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Post by Teneile on Jan 2, 2008 15:12:18 GMT 1
Aww she could just imagine a younger, skinnier Kazuma, someone not so bulky coming in here with a backpack over his shoulder a bruise on his cheek from the most recent fight, and coming in for his afternoon sandwhich. She wondered if he ate so much back then or if that was just when he began to get into body building. She looked up at him when he asked her about the show they were going to tomorrow night and her face lit up. You could tell that before she even answered she was more than thrilled.
"Yes, I am, it's going to be great, and while you may not have fun, I will, and I suppose that's the point. But I'll have to make it up to you later by doing something special for you. But.. you'll have to wait to see your Christmas present and tell me if I still owe you something or not." she grinned with a smile.
Their sandwichs came soon and Teneile took a sip of her water while she cut hers in half, it was very large and there was no way she could pick it up and eat it without getting the bright red sauce all over her clothes and herself. Leaning forward for even less of a chance she bit into the chicken and marinara sandwhich with a long moan and a happy smile. It was very good, she could see why Kazuma had wanted to come here, they really knew how to make a sandwich.
"That .. is so good." she moaned as she wiped her lips and dug back into her meal.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 2, 2008 21:42:22 GMT 1
He was seriously beginning to wonder what this gift was she had gotten him, he knew he had told her not to trouble herself looking for a gift knowing how busy she was at times. Soon their sandwich’s came and kazuma could not help but lick his lips at the sight and smell of his pastrami sandwich, it was so tick his eyes fixated on his food. He could see his teneile having a slight problem figuring out how to eat her own without getting it all over her and he could not blame her. His large hand grabbed his sandwich and began to eat without a second thought in utter bliss.
They ate happily, it was so good to just indulge in a meal like this given their normally healthy diets. He had remembered eating so many meals in here, lunches and dinners in an attempt just not to go home at times. They ate in silence, they still had a lot to do and he knew Teneile was just waiting till this evening to meet his parents, so he imagined her wanting to get through everything as quickly as possible.
Soon Kazuma was done with his sandwich and Teneile was able to eat what ever she could leaving what ever she could not finish to the side. He was happy with the food and enjoyed the pickle spear that came with his sandwich as he looked over at Teneile. “So now that we had a decent lunch…..are you ready for your little spa treatment?....I’m more then sure you could use a good pampering” he said smiling at her
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Post by Teneile on Jan 4, 2008 19:43:46 GMT 1
"Yes, I'm ready lets go." she said with a smile.
They paid the bill at the front and he took her waist in his arm as they headed out to the door. The spa wasn't far and Teneile didn't speak much on the way she was afraid not, a growing knot in the pit of her stomach as she knew that when she got to the spa Kazuma would be leaving. He was going to go take care of some errands but they both knew that his errands were not of the normal paying the bills kind. He was going to go to the gang, and she had no idea what would happen there, but she hoped that he would come pick her up as he promised. He was giving her a day at the spa, saying she needed to relax but she was unsure if that was even possible because of what he himself would be doing.
When they got to the front she looked up at him softly trying not to let him see how worried and how tearful her eyes were. She flung herself against his massive chest and hugged him tightly she couldn't bare to see him hurt, it was hard for her to, as it would be anyone. She sniffled slightly and felt his hand in her long red locks closing her eyes she just let him hold her for a moment. She was so afraid to lose him, while she seemed independant she had grown quite dependant on Kazuma. Her hand came up to his shoulder and stroked at the seam in his tshirt gently.
"You'll be safe right?" she asked her face not looking up at him, she couldn't let him see. "You'll come back for me, and we'll go to dinner, and we'll talk about our baby and the room and everything right?" she begged and pleaded sniffling softly again.
"Because.. you have to come back Kazuma. you have to be safe." she whispered. She pulled back slightly still not looking up at him she reached beneath her red hair and unclasped the necklace he had bought for her on her birthday. Gently she reached up and placed it around his neck, the sapphire gleaming, she had not taken it off since that day, the day he had given it to her. She wanted him to remember her, and to bring it back to her, a silent promise.
"I love you." she whsipered as she pressed a hard kiss onto his lips before she quickly grabbed the bags that they had bought knowing he couldn't take them with him. She scurried into the building before he could see the tears and stay, she knew he wanted to go and asking him to stay would be cruel. Inside she asked for the works and her day at the spa began as she checked in her bags and her coat as they led her to the nails and pedicure station, followed by a massage, a sauna treatment, and some other things while they waited to see if and what condition he would be in, when he returned.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 4, 2008 20:50:59 GMT 1
To say he hadn’t noticed her reactions to the up coming moments would be a lie, sure he was blind in one eye but he didn’t need to actually see to feel her worry for him. When they got to the front of the spa he could see her eyes gleaming with tears which were being held back some how. She was trying to stay strong knowing what he was doing without him even saying it. It broke his heart right now to see her in such worry, especially now with everything they knew. She asked him if he would be safe not looking up at him. Her worried questions made him feel so guilty and heart broken it was clear she feared him getting hurt or worse, him never coming back for her.
