Haruki was still staring at his cup as the minutes went by and Jun was pretty much lost in his thoughts when he started talking again.
“We set up a trap for Shun because we didn’t have a concrete evidence by sending him a message from one of the supposed gang. He was supposed to meet him at the apartment and he came. I remember that Iori hadn’t even spared him a glace as we cornered him with evidence, she kept looking out the window as if she didn’t want to see his face.
When we told him that we have someone that could Identify his face, he admitted to it. He transformed from this smart and educated young man to a crazy bastard in a matter of seconds. He kept ranting about how he and Iori were supposed to be together forever, and that this was his way of teaching her a lesson because she went on that matchmaking meeting.
That’s when he pulled out a gun and shot the two officers that were in the room with us and aimed his gun t
The car stopped in front of the shabby building that Iori clearly recognized. Her body had long gone rigid since they entered the neighborhood she had avoided for years now.Still, the sense of every calm within her told her that she was no longer in a state to feel anything but reflexive emotions…Handing the driver a bill, she stepped out of the cab when she heard a voice,“ It would be better for you not to go in there alone, young lady…” he said looking back at her through the separation glass, “ a respectable person like you shouldn’t be somewhere like this…”“Respectable, huh…” she mutteredShe wondered if he would still say that if he knew what she was about to do. What she had done in the past…“I don’t have a choice. And I promise to be careful.” Iori said with the sweetest smile.The older man sighed shaking
While they were all trying to figure out where this building was and getting ready to head there, Jun was roaming the room andJun Stepped inside the room while everyone was in chaos and tried to think. What would he have done if he was Iori…“Iori is a very cautious person. And her self-preservation instinct is strong. She wouldn’t have gone there for you just like that without calling anyone…” Jun said pensively.Haruki lifted his head, “You’re right, this doesn’t sound like something she would do…”“If she thought that you were in danger, she would have called Rina before heading there,”“But we saw on the camera that Iori left the building alone. We caught her even taking a cab…”“Which means that she did go there, but, why?”“What do you mean?” Haruki asked“Why did she go there? She should know by no
Everything was a blur. From the moment Iori had been pried out of his arms was a complete blur.When he’d seen the blood coming out of the wound on Iori’s side, it all came crashing like a big wave. She was injured, she was bleeding… Iori was bleeding.Trying to put pressure on the wound, he kept calling out her name but her eyes never opened. Her face got paler and paler and the blood wouldn’t stop flowing out.In his frenzied state, he carried her in his arms while still talking to her, begging her to hang on and not leave him. Iori couldn’t leave him. She just… couldn’t.Bright light hit him on the face and he couldn’t see anything for a moment, then a group of people came running toward him with scrubs and a chariot and they pried Iori out of his arms before he could even utter a word.He watched as they loaded Iori into the back of the ambulance and he took a step forward when he saw someone mo
Iori opened her eyes then closed them back down. It was too bright; didn’t she close the drapes?She heard a chuckle from her side and turned this time opening her eyes more slowly as she looked at the person beside her.Jun was sitting beside her bed with a smirk on his face, “You have a terrible bedhead,” He commented and Iori reached for her hair groaning when everything hurt as she started moving.“Damn, the wrong comment to say,” Jun cursed as he stood up from his chair and made his way toward her straightening her bed and putting a pillow behind her.“Here,” He said softly, putting a glass of water in front of her lips and tipping it so that she could drink from it.Iori looked around after she hydrated her scratched throat realizing that she wasn’t in her room. This was a hospital room… and she was there because she got shot…Looking down to her side, she could only see the
Iori fiddled with her hands as she watched the garden through the window in her room.Jun went to call her brother and tell him about her doubt. It irritated her that she couldn’t do anything, she was bedridden, and even if she tried to make them believe that she was alright to move around. Convincing them that she was okay with a hole in her side was edging over to the impossible category of things she could accomplish with a few arguments.Sighing, Iori leaned back on the mountain of pillows Jun had propped against her and closed her eyes.Jun’s face immediately came to mind.He had been so earnest when he came to stop her, so honest and sincere. Iori’s heart almost broke when he had cupped her face begin her to stop.Iori’s eyes opened and she felt her cheeks flaming when she remembered that momentsShe had been so full of cold rage that had simmered inside her for years. She could barely register Jun’s words. The
“She’s not going to disappear if you let go of her hand, Kaoru.” Iori’s father said with a smile as her little brother sat beside her on the bed snuggled at her side.Iori smiled and her brother’s arm tightened around hers,“Whenever I get to see Iori it has got to be in a hospital bed! I’m not leaving her again, from now on I’m going to live with her!” Kaoru declared and she heard a caught coming from the general vicinity where Jun and Haruki stood.“You know you can’t live with your sister whenever you’re back in town anymore. I heard about you imposing on her and this can’t work out anymore, she doesn’t live alone after all…” Her father said reprimanding her brother.Out of the three of them, Kaoru is the only one whose relationship with their father didn’t suffer a lot. Probably because he was mostly out of town so Kazuma didn’t have many inter
Leaning down toward the small waterway, he scooped some of it and was about to splash his face when he heard his daughter’s voice behind him.“Good morning, dad,” she called out and he turned to see her approaching him with her wide beautiful smile in her red and white kimono that all the temple’s priestesses wear when on duty…She was carrying a towel in her hand and she handed it down to him when she reached him.“Isn’t the water too cold for you? It’s winter after all, you can use the indoors bathroom instead of the stream,” she complained and he gave her a smile after splashing himself with the cold water the shock effectively pitting his brain back into work and waking him up.“I like the cold stream. It wakes me up…&r
The silence that followed Kazuma’s explanation was unbearable. His daughter was looking down at the table her hands clasped together as they had been the whole duration of his tale and he couldn’t decipher her expression from across the table. She wasn’t looking up at him nor was she making any movement other than her breathing that reassured him of her presence. He had expected her to thank him, to cry for this was supposed to be her salvation. But there was none of that… She took a deep breath and sighed out looking up at him her eyes cool as the cold winter air that froze his bones waking him up that morning. She looked at him with a mixture of pitty and anger as she said, “What have you done?” She croaked out as if her throat was parched from hours and hours of screams and wails. “I did everything I could to provide you a better life.” He responded not understanding why his own daughter couldn’t understand what he had done for her.