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Night had fallen over Republic City, and inside Genji's Penthouse above his night club, the elevator door opened and a distressed Asami walks out of it and into the darkened living room. Looking around she saw several presents smashed to pieces around the apartment along with several empty bottles which once contained whisky.
"Genji?" Asami called out looking around the room, she first looked behind the bar but saw hid nor hair of him.
"I'm here." the voice came from behind a on scale stuffed baby sky bison plushie toy.
Walking around it, she found Genji sitting on the floor surrounded by even more empty bottles, a half full one in hand and multiple putt out cigarette's. A small dark beard had started to form on his face.
"Hey." Genji said, looking up at her his dazed look giving away to concern, "What happened?"
"I..." Asami said with a deep sigh, "I'm finished."
The next hour was spend on the floor, leaning against the toy sky bison while Asami was drinking heavily. She explained how her shipment was stolen, how Mako had proposed a sting operation, Varrick had offered a ship with Mako hiring Triple Threat Triads as backup.
But they where betrayed by the hired gangsters, who had been paid to keep her and Mako distracted as the warehouse of Future Industries had been robbed. Everything she had left was inside that warehouse.
"...How long have I been sitting here?" Genji said confused as he had been drinking ever since Lin had left after the birthday attempt, "So... Why come here?" a newly opened bottle in hand.
Asami didn't answer, to his surprise when she grabbed the bottle of whiskey from Genji and began to chug it vigorously. She separated her lips from the bottle, and sets it down before taking several deep breaths.
"...I don't know." she said, hanging her head in defeat, "I just don't know anymore."
"It's going to be okay." Genji said, he drapes an arm around her shoulder, and pets her on the head, "Everything will work out."
"No, it's over." Asami said shaking her head, "I give up."
"Well I don't." Genji said, "I'm never going to give you up, or let you down."
Asami is silent and just sobs on his shoulder, Genji just sits there and just waits until she calmed herself down enough. Asami raised her head, locking eyes with Genji, her face red because of the alcohol she'd ingested.
Without warning Asami closes the gap between them, their lips colliding in a sudden flare on intimacy. His hand cupped Asami's cheek and while he enjoyed her lips on his, he pushed her away.
"What's happening?" she said inches away from him.
"I believe I'm saying no..." Genji said unsure.
"W-What? Why..." Asami said surprised, "Why're you saying no?"
"I don't know. Usually jump at the chance to hide my sausage in the pantry. But for some reason... I can't." Genji said confused himself, "Let's just sit here, and talk okay?"
He was still recovering since he himself didn't really know he could bring himself to reject a drunken twelve out of ten like Asami kissing him, and possibly go all the way.
Eventually he heard snores coming from the girl resting on his shoulder. He picked her up bridal style before walking to his room. Placing Asami on his bed, he removed her boots before putting the bed covers over her.
Walking into the bathroom he took a quick shower as he freshened himself up. A now clean shaven Genji with his hair combed back and now wearing a completely black business suit. Fixing his sleeve, he sneaked past his bed where he studied Asami for a moment. Her long raven hair spread over the pillow, her flawless face seemed so calm.
With a small smile, he picked up Yamato from it's stand as he headed for the elevator.
A short while later, Genji approached the Triple Threat Triad hideout. Two guards where standing outside the gate who spotted Genji striding towards them.
"Hey you." one of them shouted, "What do you..."
But before he could answer, he and his comrade where beheaded. Blood stained the streets as with a single kick the doors where opened.
A group of Triple Threat Triads among them the three who had been hired by Mako, turned their attention to him. It was then that the feeling of pure fear washed over the room as a feral grin formed on Genji's face. They knew a force of nature, something that couldn't be argued or barged with, was coming for them.
A waterbullet was shot at him, but using his superhuman reflexes, Genji side step. He charged forward, deflecting a blast of fire before stabbing the firebender through his head.
Weaving his way through the fast yet predictable patterns of earthbending, he sliced another one through the stomach spilling his guts all over the floor. Two Toed Ping had his leg slice off, before being used as a shield and taking a full blast of fire setting him ablaze.
Throwing him towards his fellow gang members, Genji used this moment to press forward and slice another head clean off. He turned around to slice Shady Shin's arm off before spinning his blade around and stabbing him through the torso.
