.III.
You know, sometimes I wonder if my Otou-san still loves Kaa-chan anymore. I mean I know for sure that Otou-san loves me. Cause he tells me every single day. Well he doesn't exactly say it, but I know what he means. Whenever we finish training or after Otou-san had taught me a new jutsu, he always looks at me all funny and says, "Kousei, good job. Keep making me proud." And after that we start to play until we get called to dinner by Kaa-chan.
The problem for me is that I don't know how to tell his he does love Kaa-chan anymore. Because over the past year it just doesn't seem like it.
So I asked him.
"Otou-san, do you still love Kaa-chan?"
He gave me that funny look again and put down those stupid boring reports that he is always reading and he actually came over to lean down in front of me and he hugged me. I started to get worried then. Was Otou-san sick, I mean he never hugged me.
When he stopped hugging me, he looked at me for a while and finally said in a rough voice, "Kousei, I promise you that I love Kaa-san very much."
I still wasn't completely sure, I had to know just how much he did love Kaa-chan. "How much do you love her? All the way to moon and back?"
He just shook his head at me and then got all serious again and said in his no-argument voice, "I love your Kaa-san in a different way Kousei, and that's the end of it."
Then he just got up and went back to his usual spot on the couch and kept reading. But I just didn't get it. I mean he didn't make any sense. But the more I looked at Otou-san I was surprised to see that he actually looked a little sad. But why? I really wanted to ask him some more questions but I knew it wouldn't be a good idea, so I decided to leave Otou-san alone for now.