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Rating: T

Summary: short side story to "Goodbye My lover" explaining why Tomoka and Sanada's parents hated Sakuno.

A/N: English is not my first language; feel free to point out the mistakes I made.

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The reason why Sanada's parents suddenly hated Sakuno. ( parents PoV)

We met Sakuno for the first time when she spent the night here because she forgot her key and thus was unable to go home. She was a really sweet girl. We hoped to meet her again.

Our wish was fulfilled when our dear son told us that he had a new friend: a girl. At first we didn't know what to expect because many girls in Rikkai Dai Fuzuku were attracted by our family name. The Sanada family had been well known for its kendo skill and its fortune for many years.

Sakuno was different; she didn't care about our wealth. Genichirou was the only thing that mattered.

We were more than happy when we learnt that they were friends. What pleased us less was her friendship with this Osakada girl. This girl was too self-centered. We met her once when we picked Genichirou up after his cinema outing. To be honest she was the kind of girl who would marry someone for his money.

Back to Sakuno, the more we saw her the more we thought that she would be a great daughter-in-law. We never talked about that with our son. He would have stopped seeing her thinking that everything had been planned.

In our family weddings were planned by our parents. Genichirou was against this concept. He knew he had to find a girlfriend who would be worth entering our family if he didn't want to marry the girl we chose for him.

One evening Genichirou came home pretty late. We were really angry because he missed his kendo training. We wanted to reprimand him but as soon as he saw our faces he bowed and gave us an explanation.

Sakuno was attacked and he rescued her. He brought here to take care of her bruises and cuts. After that he took her back to her grandmother's.

After these events he began to spend more time on the phone or on the internet. He refused to tell us who took so much of his time. We only knew that it wasn't one of his teammates.

We finally met this mysterious person during a tennis match opposing his school to another school. Genichirou led us towards a lady in her late fifties. We looked at our son, questioning him with our eyes. He smiled and pointed two girls with his finger. We recognized Osakada Tomoka with her loud "GO RYOMA-SAMA". Next to her we saw a girl with wavy hair.

He asked us to stay here and he went to the girl. He patted her lightly on the shoulder; she looked at him and smiled. He gestured for us to join him.

The girl was Sakuno. Sanada told us she was his girlfriend and he asked us to welcome her in our family.

We had no problem with this request because she was a really nice girl and her grandmother was someone who could be trusted.

At the beginning of their relation everything was great. We got on well with her and everything went well. There were dinners, picnics, swimming pool outings, and holidays in our cottage in Hokkaido…

Nevertheless something was bothering us. We knew that she lived with her grandmother. The main question was what about her mother and her father. We tried to question our son about this but he told us that he didn't want to talk about it, saying that Sakuno would explain everything in due time.

The explanations never came so we asked a detective to investigate about her past. We knew we had no right to do that but our family is famous for its dojo and we couldn't allow people with an imperfect background to be part of it.

The investigation took a lot of time: a whole year to be precise. The detective phoned us during a party we gave for Genichirou's 16th birthday. We were shocked by what we learnt.

When all the guests left we asked Sakuno to follow us in the kitchen and told her that she had to leave our son. She wanted to know why we reached such a decision. We didn't tell her that we knew what her biggest secret was.

When she left, we talked to our son. We explained him that he had to stop seeing Sakuno because she was no longer worth being part of our family. He nodded and then asked us to give him some explanations.

We had no other choice than to tell him what we learnt. Sakuno's mother was raped and she was the result of this terrible act. We couldn't allow the daughter of a sexual delinquent to be part of our respectable family. Our DNA shouldn't be mixed with the DNA of a rapist.

Genichirou looked at us and said that he didn't care about her past. We tried everything we could to prevent him from seeing her. We failed.

Because of that our son was injured and died. She is responsible for his death.

We were right to reject her because she went out with Yukimura-kun while seeing our son. She was pregnant when our son died and the baby was Yukimura's. Had it been our son's baby we would have done anything we could to take it away from her.

When we learnt about her secret, we didn't hate her. We began to hate her when she accepted our son's wedding proposal. She knew that we didn't want her to be part of our family. It proved that she wanted our name and our money. We are sure that she didn't love our son.

Yes we hate Sakuno; she destroyed our family by hiding her secret. She should have died when our son was injured. We will never forgive her.

Last A/N: It took me some time to write this side story and I hope it helped you to understand Tomoka and Sanada's parents feelings toward Sakuno.

Hope you'll like it…