Chapter Nine

Kayura stood on the other side of the room as Rowen walked out of the shower not wearing a shirt. He wore khaki colored slacks, and a towel draped over his lean muscled shoulders. Like the rest of them he hadn't aged a day since the battle with Ameno. His wild blue hair was still damp and he smiled with his green eyes at his wife who was laying on the bed.

Hoshi hadn't changed much either in Kayura's opinion, but it seemed like she grew into her body, or her afflictions were taken at away the very least. Her silver white hair had grown long but she kept the diagonal cut bangs to hide what little scars remained. Kay guessed that Owari healed her wounds from the war she had been in because an armor couldn't have a damaged host but it was more than that. She was stronger, less damaged mentally, more sure of her actions.

Hoshi smiled as she put her phone down next to her, "Kento wants to skype call you tonight with Jun and Sei."

Rowen smiled at the thought of their kids, "I hope they're behaving."

"Jun and Sei, absolutely," Hoshi laughed, "now Kento, I don't know about that." She looked at Kayura, "well, sorry, about that Nendo..."

"You knew it was Captain America," Kayura replied.

Rowen looked at Hoshi, "you can't fool her. I told you, she's clever."

Hoshi smiled at the woman, "yes, and I realized it may have been a tougher two person hunt..."

"Why did you want me to be taken into a S.H.I.E.L.D base, you could have had everyone compromised," Kayura replied. "And why was it after Captain America of all people?"

"I knew it wouldn't go that far, I just wanted confirm my suspicions that Maria Hill was our beloved Mia Koji," she answered. "It wasn't after him, it was after that tasty Vibranium he always carries with him."

"And I couldn't have just been a shadow and snuck in?"

"No," Hoshi paused, "because if you got caught, and I'm sure that would happen, we would have been compromised. There was a fifty fifty chance that they wouldn't see you as threat and let you go."

"Gee."

Rowen sat down next to Hoshi, "so it is Mia?"

"Yes," Kayura nodded. "She seemed really spooked to see me, and I understand that, why couldn't you leave your suspicions alone."

"She hacked into my mainframe when Ultron broke into steal the little Vibranium I had," Rowen paused, "I wanted to know why a S.H.I.E.L.D agent wanted to steal data on the Legend of the Five Armors."

"I had no way to prove it," Hoshi added.

"Glad to know I'm a pawn."

"Better than being Masho, isn't it," Hoshi asked but the woman didn't respond her face was cool and unreadable as any of the former war lords. "Did that fare well?"

"Don't send them to give me messages again, I have a cell phone as well, you know."

"Dais insisted," she replied with a shrug. "I have little control over him."

Kayura knew that much, not even Talpa had control of him once upon a time, "what did you want me to do?"

"You're going to be my bodyguard," Rowen said as he went to his closet and pulled on a button up shirt and looked at her. "I had a tracker algorithm bedded in the file that she took, and Tony Stark has it somehow. Thankfully, its encrypted beyond S.H.I.E.L.D capabilities, but I am unsure of Stark. He's incredibly brilliant..."

"And an incredible asshole," Hoshi added, "I am on my way to meet with Raleigh about Ryo and Sage, can you please do this?"

She remembered the woman was with Cye in the UK last time she checked, "I will."

"Great, I have a gift for you," she said quietly clapping her hands and jumping up to the chest and pulled out a brand new suit. Kayura guess she had to look the part.

She frowned at Rowen, "there better be a sandwich in this for me."