Chapter Seventeen

"Wilson Fisk," the group pretty much asked together.

Kayura replied with, "we had worked with a lots of bad people outside of United States. By comparison, he was rather charming and he only asked me to steal artwork. I thought nothing of it until I saw things in the news that were unsavory."

"Only artwork, she says," Sage groaned. "How...I mean how do you even get to work for someone like that?"

"Kale knew him through some connections. Him and Madame Gao were on and off again thing until she got old," she laughed but no one laughed with her. It was times like these she realized that none of them understood what it had meant to be a warlord. It wasn't the fact that they had done terrible things or were comfortable with it. It was that they were born into this world and that meant that their judgements and morals were pretty firmly ground. Hers were pretty loose by comparison, although not as loose as the three men whom she used to work with. "And like I said before, he never really asked me to do anything but steal art. Dais asked me to do worse when I was with them."

Hoshi looked at her as if she remembered something, "you stole that Rauschenberg from Moma."

"I did," she answered. "Lucky for them Daredevil was there, I didn't realize it had been a trap to lure him in. Wilson tried to take him out using me...and lets say there wasn't a pleasant conversation after that."

Seito complained, "you broke it off with Fisk? Are you mad?"

"No more than Dais apparently," she shrugged.

Junko added, "I thought you were the sane one around here."

Cye interrupted when Raleigh whispered into his ear, "we're getting distracted. Shouldn't we focus on the fact he knows about the armors? How did that happen?"

Kayura shook her head, "I never put on my armor while I was in the states before it was taken away...so it had to be Runa. She was into things deeper than any of us were. I think she realized when Rowen was messing around with summoning the inferno, that we were all screwed. I don't think he knows who we were are, just that we're here in the shadows."

Sage added, "it doesn't help we sort of made a mess of New York years ago."

Ryo nodded, "we weren't exactly...quiet."

Raleigh nodded, "that one is in S.H.I.E.L.D files for sure."

"It's how I heard about the Snow Events," Hoshi said, "agents were talking about the samurai in downtown."

"Samurai in Downtown, sounds like a movie," snarked Leah.

Raleigh added, "its not like the ronins had been very quiet, and I doubt our recent event was very quiet either."

Junko groaned, "see! SEE! It was a bad idea to move here."

"Not now, Jun," Hoshi said.

"No," she snapped and slammed her hands on the table. "I told you coming here was a bad idea! I mean seriously, Mom is fucking Tony Stark and Aunt Kay runs around in the night like a common criminal. Why are any of you guys okay with this?"

Seito tried to calm her down but she shoved him off and walked out angrily. Her brother ran out after her, and Ryo looked at Kayura, "as if you didn't expect her to take that badly."

"She takes everything badly," Hoshi said with a shake of her head.

Kayura got up, "no armors for no reason."

"Where are you off to," asked Cye with a smile.

"I have dinner plans," she said as she headed for the door and she saw Ryo scowl.

Leah followed after her quickly as the others began chatting, "so that's it, huh?"

Kayura scowled at her, "don't meddle in this."

Leah shrugged, "I'm not meddling, but the well being of my armor is of great concern to me. What happens if there's an Akuma attack? Are we supposed to just ignore it?"

"I'm working on that," Kay said.

"Your staff."

"I think he has it."

"You can't go after it," Leah said, "not by yourself anyways."

"I'm not," she paused.

"Then it's decided, we go after it together."

Kayura rolled her eyes as she started to head out, "but not tonight."

Leah whistled as Kayura saw Ryo come out of the dining room. She turned away as Leah scampered off, he locked eyes with her and walked past, "maybe you should have both of us. Someone who isn't a lunatic would be nice to have around."

She replied, "I would take Cye or Sage before you any day."

"Gomenasai, Kayura-san," he said as she turned to leave and then he wished under his breath, "he's a lucky bastard."