#mod playmaker

105. Reunion

   Reuniting with his special person was not how Yusaku thought it would be.

   There wasn’t a moment of swelling music where everything like it would be alright. There was no triumph or victory. Just more sorrow. Sick and twisted sorrow because he knew how things should have been. In his darkest moments, three things were all he needed to claw into the light again when he could have simply wallowed in that all-consuming despair.

   That person was his friend. His first and, in some sense, his only friend.

   Instead, looking back, all he had met was an enemy. Revolver. The Leader of the Hanoi. Overlooking him, in search of the Ignis, from the back of a fearsome dragon. 

   And, once it had all been said and done and secrets - some secrets - had to come surface, there was still this abyss or chasm of despair and pain. A distance that Yusaku had to cross, had to overcome, but it seemed so futile. His special person was as much as part of the pain as the torture itself.

   So, Yusaku rationalised it. 

   His special person was the son of the person who had begun it all: Kiyoshi Kogami. So, that must mean his special person was hurting too. Hurting from the wake of the Incident, just like him.

   That had to be it.