A/N: Here's chapter 4 guys!
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Mission Impossible 2: Finding The Missing Piece
Chapter 4
"Wow Soujirou, you're amazing." Angel (A/N: The woman Misao was talking to on the phone in chapter 1) sighed and wrapped herself in the sheets.
"You're a much better lover than Misao was." He winked.
"She's such an idiot, I can't believe she never knew about us. When I called her the other day she said she was going back home. She said something about some guy named Aoshi."
"Like Aoshi would ever take her back." Soujirou chuckled in satisfaction.
"Actually, at work the other day I got a call from your hometown, it was an older woman so I asked about Misao. She said that Misao had been hanging out with Aoshi a lot and she knew they were meant to be together." (A/N: Angel works at a medical company so she receives calls from all around. Angel…do I use that name a lot or am I going crazy?)
Soujirou shot up in panic, "What?!"
"Calm down, I don't see the big deal. We're together now."
"No! You don't understand!" Soujirou threw off his sheets and dashed into the closet.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"I have to go." He pulled on his jeans and grabbed his car keys.
"Misao's not your wife anymore!"
"You're right but I'm a sure as hell not going to let Aoshi have her and I'm not into a long term relationship. You mean absolutely nothing to me."
Angel fell back against the headboard and watched Soujirou leave.
Misao was up before Okina every morning since Aoshi had decided to stay just friends.
Okina watched her from the table, lifelessly washing dishes.
"Misao, dear, do you want to go shopping with me?"
"I don't know, Jiya."
"You truly are special in every way, you know."
"Yes, I know."
Okina sighed before heading to out the door.
Aoshi held his phone to his ear, listening to Sakura go on and on.
"So I can't wait to see you tonight!" Sakura exclaimed bring him back to reality.
"I can't wait to see you either." He whispered.
"I should have to go know, my mom's on the other line."
"Ok, goodbye."
Aoshi set his phone down on the nightstand and tried to catch some more sleep.
Hawk laid beside him, whining.
"What's wrong boy?"
Hawk turned his head towards the nightstand where a picture of Sano, Misao, and himself sat.
"I know." Aoshi patted Hawk's head before drifting to sleep.
"Sano, you really should go over there." Megumi had been harassing him about Misao all week.
"Why?" He moaned.
"You are the one who started all this with Soujirou, and then with my sister. You have to drop her car off anyway."
"Ugh, I guess." He forced himself off the couch and grabbed Misao's keys.
Misao closed her laptop as she heard a car pull into the driveway.
Assuming it was Okina she went out to help him with groceries.
She stepped out on the porch barefoot despite the ice and snow everywhere.
Her eyes widened as she caught sight of that silver viper. (A/N: Do I have to disclaim cars? Well just in case I don't own a viper…or something along those lines.)
Soujirou stepped out, hardly dressed for the weather in his jeans and short sleeved blue t-shirt.
Not that her gray tunic and jean capris were much of a winter clothes.
She stood as if her feet themselves were frozen to the porch.
"Misao! Let's talk." Soujirou gave her a big smile as he stepped up on the porch with her.
"Leave." She turned and was about to go back into the house but her grabbed her arm.
"My manager told me you wrote a new song and requested it be sang by someone else. You always write my songs Misao." (A/N: She was a song writer for Soujirou back when they were married.)
"Soujirou, we're divorced. I'm not writing songs for scum like you anymore. Maybe one of your whores can." Misao wriggled out of his grasp.
"Misao, what if I told you that I want you back!"
"I know you'd be lying."
"You don't know my heart! Do you honestly think Aoshi will be able to give you happiness?!"
"What are you talking about? Aoshi's dating Sano's sister in law."
"Oh, then why are you still here? Come home with me. When you compose it's like you put magic on a page."
"You blew it Soujirou! Do you really expect me to just take you back after you cheated on me?!"
A second car rolled into the driveway, it was her convertible.
Sano stepped out.
"Well, well, if it isn't Soujirou." Sano made his way up to the porch.
"Fuck off Sano." He replied coldly.
"You can't talk to him that way!" Misao slapped Soujirou across the face.
Soujirou rubbed his stinging cheek.
"Is it my turn?" Sano cracked his knuckles.
Misao just smiled.
"I've been waiting so long for this moment." Sano hit Soujirou just where Misao had slapped him and knocked him back against the house.
His lip was bleeding and his cheek had begun to swell a little.
"Get the hell out of here." Sano warned.
"I'm not done with you Misao." Soujirou retreated to his car and sped off down the street.
"Thank you Sano." She managed to smile.
"I came to return your car. But I also wanted to know if you'd be interested in taking a walk with me?"
