Warm rays of sunshine tried to penetrate the icy cold chamber of Jyuushiro's body, with no prevail. His body was immune to the warmth and joy usually associated with the golden beams, but it couldn't melt the ice forming quickly around him.

N...no..I can't be....Not Shun..Please not Shun...

"NO!" The words came out a sharp but quick gasp. The world spun, throwing Jyuushiro off balance and forward onto his knees, something happening for once not to be associated with his illness pulsing through his veins. His breathing coming in shallow breaths, gearing up to turn into sobs. Danger evaded him as the murder sailed upwards in a beam of light, smirking all the while. Steadying his shivering body was a hard task, but he managed to do it enough to allow his self to crawl forward, where Shunsui's body lay face down. Still. Not a quiver of movement.

"Please Shun, don't do this. Please." Tears filling under his eyes, threatening to spill over. "You can't go first, that's...that's not how it works!" He was drawing nearer now, fighting within his self to not stop.

"Easy Shiro-chan. I surprised you still have lungs the way you cough." Shun noted, watching Jyuushiro struggling to gain control of another coughing spell.

"Ya well," Jyuushiro replied once his breath was back, "if you hadn't made me laugh so hard in the first place......" He tried giving Shun a dark look but once Shunsui started laughing, he couldn't help but crack a smile.

And there he was, kneeling next to Shunsui, his friend, no his brother. Even after all the death Jyuushiro had scene,both in and out of the Sereti, he wasn't prepared for this. His own death, he could grasp, for he knew it was fast approaching, each second his body given in, but Shun was suppose to live on. He touched the skin softy of the body before him, still a tinge warm to the touch. Hand shaking, almost beyond use, he turn Shun over and gazed into the dark, lifeless orbs before him.

"Please come back." Voice rising higher, cracking slightly. "Shun please." The dam broke, gushing water down pale white hills and onto the green grass below. "DON'T LEAVE ME HERE WITHOUT YOU!!!" He brought his fist down in anger on Shunsui's chest and broke into raspy sobs.

"What are you going to do when I die, Shun?" Jyuushiro broke his eyes away from the blue sky above to look over at Shun's face.

"Who said you would go first?" was the reply, followed by a smirk.

"Shun, I mean it, really. I'm dieing and your not."

"Hmm..that's a tough one Shiro-chan. I would have no one to drink with."

Jyuushiro frowned, "that's all you think of me?"

"I'm playing with you, but honestly, I'd be pretty lost." Shun turned his gaze to Jyuushiro and added, "that's why you can't go first."

"Don't worry, you'll be able to find your way again."