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Chapter 15

Amu POV

I woke up the next morning still feeling exhausted. My mind kept flashing Aruto's explanation last night about Takahashi family or my soon-to-be-family. I glanced at the clock - it read 7 a.m.

I sighed and stretched a bit before putting my feet onto the cold floor and walked into the bathroom. I took a quick bath and looking for the clothes that Utau had let me borrow from her yesterday when someone knocked on my door. I dressed myself in hurry and opened the door to find a maid standing in front of my bedroom's door.

"Hinamori-sama." The maid greeted bowed to me. I'm really didn't use to the formality so much.

"Do you need anything from me?" I asked her.

"Tsukiyomi-sama asks for your presence at his private study room." The maid informed me.

'Aruto? Looking for me?' I thought as I replied an 'okay' at the maid and she walked away.

I closed my door, walked to the mirror and brushed my hair, clipped a red x shaped clip at my hair and glanced at the mirror to get a full looked at my appearance. 'This is perfect,' I thought and I walked out from my room and headed to Aruto's private study room. I knocked on the door and heard Aruto's telling me to come in. I opened the door and slipped in then looked around the room and found Ikuto and my parents sitting on the couch, definitely waiting for me.

Aruto asked me to sit on the couch beside Ikuto, across my parents' seat while Aruto took the single chair. I looked at him, then Ikuto and lastly to my parents. Wait, what was with the atmosphere here? I was confused and no one spoke.

I inhaled and was the first one to speak up.

"What do you need me here for, Aruto?" I asked the head of Tsukiyomi family, facing him head on.

"Your parents want to tell you something." He answered me.

I turned to look at my parents again and I could feel their uneasy feelings.

"Well..." I began.

"Amu, we're sorry!" My mom blurted out suddenly.

Okay, what the hell? My parents were asking for my forgiveness? They didn't do anything wrong and I was more than confused right now. "What?"

"Amu..." Ikuto called my name, gaining my attention.

All of the people in the room could see my confused face. Of course, I let the emotion plastered on my face to show them my feeling right now.

"Actually, we have a secret that we keep from you." My father finally spoke up.

"Have you ever met Aoi's father?" My father asked.

"No." I answered them. Yes, I hadn't seen his father - not once. I asked Aoi and he said that his father was going on business trips or going to vacation and couldn't be bothered.

"His father - Takahashi Claire - killed your sister." My father said and my mother couldn't hold her tears anymore as she hugged my father and cried on his shoulder.

Okay, I was more than confused. Let's start the story from the top. My soon-to-be-father-in-law was a drug dealer and a murderer, he didn't murder anyone that I didn't know - in fact he killed my sister. So, my soon-to-be family killed my own family. What's next? I screamed in my mind.

"But why didn't you tell me from the start?" I yelled. I felt betrayed.

"We didn't know that your Aoi is that murderer's child! Takahashi Aoi, son of Takahashi Claire." My mom said.

"If we have known, do you think we will approve your marriage?" My father told me.

"Then, how did you find out?" I asked them, still feeling betrayed.

"Aruto told us yesterday; he said that our daughter had met Takahashi Aoi–" My mom explained but I cut her, "I have told you his name before, his full name!" I snapped.

"Listen to me first, young lady!" My mom said.

Whenever she called me young lady, she was angry. So I shut my mouth up and listened to her.

"I'll tell you the story. You were still 2 years old when the accident happened..." My father began the story.

Flashback

Tsumugu's POV

18 years ago (Amu was 20 right now)

I was playing with my two years old daughter while my wife was changing her little sister's – my other daughter – diaper when we heard a loud voice from outside of our house. I carried my daughter and brought her outside to check on something.

'What happened?' I asked inwardly. The houses next to ours were burning and people were screaming for help while they ran. I ran back to my house and informed my wife about the fire. We grabbed anything that we needed at that moment before rushing to the garage as I pulled out our car and drove away. Thank god, our house wasn't on the fire – for now – so we could run away and save some of our belongings.

It was strange actually because if one house was on fire, the fire would spread to the left or right side of the first house. But you know what? The left side and the right side of our house were burning, if you thought logically, that was impossible to occur. How could the fire start both from left and right side?

I knew something was wrong here. I picked up my phone and dialed my best friend number.

"Hello?" The voice from the other side of the phone spoke.

"Aruto, I need your help." I said while I was driving. My two years old daughter was sitting on the back seat while my wife was sitting right beside me with our little daughter in her embrace.

"Shoot." He told me.

"Something's up. My house is on fire, I need a place right now." I said to him.

"Sure, come to my place and we'll discuss it later." He replied me.

I muttered a thank you before hanging the phone up and drove to his house – or his mansion to be exact.

We arrived thirty minutes later, I pulled into his garage and parked my car on my usual spot – I always parked my car here whenever I came to his house. I carried my two years old, pink-haired daughter while my wife carried our little one.