“I’ll be back…promise” he sighed “Its nothing but a few quick…errands” he managed . He could not bring himself to say the word gang, or fight he could not bring himself to mention what might actually happen. It was then she reached behind her hair and did something he never thought she would do in her life. She unclasped the necklace he had given to her for her last birthday, the one she never took off on her own the one she said so long ago only he could remove from her. She placed it around his neck and the message was clear, ‘come back and bring this back to me’. “I love you too” he managed to say before she kissed him and then scurried into the building never looking back.
He stared at her fading imagine as his hand reached up and placed the necklace inside his shirt keeping it from sight. Part of him so wished to go after her, go an enjoy a much needed back rub and a steam and just be happy. But he knew better, the old gang was looking for blood his most likely. If he did not resolve this now when him and Teneile finally moved here in a year or so then him, teneile and even their children might be at risk. He walked down the street quickly, the look in his eyes were sorrow filled and cold like little icy blue stones devoid of life.
He soon hailed a cab his eyes never looking back knowing if he did that he would not be bale to bring himself to do this. He was going to have to become that hard ass son of a bitch one more time in his life, the one capable of things that the current kazuma could never do. The cab drove him down to the south street sea port towards a more desolate area where there were several board up were houses, once part of the fish market but now were just a reminder of old business and a home to scum.
He left the cab and stood outside one which had graffite tags all over it. This was the hang out of his old gang the Knuckle Bomb. It was a corny name indeed but it was true to the members, each one preffered their fist to weapons making it one of the more respected gangs around compared to those the struck fear into people with the use of blades or worse. Kazuma soon found his way in, security was horrible as it always was.
When he got through the main hallway he ame to the center of the were house which had been gutted completely leaving little more then just 1 giant room besides a small office in the back. Pool tables, sitting areas, even rings and exercise equipment and a squatting area more towards the main back office. All this filled with 50 or so very unhappy looking members. Many of them were new the older members though looked even angrier. One stepped forward as Kazuma entered the room, a thin yet muscular scrappy looking boy no older then kazuma himself “What the fuck are you doing here you fucking traitor… come here to make the job of hunting you down even easier” the boy said kazuma’s face grew harder, as it was lng before he had met Teneile.
“No Connor….I came here today to end this once and for all, I’m not going to live my life wondering if your gunna come after me or anyone I love for revenge….I left this gang and Mika didn’t understand that and looked were it got her” kazuma said coldly “So we’ll settle this the old fashion way” Kazuma said cracking his knuckles “And after today….no matter the outcome of this this issue is forgotten” This was old gang speak, Kazuma siting old rules that let some one clear their name of wrong doing in the eyes of the gang, it was something no one ever really wanted to do but was sometimes the last ditch choice
“Fine ten on 1 brawl, win or loss as given the old rules you walk out of here with a clean slate….if you can still walk though….especially since I’m picking the fighters ” Connor said with a grin. But with a huff Kazuma already began to make his way to the sparring section of the floor to get this over with once and for all.
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Post by Teneile on Jan 4, 2008 21:09:44 GMT 1
As Teneile entered her mind changed. How could she let him do it alone?! How could she. There was just.. no way. She couldn't.. what if something happened, she had to be there to say good bye and while he would be so mad at her later, she had to go, she had to see, she had to know what was going on. She went to the front desk.
"Can I help you?" asked a Asian woman behind the desk. Teneile wasn't listening she looked over her shoulder and saw Kazuma walk off his hand tucking the necklace underneath his shirt. "Ma'am?"
"Umm.. no.. I'll... I'll be back." she said as she turned and rushed from the building. She saw Kazuma getting into a taxi and whistled loudly, all girls' in Texas know how to whistle and hailed herself a cab quickly.
"Follow that cab! I mean it! I have one hundred dollars in my hand if you can stay on that cab's ass." she said as she held up the money as proof.
"O course mi lady." said the russian cab driver as he took off speeding through the streets of new York following Kazuma's cab she hid behind the seat hoping that he wouldn't see her, if he did he would probably tie her up somewhere and come after her later just so she wouldn't get hurt.
"Where are ye from?" he asked curiously. his accent growing thick.
"No where just drive!" she hissed, she didn't want to talk to the cab driver she just wanted to go. They got to a large building that Teneile had never seen before and she watched as Kazuma got out and went into the building. She threw the money at the cabby and got out quickly taking her bags with her. She moved towards the building quickly. There were no windows in the front so she waited listening having cracked the door slightly. She closed her eyes, Kazuma was going to get hurt and she knew it. Ten on one. He was strong but ten would have an obvious advantage to one. She slipped in the door silently and hid in the shadows of the corner, placing her bags around her knelt down hopefully hiding well enough no one would see her in the dark and watched. Praying the whole time that Kazuma would make it out, she was close to the door if something happened and she had to run, she was close at least.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 4, 2008 23:09:17 GMT 1
Kazuma had no idea he had been followed by Teneile, it was for the better in trut. If he knew she was here there was a good chace he would old back or get distracted thinking about her safety. Kazuma got into the sparring circle it was really just a cirle painted on the floor with no mats or anything of the like normally used to just spar among members. Right now though said circle was just a guide line as to the area of the fight which was about to happen , there was no such thing as boundries in a match like this.