Covered in the blood of the many members of the Triple Triads, Genji charged towards the last remaining member, their leader Viper. Gripping the front of his shirt, he was lifted off the floor with one arm and smashing him against the floor as he began to beat down.
"Who hired you to double-cross Asami Sato?" Genji demanded to know.
"I don't know." Viper said as blood filled his mouth.
"Liar!" Genji shouted before breaking the right arm of Viper, "Tell me what I need to know!"
"Really, I don't know. You have to believe me. We never met the guy who hired us." Viper shouted as he spat out a few teeth, "After Mako left the hideout, some mook showed up and said his boss would pay us to keep them distracted. We'd never seen him before, and we ain't seen him since."
"What did he look like?" Genji said.
Through haggard breath and the taste of iron on his tongue, Viper gave a descripting but it wasn't much to go on. "I know the guy." Genji said, "I play cards with him."
Having gotten what he came for, he took Yamato and drove it through Viper's head before slicing it open.
Early in the morning, the snores of Varrick echoed through his large bedroom. Suddenly the businessman shot up when he heard a sound. He reached for his face to remove his night mask to find a blood covered Genji sitting in a chair at the side of his bed. The sound he had heard was him pouring himself a glass of whisky.
"By the Spirits!" Varrick shouted in fright.
"Sorry." Genji said, putting the bottle down on the night stand, "Did I wake you up?"
"Of course you did!" Varrick said looking him over with a frown, "What happened to you?"
"Don't worry about the blood, it isn't mine." Genji said as he took a sip from his drink, "I have been investigating the recent attacks on your ships. And I think you know that I know that you know, you know?"
"Oh I know. I know that the world is a dangerous place, and that's exactly why I want to offer you a job on my security force!" Varrick said with a sinister smirk, "We need you. Me, Asami. We're all in the same team here. We want you to join us. You wouldn't want anything to happen to Asami, would you?"
"What." Genji said flatly.
"I mean, I heard you and her were kind of, uh, an item." Varrick said, "Or what about your daughter? Or your grandson."
"Are you..." Genji said tilting his head, "Let me get this straight, are you seriously threatening my family?"
"That's such an ugly word." Varrick said waving his hands, "All I'm saying is that I want your help to protect them. Without you, who knows what could..."
But Varrick never could finish his sentence as he was gripped by the front of his silk pajama's before being smashed against the window, glass showering down on him.
"You do not threaten my family. Bad things happen to people who threaten my family." Genji growled before throwing Varrick over his shoulder and onto the ground, "I'll make this clear, Varrick. Asami will get her stuff back, all of it, or else."
"Or else what!?" Varrick said, rubbing his throat as Genji threw the bag that had been leaning against the chair to him.
Catching it, Varrick noticed how heavy it was. But when he opened it, the awful smell of deceased flesh hit him like a truck and he immediately dropped the bag to the floor as he covered his mouth trying to not throw up.
"Those are the heads of the men you hired to sabotage Future Industries. That took me two hours, so imagine what I can do with a whole night." Genji told him before walking to the door and picking up the bottle of whisky standing on the night stand.
Later that morning, Asami's eyes opened when sunlight shined down through the window. She was laying in his bed, her vision was a blur and so were her memories but she could clearly see her bra that was draped over a lamp on the nightstand beside her.
"W-What?..." Asami said confused as she peeked under the covers. No underwear, no clothes, no nothing, "W-What happened?"
Asami attempted to sit up, which was a big mistake as the room spun around as her stomach turned. As quickly as possible, she stumbled to her legs and with a mouth covered by her hand, rushed to the bathroom adjacent to Genji's room.
She didn't notice Genji who had just stepped out of the shower, still with wet hair and with only a towel to cover his lower body as she just made it to the toilet before she began to emptying her stomach.
"Good morning." he said dryly as he kneeled down next to her and held her hair back so it wouldn't get into her face.
"Oh Spirits..." Asami said with wide eyes, "Don't tell me..."
"Tell you what?" Genji said, "That you poured all your troubles out? That you failed at out drinking me? That we didn't do it?"
"What?" Asami said looking up from the toilet upon that last one, "We didn't?"
"Nope." Genji said with a smirk.
"If we didn't then..." Asami said in complete and utter surprise, "Then why am I naked?"
