A/N re-edited 4/02/2018
Here we go.
My name is Robert Kodiak Crawford, I am an American, but I have spent the last two years in Japan and am starting my third year in High school
I belong to no club except scouts, I was BSA (that is Boy Scouts of America) and now I'm Venture but I belong to no other clubs or groups. I enjoy sports, but I really dislike the coaches and players of my school, oh that would be Kikyo High School in Hokkaido.
The last year, I'm in my last year of education, what is my plan, easy get through school then head home where I will sign up and enlist in the USMC, United States Marine Corps. And hopefully, join their Recon units.
That was until about 8 hours ago…
9:30 am local time.
"Attention students, a civil unrest has begun in cities of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, it has been decided that school will shut down and all students will return to their homes or dorm rooms. We ask that you remain calm and…yes is there a problem? What are you…get, get away NOOOOOOOOO!"
That was the last thing we heard before the moaning became loud and sickening, for five minutes we listened, as the thing clearly ate the second year that did the announcements.
It was like a wave that slowly washed over everyone before all hell broke loose, boys were shouting and shoving as they ran for the doors the girls were screaming, crying, and cursing as they were shoved out of the way, people were getting trampled.
Ten minutes I sat there waiting, waiting to see if it was a prank, a joke that clearly had gone wrong. Screaming, crying, and shouting, I listened to it all waiting, but then I heard what I was waiting for, begging.
The begging as students and teachers were attacked, if you know what to listen for it is easy to tell the difference between acting and true begging.
"Kuma, Kuma it is me, Hitmo your friend, please stop don't…NO!"
The sound of flesh being torn, and the splatter of blood is one I learned many years ago hunting in the swamps of Louisiana, Gators ate that way. With that I moved first to check out the windows, the grounds were covered in bodies the only things moving looked to be Ghouls from a zombie movie. Then I moved to the door and checked out in the hall.
Two third years I recognized were kneeling by a body and both were eating the intestines of my former teacher. Slipping back in the room I closed the door and went to the teacher's cabinet, he was a big fan of baseball and always had a wooden bat that he liked to practice his swing while we were on break.
I found my Weapon.
I started to go through his bag and desk, five health bars he used to give students as treats for good work, two 1-liter bottles of water. I smiled when I pulled the pack of CAMELS from the hidden drawer, very few of us knew he smoked. Stuffing those in my coat for later I started searching the bags the other students left. Food snacks, pocket change, paper and pencils not really much.
The last bag I checked belonged to a beautiful 'Ice Queen' named Urayeshi Kimiko she had stepped out to go to the bathroom just before hell decided to come to town.
A cell phone that had a low charge, I quickly plugged it in since we still had power, pocket change as well as a cash card, and…
"What's this?" I asked to no one as I pulled out a graphic bondage hentai. "Who would have guessed?"
I sat there reading as I waited for the phone to charge. It was becoming quiet now I checked the phone and found two things, one it was fully charged and two it had already been 2 hours since I started reading. It was time to move so I gathered my gear and as I turned towards the door I heard soft steppes in the hall, I drew the bat and just waited.
The door quietly slid open long enough for a girl to sneak in and close it behind her, turning around she stopped frozen as Urayeshi stared at me.
"Crawford-san?" she asked clearly scared.
I just smiled and held up her hentai. "Just call me Kody, Kimi"
I don't think a human's face could turn paler faster than hers did.
"Are you bitten?" I asked calmly, I knew after watching 5 different people get eaten then stand up later that the 'ZOMBIE' rules were in effect.
"What?" she replied as she stared at the bat in one hand and the Manga that I had slipped back in my coat pocket.
"Are you bitten?" I asked again, and she violently shook her head 'No'.
I removed my coat shirt and pants and stood there in my boxers and turned around for her to see. "Neither am I"
She stopped and after her blush started to recede she simply nodded. I looked straight into her eyes as I got dressed again.
"Strip Kimi let me see you are not bitten," she stood there in shock, which I understand I was not polite at the moment even though my voice was calm and careful.
