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A Conglomerate of companies named The Asami group were welcoming their new CEO, this was nothing new in big or small business, CEO's come and go; however never in the history of business was a CEO this young.
The new heir to the Asami group was Asami Ryuichi aged sixteen.
Asami Ryuichi was highly intelligent, with that came a formidable aura of dominance and authority well beyond his years.
However, for all his airs and graces and his business abilities, he was still just a kid, luckily his personal butler/secretary and confidant, Kirishima knew Asami quite well for the most part he was always there to help ease the young man's burdens that he carried on his shoulders.
Kirishima Kei would now and again allow Asami to 'runaway' so to speak, from his responsibilities. Just to release some pressure that had built up over the week talking to different people some more stupid than others in both their opinions.
Kirishima always made sure he had a way of escaping.
One Wednesday morning he had enough of the endless tedious meeting so Kirishima made it possible for Asami to skip one of his chores that day.
For some reason he boarded a train without looking at its timetable or knowing any of its destinations.
Ryuichi took a seat and instantly felt the pressure seep away from his bones, he chuckled to himself as he remembers the real creepy grin he gave to his overbearing, stern tutor Shinji-sensei the look on his face as Kei made an excuse for him to leave that morning to Shinji-sensei's displeasure.
Kirishima knew Ryuichi had to escape the corporate shark pool sometimes, he knew Ryuichi loved haggling over contracts. But sometimes he had to feel 'free' to do absolutely nothing for a while, so he would disappear for a few hours, then he would be ready to do his duty as CEO of the Asami group.
The scenery flew past and as the colours melted together due to the speed of the train. Asami relaxed into his seat and for the first time in a long run he felt normal like a teenager.
With the rhythm of the train and the hypnotic scenery outside the window, Asami closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep. When the train finally came to a stop, he opens his eyes and finally looked around, he was the last of a few people left on the train.
As he stepped off the train and stretched, and for the first time look around at where he ended up, a place called New South.
As he is exiting Shinjuku Station, Ryuichi wanders around for a moment, looking at the nearby shops still close to the station. From the corner of his eye, he notices a map on one of the white board, he isn't sure where to go, as he moves his eyes up and down the map, it catches his attention a park.
It's the middle of April and the cherry blossom season is nearing its end. Ryuichi had never seen any of the flower viewing since he is not allowed to go out for festivals or that fact of any occasion.
From there he walks the ten minutes distance to reach the Shinjuku gate, and then he's off to Shinjuku Gyoen. Ryuichi often hears his classmates talking and arguing about the most beautiful viewing place, they voted that this park was number one.
While he's walking along the pathway, he could see a chubby little girl wearing thick rimmed glasses sitting on her haunches on the muddy ground. He stops and watches the child for a while, fascinated with how the little girl is so engrossed in what she's doing. He can't tell if she had noticed him or not.
“I've found it!” the tiny voice accompanied by a soft girlish squeal as she raises something in her tiny hands.
“What have you found?” he asks with curiosity and crouches down beside her.
The little girl looks up to him, Ryuichi smiles, the little girl was very pretty now that he could see her face close. A rosebud mouth, round and pinkish cheeks, and those shiny blue eyes that hide behind the glasses. Very cute.
“A four leaf clover,” shyly, the girl answers him in an honest whisper as she lowers her eyes looking at her dirty hands.
“A four leaf clover ... What is that for?” Ryuichi was curious.
“Oh ... My sister said it's a love charm,” she quickly replies.
“A love charm?” Ryuichi raises his brows, he was quite amused for a child as so young could talk about love charm.
“Yes, my sister said whomever I give this love charm, he will be mine forever.”
“Very nice,” Ryuichi says, smiling. “How old are you?”
“Eight,” she answers as she tried to hold her fingers up without dropping the clover.
“Eight– wow, and you talk about forever?“ Isn't it better if you'll just wish for a dream with that clover?
“Dream?” she innocently looks at his eyes, questioning.
“Yes, a dream for when you're older.”
Her eyes glint brightly. “I want to be an actor, I wanted to be seen on the television every day, a really popular actor!”
“Oh, that's a great dream you have, to become an actor,” he chuckled as he kept staring at the little girl mesmerised at how her blue eyes twinkled.
“How about you, Oni-san? What is your dream?”
“Hmm... My dream,” he looked up at the bright blue sky. Then at her, “Then I want to own an entertainment agency, so I can help actors like you, new talent starting a career and take care of them.” He went along with the little girls dream but realised he liked the idea and also he felt contented talking to her.
“Then, if I grow taller and become an actor, will you take care of me?”
“Sure,” what an innocent little girl, Ryuichi muses to himself.
“An actor ...” she whispers twice. The little girl stands up when they hear a voice calling.
“Aki!” the voice shouts.
Ryuichi stands up too, brushing the back of his coat. “Is that your name, Aki?”
She nods, “My mom says not to talk with strangers, I'm going now oni-san.” Then the girl moves and takes a few steps but pauses a shortwhile, she turns quickly and walks back towards Ryuichi with confidence.
Ryuichi is curious about why Aki returned and stops infront of him, Aki reaches for his hand and places something in his palm.
"Bye, Bye, oni-san!" and off she went with a skip in her step.
When Aki was gone, Ryuichi gazes down at his hand. A smile appeared on his lips, in the palm of his hand was the four-leaf clover which the little girl had found.
~~tbc~~