Aruto greeted me when my wife and I stepped into the living room. He was sitting right beside her wife with his four years old son and two years old daughter. Their child inherited their natural hair color perfectly – his son with Aruto's midnight blue hair while his daughter had her mom's hair color, bright yellow or blond.

I greeted him back and he told me to follow him to his private study room – one of our secret spot – and left the children on the couch along with his children and our wives.

"What happened?" Aruto asked me when we were inside of his study room.

"Something strange happened." I told him the story. We sat at our usual spot and had a serious conversation about the little incident.

"Could it be one of the gangs?" I asked the midnight blue-haired man.

"Maybe, you know the Takahashis always oppose us." He replied.

Well, we were the leader and vice leader of a deathly and famous gang at the underworld society, our gang was known as Black Lynx. We worked with Japanese police force to help them 'finish' some of the gangs. We had the unspoken rule at the underworld – the biggest and the most powerful gang could lead the underworld at set some rules. Our Black Lynx was the biggest and the most powerful gang at the moment, so we had the opportunity to lead the underworld. But, some of the gangs didn't approve of it and opposed us because they wanted to lead the underworld. One of them was known as the Takahashi gang.

Takahashi was a new gang, but they had too much ambition for a newbie. They even didn't know us – the Black Lynx – all they knew that there was a great gang that ruled the underworld. Pathetic, right? Their leader – Takahashi Eichi – was one of the businessmen. He knew Aruto but didn't know that Aruto was a leader to a big and powerful gang.

Aruto was quite good with hiding his identity. We – the leader and vice leader – never showed up to any meeting that the underworld held, he chose someone as our representatives. That was why most of the people from underworld society didn't know us.

"What shall we do then?" I asked Aruto.

"Stay here for now. I think it is the best solution right now. We'll hold an emergency meeting with Black Lynx members and look out for some more information." Aruto told me.

I nodded my head and walked out from his study room along with him. We headed back to the living room, where I saw my pink-haired daughter playing with his midnight blue-haired son. 'They look cute together,' I said inside my heart. I smiled when my daughter rushed to me and left the boy pouting.

"They look cute together!" Souko – Aruto's wife – spoke.

"Let's arrange a marriage for them!" Aruto said suddenly.

My wife and I looked at them and I gave them 'are you crazy' looked while my wife screamed in acceptance. No! My little sparrow was only two years old and she was about to be engaged to my best friend's son? Hey, she even hadn't gone to school yet she would has a fiancé soon? No! No! That's definitely a big NO!

"Sure, they look so cute together. They will make a great couple…" My wife said.

"And make many beautiful grandchildren!" My wife, Aruto and Souko said in unison.

Oh my, they sure shared a same bond together as best friends. I shook my head, sighing in defeat while my daughter tugged at my shirt, wanting an attention. I looked at her angelic face and smiled, she was my little angel.

"Yes?" I asked her. She pointed her small finger to the groups that contained my wife, Aruto and Souko who still laughing about grandchildren. Oh please, they were still four and two!

"Momma…" She said. I chuckled at her cute action. She looked confused with the whole arranged marriage things. I nodded to her and told her that she would marry the young boy one day.

"Mawwy?" She asked me. I chuckled again, before nodding once again and saw her confused emotion was still plastered on her face.

Then she ran away from my hug to the older boy. They played together; I could see that the young boy protected my daughter when they played at the garden outside the house. They sure looked good together. Then Aruto's daughter joined them and they played together. They would become best friends one day for sure.

We had lived at Aruto's house for three months. My wife and I decided to move to our newly bought house. We had bought it for a week and I had the furniture and everything set. Tomorrow we would leave Aruto's mansion. I was helping my wife packing our belongings and our daughter's. My pink-haired daughter cried when we told her that we would move out, Ikuto and Utau – Aruto's child – were running after her and comforted her.

Ikuto and Amu became so close the past three months. Their bond grew stronger and stronger. It was a bit hard to separate them right now. I went to the back garden, where my daughter usually went to whenever she was angry or sad. I saw the young midnight blue-haired man hugging her and let my daughter cried on his shoulder.

"I don't want go, I want with bwother Ikwuto." Amu – my daughter – said while crying.

"Me too but Amu want to be papa and mama right?" Ikuto asked my daughter – tried to calm her. My daughter nodded in response.

"Then you have to go with your papa and mama." Ikuto said once again.

"But I also want to be with bwother Ikwuto and Utau." My daughter said. Ikuto seemed to not be able to say anything else to comfort Amu and change her mind about not wanting to move in to our new house with us, so I approached them.

When my daughter saw me, she hugged Ikuto tightly. I smiled, oh god! They sure looked good.

"Amu, Ikuto and Utau will come to our house and visit you or we can come here and visit them." I told my daughter.

"Rweally?" She asked and looked at me.

"Yes, I promise." I told my daughter.

"Bwother Ikwuto will come to see me?" Amu asked the young boy while looking at him. The young boy nodded his head in response. Amu hugged him once again before pulling out and ran to me.

