See Into the Eyes of a Medium

Chapter VIII “Personal Life On the Sea”


One week later Rukia was moving around despite what Kyo told her. She had left the hospital while every one was asleep, but when they woke up she was back and she had three bags with her. Now she was sitting on her bed half dressed in a pair of black jeans and an open button down still wrapped in bandages and she was loading a whole arsenal of guns.
“Ok…one: how did you get all this metal… and two: how the hell are we gonna get it to Asia?” asked Shane incredulously.
She glanced up, “Well since the plane is out we don’t have to worry about security much. There is no chance we could get on a plane with out being spotted…so we have to take a boat.”
“That’ll take us forever.” Said Suichi looking at her.
She slammed a magazine into a Glock and sighed, “Like we have much of a choice. Hardly any one travels by boat any more. The security will be more lax, especially if we have a distraction at the air ports. Now…who’s going?”
Suichi snorted, “Me definitely.”
“And me.” Added Darius gruffly making Suichi glare at him.
“Heh, I’m not staying to become the mob’s bitch again.” Replied Shane with a nod.
Kyo looked up, “I’m going.”
They looked at him, “What about your job?” asked Suichi.
“They’ll be watching me too, besides if one of you gets shot or something it’s not likely you’ll be able to get into a hospital. Face it, you guys need me.” Was his reply with a small grin.
“I’m with Kyo-kun.” Replied Yataro proudly.
Rukia snorted, “Ok let’s make this easier, who isn’t going?”
No one answered.
“…You too ma?” asked Suichi with a bemused smile looking back at her.
With good reason too she had no other clothes so she was sitting in her panties and one of his enormous T-shirts painting her nails.
“Hey you chuckle heads need some one to keep you in line. Besides I’m the only one other than the English patient over there that has even the slightest clue of what is really going on.” She replied with out looking up.
Suichi shook his head. He had no idea how his mom looked so young. She was in her forties, but she looked like his age.
“Ok, it’s a party.” Said Rukia with half a smile.
Kumiko chuckled, “Oh yeah this’ll be really inconspicuous, two chicks and over half a dozen queers.”
They all shot her some dirty looks.
“I think what will make us most conspicuous is the middle aged whore we’re traveling with.” Replied Kyo with out looking up from his patient histories.
Every one either gasped or snickered as she looked up and glared at him.
“I’ll forgive you since you’re on your period Kyoshiro, but why don’t you be a sweetie and take some Midol for the rest of us.” She returned lazily.
He bit his lip and closed his chart slowly and grinned.
“Oh lovely, a menstrual joke, well at least if I was a woman, I’m still young enough to have a period, Ms. Menopause.”
Kumiko blew on her nails.
“Yeah and I still have more testosterone than you do. What are you packing in your underwear a roll of Tums?”
Kyo stood enraged, “Ok that’s it you little bitch!”
He went for her, but Suichi held him back.
“Ok would the both of you just shut up!? Jesus Christ.” He sighed.
Kyo growled and took his seat and went back to his charts.
“Did you go crazy?” Shane asked Kumiko and she shrugged.
“Maybe I did, who knows.”
Rukia looked at the corner at her brother, “What are you doing over there?”
He lifted a manga he was reading.
“Oo which one?” asked Yataro going over to look.
“New copy of ‘The Craft’.” He replied, “Just came out yesterday.”
“Man you got a lot.” Said Yataro looking into his bag.
He nodded, “Yeah knock yourself out.”
Yataro giggled and started digging through his bag.
“You definitely like Saburo Gunma.” Yataro noted and looked at the manga he was reading.
He nodded, “Yep he’s my favorite manga and yaoi artist. He’s the reason got into it in the first place.”
“You coming with us or were you spacing out?” asked Rukia as she loaded an Uzi.
He shook his head, “Nope I’m coming. You need some one to carry your guns so you don’t break a nail.”
“Oh bite me, bro.” she replied slapping another clip into a gun.

* * *

They were all standing in separate groups. Rukia was in disguise and in fact most of the others were too.
“I feel ridiculous.” Muttered Kyo as he stood in a black skirt, a pink shirt, heels and a blond wig and to put the icing on the cake he had amo stashed under his dress so he looked nine months pregnant.
Yataro chuckled, “Yeah, but you look sexy as hell…mom.”
“Oh shut up before I ground you.” He shot back at him and lit a cigarette.
Shane put his arm around Kyo in a suit and glasses.
“Now honey, be nice to junior.” He mocked and Kyo cocked one of his eye brows and blew a puff of smoke in his face.
Shane coughed and let him go.
“Not as bad as me pretending to be married to my son.” Injected Kumiko who was in a modest dress for one and her hair gathered into a bun and she too was smuggling amo under her dress.
