Hn... Does anyone even read this?

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Akisame handed Niijima the very last file to look at out of the pile of potential wives and groaned when the teen scanned the pages then tossed the file aside and then flopped over onto his back for a moment before muttering almost despairingly, "We're doomed." Which very well may have been true from the teen's point of view...but he didn't give in so easily.

He sighed tiredly and rolled his shoulders. Maybe he should go get some fresh air, grab something to eat and then try hitting that horrible (honest to god if he ever saw another file again after this he'd scream until his throat bled) pile of files again. Maybe the reason he hadn't found what he was looking for was because he was looking/asking for too much of the brides.

"Was that really the last of the marriage interview profiles?" Akisame asked tiredly as Niijima seemed to recall something and automatically bolted upright.

"Oh! I forgot," The teen said as he pulled his discarded backpack over to him and started going through it until he pulled out a file that Akisame had never seen before. "After talking to Mr. Ma the other day about finding one of you a prospective bride with connections to the government, police, FBI, Interpol, CIA and so on- I managed to find one person who fits what your looking for. A fellow student at my school..." He set the file down on the floor in between himself and the master who had suddenly grown strangely silent, indicating that he was listening intently and would continue to do so until Niijima was finished.

"She's an exchange student from the US who was sent here so that she could graduate from high school with little to no problems. Apparently a lot of her family is rich and even more of them are military, former military, police, CIA- well you get the picture. She's an heiress, the only daughter of a nice couple with impressive backgrounds in both business and being former military. Her father is an retired army general who now works with the president of the United States. He used to work with her mother for a time after being gravely wounded and being discharged, but after a little while decided to go into politics since it was something he excelled at. Her mother is a former model turned actress/singer her husband worked with her as her bodyguard up until she retired. She has two older brothers. Jamie, 28, and Auston, 26."

"One is CIA. And the other is former Delta Force and now works as a S.W.A.T team sniper. She has some relatives living here in Japan who are part of the police force, some work directly with the Japanese government on reigning in and dealing with terrorism," It was at this point that Akisame let out a low whistle. Damn. This girl Niijima had found had everything he was looking for and more. But like the old saying goes, If something sounds too good to be true... It usually is.

"Is there a catch?"

"Pardon?"

"A catch," Akisame repeated. "You seem to be pointing out the connection her family has and very little to nothing else. Tell me about the girl herself."

"Oh," Niijima said awkwardly, he had been hoping that the master would overlook that for now since he wasn't exactly sure what to say about Hanna.

"Does she have a rotten personality or something?" Akisame asked. Deciding right then and there that if she did he wouldn't give her the time of day.

"What? No! No, no, no, no! Nothing like that. She's actually a very sweet and kind person, it's just that..." What hell am I going to say? Niijima wondered to himself as he took a moment to think. He knew with holding information from a potential husband/wife during a marriage interview was wrong. But Hanna had been sent to Japan to get away from all of the people in her family who had tried to wrest control of her mother and father's jobs and leave them with nothing because they felt Hanna herself was an embarrassment.

They had started lies and gossip about what had happened to her when she was thirteen. Wanting to either ruin the girl completely or drive her into a corner with no other option for relief except her own demise.

And if that had happened then those bastards and bitches could have laughed and said, "I told you so." And it would have only made everything they had said about her more believable than it already was.

And that was part of the reason her parents wanted to marry as soon as she graduated. They wanted someone who knew about her past, and would treat her with kindness and compassion. But most of all they wanted someone who would be patient with her and protect her from further harm.

Finally, Niijima sighed and looked the master in the eye and said, "Hanna's home situation is rather difficult. Many people in her family love and adore her and her parents who are the heads of their family- However others... Others have tried various methods at their disposal in an effort to destroy her and her parents and siblings. Kidnapping, drugs, physical and mental abuse and torture- Even I don't know all of the details about everything. Hanna isn't too much of a talker. She has to feel very comfortable around someone before she'll even consider talking."

"But the two of you do have many things in common. Art, music, literature- which should be great as an ice breaker. I know for sure that she's written and published several books of poetry as well as a few novels. She does it as a part time job to pay her way through school as well as her current living expenses and such without having to rely on her parents too much. It's admirable really. Personality wise she's a lot like Kenichi. She comes across as somewhat timid, but push the wrong button and she'll knock you out."

"No formal training at hand to hand, karate or anything else. Although if she does have any prior knowledge it was given to her by her father and brothers." Akisame made a thoughtful humming sound before asking,

"Is there anything else?"

"Like what?"

"Age. Physical appearance."

"Ah! Hold on." Niijima said as he held up one finger to silence him and rooted around the inside of his backpack again until he managed to produce a polaroid photo. And held it out to Akisame who took it and did a brief glance at the photo and felt as if he had been punched in the stomach by Appachai. His breath left his lungs in a loud 'whoosh' and his heart did a curious flip flop in his chest.

Oh my- Akisame thought as he glanced over the face of the young woman in the photo. She was a lovely little thing. He surmised as he calculated her height, weight, width of her hips, and bust measurements before moving on to other things. Like the peculiar coloring of her eyes, a strange mixture between neon blue and mint green. To the color and length of her hair, a beautiful shade of silvery blond that looked more silver than the ash blond that highlighted her mid back length hair.

She had milky white skin, smooth, and flawless, her lips were a pale, pale pink- And she was wearing a black long sleeved shirt, a silver necklace, and faded skinny jeans with black leather boots with more than a few buckles on them.

Yes she was indeed a lovely little thing. And would suit him quite well if all that Niijima had said was true. "Age?" He asked again.

"Nineteen. Though by the time she graduates she'll be twenty." Akisame frowned. Normally speaking kids graduated from high school at eighteen. So why had this girl two years behind everyone else? He was about to ask Niijima when the teen said,

"She left school temporarily for work and had to redo all of the work last year after moving here and settling in. So she got a little behind. But she managed to catch up and this is her last year."

"I see." Akisame said as he continued to stare at the photo for a moment before stating that he needed a little bit to think things over and thanked Niijima for his time and then promptly got up and seized the teen by the back of his shirt and tossed him out of his work room and slammed the door.