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Chapter 4
"Kaori?",Ryo's voice echoed from the doorway into the empty room before him.
It was well past midnight,he had rushed home earlier only to find it empty with no signs of Kaori having returned,frustration coursed through his veins-where was she?
With a desperate urgency he barely could understand or recognize he skimmed the whole apartment wishing beyond hope that he would find Kaori miraculously appearing in one of the rooms.
With one final sweep of his glance through Kaori's room,he walked towards the living room his mind clouded with anxious thoughts...
Retrieving the bottle of alcohol he had abandoned that afternoon,he plopped down on the couch.
Again not bothering with a glass,Ryo took a swish of the drink from the bottle and felt it burn his throat as it seeped through him and he let his mind wander...
As much as he tried to deny it,he hated the feeling of insecurities that washed through him in waves and the feeling of dread kept on rising constantly inside him.
He recognized the feeling- he often felt it before a mission or a case when something bad was going to happen-something was going to go wrong...But right now it seemed to be amplified as if screaming at him that things were going to get out of hand very soon.
He kept thinking of Kaori...
No,he would not let anything happen to her...while he was still breathing,nothing would be allowed to hurt her.
Kaori was his and only his...Mine..he thought,even if he dare not say these feelings out loud.
Positioning himself on the couch more comfortably,he prepared himself to wait for Kaori's his instinct had him reaching for his Cold Python...Just in case...
Stop.
Stop!Stop!
Kaori kept screaming ...yet not screaming.
She moved and laughed...yet she never did ...no one could have felt so alien with their own body and actions...
Her throat throbbed with the urge to cry...yet she kept on smiling and laughing.
Why is this happening?What is happening?
She asked herself over and over again..but no plausible answer she could think of made sense.
She wished with all her might that she would wake up from this nightmare that seemed to last on forever...
The nightmare had begun the minute she had opened her eyes and seen -that man.
Her immediate reflex had been to run,get away as far as possible from him.
But when she tried to put her thoughts into action-she could not move her head,mouth,limbs...nothing.
As the feeling of dread filled her,the fear within her reached a height that overwhelmed her..tears threatened to spill yet there were no real tears...
No...she would not cry she would not give them that satisfaction...she would be strong..she has to be...because he was coming..He..her...Her Ryo..her City Hunter...she would remain strong for him and she knew that he would save her just like many times before...He always saved her...And he would again.
Kaori was suddenly overcome with a calmness that put her pained conscious to rest and she felt herself hoping..praying...waiting..for her savior.
...
Some time had passed and she could hear sounds..faint at first but clearly now,she was inside a moving vehicle she deduced as she heard the passing of other vehicles and the sound of the engine of the vehicle she was in...
But all the while Kaori kept watching the man in front of her...Him...he looked at her with predator eyes and she could just well hear the thoughts that were going through his vicious mind...
Kaori would have shuddered ...if she could move that is...
Lei Akumu...the last man she wanted to see in this life...or the next...or the one after that...
Dark eyes scanned her body, while malicious fingers rested on his crossed noticed her staring at him and his smirk broadened,the very image making Kaori want to right hook him..she never had wanted to move her hands as much as now and to that lump on his shoulder that was called his face...
"Kaori love...I see you are awake!Why dont you sit up so we can talk?",he said .The jovial tone scaring Kaori to her wanted to scream it to his face that she could not stand up..or move a muscle in her own body..but to her greatest horror she found herself sitting up...what was going on?...Why can she move all of a sudden?Why could not she move a minute before he ordered her to do so...
"Easy Kaori,easy..Dont be so hard on yourself...I'll explain... now we go shopping ...And dont worry about Saeba I made sure he would not worry about you...For the time being that is.",he said with a evil glint in his eyes.
Not worry?..How would Ryo not worry given the state she was in...
Her eyes narrowed at Akumu...shooting invisible bullets asking him the unspoken question-What Have You Done?
As if understanding her action,Lei threw his head back and laughed hard,"You will find out soon but now we make the best out of the day and get my woman something to wear.",his eyes watching her jeans and ragged top with distaste.
Kaori 's eyes itched to twitch with annoyance..she is what she is,how dare he suggest otherwise!And by God she was not his woman!...she was Ry-..no..not yet...she was no man's heart clenched tight but she fought to suppress her misery as the door to the spacious limo-she realized the vehicle she was in a while ago-opened and Akumu stepped out and offered his hand..
What happened next was horror...she took his hand without any objection and Kaori could feel the smile on her face...
WHAT WAS HAPPENING!?
Her mind kept screaming at her, reprimanding her conscience for her actions...while she walked with Akumu,hand in hand to the mall...
The anger bubbled inside her,she felt dirty just touching him...
He took her to store after store,buying her the most expensive things...necklaces,dresses,shoes...everything.
She felt suffocated...she wanted to tear her hair out in frustration..her hands itched for her hammer,so that she could bash his skull in...
As Akumu directed her to a store for what seemed like the nth store that day,she caught sight of familiar faces at the food court..
SAEKO!..REIKA!..her mind screamed as she kept walking with Akumu...
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