Avenging Angel
Chapter Sixteen
At the Hospital/Minako's Departure
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the story. Also Sailor Ronin Usa-Chan, I am glad that you have finally updated your Fan Fiction titled Deliver Me on your Website. I am looking forward to when you get the chance to update Kamereon. There will be some dark areas in this story. Also there will be a great deal o OOC on Minako's part.
The next morning Usagi awoke and found herself in a Hospital room. She looked down and saw her uncle Shuuichi sitting at her bedside. His hand was clasping hers and his head was resting on top of his right arm.
'Poor Oji-chan, he must have been worried sick about me.' She thought to herself.
She carefully removed her hand from his, and then gently raised his head so that she could place a spare pillow underneath it.
She leaned back in to her own pillow and looked around her hospital room more closely. On one of the tables were several bouquets of flowers and get well cards from her two Oji's. As well as from her Outer Senshi, and her new friends in Weiss. Her head turned towards another table and she saw more flowers and cards from Crawford, and Schuldich, and Nagi. There was also a small knife set. (Which she figured that Farfarello had left for her.)
'Must be his idea of a get well present.' She figured, her lips twitching upwards from amusement.
She looked back towards her uncle with a gentle smile when she realized what had happened last night.
"I guess that Oji-chan had checked me in to the hospital too make sure that I was alright after my ordeal last night." She mused to herself out loud.
Shuuichi stirred and his eyes opened. 'I must have dozed off.' He thought to himself, then his eyes widened with worry. 'Usagi-chan!!!!' He jerked up wide-awake so that he could make sure that his beloved niece was still there and not in any danger. When he saw that she was up and smiling brightly at him he sighed in relief.
"Ohayo Oji-Chan, did you sleep well?" She asked him with a happy chirp. Trying to ease the worried expression on her favorite uncle's face, by acting like her usual cheerful self.
"Usagi-chan." Shuuichi whispered and then he seized her in his arms and hugged her tightly to him. 'Arigato Kami-Sama, I was worried that Akiko might have sneaked in and killed her while I slept.' He thought to himself.
Out loud he asked her: "Daijoubu? When I saw your room I was afraid that someone had killed you and disposed of you body."
Usagi hugged her uncle reassuringly and nodded her head. "Daijoubu, I guess that I fainted after opening my bedroom door and seeing all that blood." She shuddered at the memory.
Shuuichi frowned. 'She fainted? Demo how did she end up in the room across from mine? All of the catering staff had left and both Weiss and Schwarz were in my office when I got there.'
Usagi noticed the worried frown on Shuuichi's face and asked him: "Daijoubu?"
Shuuichi snapped out of his thoughts and smiled. "Hai Usa-chan, I was just thinking about something." He explained.
Usagi tilted her head to the side with an expression that portrayed her puzzlement. Shuuichi grinned: 'She looks like a kitten when she does that.' He thought to himself chuckling.
Even though her face looked puzzled; Usagi was going through what had happened after she had opened her bedroom door.
'The last thing that I remember is opening the door and seeing my room looking like a Slaughter House, and then fainting.' She closed her eyes as vaguely recalled something else before she totally succumbed to the darkness. 'Demo, I also remember the feeling of someone's arms catching me and lifting me up, and then carrying me somewhere, and then laying me on top of a bed.' Her features scrunched up in concentration. ' And then I felt whoever it was kissing me tenderly.' She opened her eyes that held a faraway look in them. 'Who was it?' she wondered to herself.
Usagi felt someone gently shaking her and she snapped out of her own thoughts, and focused on her uncle who had an anxious expression on his face.
"Usagi-chan. I think it's best that I have someone watch over you."
He held up his hand to stop the protest that he knew that his niece was about to utter.
" I realize that you might hate the idea. Demo I will sleep and breathe easier knowing that you will have some kind of protection, until whoever has targeted you is safely behind bars." He told her.
