Chapter 32

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Flashback

"The famous Idol who went by her stage name, Seika, was shot last night in the Christmas party after unknown terrorist launch an attack in the hotel where the party was. it is still unknown from which group was this and what their true intention. Seika—"

"Don't watch that Imotou" her sister told her as she went to grab the remote and turn off the tv. Currently the two of them stay in her former lover's apartment. Her sister was immediately called by her former lover when he saw how distraught she had become after the shooting as he need her help to 'clean up things'. He told her that her older sister would be able to watch over her while he was away.

"You should stay here for a while until we can be sure that you are safe" Mibuchi said as he give her a glass of water. "Young Master will be back from the police station in few minutes."

"I shot Seika, why didn't he bring me with him, I need to give the police my-" her sister grab the glass of water from her hand as she pour that water on top of her head.

"I am going to agree on his decision. As far as they know, you were never in the room and got nothing to do with this. That is why we are sitting here as we have a nice warm breakfast" her sister said with such coldness that she had never heard before. "You are a government agent, this is a highly publicized murder. Your ex-fiancé is doing his very best to make sure you can go back to your office and not have anyone questioning you about this."

"If I didn't shot him, then they Seika would still be alive"

"Unfortunately, she will still die" Mibuchi told her as he hand her a small towel. "Young Master has told her to stay in the main ballroom but she kept following him like a lost puppy. She has heard everything and that information alone would be dangerous for the young master's life. No one could guarantee that she would be able to keep the secret. "

"Why was she there then? Was she there as a bait? Was she supposed to die?" She said as she could feel tears coming down from her cheek. Seika was a nice girl and she is loved by everyone in the country. She was only there because she had come as her former fiancé's date.

"She wasn't supposed to die" Mibuchi answered as he turn the tv back on. "The plan was to bring Seika to the party, have Kotaro to guard her and bring her out when the time comes. For a while, people would assume Seika have a relationship with young master and they wouldn't try to find out about you. The Young Master knew you would be on Araki-sama's house, no one would dare to go against her so your safety was secured. The plan change the moment you went to the party"

"You should blame me on that, I am the one that put my sister's name in the party" Araki said but Mibuchi didn't give any comment about that and continue to talk.

"And to give her a date. Our Young Master was distracted the whole night and we have to watch him the whole night, he was really unhappy to see you there with Jun. It was exhausting to remind young master about our real mission. We were too distracted that we didn't realize Seika was following her to the meeting place. She is lovely—"

"But if she stay alive, she could use that information to blackmail us. Or she could talk to the press and it could create a problem with our investor and shareholder" Araki said to her as the three of them saw the news on the television. Everyone talk about the security measure and why there were terrorist inside the party and also the reason behind Seika's death. "You know that in this line of business, trust is something that is very hard to keep. After hearing the circumstance from Reo, I am quite contempt that the terrorist was the one that ended up shooting Seika. You just need to tell anyone who ask you that you are a special agent who happened to be in the party and you didn't know they have another shooter that had been targeting Seika"

"I shoot the terrorist because he was hesitate to shoot the terrorist. The situation might escalate and he might be in danger if I didn't do something" she told her sister. at that time, she was only thinking on the safety of her former fiancé.

"That is why I told you to not get involved with someone like him. You have dumped him and yet you came running back to him. Maybe you could try by leaving the country for few months?" her sister suggested. She immediately shook her head.

"I am sorry, Onee-sama. I can't do that" she told her sister, she knew that she wouldn't able to leave her ex-fiancé. She has tried but in the end, she ended up running back to him again. Her feeling for him is stronger than she had ever realized.

"I like or agreeing on your relationship with him, but he has done a good job protecting you since you were in university. I have no reason to say anything" Her sister suddenly told her, it was a rare occurrence for her sister to bring up the story from the past.

"Protecting me?" She asked her sister.

"Back in university when you were sleeping with him" She unconsciously pushed her older sister as her face turn red. "I am glad the two of you are responsible, please don't try to procreate—"

"Onee-sama!" she screamed as she tried to stop her older sister from continuing her rant, she could see Mibuchi tried to hold his laughter and she got even more embarrassed since now she realized that Mibuchi also aware about her relationship with his Young Master.

