A/N: Thank you guys for the comments =), and to reply meylahalfrenza about making a story about Tamao its actually on my list of things to do as i currently have a few more stories planned but don't worry it's on my list.

Chapter 7

She was seething with rage, her knuckles were pale as she clenched her fists tightly and couldn't believe what just happened to them. The people she never wanted to see again just so happened to own the race they were checking out and then showed up at her door! Demanding things from her in exchange for Chikaru's safety, now that made her furious, no, furious didn't even come to close to what she was feeling.

The blonde haired girl turned around, seeing Chikaru on the floor quietly sobbing and immediately rushed to her and knelt down in front of her.

"Hey hey, co'mere." Chikaru immediately embraced her as Emi ran her hand down her back to soothe her, "It's gonna be okay."

How dare they threaten Chikaru, there was no way in hell she was going to let that happen and if meant giving up everything even her own life to keep her safe then so be it! She had to think of something, she had to get Chikaru out of America for the time being and back home to Japan while she stayed and sorted all this out.

She reached into her pocket and pulled her phone then dialed the airport, getting a single ticket for Chikaru.

-"What are you doing!?"- she cried out, -"You cant do that! they'll… they'll…"-

"Look its going to be okay, no way in hell am I letting anything happen to you got that." she said as calmly as she could, "But I have to get you out of here first."

-"get me out!? What about you!?"- Chikaru was past the point of panicking as she clung to her.

"Never mind that, I have to get you out while I fix this," she said, "If I left with you then they'd stop it nothing to find me and I don't want either of us to live in fear."

-"You can't just stay here!"-

"I know, but I am and you're leaving back home, I promise I'll go see you once all this is done." She sat Chikaru on the sofa and punched in numbers on her phone, "Come on Jim…" she waited and waited, hearing the ring tone, "Pick up." she said softly to not worry Chikaru, "God damn it Jim."

-"Did something happen to Jim?"- Chikaru asked.

"I don't know, lets go to his house."

The two quickly ran to the car, started it up and drove as fast as they could. However unknown to them, two figures were watching them from inside a car, true to their word Emi was now under watch by Dominic's men.

He called him up on his phone, "Boss, it's me."

"Yeah what is it?" He replied.

"The two of them just left."

"Were they carrying any luggage?"

"No, but they left in a hurry."

"She should know better then to leave, follow them and if they even try to skip town kill them."

"Got it." He hung up and sped up to catch up to them and observe where they were going to.

The two arrived at Jim's home and fear crept up in Emi's mind as she saw the front door wide open, she stepped out, "No…" she ran towards the door as Chikaru tried catching up, her call to wait for her went unanswered.

"Jim!" she called out to him as Chikaru stood by Emi's side.

-"Emi…"-

"Jim!" she screamed his name, as she looked for him and when she turned around towards the living room… she froze. She found him, laying on the floor with several bullet wounds in his chest, at least seven wounds.

"No… no. No! God damn it!" She threw a table in a fit of rage, she leaned up against a wall, "STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!" she pounded the wall with each cry of anger, "You slow old man!"

-"Emi! Emi!"- Chikaru reached out to her as she tried to calm her down but it was no use, and in her rage she flipped over several small tables and threw a few objects in the room because this was too much, they had killed her closest friend that stood by her after everything went spiraling down in her life, someone that was with her since the beginning.

"First Amy, now Jim!" she said which was enough for Chikaru to know that it was the same man responsible for the deaths of two people close to Emi.

Her phone then began to go off, she quickly answered it and waited for someone to say something.

"Sorry 'bout your friend, no hard feelings."

"When I get my hands on you, you're going to be begging me to kill you quickly!"

"I'd watch your mouth if I were you, don't forget your girlfriends safety depends on you now." He replied back, "So I'd keep that fucking mouth of yours shut, you dumb shit! But as of right now, you'll do what I say got that! So tomorrow you better show up at my office, we'll discuss your bank heist with my men here, six in the afternoon got it."

