EPISODE 59: SURPRISES. THE NEW CHAIRWOMAN.
(Isa's voice)
"Ok, ready to leave?" Shin asked me holding my hand softly while I stood up from my hospital bed well dressed after the doctor told me I was ready to leave yesterday night.
"I think so." I said smiling. "And… I think you are going to have a surprise."
"Really?" He said while the door burst open.
"I still can't understand how is that door is allowed to be opened like that." I said when Nobu came in frightened.
"Isa!" He said. "You've got problems!! There's press downstairs!! Yasu is taking care of lying them!!"
"So early?" I asked a bit surprised on them finding out so fast. "I trust the crazy blond is not downstairs too."
"Well…" Nobu said embarrassed while the door opened again.
"What are you doing?" Ren said. "Naoki is about stripping to call their attention away from the door!"
"Why have they come here?" I asked him.
"Don't know, they are speaking so weird…" Nobu said.
"Ah, Reira and Nana have taken the kids to the car." Ren said. "The doctors took them through the urgency area doors."
"Good." I said smiling. "Do I look good?"
"Perfect." The three of them said.
"C'mon, we have to take you through the back doors too." Shin said.
"No." I said. "I don't intend to do such. I am going to go out by the front door, as a lady."
"And the press?" Ren said worried.
"Let's give them what they wanted." I said smiling sexily and self-confidently.
(Yasu's voice)
"Please, there's nothing you can get here." I said. "Please, leave at once, you are disturbing people in there."
"Is it true Miss Okanzaki has been here for a month?" A journalist said.
"We've heard she has gone through mental problems so she's been…" Another said.
It was a lucky I was not alone there, cause I would have hit that man for even suggesting she was crazy.
Anyway, before it could happen, I was held by Takumi, Kawano and Narita.
"Please, stop spreading such lies around." Mr. Kawano said then. "She's been here due to…"
"She's going out!!" Someone shouted.
Suddenly everything stopped and the journalists ran to get to the front doors where Isa had just appeared with Nobu, Shin and Ren by her sides.
"Please, Mrs. Okanzaki!" One shouted.
"Please, one by one." She said smiling wide and commercially. "I can't answer all at once."
"Mrs. Okanzaki, please." One said then. "It's said that lately your family managed to get control of the famous Toy-makers firm 'Pattel' and 'Boris & Clairk', is it true?"
Boris & Clairk? That should be another of their rumours trying to mess things up. How could she, being at the hospital, managed to get power of that?
"Well, I'm afraid I wanted this to be keep in secret but…" She said. "Yes, I'm not a chairman, well, chairwoman from both companies." She said as joking. "And about the rumours about why I come now out of here… I must say I was not pleased with my appearance so I came here to put myself under a treatment for my leg, I'm afraid I was not so agile and I broke my ankle so I had to do some rehabilitation now."
"I've heard you came here looking for a liposuction." Another one said.
I saw how Nobu, Ren and Shin now out of their astonishment wanted to fight the press but she stopped them.
"Well, it's true I've gone a bit out of form lately." She said with the commercial smile. "But I know too that the solution for it is sport and healthy food."
"Miss Okanzaki." Another one said.
"No more personal questions about the hospital and me, please." She said.
"Speaking about the firms you have accepted to have became chairman of, what plans do you plan to have about them?"
"Well, I plan to keep them." She said. "I'm sure I'll be able to…"
I couldn't believe it. She was dealing with all that as if she was a real businesswoman, she was even joking while she was interviewed.
Anyway…
"Sorry men." She said when the car parked at the front of the hospital. "My coach has arrived, anyway, if you wanted to ask anything else I will be more than happy to answer them officially at both firms. Thanks you."
Then she tried to walk past the mass of journalists that didn't opened until two big hairy demons came out and nearly bit them to be stopped by a single command from her.
"Nero and Lucius are the best bodyguards I will ever had." She stated. "My babes… they don't stand press around their mommy."
It was funny, but then they tried over the rest of us that just walked past them to get at the cars.
(Isa's voice)
"Isa, what's that lie about you being chairwoman?" Shin asked me.
"Just what it seems." I answered smiling. "I used to have certain number of actions in the toy firm and well… the other is just a little present from a friend."
"What?!" We all asked.
"Boris & Clairk is a world known firm with representations around the whole world." Yasu said. "I can't believe you were just given that for free."
