Author thingy : finally did it... sorry, i was kept busy this month with Eid Fitr and the confusion of the start of new term, missing my friends (T^T), and kept lazy by my laziness... xD i hope i'll recover...

To reviewers

Guest(8/3/13) : ahahah! yeah, i'm dying too... xD but not yet, i'm saving it for later...

blackprincess : yup, still no yukiko... i'm still wondering what i shud do when it comes to the encounter of yukiko and yuki...

Guest(8/7/13) : thank you... but still lacking though...

dayabr : xD

: *thumb*

I'll leave unsatisfactory minute parts of description to your very own each imagination! That's what makes a reader proud! (because i'm a reader myself)

Inaba Municipal Hospital | Afternoon | Year 2012

'Narukami' is a last or family name in Japan. But you would wanna try going all throughout Japan, there isn't many families found using Narukami as their last name. Why, you ask? It is because the family that's using it is only one, and keep going inherited by one son. By some coincidence-or maybe it is destined-the Narukami family had always has only one offspring, and it has always been a son. The most recent offspring of the family is Yu Narukami, who is a son of his parents Yuya Narukami and Kana Narukami (formerly Kana Dojima). Following the family line, Yu doesn't have any uncles or aunts from his father's side, as his father is an only child. He only has one uncle, Ryotaro Dojima, who is his mother's younger brother. That's why Yu knows no one else shares the Narukami name but him, his parents, and his grandparents. But right now, Yu is faced with a rather shocking and unbelievable statement.

"Yuki...Narukami..."a 4-year-old boy answers the woman's question hesitantly as he clings onto Yu's clothes. Time freezes. At least that's what Yu is experiencing.

"...What..?"Yu asks himself inside his mind, activating the time to once again flows normally. Maybe he misheard it, he thinks. He blinks a few times, though it was his ears that heard it.

"...Narukami,"the woman mumbles, recalling names she has known within her lifetime that comes close with the spelling 'Narukami'. But none. She doesn't know, even never heard of it before. She furrows her eyebrows as her plan on getting clues how to find the boy-Yuki-'s parents is slightly blocked. While she is thinking for another easy question to ask him, Yu rolls his eyes to the woman and Yuki back and forth. Hearing the woman's clear mumbling of his last name, he comes to accept that what he just heard wasn't a mistake. Yuki has clearly stated his name. Thinking by himself, Yu comes to his own speculation. A boy his age couldn't possibly be lying about his own name, and even if he were lying, why does he have any knowledge about the name Narukami? Unless he is accustomed and very familiar to the business-marketing and designing world, but that's definitely out of the question. Or maybe he is a relative he never met? Yu shakes his head. He is sure he doesn't have any relatives, or even a close colleague of both his parents whose name is Narukami. Nope, his family tree is crystal clear. Yu stays as calm as he can while keep thinking of many possibilities that may help reason with his current...situation of shock.

"Hmm, do you have any idea?"the woman turns her head to Yu, asking for some kind of input. Yu forces his head to snap out from the thoughts and looks at the woman. He doesn't respond immediately, still not getting full understanding of what the woman was actually asking. "Do you know anyone named Narukami?". At that, two kinds of urges appear 'urging' in his mental. The urge just to tell the woman the truth that he IS a Narukami, but at a risk of turning the atmosphere more confusing and almost unexplainable. And the urge to...lie. But before he gets to decide, the woman turns her attention to Yuki, who is loosening his grip on Yu, a sign of him being a little relax and calm. He is not sobbing anymore, but tint of red and wetness is still there on his face.

"What's your mom and dad's name?"again she asks softly. Yu becomes interested with her question, so he looks down at Yuki, expecting answers. Possible reliefing answers. But instead of 'words' of answers, Yuki looks up, facing Yu. His eyes gestures 'why don't you tell her, dad?' to Yu's. Yu catches the gesture, but still confused on what to do. He glances at the woman. She glances back, sending hidden-message as to ask him to play along. Yu is not a dumb, he gets what the woman wants him to do. He takes a breath before putting a smile.

"What are our names?"Yu says playing the role of Yuki's father for the moment. He asks Yuki in a tone as if giving a quiz to a child. Having a direct eye contact with Yu, Yuki responds. A smile starts forming on his lips. Words of his parents' names inside his mind is ready to be said.

"Daddy's-"Yuki then interrupted by a sliding sound of the door. The three of them look at the opened door. Outside, stand few teenagers. The one who seems to to slide open the door is a teenage girl with a short brown hair, Chie.

"Yu-kun,"she says walking inside the room, followed by the other three. Yu looks at them surprised, wondering why they are at the hospital. But then quickly dismisses it, smiling inside his mind. "Nanako said you're in the hospital, so we want to check up on you."she adds. While a tall teenager, Kanji, slides close the door after everyone is inside the room, the woman stands on her composure, a little caught off-guard of the sudden intrusion. As for Yuki, well, let's say he is captivating his eyes focus on one of the intruders, on a male teenager, headphone circling around his neck. Yuki stares at him, feeling, or maybe recognizing someone familiar.