"He protect you from the people who tried to kidnapped you. When our parents were married, you are the weakest and the easiest target. Our parents have their own personal guard but you were on your own since there shouldn't be any reason to attack you until my father gave you a small share of the inheritance" her sister told her after she saw her discomfort. "Have you ever notice how you were never away from him for long? Even if he wasn't around, there would be someone near you. Every morning and night you were in his apartment, even when you were dating your boyfriend"

"Onee-sama, He wasn't always—" she stopped as she thought of a time when her former fiancé wasn't near her. She always come back to his apartment after class and spend her time there. when she was in the university, he was in her class, either as an assistant or as a student.

"If he wasn't around, his guard over there would be around you." Araki told her as she use her index finger to point at Mibuchi.

"It was pretty hard to tell my Young Master about your date with your boyfriend, and pretty painful to see people you considered as friend was someone who want to either kidnapped or kill you" Mibuchi told her. Everything is making her confused. She always thought that her former fiancé was very possessive of her. But the reason was because people were following her?

"You went to the military and your lover finally have a rest. No one would try to kill someone who is related to Araki family within the military range. He could finally focused on his job but his mother wouldn't stop asking me about you since you gave him silent treatment the whole time you were in the military. I love his mother but she just want to meet with you, the girl that her son has been sleeping with."

"It was a long time ago, Onee-sama." She said to her sister, her face turned very hot and is already very red every time she heard her sister saying that she was sleeping with him. She was in a relationship with him "It is not like I did it for the fun of it." she mumbled.

"So he is not that good—" "Onee-sama!" this time she screamed as she pushed her sister down to the sofa. Her sister laughed when she saw her embarrassed she had become whenever her sister teased her about her relationship with her former fiancé. She is not used on how both her sister and her former fiancé could easily talk about the details in their relationship.

"Your mother told my father to keep you out from this world. I tried to follow their last wish but you just have to choose the wrong guy" Her sister said as she put her hand on her sister's cheek. "I was wrong to send you to the party yesterday. I was too busy with other thing that I didn't keep up with the news in this world. I am sorry Imotou"

"I don't mind Onee-sama, if I didn't choose this life then I wouldn't be able to meet you."

"How touching, are you seducing your own sister, Araki?" She heard her former fiance's voice and she immediately turn her head to his direction. As always, he always look good despite having to be interrogated for five hours.

"Are you afraid of the competition, Sei?"

"Not at all" she heard him saying as she feel herself getting pulled up by the waist. "Mind if I went to talk to my fiancé?"

"Former fiancé" she said to him.

"Sure, but make sure you return her in one piece" she heard her sister told him. Her sister didn't even care to correct him about his relationship status with her and her former fiancé didn't even bother to listen to her protest about how they are no longer engaged. She just took a defeated sighed before letting her former fiancé lead her to a place where they could talk.

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When he said he wanted to talk to her, he forget to say that he would be bringing her to somewhere very far. She had been sitting in his car for the past 30 minutes and the two of them hadn't said anything. She has so many question in her mind that she can no longer keep it within herself.

"Where are we going?" she asked him.

"You will know when we arrived there" he answered her without looking at her and didn't bother to say anything back to her. This part of him is the reason why she couldn't stay with him, he never tell her anything and would do things on his own.

"I am sorry about what happened to Seika" she said as she turn to look towards her window side. "I didn't mean harm, I was only thinking about how the media would not stay silent and your reputation would be in pieces if they found out that you shoot someone."

"You don't have to worry about that." He told her and she could feel the car stopping, they have stopped at an intersection. She could see in the large screen that people were still wondering the motive behind Seika's murder. "Reo and Shintaro would take care of the mess. They have been doing the clean up longer than you might expected"

"But—" she immediately turn to look at him and she could see he didn't seems to be bothered by her concern.

"Ask your sister about what usually happened to the people that want to eliminate her. Since you haven't heard about any attacks on your older sister, then that the clean up team that work with Araki family is quite good."

"Someone is after my sister's life?" this time, the surprise was in for her. Why would someone want to kill her sister? She had known that Araki has been quite a famous with the military, she remembered because her sister is the biggest weapon supplier for the military. She has heard about people whose work were to clean up crime scenes after it has been investigated. But to have people work to clean up after people who attacked her older sister and to keep the attacks as secrets?

