I slowly opened my eyes to an oblique room. I took in my surroundings.
"You're finally awake, Hikaru," someone said coming into the room.
I looked in their direction. "Where am I? Who am I?"
She smiled slightly. "You're in the hospital. Your name is Hikaru. You have a twin brother. His name is Mikado Nagi. You weren't quite liked by your mother, though," she answered. "It seems like you have a moderate case of amnesia. It was to be expected after getting shot. Your family must be worried about you."
Someone else entered the room. It was a man. "Glad you're awake, Hikaru. I overheard that you had amnesia. It's going to take some time for you to remember. You've been here for quite sometime. You were shot when you-"
"Stop, please'" I begged. "What are you saying? What family? I don't have family. They all died. There's no one to look after me. I'm all alone. What am I supposed to do? I'm scared."
The nurse tried to calm me. "Please calm down. Your father and twin brother love you dearly."
"If I truly have family, why aren't they here now?" I asked in between sobs.
"We should leave her for now," the doctor muttered. "I talked to a family that's willing to take her in. She needs her rest." The doctor looked at me sorrowfully. "We'll be back in a few hours to run some tests in time for you to meet your adoptive family."
I nodded.
Adoptive family? What is the family that feels bad for me like and wants to take care of me? I hope that whoever it is, is loving, kind, thoughtful, and acts like a teacher to me to help me catch up on what I missed in life. I looked out the window. It was a cold day from the looks of it. I couldn't remember what a cold day, or any day felt like. I wonder what happened to me. The nurse did say that I was shot when I was younger. How did getting shot make me lose memory?
There was a knock on the door before someone entered the room.
I sat there while the doctor let in a family, and started talking to them about something. It was all hushed to make me less worried about the state I was in.
I wondered who my family is that abandoned me here without a care in the world. Even who my so called twin is. If I truly had a twin, why did they stop coming to visit me?
"Hikaru," the doctor said bringing me out of my thoughts. "You'll be leaving here tomorrow morning. I'd like you to meet your new family. This is Ai Mikaze and this is the professor. You'll be staying with them until your memory returns of when you were younger. Hopefully it won't take long. I'll let you get to them, Hikaru." The doctor left leaving me alone with my new family.
I stayed silent. I wasn't sure on what to say. "Thank you for taking me in," I whispered.
It was a few days after Ai and the professor took me in. Ai told me to enroll at Saotome Academy. I wasn't about to argue with him.
I spent my year becoming a composer.