Witch Hunter Robin Fan Fiction ❯ Of little things ❯ Gathering ( Chapter 18 )

Karasuma stepped out of her car after over two and a half hours of difficult driving in the chaos traffic of daytime Tokyo, on a side street in the city's busy business end of town. She turned to a three story office building and looked at it for a second, a small grin passed over her pear shaped face.

The sign that hung on the building she had parked in front of noted it as Nagira's law office. She headed to the cement stairs that led up to the front doors, a note of nervousness and excitement balled up in her stomach. Quickening her steps, she ascended the steps hurriedly and into the building.

Inside the building, she passed the cold acting secretary named Mika, who's desk was just inside the secondary doors.

" Nagira is in the meeting room over there." The woman snuffed and eyes Karasuma with a cold stare, seemingly in a sort of bad mood. " He said you would be coming, Miss Karasuma."

Miho stared at the lady, thinking to herself that this woman was a little strange. She nodded, and headed to the door where the lady had pointed to.

" He said he had something big for me..." Miho said to herself, feeling anxious to hear what the tall man had dug up for her. " Dose he have some information on if Amon and Robin were still alive or something?"

Inside the room, she found Nagira sitting with a young couple. Nagira just grinned at the woman's entrance, then cooly looked at the two on the small couch across from him. The young duo were sitting there very close, holding hands as the looked up at the hunter woman as Nagira's gaze had lead her.

It finally hit the woman, the reality set in for Miho, like a two tone hammer on the side of her head. She realized that the young couple sitting there were actually Amon and Robin. They were dressed in simple street style of clothing, and not in their usual attire. Miho could not believe what she was seeing.

The woman took a step, being able to only stare at the two for a long time.

" A... Amon? Robin?" She stammered out, feeling a rush of emotions flood through her.

Robin jumped up and is a blink, in a second she was hugging the lady. Miho wrapped her own arms around the girl, and hugged her hard. She felt a tear flowing down her face, as she had to assure herself that she was seeing the two again, and it was not a illusion or anything.

" Is it really you?" She said, not wanting to let the girl go. " Is that you, Robin?"

" It is, Miss Karasuma..." Said the girl.

After the initial shock had wore off finally, They all sat down together, seemingly the were all astounded with meeting up with one another... all except for one. Nagira. The man seemed to be so very calm in the midst of all the shock that hung in the room.

Miho had composed herself finally, now questions were beginning to abound in her head like wild fire. She had no idea just what to say or even venture to ask, but she could not stop herself from looking at the two for a very long time.

" How...." She finally stammered, finding it hard to actually form the words.

Amon broke a smile, and looked at his ex-coworker with a softer gaze that Miho had ever seen.

" You probably have a few questions that start like 'How are we still alive and such', right." The long haired man said.

" That is a question you know I have right now..." Admitted the woman, thankful that the man's words had came out.

" Then let's just start answering some of them then." Amon sais, holding Robin's hand as she sat near him.

Miho saw the two holding hands and smirked.

" I am starting to realize that you'll have to fill me in on just a little more than your disappearance, I guess?" She commented with a giggle.

" We do..." Blushed the young craft user, her shy innocence seemingly still intact.

The four just sat in the room, and they all began to talk as things needed to be cleared, layed out and simply explained. Nagira was the one who just sat and listened in silence, his broad pleased smile was not hard to spot. He seemed to be just taking it all in, as his presence there was as if just a figure head to this round table meeting.

The lawyer soon just left the three to talk, as a call had came in on his cellphone suddenly. He had answered the seemingly surprised call and hurried out to talk with the person on the line out of the room so others could talk. He returned to continue listening to everyone about twenty minutes later, his face sporting an entirely brighter smile than he had before.

A few hours quickly passed, and many things were finally layed out and the run of weeks had been meticulously put out there on the table from every person in the room. The four now sat chatting, sipping on some tea that Mika had brought in. Everyone seemed to be satisfied with everything for the time being.

Miho just could not stop herself from staring at the two young lovers across from her seated position.

" I understand everything now." She said, putting down her tea with lady like grace. " Now we have to find out just who is behind all of this."

Amon nodded and looked at the woman, lips stiffening with his thoughts.

