Chapter Twenty Four

Kay sat on the roof of Stark tower, it was still in process of being rebuilt again but that didn't mean it wasn't hard for her to get up there. She needed a break, she had spent much of the morning going over details with Stark, Hoshi, and Pepper. The air was cold and danced through her short hair. She mumbled to herself, "so much for being a Warlord."

"You were never good at covers," she heard Kale laugh.

She looked back at the man, "what do you want?"

He sat down next to her, "Dais says Fisk has your Staff."

She nodded.

"That's inconvenient."

"Extremely," she agreed.

"We can't break into Rykers."

"I know."

He looked at her, "it was kind of great seeing Ryo paying in such an amazing way."

"You just like seeing them suffer."

"Indeed, I do, I am the Warlord of Darkness after all," he said as wrapped an arm around her. "What's your plan for Rykers?"

"Use this cover."

"Sounds like you might need back up."

She looked at him, "are you volunteering?"

"I like parties," he suggested.

She laid her head against him, "will you be my best man, Kale?"

He looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "excuse me?"

"Well, in weddings, there's usually a party of support for each side," she said quietly. "I don't really have a whole of women that I say are my true friends, so I guess I'll have a best man to escort me."

"I would like to do that," he said. "I know you don't like getting your hands dirty but...this could get really dirty."

"I know."

He stood up and she looked over and he was gone. She heard the roof access open and saw Steve come through, she looked at her analog watch and realized it was late in the afternoon. How long had she been on the roof alone? Time seemed so hard for her to analyze. She smiled at him but didn't move and slightly sung, "well there's the 'Star Spangled Man With a Plan'."

He frowned, "you saw those."

She giggled, "those were some nice looking girls you used to hang with, Kanchou-san."

"Nowhere near as beautiful as you are," he crooned. She then rolled his eyes at his corniness as he took the spot that would have been opposite from Kale, "are you alright? I hear Tony and Hoshi were a bit over whelming."

She nodded with a slight laugh, "a bit?"

He looked out over the city, "you can blame Nat for last night by the way."

She smiled, "maybe, I should thank her instead."

He felt his cheeks flush.

Kay stood up, and her hair blew in the wind which framed her face lovely like. She was wearing a black leggings with a black shirt and a red vest that snuggly fit her frame. He stood up and pulled her into kiss, his hands pulling her close to him as possible. The door opened and Tony complained, "rule of dating my 'sister', no snogging on the newly rebuilt roof."

Steve frowned at him, "I think there's a word for what you just did."

"Cock block," Tony suggest to get an equal stoic expression from both of them but he singled out Kay, "you have to work on that expression."

She looked at Steve, "is Nat here? I was hoping she could give me a tip on modeling."

Steve nodded, "be aware, she has a vivid imagination about what happened last night."

"What did happen last night," asked Tony as he followed after the couple. Feeling terribly like a third wheel, he was never the third wheel. If anything he made other people the third wheel, "and frankly we should have a conversation about how you treat my sister."

Kay looked at Steve as they got into the elevator together, "he's been going on like this alllll day."

Steve crossed his arms, "I would think you would have some siblings."

Tony shrugged, "either my Dad lied about all those trysts..."

Steve shook his head slowly.

"Or he paid them very handsomely," he said and looking at Kay. "So why does my cute little baby sis come forward?"

She rolled her eyes as she said, "my best friend was terminally ill and I didn't know what to do, and I knew I had a big brother that I could reply on if anything bad happened"

Steve was amazed by her sarcastic acting, "and the model part?"

She rolled her eyes.

Tony crossed his arms, "no, sister of mine is going to be some ordinary girl. I ran into her when I went to Japan last summer, during of Japan's many great next star search, and she had the Stark quality so I had them run a gene search but I've always wanted a baby sister so instead of buying her off, I gave her my number in case of emergency."

Kayura looked at Steve and nodded as Tony hugged Kayura with a great big smile. Steve wanted to punch that smile because it was more sinister than anything else. The elevator opened and Kayura nearly jumped out. She saw Nat and almost ran to her to give her a hug. Hoshi left the bar and came over to greet the two men, "I told you, brooding on rooftops is in her blood."

