7 YEARS LATER…
It had been seven years since Akemi joined Kadaj's group. Akemi's brothers taught her all she needed to know. They taught her gym mastics, fighting skills, flexibility, normal lessons such as reading and maths, and of course how to do her job.
Now as a fifteen year old Akemi looked very different. She still had waist length ginger hair but her style in clothes had changed. She wore black leather trousers that were tight at the top and flared out as they went down, Her top was black and had a low cut neck that went down to the top of her breasts and the sleeves went over her hands and flared out like her trousers, her boots were zip up high heels, to finish off her look she had a spiky black and silver chocker chain necklace.
Kadaj and his brothers looked the same as always, not a day older. It was almost as if they hadn't aged at all.
But they were finding it hard to help Akemi with girl problems.
When Akemi was only ten years old she got her first weapon, a pair of guns. When she thirteen she was moved to have a more skilled weapon, a thin medium length sword. She was still finding it hard to use so she was only training with it at the moment, so she stuck with her guns.
It was early morning when Akemi woke up and went downstairs. The messy apartment was no longer messy after she moved in. When she was small she'd wake up early, go downstairs, and pick up the mess that her family made. When all that was done she'd make them all breakfast. When Kadaj asked how she knew how all she could say was 'I don't know I just do it.' Her life was messed up. She wondered why she had been created if her makers didn't need her. She wanted to go on a journey to find out why but she couldn't forget their mission to find where 'mother' was being kept.
She had no idea what 'mother' was. Was it their REAL mother? Or was it something else? She had so many questions that it would make her angry and violent. The amounts of times her brothers would hold her back from attacking one of them or someone else.
Akemi had fallen asleep on the sofa after a long night's work of dismantling Kadaj's, Loz's, Yazoo's, and her own engine to their bikes. A new hobby of hers, she did it when ever she couldn't sleep. Fine! It was the first time she had done it!
Her hands were covered in black oil, not protected from her gloves that she would only wear outside.
The sound of her oldest brother, Loz, screaming about his bike woke her up. She glanced over to the clock on the wall that said it was eleven in the afternoon. Sleeping in late had become a natural thing since she had started getting so confused.
Loz shouting was soon followed by the back door slamming as an angry Kadaj stormed in to scold and lecture her. No good could come from this.
Kadaj stormed over to the sofa that she was laying on. He was angry; Akemi could feel the anger coming off of him. She knew that she had been a pain the last few months, but it was like she couldn't help herself. To tell the truth… it scared her, a lot.
She knew Kadaj was shouting at her, and he was shaking her by her shoulders as well. But she didn't hear him; she could hardly tell what was going on anymore.
Akemi felt herself being dragged downstairs into the garage where the broken bikes and the two brothers were. Loz and Yazoo also looked rather angry.
She was dragged over to the motorbikes. Kadaj was holding the back of her neck tightly so she was looking at the motor bikes. "Do you know what these are?" He asked her pulling her back so she was now facing him. She stayed silent. "Do you?" He shouted.
"Broken. There broken." She replied knowing where he was heading.
He let go her and held her by her elbow instead. "Do you know why there broken?" He knew why, he just wanted her to say it.
"Because… I don't know." She sighed on the verge of tears. Why did he have to do this to her now? Why was life always so hard on her?
Kadaj ignored her answer. "We need these to find mother!" He shouted holding her tighter in anger.
Akemi winced in pain. How long would it take for her bones to shatter? That was it! She couldn't take it anymore! "I know that you need them to find that THING you all call mother! We've been looking for years and now I don't know weather that tart exists anymore!"
That angered Kadaj even more. He raised his hand and hit her hard across the face. An instant mark appeared and she knew that Kadaj was holding back from beating her any further. It was the first time he'd hit her in anger. "We will NOT have you talk about mother that way!" Yazoo told her the three brothers hurt by their sisters' words.
"We won't allow that!" Loz told her.
She couldn't take it. She socked Kadaj right in the jaw making him fall from the force that she used. Loz and Yazoo held her back from beating him and Loz carried her upstairs ignoring the flaring pain his joints were being given from Akemi kicking him.
Loz dragged her into her room and just dropped her on the floor running out the room and locking it before she had enough time to recover from the blow of being dropped on the hard, cold floor.
As Loz walked away he could hear her slamming herself against the door. Luckily he'd grabbed her guns on the way out so she couldn't blow the door off its hinges like the time before. And her sword was kept downstairs.
After the three had fixed their bikes they were covered from head to toe in oil and grease. They headed up to their rooms which each had a built in shower/bathroom. The three brothers could still hear their sister slamming herself against her door. And they were getting worried that she might be covered in bruises or have broken bones.
Yazoo was the one who let Akemi out of her room in the end. She was rather lightly bruised on her arms and shoulders from ramming herself into the door. She was rather worn out, so after screaming at her eldest brother, Loz, for locking her in her room she went to bed taking a sandwich with her.
"I don't know what's gotten in to her." Yazoo said hearing her bedroom door slam shut.
"Me either." Kadaj agreed taking a bite out of his salad sandwich. "She might just have girl problems again." He told them both.
