On the helicopter the night air seemed tense and Clelia could feel the heat from the red light in the plane that is obviously a night vision light.

Firefly talks to Cobra Commander over his radio and says, "The jobs done."

Cobra Commanders laugh cackled over the radio and he says, "Excellent. Well that's means you go on leave with your girlfriend then. Have a great time Firefly."

Firefly says, "Thanks, Cobra Commander."

Then he hangs up.

They eventually get to Cobra Island and Firefly takes her to the dungeon where in the heat of the artificial light Clelia feels the ink going beneath her skin and clutched the arm of the chair in pain as the tattoo was put onto top of her right fore arm.

It's a Koga tattoo, which is a Sai knife in red with a dragon entwined around it.

It really hurt, she bit her lip and hopes her shakes that she gets won't spoil it.

Firefly looked disgusted, and bound her arm to the chair so tight that Clelia's handdn to tingle.

Once it was done they went with the babies and the nanny to Vietnam first by plane for some reason.

In Vietnam the plane landed in a private runway of Firefly's and they went out into the night where they were met by attendants of Firefly's. Once they were taken to Firefly's farmhouse there, they put away their things in their rooms. Then instead of going to bed at so late at night, eleven-thirty.

Firefly drove his forward drive car to a farm that was on the outskirts of Dak To and there they met a woman, Clelia automatically recognized the woman as the woman in a photo she saw Thomas looking at once.

The woman introduced herself as Junko and she looked at Clelia and asks, "Is there a problem?"

Clelia says, "I've seen you before, that's all. No problem."

Clelia heard Junko shrugged, her black air moving around her shoulders and says, "I don't care, where you thought you saw me. I've been hiding out in Vietnam for the past five years so I don't think you could have seen me anywhere, unless you've been around this farm and Dak To in the last five years."

Clelia looked down feeling uncomfortable under Junko's long glare and she says, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to annoy you."

Junko and Firefly lean over, Firefly lifted up Clelia'a chin in his hand making her look in her eyes and he says, "We didn't hear what you said Karakuri?!" He spat in her face as he said it and yelled, "SAY IT AGAIN!"

Clelia tries to move her face out of his hand, but she can't. Firefly was holding a too tight a grip on her, she cries out in pain.

Feeling herself bruising up already, Junko intervenes grabbing his hand and twisting it.

Then throwing Firefly onto the ground, Junko says, "Leave her alone! What the fuck is wrong with you?! There is no need to do anything to her! She's supposed to be your girlfriend. Treat her like one; I want you off my property if this is how you're going to act!"

Firefly gets up dusting himself off and says, "Well, okay I agree to behave towards my girlfriend. Now would you just let me talk business with you, instead of worrying about my treatment of women?!"

Junko nods and they all go inside, Firefly gesturing Clelia in to follow.

Clelia follows and goes inside where they have tea and Biang Gio and talk business. Junko is considering doing freelance work for Cobra just like Firefly and Clelia do.

Firefly is persuading her to do it, but Junko still isn't sure if she wants to give up her life of training in Vietnam. Firefly in frustration of trying to convince Junko and failing, leaves to go for a walk and check out her training facilities.

Junko asks as Clelia's stuffing her face with Biang Gio, "Where exactly did you think you saw me before?"

Clelia swallows the Biang Gio in her mouth and says, "Oh, I saw you. I definitely saw you. In the wallet of Thomas Arashikaji…look I know i shouldn't have looked at what he was looking at when he pulled out his wallet-"

Junko interrupts saying, "Wait Thomas Arashikage's wallet! You saw my photo in Thomas Arashikage's wallet? You know him?!"

Clelia nodded saying, "Yes, he knows my father." She said between bites of Biang Gio.

Junko looks at her and asks, "Who is your father to him?"

Clelia says, "His best friend."

Junko looks at her unbelieving and says in a sarcastic tone, "Sure, your fathers Snake-eyes right?"

Clelia nods eating another Biang Gio.

Junko looks at her shocked, she does a retake looking at Clelia up and down and she asks, "I thought they didn't have any children?"

Clelia says, "They do me, Shana gave me up for adoption in 1983. She didn't tell anyone about it, well except for her parents. She didn't tell Snake-eyes though."

Clelia can feel Junko looking at her shocked and asks, "Why didn't she tell him?"

Clelia says, "She thought their relationship wasn't ready for me at the time and he wasn't ready."

Clelia can hear Junko nodding pulling the Biang Gio plate away from Clelia's reach and Junko says, "You say Arashikage wrong you know, did they tell you that?"

Clelia blushes and looks down giggling. Then she says, "Yes, almost everyone's given up telling me how to say it properly after two months of knowing me. They kind of just think it's cute. Thomas didn't though, he just called it a speech impediment and he corrected me on it every time I said it wrong I should say."

