The Golden Necklace...

                                    

                                          
A/N: Sorry for the long wait... here's the new chapter!!!
                          
BOLD- ENGLISH/SHOUT
                          
Normal- Japanese
                          
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Ryoma's POV:
                          
I was actually surprised after I learned that Doctor Jiroh is my grandfather. Is this a joke or a prank they put up on me for me to feel disappointed and hurt all of a sudden again? I sat up on a bench outside the hospital and waited for Sakuno to approach me. I know that she had followed me here. After a few minutes, I looked around and found that I am at the hospital's garden. I stood up and carried my things after I felt someone's presence. When I looked at my back, I found Sakuno with Doctor Jiroh with her.
                          
"Why are you here?" I asked as I grab Sakuno's hand. "I don't understand what my father have told me. How can you be my grandfather? Oyaji never spoke about his old days except when okaasan showed me his pictures when he was still a pro tennis player. In those old albums, you were never there. Most of all, if he's angry with you, why did he accept you all of a sudden?"
                          
'Ryoma-kun, you well knew me as your doctor. it's my fault why you never knew me. I tried making your father as my heir even I know he doesn't want to but he wants you to be the heir of Echizen Brothers Corporation. I am its CEO. I chose you as the heir of it. If you did closely listen to him, you wouldn't be surprised to learn it now. Your family isn't a normal family like many of your friends. You are richer than Atobe Keigo. If you would lend me your ears, you will understand your father. Your father pursued his tennis career than to replace me as CEO and when you have been sick, he temporarily replaced me. I am very proud of him."
                          
"If you don't want to be its CEO anymore, why don't you tell Oyaji to keep his position? He's a retired tennis player, right? I still don't understand what's happening. It's too much for me. Can't you wait until I can digest everything here? Most of all, I am still in shock! Stop telling me stupid offers! I am still a high school student!"
                          
Oyaji suddenly appeared in front of me and carried me by my collar, "OMAE!!!! KARE WA BOKU NO OYAJI DESU!!! Why, you don't understand a thing!" [He's my father.]
                          
"WAKATTERU!!! URUSAI, OYAJI!" I shouted back. When I said that, he let go of me. "Demo... I can't accept him no matter what. I don't care if he's the doctor who took care of me for this past month! If there's a bond between us, he's just my doctor! Can't you just leave me alone?"
                          
I just felt water spilling out of my eyes. I hate what I'm feeling right now. How could they hide the truth away from me for fifteen years? I just don't hate my grandfather. I also hate my own father. He ran away from his fate to pursue his dreams... I know that isn't so bad.... but... why am I so hurt?
                          
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Sakuno's POV:
                          
I watch Ryoma so hurt all of a sudden and when I saw him crying, I quickly hugged him. I hate seeing him this way. Well, he has to understand that he's an heir, the future CEO of a prestigious corporation that holds a percentage of Japan's Economy.Well... there's this saying that change is the only permanent in this world. Ryoma's world and my world is drastically changing ever since the tsunami struck us. He only kept hugging me but when he felt that his grandfather's trying to hold him, he grabbed my hands and told me, "Let's go and leave this place. I want to go home and rest."
                          
The two adults only watched us leave and I know that Nanjiroh-san tried to follow his son and follow us.
                          
After a good distance away from the hospital, I only stared at Ryoma who's leading the way and walking farther from me. Since we left the hospital, he's been really very cold to me. He's never like this to me when we started our relationship. He's different when I'm around. He becomes very talkative with me. That's the normal him but now, I'm also becoming a victim of his silence, his arrogant and cocky attitude.