Hello everyone, great to be back with the storyline again, I apologise for the late update of the chapter. But let us all leave the past behind us and continue with the chapter~!
Note: I DO NOT OWN FINDER!
Once Akihito-nii was done with his shift, we went back to his apartment for the night. Which was alright in my opinion, since I found it rather lonely spending time all by myself in Asamai-san's flat. And since, Akihito-nii said that he didn't feel safe leaving me alone under such a heavily guarded area, so he asked Asami-san to let me stay in his apartment if Asami was having an allnighter, like usually now.
After a steamy shower, I came out of the bathroom with an oversized white dress-shirt (which I borrowed from Akihito-nii.) and a towel lazily wrapped around my hair. I slowly scanned the area for him, until I found him simply laying on his bed, while he held the black disk, deep thoughts.
'Most likely about the man and what he said earlier...' I thought. As I sat down beside him and slowly dried my hair with the towel.
" The man told me to bring it to him...*sigh*...Asami again..." I heard him mutter to himself while used my ability to remove the excess water from my hair and let it be absorbed by the towel.
" Then, if that's what he wants us to do, then why not do that tomorrow morning? Since we are going back to the flat tomorrow morning anyway, so why not do it then?" I suggested, before feeling the bed's weight lighten as Akihito-san sat up and gently combed through my hair with a brush beside his nightstand.
"Yeah, we'll do that. But I didn't tell the police about the situation earlier, because Asami's men took away my precious film!" complained Akihito, while I giggled at his childish outburst, as he continued to talk about Asami.
" Honestly, I know it's never a good thing when Asami's involved. But, are you sure that we'll be able to pass the disk to him? What do we do when..."
"We can just ask Asami's men to just hand it to him, on our way to the flat, simply!" I replied plainly, before turning around facing Akihito, who was still in thought about the suggestion, then agreeing with a simple nod.
"I suppose we could that...since Asami's probably doing some shady business right now...yeah! So it's decided, we'll do that! Now, time for a bath!" said Akihito-san, as he is now reverted to his old carefree self and made his way towards the shower. While I tucked myself in bed and turned the nightstand light off to get some early sleep because I suddenly have a gut feeling that I would definitely need it. But hopefully, that nothing bad happens. But of course, I was terribly wrong.
- Later, that same night in a private hospital...
A tall black-suited man walks elegantly through the hospital halls, while accompanied by another man with a more smaller build, a lighter suit and carrying a bouquet of flowers. As the two gentlemen continued to walk down the halls, two punk dressed men walked opposite them and headed towards the main entrance of the hospital, with a grim look on their faces.
"What do we do?... The disk wasn't there when we dealt with that rat, now we'll..." said the first punk in worry.
"Cool it, we can still get it back..." said the second punk, as they walked past the two gentlemen.
"He said that he gave it to one of the hotel employees with some kid. Do you remember what the waiter and the brat looked like?"
"Nah..."
The tall black-suited man stopped walking and waited for the two men to exit the hospital, before turning towards the hospital grand entrance.
"Looks like we were too late." said the black-suited man.
"Excuse me?" asked his companion in confusion. The tall man ignored the question, "We're leaving."
"Y-yes, sir!" his companion replied.
"Excuse us! Call the doctor! Hurry!" said a nurse as she pushed a cart towards a patient room which the punk men were just in.
- The next day, at the front of the Shion building...
"Asami got it!? Asami! We've got important business with him!" Akihito repeated, as two large bodyguards blocked the entrance to Asami's office. "Umm...Akihito-nii..." I tried to reason with him, but he continued to speak, "If he's not here, then tell us where he is !"
The bodyguard just ignored his shouting and continued to stay still, Akihito yelled in frustration " Hey! Are you listening !?"
"Calm down, Akihito-nii." I said and faced the bodyguard and spoke in a more calm manner, " I apologize for my guardian's earlier behaviour, but could you kindly inform that we need to see Asami-san immediately? " I asked more polity. "I am sorry, Cyan-sama. But I am afraid that is not possible at the moment." said the other bodyguard in response.
"And the reason?"
"Asami-san has announced that there were some disturbances in the area, so he has ordered maximum security in the residence and the office, till the disturbance has been taken care of."
"Did he mention for how long?"
