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[Souji's been feeling reflective lately, thinking over some things. It's elicited a question that he himself isn't sure he can answer. He wants to find out if others can, so, after some deliberation about whether or not it's a good idea, he takes to the network to ask.]

If you were able to change something in your life at home, what would it be?

[He's not sure he'll even get any answers. It's kind of a personal question. But he's hoping that some people will respond, if only to help him think through things himself.]

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[jivitadana]

[Minato knew that.]

Sometimes 'what if' can change into 'what can be' in that we can change our future into something closer to what we want it to be.

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[eatsyourscience]

[Eyes closed, Souji turned his face toward Minato as though to nuzzle him.]

I like that way of looking at it.

[Though it didn't change the past, it did make some things seem less bleak.]

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[jivitadana]

[Minato let Souji do that, shifting closer to him too so they could be that much more intimate. It was a very long time until he spoke again.]

I think about it too. What else I would change.

[Because maybe there was one thing.]

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I know.

[Souji knew what Minato was thinking of, even if he didn't say it. If he didn't want to or if he couldn't.]

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But that's why 'what if' exists.

[And again he circled back to having to be so grateful to this place, even if it was like some kind of glorified prison though Minato hadn't thought of it that way at all, not for himself, at least.]

You'll be my 'what will be.'

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji shifted and turned his head to kiss Minato's temple.]

I promise I will be.

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[Minato liked that and smiled.]

Thank you. So it's okay to think about it. It tells me who you really are.

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[eatsyourscience]

You already know who I am. You've always known.

[Or it felt like it, anyway.]

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You for me too.

[And that was the wonderful thing about Souji. Souji was his everything and he knew everything about him. Minato was so happy too that he could know Souji, the real Souji.]