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Chapter 07

Silent Attraction II

- Previously -

"I said it before Mitsukuni," her head motioned him to the door, "Takashi is my problem now."

Mitsukuni wished he was a school kid again so that way he could sob and cry for being in trouble even though he knew how much he deserved it for breaking who knows how many promises. He got up and left the room to patch up his bleeding knuckles after he slid the door closed for them to talk in private—depending on if the place was wired or not. Haruhi watched the sliding door for a few good second before deciding to remove her foot off Takashi's chest so she could walk a few feet away for him to sit up finally. She was not happy that she had to show her face much sooner than expected, and could only be so grateful that she still had her long hair so that he would not catch onto her plans about the tournament.

"Mitsukuni and the others kept quiet to protect us, and you will apologize to them." Haruhi stated as she started to leave.

He was not going to allow this however as he grasped her wrist to nudge her form to turn around to look at him. "…Haruhi." His hands came up to her face when noticing how she did not want to look in his eyes. "Haruhi," he tried to get her to look at him, but instead, tears began to fill her large brown eyes—so he wrapped his arms around her smaller form tightly to comfort her. "Haruhi."

"Stop it, let go…" Haruhi demanded with little effort of leaving his warmth. "I'm with someone else…"
"Let me be your servant then," he slid to the ground, nuzzling her stomach as he used to, "don't leave me alone again."
"Takashi, stop waiting on me… please." Her eyes closed, tears dropping against his head. "Apologize to that woman for me, okay?"
"No, I promised to wait for you, and now I get to see you—and touch you." His hands held her tightly to make sure she would stay.
She tried to think away out of this mess, but knew there was nothing. "I cannot betray the man that I'm with now…"
"You were with me first." Takashi sounded like a stubborn child. "I want to always be there for you."

"And I always want to be there for you, but that is something that I can't do for you unless it's only friendship." Unfortunately aware of how he would disagree to this as seriously as possible, and so he stood up to look deep in her eyes, slowly leaning forth to place his lips gently against his. His attempt stopped however when he felt something against his stomach with a click sharply heard; no, she could not possibly be placing a gun on him, let having a gun in her possession. "Please stop touching me, Morinozuka Takashi."

Eyes lightened with worry as he hesitantly removed his hands from her body, only to see the black pistol that she had most likely taken off safety in order to shoot him if she needed to. The Fujioka Haruhi he knew would not do such a thing, but that was just the thing though, this woman had obviously gone through a lot more than he could possibly imagine. Knowing that he was going to keep his distance now, she placed the gun in safety mode before placing against her back and her black jeans while watching him.

"When you apologize to that woman, and ask for her to return, maybe we can talk." As she watched him fall on his butt as he tried to listen to her. "Looking at you now tells me why I'm taking Choko, even for two months." His attention went up to look at her. "You wasted every second looking for me that you ignored our little girl. Does it even bother you that we fought so hard to avoid that?!"

"You left me!" Takashi finally snapped. His eyes widened when realizing that he had actually yelled at her. "Haruhi… I…"

"Yeah, you're right, I did leave—I was stupid enough to listen to your mother to leave without saying a word to you about anything. When I realized that I was pregnant—" She cut herself short and covered her mouth with her only working hand as she nodded. "I don't have to explain anything to you, especially when you have that look in your eyes of how you want to kill someone badly."

Haruhi turned to walk away, which lead Takashi to stand up to try to grab her wrist…

Only to end up with a gun pointing to his throat before he could even blink.

"I told Lì to spend the night. You're invited to watch us leave tomorrow."

- Now -

Why was he here?

Why was he standing two hundred feet away from his daughter and son along with the woman he has loved for more than twelve years that were standing at the doorway of a private jet that had his son's grinning face plastered on the side of it as if he were an advertisement product. Even though his son told him last night that, Kasanoda Ritsu, had given him the jet as a gift for transferring in to Ouran Academy. Why was he not running over there and telling them to stay in Japan with him, that they could work everything out one way or another—be it that he must leave the Morinozuka family or completely ignore everything that she believed was right for him in the long run of his life. He did not know if it was the fact that Haruhi might shoot him or the minor issue of the Kasanoda yakuza was making sure he could not go to her.

