Author's Note: It has been WAY too long since I published, much less WROTE anything… and by anything I mean any writing at all… not even my journal! I am finding it harder to find inspiration in my life and I haven't been able to figure out why.

All of that said, I need some serious answers in the Reviews to this next question! Hopefully my previous followers and readers are still following/reading. I offer TWO choices as an apology for my lack of updating and keeping you all waiting!

Option 1: LEMON! That's right, I said it! I will write a Lemon into the next chapter between Nobu and Hachi of course, I am open to suggestion where, how, what, etc. And of course, it will be tasteful.

Option 2: Bring Reira back into Shin's life! Reira is so cute and their relationship, I feel, was left very unresolved by the anime. I am also open to other ideas for option 2 just let me know in the reviews!

ALSO I need opinions! Should I make Satsuki 8 years old so they aren't all over 30? Or I could make her 6… but remember Kaori is 2 years younger than her, I could also make her 1 year younger! I need massive input here people!

Longest A/N Ever! Last but not least special thanks to; Violet, Ana, Lychiis, Damon X Misaki, Haku Maiden, Aqua-Tranquility, SukiaOMFG, ayuzachan, THISISMAHHOUSE, and Guests don't get shout outs! (unless they have names!)

Chapter 11

~Show you my life now~

~Nobu's POV~

My eyes darted open as I heard a few sloppy knocks on the door of flat 707. Nana and Hachi slept together in Nana's room, Kaori and Satsuki slept in Satsuki's room, and Shin and I rolled out our futons once again due to a disturbing voicemail Takumi left on Hachi's phone. I hadn't been able to fall asleep yet so even with my eyes closed I was wide awake. I sat up and listened for a few seconds until I heard a man grumbling outside the front door.

"NANA! Where's my daughter!" a drunk sounding Takumi slurred out his angry words.

I bolted for the door and looked through the peephole to see a staggering Takumi with a bottle in a paper bag in one hand and the other hand about to bang on the door again. If the others weren't awake already I wasn't about to let him disturb them. I swung the door open and Takumi stumbled forward surprised his hand hadn't met the door as he intended.

"I thought I told you not to come back here" I hissed

"You… you tell that slut to go home! She doesn't belong here with you idiot BLAST members. AND she stole my kid, man! Satsuki is MY daughter, just look at her!" he backed up and paced back and fourth sloppily. "I know when you were a sad little boy you wished and prayed and hoped she'd be yours like the pathetic wimp you are but the fact is I won. She may be a stupid slut but Nana," he paused and smirked, "Hachiko,"he mocked, "Is MY wife, she CHOSE me, not you. Ya pesky little cheap shot taking pretty boy"

My blood was boiling hotter every second he spoke and that last sentence did him in. I closed the door to the flat, grabbed his collar, and slammed him against the wall behind him knocking the wind out of him. "Listen here you little fuck! It is going to take everything I am not to send you to the hospital or take your pathetic life right here… You can say whatever you want about me but the second you start spitting hate about Nana or any of my friends is the second I will make you wish you were dead." He opened his mouth to try and speak but I pulled him forward and slammed him against the elevator doors, his head denting the metal, as he dropped his booze. "I have had enough of your weasel face around here. You stole 10 years of her life don't you think that's enough?!" I found my voice suddenly much louder but smooth and steady not a single syllable shaking.

He slid down against the elevator door and I bent down with him, "That little bitch is going to regret ever messing with me, Satsuki is mine and she always will be. Nobu, you will never be enough for Nana, you weren't good enough for her back then, and there's no way in hell you're any better now!" he grabbed his booze bottle and swung it at my head, only the side of it grazing the back of my head.

I snapped.

I picked him up and shoved him away, I turned around and kicked him right in the chest, he exhaled sharply then grabbed a piece of broken glass off the floor. I growled with fury and tackled him to the floor, with my knees on either side of his hips I pinned him down. I slammed his hand against the floor until he dropped the glass.

"So you've picked up a few new tricks and you think you can fight?!" he said with amusement, "You can fight for her all you like, but here's how I will win. She has been my little sex slave for 10 years Nobu, that kind of imprint can never be er-"

I ended his words with my fists, I continually punched him in the face, left, then right… he spat blood. I kept beating him down. He gasped for air and choked on blood. I kept beating him down.

"NOBU!" I head shin shout as he opened the front door and came out, "Nobu stop! You're better than this!" he pleaded but all I saw was red.

Suddenly I found myself tackled off of Takumi from the side and found myself being held down by none other than Ren. I stared up at him in utter shock. At this point Yasu came running up the stairs and helped Takumi to his feet, Takumi lunged toward me and Yasu held him back. After seeing that Takumi was still able to stand I fought Ren to get on my feet, Ren let me up but Shin grabbed my left arm, while Ren held my right.

