(Fuu)

After I settled down as best I could with the knowledge that my family is dead and I am now the only surviving member of the Kasumi clan, Jin and everybody helped me come up with battle plans. Jin's father may not hate the Kasumi as much as Kiyoshi's, but that is the first place Kiyoshi will look for me. Jin suggested that I hide out at Mugen's, but we both disagreed. I couldn't put Yuri's life in danger if Kiyoshi found out I was staying there and the same thing applies to Shino-chan. I know that Mugen must have been thinking the same thing even though he insisted it's because Kiyoshi knows that Yuri is a Christian woman and would open her doors for a newly orphaned girl. With that said I had nowhere to go and Kiyoshi was circling in. The thing was that I know Kiyoshi is close by and watching. I know he has spies inside the school, so I know he knows I am here.

"First things first." I pulled out my phone, my precious phone with all my music and pictures of my family on it. Selecting all of the pictures I couldn't bear to part with, I sent them to Jin. When Jin nodded that he got them I deleted all of my contacts, messages, photos, and emails. I opened the back of my phone and took the SD card and SIM card out. Afterwards I stood up, went to the fence surrounding the roof, and threw my phone over it. I watched my beloved phone soar through the air and then fall to the hard pavement below. I heard it crash against the cement. If someone found it they wouldn't be able to get much out of it now. I looked back at everybody and sighed.

"I need to drop out of school." Jin didn't say anything but nodded that he understood. Shino-chan looked shocked but wasn't going to argue. Mugen on the other hand looked at me with smug approval. "Kiyoshi can get to me quicker if I stay enrolled here. I don't like the idea of dropping school, but I don't really have much of a choice."

"We understand Fuu. I'm just concerned with where you are going to stay." Shino-chan said and I nodded. I was too.

"Under better circumstances I would stay at my house, but Kiyoshi probably has surveillance on it so I can't even grab clothes." I said biting down on my thumbnail.

"Clothes are easily accessible, shelter for a yakuza girl on the run isn't." Jun told me but I frowned.

"Is there a specific reason you need to go back home Fuu-chan? You are frowning again." Shino-chan asked me and I sighed. I looked over at her and deepened my frown.

"My house has all of my father's money hidden in it along with family transactions, codes for the arsenal, and my father's black book. I need to get my father's black book before anybody else." Shino-chan looked confused.

"My father's black book is like a diary that holds all of his contacts, the locations of his safe houses, the locations of his money, and things like that. It's something each Yakuza clan has in one form or another and it is worth more than the clan's life. If Kiyoshi gets his hands on it he wouldn't be second son anymore he will be the leader of my clan without question regardless of blood line. If he found it he will own me and I'm not just talking figuratively." Her confusion was replaced with extreme worry.

"How do we get it then?" She asked me and I stared at her for a second. We? "You don't think we are going to let you go at this alone do you?" She asked placing her hands on her hips. For some reason that attitude of hers and the fact that she can read me that easily just made me smile. Jin couldn't have done any better.

"Kiyoshi has spies within the school— he knows I'm here. If I leave here he'll know I'm on my way home, and if I don't leave now I'll just be asking for him to come get me." I said and turned to Mugen.

"How fast can you get a small boy's uniform, bandages, and a wig from the cosplay club up here?" He cocked one of his eyebrows at me—the one that has a thin scar running through it.

"Don't just stand there, go get the broad what she asked for!" Mugen growled to a nearby group of his members. They scrambled to do what their leader and his infamous temper asked for.

"Oh and be sure to ask Kei from the Cosplay club for some of his piercings! Tell them I'm asking for them and he'll get you what I need!" The three of the members screeched to a halt at the door and turned to stare at me in disbelief.

"Huh?!" I smiled. Everybody knows Kei from the Cosplay club has no need for fake piercings like most of the other Cosplayers in the club. He has all kinds of real piercings, so I know they know who am talking about. He has his tongue pierced, three eyebrow piercings—two in one eyebrow the third in the other, snake bites, he has three lobe piercings in each ear with a cartilage piercing in one ear, and he's working towards the steel bars in the bridge of his nose. Kei is pretty chill but he found out about my own piercings one summer by complete accident. I had him swear not to tell anybody since it would ruin my bubbly image and surprisingly he hasn't said anything to anybody yet.

"I have to be honest Fuu. I am curious as to what you are planning." Jin said calmly. I looked over at him and saw him putting away his chopsticks with a now clean bento in front of him.

"I'm blending in." he looked over at me a thin black eyebrow raised.

"I think I get it. Kiyoshi will be looking for a female and you asked for a male uniform." Shino-chan said sitting back down in her spot next to her man.

