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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 0:45:13 GMT -5
Haruka shook her head. "Mother wouldn't have left a will. Father told us that the estate and everything was combined when they married..." she said. BUt after these word left her mouth, she questioned it. Could she really trust her father's words anymore. What if there was a will, because they had signed... she wasn't sure what it was called. A preenup? She brought up one hand to her forehead to rub her temple. "Maybe... maybe she did leave something." She closed the journal. "lets look around in the trunk... maybe you're right..."
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 0:48:27 GMT -5
Yuo stood up and knelt down by the trunk. He began taking things out, bit by bit and placing them neatly beside the trunk. He looked through a couple things quickly, looking for anything that looked like something that might help.
"Would it be in an envelope? Or just a folded piece of paper?" he asked. Yuo wasn't paying much attention to every little thing, just looking for some thing could be of use. He was willing to do anything to help Haruka out.
"Haruka, what happens if we do find something your mother left before she died? What if it says anything about you and your sister?"
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 0:58:53 GMT -5
Haruka followed Yuo's lead, slowly taking things out and looking them over carfully before setting them in a neat pile on her side. "Well, mother was always sneeky about things... so i'm guessing she would have tried to hide it." she shrugged. She came to a family photo, one that had once hung in the living room, she recalled. Something did not seem right thought. The back that sealed the picture in the case seemed bulging. She removed the back, removing it. There was a yellowish paper. She looked curiously.
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 1:01:54 GMT -5
Yuo looked at Haruka, and then at the yellowish paper.
"That must be it." he said.
"If your mother is sneeky then thats a good place to hide it, the back of a picture frame." he said.
"Your mother must've been really smart. She seemed to have a hiding place for everything." he said.
"I think that's wehre you got your brains from. You're smart, and your mother was obviously smart." he smiled at Haruka as he sat back next to her, curiously looking at the paper. Yuo couldn't wait to read, or at least listen.
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 1:13:15 GMT -5
Haruka nodded, "I'm almost possitive this is it... i don't know how. I can just tell..." she slowly pryed out the paper, being very careful not to rip it as she did so. She finally removed it and looked over it. She read the preface aloud. " 'Because of previous alligations against my husband, at the time our marriage liscense was obtained, I decided to keep everything that was in my possession separate in the owner ships alligations. Therefore, he will not recieve anything within this will.' " she looked to Yuo, "Previous alligations? What do you suppose that means?" she asked him.
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 1:16:33 GMT -5
Yuo shrugged.
"My father never left a will. He was in the process of writing one just before he left." he said.
"And I'm not a genius." he said as he looked at the rest of the will.
"If your father receives nothing from the will. Then doesn't that mean that you and your sister will get most of it, since you are her children?" he asked.
"That's what Mother told me before I left. That since my father was gone, he wouldn't get anything and that when she died, Shizuke and I would split everything."
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 6:59:22 GMT -5
Haruka nodded. "Well, yes. That is what it would mean... but... seeing as Juni is a criminal..." she bit at the inside of her cheek. "I would inherit whatever she was going to get also." Again, she rubbed at her temple. This was stressful. She didn't have time to inherit a flock of things from her mother right now. Nor did she have the money to get a lawyer for the settlement.
"Maybe we should just put this back... There's nothing i really want. I've got everything right here." she gestured to the trunk and it's contents. "So... no point in reading this silly thing." She began to slip it back into the picture frame.
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 11:16:33 GMT -5
Yuo reached out to grab her hand.
"No way. I want to see it." he said.
"You inherit everything your mother left. I want to at least read what she left." he slowly pulled her hand back.
"I know you've got everything you need inside this trunk, but, you never know what your mother could've left." he said, looking at Haruka, a small smile on his face.
"She could've left you something else that would mean a lot to you." Yuo's smile was soft and loving. He was so curious, he would read just about anything.
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 15:45:39 GMT -5
Haurka grimached slightly before she finally gave in and pulled the paper to a place in front of her face where she could read it outloud to him again. " 'To my eldest daughter, Juni Kunimitsu, i leave the first half of my welfare. This includes the deed to the house, my life insurance, and anyother money that i may be holding in my bank. She will be sharing the other half with her younger sister, Haruka Kunimitsu. Haruka will also be inheriting...' " she stopped. The will had not been finished. She grimaced. "darn..."
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 15:49:09 GMT -5
Yuo listened to her and looked at the will.
"It was never finished." he said quietly.
"But look, you get your house, life insurance, and the money your mother held in her bank account." he said. Yuo's eyes lifted to look at Haruka.
"Should we move on to something else inside the trunk? You look like you're stressing out and I don't want you to get upset or anything." he said, moving over a bit closer to her. Yuo was curious, though, as to what, if the will had been finished, Haruka's mother would've left her.
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 16:15:12 GMT -5
Haruka sighed, trying to relieve her anxiety by doing so. She had guesses as to what her mother would have left. Perhaps the rice field not far out of town that their family owned would have been in the transactions, by chance. But she could not be sure.
"Yes... lets move on... I think it would be best..." she swallowed as she leaned over the side of it again, but not too much as to move out of Yuo's arm which was wound around her waist. She pulled up a small bottle. "Hey! I remember this!" she twisted off the cap and a light scent of peperment came on. "I spilled a whole bottle of it once... Boy was mom mad..."
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 16:20:05 GMT -5
Yuo smiled at the scent.
"Mmm, that smells so good." he said.
"You spilled an entire bottle? The smell of peppermint must've been around for a few days after that." he chuckled, reaching down and pulling somthing else up. He held it out to Haruka.
"What about this?" he asked curiously. Yuo continued to breathe in the scent of peppermint for a little longer. One of Yuo's favourite smells was peppermint, it brought back memories of all the different teas.
"Peppermint is one of my favourite smells. IT reminds me of the peppermint, ginger tea Mother made." he sighed.
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 16:24:37 GMT -5
Haruka laughed. "Much more than a few days... the rug was soaked!" she emphasized the word 'soaked' with great enthusiasm. "I wouldn't doubt it that rug still smells like peppermint." she laughed again looking to what Yuo pulled out next questioningly. It looks like a little black books. She recalled that that was where her mother wrote down all of her and her sister's 'first.' The first word they had both said, the date of the first time they walked, things like that. "That's the 'firsts book'." she told him with a smile. "All out 'firsts' from when we were little.. Mother was always writting in it."
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Post by Shizuke Tsukiyama on May 16, 2008 16:27:47 GMT -5
"Well then let's read what she wrote." Yuo said, opening to the first page. He immediately looked up and at Haruka.
"How about you read it. This is all yours now after all." he said, placing the book in her hands.
"And, I'd rather listen to you read it, rather than myself." he chuckled as smiled softly at her. Yuo was anxious to go through everything in the trunk, read what was written, listen to the little memories that Haruka recalled from a certain item or something. Yuo just loved sitting there and listening, looking, and finding out more.
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Post by Haruka Kunimitsu on May 16, 2008 16:39:40 GMT -5
Haruka nodded slightly, looking the her mother's script on the page in front of her. "The first few are Juni's i suppose... she was first born anyway." she told him in commontary. " 'June 5: Juni says her first word. Kitty. Strange considering she's never seen a cat before in her life.' " she could not help but giggles slightly at that. She decided to skip to a few of her own, finding more meaning for herself in them.
" 'May 7: Haruka is climbing on everything. I guess she just enjoys being up higher. We found her on the arm of the sofa at two this morning and i just had to write it down.' " she turned the page. " 'September 26: Haruka got her first pet. Her father doesn't approve of having a dog, but i think it's nice.' " she stared curiously at the page. "I don't remember having a dog..." she muttered
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