The Memory of Murder
By E.M. Megs
Chapter 6 – Threats
Kyoya was 11 when the messages started appearing.
Notes in his backpack addressed to his parents. Ones that he looked at but never actually read. He never knew what they said or how they got in his bag, they just appeared.
Letters in the mail that his father looked through with fury.
The first time he brought one to Yoshio, the man read it with narrowed eyes then looked at him sharply. "Where did you get this? Who gave it to you?" he bellowed. Kyoya took a step back and answered while his mother attempted to calm her husband.
"No one gave it to me, Otou-san. I found it in the backpack. I don't know how it got there."
Later, he overheard his parents speaking in the library when they thought he'd gone to bed.
"Yoshio, they're just words. It's fine. Everything's okay."
"How? How did they get to Kyoya and Akito? This is not okay, Mayumi! They're threatening my family and going through my sons to prove that they can do as they say."
"They won't."
"How do you know that?"
"Yoshio, if they meant anything by it they would have harmed one of the children by now, not sent more messages in the school bags."
"I don't like it, Mayumi."
"Nor do I. But honestly, Yoshio… The police are working on it. You've increased security and even sent the boys to school with personal body guards. I don't think there's a way to keep them any safer than to lock them in padded, bullet-proof rooms."
"Now that's an idea…"
"Yoshio," his mother warned. His father sighed in defeat. "Get some sleep, love. I'm going to go check on Kyoya. He said he was having trouble sleeping."
When she walked out and found him outside the library door she sighed, not sounding surprised. "Come," she murmured, "To bed, Kyoya."
"Okaa-san, what's going on?" he asked calmly as she led him back to his own bedroom.
"Nothing, sweetheart. Your father's just dealing with a difficult business partner."
Kyoya had pursed his lips and not questioned further, though he was troubled by the lack of information the answer to his question had provided.
And his mother had seemed so tired, more exhausted every day all the way up until his 12th birthday when the world completely changed forever.
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A/N: This one is super short… So I'm sorry. I'll update again like… next week probably. Actually, the shortness of this one bothers me a lot but merging it with chapter 7 would just throw everything off.
Kudos to: lilsketcher617, and Give A Kiss and Say Goodbye.
Again, I totally promise that I'll update quicker this time x: Especially since I'm all graduated from high school now~