Chapter 2: Choice

? PoV

After two weeks have passed, I visited the hospital the boy was staying at. I was informed that he is clear for visits but still need a few more weeks for a full recovery. As I was walking through the halls slowly approaching the room where the boy was staying at guided by one of the nurses in the hospital, I've been thinking of the decisions I will make today.

The day I was informed by the nurse of Shiro's memory loss I immediately took action and tried to find any relatives the boy might have, I requested for the nurse to have Shiro have a blood test to find any living relatives he might have, I followed the nurse who lead me to the boy's doctor informing him of my request. He quickly obliged and took some blood from the boy and put in a glass tube, I talked with the doctor and his assistants to check on Shiro telling them that the boy looked kinda pale.
That was just a lie I conjured to distract them so while they were looking at the boy, I quickly but subtly snatched one of the spare syringes lying around and took some of the boy's blood. The moment the people I distracted stopped looking at the boy and pointed their gazes at me, the deed was already done, and the evidence hidden. They approached me and informed that what I saw was just a false alarm and I needn't panic, I pretended to be relieved and told them that I had places to go and will visit the boy again when time permits, I gave the doctor one of my public contact numbers telling him to inform me if they found results in searching for any of the boy's relatives and after that I walked out of the hospital.

In all my years doing this kind of work, I've determined that finding information by relying on the hospital will just take too long for my liking so as to quicken the pace of searching for Shiro's relatives, I did what I had to do and now that I have his blood, I'll need to contact some people I know to find the information I need.

None. All the information I found after two weeks lead me to this conclusion, all the boy's relatives were either caught in the fire or have long since been dead, Shiro has no living relatives left, no friends to rely on, nothing, none whatsoever.

Damnit, what should I do? How can I help this boy who I've deprived of all he ever knew and loved? There is one thing I could do but do I even have the right? After I killed my own father, my first love, my mother figure, I even got protected by my own wife from an assassination in exchange for her life and due to that I'm not even allowed to approach the house where my daughter is, my wife's family blaming me for not protecting her.

They're not wrong, I wasn't strong enough then and I'm still not strong enough now, I can understand that by isolating me from them, they can somewhat prevent my daughter from getting involved further.

As I was remembering past two weeks and swimming in my own self-loathing, I was just few steps away from the boy's room. While the door is being opened by the nurse for me, only one thought was left while I slowly walked into the room.

'Iri, please help me'

Shiro PoV

The nurse came to inform me that the man who saved me would come and visit, in the two weeks I spent in this hospital, my mind has just been rewinding and reminding me of that hell. I can't stop remembering it, after all that is the only memory I have after losing my memories.

My parents, my friends, relatives, my home, everything. I can't remember anything other than that hell and that man's tearful joy at finding someone still alive, I never got to thank him for saving me, maybe now I'll have that opportunity.

As I was thinking these things, the door to my room opened and the man who saved me came into view, black suit and a black trench coat, black hair, black eyes, everything was black, it's like he came after attending a burial , it strangely suits him. Weird.

Walking at the front of my hospital bed, he stopped right where we could clearly see each other, the nurse left likely thinking that the both of us need some privacy. an awkward silence happened for a few seconds and when I was about to speak up, he spoke.

"Hello Shiro, I'm Kiritsugu, Kiritsugu Emiya" his voice felt different the last time I heard him, the previous time it was filled with so much joy and relief but now it feels weighty, like he's burdened with something heavy all the time. To not make the situation more awkward than it is, I replied to him.

"hello mister..."

I paused a little, not knowing how to start a conversation that was the only reply I could come up with, good job me for making this situation even more awkward than by staying silent.

"…."

We both stayed silent, it looks like I'm not the only one who's not good with communication, that made me happy for a little, oh wait! I remember now, I must thank him for saving me.

"Uhm… thank you for saving me, I wouldn't be alive now if it weren't for you."

"Your welcome."

"…"

And silence again… this is starting to feel frustrating what more should I talk about? Right when I was thinking of how to talk to him more, he spoke again.

"the people in this hospital told me you've lost all your memories, how are you?"

"fine actually, it helps that I don't remember anyone to mourn about."

"…."

Ah, I think I spoke the wrong words, silence again took over the room, I guess this is what happens when two people with communication difficulty talk with each other.

"I requested for your doctor to find any living relatives you had but I took some liberties and tried to find them myself, but sadly all I found is that you're the only one left of your family"

Wow, he did that? And so quickly? He must either be good at finding people or he knows some very important people to help him find information. But what he said about me being the only one left of my family, that makes me sad. Does this mean I'm all on my own after leaving this hospital? Can I even leave when I don't even have the money to pay off the hospital? I'm just a 10-year-old kid! Maybe… I don't even know if that's my true age. As I was panicking in my mind on what to do, the man before me gave me a solution or an ultimatum if you think about it.

"I'll give you a choice, you either go to an orphanage and live your life there having a near to none chance of finding a family to adopt you or you can choose to get adopted by me, a shady looking man that you have no knowledge of if he can be trusted."

To me the answer is quite clear, even if he told me in a pretty sounding way, the summarized version would have been going to an orphanage or get adopted by him. I'm silently thankful that he was so blunt and honest about it.

"I want you to adopt me."

It didn't even take a second for me to decide, I don't want to stay in an orphanage and rot there. This choice he gave me was too good to pass up. I would rather be adopted by him rather than have slim chance of getting adopted by a less shady family. Nothing he would say would change my answer.

"Good, but before I fill out the adoption papers, I should tell you right now, I am a Mercenary."

…yeah no, I'm still not going change my answer.

Preview:

"This is where we'll live…"

"Good to see you again Kiritsugu…"

"Hiya Shiro-chan!"

Hi! Hello! And welcome!

This is my second chapter and I've increased the word count by a few hundred more.

But don't trust me on keeping up this word count.

Now unto some reviews:

To Heird: Thank you for being my first reviewer and I'm glad you like it, hope you like it more in the future.

To Kayen1024: thank you for the review and criticism, I know that there are other fanfics that involve Shirou in the Yakuza but none of them have approached Nisekoi, I mean c'mon, the potential is there, it just needs a good starting line. To avoid anything major, all I can say to you is that this story will focus more on Shiro's perspective, I'll do some PoV with other characters, but I'll focus mostly on Shiro's.

this prologue arc will be going on for a few more chapters and after that it is mostly Nisekoi Territory, one which I'm very afraid to approach because I'm honestly not a fan of Nisekoi and dropped it in the second half of season 2 so I'll need to research some things or rewatch the damn thing.

Now don't get me wrong, it's not that I HATE Nisekoi, it just had bad timing when my taste in Anime was changing from Romcom to Action Supernatural fantasy.

Guess what anime hooked me in that genre *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*

I'll see you all in the next chapter so until then

Bye bye! Thank you for reading! And have good day!