AN: I know you will all hate me about this chapter. I am not sorry… maybe. But fear not, I hope to update this fic soon and you will know what happens.
I still don't own Finder Series
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Ride the Wind Chapter 7
"Find Sumewari, take him to the warehouse. I want to kill him myself after punishing him for daring to touch what is mine. Have someone take Akihito to the penthouse and chain him up in my secret room. I want to hear it from his lips and don't want to chance his escape."
Asami was beyond livid, Kirishima knew he would not see reason until he calmed down. Normally, Asami was very coolheaded and could see all angles of a situation. This particular situation however, involved Takaba Akihito and Asami could be quite volatile when the boy was involved.
He quickly found Suoh and brought him up to speed on what was happening, just before he delivered Asami's orders regarding what should be done with Sumewari Jun. He had never seen his long time friend at a loss of speech, he had never seen him lose all color in his face or hang his mouth open in shock – all three things occurred the moment he had delivered the orders.
Suoh had taken a liking to Sumewari, the kid was capable, interesting, and could keep up with Takaba which made everyone's life more easy, since he was placed as the brat's personal bodyguard. Most importantly – and this is still a miracle to behold – he could, on occasion, make the boy see reason and behave, a feat none of them had been able to accomplish.
He was fond of Sumewari, had trained him personally, and even considered him top candidate to be his second. Suoh did not want to kill Jun; he did not want Asami to kill him either. He became convinced there had to be a mistake somewhere, that Asami was acting rashly, blinded by his anger at Jun's supposed betrayal and Akihito's apparent indiscretion.
Asami had no concrete facts to base his harsh decision on, and he briefly thought of storming his boss' office and making him go back to his faculties and see reason. But he didn't, Suoh was loyal to Asami to a fault, and would follow orders blindly. He only hoped things would be sorted out before a bullet made its way to Jun's head or the kid was damaged beyond repair.
The blonde bodyguard gathered his men with a grim face, and informed them of their mission. The hunt for Sumewari Jun had begun and knowing how good the kid was, he would need his best men on it.
Kirishima took four men with him just in case Takaba decided to be difficult, today was not a day to make mistakes. Such things could cause heads to roll rather easily if Asami's mood was anything to go by.
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Kirishima knocked on the door to Takato's home. After several minutes of more knocking and waiting, a black-haired young man opened the door for him.
"Can I help you?"
"I am here to collect Takaba-kun"
"Aki-chan" an obviously drunk Kou shouted from the door. "There is that dude with glasses here looking for you."
"Kou! Quit calling me Aki-chan, I'm not a girl. How many times do I have to tell you the same thing." Said Akihito as he made his way to the door.
He instantly began to sober up, not because it was Kirishima on the door, which had happened many times before. It was Kirishima's expression that made him stop on his tracks, it was the worry there that made him sober up, as a sinking feeling made itself known in Akihito's stomach. Kirishima may have thought his blank face gave nothing away, that Akihito could not see his face and notice something was wrong. They all thought he could not read their blank faces, but Akihito had learned over the years and he saw more than they gave him credit for.
The blonde photographer closed the door behind him after some hasty goodbyes to his friends. He walked the steps down the stairs and to the parking spaces with Kirishima close to him. The secretary kept throwing accusatory glances at him and Akihito finally had enough, he stopped before getting into the car and turned to the bespectacled man.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just get in the car. Asami-sama will talk to you at home."
Was that disdain he detected? Perhaps a bit of anger mixed with it? But why? What had he done for Kirishima to address him with that tone?
"Kirishima-san, please. For once tell me what is going on."
"If the information we have is true, Sumewari and you made a severe mistake Takaba-kun. What you two did is just too severe for it to go unpunished."
"What we did? What are you talking about?"
"Did you betray Asami-sama?"
"What! No! Wait, where is Suoh? Don't tell me he is after Jun!"
"…"
"What the hell Kirishima."
"Calm down Takaba-kun, I'm sure you can explain things to Asami-sama at the penthouse."
"Kirishima, what are Suoh's orders?"
"…"
"Kirishima! What are his orders, what is Asami going to do to Jun?"
"Get in the car Takaba."
Akihito realized that Kirishima was not going to tell him anything. He knew Asami would not listen to reason when it came to him, and would likely kill Jun before they got a chance to explain.
He would not let that happen, Jun was his friend, and friends looked out for each other, they protected each other. Takaba summoned strength from a place he did not even know he possessed and kicked Kirishima right on the family jewels before taking off running like a bat out of hell.
