Chapter one
Honda Kiku was a seventeen year old boy with a rare cancer. Since the age of four he has been bedridden in a hospital located in America. He had a twin brother that lived in the hospital with him, Honda Itsuki. The two twins became orphaned at age 14 when the tsunami hit Japan. The two boys were still in the United States at that time, Itsuki attending his first year of High School and Kiku in the hospital, to sick and thin to move. When the news reached the two boys, Itsuki quit school in order to get jobs to pay the expensive medical bill that the chemo treatment for Kiku, who had been on chemo for years. And durning that time he never lost his hair. That's the thing most people remember about the boy, how he never mentioned how he kept his hair.
Honda Kiku didn't have many friends, mostly due to being quiet and preferred to be alone. His face always remained stotic and his eyes blank. Itsuki was the only one who knew how to make him smile and laugh, but that never happened since he lost his parents. At age seventeen his condition worsened, making it so he had to be transferred to another hospital, brother in tow. Months later, a month before he turned eighteen in fact, he was well enough to move around. Everyone agreed that he should be sent to somewhere with a nice climate and moderate storms.
But we'll get to that later. After all, Kiku's life deserves to be heard and read. So lets start at age three, the last time Honda Kiku lived a normal, healthy, and happy life with his family in Tokyo, Japan. On the day he decided he wanted an imaginary friend...