Standing there the other fighters were picked, all of them were senior members of the gang some of them were here even before Kazuma had joined himself. They were considered the elite of the gang and were not taken lightly by anyone. But none of them were anything like Kazuma, they were of average weights and heights all with decent amounts of muscle but nothing like Kazuma who was basically three hundred pound of muscle the rest of his weight was cut between a small amount of fat, his bone structure and his water weight. Each of the 10 fighters looked at Kazuma uneasily, they had the advantage in number yes but they had also been there 2 years ago when the riot broke out and Kazuma was granted his nick name. It was a hard battle on both sides and they knew it.
‘Alright rules are simple, no weapons no time limit and the fight ends when the other side is incapable of fighting….other then that all moves and vital areas are fair game” Conor said with a wicked grin on his face. In his mind he had a feeling Kazuma had gone soft and there was no way he was anything like he was when he was part of the gang. But as Kazuma’s cold eyes looked at the other ten men which had begun to circle him it was clear that he had not gone completely soft in his time away from the east coast. He had been pushed and been pushed again during his visit here and it was clear it had reawakened something in him.
A bell went off and the match was officially beginning. All ten came at him at once knowing it was there best chance. Kazuma swung at the one coming directly at him but he dodged rolling to the side while the other nine took the opening one kicked him in the back of his left knee bring the giant down to one knee while another punched him in the right side of his face. Kazuma backhanded him right in the gut pushing him away but he was being swarmed. It was just like the old days, this feeling of fighting for his life was something he had all but forgotten being in san fran with Teneile in their beach home with their two loving dogs
They got their licks in kazuma getting a few good punches in but they were sloppy, only being able to see from one side put him at a great disadvantage in a brawl such as this a weakness known to these older members of the gang. It was not long before they had finally back off with Kazuma on all fours his body trembling. “ This is too easy…he really has gotten soft ” on said in a cocky tone of voice. But what none of them realized was that besides as small gash on the top of his head and a bit of a shiner most of them had laid body shots on Kazuma something that didn’t do well against such a heavily muscled body such as his. And the trembling Kazuma was doing was not from outer pain but the inner pain of him trying to hold something back.
It was realized to late though as kazuma was allowed to get back to his feet, they had let him do it hopping to beat on him some more but something was different this time around. Kazuma was bugling now, the sleeves of his poor tee shirt were ripping and viens in his arms neck, even his face could be seen. Teneile had seen this once before as well as the men that were suppose to be beating on him, Kazuma was losing control of himself and badly.
They tried the same circlular attack once more coming at him from all side but this time it was different. Instead of waiting in the center Kazuma lashed out almost like an animal grabbing the first man infront of him by the neck with his left hand only to bring his massive right fist down like a hammer right on the crown of his skull immediately putting him on the ground when kazuma released his neck. It did not stop there either and the tide of the fight turned drastically as a lengendary animal was reborn right in front of the very eyes of every one in the room.
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Post by Teneile on Jan 5, 2008 4:20:57 GMT 1
Teneile was in shock. She couldn't beleive he was doing this. It was suicide. Not that she expected him to lose, she knew he could do it if he put his mind to it. But.. she was afraid that while he might win, he would not come out unscathed. She bit her lower lip and een found herself biting her nails something she never did as they began to wail on her husband. Ten of them. How could he come out of that?! She knew he was strong and she was probably the only person in the world that beleived he could do just about anything. But ten? Ten men that had been trained to fight, she didn't see how it was possible. She watched her nails between her teeth being torn to bits, she really was going to need the spa after this. Her other hand was on her stomach as she watched them get him down.
God help him. She quickly prayed.
He got back up again and she watched her eyes widened. Crap! She knew that look all too well he didn't know she was there and she was glad of that now. Now that he was becoming the incredible Bulk, tat's what she thought of him as the Bulk. When his muscles bulged out like that and his veins poked from the skin she watched concerned still though. He grabbed one when they all suddenly charged him once more and she watched as he pounded him horribly hard on the head letting him fall to the ground and seemed to be looking for his next victim. She could only watch and pray.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 5, 2008 22:35:16 GMT 1
Kazuma was enraged and was lost within himself once more. It was in this almost beast like state one could see Kazuma’s inner rage, the anger and hurt he tended to bottle up for months even years at a time. All those painful things in his life became his fuel and his determination, most would think he was on roid rage but in truth what was fueling him now was that all consuming pain of Zea. Most would have thought he had gotten over it slightly from the way he carried himself but he felt broken inside and from the day it had happened he had wished for nothing more then to beat the life out of something which would have been Teneiles father if he had it his way.
What had once been a questionable fight was now turning into a one sided beat down. They all attacked Kazuma at once but like this he did not feel any of it, the kicks to his legs, the punches to his gut and back nothing. It was like 9 children trying to beat a silver back gorilla. His swings soon turned deathly now not holding anything back, a single back fist to the face of one of his opponents sent the poor guy off of his feet twisting into the air and onto his back. The fight continued in a similar manner until the rest of his opponents were all on the floor all of them unconscious and unmoving. The fight was over there was no question about it but not to Kazuma who still was looking for more.
