"I'm sorry to introduce myself under these circumstances, I'm Satou Haruki, Iori's brother," Said the young man in a suit before him. A small smile on his face as his eyes kept wavering toward the Iori's bedroom door,
"Jun Kamikoi, nice to meet you. Please come in." Jun said impressed that the man waited for him to give his permission to remove his shoes and step into the apartment.
"How is she?" He asked
"She had been silent for the last hour. Rina-san said that she should be okay, but I'm worried..." Jun responded honestly.
Haruki smiled at him and gave him a confident look, "Iori has never had aversions to hurt herself. Her survival instinct and will to live were always strong... Some would say too strong seeing as she's still fighting for her life so fiercely after all that happened...”
The last words were said with a dark tone that alarmed Jun. Haruki looked like the friendly type. The type of person who would be happy leading a no
Iori opened her eyes to a head-splitting headache. She looked around her to see her room clearly lit by the city lights seeping through the window.Iori took a deep breath and sat down fighting against the pain in her head. She cracked her eyes open to look for the water bottle that was always on her nightstand to find it there along with two pills and a note.Memories came flashing back to her as she saw her brother's handwriting.If her brother was there then that would mean that she had another episode. She still remembered her one-sided argument with Kurosaki-san. The last thing she remembered was needing to close the door. everything after that was blank in her mind.Taking the pills she laid back down and closed her eyes waiting for the medicine to take effect.If her memory was right, Jun was still in the room with her when she went to close the door. Did she do or say something to him?That thought snapped her eyes open, something sh
Iori could feel his soft breath on her face, their faces were still so close she could feel the heat of his presence in her space. They both paused as if frozen as the ringing phone kept echoing in the apartment like some background sound that was supposed to tell them something but it was barely heard. Jun's eyes never left hers as their darkened blue hues sucked her into a vortex of desire that she hadn't felt in a very long time. Her heart was racing loudly in her ears and her mind was going on overload at the closeness of his face to hers. Just a few inches, If they drew close just a few inches they would... They would what? Iori blinked her eyes heavy and her berth deep. her stomach was clenched in knots and butterflies were dancing inside of it happily. She sucked in a deep breath as the haze in her mind started to lift. A voice at the back of her mind was screaming at her to pull back but she still wasn't sure why she needed to do that. T
Jun woke up to the rays of sun tickling his face. Did he not shut the drapes before he went to sleep? He snapped his eyes open and lunged for his phone on the nightstand. It was eleven AM. He fell asleep. and he overslept... He sat done feeling so refreshed, it had been a long time since he got this much sleep in one night. He still remembered the dreams that filled his sleep the previous night, and he wanted to bang his head against the wall at a certain memory that wasn't quite a dream. Or was it... The smell of miso soup and fish waffled his nose making his mouth water. Iori was awake and she was making breakfast. Damn... It was supposed to be his turn today... He went into the bathroom and showered, then went out to the living room. Iori had her back to him as she filled two bowls with rice and Jun had to gulp down at the sigh of her neck that peeked between her ponytail. The strands of short locks that fell on her nape and the lig
"Hello there! My littlelovebirds!" Iori heard the president say loudly as soon as Jun opened the doortotheir apartment.She heard the door slam back down and there was some knocking instantly. Here we go again... "Jun! let him in before he informs the neighbors and anyone who cares to know who we are..." Iori said and Jun sent her an offended glare. Then mumbled something under his breath making his pleasure more than apparent. Honestly... She felt like she spent most of her time around these two mothering them like some brothers who didn't get along. Jun opened the door and the fifty-something years old man burst inside as if he wasn't his age. He ignored Jun at the side of the door and flew toward Iori taking both of her
A few days passed since the incident and Jun was beginning to go out more often. The security detail still followed him wherever he went but, it was better than being confined to the house the whole time. Iori on the other hand never left home. It was as if she was growing comfortable inside and any mention of stepping outside disturbed her. Jun knew that the depth of her fear ran deeper than he would ever imagine. But, he was worried about her... "Hello, handsome..." Said a female voice from beside him snapping him out of his thought. He turned around to find a woman he vaguely recognized but still couldn't place her name. "Hi," Jun said awkwardly as he gripped his coffee mug and stole a glance at his laptop where he had been trying to write the next scene in their book. He changed the page quickly and looked up at the woman who come up to sit in front of him leaning her elbows against the table and pushing her cleavage out for him. Jun wanted to gro
"Our family's history goes back so far that most of us had given up on studying it in depth. In fact, Iori was the only one interested enough to dig deeper into the family's history," Haruki said, "We used to be a family of warriors and Priestesses protecting the Satou mountain. Some even say that our family stayed recluse from the outside world to protect the national secrets and treasures of the sacred arts. I'm not sure how accurate is that though..." "His family's influence grew and that's when our great great grandfather made his entrance into the business world as a way to keep up the Main house's presence and influence. he had a sister and they both decided to divide the sacred part of the clan and the business side. This sister stayed in the mountain and maintained the household's heritage, while her brother went into the world and made sure that the family stayed strong enough and prominent enough. It's a tradition that the firstborn da
"Don't tell me that you were dating her without knowing who she is," Shou said putting down the mug he was drying and threw the towel over his shoulder leaning forward."I don't know what you're talking about. Do you know Iori from somewhere?" Jun asked trying to follow up with his friend's reasoning."let's jog up your memory a little bit..." His friend said, " Do you remember certain lazy evenings at the school's library, especially in the spring, there was a sakura tree near the library windows and the light breeze always brought petals into the room whenever the windows are open... One day, as you headed toward the corner where you usually sit, you saw a beautiful raven-haired girl standing there and holding a book in her hands...""Which one of us was the writer? Because I'm beginning to wonder if our careers got switched for a moment," Jun
" "Did you bring your car?" Haruki asked as they were leaving the coffee shop. "No, I walked here. It's been a while since I took a walk in the city," Jun responded "Then let me give you a ride. I was going to take Iori home anyway," Jun nodded and they all headed toward Hariki's car. He was still thinking about the fact that Iori could be his first love. It had been years since then and Jun wouldn't say that it was faith to meet the love of his life after all this time and that it was meant to be. He wasn't that much of a romantic... But, the thought that he and Iori had had a moment is in the past, and the fact that she was the person who represented the fleeting moment like the sakura petals that filled the library back then, gentle, beautiful, but fleeting like an illusion. That fact made him smile. Back then they had bonded over their mutual love of books and literature. They talked about that and other things for hours to no end. H