She hung up and tightly gripped her phone, "Lets go back." Emi led Chikaru back to the car and drove back home, to find a way to get Chikaru back to Japan where she'll be safe.

It was the dead of night as Emi paced around while Chikaru took a nap on the sofa, she was glad she was able to rest after what happened today, she was worried that she wouldn't be able to sleep.

That's when it hit her, she was owed a favor by a friend, maybe… just maybe it could work.

Emi then browsed through her phones contacts, finding one person that owed her a favor and dialed his phone.

"Daniel?" she waited, "Yeah its me. Listen I need a favor, I need you to sneak someone to the airport from my house without anyone seeing you or noticing you, can you do that? Her flights tomorrow." She listened, "Yeah let her stay at your place till seven, then take her to the airport. Please, she's very important to me… can you do this for me?" She sighed in relief as he told her that he could, "It's better if you don't know, I don't want to get you involved, but I need her out of here now and at your place. thank you." She hung and walked over to Chikaru and gently shook her to wake her.

-"Emi?"- she slowly opened her eyes.

"Yeah, its me." She then sat her up.

-"Is something wrong?"-

"No, but I need you to get your things. I have a friend coming to take you out of here and to his place."

-"What!?"-

"It's okay, he's a good friend and he's going to take you out of here without them knowing and then in the morning you're getting on that plane back home." She said with a smile.

-"Emi what about you!?"-

"I told you, I cant leave with you. They'll hunt us down no matter where we went, so I'm fixing this. Now get your things." Emi then helped her with a few things.

She peeked out her front window seeing them still there, she walked back around, "They're still there."

-"Will this work?"-

"Yeah it will." She then slowly walked to her, grabbed her hands and looked into her eyes, "Chikaru, no matter what happens, I'll always love you. You mean so much to me."

-"Emi…"- tears began to fall from her eyes as she stood on her toes and kissed her tenderly.

An hour passed by in a few moments.

Her phone began to go off again, "Yeah?" she nodded, shut off her phone and looked at Chikaru, "alright he's here. Lets go." They walked out the back door, as carefully and as quietly as they could and towards the fence in the back.

She saw he was waiting outside of his car, headlights off and the engine still running so they could have a quick getaway. Emi grabbed the bottom part of the chainlink and lifted it up as it was loose enough to pull upwards and Chikaru crawled under it.

She looked back, -"Please be careful."-

"I will."

-"I love you."-

"I love you too." She then looked at Daniel, "Please… please take care of her and get her to the airport safely. Be careful, they may have people watching it so please be careful."

"You can count on me." He replied as the two got in the car and slowly drove off so the engine stayed as quiet as possible till they were out of the area.

Emi watched as the taillights shrunk in the distance then retreated back to her home to rest and think of what to do.

The following day

Six o'clock came around as She found herself in front of the building where Dominic worked. She contemplated about just going in there, killing a guard, taking a weapon and try to kill everyone and as much as it sounded like a good plan, she wasn't so sure she could take a life and if she did she would end up dead anyway before she could even reach them.

She walked inside, seeing the same guard by the door, "Boss is expecting you." He stepped aside as she walked back in and up the steps to his office.

She opened the door, "Ah right on time." Dominic stood up, "Please take a seat."

She walked towards them but stayed standing up.

"Where's your girlfriend, she didn't come with you?" He asked with a cheerful smile.

"I rather her stay at home."

"Ah I see, smart of you." He replied, though she wasn't so sure if he believed her, "Well then lets begin shall we." He snapped his fingers as two men stood up and she turned to look at them.

"These are my boys, they'll be doing the robbin alright darling, marky and harp meet your driver. Miss…?" He shook his hands, "Doesn't matter, now you'll be driving the car I provided for you."

She turned to look at him, "What? Would you rather drive your car, sure its fast but it cant really fit everything now can it? Besides the police would be able to trace your car, not this one." He laughed, "Now then, you best make sure you all don't get caught, got that kid." He said, "After you're done with this little job then I want you rest up because you'll be racing in a few days where I want you to lose. How you lose is up to you."

