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I know I said no updates till the end of the month but I could not wait to write how this would end !So here you are!:)
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Chapter 9
Maiko... Maiko... Where are you?!.. Maiko..
My eyes darted around looking for Maiko while my body remained still as a rock... Where was she?!...
Panic threatened to over take my already immobile body.
Wait.. What?... Where am I?
I wasn't in the grand dinning room like I thought... then where was I?...
Home.
I was in mine and Ryo's apartment.
I was not in that horrible mansion... with that dreadful person... I was just dreaming it all over again like all those countless nights before-...
I froze in my thoughts as a gunshot was fired inside the room.
No... No...
The momentary calmness that had over come me in the past seconds dissipated just as quickly as the memories of the present rushed back...
I had not been dreaming... at least not when it came to that dreadful person,Lei Akumu... he was here.
After all these years he was here yet again to haunt me... but this time I wasn't scared and I wasn't helpless.
I had changed.
I will no longer let him control my fears.
And I wasn't alone. I had Ryo.
And he was here fighting for me... saving me.
My Saeba Ryo... will be there for me.
That thought had me overcome with a confidence, I could neither explain or comprehend that I had it in me before.
I will be strong.
For me.
For Ryo.
For aniki.
For.. Maiko.
I dont know how long I was there waiting for the gunshots to end and Ryo to come get me.
Then, I heard it. The voice of the person I longed for the most-
"Game over Lei Akumu. I will never let you hurt my Kaori again. And that's a promise. " And the gun being fired followed by the scream of a man who never had a heart...
I was too immersed in trying to figure out what was happening that I did not notice the twitching of my limbs or the buzz in my ears.. both of which kept on increasing in intensity.
And then I felt the pain shoot up through my nerves...
"Kaori is mine and only MINE. You hear me Lei. If you ever even think of even hurting her... you have my word- I Will Kill Yo-...",Ryo stopped short.
What was that sound?
Ryo let go of the wounded Lei Akumu and let him fall to the ground helplessly.
Ryo straightened and strained his ears to make better sense of the sound he was hearing...It was like someone thrashing against the floor and... it was coming from behind the couch-
KAORI!
Ryo closed the distance between him and the couch in three long quick strides and froze...
Before him was Kaori twitching.. thrashing around like a senseless person... her forehead bleeding from where she had hit her head against something...
Her whole convulsed in unspoken pain as she gasped for air... Her eyes rolled back into her skull...
Ryo stood there frozen, his heart in his throat as he watched Kaori.
Was Kaori dying?
For the first time in a long time Ryo was scared to his core...
I am going to lose her.
She is going to leave me.
Thoughts of fear threatened to cease his senses...
No.
" No! ", Ryo shouted as he approached Kaori with caution and scooped her up into his arms and embraced her tightly, refraining her.
" I will not let you get away from me so easily you hear me. I WONT. And dont you dare even think about it! ", Ryo pleaded as he placed Kaori in the middle of the room away from the things she could harm herself as she thrashed around.
Placing a small peck on her forehead, Ryo walked to where Lei Akumu had slumped against the wall.
Anger and the need to hurt Lei Akumu was so much that... Ryo was loosing control over his sanity fast.
He could hear Kaori thrash around the foot-rug he had laid her on.
Lei Akumu was going to pay dearly.
He had just pardoned his life. But now he was going to do no such thing,he was going make sure that Lei would feel ten times the pain he was inflicting on his Kaori.
Ryo lifted up Lei and hit him against the wall.
"What have you done to her bastard?!" , Ryo spoke in a voice colder than ice. His eyes dark. Merciless.
"What is happening?! ", Ryo asked again.
Lei just smirked at him,even with his face covered in bruises.
That did it for Ryo as he lifted his fist to beat the life out of Lei...
"Ryo!"
Umibozu locked Ryo in a death hold but not before Ryo managed to land his punch.
Lei stumbled back due to the impact.
"RYO! Calm youself! ", Umibozu shouted at him as Ryo struggled against his hold.
"Kaori! He hurt Kaori! Kaori... ", Ryo stopped,remembering.
"Kaori! ", he started struggling again against Umibozu but this time Umibozu let him go.
Umibozu prepared himself to tackle Ryo again if he tried to...
But instead of going towards Lei, Ryo turned around and walked towards Kaori on the rug where she was being tended to by Miki and Reika.
Ryo picked her up and sat down on the floor,hugging her.
"Umibozu ", Ryo looked up at Falcon, his eyes desperate.
"I understand, ",Falcon responded as he lifted up Lei Akumu and took him out of the room, he was going to get Lei talking very soon.
Just as Umibozu left the room, Saeko burst into it with a syringe and a blue liquid in a test tube.