" He did not mention in the announcement, but for now I believe it is wise to avoid these place and the residence as much as possible, till he has signalled for your return."
"I see...thank you for your time," I said with a simple curtsy and walked back to Akihito-nii.
"Akihito-nii, they won't let us in. Because there was some shady stuff going on in the area."
"Tch, fine let's go get breakfast I guess," he said with a huff before we walked out the building.
"Know what? Forget it! I'm trashing the damn thing! It has nothing to do with us!" said Akihito-nii, as we continued to towards the nearest food stall for breakfast.
"But Akihito-nii you may not know what mysterious disk does, and what if it's really important for the case that Asami-san is doing?" I asked.
"Well, it doesn't matter. But that damn Asami shouldn't mess with a journalist, I know where that bastard lives!"
"So? After leaving the disk we can finally eat, huh?" I asked as I was reminded by my stomach, that I almost skipped breakfast.
"Yeah, yeah whatever the princess wants." he teased.
While we continued to walk for a couple more minutes down the street, we heard a car parked beside us as a man suspicious walked out of the vehicle. "We have been searching for you," he said, as he walked towards us and my suspicion grew more and more as the man reached us.
'This guy is definitely shouting 'trouble', but who is he? Definitely not one of Asami-san's men, could he be one from another mafia group?...Oh no! Akihito-nii is in danger!' I thought in alarm, as I tried my best to stay alert for more spies to come.
"The other day, we were not very polite to you. The boss is waiting for you. Please get in." said the suspicious man as he got closer for comfort. I tried to step in to block him from getting any closer, but Akihito-nii grabbed my hand, pulled me away from him and started to walk away.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I'm done getting involved," said Akihito-nii as he continued walking, with me close behind him.
"B-but I must insist...I was ordered to bring you both no matter what."
"I said forget it!" Akihito-nii yelled at the man with annoyance starting to rise in his voice.
"This is very urgent business..." the man tried to explain again. But I took this as a chance to cut into the conversation.
"You," I said now stepping in front of Akihito-nii and faced the man with a serious face.
"You're definitely not one of Asami-san's men aren't you? Which group are you from?" I asked boldly.
The man didn't answer but I noticed that the man was possibly given orders, as the suspicious man started making his way towards us in a more cautious way. 'Not good! He's going to capture us!' I thought in panic, we've got to RUN.
"AKIHITO-NII, RU-mmph!?" But I was a second too late, as I later realized that two large men in suits caught us from behind us and placed a piece of cloth over our faces.
'Oh no! I can't use my pow...ers...eh? why I am suddenly so sleepy...' I thought, before I lost consciousness.
(Warning: Further up ahead, there may be some text that is quite unsettling... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!)
My eyes fluttered open, and I groaned. My head was pounding and my heartfelt weak.
I tried to rub away the remaining sleepiness from my eyes but noticed that my hands were bounded by a rectangular handcuff above me and I was hosted up in a standing position. I quietly looked around the highly expensively gold and red room for some way to escape, before activating my powers to remove the handcuffs.
"Damn you!" I heard a familiar voice beside me shout and turned to my right seeing that it was Akihito-nii, who was also bounded in the same situation as I. "Let us go! Who the hell are you guys!?" yelled Akihito-nii as he tried to struggle and kick in his restraints. However, the men in black suits didn't reply the question but instead talked among themselves in a language that I never heard of.
'What are they saying? What they want with us?' I asked myself before I heard a man from my left side spoke. Which I soon realized that he was signalling an overweight man, dressed in a weird long-sleeved dress or shirt? and small circles black tinted glasses.
" I see that the little one is awake." He said as I noticed that he started to swing a small black wipe in front of us.
"Where is the disk that you were placed in charge of?" He asked towards me in a sickly sweet voice, that could be used to trick a child. But I put up the best poker face that I could muster and yelled, "We don't have it!" However, I may have rejected it a little about actions earlier as a sudden force was stuck just below my chest, but I didn't scream or yell as I hissed slightly and bared the pain.
"It was stolen from the family, we demand it back!" he ordered.
