Chapter 2-Not Sorry And I'll Never Regret…

NOTE:  I have gotten two reviews asking whether or not there are going to be pairings in this story, and the answer is yes.  Sakura, I am sorry but I will be pairing up Kai with Ryu.  If you would like, I will make a story about your character with Kai in the near future.  I hope you understand and I'm terribly sorry.

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"C'mon Ryu, you gotta eat something!" Enrique insisted.  She shook her head and excused herself from dinner, walking into the living room.  "What's wrong with that girl?" Johnny wondered out loud.  "If your own father kicked you out of your house on Christmas Eve, you would be like her too you know," Rei simply replied.  "Well why don't we go out and get her a little gift?" Tyson suggested.  "Tyson, all the stores are closed!  It's about 9:00 p.m. on Christmas night!  What store would be open now?" Kenny asked.  "Kenny's got a point you know, only Max's dad's shop is open and that's it."  "Wait a second, Robert.  Why doesn't Tyson amuse us?  Go ahead Tyson, tell us what store would be open this late on Christmas?" Kai grinned.  "Fine!  Um-Hot Topic!  One of my cousins work there and he told me that they would be open until 10:00 p.m. on Christmas!"

"Fine then.  Kai, and Oliver can go with Tyson get something for Ryu.  Give them some money so we can get her one big gift okay?" Max told them.  "Fine, we'll go get her something for Christmas.  Geez Max, you're acting like she's your little sister or something!" Johnny pointed out.  "Well it's um…" His cheeks turned bright red and laughed.  "It's nothing in particular!"  "Please, you like the girl, don't you Maxwell?" Robert asked.  "No, she's like a little sister to me and because I don't have one, I feel close to her."  Tyson began teasing Max before Robert made them go to the store.

"Hey Max, you better get her to her room.  She's already asleep!" Rei whispered, pointing to the couch.  There was Ryu curled up in a ball sleeping peacefully.  "Wow, she hasn't looked this peaceful since we met this morning," said Kenny.  "Look, I'll take her back to her room and then we can talk about her father okay?" Rei informed.  While he was walking down the hallway, he heard Ryu mumbled the name Vash (note: I like that name even tho its from Trigun!).  Who was this Vash person she was talking about?  Could he possibly be her boyfriend or a member of the family?  While Rei placed her on the bed, he heard faint cries coming from her.  "No, I didn't do it dad.  Please, don't…"  She tossed in her sleep and that's when Rei saw it.  There was a bruise on her arm, about the size of a tennis ball.  "Her father couldn't have done this, could he?  Mr. Hamasaki wouldn't hurt his own children…"

Rei ran out of the room and told the guys who all seemed pretty shocked about it.  "If he really did that, there could possibly be more scars on her body," Robert pointed out.  "You're right but we can't just lift up her shirt and look.  That's not very polite, right ENRIQUE?" Kenny asked, putting the emphasis on 'Enrique.'   "Yeah…wait a minute!  Why are you all looking at me??" he asked.  "Well we all know you try to be the womanizer," Max replied.  "I have no idea what you're all talking about!" Enrique lied.  Everyone was laughing at him and Robert coughed loudly.  "Now that we're finished with these childish acts of ours, would we please get back to the more serious issues, like how come Mr. Hamasaki threw Ryu out of her own home."  "Fine, party pooper!" Enrique pouted.

"Well she mumbled something about a guy name Vash when I was putting her to bed.  Does that help?"  "Vash…I've heard that name before," Kenny inquired.  "Well, maybe if you looked on Mr. Hamasaki's website, you would know!" Dizzy scoffed.  "Oh of course!  Vash is Ryu's older twin brother!  It says here that Mr. Hamasaki loves spending a lot of time with Vash, and the twins seemed very close to each other."  "Twin brother, eh?" Kai asked, coming into the house holding a couple of bags.  "Oh hey Kai, how's it going?" Max asked, not even looking up from the computer screen.  "We got the stuff already, so where's Ryu?" Tyson asked, looking around the room.  "I put her to bed, she fell asleep on the couch waiting for us I guess," Rei replied.  "Oh, so have we come up with anything about Mr. Hamasaki?" Oliver asked curiously. 

"Well, not really.  It seems that the press has already gotten to the story but he won't tell them why.  Maybe if we can get a hold of Vash…."  "Vash?  Who the hell is Vash?" Kai asked gruffly.  "Her twin brother.  Maybe if we can talk to him tomorrow, we can get some information out of him," said Robert.  "Hey, check it out.  Her shirt has blood stains on it," Max told them, walking out of her room.  "Blood stains?"  "Yeah Tyson.  Wonder what could've happened to her…" Max wondered out loud.  "Uh  Max?  Yeah, hello there.  Remember what Rei told us a while earlier?" Enrique asked, poking him in the arm.  "Oh yeah, that bruise!"

"What are you guys talking about?" Ryu asked groggily, walking out of the bedroom.  "Oh, Ryu!  Um, nothing in particular, just about the bruise that Tyson got the time he got into a fight with Kai!" Max lied.  She plopped down on the couch next to Kenny and looked at his laptop.  "So, I guess you want to know what happened between me and my father, right?" she asked quietly.  "Yeah, what do you think?" Kai asked.  She slightly sighed and hugged a small teddy bear that Oliver got her.  "Okay, here it goes but you gotta promise me that you'll let me handle the problem about my dad by myself, okay?" she asked.  "Ryu, we can't make a promise that we know we cannot keep.  That is very dishonorable," Robert replied softly.  "Fine but please, don't interfere without me telling you so," Ryu whispered.  "Okay, we won't," Oliver told her.  "Okay, so I guess the story goes like this."