Junko says, "Well, I would too. It's said Ah-raw-shee-Ka-gay. Say it."

Clelia says, "Ah-raw-shee-Kay-gay."

Clelia can hear Junko nodding and looking down tears falling from her eyes, she mutters, "I miss Thomas, too. I didn't know if he would still think about me. Did he say I was his girlfriend?"

Clelia sat there a little uncomfortable at Junko's outburst and said, "No, I didn't ask. I just looked away after he saw me looking and he clamped his wallet shut."

Junko says, "He has a girlfriend me, well he had me. Obviously we're not together anymore."

Junko looks down and looks at the screen door where she can hear the rain start pelting down.

Then she quickly looks back at Clelia and says, "I just wanted to know if he still thinks of me and I can't find that out."

Junko sighs and looks down crying, Clelia says quickly, "I'm sorry. He did look at the picture of you two in the wallet so he was obviously thinking of you." Clelia looks nervously at the door and says, "Please don't tell Firefly anything I told you."

Junko wipes her tears away nodding and says, "I think he may already know, somehow I don't think he would have taken you as his apprentice and girlfriend if he didn't know. He would be doing it to get at Snake-eyes, those two hate each other."

Clelia asks, "They do?!"(Looking nervously at the door again Clelia asks) "Can you just not tell him? Our conversation, please?"

Junko puts a hand over Clelia's hand and says, "If it makes you feel any better I won't. You told me Thomas is still thinking about me after all and that is a big deal to me so thanks."

Clelia nods and Junko says, "Your father hates him because he killed his apprentice Opheila. She was like a daughter to him, it crushed him Thomas said."

Clelia asks, "Like a daughter to him? But I'm supposed to be his daughter! That's twice I find this out, first with Kamakura and now with this girl Opheila. No wonder why he doesn't love me he's already got his family. There's no room for me."

Junko looks concerned and says, "I'm sure that's not the case."

Clelia looks down and now it's her turn to cry and she looks up with a snotty nose. Plus heaps of tears falling down her face uncontrollably and she asks, "Why didn't they come for me then? Why didn't they rescue me? When I was kidnapped along with the family I was a nanny for?!"

Junko comes over to Clelia's side of the table and grabs Clelia in a hug, comforting her and she says, "Clelia I'm sure your parents would have a come for you. Their like that you know, honorable caring people I saw Snake-eyes in a fight. He was amazing and from what I what I heard about them from Thomas, they would have done everything they could to find you."

Clelia looks up at Junko, wiping her tears and asks, "Really? They would have looked for me you think?"

Junko is looking at Clelia straight at where her eyes should be open, Clelia can feel it and she is about to say something when Firefly comes in the doorway and says, "Bullshit! Don't feed her fairy stories Junko! While you and I both know Snake-eyes only daughter ever was Opheila and no one can compete with a dead girl! Plus Shana obviously doesn't love her either that's why she didn't come to her rescue."

Junko holding Clelia in her arms glares at Firefly and screams at him, "You're a liar! You and your Cobra friends gave that same bullshit to me about Stormshadow and it wasn't true! Don't poison this girl with your lies!"

Firefly tries to grab Clelia from out from Junko's arms, but Junko won't let her and Firefly says, "She's telling you lies! Just so she can make fun of you that's all."

Clelia looks at Junko and imagining her laughing at her with her family and she screams at Junko, "Let me go!"

Then she throws Junko off her and stands above her and says, "Leave me alone!"

Junko looks at her and then at Firefly, she shakes her head gets up and says, "Fine. He's got control of you. You won't listen to me. So just go."

Firefly pulls Clelia outside and goes back inside socking wet and then next thing Clelia knows is Firefly is flying through the screen door and breaks the ferns as he fly's through them and then lands on his back in her front yard. On the muddy ground, in the rain.

Junko comes out through the teared screen with a sword and says, "You and your apprentice are to leave my property now!"

Firefly gets up and nods, he says, "Let's go Clelia. This was a wasted effort; this girl still wants to play dead."

Clelia looks at him in confusion about what he says and follows him to the forward drive, where he then drives them back to his farm.

As he gets out of the parked forward drive Clelia asks, "Why is Junko supposed to be dead?"

Firefly looks in the car at her and says, "She made Stormshadow and everyone else believe she was dead by faking to commit suicide, she really turned it to a dive once she was in the darkness and survived the high drop. It was still such a high drop she should have died, but she survived and covered her tracks. Made her way to a Shrang-La and got a new identity on the black market and then she came to Vietnam. Got money from a secret account she had and brought a farm here where she's been training herself to become a better fighter than she was before, for the past five years. Only one of my men found out she was alive and here."

Clelia looked at him in shock and got out of the car with him and went inside. The next day they flew to Japan.