[ Seven years ago. ]

The hospital was chaotic for the past month. The amount of issues that this one particular little girl had caused was beyond belief. The young little girl that screamed bloody murder whenever anyone would go near her as long as they were not the couple that had planned to adopt her.

Park Mio was kept in a special room, given her very strange behavior, she needed to be watched at all times. When she was left alone, the doctors in the office would observe her through the camera systems. She'd merely hold onto that gifted plush and stare into the void, as if the world was slowing down to a stop.

The nurses has to be as gentle as possible, they had to take a ridiculous amount to calm down the young girl. She needed her medication, she needed to take blood tests, she needed to eat, she needed to be properly taken care of.

Her mother never came by, but her god mother had. Hyunah came by a few times, but not as many times as Hayate and Jin had. Every single time they went to the desk, they were refused entry. Nearly every time, Jin threw a fit. The kid was furious with not only the doctors and nurses, but Park's mother and the fact that all of this had to happen.

Hayate and Jin were both fourteen years old, and the two had grown up together since birth. This was because Sayuri and Hyunah were such close friends in childhood - the two were like twins. Though, Hyunah had the brains to know that children required responsibility. Both of the teen's father's were deadbeats. Sure they were rich, but they left the women immediately after their pregnancies.

Hayate's father came back though, but just once. . . That's when everything was starting to look up. Not because his father cared to come back - in fact the man had absolutely no interest in his son at all - but because Hayate had a little sister now. He vividly remembered the day she was born, he eagerly waited to be let inside the room. Curiously, as any eight year old would be, he'd reached a hand out to her - and she held onto it. She had soft brown eyes, unlike his sharp crimson hues. She was so much more precious than he was. . .

Again, the nurse had refused to let Hayate and Jin inside the room. Hyunah showed up about an hour later, and they were finally let in on Sayuri's decision to put Mio up for adoption.

To get rid of her.

It wasn't until Sayuri showed up to sign some documents that Jin let out all of his picked up aggression. This woman single handily built a whole family, and destroyed it all by herself.

"What the hell is wrong with you!? You gave up on your son and now your daughter!? What was the point of having kids in the first place!?" The raven immediately snapped as Sayuri glared holes into him.

"Jin, stop it, you're in a hospital." His mother reluctantly grabbed his shoulder, but he shifted away from her grip.

"Say something you idiot!" Jin desperately grabbed the shoulders of his brother, his closest friend, his partner in crime - shaking him frantically. Hayate hadn't responded in the slightest, he hadn't budged either. "She took everything from us, she took everything and you're letting her take the last of it!"

"You couldn't be more stupid." Sayuri hissed, "she doesn't remember my face, and she sure as hell doesn't remember yours. That's not even your sister, so give it a rest. You have nothing to do with thi-"

"Why don't you go to hell?" His tone dipped in poison, and his green eyes burned with acid. "We had no damn father, and basically no mother either. All that we had left was Mio - all that we had left was trying to give her the life that we couldn't have." With every fiber in his being, Jin loathed Sayuri. He hated everything about her, he hated the thought of her, he hated the sight of her. "You almost killed her-!"

"It's already done, Jin! Let's just go!" Frustrated, Hyunah grabbed his wrist. The raven' eyes clouded with tears, but he'd rather die than cry and let anyone have power over him like that again.

"Let me see her!" Again, he pulled away. He was being so stubborn, even Hayate was getting annoyed with him. Jin had always been the emotional one out of the two. He cried more when they were kids, he was happier when with the little girl, and he was angrier with their mothers.

"Fine! Go see her, if that's what you want so bad." Sayuri inwardly groaned, running her fingers through her blonde hair.

Both Jin and Hayate came to halt before passing one another a quick glance. They were given permission from the nurse afterwards, and scampered down the hallway. The room marked with her name, where she'd been for a month all by herself.

After heaving a small breath, Jin lifted a hand to open the door - but it'd already opened from the inside. A woman was exiting, she was wearing a long pale yellow dress, along with a matching neckerchief. Her dark hair was parted in the middle, cleanly framing her face and brown eyes.

"A-are we allowed inside?" Jin blinked his green eyes in confusion.

". . . You must be her older brothers." Kim breathed out, frowning to herself.

"Are you adopting her?" Hayate asked in a rather unsettling, dull tone.

"Yes." Kim responded bluntly. "I honestly don't want to let you anywhere near this room, you and your mothers have done enough but. . . Five seconds and that's it."

As much as Jin wanted to snap at her, it'd be a very bad move. Five seconds was a stupid little amount of time, but it'll have to make do. Both teens nodded, before slowly entering the room.

Kim expected Mio to immediately lose her nerve and start sobbing. The white haired girl had lifted her head, her brown eyes fixated on both boys by the entrance. They felt their heart drop.

"Mio. . ." Jin felt utterly helpless. His gritting teeth and shaking hands hadn't helped either. "I'm so sorry."

"Out, now." Kim's sudden command was wordlessly obeyed. While the two would love to stay longer, and maybe trying to test her memory again - Jin would probably end up as a sobbing mess. Boys cry, what can you do about it. The kid was a wreck.

The adoption went through, and all information was sealed. Kim made sure that no one from Mio's original family knew a single thing about where she went. They'd moved to the small Inazuma Town, a place not exactly desolate, but definitely out of the big city. It'd be near impossible for anyone to find her there.

[ Present time. ]

"Chief! We have a new patient report, could you come look it over?"

"Sure thing!" The raven tossed his pen on the table littered with documents to be later organized and put away. He quickly stood up from the rolling chair and rushed out of the office before scampering back in for his crisp, clean white coat.

"Doctor Yeong, it was like magic. Your patient from last week had such a low chance of survival. But they've made a full recovery!" One of the nurses pulled him aside to her desk. Jin only rubbed at his cheek with a finger, nervously.

"Well don't act like he did it alone." Another one of the doctors poked her head in. She could sort of be considered Jin's assistant of one year now. A brown-skinned girl called Devi with short pink hair, her bangs were clipped at the top of her head. "I saw him ask god for help before the surgery."

"Yeah, he did show up by the way." Jin gave her jazz hands. "Right here."

"Oh! That reminds me!" The nurse piped up, swatting Jin's arm for no particular reason. He really got bullied by all the women around here. "Doctor, you used to play soccer right?"

"Huh?" He flipped through a few leaflets of paper, "oh. Yeah, a little."

"My son is so excited about the tournament thing. All the kids are talking about it!"

". . . The Football Frontier?" Jin lifted a brow.

"Kids? This guy is like- thirty." Devi scoffed.

"I'm twenty-six, and just saying, thirty isn't considered old." He shot back.

"You should watch it, maybe you'll get along with the younger patients more." The nurse continued pestering him.

"I'll see if I get the time." Jin flashed her a quick smile before taking his leave, he had work to do after all. In all honesty, he didn't want to think about soccer, much less watch the frontier.