She reached into her pocket as two men instinctively aimed their guns at her, only to feel non threatened when she pulled out her black leather gloves and slipped them on.

"If you have all the money you could want, why steal a bank?" She asked.

"An insurance policy, should my boys not win this race," He glared at them, "and some other lucky punk wins then I have money to cover it and not spend any of my own but if I win, then more money for me. Now go, get the fuck out of here and get to robbin."

As she began to walk away with the two men behind her, Dominic called out one more time, "Oh by the way, if you even decide to bring the police in here just know. They are all in my back pocket."

She left the room and down the steps, towards the garage where there new car was waiting for them and the two men followed closely behind her.

They sat down inside the car and drove off, following Harp's directions to the bank they were going to hit. As she drove she couldn't help and wonder if she could have done this differently, what could she have done to avoid all this? She couldn't just bust in there guns blazing and hoped to come out of it alive, hell she's never killed anyone and it would surely be no easy thing… right? The most important thing right now is make sure they don't realize that Chikaru was on her flight back home and by now she should already be there.

She even wanted to leave with her but it would have done no good, they would have tracked her down every day of her life till they found the two of them, she knew they were capable of it because if they can kill people so easily then surely they would have no trouble doing something like that.

They finally made it to the bank, Emi circled it a few times to see any police cars or any forms of resistance, but after seeing that nothing was outside that was a threat, she dropped the two of them off and waited by the entrance.

She kept the engine running, "Be ready to go, we'll be out in three minutes tops." He said as he closed the door and the two rushed inside.

Emi tightened her hands and released them, she was nervous that was sure because she was helping to rob a bank. Of course she was no stranger to breaking the law, she had done so for her underground races but this… this was different, she could only hope she came out of this well.

She waited anxiously as they took a little longer than three minutes and she could begin to hear the sirens, she shifted her body to look behind her.

"Shit."

The doors flew open and the two men jumped in, "Let's go!" he shouted and since it was already too late to drive away like nothing happened, she stepped on it as the police cars began to give chase.

She drove like she's never driven before, she was on the edge more than usual and her adrenaline was beginning to sky rocket. She was afraid but determined to get out of here in one piece, so she pushed the car harder as the two men looked behind them as they were equally as nervous as she was.

The car zoomed past many buildings, almost everything was a blur and she would do her turns cleanly and kept going at a good speed while most of the police cars kept following while others crashed into a few posts.

Luckly for her, the moon was already overhead so she could use that to her advantage and drove under a bridge that wasn't well lit and zigzagged between columns to throw off her pursuers. One of the men had a police scanner on him was listening in to make sure they wouldn't have any surprises waiting for them.

"Yo Helicopter coming overhead!" He shouted as she merely glanced at him, then refocused back to driving. She could see it approaching as she left the bridge, then the spotlight that was shining on them.

She drifted in her next turn to get there more quickly trying different routes to lose them but with that helicopter overhead it would surely be difficult. She kept driving through different neighborhoods as Harp who was listening in on the radio called out to her.

"Hey dey setting up spiketraps!" he shouted to her and just in time as she could see them.

She had to think fast, she then decided to do a mid turn, through a few fences and going through the back yards of several homes before finding herself on the road. Soon enough she found another bridge which she drove through, then found an alcove where she could park, she did just that and shut off her lights as she looked behind her seeing several police cars go by them as well as the helicopter that flew overhead.

Once they were gone, she drove back out and went the other way hoping to not encounter any more police cars.

However as she drove calmly through the streets, she saw one more police car that was looking around and she kept driving like a normal person to not give out any suspicions.

"What the fuck are you doing!?" He said as the blonde haired girl stopped at a red light, but she didn't even reply.

The police car stopped across from her, he too had a red light.

"Hang on control, I may have a possible match on the car, stand by." The three overhead them say on the radio. The two began to go forward but as the police car passed by them, he began to blare his sirens which was her cue to speed off.

