"WARNING: VIOLENCE!"
11 YEARS AGO.
[8:00 A.M in the Morning, April 23?]
Akira walks outside the house. Looking at Ai who was sitting near the cliff. Watching the view and the city, in deep thought.
Akira:
"Its your first year here."
Ai wraps her arms around her legs, ducking.
"Yeah... I know."
Silence
Ai looks down on the ground.
"I do kinda miss the agency and my children."
Akira walked closer.
"You mean, you do miss them."
Ai ducks her head lower. Akira taps her shoulder, reassuring her.
"I'll try and soon find out their new address, it would take long because of lack of information, but not impossible."
Akira walks away.
"Breakfast is ready, better fill your stomach before any activities."
Ai:
"It's not like I will be doing anything."
Akira enters the house, leaving the door open for her.
Ai looks behind her, staring at the open door for a moment. She sighed and stood up, but not for the door, but walking down to the mountian. She approached a nearby river, and sat there. Letting the water flow in her hand.
Ai (Thought's)
"Ever since the time I arrived here... It has always been so quite. I tried to make as many noises so I can to feel happy... But aside from Mr. Gotanda, Akira-san knew my true nature... Well, it's not like he was never with Hikaru before when we started talking to each other..."
Ai removes her slipper and socks
She took a step on the river , lifting her socks higher as the cold water hits her feet
Ai (in mind):
"Akira-san has always been so busy, doubling his security for my safety and doing his work as a cyber security personnel, working for other's too. His table has always been so full of papers. And because of the lack of free time. Sometimes, Trashes are left in the table, and sometimes he will take his sleep at the table for the whole night..."
Ai lays her socks away. She gently dips her hand below the surface of the water. Letting the water fill her hand.
Ai (In mind):
"...I want to help him out some way... I can't just continue watching him do all the work, I feel in debt... No, I am in debt."
4 MONTHS AGO.
[10:00 P.M in the evening]
Ai walks out of her room, seeing Akira, still doing his paper works in the laptop, and signing some papers.
Ai walks up to him.
"I already told you, you can ask some help from me."
Akira (Fixing the papers):
"You'll won't even understand a thing in this work."
Ai smiles and starts taking some papers from Akira.
"Come on Akira, doing a work with someone is fun."
7 minutes later
Ai starts to release steam from her head because of malfunction from having a hard time, understanding the papers.
Akira takes the papers from Ai.
"I told you, you wouldn't be able to understand it without proper knowledge of computer science."
Ai lays down of the bed, huffing in disappointment.
"I suppose you're right."
Akira went into the kitchen, grabbing some late time snacks from the refrigerator.
"I have some snacks-"
Ai was already asleep on the couch.
Akira sighed, he put down the snack and then Carried Ai to her bedroom.
In the Bedroom.
Akira lays Ai while he fix the the bed. After that, he covers Ai with a blanket. He then turns off the light and closed the door behind.
The Next Morning.
Ai woke up from the sleep, she wondered how she got into the bed. She tries to recall, and faintly remembered Akira carrying her to bed.
"Oh."
Ai walks up to the living room, seeing Akira who stayed up all night for work. She approached her, saying:
"I'm sorry... I was such a burden.."
Silence.
Ai:
"Tell me Akira-sama, how can I help you somehow?"
[Present timeline:]
Ai accidentally catched tiny fish on her hand.
"And starting from that day, I just do what I want as his request. It was a weird kind of help, but... I am guessing, if that what makes him happy, I think I'll be fine for a while."
14 YEARS AGO
One windy night in a modern house.
Akira was being scolded by his parents for having a fight at school. His father with anger but for disciplining Akira.
"Even if your Tokoro (Akira's friend in elementary) did hurt someone, you should've at least just scolded him, or tell it to the teacher's. Fighting is never an option, but a last resort."
Akira tried explaining.
"But that guy clearly won, and then Hotaru started hitting him because he lost."
A flashback of what happened/ early that day.
Tokoro (punching his friend)
Akira:
"Tokoro, please... Stop!"
Tokoro looks at Akira with madness. His eyes bursting in anger.
