Chapter 3

A woman with jet black hair and mud-green eyes was sitting on the couch, looking deep in thought.

The woman's name is Ava Shiki/Aomine, she was none other than Kalier's mother, the same mother that had left him alone. When she had promised not to.

Well now It's been six long years and she was now married to a kind and loving man named Lin Aomine, who has a son named Daiki, He is just a year older than her own son would be.

Ava missed her own son, and was thinking of telling her new husband about what happened to her and her old husband 9 years ago, as well as her son that she left behind, and why she had done it.

She was jolted out of her thoughts when the front door opened and her step son, Daiki, walked in he was sweaty and looked borade, he got that way a lot seeing as he couldn't find anyone to beat him in Basketball. Ava was sadden by the change in him, and she thought if she had her son here Daiki wouldn't have been alone growing up,

Ava shook her head and looked up when she heard her son mutter about something, making her decision she turned her head towards Daiki and asked

"Daiki, can you get your father? There is something I need to tell the both of you," She said in a soft motherly-like voice.

"Sure mom." Daiki answered as he walked up the stairs to get his father.

Lately his stepmother has been off in a daze. and her eyes were full of guilt. He didn't know what was wrong with her, but he had his own problems to deal with, like the lack of people that could give him a challenge! And he wasn't talking about his old captain.

When they came back down they asked what she wanted to tell them.

"You're going to need to sit down for this; it's a long story," She told them. They did, and she continued. "Well, it's about my 1st marriage. You see, nine years ago I lost my husband when he was on a job – he was a firefighter. He was helping kids get out of their burning school, but one kid got stuck inside. He went back in to get him, but on his way back to the entrance, a pillar was about to fall. So he threw the child out of the burning school, but the pillar landed on him." Ava had to pause to catch her breath, and to calm down, the pain still hurt even if it had been years since it had happened. "I got a call from the hospital that my 1st husband died a hero. I was taking care of my 6 year old son when I got that call." She had this guilty and Pained look on her face. as she had said this.

"What happened to you son? You never told us you had one," Lin stated. Daiki wonder that as well.

"I wish I knew I had a step-brother," Daiki muttered.

"Well, as for what happened to my son…I left him," Ava said the last part too fast, but father and son caught it and knew what she meant.

"You left him?!" Lin was shock. He didn't think that his wife would leave a child to fend for himself.

"I know, I know what I did was awful. But every time I looked at him, all I could see was his father. So I left him there." She paused for a minute. "He should be 15 now. I never once stopped thinking about him. I feel like a horrible mother for leaving him. I want to make it up to him by finding him and getting him to move to japan."

"Where is he now?" Lin asked.

"In America. But he could be anywhere," Ava was crying now.

Lin sighed, "Okay… Look, Honey. I'm not happy that you left him there. If you were going to leave him, you should have given him to an orphanage or something. But I understand why you did it. Doesn't mean I approve of it. "

Ava wiped her tears. "I want to find him. I want to be part of his life again. But I don't think he'll ever forgive me," She said sadly.

While his two parents were talking, Daiki was thinking about his little step-brother. 'I wonder what he's like. From what mom said about his father, he could be brave just like him. I really hope he hasn't gotten into too much trouble.'

Not long after that though, the family heard their phone go off. Ava got up off the couch to pick it up and answer, "Hello, this is Ava speaking."

"Hello, Mrs. Shiki. I'm Mandy Rivers. I call from Flower High Hospital in America. I'm calling about your son Kailer, he was burned from a fire, saving people from his burning school building, but luckily he'll be fine." The nurse on the other end of the phone reported.

Ava dropped the phone and covered her mouth in shock.

Daiki didn't think that was a good sign...what was that?

Lin picked the device back up and asked what happen.

The nurse told him everything he needed to know, and after that, he hung up. Lin told Ava what the nurse said, and asked what she plans to do.

Ava caught her breath and came back down to earth and looked at her husband.

"I think we should go to him. I don't want to call and tell him to come to Japan like that after what happened, he might not listen," She said.

Lin nodded his head. "Alright let's go get our son." Ava smiled she was happy that he had adapted to having another son so easily, she hoped her own son would as well.
"Right." She smiled and kissed him.
After that they got ready to leave. Daiki couldn't wait to see what his brother looked like, maybe he could torch...er Teach him Basketball.