"As she said, we don't have it! You've got a lot of guts doing this to us-ngh!" but before Akihito-nii could continue, the man struck Akihito-nii across the face with the wipe. My mouth gasped in shock at the sight as that blow caused Akihito-nii to bleed a little from his forehead, "Akihito-nii!" I yelled in anger as I was just about to use my powers to escape and aid Akihito-nii.
"Aah...I'm fine Princess, don't mind me..." I heard Akihito-nii say while he groaned in pain.
"Now then, allow me to refresh your memory, we're talking about the disk man at the hotel gave you." said the man as he started hitting Akihito-nii a number of times with irritation, "Our family's reputation was tarnished when the data we'd worked so hard to gather was snatched from our very noses. We'll do anything to get it back. Don't try anything funny, and you both might get out alive."
I gritted my teeth in anger as the man continued to wipe Akihito-nii and since I couldn't take it any longer, I said. "Then you should have done a better job uncle. If you're going to put the blame on innocent bystanders, then isn't that just shameful?" The man shifted his attention towards me, while Akihito-nii huffs a laugh at the comment.
"Y-you insolent child! Do you even know what situation you are?!" said the man as he was obviously enraged by my innocent comment.
"We were given the disk, but we don't have it anymore. We couldn't meet with the guy we were supposed to give it to. So, we threw it away." I simply replied, not even bothered to answer his earlier question.
"Why you little...!" The man said in frustration, as the man started rising his wipe to hit me. But I faced him dead on, as I challenged him to strike, while I heard Akihito-nii in the background trying to stop the man from hitting me.
"Ngh!" I groaned as the man struck my leg this time.
"Lies! Are you asking for death!?" yelled the man as his patience runs thin. I didn't really care what he did to me, as long as Akihito-nii is alright, then it's fine. The man raised his wipe again to strike me, but it never came as an elegant, cold voice has spoken from within the room. I turned towards the source of the voice, only to be greeted by the sight of a beautiful man with a tall and slender build. The man also had long inky black hair and cold brown eyes that almost reminds me of Asami-san when he spoke with my creator.
The man with the wipe seemed to have paled rather immediately as he heard the long-haired man speak to him in the same language that I couldn't understand from earlier. While Akihito-nii and I watched slightly as the two men had a small conversation between them however the long-haired man ended the conversation with a cold reply, punched the man square in the face and made his way towards us.
Once he was in front of us, I flinched slightly as he placed a hand under my chin and lifted my head up to face his cold, narrowed eyes as I felt him tiled my face this way and that. After a minute or so of staring into others eyes, he spoke."Did you really throw away the disk?" he asked.
"I thought it was too dangerous to hang onto. But it looks like it's too late anyway." I replied plainly trying not to show any emotion.
'That was close, I almost blew our cover!' I said to myself, but I didn't lose hope as tried my best to handle the long-haired man for Akihito-nii to take the chance to find a way out.
"But if you really work for Asami...then I can't believe you at all." He studied my features, the hidden experiment number tattoo that was hidden within my inner thighs and I trembled, in disgust, fear and anger as he continued examining my body. "Such a thin structure for a child your age, and this hair..." he says as his hands gently combed through my hair. "so soft like the finest silk, yet such old hair colour...did you perhaps dye it?" he asked.
"No, it's not. I was born with such a hair colour." I answered automatically. The man in long hair raised an eyebrow in interest and continued roaming around my body, till one of his hands started travelling upwards towards my inner thigh. I saw Akihito-nii twitch in anger, his eyes still fixed on us, and I sent him a pleading glance, begging him to not try anything.
I twitched as the man suddenly placed his hand under my chin and tilted my head to face his cold brown eyes again, but these time we were inches apart from our noses touching each other.
"You seem to be a good way to keep your guardian under control." He must have seen the look I had given to Akihito-nii. "You're an odd one, huh? You have such fine skin. I think...I'll play with you till you feel like talking."
"Wha-!" I exclaimed in disgust. But I didn't have any time to protest, as the longer haired man ordered his lackeys to releases me and covered my mouth and eyes again with a cloth, I heard could hear Akihito-nii yell my name along with his protests, only to later feel my consciousness fade away slowly, again.
And that's the appearance of Mr. Fei Long. Alright~ That's all for this chapter, hoped you liked it and I made it longer~! However! If you have any comments, questions, concerns or requests, just ask away~ See you in the next chapter~!
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