"I will Protect you .."

Yuno walks into Ryu's apartment looking the place over her sister has always been messy but the mess she is seeing at the moment is just laziness on fleak.

"You want something?" Ryu asks yawning Tori didn't sleep last night and when he finally fell asleep he was up again in an instant.

"To see Bobo." Yuno softly replies showering Tori with tight hugs and kisses that he missed very much.

"It's been a month without any communication from Tachibana tell him Tori is out of diapers." Ryu states with a chilled expression on her face.

Yuno glares at her, "You won't turn Tachibana into your personal bank account and you won't use Tori to get to him either, besides he's been busy.

"You should try it sometime, like try cleaning your room, or kitchen, or living room, or I don't know, this entire place! I don't even know where I'm standing right now." She grabs Bobo's favourite stuffed animal playing with him all day until he falls asleep.

"How's school going? Kai mentioned Tachibana is the one paying. Are you sleeping with the guy for his money or something?"

"I'm not sleeping with any guy and it's rude of you to think that." Yuno uses a scolding tone making Ryu chuckle.

She simmers down and her mood shifts instantly from angry to heart warming, "I won't lie, I'd think the same thing, but do learn to keep those thoughts to yourself. Not all men are such vultures." Yuno pecks Tori's forehead before she leaves and goes back to campus.

~

"Miss Lin."

She turns around and Kaminari is inside a red Mercedes C63 Air-Class, "What do you want?" She asks with a bitter tone glaring at Kaminari who only sighs.

"Get in the car, Miss Lin."

Yuno surprises Kaminari when she shifts her feet taking a fighting stance. He used to train in the art of the gentle fist as well. The stance she is in is one that higher ranked Shiden Fudo martial artists know.

Tachibana's car swerves by the corner stopping in front of Kaminari's car blocking the entrance, "Get inside." Ackerman orders.

Yuno gets in the car sighing in relief.

Ackerman drives away but Kaminari is driving behind them.

"This isn't a speed chase is it?" Yuno asks sceptic and worried.

"Depends on them." Ackerman presses the accelerator kicking into higher gear to remind Kaminari he is in a good car, but he's in a better one. The fastest sports car in this current era.

Ackerman takes a hidden underground short cut stopping outside the Palace watching Yuno walk into the building stomping to Tachibana's office nearly tripping on one of Tori's toys. The room doesn't even look like an office anymore.

"Tachibana! what's going on? What's with all the drama that keeps following you around?"

Tachibana huffs rolling his eyes, "Calm down, just heal his leg and he'll leave you alone."

Yuno's face slightly drops Tachibana looks stressed and that's saying something since he always looks like he's a sexy God even on a bad day, "Is everything alright K..."

Kaminari bursts through the doors like he owns the place, smiling, his pot belly leading the way.

Tachibana turns to Yuno who is very upset at the moment and he doesn't know why.

She turns to Kaminari for some reason she wants to knock his teeth out for upsetting Ken.

Tachibana's eyes widen when Yuno slowly levitates glaring at Kaminari who looks mortified.

She smacks Kaminari with a back of the hand slap before she comes back with a tight fist putting her back into it knocking Kaminari's teeth out.

Tachibana smiles when she grabs Kaminari by the collar dragging him out. She heals Kaminari's leg in her room occasionally making the experience an excruciatingly painful one.

Ken actually enjoyed watching the whole thing, "I think he's had enough Miss Lin."

Kaminari's eyes land on Yuno and Ken smirking, arguing for a moment about whether or not Kaminari has really had enough, eventually Yuno backs down and steps away from Kaminari.

Kaminari stands up and walks around before clapping and cupping her face, "Miss Lin, you're a rare catch indeed. Come work for me. I'll pay you double what you get paid here."

Yuno snorts and Tachibana glares at Kaminari instinctively holding Yuno closer to him a clearly visible scowl plastered on his face.

"Kaminari you're on borrowed time don't push your luck, or I'll finish you off myself." Tachibana threatens, an involuntary animalistic growl escaping his lips.

A loud explosion echoes from the far off distance before 2 more follow.

Ken feels a chill in the air, a clear sign of great danger.

A third explosion goes off piercing his ears he focussed on the sound far away only for the noise to hit him at point blank from the explosion that just went off in the room.

The office is now filled with smoke, an unconscious Yuno, and Tachibana is grateful Ackerman made it in time to save her.

"Is everyone okay?" Tachibana asks feeling his ears heal carrying Yuno out of the room. He kicks open the door only to get knocked out by a stranger in a black skinsuit.

"Hurry up and take the girl." Kaminari barks as Ackerman is also knocked out. They navigate past the crumbling Palace walls and ceiling getting to Kaminari's car driving away.

Ken wakes up angrier than ever snapping from all the anger inside of him bubbling up to the surface.

"Ken calm down, he won't hurt her." Sensen says hesitantly taking a step back, the air in the room is heating up, his blood must be boiling.

Ken growls, "It's not about whether or not he'll hurt her or he won't. He shouldn't have messed with me in the first place."

