14 Shino Asada!

Keane, Finna, and Nero woke up around eight in the morning. They decided to have breakfast in the hotel lobby as they waited for Miyako to show up.

When waiting for the food Finna asked, "So are you going to inform your father about the event's of last night?"

Keane already decided what he was going to do and responded what he thought to Finna, "I will let him know when we get back. If he heard about them, then he would simply send someone else to look after me. We are already enough to take care of them, there is no need for someone else."

"Are you sure that's the right choice? There is also a ninja in the residence, maybe he can help out with the situation."

"While I do see your point, I would rather work out this situation on my own while here. The ninja may know their background, but he would probably end up working it out on his own. I would prefer to handle this situation as a way to build up my résumé. So if we come across them again, we will get all the information possible and then deal with them. If needed we will capture a few." Keane wanted to use this opportunity as a way to show Tobio that he can handle a company. All he really needed to do was use a little charm to get the ninjas to talk. At the level he is at, Keane would probably only get answers from yes or no questions. As such, he may need to use other means of torture. It was at this moment Keane wished for Nero's old voice, as all he needed to do was sit back and wait while she sung them a song.

Understanding what he wanted to do Finna didn't continue with the subject. As for Nero, she was slightly interested in fighting a ninja as she didn't get to last night. Over the last six months since she was summoned, she had been unable to have a good battle. She knew that the ninjas were weak, but they would make a good practice dummy. Keane told her that in the future she would be able to fight more and was even more excited at her future opponents. However, since that was still a whiles away, Nero would take this time of peace to indulge in her own artistic talents.

Now that silence surrounded the table, they were able to hear the voices around them. As they were in a public place, many were looking at the beautiful table. Noticing them, Keane took the chance to wave and smile as he graced them with his presence. His thoughts, 'It should only be obvious for me to do this much. Who wouldn't want to start their day off entranced by my appearance.'

Finna ignored his action and sat back as she waited for their food. Nero on the other hand, waved to the on lookers with a cheerful expression.

The two finished their actions a few minutes later leaving several people with blushed faces. Finna was glad that Keane didn't get caught up in the atmosphere where he would spit out his usual comments. She could only hope that he would be able to control himself in front of the branch head.

It was after they got their food and ate that Miyako showed up to begin her tour.

"Greetings Young Master" Miyako greeted Keane with a quick bow.

"Hello again Miyako, have you decided on the plan for today?"

"Yes, everything is mapped out. As you wished to see the shrines and temples, they will be our first stop. Then when we are done with that, we will have lunch. After that we will continue with the tour as we check out the local aquarium. Finishing it with dinner at the branch head's house as I said yesterday." Miyako finished with what she said proud of her work. She thought of visiting the tower, but didn't want to be the one that gave the Young Master a fear of heights.

Keane not knowing of what Miyako was thinking simply responded, "Alright then, we finished eating so we can depart now."

"As you wish, I have already arranged the car out front."

Like that the group then left the hotel on their tour of Nagoya.

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As they were visiting the sites around Nagoya, Nero seemed to be having a blast looking at the scenery around her. She had also visited most spots in Tokyo, but always welcomed new places. She and Keane took many pictures in front of memorable spots while doing what looked like JoJo poses. This included pointing towards the camera while their body was sideways, as well as, putting their hands on their hips while attempting to show off the angles of their body. Apparently, this was something which Nero saw in an anime she watched one time and had Keane -who was more than willing- follow along with her.

Finna just watched on at their antics which looked like a unique tourist. While she felt a little left out, she preferred not to go along with their stupidness. She got a different feel from Miyako however when she saw her eagerly taking pictures of the two, even more so when it was just Keane. (a/n:..... dun dun dun... Keane fever has spread)

While Finna knew Keane's actual age, Miyako and the many others in his fan club didn't. Thus, when Keane tried to act like a stud, they actually thought of it as cute. This was what caused so many people to enter his club. Miyako being one of them, was tasked by Sakura to take many pictures of Keane, as such she was more than happy to.

The time moved on till it was time for lunch. Keane and the rest then began to walk to the restaurant chosen. Miyako offered to take them with the car, but as it was not far away Keane decided to walk since they had only walked around the temples, while not much of the city.

It was during this walk that they happened upon a random playground. While walking past it they heard words that were not meant for a kiddie like place.

"Murderer!"

"Hahaha! Hey Asada! Did you kill anyone today!"

"Come on! Where's your gun! You like guns don't you!"

"Did you enjoy it? Huh Asada! You killed a man didn't you!"

"Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!"

When hearing the harsh words which shouldn't be heard, it was followed by:

"No! No! I didn't mean to.... I just wanted to protect mama!"

The sound of someone crying followed, definitely what seemed like bullying. As Keane didn't like bullying, he immediately went towards the sound to stop it. He also recognized the name, he wasn't sure if it was the one he thought, but more than likely it was. The rest of the group also followed him as they knew where he was going to do.

Arriving in front of the bullies, Keane screamed out to them, "Stop this at once! Did your parents teach you to act in such a way?"

The group in front of him surrounded a girl who was on the ground sobbing, while making their fingers into a gun shape. Keane thought his assumption was correct when looking at the girl on the ground. She had the same appearance that he saw in the anime. The identity of the girl was Shino Asada.

Keane didn't think that he would see her here and felt a little weird as he knew her past. He was afraid that helping her could effect the future, but he didn't want to step back and watch the future events play out when seeing this bullying. He had the power to stop it, so why shouldn't he.

Finna who was beside him was also surprised. Obviously, she knew the identity of the one who was a main character in this world. She was curious as to what Keane would do in this situation knowing that it could have an impact on the future. As she has been with him for eleven years, she knew he was a good person despite his personality, so he knew he would at least stop the bullying.

