Takemichi stares at the old lady then to his mother. His mother staring at him expectantly to say something.
"He...l..l.o m..y na...m..e is Ta..k..e.mi...c.hi" Takemichi stutters.
He felt his mother whom is holding his hand gets tightened he nails digging into his skin.
Takemichi wants to whimper but hold it in when he notice the way her mother cold eyes flash into his vision.
"Ahhh I'm sorry his kinda shy" his mother spoke as his mother eyed the old lady.
"Ahhh I see but you can let go of the child now you know he looks very uncomfortable" Tanuki spoke looking at the hand of Takemichi mother.
"Ahhhahahah sorry I'm just afraid that this kid went on do something funny you know kids they could be annoying" Takemichi mom spoke then letting go of his hand.
Takemichi knows that there will be bruise in there. He decides to hide his hands in his pockets afraid that he might get scolded by his mother.
He can't embarrassed his mother now.
"Ahhh and yeah I'm gonna leave Takemichi here now" Takemichi mother spoke.
Takemichi flinch at that.
She's gonna leave Takemichi. But why?
Wasn't he a good child?
"Mother what do you mean?" Takemichi shivers looking at the lady.
"I can't raise you Takemichi you'll better here with your grandmother" Takemichi mother spoke.
"Ahhh it'll be alright Takemichi there are a lot of kids on the neighborhood you'll get along with them finely" the old lady spoke.
"No---- i----" Takemichi was about to said something.
He felt the air beside him grow even much colder. His mother looks angry now.
"Mom please don't leave me. I never did something wrong if I did I'm sorry don't leave me!" Takemichi cries holding onto his mother legs.
His mother however did not say anything and pry of Takemichi hand.
"Well goodbye now" his mother spoke.
"No don't leave my please I'm a good child right?!!! Why are you leaving me mom please don't go!!" Takemichi cries again running after her mother who was about to enter the car.
"Takemichi!" Her grandmother worriedly spoke as she walk over to the boy who was now kneeling down hugging his mother's leg.
"I'm sorry Mitchi won't ask question anymore Mitchi will clean the house even if his sick. Mitchi won't even care if Mitchi had to sleep outside the house just don't leave me please!!" Takemichi cried.
Was this stupid. Maybe it was but what does a child know. In Takemichi life he got only one thing to do.
Feel grateful if he gets beaten up. Feel happy even if everything is shit. He lives in a life like that. Where there where only darkness surrounding him.
Lonely.
Dark.
Full of Fear
And Empty.
He was so used to it that he think that violence against him was always right. That he deserves it. That his something that just something. Not someone.
His just a tool. He wonders to why he was clinging on his mother legs. Asking not to be given to someone else.
He felt discarded. It doesn't feel right to him. Was it because the way he live in. In his life he always think that, that life Is the most suitable life for him.
Yeah. That's it.
His too broken to know what's right and what's wrong.
His stupid, his worthless, he should be dead.
Ahhhh.
"I'm sorry mother I'll do everything I'll act as if I'm not even born so please don't leave me" Takemichi cried to his mother.
However this time he was shoved down.
"You fucking ruined my life. I don't even know why I put up with you after all this year's I hate you so much I could kill you. Seeing your face makes me want to puke!" Her mother snarls.
"What the hell Yurika?!" Tanaki screams at Takemichi mother.
Takemichi was stunned but he understands why his mother is angry. But he just can't leave that life he was so used to alone.
"Well whatever I don't even care if that little shit one day passed away and goodbye" Yurika spoke then enters the car and ask the driver to leave.
Takemichi who was being hold by the guy his grandmother with sighs. Takemichi pry his hand off of him.
"Hey wait!" The unknown man spoke.
Takemichi run after the car.
"Takemichi?!" He could hear his grandmother worried voice but still he ran.
"Mom don't go I'm sorry!!!!" Takemichi cried out while running.
However his legs are too small. Before he even knew it the car was fading in the distance and his out of breath.
"Ahhh mom I'm sorry please don't go take me back" Takemichi sobs.
Takemichi silently cries in the sidewalk. As he felt someone approach him and loom over around his body.
"Hah you sure do run fast" The guy spoke.
Takemichi didn't look up but just sobs. His scared he doesn't know this people. He feels weird around them. They gave them vibes that he doesn't deserve.
The way there eyes look at him. He found them so strange. The unfamiliar feeling he felt he doesn't like it at all. He don't know.
What is that feeling? He never felt that before. Was it the feeling of hate? He doesn't know.
"Momma come back I don't like it here" Takemichi hugs his knees even more.
Takemichi felt the guy who just run after him sit beside him. The guy took a deep breath and spoke.
"Yah know that your mom Is not a good person?" The guy both ask and stated at the same time.
Takemichi didn't reply.
A bad person? Who his mother? But his mother gave him a place to live at. He also is able to go to school and talk with his classmates.
Mom is kind?
"No. Mom is kind to me." Takemichi replied his voice breaking down.
'That's right mother loves me. Mother Is just disciplining me whenever she said something bad. Because I was a bad kid'
'She left because I was a bad kid'
"If only I did better" Takemichi mutters again while sobbing.
"No she's a bad person" The guy spoke again hinting annoyance that Takemichi didn't feel directly at him.
Takemichi felt a feeling.
'He doesn't deserve to talk to mom like that Mom is kind'
"That's not true my mother is kind!" Takemichi scream at the older guy.
"Hah she's not a good person" The guys spoke once again eyes looking serious.
"Mom is a good person she loves me a lot" Takemichi said looking eye to eye at the guy his big fat tears streaming down his eyes.
"Are you sure. Is that what you really think? That's she's the most kindest people around you?" The older guy asks his obsidian eyes looking intently at Takemichi's blue eyes.
"I----" Takemichi thinks.
'Sure that his mother would tell and scold him a lot. But the teacher said that they are just disciplining him.'
Was he wrong?
Takemichi held his head. It hurts so much he felt the world around him spinning he hates it.
He hates this guy who is he to judge his mother he don't even know her that much.
But why?
Why does Takemichi heart screams that his telling the truth. That this person is not a bad person.
Why he doesn't understand why is he feeling this way?
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.....To be Continued.....