Thank You
anitsirhc (Christina) can i call you that? um thanks for the brilliant insight you commented. =) you saw what i want people to see in my chapters. thanks! so i'm dedicating this chapter to you!
Warning: Angst (About Takenaga's past explaining why he's father is not attending his birthdays) =)
"One day your life will flash and end before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."
Out of the blue Kyohei's phone ring he picked up his cell phone inside his pocket.
When he looks at the LCD of his cell phone screen, it flashed.
"Old Man…" Kyohei's nickname for his dad.
"What's wrong with this old man?" Kyohei thought before answering.
"Why do you call?" Kyohei said annoyed and irritated.
"Meet me at your brother's restaurant now." Mr. Takano said as he hung up.
"What's with this old man?" Kyohei said angrily before he turned to look at his son that is wearing a frown on his face. "Daddy are you going out again?" Kai pouted cutely.
"I'll be back again Kai…I'll talk to your grand pa okay?" Kyohei explained making Kai's eyes widen in awe
"Daddy can I go with you? Can I go? Can I go? I wanna see Grand pa too!" Kai exclaimed excitedly jumping up and down.
"No you can't for now Kai…" Kyohei said
"But, dad!" Kai tried to protest.
"Just listen to your dad Kai now is not the right time and promise me something Kai you won't tell to your mom that the one who called me is your grand pa ok?" Kyohei said kneeling down in front of his son.
Kai slowly nodded. "Ok…dad I promise…I swear I won't tell mom…"
"That's my boy…" Kyohei said as he pats Kai's head.
"Who called you Kyohei?" Sunako asked
"Uh no it's just Ranmaru." Kyohei lied this time he does not want Sunako to worry about what his father. He will deal with his father on his own.
…
"Kyohei seat down" Mr. Takano commanded sternly
"No father why you're doing this? You know that I already have my own family… I have my son and a wife!" Kyohei shouted he cannot hold his anger anymore he does not have a right to order him around and manipulate his life. His father is taken aback, did he heard it right? Son…
Kyohei has a son with whom
With that filthy girl?…
Impossible…
"I am your father and I will do anything to you! This is the right thing for you so I'm decided you will marry Haru."Mr. Takano said raising his tone.
Kyohei glared. "I'm not marrying her…and if you want, you can marry her dad." Kyohei said as he tries to walk away.
"So this is what she's teaching you? That damn filthy girl is teaching you to disobey your own father!" Mr. Takano shouted angrily.
Kyohei turned back to look at his father. "Don't call her again like that…Sunako is a nice girl…."
"Kyohei if you go out of this place without accepting your fiancée again I will disinherit you!" Mr. Takano threatened
"Then do it…I don't care if you disinherit me…just do it…I don't need you the way I need her…" Kyohei said stepping outside the restaurant.
"Eh, you're not going to attend the party!" Natsuki frowned, "Then how about my labor and my suffering just to make the clothes you said Suna-chan would wear!" she protested childishly pouting like crazy.
Kyohei scowled, "Your labor is not a waste Monster-san I already paid your services."
"But Kyohei-jerk…"
"Don't worry Natsuki-chan it will be okay." Sunako is thankful that they are not going to attend the party, which means she was save! However, she is curious why they are not going to attend the party knowing that Kyohei is the one who is forcing her to attend the party for his father.
Yuki sighed, "How I wish I could be Kyohei, I don't want to attend a very boring corporate meeting." Ranmaru mentally agreed, at the party Natsuki and him are going to be publically introduce. "Well Mori the feeling is mutual, I really hate arrange marriage." Natsuki said like as if she could read Ranmaru's mind.
Natsuki turned her attention to Takenaga who was silently reading his book, "How about you ne Takenaga I heard that your engage but she call it off because you happen to be in love with someone else tell me Takenaga who is the lucky girl?" she said teasingly, all the attention is on Kyohei and Sunako. Yuki and Ranmaru know that the lucky girl is Sunako, Kyohei's wife.
Sunako's face brightens at the thought, "Whoa, I didn't know you love someone Takenaga, who is this girl?" – Ranmaru shook his head massaging the bridge of his nose, Geez, you really don't have an idea Sunako."
"Just leave the guy alone." Kyohei said irritably.
"Whoa, whoa, Kyohei is defending Takenaga, so the two of you are friends again."
