Chapter 7: No escape

“Megumi you have to think about this…”

“And I am” she sighed. “Wake her up”.

Karou walked to the side and she opened a fridge and got a bucket and a pitcher. The cold air coming off it was a warning sign, and she scooped up an amount and then she poured it slowly on Geiru who awoke with a gasp.

And due to the cold water it caused her to take deep fast breaths, her chest heaving.

“Why were you trying to kill me?!” she asked immediately.

Geiru took long to answer. Still trying to catch her breath.

Karou scooped up more water and poured it over her slowly. That was what made it worse.

Sachi couldn’t hold it in anymore. If she wasn’t going to talk, Takashi would.

“You!” she turned to Takashi.

“What do you know?” she asked.

What did he know?

“I am not going to waste my time on someone that looks like he’s going to shit his pants”.

“So you’re just going to overlook him?!” and she got her gun out and aimed it at him. “Talk now!” she warned her finger resting on the trigger.

“How did you know I had trouble?” Megumi asked Kenji.

“Just a lucky guess” he shrugged. “And the movements coming from your car”.

“Back to the situation at hand!” Sachi called to her attention.

Geiru got her breath back.

“Why did you want to kill her?” Sachi asked.

They hadn’t planned about this. If they ever got caught which they never thought would happen. She was the one who got caught and there was no way she was getting out of this, but Takashi could if he played his cards right.

He had to think. They already thought he wasn’t capable of doing that so he could save himself. But the only way he could do that was throwing in Geiru. Was he going to do that? They weren’t friends and all what she had said about leaving him to die. She hadn’t been joking.

“Have you suddenly gone deaf?” Sachi asked.

“I don’t know why she tried to kill you” he answered.

“And we’re meant to believe you? You’re her friend aren’t you?”

“We aren’t friends” he denied vehemently. “We just met that day in the club. Outside actually and we both wanted to get lucky”.

“You want me to believe that?!” Sachi yelled.

“Calm down!” Megumi barked and turned to Geiru. “It was Takahiro wasn’t it?”

“You’re actually smart. Who knew?” Geiru dropped the act of obedient accountant.

“Who else would try it?” Megumi asked herself crossing her arms.

“What was his plan?!”

“To have the upper hand against you and it was working until that plan. Your face was to die for” she chuckled.

“I didn’t expect you to be the one” Megumi smiled. “Tonight is just full of surprises”.

“What about Takashi?” Sachi asked.

“What about him?” Geiru asked.

“Well he’s Fujiwara’s son, isn’t he? Obviously you were going to accept him, and if you thought I was with him you’d accept me too. It wasn’t that hard, you know?”

“Still doesn’t explain why Takahiro didn’t take Takashi if he knew about him. I don’t believe this”.

“Well after I revealed all your plans and pushed you to the bottom and killed you, I’d prove to you that Phantom is just another gang compared to Red Dawn”.

“And then you’d convince Takashi to join” Kenji completed.

“Yes” she said narrowing her eyes.

“Release her” Megumi told Karou.

“What?” Karou asked baffled.

“Excuse me?” Sachi lowered her gun.

“Tell you what Geiru. We’ll fight if you win you’ll shoot me…”

“Megumi” Sachi said.

“And no one will do anything. And you can leave with Takashi”.

“Meg dear….” Kenji tried.

“But if I win, I will send you off to your gang”. She didn’t miss the look of fear in her eyes.

“Takahiro as much as I hate to admit it is much like me. Hates failure and you dear, have already failed” she was in her face.

“And I know how he can be. Very sadistic, right? You can see it in his eyes, and if you go back he’ll take care of you” she smiled. “Karou release her, and I won’t say it again!”

Megumi walked up to her sister and held her hand out. Sachi reluctantly handed her gloves over, and Geiru was dropped.

They all stepped back and gave them a lot of room.

Kenji stood back, but close to Takashi.

“Looks like I was wrong” he said.

Geiru rubbed her wrists and looked to Megumi. She wasn’t Sachi so she shouldn’t be scared. She was crazy. She really hadn’t been able to find anything about her, only what everyone had said about her. Daddy’s girl, not smart and not a good leader. That was it. But she has seen her do things that were against the rumors.

But she had never seen her fight. But she knew what she was capable of. But Megumi not so much.

She took a stance and so did Megumi.

Megumi threw a punch which she caught and used her knee to hit her side, but Megumi jumped back pulling her along and catching her in her stomach with her knee, making her double over.

She caught her by her hair, and used her knee on that exact same place again, and then pushed her onto the floor.

“Are you out yet?” Megumi asked.

She was getting really cocky and Geiru delivered a sweep kick, which had her tumbling and Geiru was over her throwing punches.

Sachi struggled to stay put where she was. Her fingers were itching for a place round Geiru’s neck, but Karou was close to her.

Megumi pushed her off and landed a leg behind her neck which stunned her a bit. Megumi cleaned her already cut lip, and she delivered many kicks to her head and neck area. She was still wearing her heels.

And it hurt.

Really bad.

She rolled away and Megumi followed. She got a heel to the face which she was sure broke her jaw. Or if it didn’t break, it bruised badly.

It had spit and blood going round them.

Then she focused her kicks onto her ribs and back.

Geiru attacked her legs making her knees buckle, and then she was on her own knees and hit Megumi’s neck, and before she went down she spun around and wrapped an arm around her, and pushed her down onto the ground, and grabbed a leg digging her knee into her spine.

Megumi growled and threw her elbow making her bite her tongue, making pain explode inside her mouth, and then she delivered an uppercut which took out the fight from her, and she lay there as Megumi delivered punch upon punch to her face. The leather making it much more painful.

Megumi straddled her hips and punched with all the rage of every loss, until she was sure she was blacking out. She got on her feet still circling her.

“Is this the best Takahiro has to offer, really?” she spat and kicked her in her face again which was already bruised and bloody. “If only he could see you know. How do you think he would react if he saw you now? He’d kill you himself!” she yelled and stomped on her head.

“Don’t tell me you’re done” and she stepped on her back and Geiru screamed. She could feel her bones cracking under the pressure.

“Pathetic” and she stepped on her outstretched hand and smiled at the satisfying crunch before stepping off.

“She’s out” Megumi said and threw her gloves at Sachi.

“What do I do to her?” Karou asked.

“Chop her up and send her back to her gang” Sachi instructed.

“He’ll take care of that” Megumi sighed and she walked out with Sachi.

“You’ll keep an eye on him right?”

“Yes” she replied.

Takashi just stared at what was once the tall standing Geiru, and now just an unconscious bloody heap. Kenji took in his expression and then he laughed.

“How do you feel?” he asked.

Takashi couldn’t walk up to her because there was nothing he could do without drawing suspicion. After everything she had said at the last minute, she had saved him and now she stood the chance of dying. Well she was going to die from what everyone had said. But they were going to send her back and now he was going to be alone without a guide on how any of this worked.

He was with some of the worst people to ever set foot on earth. Manipulative, heartless and unforgiving killers who had no regard for anyone, and were much worse when it came to their enemies. What was he going to do now?

He looked to Kenji and he knew this was all his fault. He would pay.

They would all pay for this. Not just Megumi anymore. He didn’t know how, but he would get there.