Kakucho's pov
It's been a while now, probably a month and half that I've noticed a change in our friendship. But I've never dared to mention it, too afraid this would only make things worse. Ever since that Sano Shinichiro guy's appearence in our lives, Izana was never paying attention to us every time he came. He's been distancing. And now, he still is distant. WHen me or Hakuji-nii offer to keep them company as well, Izana would always look at us in annoyance and say 'You guys can't come, can't you notice it's a brother moment btw us?' or 'even if you guys come, what benefit would you get from it? You won't feel what I feel so stay here it's better' but I feel like this is all just an excuse. An excuse to get away from us, away from our grasp. What have we done wrong? Though it's true Hakuji-nii stays with that random guy for about 10-15 minutes, Izana would always come and snatch the guy away with an excuse. To be honest, I don't care about this guy, what worries me is our friendship. It might be breaking up at this point. Every day, Izana is hanging out with that 'weird hairstyled wannabe "handsome" delinquent running after girls' highschooler (I assume he was a highschooler at that time), Hakuji-nii is back at training at the back of the orphanage (or foster house???) alone, and I'm often there watching him and trying to do the same thing when I think I can. And today was one of those days....
Except it didn't go as usual. A voice, a pretty old one, spoke out of the blue; causing me and Hakuji-nii to flinch.
"You, with the dojo uniform" the voice said. We slowly turned around, well mainly Hakuji-nii.
"What the hell do y- oh!" He then bowed a bit. Why? I've got no idea, that was until I notice the old man was wearing a dojo uniform, maybe he did bow to show respect.
"No need for that kiddo, anyway that isn't the reason why I engaged a conversation with you" The old man responded with a kind smile plastered on his face. Well I'm guessing so he had a freaking huge moustache hiding his mouth for God's sake.
"Well, what do you need to speak with me about sir" Hakuji-nii answered, he's face seemed softened a bit. I wonder as well what did this man want to talk about.
"Tell me kid, where did you learn this martial art? (I have no idea what kind of art martial does Akaza knows, I don't even know if there is different type of marital arts I'll prob go look it up on Google) " Well it's true that Hakuji-nii hasn't told us where he learned it from.
"It's called Soryu shiki, I learned it back in my old dojo before it...blew up 'nice excuse.' " He said. 'blew up? He was in the N-'
"You were in the Nakajima dojo? I am sorry, you must've lost a lot of friends in there. As a dojo owner, learning that this incident was caused by another dojo pained my heart, between us, dojo owner or student, we should support each other, no matter what, those kinds of things like the Nakajima incident are backstabbing in my opinion." The old man spoke. Was this the reason why Hakuji-nii did not want to make friends? Because he thought he'd loose friends again? Whoever did this must've had gone out of their head. Blowing up a dojo full of talented people, young or older, that's horrible.
"I did lost my friends and few people I get along with" 'I mainly didn't knew it actually did happen'
"Well kid what about you join my dojo? Do you know what that means right?" The old man said. Oh please don't tell me this is what I think it is.
"So you are....adopting.." Hakuji-nii didn't had time to answer that the old man spoke up
"yes I am adopting you! If you want that is." The old man said. Oh no, Hakuji-nii....adopted? No way! As if it would happen. Yeah why am I worrying, he would never agree anyway
"I agree" I hear him say. No. How am I supposed to tell Izana. After a while, the old man was done signing the adoption papers and Hakuji had packed his things. He bid me goodbye then left.
~2 hours later~
Izana came back. I couldn't face him without remembering what happened earlier.
"Guys I'm back!!" He said, all happy. "Oh Kakucho! There you are- are you okay? Where is Hakuji by the way? He usually would be waiting for me here." I look at him in the eyes with guilt. I didn't know if that guilt was directed at him or myself. A part of me was blaming Izana, maybe if he hanged out more with us than that stranger, Hakuji wouldn't had agreed but if I said something maybe he would have stayed.
"Hakuji got adopted...."
"what......"
"An old man man came and adopted him 2 hours ago....sorry I couldn't do anything to stop that."
"Did he....agree to it" Izana said
"He did, but it only was for dojo practice purpo-"
"THAT DAMNED TRAITOR!!! HOW COULD HE LEAVE US LIKE THAT....HOW COULD HE LEAVE US BEHIND!!" Izana said, and I snapped, for the very first time I was mad at him.
"Well he ain't the true traitor of this story..."
"What?-"
"If you hanged out more with us, if you choosed him over that stranger, he wouldn't have choosed the old man over us!" after that it was quiet. We went to our respective rooms and stayed silent. As I was reaching Izana's room, I heard sobbing and sniffles. 'Is he crying?'
"Why....why did you leave, you promised you'll never leave...."
".....yeah he did promise that"
A/n: Short chapter like alwaaaaaays yaaaaaaay!! I wanted to post one chapter in here since it's been decades OvO forgive me. Anyways screw that chapter isn't good probably and I looked up what was Akaza's martial art and discovered it is; according to google, a hard one to learn so yeah my dream of fighting like Akaza was put in the window trash right after I read the word "Hard to learn" and "six years to master" (ALL ACCORDING TO GOOGLE) so yeah fuck that, hope you enjoyed maybe, I'm too lazy at the moment to write a proper a/n so...wait when did I even do a proper A/n lol- ok bye.
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