Tokyo Crazy Paradise : The Untold Chapters

Chapter 6: Remembering Innocence

I'm having my holidays so I had more time working on the fics. Enjoy this one..

Doumyouji got up in a daze. Everything around him seemed strangely familiar but he felt markedly disorientated. He felt more lost when he saw a strange girl his age, who came into the room smiling at him as if they have known each other for years. The girl yelled for Tama. " Doumyouji-kun have woke up."

" Where am I? Who are you?"
" Doumyouji-kun, don't you recognize me? I am Shigeru."
" Shigeru who?"
" Oh.. I forgot. We never really met but your mother told me a lot about you. So much that I felt I have known you forever."
" You haven't answer my question. Where am I?"
" You are at home."
" Home? Okinawa.."
" Tokyo. Your family mansion."

Doumyouji heave a sigh. No wonder this room seemed familiar. Then, he asked about his mother.

" Your mother is having a teleconference with her managers in Europe. Do you want to ring her up?"
" No, don't bother."

Then, Doumyouji leaned back, closing her eyes. Sudden flashes of that fateful night. The look in Makino's eyes when she shot him.

She didn't love me. She lied to me...

Shigeru shifted uncomfortably. She asked if Doumyouji wanted to be alone or whether he wanted any water. Doumyouji nodded. Shigeru brought him a glass of water. Seated on the bed, she nervously passed the glass to Doumyouji. She blushed a little when both of their hands touched. But Doumyouji was too preoccupied with his thoughts to notice this.

" Are you my doctor?"
Shigeru shook her head. " I am.. I mean I work with your mother."
" You do not look like a secretary to me. Sakurako already quitted her position is that it?"
" No... Sakurako still is your mother's secretary."
" Then, who are you?"
" Let's just say, I am currently your personal nurse." Doumyouji faintly smiled. Shigeru's heart skipped a beat.

Shigeru is actually the daughter to Doumyouji Kaede's long time business partner. From little, she had been admiring Doumyouji from afar. Just recently, her parents and Doumyouji Kaede agreed to join Shigeru and Doumyouji in marriage. But Shigeru told them she only agree if Doumyouji himself asked her. When she found out about his engagement to Makino, she was devastated. Then, Doumyouji Kaede told her about Makino's treacherous deeds. Realizing that she still have hope to capture Doumyoji's heart, Shigeru offered her self to nurse Doumyouji back to health.

For the next couple of days after Doumyouji regained his consciousness, Shigeru did just that. Tending to his every needs. Helping him with his medication. Accompanying him with his physiotherapy sessions. In fact, they did everything together.

Until one day, Doumyouji overheard one of the servants talking about one prisoner in the underground room.

" That girl refused to eat again."
" She's going to get sick if she keep doing this."
" Poor girl. Everyday, she kept asking about Young Master Doumyouji."
" Serves her right for betraying Madam."

Makino? She's here..

Secretly, he followed the servants down the stairs to the basement. He stopped when he saw that there were so many SPs there. But he can make out a familiar looking girl lying in the steel cage. The girl looked so frail, her soiled clothes streaked with dried blood. Her body was covered with bruises and slash marks. She barely moved when the servant lay down her tray. The servant scolded her and ordered her to hit. The girl shook her head.

She was whispering something. But the servant hollered back, " I already told you. Master Doumyouji does not want to see you!!" The servant kicked the tray to the girl's face. " Now eat this!!!"

The girl look up. Inadvertently, she looked around her. Doumyouji could make out Makino's tear streaked face. Makino cried out, " Doumyouji Kaede, let me go!!! You murderer...!! You liar!! Let me see Doumyouji.. He'll believe me. Let me go!!!"

The head servant pulled Makino's hair viciously to the back and smash her head against the steel railings. " In your dreams..."

As the servants left her lying bloodied on the floor, Doumyouji hurriedly hide him self behind some crates. Silently, he watched Makino struggled to stay awake, mumbling nonsensically. He could hear her calling a name. Not his name. A male name..

" Rui.. Rui.. Where are you? I... die.. you promised me.. Rui... you said you'd take care of me.."

Makino was delirious. In her head, she kept replaying her childhood memories. Her childhood days with Rui.

Flashback.. A young Makino giving a young Rui a bouquet of flowers.
" Rui-kun suki desu.." Rui smiled and kissed Makino on the forehead. " You are too little to like someone."
" Tsukushi grow up and marry Rui-kun. Rui-kun would take care of Tsukushi. Tsukushi like Rui-kun very much."

Another flashback.. at their parents' funeral.
" Tsukushi, shinpai janai de. Rui will take care of you." Crying Makino nodded.
" Rui-kun promised to take care of Tsukushi.. Forever..?" Rui was hugged her tighter. " Yes, I would.. Forever?"
" You won't leave like daddy and mummy?"
" No.. I promised."

" Rui.. suki desu...Tsukushi.. shinpai janai de.. anata ga suki.. Rui.. Rui.. yakusoku.." The same words.. jumbled in her mind.. unconciously, she mumbled aloud.. loud enough for Doumyouji to hear.

Doumyouji became furious. This Rui.. he meant more to Makino. More than him.. the great Doumyouji Tsukasa...