"Your sister is someone who sells weapons for living, do you think people would not try to eliminate their competition? Even I have people who is after my life" her eyes went wide when she remembered the time someone shot him in the middle of crowded street just before she went to the military. Then she turn to look at him, someone is actually try to kill him on everyday basis?

What type of life her older sister and her former fiancé has been living in? Is that why the two of them could care less about assassinations on daily basis?

"Don't worry, It is nothing unusual." he told her as if he was reading her mind. She remembered that her sister often joke that her former fiancé have it harder than her since he have to share his guard with his mother. She suddenly heard him to keep her head low. Before she could ask him what he meant by that, she heard the sound of gun and something hitting his car. She turn to look at the rearview mirror and saw that someone is pointing a large caliber gun towards them.

"They are getting more confident" she heard him saying as he pick him his phone and call someone from his phone. "I am with my fiancé in the car to my father's house, I believe you just told me that you take care of the pests?"

She could feel the car is getting faster and the number of bullets hitting the car gets more and more frequent. They are still in the suburb area of Japan, someone is shooting them in broad daylight and nobody does anything? She saw that her former fiancé's voice getting louder and louder to the point he was on the verge of screaming to whoever it is on the other side of the phone. She should have paid attention to what her former fiancé said to the other person because she could see how upset he had become before ending the call.

"Do you have any gun?" she asked him. If they are going to shoot at them, she could try to return the favor and shoot them back.

"Under your seat, but they are using bulletproof car. That gun won't do anything" he told her as he call another person on the phone. She went to check the space under her seat and she found a small handgun and one shotgun along with two boxes of bullet in it.

"Reo, I am on my way to father's house. I am with my fiancé and someone decided try their luck and attack us. Take care of it before father find out about these people trying to dirtied his property"

"I am no longer you fiancé. We already ended our relationship" she told him as she tried to prepare the shotgun, at the very least she could try to shoot the tire. It should give them enough time to try to escape their attacker.

"That won't do, My dear. You will only hurt yourself" he told her as he grab the gun in her hand and threw it back to the space near her feet and immediately grab her hand when she tried to grab the gun once again. "Reo will take care of it"

"I am a trained soldier, this is nothing to me" she said as she tried to slap his hand away. "Please also remember that I am no longer your fiancé"

"You serve you country, not serving me, Dear. It is my guards job to protect me." he told her as he squeezed her hand tighter. "and I don't remember ever agreeing on ending our engagement"

"It is my duty as a soldier to protect a civilian like you"

"My dear, You have no duty to protect anyone. You just need sit back, stay with me and let yourself have an easier life. You also need to quit your job and any ties from the military service or being an agent" he told her as he pick up her hand and kiss the back of her hand. "if the military find out about anything that happen today, the government would just blame anything on you. I can't have you sent into a federal prison for something like this"

"Just let me try to attack them, we need to get you to safety. They have special type of vehicle and guns just to blow us up to pieces" she shouted at him. How could he be so calm with someone shooting at him and he is driving almost 200kph in the hillside part of the country. And he could easily drive his car while one of his hand is holding her hand.

"It is nothing special. You will have to get used to this when we are married" he told her as he suddenly swerved his car until it come to a complete stop and immediately went to pushed her down as he is covering her body with his own. Few seconds later, she could hear an explosion and sounds of people screaming. Then everything went silent.

*knock knock*

He went to take a look at the window before letting out a relieved sigh before he went to open the window of his car, she looked up and see Mibuchi smiling as he greeted her.

"It is done Sei-chan. People from Seirin and Kagetora-san would take care of the rest. They would also pay for the damage on your car. Your father is already in the house, we would finish cleaning this just before be return to the city"

"Take care of my fiancé, I need to talk with Shintaro" he told Mibuchi before he went out from his car and went to talk to the other guard that seems to be inspecting the exploded car. It does look like someone has shot the car with something similar to a rocket or threw a grenade at that car. She followed him as she went to stand next to Mibuchi. She could see Mibuchi is at their surrounding before he let out a deep sigh.