~*~ Flashback ~*~

"Hey Mom, where are you going?" Ryu asked, walking up to her.  "Just to get some groceries for dinner tonight.  Would you like to come?  Your father and brother are going to be gone until later tonight so it would give us some time to bond and gain what we've lost," she smiled.  "Sure, sounds good to me.  Ain't got nothing else to do anyway," she shrugged.  "So how is that Wolborg of yours doing right now?  Are you still training with him?" she asked.  "Yeah, but I'm still pretty ticked that Boris Baklov made another Wolborg as a cyborg thing.  Why would he do that to a perfectly good bit beast?" she wondered, holding the blade tight in her hand.  "Don't worry about that.  The BladeBreakers already took care of him and the Demolition Boys so you have no need to worry.  Come on, let's get back home and get dinner ready okay?" 

Later that night, Mrs. Hamasaki walked into the room where all of the lights were off.  She and her husband recently had a fight about Ryu and how she has been isolating herself from the family for quite a while now.  She sighed sadly and lit the fireplace. Not a sound was made, and everyone else was downstairs in the training room apart from Ryu.  Then all went silent and the world turned black.  "Mom?" Ryu came tearing through the room and saw someone climbing out of the window.  The person looked vaguely familiar, but it was only a silhouette.  There, next to her mother's body was a gun used to shoot her.

 "Ryu…?" a faint voice called out to her.  "Mom!  What happened?" she gasped, running over to the bloody body.  "Ryu, I'm terribly sorry that I won't be there for your first battle in two years," she faintly whispered.  "Mom, no, you don't die on us!  Vash and I need you and so does dad!"  "Ryu, I'm sorry but you can't stop the inevitable…" she told her.  Tears welled up in her eyes, as she hugged her dying mother, not caring about the bloodstains on her shirt.  "Mom?  Ryu, what happened to her?" Vash came storming through.  "Someone shot her!  Call the ambulance, quick!"  "No, children, it's alright."  Ryu ran out of the room and called 911 while Vash stayed by her side.  "Vash, promise me that you will take care of your little sister, okay?" she asked softly.  "Mom, what are you saying?  You can't go, please…" he whispered.  "No I have to because-uhh-if I don't, he'll kill you all," she grunted in pain.  "Mom, an ambulance is coming!  Please, just hang on!" Ryu begged.  "Who's after us mom?" Vash asked in a shaky voice.  "I'm sorry, promise me you'll take care of each other," and she closed her eyes for one last time.

"Children, what happened?" Mr. Hamasaki asked, walking into the room.  "Niwaki!  What happened to your mother?  Tell me!" he demanded, grabbing the two children by their collars.  "Someone shot her dad!" Ryu cried.  He looks down on her shirt; bloodstains were everywhere.  "You killed your mother, didn't you?"  "Dad, that's crazy talk!  Ryu would never want to hurt mom!" Vash protested.  "Shut up and stay out of this, Vash!  Answer me right now!  Did you kill your mother!" he screamed.  "No dad, I didn't!  I came in and saw someone climbing out of the window right when I heard mom calling my name!"  "That's a lie!  You killed your mother!  Get out of this house, now!" he screamed.  "Dad, Ryu didn't do this!"  "Oh, so you have something to say, don't you Vash?" he asked menacingly.

"Dad, what are you doing with that thing?" Ryu asked, backing up to a wall.  "What I should've done a long time ago," he replied.  His own father's friends were holding Vash as he watched his little sister getting whipped by Masaru Hamasaki.  "Now pack your stuff and get out of here NOW!" he screamed.  "Dad, how could you do this to Ryu?" Vash cried.  "How could you take her side?  You know she obviously is trying to lie to keep her innocence!"  "I don't care!  I know Ryu better than you and she would never do something like that!"  "Shut up boy!"

~*~ End of Flashback~*~

"Your father actually did that to you?" Kai asked softly.  "Yes, and now he won't let Vash out of the house because he's afraid that Vash knows something.  I've got these red marks all over my back because of that man," she softly cried.  "Can we see them?" Enrique asked.  She lifted up her shirt slightly, enough for them to see the markings.  "I never thought Mr. Hamasaki would do this!" Kenny exclaimed.  "Well you thought wrong Kenny," she cried.  "Come on; you need to get some sleep, Ryu." 
As she walked back to her room, Kai was following her silently.  "What do you want, Kai?" she asked quietly.  "I'm sorry for treating you like dirt earlier," he replied.  "It's alright I don't blame you."  He sat down on her bed and sighed.  "Ryu, how could you let your father get away with this?"  "I'm not letting him because he made Vash suffer!  I'm not gonna let him hurt Vash!" she replied.  "I'm sorry but is there anything I can do to help?"  She shook her head and began crying again.  "Shh, it's okay."  Kai held her in his arms and they fell asleep together until dawn.

"So, we're gonna go confront your dad today aren't we?" Tyson asked excitedly.   "Yes, and I'm gonna try to get Vash back.  Maybe he could help us about my mother."  "So, what are we waiting for?  Let's go!" Max shouted.

"So, I guess you're here for your stuff aren't you, Ryu?" Mr. Hamasaki asked.  "Yes, and I'm here for Vash as well."  "Well you're not getting him until you confess that you took your mother's life!"  "I'm not going to apologize for something I didn't do," she snarled.  "Oh, and how do you propose to get Vash then?  He's locked up in his room with no way to escape."  "Oh, just watch," she grinned.

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So…do you guys like it so far?  I hope so!  Hey, I won't be updating for a while because I will be in Alabama on vacation!  So I hoped you like the story!

"I'm jaded/Stupid and reckless/Not sorry and I'll never regret these years passed/So faded and reckless/Not sorry and I'll never regret these years."

-Mest, Jaded