Ryuji scrunched his face in his sleep and slowly come to wakefulness, his eyes blinked blearily in the little sunlight that peeked through the curtains of his bedroom.
He threw off his iron Man blanket off his self as he start to yawn widely and rubbing his eyes that he realised something is off.
He listened carefully and met with silence. He immediately realised one thing, no cheery voice of his Papa waking him as usual in the morning. Although it is not a school day, his Papa never let him sleep in so late.
Ryuji scrambled off the bed and rushed out of his room, standing in the hallway he met with another silence. Growing more anxious, Ryuji ran to his parent's room and found the room empty, the bed is unmade which is unlike his Papa.
He dashed passed the living room and to the kitchen hoping his Papa is cooking a breakfast but it turn out empty too.
"Ryuji?"
Ryuji swiveled around in surprise to see his dad whom he did not notice before due to his panic raised an eyebrow at him from where he is sitting in his armchair, a cup of hot coffee in his hand and the other holding a newspaper.
"Daddy!" Ryuji immediately rushed to his dad, Asami lowered his cup onto the coffee table to avoid being spill on.
"Why are you looking like you have seen a ghost? Do you have a nightmare?" Asami let Ryuji climb onto his lap as he folded the newspaper. He will finish it later.
"Where is Papa? Papa didn't wake me up this morning! Is something happen to him?"
Asami chuckled deeply, "Do not worry. He was given last minute assignment by his boss so he was in a rush to catch his flight and afraid to wake you up as you slept quite late last night."
Ryuji nodded in understanding, "But still…I thought something happen to Papa…"
"No harm will come to him as long as I am alive. I will always take care of your Papa and you."
"Promise?" Ryuji looked up at his father with a surprising serious face.
Asami somehow feel proud of his son's protectiveness, "I promise."
Ryuji seems satisfied with his answer and coincidentally his stomach growled loudly.
"Time for your breakfast, young man. Then we are going to spend some time together while waiting for your Papa to come home."
"I want coffee like daddy!"
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An hour later…..
Ryuji stared down at his plate where his burned omelette is and he looked up at his disheveled daddy holding a frying pan trying to scrap the remaining omelette before throwing the frying pan in the trash can altogether. He could always buy a new one anyway.
Asami looked at his son staring at him dubiously. He could not let himself down in front of his only son. He has to show his daddy could do anything flawlessly. He flicked his phone open and raised it to his ear.
"Kirishima…-"
As he sipped on his coffee, Ryuji wished his Papa will hurry home soon.
TBC...
P/S: This sitting in my laptop for a year and I decided to post it now...hopefully I will be back posting regularly.