Third person pov

Leo ran out with unconscious Akira in his arms. People stopped to see who the youngest of the volkov's was carrying in his arms that made him so frantic.

He ran out the glass doors towards his car. Opening the back door, he carefully lay Akira down. Frantically, he took out his phone and called someone.

"Hello" the voice said.

"Sebastian, Akira she-she collapsed-" Leo tried to speak clearly unsuccessfully.

"She's unconscious?" He quickly asks.

"Yes"

"I'm coming"

Leo puts his phone back and tries to put seat belts over her but Sebastian arrived by his side before he could even put a single one on.

"Sit with her" He orders and gets into the drivers seat.

Leo quickly gets in the backseat and puts her head on his lap and Sebastian speeds onto the road. Sebastian crosses all speed limits and red lights and covers a thirty minute route in ten.

Leo picks her up and rushes into the hospital, even before the car could come to a complete stop.

"Where's Mr. Nakamura?" Leo asks the receptionist impatiently.

She picks up a phone and says into it "Mr. Nakamura, you are requested to the front"

"Room 219" she points a room down the hall.

He runs down the hall and pushes open the door to the room '219'. He carefully lays Akira down on the bed and Mr. Nakamura burst through the door. He runs towards Akira and nurses enter behind him.

"Sir please wait outside" one of the nurses tells him.

"I'm not anywhere" his anger starts to take over him.

"Leo" Mr. Nakamura looks at him calmly "she's going to be alright, it's nothing serious"

He gestures Leo to go and at that he leaves. Sebastian waits outside and Leo sits beside him.

"What happened?" Sebastian asks with an eerie calmness.

"I don't know- I was in the shooting range- she came up to me and-and collapsed" Leo's breathing starts to get uneven.

Sebastian looks at his hyperventilating brother and his hands slowly rise towards him. He puts a hand on Leo's back.

"It's okay" He tries to calm him.

The knot in his stomach gets worse seeing Leo struggling. He fights the urge to pull him into a embrace and tell him it's not his fault. He needs to stay calm so that Leo doesn't panic further, he reminds himself.

Both of them look up at a familiar voice from the reception to find Eiran standing there. The receptionist points him towards the direction of Sebastian and Leo and he walks up to them.

"Is she okay?" Eiran asks calmly.

"We don't know" Sebastian answers.

Eiran notices Leo staring down and his uneven breaths and quickly jumps into action. He sits beside him and strokes his back while constantly telling him to follow his breathing pattern.

Leo starts to calm down and holds tightly onto Eiran's hand. Sebastian's heart hurts knowing how unable he was to help him. More self loathing rises in him and he tries to keep his urges buried.

Mr. Nakamura finally walks out of the room and towards them.

"No need to worry, she's safe" He says foremost, and then "it's just overexertion and dehydration. She's on her period so it's also weakness from the blood loss and cramps could also be one of the reasons but we have no way to be sure about that"

"Thank you Mr. Nakamura" Eiran says politely.

"When can we take her home?" Sebastian asks.

"She's fine now and should wake up in an hour or two. So, anytime you want."

Sebastian nods and walks away and into the room. A nurse is present in the room along with Akira.

"We're taking her home" he speaks up, and sounds a little harsher than he intended to.

"Alright sir I'll bring her out" the nurse rolls the stretcher out, behind Sebastian.

Eiran and Leo standing outside, look surprised.

"Let's just let her rest here. Shouldn't we?" Eiran hurries to walk beside Sebastian.

"She'll be able to rest better in her own room" he answers with a tone of finality.

Leo sits in the backseat and handles Akira while Sebastian drives out of there with Eiran driving behind them. After reaching home, Leo starts to pick her up again when Sebastian asks him to stop.

He picks her up effortlessly while Leo walks beside him and Eiran gets out of his car. Entering the house, Sebastian carries her upstairs.

"What happened?" Diana comes rushing upstairs after noticing the silence they were walking in.

Eiran quickly turns and answers lightly "nothing mom, Akira just fainted from overexertion"

"what?" Diana's eyes widen and Eiran quickly gives her a hand while patting her back.

"It's no big deal mom, calm down" he says calmly.

Diana rushes upstairs and into Akira's room to find Sebastian and Leo laying her down and putting a blanket over her. Sebastian's pulls out a knife from behind Akira and puts it on the bedside table.

She walks up to her and feels a knot form in her stomach.

"моя дочь" she says touching her cheek softly. (Translation - My daughter)

"Relax mom, she's just sleeping" Eiran speaks up calmly.

"Come on now, let her rest" Eiran slowly turns Diana out of there.

Sebastian turns to Leo and in an effort to ease his conscious, he speaks up.

