Chapter 2

It's been a month since that night were I met Daigo. My phone got stolen 3 days after that.

He never showed up at my work to escort me like he promised. It feels more and more like a dream. Like it never happened in the first place.

Today after work I climbed the fire stairs of the building where this Bar "Serena" was.

After I reached the roof I stood by the railing.

I looked down. This was pretty high. I sighed. I guess killing myself would not help. Especially because of a man. I looked over Kamurocho. This City is so beautiful. I just wished I could finally find a purpose of being here.

It feels right to be here in Kamurocho. It also felt right meeting Daigo. And even standing here feels right. But it didn't felt right to jump off this building.

I heard steps behind me. "Don't jump. It's not guaranteed that you die from this height."

I saw a man wearing a black button up, black pants and a wine red jacket.

"Don't worry. I didn't planned on jumping."

"Then why are you here?"

"Don't know. I got shaken down in the alley behind this building a few times. And I saw I can go the stairs up to the rooftop. I was curious I guess."

"A few times?... Didn't you go to the police?"

I sighed. "I tried. I really did. But being a foreigner they just ignoring me. Sad."

The man came to me and stopped right in front of me: "Sad indeed." He flicked a cigarette out of the box and offered it me. I took it an lit it. He flicked a second one out and lit it too.

"I'm Akiyama Shun."

"May, nice to meet you"

"Pleasure is mine." he smirked and checked me head to toe. This dude is the same height as me with my high heels.

"So, May-chan. What's your story?"

I raised one eyebrow at him. "Huh? What do you mean by that?"

"Well, you seem sad. Maybe it helps if you talk about it?"

I kinda feel like it would really help. So I told him I came to Kamurocho 4 Months ago and what happened a month ago with Daigo, but I didn't told him his name. My stolen phone and the regular shake downs.

"Damn. This sounds tough."

"Yeah. Kinda getting used to it."

"I guess offering money wont work?"

"No. I need to figure it out somehow. And money is not the solution."

Akiyama looked at his cigarette and was probably thinking how to help me.

Then his eyes widened and he said: "I have an Idea! It might sound crazy, but please hear me out."

I wasn't expecting a wonder but well... I nodded "Shoot."

"How about I teach you some self defence. Absolute free of charge. I teach you how to avoid punches, and how to run away effective."

Thinking of this. It does make sense. I would have taken some self defence classes long ago, but I didn't had the money for doing so.

I gave Akiyama a warm smile and said: "This could actually work."

He smiled back at me and put his hand on his chest: "What's this smile of yours. May-chan this feels illegal."

"I'm 25."

"GOOD!", he screamed. "Tomorrow, same time in the alley behind this building."

"Sure."

"Should I walk you home?"

"That would be nice, Akiyama-sensei.", I said smiling at him again.

Again he touched his chest and took a deep breath: "May-chan, please stop. Don't call me Sensei. I'm feeling like my heart is gonna jump out."

I really couldn't help but laughed. "I may let you know, that I have no interest of this kind in you. Sorry."

"No, its alright. It hurts a little, but I will live. And I will teach you. Friends works well for me too."

We both laughed a little and he walked me home.

The Next Day.

I showed up in the alley with some exercising clothes on. Akiyama was already waiting there.

"Akiyama-san?" I said.

He heard me and turned to me: "There you are! Are you ready?"

"I guess?"

He showed me some basic moves like how to break free from any grip. How to disarm people and even how to break free from a hostage situation. I learned pretty fast which surprised Akiyama.

"May-chan are you sure you never did this before?"

"Pretty sure. Maybe I was a great fighter in a previous life?" I smiled at him.

"Yeah, that would explain it." he laughed.

We met almost every day to practice and I felt stronger after every training. After I learned the basics of self defence I asked if he could also teach me how to fight back. But he refused. He said: "This is something I can't do. I could teach you how I fight but there would be no point in it, because it's my fighting style. And someone as talented as you, I'm pretty sure you can come up with your own fighting style. A style that suits you best."

After that I worked hard on finding my way to fight. And I got some ideas actually.

The next day at training:

"Yo Akiyama-san!"

"Yes, May-chan?"

"I have some ideas of fighting. May I try it on you?"

"Sure! What should I do?"

"well, I know that you don't throw punches, but could you try to punch me in the face? But slow."

"Alright."

I stood in front of Akiyama and got in a stable stand. He slowly throw a punch at my face. I dodged the punch and pushed my whole body towards him. My face came dangerously close to his. He was confused and at this moment I hooked my foot behind his and pushed his chest so that he fell on his back.

"How was that?"

Still laying on the ground he laughed. "This was fantastic. I knew you could find something."

I reached my hand out to him to help him up. He took it and stood up.

"Do you have more?"

"Kinda. When I was a kid I loved doing acrobatics. And I think combining this with using weak points of my enemies and basically mocking them works pretty well with me."

"This sounds about a fighting style that suits you very well. I'm so proud of you"

"Akiyama-san. Are you crying?"

"No, it's just dusty here."

"Sure."

We trained for 3 month my new fighting technique. In this time I dressed up every day after work in an black tracking suit with a hood and a facemask, because some strange men were asking frequently for me. And to be honest I have no idea what they want from me.

"Your fighting has improved a lot May-chan."

