My backstory, (explanation)

                                                           Begin of volume 1

I'm Yuko, I'm 15 years old. It's a rainy day, I'm in my room going trough our family album. There's this one photo where my dad is on, but his head is torn off the picture. It has a note on the back. It says: " Thank you father of Yuko Dameru, Zuro.".

 I don't know who wroted it, I asked my grandfather but he didn't know it either. I really don't know much about my dad. The only thing I know is his name, "Zuro", what I read on the back of the photo. But I want to know more about him, I want to know everything about him. I want to meet him. One day I'm going to look for him.

 My dad left me and my mom when I was 5 months old. 4 years later my mom died of an illness. So when I was about 4,5 years old, the only other family member my mom had contact with was her dad, so my grandfather. I'm now 15 years old and those years I lived with him he treated me with all the love he had. I always loved him from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for that grandfather, it didn't matter if he was sick, at work or had to do someting else, he always was there for me. 

But it's time to let go of him, not in the meaning of the dead, but in the meaning of leaving him and going to search for my biological father. I definitely don't want to lose another person so close to my heart. But it's time to let go. It's time to let go of my school, my grandfather, my cozy room upstairs, and my city. I want to begin a new chapter. "Searching for my dad". My grandfather is already 77, so I don't think it would be good for him and his health to go on this long trip.

 I've asked him a lot of times if he knew something about my father that I didn't know. But everytime his answer was "no". He told me once that he hadn't had contact with my mom in the period my mom and dad had me. He said he asked for a photo, but she said dad didn't wanted to show something, she couldn't say anything or show anything he said. He also told me that the reason that my dad left me was because he was from Syria and he wanted me and my mom to be a muslim. But my mom didn't want that. So my mom and dad started arguing wether or not me and my mom should be a muslim or not. Mom and dad where tired of the arguing every day, so my dad decided to leave and to go back to his homecountry Syria.

 I tried to get contact with my other family members as well. 4 months later i found my uncle on a chat website. This was the first time talking to him ever. I probably met him when i was little, but i never reminded him. He didn't know much about my father too, but he told me that instead of Syria he went to Saudi-Arabia instead because back then there was war in Syria, so thats why he went to Saudi-Arabia instead. He also said that my mom said to him that he went to live in the capital city of Saudi-Arabia, "Riyad". The reason why i just don't go visit my uncle is because he lives in Asia, and i and my grandfather in Europe. But it was a pretty usefull tip, because if i went looking in Syria instead, i probably would have never found him. Thank you, uncle. Now i know where he is, i can finally start my journey.                            

                                                                      1 month later

I was going trough a box of things that mom left behind for me and i suddenly noticed a cassette with my name on it, and a note from mom that said " Watch this when you're 16, it's about Zuro, your dad.". Right now i'm still 15 but in 2 months im turning 16. I think i could start my journey when i've seen what is on this cassette, i really think there could be some important information what could help me find him. I'm so hyped and curious to see what is on the cassette, but i'm going to wait. I'm going to respect the fact that my mother wants me to open this when i'm 16. For me it feels like a birthday present. It's really the same feeling of a birthday present. You know that you're going to get something but you don't know what. So the day that i turn sixteen i'm going to watch it, that will be the day that i will finally know more about my real father. Thank you, mom.