Suichi was next to her with a week’s worth of stubble on his face, a set of shades.
“Trust me ma, you aren’t nearly as disgusted as I am.” He replied and she pushed him.
Rukia giggled in her drag.
“Come on daddy, no fighting.”
Kaito was in drag as well and pregnant, but he was used to it and Eichi was enjoying it to its fullest. Gen was standing with them with his hair tucked under a black hat and was in a T-shirt and a sports jacket. The horn on the ship blew and they started loading passengers. They all had tickets and first class tickets compliments of Eichi. It was better this way seeing as Gensai would less likely look for them on a first class trip.
When they got on a host gave them each keys to their rooms and they looked at each other and headed down the hall. The carpet was velvet and everything was very nice.
“Is this a regular passenger’s ship?” asked Rukia looking around.
Eichi chuckled, “Not even sweet heart this is a first class cruise ship. It’s got thirty seven different chambers including pool, ball room, dinning room, spa, game room and all of that jazz.”
Suichi sighed, “At least we can take a break on our way to the mainland. This’ll be the first vacation I’ve had since summer break in high school.”
They found their three rooms and went in. Kyo walked in and he kind of moaned seeing the mini bar. Suichi laughed to himself when he saw the two king sized beds in his room. Kaito kissed Eichi on the cheek and Gen sighed.
“Ok, if we’re staying in the same room no sex while I’m in it.” He said as he dropped his bag on the bed.
They both glared at him.

In Suichi’s room the girls looked at the beds.
“Ok how are we doing this?” asked Suichi.
“Well I got enough of sleeping with you when you were three.” Replied his mother sitting on the bed.
“I’ll sleep with him.” said Rukia leaning into him over the bed and he pushed her down into the mattress.
“Dream on princess.” He replied, “You two are going to have to sleep together.”
“Look I’m kind of bi, but I can do better than Rukia.” Said his mother.
“Ok enough with the sex jokes ma!” he exclaimed and he lay down on the other bed with a sigh and folded his arms over his eyes.
Rukia rolled her eyes, “Some one needs a nap.”
He eyed her from under his arm.
“Come on let’s go check out the ship and let the saru, sleep.” Said Kumiko standing up.
Rukia snorted, “Saru?”
Suichi sat up angrily, “I told you to stop calling me that!”

*saru means ‘monkey’*

“Why…is his nick name saru?” asked Rukia still laughing.
Suichi gave his mother a warning look.
“Because as much of a bad ass as he was in high school, he took gymnastics from the time he was ten to the time he was captured.” Blabbed Kumiko.
Rukia snorted.
“Don’t you dare laugh!” warned Suichi and she kind of snorted again, “I’m serious!”
She nodded and they stepped outside of the room and closed the door. He sighed when he heard her bust out laughing in the hall way. He fell back on the bed, slipped off his sun glass and rubbed his unshaven face. He looked kind of strange in his mind with a beard, but ever since he grew it Rukia was being a little more obvious and it was making him very uncomfortable. And his mother just made the situation worse with that little tale of his childhood. He felt so worn out he finally just decided to do as they suggested and he fell asleep.

After the ship had launched they all went and checked out the ship aside Suichi. They ventured into the ball room to get some brunch.
“I want a drink.” Muttered Kyo.
“Now, now sweet heart alcohol is bad for the baby. Besides…it’s eleven in the morning.” Replied Shane and he coughed as Kyo elbowed him in the stomach.
Yataro patted his arm and left briefly and came back with a punch cup and nodded. Kyo took it and sipped it and nodded finding it spiked with Vodka.
“Thank you, sweet heart.” Replied Kyo patting his head.
Yataro chuckled and muttered, “We’re so doing this in bed.”
“You know it.”
Shane rolled his eyes and went go check out the free food. Gen shook his head; Shane was an ever better actor than he thought because he started mingling with other people like he was a rich jack ass. Kumiko and Rukia went for the free food as well and found a table. No doubt Kumiko was telling Rukia more about Suichi’s child hood. Eichi was showing Kaito around and as for Darius…he was in his dog form just sitting next to one of the food tables a little disgruntled.
He looked up as a little two year old toddled over to him with a pacifier in her mouth. He sighed when she started petting him really hard on the neck, but he bared it not wanting to scare the child. Well he did, but he didn’t want to spend the rest of this trip locked in a room. The woman soon came and got her child anyway. He sighed and lay down, but Yataro ran over and crouched down.
“…Wanna get some rich people wet?” he asked inconspicuously, “I’m hitting the pool.”
“I’m so in.” he replied and they ran off.
