I finally updated! sorry for the wait!
Okay, so this was going to actually be two separate chapters but I noticed how short they were getting...so you readers get to have an extra treat! :D
Enjoy!
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The day after Haku read the scroll, she had a joyful look on her face, especially when people were ordering food. Her workers wondered why she was so happy.
Meiko, Gumi, Luka, and one other worker, Neru, decided to find out why their boss was cheerful since yesterday. Of course, the girls could not ask her directly, or else they risk turning their boss's mood into something foul. Before they could devise a plan, they discussed something in the back room before opening.
"You know…Haku rarely gets mail sent to her unless they're thank-you notes within the restaurant," Gumi was the first to say.
"That is true, considering the fact that she hasn't told us anything about herself for the past who-knows-how-long we all worked here," Meiko stated.
"It might be from her parents!" Luka exclaimed with a clap on the side.
"I dunno Luka, she cringed the last time Rin asked about her family right before she left with Teto when they found a good family to live with," Neru blended in with the conversation with her blunt statement.
"Maybe it was someone of a higher status, you know, like an emperor!" Gumi thought aloud.
"Maybe…but wouldn't that be too much?" Meiko told her.
The four of them put their heads together for one last idea. After ten minutes of intense thinking, only one word came into mind. They all said it at the same time:
"Her lover!"
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The workers were happily humming and giggling to themselves as their work persisted. Luka and Gumi twirled around while taking orders. Neru smiled quietly to herself as she cleaned the dishes. Meiko, however, decided to share this with Kaito as he kept her company at the sake station.
Before Meiko had the chance to say anything about it, Kaito said, "I'm guessing you heard about the scroll your boss read when it came for her in the restaurant mail."
The brunette, shocked, asked, "H-how did you know about that?"
"She slept with it," He said.
"Did you look through it?" Meiko asked.
"No" was his blunt answer.
The sake-station worker can see why he wouldn't look through her personal belongings; it was either he didn't care or he was too much of a gentleman to look through her belongings.
"So you don't know why she's so happy about the content of it?" Meiko wondered.
"I never said that," Kaito sipped some sake.
Meiko sighed aloud, but was still excited about the thought of what the scroll said. Her thoughts then shifted to Kaito.
"You've been here for a few days. I know the town is very nice once you get used to it. Although this may sound rude, but when are you leaving?" Meiko asked.
She caught Kaito off guard. He looked down at the table and then drank some sake.
"You know, I actually don't have to be there until about a week and a half," Kaito told her.
Meiko nodded in understanding but she was curious as to why he lied to her the first time. She shrugged it off since she enjoyed that fact the Kaito was an interesting yet mysterious man. That and because she would have no one to talk to except for the waitresses using her for orders or men that would flirt with her as they drank until they were drunk.
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After closing, Kaito was preparing to go to sleep. He slipped under his blanket and was about to drift into dream-land. His icy-blue eyes closed reluctantly, knowing that the images shown will be the same as any other.
"Al a re la ye, Al a re la yo"
Kaito opened his eyes immediately at the unfamiliar voice. It was low, barely audible, but the darkness enhanced his hearing significantly. The voice was coming from the room in front of him.
His curiosity intensified with each word heard. Taking his sword, Kaito stood up and motioned to the door in front of him. He unsheathed a little of the sharp weapon and began to slide the door. Kaito slid it open enough so that he can come in, but he decided to take look.
Inside the room were at least twenty lit candles, all small. In the center of the room was Haku in a stool with a couple of buckets of water in front of her. The woman was naked with her back turned to him. She was slim but very curvy with decently large breasts.
Haku was washing her long white hair and singing at the same time, not realizing that the blue haired man was watching her.
"So she can talk," Kaito accidentally said aloud, immediately receiving a reaction from Haku.
Haku stopped all her singing and washing upon hearing Kaito's voice. She looked behind to see him staring at her. His eyes were a little wide and his face was red. Her reaction was no less different than that of her trying to cover herself up.
The blue haired man dropped his sword immediately. In the blink of an eye, Kaito closed the door. After she finished up and came out dressed in sleepwear, the blue haired man dragged her by the hand and then used his hand to pin her by the neck against wall.
The man told her, "This was an accident. I thought you were an intruder."
Haku breathed heavily, almost about to cry. Her tears streamed down her face. Some of them dripped onto Kaito's hand that was almost choking her neck.
"You had a lot of people believe you were mute. That was very rude of you, in my opinion." Kaito said as the grip of his hand tightened a little. The woman's sobs were not heard, but they were seen. She never felt this vulnerable in her life. Haku tried to struggle her way out of the man's hands but he kept his grip.
"I will apologize for my intrusion, nothing more," Kaito said before releasing the woman. Haku went straight to her bed, not even acknowledging Kaito's presence within the room. She hugged her knees to her chest, forming a small ball once she laid down.
On the other side of the room, Kaito was still awake, not able to fall asleep for a few reasons only he could think of. He really did feel bad for doing that to the very person who let him have a bed. However, he was angry at her for hiding the fact that she can speak.
"You know, you really had me going for a second," Kaito said aloud, trying to see if she will react.
She did not even flinch.
"The fact that you won't share anything about yourself makes you a very mysterious yet annoying person. Getting used to you and your antics sometimes makes me want to punch something."
Not even a smidge.
Kaito felt himself getting frustrated by her silence. Usually people would respond or cringe at his sharp-tounged words. He got up and stood by the woman's bed. Her back was facing him, which irritated him. He kneeled down and extended his hand, almost reaching her neck.
Kaito's hand stopped an inch before her neck. Haku shifted, which caused her back to look the other way and her face to look at the man before her. Her eyes, however, were closed and she was fast asleep. There were tears streaks across her face.
The man saw all of this in the dark. He looked down to see something written on a scroll. As he picked it up, Kaito moved into a different room and lit two or three candles. He read it to himself slowly, in-taking the information.
"I will not give up!"
That was the first sentence. Kaito read on.
"At least…that was what I told myself for years."
Kaito was a little confused but was intrigued by it.
"The restaurant will be closed tomorrow."
That was the end of the note. Nothing special was attached to it.
'If it wasn't for my patient side, she would be dead right now…,' Kaito thought to himself.