AN: This chapter is about half the length as I want to make the other chapters but it's supposed to get you hooked to reading 😉 I haven't actually read this manga in its complete form for some time but hopefully I will have read it before the second chapter 😊 Thank you for the support.

I'm Here For You

Chapter One

Of course it would be raining, it wasn't a surprise that after a night like this it would be raining. Her mother had promised her that she would stay with her for always and that she would always have a home to come back to. She had believed in that promise since she was five years old because she hadn't had a reason to think otherwise. Still, the words given to a five-year-old could still be empty.

Yuzuyu didn't know why she had come here. She had done so without thinking and now she was sitting on the doorstep of a man's home who might find her an inconvenience to his happy life. He had married the girl that he had fallen for in high school and they had a daughter together. Yuki.

She shouldn't have come here but she wanted someone to talk to and she didn't want to talk to the police officers. This was someone who had helped her with her tears during the time when she was only a little kid. Hopefully he wouldn't have becoming disgusted with her as an adult. She pulled her knees to her chin and placed her forehead down on them. She heard the sound of laughter and nervously curled up tighter. She shouldn't have come here but the blood, the pain, everything was still so raw.

"Mommy!" a small girl said happily, "There's a woman here."

"Huh?" Kokoro asked before she stood facing the woman who was ten years her junior, she crouched down. "So there is," she said before reaching a hand out and as Yuzuyu lifted her head Kokoro smiled to her. "Hi," she smiled softly. "This is a surprise," she studied her further, something was wrong. "Are you okay? You remember me, right?"

"I do," Yuzuyu sniffed despite the fact that she hadn't seen Yuki since she was a baby and that was because she was doing some kind of club activity trip in this area. They wrote more letters to one another more than actually seen one another but they had sent photographs and she saw Kippei on the news in his job as a talk show host. He was really good at that because of his natural charisma.

"Let's go inside, I'll make us some tea," Kokoro told her gently before unlocking the door for them. "Yuki, this is your aunt Yuzuyu-chan, she's on your Dad's side," she said and Yuki bowed politely. "Come on, you can tell me what happened," she said although something felt very ominous here. She sighed as she held the door open and saw how shaky Yuzuyu was. "Do you need to go to the hospital, are you okay? Sit down, please make yourself at home, Kippei should be back soon."

Yuzuyu shivered and let her head drop, "My mother's dead," she told her and Kokoro froze.

She heard a sound from another room and she froze, looking up with wide eyes at Kokoro who laughed as she went to start the tea.

"Since Kippei is the oldest son, we wanted to live with his parents, your aunt and uncle. We made the house a little bit bigger and Reiko-chan doesn't live here any more but it's nice having a big family," she froze before looking down remembering her own pain when she thought about her mother. She looked at her. "Kippei didn't tell me that your mother had passed away. I'm really sorry about tha-"

"Kokoro, dear. Watch the house," a voice said in a hurry and Kokoro turned instantly to see Misako grabbing her keys and her bag. "There's been an emergency."

"O-Okay," Kokoro nodded before looking at her mother-in-law. Things started to click in her head and she grabbed Misako's arm gently. "Yuzuyu-chan is here," she whispered and Misako turned towards the pale teenage girl who was sitting at the table. This was starting to become apparent to her now and Kokoro adopted a much more serious expression. "Is this -"

"My sister is reported dead after a suicide attempt," Misako whispered and Kokoro looked at her absolutely horrified. She heard the keys in the lock and turned to see her husband with a panicked look on his face. She went towards him and felt his body shaking.

"Mom, it's Aunt Miyako," he said in a rushed voice, "I just heard. One of the people at the station just contacted me. I have to get down there." He said and Kokoro took his hand, she put a hand to his shoulder and gestured to the table where Yuzuyu was looking more and more like a ghost at every point. He walked over to her, unsure of how to approach her.

"Hi," he said with a pained expression on his face trying to make his movements slow and to not scare her. He pulled out a chair to sit opposite her. "Yuzu?" he asked and instantly tears were flowing freely from her eyes.

"Kippei-nii!" she exclaimed before hugging him close, her tears dampening his shirt and he held her close, pulling her to him. This felt so familiar to both of them. Kippei pressed his lips to the top of her head as she shivered, finally realizing the pain in her heart.

"You'll be okay," he whispered, "We'll make sure you're okay. I'm a lot smarter than I was when I was in high school and a lot more attu-"

Kokoro shook her head, telling him that he should just stop speaking and Kippei nodded. He tucked a few strands of Yuzuyu's hair behind her ear as he sat there with her. She buried her face into his shoulder as she felt her own world shatter, breaking down into thousands of pieces.

"Thank you, Kippei-nii," she whispered and he nodded. Hopefully he would be able to help her get through this time. He couldn't believe that she would just be left behind once again but he loved her, his family loved her. Hopefully she would be able to see the brightness in the world again.

End of Chapter One

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