A/N: Another chapter, another headache. So this is the time when the main point will be some what revealed and thought of deeply. So please enjoy *smiles*
Disclaimer: I don't own K/K Project just the OC
GIVE ME A BREAK
Chapter 4: Confusion
"No Akane, no it can't be!" She scolded her self in front of the mirror. "You don't like that block of ice!"
She couldn't think properly because of what happened when Reisi brought her home to her unit and gave her a kiss on the cheek, which is making her feel sick in remembering it.
She took out a sigh. "As long as no body would know about this crazy shit, everything is going to be alright—" She doubted. "Or maybe not"
Now she feels really weird and confused at the same time.
She headed back to her bedroom and saw the stuffed cat that Reisi won for her; well actually she blackmailed him to make him win it for her, sitting on top of her bed making her more annoyed.
"I need some fresh air" She took her jacket and left her unit.
She walked around the streets of Shizume City on a Sunday morning feeling good about it because it's her day off, which means no work and no Munakata. She strolled around and passed by an alley, she heard a loud 'thud!' and muffled shouts. She went inside the alley and saw two tough gangsters beating up a kid on the floor.
"Hey you two idiots!" She insulted them and made them turn to her. "Go pick on someone your own size"
One gangster said. "Well, well looks like we have a cocky bitch over here"
"Maybe we should teach her a lesson also like this kid here" He cracked his knuckles and made his way towards Akane.
She stood there quietly as one guy runs and aims to punch her face. She easily ducked it and successfully punching his face, making him hit the concrete floor.
"Next?" She smirked as she looks at the other guy.
He gritted his teeth. "You son of a bitch!" He took a metal crow bar from the side of the dumpster and tried to hit her.
She gracefully dodged every single blow that the thug made. After attempting to hit her, but misses, he started panting due to exhaustion.
She smirked. "My turn"
She punched him at the side, kicking him in the stomach and beat the shit out of him and his companion.
After finishing them off, she made her way to check on the kid that they were beating up earlier.
She pokes the seemingly unconscious body, "Hey kid, are you alright?" she turned his body and recognized his face.
It was Yata, the monkey that he caught weeks ago but released by that bastard Reisi. His body was completely bruised up and blood started dripping from his mouth. To her, her injuries to him were far worst that the ones he got from the two thugs.
"Well, is this a surprise?"
He slowly opened his eyes and looked liked he saw a monster through the sight of her.
"It's you again!" He felt like it was the worst day of his life.
She said proudly. "The one and only, and the name is Akane, boy—" She stood up and looked down on him. "You're supposed to be thanking me by now"
He hissed. "I rather be killed here than thank a bitch like you"
She sounded hurt, which she is not. "I saved you from being beaten up to death and the way you returned it is by calling me a bitch? That hurts you know, Yata"
He felt disgusted after hearing his name from her lips. "Whatever!"
He tried to stand up but he easily stumbled back down. "Shit!"
"Need help?" She handed him her hand.
He slapped it away. "Get away from me"
"Alright—" She turned and slowly walked away. "Have fun crawling back to your place"
"Wait!" She stopped and turned.
She smirked. "Yes?"
"Can you help me walk?" He bit his lip, he felt like regretting what he just said.
"I said hold still!" She tried to put on a band aid on his cheek but he kept on pushing it away.
"No! I said I'm fine already!"
She sighed, "Fine! —" she gave up. "At least take out your beanie so that I can check if you have any bruises or any injury there" She yanked the beanie off of his head and revealed his spiky, brushed-down chestnut colored hair.
"Seems like you don't have any bruise" She inspected his forehead and around his whole head.
"Ouch!"
She stood up. "I'll just get some ice in the convenient store"
He shouted. "Hey don't leave me!"
She doesn't like shouting people shouting at her, so she just ignored him and entered the nearest convenient store.
"Took you long enough" Yata complained with his hands crossed at his chest.
She sighed; he is such an annoying boy. "Pardon me for being too slow" She said sarcastically.
He rolls his eyes. "Whatever" He ordered. "Just put the ice on my head already"
Her eye twitched. 'Did he just ordered me around!?'
Instead of gently putting the ice bag on his head, she slammed it on his head and made him cry out in pain.
"What the hell?!" He exclaimed.
"That's for ordering me around, boy" She couldn't let herself be belittled by anyone, except for Reisi because she had to follow him no matter what, mostly towards a little kid like Yata.
He hissed. "Then stop hurting me already!"
She looks down on him. "You should be thankful that I saved your life you bastard"
He scoffed. "Thankful? Don't make me laugh bitch! I rather die than let you save me"
"Is that so?" She turned her back against him. "Then I'll be on my way now"
"Hey wait up!" He tried to stand up but he fell down the ground.
"Need help?" She asked with a bit of sarcasm.
