Chapitre 1: Wind and Flower
Ando's head which he propped up with his hands, fell to the table by slipping down and he startled. First he rubbed his head which he hit the table, then he rubbed his eyes. He realized that his sleep beat him.
He looked at his watch and then his cold coffee. A voice in his mind told him to give up and go to the bed. He shook his hand as if he wanted to send away that voice and his eyes caught the leather jacket hanged on the wall. He watched that jacket for a while. Then he had a stretch and focused on his lessons.
Suddenly his door was knocked. He asked who it was. A voice of a servant was heard behind the sliding door. "Ando-sama! Master is calling for you. He ordered me to say to you that it's an emergency."
Ando asked permission to enter the room. When he took permission, he opened the door and saw his grandfather and two old members of his family while sitting on the corner of the traditional designed room. Ando got closer and saluted them. When he got the permission, he sat.
Since he was called at this hour, he was worried for his grandfather's health condition. Then he relaxed as he saw his grandfather was alright. However he could guess from his grandfather's face that there was a serious situation.
"It took long to come here, Ando," said his grandfather. Ando bowed his head as if he wanted to apologize and replied "I didn't want to appear with my pajamas in front of you, Master.". The old member who sat right side of his grandfather said cheerfully "It is so proud that we have such a respectful young master, isn't it Ryunosuke-sama?" by forgetting the serious situation.
Master of the family ignored the question and began to talk. "We have a problem, Ando. Even though i don't want to obstacle your lessons but you have to role in solution phase of this problem."
Ando was looking at her grandfather without an answer. His grandfather continued to talk. "A few hours ago a call came from Kobe-dono. At a region of Fumikaze Family, two members of that family got attacked. As they got the information from eyewitnesses, there was a necklace symbolizes our family on one of attackers." The elder who learnt this issue right now like Ando did said by surprise "There's no way!". Other elder replied, "As the information we got from Kobe-sama, our two members who suit attackers have been taken hostages. They haven't seen in bars and places they wander around tonight. Besides we cannot reach them by phone."
After a few minutes Ryunosuke turned to his grandchild and called him, "Ando." Ando replied immediately by trying not to show how he clenched his fists, "Yes, Sir!". When Ryunosuke saw his grandchild's cute and respectful behavior, he sighed and said "Ando, i prefer you to call me 'grandfather' instead of 'sir.'". Ando bowed his head again and said "Yes, grandfather.".
"Fumikaze Family doesn't tolerance an incident like that and i guess the first thing they will do is to eliminate our men. However thank God, the current leader of Fumikaze Family is my old friend and he called Kobe-dono and wanted him to be a mediator. He let us to explain the situation."
"Hey! Isn't this such an arrogant behavior? None of Sakurai Family members don't attack someone. They should know that. They should kill the attackers instead of disrespecting Ryunosuke-sama!" said one of elders. The other one replied to him with a calm voice, "Stop saying nonsense! Fumikaze Family is the biggest yakuza group in Tokyo. Eliminating two dogs whose owners are believed as us is not a solution. Because the friendship between two family will be broken and we don't want to be in bad terms with a family like that."
Ryunosuke turned to his grandchild as if he wasn't listening to them and said "Ando, i don't want to give a task to you when you have an important time about your student life but my old friend Yuu wants two young masters to solve this problem. We have to learn the truth and explain it at Kobe-dono's place until tomorrow evening."
As soon as Ando understood that his grandfather finished his sentences, he replied "Yes, S... grandfather! I ask permission to investigate the situation right now." One of elders got surprised and said "At this hour? At least take a few men with you." Ando replied him "Yes, sir." and left the room.
Other elder looked at the door for a while and said "Shizuku-sama is such a great educationalist, really. She gave a wonderful orphan as a gift to Ryunosuke-sama who helped her orphanage in past." Other one turned to him suddenly and shouted, "How do you dare to talk about young master as if he is a gift stuff?". Then they began to argue. After Ryunosuke warned them by shouting "Silence!" they calmed down and apologized.
