BONTEN'S NUMBER FOUR

nineteen

"You ready?" Kakucho asked while she's standing in front of the door, "Ran took care of Ashiro's papers so he told me to stay with you. Rindou took care of the funerals."

She nodded, "I think I'm good, Kaku."

Kakucho nodded and held the door knob, slowly turning it to open the door. She took a deep breath and Sanzu Haruchiyo sat in the middle of the room with his head down.

Y/N walked to the chair across him and sat there. Kakucho remained standing near the door.

"I'm sorry, doll," Haruchiyo started, "I really tried to save him, I swear."

She didn't know what to answer since she doesn't have any information about it, not even a little bit. She just stared at Sanzu Haruchiyo, the man with the possibility of actually killing Sachiro Kentaro, her whole world.

"Tell me everything right from the start, Haru," she begged, "I have to know."

It was a casual night for everyone, even for Kisaki Tetta who is currently killing three men with Bonten logo in their arms.

"Bonten really disgusts me," he whispered while kicking one of the men's faces, "you follow Mikey too much without knowing he's a traitor. He betrayed me before!"

"Wasn't it you who betrayed Mikey?" Sanzu suddenly spoke, making Kisaki flinch, "you betrayed Toman's first division captain, what do you expect to happen?"

"Ah, the loyal mad dog," Kisaki laughed as he reloaded his gun, "still stuck up on Mikey's ass, huh? When will you ever grow up? Here I thought you realized shit when you stayed with Mucho and moved to Tenjiku."

"Yeah and that's exactly why I killed him," Sanzu smiled and took a pill, "I hate traitors, you see."

"Shouldn't you be hating yourself then?" Kisaki shot the wall beside Sanzu, "you betrayed your own bestfriend as well–"

"AHHH!" they both stopped talking when a kid screamed at the sight of three men lying in their own pool of blood

Sanzu immediately recognized him as Y/N's brother because from time to time he would check on her just to see how she's doing after how many years.

Bystanders nearby knew Kisaki Tetta was there and tried to pull the kid away, but was too scared to do so as well. He's Kisaki Tetta after all.

Kisaki turned his gun at the kid, "sorry boy, I don't like leaving evidences around."

Sanzu's eyes widened and immediately tried to snatch the gun from Kisaki. He never felt scared his whole life, not even when some group of men tried to attack her sister because he knew she could easily break their bones, but what can a normal seven year old boy do?

"Kentaro, run!" he tried telling him but before he could fully run away, Kisaki accidentally pulled the trigger while they're trying to snatch the gun from each other

A bullet immediately landing in the boy's head, shooting his brains out

"NO!" Sanzu lets go of Kisaki and immediately went to Kentaro, "shit, Kentaro I'm sorry. Fuck!"

Kisaki took the chance to run away. Killing Sanzu would do him no good as Mikey would never stop until he avenges Sanzu's death if ever.

Sanzu asked one of the bystanders to call Y/N as he called the ambulance. He paid them to tell her Kisaki Tetta did it. He really did, right? It wasn't his finger that was on the trigger, but him snatching the gun away was the cause of the accident.

And since then, he felt so guilty. He was the first one to find out about Y/N being Kaze because he had a glimpse of the tattoo only Kaze has, which made sense because Dojin Kai was never after anyone except Kisaki's group.

"Mikey, do you remember Y/N?" Sanzu asked as he sat across Mikey

"Of course," Mikey nodded, "why?"

"She is Kaze, from Dojin Kai," Sanzu said, "they're top two of the underground organizations, next to ours. We both are after Kisaki anyway, wouldn't it be better to have her in our team?"

"What are you proposing?" Kakucho asked

"Let's merge with Dojin Kai. Let's have her as our number four."

Mikey gave it a thought, "Kisaki is a dangerous opponent. We can also protect her that way. I failed to protect Emma and you, Kakucho, failed to protect Izana. At least we could protect her."

"That's what happened," Sanzu said, "I'm really sorry, Y/N. I swear I really wanted to save him, I wanted to let him escape but.. I failed."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Y/N sobbed, "don't you think I deserved to know that?"

"Guilt has been eating me alive, I didn't know how to tell you. I may not be as close to him as Rindou was but I knew about the fact that he meant a lot to you. I'm really really sorry."

Y/N wiped her tears away and flashed her genuine smile as she held Haruchiyo's hands in hers, "thank you for trying to save him, Haru. I know he must be so scared, but thank you because in that little time, he found a hero in you. I know for sure he felt safe at that moment."

Haruchiyo bowed his head, "I'm sorry I didn't save him, Y/N. I really am."

"You didn't want it to happen," she shook her head, "you never wanted him to die. So please don't carry the burden of it alone. We will have Kisaki pay for his sins, I promise you that."

Kakucho smiled at how it went. At least Kisaki didn't succeed in breaking Bonten apart, or so he thought.

Rindou suddenly barged inside, making the three of them look at him

"Ran.. Ran was shot." Rindou said with so much anger and fear