Sato Hanshiro drowsily woke to something quite unexpected. He was unpleasantly tied to a chair at the foot of a hotel room bed. He remembered that the night before he had come there with a very pretty hostess that he planned on sleeping with or raping if she was unwilling. The last thing he could remember was him talking to her at the door before turning to unlock it, and then a pin prick in his neck. Now he wasn't even sure if she was still here.
"Ah, you're finally awake Sato-san." He tried to turn his head in the direction of the androgynous voice, but it appeared that his head was in some sort of brace. The chair was from the room, but it seemed that whatever the brace was had been built around it.
'This can't be possible,'he thought as he heard a soft chuckle in his ear.
"Can you talk to me, Sato-san?" Hanshiro stiffened as he realized that the voice belonged to a woman. It sounded nothing like the woman he had came here with, but that didn't mean she had been using a different voice to talk to him.
"Show yourself." His voice shook as he spoke and it earned him a soft chuckle from her. He could feel her breath on the back of his neck as he listened to the sound of the bed shifting under her weight.
"I'll only let you see me if you answer a question for me, Sato-san." The way she said his name made his skin crawl.
"Wh-why am I tied up?" he asked her and she sighed in irritation.
"I'm the one that needs to ask questions," she said to him.
"What do you want?!" he began to shout.
"If you keep shouting I'm going to have to hurt you," she said in a condescending tone as if she was talking about disciplining a child.
"I'll give you anything you want, money, anything…" he said softer this time.
"I just need you to answer a question or more," She reassured him gently. Her voice was like velvet to the ears or something that was equally pleasant to hear, but in this situation it just gave him goosebumps.
"If I answer your questions will you let me go?" he asked her.
"There was a girl, her name was Mimi, she had unusual green eyes, dark brown hair, and freckles across her nose," she informed him, but didn't answer his question, "Do you know what happened to her, Sato-san?"
"N-no, I've never heard of her," he stammered and she sighed.
"Perhaps this will refresh your memory Sato-san," she said with annoyance in her voice. Suddenly a light flickered on in front of him and he realized it was the light from a projector. He blinked as a picture of a young girl came into focus on the wall of the hotel room. She had a bright smile, pretty eyes and freckles. She seemed familiar to him, but he could quiet place her.
"Well…?" he shook his head as much as he could while it was in the brace. She huffed angrily before her heard a click and the picture changed. "What about now, Sato-san?" The girl was now naked, blood covered, and dead in an alley. He knew who she was, after all, he was the one that had done that to her. The projector flickered off and darkness filled the room once again. "You remember now, don't you?"
"No." he knew he answered too quickly and mentally cursed himself. Hanshiro jumped a little when she erupted in laughter by his ear.
"You're so obvious it's hilarious," she accused without humor after she abruptly stopped laughing, "Do you even know what her last name was?"
"No," he echoed, but this time he wasn't lying.
"Her name was Ochi Mimi, but you still don't know the meaning of that name do you?" she asked leaning close to him again so that he could feel her warm breath on the back on his neck. "Her father's name is Ochi Keisuke, now, does that sound familiar?"
"No," he said honestly again.
"Hmm, you really should learn more about the people you kill before killing them," she suggested. "That's what I do, for instance, I know that you're an only child, you were orphaned at age six, and you're wife divorced you after she found out about all the hostess girls you fool around with." Hanshiro screamed as loud as he could and she laughed. He screamed until his throat was raw. When he was just sitting there whimpering pathetically she moved off of the bed and flipped the lights on. "No one can hear you, why do you think this was the only room available? I made sure to sound proof it before this, and yes that does mean that hostess is in on this too. She was a good friend of Mimi's."
"What are you going to do…?" His voice was now hoarse from screaming for help.
"Kill you, duh," she muttered sarcastically, walking in front of him. She had long black hair that stopped mid hip, fair skin, and blue eyes. The woman was tall, all legs, and had a curvaceous body. Her clothes were cheap, but new looking, and considering that she was going to kill him it was probably because she was going to throw them away afterwards. "Mimi's father has ties to the Awakusu-kai and they were less than happy to hear how he found his sweet, innocent, high schooler, tossed in an alley like garbage." Her voice became cruel and hatful, but she smiled at him almost gently. "Now you know who you killed."
"I'm sorry!" he cried pathetically for his life, "Please don't kill me!"
"An eye for an eye," she said, smiling wickedly as walked over to him and he began to fight against his bindings. The woman began to mess with the brace that was holding his head still. He opened his mouth to scream again and she put a piece of the brace in his mouth to keep it open. Hanshiro pulled his head back and screamed a little feeling sharpened nails sink into the back of his skull. She only chuckled as she reached behind him and picked up a pair of pliers in her gloved hands and then grinned at him.
He screamed as his teeth were removed from his gums one after another. Blood ran down his chin, mixing with his salty tears. Throughout the entire ordeal her smile didn't falter, she even laughed a little, and every last tooth was plucked from him raw and bleeding gums, she sighed. He was drowsy from blood loss, but he could clearly hear her say. "I've made you suffer enough so I'll end it quickly." She slit the vein on the bottom of his tongue and the man soon bled out.
Shiki frowned at the informant that sat across from him. Izaya was wearing his usual smirk like always. His patience for Izaya was running thin and the informant knew it, so with a laugh Izaya gave him the information on the Russians that were selling guns in the Awakusu-kai's territory. He told him who their boss was where they were selling the guns, and the time they would be there.
"Shiki-san?" Izaya asked as he got ready to leave the car, "I just remembered, that man that you asked about last time, Sato Hanshiro, I heard he was found cut up in pieces in an alley."
"Someone from Mikiya's* wife's side of her family did it," Shiki said, causing Izaya's brows to rise.
"Really, I thought the Ryuu-kai disapproved of her marriage to Mikiya-san," Izaya said wanting to know more, but Shiki glared at him in a way that let him know their conversation was over. "Okay, see you soon Shiki-san!"
Izaya got out of the car giddily with his knew piece of information. Shiki just shook his head and told the driver where to take him next. It had come as a surprise to everyone when the new heir to the Ryuu-kai had openly admitted that she thought that shunning Mikiya's wife was ridiculous and that she would accept her. Mikiya's wife, Yuna, was actually her older sister so it made sense that she would be accepting of her sister's choice. Shiki still has his doubts about the Ryuu-kai heir, though.
*Mikiya is the son of Dougen Awakusu. He is the next in line to become the leader of the Awakusu-kai!
Edit: I re-posted the first and second chapters after I had Gentle Kiss Beta them. She's the best! You all should check her out. She writes for DRRR too.
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I made up the name Yuna for Mikiya's wife, I looked everywhere online for what her real name was, but I guess they don't mention it in the light novels
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