Okay, here goes...Atsushi did you feel that you were somewhat different from other children in your village? tanizaki questioned.
you think, atsushi pointed at his eyes and hair.
no, no, NO! tanizaki shook his head and hands left and right and said, it's not that! even in the woods your appearance is still very unique, but i mean apart from that! didn't you think your name was very strange or unique? that your name is different from other people? don't say no because even though i am a prince a royalty i always feel different from other people except from my family of course all of us have these strange names but i feel proud of it.
Atsushi's eyes widened,...Wait...now that you mentioned it...our name does sounds alike, but what are you so excited for? doesn't some people here and there sometimes also have strange names? one kid from my village is even named smelly now that! is also a weird name honestly i don't know what his parents where thinking back then naming their son like that, do they hope that when their son grows up he will be smelly enough for all the people in the village to smell? and even though i said that but to answer your question, yes, i do always feel that my name is different from the other kids the whole village even.
I was just an orphan and they only gave me this name is because there was a piece of paper on me that reads Nakajima Atsushi so they just followed it. oh and on me they also found this pendant, hanging from his neck atsushi showed tanizaki a silver Moon pendant, at least the orphanage has conscience they didn't took my pendant away. atsushi mumbled.
That's it! tanizaki shouted, atsushi was startled, from what my family told me when i asked them why are our names this strange they told me because we have an ancestor who was also named this way he also has unique features the kind that is very different from the people of the endless woods but the thing was that he is also a reader someone from beyond the woods, he graduated from the school for good and got his own fairy tale he saved the princess from our kingdom back then and he married that same princess and a few years later the princess now a queen gave birth to their baby boy and that child's father's strange naming sense kicked in and named their child with another unique sounding name, from that day on, naming their child or heirs with that unique naming sense became a tradition in our royal family. Tanizaki is still our surname from the past to the present and that is also why people easily recognize us because of our unique name and features...also my ancestor also left us a family heirloom also a pendant yours is silver moon while ours is a golden sun.
sigh...atsushi we really are cut from the same tree and since destiny allowed us to meet we should be friends - no! brothers! Tanizaki patted atsushi's shoulder, so to celebrate our meeting here i shall show you around our school and act like a tour guide, tanizaki proudly stuck his chest out, just leave it to me, no problem and oh you can call me whatever you want.
then i'll call you tanizaki san, atsushi said
ok whatever you want but i still want you to call me by my first name, tanizaki pouted,
haha...was atsushi's only response