Romance Fan Fiction / Original Stories Fan Fiction / Other Fan Fiction ❯ Sukuru Deizu ❯ Chapter Forty Three ( Chapter 43 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Jun's breath caught in his throat. He smiled, even as he caressed her face. "Well, I'm thinking of investing in a bullet proof vest. That way when I do have to play the super hero and come save you I'll be prepared." He was silent, his mind going back to that awful day. "I love you, Anna. I want you to know that. No matter what happens, I'll always come for you."

Anna wrapped her arms around him. Though she couldn't push against him, it was enough to be this close. She silently cried on his shoulder. "I was so scared, Jun. I really thought I was going to die. I really thought it was all going to end."

Jun gently rubbed her back as she cried. "It didn't, and it won't. Not while I'm here." What kind of husband would he be if he couldn't protect her from the evils of this world? No matter what happened, he was going to make certain that nothing like this ever happened again. Anna was like a magnet for trouble, but he didn't care. It was worth the risk to keep her in his life.

As Anna calmed herself, her mother brought out some food. She put at standing tray in front of Jun and Anna. Anna looked at her mother then sighed.

"My right hand is messed up still..." she said. "Can I have a chop stick?"

Her mother handed her one chop stick and Anna stabbed her food with her left hand and shoved it in her mouth. Her parents smiled.

Jun smiled at ate his food. His cell phone was ringing in the bag he had brought home from the hospital. Getting up, he was surprised to see that it was the police station rather than work. "Yes?" His face was calm and composed as he spoke to the police chief. Though he had verbal lashed out at them numerous times while Anna was unconscious due to the inept ability and lack of help to begin with, he had eventually calmed down after she woke.

"Thank you. I'm glad to hear that." He looked over at Anna. "No, I won't be able to come pick it up. You have a squad car here watching over us. If you want you can just send it with the next one. Thank you."

He turned off his cell phone and sat back down. "They said that I could have my sword back today. They said there was no reason of keeping it for evidence. They'd already done all they could with it. They even cleaned all the...blood off of it." The sword was near priceless to him. He was glad that he was able to get it back.

Anna looked down at her food. She wanted Eric dead more than anything. The last few minutes of her time in captivity was foggy, but she knew Jun had stabbed Eric. Unless he had his own doctor, he would have to have shown up in a hospital somewhere. The chief had assure Anna that the hospitals were on guard for him but nothing ever showed. She picked at her food for a bit then looked at Jun.

"When will you talk to the press?"

"In time.... I would like us to get some assembly of a normal life back before I throw us back into disarray with the press." In other words he wanted to make certain that she would be okay before he said or did anything.

"Normal life?" Anna laughed. "Normal was going to school, my parents going on trips, and my fiancé sitting across from me in class. Things haven't been normal for a very long time."

It was good to hear her laugh. Even if it was a sarcastic one. "Let me rephrase that. As normal as life gets for us," he teased. "And just think in two months you'll be say husband instead of fiancée...dear." He smirked.

Anna nodded. "Before we marry...could you put a security system in your house...maybe upgrade the windows like dad did...just..." she looked at him with fear, "make it safer?" she asked. She had never asked for him to spend his money on anything for her, but this was something she just couldn't live without. Unless that house was safe, she wasn't living in it.

He pulled her closer and kissed her forehead. "Of course. I'll get it set up and they'll have it done by tomorrow."

Anna nodded. "And maybe some attack dogs and a net the springs out and electrocutes the bad guy!" she said with a laugh. "That would be great."

Jun laughed. "As much as I would love that, I've got a feeling that you're more likely to get caught by the net then the bad guy."

Anna groaned. "Yeah...that's a high possibility..."

A month later, Anna was walking. Her stitches in her thighs had finally been taken out. However, the ones in her stomach and chest had to have fresh ones put in only a week after she came home. She rolled in her sleep and opened them in the middle of the night. She was told with another week, those too could come out. Her mother and father hovered about her until she told them she was going to scream if they didn't give her some space...though that space was quickly filled by Jun. She didn't seem to mind so much then. Without school, Anna didn't have much to do. Her hand was the worst wound of them all since the knife went straight through it and until it healed completely she wouldn't know if she would be able to use it in the future. She kept it wrapped up with its stitching neatly done up. Her finger on her other hand healed quickly and she had her ring back on it as soon as she could. She was beginning to learn how to use her left hand to do everything, from eating to writing...though writing was hard and came out like chicken scratch.

Anna was never without Jun. She was like his shadow. After her parents started getting back to their normal routine, her father back to work and her mother went to see a friend in London, Anna felt like she needed Jun more than ever. Nothing was important. Not like Jun. If Jun stayed late at the office, she was with him. She never stayed more than five minutes in the house alone, and usually those five minutes were so Jun could check the mail.

