"She talked to me!" Kazuko said to himself as he paced back and forth in his bedroom. "She actually talked to me! What am I going to do? She's seen my face! She knows we go to the same school!" Kazuko sat down on his bed with a flop, and put his head into his hands. "I fucked up."

Kazuko's phone started to ring and he answered without looking at the caller id. "What is it?" He said sadly.

"You will speak to me with respect young man!" Kazuko's father yelled into the phone.

"S-Sorry Father!"

"We're having dinner, be downstairs in an hour." His father spat before hanging up. Kazuko sighed before going to his closet and pulling out an Armani suit. After he was dressed he slicked his hair back and put on his Versace dress shoes. With ten minutes to spare he jogged down stairs and stood at the entrance of his father's mansion. Five minutes later a limo pulled up. The driver hopped out and opened the door for Kazuko.

"Thank you."

"My pleasure Yoshikawa-san." The driver bowed before closing the door and getting into the car.

"Driver where are we headed?"

"Le Chateau de Joel Robuchon sir." The driver answered with a smile.

Oh great! Kazuko thought sarcastically. A French restaurant. That means I have to smile and be a good perfect son for some foreign jerks. Kazuko sighed to himself. "This is gonna be a long night." He mumbled.

Twenty minutes later the limo pulled up to the grand restaurant. The valet opened Kazuko's door and helped him out.

"Welcome to Le Chateau de Joel Robuchon Yoshikawa-sama." The valet bowed lowly. "Your father has just arrived, the maître d will bring you to your party." Kazuko nodded and followed the maître d through the ballroom to the back of the restaurant into a private room. His father was there laughing with some foreigners.

"Introducing Yoshikawa Kazuko." The maître d smiled and bowed before leaving the room.

"Ah Kazuko! How are you my boy!" His father smiled brightly.

"F-fine father." Kazuko stuttered.

"Well are you going to stand at the door all day? Get in here! Give your father a hug! I haven't seen you in weeks!" Kazuko's dad said boisterously before pulling his son into a bear hug.

"Embarrass me here and you'll regret it." His father whispered into his ear with venom. Kazuko forced down the lump in his throat and shook the chill out of his spine, before putting on a big fake smile.

"Ah come on dad I'm not a baby anymore, your embarrassing me in front of the beautiful ladies!" Kazuko said making the foreigners wives giggle.

"Ah that's my boy! Always going for the ladies!" His dad smiled before sitting down.

"Has it really been weeks since you've seen your son?" One of the wives asked. She had long blonde hair and lots of plastic surgery done to her face.

"Ah yes unfortunately." Kazuko's dad feigned sadness.

"I've been out of the country doing some important business."

"I bet you've been so lonely in that mansion all by yourself, Not even any help to keep you company." Another wife asked. She had an auburn bob haircut and twinkling green eyes.

"Yea." Kazuko answered. "I used to be okay when dad was on business since my mom was with me, but ever since she died it has been quite lonely." Kazuko said without thinking. The entire table gasped and his father gave him a heated look.

"You never told us you were a widower Yoshikawa-sama." The first wife said.

"Y-yes well uhm you see it's still a bit of a sore subject for me." Kazuko's dad said putting on a big show of sadness.

"How did she pass?" The second wife asked. Kazuko's eyes went blank as he thought about his mother's death. The sadness in her smile as she said sorry to him. The emptiness he felt when his saw her life leave her eyes. The anger he felt as his father walked away from her beaten body.

"An accident." His father said loudly, making Kazuko jump. "She was driving home from the grocery store and got hit by a drunk driver."

"You poor boy!" The women cried and crushed Kazuko in a hug.

"He's just a woman magnet isn't he!" His father laughed lightening the mood. Everyone laughed and continued on with their dinner. From then on out Kazuko was the perfect son, laughing, joking, eating and making the business men feel comfortable. Three hours later the dinner was over.

"Well Yoshikawa-san I wasn't sure about doing business with you, but after tonight it's no question." One of the business men said happily.

"Yes me too!" The other said. "I'd be very happy doing business with Yoshikawa inc."

"Well I'm glad to hear that!" Kazuko's dad said happily, "I'll see you guys next week to flatten out the details." After all the goodbyes were said, Kazuko and his father got into the limo together.

"Driver, can you roll up the partition." He smiled.

"Sure thing Yoshikawa-sama." The driver said before rolling it up. As soon as the partition was completely closed Kazuko was being choked.

"You think your real slick don't you, you little shit!" He seethed. Kazuko's eyes widened as his air supply was cut off.

"Did I say you could bring up your whore mother! Huh?!" Kazuko's eyes started to roll back. His father let go of his throat and he pulled in precious gulps of air.

"You're lucky I was able to turn it around you son of a bitch. If that meeting had fallen through I would have-"

"What!" Kazuko yelled cutting him off.

"Killed me? Just like you killed mom?" Kazuko said without fear.

"You watch your mouth!" He father said slapping him.

"Your mother made her own choices! She would still be alive had she not cheated."

"She was in love with a good man. You were the cheater, you were the one with an army of whores!" Kazuko spat feeling brave.

"When she finally moved on and tried to leave you, you killed her." He yelled as tears streamed down his face.

"Yeah I did, and her little lover too." His dad smiled. "And if you don't watch your back, you're next." His father spat as they pulled up to the mansion.

"Get out of my limo you bastard." Kazuko straightened up and got out of the car. As he walked up the stairs, his dad rolled down the car window.

"Don't get any ideas, you'd better keep your mouth shut if you want to keep going to that school. Kazuko walked into the mansion and into his bathroom. After stripping out of his suit he sat in his large Jacuzzi tub and cried as it filled with hot water.

Flashback

6 years ago

"Did you honestly think you could get away?!" Kazuko's dad screamed as he kicked his wife in the face in the mansion's foyer.

"Please just let us go! I don't want any money! Just let us go we won't bother you I swear." She begged as tears streamed down her face.

"You belong to me! You think I'm going to let you go?" His dad laughed as he kept kicking her in her mid- section. "Let you take my heir and live in a shack with some gardener?!"

"I love him! He's a great man." She cried.

"Correction, he was a great man." His father laughed as he tossed a picture of her dead lover at her. Kazuko covered his ears as his mother screamed in agony. She looked up at her husband and started to laugh hysterically.

"What the fuck is so funny?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.

"You're pathetic." She spat. "I will always love him no matter what. He may be dead but his child is alive and well inside of me. So fuck you! You caught me now, but I will be free from you no matter how long it takes.

Kazuko's dad started to punch her over and over in the face as Kazuko tried to pull him off.

"Stop dad! STOP!" He yelled as he hit his dad in the head with a vase.

"Ugh you little shit!" He yelled as he back handed him across the room.

"Get out of my house whore." He said as he walked out the front door. Kazuko crawled over to his mother with tears in his eyes, pulling her head into his lap.

"Mommy, it's okay. He's gone now." He tried to cheer her up.

"Kazuko." She strangled out as fresh tears rolled down her face. "My handsome baby boy. I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what mommy?"

"I love you so much. I pray that you become a happy man." She said before she died in his arms.

"Mommy? Mommy? MOMMY!" Kazuko screamed as he shook her lifeless body.

End Flashback.

Kazuko broke out of his crying when the tubs jets started to fill the tub with bubbles. He thought about the day's events and the look on Love's face as Chad was loaded into the ambulance. He couldn't stop himself from going back and forth between Love's face of anguish and his mother's.

"Oh god I'm becoming my father." He realized as he sank down into the tub.

AN: So sorry about the update's. I'm a procrastinator. But my creative juices have come back to me.