[It's a conclusion he dreaded Sakura might reach, then hoped it could be forgotten. Something else left unspoken. This is what he was taught, after all, by his own family before him. The hardest truths are better hidden, especially when they evoke that dangerous emotion. What causes them to risk losing all sense of reason — the very attachment he'd tried to eviscerate from himself only to fail.
He wants to say, You're wrong, but he thinks that now he would be lying. How is it okay? is almost his demand instead, fear drumming like a second heart, aware that happiness was never really an option.
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He wants to say, You're wrong, but he thinks that now he would be lying. How is it okay? is almost his demand instead, fear drumming like a second heart, aware that happiness was never really an option.
Instead he says nothing.]