"I want you to meet Vira, she has been working with me for a while." A clothed figure says, stepping to the side so that the Twi'lek would get a better look and vice versa. A ten year old boy scowls and turns away from Vira. The figure sighs and places a hand on top of the kid's mop of curly hair. "Be nice Kairo, say hi. Now." The boy, Kairo, huffs in annoyance and looks at Vira. He then waves his hand quickly before putting it back down. The figure didn't like that. "Can't cheat your way out of it this time, use your words."

Kairo pouts, "But master...I sense something wrong with her. Like she wants to eat me alive and have me only be hers."

"Aww, don't worry baby. I'm sure that it's not true. You're mine anyways. My dear baby boy!" The figure coos out, lifting Kairo into his arms.

Kairo scowls, "I'm not a baby! Put me down, master!"

"Then act like one," the older person retorts, "I will put you down if you promise to say hi to the girl."

"Fine...I promise." Kairo relents.

The figure smiles and puts him down. Kairo turns to face Vira again and say hi again, this time with his voice. "But let me warn you," he adds, "if you try anything...I will kill you! That's a promise. Don't mistaken me and my master for some Jedi. We're both assassins and Bounty Hunters. So we see all and know all. Watch yourself." He stands quietly for a few more seconds, staring right into her eyes before scrambling away. Yelling at his master that he will be riding in his ship for a while.

Vira continues to look until the boy was out of sight, "Is he...?" She starts to ask.

"My slave? Yes." The figure finishes, still amused at the boy's threatening and protective nature. He sees that Vira was about to say something else and he immediately knew what it was. "I don't always treat him like one though, more like a son. I swore off having a wife and kids years ago but I guess the little runt running from the Empire warmed my heart. He doesn't trust a lot of people except for me, but I promise you he's a good kid. Give him some time, win his heart even. He will warm up to you eventually."

Vira's eyes shined bright, that's it! He is right, she will win Kairo's heart! She thanks the figure and runs off, trying to find a spare transport and find Kairo. The figure looks on and sighs, before smirking a bit. "Young love is beautiful, isn't it? Too bad this one is one-sided thought, very one-side. That Twi'lek runt has no chance. Kairo isn't focused on love right now, or at all really. It will have to take one special girl to make him fall in love." He is right.

Vira stood no chance, for years. But someone else did.

That girl...Neji.

Neji Ashanti.

When the figure came to Vira again seven years later, a covered up figure with a helmet and red visor, Neji, is beside him. "Our team has grown a bit more bigger, this is a Bounty Hunter. Code name is 'Twilight.' Yes I know, I know, I could've chosen something better. But I was too lazy so I thought of Kairo's code name, 'Starlight' and boom! That's how I got the name." Speaking of Kairo, he appears in the hallway behind the Figure, wearing an all black look with a sleeveless sweater. Which is showing his defined muscles. His hair has lighter, golden brown highlights compliment it, and it's tied up in a slightly higher man bun with braids at the sides. Vira fell even more in love.

He sees the person besides his master and is shock at the sight. This is woman! Not only that, but she looks so strong and sexy! His cheeks flushed red as he looks down at the ground shyly, just in time for his master and everyone else to notice him. His master sees the redness on the boy's face and smiles. "Kairo! I want you to meet our newest recruit who so happens to be your age! The code name is Twilight! Which goes well with yours." The person besides his master unlocks the helmet and slowly takes it off. Revealing long, raven black hair flowing all the way down her back and styles in braids, alongside her blue and purple Heterochromia eyes. Her lips are blood red, probably from some lipstick and gloss. Her darker caramel skin seems to be so clear and healthy, shining as if it's some sort of treasure...like a diamond. To Kairo, everything about her is gorgeous and perfect.

Well would you look at that, Kairo is in love.

"Hello! I'm Twilight! But my real name is Neji Ashanti! I have been told by Victor here that you can show me the ropes and be my counsel. I will be honored to learn from you, if you're willing!" She says enthusiastically. It swells Kairo's heart from the cuteness overload he is experiencing. How can he refuse such a adorable and beautiful face? He nods his head, "I don't mind. My master wanted it, right? So it shall be done." Neji pouted and shook her head.

She points straight at Kairo, causing a feeling of surprise strike his core. "I'm only doing this if you want to! I do not care about social and power status, if you don't want to do it, so be it! Just tell me! Victor knows that if he tries anything, I can mop the floor with him again." She insists.

"Wait, you beat HIM?! My master?!" Kairo asks in disbelief.

Neji nods her head and smiles brightly,"Yessss, I did! I'm the first one to beat him in hand to hand combat and with weapons! Non lethal ones, of course." Kairo whips his eyes to stare at his master, who nods in confirmation and smiles sheepishly.