"Yeah, I'm confused about that part too." Genji said with a shrug of his shoulders, "I mean I put you in my bed then went to sleep in one of the guest rooms. You don't remember taking your clothes off?"
"Not particularly no." she said shaking her head.
"Oh well." Genji said casually, "I'm going to make us some breakfast. How about some eggs and toast."
Getting dressed, Genji in a simple dress shirt and pants with Asami borrowing one of his shirt, with the bulk and size difference between the two, made it really oversized.
The two sat at the bar inside his penthouse, a plate with some toast and scrambled eggs. Genji had himself a glass of whisky while Asami was having a cup of tea, a special concoction made by Genji to help nurse her hangover.
"Isn't it too early to drink?" Asami said with a mouth full of eggs.
"It's five somewhere on the planet." Genji said downing his glass before pouring another one.
"So... you never have a hangover?" Asami said as she munched on her toast, "Like never?"
"Nope, as we established, I'm always some stage of drunk, but I never have a hangover. I blame it on my mutations." Genji said, pouring another glass, "So... What's the plan now?"
"Looking for a job, I guess." Asami said as she began to poke at her food.
"Don't be look that. Maybe your stuff might show up yet." Genji said with a shrug, "And hey, if your looking for work, I'm hiring. I'm looking for a new general manager."
"What happened to the old one?" she said.
"He quit. He loved the work and the pay was good, but his wife got a job offer in Ba Sing Se." Genji explained, "I offer a good salary, dental plan and insurance. Also you get to drink on the job, you don't have to but I highly encourage it."
"I can do without the drink for a while, but I'll think about it." Asami said with a small smile, "Thanks Genji."
"For what?" he said downing another glass.
"For being there for me, when my father turned out to be a Equalist, all the troubles with my company. For always being a listening ear." Asami said looking into his amber eyes, "For all your support. I don't know what I would do without you."
"You would be fine, princess." Genji said placing his hand on top of hers, "You'll just do it with less mayhem and a lot less bloodshed."
"Princess?" Asami said surprised.
"Think nothing of it." he said quickly, "You just look like you could be a princess from back in the day."
"I'm okay with being a princess." Asami said with a shy smile, "If you'll be my knight."
"Oh." he said completely taken by surprise but interested.
What took him more by surprise and out of the moment, was when the elevator door opened and outstepped Chief Beifong flanked by two detectives named Gang and Lu.
"Police..." Beifong said having noticed how quickly Genji had let go of Asami's hand, and their state of dress, "Are we interrupting something?"
"Uh, yeah! Obviously!" Genji shouted annoyed, "Ever heard of knocking!?"
"Your front door is an elevator!" Beifong pointed out.
"No, it's not!" Genji said as he stood up and made his way across the living room to open the front door leading to the hallway.
"Oh." Beifong said flatly.
"Yeah." Genji said with a nod, "So what's going on?"
"We got an anonymous tip." Beifong said as the two detectives began to search the apartment, "According to it, you helped steal a warehouse full of Future Industries property."
"That's crazy!" Asami said taken aback.
"Well, looky what I found." Lu said coming out of one of the backrooms, holding a large bag, "Cash and these..." he reaches in an pulls out explosives.
"What are you doing with explosives, Genji?" Beifong said concerned.
"Won them in a card game, thought I might plant a few outside Mako's bedroom window over the time span of a couple of months." Genji said with a shrug, "Won them from... Oh shit."
"You're under arrest." Gang said as he attempted to arrest Genji, but had his arm deflected before being kicked to the ground.
"Stand down, Genji." Beifong told him, "Or I'll add resisting arrest and assaulting an officer to the record."
"It's Varrick. I won them from Varrick." Genji said quickly, holding up his hands, "He must be the one who gave the tip. He set me up!"
"Yeah, it's Varrick's fault." Lu said with a chuckle, "Varrick."
Knowing he wouldn't be believed, Genji turned around and made a run for the door. He evade under Beifong's cable and reached the open door. He turned to look at Asami, giving her one last look before setting down out of the hall.
Picking Gang up, he and Lu set off after Genji, intending to capture him.
"T-This..." Asami said as she looks on in disbelief and confusion, "This has to be a mistake."
"I'm sorry Asami." Beifong said, placing her hand on her shoulder, "It seems he was using you the whole time."
Chapter 18, which is basically a GenjiXAsami chapter.
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