Every one was silent, no one said anything for a moment everyone was in utter shock that Kazuma was standing, and besides a small gash on his forehead looked unscathed, though without any clothes on his bruises would be apparent and plently. But the quite and unmoving mass of people in the room soon got Kazuma to calm himself to a point. Nothing was said by anyone not even connor the acting leader and so without a word Kazuma simply turned and began to walk out. He had a promise to keep to his wife and he was not about to go back on it.
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Post by Teneile on Jan 6, 2008 0:55:15 GMT 1
Teneile watched as he went animalistic. She had seen him like this only a few times. Her blue eyes never left his body. She watched as he didn't even seem to feel any of the hits that he was taking at all, he didn't even seem to acknowledge them. Her nails were completely gone, she had chewed them all away while he was fighting. He seemed finished. Teneile let her eyes move for a moment and look around, she noticed a small office, that was currently empty, it was just a little partition that had a cabinet behind it and a desk. But inside the cabinet were all sorts of guns and ammunition. They weren't done.. she could feel the tension in the air. Kazuma was done but she could tell they did not want to let him walk out of here alone. Or alive. He was after all the person that killed their leader, and that could not go unpunished no matter what they had said. They might have once been brothers, but that had died the day Mika had.
Teneile rose as someone moved, she left her bags where they were, she slipped through the shadows and behind the partition and walked to the cabinet, from behind the wall no one could see her. The idiots had left the tiny key right on the desk so taking it she gently undid the lock and opened it sliding out a few things that she needed. Her father was a cop, and the one thing he had done for her back at home when they had a lot of room, he had taught her to shoot, and shoot well. The best thing was she was an excellent shot, he had at one time loved his daughter a bit more than he did now, now he hated her. But, at the time, before Ryan and Teneile's mother had died, everything had been better. Teneile thrust several clips into the guns she had gotten some of them, safety on, where thrust into the waist band of her pants, while the one she intended to use, a handy Glock, was loaded and ready.
She walked around the partition again only in time to see one of the men hit Kazuma in the lower back with a pipe. Kazuma fell to the ground as the men around him chuckled.
"YOu thought you could leave?" one asked and grinned kicking him in the ribs.
"Drop.. the.. pipe.. now." came her voice. She engaged the slide, putting a bullet in the chamber and pointed it, standing there in the middle of the entry way in the light now, watching them with her blue eyes.
"Is.. is this the little bitch Kazuma?! She's coming to save your hide.. isn't that nice.." they all laughed.
"Drop it!" she growled.
"Or what?" asked the blonde holding the pipe tapping it in his other hand. She smiled, it was not a pretty smile but a cold one as she took aim and fired, the bullet whizzed past his face only an inch from hitting.
"Want me to try again? I assure you I didn't miss by accident." she said as she kept the gun pointed at him.
"You only have five bullets left little girl." said one of them.
She chuckled with them this time.
"You think?" she asked as she lifted her shirt having four more guns at the ready. "I don't."
They stopped for a moment. Was this chick serious.
"So.. lets discuss the deal here. You let him go. You let him walk out of here, with me, and you never bother us again. You think I won't remember where this is? Or where the guns are? You think he isn't important enough to kill everyone of you?" she asked seriously. She was indeed bluffing she didn't know if she could kill someone but.. they didn't know that.
"Now now.. lets not get hasty Missy." he said with a soft smile as he began to move towards her.
"don't take another step!" she said as she aimed and shot right in front of his shoe. He stopped.
"I want my husband, my name isn't Missy, it's Teneile, and we're leaving." she said as she watched them all her eyes watching every single one of them.
"This is a mistake." said the blonde. Her eyes shifted and narrowed slightly.
"You think?" she asked and smiled. She aimed once more and shot the bastard in the knee. He cried out as he fell. Had she snapped?! Somewhere it seemed that she might have indeed, she was going to lose the best thing in her life, her husband if she didn't get him out of here, and she would not do it. "I'm not leaving without him, who else thinks a knee cap is optional?" she asked looking around.
No one moved.
Finally Connor chuckled, and looked at the girl.
"I see why he likes you." he said with a grin and a shrug. "Allright, you can take the fucker, but I don't ever want to see him again, if I do, then there is no stopping me from taking him out."
"fine, you won't see him nor myself ever again, and if I ever see one of you..?" she asked with a grin. "Well lets just say your arsenal has nothing on my own, so lets not get hasty. I don't want to see you, hear from you, even feel you around me. Mess with me and my family and you will be missing much more than a knee cap. Got me?"
Connor merely nodded. She walked then, gun still in hand over to Kazuma and offered her hand to him helping him get up. She said nothing as she walked backward to the door, she wasn't an idiot, she wasn't going to let them hurt her with her back turned. At the door she wiped the gun off on Kazuma's torn shirt and tossed it away, now they couldn't frame her for anything. She grabbed her shopping bags, still armed to the teeth under her sweater and stepped out of the building with her husband.