Kyo went and he sat on the deck in a sun chair as he watched Yataro in his bathing suit take to the diving board. He got to the very top of the high dive and Kyo chuckled as he held out his hands in a double peace sign and he ran to the edge and jumped in the air. He did two flips before he dove into the water. Kyo bit his lip as he watched him get out of the pool soaking wet. A man was starring at Kyo bemused and he flipped him off and slipped on his sun glasses so no one could see him ogling Yataro. Meanwhile, Darius climbed onto the low dive and he ran and jumped into the pool and swam to the other end. He climbed out and he shook himself all over three skinny, sun bathing blonds and they screamed. He trotted off snickering to himself.
Yataro chuckled and he sat next to the pool and rubbed his neck. The females got up and they glared at him. Yataro stared back and then he stuck his tongue out and did a canon ball splashing them all. One of the women went over to Kyo and he tilted down his sun glasses when he found his sun gone.
“Could you keep your son and your dog out of the pool?” asked the skinny blond.
Kyo chuckled, “Come now, they’re just having fun.”
“Well their fun is getting me wet.” Replied the blond.
Kyo rolled his eyes, “Look honey if you didn’t want to get wet then you shouldn’t have been sunning yourself next to a fuckin’ pool on a fuckin’ boat, so why don’t you just go dry off and try not to tear the towel on your bony butt.”
She made a noise of indignity and she marched off. Kyo chuckled to himself and slipped his sunglasses back on. Kyo laughed when he saw Yataro carry Darius on his back up the high dive and he jumped off and hit the water. Yataro went after him and Darius came back up and climbed onto the concrete and sat down soaked wagging his tail. Shane came out in a bathing suit and sat next to Kyo.
“Having fun?”
“You have no idea how much.” Replied Kyo, “What about you?’
He grinned, “Those two years of acting are paying off, but being a rich prick isn’t all that great ask my father.”
“Yeah well I lived for this roll. A pregnant frigid bitch and no one can blame me for it.”
“Well as long as you’re having fun sweet heart.” Shane replied.
Kyo sighed, “That’s getting old.”
“Well sorry the last time I was married…”
“You were married!”
He hushed him as people looked over.
“It was kind of like your situation except I couldn’t touch her so she divorced me. It wasn’t a loving relationship to begin with. I had to pay her off to not tell my old man. I just told him she was cheating on me.” He told Kyo.
“Wuss.”
“Oh and how did you tell your father?” asked Shane with a cheeky smile.
Kyo snorted, “The man was in serious denial. I tried to tell him for like ten years. My mother always knew, but when he wanted me to marry it was some other rich chick and it was for status. When I finally spelt it out for him he just grabs her brother and says marry him and trust me he wanted to.”
Shane chuckled and shook his head.
“Your boy and Darius are enjoying each other’s company.”
Kyo nodded, “Despite what an asshole he is in human form I think he actually had a loveable K-9 side.”
Indeed he barked at a woman and chased her into the pool and then he sat on the edge and laughed to himself. This went on for twenty minutes for a worker came out and told Yataro to take the dog inside.
“Well it was fun while it lasted.” Said Yataro as they went in.
“A lot more fun than I’ve had in a long time.” Replied Darius.
Yataro took him to his room and he went and he grabbed a towel and he watched Darius change back again and he took off his soaking shirt. Yataro tossed him a towel and whistled.
“You’re a whole lot of pretty.” Commented Yataro.
“Well thanks, but I’m taken.” Replied Darius drying off his hair.
Yataro nodded, “So am I. I’m Kyo-kun’s.”
“A little old for you is he?” questioned Darius.
He shook his head, “Doesn’t matter to me. I mean the man was a whore he obviously wasn’t using me for sex.”
Darius snorted, “You obviously don’t know how horny a prostitute can get after five different dissatisfying men. They can get frustrated very easy and not have an outlet.”
Yataro frowned and dried off his hair before he changed into some cry clothes.
“So who are you going out with?” asked Yataro as he came back and he sat on the bed.
Darius took off his wet pants and Yataro’s jaw dropped as he stood in his wet underwear.
“Toya.” He replied.
Yataro took his eyes off of his ass long enough to look up at the back of his head, “Uh…Toya…but at Christmas Toya told Suichi he loved him.”
Darius snorted and hung up his clothes, “What Toya told that half-breed is completely irrelevant now. Toya over took my spirit and there for he is my mate.”
Yataro frowned, “…Over took…your spirit?”
He nodded and stepped into the bathroom and came out in a towel and he hung up his under wear next to his clothes and sat on a chair.
“See when seers mate and they want to keep them for good they can use their aura to dominate the other to subject them to their will. That insures they can’t cheat with out it causing them bodily harm. One hour with Toya and I was as good as his. I thought he was weaker than that, but I clearly underestimated him.” he explained to him.
