YEAR: 2011
Kosuke turned around to see what made the sound and when he did, there stood Izumi
He looked shocked but also excited at the sight of the weapons
However he thought that they were just toys and wanted to play with them, however Kosuke knew they were real just by the feel of them so he had to hold Izumi back from grabbing one
“Stop Izumi!”
Kosuke said as quietly as he could
“These are my parent’s things, don’t touch them.”
Izumi looked like he was going to cry at Kosuke’s sudden snap but was calmed down before it was about to happen.
After Izumi had completely calmed down he helped Kosuke put everything back but snuck out a small knife and quietly headed back to bed.
“Kosuke, why do your parents have all that stuff?”
Izumi asked Kosuke while pulling up his blanket,
“Don’t worry about it Izumi,”
Kosuke replied as calmly as he could,
“They just like to collect toy guns.”
Kosuke hoped that Izumi would fall for it and after a silence that seemed like forever, it had turned out that Izumi had already fallen back to sleep.
. . .
As the sun rose, Kosuke and Izumi woke up at the same time, they had breakfast that Kosuke’s mother Eve prepared for them, waved goodbye to Kosuke’s dad Kaito as he went to work and everything was normal
It was as if Kosuke had never found that hidden stash of weapons that his parents had hidden beneath the floorboards.
“So what do you boys want to do today?”
Eve asked Kosuke and Izumi
“We wanna go on an adventure!”
Izumi exclaimed
“An adventure?”
Kosuke looked puzzled but went along with it
“Yeah, an adventure! It’s adventure time!”
Eve chuckled a little and proceeded to pat their heads
“Sorry boys no adventure today, Mummy is a bit tired. How about we play an inside game?”
At first Izumi looked disappointed but then a bright idea popped into his head,
“How about a treasure hunt?”
Izumi suggested it with a big smile on his face.
“That sounds like fun Izumi, what should we use as treasure? Do you have an idea Kosuke?”
Kosuke thought about it for a moment…
“How about we write prizes on paper and when you win you get what’s on the paper?”
Izumi seemed to like the idea as he was nodding his head quite a bit at Kosuke’s suggestion.
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Eve clapped her hands to get their attention.
“Okay, since it seems like Kosuke’s idea is the winner, how about we all get 1 paper each and write three things on it that we want?”
Both of the boys thought it was fair so Eve handed both of them a piece of paper and had to help them a bit with spelling
Kosuke is only four years old so he had a little trouble remembering some hiragana characters and Izumi is only three years old and had some messy handwriting as well as misspelling some of his words.
Eve suddenly had a shock of realisation
“Hey boys, who’s going to hide our ‘treasures’ if all three of us are going to play?”
Izumi and Kosuke smacked themselves on the forehead after realising the mistake
“Don’t worry you two, I’ll hide them and watch you play.”
Eve said so in a reassuring tone so Kosuke and Izumi wouldn’t feel bad about her not being able to play because they didn’t consider the problem that had just happened,
Eve took all nine of the paper ‘treasures’ and hid them but made sure both the boys could still find them without too much struggle.
The boys managed to take two whole hours to collect all of the ‘treasures’ that had been scattered around the house, and the winner managed to get seven out of the nine hidden ‘treasures’.
“Wow Izumi! How did you manage to get so many?”
Eve was quite shocked that Izumi managed to collect so many of the ‘treasures’, she then turned towards Kosuke who was pouting and looked frustrated that he only got two ‘treasures’
He was even tearing up a little due to his frustration but Eve managed to calm him down by placing her hand on his head
“Don’t be so upset Kosuke, just because Izumi got more ‘treasures’ doesn’t mean that he got the best ones,”
Eve brings Izumi over
“Now why don’t both of you show me what both of you got?”
Kosuke and Izumi handed over their ‘treasures’ to Eve.
“Let’s take a look at the ‘treasures’ that little Izumi got first.”
“Okay!”
Izumi said with pride in his voice
“Here you go.”
He handed over all seven of his ‘treasures’ to Eve.
“Alright let’s take a look at what you got first Izumi,”
Eve read through them from top to bottom of the little stack
“1. Ice cream, 2. Trip to the city, 3. Go on the ferry, 4. Make a dessert, 5. Go for a family snorkel, 6. Staying up late, 7. Extra TV time. I wonder which one you’ll want to do first Izumi”
Eve gave Izumi a little smile.
“Now let's take a look at what you got Kosuke,”
Kosuke handed over his two ‘treasurers’ to his mother
“Let’s see here, story time aaaand stargazing, see Kosuke just because you don’t get a lot doesn’t mean that they won’t be good, quality over quantity ok?”
She patted him reassuringly on the head as Kosuke nodded in understanding.
“Now who wants to use their ‘treasure’ first or do both of you want to save them for later?”
“I wanna use mine later.”
Kosuke took the slips of paper back from his mother and went to the kitchen to eat a snack
Izumi looked up at Eve with a wide smile on his face
“Ice cream please!”
Eve chuckled as she guided Izumi to the kitchen and opened the freezer for him
Izumi picked out a sweet potato flavoured Taiyaki(鯛焼き) and started eating it quite happily.
Kosuke, Eve and Izumi all sat down and watched some fun movies until Kaito arrived back home except something was off,
Despite his best efforts to hide it, he was limping on his right leg
“Hey boys, did you have fun today?”
Kaito asked with a small but kind smile on his face
“Yeah! We played a treasure hunt game and I got the most treasures!”
Izumi held up his six remaining ‘treasures’ with the same look of pride that he had when he showed Eve the amount of ‘treasures’ he had obtained.
“That’s quite impressive Izumi,”
Kaito hung up his jacket and hat on a hook
“How many did you get Kosuke?”
Kosuke was a bit hesitant in giving an answer because he was a little embarrassed at the small number
“I got 2”
He buried himself in the couch after showing his dad the two ‘treasures’ he got.
“Izumi can I see what are some of the prizes you won?”
“Ok!”
He handed over his ‘treasures’ over to Kaito
“Let’s see here,”
Kaito put on a pair of reading glasses
“A city trip, going on a ferry ride, making a dessert, family snorkelling, staying up late and extra time to watch TV. Well this seems like a good list of prizes that you’ve got Izumi.”
He pinches Izumi’s cheek
“Good thing that the city trip and ferry ride can be done at the same time. Alright enjoy your movies boys, but Eve I need to talk to you.”
Kaito brought Eve upstairs while Izumi and Kosuke sat on the couch watching a kids movie.
Izumi turned to Kosuke
“What do you think they’re talking about?”
“I don’t know Izumi, it’s probably just some grown up stuff.”
“Do you wanna go see what it is?”
Izumi had a cheeky grin on his face
“What if we get caught though?”
Kosuke said with concern
“We won’t be in trouble if we don’t get caught.”
Kosuke thought about it for a little bit before eventually giving in
“Okay fine, but we have to be super sneaky okay?”
“Okay!”
“Shh! I said it was super sneaky.”
Izumi quickly covered his mouth with both of his hands
“Sorry Kosuke.”
“It’s fine, and now we will be super ninja sneaky.”
Both of the boys snuck up the stairs and headed to the master bedroom.
The door was slightly ajar so Kosuke and Izumi peeked through the gap.