"Ando, Hinode will not accept anything I have to offer. This is bad. Really bad. The war might start anytime and we are on the other side. On very thin ice. This treacherous person was really good at covering his track. I can't find anything. This is so frustrating!" He grabs flower vase on the table and angrily throws at the wall.

"Praaangg!" The gla.s.s shattered all over the place but it didn't make Touma less agitated at all. He starts storm everything but all his effort brings him to nothing. Only creates a mess in front of him.

Suddenly his phone vibrates and rang. He instantly picks it up but froze after he saw the caller id.

[n.o.bu Anzo]

He composed himself for a second and answers it. "Oyabun," he greets the other side respectfully.

"I heard about Hinode's daughter. Are you able to solve it?" A point blank question shoots straight to his ears.

"Is the stone set by you?" He needs to know because if his father really involves then he should get out if his ways, even mean by sacrifice Kahina but if it is not his doing than he will do everything he can to punish the culprit. It is not for Kahina mainly but to warn everyone out there the consequences by touching his family and friends. They really dare to instigate a war between them, then they must dare to face the ramification of their action.

"Unfortunately, it is not my way," he denied his involvement, although he really wants his enemies gone. There are a lot of ways to destroy them but never had he chosen to harm his own family. 30000 people under him, depending on him. 200 branch families relying upon him, he needs to take into consideration and other people life might be nothing to him but not his entire family. They are known as criminal but they have their own princ.i.p.al needed to be followed.

"Understand. I will settle it" he had no idea how to settle it but admit it will not gain him any good. His father trusts him and he will not let him down. Once is enough when he sends him to hospital after openly refuses to succeed the family. He might be cold but still, he is his father.

"Wakagas.h.i.+ra* informs me Oata personally told him that he will handle this matter" he paused for a while, then warns him, "Touma, tread this matter carefully and I want them dead," his serious tone really stress the importance of the matter. 'Me too, father, me too,' he also wishes the same thing but it is easier said than done.

"I understand, Oyabun." The call finally ends but the intensity of it still remains. He must find a way to answer to Hinode Family and especially to Takio Hinode. The anger of Takio means the anger of the entire group. How can he explain to him that he can't find the culprit? He would never believe him and it will make them suspect that they are protecting the culprit.

"s.h.i.+t! s.h.i.+t! s.h.i.+t!" he curses again.

"Get me the girlfriend and all related person to the deceased." Ando nod and bow before went out from the room. Touma reaches his phone and browses for a while before he makes a call.

"555378," he told the other side before the line is cut.

A few seconds later, he receives an email inviting him to secure private chat, he instantly accepted it.

555378: [Identify mission]

001100: [Oata Hinode]

555378: [Death or Alive?]

001100: [Strictly Information]

555378: [When?]

001100: [Tomorrow morning]

The chat room vanished and he kept on staring at it. Kahina attracts him with brave, bold, confident and fearless personalities. Without he realize, he starts longing for her presence. He wants to see her smile, all of her version of smiles whether cute, naughty, sarcastic and even her calculative smile. He misses it all. 'Wait! I MISS HER? It is impossible! But I... hmm... I want to see her... I miss her, d.a.m.n it!' He finally admits his feeling but there is nothing he can do to get her smile back except than waiting. It is true when people said waiting is the most painful torture.

He remembered their first encounter when she saves him before. He felt G.o.d finally answer him by sending him a beautiful angel. He also remembered her soft lips against him, it sweet and soft. Then he looked at the sofa, her slender waist in his arm and her voluptuous bosom on his chest when he teased her and he couldn't forget how hard he restrains himself from kissing the seductive lips she had. His lips only inch away from her and it is more tempted when she closed her eyes with a hue of blush on her face. 'Oh! my G.o.d! I am going crazy' he hissed to himself. He facepalms himself. He can't accept it is only took him a week to feel this way, imagine what she can do if she had the entire lifetime. He is going to be a slave of love and he believes he will give in 100% into this slavery.

'This is not love. This is only l.u.s.t. I only attracted to her because she is my saviour and she is attractive beautiful young lady,' he forcefully convinced himself. It is indeed easy to be in denial than accept reality. He is just a normal man with a really big ego refused to give in.

*Wakagas.h.i.+ra is second in command directly in Yakuza Family.