CUPCAKE FLASHBACK ONE

13 years ago. YOKOHAMA HIGH SCHOOL.

HIGH SCHOOL. School for Akira was something bad in his life. School brought him into deep trauma. School made him feel bad and realized that he was nothing.

Akira walked to the locker to get his tracksuit. Today's schedule were sports and athletics. Akira opened his locker. He took his tracksuit. Then he walked towards the changing room. He changed his uniform there. He didn't know that someone was watching him closely. Full of hate. Watching his every graceful movement. Paid attention to his beautiful curves. To his skin which clean and smooth. The boy hated him. So much! He grunted harshly. And swore.

"Sissy!!"

Akira folded his uniform neatly, then walked back to the locker to store his uniform. Just as he turned around, someone pushed him and he crashed into the wall. That was Kitaro Eiji. Who else? This bastard always had business with Akira, even though Akira thought he never had a friendship with that boy.

"W.. What.. What do you want, Kitaro?" he said quietly. Akira didn't dare to look at Kitaro Eiji. He looked down.

"What do I want?" asked the bastard.

"Tell me what I want," he continued.

"I don't know what you want." Akira said quietly. His voice was shaking. He was very scared.

"You.. You sissy! Don't ever change your clothes here. This place is for boys not a sissy like you." Kitaro Eiji lifted Akira's chin and squeezed it.

Akira was in so much pain. He started crying.

"O... Okay. I won't be coming here anymore. Please let me go. I'm going back to my class." Akira said.

"That's good. Go back to your class. Better never show your face in front of me. " he said savagely.

"Alright, Kitaro. I.. I'll never show my face in front of you."

Then Akira ran towards his class but Kitaro Eiji caught his leg and he fell. Akira knocked down on the floor. Then laughter echoed throughout the room. They laughed at Akira, the school clown.

Akira lifted his body and ran back to his locker. Kept the uniform there. Locked the locker. He wiped his tears and took a deep breath. He walked towards the back of the school, where he hid when his heart was sad. There was an unused empty room. He continued to cry there for a while. He knew if he was late he would be punished by his gym teacher. He would definitely be punished for running around the field 10 times. The teacher was known to be fierce and never tolerates tardiness. Whatever the reason.

He walked towards the athletics room in a hurry after washing his face.

" Kaneshiro kun !! Why are you late ? " his teacher shouted after seeing his face in front of the entrance of the athletics room.

"Run around the field ten times!! Hurry up! Yoshikawa kun keep an eye on him and count how many times he runs around the field!" the teacher said.

Akira rushed towards the field followed by Yoshikawa Hiro.

And he started running. By the fifth round he couldn't take it anymore. That morning he did not have breakfast again. He was hungry. But there was no food in his house. And he had no money to buy bread or anything to fill his empty stomach. His mother told him last night that they had no food supply and no money either. They were poor. Akira could go to school there because he gets a scholarship.

Akira felt his legs started to go weak. The speed was reduced. It was getting slower. He felt his eyes start to glow. But he kept running. And kept running. Until everything went dark.

Akira woke up because the smell of cologne that pierced into his nose. He opened his eyes slowly.

"Akira. Thank God you finally woke up. You were unconscious for a long time." said Yoshikawa Hiro.

"How long have I been unconscious for?" he asked.

"You passed out for over an hour, you know! You scared me. I thought you would die here." Hiro continued.

"I will not die Hiro. Not before I can save my mother and myself from poverty." he smiled at Hiro.

"Haven't you had breakfast yet? You definitely haven't had breakfast yet, have you?" asked Hiro.

Akira nodded slowly. Yoshikawa Hiro was his neighbor and his classmate. And they were good friends. He knew Akira's life. He knew that Akira was living in deprivation. His mother was beautiful and she's an old prostitute who was not selling very well. Yoshikawa Hiro and his family sympathized with the two mother and son. They often helped him and his mother. Akira's mother also often helped Hiro's mother to do the house chores at Yoshikawa's. The Yoshikawa family couldn't just give money to Akira's mother because it would hurt their pride.

Akira's life was so sad. Actually, Akira's grandparents lived well, but they live in Tokyo. The Kaneshiro was an honorable and respectable family in Tokyo. But they had some problems with their daughter. And Kaneshiro Ayumi, Akira's mother, was kicked out of her home in Tokyo when she was young. Kaneshiro Ayumi was a woman with a lot of problems. She was promiscuous and likes to go to party in her youth. She was a rebel. She got pregnant by a stranger that she doesn't know at the party. She went to Yokohama to look for the man but all she found was bitterness. The man, the foreigner was married and returned to his country. Yes, Akira was not a real Japanese. His father who never knew his whereabouts was a man from Europe. But Akira didn't know about his father because his mother never told him. His mother always kept it a secret. And Akira was a good and obedient boy so he didn't ask his mother much.

"I.. There's no food in my house, Hiro." he said almost in a whisper.

Hiro sighed. He was touched. How could he face his life when his friends are starving?

"Listen. Starting tomorrow morning, I will bring breakfast and lunch for you and you can't refuse it. Imagine how I can face my day if a friend of mine comes to school starving. You will have breakfast every day! Your brain need it! Keep that in mind, Akira." said Hiro.

"Hiro... how can I repay you and your family's kindness? You have been so kind to us. Thank you, Hiro." and Akira cried.

"Oh, to hell with it all, Akira! Stop crying!" Hiro shouted.

Suddenly the door to the infirmary opened. And there appeared the head of the cruelest boy.

"Huh?! Sissy!! Keep crying! Is there nothing else you can do but cry?!" Kitaro Eiji said ruthlessly.

He walked over to Akira and grabbed his hair.

"Stop! Don't do that Eiji?" Hiro shouted as he slapped Kitaro Eiji's hand.

"You! How dare you against me. I have the right to do it. I have the right to do anything in this school. I have the right to do anything to this sissy. Hey! Cupcake! You get up! " His eyes glared at Hiro.

But Hiro wasn't afraid.

"You want to fight with me? Come on. I'm not afraid of you. And I swear one day you will regret what you did, Eiji! Get out of here!" Hiro chased him from there.

Kitaro Eiji looked angry but he couldn't help but leave. The Yoshikawa family had a good relationship with the Kitaro family. Hiro's father was a friend of Kitaro Eiji's father. And the two men were good friends. Kitaro Eiji never wanted to fight with Hiro. He knew that if that happened his father would punish him.

"Thank you, Hiro. You always protect me. But I don't want to ruin the relationship between the two of you. Let him do everything. I give up." Akira's tears fell.

He didn't understand why Kitaro Eiji hated him so much. The boy continued to bully him and never let Akira live in peace.