Kairo, for first time, smiles. It's directed at Neji. "Color me impressed! Alright, I will help you out. Of my own free will, I promise. Now, come along. We will go to the training facility. Also, " he looks at his master again, " welcome back master. Glad you're safe. I missed you." With that, Kairo leaves with Neji following him eagerly. To the point that she is practically skipping.

This pisses Vira off.

Victor, the "figure," is loving this.

--

"Hello, back with me Kai? We're here now." Neji says, bringing Kairo back to reality. He presses a series of buttons and pulls down a lever. Neji notices that his demeanor is a bit more...somber? Dark? She puts a gentle hand on his arm, "Are you okay, Kairo? You know as your fi-" Kairo shook her hand off his arm. "You never said yes, remember?" Kairo whispers harshly. Neji gulps and looks down, "Y-Yes..and I'm sorry for that Kairo, I was just afraid that I wasn't good enough and I wanted to think it through. But I'm ready now, for real I am! If you're willing then-" she is interrupted again.

"SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE! NOW!"

Neji stares at him in shock before her eyes turns somber, she nods her head once and walks out of the control room. When he hears the short hisses of the doors sliding to a close, Kairo breathes out shakily. "I really don't want to meet Vira...I'm not sure why Master still wants me to be in contact with her. Fuck," he looks back at the now closed doors, "Neji didn't deserve that. It was frustrating not getting an answer from her but the way I lashed out at her was not okay. Hell, it's not even husband material. Looks like we're here at least, let me lannnd...okay. All set. Let's get out of here, too much thinking." With that, he makes sure to properly park the ship and turn off the controls before he eventually leaves.

When he walked out of the door, Vira was there jumping around excitedly. It makes Kairo sick to his stomach. He quickly looks around but doesn't see Neji anywhere. Where the hell did she go?!

"Kairo! Kaiiiiiiro! I missed you for so long!" Vira says, attempting to wrap her arms around him.

Kairo dodges the attempt, "It hasn't been that long. More like, six months maybe? Our friend Neji has been gone for a year. Speaking of Neji, do you know where she is?"

"Right here, Kairo." A familiar voice says gently.

Kairo eyes widen in shock as he looks up and past Vira, seeing Neji and his Master. Who is being supported by her. "Master! Why are you up while still ill? VIRA," he looks back down with furious eyes and snarls out, "You had ONE job and you can't even do that! Fucking u-" He is the one who gets interrupted this time.

By none other than Neji.

Neji Ashanti.

She glares at him and whips out her black baton, "Unless she has done or said some things that make her an ultimate piece of shit who deserves this, Hell and beyond, you DO NOT disrespect her with that foul language. EVER! Nor will you do that to ANY woman. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?! If not, then allow me to make it clear for you with," she throws her baton hard on the ground, causing it to shake a bit and form a few micro sized cracks, "this!"

"You know what, never mind. I'm a bit pissed right now and he is the PERFECT target practice."

"Neji..Neji...NO!"

WHACK!

In what seems like a split second, she already reaches Kairo and smacks him hard across his face with her baton. Vira shrieks in anger and tries to attack from behind, but Neji sends a powerful backwards kick to her gut and vagina, before sending and equally powerful push with her foot, sending Vira flying and crashing somewhere.

"Don't forget about me N-Neji," Kairo coughs, "g-gotta finish what you started."

Neji cracks her knuckles on her best hand with a finger, before flexing all of her fingers, warming them up and getting them ready to be used. "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you. I was getting rid of your pest that you like. She was bothering me even after I helped her. Anyways..."

Before Kairo could react, he once again was caught off guard and he feels immense pressure and pain on his face before blackness took over his eyesight. He was immediately knocked out. The Neji they're seeing now is not the Neji they know. For now, she is gone, completely blinded by her anger.

Victor had enough and he marched right over, putting a strong hand on her shoulder, "Stop this right now...or else you will turn into your father!" But he suddenly freezes right after the words left his mouth. 'Shit...'

Neji immediately snaps out of it and turns to him, "My...father? What did you say...?"

"I-I- It's nothing Neji, I was just thinking of my own dad and the problems I had with him. I was projecting it onto you, I'm sorry." Victor explains, trying to hide his slip up with a small revelation of his past.

Neji, ever the stubborn and curious cat she is, doesn't buy it, "No. Cut the crap, Victor. Tell me what you said, you mentioned something about my father. What do you know about him? Where can I find him? Who is he really?"

"Well, sorry. You're not going to hear anything from me. That is all. Now, I suggest you make sure you're fully calm down and be away from Kairo for a while." Victor suggests.

Neji shrugs, "Already plan on doing that."