Why was the Kasanoda group hear, and where was Fujioka Ronin?

Takashi did not like how things were turning out.

"Don't worry about China Jie-Jie, we have a nice place there." Takeshi grinned happily.

The siblings bonded a lot faster than what their mother could ever hope for, but there was a tinge of doubt in her mind about her son did not fully want to leave Japan as much as he did yesterday, and she knew that it had something to do with his father that he was able to talk with yesterday. Her attention went towards the giant with his brother at his side and the Haninozuka family a few feet away from them as a separate goodbye party. Playful complaints were heard between the brother and sister, she turned to see them playfully punching each other's shoulders while saying who would fall asleep on the plane first, allowing her to give a gentle sad smile when she knew what it was that she had to do for everyone.

"Takeshi," Haruhi called softly, not even looking at her son at this moment.
He stopped playing and looked at her with worry for being called by his name, "Mama?"
"You want to stay now, don't you?" Her attention went to him. "You want to learn about him now?"
"N-No, of course not! I want to be with you! You're silly!" His grin could not fool her, nor could his laughter.

"You just started school a few days ago, and taking you away from that will crush the thing you wanted most; to be a better lawyer than I am right now." Haruhi gave both a bare and casted hand to her son in exchange for his own right then. "It might be a good opportunity for you to learn more and gain greater experiences if you stay in Japan. I'm sure Ritsu will let you stay at his syndicate and be treated like King Tut himself." Her useable hand caressed his. "After school, and after your studies, maybe you can ask your father to train with you, perhaps even Uncle Mitsukuni can teach you a few moves of his own, both of them will teach you well."

"W-What?! I'm not going to leave you!" Not thrilled with this idea made him panic.
"Just for two months, and things can go back the way they were." Haruhi smiled weakly.
Choko looked at her with a frown. "No way, I don't want things to go back to how they were!"
Ritsu spoke up towards the two. "You two better listen to your mother, don't make things harder."
"We're not doing anything!" The two replied in unison, catching all four of them by surprise to this.

"I will be taken care of by your sister and more," Haruhi stated calmly as she knew this would settle him down some until she added. "This may be the only time you will be able to spend time with your father, so I want you to make the best of things as they are…"

Takeshi understood ever word that she was saying to him, but he did not like the fact that she wanted to leave him behind so he could know a little more about whom and what his is. He did not want to disagree with his mother, so only because he knew that Kasanoda Ritsu would be with his mother, he knew that she would be safe for two months. His arms wrapped around his mother in a strong hug, and she happily returned to hugging him back and kissing his forehead to prove that everything would be just fine. The boy then walked down the stairs towards the Kasanoda yakuza who bowed roughly to him for his return to them, and he nodded to the large group before talking to Sendo Tetsuya to explain the changes in plans.

"Ritsu, please do me a favor." Haruhi turned to look at her boyfriend, seeing the confusion in his eyes. "Please stay and watch him."

The redhead started at her with heavy thoughts of disagreeing with her favor she asked of him, but he could only obeyed as he wrapped her in his arms for a hug before kissing her on the lips, and released her in order to walk down to his group of men as the door closed on the jet. Takeshi saw how everyone bowed to someone behind him, so he turned—only to become pale white when seeing the one person he felt safe to leave his mother with if he was not there to be with them, and he made a desperate attempt to run after the jet as it started to move forward to leave the question. The Haninozuka group had already walked over so that they would be able to question the yakuza leader about what was going on, but as soon as they saw the boy with his suicidal attempt to catch up to the jet, the siblings grabbed the middle school boy to keep him out of harms away.

He did what he could do from that point on.

Scream bloody murder for his mother.

