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(Sophia's POV)

I woke up in a large bed. My eyes take in the blurry outline of a pectoral muscle, nipple and abs. I shut my eyes, trying to clear the hazy feeling away. Had I been drugged again? I groan softly, turning my head against the soft skin and look at the green waves tattooed on a large shoulder.

Kaoru.

I smile softly, following the muscled arm with my finger; the thin digit goes over each bump until I get to the hand and I feel his fingers curl around mine, trapping my movements. His hand moves up my fingers, to my palm, over my wrist, up to my elbow, up to my shoulders and I feel a hand rest on the back of my head.

"Welcome back."

I blink, sitting up to straddle his stomach and rub my face "God, I feel like I ran a marathon..."

"Well your heart did, for seven hours. You've been asleep for twenty three."

I pause my hands, cracking open my fingers to stare at him "What?" I try to remember what had happened and slap my hand against his abs when Yujiro's face comes to mind, had he been anyone else I'm sure there would be a bruise "Oh my god, Yujiro... the fight. Kozue!" my eyes snap to him "Is Kozue okay?"

"She's fine," he sooths, his hand rubbing my cheek gently "A bit shaken up but alright..." I lean my head on his hand "Everyone was mostly worried about you."

"Oh my god..." I sigh and it's only when I place my hands on my lap do I realize both of us are naked, at my blush he looks to the left like he was ashamed "Do I want to know?"

"The doctor said skin to skin contact helps slow your heartrate, after a while I was willing to try anything..."

Any embarrassment I felt vanished at his tone. I wasn't sure what had happened in the last twenty three hours but I knew it hadn't been easy. I remove my arm from my chest, placing a hand on his face; I lean down, tilting his lips to mine. I feel his arms wrap around my body and I sigh happily.

Still as much as I wanted to enjoy this happy moment reality called. Being out for twenty four hours and pumped with constant fluids I was starving and in desperate need of the bathroom.

I pull back, placing two hands on his chest to push myself up "Bathroom, food, questions. In that order."

This time he smirks and I roll to the side, coming to a stop at the side of the bed with my feet on the floor. Considering I had spent the better part of the night with him and the fact that I was looking away from him I stand, walking over to the bathroom in all my glory. I had never been more thankful for our full body spa day, I only had hair where I wanted it and smooth skin, a feat I couldn't say I'd always accomplished.

When I get to the door I pause, turning back to look at him and smile softly. His eyes were on me and only me and I couldn't help but feel blessed.

I cut through my waffle, sliding it through some maple syrup and place it in my mouth. The two of us were eating in the dining room, the large table was almost unused, Kaoru and I were sitting towards one end on either side of the table and I smile at him softly. I stand, stepping away from the table and unwrap my hair from my towel. I snap back up, tossing my hair over my head like a scene from the little mermaid and shake my hair out around my shoulders. There was nothing I loved more than the feeling of damp hair and the smell of shampoo flooding my senses. I toss my side bangs over to the right and smile when I feel Kaoru's eyes on me again.

I slide into my seat again, setting the damp towel on the back of the chair to dry and giggle when he still hadn't moved "What?"

"That was strangely hot."

"I know," I tease, taking a sip of water.

We fell into comfortable silence and I seemed to enjoy my meal for the most part but Yujiro's words and that feeling in the hotel, I couldn't get them out of my head. When the feeling of joy flashes through my head the guilt follows and I stop eating, my face falls as I set my fork on my plate.

"What's wrong?" Kaoru's voice was soft and concerned, only making my guilt double.

My mouth opens slightly as I try to find the best way to word it. How did I say something like that? What did I want to say? What was I supposed to ask?

Kaoru had spent the whole night worrying about me and there I was being aroused by my best friend's father. The most troubling thing was I didn't know why. It wasn't the arousal I felt with Kaoru, when we fooled around I was hot and bothered yes but I was in full control of my actions. With Yujiro I felt drunk, warm and bubbly, my thoughts and feelings vanished, I couldn't have done anything other than obey. Everything about that situation was wrong and his confusing words weren't helping.

