Third person pov

After dinner, Kai came upto Akira's room to offer help in her homework. Akira refused his help and tried to power through it, finally finishing it by 11:30 and climbing into bed, exhausted.

Sleep engulfed Akira in its warm embrace not long after she closed her eyes. It was 1 in the morning when her room's door creaked open. Sebastian peered inside and then with cautious, quiet steps moved towards the sleeping form of Akira.

He comes to stand beside her and admires the calm sweetness on her face making the tenseness in his shoulders and face vanish. His eyes immediately dart to her palm which lay open with an aggravated cut peering out. The cut had become worse than what it already was.

A distressed Sebastian immediately walks into the bathroom to bring her a band aid. He was about to peel it and cover the cut when he realised that it may wake her up. So, with a sinking heart, he placed the bandaid by her bed side table and walks away.

"Good night Luna" He whispers as he looks at her with a closing throat before shutting the door.

The next day

Akira, Kai and Leo were ready to go for practice when Diana stopped them.

"Leo you've got an appointment with the therapist" Diana breaks it to him softly.

Anger flashes in his eyes and she can feel his muscles tense up under her touch on his arm. But he keeps mouth shut and fists clenched trying to control himself.

"I know you don't like being angry, kiddo" her hand grades his cheek as she continues softly "therapy will help you. Try it. For me?"

He couldn't look into the eyes staring so affectionately at him so he turns his head to the side, glaring at the wall. Kai and Akira were waiting for him, he suddenly remembered.

"Tell Kai and Akira to go without me" Leo grits out, trying to keep his voice neutral.

A smile grazes Diana's lips as she nods and walks out of the room.

"Kids you gotta for practice without Leo today" she informs them.

"Why?" Kai asks, even though his eyes seem to already know the answer.

Akira around and gets leaves immediately.

"I'll tell you later" Diana answers Kai "now go"

"Alright" he turns around and opens the door "bye"

---

"I'm so proud of you" Diana smiles at Leo, keeping her eyes on the road.

Leo keeps his mouth shut, practicing saintly patience. They reach the place after half an hour of driving and Diana leads Leo through the hallways. They come to a stop infront of a plain green door.

"Go ahead Leo" Diana encourages "don't be scared"

Leo hesitates for a few moments before raising his hand to knock on the door.

"Come in" a woman calls out.

"You can do this" Diana whispers as Leo turns the door knob and enters.

"Hi!" A woman, in her mid 20s, gets up to shake his hand.

"Hello" He shakes her hand.

"I'm Noelle" she says smiling brightly, looking up at him.

"Leo" he stares down at her.

"Take a seat" she offers and sits on her chair.

He sits down a chair opposite her with a circular glass table between them.

"Tell me about yourself Leo" she prompts.

"Well" He looks down at his hands in his lap before looking up and answering "I'm Leo and I'm 17"

"Ok" she smiles encouragingly "tell me about your life. How many siblings do you have?"

He takes a deep breath "I have two older brothers, a twin and" a slight smile touches his lips "a younger sister"

"Your sister's your favourite?" She notices the smile on his face "just a guess"

He opens his mouth but to no avail and ends up nodding.

"Having a twin must be cool" she thinks aloud.

"Yeah, it is" Leo agrees.

"Tell me about them"

"Kai's my twin brother" he starts and then hesitates before continuing "He.. he's nice. Really caring."

"What about your sister?"

"She's...I..umm..I like her"

"I think you have a hard time putting your feelings into words" Noelle writes down something in a notepad "is that correct?"

"..I guess" he stares down a his hands.

Time skip

"Bye Leo" Noelle stands up as the session comes a end "try using the breathing techniques I told you about, alright?"

"Yeah" Leo heads out of the door.

She had given him some tips to keep his anger in check and exercises to stay to stay calm and not lash out.

Leo walks out the entrance doors to find an empty parking lot except for one car. He takes out his phone to call his Mom when a text from her catches his eye.

"Something came up. Sebastian will pick you up."

A dread he didn't realise he would feel to simply be in his older brother's presence settled upon him. He would've preferred Eiran over Sebastian any day. He walked towards the only car in the parking lot.

The windows rolled down to reveal Sebastian staring out at him. Leo increased his pace to escape his dead stare and quickly gets in the passenger seat.

Sebastian pulled out of the parking and onto the road without a word. Leo felt like a stranger in someones car, asking for a lift from someone who has to grudgingly agree.