"...Good."

--

"I'm sorry ma'am, but it seems like the damage and stress you sustained was enough to completely make you infertile. Your genetics made it hard for you to conceive but not impossible, well, now it is impossible to have a child of your own." A medical examiner explains.

Vira tears up, feeling her whole being shattering into millions of unfixable pieces. But she nods and hoarsely thanks the examiner for their help. The person left, whispering that they will have a mind healer come into the room before closing the door. Vira looks at a bed diagonal from her, where Kairo was sitting. Awake. He heard everything.

Vira bites her lip, not sure of what to say, "Kairo..."

"I messed up. Now she went rampage because of me. All because I was fucking nervous. I shouldn't have done that to her, she was already going through enough as it is. She just wanted to help. Oh Neji...I'm sorry." Kairo whispers, tearing up himself. Vira is in shock. Kairo never smiled before but smiled for the first time at Neji. His first laughs were with Neji, his goofball moments were with Neji, and now his first tears of despair are with Neji. Just what about this girl is so special?

Vira lost it and decides to express herself and give her two cents,"Hey Kairo! How about you stop worrying about Neji for ONE SECOND, huh? She literally just ruined my life! I always wanted to become a mother someday and be someone that my own mother wasn't to me. I wanted to be a role model, that someone can love, trust and rely on. Who can protect them in times of need and be their counsel, their ally. I wanted to be a mother in order to be a better person and finally let go from my past that's haunting me. My only chance of letting it go for good is to become a mother to a wonderful child and have them not only be my pride and joy, but be my main focus for most if not all the remainder of my life. But Neji, the girl you're having a sob fest over, RUINED THAT for ME! What about her is so special?! It's like you're obsessed with her and if given the chance, even worship her! What about me, huh? I am much more loyal! I wouldn't snap at you and knock you unconscious! I would've let you be if you were upset at me because I did something wrong or you were going through your own issues!" Vira clenches her fists, wanting to say more. But didn't know how else to form the correct words for them. So she stops there, believing that she said enough.

Kairo stares at her for a second before clearing his throat and speaking, "Oh wow...uh, I have been cruel haven't I? I still am wary of you, that will remain. But maybe I should learn to trust a little more. I read into your file...it was required of me by my master, you're one of the last members of your immediate family. Not your race. Is that correct?" Vira is shocked, she didn't know that Kairo was able to access her file somehow with the help of Victor. But she nods, "Technically yes, but my father has since left my mom for a human woman and I don't consider him as my father because of his abandonment,disloyalty, and infidelity. He is not worth it nor alive to me. But I want to check the machine over there just one more time...I just have to be sure..." Vira goes to the machine with the fertility results and looks, she searches for her name and clicks on it. To her shock, the results were slightly wrong! Technically in general terms, she is infertile. But according to the results of her labs and such, she has 5% chance of being pregnant in her fertile lifetime! Kairo walks up next to her and looks over, "Oh wow. That chance is really low. But a chance is a chance right?" Vira smiles and nods her head, turning to look up at Kairo.

"Yes, a chance is a chance. I know this is going to be so weird and abrupt of me to ask and you have every single right to say no Kairo, but...can you help me have a miracle? Any method is fine, I just want a child and...I don't mind you being their father or if there is a way, them being genetically fatherless. Please Kairo.."

Kairo was once again, in shock, this time by Vira's proposal. 'I don't really like Vira like that nor am I attracted to her in any way. But...part of me wants to help her get her dream. Plus, it's not like Neji is going to like or even tolerate me anymore, I messed up big time. I guess I can do it...This is to help, Vira. Nothing more. Even if Neji doesn't like me anymore, my heart is always for her.' He looks at Vira and sighs, holding out a hand.

"Fine, I will help. But only once, if it doesn't work, you're on your own. Got it?"

Vira smiles brightly and nods her head fast, "Yes, I understand and I promise with my whole heart! Thank you so much Kairo!" He scowls and tells her to quiet down before heading towards his own bed, his back and face facing away from Vira. "Oh well, let's get this over with..."

When the close was seemingly clear, Vira's smile slowly descends into a smirk, but one with slight uneasiness. 'This isn't completely fair, I wanted to earn him in fair and honest competition. But...in order to get away from my past literally and figuratively, I have to do this. In order to fulfill my dream of becoming a mother, I have to do this and at least try to make a miracle. Now that I think about it...me and Neji do have something in common other than liking Kairo. We're both broken in many ways that we don't always reveal...admit. We both have gone through losses and hardship. The small and slow feeling of uneasiness and nauseous guilt is rising up, I didn't want to use my past and what just transpired with me, Kairo, and Neji as a weapon...but this was the only way how...I'm a complete bad guy. Maybe what Neji did wasn't okay or the right way to go about it...but she has every right to dislike me. I'm sorry, Neji...'

