Chapter 19

Hidden Truths

"Ok. Then please Nashi explain to me something. When I looked you up for a background check like I have done with everyone else here I ran onto an issue. The only Nashi Kishiharaki I found is a 41-year-old deceased woman?"

Everyone gasped and most looked at Nashi and she was as pale as a ghost, was she a ghost? She bleeds like a human.

"Naru please… don't do this. We can talk in your office…" but he cut her off, clearly tired with whatever he had found out.

"I'm sorry but you have lied to the team long enough and have come to love you. So again, I will ask, is your name Nashi Kishiharki?"

"Yes! I'm Nashi!"

"Then when is your birthday?"

Nashi was very flustered and trying to keep her composure, but it was cracking. "I just told you, June 17th, 1990. I'm 17."

"How peculiar, since Nashi Kishiharaki is 41 not 17. I did some more digging into the Kishiharaki family, which is what I should have done on your case, but it was obvious that it was not from your family. Nashi was a Japanese woman who was married to a Chinese man, Seito also 41 years of age. When they were married, they combined their last names, Kishi and Haraki, to make their children sound more Japanese instead of Chinese so you would not get bullied in school. They had 2 children, a 14-year-old boy named Miato, and a 5-year-old daughter who is surprisingly the only one in the family to survive and inherits the Hoshikawa Manor. So, you sure you are named Nashi, Ms. Seidia Kishiharaki?"

Everyone was floored! Nashi was not her real name? Seidia was? How? Why? Nashi has paled but she was now scared but also had some anger biting inside of her chest. He did not know her. He did not know nothing about her or what were her reasonings or anything!

"Naru can we please talk in your office? We do not have to be this way. I will tell them but let it be me please?"

Naru looked at her and she could instantly tell he was going to say no, but he did not even waste his breath on saying no as he continued.

"With some more diffing into your family history I also found something rather peculiar besides the name change. Seidia, you are named after your great great great great great grandfather, Seidio Kishi, who had a lot of powers such as retrocognition, almost all the ESPs or extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, clairalience and claircognizance which can also be retrocognition or related to it. He also possessed Pychokenisis like I do and telekinesis, and psychometry or the person's ability to locate someone by using one of their own possessions. Then you get into him being able to astral project, an onmyouji and being one who is adept with using hitogata like Lin and having shikigamis. In the Kishi family, a person with these powers only came around every 5 generations and was also given the identifiable characteristic of pink hair. It says that Miato had brown hair, but his little sister had pink hair from the moment she was born, you Seidia."

Nashi's hands clenched tightly in her lap as she managed to get out, in an angry tone, "Stop Naru. You don't know what you're doing." He did not care he just went on, though Yasu, Mai, John, Ayako, Monk, Madoka and somewhat Masako were very shocked and not knowing what to believe. They knew her as Nashi, loved her as Nashi and knew her o it for her brown hair that was present on her head now. Did she know she was going to have these powers?

"Your hair color is not brown but actually pink, it is shown here in your photo from when you were born that it is pink. Which leads me to believe you knew you had these paranormal phenomena or powers that are just showing themselves now or maybe you had them all along and are lying again. Now one other piece of your information that does not add up is your parents and brother's deaths, as well as your maternal grandmother."

Louder, angrier, "Stop this right now Naru!"

"It says here that they were not killed in a car accident like you told us but a mysterious fire with other injuries where you somehow were the only survivor. I wonder why that is? Did you find out one of your powers was pyrokinesis and you got angry and set the house on fire?" Nashi was now trembling and crying, unable to stand his accusations of her killing her own family as she finally looked up toward him and yelled everything. The truth and nothing but the truth, no matter how much it hurt or how much she lost because of it.

'Yasu…I love you…'

"Who the hell gives you this right to do it this way and accuse me of killing my own parents and brother who I love?! I am no murderer and I do not have pyrokinesis! Yes, I knew I had these powers and I was told I would not know when they would become present, but it was not because I did anything!"

Nashi was full on crying and hating Naru, this was not how she should have told them, and she even saw that Lin was feeling horrible because he probably helped Naru her all this information.

"Oh? Then please enlighten us on what really happened then."

Nashi tried to calm her anger, but it would not go down, but it was now paired with sadness, pain, and guilt from that day. She did not want to relive it anymore.