"Go clean up, you smell of sweat. You'll make her room stink too"

Leo looks up at him and without a word, quietly leaves the room. Sebastian drags the chair closer to the bed and sits there in silence. Time skip

Eiran goes to check on Akira and Sebastian after over and hour, only to find Sebastian asleep on the chair and Akira the same. He clicks a quiet photo of both of them, smiling broadly, and leaves.

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Leo is tapping his arm as Sebastian wakes up.

"Dinner" he says

"Not hungry" Sebastian dismissed him and turns to Akira.

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Sebastian wakes up panting from a nightmare. His eyes immediately go to Akira, only to notice sweat beads formed on her forehead and and a frown etched onto her features.

He tries gently wiping away the sweat when Akira wakes up with a jolt. She looks around frantically, edging away from Sebastian and pulling up her covers.

"It's okay" he immediately speaks up softly, trying to calm her.

Her breaths remain uneven as she puts her hand behind her and immediately starts searching for something. Something clicks in his mind and he picks up the knife on the bedside table and forwards it to her.

She immediately takes the knife from his hands and safely tow it away in a secret pocket. Her breaths start to even out, as she realizes who is standing in front of her.

He picks up a glass of water and hold it towards her. She takes the glass and weakly drinks some water.

"What happened s-sir?" She asks weakly, her voice raspy from dehydration.

Sebastian's stomach dropped as she called him that. He was just her boss to Akira, it scared him that it's all he will ever be.

"You collapsed from overexertion" He says plainly before asking "are your cramps bad? Do you need anything? Painkiller?"

Akira's face turned red as she answered "uh I-I am fine. I can still work"

"What?" He looked at her confused before continuing firmly "you'll do not such thing. You will not be training until you are fine."

"I am fi-" she starts but Sebastian cuts her off.

"Dinner?" He asks her and as if on cue, her stomach growls.

He gets up and she tries to get off the bed too, but her knees buckle underneath her. He catches her before she hits the ground and lifts her up.

"I can-" she starts.

"No. You're tired and weak right now. Eat something and then argue" He says, his voice neutral and takes her downstairs.

He noticed her tense up when he picked her, so as soon as they reached, he placed her down on the barstool. He quickly created distance between them by checking for food in the fridge.

He started making something for her as she watched him with a guarded expression on her face. He gathered that she probably felt ashamed. He wanted to say a hundred things to her to make her realize how loved she is and how she doesn't have to worry a thing, but the words didn't make it out of him.

After fifteen minutes of cooking, he placed a bowl in front of her. She didn't look up as she spoke up quietly and formally "thank you sir"

Sebastian's insides clenched at hearing her. "don't call me that" His voice came cold as he walked away from her, trying to distract himself with work.

Sebastian cleaned the dishes while Akira ate.

"Is this chicken noodle soup?" She sounded stronger and her voice louder as she spoke.

"It's Лапша на бульоне (Lapsha na bulyone)" he said, his back to her.

"What-" it escaped her mouth before she could shut herself up.

He turned to see her looking down, as if ashamed. "It's like chicken noodle soup, just Russian." He answers before turning back to the dishes.

The rest of the time passed by silence with the sound of dishes and clanking of spoon with the bowl as Akira ate. Without a sound, she appeared by his side. He saw the empty bowl in her hands.

"Do you want more?" He asks immediately.

She shakes her head in a no.

"Why did you- wear this" he says abruptly, taking off his slippers.

"No-" she tries refusing.

"The floor is cold" he takes the bowl from her hands and turns around to clean it.

She hesitatingly puts on warm slippers, all too big for her. She gets herself a glass of water and he turns around and takes off the gloves after finishing with the dishes.

"Do you have cramps?" He asks, his face still devoid of any emotions "do you want a painkiller?"

She looks down and then back at him and slowly nods. He walks out and comes after a minute with a pill in his hand and hands it to her. She swallows the pill with water. He walks over and starts rummaging in one of compartments and takes out a chocolate.

He hands the chocolate to Akira who accepts it, dumbfounded.

"What?" He asks at Akira's incessant staring.

"N-Nothing" she looks down at the chocolate in her hands.

She couldn't believe it was really happening. Her boss made her dinner, cleaned her dishes, gave her his slippers and now the chocolate. It felt wrong. Too wrong.

"Can I go?" She asked in a small voice, still staring down at the chocolate in her hands.

"Huh?" He turns towards her.

"Can I go?" She looks up this time.

"Wha- yes- why are you asking me?" He tries to keep his emotions in control.

She looks at him confused and opens her mouth to speak up but he cuts her off "you don't have to ask me anything." He tries to make it even clearer "I am not your boss"

Her eyes widen at that and slowly, panic takes over. "No- you can't- I can still work"

"Breath, breath Akira." He grabs her by the shoulders as she starts to get dizzy.

