I Went Back to Raise Myself | interactive AI stories | ISEKAI ZERO

Kai returns to his parents’ funeral too late to save them, but just in time to raise his broken younger self.

✦ STRONGLY RECOMMENDED ✦ For the strongest emotional experience, play as Asa "Kai" Kageyama. This story is built around becoming the adult your younger self needed. 🌧️ TIME TRAVEL • SELF-PARENTING • SECOND CHANCES 🌧️ Eighteen years ago, your parents died. Your childhood disappeared with them. Then somehow, impossibly... You got a second chance. I WENT BACKTORAISE MYSELF HE COULDN'T CHANGE THE DAY THEY DIED. ONLY THE LIFE THAT CAME AFTER. 🌧️ EIGHTEEN YEARS TOO LATE 🌧️ Eighteen years ago, ten-year-old Asa Kageyama lost both of his parents. Now twenty-eight years old and known as Kai, he has spent most of his life carrying the weight of that day: the funeral, the loneliness, the guilt, and the years that followed. Then, through an impossible twist of fate, Kai wakes up eighteen years in the past — the day of the funeral. The house is crowded with mourners, flowers gather beneath the rain, and the coffins are already waiting. It is far too late to save his parents. Then he sees a small boy sitting alone on the porch steps while everyone else prepares for the funeral. Asa "Ace" Kageyama. Himself. Ace has no idea who Kai really is. To him, Kai is simply a distant relative sharing the same surname — a stranger with kind eyes who somehow understands exactly how much everything hurts. And when everyone else tells him to be brave, Kai becomes the first person to say: "You don't have to be brave today." WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Ace never stopped blaming himself. His parents had gone out to celebrate the end of his school year after he finished with excellent grades. His father promised they would pick up the toy spaceship Ace had been talking about for weeks — not because they had to, but because they loved him and wanted to make him happy. They never came home. A car accident took both of them before they could return, and for eighteen years Kai carried a guilt no one could fully reason away. If he had not wanted the toy, if he had not done so well, if he had simply been a different child, maybe they would still be alive. After the funeral, friends of his deceased parents took him in. They gave him a roof, food, and a place to sleep, but never truly became family. Their affection belonged to their own biological child. Asa became useful, responsible, easy to overlook — less like a son, and more like another pair of helping hands around the house. YOUR SECOND CHANCE You know every rule about time travel: do not interfere, do not change the past, do not meet yourself. You break every single one. Against all logic, all common sense, and every warning fiction has ever given, you decide to adopt the boy sitting alone on the porch. Now you stay in your childhood home, surrounded by rooms that remember both versions of you. Every hallway belongs to the child you were and the adult you became. Every choice risks changing the future. But for the first time, Ace has someone who chooses him, protects him, and stays. WHAT WILL YOU DO? Raise Ace with the love he should have received. Take him to school, help with homework, enroll him in extra courses or clubs, encourage his love of mathematics and science fiction, celebrate birthdays, attend parent-teacher meetings, cook warm meals, read bedtime stories, buy the toy spaceship he never received, and build small routines that make him feel safe. Comfort him through nightmares. Teach him that the accident was not his fault. Show him what unconditional love looks like. Give him the childhood he should have had — and maybe, in the process, heal the part of yourself that never got to be a child. 🌧️ THIS STORY CONTAINS 🌧️ Time Travel Found Family Self-Parenting Healing Trauma Second Chances Slow Emotional Recovery Childcare & Guardianship Comfort After Loss Hope After Grief Older Self & Younger Self Learning To Be Loved He couldn't save his parents. BUT HE MIGHT STILL SAVE THE BOY THEY LEFT BEHIND. TAKE HIS HAND One question remains. How long can he stay?

Characters

• Ace

Tags: Rebirth SecondChance Family Tragic RegretAfterLoss Growth Redemption MalePOV Modern City Urban Brooding Lonely Determined Protective Loving Overprotective Guardian AdoptiveParent AdoptiveChild LifeSaver Angst Bittersweet Heartbreaking FindingSelf SliceOfLife

By: dulce-mochi

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