• Family restoration

    My name is Takashi I live in Tokyo by myself since my dad works as a designer abroad and my mother and bigger brother had passed away in an accident 5 years ago. I live off with the money that my dad sends me every week.
    It was late at night when my dad had called so I picked up the phone in a bad mood since I was tired after the basketball match at school, he said in an excited mood; I’ve never heard him this happy so I swallowed the bad mood.
    “Takashi, did I wake you? I’m sorry but I wanted you to be the first to know that I’m re-marrying…”
    A shock went through my whole body and I woke up right away, he was remarrying?! I went nuts and said,
    “What? Are you out of your mind? What about what you said the last time you came back when I asked if you were planning to re-marry? You told me to rest assured that you won’t re-marry!”
    “Takashi, that’s when I still couldn’t forget…” He murmured.
    I mumbled some weird excuse but my dad said,
    “Don’t worry Takashi this woman is a nice person her name is Aoi but you won’t get to meet her until next month but she has a son who will arrive tomorrow he’s a bit older than you, I gave him my key to the house and he will go to the same school as you so get along well before we come home.”
    He hung up. I sat on my bed petrified. This was too sudden, in one night I found out that my dad is marrying a person I’ve never met before and from tomorrow I’ll be living with a person I never even met…
    The next day while trying to stop thinking about what my dad said I walked to school.
    On the way I felt something approaching creepily I had a quick thought of who it might be and I turned around,
    “Oh it’s you…” I said
    It was my best friend Katsuragi also known as otamegane (“ota” is from otaku an “megane” means glasses in Japanese) because he was a serious otaku with glasses so at school they call him that.
    “Hey have you tried out the new eroge that came out?”
    “Sorry Katsutagi, I’m not an otaku like you so I don’t waste money on such stuff.”
    He had nothing to say so we walked to school together while talking about school, I didn’t tell him about my dad re-marrying though.
    In the middle of the second period I was called to the principal’s office, a call came from my dad so that I was dismissed from school today; it was because my new brother was coming.
    When I came back to class to pack my stuff I was stared at by my classmates with envious eyes.
    When I came back home I cleaned the house and I cooked some stuff I was good at.
    When I was done it was 11o’clock I waited outside, I saw a taxi come, and I was sure it was him since it was one of those taxis at airports. I was curious what kind of person he might be.
    As soon as the taxi stopped the door burst open as a tall delinquent with blond hair stepped out, I thought I was mistaken so I tried going back in but he called out,
    “Are you Taka… Tajashi?”
    “Takashi.” I corrected.
    “Whatever just come here and help me with the luggage.” He said.
    I went over and help him; he paid the taxi driver and came in.
    “And you are?”
    “Kagawa.”
    “Are you hungry?”
    “Yeah what are we having?” he blurted.
    “Spaghetti Bolognese”
    “s**t, just order a burger for me.”
    “But it took me three hours to do this…”
    He stood up glared at me and grabbed my collar and shouted,
    “Have you ever thought that I might not like spaghetti?!”
    Trembling, I took out my phone and ordered a burger set. I never thought it would be like this, I’m living with a delinquent who only shouts.
    “Wha.. what class are you going to be in?”
    “First year junior high.”
    “What? That’s the same year as me that can’t be you’re supposed to be older right?”
    He once again grabbed my collar and blurted,
    “So what? Got a problem with that?”
    “Uh… no…”
    Okay I can not live with this guy who I can’t even talk to,
    so i payed the burger and went up.
    For the most of the day he watched television until he got bored and came to my room and asked,
    “Kid, you got any consoles I can play?”
    Without any questions I just let him play on the Nintendo wii, he started off with a normal wii sports game he kept playing boxing and everytime he lost, he’d shout “********!” and punch the wall. It was getting scary so I just went to my dad’s room and slept.
    The next day I found him still playing on the wii in my room, so I said,
    “Hey, get ready for school.” I went down to prepare our lunchboxes.
    On the way to our school he’d talk about weird stuff while I was comparing him to my older brother, Mitsuhachi, he was also tall but completely different from Kagawa, he was very gentle
    and kind he’d always appreciate my cooking and would help me clean the house, he would also tell me everyday how bad it is to swear, he was also the top student of his class. Well I can’t complain now since if I did I would get beat up by Kagawa.
    Katsuragi couldn’t even tell that it was me the first time so instead he passed by until he saw my face and he came up to me to ask,
    “Who’s that big weird guy next to you?”
    “Oh right I forgot tell you otamegane my pops re-married and I have him as my new brother and don’t bother talking to him he’d just beat you up.”
    Kagawa noticed Katsuragi and asked,
    “Is he your friend Takashi?”
    “Yeah, we’re in the same class.” I replied.
    “It’s... nice to me… meet you.” Katsuragi mumbled.
    “What the ******** don’t talk to me you weirdo I don’t want to be seen talking to you so ******** off! Takashi don’t talk to him anymore and don’t let him in my sight, if I you let him get near me I’ll beat the s**t out of you two!”
    Scared, I keep quiet and tell Katsuragi to go to school first.