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Chapter 93: The immortal creature named Logan

The smile on Stryker's face grew wider as he walked towards Kenji. Then as soon as they were standing right in front of one another, the two grown men exchanged looks that seemed to say "It's good to see you again, old friend." Then they threw their arms around each other and hugged like two long lost brothers. These two men seemed to have a strong past together, and Yuriko herself could see that.

They stepped away from each other, with friendly smiles beaming on their faces. "How long has it been, Kenji? Two years?" William said with a smile. Despite William's age, he had a boyish tone in his voice as he talked to Kenji. He was definitely very excited to see the Japanese scientist again.

Kenji chuckled and shook his head from side to side. "It's definitely been too long, William. Heck, the last time we met, you were just a Colonel, and now, look at you, a proud General with medals on his chest." Kenji said, as he playfully motioned a hand towards his friend. "I hope none of that General stuff has gotten to your head." He seemed to be teasing the older man's rise in the military.

William laughed and rolled his eyes. "See this?" He asked, pointing at his uniform and medals. "All hogwash. Nothing but a snazzy suit and pieces of gold and plastic." He said matter-of-factly. "You know us, Kenji. We live for what we do…not for what we get out of it." There was pure honesty and humility in his voice. He meant each and every word.

Kenji grinned. "You really haven't changed, haven't you, Will? You're still that proud, bossy, arrogant soldier I met back in World War II. Proud. Arrogant. But damn well one of the best people I know. Heh. No wonder I found you working for Code6 four years ago. Kinda makes you think the world's not that big for the two of us, eh?"

"Kenji, even if the world was indescribably big, you know we'd still end up working together. We were born to do this work, Kenj!" He said proudly, each word filled with passion and vigor. "My god, I still remembered your first day in Code6." He said while he patted Kenji on the upper arm. The boss introduced you to the Research and Development crew and you almost jumped out of your skin when you saw me leading the infiltration team. It's like you couldn't believe I was there."

Kenji smiled and looked at William. "You really don't forget moments like that, don't you, Will?" He chuckled. "Well, at least that explained why you suddenly disappeared on me and Yuna a decade before our surprising reunion. Whoever knew I'd find you working for the COD's?"

William raised his eyebrows. "Hey. Don't act like you were the only one surprised, Kenj. I was surprised when I found you there too! In fact, I thought you'd end up as a professor, teaching your science stuff in some prominent Japanese university. You never were the kind of guy who'd put your life in danger, nor your family's."

Kenji nudged his head to the side and exhaled as he shrugged his shoulders. He suddenly looked dismayed about something. "Well, you know how much my view of the world changed since she passed away. Made me realize that the world isn't all about academics and books and research. When she went away, I realized that you have to put your life on the line to really make a change, you know." He said, looking deeply into his friend's eyes. He knew William understood what he was talking about.

The huge smile on William's face faded into a subtle, nearly invisible grin. "Trust me, I know. I know all too well." Then he forced a smile upon his lips and gently placed a hand on Kenji's shoulder. "Hey, at least we're here now, right? We're making a difference." He said firmly, wanting Kenji to realize the good that they've brought to the world by giving their lives to the cause of the COD's.

Then after a brief moment of silent contemplation between the two reunited comrades, William's eyes slowly hovered towards the little form standing behind Kenji. Kenji noticed his friend's eyes and realized that he had almost forgotten that the most important person in his life was standing right next to him. He always had the bad habit of forgetting the world around him whenever he got caught up in the matters of his work.

Kenji's eyes widened and he stepped back, giving William a full view of Yuriko. "Oh, Will. This is my daughter, Yuriko." The smile on Kenji's face beamed as he introduced his daughter. He was always proud of her. And he was proud of her because he loved her, not just because she was bright and beautiful and smart, like her mother.

William gave out a soft fatherly laugh and leaned a little closer towards Yuriko. He seemed to be surveying the little girl with his dark, blue, eyes that lay behind his round shiny glasses. "Why hello there, little Yuriko. I see your father's brought you all the way here from Japan." He said with a gentle tone in his voice.

A subtle smile arched up the corner of Yuriko's lips as she looked up at the man who towered above her. She's never been this close to a man of white descent before, and she found it rather amusing and strange. She felt more amused though. After all, she loved meeting new people, especially since she never got the chance to go out and actually meet new friends and acquaintances, being cooped up in their house all these years.

"Hello." She said softly, looking up at him as if she were studying him.

The older military man replied with a gleaming smile, and then he stood up straight to meet Kenji's eyes. "She reminds me a lot of her mother." He said carefully. He too became Yuna's friend when she was still of this world. After all, how could he not have been friends with the woman who meant the world to his dear friend?

Kenji's eyes hovered downwards as the corner of his lips arched up to reveal a humble grin. "I know." Then he bowed down to look at his daughter. She was looking at him, smiling, with those childish lips and oval almond eyes. She was definitely more of Yuna than she was of him. He looked back at William, and this time, his eyes didn't hover away from the older man's gaze. "She looks more like her with each and every passing day." He said, his voice tainted with a hint of longing.

William quickly noticed the sudden drop in his friend's spirit. So he might as well jump to business matters before their reunion turned into a plethora of sad memories. But before he could even open his mouth, Kenji's head suddenly perked up.

