-Chapter 2 : The Pretenders-

"I will gladly chopped off your retarded balls if any of your dared to touch them, my gigolos. Go, do it. I.Dare.You", Karen said loud enough for all of the attendants to hear it, just in time when the last Russian Mafia's members fell to the ground.

"And you, Mr. Ivankov, will be my first victim", Karen whispered right at Dmitri's ear, moving her kodachi's tip dangerously close to his crotch.

"Geezz all of this testosterone is making me want to eat my heaven's balls", Karen muttered loudly, making several heads, including Louis and Conrad, turned to her as they heard her comment as clear as day.

"Wait.. what? Heaven's balls? Do you mean their bal-", Tatsuo started to talk again but his twin brother, Tatsuya, put a hand grenade inside of his mouth.

"Just shut up for a second, Tatsuo Sasaki, or else I will pull the pin from that grenade", Tatsuya hissed at his twin, making Tatsuo grumbled under his breath and chose to shut his mouth, for now.

Karen just ignored the twins, gesturing for Louis and Conrad to come closer. "Point your gun at his neck and crotch while I'm searching for my heaven's balls. And don't avert your gaze from him", she said in a serious once the two were close enough for them to hear her, pointing at Dmitri's neck and crotch.

Louis and Conrad pointed their guns at the place where Karen told them to while she was busy searching and patting her thighs and chests. The gesture made several eyes focusing on her chests and thighs. Karen rolled her eyes at that.

'Duh damn horn dogs. Geezz where is it?!', Karen thought, still patting every part of her body. Aha! She smiled when she found it, the hidden stack of M&M's candies, the one that she oh-so-casually put inside of her obi-like-belt.

"Want some, anyone?", Karen offered after she ate some. Everyone looked at her incredulously, like she has just lost her mind. Well who could blame them? She was like asking them about the weather when it was in the middle of a battle.

Karen shrugged her shoulders, continue eating her so called 'heaven's balls' with her free hand, her eyes still focused and aware of her surrounding while her other hand gripping her double kodachis tightly. How she managed it? No one knows other than the god himself and her.

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Everyone's heard the soft footsteps before they saw that it came from the Yakuza's boss himself. They watched as he walked closer to his wakagashira and stood beside her.

"Well, aren't you my rebel kobun, huh Karen? Two gaijin (foreigner) gigolos? That's impressive my child hahaha", Eiji laughed at his own joke, gently patting Karen's shoulder while Karen shrugged her shoulders lightly and offered her M&M's to her boss. Eiji took some candies before he ate it and turned his attention back to the Russian Mafia's executives, Dmitri Ivankov and co.

"Well, if my daughter said that this two foreigners are now her properties then its her properties. I suggest for you to accept it Dmitri...", Eiji threw a small smile at Dmitri, the threat hung heavily even though he didn't directly say it. Dmitri's jaws tensed as he nodded his head.

Eiji looked at Louis' and Conrad's eyes, nodding his head. Louis and Conrad backed away before they lowered their pistols.

"We will go, thank you for inviting us, Mr. Tsukasa", Dmitri said through his gritted teeth, bowing stiffly to Eiji before he turned away and left the party with the other Russian Mafia's executives and members.

"I must say that it was a really stiff bow", Gou Fujiwara, another wakagashira-hosa, whispered not so softly to the other wakagashira-hosa, Raiden.

Raiden only threw a side glance at his colleague before he turned his attention back to Eiji, clearly not wanting to reply it or just plainly ignoring it.

"And that, Raiden, you're being a stiff ass again, my pal", Gou was about to slap Raiden's back when Raiden gripped Gou's hand before he not so gently elbowed Gou's ribs. Gou doubled over in pain, groaning as he throwing a string of curses to the 'stiff ass' Raiden.

"Well, everyone, lets continue this party", Eiji shouted cheerfully, making everyone roared happily and continued what they did before the interesting commotion. Once Eiji saw that everyone back to their previous activities, he looked back to his favorite kobun.