Flashback.. a few days ago.. Doumyouji Kaede told him that Makino stole the blueprint to Doumyouji corporation's computer systems. " She wants to destroy us. Doumyouji, wake up and smell her treachery. You still want to believe her?"

Flashback.. Nishikado reporting about their latest progress in Makino's real background investigation.

" Kozuki Tsukasa said that Makino had mention a guy's name. Hanazawa Rui. We traced the name to Makino's parents employer. This Rui was their son who like Makino, his parents also perished in the same airplane crash that took the lives of Makino's parents."

Revenge.. she lied to me to get revenge.

Staring at Makino's limp body, Doumyouji vowed that he'll make her suffer more for all she'd done.

My mother might have tortured you. But.. this is not enough. In return for your betrayal, I will gutted you at the place that will hurt most.

Your heart

Doumyouji Kaede was watching all this from an adjacent room through a one . Smiling wickedly, she flicked open her communicator and efficiently barked orders to her secretary for an engagement party. Or perhaps, a wedding.

Sakurako practically shrieked, " But Madam.. Young Master haven't agreed..."

Doumyouji Kaede smiled deviously, " I think he just made up his mind."

At the Kuryugumi..

Tsukasa was reading the wedding invitation in great disbelief. She had a really bad feeling about it. This is not an invitation to a holy matrimony.. this is an invitation to a war.

Rui, Akira and Yuki were in the living room watching the news report regarding Doumyouji Tsukasa's upcoming marriage to Shigeru. The event will be held at the Doumyouji mansion.

" Do you think that the security will be less tighter at the mansion?" Akira wondered.

Yuki exclaimed, " You want us to crash the party. Do you think this is right? I mean, that poor girl have no part in this. You guys really knows how to ruin a girl's day. Of all things, crashing some wedding banquet."

Akira snapped at Yuki, " Stupid girl, what Rui were saying is that we 'pretend' to attack the party. But instead, we're going to go save Makino. Get that?"
" Ooooo... NO!! I mean, they should expect us to save her not attack some dumb party."

" Akira, you know what to do?"
" Yeah, leave everything to me."
" How about me?" asked Yuki.
" Aiya.. you are not part of the plan. If you're there, you'll mess it up anyway."
" You cheap playboy, you think you're so good.. I tell you what..."

Rui discreetly went up leaving the two of them bicker their heads off (yes.. they really like arguing with each other). In his room, he quietly shut the door and picked up his violin. Standing in front of a huge portrait of Shizuka at age ten and Makino at age 8. Both of them had the same air of innocence. But all that change the day their parents died.

Flashback..

At the funeral, Rui solemnly held back his tears. Yuki were screaming for her mom and dad, yelling that the adults were lying. " Daddy promised he come back!! He always does!! Give back my daddy!! Mummy!!"

Kazuya Aoike.. poor kid. The moment that boy was told about the deaths, he remained silent. Crouching in the corner, he just stare and stare. His eyes were empty as if his soul also died in the crash. This is the same Kazuya who cannot sit still even for 30 seconds in class. The same Kazuya who likes to clown around with that stupid grin of his. But now...

Akira placed his hand on his back. Rui smiled weakly at him. " We can get through this," said Akira.
" Where's Makino?"
" She just cried herself to sleep. It hit her really bad."
" Can't blame her. She was really close to her family."
" Unlike the two of us." Rui laughed. A hollow laugh. " Yeah.. they were hardly there for us before. So busy with the company, who would have thought they would die because of it."
" What are you saying?"
" I overheard the grown ups saying that Doumyouji Kaede planned it."
" You believed them?"
" No, but my dad once told me that he never trusted that woman and told me to be wary of her once I grow up and inherit the company."
" No chance of that. The grownups were already fighting for what's left of the company. My nanny said they were going to send us to Hokkaido. Some orphanage I think."
" That.. or the boarding school. It's the same thing."

A sudden hush fell over the congregation as Doumyouji Kaede came strutting her way through. Rui eyed her with distrust the moment he saw her. Doumyouji Kaede bowed to him. Both Akira and Rui bowed back. Doumyouji Kaede turned towards the memorial altar. " Your parents were really good people. Too good. That's why they die early."

Rui had a sudden desire to punch her but he held back. After all, he's still just a kid. His gut instinct screamed, "This woman murdered them. All of them."

Doumyouji Kaede patted Rui's head. " You looked like an intelligent boy. Guess what? When you grow up, you can work with me. After all, your parent's company is now my company too."

Rui smiled sarcastically. Silently he vowed, " When I grow up, I'll make sure you pay for everything. I'll bring you down. Really down. And you're going to fall so hard, you couldn't even get back up. That.. I promise."

Back in the present.. Rui started to play his violin. Serenading the young Makino and Shizuka. In memory of their families. In memory of their shattered innocence.

In this story, Rui have a dark, brooding personality and is a subdued person whose thoughts were hard to be deciphered from his actions. He was a brother figure to Makino and he was himself somewhat attracted to her. Had unrequited love for the dead Shizuka and for this, he devised the whole revenge scheme. This is somewhat a filler chapter.. gomen...

Next chapter: It has something to do with gatecrashers... and another traitor?