The group that was bullying Shino turned to look at the slightly older kid who told them to stop. They had a look of displeasure on their faces and one of them said, "Don't ya know? This girl killed somebody! She is a murderer! She's simply getting what she deserves!"

Keane wanted to burst out laughing at this little kid's logic and said back, "I see, well you are not one to decide that are you? While she is a minor, if she truly is guilty then the law would handle it. As such scram you have no right to judge her."

"Oh? What gonna do huh? We are simply letting her know her know her place." Another kid spoke out to Keane. Even though he didn't get Keane's words, he knew he was being talked down to.

Deciding to put it into simpler words, "I have an adult here. Bullying is bad and I am sure you don't want your parents to hear that you were bullying someone now would you." Keane then put on a sinister grin to try and scare them.

Then while clicking his tongue, the first one who spoke earlier said, "Tch, fine you win." He then looked towards Shino while putting his fingers back into a gun, "You were saved this time, but know that he won't be around next time. Goodbye murderer"

Keane glared at the group as they left while thinking how cliche bullies were. He then looked down to the trembling Shino and tried to calm her down. He held out his hand to her and said with the most confronting smile possible, "You can relax, the bad kids are gone now. My name is Keane Akagi, what is yours?" As it would be weird for him know her name without being given it, he asked her.

Shino who heard his voice, looked up and around to see where everyone was. Then after realizing the bullies were gone, she looked at Keane and his group. Knowing that they saved her, she replied, "My name is Shino Asada. Thank you for saving me." She then took his hand to get back up.

After getting her to stand on her own, Keane led her over to a nearby bench. As he wanted to help her he asked, "So what was that about?" Shino hesitated as she didn't want to tell him that she actually killed someone. Seeing this, Keane reassured her, "Hey, please let me help you. Have you not seen my handsome face? Believe it or not, I do have the abilities to back it up! It would shame my looks if I can not help one girl."

Shino turned to look at the boy next to her while giggling at the way he spoke. Once she got a good look at Keane's face for the first time she was stunned. She had never seen such a good looking boy before. There were also three beautiful women near him, she was amazed at this simply gorgeous group.

Realizing quickly that she was staring at them for a while, Shino slightly blushed while she looked to the ground. She knew that he might leave after listening to her past, but she decided to tell it with the smallest of hope. Thus with that she began her story, "... When I was very young, I was in a car accident. It took six hours to receive help and during that time Papa slowly died while Mama watched. Mama was very hurt by the event and became very weak. I decided to protect her ever since the accident so she would not get hurt anymore. However a few months ago, there was another incident. I was visiting the post office with Mama and there was a bad guy. He had a gun with him and killed one of the staff. Seeing him then point a gun to my mama, I became scared. I didn't want mama to be hurt anymore and I decided to stop him. I took the bad man's gun to get it away from him, but it accidentally shot. Then seeing him start to get up again, I shot him to stop him. At the time all I thought was protecting Mama and didn't think of what would happen after..... When I looked over to Mama to show her that the bad man is gone, she looked at me with fear in her eyes. Then I looked down at the gun, it was covered with blood, and only then did I truly realize what I just did. It was then that I developed a fear for guns in any form. Even just a finger gun made me want to throw up. Mama was also admitted into a hospital after that incident and I started to live with Grandma. Thinking back... EVERYTHING WAS MY FAULT! I KILLED SOMEBODY! I ENDED A MAN'S LIFE! I AM JUST A MURDERER LIKE EVERYONE SAYS! THIS IS SIMPLY PUNISHMENT! hic hic hic hic...."

(a/n: I could of had the MC save shino at the incident but, the incident shaped a large part about shino so I let it happen)

When finishing with her story while crying, all Shino heard was silence, she thought, 'ah... they must think I'm a monster as well.' But when she looked at their faces half of them were crying.

"Umu..... You did well in protecting your mother, but in return all you got was hate. I don't like this story umu." Nero was crying, she didn't like that such a child had gone through so much. While she had seen worse, in this world, it was rare.

"While I don't like killing, you did a good job. It truly is a shame you couldn't be loved more. Hic..." As an angel, of course Finna would feel sad when listening to this in person. After all, her heart was one meant to be pure.

For Miyako, she felt a little uncomfortable hearing all of this from a child. She was slightly angry at the mother who made her go through all of this alone. Yet, she couldn't blame her, as she too would be scared if she had a child who had killed someone.

Keane was stunned when looking at the small, dark haired, bespectacled girl beside him. When viewing in person rather than on a screen the emotion was way different. he recovered from his shock a few seconds later as he noticed that she was crying. Knowing only one method to cure a crying girl, Keane hugged her. He said, "I know we have only just met each other, but please let me hold you as you need this warmth. Now tell me, why did you kill the man?"

As she was suddenly hugged by a near total stranger, Shino felt a little weird, but allowed it as he wasn't leaving her. Then hearing his question, she shivered as she answered, "I don't know.... What good did it ever cause other than pain?"

"Oh? Well, I do agree that killing is bad, are you sure that no good came from it?"

"What do you mean?"

"There were many people within that post office no? What would have happened if you didn't do what you did? There may have been many more people hurt if not for you. Is it not obvious that you did it to protect everyone?"

"I protected everyone?" She was confused, she never truly thought about what would happen if she didn't pull the trigger. Would her mom be dead if she didn't protect her? Would she also be dead if she didn't kill the man?

"Yes, listening to you speak just shows me how much of a good person you are. Who cares about what some bully says, what you did kept everyone safe. There is no need to think about any what if's."

"I really protected everyone?" Shino asked with a little uncertainty.

"Yes, you did"

"I see...hic...hic... Thank you Keane.... Thank you for this.... hic...."

Shino then went on to cry for nearly an hour while the other three stood by with a smile on their face watching this heartwarming scene.