"We have to get to the escape car!" Mark shouted, terrified that maybe they wouldn't make it and get caught. But she made sure that police car couldn't catch up to them, she drove faster then the squad car did and she could see his sirens shrunk in the distance but that helicopter would surely catch up in no time so she had to get to the escape car. She took a turn and drove through some alleyways as fast and as carefully as she could, finally losing him but she could faintly see the helicopter on her rearview mirror.

They drove through a few more alley ways then finally back on the road, speeding past other cars and till the parking garage building where their escape car was stored came into view.

"There it is! Lets go!" He shouted and she did just that, they pulled up inside and next to their escape car.

She got out and got the other car ready, while the two of them pulled out fuel canisters and drenched the inside of the car with gasoline then ignited it, torching it and making sure that nothing could get linked back to them.

"Alright lets go!" she took off, slowly this time to not raise any suspicions and left the building with no one ever noticing, as she crossed several streets she could see the police make it to the building and she silently sighed in relief that they made it.

"Man you got some moves girl." Mark said as he sat up straight, though she paid no mind to them preferring not to talk anyone.

"Yea no kiddin," He said as he threw his arms over his head to relax.

The blonde driver however was just glad that this part was over and she could now worry about the race, and maybe… maybe they'd leave her alone and she could go start a new life with Chikaru no matter the price.

They arrived back at the building and made their way up to where Dominic was at to give him the news that they were done. They opened the door and stepped into his office, which was empty… well except for Richter and Dominic himself.

He quickly noticed them, "Aah look who finally came back!" He said with a cheerful smile, one that invoked nothing but disgust to her, "No problems I hope?" He asked.

"Hell nah boss, blondie here can drive." Harp said as he handed the bag to Dominic.

"There ya go boss over eight hundred thousand buck-a-roos."

"Good. Good." He said as he looked over the money.

"I'm surprised you still have it in you blondie." Richter spoke as he stepped close to her, circling her as he did, "but I guess I shouldn't have been to surprised you can drive and with a busted knee no less."

His voice alone angered her, she clenched her fists tightly.

He inched closer to her, "You want to kill me don't you, I can see it in your eyes blondie." He said, secretly grabbing his pistol and holding it close, he wanted to provoke her, he wanted to shoot her but he also wanted her to throw the first punch, "I'm right here blondie, go ahead. Or I'll kill that cute little girlfriend you have now, just like I did with that other girl you had."

She said nothing, she merely kept clenching her hands and her rage really wanted to boil over.

"You can't do it, can ya?" He laughed, "you're just a little bitch that can't fight back." She glared at him.

"Ricther, enough!" He flinched, "Come over here!" Dominic called him back but as he was walking back she finally looked at him and said…

"Who's the bitch now." He stopped.

"I'm sorry what was that?" He replied.

"You heard me." she answered back.

BAM!

He struck her with his fist, her head was turned to the side and she reconnect her gaze with him and

BAM!

She punched him right back and as he recovered he pulled out his gun and aimed it at her but she didn't even flinch at all, she just wanted to kill this man and avenge what he had done to Amy.

"Richter!" Dominic yelled at him, "Shut the fuck up! I don't need you annoying my driver!" He said as Richter slowly lowered his gun but anger was still present in his eyes exactly like it was for the blonde haired girl.

"Get out of here kid," Dominic told her, "You'll be coming here for the race, early in the morning." He gave a slip of paper with the address, gave it to Mark who gave it to her.

She turned around to finally leave when Dominic called her again, "Don't forget, I want you to lose." He reminded her.

She didn't even glance back, she just left the place.

She got back into her own car and drove back home.

The door opened up and she quickly entered her dorm room, she threw her things on the bed and grabbed her phone and began to send a text message to Emi, she was extremely worried for her.

-"Why didn't you come with me."- She said softly, her heart was aching with not being with her but she wanted Chikaru to be safe.

-"Please be safe! Please!"- She waited anxiously for Emi's reply, she had called earlier but she got no response and now all she could do was wait to see if her girlfriend was okay.

End Chapter 7