Takashi watched as the boy furiously took down Haninozuka Mitsukuni and Yasuchika before trying to go after the jet once again, yet Ritsu punched the boy in the stomach so that he would blackout and cause less of a ruckus when there was nothing that he could do about the situation. Ritsu talked with the Haninozuka family as some of the men took the unconscious boy to his black car, it was something that the giant was not to happy to see this for obvious reasons, yet the last thing that he wanted to do was have the group calling Haruhi and tattling on him about something. Mitsukuni seemed a little sad about whatever it was that the group was discussing, though his face turned to the giant with surprise—it seems that some news was just passed around and someone may have hit some sort of jackpot in the making, so what exactly was the jackpot here?

"Haruhi gave you a job." Ritsu called to the giant as he was walking passed him. "The Morinozuka family and Haninozuka family are to train the kid sometime after school once his studies are completed." He stopped in place, grabbing a cigarette to place between his lips as he added. "If something happens to the kid on your watch, we'll kill you without remorse." With his, he walked away.

"Perhaps, it should be you that needs to be killed—touching the lips of a married woman?' Takashi turned around to look at the now stopped redhead, and now he knew something was wrong. "You and Fujioka Ronin do not seem friendly either, am I right about it?"
Hearing a slight tone of jealously, he lit the cigarette before turning to him. "He's more of a show for the public to get everyone off my case… after all, a boss of a yakuza group and a lawyer being together is too much stress when dealing with the press and all."
"Kasanoda," Mitsukuni spoke darkly with one hand in his pocket while the other hand fallen limp. "There was a strict understanding that our sister's involvement with any man is to be kept private." He glared. "You best remember your place in this family or else."
"The only reason why we haven't crushed your system is because our sister would be upset about us ruining her boyfriend's life." Yasuchika stated firmly as the family was walking away. "Besides that fact, Takeshi has taken a liking to you for that matter."

"Enough! If she gets wind that we're about to tear each other's heads off, we're all going to be killed!" Satoshi yelled with logic.

With this said truthfully, everyone broke off and went their different ways, reluctantly.

"Mama, are you sure you will be fine without those two?" Choko asked innocently, watching her mother quietly.

"It was obvious that you had wanted to see me, and for years I had know that Lì would want to see his father, so it was only fair that I let him have his opportunity of getting to know him." Haruhi took a sip of an ice cold cup of water that was given to her. "If Ritsu did not stay behind with him, I would be worried day and night about Lì, but with him there, I know that he will be safe for the most part." Her attention went outside the window as she tried to think of something. "I suppose you would like to train as soon as possible?"

"Wha—no way, I can wait until you heal Mama!" She was taken off guard by the question.
Her flexible hand waved at her as if she were silly. "Nonsense, I only need but one hand."
"Are you sure about that? I'm pretty good." Choko grinned as she tried to seem tough.
The child's mother smirked lightly. "Did anyone tell you not to judge by appearance?"
"Well yeah of course," she then smiled, "I guess I'll have to find out the hard way."

"You're just as thick headed as your uncle, you poor child."

However, just in time to change the subject of training, Haruhi's phone began to ring for some reason, causing her to answer it with a curious tone—only to have her spread her lips in a small smile when hearing familiar voices on the other line. It was the twins talking one after the other, pulling together a sentence about how her outfit was ready for her to pickup, and that they were ready to cut her hair whenever she was ready for them to do it. That was until a thought lingered through her mind as she looked at her child, giving her an idea that would satisfy both her daughter and the twins, allowing her to make an interesting suggesting to the two.

"Hikaru, Kaoru," Haruhi's smile widened a little, "how do you two feel about making a personal shipment if I pay the handling?"

Choko watched her with a tilted head, trying to understand who she was talking to, and about what for that matter even though it seemed like a plan that she was trying to cook up. It did not take long for her mother to get off the phone to pause about something that she was thinking of—what exactly was she thinking of though… it was a mystery. Haruhi was still smiling as she hit a speed dial to contact someone, so who was she going to be talking to this time when she just talked to the Hitachiin brothers?

