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Chapter 4:
Sir Edward's carriage brought Misaki back to her house after the ball. She was tired, yet she felt mixed emotions that night; happy and satisfied with Sakura and Kuuga's development and irritated with Usui and his impossible behavior.
The moment she arrived at her house, she expected herself to get dress quickly and go to bed, yet upon her arrival, she was surprised that a voice welcomed her.
"I see that you're having a great time slacking from your job."
She turned toward the direction of the voice and said, "At least be polite and tell me that I'll be expecting you tonight, Inspector."
Inspector Norris was seated by the fire, waiting for her all night. He said, "I put you on a job and as your superior, you are ought to follow. Don't make me do something you'll regret in the future, Miss Ayuzawa."
She gathered her composure and said, "On the contrary, I have just met a person who is somehow connected with the case."
Inspector Norris's curiosity rose. "Someone with connections? Who?"
"Mr. Takumi Usui."
After a lengthy discussion, Inspector Norris said, "Very well, I'll leave this to you. When you got necessary information, report to me at once, and when you need something, just tell me; by the way, I'll work out your request. See you anytime this week, Miss Ayuzawa. "
"Thank you, Inspector, even though you're busy...bye the bye, why so?" asked Misaki.
"I've told you before; I'm also working on arresting Raven as soon as possible. It's one of the top priorities now in Scotland Yard, and who knows where she'll strike. That's why we should prevent that from happening" replied the Inspector.
"And I've told you before, it'll bear no fruit and all your efforts will be wasted" said Misaki.
"I may perform some reasonable request but however I do not take orders from someone inferior," said Inspector Norris and left.
Misaki did not mind his last statement due to her exhaustion, dressed and went to bed.
"Then what was he like, Misa?" asked Ms. Satsuki for the nth time.
"I've told you for a thousand times, Ms. Satsuki, I do not deny that he's the worst of his kind; too proud and arrogant to be talked about," Misaki replied while wearing a blond wig.
Ms. Satsuki looked so disappointed that Misaki asked her why. "I thought that you'll have different opinion unlike the others, Misaki. You like interesting things, and I hoped that he will be the one, because you are the only person I know that can see different angles of the same side" replied Ms. Satsuki.
"I'll have to beg for forgiveness that I do not find him interesting at all, and that I'm the last woman in this world that will satisfy his interest, not that I intended to in the first place" said Misaki, now putting some alterations in her face.
There was a brief pause, and after that, Ms. Satsuki broke the silence. "You told me about something about some case, Misa, did you not?"
Misaki was now finished preparing herself and said, "Oh yes. It's a murder case in the Chevalier Manor. The body was found in Miss Chevalier's room, and her lady-in-waiting is missing. Somehow, Raven, Mr. Takumi Usui and the Walker family are involved with this."
"The Walker family? One of the richest families in the country?"
"Yes. I've also asked the Inspector to arrange a meeting between Lady Chevalier and me. I want to ask her a few questions" said Misaki.
"I see. What can we do to help?"
"Well..."
They were interrupted by Honoka as she emerged from the restaurant and said, "Misaki, there's a cutomer waiting. All of us are busy and please serve him well."
Ms. Satsuki said, "Go, Misa, and assist them."
Misaki, in her maid uniform and disguised form, fixed herself for the last time and went to the restaurant and bowed and greeted the guest.
"Welcome back, young master..."
She was stunned as she saw who her customer was. She did not expect this 100%. As she saw him, she should have told herself to expect the unexpected.
He was the man whom she least wanted to see.
Takumi Usui.
At the end of her shift, Misaki was very restless. She paced back and forth, worrying whether the man had recognised her. If he did, she feared that her secret would be made public.
'Calm yourself, Misaki. He seemed calm and collected. Perhaps he did not recognise me' she said this over and over again to reassure herself.
She tried to remember what happened as she served him. In the whole duration of her service to him, as she took orders and served his food, he didn't do anything else but to respond, eat and nothing more. Yet, as she was serving the other customers, she vaguely saw that he was eyeing her. She did not know whether he suspected her, and if he did, then she is doomed.
"Oh, Misa, you're still here? You should go home; it's getting late."
Misaki was interrupted of her thoughts and snapped out of it. She readied herself to go home, said her goodbyes and left.
As she closed the door of the back entrance, she heard a very familiar voice.
"I guess my suspicion is right after all."
Misaki looked in the direction of the voice and she knew that all of her hope was lost. She gathered her composure and asked, "What do you mean?"
'That you and the maid who served me back there are the same, Miss Ayuzawa," said Usui.
"Okay, you got me. Then, what are you going to do with it, Usui?" she asked with a tinge of sarcasm.
"So no formality now, eh? Then, what should I call you? Ayuzawa or Misaki? Or should I just call you my cute little maid or Misa? Which do you prefer?" grinned Usui.
"So the real Takumi Usui is a harassing blackmailer in real life, eh? That's new, " Misaki said in reply.
"If you wish to think of me that way, then go ahead, Misa."
"You have no right to call me by that name! Or should I just tell the world of your 'dark side'?" Misaki said.
"I don't care much about that, but how about you?"
Misaki paused for a while as he continued speaking. "As far as I've heard, you're very famous of your hatred towards men, Miss Stubborn Woman, yet you are here, serving them and in a maid uniform... what do you think they'll think of you? And not just them, but to your neighbors. What should I do, Miss Ayuzawa? Should I tell them?"
Misaki didn't know what else to say and said, "What do you want of me?"
Usui thought for a while and said, "Actually, nothing, but I'll offer you a proposition."
As he said this, he cornered Misaki to the wall and caressed her cheek gently and continued "Let me do the things I wanted to do regarding this, and I promise to keep our little secret. Deal?"
Misaki said, "You really want things your way, don't you, Mr. Harassing Pervert?"
"Trust me, if I were one, I'll tell you that you wouldn't like it, Ayuzawa, of what I'll do to you... unless you wanted me to be that kind of person, it's fine by me" said Usui in a seductive whisper.
Instead of being angry, she took it as a challenge. She grabbed him by his collar, smiled and whispered to his ear, "Try me. Even you wouldn't like it."
With this, Usui smirked and whispered with the same tone, "It's a deal then. Let's have fun while it last, Ayuzawa."
She was now in her room, contemplating of what happened. She was seated in her bed, and in her hand an old picture of her father. She usually talks with it if she has problems of any kind, as if it were alive. She said, "Father, some man now knows of my little secret. What should I do? What do you think he'll do to me?"
She was a bit upset by thinking of it, yet it disappeared quickly. She said, "Yet, you said to me before, papa, that I should not let go of opportunities, and now, it's as if opportunity itself knocked in my door. I know he'll be necessary in the case I'm working on, and now I've got him at the palm of my hand."
She paused for a while, smiled, and said, "I look forward in this game, Takumi Usui."
_END_
That's it for now... I hope I can make another one this week... I'm pretty busy with school work... thanks for those who will review or add it to your favorites and I hope that you'll drop by and review... bye for now!
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