"Well, this is all thanks to you Akiyama-san." I said with a smile.

"Now. How about a real sparring? As your final test of the Kitsune style?"

I called this Kitsune Style, because the people of Kamurocho gave me the Nickname "Kitsune of Kamurocho" because I was tricking my opponent and mocking them. I liked that name, so I kept it.

"YES! But don't come crying on my shoulder when I kick your ass!"

We started fighting, and at the beginning it seemed like we were equal fighters but somehow he cornered me. He kicked me in my back and I fell on the floor with face first.

"Seems like your not quite ready May-chan.", he said, slowly approaching me.

"You think so?", I said and then standingup on my hands and bend my back so I could reach his waist with my legs and clinched them around and pushed my arms away from the ground and bend back and towards his body. This led to him falling on his back and me sitting on top of hin and throwing a punch at his face. He closed his eyes and I stopped just before I touched his face. Slowly he opens his eyes and sees my fist right in front of him.

I flicked his forehead and stood up.

"I win."

"No objections on this part. This move was incredible!"

I offered him a hand and he took it and stood up. "I'm glad it worked out so well."

"It's amazing how you came up with this so fast!", he looked happy at me, "And the part of you sitting on top of me, was the best part by far."

I rolled my eyes. "Seriously?"

"Yeah, I stand by that."

"I'm gonna tell Hana-chan."

"NO! Why do you want my life to be hard?"

I started laughing. "Akiyama-san. You know I just mess with you." I paused and made a step towards him. "Or am I not?"

he shook his head slowly "May-chan, you are something else."

"I know." and I gave him the biggest smile.

After the training Akiyama wanted to tell me something, so we moved to the sky finances office.

Hana: "Chief!, May-chan! There you are!"

May: "Hello, Hana-chan! How are you?"

Hana: "I'm good, thanks for asking!"

Akiyama: "Hana-chan, could you please do some errands for me?, here's the list."

Hana: "HUH? Since when I am an errand girl?"

Akiyama: "Please. It's very important."

Hana: "Sure. Just so you can be alone with May-chan and do something to her? Not on my watch!"

May: "Well actually you don't need to be concerned anymore. I can now officially kick his ass!"

Hana is giving Akiyama a mad look. "Fine then. But I'm gonna raise hell if you do something to my dearest May-chan!"

Hana and I builded a very strong friendship over the last few months. At first she hated me, because she thought that I'm in love with Akiyama, but as soon as she saw that I have no interest at all we became friends super quick. I feel happy that I found a friend like her.

"Now. May-chan. What I wanted to tell you. You know how these shady people were looking for you?"

"Of course, this is the reason why I started to dress up."

"Well, it seems the stopped searching for you a few weeks ago. But there is a problem."

"What is it?"

"I heard rumours that the Tojo Clan is currently searching for the Kitsune of Kamurocho."

"WHAT?! WHY?!"

"I really don't know. But it doesn't seem like they wanted to do any harm to you."

I sighed. "Do you think they are the same people that were searching for me as May?"

"Hard to say. The shady people kinda looked like yakuza but they never wore a crest that would give it away..."

"Well, at least it's never boring, huh?", I gave an annoyed smile.

"The Tojo is normally very humane. And it's the Tojo themselves who are searching and not some family under the Tojo. So I'm sure it's nothing bad they want."

I didn't know what to say and just sighed.

"May-chan. Maybe they want to recruit you. This would be maybe a good opportunity to actually use your fighting skills?"

I was thinking. Well, fighting was really something I love. And I really am annoyed by this whole Hostess job. Always smiling and serving nasty men.

"You're right Akiyama-san. This could really be an good opportunity. I'm gonna think about it."

A few days passed by. I still didn't knew why the Tojo was searching for the Kitsune. I was on my way back home in my "costume" as there were a few thugs trying to get a piece of me. Of course I kicked their asses.

"Kitsune of Kamurocho", someone said behind me. I turned around and saw a few Men in suits.

"We are Men from the Tojo Clan. The sixth chairmen would like to talk to you."

It happened. I'm really not prepared. And honestly I could take them all out and go for a run. But... I guess I don't want Yakuza hunting me down out of revenge. And somehow I was curious about what awaits for me there. So I nodded and followed the men in a black car.

I sat still with my disguise in this car. I kinda got nervous. They could easily kill me right now. I tried not to think about this.

As we arrived and I stepped out of the car I saw this huge building. This must be Tojo HQ. Damn this thing is huge!

I got more and more nervous.

The men brought me in a room with several leather seats. Two men stood infront of the door behind me and closed the door. On the other side of the room opened an other door and a really handsome men in an suit walked in.

"Please come closer.", the man in the suit said.

This voice... I heard it somewhere. As I stepped closer I started to recognise his face. I could not believe my eyes. Daigo? What The hell is going on here?!

"Welcome Kitsune of Kamurocho. I hope my men were nice to you."

In shock I slowly nodded.

"Well, I invited you here today to ask you to join the Tojo Clan. To be more precise, my personal guard."

I couldn't help but started to laugh uncontrollably.

"A woman?", Daigo whispered.

I took down my hood and took off my jacket and my face mask "Hello Daigo. I knew that we would meet again." With these words I gave him my warmest smile.

"May..."