"Akira-otousama, I was disappointed that you weren't there to see us make our departure." Her voice was more delicate than usual, as if playing a verbal game with someone. "I hope you meet your grandson soon, he always enjoyed a good Morinozuka story. But I don't think he will tell you about our master plans for the tournament in Singapore." The man replied in curiosity to her suspicious tone of voice, allowing things to play a little more smoothly than it could have been. "Make sure Satoshi and Takashi are in the tournament in Singapore because I would like to have a fair fight with them, but I don't want Lì to tell them anything about this." The old man was surprised to hear this, yet only agreed to her demands. "I'm sorry if I'm causing trouble for you, Akira-otousama…"

He said it was worth it, and they hung up the phone.

Choko stared at her when hearing 'Akira,' she could not have actually been talking to her grandfather—her father's father, no, that was almost close to impossible. Her mouth hung open for who knows how long with that dumbfounded look plastered on her face as her mother was now texting someone on her phone. This was her mother, Fujioka Haruhi, right? She was about to question her on what was going on—mainly about her thoughts about secretly joining the tournament in Singapore that was two months away! The girl opened up her mouth to speak, only to pause when hearing her mother sigh with frustration when receiving a text message, but Haruhi decided to grab the remote to turn on the television screen.

"Not even twenty-four hours apart and Morinozuka Takashi-dono, heir to a successful family line, is on his knees to beg his fiancée to come back to him! Wait for it… wait for it… she said no! Uh oh, oh no—she didn't, but she did! She slapped the Morinozuka Takashi-dono in the face before running away!" The mother and daughter watched as the woman had slapped him and ran away from him, but a limousine then suddenly appeared on the camera, causing the reporter to act like a paparazzi group. "Who is here to visit this family at such a horrid timing?! It's… it's…" A boy came out, and the reporter paused. "Oh… it's just a boy, might be some classmate to Morinozuka Choko-chan or—OH MY WORD!" A red-haired man came out of the vehicle as well, causing uproar. "It is! It's that Head of the Kasanoda Syndicate! It's Kasanoda Ritsu—the scariest Yakuza Boss since ancient times! Wah! Morinozuka Takashi-dono ran over to attack him!" Those two men were already hotheaded about the situation and began attacking each other.

"Don't do it you idiots…" Haruhi watched the television sharply.

Both females were caught off guard when Grandpa Morinozuka came over to separate the two of them. "Whoa! Did you see that?! Morinozuka Akira-sama just split the two from their fight! What is going on around here?! Hold on—hold on, what is he saying to them, I can't hear them. I think he said 'she would be ashamed of both of you,' right?" As the man looked at the camera man to see it he was right, the other nodded slowly with question. "You heard it everyone, who is 'she,' and why is she so important to them?!"

Haruhi turned off the television and sighed, "good grief."

Choko looked at her with suspicion for saying this. "Did you know this was going to happen?"
"About the news being in front of the Morinozuka estate, no," she grabbed her laptop.
"But you did know that something else would happen, without the news reporter?"
Haruhi thought about it, "well, I didn't expect he would bring her to the estate…"
The girl fell off her seat at this. "Yet you knew everything else would happen?!"

"Choko, when it comes to guys, they can tend to be a little predicting, especially when you love each other so much." She realized she said a little too much at the moment, but it was too late to change what she said. "Your father is going to be a little dangerous."
"What are you trying to Mama," her eyes glazed with confusion as she watched her mother turn on her laptop. "Do you want him to become 'dangerous' like you just said?" She received no reply though. "What exactly are you trying to do Mama? Are you trying—"
"I'm trying to do what's best; Takashi is better off with someone else, but it will take more than me telling him to give up." Haruhi looked at the young woman. "Trying to become a family during high school isn't always the brightest thing to do, however…"
"What are you trying to say… that you weren't happy during that time?" Her eyes slowly become watery at the sound of it, a trait that her Uncle Satoshi taught her so she could get whatever she wanted. "So everything that I can remember is a lie or something…?"