"Yes please" He looked at her with his sorry look.
She sighed in frustration and pulled the boy up as she helps him sit back down on the bench.
"I thought you rather die than let some bitch like me to help you?" She raised a brow.
"I don't have anyone to call okay!"
"No one? How about HOMRA?" She didn't understand why he didn't even contact his Clansmen, even though he has his phone.
"HOMRA is too busy right now" He stated.
"Doing what? —" She eyed the boy. "Taking drugs, gambling, hacking, stealing, raping, and killing?" She asked questions to gather some information from him, there she goes again.
He said furiously. "We don't do those kind of stuff! —"
Her face flushed. "Then what?"
"Protecting the Red King, what else?" He looked at her expression; he was surprised the she didn't know anything about the so called "Feud of the Kings"
"What do you mean?" She got lost on what he said.
He laughed in a mocking way at her. "You don't know?"
She got embarrassed but she didn't know what he was talking about.
"No I don't know" She said softly.
He looked at her broken and confused face. "Some King you got there SCEPTER4, he didn't tell you that you're going to go to war"
War? Reisi never said anything about it to her. "He never said anything to me"
She thought she was an important piece in his chess board in order to make a utopia of Shizume city.
"Just so that you'd know—" He smirks. "We are going to have the 'Feud of the Kings'"
She was shocked; Reisi never mentioned anything about a feud. "You're lying" Or is he?
"I know you have the ability to know if the person is telling the truth or not—" He leaned towards her. "Tell me if I'm lying or not"
She stared at his hazel eyes, trying to find a lie. "No, no you're not lying"
He smirked. "I knew you were going to say that"
She was confused; her mind is starting to become unstable like its being flushed down the toilet.
"I always thought that he would tell all these things. But I was wrong, I thought I knew everything" She sat down next to the scowling boy.
"I thought he trusts me"
He felt pity for her; he doesn't like it when he's seeing girls like that.
He shrugs. "Maybe he's just using you"
"He would never do that!" She bit her lip, he wouldn't or would he?
"Look—" He tried to give her his sympathy. "As much as I don't want to offend you, well I kinda do, but this King of yours is using you and he doesn't even trust you"
She tried to convince herself that he is just playing with her thoughts but it all felt like he saying the truth.
He leaned. "If you don't want to hear the truth from me, then go ask your boss"
"Maybe you're right kid"
He nods. "You finally understand"
She laughs. "As much I hate to say it but—" She turned to him. "I kind of like you kid"
He feels like they don't hate each other as much as before. "Why so?"
"Well" She stated. "You're really honest and I like that about you" She smiles.
He blushes. "Don't be ridiculous"
She shakes her head. "Nope I'm actually telling the truth" Yes she was.
They got to get close with each other, listening to each other's stories and slowly taking away the hatred they seem to have towards each other.
"And that is how I won our baseball tournament in high school" He said proudly as he finishes his third story and his can of fruit juice.
She giggles. "Seems like you're a gamesome boy"
He is actually. "You can say that again" He shoots the empty can in the trash can and it shoots. "So tell me how is it being in SCEPTER4?"
She looked at her half-empty-half-full can of fruit juice. "It kinda feels a bit lonely actually" She takes a sip from the can.
He raises a brow. "Lonely?" He laughs.
"The Clansmen of mine and I are close but you feel like there is tension between you and them. You call each other a part of a family but I think they don't, they take things too much" She finishes the contents of her juice and throws it in the bin.
"That's boring" He turns to her. "What kind of Clan do you have? You treat everything like it's a business"
She agrees. "You got that one right, not bad for a kid"
"Stop calling me a kid! I'm already nineteen years old"
She giggles. "Alright Yata"
"So why did you save me earlier?"
She said sarcastically. "Well it's my day off so it's not my problem if it's HOMRA or a civilian"
"Okay… How about the real truth?"
She shrugs. "Well I am willing to help anyone in need—"
"Even HOMRA?"
She nods. "Yeah, even to HOMRA" She looked the sky and noticed it was already getting dark.
"I have to go already" She stands up.
"Yeah sure"
"How about you?"
He smiles. "I can manage"
She sighs. "Alright, I'm gonna go ahead. Bye Yata"
He called her out. "Akane!"
She turns. "Yeah?"
"If you ever needed a family—" He pauses, no already sees her like a friend he already trust her. "You're always welcome in HOMRA"
"I'll think about it"
"Akane, the King wanted to see you"
Akane stood up from her chair and went in front of her desk.
"What does his majesty want Seri?" She placed one hand on her hip.
Seri stood there straight and with authority. "He wants you to go to the conference room and accompany him in the meeting with the Prime Minister"
She smirks. "Why didn't he ask for you even though you're the Lieutenant?"