"I believe that young ones find out beneficial and different solutions for problems. Both of them are walking on their own different roads. I hope that they will come to terms without harming both families," continued Ryunosuke.
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The cool weather of outside stroke to Eita's face as if it wanted to remind him how it's suffocating inside the hall. But fresh air made Eita's dizziness worse because of alcohol. He walked to tip of the terrace slowly. On the way he was taking out his cigarettes of his pocket. As he was getting far away from hall, laughing voices and music sounds were being reduced. When he felt cold weather he thought it was good he took his jacket on his shoulders.
While Eita was searching for his lighter in his pocket, he turned to the voice that was coming from his behind. Owner of the voice showed that he was cold by his trembling voice. He said "It's May already but the weather is still cold." and came closer to Eita. Eita both was looking at him and still searching for his lighter. He said "You should take your jacket with you, dude." Yamato who was closing his eyes and rubbing his own arms as if he wouldn't be cold when he did them, was about to say "At least give a cigarette..." but as soon as he opened his eyes he looked at Eita in surprised.
After Eita found his lighter and lit his cigarette, he gave them to Yamato. At the same time he was looking at Yamato by wondering why Yamato looked surprised. Yamato narrowed his eyes and said "Man, how could you be on loose yourself in a Bachelorette party?". He didn't wait a reply from Eita and continued " Look at yourself! Your dickey is open. Hey dude! There are lipstick marks on your lips and neck!" Eita took his hand to his lip corner which didn't take the cigarette and he rubbed there. When he saw pink color on his finger, he smiled and said, "If i go home like that, our geezer doesn't let me enter to home."
After Yamato lit his cigarette, he returned them to Eita and replied "I wish you can go home tonight. If this goes on, you won't be able to." He smoked once and continued "God knows how many women gave their phone numbers to you."
Eita smiled again. He turned his face to hall and showed a place with his chin. "Look at the right side. Can you see that chick who wears a yellow dress?" he asked.
"Even if i can't see well as you, i know a girl who sticks you all night. You're gonna go with her, aren't you?" replied Yamato. "I wonder..." muttered Eita cheerfully.
Even if he would like to be center of the attractions, he used to avoid from women who died for going bed with him. He used to let women to do whatever they liked in these parties but he never let them more. He used to have regular bed affairs with regular women. He showed that to other women but he got surprised that women came to him knowing this. He thought himself "If i bring one of them with me as a bride, I'm sure my geezer will kill me." So that chick with yellow dress was going to fail to response her efforts.
He stopped this thoughts by Yamato's startle. Yamato suddenly remembered something and said "By the way you better go home tonight early, dude." He smoked again and continued "We had an incident at our fifth region." Eita looked at Yamato seriously and asked "Fifth region?".
"Yeah, they say two members of Sakurai Family beat our men up. Others caught them and kept them in a store," replied Yamato. Eita smoked last time and asked "Why don't they obliterate them?".
"Don't talk as if you don't know! Yuu-sama has deep relationship with the leader of Sakurai Family. He believes that they haven't done that," replied Yamato angrily.
"So?" asked Eita.
Yamato sighed and said "He gave them ten hours for an explaining. This evening you have a meeting with Sakurai Ryunosuke-sama's grandchild in Kobe-sama's house."
"Why us? Aren't two old farts going to handle this? Why meeting? At least we can cut a few fingers and let those guys," said Eita angrily.
"These are Yuu-sama's orders," replied Yamato.
Eita sighed unhappily. He straightened himself and threw his cigarette to ash can. His succeed of hitting couldn't make him happy. He planned to return the hall. Yamato who still smoked watched him and called behind him "Go home."
"Okay," said Eita.
"Visit a toilet before you go," said Yamato.
"Okay," replied Eita laxly. While he was trying to leave the hall without attention he said himself "Let's see how Young Sakurai is going to solve this situation."
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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Power Stone 
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