Maybe mom forced him pick him up, he thinks.

"Therapy?" His suddenly speaks up, his deep voice still sounding like a command.

Leo jumps at the sudden sound and then fumbles with the material of his T shirt while answering "yeah"

The silence stretches to its maximum potential as Sebastian pulls upto their driveway and they both exit the car. They enter the house, and hear voices coming from the living room.

"No" Akira's voice came overlapped by Kai's questions "What?"

They both make their way into the living room to find Eiran, Diana, and Kai hunched over a laptop while Akira sat on the couch squished between them munching on a cookie with a frown on her face.

All of their heads snapped to the doors the sound of footsteps to find Leo and Sebastian standing there.

"Come on" Diana gestures over "I made some cookies"

Leo moves forward and grabs a cookie off the tray and sits down beside Kai to take a look at the laptop while muttering to Diana "I thought you were busy and couldn't pick me up-"

"Leo do you guys wanna match?" Eiran looks up smiling mischievously asking about their clothes at the ball.

"Eww no" "Hell no" Kai and Leo exclaim simultaneously.

"Come on you guys used to love it when you were younger" Eiran drags on.

"Mom made us do that embarassing stuff" Leo says while Kai makes a vomiting gesture.

Eiran looks up at Sebastian with a smile still etched on his face making his features crinkle up and gestures him over "come on Seb"

Sebastian turns around and heads upto his office, ignoring all his urges and Eiran.

"This one?" Leo's voice travels.

"No" Akira replies for the umpteenth time "I don't need these, I have clothes"

--Time skip--

"Why haven't you asked her yet?" Sebastian asks in a controlled voice.

"You haven't seen her have nightmares, I have. She was scared Sebastian." Diana's tough exterior falters to give voice to a mother's pleads "she's finally starting to warm upto us. Asking her about her past could have very bad consequences." "You are trying to delay asking her because you are scared of what atrocities she might tell you about" Sebastian's cold voice makes Diana look away.

"The scars..her back was littered with them" Diana whispers before taking a deep breath turning back to Sebastian "it's getting late now"

Sebastian checks the time on his phone "it's just 1 "

"Yeah 1 in the morning" Diana yawns as get gets up "Спокойной ночи" (Translation -Good night) (Actually - 'have a peaceful night')

"Hmm" Sebastian replies as the door closes.

His phone rings, breaking the silence in his office.

"Hello" He places the phone next to his ear.

"Sir I've complied all the data I could get and sent it to you" the voice on the other end speaks up.

"Alright" He ends the call and turns on the computer.

---

"That's what happens when you forget your place" a blurry image of Carlos turns towards a younger Akira who didn't dare move.

"Yes sir" Her voice came, detached, as her eyes couldn't leave the sight of blood spurting out of the man's arm where his wrist had been a few minutes ago.

The man's shouts filled the silence in the room. Carlos turns to leave and his soldiers follow behind him while Akira stays rooted to the spot, unable to ignore the screams of a dying man.

"Save him if you can" Carlos turns to Akira before leaving.

As soon as Carlos's footsteps died down, Akira jumped into action. Frantically, she took out her knife and cut his shirt and tied it onto the stump in a try to stop the bleeding.

After fifteen minutes of tries to save the man, He died gasping for breath due to losing too much blood. Akira stared at the dead man in her arms unable to process all that happened.

Sebastian stared at the screen as the video came to stop, Akira still sitting staring at the dead man. A stillness took over him, as he stared at the image of Akira.

His eyes blinked in tries to make the scene infront of them disappear or extract the pit that had settled deep in his stomach, but neither happened.

His fingers finally moved after what seemed like an eternity to click on the next video.

A very young Akira sat beside a brown, whimpering dog. Both of them covered in scratches. Akira pleaded, begged the passer-bys to help. The person recording the video passed by her too.

Sebastian's hands shook as he watched all the collected data and read all the files on Akira's past. A slow transformation from a helpless kid to an assasin detached from all feelings.

--- At 3 in the morning, Akira's room's door creaked open. Sebastian stayed rooted by the door, staring. Akira slept with her back to the door.

He stared at her, trying to tell and explain the million things going through his head. He wanted to protect her in her embrace, beg for forgiveness for his actions. But he stayed, standing right at the door.

Finally, after a deep breath, he worked up the courage to say one thing he felt the most deeply.

