Stolen Art or Stolen Heart
Part 2

"Y-you're a girl…?" The artist raises an eyebrow surprised but he still keeps a firm grip. "Yeah, so what of it? You paint to live, I steal to live…No big. Now would you let me up so I can get these to the boss!" The thief grumps as she taps her fingers on the ground. "If I don't get these to the boss he'll kill me, seriously, I'm not joking." Her cheeks puff out as she looks back at him out of the corner of her eyes. It was then Tsunan gave a soft sigh and let her up. "Fine, but on one condition. I get to keep the commissions. I don't need any angry customers."

Thinking about that for a minute the thief smiles and holds out her hand. "Fine, ya got yerself a deal." The thief smirks and brings the bag on over to him. "So how did you wind up getting yourself involved with thieves…? You don't really look like the type to be thieving…" Tsunan peeked over at her as he sorted out the commissions from the other art. "Yeah, well I was born into it and I chose ta stay! They give me shelter, food and other things." The thief spoke trying to dodge the subject. She really didn't have a choice to be in it, but she hated seeming like she was weak.

"Hm, I see… well there, you can have the rest of them. I can repaint them any time. Half of them I didn't like anymore anyways. I just needed these commissions." Tsunan gladly hands over the bag to her. "Eh… Thanks…" the thief blinked confused beyond belief at why he hadn't tried to kill her yet. Usually everyone she ran into would fight to the death for his or her things. "Y'know your pretty neat. I was really expecting you to kill me heh. Name's Akeru Shizuoka, and you are…? The boss really didn't tell me."

With a light smile on his face Tsunan looked up at the girl. "Katsuhiro Tsunan Tsukioka, who is your boss anyways?" He raised an eyebrow to her questioningly. He was a little worried if they were after him, or if this was going to be a daily thing. "I uh.. boss.. yeah, right! I gotta get goin' now. If I don't he's gonna chew me out alive. Nice meetin' ya Tsunan! Been a pleasure stealing from ya" chuckling Akeru takes off and down the streets before leaping to the top of the buildings. Quietly Tsunan watched her take off into the night. She seemed to be abit of an odd girl, but then again who has he met yet who wasn't?

Not too much later Akeru makes it back to the hide-out with the loot in her hands. The place is pretty dumpy looking, a real pigsty if you know what I mean. Papers everywhere, things just strung about, you could tell that it was punk loaded. Not only by the mess but by the weights and other things. When the boss spots Akeru he leans to one of his hench men whispering. Akeru raises an eyebrow at this not really understanding what her boss was doing. The henchmen moves from his spot walking towards the short girl with the long black hair, grabbing her up by her collar. "Hey, hey hey! Let me go!" Akeru growls and fights about, swinging to nail the guy in the face. The other two henchmen bringing that bag of goods to their boss.

"I see you did pretty good Akeru; these could sell for a nice buck. For once you didn't disappoint me." The boss grinned through his semi-yellow looking teeth, smoking on his cigar. "I'm impressed, for this wonderful display you gets to make us breakfast in the morning. Pancakes, Waffles and all of that good stuff. Hey maybe we'll even let you have a little." The short brown haired man continued to grin, looking to his henchmen. "Gentlemen show Ms. Akeru to her spot with that brother of hers." He waves a hand. "Oh, how thoughtful and nice of ya boss-man. I'll be more than willing to kiss your ass some more…Not like I could miss it, as you're the whole thing!" laughing at her own joke Akeru gets eyed down by the boss. "Oh yeah an' boys… show her how to treat me with some respect…!" The boss hissed as the two henchmen just grinned and dragged her off.

Akeru was going to be in some pain the next day…