" I have a theory about all of this shit." He said, flatly. " I don't know if you might have tread on this one yet."

" SOLOMON might be behind it... or at least is involved to a degree or two?" Miho asked.

" Yes, that one is the primary, aside from the Factory's investors..." He said with a knowing nod. " My combined theory is that some of the little known SOLOMON members were backing Zaizen's plan with money and political power too."

Miho nodded a little. It seemed like she was on the same page as the tall man.

" I never completely put those things together, but each do seem to mach up to what I know." She said after a few moments. " That would all fit, especially with the odd report we got in from SOLOMON headquarters."

" Seems like it, don't it?" Nagira said, coming into the conversation. " Did you try and investigate who might be the Factory's sugar daddy?"

Miho nodded.

" Right after the Factory fell, we all did." The lady said. " We felt there might be more of a danger, even after Zaizen's demise."

"And?" Prompted Amon.

" The money trail is hidden well, and we could not get any clues of it in any way." Miho informed. " Michael tried for over a week to track it down in cyberspace, and came up with nothing."

" That means that there is a deeper threat than what the Factory itself posed, considering what they were up to."

" That was our thinking too." Miho answered back. " When I return to HQ, I see that I need to get Michael to check this out, before we reveal that you two are alive."

A almost phony sounding coughing came from the doorway of the meeting room, as if someone was wanting to be heard. All four of the people in the room shifted their attention over to the door.

Michael stood there, his face painted with a large smirk.

" I will do that right away Miss. Karasuma, but I guess I know about Amon and Robin's status of being alive." He commented, his voice holding a snicker back.

" You're here...not in the STN offices.." Stammered Robin, totally amazed at the youth's unannounced appearance at Nagira's law office. " I thought you could not leave the offices an'.."

The lad chuckled and moved near where the girl and Amon were sitting. He shrugged his shoulders playfully as he kept his hands in his pockets.

" Let's just say, things are very different now back with the STN-J" He said, almost chuckling his words.

" It looks like it is... since you're here in front of us." Amon commented, seemingly shocked at the youth being there.

" My question is why are you here?" Miho asked, her face showing the surprise on her face.

The lad grinned, like a child that was left alone in a candy shop.

" I had a hunch that Miho was using someone to find out things for a little bit here, I thought it just might be Nagira, since it had to do with Amon and Robin somehow it fit." He said, smiling with a knowing grin. " Then I phoned someone that might help us with identifying the remains, or at least who might be behind it, after I talked to Nagira here. Call it a hunch I had."

" We have a live one here." Nagira chuckled with great mirth. " He out sleuthed us. He has not told me just who this person is quite yet."

" Don't just stand there... who did you phone?" Amon pressed, wanting the youth to tell the answer.

Michael looked at each one in the room and put up his hand, like as if to say to be patient. He turned as a figure came in the room from behind the lad. It was a person that wore a hooded sweatshirt that camouflaging the face. Everyone turned to look at this mysterious person that stood just inside the door.

The stranger took a step or two into the room, not uttering a single sound. Flipping the hood back to expose the face that was under the fabric, the person revealed themselves to the group that had congregated there.

With the covering gone, it was Touko that was the one who stood there smiling at everyone. In the room right at that second, it was so silent that you could have heard an ant fart loud and clear.

" Touko??" Robin said.

The dark haired lady was standing right there, her face was slightly scarred, from the assault she had endured on her home months before. She just looked at Amon and Robin and smiled, as she noted they were holding hands.

" I always knew that your heart could be tamed one day..." She said directly to Amon with a pleased smile. " I also had a hunch that somehow, it would be Robin would be the one to do just that."

The woman stepped in further to better see the others in the room. Michael just stood there, as if waiting for something.

" Now on to business..." The woman spoke. " I have the key to knowing who is after Robin and Amon..."

The long haired man looked at his ex-lover, his expression was of disbelief.

" How long have you known these things?" He spat, not even hearing the information yet.

" Not very long, Amon..." She replied. " It is not actually SOLOMON who is after you and Robin, but a group of dissident SOLOMON elders and agents, who had sided with my father and his warped indorsement on the use and manufacture of ORBO." She paused, holding up a photograph she had brought out of her pocket, for everyone to see.. " The leader of this group... Is my older brother, Miki."