"Strip, I will not ask again. I will just assume you are bitten and…" I waved the bat in front of me to prove my point…
Slowly she started to undress, shirt tie I let her leave her simple white bra on if she was bitten under that the blood would have shown. But she stopped at her skirt and blushed even deeper.
"Are you wearing panties?" I asked calmly, and she slowly shook her head once.
"Nothing I haven't seen, and we have no time for me to do anything, lift your skirt," I replied.
She did, I checked and when done I simply told her to get dressed.
"Do you have a spare?" I asked as I put the bag on her back freeing my arms to wield the bat.
"Gym locker" she replied. And I just said "Let's go stay close and don't get bitten"
"Crawford-san? I mean Kody, they" she started.
"Yes?"
"I watched them, they seem to be blind and can't smell but sound attracts them," she whispered.
"Sure?" I asked her and for the first time I touched her chin and forced her head and eyes to face me.
"Yes, I watched and even tested that's how I was able to get back here"
"Thank you, now keep watch don't let them sneak up on us" I smiled and lead her out the door.
The trip was quick, we saw a few ghouls here and there, but we sneaked past easily, in the locker room we found four girls naked and dead, large chunks were torn from parts of their bodies. One by one I hit them on the head and like the ghouls of the movies, smash the head and they don't get up.
Kimi quickly got to her locker as I stood to watch, she grabbed her underwear and a pair of running shorts and put them both on under her uniform skirt. She jumped as she heard me lock the door.
"Starts searching, water, food, money, weapons, let's see what we have to work with." and I started tearing through lockers as I went.
Some money and snacks, condoms, birth control, even a few letters from teachers to the girls to remind them were to meet to 'study'. Pretty cheap haul to be honest.
"How are you calm?" she asked me after a while as she watched me.
"I have a cousin back in the states, she is what you would call a Zombie-Otaku, but if you say the word zombie she would probably beat you, the proper term is GHOUL." I smiled and looked at her
"But the point is she has trained me and my grandfather since she was 6 to survive the ghouls, she fully believed this was how the world would end, guess I can't make fun of her anymore"
"And I take it rule one was 'stay calm?" she asked as she brought over the few things she had found…
"Nope, that's rule 4" I smiled.
"What now?" she asked.
"Get out, we head to either your place or mine" I replied, and I noticed she stiffened at the mention of her place.
"And then?" she asked.
"Never plan too far ahead in the first 2 days wait to see how things are before making long-term plans," I replied and led her to the door. "Rule 9".
Sneaking out proved much harder, it wasn't long before we came a crossed a group of about 6 ghouls, Kimi did not shout, scream, or cry out…she tripped and made a small thud as she hit the floor.
That was enough.
They all turned and lunged, the bat was solid and heavy but easy to swing as I took out 3 in the first few seconds, but one grabbed my shoulder and spun me around. Before it could bite it was pushed back, Kimi had grabbed a broom with a wide head and used it to push them back and hold them long enough for me to swing. We killed them all but rushed to get out, we made to much noise.
"That was close" Kimi panted as we knelt down outside the school walls in some bushes.
"I need a different weapon, the bat's good but I need something with reach, a rifle would be best," I started to look around at the houses.
"I never used a gun before" she replied calmly.
I checked my watch, 4 hours since the start, looking around I smiled. The place was hell, fires, and bodies everywhere. I could hear shouting and gunfire, 4 hours and a civilized city in northern Japan has turned into a third world country.
"Where too?" she asked, and I just nodded and headed east.
"There's a sporting goods store up here maybe I can find something for us both," I told her.
The run took ten minutes and 3 ghouls; I also made sure to smash the head of the bodies we passed. "Don't need them getting up anytime soon" was all I told Kimi as she looked at me with 'what the fuck?' eyes as we ran.
The store was small and mostly had bats, gloves, tennis rackets. No weapons with range, we did find some knee and elbow pads as well as other 'body armor'. Looking through the back I found a good heavy bow and about 50 arrows that would work.
"I can use this" I smiled as I looked, Kimi had a bat, metal but light, she was trying to swing it,
"Find something?"
She nodded and looked down as she spoke: "I can swing it, but it will make more noise than a wooden one."
That's an easy fix" I told her and took the bat and went to the back where a workbench sat.
