A/N: We are so sorry for the long hiatus on the new chapter! Life and lack of inspiration struck in the worst of times, but finally everything is getting back to normal. From here on things should be rolling more smoothly.

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Chapter 29

Asami's POV

Asami threw the front door open right as Suoh and Kei pulled up in the truck, Bluetooth piece in his ear where Rin was standing by for orders. While the others had been on their way, he had changed into more appropriate wear for this rescue mission. A black t-shirt, cargo pants, and a pair of combat boots. Right behind the truck another pulled up, guards quickly pooling out of it. Even if he trusted Fei and Kirishima to keep the children safe, he wanted to make sure nothing else went wrong. This needed to go over as smoothly as possible, and if something happened to either of those two while he was gone…well honestly Asami didn't even want to think about it. "Kei, get in the house with Feilong. You are in charge of everything until we bring them home. Keep all the men here with you, and protect the kids at all costs." He barked out as he approached the truck.

"Yes sir, just please be careful." Nodding, Asami slipped into the passenger's seat beside Suoh, who quickly sped off as soon as the door was shut. They were both as impatient as the other to get their loved ones back in their arms.

Remembering that he had Rin on mute, he rectified that to begin speaking to the guard. "Rin, our ETA is fifteen minutes. Hold your position and relay what you see."

"Asami-sama, there are four guards outside though none are heavily armed. There is a gate twenty five meters from the house, but I've already disengaged the lock so you will be able to drive through it and catch them by surprise. Jun has cameras set, but I'm trying to hack into them as we speak and put them on a loop. It will be done before your arrival."

"Good job Rin. Do you have any idea about what's going on inside? How many men there are, where they're stationed?"

"I think there are three more guards inside. The windows are covered but I'm getting four heat registers from inside but I think that have separated them sir. From the heat positions Mayuri-sama is the only one in the room with two guards outside the door. The fourth is farther inside to the back of the house, guarding what appears to be an empty room."

Asami glanced over at Suoh, whose knuckles had turned white from the pressure used to grip the steering wheel. He could tell that the man wanted to say something, but was reframing too. Good thing he knew exactly what that blonde giant was thinking…because it's what he would be thinking right then as well. "Can you get inside without being seen, Rin? I want eyes on Mayuri before we extract them."

There was a short moment of silence on the other line before: "Yes sir, but what about Takaba-Sama?"

"If they've moved him we will find out where, but we have to save Mayuri first. Now move." Without waiting for the confirmation from the other, Asami hit the mute button again. Glancing over, he locked eyes with Suoh for a brief moment as the other nodded in thanks after releasing a breath of relief. The rest of the drive went over in a mutual silence as they sped towards the location given by Rin, but soon they were pulling the truck to a top several meter from the gate into a hidden drive. As they parked, Asami grabbed the Kevlar vest from the back and tossed one to his guard before putting his own on. Which was a little difficult to do in the truck, but it wasn't the first time.

Receiving a look from Suoh, Asami raised an eyebrow. "Your husband would never forgive me if something happened to you, and I really don't want to get into it with Mayuri. Even with two damaged legs he's a force to be reckoned with when angry. Now wear it, that's an order!"

Suoh looked like he almost cracked a smile, but it didn't quite reach. They were both too emotionally drained, and this was not the time for joking around. "Yes sir." Once both their vests and shoulder harnesses were on securely, Asami reached behind him and grabbed the duffle bag from the backseat. As quickly as possible the pair loaded up their tactical vests with everything they could possible require, making sure their guns had silencers equipped to them.

"Alright Kazumi, get through the gate and I'll cover you." Asami ordered as they both exited the truck, getting into position for the ambush. He reached up and tapped the button in his ear piece so he could once more communicate with their man inside. "Rin, have you made your way inside and do you have Mayuri protected?"

"Yes sir, I'm in the room with him as we speak."

