The Prince of Counters heart

two

"Kazumi." Her father greeted her as she walked in the door. "My princess."
"Hi dad." Kazumi smiles but clenching her fists she hated it when he called her 'his princess'.

Her father was sitting in the lounge just as you walked into the Inagawa family home.
Satoshi Inagawa was a proud looking man with greying black hair that he greased back on a normal basis and he normally had round sunglasses covering his dark eyes, Kazumi rarely saw him not wearing a suit of some sort. Today though it seemed her father was wearing a dark blue polo shirt and black jeans. Despite her father eating all the time he was in decent shape there was not an ounce of fat on him.

"You're home early." Kazumi walks into the lounge "I wasn't expecting you."
"I wanted to go to bed early tonight." Her father tells her
"What for?" Kazumi asks sitting in the chair catty corner to the one her dad was sitting in.
"Your prize fighter called me this morning." Satoshi looks Kazumi in the eyes
"Ichiro called?" Kazumi asks playing dumb
"Yes." He nods reaching for a cigar "Your Ichiro wants to talk to me about something important." Satoshi smirked hinting that he already knew what Ichiro wanted.

"Dad, I love Ichiro please don't do anything that would hurt him." Kazumi expressed worriedly
"Love is such a strong word." Satoshi says
"Dad."
"Why would I do anything to my best boxer?" Satoshi chuckled before lighting his cigar "Your boy never loses."
"Ichiro is a genius." Kazumi says clenching her purse strap
"Oh I know, he'll make a perfect addition to the family." Satoshi smirked
"Dad." Kazumi swallowed "Please don't make him a Yakuza."
"Don't fucking tell me what to do." Satoshi exhaled a cloud of smoke
"Don't talk to me like one of your goons." Kazumi snaps
"Bwhaha Kazumi you crack me up." Her dad slaps his knee "Don't worry yourself sick."
"You make it difficult." Kazumi narrows her eyes at her father
"I'm sorry princess." Satoshi chuckled
"Ugh I'm going to bed." Kazumi rolled her eyes and headed upstairs.

Clearly her father was un-bothered she could hear him get up and go into the tv room.
Closing her door Kazumi tossed her purse on her desk chair and plopped down on her bed looking up at the ceiling.
"No you're not."

8:55am

"Ichiro." Kazumi opened the front door for him "Good morning."
"Morning." Ichiro smiles walking in the door
"I just made breakfast." Kazumi leaned in the kiss Ichiro good morning
"Is your dad awake?" Ichiro asks putting his arm around her waist to hug Kazumi
"He's reading the paper." Kazumi nods before heading towards the kitchen. Ichiro followed noticing that Kazumi was still wearing her dark green satin pajama set she wore the one time she'd slept over at The Miyata house. Kazumi had a black robe over it but she still looked good for just getting out of bed.

"Princess could I have more coffee?" Kazumi's father asks not looking up from the paper
"Yes of course give me one sec to get Ichiro's plate ready and I'll bring you some." Kazumi says going to the stove as Ichiro sat across from Satoshi
"Good morning son." Satoshi smirked closing his news paper
"Good morning sir." Ichiro bowed his head
"You're here early." Satoshi goes back to his paper "You and Kazumi going somewhere special today?"
"We'll probably do something fun later but well sir I was hoping to speak to you remember I called." Ichiro tells Kazumi's father
"That's right." He nods putting his paper down "What can I do for you?"
"You know that I love your daughter." Ichiro looked directly at Kazumi's father as she brought Ichiro a plate of food
"I'm aware."
"And I would do anything for her." Ichiro adds

Kazumi kept her eyes on Ichiro she prayed the words 'I would do anything for her.' wouldn't come back to haunt Ichiro. Kazumi knew her father would hold that against Ichiro to get him to do what he wanted.

"Okay?" Satoshi raised an eyebrow at Ichiro
"When we graduate from highschool I would like to ask Kazumi to marry me." Ichiro states still looking directly at Kazumi's father
"When you graduate?" Kazumi's father looked at her as she sat at the table "Did you know about this princess?"
"Ichiro mentioned it." Kazumi nods

Satoshi laughed loudly almost as if he was happy about something. Satoshi cleared his throat and looked at both Ichiro and Kazumi

"I want you to do whatever makes you happy." Her father picks up his news paper
"Huh?" Kazumi's mouth dropped, she'd seen him take his men's marriages more seriously.

Her father being a Yakuza boss he had the final say on everything his men did from where they ate where they shopped who they dated, married wether they had kids etc.
"It's whatever you decide princess when your prize fighter purposes." Satoshi reiterates
"Let me feel your forehead are you sick?" Kazumi leans over and feels her father's forehead
"Enough with your shenanigans." Her father pushed her hand away "Ichiro I will allow it just as I've allowed you to bed Kazumi...""What?!" Kazumi's face goes bright red
"Sir." Ichiro looked directly at Kazumi's father
"Don't act like I don't know." Satoshi looks at his daughter
"Oh geez." Kazumi blushes
"Miyata you have my blessing." Satoshi looks directly at Ichiro "You do it right, surprise Kazumi take her out to dinner make her feel like the only girl in the world to you etc etc you know all the mushy crap women like." Satoshi says
"You have my word." Ichiro nods
"Eat your food before it gets cold son or Kazumi will be upset." Satoshi says from behind his news paper.
"I'm going upstairs." Kazumi excuses herself from the table
"We'll be here." Her dad says as Ichiro began eating the breakfast she put in front of him

9:37am

After showering and getting dressed Kazumi found Ichiro watching the 9 o'clock morning news while her father was out on the back patio smoking.

"Let's get out of here." Kazumi clenched her fists
"Yeah?" Ichiro asks seeing she was all ready to go
"Come on." Kazumi says walking towards the door, she felt suffocated.

Once outside Ichiro grabbed Kazumi's hand.
"You okay?" Ichiro asks
"Yup."
"Kazumi."
"What?" She asked
"Don't lie to me." Ichiro smirked

Kazumi rolled her eyes and sighed they kept walking down the street for a minute until she looks at him.
"I was expecting my dad to treat it you asking for his approval to marry me like a business decision." Kazumi tells him
"You're his only daughter not one of his goons." Ichiro reminds her
"Ichiro I was scared he would either force you be a Yakuza or something else." She says
"Something else?"
"Well he treats you like some kind of trophy." Kazumi expresses
"And you don't?" Ichiro smirked teasing her
"Shut up." Kazumi gives him a small smile "I could see my father not only betting on your matches even more than he already does but making it so they're life or death matches." She explained herself
"You know very well that you never know what can happen in the ring." Ichiro tells her "Every match is life or death."
"Well I get that." Kazumi pouts
"Enough." Ichiro says "Hey wanna go make out at the movies?"
"Ichiro." Kazumi's face turned bright red.

Kazumi shoved down her fears and let Ichiro lead her to the local movie theater, admiring his ebony hair in the morning sun and how it perfectly hung over his hazel eyes.