Part Two

"Boss, I found her," the young one shouted, he looked to be no more than sixteen, too young to be a thug.

His voice becomes squeal when I kicked him in the balls, sending him away from her. I already pulled out my pocketknife and flipped the blade out, just as the others poured at me but I was prepared. Even in the confinement of the train, I was able to elbowed a few of them in the face while cutting the other few to let them know that jumping at me or the woman behind me isn't a very good idea. Some suffered from broken nose, busted lips, and a few broken teeth as others suffered from minor cuts from my pocketknife when the fight ended with them lying scattered about trying to stop the bleeding and nursing their wounds.

I snatched up the one with a goatee and pressed my knife against his cheek, "She's with me and who the fuck says you can take her?"

"Wolfgang Yuri," he swallowed hard as his eyes focused more on the blade than on me.

"Let me rephrase this again," I said lowering my voice to a dangerous level. "Do you fucking think that you can kidnap a grown woman?" I continued pressed the tip harder against his cheek until it drawn blood.

"We're sorry, please forgive us…" the one in my grasp pleaded.

"Ara, ara…" I knew she finally woke up but unsure what her reactions would be to the scene in front of her.

"We apologize for the mistake, please forgive us!" the rest of them quickly got on their knees and their head flat against the floor begging to me while apologizing to Shizuru at the same time.

"Tell the person that hired you to leave her alone and scram before I change my mind and guts you all." I said shoving him away and they quickly scattered just as the train stop at its normal stopping route.

"Ara, you don't look so well," Shizuru said as I plopped down onto my seat and put away my knife, I could see my right hand was shaking slightly.

In a moment, a delicate hand with a handkerchief was dapping and wiping away the sweats that started to form on my forehead as the adrenaline died down from the fight. She was beautiful and gentle, but after that fight I suddenly found myself questioning about her background. Reaching out with my shaky hand, I stopped her movements and pulled her down next to me.

"Does that happen often?" I asked looking at her as my hand still holds onto hers.

"Ara, not for the last four years," she replied though refusing to meet my eyes.

"Look at me," I said using my left hand to lift her chin up so that our eyes met and also to keep her from turning away from me. "Why are there people after you?"

"They're after me because I'm the only child in my family," Shizuru answered and I could tell that she's holding back a lot of information that would help me to better asset the situation.

"Does wanting me to come to Kyoto was part of keeping them away?" I asked as I honestly wanted to know, not to needle her or be mean though I saw a flicker of something in her eyes before she closed them to not have to look at me.

"No, I did not know that they would come after me again after the last time…" she trailed off while keeping her eyes closed.

Our discussion was never finished when something blow a hole through the door at other end of the train, revealing a group of people with some very heavy artilleries on them. She jumped to her feet as I did the same with my knife out; I knew there would be no way in hell we will get out of this mess when all I got was a knife. We were outnumbered and outgunned, but I can't just let them get her while I'm alive. I left her side and moved quick before they could react, this time mercy wasn't shown on them as I made sure to go for the vital points until one of them knocked me off my feet.

"That's enough, you will not hurt her." I vaguely heard Shizuru raised her voice at them as I tried to pull myself up while not thinking about the flaring pain on my solar plexus.

A few popping sounds echoed throughout the empty train and all was silence again by the time I got back on my feet. Gasping for air as I tried to calm my nerves down enough so that I made my way up to her and the bodies lying about, Shizuru had effectively killed them with their own weapons though the look on her face told me that she wasn't intending on killing them. I put my pocketknife away and started to work on disposing of the bodies on a moving train, aware that she's watching me while trying to grasp the concept of what she'd just done just to save a pathetic person like me.

"Shit," I cursed when I realized that a stray bullet managed to graze my side before I was knocked off my feet.

That seemed to draw her out of her trance and within moments, she's at my side helping me to stop the bleeding. Her hand was so soft, delicate and her movements were so gentle that I stopped feeling the pain as I focused only on her touches. She apologized but I just shook my head and soon we're back to the comfort silence until our stop.

"I'm really sorry to drag you into all of this," Shizuru once more apologized.

I stopped following her and that caused her to stop and look back at me, "No reason to be sorry over that, I've been through worse and this just means that I may need to pick up some firepower."

She remained mute and looked at me as if she knew that I was going to say more, but she looked quite surprised when I grasped her hand with my own, shaky it may be. I definitely didn't want her to think that all that happened on the train was nothing but troublesome to me. Now I have a better reason to take up arms than before, and that was good enough for me.

"Shizuru, listen to me okay?" I asked and she nodded her head but never broke our eye contact.

"No matter what happen, I will not let them get to you. I promise," I finished.