Went on traveling around my country~ ~(3)/

'Forgot'* to bring my netbook/laptop/USB/Cellphone/Pocket WiFi... TT V TT

*(confiscated by mom...)

So here's the chapter...


Chapter Seven: 10 Years since Now


Kido's POV:

We're still doing the same usual - as if nothing had ever happened...

As 'Kano,' I'd tease 'Kido' – I'll make 'her' really angry that 'she' will punch or kick me so hard! The REAL Kano's doing such a great job too! Acting as the agitated 'Kido' and all!

That Little Shit! Continuing to act like 'normal' – as if nothing ever happened last night! How can he do such thing- Is he really like this even without this shitty mask of his – just WHEN will he ever stop! I hate him! – When will he ever LISTEN?! I don't want to risk our lives! Why won't he just try and cooperate with me? –

What if it's our only chance...?

"Then I'd rather for things to stay just the way it currently is...-Ouchhhh! That really hurts Leader!" I said in a playful tone while wearing a hurt expression,

Kano clicked his tongue once, "Tsk," and he's off towards the kitchen. I checked the time, a little bit past twelve... "Lunch..."

My stomach growls, I guess I'm that hungry... I hear Momo's giggle, Shintaro's grumble, Ene to laugh aloud, and Hibiya to sigh,

Kano turns to me, saying, "Ki-"

"Kido!" Seto says as he enters the room, Kano nods his head slightly and Seto faces me, "Kano, how about we eat outside?"

"Huh?"


"Finally! The three of us went on a date!" I say in an 'excited' manner, "-But are we REALLY gonna go home after eating? Seto, didn't I teach you how to date people! You are to take them into an amusement park or any attraction next!" I say, 'all-piped-up'...

Kano sighed and said, "Stop it Kano..."

Seto stops dead on his tracks, "Hmm... yeah, we aren't going home just yet."

"What~"

"Huh?"

Kano and I say at the same time, Seto points ahead of us...

"We're taking a small visit..." he says as Kano and I turn to the direction he's pointing at.

"The Orphanage..." I say. Surprised, because... Who would have ever thought that we'd return to this place someday...

"...Yeah. Who would've thought that our apartment was actually so close to this place..." Seto replies to me

"Why are we here?" Kano asks, crossing his hands defensively infront of him. Turning to Seto, I see that none of us three are particularly comfortable of being here.

"Why are we here..." Kano asks again, this time more sternly, but even so, also quite hesitant...

I need to settle the mood... But I'm not quite sure how... so, it seems like I'll have to stay silent...

"Hmmm..." Seto starts, "Well, it's not an orphanage anymore... it's simply parts of what's left of it... ruins."

Ruins...? I took a closer look. It was surely not the orphanage I used to live in for a year in 'those' times... The walls seem to crash down to the ground any minute, the doors left ajar, weeds grew around the structure, and this place that used to make me feel so small back then seems quite... small for me now.

"I-i-it looks... haunted..." Kano stammers, damn... do I really react like that...

"Aww, Danchou's sooooooo scared!"

"Shut up!"

"Ouch- Oh c'mon Danchou, it's not like we're gonna enter the place or something. Right, Seto?"

"Hmm. Actually, We are."

"What?" Kano immediately retorts, "Isn't this tr-tre-trespassing..." he stammers, looking back at the damaged structure,

"Don't worry, we aren't going to be trespassing anything, It can be considered as an 'empty' lot by now, I heard that it will be cleared up tomorrow..."

"Hmm, if this was a normal test of courage I'd go... but... Kido might harm herself inside if she gets a little bit too much scared~" I said with a smug grin towards the pale faced 'me'... a smug grin for Kano, who actually wants to try risking his own life – while right now scared to death because of the plain thought of entering an abandoned orphanage... He's simply pretending though...

"Shut your trap..." Kano snaps at me.

I shrugged, "Well, I'll ask Kido's question again, Why are we here?" I said with an excited expression, although, deep inside this mask, I'm probably shaking in fear...

"We're going to retrieve something inside and we need to take it outside no matter what." Seto says with a smile,


Kano's POV:

Just talk about smiling while talking about trespassing into private property and stealing something in it... How nice Seto, I've never actually thought that I'd see a part of you that has a screw a little bit lose...

"We're not trespassing but we're still using my ability..." I mutter, because Kido loves muttering about obvious things, right?

"Just in case a few little Kids decided to have a test of courage in this place-"

"Yup, because if they'll see Kido, They'll run away in terro- Ouch! Ouch! Kidoooooooo my earrrrrrrrrrr!"

"-that aside, what are we retrieving?" I ask, in an angry manner~

"A jewelry box, yours actually Kido,"

"Hm?" I answer back in puzzlement, raising an eyebrow as Seto turns his head towards me,

"More specifically, your... sister's..."

"What's something of that importance doing here?" Kido asks in 'pure curiosity.' She's as clueless as I am. Seto stares at us at pure disbelief,

"Don't tell me you guys forgot about our time capsule?" He says in a small frown.

