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Morning of the next day, Kyoko was up early preparing to visit her high school. She wanted to know if she can still catch up with the school year. Kuon was generous to give her the opportunity to continue school, and she will make the best out of it. Getting dress she went down and grab a bread in the counter, when she saw Hiruma in the kitchen sharpening his knives.

"Good Morning Hiruma-san, Im off" she greeted the old man.

"Take care" he said.

As she closes the front door of the cafe, she looks up the sky, finding the clouds amusing. She closed her eyes, smiled and thought, 'Father, you can rest peacefully now. I am getting back to the life you wanted for me. Thank you Father, always look after me from there'.

Koun was not too fond of this day. He usually start his morning by sending Kyoko a message or calling her and if he is lucky she will wake him up with a call. Mostly inquiring things from him, but he will never mind. Her voice in the morning drives him to get up and get to work.

Today onwards will be different. He decided to distance his being from her.

'Get up Kuon, you have a company to run' he chided internally.

His phone vibrated then, signaling a text message. He brighten up expecting it from his love only to be disappointed when he saw Yashiro's name. He opened the message,

"Koun,

the arrangements to Kyoto are done. Your plane will leave at 11:35am today and you will be staying at XXXX hotel. Masato-san will be meeting you in the same hotel at 3 pm sharp. Don't be late. You will come back to Tokyo at 7pm. Are you sure you wanted to do this on your own? I can go with you.

-Yukihito"

Rubbing the sleep off his eyes, he sent his reply to Yashiro and headed to the bathroom. Before thne most anticipated meeting, he needed to check on the developments of his latest project.

He just wished to be swamp with work. So much work that he will not have time think of her. His mind is already asking for her. His heart is in pain, missing her. His world seems to be revolving around her.

'Since when did this happen?'

xxx

He arrived at his hotel room around 2pm.

'Another hour' he thought.

He changed his clothes and pronounced to wait in the dining area reserved for him to meet Masato and Saena. An hour will be a long wait.

xxx

Minemoto Masato arrived at the hotel 15 minutes earlier, Saena tagging alongside with him. He received a call from a representative of Yashiro Telecoms a day ago, requiring to meet him. The said representative mentioned about getting supplies from them and he of course will not let this pass. A big company such as the Yashiro Telecom will help boost his sales and surely scale his rank in the business industry.

He was surprised to see a young man sitting on the private dining area reserved for them when he came. He was deep in his thoughts with a cup of beverage on the table.

"Good afternoon." He greeted, waking up the young man from his thoughts. 'I am Minemoto Masato and this is my lady. Its a pleasure to meet you", offering a handshake.

Kuon accepted the hand shake and asked for them to sit. He signaled for the waiter and they served refreshments and snacks and left them. Kuon is having an issue right now. He is questioning his motives of meeting these people in front of him. Originally, He wanted to put Saena behind bars and make her suffer from her mistakes but one look at the people in front of him made his resolve waver.

With one deep breath, he introduced his self. "I am Hizuri Kuon, its a pleasure to meet you".

Saena's eyes grew big as saucers, she cannot help but put her hand in her mouth to cover her shock but Kuon did not stop from there.

"Im sorry to waste your time Minemoto-san, but I did not came here for the kind of business you are expecting."

Masato was confused but he signaled for Kuon to keep going,

"I came here for Mogami-san" Kuon gestured for the lady sitting beside him. He glanced a look at her and was surprised about how she looks. Saena is pale beside him, her eyes are trained on Kuon, shocked.

Masato was a stranger to Saena's past life. He asked her once but she said she was not ready to share it and so he left it there not asking anymore. But seeing her reaction now, he reckoned that this young man is someone connected to her past life.

Saena cannot believe it, a Hizuri is in front of her. Why? Well that was a stupid question because she already know the answer but why is he coming now?

"Mogami-san, I am sure you are wondering why I am here," Saena can only nod not trusting any coherent words to come out of her mouth.

"I wanted something, someone, but you are a huge obstacle that I need to deal with", Masato cannot sit there and watch as his lady nod like a puppet going after what the said Hizuri kid wants, so he asked showing his irritation, "What do you want? If it is not to have business with me, then we are both wasting our times, we will go"

Saena stopped Masato from getting up and looked at him, "I know you are confuse, and upset but please," she pleaded. She did a horrible mistake from the past, she know this day will come and she is to old to ran away again.

"I am in love with Kyoko, Mogami-san and you are stopping us from being together, actually what you owe the Hizuri Corp. And to be honest I don't know how I should handle the situation."

"You know Kyoko?" Really now, if someone can die of so many revelations, Saena will have a funeral on the spot. How many years has it been since she last saw her daughter.

"Yes," Kuon replied abruptly. "I'm sorry to cause such disturbance to your lives, but i never intended to do it. I was left this no choice Mogami-san. I want Kyoko to see me as me and not an obligation"

Kuon, seeing Masato having so many questions to Saena wanted to end the talk already so he handed his personal calling card to her and said, "Please remember Mogami-san, that i know where to find you and how to find you inc ase you decided to run away again."

"Don't worry Hizuri-san, I wont."

Kuon bid his farewell and left the couple.

"I know you have a lot to ask, but please wait for it til we get home" Saena said looking at Masato.

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