Usagi's head and shoulders slumped in defeat. She could tell by looking in her uncle's thoughts that his mind was made up and that there was no point in arguing with him.
"Hai Oji-san, who will be my new bodyguards?" she asked him dejectedly.
Shuuichi winced: 'Usagi-chan is going too explode when she hears this.' He thought to himself.
"Reiji Niisan has left two of his own bodyguards here." He began and with the 'Go on' expression on Usagi's face he continued.
"It's Schuldich and Nagi."
"NANI!!!!" Usagi shrieked.
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At that same moment Schuldich and Nagi were coming out of the hospital's coffee shop when they were startled by an ear-piercing shriek several floors up. Causing them to jump and spill their hot beverages that they had been holding in the process.
"I guess that the Commissioner Takatori-san has just broke the news too Usagi-chan." Nagi said while picking up his spilled drink.
"Ja Chibi, I think that you are right," Schuldich commented. "And from the thoughts that I am getting at the moment she is not happy about it." Schuldich said dryly.
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Outside in the hospital's parking lot. Akiko was going through the phone book for the addresses of the former Inner Senshi. We he heard the loudest shriek he ever heard. He looked up from what he was doing and winced.
'I don't know what that had been about, demo I'm glad that I'm not in the same room with whomever that was.' He thought to himself.
His lips twitched at the thought of the poor sap who had obviously been the messenger of bad news. Figuring that the guy was nearly if not already stone cold deaf.
He chuckled at the thought and continued browsing through the phone book. When the passenger door of his sports car opened and one of his newly appointed victims sat down next to him.
"Ohayo Akiko-san, I see that you are taking your task seriously." Minako said to him brightly. "Ne, I have an idea. Would you like too go out for breakfast with me?" she asked him, looking hopeful.
Akiko's jaw dropped and his left eyebrow twitched in disbelief.
'Kami-Sama, Is she asking what I think she is asking?'
Akiko closed his mouth and replied: "Sure why not. I won't be able to kill Tsukino-san with her Oji Takatori Shuuichi in there with her."
Minako beamed and she became starry eyed with the thought of getting a boyfriend out of the cute assassin sitting next to her.
"Sugoi, let's go." She squealed in happiness.
Akiko mentally shook his head in disbelief and disgust. 'I can't believe this.' He thought to himself. 'It can't possibly be this easy.'
He turned one the cars ignition and backed out of the parking lot, while listening to Minako speak ill of Usagi, and also giving him directions to her favorite café that served Brunch.
'Oh well, at least this girl will no longer be able too bad-mouth Usagi-chan ever again.' He smirked. 'At least not until after I kill her.'
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Back in the Hospitals hallway Shuuichi was walking out of his niece's hospital room rubbing both of his ears muttering to himself.
"Note too self. Never give Usagi-chan bed news again. Not unless you want too loose your hearing."
He noticed the doctor coming toward him with an annoyed expression that he was trying to hide but not being very successful at it.
"Takatori-san, your Mei has no injuries and there is no sign of rape whatsoever. If you will come with me too the check in desk your can sign the paper work for her release from this hospital." He said rather curtly.
Shuuichi's lips twitched upward. 'In other words get your Mei the Heck out of here.' He mentally translated the Doctor's words.
He followed the Doctor to the front desk where he saw Nagi and Schuldich waiting for him.
"Ohayo Takatori-san, How are your eardrums?" Schuldich asked with a smirk on his handsome features.
"Don't ask." Shuuichi grumbled while signing the necessary paperwork.
Schuldich chuckled at Shuuichi's put out expression. As well as the Doctor who was standing next to him.
'I'm glad that I was on the First floor with Nagi. Usagi-chan has a very powerful set of lungs.' He thought to himself with an amused smirk.
One of the nurses arrived pushing Usagi in a wheelchair.
"Well, let's go." She sighed.