"Come to my office tomorrow at 10 am", Eiji's demeanor changed 360 degree from the previous cheerful person to a serious one in a second, his eyes and tone turned serious as he gave the command to Karen.

"Yes, Tsukasa-sama(1)", Karen replied as she bowed deeply to her boss with her hands on her sides while her palms still holding her double kodachis and M&M's, making her hair fell to one of her shoulders. She didn't dare to lift her head before Eiji gestured her to do so or dismissed her.

"Go back to the headquarter and bring your properties to there. Satou, Goto, you two go back with her, made sure that nothing is on the way", Eiji looked straight to Yosuke and Jason as he said in a final tone, not wanting to hear Karen argued about it because he knew that she was against of the idea.

To hell with her being a strong woman because she just made an enemy with a very troublesome group, Russian Mafia. Oh how Eiji felt that his head started to ache just by imagining all the troublesome things that were bound to happen sooner or later.

-3-

Louis, Conrad, Karen and her assistants a.k.a wakagashira-hosa watched as Eiji walked away and backed to chat with his colleagues.

"Lets go back to the headquarter, little lady", Jason Daichi Goto, the last wakagashira-hosa, said teasingly, knowing how his boss hated it when he called her with that nickname or any other nicknames.

Swoosh

"Woops, you need to do better than that, little lady hahahaha", Goto laughed as he dodged the dangerous punch from Karen by side-stepping. He wiggled his eyebrows to Karen in a teasing manner but...

SMACK!

"Stop teasing ane-san, Goto. Lets go back to the headquarter ane-san", Yosuke said politely with a smile on his lips after he smacked Jason on the back of his head, making Jason rolled his eyes as he muttered 'friggin' psycho' at Yosuke.

"Okay but wait", Karen informed before she walked to the two still slightly confused men, Louis and Conrad. She gestured for them to lean down their heads, they complied without saying a word.

"Come with me to the headquarter but you better explain everything about yourself once we were there. And for now, keep pretending that you're my gigolos", Karen whispered to Louis' and Conrad's ears. She saw they nodded their heads softly, she pecked their lips before she pulled away, making both Louis and Conrad's eyes widened in shock.

"Come on Prince, Princess, lets go back to the headquarter so I can devour all of my heaven's balls", Karen said loud enough for the nearest ears to perk up and hear the scandalous words, emphasizing at the 'heaven balls', making Louis' face slightly tinted with red while Conrad smirked a little. She then grabbed one of Louis and Conrad's hands, pulling them with her to Yosuke and the others.

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They were back to the headquarter safe and sound after they drove for almost an hour without anything suspicious happened to them. Currently Karen walked to her room after she dismissed Jason and Yosuke with Louis and Conrad followed obediently behind her like a mother duck and her ducklings.

They walked pass many sliding doors before they turned to right and they stopped at the room right in front of a beautiful japanese zen garden with a koi pond. Louis and Conrad were in awe at it, they couldn't wait to see it tomorrow under the sun light.

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Karen slid open the sliding door in front of her, making the men looked at the now opened room. They were once again in awe, the outside of the room looked old and traditional but the inside was a modern one.

"This is the living room", Karen informed as she walked inside. Black and beige were the dominant colors in the room, there were a beige leather sofa and two long leather ottomans with two black square table, one was in front of the sofa while the other was between the two ottomans.

Karen then slid another sliding door. "This is my bedroom", she said, waving her hand to the room. Her bedroom was a minimalist but with traditional japanese's touch here and there, the wall were done in burgundy with only a bed, an armchair, two black nightstand, two paintings and a square paper lamp.

"Come, I'll show your bedrooms", Karen continued, walking out of the living room to outside. She walked to the room right beside hers before she opened the sliding door.

"Here is Conrad's and the other beside it is yours, Louis", Karen looked back at Conrad and Louis as she opened the sliding door beside Conrad's room. She motioned for them to come inside and look around their rooms.

The two rooms were identical, they were quite small though a beautiful one nonetheless. Inside of the room were a bed, a vase, a small wardrobe, a small wood coffee table in front of the bed and there was a japanese mural on the wall behind the bed.