"That day it felt like any other day, but it was not, and it never will be! My mom, dad and brother were in the living room area and I had been in my room when there was a knock at the door, so they all went up to go see who it was. I had come out of my room and was in the hall to where I could see them, and I wish I had not. The man at the door was asking, 'Where is she?! Where is she?! I need to kill her! She has to die because of the abilities!' As he pushed my mom…" Nashi's anger was gone now and all she felt was pain and it took every ounce of her will to keep her eyes open and keep looking at Naru. She could not bring herself to even look at anyone else especially Yasu or Mai and even Ayako, she did not want to know.

"So my dad pushed him away from my mom as he was pushing her but what he didn't know is he had pulled a knife and had…had stabbed my dad in the chest by his heart and then in his neck and before he could even drop he had slashed his th-throat. Blood went everywhere and my brother had turned away enough to where he saw me a gave me a quick motion to hide in the shadows. He stabbed my mom a few times in the stomach and then slashed her neck, sending more blood flying!"

Mai, Masako, Ayako and Madoka looked like they were about to get sick, Mai and Masako especially. John was softly saying a prayer and feeling horrible and sick, Monk was just shell shocked and stood behind Ayako like a statue. Yasu could not take his eyes off her but he k we she would not look at him, he knew what she was thinking. They may have only been dating 2 months, but it felt like much longer with how they knew each other so well, or so he thought but he understood. He knew why she would hide this; it is so painful, and he could not help but wonder how she had become someone who was so happy.

'Please stop Nashi, I don't want to lose you to this…'

"By the time he got to my brother, I think he didn't care if he died or not but he tried to fight the guy off so he could see if he could save out parents but he was stabbed in the neck and then had his stomach slashed, all right I front of me and I couldn't do anything because he wanted to kill me. After my brother was down he went and he searched the house for me where he found my grandma and killed her, I heard her screams and I ran to my parents and brother y parents we gone but somehow my brother was still alive, but…but barely. He told me to come here and he did something I never would have thought he covered me in his blood and then put his body over me and said, 'Stay still. Play dead. And no matter what he says and does, do not react to it.' I hide again, under my dying brother and I was there when my brother took his last breath. His last breath! He died while still protecting me! No one should have to experience that in their entire lives! And then the man is back, and he walks over to my brother and all I know is to keep my eyes closed and body as still as can be. He comes over, I can tell he sees me because he says, 'Oh I didn't forget you, but Incase tour playing me I would like to see you escape this…' and the next thing I knew is I smelled gasoline and then the house was on fire. That is where the fire you read in the report! I never caused it!"

Nashi was shaking so bad that she finally had to close her eyes, breaking her eye contact with Naru, and letting more and more tears fall. She was having a hard time forming more words to finish her story. Everyone in the room was dreading what she was going to say.

"The house became engulfed in flames in what felt like minutes, but I didn't run, I couldn't. I had caused the death of my mom, dad, brother and grandma and my brother gave the final moments of his life protecting me. And yet I could not move, I could not get up and leave the house I…I was willing to die without them as it should have been me! My teacher, Sei, who my parents had to start me learning how to use some of these powers was coming over, that's who we thought it was when that man came, was on his way with Michu and Kori and their Chinese teacher started banging on the door. They…they got in and saw everything. They kept Michu and Kori back as Sei came and got me though at first, he did not know I was there. I was afraid thinking it was that man again until he started calling out my name, Seidia. Finally, I made a sound and moved, and he grabbed me and brought me out of the house and moments later the ambulance and fire department were there. They had seen the smoke from a way away and were already calling and running toward my house. Everything was lost…I lost everything that day and that's when Michu and Kori's parents took me in since we all are so close. The police searched for the man who killed them but, they never… found him. I was terrified. He knew my name because I had heard him call it while searching and Seidia was a unique name, so it was suggested I go by a different name. So, I could not let them go plus everyone thought about using the name of a dead person, so I chose my mom, Nashi. Who would think a Nashi that's was 41 and deceased would still be around?"

Nashi finally was able to look back up and Naru and take her first look at everyone around the room. He stomachs churned as their faces were slightly unreadable and it scared her, but her anger come back at Naru.

"You happy Naru?! You cannot even come to me you have to expose me! You. Ring right is all you care about and you do not care who you hurt! I didn't tell you because I wanted you all to be safe, that man, MURDERER, is still out there and anyone I get close to could be in danger but like hell you care!"

Nashi finally stood up but was very wobbly on her own legs, but she had to leave, had to escape.

"I'm sorry, I have to go." And she just took off, leaving out the door without her coat and not even turning back. Everyone was shocked but after a minute Yasu stood up and went after her, grabbing his coat and Nashi's, not even saying anything to Naru, he just needed to catch her. Shortly after, roughly 5 minutes or so, Mai and the others mad the move to go after her, even Masako while Mai looked at Naru and said, "I hate you for this. Jerk." And she did not even yell it like she normally would.