No one followed.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 6, 2008 7:20:49 GMT 1
A pipe smacked across his back. It knocked him off balance in a wave of pain sending him to the floor. Part of him had known this was coming and he was ready to let that monster out again and end it all here and now. As they chuckled and kicked him in the ribs all he could think about was getting up and smashing all their fucking skulls in one by one. But then before he could get up shock over took him and quailed the beast within as he heard her voice, that voice which turned the big scary MDK into the mushy husband known as Kazuma. She was here and with a fucking gun in her hand trying to save him. He knew he should be proud at her but he was more pissed then anything
He was shocked as she went on making demand even firing her gun and then out of her character actually shot some one in their fucking knee. He knew he meant the world to her but he could never have imagined this. It was like she was not Teneile but some super bad ass chick he had never come across, the kind of women that dressed up in leather and carried a knife on her night and day, not his sweet little wife who cradled little Bella in her arms on the couch.
They soon managed to get out of the god forsake were house He left first and teneile closed the door behind her. And yet as proud and as happy as he was to see her, he could have also felt a strange anger within him and it was directed at her, never had he felt anything like this as the world moved in slow motion for him. He had only once been angry with her but it was for something stupid, he was never even angry or blamed her for Zea but now as she turned to looka t him he could not stop what was about to happen.
He slapped her before she could even say anything, not a full force not even at half his strength but it was hard enough that her cheek turned a bright red and her face tilted slight. “What the fuck were you thinking” he yelled at her angrily. “Following me…you could have got yourself killed” he could feel tears running down his own cheeks.
He knew he could have gotten out of there, as long as he had been alone even in the mess he was in he would have gotten out alive even if it meant a hospital stay after ward, but her he knew he would never have been able to protect her agianst such odd if they had found her during the fight, its what hurt the most the knowledge he knew he would not have been able to protect her if they had found her.
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Post by Teneile on Jan 6, 2008 7:44:10 GMT 1
Once outside, Teneile turned to tell him something, but the words never left her mouth. For the first time in their relationship. He hit her. A full on slap. She knew that if he had used all his strength she likely would have died, but it had hurt worse than any injury she had ever felt in her life. Her hand rose immediatly to clasp her now burning red cheek as tears streamed down her face. She was.. fearful.. for the first time of him, and she was afraid of him leaving her, of being so mad and never forgiving her. But she was also upset because she had come in to help and save him, she had come to bring him out, as a team, and.. he hit her. There were no words to describe the pain she felt right now, as he looked at her and yelled at her right there in the middle of the sidewalk. People staring some pointing, and others wondering if something was going to happen.
"I had to.. have a chance.. to say.. goodbye." she cried.
Everything seemed to come at her all at once. The pressure of what she had done, the decisions she had made in there, the fact that she .. *gulp* shot someone's knee cap out. The fact that he didn't care, he would rather her have never entered in the first place and didn't even care.. he wasn't proud.. he wasn't happy.. he was mad.. and she was hurt.
"And you left me there! to come back for me but what if you didn't?! What if you needed help?! What if you got into trouble did you ever think of that or are you so thick headed all you care about is yourself! do you realize how hard it is to go into a place like that!? To watch the man you give your heart and soul to take on ten men at once, to sit in a corner and pray to any god that will listen that he won't die!? Did you think of me at all when you made the decision to go on your errands in the first place?! Did you think I could relax while I knew what you were doing?!"
"I can't beleive you Kazuma.. how could you.. you.. hit me.." she broke down in more tears as she brushed past him bags still in her hands heading anywhere but in the direction he was face, which happened to be in the wrong direction to the hotel but she was hurt and upset and no woman thinks rationally then.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 6, 2008 8:10:33 GMT 1
He knew what she said was true and what he had di was wrong but the thought that she had come here to say good bye, it ate away at him immediately. She had though he had come here willing to die willing to sacrifice his own life did she really think so little of his dedication to her? She then went off at him as tears streamed down her face asking if he ever though of her when he had decided to do this. It was clear she didn’t realize it was all for her and their new child, a chance to put it all behind them and if the gang had still followed the code everything would have been but it was clear that without mika there was no law at the moment.
She broke down in tears and began to run as fast as she could away from him. She was so much quicker then he was that even with the bags in her hand she out ran him after a block or so and he lost track of her and her fiery red hair. He could not have kept up with her even if he had wanted to in his prime, but with his bruises and the back pain as soon as he lost track of her he fell hunched over in pain for a moment “Why…why did I” he asked himself questioning everything he had ever done in his life especially now
Several minutes passed and he diecided his best bet was to head back to their hotel, all he clothes and their extra cash was there so she would have to return there some time, though he chose to just huff it and walk, stopping at a pharmacy first to pick up iodine as well as some balms and topical rubs and gaze. He headed back to the hotel slowly with his head held lower then it had ever been, his marriage was over. It had been his worst fear and it was coming true all thanks to himself and his actions. He knew after striking her she would never be able to love him again and it would be the viens on the right hand that he struck her with he would slice open first the moment she actually siad it was over
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Post by Teneile on Jan 6, 2008 8:25:27 GMT 1
Teneile ran, she knew he was hurt and even if he wasn't she was a dancer he was a brute she could outrun him almost all the time. But normally she didn't want to. However, it had been a very bad idea to run. Yes, very bad indeed since she had never been to New York before and running off she found that she had gotten lost quite quickly. Worst still was that she could not remember the name nor the address of the hotel that she had been staying at and she definatly didn't have enough cash to pay a taxi driver to just drive through the city til something looked familiar. It was horrible. Teneile was in worse shape now than when she had left Kazuma. And now she wished she hadn't, she had no way to know where to go or where she was.