"I have informed the household manager to prepare some kimonos (2) for you two, you can find them inside of the wardrobe. As for the bathroom, it's on the far right from Louis' room. Well, I will go to sleep now, we will talk about everything tomorrow morning", Karen said, stifling a yawn that threatened to come out with her hand. She was about to turn away when Louis stopped her.

"Wait miss Karen, don't we need to... you know... errr", Louis said unsurely with slightly pinkish cheeks, looking between the ceiling and Karen. Conrad rolled his eyes at that.

"What he wanted to say is whether we need to sleep with you or no. I mean, we are your 'gigolos', doesn't it mean that we need to sleep with you in your bedroom?", Conrad said straight to the point, looking at Karen's eyes while Louis gawking at him.

"Don't worry about it. This part of the headquarter is mine so no one is here beside us. Well, good night Prince, Princess ", Karen said with a smirk on her lips, loving the nicknames she made for them, leaving a dumbfounded Louis and slightly annoyed Conrad behind. Now she knew why Jason loved to tease her by calling her with some annoying nicknames.

-4-

The peaceful night has passed without any accident as the sun chased it away. The early morning light shone through the paper door and brightened the room with its yellowish light, giving the room a warm and serene atmosphere.

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"Ane-san, it's me Iwao. I bring the breakfast for you and your friends", a male voice said on the other side of the sliding door.

Karen has been awaken since the crack of dawn, she was currently busy proofreading one of her monthly reports in the living room area as she listened to her favorite song, Extreme Ways by Moby. She was literally obsessed with it, she has repeated the song for the n-th times now. She was a rabid fan alright.

"Come in, Iwao-san (3)", Karen answered without turned her attention from the report in front of her. She heard a slow thud of the sliding door before she saw Iwao came in with a big tray in hand from the corner of her eye. She put her pen on the table before she looked up at Iwao.

"Good morning, ane-san", Iwao replied politely, bowing his head when he stood not far from Karen.

"Good morning Iwao-san. I would like to thank you for preparing the rooms and kimonos for my friends. Arigatou gozaimasu (thank you)", (y/n) said, bowing her head a little to Iwao, lifting her head after a few seconds.

"It's no problem, ane-san. Well, do you need something else before I go?", Iwao said politely, kneeling down before putting the tray to the table between the ottomans.

"Ah yes, please bring all of this reports to Tsukasa-sama. Thank you", Karen replied, closing the report in her hands and putting it on the stack near her.

"Sure, is that all ane-san?" Iwao asked as he grabbed all the reports that Karen gestured for him to bring to Eiji's office.

"Yes, that's all", Karen replied, grabbing her phone from the table to stop the song.

"Okay, please excuse me, ane-san", Iwao said, bowing deeply before he walked to the door.

Karen waited for a few seconds after Iwao gone before she stood and went to Louis' and Conrad's rooms.

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"Louis, Conrad, wake up. The breakfast is here and it's in the living-", Karen's speak got interrupted by a soft thud from the sliding door. She was gobsmacked by the sight in front of her.

"Thank you, miss Karen. We will be there in a second", Louis said with a tiny smile on his lips, completely forgetting his state of dress.

His kimono was halfway done, the front was opened wide enough for Karen to see his muscular chest while the obi was tied dangerously low, she swore that she could see some drools-worthy things.

Karen quickly walked closer to him, startling Louis and making him took a step back. She grabbed the front of his kimono to stop him from moving any further.

Karen pushed Louis' body to come inside his room with her hands. "W-What are y-you doing, miss Karen?", Louis stuttered with a very prominent blush on his cheeks, suddenly feeling nervous by Karen's move. He got even more nervous when she didn't pull her hands away from his kimono.

"This isn't how you tie your kimono, Louis. Look, everyone can see your body if you tied it like this", Karen said, releasing his kimono as she walked to Louis' wardrobe and pulled out a koshi-himo (string belt).