I felt tears rim my eyes and my stomach tighten as he reaches over to take my hands "Sophia, you can tell me anything."

"I... I think I cheated on you..." while his face twists his hand doesn't move.

"In what way?"

"With Yujiro," my tears come "He um..."

I was expecting him to shout or throw something but he just rises slowly from the table and moves around to kneel before me "Sophia, did he force himself on you?"

Considering it had happened before with Jack's mom it wasn't that unexpected but calling it rape wouldn't have been accurate... the way I was I would have gladly given in.

"No, it's not like that." I groan, trying to find my words "Stop looking at me like that! I can't think when you do that."

"Do what?"

I toss my hands up in frustration because honestly I wasn't sure what he was looking at me like but it made my stomach turn. I knew I was worrying him again. I had moved off my chair, putting as much space between us before I paced back and forth on the floor.

"Sophia-"

"Don't crowd me!" I snap, turning away from him and move around the table.

"Sophia I understand you're scared, everyone who meets Yujiro gets scared. I was scared!"

"I WASN'T SCARED! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!" after my words the room falls into tense silence and I figured out pretty quickly he wasn't going to speak until I continued. I sigh, sitting on the end of the table "When I got into the room Kozue was tied up on the floor and Yujiro and Sikorsky were talking on the couch. Even walking into that room you could feel the danger, Sikorsky and him were stirring up enough tension to kill an elephant but I wasn't scared, I was calm..." my fingers grip the table "When I defied Yujiro's orders and released Kozue he called me over to him. Being that close to him... I could feel it clearly... All of his immense power. He took me in his arms and smelled me." I turn to Kaoru, the tears running down my cheeks "Kozue was in the corner dying of fear and there I stood in the arms of the world's strongest creature. You thought I was afraid, they all did but Yujiro knew..." I look at the floor "I took in all his power and felt aroused."

"His heat was so immense; I can still feel where he touched me. It was this warmth spreading through my body, it made my nerves tingle and my legs shake. When I was with him I could suddenly tell you who was a threat and who wasn't, like I could see everyone's potential for danger. I could feel it in Baki, and Katsumi, and Oliva the unchained, him and Yujiro were on different levels. When he left everyone felt so cold, I'm not certain but it was like I knew exactly how many people were on each floor we passed in that elevator and in the lobby, I could feel it again. Nothing Katsumi did could make the chills go away... It was like touching the sun, painful and exhilarating because you knew you'd never feel heat like that again."

I had lifted my hand out, clutching at air. My fingers died to feel that warmth again and that realization made more tears fall. Kaoru sighs, deeply. After a few moments he moves around the table and pulls me into his arms. Kaoru sinks down to his knees, spreading my legs over his lap and we just sit like that. To say I was shocked was the understatement of the century.
Why the he'll wasn't he pissed?

"Sophia, you didn't cheat on me." His hand wraps around my head, keeping my forehead against his shoulder as more tears come out.

"What?"

"It all makes sense now. Your fascination to me, to Doyle and why everyone around us seems to be drawn to you." he sighs, almost laughing this time "From the beginning of time humans have been able to sense danger. Some of us have more advanced senses." I feel my eyes widen, an image of Baki flashing through my mind "I think Yujiro let you go because he felt that.
It's not been something we use with all our modern technology but that ability is still in us and occasionally under situations of great stress we can awaken them." He pulls back to look at me "What you felt wasn't heat, it's his bloodlust. And that arousal, was your response to his power, even I've felt that in some of my fights. The body gets filled with so many hormones it doesn't know what to do, normally it shuts down. But some of us, can find the courage to push past the line of life or death."

"Why do you think Baki is so good at what he does? It's because his body is used to running a near deathly state at all times, he can access and store memories, techniques with ease. I think that's how you are so good at Kendo, and how you know when things are going to end badly. It's your senses." His hands lift to my cheeks "You are gifted Sophia... but gifts like that have to be trained, guided. You can't go back from this and you can't ignore it."

"Yujiro said I had the blood of innocents on the hands of my blood, and if I ever wanted to learn how to use it I should find him. He said I would know where to find him."

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