It was growing dark. 4 o'clock and they were supposed to be at his parents house at 6. It seemed stupid to even want to go still, but it was a little hope that maybe this vacation and trip would turn out better. But if it didn't they were on the first plane home in the morning and the tickets to the play could be given to someone that would actually enjoy it. She had cried herself out. Her eyes and her body was tired, though she had cleaned and hawked the guns so they had no trace to her at all, and had the cash in her back pocket. The gang had done something after all. She couldn't get over how mad Kazuma had been, and how he hadn't understood what kind of courage it took to do that, he was just mad because he hadn't gotten to do it.
She looked up finding herself in a very dark and bad part of town. with the sun going down she was growing more and more afraid wishing she had kept at least one gun. She saw her shining glory there, in the light of a gas station called Barkey's. She walked over and dug some money out of her pocket and put it in, remembering the room number only because it was easy she called Kazuma's room and waiting biting her lower lip. When she heard him pick up fresh tears stung her worn and sore eyes.
"Kazzy?" she whispered softly into the phone reciever. "Kazzy I'm lost.. I don't know where I am.. it's getting dark and I'm scared." she whispered as she cried softly on the phone. She listened as he asked her where exactly she was and she explained Barkey's and what it looked like. When she hung up she sat down on the sidewalk right beside the phone and leaned against the pole that bolted it to the concrete. When he arrived she was there, tear ridden eyes, stained cheeks, and looking quite lost and broken playing with the furry mane of the little lion she had bought at the baby store this morning. Straightening and smoothing out the hair gently with her fingers her eyes on the lion and nothing else.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 6, 2008 8:56:42 GMT 1
He had gotten back to the hotel, it was still light outside but there was no teneile there waiting for him with tears in her eyes and open arms like he had hoped. All he needed her to say was that she still loved him, he knew that would make this heart breaking pain go away and he would work on the guilt he felt later. He got to work on himself taking off the tattered remains of his shirt and tossing it, black and blues were all that could be seen from his neck down.
He looked into the mirror and amazingly he was fine for the most part besides the gash on his forehead. He went to work cleaning himself up placing balms and ointment on his bruises, topical cream on the burns he still had from yesterday and managing to wrap himself up making his torso arms and chest look like he was part mummy then anything else. He put on a long sleeve black shirt and then attened to his head cleaning it with the iodine and then wrapping a bandage around his head. He looked okay now like he had simply bumbed his head on something not that it mattered anymore, he was not going to see his parents alone after all and he doubted she wanted anything more to do with him.
But soonit grew darker outside and Kazuma began to grow worried. New york was not a friendly place all around and he feared greatly for Teneile, the only thing in his life which kept him waking up each morning. As soon as the phone rang he jumped picking it up quicker then he ever normally would have. It was her and she was lost but atleast after she told him the name of the place she was at he knew exactly were she was.
For an injuried brute he moved quicker then one could have imagined running out of the room and down the stairs not even bothering to wiat for an elevator. When he got outside he actually threw a man out of a cab he was getting into just so he did not have to wait and hail one himself. She had managed to walk all the way into Harlem some place he did not need a cute little white girl with shopping bags to be as it grew darker and darker outside.
In the cab he felt a weight around his neck and realized he was still wearing the necklace she had place on him. He reached back painfull and unclasped it holding it in his hand as the cabbie drove through traffic. When he arrived the cab pulled up on the opposite side of the street and Kazuma jumped out seeing Teneile immediately, he was always aware of were she was for some reason when he was in his normal state of mind. He told the cab to keep the meter running not carring at all what it cost him as he got out and crossed the street.
There she was sitting like a broken scared child playing with her toy not even able to look up at him as he approached her. “Teneile” he said as he got close to her and she looked up he could see the look in her buffy wide blue eyes. He came over to her and she just seemed to watch him and when he was right infront of her he picked her right up and hugged her tightly relieved she was okay.
But soon the silent hug broke he had made it having to know one thing as he took a single step back. He brought his hand up and opened it, it still had the sapphire necklace within it and he spoke. “Can I put this back were it belongs?” he asked her taking a breath “because if I can I know you still love me enough to wear it even though I’ve been so fucking stupid he said in a hurtful tone”
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Post by Teneile on Jan 6, 2008 9:13:24 GMT 1
Teneile sat there, her fingers straightening the little frizzy hair of the lions mane. She missed Kazuma. Was he so ashamed of her that he wouldn't take her back now. She had become something she never wished to become again, but even still it had saved his life. She sighed softly not hearing the gentle pur of the taxi coming to a stop across the street. She still played with the little lion until she heard her name. Coming from the lips that she wanted to see most she looked up her blue eyes wide and hoping. All she wanted was for him to take her in his arms and hold her all night, she didn't want to be let go, not once, even if it looked stupid. He came to her and knelt down beside her looking into her eyes for a moment as her lower lip trembled slightly he suddenly scooped her up in his arms and picked her up in a huge bear hug holding her tightly.
