A/N: Ok here's chapter 6! Yay for me. And i also took off my split personalities story for those of you who read it….i'm going to re-do it and then post it again.

Chapter 6 The Truth

The day after Van had left Hitomi in the care of his boss Dilandau, he was back racing. He needed something to take his mind off of that woman and racing was a sure fire cure. All week he was behind the wheel of his Skyline unless he was eating or sleeping. The only thing that he couldn't do was go with another woman.

The thought of having another woman that wasn't Hitomi beneath him made him vomit. Pushing these thoughts from his mind he steps out of his car of his latest victorious race. Taking the winning money, Van hops back into his car and speeds away down to his house. He didn't live richly like Allen but the apartment complex that he resided in was large with his own garage to fix up his Skyline in.

Opening the front door, Van fumbles for the light switch and a pale light fills the living room area. This was the first time in a week that Van didn't go straight to bed. Instead he takes a case of hard whiskey from his cupboard and drags his feet over to the large couch. Taking a swig straight from the bottle, he turns on the television and stares blankly at the news report.

It was about an escaped killer that was on the loose. Van scoffs and is about to flip the channel when a picture of the killer fills the screen. Wide green eyes seem to stare at him as he tries to focus on the picture of Hitomi that they were showing. Hitomi is a killer? No that can't be right. This had the work of Dilandau written all over it. She must have escaped somehow and he made up a story about her being bad so the government would do all the work of recapturing her for him.

Vans brain tries to think but the whiskey made it almost impossible for any coherent thoughts to surface. Setting the bottle to the side Van stands and is about to go into his room for his machine gun when his cell phone rings. The caller id flashed Dilandaus name and Van growls at it which surprises himself. Since when did he despise Dilandau? Shaking his head clear of any thought he answers casually.

"Hey boss what's up?" Van says smoothly and an angry voice splits through his ear and he holds the phone away slightly.

"Van! That little whore escaped from my house this morning! I don't know how she got passed the guards but you must find her now! Do you understand? If you don't bring her to me by tomorrow night it's your head!" A click signals the end of the call and Van slams the phone shut angrily.

Dilandau was like a father to him and Allen but this was too far. Van groans and holds his head in his hands trying to get his thoughts straight. He was being crazy. The only reason he was thinking bad about Dilandau was because he must have some sort of attachment to Hitomi…the name makes him stop his ranting as a picture of her wide eyed stare from the T.V enters his mind. I must find her. Van says to himself as he continues his trek to his room and comes out with an AK-47. Yeah he would find her, but she wasn't going back to Dilandau.

He knew he was making a huge mistake going against the most powerful man in the Southern continent but at that moment, all that was going through Vans head was getting Hitomi back. Slinging the gun over his shoulder so it hung on his back he puts on his large trench coat and exits the front door locking it securely behind him.

Van had no idea where to start looking but he decided searching on foot would be better then driving in his noticeable Skyline. It was around midnight when running footsteps down an alley by the road he was walking catches his attention. A small hooded figure bursts out of the alley with five burly guys right on her heels.

"Hey! Didn't your momma ever tell you to respect all women?" Van yells and the group of men stop and turn towards him angrily. The hooded figure had also stopped and her bright green eyes stare at him through the shadow of the hood. Hitomi…Van thinks as his red eyes pierce through hers trying to find some hope in their scared depths.

Her eyes widening brings him back to reality in time to dodge a dagger slicing down to his left. Van expertly slides away while throwing off his trench coat and flipping the AK-47 around pointing it at the men. A smirk plays on his lips as the men tremble and drop their pathetic knives in surrender. They were just after the bounty over Hitomis head. They didn't want to die.

Van flicks the gun to the side slightly signaling them to leave. They scramble around and are running off down the street before Van even moves an inch. His blood red eyes return to the spot where Hitomi is to find it vacant. "Shit!" He yells and runs off in the direction he hopes that she went.

Splashing through muddy puddles, Van catches a glimpse of a black jacket whip around a corner about a block ahead of him. A couple seconds later he turns down the same alley and sees her ahead of him running with all her might away from him. If I yell out to her it would draw too much attention. Van thinks as he follows her slowly catching up as she starts to loose her strength.

Turning down another corner Van barely dodges as a rock aimed at his head nicks his ear. There she was. Standing in the middle of the dingy alley with a bent lead pipe in her hands. "Go away!" She yells out in a cracked voice. The hood had fallen from her head and he could see several small bruises over her pretty face.

"Hitomi! It's me Van! I want to help you!" Van yells and he slowly advances towards the trembling figure. "I know who the fuck you are Van." She spits out his name is disgust. "I don't need your so called help again. You'll just take me back to that monster that's your fucking boss!" Hitomi cries out and swings the pipe at Van as he tries to reach her.

"Just leave me alone! Haven't you done enough damage to me?" She growls out but her eyes reflect the pain of betrayal as clear of day making Van cringe outwardly. "Hitomi please understand…I used to work for Dilandau but I've come to take you away from him. Please you must believe me!" Van tries to approach her again but the swinging pipe almost decks him right in the head.