Kyohei snorted, "Don't count it in."
...
"Setting Kyohei-jerk aside so tell us who this lucky girl is? Takenaga." Natsuki insisted while taking a seat beside the lone boy.
Takenaga give a short glance at Sunako's direction before smiling weakly, "She is a strong willed girl who can defend herself, she is a cry baby but she is kind sometimes she is naïve, she has sense of responsibility, I care for her, but that girl is the only person I couldn't have." Once he was finish his statement Sunako can feel a tugged on her heart, she could feel his pain.
While Kyohei could feel a pang of jealousy on his heart he knows who is the girl Takenaga was describing there is no need to guess whom it is
"Eh, why?"
Ranmaru scowled at his fiancée, "Can you stop being talkative for once."
Natsuki pouted, "Shut up, I'm not talking to you."
Takenaga smiled, "It's simple that girl already love someone else and the boy he loves feels the same about her as well."
"Eh, unrequited love Takenaga…oh that girl is really lucky she had two boys loving her." Natsuki said dreamily, while Ranmaru groaned in frustration.
"So, why won't you tell the girl your feelings even if she won't love you back at least you don't have a regret for not saying your true feelings for her." Sunako said all of the sudden.
A long pause envelops the five people inside the room all their eyes is on Takenaga, who is looking down with a calm expression on his face.
"Well I guess I'm coward enough to tell you what I feel because I'm afraid of rejection so I choose to love Sunako in silence because in silence I find no rejection and in silence no one owns her but me."
…
Takenaga leaned backwards at the terrace inhaling the fresh air, he say it even though he didn't say it directly to Sunako he still knows that she was aware of his feelings. Even though she didn't know that the words are directly for her, he felt contented.
"Takenaga"
"Sunako?"
"Hi." Sunako said awkwardly
Takenaga didn't reply but he gives her a nod acknowledging the raven haired girl' presence. "Are you okay? you seems so distant these past few days, Ah well I know that you're just preventing another conflicts concerning Kyohei but it's just that— it's like your changing you're becoming your old self again." Sunako said worriedly.
"I'm fine, this is me I'm always like this." he simply answered while looking at the clear blue horizon.
"But Takenaga." Sunako can feel it he is keeping something, and that bothers her greatly. Why wouldn't he tell her or if not her, his friends. He needs help but it seems like he was pushing them away.
"My mom died when I was baby, she died after giving birth to me and my father loathed me because of it." Sunako is shocked; his own father hates him, but it is not his fault, it is not as if he wants his mother dead.
"I grew up alone, my father only cares about my sister, and he didn't acknowledge me even though I'm just a few feet away from him, he wouldn't even give me a glance whenever he was talking to me. Every year of my birthday, he wouldn't greet me a simple happy birthday… maybe because he sees my birthday as a bad luck because it was the day when my mother died." Takenaga stopped on his sentence before continuing.
"Every Christmas I was alone with only servants to celebrate the end of the year. I tried to get his attention, so I study hard I became the top of my class but still it is nothing. It's just a waste, he won't acknowledge me, no one will love me, no one will care, no one ever did so maybe that makes me a loner, I purposely isolate myself to everyone but not until I met Kyohei and others, they gave my hopeless life a meaning, a light." Takenaga said turning his gaze towards the crying girl beside him.
"Takenaga." Sunako sniffled, tears streaming down her pale skin she can't believe all that Takenaga lived his life without anyone who would love him and acknowledge him.
"Don't cry silly…" Takenaga said as he weakly chuckled.
"But Takenaga…your father he is so unfair why won't he acknowledge you it's not your fault that your mother died." Sunako said while crying wiping her tears with the back of her hand, but still she cannot stop herself from crying.
…
"It's okay, so when I die he won't cry, he won't be affected, he would get over it shortly, he won't mourn for me. he won't shed a tear; you know what Sunako If I were to live out life again without any mistakes that would be great. I would be happy. But, there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way to live out life, I would still want to be me and be friends with others I still want to meet you in my next life."
"Baka, stop saying those words, I care for you, we care for you! Kyohei and Kai are there, Yuki, Ranmaru and Natsuki-chan is there, even Kaname-san is there…everybody is here to care and love you we cherish you so please don't talk as if you're dying."