"Thank you for helping us, Mibuchi-kun" she told Mibuchi as soon as her former fiancé is out of their hearing range.

"It is a good thing that both you and Sei-chan were near the Master house and we are happened to be here, I never thought they would be shooting with a large gun in the middle of the city road." Mibuchi said as he turn to look at her.

"Happened to be here? I thought your job is to guard him" she asked Mibuchi. She remembered that Mibuchi was also the first one to arrive when someone attacked them years ago.

"Do you know that I am assigned to guard Sei-chan's mother while Hayama and Midorima is assigned to guard Sei-chan's father? No one is assigned to guard Sei-chan" Mibuchi suddenly asked her.

Her eyes went wide once again, she slowly shook her head.

"Usually Sei-chan's mother stay with his father so one of us could go and guard Sei-chan. After the death of Sei-chan's mother, we have to increase the security around Sei-chan's father. Because we have done some investigation and one of the guards who work in the main house was responsible for the information that Sei-chan's mother was alone that night"

"But, there are people who would try to hurt Sei-chan, why there are no guards assigned permanently to him?" She asked Mibuchi as her eyes went to watch her former fiancé. From the time she was with him, she remembered that he was hospitalized twice because someone try to attacked him. And there are some scars in his body that whenever she asked him how he obtained such scars, he refused to answer her and went to change the topic of the conversation.

"In order for Sei-chan to have a normal life, his mother arranged it so that Sei-chan wouldn't look like he would inherit all the fortune from his parents if they both die. it was the only reason why Sei-chan could go to public school and have a little bit of normalcy in his life"

"If things got worse, Sei would have to protect himself?" she asked Mibuchi. She could feel herself shaking when she imagined that the person that she love have to fight people who tried to hurt him. She remembered how hard he tried to study and keep up his grade while always have to impressing his father with his work performance, now he also have to physically fight someone who tried to kill him, all by himself.

"There is no other choice, it is not easy to find someone who could be trusted." Mibuchi told her before he bend down a little before whispering to her "but he could trust you"

She immediately turn his head to look directly into Mibuchi's direction. She move his head so fast that she didn't realize how close she was to Mibuchi.

"Sei-chan's father told me that with a little bit of training, you would be a good candidate as Sei-chan personal guard" He has a serious look as he told her that while his eyes look directly into hers. "People already assumed that you are already in relationship with Sei-chan. If you told them that you are his guard, they won't take that statement seriously. You would be able to fool the enemies and stop Sei-chan from getting killed"

She could feel her breath getting shaky, her minds full of thoughts. If she went to be his personal guard, she would have to spend the rest of her life to be with him despite her wish to start a new life away from him. She had been with him for as long as she could remember and before the death of his mother, he was nothing less but a good best friend and lover for her. after the death of his mother, he has been nothing but cold and distance towards her as if he didn't want her to be involve with her. And yet, he still insisted that they are still engaged. If he still hadn't make up his mind, then she would make the decision for him.

"How could I do that?" she asked Mibuchi.

"I would try to ask Sei-chan's father to grant you few minutes of his time. You can ask him about the contract and to have the company legally hired you." She heard Mibuchi told her. Before she could asked anything else, she could feel someone pull her away by the waist from Mibuchi.

"Aren't you getting too comfortable with my fiancé, Reo"

"Whoops, sorry Sei-chan" Mibuchi immediately took two steps back away from the two of them.

"We are done here" he told her as he guide her to a new car that Midorima had just used.

"Mibuchi-kun tole me that your father want to talk to me" she told him as she turn to look at Mibuchi. She could see for a second that Mibuchi looked surprised before he regained his composure.

"Your father want to talk to her, I am sorry that I forget to tell you" Mibuchi told him. She could see that her former fiancé has a look of doubt across his face. He look between Mibuchi and her before close his eyes and took a deep breath as he pull her closer to him.

"I will drive you there, after that you are coming with me" he told her. she nodded before she went to look at Mibuchi once again. Mibuchi gave her a small nod before he took his phone from his pocket and went to call someone while she and her former fiancé went to the car to drive to his father's house.

