Chapter 3

Angel glared at their retreating figures, before turning back to Chisato and Sakiko, who were standing by with anxious expressions on their faces.

'Are you ok?' Angel asked gently and they both nodded. 'Next time anyone tries to harass you, just tell me, ok? You don't have to take that kind of shit from anybody.' They nodded gratefully, but the tension in their faces still did not diffuse.

'Let's go, Angel.' Soryu gently took her hand

'Sir!' To their surprise, they heard a voice calling out from behind them and turned to see a huffing Inui hurtling towards them.

'Looks like he found us.' Soryu said grimly.

'I've been searching everywhere for you!'

'Inui-' Soryu sighed.

'That was just cruel sir, leaving me behind like that.' Angel looked away guiltily. She felt bad that they'd worried Inui so much, but it had been nice to have her date alone with Soryu.

'Sorry sweetie.' Angel apologized.

'Are those two ladies friends of yours, Miss Angel?' He asked gesturing at Chisato and Sakiko.

'Yeah.

'My name is Ryosuke Inui. I work for Mr Oh. Thank you for befriending Miss Angel- she's like a princess to me!' Angel smiled fondly at him as he introduced himself.

'It must be fate; us meeting here like this. How about we go have tea together?'

'Umm…' Angel looked at Soryu hesitantly. He hadn't seemed too thrilled about meeting her friends and she didn't know how he'd feel about it. But Inui was so enthusiastic.

'It should be fine, right sir?'

'Do what you want.' Angel looked at him with surprise.

'Really?'

'Yeah.' He awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.

'See! Mr Oh says it's ok. Let's go. Let's go!' Inui led the way, chattering excitedly to both Sakiko and Chisato while Angel and Soryu followed slowly behind.

Angel gripped Soryu's arm, stretching up to give him a quick kiss on his lips.

'Huh? What was that for?' He asked, blushing slightly. It wasn't very common to that in Japan but nobody paid them the slightest bit of attention.

'To tell you I love you. Thank you for being so understanding. And Soryu…'

'Yes?'

'I've had a brilliant day today, it was the best date ever!'

'But we didn't do anything interesting.'

'Just getting to spend time with you is enough.' She smiled tenderly at him.

'I…I love you too.' He said, so quietly she almost didn't hear it. 'Now come on, before Inui comes back to fetch us!'

In the café Angel just chatted with her friends, catching up on what she'd missed and telling them a little bit about her life and what it was like living with the 5 men up in the penthouse. Suddenly, Soryu's phone rang and he excused himself to answer it. Ryosuke chatted happily with the girls, thrilled to be surrounded by so many pretty women.

'Inui. Come here.' Soryu's voice cut him off.

'Yes sir.' Inui's face tightened at the stern expression on Soryu's face. He quickly jogged over as Angel watched with concern, wondering what had happened.

'Hey Angel?' Chisato asked, breaking her out of her thoughts. 'What was Ryosuke talking about, when he mentioned the Ice Dragons?'

'And why did Mr Oh act so friendly with the leader of those punks?'

'Yeah, what exactly does Mr Oh do?' They both asked her.

'Well…' Angel shifted uncomfortably. They would not like the answer to that question.

'Is he… Yakuza?' Sakiko asked, shocked.

'Hmm…not exactly.' Angel replied, unsure of what the full meaning of yakuza was. She'd gathered it was some kind of mobster boss thing. 'He's in the mafia, the Ice Dragons are his mob. He's not exactly the leader but he's quite high ranking.' Angel explained, biting her lip at the consternation on their faces.

'Angel, a mobster? I thought you worked for Interpol? Aren't you supposed to be catching bad people like him?' Sakiko asked thoroughly confused.

'That's the thing though: he's not bad. Atleast not truly. He's got morals and he always makes sure that innocent people are never hurt or involved in any of the Ice Dragons' activities. Besides, I fell in love.' She sighed dreamily, surprised by her own soppiness. This gorgeous, kind man turned off all reasonable thinking in her and made her insides feel like mush. They both looked at her worriedly.

'Seriously, I know it may seem a bit strange to you but my life is full of strange events and Soryu is like the one normal thing that's happened to me. He may look scary but he's a really nice person. In fact I've probably done more horrid things than he has.' She tried to reassure them that Soryu was a good person.

'I don't really have a problem with it, right Chisato?' Sakiko said, though the anxiety in her eyes didn't subside.

'Yeah, if you say he's a nice guy, the that's all there is to it.' Chisato agreed.

Just then, Soryu returned though Inui was nowhere to be seen.

'Where's Ryosuke?'

'Something cropped up at work. I'm really sorry Angel but I need to go- it's urgent.' Soryu apologized.

'Fine. Go ahead. Don't worry about me. I'll see you at home yeah?'

'All right. Take care.' He left, without even a kiss and Angel watched him go with a pout.

'Sorry about that.' she said, turning back to her friends.

'He hasn't been with a lot of women, has he?' Remarked Chisato, who had noticed how awkwardly Soryu had been behaving.

'Clearly not. If he had, then he'd have known better than to abandon me in the middle of our first date.' Angel said bitterly. 'Sorry. He probably had something important to do otherwise he wouldn't have gone. I'm just being grumpy.'