Note: Hi! This chapter complements what happened in chapters 12,13, and a bit 22. I hope you didn't skip those chapters because this might be a little confusing.
Sixteenyears ago
Two unsupervised 4-year-old children were about to be crushed by a four-wheeler truck, but Rika Haitani leaps to sweep them into her arms and darts to the sidewalk, saving them from a gruesome death.
"Oi! Is that your kids?" The truck driver sneers, the road is stained by melted tire marks from grazing thanks to an abrupt pull of brakes.
"No, they aren't, but let me take responsibility. Just please don't shout at them." Rika stands up straight on her trembling feet, smiles through aftershock, and bows to the truck driver with the toddlers snuggling and crying in her arms.
The truck driver intends to scold Rika, but her heroic nature and the way she soothes the children, who aren't even her own, softens him and makes him look at Rika with admiration.
The driver make sure the children are alright. Then, he bids Rika his goodbye and drives away leaving Rika and the two toddlers on the pavement.
"That's so close, but the two of you are safe now, okay?" Rika says as she sets the children down and kneels in front of them to wipe their tears with her scarf.
"What are your names?" Rika is smiling at them from ear to ear as if she isn't trembling herself from what almost happened. "Where are your parent-"
Rika is taken aback, one of the toddlers runs up behind her and hugs her from behind, while the other rushes upfront to hush up her body in Rika's torso. Both are clenching at her clothes while shivering and whining,
"Takashi! Pudding!" A woman darts at Rika and the children. She frantically carries the one who's hugging Rika's front torso.
"I saw the two of them crossing the streets and they were about to get hit so I swooped in." Rika stands and carry the other child who's hugging her back and bows at the woman.
"Thank you! Oh, thank you. You have no idea how grateful I am! Your nature is as beautiful as your pretty face." The mother says as she rushes out to hug Rika for saving the children's lives.
Rika blushes at the gesture.
"They're with my friend," the woman cries, "but I can't believe she left the kids alone on the street!" The lady stands back and wipes her tears, "This is my daughter, Y/n, the boy you're carrying is Takashi, and I'm Serizawa........Serizawa Saku."
Rika simply smiles because she knows the children are loved; she caresses the back of sobbing Takashi, then Y/n shrieks in her mother's arms and desperately reaches out to Rika with her tiny delicate hands.
"Oh, my daughter and Takashi must be smitten of you, pudding wants to be carried by you and Takashi is already sleeping in your arms."
Rika's cheeks tinge with rosiness at Sakura's kind notions.
It's true though, everyone Rika meets either gets fond of her or falls in love with her- just like Nijirou.
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