Amon stood up, looking at the lady with a blank look on his squared features. What he had just heard, was amazing.

" Older brother?" He asked, eyebrows raised. " I had no idea that Zaizen had other children... and it was only recently I found out that you were his daughter."

" Damn!" Nagira spat very loudly, staring at the lady's picture. " He use to be a client of mine!"

Touko put up her hand, quieting the man while nodding to Nagira. It was clear, she knew that Nagira would realize who her brother was right off. She gained The long haired giant's gaze, and spoke directly to Amon.

" He has an intense hatred of witches, thanks to the prompting of my father in the years before he left. We all had that type of indoctrination... including me, I hate to admit." She sighed. " I know the truth, finding out that my own father had killed many people for his views on witches" She stopped herself, tears were welling up in her eyes with her words. She stopped them and got a serious look on her face. " I have gotten some information that my brother has resurrected the ORBO project somewhere in the city."

Amon seemed like hie did not truly trust just what the woman was telling. He looked at her face, reading the body language.

" How did you come In to knowing this information?" Amon asked, his eyes showing that he was irked at the woman's admission..

" Let's just simply say that it was someone in my family who provided the information to me..." She plainly said, leaving it like that. " It seems that some of the rouge factions of SOLOMON are very closely involved too, ones that hold my fathers beliefs with fanatical resolve more than the council itself." She looked right at Amon, never once blinking under his scrutiny " Money and power are at the very root of my dear brother's twisted and sick plan."

Amon leaned forward a little, staring right at Touko. He seemed to be thinking for a moment or two, his mind processing what was had been said while his staring never left the young woman.

" You won't name names, will you, so we can check all of this?" The tall man said, assured of the answer to come.

" At this point, I won't reveal who was the one... and probably never will" The dark haired woman replied flatly shaking her head to put a point on her words. " But this is the information that I had, I knew it needed to be told, and I given it to you."

Amon snuffed and crossed his arms over his burly chest. His face was a look of irritation and skepticism

" How do you know this is all true?" The large man pushed. " It could just be talk, or simply family politics that are lying to you. You need to give us the name of this family member, so we may get it directly."

Touko looked directly at the man, her face shot into a mask of seriousness that came from deep within herself. Amon's own features never once changed, as the others around them both sat in silence.

Touko looked at him straight in the face, her eyes unblinking and her face unchanged from there.

" I know my family..." She calmly answered. "I am only telling you, because I want to see him stopped." She said, her voice holding a firmness. " I know what my father was up to now, and my brother is wanting to kill off Hunters and witches alike just like our father, while making a fortune in the process of killing off all the witches and craft users." She stared at Amon and Robin. " He blames you two probably. Bu the killers that has been sent against you... I want him to not kill for what my father stupidly believe or any one else for that matter... especially if he is bound and determined to be killing you two"

The woman slipped her hood back on and said not a word more to the roomful. After a slight bowing of her head, the woman left the room quickly, and then was gone. The remaining people sat there, stunned with it all, no one seemingly getting up to follow or challenge what was now known.

Amon snuffed, seeing the woman leave.

" We have to find out if all of this stuff is true or not... He must be working with SOLOMON on this deeper than Touko really knows about." He theorized, looking at his lady love who was now was standing beside the couch. " How can we conclusively verify all of this shit, while not raising any suspicions and not have SOLOMON fully aware that we are alive?"

Robin' s face turned into a big smile, as she stepped in front of her large bodies man. Everyone stared at the girl, puzzled at why the young fire-user was smiling.

" I might have an idea to check things for us." She said, then turning to face the young hacker lad. " Michael... I will need you to search for some information for me." She looked at Nagira next. " From the both of you, I need to get some information."

Michael looked at Robin, curious at just what the young girl was up to.

" I can do whatever I can." He said.

" I'll give ya anything I have... just tell me what the fuck you have up your little sleeve?" Nagira replied, his gaze on the girl.

Robin give everyone a large smile and began to lay out her plan. A group silence came on, as everyone listened intently to just what the young crafter had in mind.