-Oxford - Wednesday: Part 27-
Kuu wondered exactly what Reino had meant his eyes turned towards Fuwa Sho, it was clear something was going on something that he didn't have all the information about but he knew that he should likely get as much as he could. If Sho was going to be in danger that was more or less fine with Kuu but if he was around Lory's daughter that was something completely different. Yet Reino didn't seem to have anything to say, his hand touched Miroku's shoulder for a moment before he walked off, leaving his friend behind.
"Mind telling us what's going on?" he figured that his friend might have the most information but the man picked up the edge of his hair looking at it slightly it was clear he was debating but Sho was not having any of it. He didn't want to be there and Kuu placed a hand on his shoulder. "Oh, I think you should stay Fuwa." The young man looked at him trying to shrug off his hand but having no luck all he removing the man's grip from him.
Miroku smiled some as he looked towards the two of them, "Well, all I know is someone he knows is easily bored." he slight shrug of his left shoulder, it wasn't much information of course and actually gave little to no information. He placed a hand in his pocket turning to leave, "Yet if he says that you are fucked, then it's pretty safe to say he's rarely wrong." His eyes darted towards Kuu's for a moment, "Much like he wasn't wrong about something going down here before it even crossed his mind." his eyes darted towards Sho's for a moment, "Personally I don't care much for what I saw." he shrugged his shoulders again, "But if this was Japan, they wouldn't honestly care all that much." He waved his hand slightly as he walked out leaving the two alone on the patio.
Sho rolled his eyes, clearly, he didn't understand that he likely was in deep trouble. Not that it seemed Kyoko had any plans to report it, fact if she had wanted to report it, there was plenty of people and Miroku's words rang in his mind. 'Actually, it's not that uncommon even in the states for such things to go unreported' he mentally sighed thinking about a role he played a few years back. 'Yet her place in society, why would she not report such an act?' Kuu felt like he was missing something big about this whole thing. His eyes fell towards the young man's who was still holding, 'Might as well try and get information out of this kid.' Stepping in front of him he made his way towards the door closing it and leaning against it with his arms crossed in front of him.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Sho took two steps forward but paused the look on the man's face had him pause for a moment. 'The pressure must be getting to me' he thought slightly as he like something heavy was resting on his head, like a ton of bricks.
"I think we are going to have a talk and I don't want people walking in on us." he said cheerfully, "Now how do you know Kyoko-chan?"
Sho rolled his eyes, "I told you she's my fiancee, it was arranged when we were children."
That likely explained it then thought Kuu, if they were really friends as children it made more sense for her not to report it actually. It was likely a case where he had done such things before or attempted to, that's why she didn't really seem scared to him. No, she hadn't wanted it and based on the role he had played in the TV crime drama he knew that much about such cases. Many times it happened between people that they knew, didn't have to be close people but knowing them was enough to make them feel a sense of fear or even acceptance that maybe they did something to lead them out. It didn't make it right but he also knew that at times they could get violent because they were being denied, that they thought they should have the right for some reason and people who were items even if they weren't anymore tended to result in these sort of responses. "You do know she doesn't want you right?"
Sho huffed as he crossed his arms, "No woman has ever denied me."
Kuu could tell he really believed this to be the case simply by the way he acted. It may have been true, he had rarely ever been denied either when he was his age, even when he got older and there were still women who were willing to become mistresses if it meant being with him. Yet no one compared to Juliena, from the moment he had met her no one could match her. He had fallen before he himself ever noticed it. He had chased after her for a good year before she finally accepted to go on a date with him. The date had gone well and even now he could not beat that first night, it had ended with a simple kiss on the cheek and he had been giddy afterward for weeks. It had only taken him a good five years to get her to agree to marry him in the end. They had been young but with Lory, in his corner, he had been able to convince her and a year later they were married, a year after that Kuon had been born. Six years to win her heart completely and make it official, seven years before his life truly felt complete. Now he felt like there was a gaping hole that could no longer be filled because his son was no longer there. "I can name at least two who have," he said simply.
"If you mean Kyoko she wasn't denying me and there isn't anyone else who ever has." No, sometimes they pretend to, or people got in the way but he always got with them in the end. His charms always won and they always came back begging for more.
"My wife, this afternoon," he watched Sho face seem to drain and Kuu smiled, the pressure in the room just seemed to grow heavier now, "I can promise you, you don't stand a chance against her. Our love is the stuff of fairytales," fact there was a time he felt his whole life was a fairytale and then Kuon slowly began to pull away until he was completely gone from their lives. As if a curse had fallen upon his family and there wasn't anyone who could break it. It tore at his heart every day. Still, Juliena had been able to bring Kuon back even if it was only because he had not been there to protect the little girl she now wanted to be part of their family. "I can also say with certainty that Kyoko-chan will not be yours in the end." Not if Juliena could work her magic, she was honestly a great matchmaker not as great as Lory but still, she had a touch of her own.
"She wasn't fighting me and she's never denied me anything," he said simply and Kuu realized that there was a sudden truth to the last part of his statement. Yet based on what he had seen he doubted that was the case anymore.
"She did today, you are just too stupid to realize that whatever chance you had is long gone now. I don't know what you did to hurt her so bad but whatever you did I don't know if there is a way to make that right anymore." Lory hadn't told him much of the details but he got a feeling that it was something so bad that it hung on her still. Made things almost impossible for her to move forward and likely destroyed any hope of his daughter ever opening her heart up again to love like what he had with his beloved Juliena. Even what he had heard from Juliena was enough to tell her as much yet there was still this hope that things weren't that bad and it was just fresh wound but Kuu wasn't so sure about that anymore.
