Okay this chap is more emotional than the one before. Crying does happen. Tell me what you guys think about the next chap being Raizo. I don't know yet.
Chapter 6
I woke up really warm and in nicely toned arms, relaxed, despite the fact that I fell asleep in jeans. I turned and saw Raizo. I will never admit it aloud, but waking up these last few mornings along side Raizo was amazing. I let yesterday- I looked at the small electronic clock mounted in the wall which told me it was three in the morning- run through my mind.
I looked at Raizo before he returned my stare. "So Maine, right? Haven't been back to the United States for years since I left for my job. It'll feel nice even though, I won't really get to enjoy being back home."
Raizo stayed silent. "What's your plan Raizo? Come on, tell me."
"Annually, there's a meeting between all the clan leaders to keep the peace and inform each other a bit of how the clan's doing... Two days before I went to see you at the hospital, after your surgery, a ninja sent from one of the clans tried to kill me, I stopped him and... got information that the meeting is to take place a week from now. I'm going to try and find peace with them." I didn't want to know how he got the information considering he told me that ninjas would rather die than risk that kind of shame.
"When are we going and where?" I asked already in thinking mode.
"I'm going in five days, you're staying in Maine with another man I saved, who's happily married and will take care of you, until I come back."
"What! No way, I came all this way with you and gone through all this, not to be left behind!"
"You're staying and that's final Mika. Besides, making it past all those ninjas will be enough without also having to look out for you."
I glared at him for a minute, he stared back at me, when the pilot went on the intercom. "We're arriving at Bangor International Airport in 15 minutes-" after that I blocked everything else he said and went to the front to get into a seat and buckle up. I saw through the corner of my eye, Raizo went and sat in a seat across the aisle.
As soon as the plane stopped and the doors opened, Raizo was up in a flash, grabbing all of our bags. I got up quickly, trying to follow him. "Raizo, slow down." He stopped, but didn't turn around. As soon as I caught up, he started speed walking again. Inside we saw a man holding up a man with Raizo's name, we walked up to him, he gave Raizo car keys, a description and location of the car we're borrowing from the man who will lend me his house while Raizo is gone. We walked to the garage and saw the really expensive all black sports car, Lamborghini I believe, that we're using.
After we were settled, he started driving a lot faster than the speed limit to a nice motel. Again, we got a single bed room and settled in, it got awfully quiet...so awkwardly silent that I cleared my throat and swallowed my pride to start the conversation.
"So... Raizo, look at me-" he was looking at his weapons and it made it hard to speak, he gritted his teeth and glared at me.
"Mika, stop. This whole time I've been doing nothing but put my own life at risk to keep you safe. Why? Because it's my fault that you were brought into this, I was in the video, I involved you in my revenge plans instead of leaving you alone after I saved you.
"Now, I'm trying to protect you from possibly the most dangerous part of this all and your just arguing with me about it? I'm doing this for the both of us, you being involved will only make it harder! So listen to me on this, Mika, you're not coming with me and that's that!" At this point, he's yelling and his face is red from anger. His careful control is broken and I get a little scared, he must see this because he sighs and takes big labored breaths.
"I'm sorry Mika. I didn't mean to explode on you like that." I barely hear him say this as I hear roaring in my ears, my throat closes up, and breathing gets harder. Pretty soon, I feel a tear sliding down my cheek and sniffling soon follows. I get the feeling of Raizo staring at me, I duck my head even further down, turned around and got up to enter the bathroom, however Raizo's hand grabbed my arm, stopping me.
"Mika, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry, really. Please stop crying... come here," Raizo said frantically and concerned. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere Raizo steps close to me and wraps his arm around me, one of his hands starts rubbing my back.
My crying slows down and I try to talk, "It'sss not aaall your ffault you're rright and I ddon't want you ttto leave mme, my par-parent-ss," after that I broke down, started crying harder, and my knees gave out, Raizo tightened his hold on me so I wouldn't fall. He picked me up bridal style and put me down on the bed, he wrapped his arms around me and let me finish crying.
Once I was all cried out, I cleared my throat and spoke clearly, "My parents were both cops, that's how they met and fell in love. They met when they were both twenty-two years old, got married at twenty-five and had me at twenty-six. We were one big happy family, I had a great childhood because I had the best parents. During my high school years, they became each others partners and worked great together. Then one day they got a call about a gang shootout... They went since they were already in the area, they were the first ones there and my mom got shot in the head... My dad went crazy and was mourning over her body, he let his guard down and they killed him too... My paternal grandmother took care of me until I graduated high school, she was amazing. She made the best pumpkin pies and told me stories all the time about my parents. I stayed instate for college, I didn't want to leave her alone, she had just lost her only son and daughter in law. Then she died of a heart failure when I was in my second year in college... I decided to study criminal justice and couldn't stand to be in the United States anymore... so I got a job in Berlin, moved and haven't gone back to the United States since. Working in Germany was easy since I studied German for a few years in high school.
"Don't you see why I don't want you to leave? If you leave, it'll remind me of my mother, my father and my grandmother leaving me... all the people that I truly care about all leave me. I care about you a lot Raizo and those days, weeks, maybe months that you're gone are gonna be torture. Especially since, I doubt they're going to tell me if you die... oh gosh, if you die, there's nothing to live for anymore Raizo, nothing." I started sobbing, but couldn't produce tears anymore since my eyes were dried up.
Raizo got frantic and started shhing me and rubbing my back faster. "Don't worry Mika. Both you and I are going to survive this and then if you forgive me and allow me to, I'll make sure you go back to a normal, boring life you had before me."
"As long as you're in it alive and happy, I don't care how I spend the rest of my life." After having said this, the exhaustion from all the crying got to me and I fell asleep soon after, hugging Raizo.
