This chapter was again finished with the help of JNaegi who helped write as a co-author. Before that he reviewed every chapter of the story so that's how we work so well together. I think the better grammar proves it.
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Back at the Kou household Gero arrived with Tamura and the unexpected Sankarea. Faster than you could say bacon Akagi was already glaring at Gero for bringing home someone to live at the house.
Akagi would have started a long speech and make the skater boy's ass hers until she noted Tamura's demeanor along with Gero. With the grace of any maid she set aside that issue and soon told her master that Tamura had returned through the kitchen intercom.
The purple eyed teen went to the bathroom to gather his thoughts.
Some minutes later Taichi and Erina arrived where the blue eyed, tan skinned girl looked relieved briefly as Gero gave her the cliff notes version of what happened at the park. The silver haired teen thought it would be better for her brother to tell her the main stuff.
Moments later they were all in the living room where Akagi brought some tea for refreshments with some sugar cookies. Sankarea drank the tea and complimented the taste of it. Taichi also liked how Akagi made the tea all for Gero who asked if they could have some soda or coco with the cookies.
An icy aura surrounded the pink pig tailed maid as she spoke to Gero. "You have no say in what I serve you reprehensible boy; bringing in an uninvited guest to this established home!" She turned a glare to the buxom Sankarea who just ignored the jab at her and glared back at Gero. "I have every right to cascade you to the deepest part of Antarctica just to watch you freeze!"
Gero jumped back at that prospect. 'At least she didn't say anything about my ass...'
"And don't think you will be getting away unscathed! That bottom will be getting lashings from me!" Akagi snapped which made Gero groan. She soon left to make dinner leaving the others there for the clean up.
After some coxing from Taichi, the maid calmed down and everyone soon stared at Tamura for his side of the story. The purple eyed teen looked uncomfortable at the stares he was getting and would have sprinted out but a glare from Gero stopped his plan.
"Spit it out, Tamura. I already told Erina what I saw. You're only hurting yourself by not telling her." Gero spoke reasonable.
Looking to Gero and then at his sister who had her own malevolent aura that would do Akagi proud.
"Can you tell Erina to stop scaring me?" Tamura shivered at the prospect of what his sister would do to him.
Gero shook his head. "No, Tamura. You have to tell everyone."
The silver haired pony tail heir of the Kou family offered a smile. "We're all here to help you because we care about you." He offered out kindly.
This didn't make Tamura happy upon hearing that, it made him annoyed. "Shut up, Taichi. Just because you're my sisters' boyfriend doesn't mean you can tell me-"
He didn't get out another word as Erina snatched him up by the collar and brought back a fist!
"I'm sorry, Erina don't punch me!" He yelled fearfully.
A second later Akagi appeared. "Master, I'm preparing spaghetti. Does our new roommate have an allergy to gluten?" The brown eyed maid of Kou asked.
Gero turned to the sexy woman. "Sankarea, do you have an allergy to gluten?"
She immediately snapped at the peanut gallery! "Shut up and let me listen to what this scared little rabbit has to say!"
With that the situation calmed down with the siblings being separated. Taichi soon went to Tamura and spoke trying to offer support as Erina kept an eye on her brother so he couldn't threaten her love bug again.
"We may seem mad at the moment but deep down we're happy your not hurt, Tamura. We want to protect you but not listening or telling us anything is something we don't want." Taich replied sounding more like a father lightly lecturing a wayward son.
Tamura looked down at his feet. "I was a bully."
The buxom white haired gangster heiress spoke unimpressed. "That doesn't sound as bad as you think it does."
He shook his head and continued. "I was a bad person. You see I was a bully ever since the fourth grade." He revealed to everyone present.
Taichi looked surprised while Erina and Akagi kept a poker face, Gero and Sankarea appeared fascinated by the revelation as if it was a soap opera.
Tamura continued. "I thought I was the toughest boy in class until another boy, Keataru, beat me and made me work for him."
A certain amber colored eyed skater boy didn't like that one bit. "You fool. Why didn't you just tell the teachers what Kaetaru was making you do? He would have gotten in trouble!" He berated the foolish answer.
Tamura responded. "I did but the problem at the time is this; Keataru's dad was one of the teachers and Keataru was working with his dad to give him money."
The others appeared somber as he continued the story. "Apparently Keataru's dad was underfunded and had a very short temper. If I told any of the teachers what happened than his dad would make sure I got blamed."