"Do you know them?"the woman asks, leaning her sides to the right to get closer to Yu.

"Yes, they're my friends."Yu answers nodding. "How did you all know I am in this room?"

"We went to the front desk, duh."Rise says, walking forward to the bedside. She rests her hands on the sheet since there are some space left, because Yuki is taking mostly the left side where Yu and the woman are at.

"And there was this doctor who suddenly came to us and ask whether the friend we're looking for is grey-haired."Yosuke adds. "Then he told us to go this way.". What? Yu thinks. A doctor has just told strangers (at least to him) where his patient's room is. Not a common doctor would do, isn't it? Maybe the doctor is too trusting, with him leaving both the woman and him to take care of the patient.

"So, what's with the child?"Rise says, looking at Yuki. But feeling that he doesn't look back at her (his eyes are stuck on Yosuke), she turns to look at Yu.

"His stomach hurt a bit."Yu replies. She veers her eyes to the woman standing beside Yu.

"And, she is...?"she glances at the woman.

"She came with me.". The woman feels Rise's glare is rather...intimidating. So she steps aside a bit, creating more space between her and Yu. Feeling that is the best way to react.

"Is he alright now?"Yosuke says.

"Yeah, seems like it. He just woke up."

"But what's with you, clinging onto each other like that?"a question everyone's been wanting to ask since they came inside the room. A definitely rare occurrence. When Yosuke says 'clinging', yeah, they both are somewhat clinging and holding onto each other. Yuki does most of the clinging though. Yu is only holding his both upper arms. Then suddenly Yuki lets go of Yu and faces straight to Yosuke who is stepping forward as he asked Yu.

"Uncle...JUNES?"Yuki wide open his eyes. Everyone then got surprised by the sudden shout from Yuki. Their eyebrows are furrowed in a same way. Without fully noticing her own action, Rise turns her head left, staring at the same figure Yuki is looking at. It just occurs to her instantly, hearing JUNES thing. And the other teenagers as well. All eyes are now on Yosuke, except Yu, who keeps his eyes down at Yuki. The said 'Uncle JUNES' is getting an expectation stare from Yuki. He wonders himself, suddenly be called Uncle, and with the JUNES addition.

"...Wha..?"Yosuke says, with a don't-know-how-to-react face. Instead of fixing stare at Yosuke, which is what practically everyone is doing, the woman only glances at Yuki and then Yosuke. Yuki is mistaking someone else, too? she thinks. And this time it's his uncle? Maybe it's not only his stomach that's hurt, his head also. The woman thinks hard and is considering to ask the doctor to do a check-up on his head.

"Uncle JUNES? Senpai, did you bribe the kid or something?"Kanji suddenly asks.

"What? What do you mean?"Yosuke turns his head at the backside as additional respond to look directly at the one who's asking. "Hell, I haven't ever met him!"

"But out of us here, the one who's associated with everything JUNES is only you."Chie adds.

"Yeah, but what's with the 'uncle' part? Is he my nephew?"he says a bit sarcastic. On Yu's side, he catches Yuki's movement. Turning his head upwards, looking at Yu innocently.

"Daddy, is Uncle JUNES growing his hair?"Yuki asks, as innocent as his face. His voice tone volume is quite high for everyone in the room to catch the frequency through their ears.

City Street | Evening | Year 2024

On the sidestreet of the busy road in the middle of the city, a dark blue small yet stylish and shining car is parked. Window glasses are covered with thick films that the inside of the car cannot be seen easily by people outside. The driver seat is currently empty. Next to the seat, sits a bright red-haired woman with a bored, or rather, tired face. She rests her head on the seat's neck pillow, exhaling. Shifting her head slightly to the window, staring at the sky, expecting to see some blinking stars. But to her disappointment, not a single star found. The sky are now fully covered by dark cloud hovering the whole city. And suddenly a light appears blinking in between those clouds. The woman sighs.

"Not even a nice night sky view."she mumbles. She reaches for a slim silver gadget in front of her which appears to be a touchscreen cellphone. She slides unlocking the device lock system. The time-indicator on the screen shows 20:50. With nothing to do at the moment, she decides to fuss over with the newly-bought gadget in her hand. She hasn't been able to do so since she got it. Being a singer, an actress, and many other job offers make her spare time is reduced magnificently. She is already used to it though, having accustomed since she was a teenager. Sometimes, she would laugh to herself reminiscing those times. When she debuted her career, she got a nickname/stagename 'Risette'. Got a bit psychological problem, dragged into a serial murder case, got kidnapped for the second time, and many other. But of course, not all of them were bad things. Great, fun things are packed together with. She can't help but feeling greatful to those bad things, why because of all of it she made REAL lifetime friends. In her range of activities, people who she casually calls 'friends' are just to keep her image as an idol that time. Maybe not all of them, but mostly.