She followed me back and found me putting a rubber covering on the entire bat.
"See this is where people bring the bats, golf clubs and rackets to get the grips repaired or replaced," I told her as I worked
Finishing I took the rubber covered bat and tapped it on a piece of metal with a small 'thud' the only sound. "Perfect," I told her and then grabbed my bow and arrows.
"Upstairs I wanna get on the roof and look around before we go anywhere," I told her and headed for the stairs.
Wasn't hard to get up and the roof was flat, and it had some cover to hide behind as I scouted, what I saw was not good. There was a military checkpoint about 15 blocks away that was being overrun, the soldiers were either missing their shots or were hitting the body not the brain, in short, there were losing, and the horde was just growing.
"Any chance they can help?" Kimi asked even though her words made it clear she knew the answer.
"No" was all I said, and I went back to closed and locked the door keeping us up on the roof.
When she looked at me I shook my head "safer up here if it rains we can go inside but honest I want to be out here watching"
"What are the other rules?" she asked as she sat. "The ones your cousin made?"
"10: Murphy's' law what can go wrong, will go wrong,
9: Never plan too far ahead at first,
8: Get out of cities and highly populated areas
7: Stay high as much as you can,
6: Learn their strengths and weaknesses
5: Get a weapon
4: Stay calm
3: Supplies, gather what you can, where you can, when you can.
2: There is never enough ammo, there are 8 billion people in the world always assume you are the only one left alive.
Pretty straightforward" I told her with a smile
"And the last one?" she asked.
1: Golden rule; Never Trust the Living" I replied and watched her eyes. "That checkpoint up there, those soldiers, it would be easy for them to grab a girl and drag her into the Humvee and rape her. There's no law no order, I can guarantee it will happen somewhere in this world, maybe in another country, a different city, or right down the street."
"You believe that?" she asked me quietly
"Before today, it happened every day. Now there are no laws, no reason for it not to continue to happen,"
I left her alone for a while as I walked a patrol around the roof, watching for the ghouls and the living. After dark, I returned to sit and watch her. She had not spoken since we last talked.
Z-Day + 8 hours
(Kimi POV)
It was starting to get darker, I didn't really know what time it was, but the late afternoon combined with smoke from fires, the sky was growing darker. I stood up and walked up beside the American as he watched, the checkpoint was now nothing but bodies and flames, the JSDF having clearly lost the fight.
"So, are you planning to go for one of those guns later?" I asked him, my voice was horse, I had not realized how long it had been since I spoke last.
"Nope, they ran out of ammo about 40mins ago, there are too many ghouls, it would not be worth it," he replied as he turned to look at me.
I quickly lowered my eyes; I just can't seem to look him in the eyes. Not that I can see his eyes he always seems to have on tinted glasses.
"Hell of a day, right Kimi?" he said with a small chuckle and for some reason, I looked up.
"That's all you can say?" I replied in shock "THAT'S ALL, THIS DAY HAS BEEN PURE HELL!"
He just gave a small smile and just nodded.
"In less than a day everything we know, everything we knew, or will ever know has just ended," I started.
"Your friends', family, loved ones, they are probably dead. The cities and towns we have grown up in are starting to burn"
My rant was coming out louder this time as I paced the roof.
"ANYTHING I HAVE EVER KNOWN, ANY FRIEND I HAVE EVER HAD IS DEAD. HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU SMILING? HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SO CALM."
I collapsed on the roof and started crying, "What the hell am I going to do now?"
I'm not sure how long I cried but the next thing I knew there was a small flame flickering in front of my eyes. I just watched it and without warning, my mind seemed to come back to reality
Jerking up Kody was kneeling in front of me a small Zippo lighter in his hand,
"Feel better?" he asked as he closed the lighter putting the flame out.
"Actually, yes" I replied as he held out a hand to help me stand. This was the second time he had touched me. "How did you do that?"
"Old Sergeant trick, they would often find that their young LT's, Lieutenants" he corrected when he saw my confusion
"When they had a fresh LT., it was only a matter of time before their minds would need to vent. The sergeants would either stick a cigarette in their mouth or just use the flame of a lighter to bring them back,"
"I'm sorry, I did not mean to go off like"
"Forget it, you won't be the last" he cut me off and I just nodded.