Steve saw almost jump for joy as Kayura asked her for help, and said to Hoshi, "I ran into Black Cat today."

She narrowed her eyes and saw Tony raised an eyebrow, "I know him, he's the guy in S.H.I.E.L.D files I stole years back that had no actual files."

Hoshi looked at him, "how did you know his name then?"

"He's kind of a big deal in stealing paintings."

Hoshi shrugged, "what sort of asshole steals a Rauschenberg, Stark?"

Steve interrupted, "you saved him in the middle east."

Hoshi shook her head, "he stole something from a Saudi prince and got his ass caught...sort of. He's worse than Tony in terms of women, I found him bed with eight of his daughters."

Tony mumbled.

"That's it," asked Steve.

She smiled ever so sweetly at the man, "you should do as Kayura asks, Captain Rogers, stay out of our world we'll stay out of yours."

Steve n dded and walked past to have Nat grab him and shove him to sit him down on the couch. Tony heard her saying about turning the living room into a runway and Tony looked at the tiny woman who looked more unnerved as the day went along. He decided to change subjects, "I want to run a new test. Why don't come join me in my office, Miss Nakano?"

"Yes, Doctor Stark," she mocked as she walked with him up to the rebuilt lab.

He shut the door behind them, and pulled the blinds because the tinting mechanism was flawed, but he managed to see Kay standing in front of Steve as Nat perfectly posed her. He looked at her as she jumped up onto his work desk. She was wearing a miniskirt today with hot pink heals and low cut blouse. He grinned as he pulled his desk chair in front of her and then rolled to his mini fridge pulling out a small box with a clear top that showed a syringe. He rolled back and she sat her bad ankle on his knee. Tony saw her watching him as he injected the paink killer into a nerve. He put a small bandaid on it and threw out the needle, "does that help?"

She smiled down at him, "eh."

He couldn't help run his hands up her leg, "how does that feel Miss Nakano?"

"I still think the pain is getting higher," she said as he stopped his hand at her knee.

Tony ran his hand a little higher to her thigh, "is it here?"

Hoshi felt her cheeks flush as he stood up and pushed her legs apart and leaned over her. He softly kissed her neck and pressed up against her. She grabbed onto his back as he whispered in her ear, "is the skirt for me?"

"Better than paint," she whispered as she felt him push op her blouse. "Pepper didn't seemed to stoked about your sister."

He looked at her with a serious face, "you really know how to ruin a mood."

She tugged on his shirt, "I could get some handcuffs for later."

He smiled, "I think I might like that."

She looked pulled away from him and pulled her feet up to the table. He sat next to her as she laid her head against him, "I'm sorry...Tony."

He shook his head, "we were falling apart long before our night together."

She looked over her shoulder at him, "I think Steve realizes that our worlds were intertwined long ago and there's no separating them now."

Tony decided to ask, "you're lying to them then."

"How did you know?"

"I lie a lot myself."

"What do you think I'm lying about?"

"Your time with S.H.I.E.L.D," he said.

She leaned on her knees, "I didn't lie about all of it."

He nodded and looked out the window at Natasha showing how to do the routine properly. Amazing hair flip and everything. He looked at Hoshi still sitting in a fetal position, "you don't have to tell me. I know I've made my share of mistakes that have bit me in the ass."

She looked at him, "I was on a mission to save a man code named Black Cat. During my mission, he told me about some files that Strucker had that needed to be hidden."

Tony looked at her, "the snow events."

She nodded, "it was more than accounts. There were photos and I recognized Rowen from one of them."

"So that's why you went back to Japan. That's not a big secret."

She leaned over and kissed his cheek and jumped down and grabbed his hand, "you can't save me."

He looked down, "look, you don't know that."

She took her free hand and placed it on his neck, "don't blame Kay either. You've had to things where you risked the safety of humanity for the few lives you have."

He just looked at her.

She looked down and then smiled, "Kento has left me and all honesty I can't see why he ever said okay to our crazy life. So, now all I want is for my last few days, hours, weeks...whatever...to be enjoyable. I don't want them to suffer for my mistakes. Will you help me with that?"

Tony leaned over and kissed her forehead.