Loyalty: Chapter 3
[Alternative Universe. Rated R: violence, sex, drugs, and language]
She stared at his pale face, his short hair, and the button shirt that wasn't even all the way buttoned up—his style. Her mouth opened to say something, but she closed it again. Her gaze shifted to the fallen lighter. The building was already a third burning. Her voice very soft, she found her courage.
She questioned, "What are you doing here in Beijing?" He glared at her fiercely. Grabbing her by the waist, he picked up the lighter and lit the remaining three boxes.
"This is no time to socialize, Kirisawa." And thus, he ran carrying her out of the building and jumped into the pier's water.
"MIKAGAMI!" Kurei yelled, his eyes in tiny slits. Raiha patiently followed Kurei, easily jumping away from the falling burning debris as they walked further and further into the storage building that was half collapsing.
"He's not here anymore. His ki is gone," Raiha mumbled, looking at all the melted illegal guns of all sorts and ammo. The sprinklers had already gone off, but did not save any of his products. The police and firefighters could be heard a mile away. With a quicker pace, Kurei and Raiha managed to find their way out of the collapsed building.
"Shouldn't we destroy the evidence in case of inspectors?" On cue, Kurei's ominous blue flame-Kurenai flew across the burning debris, evaporating the debris into ash of nothingness. No evidence could possibly be drawn to it. The wind howled as the night went on, blowing away all the possible evidence the inspectors could find. The dead bodies were burnt into crisp and was led into the same fate as the building. Walking to his BMW, Kurei and Raiha drove off unsuspected. Under the dock, Tokiya and Fuuko emerged gasping for air. Looking at each other, they let go, treading on water on their own.
"What are you doing here?" Fuuko repeated.
"None of your business, Kirisawa," he replied, pushing back his bangs that always partially covered his eyes. He was began swimming away from her until she grabbed his shoulder.
"Wait…" she whispered, "Tokiya—" Shaking her hand off, Tokiya began leaving again.
"Get out of here, Fuuko. This has nothing to do with you. Leave me alone." Getting out of the water and pulling himself up the dock, he disappeared. So he mastered ninjutsu. Pulling herself out of the water, Fuuko crawled onto the dock and laid there, staring at the starless sky. Right when she closed her eyes, she heard someone.
"Excuse me, Miss. Are you alright?" Opening eyes she was faced with a young woman's face clad in a uniform.
"Yes?" Fuuko croaked. Placing a blanket over Fuuko, she motioned for a nurse to come over.
"No. Wait. I'm fine," Fuuko sat up coughing.
"Then can you answer some questions about what happened here?"
"Yes," Fuuko lied.
"How'd you get all wet? And what happened to the building C-16?"
"The security people working here were all panicked and they were running all over the place. I came by here with my car," she pointed to her silver expensively rented car, "to check it out. I don't remember what happened 'cuz I tripped over my heels on that one rock and fell into the water. I just got up and poof, that burning building was gone!" Writing everything down, the pink-haired police nodded.
"That sounded plausible. I guess you didn't know anything either." Fuuko nodded, sure that the policewoman believed her story.
"My name is Miki Shin. Here's my card. Call me or my partner, Aki when something suspicious as this occurs." Walking away, she went to go investigate other security guards who weren't even present at the burning site. Wrapping the wool blanket around her closer, Fuuko walked towards her rent-car. Pulling out her keys that were attached to her slacks, she turned up the car. Driving back to the Chou Hotel, Fuuko sneezed. She was going to research on Tokiya in Beijing. If he were here instead of America, he must've had some business here.
After her hot bath, Fuuko walked to her queen-sized bed and propped out her laptop. She typed in Mikagami, Tokiya in the space next to Search. The internet found 1,942 websites of him. What has he been doing in America and Beijing? Picking one of the "official" websites, she read the article:
…The Mikagami, Tokiya has struck yet again. The foremost grand opening celebration of the first biggest running computer program manufacturer from America will be the day after tomorrow night at 7 pm in the ballroom of the Shin Mansion, in honor of Mikagami's success in China, Mr. Shin, our proud respectable governor will…
"So you're a corporation manager…Ice boy," Fuuko smiled at his accomplishment, "maybe I did pull you down all those years." Tomorrow at seven.
"I'm not going to give up on you."
[A/N: Don't yell at me. I don't know jack shimack 'cuz I don't live in Beijing or anything. Just have a little bit of imagination. OK?]