#dreamssouls

                              ai sat next to him, his hands clenched into fists. “he deserved it. lightning did too. if you hadn’t shown up i--” he cuts himself off, biting his bottom lip. things would have gotten worse if flame didn’t come back when he had. it could have easily turned into a full on fight. windy would have hit him back it flame hadn’t dragged him away a few minutes ago. “the two of them act like they can just do anything, say anything. i hate it.” 

                               you’re just standing up for flame because you’re jealous. because you want him to like you. how pathetic. he’s not even here to see, so why bother? you’re so desperate, it’s laughable.

                               remembering lightning’s words just upset him more. he did like flame--he loved flame--but that wasn’t why he defended him. flame was his best friend and he wouldn’t let anyone get away with talking about him like that. “they’re both the worst.” the fact that they had to live with hem was terrible. after lightning and windy’s behavior, they didn’t deserve to be under the same roof as the rest of them, especially not with flame. 

                                “i...had a feeling there was something bad about windy. since high school i think. and lightning too. they both changed. i could never describe it, but they were different.” he never brought it up until a few days ago (when flame had blown up at him), but he had these feelings for quite some time. “you deserve better than windy. you deserve so much better.” the fact that he kept going behind flame’s back with lightning infuriated him. the worst of it was lightning’s complete passiveness of the whole situation. he didn’t seem to care about anything. he just let it all happened and he seemed entertained at it. he wished he could have punched that disgusting smirk off his face. “are you alright?”

                        “i never expected all of this to happen...” ai found himself still taking in everything that he had learned. he never knew about what had happened when he left. the utter split between the ignis that ultimately led to lightning destroyed cyberse world. “i...didn’t expect lightning and windy to be like this.” he was telling the truth for the most part. he could never get inside lightning’s head. never really knew what he was thinking. however with windy, he always had a feeling something was off. even back when all of them were together in cyberse world and he and flame were together, ai had a bad feeling about him. though he never thought it would be anything like this.

                        “what are we supposed to do?” even if lightning and windy were their enemies now, ai didn’t want to hurt them. but at the same time, he wouldn’t let them enslave humanity... and he wanted to help get jin back to kusanagi so much was happening now. “i...don’t know what to do. i wonder where aqua and earth are.”