Shuuichi nodded his head and took over pushing the wheelchair. When he got her to his car Shuuichi picked her up and put her in. (Even though he knows that she wasn't hurt he doesn't want her to over exert herself.)
The drive home was a quiet one since Schuldich and Nagi were in another car. While Usagi was in her uncle's two seater car. When they arrived at Shuuichi's house he once again picked her up and carried her up to the front door and then up the stairs and down the hall to where her new room was located. Her old one was still taped off as a crime scene and policeman where in there dusting for fingerprints. (But since Akiko had started wearing gloves it was impossible to find any prints.)
"Here's your new room Usa-chan, it's right across from mine so if you hear anything out of the ordinary at night I want you to come and get me no matter what. " Seeing her looking sheepish while looking at a clock he smiled gently. "Don't worry about waking me up early in the morning Usa-chan. I would rather have less sleep, than have you get killed in the wee hours in the morning." He informed her while tilting her chin up so she would see that he was serious about it.
Usagi smiled and nodded her head and went in. On the bed were Luna and Artemis looking up at her and meowing happily. Usagi sat down on the bed and started stroking their fur to show them that she was all right. Shuuichi smiled at the sight. It was because of Luna and Artemis meowing at him last night and acting like they wanted to show him something while he had been kneeling in front of Usagi's former blood soaked bedroom. That he had found her in the spare bedroom down the hall.
He noticed that Schuldich was also watching her and he frowned inwardly. 'I had better stop him from getting any ideas about pursuing Usagi-chan.' He thought to himself.
He escorted Schuldich and Nagi to the two other spare bedrooms. He showed Nagi his room first and then Schuldich. Just as Schuldich was about to go in to the room Shuuichi stopped him and said coldly: "If I ever catch you playing with Usa-chan's heart I will take a page out of my Otouto Kenji's book and go after you with a Shot Gun!"
Schuldich raised an eyebrow as he looked in to Shuuichi's mind to see if he was serious. And what he saw made his eyes widen and his skin go pale. Shuuichi was thinking of other alternatives other than just the ShotGun.
'Those were the exact same thoughts I had gotten from Takatori-sama when he found out that I was going to be one of Usagi-chan's bodyguards.' He thought to himself.
He went in to his room and shut the door. Leaving Shuuichi to head down to his office to make some phone calls to his precient to see if they had anything at all on Akiko's whereabouts.
'I had also better find out who in Weiss will be the other two bodyguards.' He rolled his eyes up Heavenward and gave out a small prayer.
"Kami-Sama, Onegai. Don't let it be Kudou Yohji. One player in my house is more than enough."
He pulled out his cell phone and dialed his assistant's cell phone number for the names of the Weiss members who would be the other two bodyguards. All the while keeping his fingers crossed that one of them wasn't the Playboy.
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That night a dead young girl's body was found in a fourth rate motel. She had been strangled with what looked like telephone cord. There had been evidence that she had sex earlier that evening and that her partner was most likely her killer. They had gone over every inch of the place; dusting for prints, collecting hairs, and asked the people in the other rooms if they had heard anything out of the ordinary.
The head of the investigation had called one o his men over and told him to notify the next of kin. The young officer nodded his head and got in to his patrol car, and headed for the suburbs where the girl's parents lived.
About three hours later the patrol car arrived at the home of the dead girl and a young officer had told the parents the bad news. Asking them a bunch of routine questions about where their musume had gone earlier and if they had any idea who her date had been.
"Iie. Minako-chan was her usual cheerful self," her Okassan had said in between sobs. "She had just said that she had a date with a cute guy that she had met a couple of days ago."
"Do you know where she went? Or what the guy's name was?" The officer asked while taking down notes in his pad.
"It was club downtown called 'The Cosmo Club' it had just opened recently and Minako-Chan had been wanting too go there for quite some time." Her Otousan him while holding his wife trying to comfort her.
