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Akagi Takenori wondered for the ten thousandth time what his sister, Akagi Haruko, ever saw in that no-brain, violent, uncouth, ill-mannered, loud-mouthed Sakuragi.

Well, other than the fact that Sakuragi Hanamichi was a very decent and caring guy who loved his sister to bits and would literally go to the ends of the earth at her bidding. The redhead would lay down his life for Haruko and would punch the next person's lights out should he dare harm a hair on her fair head. These were the redeeming qualities of Sakuragi that had swayed Akagi into giving his consent and approval over Haruko's hand in marriage.

Still, Akagi Takenori must have still been pretty out of it the day he agreed to let Sakuragi Hanamichi be his brother-in-law. It must have been due to all that darn coffee he had been drinking lately, that stuff was probably lethal, intoxicating.

Or maybe it was the waitress that served it who was really intoxicating.

'Damn her short skirt.'

Akagi leaned back in his chair and stretched. It had been such a long day. Bumping into Mitsui and Ayako at Jimmy's, attending his company's annual general meeting, planning Haruko's and Sakuragi's wedding. Akagi glowered as he recalled how Sakuragi had lost the rings at the bakery. The idiot somehow managed to misplace the rings and conveniently drop them into the cake assembly line. They had to go through boxes and boxes of cake, polishing one after the other to find the rings. After six cakes and feelings of nausea all around, Sakuragi's best man, Yohei, managed to bite down on the rings.

Akagi nearly throttled Sakuragi for his carelessness. Especially when he found out the exact amount that Sakuragi paid for the rings and how much they were worth.

"Maybe, I should have," Akagi mused; chuckling to himself as an image of him pounding the redhead right on the head emerged in his mind. As he continued daydreaming, a lovely vision of the cute brunette waitress appeared. The elegant beauty cheered him on in his dream as he continued to slap or rather, punch some sense into Sakuragi.

Just then, the phone rang, disrupting Akagi's happy reverie.

"Nani? Won't anyone ever let me rest?"Akagi grumbled. He grabbed the phone and spoke gruffly into it.

"Akagi." Akagi said in what he hoped was his most intimidating voice. He wanted to make the person on the other end cower for interrupting his perfect daydream.

"Konichiwa! I am from JoJo Telex Services. We are conducting a survey and… …"

"Not interested," Akagi said quickly. Just his luck, one of those pesky call-centre people.

"Oh I think you will be interested sir, we also include a lucky draw at the end! You complete the survey and you can enter into the lucky draw. You… …" the caller continued brightly. Akagi could literally envision the fake plastic smile on the caller's face.

"Sorry, I'm busy." Akagi said through gritted teeth. Why on earth did he always get the persistent sales people?

"Oh but I haven't told you what you stand to win yet! If you enter the draw…" Akagi could feel the heat rise up his face. It was obvious more extreme measures were necessary to convince the caller of Akagi's stance on situation.

"I AM NOT INTERESTED!" Akagi roared in full Gori-like glory.

"M-matte, I didn't understand earlier," the caller managed to squeak out and quickly hung up.

Satisfied, Akagi replaced the receiver. 'Nothing like a little diplomatic persuasion,' Akagi thought to himself.

He had only taken two steps when the phone rang again. Akagi raised his eyebrow. Apparently, that pesky salesman needed another demonstration of Akagi's wrath.

Snatching up the line, Akagi snapped into the phone.

"Look, I am not the least bit interested ok!"

"Well, that is a little too bad then." Akagi cocked his ear. That voice was vaguely familiar, it had a velvety quality to it, like the words just rolled off her tongue.

'Her tongue. Oh my god.' Akagi nearly dropped the phone as he connected the dots in his head.

"You see, I went through all this trouble to get this number from Ayako, one of our regulars at Jimmy's, and I've noticed you around, I was hoping we could get… acquainted." The sultry voice on the other end said.

And with that, Akagi almost stopped breathing.

Almost.

Author's notes: Hi, I hope you guys could review this. It was a little chapter I threw together in the midst of studying. Do let me know your comments. Thanks.