"Anna, could you bring me the Ferguson file?" Jun was quickly typing on the computer while on the phone with someone else. It was another late night for them. Aside from the extra security guards he had hired throughout the building, they were the only ones there. The company was starting to rise from the ashes of near bankruptcy, but right now it was much like a tiny flame. It had to be sheltered and fed or else it would go out.

Unfortunately Jun seemed to be the only person capable of doing that. At least with Anna there the nights weren't so lonely anymore. With only a month until their wedding, he was trying his hardest to get the business on stable ground so that the others could bear the burden for a week or two while he enjoyed being married.

When Anna gave him the file, Jun squinted to read it. Rubbing his eyes, he sighed. "Anna, what does that say?" He was pointing to some of the text. It was in Japanese, but he still couldn't read it.

Anna moved behind his desk and sat in his lap. "Sure thing, Mr. Higarashi."

She had a thing for teasing him while working for him. As she read the paper off to him, she twirled her hair in her fingers. She glanced over as she saw the security guard patrolling the hall. She had the door opened in Jun's office. Every so often she would call the security team to ask if everything was ok. She wouldn't let Jun or her walk to the car without an escort and because of that, she knew ever security guard by first name. Some of the men that worked for Jun called her paranoid, but Anna wasn't afraid for anyone to know that she was terrified of being alone and unguarded. Though, because of that, Jun had gotten many complaints about Anna bugging the security team, though the security didn't mind Anna, the board members did. Anna's defense was that they are jealous that she sends the security team cookies and not the board members.

Jun smiled as she sat in his lap. Moving his arms to accommodate her he let her read it off to him while he typed it. "Yes. No, I'll have the reports sent to you tomorrow. Good night." Hanging up the phone, he yawned into Anna's neck. "Only another hour and I should be good to go home." He kissed her neck, trying very hard to keep his mind on what he had to do.

"You know, it's very hard to concentrate when we're sitting like this." He smiled. He wasn't complaining. If she stayed there for too long he might end up using her chest as a pillow. Even then he was fairly certain his hands would keep on typing.

Anna smiled. "Well, with the stitches still in my stomach and chest, you'll have to deal with my teasing," she said sweetly. She yawned then put the papers down. "I don't know why they insist on keeping you here so late when they themselves aren't here."

Jun groaned and nodded. "Well, this is sort of voluntary work right now. I'm trying to do as much as I can so I won't have to work during our honeymoon." He yawned and rubbed his eyes. Kissing her cheek, he pointed at the next paper. "Now Ms. Green, do as your boss tells you and read me the next paper."

Anna smiled. "Yes, Mr. Higarashi." She went on reading and turning pages while trying hard to keep her yawns at bay. Every twenty minutes, she would glance at the door and see the security guard doing his rounds.

After they finished with the reports, Jun looked them over again. Though it was obvious that he wasn't exactly reading it. Once he was through he saved what he had done and kissed Anna's neck. "Ready to go home and get some sleep?"

Anna nodded and stood. She walked over to the desk Jun had put in for her. While yawning, she gathered up her work and started putting the papers away. She closed her laptop and put it in her bag. "Sleep sounds good..."

Jun just laughed as he motioned over two of the guards. "Would you go ahead and check the parking lot?"

"Yes sir, Mr. Higarashi."

"I've told you before, call me Jun. You're protecting our lives at the very least we can be on a first name basis."

The large man chuckled and nodded as he yelled to two of the guards to go down to the parking area. Jun wrapped an arm around Anna and kissed her as they followed the guards down to the parking area.

Anna flashed a smile at the guards and asked one of them how their new born was doing. She knew them all so well. She laughed as one of them talked about his fiancée. Apparently his soon to be wife became bridezilla. As they walked down to the parking lot, Anna tensed. It was so dark out and it was always the worst part of the day.

Jun pulled her close as they got down to the dark parking lot. He pressed the start up on his car so that it would already be illuminated and on by the time they got in. Two guards were standing by it and opened up their doors for them. "Thanks. You guys have a goodnight." As they turned on the car, he quickly pulled out so that they could get on the streets and get to home.

Anna let out a deep breath. She moved her hand to Jun's thigh and looked out the window. She thought about Eric. Where was he? Was he alive? Dead? Would he come back for her or Jun? How long could she live her life being paranoid and terrified of being alone? She had missed Reisha's birthday because she wouldn't go to Reisha's house on her own. Instead, a week after her birthday, Reisha came to her and Jun and they had a small cake. Anna knew she was making life hard for Jun...but the more she thought about being alone, the more fear she felt in her chest.