"I don't..." Kido replies, wide-eyed, I jab her at the side to bring her back to her own senses... Seto looks at us intently for a second and smiled at us on the next...

"It's okay, it's been ten years anyway..."

"But for Kano to forget..." Why did I forget?

"Well, I guess it's also because we did it on a whim before we were taken into their family... I guess it was because we were too preoccupied by Onee-chan... that... we forgot..."

"We?"

Seto scratches his nape and finally admits that he saw his journal entry about a time capsule, a time capsule the three of us has made ten years ago before we left this place 'for good' (and after ten years, coming back to it for our possible buried treasure...) It was under our favorite hang-out spot, under the tallest tree in our days...

"Well, where is it?" Kido asks eagerly, she could've bob a little to add more effect...

"Under THAT stupid tree, you idiot... but..." I say a little too loud, "Which tree is it now? All I see are stumps..." I know it's a little mean to Seto but, it is quite true, even by memory, I couldn't distinguish which of these stumps used to be the tallest tree...

Seto grins,

"Catch," he says, as the devil throws a shovel for each of us... "First one who finds it gets to open and see the contents first!"

Talk about being "Seto"... I'm happy I didn't swap bodies with him...


We've been searching for an hour or two. It was nowhere to be found. Kido's jewelry box is nowhere to be found. Was Seto lying- no, he couldn't. Then where is it? Is something really important encased there? What is it? Is it really even important? If it was, why can't I remember a single thing about it...

"It's getting dark..." I remarked. It was about six... "I'm sorry Seto, we couldn't find what you wanted..."

"No... I'm sorry Kido, Kano, for making you guys tired..." Seto says as he wipes some sweat out of his face with a towel.

"Awwww, 'no sweat' –It was all for our childhood memories anyway~" Kido says, she appears quite dry, literally taking in her pun...

"I still need to cook... and I barely have time," Well, this is what I get for expecting all too much for such small box, "Let's-"

"Kido!"

I thought I slipped, well I did, I guess. I felt the air and the gravity pulling me towards the earth, but Kido caught me.

"Hey, Leader! Are you alright?!" She asks in a worried manner. In a worried expression, in a worried tone, she's bothered... again... because of my clumsiness too... it's okay, since it doesn't actually hurt... It doesn't hurt...

"It hurts..." I say as I cup my ankle between my hands... It hurts like hell...

"Seems like you twisted it..." Seto notes as he saw it's poor limp figure, this is bad, I allowed a body part of Kido to get hurt...

"Though... on another note..." Kido starts

"What do you mean 'on another note...' huh, Kano?" I retorted,

Kido grins, holds the box high enough for us to notice in this shady place, "We found what we needed..."


Kido's POV:

"Kido... you're seriously heavy..." I say in a mocking tone... Joking about my weight... hahaha. I hate my life...

Hmmm... What's happening? Kano's on my back for a piggy-back ride because of a twisted ankle.

"I don't care..." Kano mumbles... carrying him on my back is worth it... I can hear his agony in his voice, needing help from others. Hurts his pride, "And stop calling me with your name... Seto's not around... He said he's buying our dinner..."

Oh yeah, why the hell was I wondering where Seto went?

"Better safe than risking our cover... And are you really okay? You don't sound 'okay' for a 'Kano'..."

"Hahahahaaa~ Am I really hearing Kido say a pun~?"

"Kano really..." I say with a sigh... I do wonder how much pain he is going through right now... and he still continues to laugh as always...

"Am I a bother to you?" he asks suddenly, and more surprisingly, blankly.

"Hm. What?"

"I am aren't I?" He says, and I swear I can feel his lips turn into a grin... "Bothering Kido always and everyone in the Dan..."

"Shut up, will you? Why is it that whenever we make-up, you give off another topic to argue about?"

"Awww~ C'mon Danchou~ Aren't you used to that alre- Wait- we already made-up?"

"Read the atmosphere idiot," I grunted as I fixed Kano's position, "Do you think I'll allow you to ride on my back if I was mad at you?"

"Well technically 'you' are the person on 'my' back... So basically-"

"Okay, stop..." I sighed... "Stop..."

"I will, so open the freaking door so that I could finally sit down." He says sternly,

...oh, we're back to the base, no wonder his character suddenly changed...

"DANCHOUUU!" Momo shouts as she saw Kano's condition...


It turns out that the letters inside were a little bit too old or something... One touch, and it crumples to a thousand pieces... I don't know whether I'm sad or happy about it. Because, first of all, whatever was written there was for us, we wrote it so that we could read it in the near future, so that some kind of realization would sweep us off our feet or something... I really want to know what I wrote for myself back then... Back then in my darkest days... when I would always cry... How was I really back then...? I could barely remember...

On another note, thank god it got destroyed, because that means Kano would be able to read my letter to myself...

Also, it seems like Kano can't walk for a week or so...