“Wow, you don’t seem that down about being completely dominated by a man five pounds bigger than me.” Replied Yataro with a small chuckle.
Darius shook his head, “My blood line has been guarding his for centuries. As far as I am concerned I am simply fulfilling the duty of my clan with…perks on the side.”
Yataro rolled his eyes, “That’s why you were following us and why you were so pissed at Suichi.”
“For a man claiming to love Toya so much he was certainly overlooking the fact that he was letting Toya out into a veritable trap.” Replied Darius angrily.
“Well why didn’t you stop him?” asked Yataro.
He sighed and rubbed his face, “Being spiritually dominated has its down sides. I did try to stop him, but the man is as stubborn as an ass. I could only do so much to restrain him before it kicked in.”
Yataro nodded, “I know you’re mad that Toya got captured, but do you truly believe its Suichi’s fault?”
Darius sighed and folded his arms over his chest, “…Certainly easier to blame some one I’m face to face with.”
“Look Suichi has been saving every ones ass for the last I don’t even know how many years and that’s Toya included. But one thing Suichi always said was how self sufficient Toya was. If you ask me…Toya got captured on purpose.”
“…Why the hell would he get captured on purpose!?” asked Darius incredulously.
“…Well…I stole Suichi’s letter and I read it and Toya wrote that he knew it was going to happen which is why he wrote the note before hand for you to give to him.” replied Yataro.
Darius frowned and he looked at the carpet. Did Toya really get captured on purpose? Did he see something and this dictated the out come? To him it was quite possible, but still what a stupid thing to do. He shrugged.
Kyo walked in and she looked at Darius and Yataro and then he scowled.
“So…what are you two doing?” asked Kyo suspiciously.
“We were doing it doggy style, what do you think?” was Yataro’s sarcastic reply.
Kyo rolled his eyes, “Ok why are you naked?”
“My clothes are drying, relax I’m not going to touch your precious boy toy.”
Kyo glared at him, but Yataro took him out into the hall. Kyo folded his arms and huffed. Yataro giggled and wrapped his arm around Kyo’s back.
“You’re so cute when you’re jealous Kyo-kun.” He told him.
“…Well forgive me if I don’t want you in the same room as some big naked guy. I’ve seen how ugly a situation like that can turn.” Replied Kyo lightly.
Yataro grabbed his hand and put it on his crotch, “He didn’t even turn me on in the least.”
Kyo snorted and he grabbed his crotch making him jump a little.
“Well find out a way to get him out of the room. Watching you get in and out of the pool was a little more than I could handle alone.” Kyo muttered in his ear.
Yataro paused for maybe a second before he ran back in. he was soon shoving out a dog as he grabbed Kyo and dragged him in. Darius huffed and he went and sat next to the wall and lay down on the carpet.


Meanwhile, Eichi took Kaito to the top of the ship. The captain waved to him and he nodded as he took him to the top of the captain’s helm. They could see the ocean forever from here.
“This is amazing; I’ve never been to the ocean before. How did you get these tickets?” Kaito asked Eichi with a smile.
Eichi chuckled, “This was one of my father’s cruise ships. He bought it maybe thirty years ago and it was kept running.”
Eichi watched him stare out at the ocean with a small smile. He hooked his hair behind his ears as the wind blew it. Kaito looked at him smiling. His fiancé.
“When do you think we should get married?” asked Kaito and Eichi drew his arm around him.
“Hmm…we could…get married in the Spring in a beautiful cherry blossom and lotus garden…or we could get married in the fall in Ontario with all of the beautiful gold’s and red’s of the leaves.” He started and Kaito chuckled, “Or we could…have it in the winter in Alaska so we can see the northern lights as we say our vows. We could even have it in the summer in Brazil next to a beautiful sunset.”
“That sounds so romantic. I never did ask you…what do you do for a living?” he asked.
Eichi grimaced and he sighed, “The truth is I didn’t really…earn most of my wealth. It was a trust fund, but with some good investments it tripled and even quadrupled in the last ten years. I know that sounds kind of lame that I’m not some sort of rich, famous tycoon…I’m just the son of one.”
Kaito shook his head, “It doesn’t matter to me as long as you aren’t as bratty as most men of your standing.”
“Now my dear if I was that bratty I probably would have been paying for sex in the first place. I would have just thrown around my father’s money and caught the first bimbo to nibble the line.” He replied thusly.
Kaito giggled and nodded, “Good point. What kind of man was your father?”
“Oh my father is wonderful, he’s still around. For a man with so much power and money he is very down to earth. I know Kyo would be mad to hear this, but he didn’t believe in status and all of that. When he met my mother she was just a waitress working at his favorite diner. He kept on going there so often she almost filed a restraining order until he asked her on a date.” Eichi replied with a fond smile.