He was like no man I had ever dealt with. He didn't get mad or annoyed, most teachers or adults would have just yelled at me, probably would have said for me to get a grip and deal, and my father…
"So, I am the Lieutenant now?" I asked jokingly as I walked back up beside him.
"You are young, untrained, have no idea what you are doing and rely on everyone else to keep you alive, perfect officer material" he replied with a laugh as he looked at my face.
"Come on, I got us some sleeping gear, I am sure you are rested after you little nap but it will be dark soon and right now I have no desire to travel at night," he told me as he went to a pile of gear that had not been there earlier.
He helped me get bedded down for the night, but I noticed he always had his eyes watching, but an hour later we heard a rumble coming from the south.
"Stay hidden," he told me and then started covering me in the bags and gear.
I watched as a JSDF helicopter came over us, first they took a long slow look at the overrun checkpoint then I guess one of them spotted Kody-san because it came and hovered by the building. Kody started doing hand signals; naturally, I had no idea what he was saying.
The copter took off after it dropped a large duffel bag on the roof.
"Can I come out now?" I asked as I slowly moved to him and the bag.
"They asked if I had any wounded," he started as he emptied the bag of food. "Told them no and that it was just me"
"Why?" I asked shocked.
"Because I did not know them, never trust the living unless you know them personally" he replied.
"And I will not hand you over to anyone, especially if all they will do is return you to your father"
Seems he had sharper eyes then I thought because just mentioning him caused me to tense.
"We have to move first thing in the morning, and we need to know where we are going," he started as he fixes something called an MRE. "My place is about 10Km from here, and your place is about half that."
"HOW DO YOU KNOW?" I shouted, shocked he knew where I lived.
He pulled out a small city map, my cell phone, and a phone book.
"You're listed," he replied.
Calming down I ate slowly watching him, confused and a little intimidated.
He stood and walked to the edge of the roof as he pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lighting one he just stared, then I realized he was waiting for me to tell.
"When I was born I was placed in an arranged marriage" I started, staring down at the meal in my hand. "He was about 2 years older than me, I did not like him, but I did not hate him, it would have been a marriage of convenience, well convenience for my father anyway."
"It was simple, they wanted a 'trophy wife' I would finish school with excellent grades, go to college for business, then marry and tend home while the husband ran everything" I gave a small grin "perfect right?"
He turned to me as he took a drag off his smoke. "I take it something happened?"
"3 weeks ago, he died, a drunk driver ran him over as he crossed the street, I am not glad, but I am not really sad, I didn't know him"
I sighed trying to find the words and the strength, "Two weeks ago my father took me to a manor, he… he sold me" tears were starting to flow down my face and once again there was the flame from Kody's lighter and again it seems to draw me out.
"The guy's father needed an heir so I was sold to be his mistress," I snorted "Mistress, he wanted a sex slave, my father watched as I was raped over and over."
"I had my cycle last week so it was decided that starting this Friday till I graduated I would go to his house to be used. He gave me that manga, told me to read and that this was how he wanted me to be"
Not even the flame could save me now as I just broke down crying, and for the third time Kody touched me he held me never speaking but he comforted me.
"I guess the answer is you don't wish to return to your father?" he asked me after a bit.
"No, I do not wish to return to him or see him ever again." was my reply. And I actually smiled, it hurt it, was the first real smile I have done in weeks.
"What about your mother?" he asked calmly.
"She is not much of a mother I rarely saw her I was mostly raised by my nanny, but she left a few days before I was sold I don't know where she went"
We sat here for a time as he held me, but he seemed to think I did not need it anymore and slowly released me.
"That will be a hell of a run to my place, we need a car or truck," he told me as he stood and walked back to the roof edge.
"You can drive?" I asked stunned.
"America, we start driving at the age of 16 if we pass the tests, I started when I was 9, mostly work trucks on the farms but I learned fast."
He stopped talking and looked down signaling me to duck and hide.
"Question, what does your father drive?" he whispered as I heard a car door slam shut.
"BMW" I replied as I crawled over and peaked down.
