You're Always On My Mind
Part One: I think about you all the time
by YaoiYaoiYeah
"I'm home!" Hikaru says as he gets in the house. His mother greets, "welcome home, dear. Your mails came in this afternoon."
"Arigato, Ka-san." Hikaru takes his mails (a couple of magazines) and goes upstairs. He has subscribed to a lot of Go magazines from over the world. After getting into his room he takes out his goban and opens his Go magazine that came in from china.
Flipping through the pages, Hikaru soon finds an article about the National Go competition semi-final in China. The diagram of the competition is in the middle of the article. Hikaru takes his Go stones and put them on his goban one by one to recreate the competition. He doesn't really need the board to follow the moves, but he likes the feeling of the stones in his fingers.
"That's a great move! No wonder Akira's father will want to go play Go in China. The Go masters in China are amazing!" Hikaru mutters as he sees a move that stops a 3-sided attack. He is about to see the next move when the door opens.
Hikaru's mom comes in. She sees Hikaru sitting in front of the Goban and says, "Oh, I'm sorry I interrupted your game. I just thought you might be hungry and brought you some tea and cake."
Hikaru stands up and takes the tea and cake form his mother's hand. "You aren't interrupting, ka-san, thanks for bring me snack. You don't have to worry about me. I can get myself something to eat when I'm hungry. You have enough to do around the house." Hikaru says to his mother. Still, he is happy to have his mother homemade cakes. they taste really good.
His mother looks at the goban and says, "when you sit in front of the go board, you tend to forget about everything, even food."
Hikaru rubs his nose. He did forget about dinner many times when playing Go with Akira. (Akira also tends to forget about dinner when sitting in front of the goban.)
Hikaru feels lucky to have his mother around. Akira's mom is in China now and no onewill bring Akira food if Akira forget about dinner.Hikaru is pretty sure Akira will forget too.
'Maybe I can ask Akira to have dinner with me after our games at the salon until his parents come back. We can look at the diagrams in these go magazine when we eat.'Hikaru thinks.
"Your uncle is coming over to have dinner this weekend. I'm going to do some grocery shopping, is there anything you want?" Mrs. Shindoasks her son.
"No, no. I got everything I need, thanks." Hikaru answers.
"Well, you go on with your game." The mother says as she takes the empty dish and cup from her son. She looks at the goban and walks out of the room.
Hikaru can see the sight of his board still troubles his mother. It's a constant reminder to her of Hikaru's world. A world that she doesn't understand or know anything about. Yet, it's her son's life, passion and career. His mom must feels like he moved to Mars the last couple of years.
'I wonder how Akira's mom deals with all these. I mean, both her husband and her son are professional Go player. Maybe I should talk to Akira and ask him what I can do to make my mom feels better.' Hikaru thinks as he puts his Go set away.
"Ka-san, wait for me! I want to go shopping with you!" Hikarushouts. Maybe if he spends some time with his mom she won't feel that the two of them are so far apart.
"It's so nice of you to join me." Hikaru's mom says to him as the two of them walk into the supermarket. Hikaru shrugs, "the weather is too good to stay indoor. I want to get out of the house."
The mother walks pass all the people and tries to reach for a can of pickled ginger on the top shelf. Hikaru says, "let me get that for you. I can't believe you have so much to get! It must be tiring to get around the crowd and carry all these heavy stuff. I should come with you to do grocery shopping moreand help you out."
"You don't have to do that. Hearing you to say that is more than enough. You have grown so much and you're so mature now." Mrs. Shindo replies as she watches her son get the can from the top shelf.
"I'm still a teenager, mom. I'm far from being mature…" Hikaru laughs and thinks, 'If only you saw me playing Go with Akira, you will think I'm only 12…' (Maybe she will thinkHikaru is still 8 years old LoL)
"Hello. Do you like a piece of chocolate?" A girl in red uniform asks Hikaru as she offers him a piece of sample.Hikaru thanks the girl and takes a piece of chocolate.
"All the chocolate are 30 percent off. It's valentine special." The girl in uniform says cheerfully.
"Good! The chocolates are on sale. I will get some chocolate to bake a chocolate cake. Wait for me here." Mrs. Shindo says to Hikaru.
Hikaru walks over to a corner to wait for his mother when he sees a basket of white chocolate covered macadamias nuts. 'Isn't these the nuts that Akira loves? I remember Ogata-san getting these for Akira a couple of times.' Hikaru thinks.
"Maybe I can get some of these chocolates for him. These are so cool, they look just like white Go stones." Hikaru says to himself as he holds up a piece of the chocolate likes he holds a go stone.
"Picking something for your lover?" A girl asks Hikaru.
"Lover?" Hikaru blinks. Then it suddenly darns on him. He is picking Valentine chocolates for Akira!
TBC…