Kaito chuckled, “What about your mother?”
Eichi smiled, “A woman who knew the meaning of hard work and I mean that. She supported herself though high school with that waiting job and clear through college before she met my dad. She’s a full blooded American and my father is kind of like…a half blooded Japanese man. They met when he was on a trip and he decided to stick around.”
“Sounds like a very romantic story. They sound like wonderful parents.” Said Kaito looking out to sea again.
Eichi nodded, “They are, I can’t wait for you to meet them.”
Kaito’s head snapped to him, “M…meet them? Are you sure I mean…they won’t be…disappointed about me?”
Eichi chuckled and kissed his cheek, “They will love you Kaito. They’ve known I was gay since I was like…ten and they have always supported me…I’ll tell you there is nothing and I mean nothing funnier than my dad at a Gay Pride parade. I swear to God he had to keep a flask in his pocket to keep himself from keeling over at every man he saw in women’s underwear.”
Kaito giggled at the thought.
“What do they look like?”
Eichi pulled out his wallet and he showed him the picture of him and his parents. He must have been not even a year younger than he was now. His father was tall and handsome. His eyes were a little narrow, but he had a big smile that made them almost disappear. He had a black goatee and his hair was combed back with a few streaks of gray in it. He was dressed very down to earth in a button down and jeans. Next to him was an American woman with long black hair and tiffany green eyes. She was leaning against her husband in a red blouse and jeans with her arm around her son. The only difference in Eichi in this photo was he had no highlights in his hair, but what really got Kaito was…his mother was black and he looked nothing like his father.
“They look…”
“Nothing like me? Yeah…they adopted me when I was nine.” He told him straightening out the story.
“Ok, just making sure it wasn’t just me.” Muttered Kaito and Eichi chuckled and put away the photo.
“Yeah I love them both to death and they love me, but my little brothers and sister…not so much.” He sighed.
Kaito frowned, “You have brothers and sisters?”
He nodded, “I have two brothers and three sisters and they are very close together in age. When I was adopted I already had Jerek as my oldest younger brother and he was seven then and a year under him was my sister Tory.”
“I guess you aren’t close with them.” He asked.
Eichi shook his head, “Not really Gabriel who is the youngest still loves me and so does Rita who is second to youngest, but Jerek, Tory and Carla not so much.”
“What’s up with them?”
“Well as the oldest in the family my father left the majority of his inheritance in my name. Since I’m not blood they don’t think I should get anything at all. Gabe and Rita who aren’t even close to the oldest love me because not only have they found lives of their own off of my father’s money, but they got very rich themselves doing it, like me.” He replied.
“I guess the others wanna ride daddy’s coat tails all the way to the bank huh?” asked Kaito and Eichi snorted and nodded.
It was getting late and the sun was going down. Eichi looked over the side and he waved. Kaito frowned, but then he chuckled when music started playing. Eichi bowed and swept out his hand.
“May I have this dance?” he asked.
Kaito chuckled as he stood and he took his hand and they both danced together.
“I can’t wait to do this when I’m out of a dress.” Muttered Kaito.
“Or not packing thirty pounds of amo.”
They chuckled.
“So what are your parents’ names?”
Eichi sighed, “My mother’s name is Kamaria.”
“…Is she American or African?” asked Kaito.
He chuckled, “Her parents were born and raised in Kenya, but she was born in America. My father’s name is Madoka Kawakami.”
“…Madoka Kawakami!? Holy hell your father is worth…”
“670 billion yen.” They said at the same time and Eichi sighed, “I know, I love when I’m not recognized as his son. So when we are to be married are you going to be a Kawakami or am I going to be a Kormatsu?”
Kaito chuckled and sighed as he leaned his head against Eichi’s shoulder, “I’d kill to not be a Kormatsu any more. I despise my family name.”
Eichi didn’t say anything for a while and all there was, was music.
“You harbor a lot of hate for your father.” He finally said.
Kaito kind of shook his head, “I wouldn’t…call it hate. I have a lot of pain from him. I just…wanna find him and ask him why? I mean…the last time I saw him I was only nineteen. I was asleep in my bed when he just comes in and started tying me up and drags me out to that whore house. I kept asking him ‘where are you taking me, where are you taking me’…and all he told me dragging me into that place was… ‘I’m selling you, you little retard.’” He sniffled trying to fight back tears, “I remember slipping out of it after he threw me into that apartment and I had one of my…bad episodes. Kyo figured me out right away, but Suichi stayed home and took care of me until I came out of it.”
“…He is a wonderful person.” Muttered Eichi and Kaito nodded.
Eichi lifted his head and he wiped the tears from his eyes.