"Okay!" She exclaimed happily and I smiled.

I brought her to her room and helped her pack her dolls and belongings while my wife was still packing ours and our little ones.

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We had moved to our new house for a month. We were happy, I kept my promise to Amu, we visited Aruto's house sometimes. It was a lovely morning; I went to my office as usual, leaving my wife and daughters at our house. Who knows that day was the last day I saw my younger daughter…

I left for work that day, and came back a bit late than usual. I walked to my house and opened the door. I slipped inside but the room was so dark. 'What happen?' I asked myself. It was a bit unusual; my wife wouldn't turn off the lights even though I was late. I reached the light switch and switched on the lamp.

Even shock could not describe what I was feeling right now. My wife lied down on the cold floor with blood pooling around her. I grabbed my phone and dialed hospital's number asking for an ambulance. I grabbed my wife hands and she looked up onto me – thank god she was still alive.

"Amu… Ami…" She muttered slowly. Then I remembered my daughters. I put my wife on the couch gently then rushed to my daughter's room. Amu and Ami were covered with blood, Amu on her head and Ami on her stomach. The ambulance arrived later and I told them about my daughters and my wife. The medic brought them to the hospital and I followed them.

I prayed to god; please don't take my family away from me. We arrived at the hospital soon and the medic rushed them to the emergency room. I was asked to wait at the waiting room. I called Aruto and told him about the accident. He and his wife rushed over to the hospital, three of us were waiting for the doctor to deliver the news.

After two long hours, the doctor came out from their emergency room. He told us that my wife was okay, the bullet wasn't in the vital place but my younger daughter's life was in danger because the bullet was shot right at her vital organs while my older daughter probably would forget some of her memories because the culprit didn't shot her but knocked her head, hard.

My younger daughter was in coma. The doctor said they didn't know how long it would take until my daughter woke up. Three days later, my wife and my older daughter woke up. They looked pale, and as the doctor predicted before my older daughter had amnesia. She even didn't remember her own name or who I was. I told her about our family and Aruto's; Ikuto had come to visit her but she didn't want to meet him – maybe deep down, even if she couldn't remember, she was still feeling insecure after the incident.

Aruto and I worked hard to looked for the culprit and we finally found out who it was, it was the leader of Takahashi gang – Takahashi Eichi. We tried to catch him but every time we approached him, he managed to run away. Aruto and I decided to stop running after him and focus on my younger daughter's health instead.

It had been two months since the incident and Ami hadn't woken up. Amu started to remember everything but she couldn't remember Aruto's family while my wife had completely recovered. We visited Ami everyday and who knew today was our last day because the next day, the doctor informed us that my younger daughter had stopped breathing. They had done everything they could but her body refused to come back to life.

We had her funeral a few days later and buried her near my parents' graves, so that my late parents could keep my little baby company. My wife cried a lot, she couldn't believe her daughter would leave her on such young age.

End of flashback

Amu POV

My father finished his story and I cried. Why didn't I remember the fact that I had little sister nor her funeral?

"Why don't I remember anything about her?" I asked my patents.

"The doctor said that your brain was protecting you from being hurt. You were traumatized and couldn't remember any of your childhood memories. You had remembered once but then you fell unconscious immediately after that. We brought you to the hospital and when you woke up you only remembered us and your name. You didn't remember Ikuto, Utau, Aruto, Souko and your little sister." My father explained.

"How many Takahashis you know that make you couldn't tell that Aoi is his child?" I asked them.

"You know, there are a lot of Takahashis. We don't know that Takahashi Aoi is Claire's son or Eichi's son. He changed his name, from Eichi to Claire and we didn't know about it until Aruto told me." My father answered me.

"Could he still recognize me?" I asked, a bit scared from the fact.

"Maybe, we don't know." Aruto answered my question.

"What shall I do now?" I asked them.

"You have to call off the engagement." Aruto said, once again.

I nodded my head, this afternoon I would call Aoi and called off our engagement.

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Normal POV

Later that afternoon, Amu called Aoi and told him that she was calling off the engagement.

"Why? It's because of that man, right?" Aoi asked.

"No, I have my personal reasons and it's not him." The pinkette answered. Amu told the blond man before hanging up, "I'm sorry."

Aruto also spread the news of the broken engagement to the media and it spread to the world as fast as fire. Now, the entire world knew about the broken engagement.

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"Our plan failed, Father. I think Tsumugu has figured out that you changed your name." Aoi told his father.

"It's okay. We still have plan B after all." Claire told his son and hung up.

'Soon, Tsumugu, soon...' Claire thought.

Unfortunately for him, or for other related people, Claire didn't know the fact that Black Lynx didn't belong to Tsumugu. In fact, he didn't know that Tsukiyomi Aruto was involved at all in the largest syndicate in the underworld that he wanted to possess. And he, of course, didn't know that this small but major mistake would lead to his downfall.

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