Amnesia

Prologue

A young man seemed to be in the kitchen, opening the fridge and looking for something to eat. 'Hmm… Is there anything that I could make for dinner?' he thought.

"Souji-kun… We're home," this man that named Souji-kun looked at the main door of his house. He closed the fridge and approached the door. The door opened and two figurine ―a male and a female― at around their forty appeared.

"Sorry for being late. We promised that we would come back here on March 21st too but, we…" this silver-haired female ―who appeared to be Souji's mother― stopped her words when her son grinned. "What are you grinning at?"

"No, nothing. It's just… You've explained it to me on phone around a week ago, 2 days ago, and also an hour ago while on your way home. Why do you have to explain it so many times?" Souji chuckled.

"That's your mom. Now, help us bring our luggage to our room. We're tired of sitting on the plane for about few hours," the older guy talked and brought his luggage into the room.

"So, Souji-kun… How's Inaba? Do you have any friends there? And how's Ryotaro-kun? I heard, he and Nanako-chan entered the hospital, huh? What happened?"

"Yep! I have a lot of good friends there. Dojima-san's fine now." He stopped for a second, thinking, then said, "Well… there's this kinda strange fog all over the town. They said that it's poisonous but, I don't think so. But, don't worry. The fog's gone already," Souji faked a smile, 'I can't tell her the truth. I hope this story didn't look too odd. After all, most of it wasn't lie, though.'

"Poisonous fog? Sounds like nonsense to me," she had a small sigh, "We better prepare the dinner. Your dad's been talking about it all the way home," the blue-eyes female smiled and set her luggage in the living room.

"Mom… Why don't you get some rest? I'll prepare the dinner," Souji went to the kitchen and open the fridge ―again― and searched for some ingredients to make for the dinner.

"Well, if you say so…"

Then, Souji cooked for dinner. His mom took a bath and then watched TV in the living room with her husband. Around maybe an hour, the dinner's ready.

"Mom, dad! Dinner's ready," he called his parents and they turned off the TV and went to the dinning room soon after that. After their dinner's finished, they sat there for a while and talk about various things. Souji's parents talked about their job overseas and Souji talked about his life in Inaba for a year.

"So, I bet you've got a girlfriend there already, huh?" asked the older man while took a sip of his tea. Souji seemed to be choked his drink, his face seemed redder than usual.

"Wha―! H-How could you know?" asked Souji, his eyes widened.

"First, you seemed to be enjoying your life in Inaba. That's odd since, you seemed very unhappy when we first told you that you're going to live in Inaba for a year."

"And second, Ryotaro-kun said that you've a girlfriend. But, he won't tell us who it is," the only female there spoke and smiled. 'Damn! So, it's Dojima-san who told them.'

"Well? Tell us what she's look like and what's her name," his father raised an eyebrow.

"Do I REALLY have to tell?"

"Of course you do, dear. We're so curious of what kind of girl you like."

"…Fine. Her name is Naoto Shirogane. She's a dete―" his words were cut by his mother's.

"Shirogane! You mean she's one of those detectives? But, wait. I never heard Shirogane-san has a granddaughter? I only heard that he has a grandson."

"Mom… Could you give me just another second to finish my story?"

"Ow… Alright. Sorry, dear."

"Well, how should I explain it? She pretended as a male when I first know her. She even got a title, 'Detective Prince'. Everyone thought she's a guy. But, she's actually a girl. Everyone knows that she's a girl now," he sighed.

"A girl pretended as a guy?" his mom chuckled. "You should introduce her to us someday. She's so cool!"

"Yeah… Of course I will," he muttered and smiled to himself. He didn't know that he's blushing and his parents could hear his voice, his parents just looked at each other and smiled.

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Now I face out, I hold out,

I reach out to the truth―

'Geez… Who's calling me this late at night?' Souji got up and took a look at his phone. 'Yosuke calling? Don't tell me it's just for some lame jokes Chie's been talking about,' he answered the call. "What do you think you're doing, Yosuke? Can't you look at the clock first before calling me?"

"Sorry for disturbing your sleep, partner. But, we've got a call from Dojima-san just now. He said to not tell this to you, but we all can't just hide it from you," Yosuke seemed to be in a rush. 'Did something happen?'

"Okay, okay, I heard you. So, what's happening?"

"Naoto-kun, she… She got an accident and now we're in Inaba Municipal Hospital. We don't know what'll happen to Naoto-kun but… the wounds seemed bad."

"What! She's― Rrgh! I'll go there now!" Souji hung up the phone and took a bag inside his wardrobe, filling it with a set of cloth and money. He rushes through his room's door and went downstairs.

"What? Souji-kun? Where're you going this late? What's with that bag?" his mom seemed to be awake by the noise Souji made. Souji didn't stopped by his mother's appearance and just said, "I'm going to Inaba now! I'll explain everything later!" he ran towards the main door and open the gate.

"Wait! Souji-kun!" she sighed, 'What's wrong with him?'

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A/N: Well… That's it for the prologue. Hope you like it! Sorry for the bad grammar :)

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