“…I don’t even know how you could want me like I am. I don’t always just…sit on the ground and color like last time. I don’t just lie in bed…when it gets bad I started acting like…like a bratty three year old. I almost can’t stand it. I don’t know why you’d even want to deal with me let alone marry me…” he told him, but Eichi grabbed him by the shoulders and his eyes snapped to his.
“Don’t you dare talk about yourself like that.” Said Eichi angrily, “I love you and I’m not going to ‘deal’ with you…I’m going to take care of you. It doesn’t matter to me, just because your prick of a father sold you doesn’t make you any less of a person. I’ll take you what ever way you are and there is nothing I would change about you.”
Eichi blinked at him a little surprised when he sobbed. He looked around as he covered his face with his hands.
“I…I didn’t mean…to upset you…wha…”
He didn’t get to say much else before Kaito threw his arms around his neck knocking the wind out fo him with the ammunition under his dress.
“That is the nicest and most wonderful thing any one has ever said to me! I love you so much!” he practically wailed.
Eichi grinned and laughed as he wrapped his arms around Kaito.
“I love you too.”


Rukia had been getting along well with Suichi’s mother. She found they were very much alike. While a little scary when she first realized this she found she could deal with it. It was sundown and they were in the dining room making fun of all the rich snobs while they grabbed the food.
“…what the hell is this?” asked Rukia sticking her fork in a tiny steak.
“I dunno, but I could eat like seven of them.” Muttered Kumiko, “Give me that fuckin’ menu.”
She grabbed the menu and looked it over.
“Fillet Mignon…3900 yen!? Oh hell no…hey garcon!” she yelled snapping her fingers and a waiter came over.
“Yes, madam?”
“Take a look at me, does it look like I’m ready to eat a piece of meat the size of a piece of sushi and call it a night? Take this back and get me something you think will satisfy my fat ass.” She told him crudely.
He looked amused as he took the plates and Rukia chuckled.
“I think you gave him a laugh.” Said Rukia.
“Yeah well the kid needs one serving all of these over priced tight asses.” She returned grabbing her water and looking at the wine glass, “I’m thinking of stealing these wine glasses. Think my son will ever join us again?”
“If you ask me he’s probably still asleep and I don’t blame him…tell me about his father.” She said leaning in.
Kumiko frowned, “His father? …Well I’ll tell you right now Suichi got his attitude from me, because his father was the nicest guy you could ever meet and he was an optimist to the max. He was so handsome and strong…mmm like a romance novel god.” She sighed and leaned back in her chair, “Suichi looks so much like him. Just as built and just as tall, but he got my eyes.”
“Clearly.”
Kumiko smiled, “Kenta was one of a kind. And he had a great job and we had a beautiful home and we were so happy.”
“…How did he die?” asked Rukia softly.
She sighed and her smile faded, “He started…having these episodes. He’d get these really bad head aches and eventually when they got bad enough he started having seizures. We kept bringing him to the doctors, but when they found it we were too late. He was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer when Suichi was ten years old. We had six more months with him before he died. He didn’t take chemo or anything…so…he was just as I remembered him years ago before he was hospitalized.”
“That must have been hard.” Remarked Rukia sadly.
She nodded, “It hurt me, it really did, but it affected Suichi the most indefinitely. Especially…now. After his father died his life insurance policy didn’t cover the costs for the hospital bill and the funeral. So we had to dig into the account that he left us. I didn’t have a college education like most seers so I was soon working two jobs while trying to pay the bills and the house note. I was neglecting Suichi because I was so busy and because of it he started acting up and getting in trouble at school. His grades started slipping, but swordsmanship and gymnastics were a godsend. They kept him out of trouble for the most part and what he lacked in smarts he made up for in strength.
“Then when he went to high school…our house was repossessed. I had to sell our car for a crappier one and Suichi got a job after school. He had his hands full so he started carrying more responsibility and he actually…started taking care of me. It was like he suddenly realized how bad I was busting my ass for him so when I’d get home…there was dinner, laundry and grocery shopping all done. But we still were sinking into debt from the old notes we had to pay and at one point I was threatened with an arrest warrant to come up with the money…so…I did like most seers do because I was desperate enough. I started selling myself for money. It kept us afloat, but because of it Gensai found out about me and that was the last man I wanted to find out about me. That was thirteen years ago.”
“…Right…when my mother died…” muttered Rukia her brows knitting.
Kumiko nodded, “Your father sucked your mother dry and I remember seeing her before her life had ended. She was the withered husk of a vibrant woman I once knew. After her death I knew he’d try to use you and he would fail. You were only…five or six right? You had some idea, but not nearly enough to achieve the same end as your mother…and that’s when he heard about me from your mother’s friends. I was a seer of great experience and after…five years of him trying to use me he let me go. He didn’t realize your mother and I were different kinds of seers. I couldn’t see on command or as often as she could.”