Ken's expression darkens, "He knows better than to try." 

~

Yuno wakes up and her feet are tied up.

"Good, you're awake. Tell me what you need for you to heal me."

She stays quiet glaring at Kaminari infuriating him with her silence now she is stuck  listening to him rant on and on until she falls asleep.

"This girl must clearly not understand her position, get the boy." Kaminari states angry and humiliated by her reaction, she should be shaking in her boots not mocking him by falling asleep.

His men are watching, what will they think when this is how she reacts. 

"Yes sir."

Kaminari smirks seeing light at the end of the tunnel, "There's finally a way to fix me." He exclaims excitedly.

Yuno wakes up and Kaminari smiles looking her up and down. A blonde female walks in holding Hitori, and Yuno glares at them.

Kaminari cups her cheek looking into her eyes, "Heal me and I'll let the boy go."

Yuno glares at the female, "I don't know who you are, but you're on my list." She threatens

Hitori walks towards Yuno and gives her a hug. She's hoping Tachibana has a plan to get to her and at least save Hitori because if he doesn't he's getting on her shit list too.

~

Tachibana called the press, the police, and anyone on his contacts. They are all searching high and low for Yuno.

"Are we really going through with this?" Ackerman asks doubting the whole death faking idea.

Tachibana throws a thumbs up, "Let's go save Hitori and Yuno."

They get a clue after 3 hours of searching. Yuno and Tori are in an abandoned apartment hidden in the coat tails of  Kaminari's massive office building.

Ackerman speeds over to the place after getting space jumped surprised to find Ken already here, "I'm glad Kaminari self-sabotaged himself like this, but now things are about to get a little more interesting from here."

Tachibana walks into the building following his instincts and finds Yuno with Tori. His face pales when he realises Kaminari went so far as to involve him in this.

The police gather outside the building with a chopper squad running to help get Yuno and Tori out.

~

"That damned bastard Tachibana ruined everything for me all she had to do was heal me that's all I wanted." Kaminari groans as his car drives away escaping the police via an underground route in an underground city known to only a select few people in the entire world.

Only Ken can find him but knowing Tachibana he won't dare come back down here unless he's desperate.

Meanwhile the apartment is swarmed with Supers that work for Kaminari. Looking into their eyes you will see nothing but the instincts of a killer. All hungry for war with an appetite for destruction.

"Yuno, can you walk?" Tachibana asks careful to keep his emotions in check eitherwise he will burn Yuno considering how close she is.

"Yes."  Yuno makes it outside holding a distressed Hitori crying in her arms.

Ackerman helps hide her face and keep the paparazzi away. She waits from a distance expecting Tachibana to come out at any second, but he's staying behind.

Tachibana looks around and he's cornered by a group of Super rebels covering his escape route. Ken smirks his eyes changing. All the rebels in the room flinch a step back when he starts to slightly transform.

"W. What, t. the hell are you? Are you even human?" A short male in his early 30s staggers back captured by fear.

"Get your shit together Rick, he's only human."

Yuno starts worrying when immense heat fills the atmosphere and the walls of the building shake.

A window breaks, Tachibana is the cause, his body slammed through the wall by Rick.

"No!" Yuno feels arms wrap around her and turns around to see Ackerman holding her back, she didn't even realise her body had already taken a step,"What are you doing? He might die."

"I'm sorry Yuno." Ackerman injects her with something and makes sure Tori doesn't fall and get hurt either, "Tachibana you better know what you're doing." He mutters to himself driving away from all the chaos.

~

Yuno wakes up in hospital with Tachibana sitting next to her.

"Miss Lin, how are you feeling?"

She slaps him across the face looking away and he takes her hand into his.

"I do apologise. I promise to be more vigilant from now on." He really didn't think Kaminari would involve Tori that's not the Kaminari he knows.

"Cut the crap, you're all talk."

"I know you're emotional, but don't make that an excuse to say things you don't mean."

"What am I supposed to say than?" Yuno sits up and looks Tachibana in the eyes, he looks away noting that they are practically breathing the same air from one another.

"Hitori is fine, Kai is fine, but all I want to know is if you are fine?"

"I don't know, ask me tomorrow."

Tachibana tucks a strand of bothersome hair behind her ear and looks her in the eyes, "I will protect you, Yuno Lin."

He doesn't know where this sudden instinct and drive to protect her is coming from but that is what he will do.

He had the perfect opportunity to fake his death and work from behind the scenes but he couldn't go through with it, it's not yet time for him to abandon ship.

He'll wait for Tori to be a little older and for Kai to finish school and start helping out his sister. After that he'll work towards reaching his ultimate goal.

"Get some rest Yuno." He pecks her cheek and gets up from his chair walking to another room to see how Hitori's doing.

"He's good to go there's nothing to worry about."

"I hope so." Tachibana mutters taking Tori home with him.

Ryu just upset the wrong guy because Kaminari shouldn't have gotten his hands on Tori no matter the circumstance and he will not let her get away with this.

"I will protect all of you."