"I'm sorry I didn't die" he barely whispers before shutting the door close. --- Next day Akira's pov

The alarm on my phone startled me awake. It was 7 am on a Saturday. As much as I wanted to go back to sleep, sleeping late makes my head hurt which in turn ruins my day. So I got out of the warm covers and parted the curtains to let the sunlight in.

On entering the bathroom, I noticed in the mirror that my pajamas were a bloody mess. Well what a great start to a day? Somebody kill me.

I ran to check the sheets of the bed but thankfully they were clean. I always thought that rich people must have it so much easier during their periods.

I wasn't wrong. There are pads and tampons in every single bathroom in this House. I haven't once used my own money on this stuff since I arrived here. Thankfully it's Saturday, so I only have practice to get through today.

After getting ready, I walk downstairs to the kitchen. Diana looks up from the pancakes she's making and gives me her usual smile.

"So did you decide on what you'll wear to the ball?" She asks as she passes me breakfast as I take a seat on one of the barstools.

"I already have clothes" I tell her for the hundredth time "I don't need more"

"Alright"

I eat in silence for a while before a groggy Leo comes downstairs and sits beside me.

"When did you sleep?" Diana asks, her voice sharp.

"2-3? I don't know" he yawns and his eyes start to close on their accord.

"How many have I told you to not stay up so late?" Diana scolds him as she passes him a plate.

"Pancakes" he looks down at his food and with a sudden intensity, his eyes are open and he is eating as if it's his last meal.

"Slow down" Diana advises him and then she turns to me "you know there was a time when-"

"Mom" Leo groans.

"When he was 6, and I had been away for a week for work" Diana smiles as she thinks back to it "I had come home and he had come running at me and hugged me from behind. I thought he missed me so much but then he started performing the heimlich maneuver on me. He had learned it that day at school"

"Hey, I did give you a hug after" Leo points his fork at her.

Diana laughs "yeah you did"

After the breakfast, Diana asked me to call Kai downstairs. I walked upstairs to his room and knocked on his door.

No reply.

I did it two more times before opening the door. Kai was asleep on his desk, his laptop open infront of him. He was surrounded by coffee mugs and slept with a blanket over his shoulders.

I move forwards and poke my index finger in his arm. "Kai"

He doesn't stirr. So I do it again. And again.

"Kai"

After a few minutes, his head suddenly jots up, startled.

"Huh-wha-" he rubs his eyes.

"Diana's calling you downstairs" I say, turning and exiting his room.

I walk down the hall to my room. My body hits the soft bed as soon as I enter and shut the door behind me. The sudden fatigue catches upto me as I lay on my bed with my blankets surrounding me.

I groan and push myself up and away from the bed. A sudden dizziness takes over me as I stand up straight and start to move towards my desk with a faint ache of cramps slowly becoming more pronounced.

I open my books and start doing homework. I had gone undercover to schools for getting information out of people and other things so the people weren't that big of a shock for me.

But what I hadn't accounted for in my experiences was the hellish amount homework that is given to the kids. It was crazy how the whole purpose of 'week-end' is defeated by giving like 10 fucking assignments.

AAAHHH.

I need to kill someone or I'll go crazy. Oh how good it would feel to kill one of those teachers who gave me this weekend torture. knife or gun? knife would probably be better.

A knock on the door startles me out of my daydream.

"come in" I call out, irritation already bubbling.

"Yooo" Leo enters.

"you studying?" He peers over my shoulder.

I stare up at him, a glare probably etched onto my features.

"you need a break" He flicks the books shut.

"go away" I speak in a low, controlled voice and turn back to my work.

"Ey ey don't go off on me now" he raises his hands in surrender

I don't make any move to answer him and instead get back into the mind numbing work.

"nah but seriously, you need a break now" He says sitting on the edge of the bed.

"wanna play some video games?" He perks up hopefully.

"I've got work" I snap "so for fuck's sake leave me alone!"

"please" He blinks his eyes rapidly in trying to do I don't know what "just for ten minutes please?"

what the fuck's wrong with everybody? I wanted to punch him to scream out all the frustration. But a tiny voice in the back of my mind stopped me. I had seen people play video games in movies, I wanted to know how it felt too.

"so?" He looks at me with hope twinkling in his eyes.

Ah fuck.

I sigh as I get up off the chair. He practically skips downstairs as he tells me about the new gane he's saving his money for. We both enter a gaming room in the basement. Man this house is crazy big. I've seen the stairs heading into the basement but I didn't dare come near this place.