"Good, hold your position and protect him at all costs. We'll be making our way in as soon as we clear the outside." Tapping the button one last time, he glanced over at Suoh and gave a single nod, signaling it was time to head in. Asami moved silently behind Suoh as they stealthily moved through the gate. Within a few meters into the property, they made out the silhouette of a guard making rounds around the wooded area. Moving in from behind, the large blonde grabbed him up from behind, arm covering the thrashing man's mouth as he plunged his knife into the man's neck, keeping a tight grip until eventually the movement ceased. Suoh dragged the body off into the bushes, disposing of it. One down.

The two men, fueled by their sheer determination to get their loved one's home safe, moved with military precision, taking out every threat swiftly. It wasn't long and they had four bodies hidden in the surrounding bushes and they were heading for the door. Just as Suoh was about to step through the door, an unknown fifth guard appeared from the dark tree lining, firing his weapon in their direction. Suoh managed to get to safety inside the run down house, but Asami wasn't as lucky as he took a bullet to his left bicep. Suoh was quick to return fire, but it was the injured crime lord who made the final blow with a straight and perfect shot through the head.

Gripping his arm to staunch the blood flow, Asami got himself inside before another "surprise" threatened their lives. Thankfully it appeared that Rin had already dealt with two of the three guards inside when he was getting inside to Mayuri, giving them a small reprieve. Still, the two remained cautious as they ventured through the front of the house, but once they reached the slight ajar door…Suoh threw it open and rushed in to his husband's side.

Rin, who had been standing guard near the door, pulled Asami to the side. "Sir, Mayuri stated that Takaba-sama has not left the house, but Jun separated them almost half an hour ago."

Usually this would be where he ordered Suoh to have his back while they searched for Akihito, but with even a little glance he could see that his longtime friend needed a doctor. Mayuri looked pale, fevered, and he was near unconscious. "Suoh take Mayuri to the hospital. Rin and I will take it from here."

The blonde didn't need to be told twice as he lifted his lover into his arms, but Mayuri stopped him before they reached the door. "Ryu, I'm sorry…I…I couldn't keep Aki safe." From the guilty tone and haunted look the designer was giving him, Asami knew that he wasn't going to be taking back the same little kitten that had been in his arms only days before.

"…As long as he's alive, we can get through anything. I'll worry about Akihito from here, you need to be concerned with yourself right now." With that the two pairs parted ways.

"Sir, the last guard is positioned in the far back room but I'm not picking up any signs of Akihito or Jun from the infrared sensor." Rin murmured, holding the small device out towards Asami for him to see. Sure enough, there was only one heat signal showing up.

"Then keep that one alive. There's got to be a secret room or something, and we might just have to convince our…."friend" to tell us where it is."

A smirk passed over Rin's face. "Of course, sir."

A few minutes later.

It's amazing how quickly someone will talk after breaking only a few bones, and taking off a few fingernails. Upon them arriving in the room, they had found it almost completely bared and covered in filth and dust. After they had the residing guard tied up and out of their hair, the two had searched for any hidden panels in the wall, only to come up with nothing. Too impatient to waste any more time, it only took a couple minutes to extract the information from the sniveling mess in the corner and now here they were, making their way down a ladder that would lead right into the heart of the sick and twisted mind that belonged to Jun.

Reaching the bottom of the latter, Asami could hear grunts of pain along with muffled, screamed words that were coming from his lover. Caution was thrown to wind as he ran through towards Akihito's voice, not even taking time to notice his surroundings. He didn't care about anything other than getting to his Aki to stop whatever was going on, and Asami's mind could only imagine the worst possible scenarios.

Asami threw open the door the voices were coming from, well prepared to kill Jun then and there to stop whatever monstrosity he was putting his lover through, only to be frozen mid step as his mind registered what his eyes were seeing. Akihito had Jun pinned to the ground on his stomach and was screaming almost unintelligible words at him, all the while smashing his face repeatedly onto the bloodied ground. It wasn't until Jun's grunts fell silent that he found his voice, taking another step forwards.

"Akihito, Stop!"

Some minutes before….