"Fake tears to hear what you want to hear are something a Morinozuka should not do, Choko, Satoshi pampers you too much that it will go against you." Her attention returned to the laptop , but she paused in thought. "There's a lot of thing that happened over the years, and we all have changed, and there's a lot your father doesn't know." Her fingers curled inside and formed fists. "A lot of things I've done are not something that he can so easily forgive, therefore, I have to convince him to be happy with someone else."

"So… you don't love Papa anymore?" Those soft gray hues of hers really did begin to cry.
"I want what's best for Takashi," the woman paused as she thought about it, "and that's not me."
"What did you do that was so w—" Choko stopped when seeing her mother shedding a single tear.

From then on, the conversation was dead and forgotten.

Takashi was somewhat avoiding his son who was training with Satoshi in the dojo downstairs while he was walking down the hall towards the library, but slowly halted when hearing his father talking to his uncle from the Haninozuka family. They were talking about Haruhi judging from their delicate tones as they had some tea during their conversation, and he had to listen in no matter what the cost was. His father said something about her calling him earlier that day after she and Choko left the country to head off to the one she was most popular in—her husband at least. The thought of that man had made his mind wonder off a bit; why was Fujioka Ronin not accompanying Haruhi to China, and then there was Kasanoda Ritsu to deal with. Why would that man be so close to her—oh, right, having it as a public announcement was not an option for the Fujioka family… wait, what if Ritsu was lying, he was the leader of his own yakuza group, but how could he rat Ritsu out to Fujioka Ronin? No, he could not do that because then he would be ruining Haruhi's life if her husband found out about it, and then he would not be able to live with himself after that…

"I believe a valuable term of what you are doing is, either being a spy, a rat, or simply a fly on the wall," a calm, delicate voice chimed coldly. Takashi turned to see who the person was, only to boil up when realizing that it was him, Fujioka Ronin, and glared. "There's no need to give dirty looks, I have a scheduled appointment to talk with your father, which if I may say, you're in the way."

Out of impulse, he blurted out irresponsibly. "You allow you wife to be with another man while you're married to her?" When this had slipped out, he bit his tongue harshly as he watched the other raise an interested eyebrow. What was going to happen now?

"I am aware that she has been having an affair with Kasanoda Ritsu for some time now, but marriage is nothing but words with a few witnesses to make everything legal." Ronin stated casually. "I married her because I knew that I would be able to shadow her fame, but it turned out far better than I hoped as she placed everything under my name." Just to annoy the tall man in front of him, he gave another little push on the matter. "Thanks to her great work, I am a very popular man in China, it's amazing how two small commoner, such as us, become so… what is a rich word for it…" after a pausing affect to entice the flare, he smirked, "powerful?"

Takashi grabbed him by the collar of his suit to throw him against the wall with flaring steel blue gray hues, it was as if he was daring this man to say just one more word—one more, and he really would kill him. His father and uncle soon shoved him off his very first enemy, trying to force him to realize that hurting Fujioka Ronin would be hurting Fujioka Haruhi and her son, who just so happened to be walking down the hallway with Satoshi. The father of the boy shrugged away from his elders to straighten out his clothing to show that he was finished, that was until Ronin chuckled at his submission, and it lead Takashi to go after him once more despite three people now holding him down.

Takeshi scratched his head confusedly at the scene with five men. "What's going on here?"
"It appears your mother's boyfriend spoke a little too much," Ronin stated calmly.
"What do you mean?" He looked to his father. "What did he say to you?!"
The man smiled, "yes, Papa, what did he say to you exactly?"

Takashi did not like this snake, no, this guy was worse than a snake.

