Seton Academy: Journey Through A Decade

Chapter 9: The Truth

Last time Makoto was able to save Yena and Chloe from Hakaru Gensai and his Advent Beasts! Although Makoto ended up putting to much strain on his body after getting defeated by Hakaru before hand. Now Makoto has to tell Jin the truth about his Uncle!

Makoto had been confined to the school infirmary for the past two weeks after suffering fractured ribs and severe internal bleeding from his fight with Abyss. Although he wasn't lonely, after all members of the cooking club had been visiting him almost everyday. Strangely enough Ferryl also stopped in to check in on him at least once everyday, which surprised Makoto. "I'm sure she's just grateful for me protecting her pack from the worms." Makoto thought as he was finally getting ready to leave the infirmary.
                Before Makoto could leave the infirmary, Ranka burst through the infirmary door with tears in her eyes. "Ranka? What's wrong?" Makoto asked in worry as he saw the usually happy wolf girl was suddenly a crying mess. "J-Jin said he hates us! Just because we're not human!" Ranka whimpered as she tried to wipe her tears away. Makoto sighed in frustration as he knew that this would most likely happen, he just wished it didn't happen this soon. Makoto patted Ranka on the top of her head before smiling at the wolf girl in order to reassure her.
"Ranka, I don't think Jin meant it when he said he hated you or anyone else in this school." Makoto said as began to explain to Ranka what happened to Jin when he was younger that caused his dislike of non-humans. After explaining it to the wolf girl, Makoto waited for her to respond. Ranka had her head down as her hair cast a shadow over her eyes. "Ranka? Are you okay?" Makoto asked as he started to worry about the wolf girl. "I-I-I was that little girl Jin protected." Ranka whimpered out as her tears started again.
Makoto was shocked that Ranka was the girl who Jin protected at the daycare from those bullies. "It's my fault Jin doesn't like any of us! Why couldn't I stand up to those bullies myself?!" Ranka cried as the tears came back in full force. Makoto crouched down and placed his hands on Ranka's shoulders in order to get her attention. "Ranka, Jin doesn't hate any of you! He's just afraid to trust non-humans after what happened all those years ago." Makoto started as he as he noticed he had gotten Ranka's attention.
             "Ranka if you want Jin to open up and accept all of you, prove him wrong! Show him that he can trust all of you, can you do that?" Makoto said as a smile spread across Ranka's face as she finally returned to her normal self. "Yeah! I'll show Jin that he has nothing to be afraid of!" Ranka cheered as she ran off down the hallway. Makoto let out a small laugh as he watched the wolf girl go before taking his own leave. Makoto started making his way towards Jin's room with a small black metal case in his hand.
            Jin sat across from Makoto who had a metal case on his lap. "So are you finally going to explain what the hell that Abyss guy knows about my Uncle Kaito?" Jin asked in a slightly frustrated tone as he waited for Makoto to answer him. "Jin your Uncle Kaito wasn't an explorer, he was Kamen Rider Diend, the Treasure Sniper." Makoto said as Jin stared at him in complete shock. "W-What? Why wouldn't he tell mom and me?" Jin asked in complete confusion at his Uncle hiding this from him and his mom.
               "Jin, your Uncle collected treasures from all the other Kamen Rider Worlds. But his most important treasure was you and your mother, if something bad happened to either of you, he would never forgive himself." Makoto said as Jin started to feel the waterworks coming, but he refused to let them fall. Makoto could tell that Jin was hurting, who wouldn't after finding out their Uncle was murdered by some psychopath in shark armor. "Jin, your Uncle wanted you to have this, it was his dying wish." Makoto said as he handed the case to Jin, who looked at him in confusion.
"What's in this case?" Jin asked as he looked at the case with confusion evident on his face. "It's your Uncle's second most important treasure, the Diendriver along with his cards." Makoto explained as Jin once again gave him a look of complete shock. "What? I can't be a Kamen Rider! I'm not you Makoto!" Jin shouted in both panic and fear as he tried to hand it back to Makoto, but the Photographer stopped him before he could. "Wether you use it or not is up to you Jin, but please keep it, your wanted you to have it." Makoto said as he tried to calm Jin down from his panicked state.
Before Jin could say another word, screams from outside the school interrupted them. "Well duty calls Jin, think things over okay?" Makoto said as he got up from his chair and made his way to the door. "What, but you're still recovering!" Jin said as he tried to stop Makoto. "Bad guys don't wait for the hero to recover Jin, I have a job to do." Makoto said before leaving the dorm room. Jin sat by himself in silence. Jin was trying to wrap his head around the information he was just given by Makoto.
           "Jin, you don't have to talk, just please listen." Jin heard from behind his door as he turned to look at his door. "I know you don't like people who aren't human, but I'm gonna show you that you can trust us! Just you watch Jin, I'm gonna price you wrong!" Ranka said before he heard the wolf girl run off down the hallway. Jin finally let his tears fall onto the case that held his Uncle's Driver, or his Driver now. Jin sat there contemplating what to do after that bombshell was dropped on him by Makoto.
            Makoto ran to where everyone was away from only to find two clones of past evil Kamen Riders.