chapter twenty-three;

━━━━━━ "KAI~", KISA COOED, MAKING THE MALE RUB his temples in annoyance. the male continued writing his documents, reviewing and revising.

     kisa pouted as she slid off their shared bed that she currently resided on. the girl's white robe hung loosely around her dainty shoulders, meanwhile kisa's feet started getting cold from the freezing ground.

     "kai, it's cold", kisa stated, as she continued making her way over to the busy male.

     "then stay on bed and stop bothering me", the male growled, writing even quicker than usual.

     "but I want to spend time with my husband. after all, it is our honeymoon", kisa reminded, tip-toeing towards the male who still didn't budge.

"take a break kai. I'm leaving in a few days, and it'll be another three weeks before I'll be able to see you", kisa mumbled, embracing chisaki from the back while resting her chin on the male's shoulder.

chisaki sighed.

"if I come to bed with you, will you leave me alone for the rest of your days here?", chisaki asked, running thin on his patience.

"sure, I'll leave you alone, but I don't know if you'll do the same", kisa lightly giggled, to which chisaki had slammed his pen down, hastily standing up as he went over to the bed, harshly sitting down.

kisa giggled even louder as she made her way back to the bed, helping chisaki take off his ridiculous doctor's plague mask and black surgical one.

"go change into the sweatpants and sweater I bought you earlier. it's way more comfortable—and better looking—than what you have on now", kisa said, pointing to the bathroom.

chisaki clicked his tongue as he did as told, or else he would've never been able to hear the end of it.

     coming out from the bathroom in some grey sweatpants and a black sweater, chisaki deadpanned at his casual look, though he didn't entirely hate it.

     "well don't you look comfy", kisa teased, pulling chisaki onto the bed as she laid beside him, forcing him to promptly do the same.

     "is this your idea of fun? laying around and doing nothing but looking at each other?", chisaki asked with a snarky tone.

     "well, what can I say? my husband is unexpectedly handsome", kisa grinned, making the male's face become even more stoic.

     "flattery gets you nowhere", chisaki bluntly stated, ignoring the comment.

     "I wasn't flattering you kai. I meant what I said", the girl smiled, brushing her delicate fingers across the male's cheek.

     "if you're doing this because you want something, just say it already", chisaki scowled, furrowing his brows.

"please kai, just take my damn compliment won't you?", kisa sighed, putting her pointer finger in the middle of his forehead to stop his wrinkly brows.

"I don't want anything...I just want to sleep together", kisa said, to which chisaki's eyes widened a bit before he covered half of his face with the back of his hand.

coughing a bit, chisaki glanced away.

"do you have no shame? saying that to a man in broad daylight..."

"hm? what was that?", kisa asked, scooting her face closer to chisaki's.

"nothing. also, why're you so close?", chisaki harshly asked, still refusing to make eye contact with the girl.

kisa sighed as she propped her head up with one arm, meanwhile she played with chisaki's short hair with her other.

"are you saying that now I can't even be close to my husband? that makes me so sad kai...", kisa pouted, meanwhile her thin fingers trailed down the male's forehead and across his cheek and lips.

chisaki immediately stopped the girl by tightly gripping onto her wrist.

"what the hell are you doing?"

kisa chuckled as she smiled with amusement.

"why so serious love? I'm sure gramps would've told you to be more nice to me".

     "how'd you know about him?!"

     chisaki would've immediately sat up if it weren't for kisa rolling on top of the male and straddling him. placing her elbows on chisaki's chest, the girl laid her chin in her palms as she watched chisaki struggle to flip her off of him.

     "you humans really are weak", kisa teased, making chisaki even more pissed.

     "now now, settle down. what happened to gramps?", kisa asked.

"how'd you even know in the first place? and why would I even tell you?", chisaki spat, gritting his teeth.

"I told you, I did my research, but I never got to the part about what happened to the previous yakuza leader. I fell asleep the night before the feast", kisa casually answered.

chisaki shifted his gaze, to which kisa was even more interested now. deciding to get off of chisaki, the girl embraced chisaki, making the man stiffen under the touch.

     "perhaps...you killed him?", kisa asked, enticing the male.

     "of course not! I would never hurt gramps. he was my savior", chisaki angrily said, pushing away from the girl's embrace.

