[He's quiet for a moment, eyes cast to the ground.]
Easy to shut out anyone who could be called an outsider. Know... [He did it. Minato did it, before.] ...Mitsuru-senpai. Don't think I've seen her just go have fun, or heard her call anyone outsise of SEES a friend. Think she's been fighting too long...
[So, yes, even wanting Minato for his own value is in spite of his not sharing an experience of that magnitude. It's accepting an outsider. It's telling him that he outweighs that uncrossable piece of distance.
It hurts that there's a distance at all, and Minato would give near anything to let Akira, Goro, and Kurama be together without the mall. The good without the bad. Failing that....he'd rather have suffered alongside them, because it's not right that he's always the protected one, because it hurts anyway to be the only one who's safe, because... Because...]
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Easy to shut out anyone who could be called an outsider. Know... [He did it. Minato did it, before.] ...Mitsuru-senpai. Don't think I've seen her just go have fun, or heard her call anyone outsise of SEES a friend. Think she's been fighting too long...
[So, yes, even wanting Minato for his own value is in spite of his not sharing an experience of that magnitude. It's accepting an outsider. It's telling him that he outweighs that uncrossable piece of distance.
It hurts that there's a distance at all, and Minato would give near anything to let Akira, Goro, and Kurama be together without the mall. The good without the bad. Failing that....he'd rather have suffered alongside them, because it's not right that he's always the protected one, because it hurts anyway to be the only one who's safe, because... Because...]
...maybe I could have helped.