Chapter 15

Kuki walked slowly to the studio where Kin Sanban was waiting for her, I know she'll suffer there, Kin is quite an ogre, and I'll enjoy her suffering, she desserves it, after all, her suffering was what earned her the honour of her name Ikari, she bacame ragefull after she suffered that much. She's here now, let's isten in.

Kuki knocked the door timidly.

-Come in Ikari - Kin said

Kuki walked in quietly, closing the door behind her.

-Sit down - Kin said

Kuki sat down across the desk, where Kin had some important papers. Kin has always been death serious, always before a talk with anyone, even more if it's family business, it's always stressing talking with him.

-Ikari, Kuki - Kin said, he uses the first names only when he is worried about health, - I'm worried about you, your enterprise is not growing, and, I'll bet it was Mr. Beatless, since he passed away you've been lost, you've seem to be waking a bit sice you started on those pills the shrink gave you, yet, that's not enough, therefore, I'll take you to a shaman next moonday, who must help you recover your lost soul

-Father? - Kuki said interrupting Kin- my enterprise has been growing slowly, but that's nothing to do with Wally, I started it two years ago, yo know that the first three years goes slowly, and after that it booms or crashes, and I'm sure that, if you let me

-Ikari - Kin said cutting her speech - you have changed and that ...boy ... did that to you, he has been behind your fortune, OUR fortune since the day he met you, he was slowly aproaching to his goal, and anyones knows that the Sanban, are a powerful company, you should know how long it took ME to build up this.

-Father, please, Wally was not interested in my money, he was

-HE - Kin said raising his voice - was nothing more than a pauper, he found you and his family made him go after you, at least his father did, why do you think his parents got divorced?

-'Cause, they didn't love each other any more ...?

-Ikari, you know me well, I know every employee, their familys and desires, when you were born, that Beatless boy had merly 3 months old, an unfortunate step of the destiny - Kin said coldly his elbows on the desk, and his hands were suporting his chin, his left hand on a fist and the right covering - then he moved so his son was able to asist to the same school my kids went, knowing you'd go there too, I knew his family would brake apart when it did, Mrs Beatless took the youngest Beatless, so he'd be free, Wallabee, had alrady a written destiny, a miscalculation I made, was that you would fall for him, you should know something importaant Ikari. In this family, we had always have arrenged marriages; unless, the head off the faamily, aproves the guy, or the kid we're talking about gets married earlier.

Kuki looked at Kin with horror but she never lost composture.

-Yukio, had his marriage arrenged two years ago, he had that time to find someone to love, but since he couldn't acomplished that, he got married with Suzuki's babygirl Yusuki, and he can't cheat on her, or else he will be disknowloged, and will lose all of the Sanban priviliges. Jiro and Takeshi, found someone we aproved and they loved, and they succeeded with their enterprise. Takako ... that little ... miss ... will pay sooner or later her sins, she, has Mr. King, Alexander is a quite good boy, he has helped Takako with her enterprise, spy equipment or something like that, Kiyoshi, with his wife, Aaliyah Robertson, grew quite quickly into a worldwide hotel chain; Ringo, got married with Mae Zayo Taylor, they have the best japaneese restaurants in the continent, now tell me, they all had a partner who would help 'em, how would Mr. beatless fit in this scale?

-Wally, was studying photography, and I'm a lawyer

-What's your enterprise Ikari?

-I'm ... I have the world of spectacle, I take care of family business, all about sues.

-Who would Mr. Beatless help you?

-He could have ... uhm ...

-Precisely nothing he could have done.

-What's your own business?

-I have a magazine working. Wally took the pictures I needed for the magazine.

-But he had no way to let you gain more than usual, did he?

-No, but..

-Yukio, married Suzuki, he has won a big part of the motorcicle world. Now Ikari, I've been thinking, and I think you need a husband who will be blind with power, and who will give all to the enterprise, then you'll be able to fly your own plane.

-What?!

-You'll be marrying in two years, March the 3rd, so you'll have enough time to make all the arrengements, and forget about Mr. Beatless.

-WHAT?! - Kuki said losing her cool, standing up and slamming her hands to the desk -YOU CAN'T DO THAT!

-Meet your new fiance, his name is ...
-I don't care! - I said - I do not want a new fiance! I will not marry, I don't want to marry anyone that is not Wally!