Vira walks over to Kairo slowly and once she reaches him, points to his lap, nonverbally asking permission to go on it. Though very hesitantant, Kairo takes a deep breath and gulps down his growing disgust, nodding his head to give permission. Vira climbs onto his lap and wraps her arms around his neck, leaning her face slowly towards Kairo's. Giving him one of many more chances to rightfully back out.

Kairo feels like he wants to run, scream, and throw up all at once. He is not liking this. But he does his best to tamper the feelings down. It's just once...and it's to help Vira, who doesn't seem to be that bad of a person. Besides...Neji hates him now though he will always love her, forever. Once he feels ready, he leans his face forward and goes to connects their lips slowly. Vira does the rest and slots their lips together at last.

'...I'm sorry.'

Vira shakes her head, her resolve is set. Too late to back out now. Her Dream and Kairo are finally hers in one way or another.

--

1 hour later...

Kairo wakes up to knocks on the door, he feels his body to be very sweaty but relaxed. He isn't sure why, or rather, he doesn't remember. He looks down and his eyes widen, he couldn't believe it until he turns to his right, seeing a naked Vira right next to him. No...No...No!

This can't be happening!

Everything happened all at once within an hour or so!

How can he be so gullible, confusing and chaotic all at once?! How will he win back Neji's heart now?! UGH!

"Hello? Madame Vira, are you there? Let me know when you're ready to talk, I will be waiting right here or nearby...if I can find a refreshment machine that is... just let me know!"

Kairo quickly but somehow quietly gets up and finds his clothes, putting them on and grabbing a scent spray, spaying it just enough for the room to smell good for a long time if not for the rest of the day. But not too much to make anyone cough or have their throats all dry, uncomfortable, and itchy. He firmly taps on Vira's shoulder, "Get up! Your mind healer is here and waiting for you! We need to tidy this place up!" When Vira's mind registers that, she immediately opens her eyes and jumps up. Doing what Kairo has done and helping him make the room as tidy as possible before heading towards the door. Kairo sits back on his bed, grabbing a random book nearby and reading it. Vira opens the door and calls the mind healer to come inside, who does after the two greet each other.

Someone else also comes in, Rudolph, Victor's nephew who the older man reunited and reconciled with two years ago when Neji and Kairo were eighteen and Vira twenty years old. He looks inside and spots Kairo, zooming right at him. "Hey buddy, I got two major news." Kairo looks up and spots Rudolph, who he has seen as a brother to him. "Oh...hey Rudolph. What is it?" He asks softly. Rudolph notices the younger male's demeanor but doesn't comment on it. He instead activates a secret door to separate the two sides of the room and turns on noise canceling mode. Which makes sure no sound comes into the room and goes out of it.

Rudolph plops himself back on the side of Kairo's bed, shaking off his shoes. "I will find out what's up with you later. Anyways, news number one, because the health care workers are saying that Victor won't have much to live, you're no longer a slave for Victor. Starting immediately. Instead you have two options, no, three options. Option one, becoming my slave to 'keep it in the family.' I really don't want you to choose this option, I wan't you to be your own badass person. But it's up to you. Second option, you run away and I can just say that you took your own life somewhere at a unknown place or something. I'm still figuring out the story for that one. Or option three, since your family still owes some debt left, though not too much because of your work over the years, you can enter a life of a paid servant for the remainder of the deal. Where half of your paid is towards your debt and the half of it is yours for your own use. What's your choice?" Kairo tears up, feeling devastated and overwhelmed all at once.

"I-I would like to be with Neji and win her back. Maybe I can work and earn some money somewhere..."

Rudolph makes a 'Tsk' sound to interrupt Kairo. "Actually, that brings me to my second news. Neji has since left for the Mars mission, but will not come back. Instead, she will have someone she trusts deliver a report and any other findings once she's finished. You see...though she eventually apologized to Uncle before leaving and he forgives her, like I do, she has stolen all the useful information that she could find about her father and his possible whereabouts. She wants to find him but also find who she is suppose to be as a person. But she wants me to assure you that she loves you and that if she were to survive her journey, she will come back to apologize and ask for your hand in marriage if you're still single. A bit bittersweet in my opinion, if you ask me."

Kairo sighs and let's his head fall down, closing his eyes. "Rudolph...she won't want me anymore..."

"Why? She clearly loves you! Vira, things can be worked out there. But you? She adores you!"

Kairo shakes his head, "Here's the thing Rudolph..."

The answer Rudolph hears next makes his heart temporarily stop.

"I slept with Vira as a no strings attached deal to help her become a mother..."