Sawada's Smile - Completed [√]

chapter 19

Sawada left the room. He felt helpless. All his thought about getting some Info's about her sister's death was facing another obstacle.

"Aahh.. Natsumi... Who did you deal with? Why? What the heck did you do...??" So many questions lingered in his head as he walked the hall.

However, he suddenly stunned by what he saw at the end of the hall.
Four guys he knew well were standing there. Noda who was talking to Minami suddenly looked at him and stopped, he tapped Uchiyama's shoulder whose busy on his phone.
Some steps away Kuma with his hands busily held between his hand phone and an extra large burger was smiling.

Sawada couldn't say a word. He felt mad inside, but then his feeling suddenly changed. He couldn't believe what he saw. All his buddies were there waiting for him. His ego told him to move away and stayed back and act cold. But the warm gust in his heart told him the contrary. He wanted to smile but he couldn't. He felt his eyes a bit burning.
Nevertheless he tried to hide whatever would come out from them.

"It's not him, all these time..." Said Sawada hopelessly.

"I know Shin," said Minami clamly.

"I just got the information too as you walked into that room. He's not her ex-boyfriend, and we don't know who are we dealing with, she was playing with fire."

Sawada couldn't talk. He just wanted to find the truth behind her sister's death. He just wanted to know how did she died, why she had to end her life, and why she was miserably depressed.

"We're here for you Shin," said Kuma.

"Yep, please don't walk away from us, I'd be happy to help. We all be happy to help," Uchiyama tapped his Buddy's shoulder.

"Now let's go, Yankumi's men might know something about this guy." Noda replied. Let's ask them.

"I'll stay here. Job still waiting, and I'll try to get some back up if you find some information from them. And keep it safe and quiet, I don't want you guys to get into trouble." Whispered Minami.

***
Noda handed a photograph he took by his hand phone to Minoru. Old Minoru examined the guy in the photo carefully.

"This guy is from Sakurai's tribe! I'm positive about it!"

"Sakurai tribe?" Asked Kuma puzzled.

" this tribe, dojo, whatever you call it,  is vicious, they won't hesitate to do anything to get their so called product to the black market," continue Minoru.

"You need to be extra careful. You can't just walk alone. You need Minami's help!" His face looked serious.

"Yabai, this is crazy!" Said Uchiyama.

"Yup, they work clean. We're not sure when they will start their operations. It's hard to prove them guilty as you seldom see evidence of what they did."

"Shin said Natsumi was the boss's girlfriend," Kuma added.

"What?! That's bad man! No wonder she would end up like that." As he talked Minoru poured some hot tea to the cups he prepared. The guys took them and sipped the liquid and put the cups on the table in front of them.

"What's his name? The boss?"

"That's his name!" Snapped Minoru passionately.

"Sakurai?" Asked Noda.

"Yup, that's him."

***
As they talked busily about the person. A noise came from the door. It sounded like a cat falling to some crates, but then there was a soft shriek heard along.

"Awww!! Who put these boxes over here?! Minoru!!"

All the guys smiled,
"It's Yankumi!" Said Kuma passionately. His smile went bigger when he saw Yankumi laid down helplessly on the ground with all the boxes around.

"Don't you just stare Kuma! Help me to get up!"

"Eeeehhhh??!!! Kuma!! What are you doing here?" Her eyes widened as he saw this big round guy standing in a hall, almost covering the way through the living room.

"Hola!" Noda's head came up behind Kuma's ear.

"Yankumi! Why you've always been this clumsy!" Uchiyama threw a cute insulting joke not far from the door. He was standing behind Noda who was just smiling and looking at Yankumi whose now sitting down pathetically in the hall.

"Because Yankumi is Yankumi, ne..."
A husky deep voice replied from Yankumi's back surprised everyone.

His sharp glare and thick eyebrows were rendered. But this time the look in the eyes are more subtle and friendly.

All the guys there widened their eyes and all suddenly smiled.

"Shin!! Oh Shin!!" Kuma could not hide his happiness and ran through the hall wildly passing Yankumi who was still sitting down.

"Kuma stop!!! I'm down here." Shrieked Yankumi.

But it was too late, his left foot tangled to Yankumi's calf and he could not balanced himself and BAM! He fell down and landed ungracefully in front of Sawada who quickly jumped back.

"Ugh... It hurts falling when your size is as wide as this hall..." Shrieked Kuma grinding his teeth.

"Yes buddy, I'm back.." Replied Sawada softly, as he squatting down in front of Kuma and tapping his head.