"Ryo! Quick! Inject Kaori with this!" , Saeko yelled before throwing the syringe filled with the blue liquid towards him.
Ryo caught it gracefully and with the help of Miki and Reika injected the vial into Kaori's arm.
And then, they waited...
Kaori gradually stopped thrashing... the pain she had been feeling gradually leaving her as she slumped against Ryo, exhausted and unconscious.
" Saeko,what was that? ", Ryo asked quietly as he hugged Kaori tightly.
" I was at the cafe` with Reika when you called Umibozu for assistance earlier.", Saeko explained," When we got here, I saw the limo outside and decided to stay back to check it out, while the rest came up here to help you.I found the driver who was more than willing to help. He said his name was Jin. He gave me the blue vial saying that it was an antidote and it had to be given to Kaori as soon as possible. He said that Lei was drugging Kaori with a neuro vial that would make one loose control of their body and would somehow put them into a trance where they would obey someone even if their thoughts and will was otherwise. It also has the ability to alter a person's memories. And I think we both know what he was planning to do with Kaori and that vial."
Ryo just nodded and was silent for a while. And so was everyone else.
"Saeba-san, we need to let Kaori rest for a while.", Miki suggested seeing that the City Hunter showed no sign of letting Kaori go any time soon.
Ryo nodded and got up with Kaori still in his arms as he carried Kaori to her room. Miki followed them from behind.
Umibozu, who had followed Saeko into the room after tying up Lei Akumu sat down on the couch and asked, " Saeko,whose that man? Why was he after Kaori?".
Saeko exhaled and looked out the window, " Back when Makimura was alive and Kaori was just a teenager,... she and her friend Maiko were kidnapped by that man. Lei wanted the land Maiko's family owned and when Kaori interfered in his attempt to kidnap Maiko, he kidnapped her too. Lei Akumu was a very mentally unstable man. He was fixated with the thought of Kaori and Maiko... And when Maiko stabbed herself unable to bear the circumstances, he seemed to assume that Maiko had sacrificed herself for him and Kaori to love each other truly. ", Saeko shook her head ruefully,"And when he tried to shoot Maiko, Kaori was hurt trying to save Maiko... By the time Ryo and Makimura got to them, Kaori was unconscious and Maiko had lost so much blood... Maiko was in a coma for weeks before she died. Kaori was not the same for a while after that. She blamed herself for Maiko's death... It took her a long time to get over it. And now... looks like her past caught up to her."
" And what happened to Lei Akumu after that?", questioned Reika.
" Makimura made sure he was locked up in an asylum outside Tokyo. But a few days ago Lei's father somehow managed to get him out of there stating better treatment some where abroad..."
" He was entrusted to my care while the arrangements for his departure were being made, ", interrupted the elderly man who had entered the room.
" Jin-san! ", Saeko stated.
" I was there when Kaori was kidnapped all those years ago. I was helpless back then. Master Lei always was a dangerous person but he had enough sense to hide it from his father. But when his father found out due to his arrest by Detective Makimura , he was furious. Being a father Lei-sama blamed himself for Master's illness and when Master pleaded for treatment abroad, Lei-sama agreed right away. But only if he knew. I had to compile to his plans as Master threatened to kill my family... But I could not bear to see another person suffer because of his craziness. I have spoken to Lei-sama, he will make sure that Master Lei will never bother you again.", Jin bowed.
" Jin-san, Thank you."
Everyone turned to Ryo who bowed before Jin.
" Jin-san, we better head to the station. I have a few questions for you", stated Saeko.
Jin-san nodded before following her out.
"How is Kaori?". Umibozu asked .
"Fine. Miki-chan is looking after her."
"We will help you clean up. ", Reika proposed as she looked around the nearly destroyed room.
Ryo nodded as he walked away.
" Where are you going Ryo?" , growled Umibozu.
" I need to think."
The city lights flashed beautifully before Ryo as he stood on the rooftop.
He had almost lost Kaori.
And that frightened him.
As he looked out into the lights, he thought of the kiss he shared with Kaori earlier.
Will she even remember that?
No, she should not...
But , he hoped she would.
It was tiring. Hiding his feelings for her.
He decided then and there.
Ryo would no longer hide his feelings for her...
He would protect her. From his past as well hers.
Because he hoped with all his heart truly for the first time... that their future was together with each other.
The emotions he felt before... only Kaori could make him feel all that. She was his strength as well as his weakness.
But as Kaori stated once before- they were stronger together.
He, would make her his in every way possible - Ryo swore to himself.
She would be his.
His Kaori.
Mine.
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And I would love to let you know that there will be a one-shot later as a small continuation of this story.
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