Gero clenched his fist angrily while Sankarea, Akagi and Erina looked sad, especially the latter. Taichi looked to the point of actually crying a river but he stopped himself and kept face.
"That's a dirty thing they would do, only rats stoop that low!" Gero exclaimed and would have done some profanity but Akagi placed a hand over the teen's shoulder quelling his anger.
"At first I only joined him in fear of what Keataru's father would do to my school life. One day when I was walking down the stairs he appeared. I didn't know what to expect until hekicked me down but ended grabbing me by collar of my shirt!"
Sankarea gave a tiny gasp but no one said anything as Tamura went on with the story with tepid breath.
"He caught me before I fell and with a serious voice said it was a warning and if I ever went public with what his son told me and the amount of abuse he cause then next time he wouldn't grab me…" Tamura trailed on the last word.
Gero appeared thoughtful as everyone felt sympathy on how Tamura fell to that point.
"I think I understand the gist of this and over time you started to live being a part of Keataru's gang."
The black haired teen confirmed the suspicion. "We worked together trying to beat anyone we thought were tough. And anyone who tried acting tougher than us became our enemies. He soon invited few gang members to join; no one ever refused his offer. At first we just became a simple gang of fighters looking for tough opponents, but things rose way out of proportion."
"In what way did it grow out of hand?" Sankarea asked looking even more intrigued.
"Keataru became so obsessed with power," Tamaru answered.
Akagi soon added her two cents in this matter. "Hmph becoming drunk with power, where does that get you?"
Tamaru and the rest let what the maid said resonate within their hearts as the purple eyed teen went on.
"Keataru soon made a name for himself and called the Demon Flesh White Bone Fighter. He made every good fighter join him or go to the hospital and wouldn't let them enjoy healing until they joined him."
The buxom teen spoke in agreement. "That's what greed does, it can turn even the most innocent of people into bad people like prison guards and people who are forced to give shock treatment. But he was already a bad guy before he got the power so that makes him an unscrupulous monster and his father is just a power hungry man trying to become a tycoon."
Gero raised an eyebrow at what she just said before angling his glance to Tamura. "If you didn't like what Keataru was doing why didn't you tell him?"
Tamura gave him an answer.
"You did, so you tried talking to him?" Gero asked.
"I argued that what he was doing wasn't what the gang was made for. He refuted that by saying he could screw everything about society; that it was headache. Of course he reminded me how I was only his second in command and he was the boss. Keataru started to think of his gang as some kind of organization just like from one of those old Yakuza movies. Now over three hundred teenage boys are working for him."
"I argued that what he was doing wasn't what the gang was made for. He refuted that by saying he could screw everything about society; that it was headache. Of course he reminded me how I was only his second in command and he was the boss. Keataru started to think of his gang as some kind of organization just like from one of those old Yakuza movies. Now over three hundred teenage boys are working for him."
After the big reveal everyone went on comprehending what they just learned however Tamura went to his sister for some kind of reconciliation.
"Erina, can you ever forgive me?" He asked her.
The blue eyed girl felt like a hole had opened up from beneath her. Looking at him with contempt she gave her own answer.
"No!"
Tamura looked hurt and sputtered out a "What…?"
"I said no! I find out my own brother is part of some gang that wants to take over our town and you expect me to forgive you?" She exclaimed taking some steps away from him and trying to hold back her tears of anguish. "I was worried you were being taken against your will but it's only you trying to go against the world because you didn't have the courage to ask for help in the first place!"
The male didn't know what to say for some seconds as she continued her righteous rant. "But sis I'm trying to apologize…please don't-!"
She cut him off and yelled. "Don't what?! Be angry of how this happened! Spare me; you don't care about anyone but yourself!"
Tamura casted a sad glance at his sister and lamented how it came to this. Gero saw this and confronted her.
"Calm down Erina. Tamura is not the one who started all this. We have to give him the benefit of the doubt."
Erina gave a spiteful glare to the teen. "Benefit of the doubt; he's my brother! I know what he was thinking, why he did it!" She turned her glare back to Tamura. "It's because Tamura only thinks about himself and wants to hurt people!"
"No…that's not true Erina!" Tamura snapped back angrily but still feeling sorrow.
"My big brother is dead!" She shrilled running up the stairs and slamming the door leaving everyone stunned.