Author's Note: Hiya again! - I'm gonna update again since...since...since I feel like it! XD Thanks for anyone who still reads my fics and anyone else who has no idea who I am XD. Here's chapter 3 with no more serious cases of writer's block on the side XD

My Personal Bodyguard?

"Aki...Akira!?" Rei looked up at the boy before her. His eyes reflected hers as she stood there looking at him, lost in her deep thoughts. She embraced him as tears welled up in her eyes as she burried her face into his shoulder.

"Get...off me..." Rei opened her eyes and blinked a few times before she looked up at him. He was looking at her with a cold stare, face dark and emotionless.

"Wha...wha?" Rei stammered.

"Didn't you hear me? I said get off!" Rei backed away and looked at Akira with a suprised look.

"Akira...what's happened to you? When did you become so cold?"

"Why do you care?"

"Don't you remember me? Rei? We used to play together when we were little, don't you remember?"

Akira looked at her for a minute before replying. "Yeah, I remember. But...I try to forget."

Rei's eyes widened. "What!? Why? I thought you'd care after all this time, but why!?"

Akira smirked. "After becoming a Yakuza, I decided that the bussiness comes before something petty like 'love' "

"But I-"

That moment the doors to the office opened and Beat, Gum, Kazuya and the yakuza of Satsugai and Aka Tatsu/Azuma Hanto came out of the meeting room. Beat was discussing something to Kazuya before turning his attention to Rei while Kazuya did the same except facing Akira.

"Rei, the Satsugai have agreed to become our bussiness partners but..." Beat trailed off.

"But what?" Rei asked in a inquisitive tone.

"As a proposition for joining us, I suggested that you needed a personal guard. Knowing that you will most likely end up getting into trouble" Beat then winked at her.

"Wha...wha...WHAT!?" Rei screamed. "WHO?"

Beat pointed to his right, indicating that he was pointing at Akira who was speaking with Kazuma about the job and proposition. Rei turned her head and saw Akira, now leanning against the door looking away from everyone else. Putting a hand over her mouth, she turned her attention back to Beat who was smirking at her.

"But...But...Daaa-aad..why!?" Rei whined.

"Because we know that you two wanna spend time together after so long...so-"

"We? Who's we?"

"Your mother and I of course, who else?" Turning her attention to Gum, Rei looked at her with a childish look.

"Mom...why!?" Gum just smiled for her reply.

"Great...my parents are thinking that 'something' is gonna happen anytime soon...geez.."

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After the meeting was over, Beat and Gum began to show the Satsugai around while Rei and Akira stayed back near the meeting room. Taking a cig from it's carton, Akira lit the cig and began to take a slow drag. Rei was standing not to far away as she watched him from the corner of her eye. Akira turned his head slightly and looked over at Rei.

"What?"

Bitting her lip slightly Rei looked up at Akira. "Nothing, it's just that..."

"Enough with the twenty goddamn questions. What the hell is your problem?"

Rei cringed. "It's nothing really...it's just...Akira, I've missed you all these years and I'm glad your back. But why have you all of a sudden become heartless? No offence."

Akira looked away from her and said nothing.

"I'm sorry I just..."

"Whatever..." Throwing his cig in a near-by ash tray, Akira walked passed her, giving her a cold stare.

Rei watched as he walked down the flight of stairs towards the lobby. She sighed as she remembered his gaze and how it didn't have a hint of emotion, as if he had withered away inside, leaving nothing but a cold blooded shell. She wiped away any forming tears in her eyes as she followed.

"Akira..."

Author's Note: -listening to "About Her" by Malcom McLaren from the Kill Bill Volume. 2 soundtrack- (go figure XD more Kill Bill XD) Hiya! I hope you liked this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! - I almost cried...poor Rei-chan...anywho...to find out more...Review! XD and more will come soon! I promise!