Sho lowered his face not looking at him, Kuu wasn't sure what crossed his mind but he was sure he knew exactly what he did. "I didn't do anything to her," he said after a moment, "It's not my fault," yet he could tell he wasn't exactly sure if that really was the case. It was more like he didn't want to accept the blame for what he did.
"Do yourself a favor kid, just stay away from her. Count yourself lucky that for whatever reason she didn't want to report it, doesn't mean she won't later." not if he could get Lory to get her to do exactly that which he would try to do for sure. Kuu turned from him opening the door he paused before looking back at him, "I honestly hope she does, because I think that's the only way you will learn that what you just did here..." he nodded towards the table, "You sexual assaulted a member of the Royal Family, there won't be a slap on the hand for you like there is for so many others. This isn't your home country, and just about anywhere else in the world would get you jail time also if you ever look at Juliena again I will rip out your eyes and shove them up your ass. I don't care if you are a child, what I've seen here is more than enough to assure I don't want your eyes dirtying my beautiful wife." He wanted to threaten him more when it came to Kyoko but Lory's words that this was her battle rang in his head but what about the price to allow her heart to heal? It seemed too high to him. He mentally sighed as he left Sho on the patio.
Tomi leaned back in his chair a cigarette in his mouth. There were calls many calls to make. Things that had to be set into motion but right now his eyes trailed towards the computer screen, he had sent the photos to his email address he had been surprised, almost shocked to see his Hana. To see her in such a position that he had assured himself to never see when she had been an item with that boy Shoutaro on top of her. He had to make sure, he knew the shape of her body perhaps better than anyone else living in this world. There were a few different reasons why that was, he had a near-perfect memory. Near perfect being the keyword it was easy to assume he had a photographic memory but the truth of it he was no good at numbers or pages or anything along those lines no his skill was in the visual and sounds of the world what he had a wonderful eidetic memory. While he wasn't lacking when it came to his memory when dealing with information he had gathered, he could not quote anything he had written in perfect detail, to recall the number or line that was just not within his abilities. Actually, he personally didn't believe in either type but that's because he also knew exactly how smart and talented he was, just like he had seen it in Kyoko and why he had allowed himself to teach her.
There had really been no reason to use his computer to see the image larger only he had done just that. Looking at his phone once more he needed to make sure she would stay fine, Sho was a problem yes. One he wanted to assure that Kyoko his perfect little Hana was able to get her revenge upon just like he wanted to make sure he got his own revenged. Yet her list was much larger than his had ever been, no perhaps that wasn't exactly true either, maybe it was better to say he always got his revenge quickly and the fact that driver was so easily getting away was something that troubled him far more than he wanted to admit. To the point, he had been willing to allow Kyoko to live through that darkness, not that he did not help her in a different way.
Tomi put out his cigarette before grabbing another one and lighting it as he leaned back again. In a way he had helped her get stronger in the only way that could assure her survival, she had a strong mind already but if they knew she could fight or would fight to protect herself she would have ended up far worse. So he had personally chosen to leave those skills out of her training fully and truly focusing on the only thing that he could think of at the time. Using her mind, he realized it was easy for her to escape into her own mind, but there was more to that then that. Staying there when one's body was being tormented was a lot harder and while he never personally laid a hand on her sexual he could not say he was without blame either, he had caused her emotional pain. He had learned quickly that her anger, her anger was a trigger all on its own. It made the room feel as if it was on fire, something he personally thought was amazing.
He recalled the feeling of both Kuon and Kyoko in the same room. The feel of burning and freezing together and he shuddered happily at the thought. Still, Kuon was a broken man, there was no getting him back, he had fallen into his own darkness and now Kuon has sealed himself away and was now just a role character trying to pretend to be a real boy. Tomi knew there was no freeing him, he would never return to being Kuon again. It was a waste and a shame really. After four years nothing had really changed, Kuon was for the most part dead, he made no contact with his parents and he knew that for that child, for that young man his parents were a huge part of his world. Even if he hated what it meant for himself he had never hated his parents. He had never blamed them for the life he lived he just hated the life he had. So Kuon was dead in Tomi's mind, dead but his ghost lingered sometimes just like Tod Damon's name did even years after his death. Tomi had chosen that name for a reason, after all, it was like his little calling card now. Anyone connected to that name was connected to the underworld's most powerful family. True there were others that could make their life difficult but well they were still at the top for a reason.
One more thing Reino, I want you to keep an eye on my Hana. Tell me what you can gather, but gather quickly. I do hate waiting. - Tomi
Tomi didn't have to worry about the answer he would get. There was very little that Reino could personally say in the matter. While he might not be able to kill him, there were many things he could do to him that would assure that his life was a very unhappy one, or even painful. His friends' lives were a completely different matter because they held no loyalty to the family, 'No I can change that bring them into the fold,' he thought to himself as he used his dying cigarette to light a third. Reino might not approve of it of course but it wasn't like they had to be official members of the family. Reino's father, for example, was part of the family without being part of the family and Reino himself was much like himself. Apart but not really a part. Simply because they were blood relations to Vas.
His eyes turned back towards his computer screen as he put out his cigarette, "The old man won't be too happy but he won't have much of a choice" There would be issues, there would always be issues it wasn't like it wasn't well known in the powerful circles around the world exactly who he was, even if he was no longer active in what the family did, he was active in other things. Still hadn't he been a good boy and helped others in powerful positions in the world? Perhaps it was time to call in a few favors and anyone who denied well he had ways of making them side with him. The best part is it would keep him from being bored for a while, and while he only had one plan at first, why not make it even bigger?