Loz nodded. "Maybe one of you guys should get married so she can talk to another female about these things?" The two glared at him. If only looks could kill then the whole world would be dead. "I'm kidding." He said trying to convince them.
"Tomorrow we're going to search for mother." Kadaj said going upstairs into his room tired.
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The next day Akemi didn't feel up to doing anything. But she followed along with her brothers and did exactly as they told her.
Skipping breakfast they all got on their bikes and headed to Midgar.
Akemi felt really strange. She could hardly see and when she looked down at her hands they were shaking first of all slowly but increasing.
She was ahead of her brothers her speed limit getting higher by each second. She started feeling dizzy, cold, and a bad headache. She couldn't move her hands to go slower; sooner or later the motorbike would either crash or burst in to flames. She only hoped that it would run out of fuel.
"Hey!" Loz called trying to catch up with her. "Go slower!" But instead she went faster.
Kadaj and Yazoo tried calling her as well as catching up with her. "Slow down!" Yazoo called.
"Pull over!" Kadaj tried calling.
The three men's eyes widened when Akemi flew off her bike shaking like crazy. Her bike fell on top of her crushing her legs, the handle bars digging into her sides.
Her vision was blurred and her head hurt like mad. It was almost like someone was hitting her all the time with a hammer.
Her sudden stop had caused her brothers to almost run over her. Luckily though, they stopped just in time.
"What's wrong with her?" Yazoo asked seeing that Kadaj was taking her pulse and checking for signs of fever.
Kadaj picked her up and placed her on his motorbike. Wrapping his arms around her so she didn't fall off.
Ignoring his brother's questions he sped off towards their home.
Once there he quickly took her upstairs and put her on the bed. "Kadaj?" Loz said still wondering if her condition was dangerous. "What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know!" He told them.
"I'll call a doctor." Yazoo said heading towards the door.
"Where from?" Loz asked him. "We're all wanted every where."
Just then though Akemi stopped shaking and her eyes opened. She found herself confused and scared. What had happened to her? "Akemi?" Kadaj said getting her attention. "Are you okay now?"
She nodded her head and tried to stand. But she would have fallen flat on her face if Kadaj hadn't caught her in time. "Maybe you should stay here for now?" He suggested.
"No." Akemi insisted standing up. "I'm not much of a stay in bed person."
Her brothers had allowed her to go downstairs but kept an eye on her for the whole day.
The next day Kadaj and Loz went out searching for suspects who might know where mother is.
The two brothers got off their motorbikes and walked into a night time bar where gambling between gangsters went on as well as fights, dancing, rape, and people with good information gathered.
There was a door with a slit in it that was covered up with a large chunk of steel. Loz knocked and a dark skinned man answered the door sliding the slit back first to see who it was. "Only cute girls allowed!" He said slamming it shut.
"A job for Akemi." Said Kadaj as they headed back.
"They only let girls in unless it's one of the gangsters." The two explained to Akemi and Yazoo.
"I'm not wearing fake boobs." Yazoo told them in his own defence.
"Why send a fake when we can send a real girl?" Loz told him walking behind Akemi and putting his hands on her shoulders.
Akemi sighed when she realised what he wanted her to do. "Fine." She moaned.
Kadaj smiled. "Good. Now go upstairs and make yourself look like a slut." Akemi walked upstairs a strong feeling in her stomach as she felt that something bad would happen.
She came downstairs embarrassed as her brothers looked at her with their mouths open. (SHE LOOKED LIKE AYUMI HAMASAKI OFF THE MUSIC VIDEO 'MY NAMES WOMAN. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT THEN GO TO AND TYPE IN 'AYUMI HAMASAKI MY NAME'S WOMAN.') "Akemi?" Yazoo asked coming out of his daze. "Is that you?" He was also surprised that she was wearing make up. He didn't even know she owned any!
"Who else would it be?" She snapped walking over to Loz and asking him for her guns.
"Good luck." Yazoo said as she shut the door.
"I'm gonna need it." Akemi moaned walking towards her bike and heading towards the bar.
Once there after being let in she had to punch so many guys that now she was just thinking of shooting them and done with it.
The fifteen year old walked over to a table where a creepy looking man was sitting. "Apparently you know something that I need to know?" She asked.
The man nodded. "Take a seat." He offered pulling one out for her. She sat and so did he. "You want to know where mother is. Isn't that Jenova?" She nodded. "I am sorry to say that the one whom you call mother is dead. Powerless. And gone, completely."
Akemi sighed in sadness and wondered how she was going to explain this to Kadaj?
She made her way back to the house and walked inside where Loz was slumped over the sofa watching TV, Kadaj was sitting in an arm chair reading, and Yazoo was having a beer.
They all stood up and ignored what they were doing though when Akemi walked in. "We can forget the search for the 'late' mother." She said trying to break the news to them slowly.
"What do you mean?" Kadaj asked her expecting the worse.
"Mother is dead. Gone. So we can start finding out why we were created." And with that she walked upstairs leaving the three men to themselves.