Notes: Thank you to Daniela for her beautiful review of chapter 5, and to Oblivion55 for reviewing chapter 1, and to everyone who read but didn't comment. Special thanks to whateverwinnie for her review and support, and for creating such a beautiful artpiece to inspire my letter.

Once again, a relationship I LOVE to explore: the Saga and Kanon brother relationship. It's filled with turmoil and pain and betrayal, but these two are so wonderful and sad that I have to write for them every so often.

The new author is actually Kanon, surprisingly enough, even though I usually tend to lean to Saga. I really learned to go from absolutely hating Kanon in Poseidon to a sort of contempting pity in Hades Sanctuary, to absolutely adoring him in Hades Inferno. He really grows up during the show, and he's a beautifully crafted character. Please enjoy!

To My Only Brother

If our lives ran through the course of a week, this is how it would go. On the first two days, we would be weak and insecure, and we would hold on to each other in fear and be comforted knowing we were together. On the third day, we would grow up, learning how to be strong alone, and walking farther from each other. On the fourth day, we would both go separately insane. On the fifth day, you would redeem yourself. On the sixth day, I would redeem myself.

And on the very last day, we would meet again and suddenly find we were back at the beginning once more.

As you go back to Hades, I want you to know that I am standing beside you. I know you will be everything I always believed you were. And if you look back, I’ll be coming after you, to do what is my duty now, too.

The Gemini were always two. And when I was no longer here to be the second, your own self had to suffice. And so you were two on your own, and it destroyed you.

Looking back, I can no longer recall why exactly we moved away from each other. What we thought was so great an issue then seems so trivial now. I was stupid then, and arrogant. And I continued being so until all my work and plans were destroyed by five Bronze Saints and a little apprentice. But when I turned back to Athena, searching for what seemed to be missing, I could not find complete satisfaction. I was weak then, weaker than I had ever been, for I was self-conscious and guilty. I feared that I would fail, and I knew the others distrusted me, and so I could barely live with myself.

But when you returned, and showed me how much farther I have to go before reaching your level, I suddenly saw what I was looking for all along. My crutch. My world. My brother. By the time you returned to the castle of death, I could stand on my own again.

Do you know, Milo, who is eight years younger than I, is wiser than I ever was? He attacked me before you came. I refused to let his attack kill me, even though I was not against dying, because I remembered I had to make up my sins to Athena. I had to do something for her. And so, at the end, Milo stemmed the bleeding and, in his own odd way, accepted me as his brother-in-arms.

He forgave me when I could not. And when I saw you in Hades’s armor, I thought you were really a traitor. I knew then that I must learn to be the person you once aspired to be, the person I later learned you were all along.

So you can go back to the underworld without fear, Saga. I am coming with you this time, and I am no longer who I used to be. Not the manipulative bastard who saw only himself, not the self-degrading weakling who could not live with the past, not the sniveling baby who pretended he was strong but needed his brother to do everything for him.

I am Gemini now, Saga, and I promise I will act as you would in all things. May we meet again in the underworld, and may the Gemini be a whole two forevermore. Wait for me, brother. We will protect Athena.

And we will stand together as brothers until the end.

I promise.