Akihito's POV

Akihito had always considered himself to have total control over himself, at least when it came to violence and anger. There was always enough self-control where he could stop himself before he seriously hurt somebody…that was until today. His blood was boiling, hearing and seeing what this sick piece of shit wanted to do to his children. Knowing that Jun wanted them to play a part in his sick and twisted fantasy…it made something in him just snap.

Grabbing the nearest item (which in this case was a lamp), he swung it as hard as he could against the back of Jun's head while he was turned, breaking It in half. Ignoring the surprised cry of pain, Akihito took his chance to throw himself full force into Jun's back, knocking them both down to the floor with a loud thud. Straddling the ex-yakuza's hips and grabbing clumps of hair in both hands, Akihito began slamming Jun's head into the floor repeatedly.

"The only way you would EVER get to lay one of your filthy hands on my kids is over my ROTTING DEAD BODY!" Akihito screamed, ignoring the pathetic grunts and curses coming from the struggling man under him, the blonde relentless as he bashed his face over and over again, blood pooling onto the floor. For a split second he became acutely aware of hands reaching back at him, but he continued undeterred. The photographer was completely detached from himself, stuck in the motion of what he was doing rather than the reality of it. He was going to kill this kidnapping son of bitch. Akihito was going to murder a man.

At some point the movement under him had completely ceased, but even that didn't stop him. If the fucker could still make noises, he wasn't dead. And if he wasn't dead, then his children were still in danger. So he just kept smashing, over and over with strength he didn't realize he had, especially after days without food. Even when he heard the door to the room open, he barely acknowledged it, didn't even look over. In the back of his mind he knew it was likely one of Jun's cronies, and if that were the case he would likely be pried off the almost unconscious man before he met his end goal. And then…he would probably be killed, or worse.

"Akihito, Stop!" He kept going, his mind not registering the owner of the voice. He couldn't, not even if he wanted to. Suddenly there were two strong arms wrapping around his chest, pulling him from the limp body under him. Instinctually he began fighting, kicking and trying to bite his "attacker."

"LET ME GO!" He screeched, sinking his teeth into the man's forearm.

There was a sudden sharp intake of breath, but the owner of the arm didn't move to pry him off. "You're going to kill him, Akihito!"

"Fuck yes I'm going to kill him! Now let me the fuck go!"

"Akihito, if you kill him you would never be able to live with yourself." Akihito blinked, his struggles slowing down to almost nothing as realization set in. He turned his head slowly, eyes wide as they locked with a pair of concerned golden orbs.

"Asami…?" He turned around, reaching up to touch the man's face just to make sure this was actually real. Every other time it hadn't been…but this was real! He could feel Asami's face…he could hear his voice…nothing about the room was fuzzy…Asami was really here! He had actually found them! "Dammit Asami…what the hell took you so long?!" Akihito exclaimed, his arms wrapping around the man's middle so he could hold him tightly, scared that if he let go Asami would disappear before his eyes.

"I'm sorry I kept you waiting, but I'm here and it's time to go home."

"…What about Jun? I'm not leaving here until I know that son of a bitch is as good as dead! You have to promise me, promise me you're going to take care of him. Because…if you don't I'm going to finish what I started, I swear to god." He muttered into his lover's chest, hands gripping the back of Asami's shirt tightly.

Akihito was soon being lifted off the ground princess style into Asami's arms, and although any other time he would have bitched about it…right now it was exactly what he needed. He needed to be as close to the love of his life as possible, he needed the attention and the sense of security. "Jun will never show up in our lives again, I promise. Rin, you know what to do."

"Yes sir, I'll take care of it."

Knowing that everything would be taken care of, Akihito felt a sudden wave of relief wash over him as he relaxed more into Asami's arms. He was so exhausted…his body hurt…and he was so emotionally drained. All he wanted to do was get the hell out of this place and never think about it again, he wanted this chapter of his life to be torn from the books, but deep down he knew that it wasn't that easy. Even once Jun's existence was erased from the world, the memories would always here there. It wasn't something you could just burn out of your mind or cover up with hundreds of good memories. Akihito knew this from experience.