"Heheh, and now it's like Risette has grown up to be Rise Kujikawa..."she laughs softly while keep sliding her finger on the screen on some random applications, until she accidentally clicked a Schedule-Reminder app which causes it to show a table filled with notes of what-to-do's and appointments on each row of 'date and time' column. The last row of notes is today's date. She slides the table downward to reveal a completely empty row. She sighs probably in relief knowing there won't be anything to do at all tomorrow.

"I'm definitely taking break tomorrow. Not going to receive any messages or calls. Sorry."she says playfully while clicking Calls icon. She sets the setting to where any calls and massages will be temporarily blocked by the system, until she sets it otherwise. But looks like the settings offers an advancement in filtering which contact, or group contact will be included in the blocking. Of course, without hesitation, she clicks a line that says 'All contacts'. As she clicks it, below the line appears 'Exception' tab that only offers a series of group contacts she made to categorize the people she knew. The series includes 'None', '-showbiz-', '-producerstuffs-', and least '-Inaba Greatness-'. She smiles, and then clicks the last line of the series. All contacts are blocked, except for contacts included in the group contact '-Inaba Greatness-'. Then she clicks the save button below.

"Hmm, wonder how Senpai's new house is like."she giggles. "Oh, and I can't wait to squeeze Yuki! He looks a lot like Senpai. Though with Yukiko-senpai's hair.". Suddenly, the door to the driver seat opens. She looks at her right, and find a man going inside and closes the door. He is holding a bottle of orange juice on his left hand.

"Sure took some time."she says to the man. He gives the bottle of juice to her, while adjusting the seatbelt on him.

"Yeah, sorry, a bit crowded."the man with black hair says. After she takes the bottle from him, she gives the bottle an intense look.

"Over an orange juice?"she asks with eyebrow upwards.

"No, the store. I mean, the line in front of cashier. It was long.". At the reply, she galnces over the man to look at the small store, or, shop the man just went into. Well, it is a bit crowded. The man, having the seatbelt locked at the side of the seat, turns his head left to meet with the woman's gaze. Smiling a little, he brings his hand up to her cheek, and strokes the smooth skin with his thumb. Upon the sudden touch she doesn't expect the least, looks at the man's equally black eyes.

"Good work today...Rise."he softly says in a low, calming tone. The woman named Rise, smiles at the compliment he is giving. Yes, she had worked hard on following the tight schedule that day. Doing a last session of shooting, a party that follows, meeting a producer of an upcoming wide-screen movie, reahearse her new single album's song. A busy and long day indeed.

"You, too. Good thing it's over."Rise says back smiling, and blushing. Even on her age right now, she can't help but feeling a bit nervous when facing the man's figure as close as that. His black hair is fairly decent, cut until the middle of the backside of the neck. If it were only just because of that, won't make him look as attractive as now. What makes his hair stylish in a decent style like that, is the bangs on his forehead. They bend softly to the right, ands at the tip of his ear. The way the bangs are forming, adds some youthful look on his face. If there were a stranger to see him first time, he/she'll assume he is in early twenties. And more what makes Rise is able to get rid of her lovely Senpai she had been drooling over, is his voice when talking. Heavy, but not rough, and always starts with a low tone, whether he is happy, sad, or...mad. Most people won't be able to tell if he is mad or being casual as ever. But Rise can tell. And she's not telling anyone how to see it. They only focus on his tone, that obviously is not what they should pay attention to, Rise thinks proudly.

"Yeah."the man replies. Having enough physical contact for the moment, he pulls the hand brake before starting the engine. Rise sits back and opens the bottle to sip some. "So, who's this 'Senpai'?"

She puts a smile, "...I can't tell you."winking her right eye, chuckling.

"Oh, really?"the man recognizing Rise's playfullness in her tone, attempts to tease her a bit. "If so, I won't be able to take you there then."he giggles.

"It's fine, I can just take a bus-"she stops, thinking what she just said.

"A bus? Oh, you knew their routes? Good.". Rise takes back all she just said about taking a bus. Knew their routes? Well, maybe, after getting lost for a few times she will. The man laughs at her silence.

"Still no good with riding bus by yourself?"

"I have a feeling I will never be good at it."

"Yeah, you always sleep while on the road. Just like few minutes ago."

"Okay okay, geez."she says, and then sips more of the juice. "I think it's warm enough, let's go, I'm so sleepy."she yawns while placing the bottle caps back.

"It's still 9 though,"

"But I feel terribly tired right now. I dunno, maybe because knowing tomorrow there won't be any arrangement, I want to have a good good rest."

"Yes, Rise Kujikawa."the man replies, and steps on the pedal.

"Thank you, Kazuya Otohara, the very popular and kind, talented actor."

"You yourself, Madam."the man, Kazuya, chuckles. And with that, the car starts going forward, leaving the sidewalk, to their current destination, Kazuya's own luxurious apartment, where they have just decided as a place to take a break from all their similar business, and also, to have moments they both have long waited for.

Author thingy : i uhh, sort of stumbled on ideas... WHY!? WHY!? *hic* i'm thinking of some side-chapter, including Yu, Yukiko, and Nanako, and her...said boyfriend... what would the sister-complex think about that, i wonder... xD