"Well, no." I admitted. "But I still have certain friends, strong business sharks and business owners that certainly keep on loyal to me instead of my family. They gave me a hand with this… business."
"And why did you bought it?" Mr. Kawano asked me.
"I'm going to have to get extra-earnings for my kids." I said smiling ironically. "Do you think owning two big firms will do?"
(Shin's voice)
"It's something she has inherited from her father." I told the rest while the girls went to take care of the babies. "Some kids play dolls and games while others play… buying and shelling firms and empresses."
"What does it mean?" Nobu asked.
"Her first game was Monopoly, and when she was six she bought her first emprise." I told them. "I think it was a fast food firm at England."
"Wait a moment, you must be kidding." Ren said. "How could a six year girl do such?"
"With big weekly earnings and a present from her father." Shin said. "Of course, it never worked well and the earnings were a bit little. Then she sold it yet she kept on playing that game."
"Monopoly?" Naoki asked.
"No, buying firms and owning them." I told them. "When she was 7 she got a chocolate firm at Swissland; when 8 and a half I think it came the restaurant firm with restaurants all over Europe, now day it has restaurants all over the world. Then… well, the rest I think she has bought and sold them."
Now everyone was astonished; even Takumi was so surprised he seemed to have forgot he has the lighter lighted.
"Of course, this has always been secret and in all those emprises the name being shown was his father's one until she became elder enough to be legally owner for them." I kept on. "She doesn't want anyone to know about this so I'd rather you didn't told around and specially not telling her."
"What is her really?" Takumi asked. "A princess?"
"The true is I'm a yakuza, but I got tired of going around killing people and I chose to begin working as singer." Isa said appearing and with an ironic voice tone. "What were you telling around Shin?" Now she was serious and I went a bit nervous.
"I was telling them how is possible you got those business." I told her. "Have you shown them your contact agenda?"
"Ah, no." She said. "Should I?"
"I would like to, to tell you the truth." Takumi said.
"Hum." She said. "Sure, let me look for it… Here."
She had taken a little notebook that showed us.
"Isa… didn't mean the working one." I told her. "I meant the real one."
"Oh… well…" She said as trying to find a good answer. "The truth is… I don't have it here. I've… put it to day."
"Really?" I said.
"What's all this about?" Ren said.
"Oh, but I can show you part of it!" She said suddenly realising on it. "Let me look for it."
"Shin?" Yasu asked me.
"Just a second." I told him. "You have to see it."
"Here it is." She said smiling and coming back with a key. "This little tricky…" Then she stopped and turned around. "Would you mind to… turn around, please?"
"Why?" Naoki asked.
"Anything you want to hide from us?" Takumi asked standing up.
"She is going to open her safety-vault." I said smiling. "She doesn't want anyone to know where is it."
It was funny, but as soon as we all covered our eyes she gave the last three steps to get to the picture where it was placed the door and then she unlocked it by typing the password to then lay her finger at the digital plank to unlock it.
Really tough safety measurements; anyway, when I saw what it was inside the vault I knew why the whole safety thing.
She took a little trunk and then she locked the door again before turning and allowing us to look.
"What's that?" Yasu asked.
"My contact agent." She said smiling and placing the key at the keyhole to unlock it. "I've got… about 10.000 contact profiles with telephone numbers, e-mails, addresses, their job, working address and phone… And all tagged by colours by kind and group." She said showing us the trunk was full with mini-folders with different colours and letters on them, alphabetically ordered and all.
"It's bigger I remember." I said.
"Is it an agenda or the government files?" Naoki asked making her laugh.
(Yasu's voice)
"And what does it mean that red one?" Nana asked Isa while they checked on the trunk containing.
"Interesting and single men that could get married." Isa said smiling. "I've still got to update it a bit, I think this two are not longer single so…"
"And that pink files that are so thick?" Reira asked.
"Sissies." Takumi said to me while we smoked at the window. "They have to be so as to be placed at such a colour."
"Boyfriends and ex-boyfriends." Isa answered making the two girls astonished.
"But… but… there are more than…" Hachi said.
"More than 35, aye." Isa said. "The most important are on the fuccia ones."
"How many of those are there?" Shin asked then smiling.
"10." She said. "15 if you count the Bulgarian brothers one by one."
"Man… this lady is frightening…" Takumi said. "Who knows how many men has she already done up."
"Never mind." I said. "Now she has become a formal mother. She is going to be a good mother too."
