"No let go of me" Faye cried, avoiding kenji's kiss.
"why? Is it because of that monster?" Kenji held her hands behind back. He didn't want to hurt her but she was being stubborn.
"Don't call him that! You're the one forcing yourself on me right now!" She finally succeeded in freeing her hands from his hold.
"He raped you, you bore him a child. Big difference between us" he sneered mockingly.
Time seemed to stop as both of them glared at each other breathing hard.
Even though what Kenji had said was true, she'd always defend René. That night had not entirely been his fault. He had been drugged and was a victim of his late cousin's pranks. Besides, Faye believed everything happened for a reason. She now had someone who loved her and cared for her and her son. She was no longer a nobody. At Least everybody now wanted to harm her.
"He's a better man than you'll ever be" she sneered back at him.
The Kenji in front of her now was no different from the Kenji back then. Always pompous and wanting to have it all. The only difference was that back then, he stood up for her and protected her from the other children at the orphanage who tried to bully her but now he was the bully.
He roughly pushed her to the bed, grabbed her chin and kissed her.
"See… if you play nice, I'll marry you. I'll even adopt that bastard of yours" he smiled at her mockingly.
"Y-you're, you're horrible. My son is not a bastard!!" She pushed him off and jumped off the bed. She stood in a corner and he rushed over to pin her against it.
"I'm not your whore" she cried. She was scared. Kenji had transformed into a totally different person right now. His pupils had suddenly dilated and his nose red with anger.
"No, you're not but I'll make you" he grabbed her arms and threw her onto the bed again.
"Enough! Just be a good girl and I won't hurt you" he pinned her hands above her head. Faye was naturally a physically weak person and a man like Kenji was naturally stronger than she was so no matter how much she pushed, she could never overpower him.
Memories from that night four years ago flashed through her head as Kenji proceeded to trail his hands over her body grappling her in places that made her want to throw up.
"René" she cried out.
"René would never treat me like this" she spat into his face and he slapped her across the face leaving finger marks.
"No…please No…René help me"she cried struggling.
"Be still you stupid bitch!" He bit her neck
"René… please…help" she closed her eyes as Kenji tore at her shirt.
"Well, it's your lucky day! He's not coming to save you" Kenji laughed, a bitter and menacing laughter.
someone kicked the door open, Kenji stopped in his tracks. Faye opened her eyes to find Kenji being yanked off her and thrown across the room.
"Are you okay?" He asked gently touching her face. She jerked away from him in fear,her face wet with tears and eyes clouded with tears. She was suddenly feeling light head.
René's pupils dilated and his eyes turned completely dark. His hand gently fell from her face and he turned around, walked across the room to pick Kenji up by the collar of his shirt.
Large black wings suddenly sprang out of his back.
"You!" He growled as he lifted Kenji up into the air and his large wings fluttered feeling the room with strong air. He threw him against the wall again. He descended to the ground and walked towards Kenji again.
"Nobody touches what's mine!" He dragged Kenji to the window. Faye's eyes widened when she turned to look out the window and realized they were in the pent house of the hotel.
"René no!" She quickly got out of bed and ran to him. She stopped halfway as he sharply turned to growl at her.
They stared at each other for a few minutes and she realized she wasn't scared of him. She wasn't scared of his black eyes and large black wings,she wasn't scared of the large horns that stood on the sides of his head nor the fangs that showed when he opened his mouth. She wasn't scared of his monstrous form.
"Please, you don't have to kill him. Let him go" she pleaded slowly, approaching him.
The blackness in his eyes disappeared and they were back to normal when Faye finally reached him and gently touched his arm. He threw Kenji across the room and pulled Faye closer by the waist, clashing his lips on hers. His fangs dug into her lower lips but she didn't complain.
He stopped, moved away from her and flew off out the window. She watched him soar off into the sky and she collapsed to the ground.
"Young mistress?" Tanaka who had stood by the doorway watching it all take place cleared his throat. Faye lazily turned to glance at him for a few seconds before she burst into tears.
"He hates me doesn't he?" She looked at the unconscious Kenji who was sprawled up on the other side of the room.
"That's not true " Tanaka shook his head sadly.
"I disgust him now. I-i… he didn't even want to kiss me. I could see that in his eyes!" She threw herself to the floor and sobbed.
Tanaka sighed. These two would always amaze him with their drama.
"I believe he's just scared you've seen him that way" he picked her up and carried her in his arms walking out of the room.
"Why does he need to be scared? I wasn't scared of him. He's still a very beautiful man" she sobbed. Tanaka chuckled, he felt like he was carrying a 6 year old kid who had been denied candy and was throwing tantrums.
"Yea he still is " Tanaka nodded. René was the most attractive tengu he'd ever seen. He knew that secret. Although he was human, René had trusted him enough to confide in him.
