Chapter twenty:
Akemi glances down for a moment in thought. His eyes darting back and forth for a few moments as he works it out in his mind.
Kyouya allows the man a bit of time to think. He feels like he is so close to an answer to this whole situation. He can spend just this little bit longer to let the man think this over.
Akemis gaze moves upwards as if for a moment he had clarity. He raises his head to look to the other male who he finds patiently waiting. "If only I hadn't shot my fiancée all those years ago, just to get into that group. Maybe we wouldn't be sitting here. But I guess here we are. I'll tell you what I know. I can't guarantee that it'll be enough to take the group down."
"I'll take anything that might get us closer to our goal." Kyouya agrees to this keeping his focus on the goal.
"They are very secretive. They watch especially the trainees very closely. If you can somehow prove they exist it might give them a hard blow. That's your best chance against a group that's been around as long as that have." Akemi explains to Kyouya as they watch each other. "The dark web is cover ups or amateur wannabes. Also police use the dark web with fakes to lure people into traps. The dark web won't be of any help with that. This group knows many ways to get people to target. That keeps their secrecy."
Kyouya nods already thinking up a plan of what they could do to expose the group. "Thank you." He stands up and adjusts his glasses. "You be careful."
"You as well." Akemi nods solemnly in return.
Kyouya leaves the room motioning for the guards he left to come. He notices a maid enter the room causing him to pause. He knows that Akemi is in a lot of danger, so he decides to head back towards the room the maid entered. He rushes inside and finds the maid had barely gotten past the door. He looks to where Akemi is.
Akemi is laying on the ground with foam dripping from his mouth. His lifeless eyes staring at nothing. He has a broken tea cup next to him.
Kyouya knew what had happened immediately. He couldn't blame the man for taking his own life, before someone else could. He lets out a breath closing his eyes for a moment. He adjusts his glasses slightly. He silently promises to try his best to stop this. He turns and heads out with an extra bit of determination to do this. He gets back to the limo and heads home for now. He doesn't want to raise suspicion. He'll find a way to contact Kaoru. He knows better than to go straight to the twins after what just happened. He decides to think on the plan of how to get them exposed. He supposes a popular news channel would be a good place to do it.
The popularity would get the news spread quite rapidly.
Kyouya will have to pick the right one for this idea. He starts thinking over popular news stations that he will make sure that they'll do the story on.
Kaoru is pacing back and forth in his and his brothers bedroom alone. He is running out of time and if Kyouya is unable to get anything useful then he might have to do it. He doesn't want to die. He doesn't want to kill Haruhi though he might have no other choice but to take down one of his friends. He stops pacing and hangs his head shutting his eyes tightly as his teeth clench. How in the world could he face his friends after killing Haruhi though?
They'd probably look down on him. They'd probably turn on him. They might-
"No." Kaoru opens his eyes and raises his head. "They're my friends. They would be hurt however they would understand. I just wouldn't be able to face them." He almost lets a tear fall down before he closes his eyes softly. He takes a deep breath before opening them again. He knows that he needs to face the fact that he may have to live with the weight of having killed his friend. He cannot be sure that any plan to take down the group will even work. He turns to glance to a window just as a black helicopter passes by over head only to turn to head away. He's being watched. He knew that this would happen. He'll have to make quick decisions after hearing what Kyouya got out of the man he told the other about.
"Hey Kaoru. You should come downstairs with me. The maids made a chocolate cake and they're going to give us big slices!" Hikaru has poked his head inside of the room from the doorway. His voice causes Kaoru to turn to look at him. He is smiling with hope written all over his facial expression. He keeps his smile up as he wishes to help his slightly younger twin brother feel better, especially during such a tense time.
Kaoru manages a smile putting on the mask that he's feeling a bit confident about this. He might as well enjoy the time that he has with his brother like this… Before it might be all taken away from him. "Yeah. Sure, Hikaru. Cake sounds really lovely right now. Is it the one with the chocolate rosebud frosting on top?"
"You know it is." Hikaru smiles a little more to try to help keep up the good mood between the two of them. He adds a bit of playful finger guns, only to quickly put them down when he notices Kaoru try to not flinch. He knows his brother well enough to pick up on the small cues that other people are more likely to miss; Other people including the other host club members.
No matter how much of a family they might be to each other they'll never spot the little signs that Kaoru gives off that only Hikaru can read.
The two of them head off together to go get some cake, however before Kaoru leaves the room he takes a final glance to the window then turns away following Hikaru.