Disclaimer- Same as last chapter.

He grabbed the gun off the ground and put it on safety, then put it in the pocket of his sweat shirt. After looking around the corner to see if it was okay, Shuichi walked out of the alley and down the street. The others, not knowing what else to do, followed suite.

Q and A for Shu- i mean Kev-whatever!

The pink-haired man walked down a series of streets, but stopped in front of an apartment complex. He went up to the doorbells and buzzed #4.

"Who is it?" a woman asked through the intercom.

"It's me," Shuichi said into the device. A gasp was heard on the other line and another buzz was heard and the door unlocked. "Thank you," Shuichi said and went inside.

The others followed and Shuichi stopped at a door marked #4. He knocked and the door opened to reveal a woman in her early twenties. She had sandy blonde hair cut into a boyish hair cut, emerald eyes, and was dressed in pajama pants and a loose fitting T-shirt. Her eyes widened when she saw Shuichi's right arm, which by now had soaked blood through most of the sleeve. She grabbed his uninjured arm and pulled him inside the apartment. Again, the rest followed.

The trio entered in the apartment and observed it. It was cluttered with many books and electronics, but looked comfortable. After looking around for a few seconds they followed the girl and Shuichi to a bathroom.

"I swear, Kevin, I won't be here to clean your cuts up every time… Anyway, I thought you retired after you met that author fellow," the woman said as she was bandaging Shuichi up.

"I did, Osuji just so happened to hold a gun up to his sister's head, so what was I supposed to do? Let him use her to get to Seguchi-san?" Shuichi said in his defense. After she was done, his eyes lingered to the 3 who were standing in the door way. He then looked at the woman. "I have some explaining to do, don't I?"

She laughed and kissed his cheek.

"Of course you do, pumpkin," she said mockingly. "You can use my living room. This is gonna be fun, you know? Watching you tell 3 people who think they knew you, about your dark past and identity."

He sighed and rubbed his temples.

"You haven't changed a bit," he said and walked past his lover and his boss and his boss's wife. The 3 and the woman followed him into a living room where they sat down, Shuichi in an armchair, Tohma and Mika on the love seat, Eiri in a chair, and the woman on the floor next to Shuichi.

"What the hell is going on, Shuichi? And who is that woman," Eiri said looking at his lover and the woman. The said woman huffed and turned towards Shuichi.

"He's the author, right?" she asked and Shuichi nodded at her. She looked at Eiri and looked him over and turned back to Shuichi. "Okay, so he's cute, but he needs to get-" but was shut up be Shuichi's hand over her mouth. She glared at him and crossed her arms and sulked.

Shuichi, seeing she wasn't going to say anything else, removed his hand and looked up at Eiri.

"Okay this is the story. I want no interruptions from anyone, that includes you Rhonda," Shuichi said. The woman, Rhonda, glowered, but said nothing else.

"My real name is Kevin Fujimaru. I was born in Chicago and my real age is 23, not 21. My mother was a prostitute and I was born out of a one night stand. When I was 9, my mother married, saying I needed a fatherly figure. That "Fatherly Figure" molested and raped me until I was 16, where I killed him and ran away from home. I joined a gang so I could stay alive on the streets and found I had a good shot. I became an assassin along with my friends and made a lot of money. I made sure that I was not caught and no scrap of evidence was left. When I was 19, I was in a nightclub and got drunk. I woke up the next day with a woman in my bed and a ring on my finger." He then half-heartedly glared at Rhonda.

"Hey, I thought you were cute and I thought it would be fun," she said defensively.

Shuichi just rolled his eyes.

"Everybody let me introduce you to my ex-wife, Rhonda Marie White." (AN-Where have I heard this name before… please tell me if you know. Somewhere I have heard this name I just can't remember, anyway, I thought it was a cool name.)

She blushed and bowed her head.