     "ah yes, I recall reading about gramps picking you up off the streets. quite similar to tomura if you ask me...", kisa mumbled to herself.

     chisaki simply nodded.

     "gramps was very kind, even though he didn't know who I was...", chisaki quietly said, to which kisa's ears perked up at that.

     "I'm sure he was", kisa agreed, running her fingers through chisaki's hair again, completely soothing the male.

     "mhm...but he didn't agree with my plans", chisaki sighed, furrowing his brows, only for them to stop as kisa kissed the middle of chisaki's forehead.

     "and why's that?", kisa asked, with her face only millimeters away from the brown-haired male.

     "because he thinks my ways are dirty. he thinks the shie hassaikai should regain honor with glory, not through my so-called dirty methods", chisaki uttered, clenching his fists in anger.

     "but he isn't wrong is he? killing the yakuza rivals, and extracting blood from eri—"

     "are you trying to lecture me too?", chisaki glared, to which kisa just chuckled.

     "of course not. whatever makes my husband happy, I'll support", kisa replied, rubbing her thumb across chisaki's frown.

     "so tell me, what did you do with him?"

     chisaki hesitated. though he was never one to feel guilty about killing the innocents, he did feel a bit sinful about what he had done to his savior.

"I put him into a coma", chisaki simply answered.

kisa hummed in amusement. "oh really? must've taken you a lot of ambition to pull off such an act".

     chisaki just nodded as he closed his eyes, getting quite tired from working all morning. especially with kisa pampering the male, chisaki was quite in the mood for a short nap.

kisa just continued playing with the male's hair, until she was certain that chisaki was dead asleep.

sighing, kisa quietly slid off the bed, making sure that chisaki was properly covered with the blanket as she wrapped her white silk robe closer to herself.

slipping into her matching pearly heels, kisa took the stack of papers and exited their shared bedroom, heading over towards the meeting room.

as the girl opened the door, every head had turned to the woman, mumbling as they had expected chisaki's presence.

after all, chisaki was never late, nor did he ever miss a meeting.

kisa sat down at the head of the table, where chisaki usually sat. slamming the documents down, kisa looked up at everyone with boredom in her eyes.

"well? start giving me the details and updates", kisa said, skimming through the already perfected documents.

"m-madam...n-no offense to you, but isn't this s-something overhaul should b-be—"

a surge of black flames suddenly appeared right in the palms of the girl, to which the male had swiftly shut up, meanwhile a few cleared their throats and started shuffling their papers.

"hari, take notes", kisa demanded, to which the grey-haired male just nodded.

"mimic, you start".

"yes madam!"

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"I MISSED SIX MEETINGS BECAUSE OF YOU!!", chisaki raged, loosening his tie as he slammed his hands down on his desk.

kisa simply yawned as she hopped in bed, draping the covers over herself.

"I've already helped you attend those meetings. if you want details, hari took notes. they're on the left corner of your desk. and I've already finished correcting the rest of your documents. so if you'll excuse me, I'm tired and I'm sleeping", kisa calmly said as she closed her eyes, avoiding a fuming chisaki.

the male hastily skimmed over the rest of the completed documents, checking to see if there were any mistakes made.

but to his surprise, there was none. though just before chisaki could pick up kurono's notes, a soft knocking was heard, to which chisaki had grumpily opened the door.

"apologies for bothering overhaul, but madam asked for these", one of the members said, handing chisaki another stack of papers.

chisaki clicked his tongue as he just watched the member shiver in fear under his harsh gaze.

"were you at the meeting today?", chisaki questioned.

"p-pardon?"

"I asked if you were at the meeting held at 3:10 p.m. today", chisaki lowly growled.

"y-yes sir, I was!"

"and how was kisa?"

"m-madam? madam did well...in fact, she listed many helpful solutions to our financial problems and even got the majority to agree on—"

immediately the door was slammed, to which the member just sighed and walked away.

chisaki dropped the documents onto his table as he glanced over at kisa, who was sound asleep. trudging over to the girl's sleeping form, chisaki felt himself reminiscing from when kisa had gotten sick.

and suddenly, his heartbeat sounded even more louder than usual.

'how obnoxious'.