She cried again, but softly and not as much as before. She loved him so much, he had become the pillar in her life. While she was sure that she could become independant once more she didn't want to, she wanted to be with him as long as he would have her and she hoped that was a really long time. He finally set her down, she looked up at him as he held her necklace out in front of her asking if he could put it back where it belonged. She nodded softly unable to smile like she wanted to she turned around and moved her long hair out of the way feeling the cold metal touch her chest again she let her fingers run over the gem that lay there where it belonged again. She turned and hugged him tightly once more feeling him pick her up again and hold her off the ground as if she was his little teddy bear.
He held her tightly and she wrapped her legs around his waist as he dipped down to grab the bags, the little lion still in her arms as he carried her and their purchases to the cab still waiting. She clung to him still even when they were seated obviously she was not letting go any time soon. She didn't speak, mainly because if she opened her mouth right now she was likely to burst into tears again. So she closed her eyes and stayed close to him moving not an inch, he settled her in his lap and gave the cabby the address, they began their drive to the hotel, she could feel his hand in her hair, and soon the young redhead was out like a light. She always slept after crying a great deal, for her crying took a lot out of her, and so did fighting with Kazuma. And so the young girl curled up in his lap sleeping with her head on his shoulder and her nose against his neck, her breath slowly running against the skin there. She still wanted to go to dinner if he was still willing to take her but right now she was his sweet very tired wife sleeping in his strong arms.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 7, 2008 5:19:00 GMT 1
They got into the cab teneile so silent as she clung to him so tightly like a small child rather then his wife. He could feel her fall asleep he had expected it knowing her better then anyone. She could run for three miles straight and dance all night and still be perky and energetic but when she was sad and cried hard even if it was only for a few minutes she was drained horribly. If felt good to have her back and the fact she still wore that necklace and her wedding ring made it very clear that she did not want him out of her life at all something he had feared knowing he had made a grave mistake.
The cab ride was about twenty minutes long the entire tie he could hear her breathing softly yet deeply as she slept. Managing to pull some money out of his pocket he paid the fair letting her slept and after some shuffling and juggling managed to get out of the cab with the bags looped around one of his wrist and Teneiles body in his arms her thin arms still tightly wrapped around his neck not letting him go even in her sleep. Walking into the hotel his body ached him but he did not wake her at all. A beel hop helped him to the elevator pressing the button and then following him up to their room opening and shutting the door for Kazuma as he held his tire Teneile.
He let go of the bags and walked right over to the couch in the small yet comfortable living area and sat down falling back into the soft plushy cushions of the couch letting her lie on him the way she had in the cab. He was going to let her sleep for as long as she needed not even carring about his parents anymore, he had no idea if she ever wanted to go and meet them anymore.
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Post by Teneile on Jan 7, 2008 5:56:45 GMT 1
Teneile didn't wake the whole way home. Nor did she let go. She loved him so much, she wanted to be as close to him. She didn't even stir as he took her up to their hotel room and lay her in his lap on the couch, she merely slept on. She whispered his name several times in her sleep and had one of her arms now on her stomach. She whispered something about them, and love, and Kazuma before she stirred lightly because the phone rang. Soon her eyes flickered open and for a moment she couldn't remember where she was. She looked around as she was moved off his lap as he went to answer the phone, she rubbed her tired eyes and remembered now that Kazuma had come to pick her up and she had fallen asleep in the cab almost as soon as he held her.
He answered the phone, it was his parents making sure they were coming for dinner. She checked the time, she had fiteen minutes to get ready, she could do it if she hurried. She got up saying nothing still as she went into the bathroom and washed her face gently with cold water to make all the splotches go away. she got into the bags and pulled out the dark black slacks that flowed smoothely and a nice button down white dress shirt and a blue cashmere sweater to go over it. She brushed out her hair and pulled on a coat adding just a tad of makeup so she didn't show how had the day had been on her but she still didn't put on much. She came out ready and looked over at Kazuma with a soft smile to him.
"Please.. please don't be angry with me for before.. I.. I don't know how to make you understand.. I id what I did out of love and nothing else." she whispered softly.
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 7, 2008 6:34:10 GMT 1
The phone rang and she sprang to life having been shocked slight and so was he having every right to be jumpy after these past several days. She got off of him and let him answer the phone to be greeted by the sound of this mothers voice asking if he was still coming. He knew they should have been there earlier but things horrible things had happened and he was not sure if they were even gunna show. But then as he was just about to tell his mom no he heard teneile run that water an he knew she was getting ready to go. He told her they were still going to come over and would be there shortly before hanging up the phone and leaning back into the couch his arms spread along the back of it as he closed his eyes.
