After having spent a few days on the road, John and Tomoko were looking forward to getting back home and spending some time together away from the backstage politics of the wrestling business. Most people backstage were very supportive of their relationship, but there were those, like Victoria, who hated it.
As soon as John showed Tomoko the way through the front door of his apartment, he tackled her from behind playfully, causing them both to fall onto the large couch inside.
"God I want you so bad." John told Tomoko as he held her face and kissed her passionately.
Tomoko, trying to gain her breath for one second replied, "What can I say, the feelings mutual."
Tomoko then rolled over so that she was now sitting on top of John as he lay there smiling up at her. As she started to remove her top, John leaned forward to lightly lick around her navel. After Tomoko removed her shirt completely and threw it to the side she bent down, allowing John full access to her breasts.
While John placed a hand through her hair, his other hand worked to unsnap the back of her bra. Releasing it with ease, Tomoko pulled the straps down from her shoulders and tossed the bra to the opposite side of the room. John immediately took the opportunity to lick circles around her nipples, giving Tomoko chills. She tilted her head backwards as John made his way up to the back of her neck, and then finally meeting her lips once more in another passionate kiss.
"Did I tell you how beautiful you are?" He asks Tomoko.
"About a hundred times." Tomoko responded as she went in for another kiss.
John pulled back from her for a moment, the look on his face now serious.
"I really mean it baby, you are beautiful."
Tomoko looked down at John thinking that from now on she would never let anything get in the way of real happiness. She had lived too long doing things for others, whether she liked it or not. She had lived too long hating herself for doing some of those things and living a life she never truly felt comfortable with. She new that with John, she could be the person she always wanted to be. Happy and at peace.
"John, you don't have to tell me. I know now in my heart how you feel. I would never doubt any of it for a second." Tomoko told John and relished the smile that over came his face.
John now pulled Tomoko toward him once again and spun her around until he was now on top of her. He loved staring at her beautiful features while they made love. He loved caressing her soft, olive skin and tasting the sweetness of her body. As the two moved their bodies in perfect rhythm with each other, neither one would have any problem attaining both the physical and emotional pleasure they longed for after being on the road for four straight days.
When they were finished, John continued to hold Tomoko in his arms. He played with her hair while she rested comfortably on his chest. After a few moments of just total relaxation and silence, John asked.
"How would you feel about moving in with me?"
Tomoko looked up at John, inside she was ecstatic and scared at the same time. She loved John with all her heart, but feared moving in would send the wrong signal, especially since she felt their relationship was all so new. Despite the fact that she worked for years as a prostitute, she was still an old fashioned girl at heart, raised in a traditional and strict Japanese/American family.
"John I…" Just as she began to speak, her cell phone rang.
"Let it ring baby." John begged, but Tomoko got up to answer it, knowing it provided her just the time she needed to think about her response to John's question.
"Hello? Oh hi Mr. McMahon. Tomorrow morning? Okay, I'll see you then."
As Tomoko hung up the phone, John sat up and waited for Tomoko to tell him exactly what was going on tomorrow morning.
"That was Vince." She stated.
"And?"
"He wants me to go to his office in the morning. Said there was something important to discuss."
John raised an eyebrow and got up from the couch. He walked over to Tomoko who started putting her top back on.
"I'll go with you. I know for a fact that Victoria and Shane are having a little affair and who knows what kind of lies either one of them has told Vince."
The following morning John and Tomoko wait in the lobby of the WWE headquarters until they are called up to Vince's office. When the secretary finally ushers them in, they find Vince sitting behind his desk.
"Morning Tomoko, John." He says as he gets up to shake both their hands and show them where to sit.
"Tomoko, I want to get straight to the point. I've discovered so very troubling information about the kind of work you were doing in Japan. What's more troubling is you lied about it to this company."
John stood up immediately. He knew exactly where this was headed.
"Whatever you were told is a lie." He practically shouted.
"John, if you don't sit down and control yourself, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. You asked to come here and I agreed. I don't need your attitude along with it." Vince replied sternly.
John looked at Tomoko and sat back down next to her, holding her hand and squeezing it to get her through what he knew would be hard on her.
"Tomoko, I think you've been doing a great job here and I really hate to see you go, but if I don't get some answers here now, I'm going to have to fire you."
Tomoko told herself to stay strong. She had been hiding the truth for so long and now it was about to all come out. Somehow though, with John at her side, she didn't have the fear she thought she might.
"If you're talking about my working as a prostitute in Japan, you're right Mr. McMahon. I did it for over two years, but then had to find new work after I became pregnant." Tomoko confessed.
"So you have a child as well?" Vince asked.
"No, I miscarried." Tomoko said as she lowered her head. The memories of it all were now starting to get to her.
John was also hearing this for the first time. He held her hand even tighter now knowing how upset all this was becoming.
"Tomoko, I'm sorry to hear that." Vince responded honestly. "You did the right thing by telling me the truth. I'll make sure none of this gets out."
Tomoko of course was relieved. For some reason she felt she could trust Vince, but she would never trust his son Shane. Sure the truth was out now about her past but not all of it. She continued to wander why she was protecting Vince's bastard of a son, but knew that no matter how nice Vince was being to her now, he would always take Shane's side. If she started making accusations that Shane was sleeping around on his wife, that he was the one who got her pregnant in the first place, that he was the one who attacked her, she would be out of a job faster than she could imagine and her reputation ruined forever. She could only hope now that karma would somehow take its place and Shane would have to someday pay for his sins, just as she had in so many ways.