---Kikumaru residence, Kikumaru---
It was his first year at his new school. His father was raising him away from the rest of the family. Eiji happily stepped into his house. The front door was blocked off from the rest of the house.
"Dad! I'm home!" Eiji yelled as he kicked off his shoes. He picked his bag back up and walked into the living area.
It was there that he was shocked. His fingers became loose and his bag slipped out of his hands and landed on the floor. His bright green eyes widened as his pupils shrank at the sight before him.
The living room was desserted of human bodies, but blood and something yellow were smeared along the walls. The stench of blood seemed overwhelming and Eiji found himself on the verge of puking. His body began to shake as his feet slowly began to move into the room, revealing more and more of it. The windows were shattered and bloody, the vase that used to stand on the end table was smashed to bits on the ground, wood splinters and glass shards decked the walls and up-turned sofa and chairs.
"D-dad!" Eiji began to run. He grabbed the corner as he slid around the corner to the kitchen. This time, his insides turned so fast, the food and acids in his stomache spilled out like a fauset being turned on. He bent over and his eyes fogged.
The kitchen was a wreck as well. Knives lay bloody all over the floor and the smell of flesh and blood filled the air. The floor was nearly covered in blood. In the darkness, it looked like there was a body on the floor near the sink, on the other side of the kitchen beneath the window.
Eiji's fist slammed into the door frame. He felt anger boling up inside him. He knew that his dad was good at self-defense, but why would anyone try to harm a harmless person like that! He ran up the stairs in a fit of rage. He threw open door after door until he could smell the blood agian in the bathroom. He threw the door open and heard it hit something soft. He slammed the door shut and saw another body and heard a soft voice from the tub. He whirrled around and his rage vanished and reappeared as fear.
---Present---
"bushido? ja ne?"
Eiji's mind snapped back to reality as Mono's hands touched his arm. He saw his face was paler than ever. He took a deep breath and looked at Mono with a bright smile. "nani? gomen, gomen nasai, Mono-chan." He patted Mono on the shoulder and walked out into the fresh air. That message that was on the machine at home was probably a joke of some kind that his dad had put there. He sighed and beganthe longwalk home.
He looked up at the endlessly blue sky as a gust of wind picked up, blowing his chin-length hair around his face and ruffling his loose cloths with ease. He felt an endless abyss of lonelyness engulf him again. He shook his head and kept on walking. He had thought he'd heard Oishi calling him again, just like before, calling for him to slow down, but it was a figure of imagination, nothing real.