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When she arrived at his father's house, she realized that this house is very similar to the one that his mother had before someone set it on fire. It is eerily similar from the outside, from the shape of the gate up until the number of the windows that she could see from outside. But she got even more surprise when she entered the house, the entrance door is the exact replica just like the one in his mother's house. Even the accessories, paintings and the small detail such as the type of flower in the vase. Everything is the exact copy of the house of his mother's house.

"I feel like I have entered this house" she mumbled, loud enough to be heard by him.

"My father built this house by replicating the house that my mother used. My father hoped that she would be visiting this house but my mother never want to go to this place." He answered as the two of them entered another room, the room that they used as a place to greet the guests. "No one live in this house until the day my mother died"

She stopped by the gigantic picture of his father with his mother, she got a goosebumps just by seeing the picture. This house feels like a place where they kept the memories of his mother. She could see the kind smile his mother showed in the picture and how she had been very beautiful since she was younger. The way his mother smile in this picture is very different than the one she remembered, the way his mother smile in this picture is just pure happiness.

"This picture was taken before my mother married my father. It takes two years to merge everything between my mother and my father's assets after they have announced their intention to get married"

"I never remembered seeing your mother and your father at the same place in the same time" she asked him. She only had seen him with his mother once when they were children. And on the occasion she have met with his father, she never saw his mother attending the same party. She could see him smiling sadly as he take a look at his mother's picture.

"My mother only wish for me to have a normal childhood. My father tried to hide us but the enemies found out where we stayed. My father called us back to the main house after that" he told her as he close his eyes. "After that my mother unwillingly have to agree on the way my father raised me. as a precaution, my father prefer to keep my mother away from the spotlight since she wasn't able to protect herself."

She nodded, she completely understand what he meant by that. Her sister told her that she is trained since they were young. From academics, languages, business skill until self defense. She have to be able to do everything on her own and have to be able to keep herself alive. Her sister told her that she had known how to kill an adult since she was teen years old.

"My mother didn't give up to have me experiencing how it would be if I was just an ordinary student and sent me to public middle school against my father's rule. It was a surprise for me when I saw you the year after that. " He told her as he went to turn to look at her. "I went into that school only to have an idea on how normal people have their life. I decided to not try to start a friendship with you because that would only cause more problem for you."

She opened her mouth, only to have it closed again. At that time, she felt so hurt by him that she also didn't want to be anywhere near him. She didn't know his circumstance at that time and already have her own assumption.

"At first people didn't even remember that you were there, you really have a low presence that no one bothered to get close to you." She found herself frowned by the idea that he was pleased that no one could remember her. "Then you make a worse decision by going out with that trash. You went on avoiding me for the whole year but agreeing to go out with the first person who asked you"

"He was nice to me and he was not my first boyfriend" she said to defend herself. He was right about her avoiding him and the reason behind her decision to go out with her boyfriend from middle school. But has nothing to do with him, she was really liking her boyfriend from middle school. She could see his eyes darkened a little bit and his smile turn into a frown.

"it annoyed me to see that trash bragging about you in front of his friend. Your eyes were always looking at me but once that trash come, you went to look at him. He need to touch you before you realize that he was not worth your attention"

"You are no good yourself. Your crazy ex-girlfriend went on harassing me throughout high school, even when you were in Kyoto and I was in Tokyo. She didn't even believe me when I told her that we are only friends" she told him as she felt annoyed he suddenly bring out the past.

"What is this that you are arguing about?" the two of them heard his father's voice and they immediately stop arguing with each other.

"It is nothing, Father" he said to his father. "Do you need anything from my fiancé?"

She really wanted to scream that they are no longer engaged, but no one seems to care what she told them and still believed that the two of them are still engaged.

"Yes, I want to talk with your fiancé in private" his father told him as she saw Mibuchi appeared and open the door to another room. She could see his troubling look before he bowed down slightly and move to the other room.

"I have heard from Reo that you are willing to be my son's personal guard?"

"Yes, sir" she answered. She couldn't really see any changing emotion in his father's face. She didn't know if his father could accept her as his son's personal guard or thought of the idea as a joke..

"You have an impressive resume as a soldier" his father told her while he turn to look at thee picture of him and his wife. "And your loyalty to my son. This should be enough if you want to be his personal guard"

Despite having heard his father told her that she is good enough, she could feel herself not believing that.

