AN: Shorter chapter than I wanted but I wanted to update more... Figured I left you guys hanging long enough. The story is only 7something words... Mor characterization than anything... Anyways, hope you enjoy

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After replaying the recordings from Asahi industries several times for hour after hour she decided one: they weren't seeing tomorrow. Not as a company anyway, no...death would be too quick for their crime against her. This was a crime to critical to forgive.

Especially not with how dismissive they'd been with his life. Treating him like a despoable cog when his mind was one of the most valuable they could've ever found.

No, Kanra was going to tear apart their entire lives...and she was going to do it when they thought they succeed. She was sure that the Russian they were currently at odds with would hire a competent crew and they'd keep Ruko-kun (her nickname when making sure other women didn't distract him from his career) alive. When an agreement had been reached, he'll would descend on the entire Corporation.

They had messed with her bestfriend (which wasn't an easy accommodation to come by. Shinra had been number 2), now they were gonna pay. All she had to do was wait for the perfect time to strike.

On the bright side, Roku-kun may finally embrace that true nature of his she'd seen lurking beneath the surface or his weak and submissive demeanour. She had poked and prodded at it, but (sigh) never achieved success. She could tell there was something he tried to hide under that soft skin of his. He was a wolf hiding beneath the skin of a sheep, and didn't like that (him hiding his true nature). Both her and Shinra had embraced their wild sides, what hadn't he? Why was he trying so hard to hide it, to be faceless?

Some of the people she'd recruited in her initial surveillance had became worried about work. She quickly quelled this fear with either offers of work in other corps or within her organization itself. This ensured they remained loyal and could be used later...win-win.

Kanra was usually a paitent woman but knowing Roku-kun was still in danger still worried her and sleep became impossible (she hadn't slept since the news of the kidnapping came to her).

That had been 12 hours ago...she only took an hour nap since the day he'd been given the assignment...36 hours ago.

She had to stay vigilant if she was to strike at the right moment.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

Right now, Rock (as the American pirate few named him) was sipping on his beer in a bar somewhere in Thailand. All the patrons looked rough in terms of career. As a man who's career required him to understand languages (including: Spanish, Danish, English, Russian, Romanian, Chinese (mandarin and Cantonese), German... And a bit of a few others) he could hear and understand just about everyone in the bar. Most spoke with crass and rude words. Not to mention the gun on every single table.

"Why is there a gun on every table. Is the the so called 'bar at the end of the world' you see in westerns?"

Dutch (the pirate captain) responded, "Good analogy, this place was founded by the southern Vietnamese who survived the war. They started taking in fugitives from all over then, before we knew it, the place had gone straight to hell. Don't like it?"

"Hookers, junkies, mercenaries, irredeemable criminals every single one of them."

"Hold on, I gotta make a call."

The blond spoke next.

"You can give up on trying to figure him out. After being around him for two year all I know is he's tough, intelligent and eccentric."

"You seem diffent, where are you from?"

"A collage in Florida. Managed to piss off the mafia and the FBI at the same time. Then-"

"Then my ass came and swooped in saving him from getting his ass tossed overboard. Now stop with the worthless storytelling. Too young to be reminiscing. In my opinion beer is no different from piss. Stuff will never get you drunk. A real man takes rum."

Then the drinking contest started.

While his crew were talking to the hostage he was calling a woman known as Balalaika. The conversation was nothing but bad news.

A mercenary company was hired by Asahi and hired to killed the crew with an unlimited budget.

That's when the grenades rolled in.