Takaba was starting to lose his patients as he negotiated with the man in front of him, it was just supposed to be a quick and simple deal, but the man in front of him was making things more complicated then they needed to be. Takaba had made sure from the start to lay down exactly how far he was willing to negotiate when it came to the deal itself and he had even provided the paperwork that needed to be signed for the deal, but the man felt that he wasn't being compensated fairly for what he was about to lose, and the amount that he was going to have to pay in cash was way too much for his liking. Kirishima stood behind Takaba and was overseeing the deal incase there came a reason for him to get involved, but so far he was pleased to see that the boy was doing well acting as his boss.
"Everything has been laid out in front of you, when you agreed to making this deal last week you knew everything that I was presenting to you, and you knew everything that you were to have to give to make this deal work, you placed no arguments then and you have no right to place them now." Takaba stated again as he tried to keep a very cold stare on the man in front of him who had his brow furrowed and was rubbing his hands together between his legs in a nervous fashion, he more then likely knew that he could get himself into a lot of trouble if he pushed the limits too far.
"Well you see, things have changed since then." The man started out slowly as he looked at Takaba but made sure not to make any direct eye contact with the other. "And I- I really don't think that I can-" the man stopped mid sentence when Takaba set down some papers in front of him.
"If you can't make the deal, then you have to pay compensation." Takaba replied, as the man looked over the papers in front him, shocked at what he saw. "This is exactly what you agreed to when we made the pre-deal agreement, in case the deal was backed out on the last second, I handed you what you wanted at the beginning of this deal, but can you back what was given with twenty percent interest?" Takaba almost couldn't resist the smirk that tugged at his lips when he watched the man in front of him pale considerable as his mouth opened and closed in disbelief of what he was reading. "Well, what will it be?" Takaba wasn't really that in favor of what he was doing, but seeing as it wasn't technically him that was in charge of what he was currently doing he didn't mind it so much.
"I-I'll make the deal." The man finally conceded after being quiet for sometime.
"Then sign the papers here." Takaba told the man as he put the paper in front of him for him to sign.
Takaba almost couldn't hold back the sigh of relief after the man had left, it was hard for him to do this kind of work, he didn't honestly feel that he was suited for sitting in an office all day and doing what Asami did on a daily basis, he knew that if he was to be forced to do this for too long it would end up driving him insane.
"Might I offer you?" Takaba turned away from the window to look at Kirishima who was holding out Asami's cigarettes to him. "Asami-sama takes one of these to ease the stress on his mind after dealing with something this hard." Takaba stared at the cigarettes for quite sometime, a certain side of him thought that maybe smoking one wouldn't be that bad because a small side of his body craved it despite the fact that he knew how nasty the things were and how awful the smell of them was. Kirishima was about to retract the cigarettes when Takaba reached his hand forward and pulled one of the out of the box, Kirishima didn't waste a second of time lighting it for Takaba. The moment that the cigarette was light, a strange feeling of relaxing passed over him as he sucked in the first puff, the warmth coming off the end of it was a strange yet comforting feeling to his face and it caused him to close his eyes some as he took in the scent and the feel of the object in his mouth as the nicotine started to travel through his system, thankfully Takaba knew better then to get addicted to them because of how much trouble they could cause his body, especially for someone like him who enjoyed running around like a loose canon ball. Takaba's peace sadly only lasted for about fifteen minutes before there was a knock on the door signaling that he was already going to have to deal with the next person.
"Let's get this over with." Takaba sighed as he retook his seat the desk and put the cigarette out.
"Aki, where've you been all this time?" Kou asked with a big grin on his face as he kept his hand on Asami's shoulder.
"You made us worry man, after talking about your latest job you just suddenly disappeared and we haven't heard anything from you for the past three days." Takato said as he punched Asami lightly in the shoulder. Asami looked at them for a few seconds before shifting the lollipop in his mouth to one side he spoke.
"Kou, Takato?" it came out as a half question, half statement as Asami looked at who he believed he knew to be the photographer's friends.
