Sorry it's pretty short...
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Revy sighed as she followed Shenhua to their target building
"So we go in and state Chang's terms for the guy, right?" she asked once again
"Yes" Shenhua said
"Wouldn't it make more sense to make rock do this?" she asked angrily
"he not part of plan" Shenhua said "he just bonus and it stupid to rely on bonus to do job, what if he get involved and family get dragged in too? Or mother die quicker"
"Right" revy growled following the Taiwanese woman in the building
They were quickly escorted up into the highest room
Everything looked so pristine and high class
Revy felt very out of place.
"Hello there friends" the chairman greeted with a smile on his face as the pair entered
"Please tell your friend to put away her weapons," a guard stated
Revy glared in response before taking out her guns
"A soldier doesn't put away his gun when in the middle of a battlefield," she recited in the way that balalaika had taught her
"True" the chairman laughed before all the guards stationed around the room drew their weapons "now we're on fair grounds"
Revy smirked
"Tell man that Chang says that he refuses to let him do business in china but will let him open shop in South Korea"
Revy repeated the woman's words in Japanese
"What?" the chairman asked his smile fading why not?"
Revy turned to Shenhua sand repeated the question
"Because china triad space and if he open shop then other people will think It ok to open up in triad space" Shenhua said "also tell him that he on thin ice"
Revy did as told starting to get annoyed
"Can't we work this out?" the man asked in Japanese
Revy translated
"No, this not up for negotiation" Shenhua said simply "if he want to expand business then he should have not pissed off balalaika"
Revy looked at Shenhua inquisitively before once again translating
The executive was starting to get angry
"Look I need to open up in china! tell him I will do what he wants" he huffed
Revy translated again
"No" Shenhua said even more firmly "there will be no opening in china, you refuse to do payment plan like others and you make Russian mafia angry so if you open in china you get taken down" Shenhua stated angrily
Revy translated once again getting more bored of the exchange
Then the executive raised his hand
"I'd like to see that man try and come kill me on Japanese soil" the executive stated as his men all cocked their guns "if the triads won't give me permission then I'll go to someone else"
"aww fuck" revy sighed looking around at all the weaponry pointed at her
Now she knew where this was headed
Chang had probably predicted that this guy was too stupid to listen and probably sent them here to tell him no and set this whole thing off
"Wait" revy called out "we're just the messenger boys" she stated, "you kill us and even balalaika won't be happy and will use her good bonds with the yakuza to take you out"
It was not a lie. After their last mess up in Japan balalaika had decided to befriend as many crime groups in Japan as possible
The man flinched at this
"What could you possibly mean to her?" he asked
"We're her delivery crew" revy stated "or at least I am, killing me is an act of war for that bitch so even once shot goes off and I can report that you're also fighting against her...or I don't make it out of here and she comes out after you herself"
The executive then made his guards lower their guns
"Get the hell out of my office and tell your boss that I will no longer do business with him"
'Doesn't stop the bloodbath but ok...' revy thought giving Shenhua a look that said:
Let's get the hell out of here.
The Taiwanese beauty huffed and followed her friend out
"This gonna get bloody quick" she sighed as they headed for the elevator.
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Rock sat at home on his laptop surfing the internet
It felt nice that he could actually do things like this.
After his extended stay in Roanapur, he'd apparently accumulated enough money to live a normal life and not have to go out and get himself a job so he'd ended up doing exactly that
Suddenly he heard a soft knocking on his front door
The Japanese man got up and headed over expecting to see a cirtain red head here to spend some time with him 'just cauz'
"Coming" he called as the person knocked again
He opened the door with a smile but then it dropped as he spotted a very distraught looking older brother
"I mean I get that she's actually a very attractive woman but why would you go as far as to get engaged to her?" his brother asked quickly
"What?" rock questioned not getting what he was talking about
"That woman, revy? Did you say her name was?"
"Yea..." rock nodded before finally getting what his brother was going on about "my fiancée"
"I mean I always thought you wanted to settle down with a calm woman not someone who would take a shot at you"
Rock thought back to last night remembering that she had almost shot him in the head
Revy's tendency to actually shoot at him seemed to had spiked up the close they got to each other
"I just love everything about her" rock smiled "I mean I like a calm woman but I also love a woman who can hold her own against 30 heavily built men with loaded guns"
His brother then gave him a look of disgust
"well...if you truly love her then...then let her meet our family for dinner tomorrow night" he stated firmly "that way you can get out parents blessing and you can see my wife again, she's been dying to talk to you since you got back"
He was testing him
Rock had seen his brother do this before with some of the other women they dated, find out what their like, zone in on theri weaknesses and evaluate them before stage managing the nd of theri relationship if he didn't find her to his liking.
Rock opened his mouth to protest but his brother didn't allow it
"Ok. Goodbye Rokuro see you tomorrow," his brother said simply before leaving
Rock stared for a while as is brother retreated down the corridor before shrugging
Sure, it would be a challenge to get revy to go but it would also be quite entertaining...
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Revy groaned and looked at her phone which was ringing on her desk
She reached over slowly hoping the person would give up but it just kept ringing and ringing until she finally grabbed the phone and picked up the call
"Yea?" she said quite annoyed
"Revy I need your help" rocks voice came from the other end
At that revy was awake
"What you didn't get shot or anything did ya?" she asked sitting up
"No...You remember my brother?" he said
"Yea I know him" revy stated
"He's gone ahead and told my parents about our 'engagement' and they said they wanted you ever for dinner," he said
Revy went silent before sighing and lying back down
"Well then take care of it" she said coldly
"That's what I'm trying to do" rock said almost desperately "I need you to pretend that we're actually going to get married"
"No revy said simply "I don't wanna get dragged into this shit!"
"Please?" rock asked "or they'll make me marry someone else
"That's you problem" revy said sharply before promptly hanging up but rock called again
'Ignore it, ignore it, ignore it, ignore it...goddamn it!' revy thought picking up the phone again
"I said no rock I will not be your fiancée damn it can't you think about my feelings about this?" she shouted into the phone
"Sorry to disappoint but this isn't rock" Dutch's familiar voice came from the other end of the line
"Shit!" revy exclaimed
"Look if you're busy—"
"No, no... why the hell did you call?" she asked
"I wanted to know where you kept those guns we got from the parisan job" Dutch said "I'm educating the new trainee's"
"In the back of the fucking room under the AK-47 assault rifles" revy said before sighing
"Thanks...and h, revy?" Dutch said
"What?"
"If rock does ask you to marry him I think you should go for it, I mean he is one of the few people you can tolerate for long periods of time"
"It's not—"
Beep...
The line went dead
Revy sighed again rolling over on her bed and string at her phone for a while before calling rock back
"I'll fucking do it you asshole but you owe me one"
"Thanks" rock said in an enlightened tone "I'll pick you up in an hour so we can go buy you some nice new clothes"
"You asshole what's wrong with what I wear?" revy spat
"My parent's won't even let you through the front door" rock said simply before hanging up to avoid an argument with the red head
"Bastard" she said throwing her phone across the room.
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You can all pretty much see where this is going
But help in where it could go in the long term is appreciated or updates might become scarce.
Until next time :D
Panda. Out.
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