3:39am in the morning:
The dim glow of street lamps provided a fleeting glimmer of light in the otherwise dark and quiet cityscape. Kaitou's apartment was located on the third floor. The only light in the room was coming from a single yellow lamp in the corner, bathing the space in a warm, intimate glow. They settled around the couch, the sound of their clothes rustling against the fabric.
Kaitou's apartment was quiet, with only the gentle hum of the refrigerator and the occasional sound of the sins city filtering in through the windows. They poured themselves cups of tea, and there was a sense of anticipation in the air.
"So after that?" Angel asked softly, her gaze fixed on the steaming tea.
"He didn't come back, obviously." Kaitou uttered, voice low and groggy, "I stayed in the orphanage."
"…" a minute of silence, "Then how did you end up meeting Uichi, and join the fight club?"
Kaitou shrugged, "Life was boring, didn't feel like it was worth living, so I dropped school. I tried to come back to the old house, to look for who knows what...then I came across this." he one rustled his back pocket and pull out a small metallic badge.
'Fujino Fight Club' was engraved around the corner.
"Always saw my father wear it." Kaitou caressed the piece of metal, "I don't know, it just sparked something in me, so I went to look for it, wherever this came from."
Uichi: "My uncle was so excited when he found out about Kaitou. It was exciting to find another member of the family, not to mention THE son of Katsuya himself. Our Fujino clan was under Katsuya-san's care…he was like a mentor for the clan. Or at least that's what my uncle said."
"I see…" Angel nodded slowly.
Another brief moment of quietness.
"Wait, so you said, my father and your father were brothers…" A sudden realisation hit Kaitou.
Uichi understood what Kaitou meant, "Um…little girl, you are…?"
"little girl my ass, I'll send you to Jesus. I am at least a year old."
"Oh? But you look so small :D"
Angel rolled her eyes, "Let me introduce myself." She crossed her arms, "I am Akiyama Ayumi, 18 years old, and I go by Angel now."
Uichi: "Wait wait- Akiyama…as in THAT Akiyama…or just Akiyama?"
Angel: "no no I am just a random Akiyama you can pick up in a market! ^_^"
Uichi: "Wait really? then how did you-"
Kaitou knocked on his junior's dense head, "Do you not know sarcasm?"
Angel: "For someone to be so stupid, must be a miracle."
Uichi: "Hey-"
Kaitou: "So...Ayumi, which portal did you magically come back to life from?"
Angel: "It's Angel. I was supposed to be the next heir to the Akiyama Group. When chaos broke out, my parents threw me on a plane and shoved me to my Aunt, Alice, in America. I was only back recently."
Uichi: "I am so shocked I can't speak."
The descendants of the real Akiyama were the last person he'd be expecting to speak to for as long as he lives.
Angel smiled sweetly: "Then don't speak"
Kaitou: "My father never mentioned any of this…anything at all."
Angel: "yeah, Tsuya-papa was a careful man. He hid his family from everything, to keep you guys safe."
Kaitou: "Safe? I am the only one alive, it doesn't seem safe to me."
Angel: "Was quite safe actually…but I am sure everyone in the Akiyama group knew that he had a family…and that includes that Shino bastard…" she clenched her fist, "everyone died because of that mother-fucker…our parents did beyond their best…"
Kaitou: "What do you mean? Didn't our parents just got killed during the violence outbreak?"
Uichi: "Shino? Senpai, you're talking bout Shirashi Shino, Muteki's no.1?"
Kaitou: "Are you saying we've been lied to this whole time?"
Angel : "calm down with the questions, why does it seem like I am the only one here who knows whats going on. I don't know for sure but my guess is that the violence outbreak must be some sort of scheme plotted by Shirashi Shino to take down the Akiyama Group. So no, there death was no mere coincidence, I thought you guys must have known that much."
Kaitou : "what the hell..."
Uichi : "Um...none of their bodies were found Senpai, we can only believe the rumours to be truth. Nothing about the Akiyama Group was revealed, and everything was blurry after Muteki took over."
Angel: "none of you thought that Muteki was suspicious?"
Kaitou : "It's natural for a new group to climb to rank after one fell down no?"
Uichi : "Peace returned after Muteki Group rose to throne, nobody wanted to make things more troublesome by evaluating any further, Senpai. Especially after all that. Everyone just accepted it."
Angel: "According to my mother's journal, everything about the approaching doom and that whole violence outbreak was weird. It's definitely not right."
Kaitou: "Your mother's journal? what do you mean?"
Angel: "My mother was a writer, she wrote down everything that happened in her life and around her in descriptive detail like an autobiography. She left it with me…probably because she knew she was going to die."
Kaitou sighed: "So what's in it? Mind sharing?"
Angel: "It's not here now, I left it in the hotel, but it was filled with information about the past, just before the violence outbreak began, before I was thrown off to America."
Uichi: "Then we can consider it like some sort of documentary history book?"
"Yeah." She crossed her arms and let out an exhale. "Somewhat."
Kaitou: "So now, what's the plan?"
Angel: "Revenge."
Uichi: "uh..."
Angel: "I am going to rebuild the Akiyama group and seek justice for my parents."
Kaitou: "So like I asked, what are we doing. The first step."
Angel: "What do you mean WE..."
Kaitou: "???"
Uichi: "Senpai, you didn't mean to do it all alone, did you?"
"..."
Kaitou: "I am not asking you to accept our help, I am saying, I will take back what belongs to my father too."
"..."
Angel smirked, " pft- I guess we're on the same track then."
The first rays of the sun peeked through the window, bathing the room in a soft, warm light. It seemed as if the morning had come, and they had allied.