During the funeral, Miyuki was given the rest of the things that was found from both of the Miyukis and the Sawamuras, the things that belonged to him. They were put on small bag, written on it some words of comfort.
By the end of that day, they managed to get back home. Miyuki thinking that Eijun didn't get to hear anything. Eijun thinking about what he hear. He was pretty sure he heard something about his own parents before he got hugged by Miyuki.
They walked back home, but Eijun noticed how Miyuki stopped in front of any shop which had some signs in it. Miyuki was firmly holding his hand as not to lose him. Well, Miyuki never wanted to lose anything else, it is already enough. Also, he wanted to find work, a part-time job, in order to earn money, in order to make Eijun live as he used to with his parents. Finally, at home, Miyuki placed the small bag on the shelf so that Eijun won't reach it.
Miyuki also thought about going to the Sawamura's place to get Eijun's things. But he never told Eijun about it.
On the next day, Miyuki got to wake himself up a little earlier, changing his clothes. He decided to go get Eijun things back, fortunately, the Sawamuras didn't live so far away from there. He just has to walk like 10 minutes to reach their place, as he remembered his mom told him about their place, always pointing at it, telling him it was the Sawamura's place. He also got to find the keys in the bag which came with Eijun.
Before going out, Miyuki decided to check if Eijun was sleeping well. He walked to the bed where Eijun was sleeping on. He smiled at his small figure sleeping peacefully. Ruffling his hair, he leaned to Eijun's small ear whispering "Don't be a bad boy, I will be back quickly.", and finally, he left.
On closing the door, announcing that Miyuki has left. The young kid slowly opened his eyes. He jumped of his bed, rubbing his ear with one of his hands in confusion, then he shrugged his arms. He called Miyuki several times to check if he was still there, but he wasn't.
He ran and grabbed a chair, he placed it under the shelf, he quickly climbed on it, he raised his hand to reach the bag, he couldn't, but he kept hitting on the shelf till it fell down, the things which were in it were now everywhere on the ground.
Jumping of the chair, he found somethings he could easily recognize, he found things like one of his mom's earrings, a necklace she wore before leaving, his dad's broken glasses. Eijun blinked, he asked himself why these things were there? why are there somethings lost?
He grabbed the other things, he didn't recognize any of them, except a ring which he remembered seeing on Miyuki's mom's finger.
The more he began recognizing all of these things, the more he got confused. Also Miyuki's strange behavior these days, it was suspicious.
Eijun glanced some letters on the table nearby, he walked to get them, he cleared his throat and slowly opened one of them.
"Dear, Sawamura..Ei-jun..", Eijun was still bad at reading, but he managed to understand.
"We are truly sorry about what happened," Eijun blinked, but continued reading "will you come to live with us from now on? You see, living alone will be hard, and you are still 7 years old. In your parents' will, they wanted you to live happily, may they rest in peace- please reply soon..your..aunt.."
Eijun stared at the letter, being so speechless, he threw the letter from his hands, quickly going back to the broken glasses, he shook his head, refusing to believe, the tears found their way on his cheeks. He began searching in some newspapers, surely, he would find something that would tell him if that was a lie, or if that was true. He grabbed the previous day's newspaper, quickly returning everything to its normal place, whipping the tears of his cheeks, he jumped on bed, because Miyuki will come back at anytime.
Eijun quietly opened the newspaper and looked at it, he gasped as he sees the breaking news, "A plane crashed, with zero survivors..yesterday?" he whispered as he tried to recall what happened.
The day before the previous day? After Dinner, Miyuki told Eijun he would give the chocolate, someone called and- someone called? Miyuki looked shocked, he also tried to hold his tears? Wait, he knew? Was this real? It is not a joke?
Eijun threw the newspaper hard at the ground, that's when Miyuki came back. Eijun grabbed the blanket and kept crying quietly. And Miyuki spent all of his other days not knowing that the 7-year-old kid knew about his little secret.
Both of them kept acting very strange towards each other. Miyuki being over-protective, Eijun being sad, or maybe ignoring everything said to him, he ignored what Miyuki told him, he got ill many times, Miyuki panics every time Eijun gets ill, afraid of that maybe, just maybe, Eijun will leave him all alone.
But things got better, days passed, weeks passed, both of them got to know one another more and more, the smile found its way to their faces again, each of them cared for the other greatly.
