For a long time, he has been alone. No one was there beside him to comfort him when he is angry or crying. He endured it inside of himself and smiled like it was natural.

Then a certain incident happened and somehow, the memory of the future him years later comes inside the mind of his young self. The younger him doesn't know how or when it came but it just came, recalling what will happen in the future.

The memory burdened him with the future thus, making the younger him change.  He thought no one knows the change of atmosphere around him. After leaving the burden inside him, sooner or later, he realized, "Ahh, maybe the future me can't change it."

The redhead was glancing around the room he was in. "I'm in the hospital", he realized. The white and vast room didn't do him any good. He knows he won't like the smell of it but he endures it, again.

"Riku, where are you looking at?" His older twin brother said in a low voice. Concern thrown towards him is no longer being kept.

The redhead, Riku, whipped his head towards his brother. "I'm just looking around. It's been a long time since I came here," he said. His older brother raised an eyebrow.

"Tenn-nii, I'm fine."

It's weird when he said that. Why can't he differentiate future Tenn and his younger self? He realized that and changed the atmosphere in a slight second noticing that his older brother didn't realize it at all.

From the memory of the future him, it seemed like his brother will be adopted later on. This current timeline is not hard to figure out. He needed to change it so that the future will have no trouble

First, he needed to deal with his future manager's mother. She will eventually be roaming around the park to have a fresh change of air. When that time comes, he will change her view of what she is thinking. She needed to stay alive so that his manager will not have that horrible future.

oOo

Giving the ability to know the future is really convenient. People can change fate but will wonder what can happen again. No one knows what the future holds after all.

Even if some event has been changed, what effect could it bring to the future? This is the same as his ability. He knows what the future holds but to some extent only. If he changed the event, what differences will it make in the future?

But, this is the role he has chosen. He will not change it as long as he lived. The current him will do everything his future him cannot.

"Riku, where are you?"

Riku, the boy with red hair and dawn eyes, turned his head towards the voice. His brother, Tenn, sooner will change to Kujou Tenn, is looking for him around the place. Ah... he had made his brother worried.

Smiling, he said with a soft voice, "Tenn-nii, I'm here!" He waved his hand in slow motion. The wind blew and the leaf of the trees are blowing with it. The scene unfolded like in a cliché anime of romance.

Tenn widened his eyes. His brother really is an angel. "Riku, please don't wander off like that without me." He sighed.

"I'm sorry." Riku gave a very effective puppy-eyes look. "I never do that again." Tenn smiled. His brother will always be seen as an innocent creature. That is why he needed to protect him.

"Riku, I never said that I'm mad, didn't I?" Tenn gave a soft pat on Riku's head. "I just don't want you to be lost."

"But I've always in this hospital even in the future." Riku gave a pout and mumbles. Tenn even can't hear any of the mumbles as he fascinated by his brother's cute look.

"Riku, let's go back. You'll catch a cold if you stay here any longer. I will show you around when winter comes." Tenn gave a light promise. Riku smiled and nodded. Even if that will not surely come true, he will still agree.

After all, in this timeline, it's the last chance he could get to change the future. Surprisingly, how does he knew that this is the last chance?

「Because you've been trying to change it for the sixth time now.」

oOo

"Riku, pancakes or muffin?"

"Pancakes with strawberries please!" Riku retorted with a smile. His brother, Tenn, watched his every move in the living room.

Tenn can't help but smile happily. Winter comes and Riku is able to sleep in their house again. In this cold morning, their mother cooked something very special for both of them.

"Darling, what's with the question? Of course, Riku would like pancakes the most." Their father said with his newspaper on the table. "Right, Riku?"

"Right!" Can his energetic brother be any cuter than this? Tenn always watch his brother but today somehow, when they woke up, his brother has a different vibe.

This feeling is not decent nor terrible. If he was to describe it, he would say, "It's like our relationship will be favourable and horrible at the same time."

"Tenn-nii, what are you thinking?" His brother abruptly raised a question.

Tenn smiled and shrugged it off with a soft pat on his brother's head. The pout he was giving, gave Tenn determination that he really needed to protect his brother. The redhead raised an eyebrow to the smiling brother of his.

"No need to worry. Eat the pancakes first and I will say it later in the room."

A nod was given and he walked his way to his room with a pancake on hand. He is done with his food after all. Just need a bit filler in his stomach.

oOo

"What are you doing here?"

The deep voice of his brother surprised the redhead. Riku shoved everything inside the box and closed it tightly with a padlock, hiding away the keys.

"What are you hiding in that box?" Tenn raised an eyebrow and peeked behind Riku. The redhead fastened his work and hugged his older brother.

"Tenn-nii, you scared me," Riku whined with a soft wail. "And don't look inside my things like that."

Tenn raised an eyebrow once again. This weird atmosphere surrounding his brother is suffocating him. This time, the atmosphere is more intense than before. It's like the soul of another person is trying to blend in with his younger brother's body.