The room had a big screen with a couch in front of it and a mini bar on the side. He turned the game on and took out two controllers. After spending the next ten minutes teaching me the controls and objectives of the game, we finally started.

"Over there" he says quickly as I kill off two people "over there"

"What the fuck are you doing?!" I shout as he tries to control the situation and makes it worse.

We spend around the next two hours killing people off. Unfortunately they were just the people in the game.

"I'm kinda hungry" he puts down his controller and turns to me "are you hungry?"

I shrug as I close my eyes to focus on his words and try to make some sense out of them as the cramps keep getting worse.

"Come on" he says offering me his hand "I'll make something good"

I stare at him before taking his hand and getting off the couch. The cramps make it difficult to do any movement but I slowly follow him upstairs as he talks about how good of a cook he is.

He makes macaroni with cheese which he calls 'Mac & cheese'. A disgruntled looking Kai enters the kitchen with a laptop in his hands as we were eating.

"Is it mac & cheese I smell?" His face lights up and he places the laptop down on the kitchen counter.

"Yup" Leo points to the left over food "taste it"

"Just taste it?" He says grabbing a plate and scooping up the mac & cheese into it "dude I'm hungry" He comes to sit beside us and places his laptop infront of him. His laptop screen was full of lines and lines of something written. I don't know what it was but it made me dizzy. He started typing away at it, adding more lines upon lines.

"Will you go to the practice today?" Leo asks Kai.

"I've been 'practicing' since yesterday" He says taking his eyes off the screen for once "I'll die if I don't sleep at this point"

"What are you doing?" My curiosity gets the better of me.

"What have I been doing?" He laughs maniaclly as he clicks something on the laptop and opens more lines of something "this is what I've been doing. THIS."

He whirls through never ending peices of english along with some math written at like three different places.

"Dude calm down" Leo says stuffing food into his mouth.

"Calm down? CALM DOWN?" Kai looks at his laptop screen and then back at him.

"You need sleep" Leo says getting up and clicking some buttons on the laptop, and closing its screen.

Kai drops his head down on the counter and then turns it sideways to stuff the macroni into it. I felt so dumb not knowing what he was doing. Should I ask? No... they'll laugh at you, a voice in the back of my head reminds me. Leo takes both Kai and his laptop upstairs after eating and I go to my room.

I start again on my homework. The cramps seems to have lessened after eating. This work is so useless, but I do it none the less. After a few hours of doing that mind numbing work, I look up only to find out that it's high time I get up. It's almost time for practice.

After changing into cargo and a t shirt and arming myself with the remaining four knives and a gun, I went downstairs. The cramps have started to kick back in, the ache has starting become more and more stronger. Leo meets me not long after, surprisingly.

"Let's take the car today?" He asks as he positions his gun so it's not very visible "my bike's kinda dirty"

"Ok" I start to walk out.

We both enter the garage and Leo unlocks a black porsche. He sits in the driver seat and I take the passenger seat. So he knows how to drive. That's new.

He pulls out of the driveway and onto the road. The cramps have started to get even worse, it's at a point where I can't even hear myself think.

You're getting a weak, a voice that I've been trying to ignore the whole day finally makes it to the front in my mind. Just practice to get through, I reassure myself.

We reach the base after a while and I've completely lost my sense of time by then. The door on my side suddenly opens, startling me. Leo looks down at me and gives a small smile. I didn't even realise when he got out.

Third person pov

Akira is harsher today as she corrects people. They've been practicing for about three hours now and Leo has been successful in avoiding her wrath so far. Thankfully, he was safe for a while now because he had entered the shooting range and she wasn't correcting them here.

Leo was practicing on moving targets when he heard his name being called out. He turned around to notice Akira walking towards him, something felt off to him. He put down his gun and started towards her.

"Yes ma'am" he said formally, as usual.

"Leo" She said faintly before collapsing all of sudden.

Leo quickly jumped into action, and caught her just a few inches before she hit the ground. He lay her down and tapped her face, trying to get some reaction out of her.

"Akira" He tries to shake her unconscious body by the shoulders as worry over takes him "Akira what's wrong?"

Akira's head slumps back as he picks her up and rushes out.

"Shit"

A.N-----

Hey guys:)

Sorry for the late update but exams have been a rollercoaster so far..

The next chapter might take a while for the same reasons.

Thank you for being so patient:)

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