"You'll just stand out more in a male uniform Girlie. You'll give yourself away." Mugen informed me. He had barely said anything the whole time we have been up here. Normally you can't get the jerk to keep his opinions to himself. What is making him so quiet now? To be honest this scares me more than getting out of the school without alarming Kiyoshi.

"Actually no I won't." I told him and he cocked that same eyebrow with the thin scar running down the middle again. "It was for these type of situations that my family and Atsushi taught me how to fake being a guy. They used to make me walk, talk, eat, sleep, breathe, dress, and flirt like a guy for weeks on end growing up." Lies. It was more like months on end. Most of my summer break was me being forced to pretend to be a guy. They said it was for my own protection because I'll never know when I will need to be someone else. But I know they just wanted a break from raising a girl.

I smiled at the memories floating through my head. I wasn't exactly the easiest girl to be raised by a bunch of Yakuza. It wasn't because I snuck out all the time, I never did that. It was because I never snuck out that they had so much problems. I was the poster child for good girls. I didn't want to cause my family to worry and so they had no idea how to raise me. They themselves where constantly in trouble growing up, hence why they became part of the Yakuza. If I was the type of girl to go out partying every night they would've known how to relate to me better. So they trained me to do just that, only to do it I became a boy.

"Shino-chan do you have any bobby pins?" I asked as I flipped my shoulder length brown hair onto the top of my head making sure to get my bangs.

"I'm sure I have some somewhere." She said as she rummaged around in her bag. She was able to scrounge up four in which she helped pin them to hold my hair up.

"Hmm, I'm thinking you will need a wig cap." Shino-chan said almost mindlessly and I smiled over my shoulder at her where she stood staring at the back of my head.

"That's why I asked for the wigs from the cosplay club and not the costume department. The cosplay club won't let Mugen's boys leave with one of their wigs without everything to wear it with." I smiled at her and she stared at me like I said some kind of unsolvable riddle.

"How do you know that?" she asked and I sighed and looked up at the clouds passing by. The white puffs of ice crystals created by the combining of warm and cold air. One looked rather like a bunny. Such a cute cloud for such a horrible day.

"A few of my family members where in the Cosplay club when they went here." Answering was hard, harder than I thought possible, but the words just tumbled out. The bunny shaped cloud had drifted away and was replaced with a dull smoother cloud of a darker shade. It was a cold looking cloud.

"Your family?" Mugen asked and I nodded. A deep breath to calm my aching heart and I was able to force a smile.

"My father insisted that all members of his clan graduate from high school or the equivalent. He said that stupid children will get themselves ki—lled." Great! I had to choke now of all times! I shook my head to clear it. Nobody expects me to be completely calm after finding out my family is dead. Now Fuu, you are the only child of your father and I and heir to the Kasumi clan. You are strong and clever, yet you are a sweet child with a heart of gold to match. People will see this and try to tear you down and pick you apart. Do not let them destroy your kindness, sweetie. Someday, when your father and I are gone, you will lead the clan and you must use that kindness to help our family. Kindness has power, Fuu, and you have more kindness in your little finger than most people will possess their entire lives. Never lose your kindness Fuu, my sweet daughter—never lose your smile.

My mother was a gorgeous woman. She was the sweetest and yet I have never met another woman as hard working as she was. My mother's words the day before she died where like a chant I had repeated over and over so many times to get me through the days. She told me this because I had been ignored at school that day by some of my friends. I came home crying because they were mad at me and I didn't know why. My best friend at the time even decided to dump her food all over me at lunch that day like I was the trash can— that's actually what she called me, Garbage Bitch. After my mother died I vowed to live by her words and I became the bubbly girl that everybody knows now. It took a while and a lot of effort on my part but everybody started to accept me again. It was easy to be nice as I had always tried hard to do so, but it had been hard in the beginning to be hyper and bubbly. My mother just died and I was in no shape for the bubbly smiling personality. I continued the façade and eventually it became second nature. However it was exhausting, and thus I tweaked my male persona a little bit. That summer my male front turned to the punk side of things.

"We're back!" The three groupies announced as they charged onto the roof. Behind them, in the doorway, stood Kei. He had his hands in his pockets with his school bag resting on one shoulder. His naturally black hair was pulled back into a small spiky ponytail and his bangs where brushed to one side to hide part of one eye. He had in silver contacts today which played nicely with all of his silver piercings.

"Kei!" I waved to him. His eyes traveled over to me and without the permission of Mugen or his gang he stepped onto the roof and over to me. Kei is probably the only guy not in Mugen's gang besides Jin who can do this since his father is the headmaster here. A couple of Mugen's men growled at Kei as he passed but nobody moved to stop him.

