Chapter XI
[Coldplay – The Scientist]
"What if I told you that he is alive?" I looked up right into Yoshino eyes, who just answered the door in the middle of the night, looking as angry as I would look if woken up. Her anger faded as she stared down to me, my tired face, messed up hair, bloody hands. Our gazes locked for a long moment, my eyes looked up into her brown ones, we both were trying to read one another, and it seems, successfully.
"Where is he?" was the only thing she said in a whisper after a long pause.
I couldn't hold back a smile. I glanced back over my shoulder, where Shikamaru appeared behind the fence.
Yoshino covered her face to muffle the shouts of joy mixed with sobbing, but the tears in her eyes did not prevent her flying across the yard to pull her son in embrace.
This was real.
