyssa because of his own weakness.
“I promise, once I learn how t’ control this crap then we’ll go on one of those dates you’ve always wanted to go on, you know the extravagant ones.” The places she might want to go that was FAR above his pay grade. It was a promise in order to minimize the pain that she might feel for him leaving or perhaps it was a way to numb himself from this pain.
Before he became misty eyes he gave his beloved his back and began to traverse down the road. Looking back slightly one last time. “I love you, princess.” Then finally he continued his journey until his silhouette was gone.