Mika craned his neck, catching a glimpse of Kasumi as she walked a few inches behind him and Nico. He liked this feeling of security and wouldn't like to every depart with it, for it warmed his cold heart and brightened his thoughts—it was the bounce to his step and the feeling of home.

The sum was nearly setting and the trio talked about their dreams. Kasumi and Mika knew of Nico's expedition to find his two twin sisters, Ali and Mary. They sounded like good people, and he was extremely grateful to them.

He checked the watch hidden under his puppet and sighed when he saw his heart beating at a heathy rate. One of these days, he'd have to tell them about his condition. He never conversed to anyone about this matter, with his heart, actually. He knew he was going to die early and wanted, for his last wish, to be with Kasumi and Nico until the end. He wanted to tell them that he loved them very much and that he wanted to stay with them longer.

He didn't want to die.

Not when he was so young, a life with so much possibilities. Not when he was with those two. And definitely not when his talent could do so much for kids and other people, although it was ultimately worthless. He usually went on rounds each weekend and visited hospitals and the like to tell stories to the children so sickly, that they couldn't live normally.

One more....

He thought silently to himself. He bit his lip, turning his head so he could hide his watery eyes from his friends' view. He didn't want them to know. He detested this fact. He hated it, hated it so much, he just wanted to quit. Stop going to the hospital for every little thing wrong with his condition. High/low blood pressure, fainting, fatigue....the list was endless, and it kept on growing and so did the medicine he had to take.

Mika knew that he would have to reveal it on later, but if he did it now, they would spend every excruciating second worrying about him than themselves. He didn't want that.

Let someone die at their own pace, he mentally said.

If he had another heart attack, his stomach squirmed as butterflies knotted his stomach, he would surely die. Nico and Kasumi knew that he had an illness, but they didn't know how serious. Mika wanted to keep it this way, but he often stayed up late at night, stressing about the next day. He took sleeping pills when it was late so not to overwork himself, and it became a habit. One day, he noted, I might die peacefully in my sleep because of these pills.

He relaxed his shoulders and brushed his deathly thoughts away and returned to Kasumi's and Nico's conversation. He decided that in high school, he would tell them. When they graduate and disappears from the world, he will ask a friend of his to give them his will. He only hoped that Kasumi's love for him would bloom, and they would marry and have children.

Yes, that sounds like a blissful future.

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