Chapter 14

"You're leaving?!?"

Yamada shouted as Kimua pulled him down to his seat on the table, they were eating in the lunchroom as he nodded. "Yes, I'm leaving, I got approval from the Head Administrator." Kimura replied to his question, drinking his juice box. Once he finished it, He picks up his tray of half-eaten food and began walking to the trash, dumping it into the bin.

Yamada grew concerned about him, although they had gotten off at the wrong foot at the beginning, Yamada felt like something was off with him leaving for a week. He walked out of the cafeteria as Fujiwara, Yun, and Suzuki were looking at the swinging doors he went through, all of them concerned. Kimura walked along the path, heading away from the academy building and heading towards the dormitories.

It's just one week…

He took some deep breaths as she walked into the building, going up to his room and opening it, grabbing his backpack. He pulls out his phone and sends a text, putting his phone away right after as a portal opened right in his room, right in front of him. Kimura took a deep breath as he walked in, the portal closed behind him, leaving his academy emblem behind on a shelf counter.

On the other side of the portal, He stood at the front of the large gate, pushing a button as the gate opened. "I hate this house…" He commented, walking to the mansion as he knocked at the front door. Click! Creeak… The door opened as his older brother, Aki. "I didn't think you'd arrive Makoto." He seemed surprised, Makoto sighed as he replied, "What does the old man have to say…" he asks, wanting to leave as fast as possible.

"I—" Before Aki could talk, A loud voice comes from behind him.

"AKI!! IS THAT MAKOTO! TELL HIM TO COME IN!"

"—S-Sure thing Dad!" Aki replied.

"Seriously…You need to come in before my ass is cooked…"

"Ehh…you seem like you're handling it." He scoffs with a smug smile.

Aki seemed to reach a boiling point as he grabbed Makoto by the shirt and dragged him inside, almost throwing him inside. "Hey watch the shirt!" Makoto commented as he pats the wrinkles out of his dress shirt. "MAKOTO!!!" A commanding voice came from behind as he immediately stopped as he remembered where he was.

His father, Kimura Kenji, walked over to them as he stood at 6ft with black hair and blue eyes. Makoto sighed as he looked at his father, seemingly uninterested in what he was going to say. "What is it now Pops…" Makoto asked, seemingly wanting to leave back to the academy. Kenji sighed as he replies, "Makoto, it's because we had gotten more information on your mothers' whereabouts." He seemed quite surprised at his father's excitement.

Kenji had a big smile as Makoto puts down his bag and willingly listens to his father's findings. He listened to Kenji as he was explaining it for a good while. Makoto didn't seemingly care about his mom, as he was getting more and more annoyed by his dad.

"Why can't you grasp at the fact that mom isn't coming home."

"She is coming home; she is just lost Makoto."

"Dad…when will you give it a rest, your way past your prime." Makoto grew concerned.

"Son, I will never accuse myself of being past it, I'm just as nimble as ever!" He flexed his arm with a big smile.

Makoto sighed, looking around as he asked, "Where's Keiko?" as a sudden cold shoulder fell upon him. He quickly turned around as he was lightly karate chopped on the head by Keiko, his older sister and oldest sibling. "Dad's rambling off again, I need you to stay here so I can go do my job…" she seemed annoyed as if she listened to his conversation a thousand times now.

"Well, I don't want to be here, I still have school!"

"Oh, cheer up Makoto, I already called Haven Academy, They were surprised to hear from me but they informed me about you leaving for a week."

"That's because I informed it was going to BE a week." He shrugged frustrated at his father's obliviousness.

"Well besides that, let's all go to the coffee table, I have the folder." He holds up a yellow folder as they follow him to the coffee table, sitting around it.

Kenji and Keiko sat beside each other as Aki and Makoto sat on the other side of the table, Kenji opened the folder as he pulls out six pictures of their assumed mother. One of the five images showcased her with another man, holding hands as they strolled through a park as they were seemingly a happy couple.

Keiko, Aki, and Makoto looked at the images as they each picked up one except for Kenji. They then heard him silently get up as he walked to the backyard. They looked over at Kenji as he expected good news, Makoto looked down at the images, they were worse than he would have imagined. Makoto sets the picture down on the table as did his older siblings. Keiko was seemingly thinking about it as she was the only sibling to be old enough to roughly remember their mother.

"What is it Keiko?"

"Mom isn't that kind of person to hop on other ships so easily…" she commented, looking at the images.

"So? What does that have to mean?"

"Mom's a grounded person, but I'm the only one who could really remember."

"Then why would dads provider give us these photos…"

"Can't you use your eyes Makoto. Look here." She pointed at one of the images as she pointed out a glitch in the image.

Aki and Makoto took a closer look as most of the images were the same thing, having glitches in the photos. "These images were clearly taken to cover up for something else, they're fake photos." She points out again, they both deadpan look at her as she raises an eyebrow at them. "What?" she replied to their deadpan faces as they pointed to the backyard.