Broken Promise { w/ thejunesprince }
Not every shadow spawned a dungeon, some appeared in others, breaking off to torment the human who it had came from. The shadow, Yu, yes it was going to use his name, after all it was a part of him, had been unsteady at first. It had broken away like ripping a bandage off a still bleeding wound.
You broke your promise, you betrayed everybody, and for what? He was never your friend.
Why go right in for the kill when your former host was doing a good enough job of breaking themselves down as it was? He wasn't even speaking to the real Tohru Adachi, the shadow could tell and it knew the boy knew. What was he even hoping to achieve? Some sort of proof he hadn't made a huge mistake trusting the older man. But he had. They both knew it even if one wouldn't admit to that.
That's why. You couldn't handle your own damaged pride. You were too scared that this one betrayal had proven you right. Everybody was going to do it eventually, why not go there first? Why not break your promise, everybody breaks promises.
The shadow had a headache already. As if being suppressed hadn't been bad enough here it was with a head full of spiraling negative thoughts.
It could wait. It could wait until he was ready, he was upset enough as it was, emotionally weak, and if one of the others sensed it's presence they would have to go after it. As if they would stand back and let their leader run away from himself when they had all been forced to face themselves like it or not. It would probably be Rise, with her unwavering love for him. He hadn't even been brave enough to tell her the truth, tell her that he couldn't fall in love with her because she was a girl. No he had stood frozen wanting to hug her but not wanting to give her false hope or the wrong idea, too paralyzed by fear to tell the truth.
I'm gay. Such a small thing to say but so loaded he had just left them all to run away or cry because it was easier than telling them why they were being rejected. He liked to run away more than anybody really knew.
It had instead found the place that made it feel secure. The hospital on this side was a mess. It looked like the apocalypse had already hit. Upturned stretchers and broken machinery littered the hall ways, doors coming off their hinges, broken glass coating nearly everything. The floor crunched with it under foot. The lights flickered constantly.
You let Nanako die here. Sure she had come back but she had died and you had been alone all over again. Broken your promise to Dojima, let his baby girl get hurt. "She's all I have... She's the only one... in the world..." But didn't he have you too? Weren't you supposed to be a family? You guessed he just didn't care without her.
He had trusted you and you had let him down.
It was sitting on top of the reception desk in the lobby, usually shadows stayed at the furthest point, unless they wanted to be chased. It was going to let them chase him, let them struggle to save their precious leader before it spilled his every secret to them and let them wonder if they had ever really known him at all.
The foyer was dimly lit. The strip lights would probably die pretty soon if they carried on the way they were. The doors looked as though they had been wrenched open. Hanging crooked and cracked as if somebody had tried to rip them apart.