"But what kind of guard that slept with the person that she protect? Do you think people would stay silent when they found out that the heir of multi billion dollar company slept with his guard?"

She could feel her heart started to beat faster. She knew that his father never like her from the first moment he met her.

"What do you want to be? His guard or his wife?" his father asked her. she still couldn't say anything. "My wife like the idea that you become part of our family. You also have the support from Araki family after your mother married the master of the Araki family"

"I want to be with your son and protect him" she finally managed to say to his father despite her being scared of his father's cold demeanor.

"Your desire, is it just a desire to protect him or also want to own him?"

She had thought about her feeling for her lover. She does love him and her mind would drifted back to him every time she was daydreaming. She had been with him for the longest time and she knew she feel something for him. But there are also part of her that want to keep their relationship a secret when they were in university because of the difference in their social status and another part of her that is afraid of him.

She would be lying if she told his father that it didn't bother her the amount of women who were affiliated to him. Her desire to make him as her own is stronger than she let herself believed.

"If you want to be his personal guard, no one should know about your personal relationship with my son" his father told her. she looked up and saw his father had turn to look at her. "My wife like you so much that she let you continue your relationship with my son to the point she start to talk about the future grandchildren after your engagement party"

Her face turned red whenever she remembered how his mother want her to give her grand children. He always teased her after that, about how they should fulfilled his mother wish and it usually ended up with her trying to change the subject of the conversation.

"I want to protect him and I also want to be by his side" she told his father as she took a deep breath and try to make her heart beat slower. "I love your son, but I am no longer engaged to him now. I have promised your wife that I would be staying by your son's side, that is the reason why I hope you can considering me as your son's personal guard. Anything more than that, I am going to need time to think of my decision"

"Very well" his father told her before he turn to walk towards where his son went earlier. "I want to hear what you had decided in the party that I have prepared for my son. Ask Seijuro about the party, he would be happy if you to accompany him"

"I would like to ask, Do I get your blessing if I ended up choosing to be your daughter in law?" she had no idea why she asked his father that. It made his father stop in his track and turn to look at him.

"I know you already know my answer. Seijuro had enough when he lost his mother. He wouldn't be able to handle the loss of another person that he love the most. Right now, you are not good enough to guard him, if you choose to be his personal guard then you will have to take many trainings and have me approved of the result." his father told her before he left the room.

When she and her former fiancé left his father's house , she didn't know that it would be the last time she saw his father. The party his father told her was supposed to be a party to introduce his son as the heir of the whole fortune of his family. She found out that his father planned to also formally introduce his son to many of the suitable wife candidates. Her former fiancé announced his father's death due to an accident and he has cancelled the party and he hadn't shown his face to the news after that press conference.

Just a week after she received the news about the death of his father. She immediately went to his house and saw that he is in an emotional mess with the way he became cold and self centered when he saw her. As she expected, he tried to push her away and investigate things on his own. This time, she has make her choice and would not let him intimidate and persuade her to leave him alone. His father had made her realized that his son had enough people leaving him when he needed them the most.

"I am not going to leave you Sei" she shouted at him when he tried to push her out of his house. She went to push him with all her power before telling him "I am going to stay with you whether you agree or not. Now you have to tell me everything since I am still engaged to you, so I could have my easy life as you have promised me"

"Were you the one insisted that we are no longer engaged" he said to her as he grab her by shoulder with both of his hand and look directly into her eyes. she could see that he tried to search something as he studied the expression from her face. She could see that he is trying his best to conceal his surprise and a tiny bit of happiness as he look directly into her eyes.

"Were you the one who told me that you never agree to that? And I am no longer in the military, so I will need a room to put my all my belonging. It is so sudden but I believe that you would be able to give me one room to stay amongst many of your empty bedrooms" she told him back, her eyes determined that this time he wouldn't be able to push her away since he had told her that he wanted her to stop working in the military. She could see his eyes start to lightened up and a smile appear on the corner of his mouth. He pulled her into his embrace and the two of them stay in that position for a while.

