lol, you both know i love you ^-^
anyways, thank you for the review Kaoko~chan! i love how you put in the cute lil pics.... ok sorry, not really bout the story... so let's get down to business...
truth is, we can't fully grasp ai's personality since she doesn't SHOW her emotions... she never speaks her mind about some things... so i sort of had to guess, and sides, we don't know much about akai but that he says very little and is very smart and handy (with guns and weapons and such ) anyways, sorry for the little errors like the -kun added in when hattori was talking i'm human too (i think) i'm allowed to make mistakes (i hope) and i do make them (obviously)
anyways, i needed akai for this because even tho he doesn't have completely major roles... i can't have ai hating him...
besides, we don't even know what ai really thinks of shuu... they haven't met since shiho was an adult and her sister was still alive....
an yes, shuu is alive... i'm going with the idea that shuu was okiya, and scar shuu was bourbon... and bourbon has already been taken out... (just kinda skipped) or if you wish, you can believe that i wrote this from a viewpoint of before shuu supposedly died... but i wasn't i just forgot that most people wouldn't know my view on who was who and where i was coming from sorry bout this
anyways, love ya both!
*hugs*
(P.S. about that longer chapter one... hehe, sometimes when i'm writing i don't stop and i don't feel like separating the 75 pages on word so i just post the whole thing in notepad and go, 'screw it, i'm through' anyways, i thought about it this time and cut it into smaller sections, much smaller than i'm used too, but i think that i cut them at pretty good places)