Chapter 490 - 500: Drawing Curtain-IV

Naomi's entire life, she was looked down by others for being a woman. She remembered the one who was pointed as the next head was her older brother and she didn't need to use another word than disgusting to explain him.

She looked back now at Haru who had taken the disguise as Haruhi, her older twin brother.

Haru raised her hand to Naomi's cheeks, carefully sliding her hand in a gentle caress, "Whether I am a woman or man, fight is for everyone. I know this day would come and don't look at it as a dangerous day. I would say this is what I have been waiting for I have been wanting to free myself from being Haruhi. You are one of the few person who knows about me."

"I also know how much you wish to live a normal life," Naomi answered, leaning forward to pull Haru for a hug. "I wanted to spend more time with you but I know once this all end in just another one day, you will disappear with 'him'," and by him, Naomi meant Hyuga as her eyes shifted to look back to the door. "I just wish you will leave. You don't have to tell me goodbye. Leave and don't come back."

"You can come with me. This place is not for you either," Haru tried to persuade Naomi but the girl shake her head. In Haru's life she spent in the Akasaka Family, it had been nothing but a bad memory but Naomi had never been a part of it. "Even though I hated everyone of this family. Know that I have never taught you as one of those people. You and Hyuga had always been there for me in time that I need and I am very thankful of that, Naomi. Sadly, I have to repay your kindness with ingratitude by making you alone now. All the res of our family, I have killed them."

Naomi immediately shake her head, "They deserve it. I don't feel happy when they died but neither sadness. They had what was coming for them. But Haru, if you leave this house and I follow you, people will soon find out the oddness adding up and learn that you are still alive. If so, your peaceful life will never come."

"And you decide to stay here for me?"

Naomi watched Haru's expression that slipped away from her usual cold demeanor she had to pose so no one would be able to look down on her. She smiled, showing a brush of her hair, "I decide to stay here so I will have my own fun. I am no less smarter than you and more crueler than you."

"Thank you," Haru decided to let her know, holding to her hands, "And for agreeing to marry the twins from Ryouma Clan."

"Can you tell me now what you are planning with them to me now? I did say I want them but not in meaning of getting to marry them only because you asked me that I agreed to it."

"It is just a simple plan. I should make up to the wronging I did to those who are innocent but dragged by my scheme. It's late you should go back and sleep now. We can spend tomorrow together. I promise I will do whatever you asked me to as sisters."

Joy bounced on Naomi's face, her eyes twinkling brighter than the stars on the night sky, "Then I will go now, enjoy your night, okay?"

Leaving Haru's room, Naomi was in a full bloom emotions but when she passed by Hyuga, her brows were drawn. Hyuga bowed his head, watching Naomi by her shoes to know where the girl was going on when he saw her shoes halted in front of him.

"I don't like you," Naomi quickly commented and Hyuga slowly straightened his back, his height towering her but Naomi showed no care for it. 

"I know, young lady." Yet he appeared impassive about it, thought Naomi. Hyuga's indifference always make her skin crawl and her anger boiling.

"But sister choose you and I won't comment on her choices. I suppose you are much better to those people I have seen with her but remember I won't allow it if she got hurt. If it come to my hearing, I will find you and kill you," Naomi stressed each of her words while her hands were crossed in front of her chest.

"I have sworn to protect her by my life, young lady. I can give up everything for her and it cost my life for her, ." Hyuga saw that only after these words he said, Naomi's chin gestured a satisfied humph. While others were confused about the dynamics Naomi shared with Haru, Hyuga was one of the only people in the house who understood their relationship.

While it was an unchangeable truth that Haru had been the one who killed her father and indirectly caused Naomi's mother death, the girl had no speck of grudge against Haru, instead in the house only Haru and Naomi treated each other as normal siblings would do.

Naomi sunk to her thought then harrumphing again, "I never cared whether you die or alive just because you are unimportant to me but not for sister. If you die protecting her, I would praise you for your good job but Haru would not. She would be sad. Extremely sad and I don't like seeing her sad. She had done lots for my sake which why you should protect yourself as well. I hate to say this but I think you also notice that the reason why Haru wants to leave this family and this environment is because she wants to be with you."

Hyuga knew it well but hearing it in words of others gave him a smile on his lips which Naomi saw and she rolled her eyes, "ugh, saying this keep a bad taste in my mouth. I will leave."

"You will not stay in this house?" questioned Hyuga, because usually Naomi would spent her time here if Haru was here too but now the girl choose to leave.

"I am not stupid to stay here when the war is about to begin."

"I will fetch you a ride," Hyuga offered but Naomi rejected by raising her hand.

"I have my bodyguard and men to drive me back home, I don't need yours," and with that Naomi left the house, her shoe steps sounding proud and confident.

"She is as strong headed as I remember she was when she is still a child," Haru said from the side, her hands crossed. Hyuga turned his face calmly, "you don't look surprise."

"I can tell that you are near," answered Hyuga. "Will she be alright? The war is dangerous and being the only woman of the family she is prone to danger."

Haru turned her eyes at the corridor where Naomi had left and she replied, "I have sent people to follow her in case she face any danger but for now, she is staying low profile. I told her to stay in her house and if she stays there no dangers should come to her. Come in, we need to discuss more about Mr. Li's illness. What did you say about it being deadly?"

In the car, Naomi watched the passing scenery and she sighed. Her days of being alone was counting nearer. When she reached by her house, she was quick to toss her bag and shoes aside, making way to her bedroom where she untied her hair and stretched her back when all of a sudden someone's hands wrapped by her mouth.

Naomi tried to scream, and tossed around that only earned the kidnapper to chop her by the back of her neck, causing her wide eyes to lose the tenseness and she fell slack forward, unconscious.

After confirming that she was indeed the woman they targeted the man who held Naomi then to look at the man behind him, "Call the client. We have finished our side of the job."