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"I am aware of that and told April," said Yoshi. And then he shrugged and added, "She simply said that it could not be worse than high school."
Raph laughed and said, "Boy is she in for a surprise." ____________________________________________________________________
Meanwhile, in the Foot Clan lair, Kuro was at her computer doing some research on possible places to find Hamato Yoshi while waiting on her informant. She had just finished adding a place to list of places to search when she heard a knock on her door.
"Cast in the name of God," she called.
"Ye not guilty," a female voice replied.
"State your name and purpose," said Kuro.
"Scarlet," the same female voice called back, "I have a possible clue to location of our target: Hamato Yoshi."
"Come in," Kuro said.
The door opened to reveal a woman with hair tied up in a high ponytail dressed all in black ninja gear, complete with twin blades attached to her belt and a black mask over her eyes. If one were to look closely at her, they would see that she is the woman from the doctor's office. She walked inside, closing the door behind her and walked over to Kuro.
"Must you do that every time?" Scarlet asked, "Only those who work for you or your father come here."
"I couldn't risk it being someone under the control of Bradford or Xever," said Kuro, "I was informed by Coral earlier that Bradford and Xever are seeking to remove me as an obstacle. If I'm not careful, they could decide to get drastic and try to stage an accident. You know how they feel about me; especially after today."
"Good point," Scarlet said, "Anyway, I was at the doctor's office to getting a physical today, figuring that it might be the best place to look for info on Hamato."
"Hmm, interesting," said Kuro, "Did you find out anything useful?"
"Well, at first I had a few doubts, but then I saw someone in the waiting room who looked familiar," Scarlet explained, and then she showed Kuro a picture on her phone and asked, "Presto."
Kuro looked at the picture and was surprised to see it was a man who looked very much like the man they were searching for, only dressed up in clothes she would have never pictured him wearing.
"Hamato Yoshi?" she asked, curiously. She laughed a little and said, "Okay, I have to admit that is quit the disguise."
"I thought so too," said Scarlet, she pulled her phone back and scrolled to another picture as she said, "He was there with his sons. The doctor called the name of the one that was his patient. The boy's name is Donatello Kurama."
She held up a picture she had taken of Donnie, clearly without his knowledge. Looking at it, Kuro could clearly see the resemblance between him and his father. Scarlet than took the phone back and scrolled to another one.
"The other son, on the other hand did not look that much like him, if at all," Scarlet explained, "I heard Yoshi call him Raphael."
Kuro examined the picture and was surprised by Raph's appearance. Raph looked remarkably like the older pictures she had seen of her father. He was also about the age that his son, Sousuke, would be now. But this could not possibly be him, he died when he was small; right?
Kuro pushed that thought aside for the time being and asked, Scarlet, "And you're positive that this man is Hamato Yoshi?"
"I have to admit, I had my doubts," Scarlet said, "But the resemblance is uncanny. We can't just ignore that. I think we should look into it before making any decisions."
Kuro nodded and said, "Yes. We should investigate his sons as well. And let's keep this information on a need to know basis until we confirm our suspicions."
"Of course," said Scarlet.
"I do have one question, though," said Kuro, "Is there a reason that this took until now to get here?"
"There is," said Scarlet. She then got over dramatic as she explained, "I had to head to the gym after my physical because when I was weighed, the scale read five pounds over weight!"
Kuro shot Scarlet an annoyed look and asked, "Are you serious?"
Scarlet got over dramatic again as she said, "I am model in civilian mode, you know. I can't have my weight getting out of hand."
"I see," said Kuro, whilst secretly wondering if her father might've been right about letting Americans into the Foot Clan, "Well, take care of yourself and I'll get some others to investigate these Kurama's as well; the more people we have on this the better our chances will be of getting results."
"Good idea," said Scarlet, taking her leave.
"Have a good night then, Amelia," said Kuro, using her underlings' real name.
"You too, Yukiko," said Scarlet/Amelia. And with that, she left the room, leaving Kuro alone with her thoughts.
As she sat at her computer, Kuro kept on thinking about the picture she was shown of Raph and how much he resembled the Shredder.
'I can't believe how much he looks like father,' she thought, 'Almost like they are father and son. No. That's impossible. Father only had one son, Sousuke, and father said he died sixteen years ago.'
She then remembered the photo she had seen of Sousuke. She could not deny that if that baby had grown up, he would be about her age and Raph had many of Sousuke's features. Except for the lightning bolt birthmark. And then it hit her. The place where the birthmark would be was covered by Raph's shirt, so she had no way of knowing if he had it or not.
'That's it! The birthmark!' she thought, 'That's how I can know for sure! If he is Sousuke, then he will have the same mark in the same spot. If he's not Sousuke, then he will not have it there. But if he truly is Sousuke, then he is the rightful heir to the Foot Clan.
This was quite the dilemma for Kuro. If Raph is the Shredder's son and she reveals him, he will have his original heir back. Then what will that mean for her. Part of her would love to see her father happy to have his son back in his life, but another part was scared that he might forget about her. What would she do? What could she do?
Asuka Tsuzuki · Thu Jun 01, 2017 @ 07:43pm · 0 Comments |
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