Long time no see, huh? Well, this is the last chapter. For sure. Thank you all for sticking around! I might get a lot of hate for the ending but I forewarned that this wasn't going to be a happy ending. Writing a sequel is also out of the question because I don't have much luck with sequels. Either I lose interest or my readers do.

Before I sign off, would it be too much to ask you lovely people to respond to a poll on my profile? Just gonna take a minute! I'm going to get super busy so I only have time for oneshots and basically my poll is asking what oneshots you all would like! If all the pairings will get a vote each, well, guess I'm going to have to write all of them XD

Thanks and happy reading!

Proceed...

UPDATE: Forgot to mention! Cuzosu guessed right in the last chapter so kudos! The Primus is the ring! Just thought I finally reveal that to you all now!

'Shuu...'

'Don't fucking call me that, Kira!'

The blonde flinched and scurried after the heated teen who stormed down the wire walkway of their underground division. The minute Shuuhei had deprogrammed himself from the virtual world he had wrenched his helmet off, eyes fiercer than a stormy sky, and stomped out of the chamber.

'But...Shuuhei...listen, Shuuhei, you can't go in there,' Kira continued timidly.

'Do I look like I give a fuck?' Shuuhei snarled, placing his hand on the scan bed. It beeped green and the doors thrummed open.

'No, but, Shuuhei, you can't just...Shuuhei, will you...Jesus fucking Christ, Shuuhei, you can't just walk in there with a fucking plasma ray gun!'

The doors closed, leaving Kira's warning hanging in the air. The boy's shoulders slumped in defeat.

'Will you quit pining after him already, Izuru?'

'I'm not pining, Yumichika!' Kira answered sharply and glared at the effeminate man with a stylish bob who was conveniently lounging in the hallway.

'That's odd,' the man teased. 'Because the way you follow and comfort him makes you look like a lovesick pup to me.'

Kira's skin bloomed apple red and he tried to hide it with his shirt collar.

'I don't get it,' he murmured and looked at the doors next to him in confusion. 'Why is he so persistent? Does he want to find the Primus that badly?'

Yumichika sighed and shook his head.

'For someone who's in love with Shuuhei, you honestly know very little about him,' he remarked ruefully, glancing at the doors himself. 'Shuuhei never cared about the Primus. It held nothing of importance to him. But it meant a lot to Kensei. Hence it meant a lot to him.'

'But Kensei Muguruma doesn't even remember him,' Kira pressed. 'Why is he trying so much then? Every time he goes into that virtual world he comes out disappointed. And this time...this time he was pissed. He just walked into the pod section where they keep Kensei's body. With a gun. Yumi, could he mean to-'

'Shuuhei? Heavens no!' Yumichika chuckled. 'He would never. Not to Kensei at least.'

Kira glanced almost bitterly at the door now.

'What's so special about him?' he sulked. Yumichika smiled sympathetically at Kira.

'You can't understand,' he mused languidly, eyes flicking to the door momentarily before locking on the curious blonde. 'No one can understand the magnitude of their bond and what lengths they went through to be where they are now. Kensei and Shuuhei share something very powerful, Izuru. I suggest you find someone else. Because Shuuhei isn't going to change his mind about Kensei that easily.'

'You're an asshole, you know that?'

Shuuhei stopped pacing, eyes narrowing. He unhooked the gun's safety latch and scowled at the spherical pod. Kensei's body floated lifelessly, his face so peaceful he could be sleeping. A cord coiled from behind his head. His sole connection to the virtual world. And his sole reason for still being alive.

'Always thinking you could tell me what's good for me,' he snapped. 'God, you can be the biggest bastard on Earth when you want to be! Do you know how fucking annoying that is?! I am sick and tired of your fucking shenanigans! GROW. UP!'

He aimed the gun at the pod, right in the middle of Kensei's chest. Silence ensued save for the occasional air bubbles popping in Kensei's sphere.

Shuuhei gulped painfully. His gun hand trembled, finger hovering over the trigger.

'I could do it,' he whispered. 'End everything. Pull the plug, ironically. But then, there's the chance that you won't come back. That because your mind is so oblivious of the body's existence, it won't come back if we unplug you. And then all we're left with, all I'm left with, is an empty shell. Almost like you're...dea-'

He stopped talking. He couldn't say it. It was too painful. He lowered his weapon, letting it clatter to the iron floor as he trudged up to the pod. He pressed a hand to the glass, so forcefully it was like he hoped to reach through and touch his lover. His face was bathed in the green glow of the globe as he gazed longingly at the figure floating inside.

'Did you find it?' he whispered softly, like he was asking a secret in a room crowded by people. 'Did you find the Primus? Those who venture out for it never come back. Not even when their bodies have aged and turned to dust in this world. We believed that either the Primus destroyed you or…controlled you. When you disappeared, I was afraid that the same would happen to you. That you had left me. You know I cried myself to sleep every night thinking about you? I'd search the virtual world for you till my mind couldn't function anymore. The only thing that kept me going was that I knew, as long as you were looking for the Primus, I'd keep looking for you. And guess what I found one day?'

He gave a watery chuckle, tears building in his eyes.

'I found your family. And you were happy. You always told me you wanted a normal family. How you wanted kids of your own one day. You didn't care if we had to adopt. You wanted both the kids and me and there was nothing that was going to stop you.'

He lowered his head, the tears flowing thick and fast.

'Well, at least you got the kids. Hiro is a lovely baby. I hope he looks like you when he grows up. And Ai's beautiful. She's got your temper. You don't have to worry about the boys. You should be worried for them. And Sayo...'

He inhaled sharply before forcing a smile.

'Did you ever notice that she looks like me? You're an asshole if you never noticed. I kept wondering if you picked her because she looked like me. I liked to think that too. Because in a way, it kinda showed you still really remembered. That you still loved...me.'

He couldn't hold it in anymore. As the tears streamed uncontrollably down his face, he clenched his free hand over his heart while he sobbed luxuriously.

'It hurts,' he hiccoughed. 'It fucking hurts, Kensei. Why did you forget me? Were you just messing with my head? When you told me you loved me? When you told me you forgot? When you called her your Sayo? You know the worst part? The Primus meant jackshit to me. Your happiness had always been my priority. And the fact that you were happy with your kids, with your life in the virtual world, with your Sayo...I realized that there was no need for me to even be in your life. I always thought I was the only one who could make you happy but I guess I was wrong. You don't need me now. I'm only going to get in the way of your happiness. So that's why...I left.'

Without hesitation, he pressed his lips to the glass in a last, desperate kiss. He moved away slowly. Then, his eyes overflowed, his body curled up into a ball and his cries echoed in the empty metal chamber.