Sure enough what I saw was my father's BMW as well as Mark, my father's bodyguard and driver, my blood ran cold.
"How would you feel if I stole the car and left him here?" Kody asked as he looked at me, his eyes had a hardness to them I had not seen yet, he was not joking.
He moved started grabbing gear and putting it in the large duffel bag the JSDF had left, then took my stuff and started carrying it with me following.
He carried his bow with an arrow notched and another in his fingers, just like how the members of the archery team would hold them.
"Hello in the car" he called out the door.
Mark quickly pulled his gun and called. "Identify"
"Crawford, Robert 3rd year Kikyo High School" Kody replied as he stepped out. "Are you Urayeshi-Dono?"
"And if I was?" my father replied trying to give an air of power.
But before Kody replied he lifted the bow and shot, twice. Looking out the window I saw both father and mark stunned as they looked behind them, on the ground lay two zom… ghouls each with an arrow in their eye.
"I have something of yours" Kody spoke as he motioned for me to come out the store but winked to reassure me.
"Kimiko," my father said in a voice of false happiness as he reached for me.
"Quiet" Kody said and pointed to a group of 10 ghouls that were moving towards us.
Mark took aim with his gun but Kody having reached the car took an arrow and slapped his hand with it.
"Suppresser?" he asked quietly. For a second Mark was confused then reach into the gun harness and pulled out a long black tube and screwed it on his gun.
"Anymore?" Kody asked as I was 'gently' ushered into the back of the car by my father, he seemed to be afraid, good.
"Trunk" Mark replied and reached into the car popping the trunk.
He searched behind us and came out with another handgun and tube. "Headshots only or we are dead, just like the movies," Kody told him as mark started to follow.
"Daughter?" my father asked voice full of anger now that the witness was gone. My eyes never left Kody as he and mark removed the Ghouls.
"Father" I replied.
"Have you been touched?"
"No father, I am hole… for my master" I replied, and he actually smiled.
"Good, you are learning. He wishes for you to join him now, seeing as you no longer need to attend school."
"Yes father, as you wish" I replied my heart was breaking and I could only hope Kody would continue to be there for me. Whatever his plan was I hope he did it soon.
"Those things are easier than a ten-cent whore," Mark said as he returned to the car with Kody, Kody didn't speak he went back to the trunk and started rummaging. He came to my father's door now with a large gun in his hands as well as a bag.
"Well Urayeshi-San I have returned you to your family as I promised, I will make my leave" Kody started.
"Not wishing to stay?" my father asked with that false smile as he got out of the car again.
"Sir, I am a foreigner and male, we both know you have no desire to help me or keep me around, I know my place, and I have done my job. I will leave now."
"It's good to see the lower class know their place"
Thump.
The sound was strange, I had no idea what it was, but I looked and saw Mark. He was standing by the driver's door watching, his body fell hard, quickly moving I looked out the window, there was a hole in his forehead and a little blood trickling out.
There was a sound from my fathers' side of the car and I turned to see him getting punched in the belly and face as Kody beat him, then started dragging him to a street light. Kody then pulled out a chain I didn't know he had and actually chained my father to the post.
"A father's goal, his job is to protect and care for his children, not sell them to the highest bidder"
My father started to argue but it turned into a scream as Kody shot him, in the hands and feet with the handgun. Running Kody grabbed our gear stored it in the trunk, then raced to the drives seat and started the car as a new group of ghouls started moving towards my father, I did not feel a single shred of guilt or remorse as I watch out the back window as my father was eaten.
Turning around I saw Kody watching me in the rear-view mirror as he drove.
"Thank you," I told him.
"What about the other guy?" he asked
"Mark was a pig. When he came to pick me up from school, he would always talk about the girls that were walking away, either wanting to have them or about the ones he did have. Again, thank you"
"My pleasure" he replied, and I looked at his eyes they were back to normal.
"You have done that before, killed a person?" I asked after a while.
"My grandfather sent me here cause of some trouble I was planning to get into back home, yes this is not my first time" he replied, and I knew then, this was not the time to ask.
(Kody)
He drove for about 10minutes, but the roads were so bad that we did not get far, and then she noticed where we were.