As they pulled up to the house, Jun took a deep breath. They always left the lights on when they left so that they wouldn't have to come home to a darkened house. After a month the police protection they had been reassigned to what the chief said were 'more pressing matters'. Jun reached into the glove compartment and pulled out the small handgun he'd bought. Tucking it into his jacket, he helped Anna out as they went inside. Turning off the alarm, he looked around. Everything seemed to be okay.

"Home sweet home."

Anna turned the alarm back on and locked the door. Just like every night, she went around the house, checking windows and doors to make sure they were locked and secure. Afterward, she took a deep breath and grabbed Jun's hand. They walked upstairs to Jun's room. Anna hadn't slept in her room since she came home. She stayed glue to Jun throughout the whole night.

She started getting undressed, pausing she looked in the large mirror in Jun's room to see her wounds. The ones on her thighs were nothing but scars now and the ones on her stomach and chest were healing, but slowly. Her hand went over the one over her heart, Adam's heart. She would have fresh scars on it that would look just like the ones that were there so many years back.

Jun wrapped his arms around her from behind, careful to avoid her wounds. Kissing her shoulder, he smiled as he looked at her reflection. "You're still the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," he told her. His thumb ran lightly across the scar.

Anna sighed, but smiled. "It just takes some getting use to." She turned in his arms and loosened his tie then unbuttoned his shirt. She pulled them off him and ran her hands over his chest, lightly touching his wound which, like hers, was still healing. Anna grabbed his shirt off the floor and slipped it on herself. His clothes were a lot looser than hers and were a lot more comfortable to sleep in.

Jun chuckled as she put on his shirt. "I never get tired of seeing that," he whispered. Kissing her, he finished undressing before taking her hand and leading her to the bed. Puling back the covers, they got in and cuddled close to each other. This was their life. Work. Fear. Comfort. Eric didn't take their lives that day, but he took a part of them that they could never get back.

Anna sat in Jun's office the next day snacking on something while she listened to the sounds of the company. She kept the door open, like always. She needed to be able to see out. People walked by the door, talking and laughing. Doing their jobs. Jun was in a board meeting and even though he was only a few doors down, she was a nervous wreck about being alone. She would have been in there with him, but the board members made a big deal about Anna sitting in on important matters when she was only a secretary.

She looked at her laptop screen and went back to work.

An email popped into her inbox. The email was sent by Anonymous, but the message stated that it was something about a new contract. As soon as Anna clicked on it, a picture of Eric came up. He was sitting in their house, a knife in his hand and a smile on his face. Anna screamed and threw her arm over her desk. Things went flying and she backed up to the wall while crying. She slide to the ground and cradled herself.

Jun heard the commotion from the meeting room. He darted outside to see people rushing to Anna. "Out of my way," he yelled. Pushing past them, he grabbed Anna, pulling her to his chest. "What's wrong? What happened?"


"He's in the house!" Anna screamed in tears. "He's in there waiting for me!"

Jun looked at the picture on her laptop. While still holding onto her, he pulled up the image and zoomed in. "He's not there," he told her. Lifting her face so that she could look at what he was pointing at. "Look at the windows. They don't have the seal on them. He took this picture before we put in the windows or security system. Probably when he broke in the first time."

Anna buried her face in his chest. "We can't go back...we can't go in there...if he got in once he'll get in again. He's watching! I just know it!"

"Okay," he whispered. "We'll go back to my house. The fence they build around it will keep just about anyone out. We'll be fine. We'll be safe. He won't get to you."

Anna clung to his shirt while they sat on the floor and the crowd stood by. Anna shook in his arms. She glanced at Eric's picture on her laptop. How did he get her work email? She had to look away. That smile on his face was mad. It was sick with humor that only he seemed to know about. He was insane and he knew where she and Jun were. She wasn't safe...she was never safe.

"Leave us be!" Jun ordered. Soon the people around them began to disperse and go back to their work. Shutting her laptop, he lifted her into his arms. "Come on. We're done for the day." He held her close to him as he told the guards to go to their car. He was going to take her home, there was no way that either of them could get any work done today.

Anna held on to him tightly as he carried her to the car. He put her in the passenger seat and left her only to get in on the other side. She laid her head in his lap as he drove them to his large house. Anna sat up. She hadn't seen the house since it had been upgraded. The large fence around it had to have a security code to get into it. She watched Jun push in the password and the gates opened. She turned in her seat to watch them close as he drove in. The windows had been tinted in the house and hardened. Anna got out of the car very slowly and wiped her eyes. She clung to Jun's arm as they walked to the door.

Jun punched in the code for the alarm as they entered the house. Moving her inside, he shut the door behind them and turned back on the alarm. He locked the several deadbolts he had placed on the door and beckoned her to the living room. "This place is almost as safe as a military base," he told her. "This is your home and you'll be safe here."