Hideki
After finishing work as early as possible, Hideki headed out on his mission. The wooden box that was in his father's things was a mystery that he was eager to solve. Looking through his parent's things had reminded him of the life they gave him, and made him more curious to learn about them. Curiosity he hadn't felt since he was a child. Perhaps that was due to his new wife, and the family that they had just started together. He wondered if his parents had been this happy when they had first gotten married, and how they felt when he was born.
A bell chimed as he entered the locksmith's shop, causing the man sitting at the counter to look up from his newspaper. "What can I help you with?" The stout man asked.
"I was hoping," Ishigami pulled the box out from the tote he was carrying it in, "You could open this." The owner held out his hands and looked at the lock. Without saying anything else he pulled out a metal pick and began trying to moving it around in the keyhole. To occupy himself Ishigami began to examine the shop, which was fairly empty with the exception of various keys and different metal locks. He heard a slight pop, and looked over to see the box open.
"Would you like a skeleton key?" The man asked.
"Please." Ishigami decided it would be better to look through the box together with Akemi when they got home. As he pulled out his wallet to pay the man, however, he noticed a picture lying on the top. He picked up to look at it closer, a sinking feeling in his chest.
It was a picture of his father with a child, roughly the same age as he was in the very picture Akemi had loved so much of him wearing his father's glasses. But it wasn't him, it was a little girl. Looking at the back of the picture it read 'Takeshi + Mai' and it was dated from when Hideki was 7. He grabbed the next object, a child's drawing, the kind that so many make to show their family. There were three figures, parents and a little girl. In barely legible letters it said 'To Daddy' in the corner. Was this real? Was his father this girl's…
"ir? Sir?" Hideki was shocked out of his daze by the store clerk, who was looking at him like he'd gone crazy.
"Excuse me." He paid the man and got out of there as quickly as he could. After finally having a family he could trust, was what little he knew about his father a lie?
He got home in a daze, not remembering the journey there.
"Welcome home!" Akemi called out cheerfully as he walked in, she came to give him a welcome kiss but stopped short when she saw him.
"What happened?"