"You are taken me home?" she asked me as she looked out at the houses we passed.
"You need things we don't have, clothes and your 'girl stuff' plus I want to see how your mother is," I told her as I pulled into her driveway.
For someone that is supposed to be rich and powerful, this place was actually pathetic single story house in a mock Edo period style, but smaller and rather shabby.
Getting out we found no one or thing, walking in the door I played my card.
"Get your stuff and don't forget anything," I told her in a loud voice looking out the corner of my glasses and she stared at me, but I smiled as she quickly got the hint
"Yes master" was all she said, and she walked off to the right, I turned left and headed where I believed the parlor was.
Inside I found her, sitting in a high-backed chair looking like a queen of a feudal land, sat Kimi's mother.
"Who are you and what do you want," she asked with an air of, 'bow swine' in her voice.
"My name is Crawford and I'm here to collect my slave's property, are you the mother?"
"Your slave? She belongs to Lord Risu of Parliament…." she started
"Not anymore" I interrupted "I bought her from your husband about an hour ago in exchange for his life,"
She just grunted and stared at me "He was always weak; I never liked him or his little bastard bitch"
"So, you are not the mother?" I asked her as I walked to a liquor cabinet.
"I am happy to say I am not, she's the daughter of our nanny, seems my husband got her pregnant the first day she worked for us, and yet he couldn't get me pregnant no matter how hard we tried"
"Where is the nanny?" I asked I smiled at my back was to her as I mixed the drink.
"She planned to go to the cops when she learned we would sell her daughter but ran when she learned the cop was one of ours, with any luck she is either dead or someone's whore, serves her right all that we did for her."
The woman's ranting was starting to slur it was clear she was drunk, stoned, or very sick…
"Kimi" I called, and she walked in through the door.
"Master?" she replied I could see her eye were close to tears, but she held her head up and looked me in the eye. I could work with this,
"Get the car loaded and wait for me I will be there soon."
She turned and left not even looking at her, stepmother is the politest word I could call her.
"I hope you like screams because she never stops, annoying really," the woman said as she looked around.
I was done talking, I walked quickly, my heavy shoes trailing mud and blood over the polished floors. Before she realized I was at her, my right hand over her mouth and my left driving the cock screw from her minibar through her hand into the arm of her 'throne'. Her muffled scream started to get loud as she tried to bite my hand, I just decked her in the jaw, I really didn't hit her hard but seems she had a glass jaw and she slumped.
After tying her to the chair I ran for the Molotov I had made, two seconds later the fire was lit, and I was moving out the door and to the car, I found Kimi in the back crying, I said nothing as I drove away.
Watching in the mirror I saw the house erupt in flames and I swear I heard a muffled scream, good.
"Kimi?" I asked after a few minutes and pulled into an empty parking lot.
"Kimi, please look at me"
Finally, she looked up, "I'm sorry it was…"
"Can you tell me about your nanny, your mother?" I asked urgency in my voice.
"Ami, she doesn't have a family, and not many friends I guess I know why now, fuck I hate them I hate them both" she started crying
"Kody, Ami she was only 13 years older them me our birthdays are only a month apart. They raped her when she was just twelve"
"Think, do you know any hangouts, places that were just for you too, does she have a phone number, I can't find her if I don't have a trail to follow"
"Phone? Phone, of course, my phone" she lunged over the seat and grabbed her phone I still had, quickly she started dialing. "She gave me a secret number in case I need to talk to her or if I ever ran away from home, why did I never think…"
"Ami? Yes, it's me where are you… Ami? Ami, wait a sec… DAMNIT MOTHER SHUT UP!"
"Yes, she told me, I'm sorry I never, mother please, where are you? Tokyo?!"
At that, I grabbed the phone and turned it on speaker "Ma'am my name is Robert and I go to school with your daughter"
"American, you need to be careful, her father hates foreigners" she started.
"After I got Kimi out we ran across her father, he is not a problem," I told her.
"Not a problem?" she asked slowly. "Painful?"
"Very," I replied. "His bitch wife too. Now you need to get out of the city head north and avoid…"
"Crawford-san, it is too late for that" she interrupted and started coughing.
