An Heir for the Dragon

Chapter 4: A Past Worth Mending

"It's all set," Saiki said when she moved back into Kiryu's lap. "I think I have the best seat in the house..."

"Not complaining about that," Kiryu nodded. "The chair is comfortable, too. Where do we watch? Is there a specific screen?"

"We have surround sound and vision," she grinned and took out a remote. She turned on three giant screens around the room for a nearly theater-like sensation. Tomi was in absolute awe at it. Seonhee was making mental notes on how to improve her own personal space. The others were just as impressed.

"Did you ever watch this video?" Kiryu had to ask.

"In truth...I didn't. I heard the first bit, and I stopped. I didn't know if I'd want to. So...all of this is new with you," Saiki admitted.

"It's all right. I'm here with you," Kiryu nodded. "I do absolutely love this setup! We are totally going to do more karaoke here!"

"You bitch...you ordered all of this..." Yamashita growled.

"I did. And not once did you ever question it. No one did," Saiki mused. "And it all started with my very first request. The books."

"Fuck!" he spat. He was bound down securely. He was effectively trapped. "How the fuck did you learn how to read?!"

"As a child, some areas I went to had women there. Those women took pity on me when I tried to read a candy wrapper they gave me. They were shocked that a ten year old didn't know how to read. They taught me how to read just enough until you put a stop to it. To keep me stupid," Saiki growled. "And it was that same group of women that taught me just enough on how to write. After I got the books I wanted, I finished the job."

"He wanted to keep you uneducated..." Kiryu said with a glare of absolute disgust at the bound man. "Only something to be used for killing..."

"That was her only job! Not to get smart! Not get educated! Just a tool to use to get the upper hand!" Yamashita snapped out.

"Joongi. Put a gag in his mouth. He's spewing too much shit for me to bear," Seonhee said bluntly. The white-haired man nodded, got up and was quick to put a ball gag in his mouth that was found on the torture table. Saiki nodded with appreciation at that and pressed a button on the remote to start the video.

Yamashita was seen walking into the main gathering area of the Tojo Clan headquarters. He had a friend with him that sat with him, and the camera zoomed in to show it was locked only on Yamashita at all times. His friend smiled at him and nodded with gratitude that they were able to meet. Both of them were nearly alike in dress with nice shirts containing shades of blue with bluish-black jeans.

"Yamashita-kun, it's good to meet with you. You kept telling me about the prize you found for the Tojo Clan. A few years back, of course. And you have so much success and praise from it! I mean, you were one of the scouts sent out to find recruits. How did you do it?" the man asked.

"Well, I decided to look for children," Yamashita admitted. "Adults don't like to learn new things. I mean...look at us! But a child? Only taught how to kill and that's...pretty much it? I mean, sure, there's always bad areas to find kids of any kind and such, but I decided...the best way to scope out such a feat would be an orphanage. Right? This would let you scope out kids in a better way for health and personality in a home-like environment."

"You would think so."

"Exactly! So, I went around to local areas, but couldn't really find anything. I would test kids with small questions with memory. Look like I was interested in adopting one. That sort of thing. But...none of them really had that...spark. I suppose. But...it was just my luck that I was heading out of town when I spotted a blond girl around three years old playing outside."