Chapter 10:
Mamoru sat in his car, his emotional scars tearing at him. Images of her danced through and through his head and the bitter words that his uncle said before leaving…. "Women like that are not meant to be wives only hores"…. It tore holes in him and left him bitter, he didn't want to face what it left her with
He was waiting in his car and his thoughts were broken when he heard the loud roar of her old mustang pull beside him, he didn't want to even look to his side to see her but he did and it was Motoki… "What The hell?? Where was she?"
Motoki parked the car and left the engine running waiting for "GIGI", it was not like her to be late, he looked at his watch and it was only 5 mins till race time, this whole race was given him bad vibes. He noticed the car to his side and saw Mamoru, immediately Motoki got out of the car
Mamoru rolled down his window… "Where is she?"
"I Don't know!".. Motoki raised his hands in aggravation
Mamoru felt his stomach sink at the thought that after he left that they didn't let her go as his uncle had said, he looked at Motoki
"Have you tried to call her?"
"Yes and she hasn't answered..".. but before he could continue his banter and start an assault on Mamoru he heard a loud revving of a motorcycle engine and sighed a sound of relief.. "FINALLY!", he said standing up straight. "She made it."
Mamoru tensed up, he hadn't seen Usagi on a motorcycle before, didn't even know that she had one but there were lots of things that he had to admit that he hadn't known about her. She had captured his heart in less than two weeks. She had freely opened herself up to him and he had trampled on her trust, he saw her approach.
She kept focus, full speed ahead, till she reached the front end of the cars, where she dropped the motorcycle and spun into a 360 spin, causing the dirt road to go up in cloud a dust. She dropped the bike on the ground and took of her helmet. Her face still bruised
She heard the gasp of some of the crowd and Motoki ran toward her, gripping her face. "What the hell happened to you?", he sternly looked into her eyes and absorbed her painful orbs, again he asked his question but sincerity formed his words again, as he caught the sight of her soulless eyes, "Usa, what happened?"
She didn't feel his tone touch her in any way she only knew one thing, she wasn't lying down anymore and she wasn't running anymore, and she was not going to let her father's name be forgotten. She shook her body free from Motoki's grasp as he only stood there in shock at her cold response.
She climbed onto the hood of her mustang "CAN I GET EVERY ONES ATTENTION PLEASE."
She stood there bruised and beautiful capturing the attention of everyone, including Jiro San and his company
Mamoru got out of his car at the sight of her, she had completely lost her mind… "Usagi get down from there." …. he demanded
She turned to him given him the death glare "You dare to call me that name. What gives you that right? OH!...".. She paused, placing her hand on her hip and her index finger under her chin, as she sarcastically pretended to think about WHY… and she turned to him again.. "OH! Because you think I slept with you gives you the right."… her statement bold and unashamed, she peered at him with her gray eyes, her blues lost in the cloud of rage, Motoki, seeing the tension, tried to calm the situation
"Usagi, that's enough. I don't know what's going on but that's enough!"
She turned to Motoki, her beloved friend, and shot venomous words toward him. "SHUT UP TOKI. I AM FIRST RANK, question my authority again and I will gut you myself.".. she turned to peer at her audience but she looked for only one pair of eyes, Jiro sans….
She pointed at him
This was her declaration of independence. She was standing up to the beast
"A lot of people might be afraid of you but IM NOT….You don't own me and you never will. I won't be bought or be beaten to submission. I won't be threatened by you and I refuse to live in fear of you.."
she spat at the ground, the crowd's curiosity growing about what was happening ..
"HE".. she pointed at Mamoru .. "Can have the title and all that comes with it. I have only come here tonight to prove that NO ONE" … she looked at Mamoru.. "Can win me, my father was the best and I am the best. I will DIE to defend his honor."
After her speech she stepped down from her hood and strapped herself into her car and Motoki came to her side, gripping car's door frame.. "Are you ready?".. he said in a monotone voice and it clicked in Usagi's mind somewhere that she had hurt him but it was for his own good, he didn't know what Jiro san and the evil BITCH had planned. .. "I'm sorry" she mentally said to him and she looked at her opponent and revved her engine
Mamoru grew nervous. She was past rage and he knew that she was ready to die to make her point to Jiro san.. "I won't let you Usagi, I love you." He whispered out, knowing that he couldn't let her sacrifice herself without him sacrificing himself first. He knew what he had to do.
As they both approached the line to start, a Limo pulled up and out came four women and Diamond, Usagi immediately recognized them and held her breath. She eyed them over from her car, making sure that they were okay and then she saw Diamond and her griped on her wheel tightened and she jumped out the car, slamming it behind her
Motoki ran after her, holding her in his arms before she ran a full assault at Diamond. Jiro San ran to his son's side and the crowd started to go crazy.
"YOU DIAMOND are scum and if lay one hand on my friends I will guarantee you that you will not see the light of day."…
Jiro-San stepped forward in front of his son leaning in to Usa ear.. "Remember what we talked about over the phone."
Usagi calmed down, seeing his eyes land on Motoki. She couldn't let anything happen to any of them.
"Now, back to your car.".. he demanded
Usagi left back to her car, Motoki's arms still wrapped around her shoulders.. "Usa what did he say to you?"
She looked at him.. "That he would kill you if I didn't show to race. I won't let him hurt you and anyone else anymore. I'm wining this race tonight and I'm finishing all of this once and for all."