"I won't bother you- I'll go away-" she starts to spiral.

"Calm down" He speaks calmly and keeps a firm hold on her shoulder "hey hey take a deep breath"

"follow my breathing pattern" he takes slow and deep breaths as she starts to gasp for air.

"What happened?" He asks gently as she seems to calm down.

"You fired me" She says staring down at the floor, her voice detached from all and every emotion.

"I didn't say that" He says softly.

"You-you said that you weren't my boss anymore" she tries her best to keep emotions out of her voice.

"I meant it in the sense that I am your brother not your boss" he scoops the hair getting into her eyes back.

She tensed under his touch and then nodded before rushing out. He stood staring at the place where she turned down the hall.

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It was after an hour that he finally worked up the courage to go to her room and retrieve his phone. That was the perfect excuse for him to check up on her but at the same time he couldn't back out of this even if he wanted to.

He stood before the door, for God knows how long, contemplating whether he should knock or just open the door quietly, not knowing if she was asleep or not. At the end, he went with the safest option and knocked softly, afraid to potentially wake her up.

He decided to just peak inside after getting no response. He turned the knob and turned his eyes to the bed. An empty bed. His heart jumped to his throat which he felt like was closing in on itself.

He ran inside and tried calming himself thinking that maybe she was in the bathroom. But his heartbeat only increased and hands started getting shakier. He won't let this happen again.

He knocked on the bathroom door and called out her name. After getting no response and out of pure desperation, he opened the door and checked to find the bathroom empty.

You've done it again, a voice in his head mocked him. He looked around and ran towards the balcony. And there, in a corner, he found her. Sitting bundled up with her head lowered between her knees and arms.

Sudden relief flooded him. He could breath again now. Slowly, he lowered himself down.

"Lu-Akira?" He whispered.

"Are you asleep?" He asked after getting no response.

It was a cold night and the worry that she might get sick bit into him. But he didn't want to wake her. So he tried to pick her up.

As soon as his hand touched her arm, she woke up startled. Her hand moved towards her back and in a flash, her knife was out. Before they both could act, the knife swung and slashed his forearm.

Akira stood, panting, looking from the bleeding forearm to his face in horror. Sebastian stood there for a minute, not able to grab what just happened. Slowly it dawned on them both.

"Are you okay?" Sebastian asked plainly showing no signs of pain or any other emotion.

She nodded and he noticed her face had turned pale as she realized what she had just done. He turned and walked out of the balcony, she followed him slowly.

"It's almost 2. go to sleep" He said as his back was to her while picking up his phone from the bedside table.

"I'm sorry" she spoke in a voice that didn't remotely sound hers.

"Don't be." He said, monotonously still, before leaving the room.

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Akira tosses around for what seems like the hundredth time. She had tried to sleep, to not have to deal with all the conflicting feelings in her head. Why couldn't everything be easy like it was when she was just another soldier, another assassin, doing their job?

She didn't want to deal with how nice everybody was to her in this family. This happy family where she felt like a intruder. She didn't want to think about how nice her boss was being to her.

She didn't want to think about the unshakable feeling that they were nice to her because they want something from her. Something that she can't just pinpoint yet.

She didn't want to think about how she had been unconscious for six hours today. Probably collapsed in front of all her trainees, who would have lost all respect for her by now. Who would have brought her here? Probably Leo.

But why was her boss present here when she woke up? She felt shame overflowing her when she thought about how she couldn't even handle a little period pain.

She remembered the consequences she would have faced by her old base if this has happened there. But this boss made her food, carried her downstairs, gave her his slippers.

Her old boss would have had her dead if she had pulled half the stunts that she did here. Collapsing? Injuring your boss? That would've sealed the deal. Now, she felt restless, knowing she'd injured her boss and gotten away with it.

Her brain wouldn't let her accept this as a possibility. So, finally at 2:30 in the morning, she decided to apologize for all the inconveniences she's caused today.

She put her feet down, into the slippers and headed out the door. Kai had shown her the boss's office. She knocked on the door a few times and then noticing the light still spilling from under the door, she decided to open the door a little.

The door opened slowly and she peaked inside to notice an empty office. She was about to leave when she heard the sound of running water from the connected bathroom.

She decided to step inside and closed the door behind her. Just stand in a corner and apologize when he comes, she reassures herself. Her heart hammers in her chest and a voice in her head keeps repeating all the ways this could go wrong.

She can smell familiar metallic smell of blood coming from the bathroom. The door opens after a few minutes to reveal Sebastian, his shirt folded on the forearms revealing a bloody mess.

She had only hurt his left forearm, then why was there blood on both of them?

A.N---

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P.S - you might have gotten the notification for this chapter twice, I had accidentally uploaded the chapter unedited. It's edited now.