Intermission.
My name is is Seiji Imanaka. My older brother Hideki was a prodigy child. Ever since I could remember he always got an award from being a really smart guy. Of course that didn't stop our sibling relationship between us at the time. Though I was young I was aware of how much my father admired Hideki and ignored me. Whenever I achieved something he would pretend like it was meaningful and that pained me.
At some point our parents divorced. Apparently dad didn't seem to love mom anymore. He took custody of Hideki and all the money leaving my mother and I with nothing. We went to live with grandma for awhile. For a time Hideki and I wrote letters to each other it was fun. I would start seeing him on television. My mother remarried to a alcoholic. As I grew older my stepdad would beat me when mom was never around.
Hideki began sending less and less letters. He hardly ever answered any of my calls. I began hating him. Soon I learned he was put in this program for "the best and the brightest". It wasn't fair. How come Hideki got a better life than me? Why did he had to be a prodigy? Why did dad not appreciate it when I did something great? Please tell me God!
"Be patient and goodness will come."
I don't know why that answer even popped up in my head. In high school started is when I met her. Sachi Himoto. Being 16 meant my experiences in love were just beginning. The first time I saw her was in the school festival. She was singing a song of being in the dark and coming out to the light. A song of pain and suffering. A song of finding new hope. I know it was meat for the crowd but it like she was singing it for me.
The kids who are crying are the true heroes. They're the ones who know what suffering and coming out of the darkness was like. She saved me. At some point I began talking to her. Sachi was a foster child. When she was young her parents were murdered and she ended up in the foster care system. Her current foster parents rented her an apartment. I often visited to play some video games or just hang out. She was quite an otaku.
Sachi wanted to become a composer and song writer so they can be featured in anime. Our romantic relationship started when I was seventeen years old. We kept it a secret from our folks. At age eighteen Ichigo was born. I didn't want my parents getting involved so I asked my grandma to help. Only until I was a legalized adult.
When high school was over Sachi and I got married. When Ichigo was four Sachi died in a car accident. It hurt but I couldn't grieve forever. Ichigo was now my responsibility alone. I was working as a mechanic when Hideki called.
I was twenty eight years old. After all these years he had the nerve to call me now?! I kept my anger inside. He wanted me to visit him. Being polite I went to visit him he had some kind of lab. There was a box with a few vaccines in them. I took one. The entire time I was there we caught up. Our lives have been so distant from each other.
Hideki seemed nervous about something but he wouldn't tell me what it was. I eventually told him how angry he made me. We got into an argument. He was trying to tell me something important but I left shouting "I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN."
The next day the Great Tragedy happened.