Chapter 17

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Kenji asked his mom, the air became tense. She knew he didn't like his mom but not to this extent. Keiko rose from her seat to reprimand Kenji but a hand signal from Saori stopped her.

"Now, now, don't be like that Kenji. I left my work and came all the way to see you"

"I never asked you to"

"Hello Kenji" Yoshio said and waved "Did you miss me?"

Kenji frowned at Yoshio and stretched his fingers before balling them up into fists"Correction, what the hell are the both of you doing here? Answer me or I'm gonna spill some blood"

"Calm your horses, I'm here to speak to your mother about you joining us"

"Wait, you told her?!"

"Is there something he's not supposed to tell me?" Saori said.

"Since you're becoming one of those to be among Japan's elite students' training you will be moving into our dorms. That is what I came to discuss with her"

"How did you even find this place? And who said I'd be moving into dorms?"

"It's a requirement and if your mother agrees to it I don't see why you can't move in, and you passed the makeup exam remember?"

Kenji cursed under his breath.

"I approve of my son moving into your dorms and joining your elite students, if it's to make him a befitting heir for my empire I'll do anything " Saori said.

"That's great, you'll need to sign some papers and pay some money though"

"That won't be a problem. Shall we proceed?"

"Why don't you quit it with that 'I care a lot' attitude of yours 'cos you don't and I said this before, I'm not your heir"

"You shouldn't talk like that Kenji"

Kenji looked around to clarify the identities of everyone there. The bodyguards were there, there were eight of them. Seven positioned at strategic places and one directly behind Saori. His was her number one bodyguard, an American named Albert.

"Eight of you, leave" He said to the bodyguards.

"We cannot leave without direct from the madam"

"I don't have a problem throwing you out though"

Kenji was about to take the first step but Saori acted quickly and raised her hand. "Wait for me outside"

The bodyguards all moved except for Albert, he was reluctant.

"This one isn't moving"

"Madam I can't leave, what if you're in danger like last time"

"Don't worry I'll be fine"

"She's safer with me than she'll ever be with you"

Albert grunted and reluctantly he left the building.

"Now before I continue, you wanna tell me about 'last time' or not?"

"Don't worry about it, just a minor issue"

"Well yeah fuck it"

"Kenji let's mind our words" Yoshio said but Kenji completely ignored him.

"Back to what I was saying. Everyone present here knows about my condition and that's why I've always been at home for most of the time. Do you just suddenly expect me to live among a bunch of people who I've never met before ?"

Everybody was quiet, not a sound. Kenji thought it was weird given what he has just said. He was expecting a reaction.

"I just said everyone here knows about my condition"

"Should we be surprised?" Saori asked.

"Him, he's not supposed to know, why aren't you saying anything?"

"Sorry Kenji but their not gonna say anything"

"What the hell?"

"Did you do something to them?"

"No no, the thing is I'm an old friend of your mom. All you were seeing was just an act"

"What? You're kidding right?"

"No he isn't. Everything he said is true"

"Here's a catch, your mom and and Keiko-senpai are both fiend hunters like me"

"You've got to be kidding me. There is no way this is happening"

"Anyway you'll be coming with me tonight"

"Are you crazy? There's no way I'm gonna follow you anywhere tonight "

"It's not like I need your permission ". Yoshio disappeared and reappeared right behind Kenji. "You'll be coming whether you like or not" Yoshio pulled Kenji's hair ad smiled awkwardly at Saori.

"Aah let go "

"Yoshio you have to find a solution to my boy's hair"

"All of you shut up, I don't understand what's going on here. I demand an explanation "

Saori sighed and stroked her forehead. "I'm a businesswoman to the public but behind the scenes I'm a fiend hunter, is that enough of an explanation for you?"

"What? How?"

"I don't have much time to spend here anymore, I'll explain the rest to you some other time "

"Keiko-san, you too?"

"I'm sorry Kenji but it's true"

"Then that means my school, my inhuman abilities, you knew about it all"

Keiko bowed her head "Forgive me"

"Then that means...Sakura...did Sakura also know about this?"

Saori sighed again. She got up and picked her hand bag up "Don't worry she knew nothing about it, but she does now. You care about that girl too much"

"Hey, she's not 'that girl'. She's Sakura"

"Whatever, I'll see you at your school tomorrow"

"What for?"

"To warn you ". Saori gave her simple answer and she disappeared behind the doors of the house. Yoshio waved her a goodbye while Keiko bowed.

"Now tell me something Kenji" Yoshio paused " Why did you hold back when you fought me?"

"What the hell are you saying?, you beat me fair and square"

"I know you're a million years too early to land a scratch in me but I felt it, you were holding back. You could have blocked my first hit and second so why did you let them land?"

"What are you saying? I didn't hold back".

"Whatever you say? Let's go"

"Go where?"

"Didn't I tell you before? We're going to the school tonight"

"Oh no there's no way"

"You don't have a choice, you already failed to hit me so you're a student now and from what I know students should be listening to their teachers"

Saori came back into the room and she saw Kenji arguing with Yoshio about going to the school. She sighed and spoke.

"Kenji..."

He turned around and saw her standing by the door which made him to boil inside again. "What are you doing back here again?"

"Hold your horses, I'm just here to warn you. Yoshio is your new teacher starting from today. I expect you to listen to him and be, more respectful to him"

"What a load of bullshit"

"Say Kenji have you ever seen a count?"

"Count? What the hell is a count?"

"Good I'll show you something tonight" Yoshio gave Kenji a huge smile and the two adults in the room instinctively knew that he was about to do something crazy. It was just like him.

"Yoshio, what are you trying to do?"

"Don't worry Saori-san, it's ok. Just the same old tricks "

"Wait he's never been in a-"

Yoshio made a handsign and blue energy pulsed from his fingers. The space around them started to distort and make everything look wobbly. "Don't worry, you're going to learn about counts and then you'll be ven more stronger than now". Space started to twist and when it stopped both Yoshio and Kenji had disappeared.

"-portal" Saori sighed, why did she even try to stop him on the first place. He wasn't the type to listen to others, he did whatever he wanted.

"I'm so going to kill him if anything happens to my son"

"You shouldn't worry about him. I'm sure Yoshio wouldn't do anything that would him him"

"But you know what going through a portal is like"

"Kenji is stronger than that, he can handle it"

Saori straightened her hair and licked her lips" Anyway I'm leavinh. Make sure the house remains in good condition. I don't want him to come back and meet his house in a bad condition "

"Understood"

A rift opened in front of the school and Yoshio walked out majestically while Kenji fell and held his stomach tight.

"First time going through a portal, don't worry you'll get used to it"

There was coughing and retching until he released out everything that was in his stomach. "I don't think I'm ever going get used to this "

"Hey that's disgusting, why would you puke by the school gate?"

"The last time I checked, this was your fault "

Yoshio pointed a finger at Kenji's vomit and a tiny blast flew at it and vaporized it. "Come, let's go inside". He grabbed Kenji's wrist and lead him to the gate. The gate was locked so the first thing that came to Kenji's mind was how they were going to get in. Unlike other schools the gates of this school could only be opened by the six people nine people who had the key so unless Yoshio had the key he was breaking in.

"You don't have a key do you?"

"Nope"

"Are you going to call someone to come open it?"

"Nah"

"But if you could teleport why didn't you just take us inside"

"Don't wanna trigger the alarm. There is a barrier around the school teleporting inside would be wrong"

"So how are we gonna get in?"

"The normal way. Welcome to Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School's Take-tōrō"