“Which is why he went back to me when I got older. But I still hardly know anything about the seeing art. I mean it usually comes to me as I go.” Mused Rukia.
“You seem to handle your premonitions well what about your kinesis?” she asked leaning against the table.
“I got most of them down, not all of them. The most control I have is over telekinesis and pyrokinesis.” She replied.
She nodded, “They are the easiest ones to master…”
“Just how many kinetic arts are there?” asked Suichi as he joined them at the table.
“There are eleven basic kinetic arts…and one forbidden one.” Replied Kumiko with a sly grin.
Suichi pushed in his chair with a small yawn.
“Twelve huh? That’s a lot to learn.” He said nonchalantly.
Rukia snorted, “I don’t think you have any idea how hard it would be to master all of those. I mean unless you’re born with the ability to control these things you have to condition your body and train your mind in the most brutal and grueling fashions to have full control. And there is no point in learning one unless you have full control, because if you don’t they go hay wire.”
Suichi blinked surprised, “You had to go through that to learn telekinesis and pyrokinesis?” he asked her.
She sighed, “Not through any will of my own. A lot of the time seers gain these abilities by accident when they are faced with harsh and even life threatening conditions. I developed pyrokinesis before you guys found me when I almost froze to death in the snow. Telekinesis is a very basic skill of most seers that simply requires a conditioning of the mind…which almost any abuse victim has.”
Suichi shook his head, “That’s fucked up.”
Kumiko looked at the glass in front of Suichi and it floated off the table. He looked from his mother to the glass and he slipped his hand around the glass so no one would notice.
“A nice fun fact ma.” He muttered.
The waiter came back and put two T-bone steaks in front fo Rukia and Kumiko.
“Now there’s something I can sink my teeth into…like the waiter.” Kumiko smacked his ass as he turned to walk away and he jumped.
She winked and he ran off a little weirded out.
“That was disgusting. And aren’t we supposed to be husband and wife or something?” asked Suichi.
She rolled her eyes, “Fuck that ok. You just go ahead and say you’re my brother or something cuz, I’m fixing to dump this baby in the room and go back to my stilettos so I can get one of these waiters fired.”
Rukia giggled and Suichi rubbed his face. Kumiko dug into her supper as Kyo and Yataro walked over and sat down.
“Where the hell have you two been?” asked Rukia.
Kyo sighed, “Our room, between the pool and these…pregnancy hormones I’m hornier than a cat in heat.”
Rukia giggled but Kumiko looked up and said through a mouth of steak, “I’m eating. I don’t need to envision your half flaccid, four inch dick moving in and out of an eighteen year old boy as he lays there wondering why it’s taking so long for you to not satisfy him.”
Kyoshiro went red in the face, but it was Yataro to rise this time.
“You know what sweet heart, we get it ok! Oo, don’t mess with Kumiko, she’s a hard ass, she’s edgy she’s a regular war vet! Well I’m getting fuckin’ sick and tired of you just piling on this bull shit about my man and I swear to God if I hear another insult come out of you the next thing to go into your STD ridden mouth will be my fist! So why don’t you just have another cigarette and change your fuckin’ tampon you psycho bitch!?” he yelled at her and then he sat down and folded his arms.
They were all starring at him in awe and so were a few people around them. Kumiko had frozen in her place and she swallowed before she lowered her silverware and she snorted.
“Wow…I didn’t know ya had it in ya kid.” She said with a surprising smile, “I can honestly say I have never been slammed like that.”
“What the hell is wrong with you!?” asked Kyo like she was insane which he thought she was.
“Just looking for a challenge Kyoshiro. You are the first challenge I’ve had in years, but the kid is way out of my league unless it was a fluke.” She said grabbing her water.
“…this is a game?” asked Yataro confused.
She snorted, “Well duh you didn’t really think I was that mean did you?”
They all said at once, “Yes!”
“Oo, touch crowd, tough crowd.”
Kyo sighed and rubbed his face and he chuckled and patted Yataro’s shoulder.
“Well Kumiko, if you ask him I’ll bet he’ll say he is well satisfied. I’d of course make fun of your abilities, but…oh that’s right you don’t have a man.” Said Kyo starting the game again.
She chuckled, “Neither do you, you pedo.”
“Well any one could be a boy to you, you old hag.”
“Just makes me all the more appealing. I still have the body of a thirty year old and all the experience of a woman my age. Where as when you get to my age your testicles will probably be all the way to the floor.”
