UNTRUSTABLE~
CHAPTER 1-
A cold evening breeze touches the evening sky. Lighting the sky, the stars shine a faint shine, foreshadowing the sun's magnificent sink into the pink horizon.
~kachunk
"I'm home! Oh, and I have treats!"
Tochii. A young, cheerful 17 year old senior student. He is the breadwinner of the family and works for himself and his sister. As a 14 year old, both his parents died in a gang war, being shot as the two team conflicted. Due to these scenses of events, they have been left with their Japanese neighbor: Mr. Takao.
"Tochii~! Im so glad seeing you!"
"Aww, Sylvia, I'm glad to see you too!"
Sylvia is Tochii's 3 year old sister. She has trouble saying words, but she manages to form sensible phrases.
Raising a small transparent plastic bag with an icon on it, he revealed a small selection of food.
"huh...?" his eyes wander all over the room.
"Hey, have you seen grizzly?"
Sylvia inoccently shakes her head.
"no, uncle grizzly say he out for short time."
Tochii frowned. He knew Grizzly had bad habits, and it's not easy to make him break those unfavorably actions. As a small, and somewhat cute brown bear as he is, Grizzly acts as some kind of rebe;/
"Ok, stay her Sylvia, I'll be right back."
he left in a rush as he opens the back door, knowing full well what to expect. And he was right. There he was, in his usual yellow rain jacket. The small, chubby bear was holding a stick of cigarette. As he sucks in another, he stares unwittingly into the falling sun in the horizon.
Tochii creeps slowly behind him. His gray jacket blending in perfectly well into the large concrete wall. Tochii knew how impossible making Grizzly stop his smoking is, so he reaches for the stick as Grizzly lifts it up into his lips for another.
"Hey! Don't-"
The bear was interrupted as Tochii grabbed the stick and stepped onto it voiently. Grizzly was in shock.
Turning his back, the young 17 year old head for the door.
"Come inside, I brought home food..."
He continues, and heads inside. It always happens. He should have known. But Grizzly can't get that mad at the boy no matter how hard he tried. After all, he was kind enough to take him in and provide for him like family.
Thought flying all over his head, Grizzly goes for the door. As he walks in, he's greeted by the sight of Tochii and Sylvia sitting happily at the small wooden table that Mr. Takao gave them.
Yes, family... The sight makes Grizzly feel nice inside. He never had one. Before he met Tochii, he was all alone, wandering streets and neighborhood. He hates the fact that because he is a bear, no one would dare hire him for a job. he feels bad being the the father figure of the family, yet failing to help Tochii provide for them. He curses himself almost everyday because of this.
He grunts a sarcastic grunt.
"heh, alright, let's see what you've got.."
Grizzly joins the two happy siblings in the small table. As he does so, Tochii takes out the contents of the nag revealing 3 rice balls, gum, and a pack of pocky sticks for the 3 year old.
Tochii's job is a part time worker in a restaurant called "The Purple Cafe". He doesn't get paid much, but it's enough to buy the family at least one rice ball for dinner everyday. Regarding the house, Mr. Takao was kind enough to fund for the apartment they rented, and the furniture are what they're parents left for them.
Nevertheless, they were a happy family. Tochii and Sylvia manages to make grizzly's day all worth living somehow. Even HE doesnt know the reason why.
"here you go!" tochii hands grizzly the tuna filled onigiri with a sweet smile.
It made grizzly blush a little. "thanks..." he hides his face as he takes the ball from him.
Tochii giggles sweetly. "no problem!"
He turns to his tiny sister waiting patiently as if she, herself understands what's going on.
Tochii takes out the onigiri and gives it to his sister.
"wait, that's not all!"
As if drawing the next winning lottery ticket, tochii slowly pulls out the pocky stick box, and hands it to his sister as well.
Sylvia's eyes widened with joy. It was the most blissful thing in their family. Grizzly and tochii always enjoys watching Sylvia smile. It makes the whole exhausted feeling go away.
Grizzly munches on the rice ball. "so... How was your day?"
"it was ok I guess... Our history teacher wasn't so evil today... She didn't assign homework to us!"
At times like this, when tochii's face light up, does grizzly know that he's truly happy. Despite being very cheerful, tochii reveals an exhausted expression at home as a result of a long hard day of school.
Tochii stares at the clock.
"oh god! It's almost 5:00 PM! I've gotta go to work!"
Grizzly frowned. He knew that the whole fatigue routine would one day ruin the boy.
He sighs. "I guess it is..."
Grizzly struggles to find words of encouragement, but all that came out was a bunch of awkward sounds that's vaguely similar to a morse code electric vibration.
Tochii was in such a rush that he barely even noticed the stuttering bear.
"ok, I guess I'm off... See you guys!"
A hint of disappointment was seen in the boy's face. He was going to work again. It might as well be hell he had to go through, because the lack of air conditioning and the crowded people formed an unexplainable wave of heat that makes the restaurant unbearable. If it wasn't for their quality of food, no one would eat in that junk place. Luckily though, they provide a "to go" service as well as delivery
Finally, after traversing through the rather spacious neighborhood, tochii finds himself standing in front of his old, worn-down, yet crowded workplace. There could have been no possible way that one can enter through the front door because of the amount of people.
So tochii decides to take the back door.
"ah! Finally, you're here! That's great, that's great, you're just in time!"
Daina, a tall, pink haired girl is the owner of the said restaurant. Her hair grows down to her shoulders, but at worktime, she ties it to a bun to keep her head cool. It's actually a good thing. Tochii never wanna mess with her when she's angry or irritated...
"yeah, I'm here... And, aren't I always in time?"
Tochii tries to adjust to the side as he enters through the back door.
"yes, but being on time today, is very important!"
Daina reaches for a box that seem to contain fragile
Objects considering the way she held it. She signals tochii to get it from her. And he does.
"alrighty, this box contains food and bowls so it's important to hold it carefully."
She wipes the sweat off her forehead and continues.
"also, what's more important is getting it there on time! Because the speed of our delivery reflects the quality of our food!"
Tochii struggles to let all the information sink in. He decided that it's better not to ask again since he knows Daina more than anyone else. And it is NOT a good idea to ask her to repeat stuff.
"ok ok, so where exactly is the place?"
Tochii nervously asked Daina as he holds the box carefully
She hands him a card. "here. Now get moving! I have to attend to the customers now!"
Daina rushes back to the counter.
As he struggled to hold the box while walking, tochii tried to gaze at the tiny piece of card holding the residence information of the customer who ordered the delivery.
He grunts. He thinks about his job. He thinks about the customers. And he thinka about Daina. Yes, Daina.. That cheap bastard... Tochii feels like he's the only employee in that junk house cafe. Well... Of course there's that one guy in the kitchen who he doesn't even know the name of. But that's not the point. The point is that he's too overworked because his boss decides to be cheap and refrains from hiring OTHER employees.
tochii grunts as the wind blows violently againts the direction he is walking towards.
"ugh... Damn wind... Why do you hate me mother nature!"
End of chapter one~~~~
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