"Anyway, the next day when I came to my senses, I got the marriage annulled, but she became my best friend and understood my profession. We found out a month later she was pregnant and 8 months later my daughter Ryoko Miriam White was born."

The other 3 gasped.

"Getting on with it, I had enough money saved up so Rhonda and Ryoko could live happy till my baby was in high school. I went on with my life and helped take care of her, then I got an assignment that would send me to Japan. I would get 1 million up front, just for considering the job, then another mill if I finished it.

"So I left for Japan, age 21 I might add, and went undercover so I could get to the man I was supposed to kill. I pretended to be a 19 year-old wanna-be popstar. I got a band together so I could get close to my target, Tohma Seguchi."

Mika let out a squeak and pulled her husband close to her.

"Anyway," Shuichi said ignoring Mika, "I had to think up some lyrics so I went to a park near my apartment, when I met Eiri. Everything changed after that. I found his relation to Tohma and how much he meant to him and decided not to complete the assignment. I decided to stick with my image and stay in Japan. Rhonda was okay with it, as long as I visited whenever I toured and kept up with pictures and emails.

"When we came here, I thought that maybe someone may try something so I put up my guard. I insisted that we take a cab, but no the great Eiri Yuki needed some fresh air. Then the thing with Osuji happened and I know they have the hotel staked out; the man was probably just making sure you were coming back," he sighed.

"Rhonda you still smoke, right? Can you pass me one please? And a lighter?"

She nodded and got up. She came back and he lit up.

"Man does that feel good after 3 years," he said after inhaling the nicotine.

Eiri was just shaking his head.

"Shuichi… I don't understand…" he said looking at his lover he thought he had known.

Shuichi got up and put his cigarette out in the ash tray. He walked over to Eiri and kneeled beside him.

"Have you ever wondered why I wasn't fazed when you said you murdered a man? I had the blood of over a hundred men on my hands and the death of one didn't bother me. Did you wonder how understood how you killed someone you thought loved you? I did, too. I killed my stepfather after years of abuse. Didn't you wonder how I understood your abuse? It was because I was put through it for 7 years."

He gave Eiri a kiss on the cheek and got up and stood in front of Tohma.

"Thank Eiri, Tohma, if not you would have long been rotting in a grave."

Tohma nodded and looked at Eiri, but was distracted when Rhonda got up quickly and rushed to a desk that was hidden in the corner. She got out a pad of paper and started writing.

"What are you doing?" Mika asked the tomboy as the girl began to write furiously.

"Kev gave me a good idea for my ending," she said shortly, not looking up from the paper.

Shuichi rolled his eyes.

"Isn't it funny how I end up with writers?" he laughed. "Rhonda, here, is a mystery author and on the third book of a trilogy about a girl who takes it upon herself to find who murdered her family."

Shuichi went back to Eiri and sat on the floor next to his feet.

"Do you hate me now that you know the truth? Do hate me now because I am an ex-assassin who was hired to kill your brother-in-law? Do you hate how I'm a lie, a fraud, a convict?" Shuichi asked staring at his feet.

Eiri sighed and put his head in his hands,

"Truly I don't know what to think," he said. "I just don't know."

Shuichi nodded and stood up.

"Rhonda, could I use your phone? I need to call in some favors," he said, walking into her kitchen.

"You know where it is," she said, not looking up from the pad of paper.

Shuichi was in the kitchen for a few minutes, and then he came back into the living room.

"Like I said, I had feeling this would happen and talked to some of my old friends who are still loyal to me," he said smiling. "I will be out for about an hour."

He went to Eiri and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"I'll be back soon," he said and went to Rhonda.

"Don't worry," he said and gave her cheek a kiss as well. She looked up from her writings and opened her mouth to speak but her ex cut her off. "You are not coming. After I leave through that door Mika and Tohma are going to be all over Eiri, telling him I'm not good enough because of my past. Since I won't be here in my own defense, you can."

He smiled at them and walked out of the apartment.

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