"Don't tease us by acting like you don't know us." Kou grinned wide as he smacked Asami on the back almost causing him to flinch noticeable. Asami definitely wouldn't have left the sanctuary of his pent house had he known that he was going to run into Takaba's friends while he was out, he knew for a fact that now he was going to have to act like Takaba more then ever, that was if he didn't want the boy's friends to become suspicious of him.
"Sorry about that guys." Asami said with a grin as he shifted the camera case on his shoulders. "Things have just been a little busy."
"Things don't look that busy right now considering we just caught you wandering around, you weren't trying to play hooky with us were you?" Asami laughed at this question.
"Come on, you guys know me better then to do something like that, I honestly have been really busy up until now."
"Then if you don't have anything going on, how about we go someplace to catch up on some things, you didn't tell us how it went on your latest job." Kou said as he put an arm around Asami's shoulder.
"Yeah, you mentioned you had a job having to deal with a politician that was recently admitted to the hospital." Asami couldn't help but to smirk when he heard about this, his boy really did get some good leads when he wanted.
"It was a rather boring job." Asami replied with a shrug of his shoulders as he followed between Kou and Takato as they lead him to wherever it was they were going to be going.
"So I take it then that it wasn't another thrilling case for you?"
"It was easy to get the photos, the guy didn't even really have that much protection around him, he seemed kinda pissed though when he stopped me taking the photos, but thankfully nobody really chased me that far before they gave up." Asami knew better then to run his mouth too much, so instead he decided to play things on the safe side and tell the two the things that the photographer had told him about taking the photos, though the boy had failed to mention the fact that the person he had gone after had been an ailing politician. Asami was mildly surprised and amused when he found himself standing in front of what looked to be a shoddy bar. It did surprise Asami slightly to see them standing in front of such a place for he didn't think that Takaba was that much drinker, or at least he didn't come across as much of one. Asami was pleased once again to see that as they entered the place that not too many people turned to look at them, at least he was going to be able to enjoy himself a bit.
Takaba could say that he was more then a little worried when it became nearing towards nightfall and Asami had yet to return, he had smoked at least six different cigarettes and down two glass of whisky, and now sat on the love seat tapping his foot impatient as his eye stayed glued to the clock in front of him. Asami hadn't been answer the phone calls he had been sending him and he knew better then to rely on the guard that had been supposed to be following Asami because he knew that Asami was going to have to lose the man. Takaba had yet to give Kirishima or Souh an orders as he didn't want something to happen to them while either or was gone, he just had to hope that Asami would come back soon and tell him exactly what was going on with him being gone for so long.
Takaba thanked whatever person had listened to him because not more then five minutes later the sound of the pent house door opening was heard as someone entered and shut the door behind them. Takaba stood the moment that he was saw Asami come into view.
"Where have you been?" Takaba asked, his voice laced with concern as he stayed the other who was now almost standing in front of him, it was easy to tell right away something was off about Asami, Takaba wasn't certain what it was, but he just knew that something wasn't right. Takaba wrinkled his nose and almost leaned back when the scent of alcohol hit his nose and rather strongly at that when Asami opened his mouth to speak, Takaba didn't fail to notice the fact that Asami had a slight slur was he spoke.
"I was drinking with Kou and Takato." Asami replied as he leaned into Takaba causing the other to have to lean from what the weight pressed against him but at the same time he knew that he couldn't lean too far back without having to worry about hurting himself or Asami. Takaba hadn't really thought about it before because he didn't really think that it would be much of a worry about the older man drinking as he seemed to know what his limits were, but Takaba failed to think about the fact that know that Asami was in his body his limitations were going to be rather different, meaning that Asami wasn't going to be able to drink as much as he usual did. Takaba was caught off guard when he suddenly found himself forced to flump back onto the love seat with Asami straddle his hips while Takaba leaned back and looked at him with slightly wide eyes, while Asami's eyes showed clouded lust.
"Kiss me." These to words caught Takaba completely off guard.