Grandpa Sano stands by the door watching this unfold chuckling lightly and clapped his hands.
"I don't know whether to be mad or impressed on how you put my grandkids in their place but I think I'm impressed and proud. Welcome to the family kid." Grandpa Sano laughed and Takemichi turned to the elder with a sheepish smile.
"Thank you for having me." Takemichi bowed to the elder.
"It's no problem, thanks for putting my two naughty grandsons to place." Grandpa Sano laughed and walked away to the dinner table.
"Jiji!" Shinichiro and Mikey whined at the same time.
Ah, truly brothers indeed. Takemichi thought.
"Emma! I set up the food! Bring your idiotic brothers to the table with Takemichi!" Grandpa Sano shouted form the dinner table.
"Yes!" Emma replied as she stood up and glanced at the males with her. "You heard Jii-san, let's go." Emma added and left.
"I'm starting to think Emma is older than the both of you." Takemichi said with a shrug and followed along with Emma.
"That's so mean Takemitchy!" Shinichiro and Mikey said at the same time
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They all sat in the dinner table chatting as they ate their food.
"Shin-nii, I'm all okay now and I kind of have to go outside and go to school tomorrow." Takemichi mentioned and Shinichiro shot up in worry.
"You sure you can? I can always excuse you, I'm sure the teacher would understand." Shinichiro said.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. You can pick me up after school." Takemichi smiled.
"Dibs on going with Shin!" Mikey and Emma butted in and both siblings glared at each other.
"No one is picking up Takemichi with Shin. Don't forget you two also have school." Grandpa Sano intervened before it escalated making the two younger siblings' sigh.
Takemichi felt a little guilty.
"How about after my cram school and your school we can play?" Takemichi offered. Both siblings suddenly had sparkles in their eyes and nodded, giving each other a high five.
Dinner ended on a peaceful note because of the little crybaby.
Takemichi was then put in the same room as Mikey since they were the same age and because Shinichiro forgot that Izana's supposed room was dirty and it was already too late to be cleaning. Takemichi set up his futon in the said room and Mikey was already lying on his own futon after getting out of the shower.
A few hours later it was already lights off and Takemichi was laying down his back facing Mikey.
"Neh Takemitchy, are you asleep?" Mikey asked but received no answer, Takemichi was frozen in place and couldn't speak but Mikey continued to speak anyway despite not knowing whether the raven head was awake or not.
"I really can't thank you enough for saving my big bro... Shin is like me and Emma's parent figure since he's practically took care of us since birth and since he took in Emma... I don't know what I would've done if he was ever gone..." Mikey said as he stared at his hand.
Takemichi turned around and faced Mikey to see the said boy staring at his hand, something swirling in his dark onyx eyes.
Dark Impulsivity. That was the only thing that Takemichi could think of. Takemichi was worried and impulsively held the blonde's hand who was taken by surprise and so was Takemichi because there wasn't a spark.
Takemichi didn't know what to say other than just grip the hand with tearful eyes.
Mikey was surprised when he saw Takemichi's face and the tear that accompanied it, he gave a small smile and wiped the tear that fell from Takemichi's eyes.
"Such a crybaby." Mikey said and this made Takemichi tear up even more.
Both children fell asleep while holding each other's hands, they gripped each other as if one was going to let go.
Without a doubt, it was on that day that Takemichi had sparked a kind of interest from Mikey that will later grow into something bigger.
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Morning came by and when Takemichi opened his eyes, Mikey was no longer there.
He must've left early to see Toman... Takemichi thought to himself as he got up and did what he has to do since he has school.
It was the next day which meant the day to save Tachibana Hinata, Takemichi decided to skip school. He couldn't exactly remember what happened that day and frankly he wasn't so sure himself, all he knew was the fact he saw Hina and kicked her bullies.
He walked around to every park he knew around since he did meet her in a playground.
Where did I even meet her!? Takemichi thought as he started panicking and started running around like madman trying to find her and it seemed like the goddess of luck was on his side as he saw the two walking home together like Hina said and the said girl running to the group of bullies to protect a cat.
Takemichi ran there but saw Kisaki, he didn't make eye contact with the boy but he saw him, anger filled him for what he did but right now he wasn't the focus, it was Hina. Like what he did before, he saved her ass, letting out a few tears like the crybaby he was.
As if fate just wanted to have fun, the result that he wanted to change stayed the same anyway. He still lost to the kids but hey, it was quite an experience and he wasn't crying that bad as he did before.
Takemichi stood up and faced her and gave the girl as small smile before he walked away with a small wave of bye.
"Wait! What's your name!" Hina shouted.
"Hanagaki Takemichi! Remember that!" Takemichi said to her as he turned to her one last time before leaving with a bright smile.
As he left, he made brief eye contact with Kisaki and that brief eye contact was enough to bring every bad memory that wretched man had done to him making the raven head lose his bright smile.
I will take you down Kisaki... Just wait. Takemichi thought to himself as he left.
Takemichi walked and walked, then ran. Takemichi ran as far as he can as the sun set.
Takemichi ran with a promise, a promise to save Mikey, his friends, his best friend.
Takemichi ran towards a promised future, a future he will create where everyone will be happy, where he can be happy... With him.
A/N
Hi! I am back from my hiatus!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's good to be back! I had fun writing this in all honesty. Also a quick explanation on the break up part, let's pretend that the Christmas breakup never happened... I had a hard time trying to find where to place their break up to be honest.
Now out of that topic. EXAMS ARE FINALLY FINISHED AND I'M SURE THAT I FAILED MATH
I'm not done with all of my exams yet; I still have last 2 exams to do which is on Tuesday. I can go back to updating when I can and as frequent as I can, I hope.
But I'm back! Anywho I hoped you enjoyed the chapter, it is longer than previous chapter (at least in my eyes) so I really do hope you liked it.
Thanks for reading and see you in my next update!
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