From Past To Future

Christmas Special Chapter

2 years after Shota was born.

"You can't make it too this year? Do you not know that we workers have the privilege to take day offs especially for this national holiday? How long are you going to be there anyway? It has been 8 days, it was two weeks last year... Do you even care??"

"Look Karma, you know I can't reject a business meeting in foreign country where big businessmen and businesswomen from all over the world attend. This is a perfect chance to expand my business. It is only unfortunate that they held it near Christmas and finished few days after New Year."

"That meeting is full of disgusting and greedy people. They keep on expanding days of the meeting every year for their own benefit thinking they could have more chances to achieve a nice cooperation with other big companies for their own benefit. Are you just going there every year until the meeting eventually reach one year period??"

"You are overexerting things Karma.. Anyway, I'll try to finish things here as quick as possible and return to Japan as soon as I can. For now just... Enjoy Christmas with Shota and your Class 3E classmates."

"That's what you said last year too and you arrived back home 5 days after New Year. Ha.. Whatever! Just go enjoy your stupid business trip and enjoy Christmas and New Year with your other "business friend". AND I'm pretty sure you forget what day is it on Christmas too. Bye."

"Wait Kar-" *Tut-tut*

"Dammit Karma!!... "day on Christmas too"... 25th December... Shit! It's his birthday!! How.. How could I forget his birthday..."

Gakushuu quickly dials a certain someone's number back but it's no more use, he's too late.

Karma throws his cellphone to the corner of the room and hears wailing coming from the other room a second after that.

Karma quickly gets up and goes to the room and find his son crying after being woken up from his peaceful sleep.

Karma carries the boy and shushing him back to sleep softly. "Looks like your Daddy won't be able to make it again this year..." Shota's crying gets louder and he started to struggle in Karma's embrace as if he understands what Karma meant.

"Don't worry, Mommy will go there and kick Daddy's ass if he won't be able make it next year too." Karma is a little embarrassed at calling himself 'mommy' but this is kind of serious problem already. He couldn't careless if Gakushuu only missed his birthday, but he too had missed Shota's first and second Christmas and New Year.

To think he was the one who always forced me to make time during Christmas eve just to spend time together with him until his birthday the next day which is also Christmas and then they would spend the rest of the year together until New Year. He is just impossible.

The next day

"Yo Karma, still no good news?"

"What do you think?"

"Well I don't know, that's why I'm asking, duhh."

"Shut up."

"Now now, so it's no good then?"

"Is he even serious?? Twice in a row??"

"I feel bad for Shota-kun.."

"All he cares is about that stupid business of him. What more can I say?"

"But to the point on neglecting his wife's birthday and two year old son's first and second Christmas and New Year is too much!!"

"What are you going to do if something like this happened again next year?"