"Momma?" Kimi asked.
"I was bitten about an hour ago, I don't have time. Listen I am very proud of you my daughter I wish I could have protected you better, forgive me"
"Yes momma, you were my first and best friend I love you and will miss you" Kimi replied as she broke into tears.
"Goodbye my baby, Crawford-san take me off the speaker and let me speak with you" I looked at Kimi as I took the phone and held it to my ear.
"Yes?"
"Thank you for protecting her, please I ask that you continue to," she told me.
"It will be my honor" I replied and heard her start to cough again, the phone dropped followed by a single gunshot.
I couldn't speak so I got back behind the wheel and just drove. After a while I looked in the back, Kimi was curled up like a cat asleep.
I reached my place, and as I pulled into the underground parking I found a spot and got out. The sounds of moaning came from a dark part of the garage and soon 3 ghouls came out, sighing I pulled the 9mm pistol and fired, the three bums fell fast and quietly.
I left her sleeping as I hauled all the gear to the lift, thank gods that the power still worked. 20 floors is a long way to carry all the gear and one sleeping beauty. Gently I picked her out of the car and carried her to the lift, she didn't wake till the ding as we reached the top floor, my penthouse.
"What?" she asked groggily
"We reached my place, follow me," I told her as I set her down and grabbed the gear I led her through the hole place, living room, dining kitchen, all three bedrooms and the bathrooms. Last were the pool, hot tub, and sauna outside. I smiled as he eyes grew larger. I think she realized I was far richer than her father ever was.
"Your room is that one, take a shower and relax. I know it's been a hard couple of days, Take your time." I told her.
"Where will" she started, and I smiled
"That's my room there, I'm grabbing a shower, whatever you do don't go out the door" I replied as I stopped to put up an X with white masking tape on one of the windows.
"What's that?" she started.
I sighed and using the voice I used when at her house "shower, now, go."
I turned and headed to my room, and as I closed the door:
Kimi POV:
"Yes, master" and I froze.
I don't know why I said it, and I was a little worried at the fact I said it so easily. Quickly moving to the bathroom, I found a rather large one and judging by the soaps shampoos' and robes hanging up it was designed for women.
But as I started to get in the water I stopped, it was way to quiet, and it dawned on me. Since I teamed up with Kody this was the first time I was alone. Even at my house, I could still hear him talking I knew he spoke loud enough to make sure I would know where he was and what he was doing.
It scared me not to hear anything but the running water, and so I shut off the water grabbed a robe and walked out and to his room. If you asked, 'why would I do that?' The answer would have been, 'I have no idea, but it felt like the thing to do.'
Sneaking into his bathroom I listened and heard him in the shower, peaking I saw him standing in the shower not sitting. He just hung his head, his back to me, for the first time I really looked at him before I was looking for open wounds.
This time I saw that his body was almost pure muscle he wasn't thin and lean he was built, like a wrestler, he also had a few scars on his back, one looked like a bullet wound. He also had a tattoo. It was on his left shoulder it kind of looked like a golden banana with a shield, an American flag on the shield and a banner under it with writing that I couldn't read.
He stopped moving and his head tilted to the side just a little, I was caught. Too late to leave I just dropped my towel and walked up beside him since the shower looked big enough for 3 people, with multiple shower heads.
"Too quiet?" he asked without looking at me.
"Yeah, sorry if I'm bothering you" I replied as calmly as I could.
"A lovely young woman standing with me in the shower? Only a fool would say they were bothered"
It was the first time he had flirted with me, and like his lighter before, it seemed to help me relax as I washed. Unable to resist I looked at the tattoo again, the banner said, 'Be Prepared' and I realized it was the Scout emblem.
"Scouts?" I asked as I stared.
He rested his forehead on the tile wall. "Born and bred, BSA back home, Venture here since unlike back home you leave BSA at 15 instead of 18."
"Is that where you learned…" and I trailed off.
"No, Be Prepared is not just the scout motto it is the family motto. My grandfather taught me to not just be prepared but to be prepared to do anything and everything. Honor was our code and if it meant breaking the law, so be it."
