INBOX - NHD-C12-KRI-248 - IKARI, SHINJI

[forevalone]

ikari.shinji@cdc.org
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[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I have a question then.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Why do people bother having children and becoming parents if they decide later they don't want them?

[paternalistic]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
... i honestly don't know. children are the purest thing that you can find: you'll never find anything that loves as much as they do, feels as much as they do and that you'll love as much. your heart expands and swells when they're happy and it gets crushed when they're sad.

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
they are supposed to be things born out of love, and then some people have them for selfish reasons. when you become a parent, even though you wanted something to love you - it becomes something that you love.

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
to hate your own child is despicable, because they have no control whether or not they were brought into this world. they are innocent of that crime; if you hate your child, you must hate yourself more for doing such a thing to one that only knows you.

[forevalone]

_{[That's...probably one of the most moving things he's read or heard from an adult before, let alone a parent. Sure, Isshin isn't his parent, but hearing an answer like that makes him feel a little better about himself. Maybe it wasn't any fault of his own that his father decided to abandon him after his mother's death.]}

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...You must be a good father, Kurosaki-san. I didn't know they existed.

[paternalistic]

[while it's nice to read it, isshin knows that he's not. he hid his past from his children, made ichigo suffer because of their lineage.]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
and you're a good kid, shinji. don't let anyone ever tell you that you're not.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I don't think I'm very good but...thank you, Kurosaki-san.