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- YAMADA NAOKI -

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✘ ✘ ✘ A goodbye when you hold back your tears and smile is lonely, isn't it?

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Nao listened closely to the boy as he talked about his dad, and Nao felt very lucky for knowing Kenta trusted him enough to talk about this. “There’s no way I could ever live up to that.” Kenta finishes, “I feel like even if I did have kids one day, I would always be comparing myself to my own dad.” Nao hummed and pulled his blanket around him tighter to cocoon himself in the soft pink fabric.

“Is that so bad though?” Nao hummed and then looked at Kenta and smiled.

“I mean, striving to be as good as you can isn’t a bad thing. Aiming to be like your father isn’t terrible, it just means that you want to inspire your kids in the way that he did for you. I think that if you ever have your own kids you should worry less about being a mirror image of your father, and instead work hard to make him proud. I’m sure he would be very proud of who you are today. You’re a really good person.” Nao shrugged. “That’s just my two cents though.”

Anyone who knew what Kenta had been doing for Nao would know he was a good person. The boy had com with no obligation to do so and kept coming every day. Without Kenta, Naoki was sure he wouldn’t have been doing as well as he was. He felt like he really owed a lot to Kenta.

Naoki reached over and snatched Kenta’s hand, petting it softly like Marie had done to Nao when they talked about important things. Kenta’s hand was much larger then his own and warm against his cold sickly skin. Naoki briefly wondered what it would be like to intertwine their fingers.

Huh... Did he like Kenta? The thought hit him suddenly. He supposed he did, why else would he feel so sun-shatteringly happy whenever the boy was near him. Did he really have the right to like someone though, in the state he was in? Rather then dwell on this though, Nao continued to rub the boys hand with his own, as it was all he knew how to do to comfort the boy besides giving him his signature smile.