Puppeteer [Tokyo Revengers Fanfiction]

: ̗̀➛Chapter 16

Chapter 16*Past

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"Kokoro, do you want to know how to control the future?" Kokoro's mother asks,
"Why are you always asking that question, mother?" the young Kokoro doesn't understand her mother's words a bit, she is a very weird person in the girl's opinion. Her Mother looks like she is contemplatinf something, before agreeing to tell her dearest daughter about their family roots.

"Our ancestors dear, was given a gift, which turns out to be a double-edged sword, where if you can used it properly, it will be a weapon to save many peoples, but one mistakes and you will.... you will be deeply hurt, my dear," she then look at her child as if she will perish soon. A sudden hug surprised the girl,
"Mother..?"

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New year comes soon, the younger Tachibana had invited Asahi to go with him to the festival together. Originally Kokoro had wanted to mop around since going back to the mansion is out of the option, but she decided to take Naoto's invitation.

Dressing up nicely in a traditional way, and having Mika get her hair done is surely changing the brunette's mood. She looks pretty, she know it, and she flex her beauty.

"Have you waited too long, Tachibana-kun?" She can see his red nose, probably from waiting at her, but the boy shook his head, glancing at the girl, the red from his nose spreads to his cheeks.

"I just arrive, Asahi-chan," Kokoro is amuse by his answer, and decide to play a little games, she holds his hand, "Let's go then, Tachibana-kun"

As they arrived at the festival, Naoto can see his sister's boyfriend is having a date with his sister. With Hangaki and Kokoro in one scene, he suddenly remembered something, making a mental notes to tell Kokoro later.

"Naoto!" his sister called him, "Oh, you bring Asahi-chan here too!" As always Tachibana Hinata is very kind and cheerful girl, Kokoro smile and nod to the older Tachibana, "Good evening, Tachibana-san. I can see that you're having a date?"

Hinata nod, "Yeah, do the both of you wanna joined us?"
"Oh, no thankyou, Tachibana-san, we don't want to bother your date," Kokoro refuses politely.
"It's okay Asahi-chan, it will be some sort of double date after all!" At her exclamation, Naoto looks extremely embarassed, while Kokoro tilts her head, deciding to play dumb.

"Hina-chan!" the boyfriend called, "Oh, there is Nato-kun too! And..." It seems like he just notice the being near the Tachibana siblings, but his expression morphed fast, it soured a little, he looked glad, but then morphed to a panic expression.

"This is Asahi Kokoro-chan, Takemitchi-kun! She lives at the same apartment as us too, just several floor up there" Hinata, introduced, "And he is Hanagaki Takemitchi, my boyfriend, Asahi-chan"

"Oh, oh, yes, uh, nice to meet you, Asahi-chan" so they met around this age, Takemitchi thinks, he is confused if he need to avoid her because of the ultimatum future Kokoro gives, or if he need to talk to her since she is Naoto's friend.

He chooses to stay quiet for a while, afterall the future will be okay since he had stopped the Shiba killing each other, Toman will be safe, Hina too!

"Nice to meet you too, Hanagaki-san," Kokoro bow a little, glancing a the boy. Then face Hinata once more, "then we will take our leave, Tachibana-san. Enjoy your date"

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Words about Kisaki who got kicked out of Toman, unintentionally reached Kokoro's ear, she totally doesn't want to know, but her connection in the delinquent world had runned deep. She also heard that Kokonoi, and his bestfriend, and practically the whole on what's left on Black Dragon joined Toman under the shiny Hanagaki, she can pretty much understood why tho.

Suddenly a knock can be heard, and as Mika opened the door, she can see Tachibana Naoto.

"Sorry, I'm late," he apologize, they want to discuss the time thingy board today because Kokoro got a new book as her New Year present.

"It's okay, here, I''ve done reading it," She says as she passes the said book to the boy. He took it ad sitted beside the girl.

"Anyway, why are you late?" One thing Kokoro had known from meeting with the Tachibana everyday since Christmas is that the boy is always on time, unlike her. Then she realize it may sound a little offending to ask him about it since she is almost always late. "Nevermind that, sorry"

"It's fine. I just meet Hanagaki-san, he speak weird,"
She knew about that, must be the shiny Hanagaki who, in her opinion, either do drugs, or are from the future.

"Is he always speaking weird?" She decided to ask.
"Nah, just sometimes, the other time he can be pretty cold, even to my sister," he answer.

"That's..." she is trying to find the right word in order to not offended Naoto,
"Weird. Yeah, he is weird," Naoto offer to finished her word.

"What he said is not that weird tho, it's just so sudden," he shrugged, glancing at the girl who tilts her head, he had known it's a sign for him to continue

"He just asked me to protect my sister, that's all" the girl nodded.

"It's as if he wanted to go far away, no?" Kokoro said as she grabbed a paper and pen, and the board, as if signing that Hanagaki is a Time Traveler to Naoto.

"When you said it like that, it does sounds like it," Naoto ponders, and look at the theory board too, then he remembers that he wanted to tell the brunette girl something

"Oh yeah, Asahi-chan," the girl glance at him

"I just remembered, Hanagaki Takemitchi ever said that he is from twelve years in the future," there he dropped the information, he usually wouldn't wanted to do this because it will make him a weird nerdy boy, but she is interested in this kind of thing, so it should be okay, right...?

He glance to Kokoro, who looked that she just done processing it, and she opened her mouth, saying...

"Sorry?"

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To be continue~

A/N: This arc will be messy, and maybe boring because this focuses more on the pasts, and Kokoro's lore tbh

Anyway, a friendly reminder that this story will probably finished my way, don't complain pls