She hoped in her car and Mamoru knew that it was time, they revved their engines and the flag went down, the crowd went crazy,
Inside the cars both opponents were attentive to every detail of the mountain, swaying around the curves, side by side at moments, Mamoru registered his MPH and saw it hit 140 at one turn, she was only inches from him, he wanted to nudge her to make her spin out but the curves were smaller than her remembered and it would cause her to spin out over the edges
THINK STUPID THINK… he could get her on the inside and force her to slow against the wall of the mountain, it was worth a shot
Usagi saw Mamoru change positions pulling up on her right, leaving her on the inside.. "What he doing?"…she needed to focus the curves were running out, she observed her MPH, the stupid thing was broke.. "GREAT." She had to rely on her hearing to shift into gears
Her concentration was broken as her car was sent jolting into the mountain side and her neck snapped to the side… "His trying to kill me."… her mind barked at her.. "Like uncle like nephew, you lying sack of shit." she revved forward trying to dodge Mamoru's assaults at her car, she wasn't getting anywhere..
Mamoru saw the break in the quarter mile coming.. "SHIT… forgive me Usako.".. it was his final plea before he revved forward
Down at the site stood the four beauties and Diamond… "Are you ready?"
Diamond looked at them and nodded… "The cars are over there.".. He pointed at two racing cars behind them and Diamond chucked keys at them.. "Get them out of here safely and I will deal with my Uncle."
The girls nodded and hoped in the cars and started the engines, catching the attention of everyone , including Jiro San.. "SON, what are you doing?"…. he stared at his son and lifted a hand to slap him but was received with a surprising sight…
"I'm sorry father but this has to stop. You are hurting even your own family and all because of that twisted women."… In his hand Diamond held a gun to his father and the crowd gathered around…
The girls zoomed toward the end of the race…."We have to meet the cars before they make it to the quarter mile dash of the mountain. Usa will punch it."
On the mountain
Mamoru saw the corner coming before the split and he was side by side with Usagi who stared at him over her shoulder… she yelled at him.. "YOU COWARD…RACE ME."
Mamoru wished he could wash away all of her misconceptions at that moment but she pulled back and cut him off in the side, making Mamoru on the inside again… "DAMMIT USAGI LISTEN TO ME…" … he shouted but she ignored him, tears pouring down her face… she clutched into third gear and hearing this Mamoru had only one choice
They saw the quarter mile dash of the mountain and both dashed for it and Mamoru looked at his MPH and it hit 150 and she was only inches ahead, maybe 156, he closed his eyes , shifted early into four gear and ran his car into the back of hers, sending the two cars spinning out of control
The girls pulled up to the unfolding scene and stopped the car, getting out, running toward the two people,
They watched in horror as Usagi's body flew out from her car and onto the dirt road before them. She laid there not moving and her car continued to flip until it exploded, sending all the girls to the ground
Mamoru's car had spent off and flipped but because he was wearing his seat belt and had a roof that secured his body inside his car
He could hear screaming, crying, and a loud explosion but he was upside down in his car and everything was blurry. He suddenly felt two small hands tugging at his seat belt.. it was Raye and Lita, trying to get him out, he helped to remove the seat belt, still dizzy, but he was able to get out and the girls helped him to walk but the sight before him was more concerning than his physical needs.
He started to hurriedly limp toward her.. "Usako."… He ran to her limp body and held her.. "NO!"… He started to sob.. "This isn't what I wanted. I love you please don't leave me." His pleading voice sent the girls into tears… and AMI squealed
"Ami what's wrong?"
"Lita her hand twitched."
Ami came to her side and checked her pulse… there was a long pause but she looked up with a smile.. "IT'S WEAK BUT IT'S THERE!" she shouted with glee… "We need to get her to a hospital."
It was then that they heard the thunder of loud sirens and a caravan of cops and ambulances arrive.
"Right on time."..Mina voiced
Mamoru looked at her…
"You're not the only one with ties."
He let out a painful laugh
Once on the scene the ambulance and cops took over, assisted everyone, Usagi was immediately sent to the hospital and Mamoru demanded to go with her but was stopped by an officer.. "Mamoru Chiba?"
Mamoru looked at the man.. "Yes?"
"I need you to come with me."
Mamoru didn't hesitate; something in the way the officer looked at him took him back to his childhood, a moment in his childhood that he thought that he had pushed out and far away.
The cop took him in his car and they arrived at the starting line of the race, where there were more cops and more ambulance
They stopped at an ambulance but Mamoru didn't notice, he only noticed the yellow tape around the limo from earlier and men taking pictures.
It was like slow motion for him and he stepped out of the car and the guard led him to two stretchers, both covered with black bags, indicating dead bodies, he closed his eyes and remembered his parents and opened them two his Uncle and His cousin
"Do you know them?" the cop question
Mamoru nodded… "What happened?"
Mamoru found that a warm strong hold was on his shoulder and he turned to see the friendly brown eyes of Motoki
"Diamond shot your uncle and then turned the gun on himself"
It was a simple explanation but Mamoru felt emptier, he knew that nothing his uncle did was worthy of honor as well as his cousin but they were family but it was over, all of it was over and Mamoru looked at his friend.. "It's over."
Motoki held up two letters one was written to Mamoru and the other was written to Usagi… "They found these in Diamonds coat pocket."
Mamoru took them and held them and remember about Usagi… "USAGI!"…he grasped Motoki's hand.. "Come we need to get to the hospital."
On their ride to the hospital Mamoru was able to explain to Motoki all that had happened and Motoki could only shake his head in disbelief and he noticed the saddened expression of Mamoru's body… "Hey buddy, don't worry, Usagi will need some time but if she is at all the person I know she is, she's going to understand."
Mamoru tried to be stronger because he knew that he would need his strength to try to conquer his next battle…..
Trying to win her love again
To be continued…..
Almost done with this story… I welcome any suggestions for endings or outcomes and I appreciate all the reviews… thanks for continuing to read my story