No longer alone (non-toxic/stereotypical PG Saiouma)

Chapter 15: The visitors

Shuichi's POV (3rd person):

Like Shuichi's father said, they expected visitors a few days after. And it was the day where they would finally come.

Shuichi thought that it was only some of his parents' friends, but due to their nervous looking behavior, he guessed that those people were not really here to chit-chat.

And the most curious thing was that they wanted Shuichi to stay with them when the visitors arrived. Usually, his parents would simply ask him to come say hello whenever visitors would arrive and then let him casually leave since they know that he isn't the social type of guy.

But since they want him to stay, Shuichi could easily guess that it was involving him in some way.

Suddently, a knock on the door was heard, interrupting him from his thoughts.

"Shuichi! Come get it please!" His mother asked. Shuichi simply sighed as he got up and opened the door to see who those visitors were...

A middle aged couple stood in front of him, and they both looked... familiar.

A sudden realisation hit Shuichi, making him back away from them in fear.

They were those 'stalkers' he encountered when he was going to the arcade with Kokichi.

As soon as Shuichi was about to slam the door on their faces, his dad held the door before he could do that and greeted the couple.

"Good to see you two again, Shiro and Akino." His father greeted casually to Shuichi's surprise.

"Y-you know those people..?" Shuichi asked in disbelief, making his dad look at him.

"Yeah, I do, Shiro is my brother and Akino is his wife." His dad explains, making the teenager's eyes widen even more.

"T-they're my uncle and aunt?!"

And to Shuichi's surprise, no answer was heard, until Shiro spoke up.

"Not exactly, boy, but we'll explain everything once we're all settled down."

And with that, the couple both entered the house, welcomed 'warmly' by Shuichi's parents while Shuichi looked from afar, not trusting those two. His parents started settling the diner table for five people instead of three and Shuichi obviously sat next to his parents across from the two strangers.

"Before you say anything, I would like some explaination on why you two stalked me the last time I saw you." Shuichi started coldly, giving them a glare full of suspicions.

The four other adults' eyes widened at those words, his parents also shooting glares at the two others, waiting to hear if it was true.

"We.. did gave you a bad first impression with that, I admit... but.." Akino started before getting cut off by Shuichi.

"Oh really? I don't know how you noticed that." The boy scoffed angrily, and really, he had all the good reasons to be angry.

"Enough" Shiro said firmly, his glare piercing through Shuichi as they made eye contact, making Shuichi uncomfortable and look away.

After an awkward silence, the intimidating man continued. "We only recognized you and wanted to make sure that was you."

Shuichi bit back another remark, knowing that questionning that shitty justification would just make the situation worse.

"Now that I've answered your question, let's get back to the real subject of why we came here." Shiro looked at both of Shuichi's parents as if those two knew what he was going to say.