"Really?" Takumi said. "She is a crazy head one… Do you really think such a lady can be a good mother?"
"Well, she has maternal sense." He said when I ran to check on the babies when she heard them crying. "She has guts, as shows her decision to bring up her children alone so as not to hurt anyone's life… and she has sacrificed her own happiness for getting them a promising future."
"Has she?" Takumi said. "Because I think all she has done was feed her ego."
"Takumi, not everyone is like you." Ren said as Isa came back with the two babies. "Ah!! The precious Itsuki!! Let me hold him, please…"
"It-what?" Isa said.
"Itsuki." Ren told her. "It means 'tree', I like short names connected to flowers."
"Itsuki sounds good." Nana said smiling.
"Itsuki… Suki!" Isa said happily. "Yeah, sounds good. But… let's ask the little one. Hello, little one… what do you think? Do you like your name Itsuki? Or you rather Hana?"
"I'm afraid your son would have problems if you call him Hana." I told her.
"Er… Hana is a female name…" Nana told her.
"Ok, so… do you like Itsuki, lil' one?" Isa asked the black haired baby lifting him up at her hands.
Then the baby began laughing.
"I think he likes the name." Nobu said smiling. "By the way, have you though how to call your other son?"
"I've still not chosen a name, but… well, I've always had an illusion about that." She said smiling and holding both babies to cradle them softly.
"So you already had a name in mind?" Nobu asked her while Ren held the black haired one at his arms rocking him softly.
"Since I was about 6 and I met the most precious boy I've ever met." She nodded smiling and letting the baby she was holding to hold her finger softly. "I thought I would call him like that despite of the English meaning of the name."
"Which is it?" Nana said.
Then Isa made her get her ear next to her mouth and whispered her a name that made Nana a bit surprised, then she did the same with Reira that was being held a finger by the same baby.
"How was such love romance?" Reira said surprised.
"He was just a little baby." Isa said smiling. "And I thought he was the most precious thing I'd ever seen. Later when we grew up a bit and I saw how his life was… well, my illusion went even stronger. I wanted that if I ever had a child, I would have loved to be that guy."
"And the name was…?" Takumi asked.
"It's a secret." She said smiling.
"I know what the name is." Naoki said smiling. "It's Naoki."
"No way!!" The girls said laughing.
"Ok, I must say the name means something against heavens and that translated into Japanese and written is like this: 向こうずね ((Here is the translation into Japanese I got from wordlingo, I hope you can see it.))"
That left everyone shocked and then I thought about it. She was English, so I suppose that was an English name. When finally I came across it, I was astonished, and then… I couldn't help but to smile.
"I think he will love the name." I said. "Yet we will never know who you are calling."
"Do you know what the name is?!" Ren asked me.
"I expected no less from the cleverest one in this room." Isa said smiling.
"What's the name?" Shin asked. "What guy was your most handsome in the world? Renato? Boris?"
"No, speaking about Boris…" Isa said. "Dear 'Flatmates', we are going to have a little visit any day from tomorrow on a week we will be getting the visit of my dear Bulgarian boyfriends and the girls."
"Weren't them Swedish?" I asked her.
"Ah, well, no." She said. "They now live there, but they were born at Bulgaria."
"And they are coming here?" Nobu asked.
"Well, in fact…" She said raising an eyebrow.
"In fact what?" Ren asked.
"Well, they are coming to met the two princes and our friends taking advantage on the fact that they are doing a modelling show here and…" She said. "Well, they…"
"They what?" Takumi said. "Do they plan to marry you or what?"
She then fell silent.
"Oh, oh." Naoki said.
"Derrick offered me to marry me if I wanted to." She said. "Of course I told him not to."
"Man!!" Reira said. "Why can't I get such offers!!"
"I don't ask to have around 10 marriage offers!!" Isa said to then realise on what she said on nervous and bitted her lips inside.
"Excuse me?" Ren said. "Oh, you mistook yourself, isn't it?" He added smiling. "You meant 2."
"No, she meant about 10." I said. "And I must say there were more important than yours ones. But she turned them down too."
"Yasu…" She advised me.
"You shouldn't get embarrassed about that." I told him. "Not everyone is so popular as you."
"I'm not embarrassed on that!" She said angry as the babies woke up again and were crying before she began speaking angrily. "I'm embarrassed on the matters they did it!! And I'm angry because you managed to woke up them!!"