Nashi just ran, at first not knowing where she was going then she noticed a park just down the street from SPR and she went there. Private, and no one would care if they saw a girl crying in the park. She did not know that Yasu was remarkably close behind her, she never looked back as she never thought they would follow her. She lied and that was unforgivable in her eyes and she just could not forgive herself. Not just for lying to them but about what happened that day to her parents, brother, and grandmother. She finally sat down on a bench about halfway inside the park, and she cried, she hated herself for everything. Yasu stopped a bit away from her so he wouldn't see her as he got a text from Mai asking if he knew where Nashi was, he texted back where she was and give them a few minutes not to rush, he shoved his phone back in his coat pocket and walked to her.

When he got right next to her, she did not even look up or acknowledge that someone was standing next to her, when he put her coat around her to keep her warm, same thing. He crouched in front of her and put his hands on her left knee, still no reaction, so he called her name.

"Nashi…"

Nothing.

"Nashi." He said a bit louder. He was a bit annoyed at her for ignoring him now, so he tried for his third time, which was the final.

"Seidia!" He did not shout it loud, but it was not in his soft tone anymore and she finally snapped up, bringing her hands quickly to her lap, looking right at him. He finally saw her face and it broke his heart, they were very red and puffy, tears in constant flow and she could not get them to stop nor did she try to.

"Why are you calling me Nashi still?! My name is Seidia if you did not hear that properly. I lied to you, so why are you even here?!"

Yasu was about as angry as she was, and he showed it.

"Do you think I give a shit as to what your name is?! Nashi or Seidia," he said her real name softer because she just said the man who tried to kill her and wants to kill her and killed her family is still out there and he didn't want her hurt anymore. "To me, Nashi is your name, not Seidia or Rae or Noriko or anything else under the sun! I fell in love with YOU, not your name. It may be Nashi or Seidia, but it does not matter to me. I care and love you and who you are. I saw this side of you, the worrying about us getting hurt, when we took your case and Mai almost got hurt then it evolves to all of us and you told us to leave. I will never leave you. Because what happened with tour parents and brother does not define you, plus you lied to protect us and you because your scared like anyone would be. He is still out there and could be anywhere. Please don't keep pushing me away because I'll push back."

Nashi has finally started to relax with Yasu's words, maybe she was wrong, and he was right, and she would not lose him or some of the others.

"I love you Nashi because your kind, caring, you worry about everyone but yourself and you need to worry about yourself. And if you will not, I will you have my word."

Nashi and Yasu heard someone call out to them, as Nashi and Yasu, not Seidia and Yasu, and both looked over to the left of Nashi and Yasu's right. Mai, Ayako, Monk, John, Madoka and even Masako was there.

"Yasu! Thank goodness you found her," Ayako exclaimed as Mai just ran over to Nashi's open seat to her right and just grabbed her in a gigantic hug, not wanting to let her go. The tears that had slowed were now pouring down her face again, the love she felt from everyone was more than she had ever felt in a long time that was from Michu and his family or Kori and her family.

"You all came after me too…?" Nashi never thought they would care for her this much.

"Yes, we came, and I already told Naru off…"

"By yelling?" Yasu and Nashi asked me at the same time making everyone chuckle a bit considering the situation. Mai just gave them a look that said, 'I don't always do that,' but she does, and it was Madoka that answered.

"No. I think she has learned from dating Naru, because she said it with lots or venom and not yelling. Way to go Mai!"

That got a bigger laugh out of the group especially Nashi, which made Mai and Yasu a bit more relieved.

Nashi could not really focus on everything everyone else was saying to her, but it was all the same, "we don't care" and "Naru and Lin were wrong for doing that" but she still felt numb. All she could feel was Yasu's hands holding hers and the feel of his thumb rubbing against the back of her hand and occasionally her knee. This new reality was simply hard to accept for her, they knew and were in danger. This was not like the families that tried to adopt her either, no, they would not just forget about her for they loved her too much.

'I don't know what scares me more, the fact I still have people who love me around me, that the man who killed my family is still out there or that he's out there and now has more people to take from me?'

A.N. Ok so this turned out to be six pages long on my computer in word, Yay! But here it is, the long-awaited chapter, I loved writing this and this came out perfectly to how I had it in my head! Hope you enjoy Nashi's backstory and feel free to ask any questions that I can answer to clarify. :)