SIBLINGS' CONFLICT (Aomine x Riko Fanfic)

CHAPTER 03: MOVING IN

"I didn't know you were a fine masochist, Aoi," said Kagetora, taking a seat.

He hasn't come back home since yesterday cause of an old friend who kept on bothering him. She's drunk and had been drinking since their reunion. His hazel-brown eyes stared at her again. She just finished signing on a very important document and now she's grinning from ear to ear.

"I didn't even know. I just happened to develop such talent," she answered, brushing her dark blue hair.

"Funny, isn't it?"

"I don't know," he shrugged.

"Everytime I think about how pathetic I was. I would laugh hard in it in an instant," she said as she started to reminisce her past. The old times where everything was still fine.

"Yeah, but that was before."

"So, what are your plans now?" He asked.

"Dunno. Walk around, maybe?"

"And your son?"

"He's old enough. He could handle his self now. I think so."

She sighed, taking another bottle of alcohol in one go.

"Aoi," he muttered.

"What?" She shifted her eyes on him and gently wiped her lips.

"You're lying."

Her deep blue eyes widened at what he said. It's true. She wasn't saying what was inside her fragile heart. She's broken and she could still feel the pain dwelling inside her.

It hurts.

It hurts just thinking about what her husband did to her.

It's like he had a chainsaw on his grasp which he used to torn her apart.

Tears suddenly fell from the corners of her eyes as she started to form a forced a smile. She tried to hide her emotional suffering but no avail she was also consumed by her own heart ache.

"I ... I don't ... know ... I ... can't go back now ... I don't ... know ... what ... will happen next. To me ... and to my son, Daiki ... I don't ... know ... I ..." She sobbed, trembling.

Her tears were dripping into the thin paper in front of her. 'Twas the divorce papers she signed a while ago, given by her former partner.

"Moved to my place then," he said, surprising her.

"EH?" She paused from crying with her sapphire like orbs continuously blinking in flabbergast.

"If you don't have any place to go, then, come to my house. It's quite wide though It's just me and Riko living there. So, I think it wouldn't be a problem having you and your kid with us?"

Her saddened expression quickly turned into a livelier one upon hearing what he offered.

"Tora!" She suddenly embraced him, tightly.

"W ... what?"

"Thank you. Good thing you were there. You're a life savior."

"Nah, no biggie," he said humbly, breaking the hug.

"But is it really fine?" She asked, reassuring.

"I'm talking about what other people might say about it. I mean your daughter and the other people around you. Tora, you've been a single father for a long time while here I am, a separated woman. Would it not be suspicious? Living under the same roof?"

What she said made the former national player thought for a second. She was right at some point. Afterall he wasn't just going to adopt a dog along with her puppy. It is about helping an old friend in need. It's way more serious and complicated than that.