"By the way," Kenji said with sudden vigor, as if he himself had decided to switch to another topic. After all, now was not the right time to reminisce about the past. He, his daughter, his friend and their entire organization had a huge future ahead of them. And most of the weight of that future depended on one man…The man who will lead them to countless biological and scientific breakthroughs that will skyrocket the CODEs' research, development and defense department to heights never before reached by previous attempts to break the barrier between possible and impossible, mortality and immortality. And that man was none other than…

"That man you referred to as Logan…" The words escaped Kenji's lips carefully, as if he wanted to keep the conversation between him and his friend, William Stryker. "You kept on mentioning him to me the night before my flight. As you can see, I am very eager to see this man in person. I, really couldn't believe all the things you told me over the communicator. This Logan…He seems…"

"…Immortal? Impossible? Above human?" Continued William. He looked at Kenji with a sly grin, like he knew something that Kenji didn't.

Kenji's eyes widened and he moved an inch closer towards his friend. "Exactly." He said with subtle bewilderment. Kenji's eyes looked like that of a child's.

He looked like a seven-year-old boy, eager to find out the secret surprise that his parents had prepared for him for his birthday. But instead, of course, he was a 46-year-old father. And the surprise happened to be an unbelievable superhuman man named Logan who sounded too good to be true because of his ability to defy mortality and break the limits of the human body. Just the thought of that Logan gave Kenji countless of ideas as to how he could study this person for the betterment of humanity.

William chuckled and looked into his friend's eyes. His thick, arched eyebrows twitched as he narrowed his own, and his lips curled up into a wide grin. He looked like he was about to divulge something secret to his friend. "Then I guess today's your day, my friend." Then he took small step back, smiled, and smoothed his military suit. "…Because I've put my foot on the line and decided to invite our extraordinary friend to his gathering." He looked at Kenji, waiting for the scientists' reaction.

Kenji's eyes widened and he excitedly clasped his hands together. For a grown up man, he sure did look like that excited little boy again. "That…That's wonderful!" He said with suppressed excitement. Even his voice was shaking. He obviously didn't know how to react at the sudden wonderful news.

William talked to him for more than an hour about this Logan, telling him the extraordinary things that that man was capable of doing, and he was finally going to meet him. He was finally going to meet this extraordinary specimen.

The Japanese doctor quickly rubbed his hands together and looked intently at his friend. He looked like he wanted to ask William so many questions all at once, like 'when was Logan going to arrive', or 'what does he look like'. But then, he didn't really feel the need to anymore. After all, it sounded like he was going to meet him soon enough.

Stryker noticed the budding excitement in Kenji's body language. "I bet you wanna ask me when he's going to get here, huh?" Then he moved his face closer to the Japanese scientist and lowered his voice, like he wanted to tell him something personally. "Just by looking at you, my old friend, I can see that you might even want to know how he's going to get here." He said with a teasing voice and a wry grin.

Kenji looked back at him, wanting William Stryker to tell him everything out right. He definitely couldn't want to meet the unbelievable specimen they referred to as Logan. His excitement and bewilderment grew with each and every passing minute. His awestruck mind came up with so many ideas and experiments and possible studies with each and every passing second. In fact, he seemed so engrossed in this Logan creature, that he seemed to have forgotten the one person who needed him the most.

Yuriko looked up and saw her father engrossed in whatever he was talking about. Her father, and his old military friend, seemed to be in another world right now. They looked like they were in another place, drowning in their discussion about that "man". She moved closer to her father's side and gently placed a hand on his suit, trying to reach out to him, trying to tell him that he had a daughter who was standing right there.

She saw her father about to turn his head towards her, probably with that fatherly smile that always spread across his face. Yuriko was ready to smile back at him too, when the military man, Stryker, suddenly pointed towards the direction of the street. And her father, who was about to look at her, whipped his head towards the direction that Stryker pointed too. And in that moment, she felt as if she had been swept aside.

"Ah, there he is!" Stryker said as he pointed towards a fast-moving motorcycle headed towards the hotel. "Right on time!" He bellowed proudly. "I told you he was going to be here soon!" He said as he looked Kenji. A Cheshire cat smile ran across his lips.

Kenji's eyes widened as he saw the motorcycle speeding towards them. He couldn't have a clear view of the man riding it, for the man, who he presumed as "the" Logan, had a jet black helmet on, a helmet that masked his face from the world, and a black, leather jacket that covered his torso. The Japanese scientist narrowed his eyes and tilted his head as he tried to follow the approaching motorcycle. And as Logan came closer and closer to view, Kenji noticed that the mysterious figure was wearing some white clothing under his jacket, and a pair of ordinary jeans.

From what he was seeing, nothing seemed so special about that man, except maybe for the fact that he was driving that motorcycle faster than usual, and with excellent precision and control. Well, at least if that Logan doesn't turn out to be the biological milestone that he was expecting him to be, he could still work for them as a pilot.

Logan's motorcycle roared as it sliced through the street, cutting in front of cars and missing them by just an inch or less. Then it sped up the island in front of the hotel, and landed a few feet from where Stryker's limousine had stopped.

He drove the motorcycle right pass by the limo and stopped with a screech, just a mere foot away from the military man and his Japanese companion. Dust blew from the ground, right from where the wheels of Logan's motorcycle came to a halt. If he had pressed the brake a second later, he would have really run over Kenji and Stryker.

A sly grin arched up the corner of Stryker's lips and he slightly shook his head up and down, like he had already expected Logan to make such a grand and death-defying entrance. Kenji, on the other hand, felt like his heart was about to jump out of his rib-cage. For a second there, he honestly thought that he and his daughter were going to get run over by this man. This Logan may be immortal, but not him and Yuriko.

Logan remained seated on his motorcycle while he turned his head towards Stryker and Kenji, observing them, looking at them, from behind his tinted mask. He looked like a predator, observing his prey, surveying them, looking for the best way to strike, to jump out from behind the bushes that hid him from them, that separated him from them. He could see them, but they couldn't see him. He loved this feeling.