(BL) Mafia Love; He who falls the hardest loses-Chapter 94: Jinx

Even as Haruki raised his head to force the younger man to look at him, Katoro closed his eyes tightly unwilling to meet Haruki’s gaze.

"I just want to help you this morning," Katoro said.

Haruki released the man’s hair and got down from the bed. He felt a level of anger towards the man and Ren for letting the man roam around the house as he pleased.

Katoro opened his and looked at Haruki although still avoiding his gaze. "I am sorry," he apologized as he tried to get down from the bed.

Haruki caught a handful of the man’s hair once again and pulled him down from the bed. Katoro neither begged him to stop the pain nor apologized again as he was dragged to the door by his hair, he didn’t even try to struggle against the man’s hold.

When Haruki opened the door, one of his men was at the door and just before he could order the man, he saw Kiyoshi approaching followed by Ren. The time was the best so he didn’t bother saying a word as he pushed Katoro aside and walked back into the room.

He went to clean up for the morning and when he was done and got out of the closet, Ren and Kiyoshi were waiting for him in the sitting area of his room.

He casually wore his cufflinks as he walked to the largest sofa and sat down on the comfortable leather chair. He gestured for the other men standing to sit down.

"What are you doing with Katoro?" Haruki asked Ren as he met the gaze of the older man who was about to sit down.

Ren looked down for a few seconds before raising his head to meet Haruki’s gaze again and responded, "I thought he could be useful around the house."

"Useful? In what way has he proven you right?" Haruki asked his tone serious.

"Many ways. He has been handling a few works around the house along with the other boys," Ren replied calmly although it was difficult for him not to notice Haruki’s temper was not calm.

Haruki paused before calmly leaning against the backrest of the sofa in a relaxed state. He raised his gaze and stared at Ren thoughtfully. When Ren decided to keep Katoro, he thought the man was doing it because of him.

He thought Ren wanted to scare him but from what he was seeing, it seems Ren kept Katoro alive and around the house for himself.

"I thought then, we would have killed that young man and forgotten about this issue but you kept him alive and even let him roam the house unsupervised even with the fact that he had stabbed me," Haruki said seriously.

Such action was so unlike Ren and he wanted to know why Ren had acted out of the ordinary.

Ren avoided his gaze for a while before clearing his throat and replied, "You told me to handle it the way I saw fit. He won’t hurt anyone in this house."

"You saw it fit to let him roam around the house like a child of this family?" Haruki asked surprised by the irrationality of Ren’s response.

"No, I wanted him to find a place he could fit in well in the house," Ren replied raising his head to meet Haruki’s angry gaze.

"I want him out of this house by today. I have no use for him and if you think he is useful, then place him somewhere else. I am not sure I will be able to hold back from killing him the next time I see him around here," Haruki said seriously.

Ren parted his lips to retort, to argue with Haruki but he pressed his lips together with a slight sigh and accepted the order, "I will see to that right away."

His granduncle’s burial was the next day. They had other important to discuss and they immediately forgot about Katoro.

"My men found Souta yesterday and I had them plan to bring him over by today without the police finding out," Ren reported.

"That’s good at least he is alive. What state was he found in?"

Ren pulled out his phone and showed a picture to Haruki. Souta was neat and well-dressed in the picture but it was easy to pick up the obvious difference between the person in the picture and his usual self.

The person’s eyes were unfocused and he looked like he lost half of his weight with a long wound running from his jaw to his chin.

"He must have been kidnapped along with them, the police would want to question him about everything but I want him to attend his father’s funeral so, get them to work it out perfectly."

Some other things were discussed before Haruki went to work.

***

Hiroshi spent the first day sitting with Aki most of the time or sleeping. He also ensured that Aki took all the drugs and ate well. Aki got a lot better and it seemed that what he had thought was very serious was something Aki simply needed to have gone to the hospital and got treated for without him coming over.

Just when he began thinking this way and decided to relax a bit, Aki’s state became a bit serious. The young man woke up groaning while holding his stomach. Hiroshi rushed to his bedside but before he could help, Aki, bent to the side and vomited.

Hiroshi seeing the reddish brown colour of what his brother threw up on the bed, reached for Aki’s phone and called the emergency line. He explained Aki’s state and he was rushed to the hospital as soon as the ambulance arrived.

With a specialist handling Aki’s Hiroshi shouldn’t have to worry since Aki was in good hands but he could not help but keep up with everything that was done to help Aki. He asked questions and discussed with the doctors who at first weren’t happy about it until he told them he was also a doctor and his specialty.

They didn’t seem to believe him at first after all, a man as young as he was couldn’t have dual specialty unless he was a genius. Even for a lot of geniuses, things like this were impossible. He told them his name and he was certain that they would find enough about him with just his name. \

They must have done that because they began involving him a bit in Aki’s healthcare and although he wasn’t allowed to do a lot, he could share his opinions and truly be involved in his brother’s treatment.

He got very busy with Aki’s health care, he didn’t even realize he had not brought his phone from the house when he followed Aki in the ambulance. He refused to leave Aki’s side even when the doctors tried to tell him to rest.

It was only after the major procedures were done that he went to rest at home instead of the hotel he had been going back to clean up during the past few days.

The house Aki chose to stay in when he was sick was one of the worst and he could not help but question the sanity of the friend who suggested he stayed there.

The house was far from the bigger hospitals in the city and he had to drive for almost an hour to get to the house in a taxi from the hospital Aki received inpatient care.

He stopped outside the building after the taxi drove off, and his eyes drifted to that window, the only window that brought too much horror to him as a child. He thought of how the house might be jinxed because that could be the only way to explain what happened to Aki.

Aki had begun receiving treatments before he came to the house and he was healthy enough to be brought over to the house without his friend objecting but Aki stayed there and got a lot worse. That was the only explanation for why Aki developed gastrointestinal bleeding.

He noticed a figure behind the closed window but just when he tried to make out who it was behind it, the figure disappeared and he looked down with a heavy sigh.

He realized that he had begun seeing things and thinking very differently from his rational intellectual self. There was a problem if he as a doctor began thinking there was something spiritual behind a patient’s illness or if he began seeing the sickness as a curse.

His shaky fingers ran through his hair and he took shaky deep breaths to ease his mind, to return to his usual self but even without looking at that window, everything about the house reminded him of the most painful years of his life.

He reached to rub his eyes as he reminded himself that he had come back to rest and he didn’t have the time to dwell on some things he should have long forgotten.

The fact that that woman had been sick does not mean he must turn out to be like her. He had to lock up those memories because, without them, he wouldn’t end up like her.

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