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Kaida Akiko
Kaida and Nathaniel were surprises to their parents, after many years of trying to fall pregnant and often losing them, Sage and Bernie had given up hope.
Though whilst living in Osaka, Japan, Sage and Bernie were blessed with the news that Bernie was pregnant and the babies were healthy.
There is some argument between the two children whom was born first, but they both arrived safe and sound on August 17th, some fifteen years ago.
Life in Osaka was lovely, but Bernie's music career soon took off rapidly and the happy family moved to New York City. Some of the motivation for this move was to ensure that their children could eventually access a school able to deal with their uniqueness.
Bernie and her band, Bernt Out, have never been a massive chart topping band, but have had enough chart presence to be extremely popular.
This popularity can come at a price and when the children were six, they were kidnapped by psychotic fans of their mothers. The children were kept in dirty, unhealthy conditions whilst being terrified and brutalised by their captors for ten days.
When authorities failed to track down the children, Sage took it upon himself to find them, eventually discovering them in the squallour, surrounded by the bodies of their kidnappers. Nate was curled around his sister, whom was sobbing in fear.
Kaida has never revealled to her parents that Nathaniel didn't kill all the men, but she had slain one of them herself, nor does she admit to this day she still had nightmares about their captivity.
Not long after they were rescued, Sage taught the children how to better defend themselves, though where her brother took to the training like a duck to water, Kaida shunned the violence and turned to dancing, acting and modelling, finding that they disconnected her from the real world, her terrors and panic attacks.
Kaida refused to go to a school for sometime, choosing to travel with her mother when she toured with her band, but now she is fifteen, Bernie and Sage believe it is time for the young woman to socialise and take part in a more mainstream education.
Kaida tends to keep to herself, until she finds people she can trust and her mothers more outgoing personality seems to shine through.
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