Chapter 11

After an emotional night, Hiro and Akari fell asleep on their Aunt's living room couch. When they woke up the next morning, they were a bit confused about why they were on the couch before they remembered that they had found their real family.

They honestly didn't want to go back where they lived before. It wasn't that they didn't like the Tanakas, it was the fact that they weren't their family like they thought. They wanted to stay there with Tadashi and Aunt Cass. They were a bit confused about what to do though, because it's not every day you find the family you didn't know you had because your 'family' didn't ever tell you.

They sat up and walked around, looking at their surroundings. They had looked around some of the house when they arrived last night, but they hadn't seen in all. There was another staircase leading upstairs, and the two of them decided to walk up it and see what was there.

There wasn't very much in the room upstairs. Sure, there was a bathroom and some things like a bookshelf and a desk, but there wasn't very much. When they turned the corner of the room, they saw Tadashi, sleeping in a bed. His little space had a divider so he could close off his small space, but if he had this entire room, why did he only use that space?

Tadashi was waking up as they looked about the space, just about memorizing everything about it. They read the titles of books on the shelf, and looked at the posters on the walls while Tadashi quietly climbed out of bed. He walked out of his divider and spotted Hiro and Akari looking about the space.

"Hey guys," He greeted sleepily.

"Hi Tadashi. Sorry if we woke you," Akari apologized.

"No it's fine. I wake up around this time anyway," Tadashi stated.

"Oh, ok," Hiro replied.

"Do you guys want something to eat?" Tadashi asked.

Hiro and Akari looked at each other, "Sure."

The 3 of them walked down the stairs and walked into the kitchen. Tadashi grabbed the cereal and a few bowls from the cabinet, and then the milk from the fridge. He brought all of the stuff to the table, and they sat across from each other.

They ate in silence, unable to think of anything to talk about. The silence was eventually broken by Aunt Cass, who came into the dining room with a big and bright smile on her face, likely because she had her niece and her other nephew back after 14 years.

"Good morning!" She said cheerfully.

"Morning Aunt Cass," they all greeted.

She smiled and walked over to the living room. She turned on the news and watched the report that was on, not knowing the report caught the attention of Akari and Tadashi.

"We have breaking news on the fire at SFIT last week. 3 teenagers were involved in the fire and were sent to the hospital, but witnesses say that Professor Robert Callaghan was still inside at the time of the fire, and never made it out. The police department has presumed Callaghan dead, and a funeral will be held next Thursday. The students of SFIT have made a memorial in front of the science building for Callaghan…"

Upon hearing this, the empty bowls of cereal in both Akari's and Tadashi's hands fell to the ground and shattered on the floor. Akari put her hands to her mouth in shock, while Tadashi stared at the TV screen in shock.

The sudden crash startled Aunt Cass and Hiro, who both realized that Akari and Tadashi were in shock because of the report in the TV. They both immediately took action and snapped the 2 of them out of their shock.

Akari and Tadashi couldn't believe that their professor was dead. They couldn't believe that their favorite professor was dead. He had been such a cheerful, kind, helpful man. He had always given them inspiration for their projects in school, and now he was gone. Nothing would ever be the same.


Nothing will ever be the same. That's correct. In the next chapter-Which I may post today-Akari and Hiro are going to get their things from the Tanakas, and then the chapter after that will be a bit of a time skip.

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~Krypie