"This is how you wear kimono properly to prevent the kimono from opening again", Karen said, taking off the obi that was poorly tied, making his kimono opened as wide as Louis' eyes.

Karen ignored it, choosing to show step by step slowly so Louis could remember it. She was in the middle of righting his kimono when Louis and her heard some soft clicks, making them turned their heads to the source of the sound.

There, Tatsuo, the slightly pervert wakagashira-hosa was busy taking some pictures... of them. The hell...

"Woah ane-san, I must say that it's such an interesting pose", Tatsuo was too busy checking the pictures on his phone that he didn't see the dangerous glint on Karen's eyes.

-5-

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!", a male voice shrieked loudly, startling all the people inside of the headquarter, Conrad was no exception.

Conrad quickly got up and walked out of his room to see what it was because he knew that the sound came from the place near his room. He turned his head to the left and right, stopping when he saw one of Karen's assistants near his feet with a foot mark on his face and there was... a broken phone? inside of his mouth.

Conrad lifted his head to see Karen stood not far from the fallen assistant and the barely clothed Louis behind her, oh now he could imagine what has happened...

'Wait, what? Barely clothed... Louis?', Conrad thought, looking from Karen to Steve and back to Karen.

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Conrad quickly looked away when he heard several footsteps coming from the hallway, just in time to see some previous faces from the party and some unrecognized faces he sure never met before.

"Are you okay, ane-san?",

"Is that a phone inside of Tatsuo's mouth?",

"Did the assailant come here again? This is the second time this week, dammit",

"Tatsuo, what the hell are you doing here?",

"Tatsuo, you dolt. I told you not to disturb ane-san!",

A bunch of questions said at the same time, making Conrad got dizzy by it.

"Woah her gigolos is barely clothed, damn, Tatsuo must be disturbing her little party", Hideo said in his still broken english, wiggling his eyebrows with a very sly smile on his lips.

Now all the people's attentions were on Louis and Conrad, seeing that indeed they were barely clothed. Louis with an open kimono minus any kind of belt while Conrad was slightly better because he tied his kimono. Even though it opened just as wide as Louis', leaving almost nothing to imagination.

"You better shut up, Hideo, or I'll shut it with your phone like I did to Tatsuo", Karen growled menacingly at Hideo, making several people took a step away from Hideo.

"All of you go and leave my gigolos and I alone. I will count to three, if you didn't go by then...", Karen hissed at the startled people as she walked in small strides to them.

"One....", Karen started counting, by now Tatsuya has grabbed his twin brother and prepared to dash away from there, some of the other's feet still rooted to the spot while Raiden, Yosuke and Iwao were long gone once they were sure that everything was okay.

"Tw-", before Karen was done counting, everyone has disappeared from there.

"Geezzz troublesome assistants, what am I going to do with them?", Karen mumbled to herself, sighing softly before she turned to look back at Louis and Conrad.

"Sorry about them, they could be quite troublesome but they-", Conrad cut her off with his question.

"This might be the second time the assailant came this week? Yesterday wasn't the first assassination attempt, right?", Conrad asked, making Karen's smile gone and her face changing into a serious one.

"Yes, that was not the first time.....",

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"Hello", a slightly raspy male voice said from the other line of the phone.

"The target has come back to the place. We planned to observe its movement before we do anything else", a male voice answered curtly. The other man didn't answer right away as there was a sound of some rustling papers.

"Do whatever it takes to get the job done", the man answered gruffly after a few seconds and there was some clicking sounds.

"Yes sir",

-To Be Continued-

Footnotes: (According to wikipedia.com)
-sama and -san are japanese honorifics. Here, some explanations:
(1) -sama is a more respectful version for people of a higher rank than oneself, toward one's guests or customers (such as a sports venue announcer addressing members of the audience), and sometimes toward people one greatly admires.
(3) -san, the closest analog in English are the honorifics "Mr.", "Miss", "Ms.", or "Mrs.", -san is almost universally added to a person's name; "-san" can be used in formal and informal contexts and for any gender.

(2) Kimono is a traditional japanese garment.