Never had he met someone who would be so coy like a fox to play tricks and stunts to have a woman—a wife even, to do all the dirty work through hard practice and determination. Yet he was similar a mother scorpion with a newborn on its back for far too long that it decides to strike it in the back to devour because it was hungry. There were so many similarities that could be matched with this bastard that it practically made him a monster—monster, that is what Fujioka Ronin was, a monster. By now, Takashi did not know who was worse for the mother of his children: Fujioka Ronin—her husband, or Kasanoda Ritsu—her yakuza boyfriend.

He knew one thing for sure as he gritted his teeth, "I will kill you."

"If you are threatening me, I suppose I can gather some legal documents for a restraint." The brown-haired man smiled darkly. "At least you will not be able to go near my wife when you want." He began walking down the hall. "I believe we'll change the meeting to another time. Lì, I will take you home to have dinner with your grandfather before you make way for the Kasanoda syndicate."

"It would be best if you do not return here, she would not be happy." Takashi and Satoshi' father, Morinozuka Akira, stated sternly.
He nodded to acknowledge this, "yes, she would, but that would not help would it?" With this said, he turned and began walking out.
Takeshi sighed tiredly at the feud as he looked up at his uncle. "This is going to take a lot more patience than I thought it would…"
"But most of the things are out in the open now." His uncle grinned widely at the step up. "We still have a little more time left."

"It's not the information or the time that I'm worried about, Jie-Jie doesn't know what to expect when it comes to Mama, she doesn't understand everything that's going on." He grabbed his hair, mildly gasping it in frustration. "I know I've been away from Mama a few times in my life, but this is the first time no one's there to make sure she'll be okay—without Ritsu-san or me, she might breakdown."

"About your mother," Akira spoke to the boy, walking over to pat his head once, "she called to ask you to be quiet about the game."
"You talked on the phone with Mama?! How was she, does she seem fine? How did she sound like?!" Suddenly he was chirpy.
The man smiled as he already knew how to answer this question for the boy. "Your mother seemed as mischievous as always."
"You're keeping tabs on her too?!" Satoshi's mouth would have fallen to the floor if it were not attached. "Why am I secondhand?!"
"No, she called me, I don't have her for good reasons." He then returned to the room to finish his tea before it became cold.

Mitsukuni and Yasuchika's father stepped in now. "Listen you two, everything can go accordingly if everyone stays on target with this," he turned his attention to Satoshi. "If your mother catches wind of our objective, she will have a fit and we will lose it all." His attention then turned towards Takeshi with a serious expression. "And your mother would be very upset if she too, knew about this."

Takeshi could only grin widely at his father's uncle, but turned to leave when being called by his stepfather.

It seemed like Morinozuka Takashi was brick wall in the conversation; he did not know what anyone was talking about, they were plotting something and they were tempting him to try to find out what it was. He was not going to search for clues though—he would have started as soon as he heard about it, but so hear from his son that Haruhi has breakdowns made him quickly change his mind. Maybe it was best if he really did keep his distance from her, though it was not as if he had a choice now with her being in China with his daughter, he could only hope that the two were okay out there. Suddenly Satoshi patted him on the shoulder to let him know that both Choko and Haruhi were doing just fine, seeing how those two can most definitely take care of each other.

"I heard she likes running ten miles in an hour on weeknights, and weekend mornings." As he watched his big brother flinch at the ridiculous amount of running, he grinned widely. "Wanna do twenty miles in an hour Taka-nii?" It was ludicrous, and impossible.

Takashi scowled at him however when shifting out of his touch, "you betrayed me."

While he was walking away, Satoshi scowled at his back in return as he replied. "You betrayed yourself when you knew damn well she was in China since the beginning after hearing she was married, but you only sulked." His tone was as serious as possible to show his point against the elder sibling. "Maybe you two can be friends after the tournament, if you don't beat up Ronin too bad."

"If I fight against that man, I'll kill him."

QUESTION!!!

Is the news reporter, or the television channel they keep seeing, actually funny?