"Did you hear the poison he was spitting Shin…?" I looked at the floor while muttering darkly. "You know what they do to poisonous snakes?"

~Shin's POV~

I had never seen Nobu so scary, he looked like a ravenous wolf. The front door flew open then closed again as Hachi came rushing out followed by Nana who was trying to stop her. "You don't want to see this Hachi!" Nana tried to reason.

Nobu was still breathing hard and Takumi began to laugh darkly, though sounding as if he were in quite a bit of pain. "See Nobu? She's come to end this. She always chooses me." Nobu lunged for him again but Ren and I held him back.

"Answer me this Takumi! Why does it take two to hold me back and only ONE to hold you back?!" Nobu taunted, wanting Takumi to come at him.

"stop…" Hachi's voice was very quiet, she avoided eye contact with anyone. "That's enough…"

"Did you hear the things he said? Have you forgotten the things he has done?" Nobu asked, still breathing hard and pulling toward Takumi.

Before he knew it, Hachi's arms were around Nobu's neck. She held him and all of his muscles relaxed at once, Ren looked over and nodded at me, we both let go and he put his arms around Hachiko, as if there were no one else on earth.

"See?! I told you she was a slut, doing that with all of these men and her husband watchi- oof" he groaned as Yasu punched him in the stomach to shut him up.

Nobu opened his eyes when Takumi spoke but Hachi was quick to grab his face, her hands on each side, her right hand began to stroke his cheek and she forced him to look into her eyes. "Focus on me Nobu, not on my past or pain. Not on hatred or revenge. That's simply not the boy I fell in love with. The man I love now is stronger, yes but can still be twice as gentle. The man I love loves me too much to let anything be said about me that is negative, he would fight to the death for me… but deep down inside, that would ruin him. Deep down inside, he is not on the same level of violence as the monster behind me, the monster in my past. She pulled his head to her chest and held him as he slid down the wall behind him to the floor.

Yasu and Ren drug Takumi away, insisting that he tend to his wounds. Police sirens were heard, one of the other residents must have called.

"Shin, you need to hurry up and punch Nobu in the face… otherwise it is going to look one sided when they question everyone." Nana said having already worked out the scenario in her head.

I peered out the window to see that the cops had stopped Yasu, Ren, and Takumi for questioning after seeing the blood all over his face and shirt. Hachi was pulled out of the way by Nana and I squeezed my eyes shut and slugged Nobu in the face, avoiding his nose and eyes. Nobu took it like a man and wiped away the blood that dripped from his lower lip.

~Nana's POV~

Answering to the cops was never something Ren and I got used to, though we should have due to our young adult escapades. He and I were on the same wavelength I could feel it and we each knew what to tell the cops in order to avoid making Nobu out as the bad guy. Anything Takumi said would be disregarded or at least put aside for now due to the fact that you could smell the alcohol coming out of his pores from two yards away.

Thank god the girls slept through that. That is something I never want them to be a part of. But I will say, it is something that needed to happen. This police report will discredit him in many ways during the inevitable custody battle. With Yasu as a lawyer I'm sure we will have all the leverage we need! Shin helped me pick up the glass after the police left and Hachi had pulled Nobu inside to tend to his lips. She looked slightly angry after seeing his bottom lip swell up a bit, but that made it all the more convincing to the cops.

~Hachi's POV~

Not his lips… I thought as I sighed, he sat on the counter in the bathroom as I grabbed the first aid kit and an icepack. I tended to the slit on his bottom lip and could feel that my eyebrow was furrowed.

"I'm sorry Nana…" he said quietly.

"I just don't see why Shin had to hit your mouth" I frowned.

"No, I mean I'm sor-"

"I mean hitting you in the nose or eye is bad too but come on…" I shook my head then put my index finger to his lips. "Don't apologize. You lost yourself, but what's important is that you came back to me."

I kissed his chin, then very softly his lips.

"Hey Nana, I don't think we should be staying here for a while. Would you like to see the Inn? It's almost completely finished, I just have to paint a few more walls… but it is in good enough condition to stay there." He asked hopefully.

"INN?! I thought it was just a little old house you were working on!" I said shocked.

"Well, technically it's a hot spring Inn…"

Oooooookay Readers that wraps up this chapter! Somewhere around 8500 Characters long to make up for my short chapter that I posted forever ago!

PLEASE remember to R&R with your responses to the questions I asked in the beginning and don't be afraid to give me your opinions and ideas! Please remember to chose an option!

I hope I didn't go too far with the violence on this one!

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As always,

~Lea Miles