Today, on July 16, 2005, was the funeral procession for my best friend, Kelly Brian Johnson, better known to all of you as Kagemitsu.
Kagemitsu was amongst the nicest people in this whole world that I have known. He always wanted to give and share to others, but he never could very well. He had nothing to give, other than the promise of his undying friendship. It broke one's heart to see him sad, and it livened one's face to see him happy. He wanted nothing more than a few good friends and time spent with them. This I gave to him, to the best of my ability, and I would say I had succeeded. I gave him a friend, and thus giving him many more. He had taken a special place in the hearts of me, Kary, Lacus, Broom, Garland and Galda. He had never met Galda, but he dearly wished to. Galda gave Kagemitsu a different kind of friendship then I did. Galda gave him purpose. Kagemitsu managed Galda's monthly top ten NES game votes, commonly done on Emureactor. It gave Kagemitsu such a feeling of pride that he had accomplished something that everyone benefited from.
Many of you don't know this, but Kagemitsu had fallen deeply in love with Lacus, a girl that had similar upbringings. They both shared tragedy after tragedy, all in the course of their lives. Many others would have given up if they had gone through what they had to, but they were the strong ones, and toughed it out. They were amongst the best of friends one could ever meet, but Kagemitsu was still always shy to her. He was never shy to Kary, but he always was to Lacus. He felt that his greatest accomplishment was successfully teaching Lacus sign language. He was planning on using her new found knowledge to confide his love to her, during the camping trip that I have enjoyed.
But, as we all know, this never succeeded. He took a tragic fall on July 1, off the edge of a staircase, and landed at the bottem, right on his neck. He died from that instantly, and I watched as it happened. I did not cry immediatly, but nor did I rush to him. I knew what had happened, and I knew nothing I oculd do could stop it. Kary and Lacus, who also witnessed it happen, were not so strong. They broke down and cried, because they knew what had happened. All I did was go to the phone, called the hospital, and told them that there was a body to pick up. The police came with them, and they gave me, Kary and Lacus a questioning. We told them the truth, and we weren't found guilty, and we just watched as they wrapped up Kagemitsu's limp body and drove off. After that, I went to my room, turned my ocmputer on, went to TPH, and told everyone on here of what happened. It was then that the knowledge truly sunk in, and my eyes began to leak onto the keyboard. In a way that was good, since it needed a cleaning under the keys. But, as I wrote those words on TPH, I went onto MSN messenger, and saw Sophih and Trigger online. With the help of those two people, I became happier. I was extremely saddened and disheartened before that, but those two put me straight. For that, I am indebted to the both of them. Sophih's caring words and Trigger's unfalliable wit and humour made me a happy person once again.
What I made this topic for is for all of you, the frequent goers of TPH, is to pretend that you are standing over Kagemitsu's body in the coffin, as if you were paying your final respects.
Please. I would appreciate it, and so would Kagemitsu. If you dind't know him, then don't come posting: "I didn't know him. I don't have anything to say." If that's what you're going to say, then please, don't post. Leave this thread solely for the people that knew Kagemitsu to pay their respects.
Thank you.