She then caught the two babies and went away.
"Man, this time she is mad." Ren said.
"I'll go and check on her." Shin said standing up.
"Anyway… are you sure she got all those proposals?" Takumi asked. "Isn't it another joke?"
"No, and I must say she had many and interesting ones." I said. "Yet she is true, none was done for reasons she wanted but for convenience."
"Not mine." Nobu and Ren said fast.
Then both looked each other as they were surprised on the coordination they had saying the same at the same time.
"If she had not been pregnant you would not have asked her to marry you." I said.
"Sure, they are still young for marrying other than for paying for a mistake." Takumi muttered lighting a cig Nobu immediately smashed at his hand holding it with an angry face.
"Do not smoke in here." He said angry. "And we are elder enough for taking our own decisions."
I could see the atmosphere was beginning to go tenser and tenser for moments. So I chose to get in the middle again.
"Nobu is right, you can't smoke here, it's bad for the children." I said. "And Nobu, this tense atmosphere is bad for everyone, so both of you, please calm down and relax a bit."
"Yeah, before the two demons arrive and bite us." Ren said. "They really are like demons, luckily their mother has came back or they would end up killing us."
"They don't bite you." Nobu said then.
"No, but they walk me instead the other way round." Ren said taking out a cig and going to the window to open the window to smoke a bit.
"Hey, give me one, please." Takumi said.
"Here." Ren told him then.
"Ren, you should drop that." Nobu said. "It's bad for the babies and the mother."
"I don't care if my child is a smoker too." He said.
Suddenly we heard something really soft and everyone fell silent.
"What's that thing coming from?" Naoki asked.
It was funny, we could hear also a guitar being played softly matching the song.
"Sweet dreams, babies…" I was sung. "Blessed by muses/ Glowing like stars/ hanging where the sky starts/ peaceful oozes."
Funny she could make rhymes up her sleeve so easily and even on such hard conditions.
"I like her voice." Naoki said. "Makes me want to spread love around."
"It is relaxing." Reira said smiling. "Motherly and lovely…"
"It's a kitsch." Takumi said. "It'll be a lucky your sons don't grow up being sissies."
"At least they are going to have fathers that will give them love." Nobu said to then be hit by me.
"No fights here." I told them.
"If you want to hit anyone listen to the songs and you will end up finding inside peace." Ren added jocking.
(Shin's voice)
Finally the kids fell slept again while Isa was rocking them softly while singing them things on English. When finally she managed to let them sleeping at their cradles she looked at me.
"Thank you Shin." She said. "At this rate they will grow up loving guitars and music."
"Will that be that something wrong?" I asked her smiling.
"No, not at all." She said. "I don't plan to be like our fathers, yet they are going to spend their scholar life on the best schools in the world."
"When do you plan to tell everyone?" I then asked her.
"I don't know what are you talking about." She answered looking serious while she wrapped better the babies.
"Oh, you know what I'm talking about." I assured realising on her sudden serious face. "I've seen the tickets."
"Shin, you are mistaking things." She told me. "Do not take things from grated just cause of that."
"When do you plan to tell everyone you are planning to run away again?" I asked her. "Do you think this time you are going to do it so simply? Don't you think about us?"
"Shin, it's not all that simple…" She then whispered sadly.
"Of course it is that simple!" I said.
"Shin, if you wake them up again I'll kill you." She answered me looking at me with threatening look at her eyes.
"Please, do not leave." I told her holding to her back. "Please…"
"Shin, I'm not leaving." She told me. "Those tickets were to go for a week to Ireland and London and then back here."
"Then why were just a ticket? A flight with no return?" I then asked.
"Because I don't know if I will be able to come back for the day planned or not." She told me covering my mouth softly and whispering. "I have to deal with some matters at Ireland and then I have to deal with a familiar matter at London before coming back. I can't tell anyone else because I don't know how things are going to turn, right? I don't want to allow anyone getting the wrong idea. But before… we have a couple of baptisms to celebrate."
"And what are the names for them?" I asked her.
"I want to call the black haired boy Itsuki." She said smiling. "Ren once told me he had the illusion to name his children after flowers so… well, don't know what Itsuki means but I think looks pretty cool for a guy."
"And Nobu's child?" I asked her.
"Oh, I want to name him after someone." She said smiling. "I've always dreamed about this so… I expect Nobu likes the name too."
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