"Mistress." Kei bowed his head slightly, a formality he imposed himself ever since finding out about my piercing and coincidentally who my family is. Mugen's men came over to me and handed me the uniform and the bandages they stole for me. Kei had a black and short brown wig and a wig cap in his hands which he helped me put on and style. For whatever reason ever since he figured my secret out Kei insists on helping me whenever I need to change into my male persona. I don't really mind, he's skilled and more knowledgeable about the male punk fashion than I since he is truly a guy. Without any true care or embarrassment I stripped out of my girl uniform and into the male uniform pants.

"Fuu-chan!" Shino-chan screamed in absolute horror. I looked over at her and blinked. I didn't know what she was so upset about.

"What?" I asked her watching her freak out as she pointed to my bare upper torso which every male besides Jin was staring at. Kei was looking but that's because he was helping me bind my breasts to look like I have none, but he wasn't drooling like Mugen's men, and he wasn't smirking like a horny beast like the Spinning Red Devil himself. Kei looked bored as he lit a cigarette. Shino-chan was still gaping and almost hyperventilating. If it wasn't for Jin she would've got up and tried to shield me from the eyes of the males.

"Shino-chan, I am a Yakuza daughter. I'm trained not to react embarrassed about showing a little skin." She was about to protest that showing my whole upper body is not a "little skin" so I cut her off. A little bit of my guy persona was slipping out already. He's not a very patient guy. "Not to mention I am in a hurry and Kei already knows what my breasts look like. He's bound them many times before so after a while I lost my embarrassment meter. Kei's the best at binding my chest and since I need it done quickly and redoing it takes time its better if Kei does it." In the time it took me to explain this Kei finished binding my chest and was flicking ash off of the end of his burning cancer stick while blowing out some of the nicotine filled smoke that always smelt like ass to me. I never cared for the tar filled things, but to make matters worse he blew the smoke into the wind so it was carried right into my face.

"Dude, do you have to blow that nasty shit in my face? I'll make sure to bill you for giving me cancer you asshole." I growled to Kei who just shrugged casually, while stomping out the damned thing. I didn't see the shocked and horror filled looks Shino-chan gave Jin at the words and tone I used as if checking to make sure she heard right, nor did I see Mugen smirking and chuckling to himself. I did see Jin as I was buttoning up the white male uniform shirt though. Jin was sipping tea from a downstairs vending machine as if he was hearing the recap of somebody's day that he didn't really care about. Kei helped me style the uniform with the black blazer and a green first year neck tie which he tied loosely. He buttoned the uniform all the way first and then changed his mind and left it open before redoing the wig style with some carefully placed pins and a few soft spikes.

"Time for the best part." Kei said as he pulled a few boxes out of his bag he had placed at his feet. In the boxes where a small portion of his piercing collection along with a few rings and necklaces and bracelets. Kei is like a walking jewelry store. On Fridays he even has girl jewelry with him which is normally all gone by the time I can go check out his supply. The piercings is what take Kei the longest in styling me. He carefully decides each piece for the maximum cool punk factor. A pair of black spiked piercings went in their respective preexisting holes in my left eyebrow, a silver fake gage earring spike in each lobe, a black cuff earing lined with silver in my third cartilage piercing while silver and black studs went in each of my other two cartilage piercings, a silver spiked lip piercing went into the right side of my lip, and then a small spiked bar in my bridge piercing.

"I still can't believe you got a bridge piercing before me, bastard." Kei growled as he handed me two silver rings which went on my thumbs and pair of black painted copper rings to go on my pointer fingers. To finish the look Kei gave me a silver cross necklace which is worn by at least six of Mugen's men. By the time it took Kei to finish my make over I was already in my male persona. My posture changed to slouch like a boy with my legs open and farther apart. However it's the eyes that give me my fierce male look. My gaze was hard and yet I was made to look like I was permanently bored. Hands in my pants pockets and I was transformed from Fuu into Kaze—my punk rock everything is annoying short tempered male persona, and a person Kiyoshi would never think to look for. Now I just had to keep my persona up until I can get my dad's black book and fall off the grid. Ugh, this is going to be such a pain!


AN: I'm so sorry for such a late update! ^.^' seriously gomen! I had a serious case of writers block on this chapter, which is not a good enough excuse but it is true. In this chapter I introduced Kei, a new character. If you guys like him let me know and i'll make him a reaccuring character. As it stands he's a one shot character but this can be changed if you guys like him enough. As always I love hearing from you guys. Please tell me what you like and don't like and what you wish to see in my upcoming chapters. I love you all. Stay safe, stay awesome, and God bless. ~Love Tsukiko Ame Tenshi.