The officer asked some more questions which the parents did their best to answer taking down everything that they had said. When he finished taking down notes he had told the girls distraught parents that if they remembered anything else than to call the Police Station.
They nodded their heads and the officer left after offering them his sincerest condolences. He got in to his patrol car and drove off. About five or ten miles away he parked near an old abandoned building and got out of his car.
He took off his cap and jacket and strolled over to the trash Dumpster and opened it. Inside was a dead body. It was the real police officer. Akiko smirked down at it while taking off the policeman's uniform that he had stripped off of the corpse earlier after he had killed him.
"Arigato for the loan of our uniform friend it came in real handy." Akiko chuckled down the corpse."
Akiko changed back in to his own clothes while thinking: 'One down, Four too go.'
He climbed in to his sports car and drove off heading back to the city. While driving his mind wandered to the night before. After he had killed the two Hentai's he headed for the Gardener's shed and waited for the party to end. He knew from Mizuno-san's computer hacking that since the gardener was on vacation the shed would be closed so he made a copy of the key earlier that day while everyone else in the house was gone. After he saw the guests departing the manor Akiko carefully slipped out of the window that he had opened and made his way back to Usagi's bedroom. He had got there just before Usagi had started to faint and he caught her just in time. He gently carried her to one of the spare bedrooms, that quite coincidentally was right across from her Oji's.
He opened the door and carried her to the bed, laying her down on top of it. Seeing her laying there Akiko had to resist the overpowering urge to make love to her then and there. But he fought it down and instead kissed her tenderly on the lips. He noted to himself that she tasted like cherries. He kissed her one last time and turned to leave noticing that her pet cats who had apparently finished throwing up on top of the other bed were dashing past him and jumping on the bed where Usagi was sleeping silently.
"Soon Usagi-chan, after I am done with Chiba-san, and the others. I will start trying to win your heart one way or another. I will." He said to himself.
His mind went back to Minako and he sneered. 'She was just too easy, being as boy-crazy as she was. It was only a matter of time before she'd get killed.' He thought to himself.
Recalling every detail of his breakfast with Minako. He grimaced remembering everything that she talked about. "She was just too chatty for my tastes."
The whole day was spent listening to Minako's hopes and dreams of becoming a world famous actress and singer.
"She had the looks," He admitted. "Just not the brains."
He met her at the club where they danced and drank the night away. Around 10:30 p.m. Minako had wanted to go someplace else. Akiko agreed and took her to his favorite bar. (It was his favorite because nobody asked a lot of questions and minded their own business.) The bartender was a friend of his. By 11:30 Minako was plastered and in her drunken state asked Akiko where he stayed. To which Akiko answered.
"I live in a Motel that is about five blocks away."
She asked if she could go and see it.
"I don't think so Aino-san, you are in no shape to go to my room at the moment. Why don't I just call you a cab or something?" he told her putting on a mask of concern to hide his true feelings.
"Iie, I want to get to know you better." She slurred.
Akiko gave a pretend sigh and helped her out of the bar, making a small wave at the bartender who was grinning from ear to ear.
They walked down the road to where the Motel was located and checked in. While he was trying to unlock the door; while trying to support her. Minako had tried to kiss him on the lips, but only got his chin.
Akiko rolled his eyes. 'Oh Brother, I repeat this is just to easy.'
Once they were in the room Akiko put her on the couch and went to make some coffee. In the hopes that Minako would pass out.
'No such luck.' He sighed after seeing her looking at him with drunken love.
She moved over so he could sit down. "So what do you want to know about me?" he asked.
"What is it like being an assassin?" she asked him inching closer to him.
Akiko rolled his eyes heavenward. 'Yeah of course she would ask me that.' He thought.
"It's lonely sometimes, and you also have to deal with people trying to go back on the payment that they owe you for doing their dirty work."
Minako inched even closer. "Do you have a girlfriend?"
Akiko gave her a small smile and answered "Iie, demo I do have someone special in mind."
