After asking Kirito to come along with me and he agrees nearly instantly we had set off on our little journey.
We step off the train and am brought back by many memories good and bad, I sigh and we begin our walk to my old home since it was only about a 20-minute walk from the train station. We walked in utter awkward silence till Kirito broke it with an odd question.
" Yuki have you ever had your heart broken?"
I thought about it for a second before answering.
( if I tell him yes then he will ask more about it, but if I tell him no it will be lying...and I'd feel rather guilty if I were to lie to him about something I just don't want to talk about. )
after racking my brain for what felt like ages I finally sighed and gave him my answer.
" Yes but I don't really want to talk about it, it's in the past now. "
he stops walking and I stop to look back at him and before I could as what was wrong he asks me another question that had me trapped what felt like in a dark corner.
" Well then who Is Akira? "
stunned by his sudden question and knowledge of him I try to avoid the topic.
" I'll tell you when I feel ready enough to. "
and then continue to walk hearing him follow me from close behind.
- About 20 minutes later-
Upon walking up to the house I once lived in I noticed some significant changes right away. The grass was not cut, mail was pilled in front of the door and a window was busted out. Sensing my Erie feelings Kirito looks back at me then towards my house. Not even having to speak we both open the front door and I look around seeing a thin layer of dust on everything I began to call out for my mother.
"Mom?"
Eerie silence and no response, Kirito signals for me to come over to the kitchen.
"I don't think your mom has been here for a while take a look at the stove, it's as if she left suddenly."
He points to molded food in a pot that was on a burner for what seems at least 2 months old or so. It hit me then looking back to the day I left here.
"It was approximately 3 months ago to this day that I left here to come to school Kirito, My mother has a mental illness and doesn't like to leave the house much and is a complete neat freak. Something happened to her and we have to find her!"
I begin to feel a bit panicked and my voice raises as I spoke. Kirito lays a hand on my shoulder.
"Ok first let's go into town and ask some civilians some questions and if we can't find any clues we can go back to school to report this incident, sound ok?"
I nod my head and look up at him.
"Ok thank you."
He smirks and ruffles my hair before walking back towards the door. I follow and pick up all of the uncollected mail on the doorstep and place it in my bag. We then begin our 6-minute walk into the town I once grew up in. It looked pretty much the same but it seemed the atmosphere had changed since last sending chills throughout my body. As we walked around I began to get a sense we were being watched and began to scan our surroundings.
"Hey, Kirito-"
he interrupts me without hesitation knowing what I was about to say.
"I know, let's just keep walking and see if they show themselves on their own."
I nod in agreement and we spot an old food shop I used to go to a lot before leaving this small town.
"Hey Kirito let's stop here to eat before heading back, They have nice food and I know the owners pretty well so we can ask them if they have heard anything about my mother."
He nods
"Alright sounds like a plan."
we enter the little shop and sit down placing our order, I look around for the manager and spot her talking to another customer, we make eye contact and her smile widens, she quickly says goodbye to the person she was talking to and comes over to us.
"Hey, Yuki! Long time no see you little squirt how you been?"
She laughs and her light golden eyes glimmer in the sun and the light breeze pushes her lightly colored long grey hair along. She was beautiful for an older woman and a really nice friend of mine even though we had a big age difference I thought of her almost as a second mother.
"I have been good and you Mrs. Takumi? "
she smiles a warm smile and places her hand on my shoulder.
" I have been good, I heard you started school in the capital! Is this one of your classmates?"
She points to Kirito and I nod.
"Yes, Actually I came back to visit my Mother but when I returned home I found her to be nowhere and there was a lot of mail piled up on the doorstep, I was wondering if you have seen her recently?"
she thought for a second putting her finger on her chin but shakes her head.
"No, now that you mention it I haven't seen her since a couple of weeks after you left for school, now that you have mentioned it... The last time we spoke she came to visit me and was acting quite odd, she looked kind of out of place if you know what I mean. After she told me about you leaving for school she said she had a visitor and that the guy asked her to come out of the country with him for a couple of weeks but she didn't think it was a good idea and declined him. I haven't seen or heard from her since but I just assumed she had changed her mind since she was home alone now."
I thought about it for a second and had a bit of a bad feeling.
"Thank you for the information, If you see her please let me know by phone, my number is still the same."
she nods and smiles at me before going back to help other customers.
"So what now Yuki?"
I sigh not knowing what else to do.
"I guess let's just head back to campus and inform Mrs. Natsumi of our findings here, something is fishy. My mother doesn't like leaving her house ever since my father and brother were killed. "
"Alright then back to school it is. But first, let's figure out why our little shadow is still spying on us..."
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