The next day,Amari and Kaz went off into town. Kaz had not gone very far when he noticed Amari was nowhere to be seen. He looked around. He didn't see Amari...but he did see a yen lying on the sidewalk. He picked it up immediately,then ran off to the pastry shop he was staring at endlessly the day before.
He went in and held up the yen. ''I would like a cookie.'' He said. Since he was so short,the lady behind the counter didn't see him. He jumped up and down and waved the yen in the air. ''Ma'm,I would like a cookie.'' The lady finally noticed him. She took the yen and gave him a cookie.
''Thank you.'' Kaz said,then left,wolfing down the cookie. Outside the shop,Amari was waiting for him. He looked very worried.
''What's the matter,Amari?'' Kaz asked.
''Dad...''
''What about Dad?''
''Dad...he's...he's...follow me.''
Amari led his younger brother down a dark alleyway where Usaga lay on the ground. Kaz ran over to him and shook him. ''Get up,Dad!'' He said. Usaga did nothing. ''Get up!'' Kaz shook him harder. It still did not work. Kaz looked and saw a dagger sticking out of Usaga's chest,with blood flowing down his kimono and onto the ground.
''Dad!'' Kaz looked over at Amari,his eyes brimming with tears. He shook Usaga once more. ''You have to get up.'' He said,crying. He ran over to Amari and grabbed onto his kimono. Amari pulled him close and hugged him,then walked away. Kaz looked at his father's lifeless body one last time,then sadly followed Amari back home.
When Yuka heard her sons tell her about this,she didn't believe it. But when Amari and Kaz took her to the alley and showed her,she was shocked to the very bone. She hugged her boys,sobbing. She had always feared that something like this would happen.
Later that night,she sat and thought about how things would be now that Usaga was gone. Usaga was where most of their money had come from. Now that he was dead,she and her boys would be even poorer than they had ever been,and she didn't want to put them through it.
She went into Amari and Kaz's room. Amari was sound asleep,but Kaz was awake crying and clutching onto his teddy bear tightly.
She watched them sadly. She couldn't let them live like this. She left the room,swallowing back her tears.
