Find Me in 1000 Years

Birthday Anniversary

"I came home" Ken said as he entered the orphanage.

Even though it was late, he saw the lights were still on from outside but there was no one inside. He and Yumi, his best friend, just got home from work. They look at each other.

"Is there anything naughty anymore and the kids are gathered in the bedroom ward?"

Yumi shrugged her shoulders. They then went upstairs by climbing the stairs. In the first room that opened, there was no one there. And then in the next room. When Yumi was about to open the third room, Ken forbade her.

"Why?"

"That's the room down there that's how the lights go?" Ken pointed towards the end of the corridor. Sure enough, in the direction of the young man's index finger, at the very end of the room in the corridor, the lights were turned off. What's up there? Why are the lights off or are the lights off?

The two who were curious, stepped foot to the place with curiosity. Ken opened the door slowly. Dark inside and quiet. When he tried to turn on the lamp, it turned out that someone was trying to turn it on first.

Pop!

Small, colorful pieces of paper flew through the air. The orphanage children one-on-one came out from the hiding place singing the song 'happy birthday to you' came.

Ken was really surprised and pleased. He turned towards Yumi who was smiling broadly at him. "You know this plan already, and pretend you don't?"

Still with a big smile the girl nodded.

The head of the parlour carried a chocolate cake in hand. The little boys came up to Ken wanting to hug him.

"Sir Ken!"

"Sir Ken!"

They scramble together and some even ask to be carried. Who else if not little Mimi.

"Oh, here's Mimi, honey." Ken's carrying. The little girl laughed while holding on to the collar of the young man's shirt as Ken carried her. He has always been Ken's favorite brother because of the youngest child in the orphanage.

The grown-up children came to Ken later. They are between the ages of 10 to 15. The caretakers were also present there so that the room felt crowded, even though the room contained eight beds and it was still quite spacious.

"Happy birthday, huh?" The head of the Panti poked the birthday cake with a twenty figure candle that had been lit. Ken blew.

"Ye ..." cheers the children.

"Now that you're 20 years old, Ken Tachibana, you're all grown up."

"Thank you, sir," the young man told the Head of the House.

"Now we try the cake, who wants it?"

"I!"

"I! "

"I!"

The kids want to eat. As usual, they all get a thin slice of cake or a small piece to eat together, and as usual if there is a birthday, Ken never asked for a part. So do the other adults for the children to have their share.

After handing out the cake, the Head Panti looked at Ken who was feeding Mimi and chatted with Yumi and the other children.

He was worried, but he had made up his mind to tell Ken this secret. A secret he had long guarded because he knew the time had come. As the prophecy said, it all started right when the young man turned 20.

As it was getting late at night and the celebration was over, one by one the children came out of the room. All that remains are the inhabitants of that room.

"Ken, can we talk in the office for a while," Pinta Pak Panti Head stepped ahead.

"Mmd? Uh, yeah." Ken knows, if the Head of the House asks to meet in his small office, it means there is something important that the man wants to convey. The young man finally followed without much talking.

They then entered a small room that had become the Panti's office on the first floor. The two sat face to face on that slightly shabby looking sofa chair.

"You actually have parents, Ken," the initial sentence of the Chief of the House surprised the young man.

Ken leaned his body forward. "D-I have parents?" stuttered. He thought for a long time but found no answer. "W-was I banished? Am I a fucking carrier?" it made her face look disappointed.

"Quite the contrary. There's a fate you have to live, so you need to hide."

The young man looked up. "Me?" He pointed at himself.

"Yes." Yeah."

If it wasn't for the unlucky carrier, then what? Is there any reasonable reason as a parent to leave a child, if not for a disaster bearer? Is it because they've gone crazy, or don't have the money to abandon them in an orphanage?

"I'm your father, Ken."

"What?" This fact confused the young man. He looked at the man in front. The man was not too old, about 45 years old with all his hair still black, but as far as Ken knew, the man in front of him was not a real Japanese. He is of Japanese American descent, while he looks very Asian.

Indeed genes do not always make offspring look the same, depending on the strong genes in each person who has blood offspring, but Ken still doubts the speech of the Chief Panti.

But if you look deeper, the lines of their faces do look the same even though Pak Head Panti looks more European than Ken.

"My a-yah-father?" Ken spelling making sure.

"Yes, I'm your father."

Why is he pretending to be someone else? Wh-wh-what for? Ken narrowed his eyes. "Then why all this time ...."

"Dad's told you, there's a destiny you have to live." The man smiled. His face is youthful because it looks like 35 years old, while Ken looks like a high school boy.

"Then my mother? Is he still alive?" The young man was still in a confused position.

"That's what I wanted to tell you. This might sound hard to you."

"meaning?" ask the young man quickly.

"Your mother is a goddess."

"What?" This time Ken had a hard time trusting his sense of hearing.

"Yes, she's a goddess."

"I mean Father, I'm a descendant of the Sun Goddess, right?" Ken still feels strange calling the Chief of the Panti with the name 'father'.

In Japan, the sun goddess is a goddess that is highly revered because according to myth, the goddess is the originator of the islands in Japan. The king and queen of Japan who are now enthroned are the offspring of the sun goddess.

"No, she's the goddess of Indonesia. Name Sri. I met him while on vacation in Bali."

"Bali is in Indonesia?" Ken was shocked to hear this statement.

Yes, Bali is very famous all over the world but not many know that the island is part of Indonesia.

"So my mother was a goddess?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"From Bali?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"And my father was a man?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"A Japanese-American crossbreeder?"

"Mmh, yes."

"And my brother is a wolf?"

The head of the Panti frowned. "Wolf?"

Instantly, Ken laughed while holding his stomach because of stomach pain to hold amused.

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