"I need to clear up some space in my closet." He told her as put his arm around her waist and pick up her bag with his other hand. "I am afraid you have to move back to my room, you still have some of your items in there. unless you want to picked up the rest of your item to another bedroom"

" I don't mind going back to your room. It is much easier than having to move everything and have you still sleeping in whichever room I choose" she told him as she could see the mischievous look on his face. Since that room was designed according to her request, which means that she would have to move the bed, sofas and many of the decorations that they had brought when he told her that he was building a house. She could hear him laugh as he kiss the top of her head.

She suddenly remembered that she need to show him something. She searched her pocket and give him the envelope that she received from Mibuchi. Before she went to his house, she went to Mibuchi's place and talk to Mibuchi about her intention to formally become his young master's personal guard, she guessed that his father must have left his message to Mibuchi about what to do when she has made her decision. She was surprised when she saw that his father had prepared something more than a message, his father had prepared the documents needed to legally hire her as his son's personal guard before his death and all she need is to sign the contract.

"And also, I have legally become one of your personal guard. Your father was the one who hired me, so you couldn't fire me unless I resigned" She told him and he immediately stop walking. She could feel his body getting tense after he saw the envelope in her hand.

She only had two things in sorted out in her mind. The first one is that she love her former fiancé enough to want to continue her engagement to him. The second thing is that if she stayed with him and have the people know that they are together, then she would be her weakness. His enemies would be able to use her to get to him.

"It would be easier for you ensure my safety if I stay next to you as your guard. If the enemies realize I am your fiancé, they will definitely come after me in order to get to you. Mibuchi-kun told me that you still haven't found the names and motive of the people who killed your parents. We need to find the mastermind behind the death of your parents and sorting out your enemies and allies" she added. It is easier for her to guard him from his enemies if she is next to him. But most importantly, it would be easier for her to gain information that she need in order to find out who was the organization that targeted him if she is known only as his guard. As her fiancé has told her, she is mainly have a very low existence, it would be easier to obtain information if she didn't have anyone focusing their attention to her. being his fiancé in public eyes means that everyone would try to find out about her and gain as many information as they could about her. this would also bring trouble to her older sister since they would also dig information about her.

"What about your training?" he asked her after he finish reading the letter. She knew he would ask her this, according to Mibuchi, she is still far from the standard that his family has set whenever they went to hire someone to guard their family member.

"Mibuchi-san and the rest of the team will train me everyday until I pass your tests" she told him.

"Very well" he told her with a calm voice. She took a relieved sigh. "But you have to remember one thing" he added as he put her bag to the ground before he turn to face her and leaned down as he pressed his forehead against her. "I will play along with your little game of charade. But remember who you are to me. I would stop playing this game if there is nothing to gain from this or if things ended up getting to dangerous for you."

"I understood" she told him as she leaned forward and give him a kiss. "now that we have a deal, let's talk about everything over a nice dinner."

She could see him shaking his head in disbelief while saying that he found it hard to believe that she would be the one to suggesting food when she was the one who kept forgetting to eat her food if she could get away with drinking her milkshake. He ended up laughing loudly when she told him that the nice dinner that she mentioned would be at a fast food restaurant where she could finally get her daily dose of vanilla milkshake.

-x- TBC -x-

AN: hello minna. Finally an update after months

I do promise you that I will finish this story, it might take few more months, so if you really like this story please leave reviews so I still know that you are still waiting for updates. Each chapter after this one would be a bit longer than my usual length. Because I don't know if I should keep it short and cliffhanging or update it after finish making one long chapter, at least for this update I choose the long chapter since I need to wrap up the past story.

As for Akashi's PoV, there will be one chapter dedicated as Akashi's PoV from the past(well, if you have read this chapter then you know whose PoV it has been whenever I put the flashback) but I am not sure which chapter it would be. At least after this one, we would be back to the real time line of the story and proceed with the final arc(and somehow it is a long one).

I would like to thank you to those who still keep on reading this story and maybe still wondering when I will update this ^^. I am still working on editing the previous chapters and clearing up any weird mistakes (characterization, jumpy plot, etc). I would tell you when I have finished with the editing if you guys want?.

I will see you on the next chapter ^^.

My motivation to finish this story is very simple, every story deserve to have an ending. It might take a while but I am back working to finish my work

-Namikaze-chan-