Hey all, sorry this has taken so long to release. I've been oversees for two weeks, plus Christmas/new years and all, so ive been thoroughly booked. But don't worry, Ive been writing heaps so u can look forward to more soon. PLEASE REVIEW! Rimah xx
"Hey Mai. Long time no see, how are you." Akihito had just arrived in LA, after his ten and a half hour trip all up, from Japan', to Mia's upper-class home in central Los Angeles. Having been treated like a king in first class, with the gift his mother and Mai had given him the year before. As the door was opened further, he saw the two children he hadn't seen in over a year... Or was it two. "Oh my god, look at you two, look how big you've grown." The two little girls both offered big toothy grins at the 'funny' comment from their uncle. "Uncle Akiiii!" They both squealed as they jumped up and down and squeezed around him for big hugs. Of course, the joy he felt was cut almost immediately when his older sister decided to place a comment. "I'm surprised you girls even remember the idiot" she eyed him with dignified anger, trying to hold back her true feelings before they suddenly spilt out.
"You have no idea how much mum was freaking out about you. I thought for sure you'd finally gone and gotten yourself killed. Especially when you never called for what... Eight months was it? What the hell were you thinking?" Akihito gave a small shudder in the seat he was positioned. After greeting everybody in the small family, he had been ushered to come inside and was currently sitting in the large spacy living room of his sisters Los Angeles home. "C'mon Mai, not now. I'll explain if it's really all that important, but not now."
"Fine" She rolled her eyes and looked away, over to the girls' bedrooms where they had run off to after greeting their uncle. "So... What are you here for anyway? So suddenly calling and not giving any proper explanation the other day? What's this trouble you're in, and why the hell do you have to come all the way here to get away from it? If you're stay here for even one night, I demand to know!"
Takaba sighed, not wanting to get into a fight with his sister. "Fine. But do not judge me, no matter what you think about any of what I'm going to tell you. You also have to sit quietly and just listen 'till I'm finished. Don't ask any questions either, or I won't continue, alright?" Mai nods and grunts, rolling her eyes, as Akihito begun.
He told her everything- leaving out the gruesome parts, which mostly consisted of countless rape sessions and tremendous violence levels. He told her the minimum about Asami, for her own protection, but explained how he was brutally abducted from Tokyo and taken to Hong Kong and held captive there for seven months where he was terribly mistreated for the most part. Then he touched on the heavy bits, about his obvious sexuality issues, in her eyes, and about getting shot at, and then about what brought him there and why his physical appearance was practically no better than a bombsite.
She sat through the whole tale, eyes plastered on Akihito's face as she tried to grasp what she was hearing. But it was the last few sentences that really had her mind reeling: "And so I need your help, and Jake's. I have to disappear for good, I realized only recently when I was literally forced to make the choice. He doesn't feel anything for me, he never has and probably never will. I don't want to wait around for him to get bored of me and throw me out. I wouldn't be able to stand it, so I'm leaving him and I want to make it so he can never find me. So please, listen to my idea, hear me through, and then we can all move on, and I'll repay you all." Mai was silent. Firstly; her brother was gay, not that she cared in the least, but it was simply something she had never seen coming. Secondly, the person he was with was not only a man but a freaking Yakuza and a top dog at that. And thirdly; Akihito, her once lively little brother, had actually come to her to ask for help in getting away from his life, or rather, getting his life back. And on top of it all, to hear what he had been through, to hear the obvious mental and physical trauma that her young brother had been through all by himself, it made her heart wrench in sadness and longing to pick him up an simply soothe him for the rest of the night.
"Yes", she whispered, her eyes close to tears.
"Ok well, I need to disappear so that's where I need you, and Jake's, help..."
It was late in the evening when Akihito finally laid down to rest for the night. His mind was spinning with all the details; for the next few days he would simply spend relaxing with his sister and her young family, while Jake, Mai's husband, would try arrange everything, through his unique and handy job.
Hehe, so there you have it! End of chapter four. Don't worry, you're meant to not understand what is happening exactly, it makes it more exciting! Please keep reviewing! Can anyone guess what work Jake is involved with?! xx