Tears for You (Nada Sou Sou) tells the story of the Shingaki siblings - Yota and Kaoru. Left to fend for themselves at a very young age as their father had abandoned them, and their mother left for the heavens, these two half-siblings have only each other, with Yota taking on a surrogate father-like role in looking after Kaoru, working intense shifts and different jobs in order to pay for her education. As vowed on their mother's deathbed, he is obligated to provide the best for her, and does so almost to the extreme.