You found a love letter!

My dearest Iori, To Iori, Iori, my dude bro God fuck it Iori,

Happy Valentine's Day, dear. God, what do I even say beyond that? … Other than the fact I fucking love you, I mean. You know I'm not that great with words.

I guess I'll start from the top? I'm glad we met. Though, looking back, our first meeting was kinda weird??? Like, I was with Kyo, you were threatening to kill him, my first words after seeing you were literally "Kyo, why are all your friends hot?" (Did you hear me when I said that, by the way? Pretty sure you did, considering you looked pretty annoyed after I said it.) Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm surprised things ended up this way. I never imagined I'd fall so deep in love with you. I just wanted to get to know you better. You were basically stalking Kyo, so like, why wouldn't I try to find out more about a guy who was so tightly intertwined into his life?

The more I learned about you, the more I fell for you. You were more than just a big, strong, alluring, ABSOLUTE UNIT of a man. You've been through a lot, you know, with the Orochi blood in you and all the problems it causes. But still, I've said it to you once--multiple times, even--and I'll say it again, despite everything, you deserve love, and I'll give it to you. Always. You're a good person deep down, Iori. I know you are. Ultimately, that's why I love you. Despite your flaws, your birth, your experiences, everything, you're still a good person. And I just really want you to know that. The whole "wanting to kill Kyo" thing is still a bit of an issue in by book, but that's a whole other can of worms that we won't get into here.

… God, this got more sappy than I wanted it to, haha. It's a little embarrassing--Anyway, I guess I'll end this letter with another "I love you"? How do you even end off a love letter anyway???? Fuck it, I'm gonna send you all the "I love you"s I can!!! I love you, Iori!!!!!!! Love love love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With lots and lots and lots of love,
Kiki

This was originally written in 2020 for the Tumblr Self-Ship Community's White Valentine's Day event wherein participants would write a love letter to one of their F/Os on Valentine's Day, then one month later on White Day, get a response back from another participant RP-ing as that F/O.

This letter is definitely NOT canon to how Kiki and Iori's relationship progressed; this was written very early on when I actually didn't even create Kiki yet! This letter was literally written by me and not a self-insert.

Still, the general tone and characterization still fits with Kiki as we know her now, so I thought it would be appropriate to post it here as is with the exception of changing the name at the end.

I'm debating whether or not to post the responses (yes, I got two since my original assigned partner posted theirs later than anticipated, so one of the event organizers wrote a response in their stead) on the website proper, so I'll just link the Tumblr posts containing them for now:
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