Seri could feel that she was being mocked by Akane but ignored it. "Because it's his order so just go already"
She shrugs as she passes by her; she has no other choice but to follow.
She walked down the big halls of the SCEPTER4 and stopped by the conference room. She was about to knock but she heard the muffled voice of the Prime Minister; she pressed her ear against the wooden double door and listened.
"So where is that great Clansman of yours?" The Prime Minister rested his chin on his interlocked hands.
Munakata got humiliated for making the Prime Minister wait; he should've personally brought her to the conference room. "She's on her way; let's just wait for her for a while"
"You said this girl is the strongest member in SCEPTER4 right?"
"Yes I did"
Akane blushed; she never knew that Munakata would consider her the strongest in the whole Clan.
"So she's your queen in the chess board? Because she seems important" He looked at Reisi from the other end of the long table.
He smirked. "She's merely a pawn to me—"
Her face flushed, 'A pawn? How could he think of me as a pawn even though he said I am the best?'
"She is also very easy to manipulate"
'Yata was right about Reisi'
The Prime Minister chuckled. "It seems like she easily bows down before you, for a second there I thought that you actually like the girl"
He scoffed. "Me? Liking her? How could I like a girl like her? It seems impossible for a King like me to like a girl who is obsessed with information"
"I am not obsessed with information" She whispered loudly to herself.
"Isn't she supposed to be here already? It's already getting late" The Prime Minister sighed as he looks at his watch.
Reisi stood up, "I'll go and get her" he made his way towards the door but before he could reach for the handles, he heard a knock the door.
He opened it and it was Akane with a scowling face.
He gave her a cold glare, but this time it didn't give her any chills. "You're l—"
She said sharply. "Late. I know, I know" She bumped him in the shoulders as she passes by him.
"Forgive me sir for being late" She bowed respectfully to the Prime Minister.
He wipes his forehead with his hankie. "It's alright, as long you're here we can start the meeting"
Reisi went back to his seat and Akane stood behind him.
"I have received word that there is a feud between SCEPTER4 and HOMRA again—" He stated. "And I heard it was you who declared the feud, is it true Munakata?"
Akane's face flushed. 'How could he do this? I thought he never wanted to fight'
He pushed back his glasses. "Yes I did, because the Red King wouldn't listen if you go through negotiation"
The Prime Minister exclaimed. "But you know this will cause a great destruction in Shizume City!"
"Sir you don't understand—" He smirks. "This is for our dream to have a utopia" Or his own utopia not theirs.
The Prime Minister paused, "You may have a good point" he taps his chin with his index finger.
"Excuse me sir" Akane interrupted. "I'm sorry for the interruption. But I suggest that we should proceed with code Blue Cross, let the civilians stay in their residence until the feud is over"
They both nodded.
"I agree on what Miss Watanabe suggested"
Reisi stood up from his seat. "Then we shall end the meeting here, I will just send you the documents for Blue Cross"
The Prime Minister stood up also. "Then is a pleasure working with you Munakata" He walked towards Reisi and shook his hand.
Akane opened the door for the Prime Minister with her head down.
"I'll be going ahead then" The Prime Minister left the room with Akane trailing behind.
"Akane I need to talk to you for a while"
She stopped and turned to him. "What is it sir?"
He slammed the door behind her leaving the both of them in the big conference room.
"Why were you late?"
She bowed. "I'm sorry sir but I was filing the paper works you gave me" She said with the hint of sarcasm.
He crossed his arms. "Last time I made you do a lot of errands you were never late for any meeting"
She rolls her eyes. "I'm sorry but I was actually gathering information, you know because how obsessed I am with information"
"Whatever" He took a seat at the head of the table. "I have something for you to do—"
She retorts him. "Like there isn't something you that you don't make me do"
He continues. "I need you to locate every member of HOMRA right this instant"
"Is that all?" She turned and faced the door. "Then I'll be on my way now"
She pulled the door open but Reisi pushed it as he corners her.
"What do you do want now?"
He leans towards her ear, "What's wrong with you? You've been acting weirdly" he whispered in her ear.
She tries to push him but he pinned her arms to the door. "Let me go!"
She tried to struggled but he gripped harder, "Just answer me already!" he looked at her in the eye.
"You're asking why I'm like this. I'm always like this you idiot!" She laughed darkly.
He muttered. "Did I do anything to offend you?" He looked at her with those worried eyes of his.
She paused as she looks at him in the eye; it was all an act of his.
"Next time don't let anyone hear your conversation from outside the room" She pushed him with all of her force, making him fall on the carpeted floor.
She left the conference room and stormed her way through the hallways.
"She heard everything"
-FIN-
A/N: I just realized that I didn't have any fluff in the stor... Or do I? The whole sweet act of Reisi was actually just an act of his to make her do anything for him. How could he? What will happen to our heroine? Just wait for the next chapter *smiles*
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