A year has passed, it is the school season again.
But, on the first day at school, Eijun got into many problems, he even had a fight with his classmates, and the bandages were all over his face.
"E-Eijun-kun! What will you tell Miyuki-san?" Haruichi asked as he shook his friend
Eijun didn't seem to care so much, he just sighed and pouted "It was their fault! I have nothing to tell him."
"B-but what if he asked me?"
"Like the hell he would."
"Eijun-kun! It is wrong to talk like this!" Haruichi panics a bit, Eijun ignoring that.
Miyuki steps into the school with Haruichi's brother, Ryousuke.
Haruichi stood in front of Eijun as if he tried to hide him from Miyuki, Miyuki blinked his eyes at the little kid, he grabbed his hand and shook hands with him, Haruichi blinked.
"Ah, you are my fan?" Miyuki said in a sarcastic tone.
Haruichi wasn't so sociable, he blushed and slapped Miyuki with his free hand, then he ran and hid behind his brother, who was very pleased with what has happened just now.
"Don't sob, you did well." Ryousuke patted Haruichi's head as he smirked at Miyuki.
"Ugh this lil- Eijun, it is time to-"
Miyuki stopped talking when he saw how messed up Eijun was, his clothes were messed up, his hair, bandages on his face. He sighed and sat on his knees, to be at Eijun's height, he began fixing his clothes, he tried to brush Eijun's hair with his fingers, "Uh, seriously,what has happened again?"
"Kazuya, it was-"
"It was their fault, yeah, I know."
"No really!"
"H-he drew something.." Haruichi said from behind his brother's legs, everyone looked at him
"HARUCCHI!"
"I-I am sorry Eijun-kun-"
Miyuki and Ryousuke looked at each other, then they looked at Eijun, "Show me what you drew." Miyuki demanded.
"No, I will not sho-" before he could continue, Miyuki pulled Eijun's small bag of his back and searched in it, Eijun looked nervous.
Miyuki could finally find the drawing which Haruichi was talking about. "Okay...that's a very nice drawing..but why are two guys..getting married?"
Eijun glared at Haruichi, but he was glared back at by his brother.
"Okay, who are in the dra- wait.. I want to marry...Miyuki...Kazuya.." Miyuki tried reading the title of the drawing, he slightly blushed as he saw it, he was speechless as he looked at Eijun, he wasn't sure how to reply to this.
"Pfft-" "B-BROTHER!" Ryousuke couldn't help but start laughing.
Miyuki hissed at Ryousuke, he grabbed Eijun's hand in his, "Time to go home." totally ignoring that drawing thing. "See you tomorrow, Ryo-san." "Yeah, later!"
On the way back home, Eijun squeezed Miyuki's hand, which made him look at him, "Why are you ignoring me?"
"I am?" "Yes you are.."
"What did I ignore?" "Will you accept it?"
Miyuki stopped, he cleared his throat as he thought of an answer, "Let's go home first."
"No, I don't want to!" Eijun freed his hand and started running away from Miyuki.
"Wai-Eijun!" Miyuki was about to start running, when Eijun tripped over a stone and fell on the ground. He even started sobbing, Miyuki quickly caught up with him.
He knelt again and grabbed Eijun's arms, making him stand on his feet, "Seriously..are you okay?" he started brushing the hair off Eijun's forehead to check if he got injured on his forehead or something. But something caught his attention. He deeply cared for that kid, he gets afraid whenever anything, even if it was little, he loved like everything in him, in that one year, his eyes, his smile, they way he tries to behave like an adult, everything.
Eijun blinked as Miyuki stared at him in the eyes, he frowned "W-what is it?"
"..." Miyuki looked away "..Fine."
"Huh?"
"Let's achieve what you drew.."
"What?"
"Didn't you hear me?" Miyuki looked both embarrassed and pissed off, he flicked Eijun's forehead "I will take back my words if you asked again."
"Really?" Eijun began to smile happily, he jumped in excitement, Miyuki smirked and nodded.
Eijun began running around him happily "Come on, get up, get up, let's go back home, what are we going to eat today?"
"Tsk, there you go again.." Miyuki took his hand again "whatever you want."
Like that, they reached home, and another day has passed in their lonely life.
Maybe, things can change? After, how many years..things can change.
