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The Way It Should Be
Summary: Mitsui discovered that he has a son but how could that be? And who's the mother?
Twenty two year old Hisashi Mitsui walked his way home from his part-time job. The wind was cold that night and it signaled that the winter season was coming. The night was very dark, there was no moon and there were no stars. Only the light posts served light to him as he passed by the streets.
Mitsui suddenly stopped from walking when he saw a little boy seated beside the light post. The boy looked scared and was crying.
Mitsui then decided to approach the boy. "What's wrong?" he asked.
The little boy looked at him. Tears were falling from his eyes. "I…I'm…lost…" the boy stuttered.
"Is that so?" Mitsui smiled and stretched out his hand. "Come with me. I'll take you home."
The boy smiled and Mitsui somehow remembered something but he didn't know why.
"So where do you live?" he asked.
"Um…"
"It's a bit late now so…would you like to sleep on my house for a while?"
The boy nodded and stood up. "But my Mama would be worried."
"Oh, Yeah I forgot." Mitsui began thinking another way. "Well do you know what your telephone number is?"
"Y…Yes." The boy replied.
"You could call your mom at my house and can pick you up."
The boy smiled. "Thank you." The boy said gladly.
Mitsui then kneeled. "I'll give you a piggy back so you won't get tired."
The boy climbed on his back and clanged on his neck. "You know my father didn't do this to me."
"Huh?" Mitsui stood up and began walking. "Well maybe he has a lot of work that's why he can't give you a piggy back."
"No." The boy replied. "I haven't seen him."
"You haven't seen your father?" Mitsui was surprised. He has parents but he was lucky enough to see them when he was a little boy like him.
"Yes because he died when I'm not yet born." The boy said innocently.
Mitsui felt sympathy to the boy. He have not imagined that the boy don't have a father anymore. He was too young to experience not having a father when he grows up. He suddenly thought about the mother of the child. How hard for her to raise a child as a single parent.
"Well…I haven't asked your name. What's your name anyway?" Mitsui changed the topic.
"My name is Rei Fujisawa."
"Fujisawa?" Mitsui stopped for a moment and started to think where he heard that name. "Well Rei, my name is Hisashi Mitsui."
The conversation stopped suddenly. The boy has fallen asleep on his back.
'Now how could he call his mother if he was sleeping?' Mitsui thought. 'Oh well there's still tomorrow."
Mitsui reached his house after a few minutes of walking. He entered the door and walked in his room. He laid the boy on his bed and covered him a blanket so he would not got cold. Mitsui looked at the boy. He could conclude that the boy was around five years of age. Mitsui felt something inside of him but couldn't describe what it was. As if he knew the boy somehow.
The next day Mitsui woke up as the same time he usually woke up. He decided last night that he would sleep on the chair near the bed so he could watch the child as it slept. Now his back ached but he doesn't care. He looked around and then to the bed where he put the boy. The boy was still sleeping.
"It seems that he liked my bed." He chuckled silently.
Mitsui walked out from his bedroom and down to the stairs. He would make a breakfast for the two of them. He prepares all the things he needed and started cooking.
Suddenly, Mitsui heard someone coming down the stair. He was very sure that it was the boy.
"Have you slept well last night?" he asked not looking at the one he was talking to.
Mitsui suddenly heard sobs from his back. "Where's my Mama?"
He turned around and saw the boy holding his apron, crying. "What's wrong?"
"I want to see Mama."
"Oh…ok." Mitsui removed his apron and turn off the stove.
He carried the boy on his arms and walked in the living room. He let the boy sat on the couch.
"So what's your telephone number?" Mitsui asked picking up the receiver of the phone on the table.
The boy recites the number and Mitsui dialed it.
Mitsui waited for someone to answer the phone and finally some one has picked it up.
"Hello" A female voice answered.
Mitsui didn't answer immediately but began to think where he had heard that voice.
"Hello." The voice repeated.
"Ah! Hello." He finally got into his senses. "I've got a boy that named Rei here and he wants to go home now."
"Thank you… I've been out the whole night finding him and I haven't taken a sleep." The voice of the woman said gladly and relieved.
"Yeah. It seems that he misses you."
"Can I talk to him?"
Mitsui gave the phone to Rei. "Your mom wants to talk to you."
Mitsui watched the boy talked his mom on the other side of the line. He felt happy about what was happening. At last Rei could go home to his mom now.
"Mama wants to talk to you." Rei suddenly said, handing the phone to him.
"Hello."
"Mitsui-san thanks you for taking care of my child. May I know what your address is?"
He told his address and put the receiver back after they bade farewell.
"Your mom would come here but first you should take your breakfast first." Mitsui said.
Rei smiled at him. "It's really nice of you. I wish you were my dad."
Mitsui blushed at the child's comment. "I wish also that I would have a child like you when I get married."
The two of them went to the dining table and ate their breakfast together.
TBC………………
Author's note: Sorry for my bad English. Please don't forget to review.