Again, how does he knew how it felt like when he can't even characterize the words he just declared. His brother became more like an adult than a youngster. True, he may look like a child but looking closer in those soft and gentle gazes... 

The pain and suffering in those eyes are not meant for kids.

"Riku..." Tenn called his brother with a wary voice.

"Tell me every pain you've endured."

oOo

"You're a monster."

Riku woke up with a loud shriek. He can't say anything nor see. His shriek is the only thing that managed to choke out and now his voice is gone. His vision is blackened by something but he is sure he didn't put any cloth on his eyes.

"Riku, are you okay?" Tenn asked when he heard the shriek of his brother. Remembering the shriek he accidentally made Riku glomps inside the blanket.

"Today is supposed to be the day we will play but you slept in the entire morning after breakfast." Complained the rosy-eyed.

"A..."  Riku tried to voice out, but only in the result of it is the whimper that sounds like an animal.

Riku sighed when his brother came closer. The overprotective side of him is embarrassing and it didn't come out well with the situation.

"Stupid voice, now you're disobeying me?!" Riku monologued inside his mindscape.

"Riku?"

"I'm sorry Tenn-nii, I wanted to say everything to you but I can't. I can't without my voice." Again, the monologue of the redhead.

"Ha... Never mind then. I will be in the living room if you needed anything, okay?"

Riku nodded and took a glimpse of his brother from the blanket. He is sure that his brother can't see him nodding.

"Your voice... Is terrible."

Riku cried in the blanket he's in. That memory is nothing to be pleased for. Why did it show up when he's having a good breakfast?

Getting off from the bed, he walked to the front door and tried to listen to the voice downstairs. His brother will make sure he has good meters away.

"Riku seems weird lately..." He heard his brother started talking.
He tried his best to hear more but he couldn't. His vision started to darken more and his hearing started to waver. He no longer feels anything except numb and loneliness.

The feeling is like when he floats in an unknown world, he opened his eyes. Darkness, it's the only thing he can describe the place.

"You only have this last chance, kid, and no more."

Ah, that voice of light. He realized the voice and greeted the owner with a smile. Maybe, maybe this is his last chance to change but he will act like all of it is a nothing but a dream. No one needed to know about this.

"You'll only burden yourself more. You fell sick a few days ago with this sudden memory, right?"

Riku shook his head as a sign it was nothing. He was glad he has the chance to change the future. Maybe the previous attempt was when he was a bit older and can accept the situation but now maybe he should make a difference even if he was in his earlier childhood.

"You never change, do you?"

Riku returned with a smile. True, he never changed for all these times.

He closed his eyes and he opened them again and found out he was in the same spot he was before. Behind the door of a room.

"A..." He tried to talk again and a total failure came in. "Ah... I need to change this moment. Or the manager's mother will have her downfall," he monologues in his head with a dark face.

oOo

Riku walked in the silent night with his mother by his side. They walked to the soba shop near their house. In this winter season, hot and spicy soba is the best.

"Welcome to the..." The owner of the shop didn't continue his greeting when he recognized the family.

A smile bloomed on his face. He walked to the older woman, Riku's mother. He greeted her and walked back to the back of the shop. A boy around Riku's age came out along with the man.

"This is my grandson. He has a bad personality but I'm sure he will be your good friend."

When Riku saw him, he knew that the future has changed more than he knows. He wondered what did he do for this to change.
But, what about the manager's mother? He should meet with that person by now.

"Gaku, Yaotome Gaku."

He blinked a few times and Riku knows just what's the best for this boy, it's to be with him. "A..."  Oh, he can't talk now. Maybe the side effect of something he doesn't realize he made.

When Gaku heard that one word, he knew the boy is mute. He walked back and returned with a pencil and notebook. He gave it to the redhead and smiled while dragging him to the nearest table without a customer.

Riku glanced between Gaku and the notebook a few times before nodding. He wrote on the notebook and gave it to the silver-headed boy.

"My name's Riku, Nanase Riku. Nice to meet you, Gaku."

Riku smiled when Gaku whipped his head towards him. He took back the note and wrote again. This time while he glanced around the place.

"What are doing here, Gaku?"

The silver head placed down the note and began talking. "I work part-time helping my grandpa," Riku remembered that Gaku is not good with talking about his past.

"Riku, you don't mind if we become friends, right?"

Riku nodded and took the note and wrote again. After some time he decided to roam his eyes around the outside of the shop through the glass and he saw the person he's been searching for.
He took Gaku's hand and ran outside of the shop. His mother didn't mind and just let them be. The owner also did the same and with a smile, he said, "That boy finally found a friend."

oOo

Gaku and Riku ran to the park when Riku saw the woman. He can't just walk towards her and say everything he wanted to say. He needed to make a scene where the woman will approach him first.

He knew. He has an idea and he needed to make it successful.

"Just you wait. This time, I will no longer make a mistake." Riku monologued.

>This chapter was edited by ArionInazuma08