Syllables
Tsuyoshi remembered his wife's insistence on their son's first word. The image lingered in his mind even after years had passed and Takeshi no longer knew only one, but thousands upon millions of words. Even after his wife died in a car accident, no, perhaps it was because his wife died that he remembered it more clearly. He remembered all of the memories with her, but this one shone brightly in his mind because even to this day, he is not sure what his son's first word actually was.
"I tell you, it is mama." His wife's voice echoed around the room, and Tsuyoshi refused to let the welling tears fall as a distant memory from the past rose up.
"Did you hear that dear?" Her voice rang out excitedly, and Tsuyoshi turned to look at his wife.
"He said ma!" She hugged her son tightly. "His first word is mama!"
Tsuyoshi chuckled at his wife's excitement, not really wanting to be the one to tell his wife that "ma" was simply a mono-syllable phrase and could not really be considered a word.
"Tsu…" Tsuyoshi laughed as Takeshi continued to blabber out seemingly incoherent words.
"…na" Both parents looked at their son, in a sort of dumbfounded shock. He clapped happily at the attention and shrieked.
"Tsuna!"
Tsuyoshi looked at his wife, raising an eyebrow. His wife narrowed her eyes in a glare, daring him to say anything else.
"He said ma first!"
He wisely kept his mouth shut and watched as the disappointed mother tried to convince her son to repeat his first syllables twice.
The nagging question of how Takeshi knew that word floated around in both adult's minds before his cheerful laugh washed the thought away.
"Takeshi, what was your first word?"
His son turned to stare at him with wide, blinking eyes.
"Is this supposed to be a trick question?"
Tsuyoshi laughed, hands swiping across his eyes briefly before turning around.
"I asked your mom the same thing every time she asked me."
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Edit: So, I made a mistake of calling Takeshi Yamamoto and didn't catch it... but StarLikeShadow did! And now I've changed it and no one else will know the blunder I made... bwahahaha...
I'm trying really, really, really hard to procrastinate studying. Well, actually I don't need to try that hard because I have absolutely no motivation for school… which was how this chapter came so quickly because your reviews motivated me to write instead of study. Haha, I'm a terrible student. But please continue to review! I loved reading your reviews on the last chapter, and it's such a great motivator!
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