When Kai got home she made a dash for her room, hoping to avoid her parents invading questions about school that day. Besides, she had work to get done for her project. She was currently working on telescope that directs you to the different constellations. It was still heavily in the works.

She closed the door quietly and deposited her bags remnants on her bed, when she opened up her laptop, a picture of them all at their university appeared on her screen. Gogo, Honey, Wasabi, Fred, her and Tadashi. After staring at the picture a while, it slowly faded into the next one, her and a young boy. She let out a sigh and remembered the day the picture was taken.

Her whole family was out on a picnic together, the picture was with her and her brother, Kaname. Strange how that day was full of good memories, but the reason for that day was quite the opposite. Kaname knew that he was dying of cancer and he didn't have long left. He told his parents that all he wanted to do for his last day, was to go on a big family picnic, like they used to before the diagnostic.

Clenching her teeth she pushed the thought from her mind and opened up a document and she set to work on her project.

An hour later, her phone lit up with the sound of a beep. She rubbed her eyes, after accidentally falling asleep and checked it

Just an email from her University. It was weird, Tadashi should have found Hiro by now. Maybe he had just forgotten to text her. She took a deep breath and remembered what he said to her, it wasn't necessarily what he said, and it was more how he said it. Although she understood what he was trying to say, it didn't come across.

She didn't expect him to understand, she didn't expect any of them to, but the thing that made it all better, was that they tried. No matter how far they were from experience losing a close sibling, they took their time and tried to process it the same, put themselves in her shoes. She couldn't have asked for a better group of friends.

"Kai?" She heard her mothers sweet voice from downstairs calling her, presumably just checking in on her as usual.

"Just working on the project mom!" She called down to her, hoping she wouldn't try talk some more. She loved her parents dearly, but she really needed to get some more of her project done.

"Kai? Will you come down here please? We need to talk!" She called again, this time really spiking Kais interest. Last time she said that was when Kaname was diagnosed with cancer. Her jaw clenched and she was instantly slightly nervous.

Carefully she ventured downstairs to see both her parents sat in the kitchen, cups of tea warming their hands.

"Sit down sweetie" Her father gesture softly, his voice gentle and very calm. Confused she obliged and sat in front of the pair, feeling four eyes glued to her.

"What- What's going on?"

Clearly her parents were un-easy and on edge, as her mother tried to talk, she stopped herself. Her father looked over and sighed, starting her sentence for her.

"We've been meaning to tell you this for a while now… it's not easy" he took a deep breath. Kai's eyes quickly flicked between the two, not focussing on either of them, she couldn't.

"Just know that… no matter what… we love you, unconditionally" her mother spoke up, snaking her arm around her husbands, gripping it tightly. Kai noticed a tear attempting to fall down her cheek, but she wiped it away before it could escape.

"Sweetie, when you were…" he took another deep breath and thought back "Two" he spoke again, confirming the age to himself "We're not your… we're not your birth parents honey" It was clear that this was hard for him to speak, but at first, Kai didn't think he was being serious. Like this was all some sort of a joke, but then she was reminded of how serious their expressions and tone was. This wasn't a joke.

In a quick second, it felt like her whole life started to fall apart.

"Wh- Who-" she started to speak but was barely able to put her words together

"We don't know your birth parents, but we know that they were unable to care for you, which is why you were taken to the kids home"

"So- So you just… you just lied to me?"

"Honey no" her 'mothers' voice felt bittersweet "We should have told you sooner, I'm so sorry baby"

Kai had never felt a stranger in her own home until now

"We were so excited to bring you home with us Kai, as soon as we saw you, we wanted you, to give you a home… a family"

Kai's eyes switched between both of them again, unable to reside on either one. She felt a few tears forming but she didn't want to cry. Both of their voices faded into the distance as she took a moment to process, think, react and accept.

"We understand if you don't want to talk to us for a while, but you should know that no matter what, we love you, like our own. There is no difference, in our eyes, you're our daughter, and that will never change."

"So… What about Kaname?" was the first thing she asked, that all she really cared about. It was undeniable that her parents did truly love her, and they had been so great to her. As she thought back to all of her memories with them, it just became clear that they really did care for her like their own.

"Well. Around the time that we adopted you, we were… unable to have children of our own… Kaname was a miracle" Her father spoke, a twinkle in his eyes as he thought of his son

Kai swallowed the lump present in her throat, it was hard to process this, but she knew that it would be easier over time… she just had to accept it. At least now she knew. However she couldn't help but wonder what life would have been like if she had never known, she wouldn't have even guessed it.

"I'm… I'm gonna go to bed" she sighed, slowly standing up from the kitchen table and pushing her chair back with her legs. Her parents stood with her, a sorrowful look in their eyes.

"Okay sweetie, you let us know if you need anything okay?" Her mother approached her but subconsciously Kai stepped back. She felt awful in doing so but it had already happened before she knew.

"I will" she nodded her head and took a deep breath, pushing herself back up the stairs and into bed.