She gave a coquetish look. "Oh. What is she like?"
Akiko leaned back in to cushions and pictured Usagi in his mind.
"She is very beautiful, when I first saw her I was attracted to her. At first I thought it was lust, demo I was wrong. She is constantly in my thoughts. And when I finally got too kiss her." His expression softened a great deal. "It was like finding a part of me that I had lost long ago. I didn't want too leave her side." He said noticing the predatory gleam in Minako's eyes. He knew that she was going to attempt to steal his love away from Usagi even though she didn't know that it was Usagi that he was in love with.
"I bet that I can change your mind about her." She told him running her hands up and down his chest.
"I doubt that very much." He answered inwardly pleased that she had risen to the bait that he had set by telling her his feelings about the girl he loved.
"We'll see about that." She told him and lunged for him kissing him passionately on the lips. He held back until she was on top of him, and then he pretended to groan with desire, and caress her bare skin. Making her think that she was winning.
She started to unbutton his shirt and pushed it off of him. While he imagined that it was Usagi in his arms. It wasn't hard because Minako did look like her in several ways. Somehow Akiko found himself in bed with Minako underneath him. She was moaning something unintelligible so he had to strain in order to hear it.
"Oh Mamo-chan." She moaned causing Akiko to roll his eyes.
'OH HO, so Chiba-san has been playing the field has he.'
Akiko filed that bit of news for later, thinking that Hino-san would probably be very interested in it.
'She would probably kill him herself. I wonder if he has been doing it with the other girls behind her back.' He wondered to himself.
His hand moved underneath Minako's head lifting her head up slightly kissing her deeply. While the other one reached under the pillow pulling out an old telephone cord. Wrapping it around one of his hands he carefully made a noose around her neck. When he was finished he resumed pulling her towards him and when she murmured Chiba Mamoru's name again he responded: "Usako."
Minako's eyes opened wide in shock when he said that. But she couldn't make a sound because his lips had claimed hers again. Thereby preventing her making any noise while he strangled her. She tried to fight but she was pinned beneath him. A couple of minutes later she lay dead and Akiko had showered and got dressed.
"Bai, Aino-san. Arigato for making my new self made task even easier." He said to her limp body. As and afterthought he carried her lifeless body to the shower and cleaned it off so no evidence could be found.
He casually walked out of the Motel's front desk and paid the night clerk. (Who like the bartender, was on his payroll.) Telling him to not call this in for at least two hours if possible.
He strolled out of the Motel and got in to his car and waited outside. Two hours later the cops came and Akiko watched the scene with interest when he saw the Head policeman tell one of his men to go to the victim's home and inform the deceased's parent's. Akiko took a short cut and faked car trouble waving the unsuspecting officer in to a trap. It took longer than expected the cop put up quite a fight. But in the end Akiko succeeded in killing him by hitting him repeatedly to the head. Taking the uniform and posing as the dead cop. Akiko went to Aino Minako's home in the pretext to tell the parents that their Musume was dead. And trying to learn if Minako had told her parents his name. Which she hadn't. Thereby sparing her parents lives.
Akiko checked in to a far better motel and lay down on the bed. His last thought as he drifted off to sleep was the face of the girl he was truly in love with.
"Usagi-chan."
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Okay I'm sure that your parent's have already told you all this but.
If you are ever at a Party.
Don't ever leave your drink unattended. If you do pour it out and get a new one.
Never accept drinks or rides from total strangers/or even guys that your friends say are okay. A lot of Date Rape victims are tricked in to drinking or going in to cars of people whom their friends would never believe would be capable of doing such a thing. I'm not saying that all guys are like that. But better safe than sorry.
If you are drunk don't rely on other people. Call your parent's or your roommate. Or even call a cab.
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Well here is chapter sixteen. I don't mean to alarm anyone with what I had just now written. But like I said Better safe than sorry. Also please tell your parents were you are going. And who you will be with.