"But you must understand that, there are certain things about oyabun that you do not know about and until he's ready to talk about it, he'd remain rather insecure about them" he said as he put her in the passenger's front seat of the car. He strapped her car seat belt and got into the driver's seat
This is what René would want him to do. To take care of her and protect her and Daisuke.
"Is he coming back?" She stopped sobbing and asked.
"I don't know but I hope so " he answered, only for her to resume wailing like a child.
He stared at her for a few minutes, letting her cry.
"You don't have to make excuses for him. He hates me now and when we get back to the villa…." She was interrupted by her own hiccups.
Tanaka searched for a bottle of water in the car and gave it to her. After she took a few sips and steadied her breathing, she turned to look at him.
"I'm going to take Daisuke and leave" she said and turned to look out the car window, pouting.
"If you had listened to him…."Tanaka was cut short by her crying again
"I know, don't remind me" she covered her face with her palms as Tanaka drove her to the penthouse where René had left Daisuke in Fuyichiyo's care.
"Mama!!" Daisuke ran into his mother's arms followed closely behind by his puppy. It was a bichon frise.
She sat down,placing him on her lap.
"Did you eat something?" She asked gently, rubbing his hair. Tanaka was still standing by the door watching the affectionate exchange between mother and child.
The child nodded nonchalantly playing with the dog who had climbed up the couch beside his mother.
Tanaka smiled a little, even though she was now a mother,she could still be considered a baby by the way she acted and displayed her facial expressions. Maybe she had been made a mother too young,maybe it was because she was forced to grow up too fast but all he knew was that she still had the childish abandon and carelessness around the people she trusted and lowered her guard down for.
"You two have to stay here,I'll go downstairs and ask the chef to make you something to eat" he bowed slightly. He was used to bowing to René so much that respect he had for him, was given to Faye too.
"Can you stop doing that? You're older than I am" she complained and He chuckled.
"I can't," he smiled before turning towards the door.
An hour later, Faye sat down at the dining downstairs to eat. She lazily played with the food in her plate, twirling her fork around it. A large amount of different foods was laid out on the large dining table before her but she just didn't have any appetite to eat,Knowing René was somewhere out there alone and probably mad at her.
"You should eat something, the udon loses taste when it gets cold" tanaka chided but she just dropped the fork in her hand with a sigh and lazily looked up at him.
"Can't you call him back?" She asked
"He'll come back when he's calmed down " Tanaka said gently, feeding the child on his lap.
She pushed the plate forward and laid her head in its place sighing again. Tanaka shook his head, the relationship between these two was strange indeed.
René stood at the top of the mountain where he had picked Faye up 13 years ago. His large black wings flapped continuously,the wind blew his hair into his face. For an average human, the weather was cold but it didn't bother him. Maybe because he wasn't an average human. Maybe that's why the cold never bothered him anyway. Right now, he wanted to hold her, kiss her and do more but he was scared. He had never been so scared in his entire life. What did she think of him now,was she scared of him now, he wanted to go back to them, he wanted to go back home but what would he say? She had seen him clearly. He couldn't say it was a trick of the lights? Faye was smarter than that and for her age she was a very suspicious human. He had seen how suspicious she could get. He couldn't tell her the truth now.
'i killed you and now, you're living on a short borrowed part of my life and I'm putting you in danger by being with you'
No he couldn't tell her that, he couldn't tell her,he was the reason she had ended up at the orphanage,he couldn't tell her that being around him was putting her life in danger, in a way she couldn't even understand.
"Why did you have to go and lose control!" He mentally scolded himself
"She's going to die, if you ever get close to her" his father's words echoed in his head.
"But I'm already close to her " he sighed. "More than close to her"
"Young master!" Osuke called. He turned around to find his father's most loyal swordsman and uncle standing behind him.
"Trouble in paradise?" He smiled walking up to him.
"It's more than that uncle." He shook his head sadly. He really wanted to go back home to them. Home, a place where he was genuinely happy, where he didn't have to put up the tough mafia guy act around them. Home, a place where he could go, to get these bad feelings off his shoulders.
"You should go home, being out here and wondering what to tell her, would only make it worse for you" his uncle gently patted his shoulders.
"B-but…" he stopped halfway not knowing what to say anymore.
"You're who you are. What happened has happened. It's better to enjoy one last time with the people we love than wallow away dreading the inevitable far from them" his uncle said looking fat deep in thoughts. He felt like the older man was speaking from his own experience.
He turned around and without a word,flapped his wings and ascended into the sky, flying off.
He had made up his mind to set things right, if she didn't want to be with him anymore after learning the truth, he'd help her find her parents and let her go. Why did thinking about letting her go stink that much?
No he wouldn't let them go again. He was going to be selfish just this once more. Even if she didn't want him anymore, he was going to stick around and do everything to get her forgiveness. About her dying, he was prepared to go through the gates of the seven worlds to keep her alive.
Amaterasu(Japanese goddess of life and creation) held her life in her hands and he would do anything to get it back.