Ryo Kin was not surprised by my reaction, he had been waiting for her to explode with all my rage, she had to be rage-full again, 4 years had been since I had been peace-full and calm.

-Damyen, he is 24 years old.

-I SAID I DO NOT WANT ANY OTHER BOY IN MY LIFE WALLY IS THE ONLY PERSON THAT I WILL EVER MARRY I DO NOT CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY - I said with a fiery look that hadn't possessed my eyes for nearly 4 years now.

-Damyen, comes from a wealthy family, they have this funerary business, they own the Woodland cementery that you constantly visit, I would be impressed if you didn't know him. - Father kept talking in a calm way.

-WHAT WERE YOU THINKING OTO-SAN!?!? I CAN NEVER LOVE ANYONE MY HEART BELONGS TO WALLY HE WAS AN ANGEL, AND HE WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY HEART - I kept paying almost no attention to her father's words.

-He will be picking you up next Saturday, by noon, you will go to brunch, and to a croquet game.

-I WON'T GO EVER IN A DATE WITH WHAT'S-HIS-NAME? - I said still rage full yet not quite screaming

-Damyen - Kuki stood up straight and after a few seconds, she sat back down.

-What does his name means? - I said

-His name means spirit.

-But, doesn't Damyen ... is the name of the devil?

-Well, yes, it also means demon Ikari, but you well know that our names, are just that, a name.

-Ok ... - I said - I will go out with him, yet I refuse to marry him.

-You are dismissed now Ikari - said my father, I walked out stomping and thinking in a way out of this, I have six days to figure this out.

After a long week of rage attacks and almost no time, well you see, I have been working on my enterprise, taking care of Kiseki, that stills follows me around, I still think of him in a sort of a son, college has been the death, you know with two careers at the time and stuff, I'm studying medicine, business administration, and mechanic engineer, I'm still in yoga, and I found out that there is this thing they call Reiki, that heals moving energies, and I'm starting that, Dr. Tourette, made me stop going to the graveyard for three months, she says that keeping my mind busy will help me assume Wally is death and I'll keep on with my life. I'm thinking on a way of taking him back to life, I found three ways, one is finding this guy called Damyen "the demon" and well basically selling my soul to find Wally and be together eternally in this place like limbo, since I wouldn't be able to go to heaven, yet I wouldn't go to hell, since I've been nice right? Right. The other is with the Ouija, I wouldn't be able to live with him, but I would be able to talk to him, I think. And the last one, and current winning option, yet the hardest, would be going to the graveyard, and well stop using those drugs that the shrink gave me, but using cocaine, Ace sells it, and since he has always loved me, Wally has always saying how he kept flirting with me, and how Ace would sell his drug business for me, if only I were alone, so I'll basically use him to get What I want.

Today it's Saturday and I'll meet this Damyen guy, I can't remember if my father told me his last name, but I can't go and ask him, so I'll just ask Damyen, I have a hinch that it's Woodland, like the graveyard, but I'll ask I don't want to be... anyways, I'm wearing my green skinny T-shirt with the legend "Don't Try Because You'll Never Get it" on golden letters, Skinny jeans that open up in a bell like form just above the knees and my white sneakers, my hair is down I'll take my jean jacket with me, just in case this "date" lasts long enough.

Noon, the hour I've been dreading for, Damyen is quite punctual, at 12:00:00 he knocked on the door, it was as if he were waiting for the seconds hand to hit the 12, so it would be 12 o'clock, James opened up and Damyen is nothing that I expected, I thought he would be a somewhat tall boy, skinny and ugly, but he is really tall, reaching 6' 1", muscular, he has deep black eyes a hint of red in the border of the iris, short black hair, he wears it like Wally used to, he has a childish smile that takes your breath away, he seems like ... a God, I thought I would never ever say that of a boy again, Wally was the only god-like person I knew.

-Good afternoon - Damyen said with a deep voice that turned my knees into jelly.

-... Good ... afternoon ... - I said

He smirked and said - My name is Damyen Wood-like - he said bowing gently his head he is wearing some baggy jeans, and black tight T-shirt you could see his iron muscles beneath it. -I'm Kuki ... Ikari Sanban - I said even if he already knew who I was.

He took my hand in his and kissed it gently - a pleasure to meet you - he said - shall we? - I just nod and we went away, Damyen reminds me so much of Wally, the only difference would be that Wally was blond an had green eyes, and Danyen has black hair and reddish eyes.