They arrive at the hotel and by then, it was quite late at 11:00. The bidders had disappeared from the lounge and it was eerily quiet between the two. After a moment of silence, Kira speaks, "I'm off to my room. I have some research to do for something..."

"For your book?" "...Something like that." her answer was vague but she waited for no other questions or words and rushed to her room. Ota was oblivious to her suspicious behavior and left for his suite, which was next door to Kira's.

About midnight, all was silent, yet both were awake. The bidders had never returned and all was left were Kira and Ota. By midnight, Ota heard sobs erupting from Kira's suite, along with the sounds of something hitting something, loud thumps resounding next door.

Ota knocks on the door but find sit was slightly ajar. He curiously peeks inside and finds Kira.

The normally calm and collected girl was crumpled on the floor, her fists pounding on the plaster walls, causing the thumps to resonate through to Ota's room. But the sound was drowned out by the anguished cries that left her mouth. Ota could tell she was trying her best to cover it up, but to no avail, as she desperately bites down on her arm. Tears kept flowing down her face endlessly.

Perhaps she noticed his presence, or maybe it was just by pure instinct, but she called in Ota, furiously wiping her tears away. "O-Ota... What do you want...?" she whispers quietly, turning her face away from the artist to hide her red eyes.

"Are you okay?" "Y-Yeah..." "You don't sound it." "Look, you're the one who asked anyway," she forces a practiced grin and Ota was surprised it looked as if she had never cried in the first place, her smile covering the sadness present on her face.

"Kira... What's going on?" he demands sternly and with that, Kira bursts into sobs again. 

"It's all my fault... It's all my fault..." was her only reply, curled into a ball as she sobbed helplessly. "Kira, tell me what's going on."

"He died... It's all my fault." "Who...?" Ota was confused, who died?

She sighs and takes a deep breath before holding back her tears as she gets up and walks over to a locked drawer. Presenting a key from her pocket, she unlocks the drawer and reveals various sketches of maps and people and folders with documents, stamps marking it 'TOP SECRET'. But despite all of that, only one thing captured Ota's eye.

An engagement ring.

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"What is this...?" Ota was utterly confused as he picked up the ring. "Is this yours?"

"Yeah..." "When did you get married?" 

"I never did..." she replies in a small, quiet voice. "What...?"

"He got killed... remember that photo shoot for the wedding dresses?" with a nod from Ota, she continues. "When Natasha, my hair stylist said something about Cole... He was my fiance..."

"What happened to him?" "He got assassinated, one week before the wedding. He was a huge business mogul and when he went on a business trip, he promised to be back one week before our day. And that very day he was supposed to come home, he did but... just not in the way he expected."

"What do you mean?" 

"I was out to get the mail from our mailbox since we lived together but when I opened the mailbox, I found a package from one of his ex-business partners and I found..."she wracked with sobs once more and memories of him flashed in her mind.

~*****~

"Kira Satomi... Will you marry me?" he was on one knee before the raven haired girl, a velvet box in hand with a beautiful, elegantly decorated ring. A hand flew to her mouth, happy tears brimming in her eyes.

~*****~

"You'll be back for the wedding right...?" "I promised you, of course I will." Kira sees her fiance off with a bittersweet smile and a kiss. Their hands parted as he got further and further away, into the plane.

"I'll be waiting..."

~*****~

"He's finally coming home today!" A cheerful Kira skipped out, grabbing the mail and a... package? Inside, she slowly opens it, reading the letter attached.

'Here's my birthday gift, princess. As they say, always a step ahead right...?' Kira was afraid to open the box and she was right, what she saw was what brought down everything. 

"C-Cole...?"  Tears fell from her pain-filled orbs.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye, so hard.

~*****~

"Kira!" Ota's voice snapped her out of her reverie. "I... I found his head." That made Ota fall silent. "I'm sorry." 

"It was my fault, I should've taken care of him, I should've been there with him... Maybe it would've been me who was taken. It's only been 2 years... Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love." her self-deprecating words made Ota's heart break. He doesn't know why...

"People say he's not here anymore, that he's gone..." she mutters.

"He might be gone from this world, but not mine."

~*****~

A/N:

Hey guys! Sorry for the short chapter but I ran out of ideas... :(

But thanks for reading anyway and I hope you like it! My heart breaks whenever I read this, I feel bad for writing it. Sorry if it sucks.

If you have anymore ideas for her past, comment down below! But so far, I've got that she's adopted, her foster parents died, and her fiance was murdered. If you have any other ideas, tell me!

Thanks again for reading and I'll see you later! DarkAngel, out!

Ciao!

~DarkAngel