"So why are you here?" I asked as I finished rinsing,
Standing there naked, I realized two things. One, I was butt naked in front of a man I had only known for a day and two: I felt calm I had no fear of this man seeing me.
"I was 14 and I found out we had a teacher that was no better than that mark guy, the girl ended up killing herself after no one believed her" he started.
"They found him a week later in the swamp; his body was chewed up by the pigs and the Gators. Everyone realized by this time he was guilty, so it was simply written off as a 'fishing accident"
"But not everyone believed, that did they?"
"The guy didn't fish, and the style, well, let's say my grandfather recognized it. The old man was a beast in his youth, they say my family came from a long line of demons. Like the berserkers of old Europe. Anyway, he didn't want the animal to come out too early, he hoped sending me here would help teach me control since this is where he learned to control it."
"Ok and this place?" I asked
"Easy, my grandfather owns 40% of Honda, secretly of course, but it seems he helped one of the owners and was rewarded. Not just that, the old man was very skilled at business, he is worth about 400million USD. And is skilled enough that no one really knows unless he wants to tell people," and he finally turned to me and smiled "so don't tell anyone," his laugh sounded nice like a child that just woke up to find he got the puppy for Christmas.
"Promise, I'm glad to know you, until now I thought ALL rich people were pricks," I told him.
"Most are" he smiled and got a towel to dry off, grabbing his glasses and slipping them back on
"Weren't you wearing sunglasses earlier?" I asked as I dried and put a robe on.
"They are the kind that changes with the light, the brighter it is the darker the lenses get."
Thinking about this. "How did I not notice that before?"
"We have been busy." he shrugged.
I followed him to the sitting area and curled up on the couch looking around,
"What is this place?"
It's an old 'love motel' I bought, only the top three floors and then this one are still usable the rest of the rooms and floors are sealed. If you don't know how to get in you really can't get in"
I sat and watched him, and naturally my mind started to play games with me again, 'Master' before today I hated that word, yet I can call him that without any problem when he spoke to me at my house he used a line from that manga, I knew what he wanted me to do 'go to my room get my stuff and then wait outside the door and listen' just like the girl in the manga. But his voice the way he spoke he knew.
"Are you a master?" I asked him and looked at the floor.
"Yes, I live that lifestyle" he replied "I am without a sub at the moment but yes"
I wanted to scream, to yell, to run, but I couldn't, I had no fear of this man.
"What don't I know? Was all I could ask, hell I didn't even understand the question.
"Everything" he replied. "Everything you know is wrong, that manga is like most publications of the Dom-Sub lifestyle, it's cheap and trashy.
"Yes, I have seen good masters and mistresses with slaves and subs that acted just like those in the book, but it takes a lot of time, training, respect, and trust."
"Respect of the Master for his slave and trust of the slave for the master. There are a lot of wannabes out there on both sides of the collar, many girls believe all they have to do is say 'yes master' and spread their legs and they are slaves" he stopped and shook his head.
"A well-trained slave in the hands of a well-trained master or mistress is as beautiful as the geisha of ancient Japan. It's their mindset, their personal self-respect."
"Are you scared about being able to call me master so easily, are you worried about being naked in front of me and not feeling shame?" he asked me as if he could read my mind.
I nodded not sure what to say.
"Go sleep in your bed, it's 4:45 am, get some good sleep, I'll keep watch."
I opened my mouth to argue,
"Bed, now" he ordered. I did not say the words this time, but I wanted to, and I quickly got up and went to bed.
Lying down I waited but sleep wasn't coming easily; I saw a book on the table by the bed and grabbed it. I was a little shocked, but not much.
'Code of Conduct for a Master and Slave'
I read for almost an hour before sleep found me, and what I read did not scare me, by this book if the rules were followed it could easily be a truly honorable lifestyle.
A/N yes, I will get to more ghoul hunting soon, but in this story, the ghouls are not the only things that will be hunted.
This story is rated M for a damn good reason, it touches on things many will not like or agree with. I will probably offend anger upset or piss off someone. Criticize all you want, flames hey at least I know you are reading.
Ok story being edited, and chapters combined. Will be a while before new chapter up as I need to clean up the older ones.