"Sure, let me just slip on my shoes and grab a jacket."
She slipped into the house and back out in mere minutes.
"Get in the car, there's a special place I want to go."
Sano parked the car in the empty school parking lot.
"Why are we here?"
"I'll show you, come on."
Sano got out of the car and used his wife's pass to open the door of the school.
"We're not breaking any rules are we?"
"Yeah, but I could care less."
Sano flipped on the lights in the hall and watched them slowly flicker on. (A/N: The school is on fall break for thanksgiving.)
Misao wasn't surprised that the school hadn't changed a bit.
Same cruddy lights, same cruddy lockers, and the same cruddy classrooms.
Sano led her into the cafeteria and to the lunch table at the far end of the room.
"Do you remember this table?"
"Of course, this was the table we sat at everyday all through high school."
"This is were I challenged you remember?"
Misao nodded.
Sano began to walk out of the cafeteria down the halls and Misao followed.
"You remember how you couldn't make up your mind about accepting my challenge and asked Aoshi for advice?"
"Yeah." She whispered.
Sano stopped in front of locker number 312.
"Whose locker is this Misao?"
Misao mentally scanned the image of the crowded hallway from her past.
"Aoshi's." She finally answered.
"Do you remember what he said to you January 4th just before class?"
Misao thought hard but nothing clicked.
"Think really hard Misao."
"He was getting books out of his locker." She murmured to herself.
She began to whisper bit of the conversation to herself.
"It's your choice…" She began.
"You're almost there." Sano encouraged her.
"Just remember I'll always love you!" She exclaimed.
"See, I knew you'd remember. No matter what, Aoshi will always love you. Right now he's dating Sakura but every time he's with her he's thinking about you. After you left he was depressed. He didn't care about life or death anymore. That's why he and Zane were such good friends. Zane was always telling Aoshi how pretty you were."
"So he wasn't mad at me for ditching him but upset that he couldn't be the one to hold me?"
"Bingo."
Misao stared down the hall at the door Sano had left open.
"Thank you Sano! I have to go find Aoshi!" Misao took her car keys from Sano and ran out the door.
"Glad I could help kid." He smiled before turning of the lights and walking next door to his own home.
Aoshi was awoken by knocking at the front door.
He groggily threw on a black t-shirt and opened it.
Soujirou stood in front of him, dried blood on his face.
"What do you want?" Aoshi stepped out on the porch with him.
"I'm here to take Misao back."
"Misao's not here and you best leave, you're the last person she wants to see."
"I've already seen Misao today, she was heart broken and wants to go back with me."
"What? That's impossible."
"It's also very true, I win again Aoshi."
Aoshi remained silent.
Misao's car pulled up and she climbed out.
"Ao-" She cut off when she saw Soujirou and a distant looking Aoshi.
"Soujirou! What did you say to him?!" Misao stormed up to the porch.
"Aoshi I-"
Soujirou cut her off with a kiss.
Misao pulled away stunned.
"I thought things were different this time Misao." Aoshi yanked the locket he'd given her off her neck, breaking the chain.
He slammed the door on them.
"See, he obviously doesn't want you Misao."
Misao turned to him with teary eyes.
"Get the hell out of here, you've ruined my life enough."
"Misao."
"Go!" She cried and pushed him off the porch.
Soujirou went to get in his car without a single word to her.
"Aoshi!" She pounded on the locked door. "Please! I lost you once and I don't want to do this again Aoshi!"
Silence.
She fell back against the door and just cried.
Aoshi sat on the other side of the door just listening to her.
His heart was in pain.
He threw up blood onto the floor and passed out.
Misao heard Hawk begin to whine on the other side and scratch at the door.
She peered in the side window and saw Aoshi's collapsed body in the pool of blood.
"Aoshi!" She let out a scream of fright.
She had to get in there by any means necessary.
"What do I do?" She paced back in forth.
"Why don't you break open the window?" She heard a masculine voice out of no where.
"Who are you?"
"That is not important now. Just break the window. Aoshi was right about how beautiful you are…" The voice drifted off into the distance but Misao followed his advice and broke the window.
She made her way into the house with only a few scratches.
"Aoshi?" She checked to make sure he was breathing. He was but barely.
She grabbed his phone out of his pocket and dialed 911.
"Don't worry Aoshi, you're going to be I alright. I just know it." She kissed his forehead and let her tears mix in with the blood on the floor.
"Please Aoshi, just hold on for me."
A/N: What will happen to Aoshi after such an explosive event? I was in the car and it all came to me! You'll just have to wait till next week! Thanks for reading and please review!