Perhaps I should have seen it coming. Should have known Kira would flee eventually. He was always a bit of an outcast. Not many tried to understand and the ones that did filtered their views through their desires and dreams.

  I suppose I am among those. I believed too much in his sense of responsibility, in the selflessness I thought was in his heart.

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  Perhaps I should have seen it coming. Should have known Kira would flee eventually. He was always a bit of an outcast. Not many tried to understand and the ones that did filtered their views through their desires and dreams.

  I suppose I am among those. I believed too much in his sense of responsibility, in the selflessness I thought was in his heart.