They kept on shooting back and forth at each other getting more disgusting and crude as they went along. Suichi sighed and he decided to ignore it. He set his chin on his hand and looked around the dining room. He saw Darius slip under the table from the hall. Rukia cut up her steak and she slipped it under the table. Suichi frowned and looked under and saw him eating it. He came up and Rukia chuckled and winked at him. Yataro soon joined the argument and Suichi saw Kaito and Eichi come in and take a table of their on. Then Shane was bothering Gen while he was trying to eat. Rukia stood and she left the table. She passed by him and brushed her hand against his arm as she walked by. He hesitated and looked back at the others at the table and he stood and followed her.
They both went out to the deck and he saw her leaning against the rail looking at the sunset. He went and stood next to her.
“I guess you and my mother had a wonderful talk about my life.” He sighed.
She chuckled, “She told me some fun stories, but they all showed how fond she is of you.”
He shook his head and took out a cigarette and lit it up.
“I…also asked her about your father.” She told him.
He glanced at her, “Did you now? And what did she say?”
“She told me what a great guy he was. He sounded like a really good father.” She replied.
He nodded with a small smile, “I was young, but I still remember him very well. You couldn’t ask for a better father. And he and my mother were well balanced.”
“Yeah…she said you’re a lot like him. Just as handsome and kind.”
He looked at her, “She said that?”
Rukia nodded, “Yep…I know things are still tense between you and your mom, but…can’t you at least try?”
“…It’s hard Rukia. I used to think she was the root of all evil and that was for thirteen years and even though I know it was all some huge scam…I still just…can’t act like things are the way they used to be between us. It makes me hate your father so much more, but right now all me and my mom have in common is that.” He told her.
Rukia rolled her eyes, “Yeah right, she may be more abrasive and conspicuous, but you are exactly like her and what’s worse is…so am I.”
He laughed and flicked his butt over the boat, “Is that so?”
“I was horrified at first, but I admit I can live with it.”
He shook his head and she set her chin on her hand.
“…You think he’s ok?” asked Suichi starring out.
She looked at the water, “…Honestly…no.”
“I guess I shouldn’t have expected a better answer. I mean…with the way every one worked so I would become a sex pet…and Toya just gets taken like that. I just feel so horrible about it, Darius was right about me. I mean what kind of idiot am I to let him or any of them for that matter go out when I know they’re after my blood. If it was one thing that your father knew about me it was how soft I am about those guys.” He told her guiltily.
She shook her head, “This isn’t your fault. You can protect Toya from thugs and jack asses Suichi, but no one…not even you can save a seer like him from himself. Because in actuality we are our own worst enemies. You put yourself in danger for the sake of all of these men and when we see something it is our job to insure the least amount of damage happens to other people. That usually costs us a hefty price… and this whole thing was probably one of Toya’s master plans to save some one else.”
”I know, but…”
“No buts Suichi it’s time to face facts!” She turned dramatically and grabbed him by the shoulders, “Little Toya is smarter than you and dumber than you at the same time! You couldn’t have stopped him because even if you tried chances are he would have used his power to move you any way! You can’t defeat destiny, man!”
He snorted and laughed, “What!?”
“…Too dramatic?” she asked eyeing him as she lowered her hands.
He nodded, “A little.”
She sat on the rail of the boat with a small smile.
“Well at least I got you to laugh big guy. I never thought you’d ever smile again.”
“Yeah, thanks for that I guess.” He muttered and she pushed him.
“Don’t start brooding again. Ok being all depressed isn’t going to keep Toya safe damn it.” She told him out right.
They heard the horn blow and they looked over as they saw the captain yelling at the ship hands. They frowned and looked at each other. The ship jerked like it crashed and Rukia lost her balance. He grabbed for her but she fell back and went screaming into the ocean.
“Rukia!”
He looked around and he grabbed a rope from one of the riggings and let it loose. He looped it around his arm and chest and he dove down into the water. He swam up and he swam out to her as she tried to stay up over the waves. He grabbed a hold of her and pulled her above water. She coughed and gasped. She ripped off her wig which was in her face and she sighed.
“Fancy seeing you here!” she said.
“Why the hell did the boat stop?” he mused.
They looked up when they heard people screaming over head. The horn started sounding again and he heard some men yell…
“Pirates?” they both said and looked at each other.

To be continued…

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Rosetta Moon: To my fans I am deeply sorry for being so incredibly late on the update. But like Murphy's law entails everything bad that can happen will happen. I won't bitch about my life to you, but I will say with in the last month and a half I was diagnosed with a disease that will insure that I may never be able to bear a child. Plus with a recent death in my family my computer has gone ignored. But I dusted of my key board and I shall continue with the story. For the show must go on.So please send me some reviews and let me know you haven't given up on my story because neither have I. Thank you.