"I had hoped you would cooperate with me but now you leave me no choice. I want to help you and I'm going to whether you're conscious to see it or not." Van replies softly as he slings the gun to his back and pulls out a pair of thick gloves. Putting them on he takes out a wrapped cloth from his back pocket and makes sure its still damp with the nitrogen he dripped on it earlier. He didn't use that much but it would be enough to knock out a grown man for over an hour or more.

Van holds the cloth and walks over to Hitomi. She swings the pipe but this time, Van blocks it and grabs the pipe ripping it from her small hands and tossing it aside. Hitomi shudders as sobs wrack through her body and her green eyes shone with terror. She turns to run but Van is faster and grabs her hand yanking her to him and he holds the damp cloth to her nose so she inhales the fumes. Hitomis body goes slack as the strong fumes take effect totally knocking her unconscious. Van throws away the cloth and the gloves and gently picks up the frail body.

Keeping to the back alleys, Van slowly makes his way back to his home that was about twenty blocks away. He would luckily make it before dawn so no one would see him with the supposed wanted killer.

Vans luck kept with him as he slips into his apartment unnoticed just has the first rays of light shine onto the city. Hitomi was still drugged and she slept deeply for the better part of the day. Van meanwhile was kept very busy has he made preparations for the assault he knew would come. His boss would know something was up when Van told him tonight that he hadn't found the girl. Dilandau knew that Van was too good to fail in something as simple as finding a woman and he would be here the next day with half the military demanding her.

Going into his room he shoves aside the bed frame that held his one mattress and pulled up the wooden boards underneath to reveal a large whole filled with tear gas and white phosphorus grenades along with his most prized possession, his M-16 with attachable grenade launcher. Taking out the deadly machine, Van looks it over carefully to make sure it was still in perfect condition.

Taking out the box with the grenades, Van walks back into the living room and sets it down carefully before returning with two gas masks, three full magazines and the M-16. There wasn't much he could do at the moment since he still had plenty of time before Dilandau would become suspicious so Van busied himself with attaching several white phosphorus grenades to his assassin belt and making sure the grenade launcher was loaded with a tear gas grenade with several others nearby for easy use. The M-16 had a full magazine already in it and so Van attaches the extra magazines to the grenade belt.

By mid-afternoon, Van had a plan ready for when the assault would come the next day. Now he just had to endure Hitomis wrath when she woke up. That dreaded time came around 5 p.m. right when the pizza that Van had ordered came.

Hitomi stirs and slowly opens her green eyes to look around slowly. She had no idea where she was and the first thought that came to mind was that Dilandau had captured her again. Footsteps to her right make her sit up quickly to defend herself when she sees a familiar person standing in front of her with a bottle of Corona and a piece of pizza in his hands.

"Van! Where the fuck am I you slimy bastard." Hitomi yells out in more fear then anger as the sense of betrayal still sits heavy on her broken heart. Van kneels down in front of her and sets the bottle and plate with pizza on the ground.

His red eyes meet hers and she blinks as she sees pain and sadness flicker through them. His usually smirking lips were set in a grim frown and he looks worn out. A pair of jeans hung loosely around his hips and he was bare chested which didn't help Hitomis situation at all.

"This is my home. I'm keeping you here away from Dilandau and his cronies. I will not let him have you again." Van says in a serious voice that she'd never heard before. A voice that said the absolute truth and Hitomi found no secrets within its words. Hitomi felt herself give in slightly but there was still the fact that he had tricked her and he was the reason she had ended up with Dilandau in the first place.

"How can I trust you Van? You lied to me! I want to know everything before I can even think of trusting you again and I will know that you are lying to me so I want only the truth this time!" Hitomi says determinedly. Van smirks slightly and tilts his head to the side so loose black bangs fall across his face giving him a very sexy look.

"Very well." Van says and he tells her everything. From when he first met Dilandau up to today. Hitomi listened closely for any unsaid information but by the end she had found nothing that wasn't unsaid. He had told her everything and she finally understood everything that had happened.

"So why are you helping me now? Why are you going against your boss Van?" Hitomi asks after Van falls silent. She watches his face change from coolness to anxiety. His eyes meet hers and she sees the unspoken love he had for her even if he didn't know how he felt, his eyes showed her the truth.

"Oh Van…" Hitomi sighs and a small smile graces her lips for the first time in a week as she reaches over and holds Vans cheek gently. He nips it playfully making her laugh and he smirks at her.

"Ever sense I met you, you've been nothing be trouble for me. But, I'm glad I met you." She says softly and Van reaches up to her taking her small face in his large hands and bringing her lips down to meet his tenderly.

Van pulls away and looks around at his equipment that he had out. "Dilandau will know by tomorrow that I betrayed him and so I've figured out a plan that will hopefully help in our escape." Van says and Hitomi gasps as she looks at all the grenades and especially to the M-16 that was fully loaded.

"Now…listen closely because this has to go perfect or we will both be killed as well as Dilandau cronies." For the rest of the day and night Van and Hitomi go over the plan detail by detail until they had it perfect. Soon they will put it into action.

A/N: Well that's chapter 6. I'm really sorry it took so long for me to update but I went through a total writers block and I just got out of it today so I made myself write this whole chapter in a day so I could finally post an update. Thanks to all those who reviewed and I hope u liked this chapter! 5 reviews for the next chapter and this time it will be up sooner. TC