Akemi

"Hideki, what are these boxes?" Akemi called her husband, who was in the kitchen putting away utensils. It was two weeks after their wedding and they were moving into their new place; a two bedroom apartment in Tokyo. He peered in, pushing up his glasses and looking over the boxes in question.

"Ah, those are some things that belonged to my parents, actually. They were keeping them in a storage container up till now, but I figured we might as well go through them and see if there's anything we want to keep." He said.

"Your parents? Of course we should keep it, they probably are really special things." Akemi said, extremely curious about the contents of the boxes. She didn't know much about her new husband's parents beside the fact that they had passed away when he was young. As she stared at the boxes, she heard her beloved laugh.

"If you're that curious you can go ahead and open them. I don't mind, what's yours is mine." Hideki said, causing Akemi to blush. She hadn't thought it was possible to love someone this much. She was only so curious because she always wanted to know more about him.

"Okay, then we should look through them together." She said, but moved to open the box with excitement. Suddenly, her new husband leaned over and gave her a quick peck on the lips. She looked up in shock to see him smiling down at her calmly.

"Let's get to it." He said, it made Akemi happy to see him so comfortable. There was a time when he never let himself relax. Sitting cross-legged beside each other, the newlyweds began to go through the boxes. In addition to small keepsakes there were photos; most of just his parents together but a few showing Hideki as a baby.

"Look how cute you were! You're playing with your dad's glasses in this one." Akemi exclaimed, holding a picture with a young Hideki wearing nothing but a diaper and his dad's glasses - which looked remarkably like the one's he always wore now.

Hideki blushed slightly, "This is more embarrassing then I thought it would be, maybe we should move on…"

"Not a chance." Akemi said, holding the picture close. "But maybe we should check out the other boxes."

"Good idea." Hideki said, a little too enthusiastically. "This one says 'Office' – maybe it was from my Dad's work?"

"What did he do again?" Akemi asked, as he opened the box.

"He was a lawyer, and my mom was a regular office worker."

Akemi watched as Hideki pulled out a wooden box with a carving on the front and a large compilation of filing folders. The folders were filled with client information, they discovered, but the box was locked.

"There's no key," He said, peering into the cardboard box again. Akemi was only more intrigued by the locked box.

"Maybe we can break the lock," She said, taking the box out of his hands and peering at the keyhole.

"You…always say the most surprising things." Hideki said, holding his hands out the take the box back, "I'll take it to the locksmith tomorrow and see if he can open it." He set the small box onto their coffee table before turning back to Akemi with a smirk.

"What?" She asked, butterflies in her stomach.

"Well, I was thinking that we've done quite enough unpacking for today." Akemi gasped slightly when he picked her up bridal-style. Not to be outdone, she kissed him firmly.

"I agree."