Author's Note: Hello and welcome to what is only my second time writing fan fiction. Hopefully you'll enjoy my Parasyte story and of course if you have any comments, good or bad, or want to leave a review then please do. All characters featured within are copyright of their respective owners. For reference the following takes place after the fight with Gotou in episode 22 of the anime, so there will be some spoilers, but then the story takes a different turn from the anime.

CHAPTER 1

"Migi, why? Why did it have to come to this? Why did I run away? Why didn't I do more to protect you after all the times you've protected me? I'm sorry, Migi. I'm worthless and I don't deserve to live!" An exhausted and bloodied Shinichi is at home in his bathroom looking at his reflection in the mirror. Raging with pent up anger Shinichi punches the glass mirror with his left, and only, remaining hand.

Just hours earlier Shinichi and Migi had been involved in the most dangerous fight of their lives. One that ultimately ended in the death of Migi, Shinichi's parasite companion. Except Migi had become more than some parasite attached to his right hand, he had, unexpectedly given the circumstances, become a true friend to Shinichi. Their plan to defeat Gotou failed, but rather than risking both their lives Migi decided to separate himself from Shinichi in order to try and confuse their opponent. As when Migi was detached from Shinichi's body other parasites wouldn't be able to detect Shinichi. In doing so Migi risked his life, as a parasite is unable to live longer than a few minutes apart from their host body. The plan to try and defeat Gotou failed and as soon as Migi realised this he urged Shinichi to run away. Migi knew his death was imminent, and he didn't want Shinichi to suffer the same fate as him. Shinichi reluctantly followed Migi's last order and ran as fast as he could till he reached his home many miles away. But now at home Shinichi has many regrets over leaving Migi there alone, knowing that Migi would die without Shinichi's body as his host.

Looking at his left hand there was blood dripping from it onto the floor following the impact of the punch to the now shattered bathroom mirror. Shinichi didn't care though, he just wanted his friend Migi back, but he knew that wasn't going to happen. Shinichi shuffled out of the bathroom into his bedroom and threw himself onto the bed and lay there just staring up at the ceiling. Briefly, Shinichi reached out to touch his right arm, but quickly remembered that his arm, and Migi who resided there, were no longer there. An emotional Shinichi, lying on his bed looking up at the ceiling, then began to talk out loud to himself.

"Migi...Migi," Shinichi exhaled with tears streaming down his face, which mixed together with the blood he got from a cut in the earlier battle. "All those months back I would have done anything to get rid of you from my life, but now I'd do anything to get you back in my life, Migi. If anyone was to hear me say I had made friends with a parasite they'd say I was crazy, and maybe I am a bit. But you were different Migi, you weren't like those other parasites. Deep down you may not have admitted it, but I know you cared about me Migi, and not just for your own survival either or otherwise you wouldn't have done what you did earlier in that fight. I hope deep down Migi you knew how much I cared about you as well." Shinichi clutches his chest where his heart feels like it's going to explode from the pain it's feeling.

"I don't know why you came to Earth, or even why you choose me to be your host, but in a strange way I'm kind of glad you did in the end. Of course there's things I'd have liked to have turned out differently than they did and the people I would have wanted to have saved..." Shinichi suddenly stops talking. "Mom..." Shinichi looks across his room at a picture of his Mom who got taken over by a parasite and eventually killed. "But if it wasn't for you Migi I wouldn't have been the person I am today. I would have been the kid who was always too scared and weak to fight back. Of course now you've gone Migi maybe I'll revert back to how I was without your power within me. In fact without your power who knows what I'll do if another parasite comes to attack me." Shinichi then stopped and thought of something Migi once told him - "Never give up" - just three words but ones that made Shinichi think. "You're right, Migi. I shouldn't give up!" Suddenly, Shinichi sat upright in bed. "I'm going to kill that bastard Gotou somehow and I'm going to make you proud of me Migi, even if you're not here to witness it physically maybe a part of you is looking down on me."

With a small smile on his face he realises how silly it sounds, but with little other comfort around it gave him something to work towards in the hope Migi is watching him somewhere. Before Shinichi knew it he had fallen asleep and upon waking he was greeted with the bright morning sunshine shining through his bedroom window.

END OF CHAPTER 1

TO BE CONTINUED