"paalam. it means farewell." fujisaki mizuki had been weak for as long as she could remember. she lived in a huge house, had a lot of money, but she could never bring herself to be happy knowing that after she was born- her parents left her and never appeared again, leaving her with just butlers to care for her. her father's family didn't accept her, just because her mother was a filipina and not japanese. baji keisuke always liked chaos, he caused them wherever he went. people often called him unpredictable, because they never understood what went through his head until he put it into actions. nevertheless, he had friends that stayed by his side no matter how he caused trouble wherever he went- they were a bunch of troublemakers, after all. however, deep inside him, he longed for peace, too. he wanted for his mother to be proud of him. when these two different people crossed paths after she found him bruised in front of their gates as she was about to sneak out of her home, they found themselves being the comfort that they didn't know they longed for in so long. but fate was cruel in so many ways, wanting to cut off the string that tied the two to each other. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ paalam. content warning: violence.

"look ahead of you, kazutora. always look forward to the future, it'll be kinder to you," yae amaterasu had always been kind, at least she tried to be. around everyone else, she made it her mission to spread love to others. she had "a good deed a day" as her life motto because of how her mother would always tell her to be kind to everyone, it didn't cost a penny. despite all the bad things that happened to her life, she grasped on to her mother's last words before they got separated- be kind always, my child, the future will be kind to you, too. hanemiya kazutora didn't have a good life- he was arrested at a young age and lived miserably since then to the point he blamed everything to others in fear of what the future holds for him. he craved for love and affection, something that people seemed to not give him because of his dark past. when their paths crossed, kazutora couldn't believe his eyes- could someone as kind as amaterasu actually be paying attention to him and dismissing his past mistakes? slowly, although surely, he found himself melting into the kindness that the girl showed, making him look forward to the bright future that she would always talk about. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ to the future. content warning: violence.