I don't want to be alone again, [ he whispers, still hiding behind his arms. And then again he starts to laugh, the sound loud and wild as he stumbles a step or two backwards. Where Yu is all balance, level and calm, his Shadow is wild extremes of emotion, all the things he always keeps under his skin and never lets anyone see. There's no middle ground, here.

Yu drops his arms and the expression on his face is as wild as his laughter was: a feral smile, angry and vicious, beneath wide eyes. ]

If I were good enough I could have convinced you not to walk away. But I wasn't. I'm such a pathetic failure that everything I wanted and needed went completely ignored in a relationship we never really had! You decided everything for us. Does it really get more pathetic than that? Some leader.

[ Despite having just backed away, now he takes a few steps forward. Not quite enough to close the gap between them, but almost. ]

... aren't you going to walk away again, Minato-san? Why are you still here?