The photographer didn't say anything until they were finally outside and he was able to breathe the cool, fresh air. Looking around, Aki frowned when he didn't see Suoh with Mayuri anywhere, immediately he started to panic while his heart raced in his chest. "Asami, where's Mayuri?! You guys got him out first, right?!" He felt like he was going to have a fucking heart attack.

"Calm down, of course we got him out. Suoh is on the way to the hospital with him, and there's a car on its way here to take us there too so you can get checked out."

Excuse you? "What?! No! I don't want to go to the hospital! I want to go home and be with the kids!"

Asami looked down, his expression turning borderline stern. "You're going to the hospital, Akihito. Your health and wellbeing has to come first, but I promise you…if you end up having to stay overnight I will bring the kids over." He wanted to continue pushing, but he could see it in Asami's eyes that his lover was struggling not to break in front of him. And if he looked so bad that it had Asami looking like he was going to either cry or go on a murdering rampage, then he needed a doctor. Hell, HE knew he needed to see the doctor…but he just didn't want to. Akihito knew what was going to happen, knew all the hard questions they were going to ask…and all the tests they would have to do…

With that sickening knot that had been in the pit of his stomach for days rearing its ugly head again, Aki nodded. "Alright…but you better get me good food if I have to stay the night. I've had enough hospital food to last a life time! I'm talking ramen from my favorite shop (you know the one), chips, and a parfait!" The blonde said in a fake huffy tone, attempting to lighten the mood. It seemed to work, as Asami cracked a smirk and chuckled.

"It's a deal."

Asami's POV

As it turned out, they only kept Akihito there for a few hours to check him over, run a few tests, and tell him he needed to take at least a week to rest and recover from everything. In the end Akihito was malnourished, had a broken hand and rib, and his body was covered in bruises and abrasions. His neck looked the worse, the back of it burned badly from the numerous electric shocks. Right now they had it wrapped up, and had already informed them it was going to leave a nasty scar…but that was okay. As long as Akihito was going to recover and was safe. Probably the best and worst news they received was that Akihito was still…sexually healthy. Other than a few tears that would heal, he was perfectly fine. Now this was great news because it meant Akihito hadn't contracted any deseases, and everything would…eventually go back to normal. But the worst news because that disgusting man had touched his Akihito, multiple times. He had scarred the love of his life in a way he could never make go away…and for that he was going to make sure Jun paid. The things that he was going do….

Where Akihito was able to go home, Mayuri would be there overnight while they tried to get his cough under control and do tests on his legs to make sure there wasn't any further damage done. While they had been waiting for Aki's tests, the blonde had spent most of his time in there with the designer, fussing over him while the two spoke and cried together. Asami and Suoh had given them time alone, and during then was when he got himself seen about. When he had time to talk to Mayuri alone, Asami had found out a little of what happened, some of what Akihito had through.

"I'm so sorry Ryu…I couldn't protect him. He protected me, and because of that…I'm sorry."

Asami shook his head as he recalled what Mayuri had said, and how guilty the other seemed to feel. It was ridiculous, because honestly he already knew that was how it was going to happen. Akihito would never let anyone else get hurt if he could help it, especially not Mayuri when getting hurt could paralyze him for life. At the end of the day, he was just happy they were both alive and back where they belonged.

Even though Akihito had been released that night, Asami couldn't help but spoil the boy as he sent someone to get the food he requested anyway. It had been waiting on the table by the time they got home, and had disappeared not too long afterwards by a near starving Akihito. After a genuinely loving reunion between Akihito, Fei, and Kei (where Akihito had spent at least five minutes thanking Fei repeatedly for taking care of the kids), his little blonde lover had found his way up the stairs and made his home in bed with the kids. Whenever the little ones woke up, they would wake up surprised and happy…which was something Asami was looking forwards to. It felt like an eternity since the last time he saw either of his kids happy and smiling, and he knew it would help Akihito as well.