"And what, Are you telling me I'm a loser too, Akira-kun?"
Akira waves his hand desperately, trying to explain.
"N-no! That's not what I meant."
Tokoro gave his own friend a final punch and turned to Akira. (The person is not Akira's friend, It's Tokoro's other friend)
"That's clearly what you meant."
Akira frantically waves his hand this time.
"N-no! This is a misunderstanding-"
Tokoro punches Akira strong enough to make him bleed on his nose.
"You know what Akira? I thank you for actually bringing me to your Karate Classes."
Akira brushes his blood from his nose. His eyes widening in horror... H-He's... Bleeding, punched... By his own friend whom he helped, using that help, to hurt... Akira's eye's went blank. Realizing he's just being used for something evil.
The moment Akira got back into his senses, he was already at the guidance office for punching and kicking Tokoro, making Tokoro injured so much that it for sure will take months or even a year/s just to heal.
Guidance Counselor:
"Yes... We will have to punish Little Akira for it, at least 3 weeks or more."
Akira's parents were so worried.
Present time in Akira's room.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door, her mother went down to check, but the next moment, they heard screaming, their mother, saying.
"M-murderer!"
Akira's father panics, and grabs Akira by the shoulder.
"No matter what, protect your siblings!"
His father went down, holding a wooden bat.
Meanwhile Akira couldn't move in horror, hearing the voice of his father's bat broke, his agonizing death...
After 3 minutes...Silence
Footsteps appeared.
Murderer:
"No need to be afraid."
He opens one door, a door to Hotaru, but it seems all his siblings already gathered into one place, and Hotaru 3rd of the oldest siblings was not there. He opens the second door. A room to Mori 5th of the oldest, He was also not there... Mikazuki, 4th of the oldest siblings, same case. And then comes Kenji's room... Akira started hearing screams from his helpless siblings, all tried desperately fight.
Akira snapped back
Akira slowly went down the stairs, taking a sukenari knife.
Meanwhile on Kenji's room.
Kenji second of the oldest siblings just after Akira.
"N-No!!!"
Hotaru was stabbed on his palm, Miro was trembling in a corner. Miyazuki cries in fear.
Meanwhile Kenji tries to calm the 1 year old baby Ayame:
Onii-chan Kiyoshi... Where are you!!?
Hotaru jumps back, trying to cover their little and only sister, 1 year old Ayame.
Meanwhile Miro and Miyazuki cried louder as they take the courage to cover Ayame.
Suddenly, the door opened from behind... Akira, holding the sukenari knife...
The murderer turns around from behind.
"Oh, another kid?"
He slowly turns to Akira, cautious.
"Hey kid, that blade you're holding is dangerous."
The murderer offers his hand, asking for the knife.
"Come. Give it to me."
Akira looks at his siblings behind the murderer, their eyes, in fear. Hotaru in blood... Baby Ayame's cries, echoing through his head.
Akira's eye's went blank.
The next morning.
Kiyoshi Akira, Kenji Akira, and Hotaru Akira managed to beat up the murderer, Kiyoshi... holding the bloody knife. Huffs.
Akira's hands were in blood too
The Police arrives
Akira... because of just being a 12 year old, and, he wasn't arrested and was considered a self defense, they were adopted by their relatives and took them in.
Akira (Kiyoshi) got into a University, he took on the computer science course.
His teachers are starting to notice how of a Genius Akira is, and not just a Genius, but also a hard worker.
one day while walking in the streets, he saw a kid, watching the other playing kids from afar, remembering his self when he first admired those who had friends. He called out for the young boy... And they became good friends, until... That young boy, named Hikaru Kamiki... starts representing Tokoro. But this time...
PRESENT TIMELINE.
Ai arrived back home from the mall, taking off her shoes.
"Akira-sama, I'm home. Look! I brought you a phone!"
Akira turns his head to Ai. He glanced at the picture of him with his parents and siblings briefly.
He whispered to himself:
"But this time... Things are different now, I can stop a friend's friend being a victim by my own friend that I helped sharpen."