A Path of Vengeance

Morning saw Greta waking up to make breakfast (unlike most real life weddings; the Watcher sees no need to send them on a honeymoon just yet, but he will in the next little while) for the family.

Haruo picked up the gemstones that Yasunobu had broken out of spacerocks (aliens are pretty much tuned to the point of non-existence in my game - they show up once in a blue moon) and well, Braden spent some time on the computer writing a new military book.

In the midst of all this post-wedding hoopla, there was a frantic call from Alanna. When Haruo managed to calm his daughter down, he found out that Alanna had received a call from the Riverview PD saying that her husband had been found with serious physical trauma to the upper torso and head and was rushed to the emergency surgery room in Riverview hospital. Alanna had been at the hospital for hours waiting on the results of the surgery but try as they might the best surgeons in the hospital could not save him. And ultimately they were forced to call the time of death at 12:54AM Friday morning. Alanna was devastated and Haruo was livid. How dare those criminals who killed Kunio violate the sanctity of their home and family. Those sewer s*ucking slime would learn just what would happen if anyone touched a member of their family; the hard way.

He first headed over to Skip Broke's place - the town bully. He was known for jumping people just to mooch money off of them by threat of force. Haruo didn't take no for an answer. "Where's the town thug... I know you associate with him. I want to know where he is NOW." When Skip made a move to try to stab him, Haruo snapped his neck, "When you criminals decided to jump my son-in-law, you made the biggest mistake of your life."

Haruo found his daughter not caring if she lived or perished. She was outside in the cold, face buried in her hands sobbing.

When he tapped her on the shoulder, Alanna visibly flinched, "I'm going to end this..." Haruo said to her, and with that tone of voice, Alanna knew that he was in a lethal mood. This would ultimately end up with a showdown between her dad and the kingpin - right now, there was no way to get at the Emperor of Evil, but he would try to find him or her and remove her from power as well. Haruo's motivation was simple, touch my family and you will be removed, with due prejudice and the criminals in town had done just that.

"Dad...these people..." she stammered in fear for her father's life.

"They're not going to stop, sweetie, until they have the whole town under their thumb. I'm not going to allow that." Haruo said. "It's either them or us and I'm going to make sure that it's them that doesn't walk away from this."

Wordlessly, Alanna flung herself into her father's arms, the ones that had carried her so lovingly so many years ago when she was little. She could only trust that the Watcher would keep him safe. "Go back to our place. It's your home..." he whispered in her ear as they hugged each other tightly.

"I love you, Dad...come home..."

"I will...when I end these thugs." he said determined to not fail at his task.

Haruo found Clyde Relic where he thought he would, at the diner. Without a word, Haruo took one step forward and smashed his fist into Clyde Relic's face, driving his fist so hard into him that the force knocked Clyde to the ground. Growling, Haruo snarled, "You'd better tell me what you did to my son-in-law."

"I...I...I...didn't do anything..." Relic protested feebly.

"I know you killed him...who gave you the orders..."

"Ain't gonna tell you nothin'!" Clyde said, now angered himself. Who did this guy think he was picking a fight with him? If he kept up this disrespect, Clyde was gonna have to do something- but before he could even think any further, this Asian dude had swept his feet and brought Clyde crashing to the ground and was now stepping on his chest. A sharp stab of pain let Clyde know that a rib had broken and was now puncturing his lung. It suddently grew hard to breathe.

"Wanna try that again?" the asian man said, snarled actually, his voice a low menacing growl. "You killed my son-in-law, now I'm going to destroy you. You can either give your boss's name up or you can take it to your grave, I have other ways of getting it out of people."

Clyde felt a bit of liquid warmth poo around his groin. Yeah, he'd peed his pants. There was no way of getting out of this alive.

Haruo let Clyde get up to his feet and then grabbed him by the head and yanked down hard pretty much snapping his neck. A lifeless Clyde Relic fell to the ground.

"So long, Clyde...didn't really need to talk to you anyways...I already know who ordered the killing...and I'm going to finish her tonight." Haruo gave the ghost of Clyde Relic a grim look. "But you killed my son-in-law...so yeah...enjoy the afterlife." he said and walked off.

And dealing with the town kingpin was no great shakes either. At least leaving the criminals dead would send a message to anyone else who wanted to take a stab at their family would end up the same as those who tried before.

The Watcher ended up frying a paparazzi who'd got wind of the goings on and was standing out at the gate looking for more rag-selling material.

Alanna had gone directly to her parents home and had moved back in with the help of her brothers. Everyone who was a Chikamori or was directly related to one moved back in. When something happened to one member of the family, it was time to circle the wagons.