Anime-loving teen spent four months hiding from parents She went by the name Raito Nya Yagami and he liked to be known as Minato - and their love for Japanese animation, or anime for those in the know, led them to meet. She was 13 and spent time between her mother's south coast home and her father's place near Penrith. She was either at home, at singing, at school ... there were no behaviour issues, she has a kind heart and is always for the underdog He was 20 and lived in the Lower Hunter. For four months, and despite a large public search, the pair appear to have worked together to keep her whereabouts secret from her family, friends and police, until she was finally discovered hiding out at the man's Cessnock house on Tuesday. The girl was first reported missing on March 13 when she left her Kiama Downs home about 8am and never returned. Police would later uncover some closed circuit television footage at Central Railway Station showing her leaving. Within a day, Lake Illawarra police had discovered the friendship between Raito and Minato and had included in their public plea for information that the girl may be seen in the Metford area, just outside of Maitland. Within two days of the disappearance, Minato had updated his Facebook profile photograph to one of the pair at an anime event, where people dress up in costumes and role play. Detective Sergeant Paul Connery, who led the Raito missing persons case, said police had visited Minato's house several times within the first few weeks but could not find any sign of Raito. Raito later confessed she was hiding when police arrived. She also detailed how she rarely left Minato's home during the day, that he would always walk outside and check that the coast was clear before bringing her outside at night. They had even practised synchronising the closing of front and back doors so neighbours would not think there were two people leaving the house. In the meantime, Raito's family and investigators were getting increasingly worried. Detective Sergeant Connery said the fact a girl of her age had not touched social media or spoken to friends was a concern, especially as the weeks turned into months. Her mother went public after 10 weeks with a plea to find her daughter, or that her daughter phone home, while her father was busy handing out flyers in Sydney. "Her reports were good ... she is very creative and very clever at drawing and writing songs," her mother told the Illawarra Mercury on May 29. She was either at home, at singing, at school ... there were no behaviour issues, she has a kind heart and is always for the underdog. Detective Sergeant Connery said he continued to suspect Minato knew more than he was letting on. "We knew about him, I went up there in April and spoke to him," he said. And we had kept in contact with him - it was when he stopped taking our calls that we got more and more suspicious. As the weeks continued on without any news, Raito became the face of the annual National Missing Persons Week, which starts on Sunday. Her family were interviewed on Channel Ten's new crime-fighting show Wanted, and were being featured in news releases to promote the week. Then, on Tuesday afternoon, Central Hunter police arrived at Minato's Cessnock home and found the girl. She was interviewed and reunited with her family. But she doesn't appear happy about it - writing on a Facebook page set up to look for her that she felt like she had been caught. I was happy where I was. I was safe. Had food, clothes, everything. Had a wonderful 14th birthday," she posted. And when questioned about her family and friends being worried about her, she replied: "I planned to come back in like a year or two." She later added: "My life was epic XD." Detective Sergeant Connery said no charges could or would be laid against Minato. Newcastle Herald