Times change
By: MimiYamatoForever
Prologue
Hyoga was busy looking through a small photo album he had managed to keep over the years from when he was a child. It held very few pictures in it. Only about five or six pages. They were mostly of him as a child in Russia or Siberia with his mother.
He smiled fondly at his mother. He missed her terribly but he knew that she was in a better place. Still he always wondered what his life would have been like if she had made it through that horrible shipwreck.
Would he still have been picked to be a saint? Would he still be friends with Seiya and the others? So many questions that would never be answered. Just rethought over and over again.
"You're quiet today Hyoga." Shiryu said.
"Just thinking." Hyoga replied.
"What about?" Shun asked.
"I was just wondering," Hyoga started. "What things would be like if my mother was still around? Like, would I still have become a saint if our ship had never sank and we had made it to Russia?"
"I often wondered about things like that when I was training in China." Shiryu said. "But I was only about three or four when my parents died so I don't remember what they look like or anything else."
Seiya noticed Shun's fallen look. "What's wrong Shun?"
"Nothing." Shun asked. "It's just that...Well, you guys tell stories about what you remember about your parents and...I don't have any to tell. Ikki told me about how our parents were and what they looked like but it doesn't really help much."
"Right. I forgot that you're the only one of us who's been an orphan since you were a baby." Seiya said sadly. He remembers his parents clearly from pleasant memories they had shared together but Shun didn't have any to share.
His father had deserted him, his mother and Ikki before he had even been born. Seiya could only wonder how Shun would feel when they would talk about their parents right in front of him. It made him feel guilty.
"We're sorry Shun." Shiryu said. "I didn't have my parent's for very long but I can only imagine how you must feel."
"It's alright." Shun said doing his best to smile. "All I ever really need to know is that my mother loved me. Ikki said that our father wasn't exactly the ideal parent but our mother was."
I wonder if I could ask Athena for a favor. Seiya wondered to himself suddenly getting an idea. All of this talk about their parent's was getting him thinking if there was a way to help Shun know what his parent's were like. Shun was the only one of them that had no idea what his parent's were like or what they looked like.
An hour had gone by after talking about their parent's when Seiya dialed a familiar number. The phone had rang twice before it was answered.
"Hello? Saori Kido."
"Hey Saori." Seiya greeted. "It's me Seiya. Listen, I have a favor to ask you."