A knock at his study door brought him out of his thoughts. "Sir, we're all here." Came Kei from the other side, before the door was pushed open and in walked Kei, Rin, and Feilong.

"Fei, you can go sleep. You're not needed here for this."

"I already informed him of this, sir. He insists on being here." Kirishima said, pushing his glasses up.

Fei smirked as he leaned against the wall, arms crossed over his chest. "Oh I'm not missing this for the world!~ This is too interesting not to watch."

Letting out a sigh, Asami just shook his head. "Fine, just keep quiet," He muttered dismissively before he turned his attention towards the person this entire meeting was about, "Down to business…Did you take care of our little pest?"

"Yes sir, I've moved him to a secure location for whenever you're ready to deal with him."

Asami nodded slowly. "Good. Now…I have a few questions regarding your disappearance that last five days."

"Of course, sir. I'll answer everything to the best of my ability." Rin replied, bowing his head respectfully.

"All the yakuza that have recently gone missing….that was you, wasn't it?"

"Yes sir."

"Are they still alive?"

Rin looked to be contemplating for a moment, before he firmly nodded. "They should be, yes." Asami slowly raised an eyebrow in his direction.

"Should be?"

"If I did the math right, then yes they are most certainly still alive." Why does this ominous answer not at all surprise me?

"They better be, because otherwise that's going to cause me problems. And I'm already not happy about you going against your word." Rin looked like he was about to say something, but Asami didn't give him the chance. "Having said that, you found them and proved yourself to be very capable and useful. And for that you've earned yourself a raise, and a second paid vacation this year. Consider it a token of my gratitude."

"Thank you so much, sir! It's appreciated, but you really don't ha-"

"Though while you disappeared, I did learn some very interesting information I would like to bring up. First, there's words that the Russian's are moving towards South America. You had something to do with that, didn't you…Keyser?" Asami had to admit, it was amusing to see the color drain from Rin's face as he said this. "Finding out about this name of yours really helped us in finally getting a grasp on just who it is we hired."

"Sir, I can explain-"

"No need too. You've proven yourself loyal to the Asami's, so your past as a mercenary is going to be overlooked. Though I don't appreciate you having contacts with my enemy, as long as nothing comes of it and you never bring up my name or Akihito's to Arbatov again…I won't care who you're friends with." With that, Asami leaned back in his chair and smirked. "Though my interest has been peeked about something…one of the infamous rumors of Keyser is that he knows everything. And where I admit in the time I've known you there have been many instances you have more details on matter than you should, I'm not sure I believe it."

A dark and almost playful glint appeared in Rin's eyes as he recognized the challenge. "I see, so you want me to tell you something that should be impossible that I know?"

"If you can."

"Oh I can. How about this: I know how you subdued both Akihito and Feilong." ….What?

Asami frowned, raising an eyebrow. "What are you speaking of?"

"Why don't I show you instead?" With that, Rin grabbed Kei's arm and yanked him over before he bent him over the desk, pushing the barrel of his gun to the secretary's ass. As their eyes locked, the events of which Rin were referring to hit him like a ton of bricks. There's no way…there's no way he knows that! "Well, I'm heading home!~ Yoh has been blowing up my phone with texts since I got back!~ Have a nice night!~" Rin chirped before Asami could say anything else, letting a flustered Kirishima up as he exited the study.

"…Fei, did you tell him?"

"Tell him?! I haven't told anyone!" Fei exclaimed, and Asami could have sworn he saw heat rising to the other's face.

"Well it had to of been you…there was no one else in the room and we were on a boat in the middle of the ocean."

"I can assure you, I have not told a soul. I would have rather died than anyone know of that humiliating experience." Fei muttered, frowning.

Kirishima shakily sat down, pushing his glasses up. "…That guy terrifies me."

"One things for certain…he could definitely be a dangerous enemy." Which is why if he ever shows a sign of betrayal…I'll kill him.