Unveil

(Iori's Pov)

It has been few days since I last heard anything about Kage. I know that he is very shy, no. He is scared to change things. But he takes good care of his work and our youngest child, Akane. She really likes him. They get along quite well. Anyways, I headed to police earlier and make a search around the neighbourhood. As I close my eyes and sleep, I dreamed of how we met Kage.

It was a joyous occasion for us. My wife gave birth to a 3rd child. The eldest is a male who is working back from my homeland. Our 2nd child is a female, who is graduating soon. And lastly the youngest which will turn 8 next month. We noticed that she seems a bit isolated from others. We thought it was natural so we let it be. Soon it turned into a problem. She cannot make friends. We are shocked of the news and her older siblings got angry. But we thought we can make use of the orphanage nearby and adopt one.

So, my wife and I decided to adopt one to help Akane communicate and to help me run the business. I already had one in mind but I saw a kid, gold eyes but I felt some kind of charm to him. I suggested him and my wife inspected the kid. She approves. After deciding, we went to the director's office.

"Hello mister and miss Weber! I am the director of this orphanage. The name is Kazaya. Nice to meet you." He said.

Looks like we are still known at this age huh? Well, I am quite high in the ranking back when I was still active. Lieutenant colonel. Anyways, I don't need to say my name nor my wife's since he knows us.

"Lets get to business. We want to adopt that gold-eyed kid."

"We are more than welcome to take him away from here. With you guys, even he cannot withstand it."

"What?" My wife muttered.

He explained several stuff about him. Both of us are horrified. But something inside me screams with excitement. I can train him to protect Akane, I thought. We breezed through the process and took him home.

"We're home!"

"Welcome back, mama, papa!" Akane said.

How adorable our little angel is. Kage is still quiet. Akane looked at him with anxiety.

"Papa, who is this?"

"Well you can say we took him in. He is gonna be your friend!" My wife told her.

Akane trusts us so her eyes sparkle and for the first time, we saw Kage being shocked by what she said.

"I-is it o-ok fo-for m-me to be h-her f-f-friend?" he said weakly.

"Of course! While this is my first time seeing you, please take care of me! My name is Akane Weber!"

"I-I am Kage Hayashi. Nice to meet you as well."

At first, the mood is awkward especially for both of them. But I tinkled with him here and there and they soon became friends. When Akane's birthday is almost here, both of her siblings came home and were surprised. My oldest child digged some stuff about him and reported it to me. I knew something was wrong. His past is horrifying and traumatic, or thats what it was suppose to feel for a child like him. But both loved him with his charm. Both sisters fought for him. While my oldest took him inside his room and spend time for bonding like introducing him to video games or what not. But his old self does not falter or change. He still feels isolated. Thats why akane became angry. He could not refute it. Thus seperating them and making a wall against each other. Only later did I learned that Akane cares for him. We thought she knew about his past and treats him as a disease or a monster. But no. She wants to make him forget about the past and move on. Only then both of us, husband and wife, that we created a wall towards him too. But he never said anything. But he knew that we love him.

I woke up. I headed to kitchen to drink a glass of water and started contacting someone.

"Hello?"

{Long time no see or is it long time no call? Hahahaha.}

"Whatever your call is Hahahaha."

{Anyways, what got you calling me this early? Did something happen?}

"Yes. I want you to search about Kage Hayashi's whereabouts."

{The adopted one right? Still kinda surprises me that his last name did not change.}

"Well, leave that for later. For now trace where he is."

{Got it. Gonna send some searching. Send me the last place he was seen.}

"Unn. Then see you soon."

{Still got that scary intuition of yours huh?}

And the call ended. He is a very close friend of mine back when I am still active. Anyways, I am worried what happened to kage. No, all of us are worried. I did trained him about self-defense here and there but he has no real experience. And if I see him in that state, I wouldn't mind about using violence.

"Honey, your face is scary!"

"Sorry about that."

Looks like time to do some real work now. Both for him and Akane. Can't wait to see my grandchild soon.