"Sorry Kirishima, but I can't let this happen."
He had to find Jun, he had to prevent a tragedy from happening, and after his friend was safe he had to clear things up with Asami.
Kirishima watched from the ground, still holding his crotch, as the blond mop of hair disappeared into a crowd. Asami would be more pissed than he already was when he reported that Takaba had run away. They had to find both young men before things became dire and irreparable.
Akihito ran, he ran like he had never done before. Passed buildings, through crowds, over fences, through alleys and through any obstacle Tokyo threw at him. When he was sure he had lost the people following him and he was safe, Akihito took his cell phone out and tried calling Jun. The call went straight to voicemail, he tried a couple more times… nothing.
Takaba began to panic, hoping it was not too late, that he was still in time to save Sumewari. He ran without a specific direction, he needed to find a place to hide and formulate a plan or wait for Jun to contact him. If after an hour of trying to reach his friend on the phone, he still had no answer he would go to the devil himself and demand his release.
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He was bored, and felt guilty for leaving Akihito and his friends hanging. Most of all he was hoping he would not get reprimanded for going against orders and calling Akihito. After all he just did it so the boy would not worry when he did not show up, or expect to see him around anytime soon. Still, he had gone against an order from Kirishima, an order that had probably come from the big boss himself.
'It was just a quick call, I'm sure it won't be a big deal. It's such an minor thing I'm sure Asami-sama nor Kirishima-san know about it.'
He wondered why Asami-sama would want him to cease any form of contact with Akihito. He thought he was doing a good job, had he failed in some way and not realized it? Was he no longer fit to watch over the energetic photographer? Did he lack something or needed improvement in some area? He analyzed these questions and came up with no answer to any of them.
'Then why? It makes no sense'
He was sure whatever was going on he would find out when he arrived at Sion the next day. Maybe they just needed him to take care of something else for a while, and then he would be back on 'Takaba Duty' as the other bodyguards called it.
Jun opened his window and sat on his couch enjoying the breeze. His AC unit had broken and with all the fuzz he had not been able to fix it or get a new one. He took a sip from his beer and turned the pages of a magazine circling pictures and prices, there were pieces he needed to buy for a bike he was working on, and he was finding good ones in the magazine.
Half an hour later, he had almost fallen asleep on his couch when a slight noise of footsteps approaching his door woke him up. All his years of training had made him alert to any sound out of the ordinary. He took his gun and quietly moved to the window near his door, moving the curtain slightly he took a peek at the hallway outside his apartment and saw about fifteen men being directed to take positions around the building and five already in front of his door. All of them had guns at the ready.
The worst part was not that these men were surrounding him, it was that he knew these men, they all worked for Asami and leading them was Suoh. The man he had idolized like a father figure, he was relatively new to the organization, but Suoh had been taking care of him and training him for close to four years now. Why then was the man who trained him setting up his men to capture him like an enemy? What did he do?
He panicked what else could he do? He took his keys, put on his jacket, grabbed his gun and exited through the thankfully still open window. The three of the men surrounding the building spotted him on the emergency stairs as he exited through the window, they shot at him and he sped up his downward run on the rusty iron. He ran through the alley to the back of the apartment building as the three followed him, turning around the corner he saw two more men standing next to his bike.
They saw him and after hearing the shots coming from the alley, they too began firing at Jun. Sumewari ran for cover behind a large garbage container and shot first at the two men by the bike and then at the three coming out of the alley. They were all hits in either the hand, leg, or shoulder. These men were his colleagues, his friends and regardless of what was going on, he refused to kill them or damage them permanently. Shouts and the footsteps of more men coming his way told him he was running out of time.
The three in the alley were down, as well as one of the two by the bike. The other one was still up with a shot to the hand and made an attempt to shoot at Jun one more time. Jun ran toward him so fast he could have been a blur, he jumped to deliver a roundhouse kick right on the man's head, effectively making him lose consciousness.
Sumewari sat on his bike and put the key into the ignition.
"It's just you and me now 'Honey,' let's get the fuck out of here until we can figure out what is going on."
Suoh did not want to do this, he did not want to hurt his best pupil, his protégé, but he had to follow Asami's orders regardless of personal feelings. Just as Sumewari was turning on the bike Suoh made his appearance out of the alley and shot at him. Jun felt the pain of the bullet entering his body and the warm liquid running over his skin the thick droplets of the red fluid falling upon the black leather of the bike's seat.
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Please don't kill me…. We all love Jun and he is totally cool but shit happens.
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