NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8: Cuteness Overload!
Speaking of people reacting towards children after my little glow up with new clothes and a quick fash wash Meiko forced me to get I'm suddenly getting compliments on my apparent absolute cuteness.
"Your son is so cute! How old is he?" Another middle aged woman comes up the Hara asking the same question as the other six that came up earlier. "Thank you, he's 6 but we've got to get home it's past his bedtime."
Hara, who got tired of correcting the lady's just choses to rush past while giving an excuse. 'I didn't know I was that adorable? It hurts my pride as a strapping young man but the compliments are kinda nice.' The lady quickly pats my head and hands me a candy before waving as she walks away.
In response Hara just sighs and continues to lead me back to the 7/11. 'I just realized Hara doesn't know where I sleep, I mean its not hard to guess since I'm most definitely homeless but I take care of myself way better than a normal 6 year old would.'
Ending back at the 7/11 Hara does his usual routine with buying me a couple of snacks and the like before walking off. Waving bye to him I turn and start moving towards my alley while snacking on some chips Hara bought me.
'Hopefully I can use my newfound cuteness to attract some people, maybe I'll try begging again? But on another note I seriously need to get adopted or something, I'd be amazing if I could find a orphanage but I don't have a phone or anything and I can't read kanji for the directions anyway.'
Rummaging through my freshly bought coat pocket I pull out the coins I've collected so far. 'Thankfully my expenses are super low since I don't really pay for anything mainly due to Hara and Kenji. Even with that this is still pitiful...4200 Yen, it certainly isn't bad but its absolutely nothing. No to mention the fact that even if I had hundreds of thousands of Yen I still wouldn't be able to do anything with it, because I'm ya know six years fucking old!'
I slightly angerly ball up the chip bag and...toss it into a trash can I see inside of a random book store on the street. 'What I'm not a monster!....Why am I speaking like others can hear me? Am I going crazy already?'
Disregarding that, I continue moving until I get to the fabled alley. By this point I've cleaned it up to the best of my ability though its nowhere near clean. Setting my bag down I lay down on the slightly more padded cardboard that now has a totally not stolen pillow.
'The best thing about becoming a child again is using your adult experience to do whatever! I mean I'm not the best theif out their but I've dabbled plus this is the 1980's camera's are still blurry as hell and not in every store and shop possible.'
As I pat myself on the back for a heist well done I settle into my cardboard bed and pull my oversized coat over me once more snuggling in and getting some decent warmth. 'I can't believe I've been here for damn near 3 weeks. It's crazy! The first days were terrible and right now wasn't much better but at the very least I'm moving forward. I'm also glad that the realization that I won't ever see my family again hasn't fully sinked in yet, if this was a novel or something that would definitely be a depression arc on the way.'
As I lay the wind slightly picks up and tickles my face and in turn I pull up the coat higher and close into myself a little more. 'Oh, nevermind the depressions coming in right now...' Shaking my head I attempt to clear my mind as the persistent wind crashes into me.
'I miss my mom.'
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{Sorry its shorter than usual! I'll make it up to ya though, I've got a bonus chapter for over 10K views on the fic plus the total collections should be hitting over 100 soon. Other than that I'll see ya later and if all is well a double chapter will be released on the 16th!}