1 The Tear Begins

Shinku Okami was born on September 15, 2000 in Los Santos, Mexico. Brought into this world through undesirable methods, Shinku's mother, Hakuken Tenshi, was laying in the hospital bed holding the boy. She looked upon the boy with resentment. On the way back to Japan, she couldn't help but pique the boy for whoever his father was. During her time in Mexico for work, she had been gang raped in an ally by unknown assailants and ended up conceiving the little demon in her arms. She refused to give him her last name in any acknowledgement of this thing being her child.

"Landing in Tokyo, Japan in thirty minutes. Please be seated and buckled," the pilot says over the intercom.

"Ma'am, that's a very adorable kid you have -" the flight attendant looked at the child with slightly tan skin.

"I DON'T HAVE A KID! I'M JUST TRANSPORTING THIS DEMON!" Hakuken shouted at the attendant cutting her off.

Taken aback by the sudden shouting, the attendant leaves the now enraged woman alone and sees to the other passengers whom are now uncomfortable with the situation.

"I'm very uncomfortable with energy we have created in the studio today," one kid mumbled causing his siblings to chuckle a bit.

The last thirty minutes was awkward for the entire plane after that outburst. When the plane landed, Hakuken begun her journey back to her family home to do something unforgiveable. Leave her child to her parents with one thing, a note.

'Dear mom and dad,

I'm home but I won't take care of this demon. He was brought to me without my consent and I won't treat him as a child. Let alone my own. Take it and do with it as you see fit. Love you both but this is goodbye if you keep this monstrosity. The only thing I have given him is his name, Shinku Okami. I refuse to let this demonic entity tarnish our name any further than it already has.

Sincerely,

Hakuken'

Both of the grandparents looked at each other with sorrow as they knew that they couldn't get rid of the little boy. As time went on, they started seeing the boy not as the monster that their daughter described, but as a son of their own. They wanted to find their daughter but she seemed to have vanished. They started looking into who his father might be, but they were afraid of what might happen.

Eventually by Shinku's third birthday, the grandfather, Kowareta, started having health issues and was put in a retirement home. This led to some issues in the house, but the community they were in helped them as much as they could. What made things worse was Shinku asking about his parents. Time and time again till his sixth birthday he asked his grandmother about them. He got nothing or a different topic each time he asked about his parents, especially his mother.

When he went to school, he found out the truth about why he was with grandparents. His parents didn't die, neither of them did. His grandmother, Tsuzentai, decided to tell him after the passing of her beloved. Shinku was still grieving his grandfather, despite it being three months sense he passed, when he was told that his mother abandoned him.

"What about my dad? Did he not want me too?" Shinku looked down at the ground clenching his little fist against his legs as he asked the only question that could come to his mind.

"Honey.... I'm not even sure if your 'father' even knows you exist... I'm sorry," Tsuzentai was on the verge of tears looking at the little boy. 'This was too soon. It's too much for him to handle.'

"So I'm what?" Shinko had nothing is his eyes. He couldn't cry anymore from the grief over his grandfather.

"What do you mean, dear?" The woman had no words for what just left the little child's mouth.

"Am I even related to you? What am I? An orphan that you pitied?" His voice now starting to rise as he began to get angry. "Am I even supposed to be here?" His little temper lowered as he felt his heart leave him.

The elderly woman looked at him shocked beyond believe at what she just heard come from the tike. "Honey, I'm your grandmother by blood. That doesn't mean that I pitied you though. I wanted to take you in, and so did your grandfather. I love you honey. I'm glad you are here. So yes you deserve to be here. You are supposed to be under my care."

She tried her best to keep her composure for the little boy, but after her speech, there was no reaction from the boy. She walked over and hugged him, but there was no response only what she knew was a forced hug back from the boy. They parted ways after that, and Shinko asked something that Tsuzentai wished he never would've asked.

"Did she... leave anything? Besides me?" Shinku had one little glimmer in his eyes. That glimmer soon disappeared when he got his answer.

"Only your name," Tsuzentai looked at the lad with a saddened look.

"Oh... what does my name mean then?" He asked hopeful that it was something good.

"We don't know," She looked at him with sad eyes, but when she met his eyes, they changed into shock.

The young boy has lost his glimmer. He's lost all hope, and that was the beginning of the tear.

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