He was ready for the most part, his shirt was decent and hide all his bandages so now all he had to do was come up for an excuse about the one around his head. A story about a low door way seemed like the best way to cover up such an oddly place wound seeing as how he was indeed a very large young man.
Soon Teneile reappeared and to look at her you could never have guessed they day either of them had went through, stunning as always that soft smile on her face saying she loved him without the words. He got up and she whispered to him something he was sure she had to get out. He pulled her into a soft hug knowing she most likely needed one badly from him he now he need one from her.
“I was never so afraid of anything in my life” he admitted to her “Everything I’ve done and seen…it was nothing compared to seeing you do what you did, and I was angry not only at you but me to” he sighed to her “I couldn’t protect you if one of them had pulled a gun out on you first, and…and” he sighed sniffeling a bit in his own sadness. “Its nothing” he cleared his throat
“Lets just go to dinner an try and enjoy ourselves” he said letting go of her and looking down into her eyes “I still love you…nothing can ever change that…and I’m sorry I lashed out before at you…with the drugs and everything I just havn’t been able to get a grip on my own mind in the past 3 days”
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Post by Teneile on Jan 7, 2008 6:50:46 GMT 1
Teneile felt his arms come around her and she sighed gently. He felt so good, holding her. Her laying against his wonderfully broad chest as he held her his hand in her hair stroking it softly like he always did. he told her that he still loved her but that he had never been so scared in her entire life. She looked up as he began to get a bit sad and she could hear him sniffling softly. so she stroked his cheeks gently, and she kissed him softly placing her tongue in his mouth she kissed him deeply to get rid of every bad feeling they had for right now. They needed to be happy and the only way to do tht was to put it all past them. She broke the kiss and smiled softly.
"I love you baby." she whispered. "tomorrow, we can just go home if you want. HOme will be better for us. Nothing there can hurt us Kazuma, we can stay there and have our child and be together, no more wild errands, no more of anything. Just you and me. Our puppies, our family. Justyou and me." she whispered.
She didn't care about the show, they could see one in SF if that was the case. She hugged him once more tightly and kissed up his neck gently. She knew it was his weak spot and she smiled as she gently placed something around his neck.
"When I was out.. I bought this." she whispered. It was a necklace, she had bought with all the money from the guns she had sold. It started with him. His birthstone in May, her's in April, Zea's which would have been in October, and their new child, which will be in August. it was white gold and hung low enough it was just beneath his shirt.
"It's for you, a symbol of our family. What has been, and what will be." she whispered softly. "Now lets go."
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Post by Kazuma on Jan 8, 2008 17:34:29 GMT 1
She told him that tomorrow they could go home if he wanted, god it sounded good the idea of their home and their loving dogs but he was not going to retreat just yet. This vacation had to be some what salvageable and he planned on making sure she would love this city, he could not let her go home without enjoying the city the place they would one day call there home when it was time for her to attend Julliard.
He didn’t reply to her suggestion though he just gave a small nod. She then gave him a hug and then did something he had not expected. She had bought him something and then placed it around his neck. It was a necklace with several stones one it the first two caught his attention right way. It was him and her birthstones and then two more and his mind clicked guessing which births they stood for.
“Alright lets get out of here….I’m sure my parents are dying to know who there surprise dinner guest is” he sighed taking her hand and leading her out of the room. They left the hotel and were soon outside. Hailing a cab was easy they normally waited outside knowing that hotel guest were always looking for a ride. Inside the cab she cuddled up in him again and he gave the driver the address. It was a high rise condo complex in the downtown area a ride that would probably only take ten minutes or so. But these ten minutes were filled with him cuddling with his beloved teneile. So he could not complain.
When they got to the downtown neighborhood which was all high rise apartment and condo complexes Kazuma sighed realizing they were soon about to meet the bane of his existence. He prayed everything went well afraid of anything else going wrong on this vacation of theirs, it was beginning to feel like he had a dark cloud over his head that refused to float away.
The cab finally pulled over and as they exited the cab Kazuma took her hand and looked at his Teneile as they stood outside the building. Just looking at her gave him the will to do this, if it were not for her he knew he would have never seen them again if he could have helped it. Kazuma lead them into the building still having the keys from when he used to live here so they did not have to be buzzed in. It was an expensive building even the empty lobby was done very lavishly and the only thing that was actually here was the mail boxes.
Kazuma knew he hadn’t talked about his parents, and he might not have mentioned his father was a considerably wealthy business exec that had made a killing when the japanesse companies began moving to the US in the 80’s. He lead Teneile to the elevator and pressed the button for the tenth floor. But half way between the 5th and sixth floors Kazuma decided he had to get something out of his system before he had to control himself once more. He pulled the stop button and stopped the elevator and quickly grabbed Teneile bringing her to him and kissing her deeply, one of his arms around her slender waist while his other hand gently cupped at her ass. He was a lustful one and Teneile was the one who he focused all his energy on.
He had to get a few quick kisses in, he had to have this to but himself at ease and make sure he could wear a smile when he knocked on their door. He was not looking for a quicky he just needed to embrace her lovingly for a moment.
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