It's Not that Bad to be an Assassin

Chapter 7 : Why Did I Make This Decision?

    Right after he takes a picture I check the time and class is over. Which means I have to go back to 'Mi casa' ....My house. I quickly get up to leave the classroom and once I do that, I get out through the back door. The students are normally supposed to get out through the front... but I get out through the back because it is simply way to noisy at the front. I go through the back doors and they close behind me once I'm outside. I start to walk towards the direction I live. "Hey, Ariel..." I stop in my tracks to feel someone's hand on my shoulder. I turn around to see..... Popular student. "Hi, Ariel Right?" He repeats. "Correct." I reply. "I saw you hit that volleyball with one finger today..." He says. "Your point?" I ask in annoyance. "Look... I know this might be hard to believe but... I'm an assassin and my father ordered me to assassinate you... but I really think killing you is a waste... I mean, I saw what you can do. Maybe you can join the assassination association?" He tells me this with a dead serious expression, and I look at him with unbothered eyes. "Ah... Who are you?" It's as though a question mark pops up as I say this. "Eeeeeh! That's how you react?! You don't know who I am! You're so mean!" He pouts and sulks. I start to walk away and leave him there sulking. "Wait! Ariel! Pleeeaase come back!" He runs up to me. "Ariel! Please do this for me! My dad is going to be soooooo mad that I didn't assassinate you yet!" He whines. "Are you a very tall five year old?" I ask. He starts to whine even more.

"Fine. Fine. As long as you stop whining. It's annoying me." I say while looking at him. He quickly stops whining and a wide grin spreads on his face, "Yasss!" He says jumping around. "What is your name?" I ask. "Ashikaga Asahi." he replies. He starts to walk and motions me to follow. I start to follow him. "I thought your father was a business man?" I ask. He looks at me and says, "He is... to cover up the fact that he runs the most famous all time, richest, well known Assassination Association ever!" When he's done talking we stop at a building that says Ashikaga Tower. It reminded me of something in America, where I was born. But who cares... I am an honorable ruler to myself in Japan. We walk towards the building and he opens the door for me to go inside. "After you, ma'am." he says bowing and holding the door open. I walk in and say, "Child lover." "Hey! Whatever it is you meant by that, it is NOT me!" He says in protest while speed walking to catch up to me. Why did he get so offensive? I look at him and ask, "So, where exactly is it that your taking me?" He pouts from earlier then says, "I'm gonna take you to my dads secret office... buuuuuut it's more like an underground facility, rather than an office... and it's huge."
I nod and we continue walking until we stop at an empty hall way, where I can tell no one goes to. Asahi looks at me and smiles, then he begins to go into the empty, gloomy hallway and I follow. While we're walking in the hall way, there is a great amount of doors we pass by. We specifically stop at a door with a guard. The guard was very strong. He had tan skin and a beard, that I can tell, has barely grown. His hair was brown and he had a tooth pick in his mouth. His eyes were brown too. He was wearing an interesting outfit. The outfit was a suit, and the suit had a hot pink tie.

The guard looked at Asahi and then says, "ID?" In a raspy british accent. "N-Nani! I'm Ashikaga's son! I don't need a ID!" Asahi practically screams.
I listen to their argument with a poker face. "I don't giva' fuck Asahi. Yeh' know theh' rules." the guard said. Asahi looks at the guard in shock and says "B-But, I-I, N-N-Need, T-To............. Pleeeeeaaaaase!" He cries a full waterfall. "Asahi, stop. You're acting like a child." I whisper to him. Asahi didn't seem to care on how he was acting, because he decided to cry some more. The guard looks at me and he raises his eyebrow while smirking. "Now what's yeh' name miss?" I look at him and hear the radio in the building switch to a new song, that I love, and say, "This song is my 'Jam'." he looks at me with a confused face for a second and breaks out laughing. "Well okeh', This song is me' Jam, why are yeh' with Asahi here?" I stare at him and say, "I'm going to become a Assassin." the guard quickly looks at Asahi with an angry expression. Asahi quickly explains the situation. The guard then looks at me. "So... Asahi told meh' yeh' were strong..." He looks at Asahi now. "I'll tell yeh' what, if This song is me' Jam over here can prove to meh' that she is strong and fit to be uh' assassin... I'll let you pass. Deal?" Asahi looks at me for approval and I nod my head. "Deal." Asahi confirms. A table suddenly appears from behind a wall and the guard puts his elbow on the table in an arm wrestle position. I do the same and think about how the table is really tall. Damn my short height, I'm not even 5 foot, I had to be slightly shorter than that. *sighs* I look at the massively tall table and notice a chair. I look at Asahi and signal him to get that chair. He looks at me like I just spoke in a different language and then suddenly gets what I did. He laughs to himself *tsk* and gets a chair for me. I stand on the chair and put my elbow fully on the table, fully in the arm wrestle position.  The guard smirks at me and says, "I won't go easy yeh' know." I stare at him and say, "Indeed." Asahi then counts down.

"Ready.... Set.... Go!" Me and the guard both have our hands locked and fight back with each other to get one of our hands slammed to the table. He was struggling to keep up with my strength... I could see it on his face. It was quite amusing. I on the other hand, I was keeping the most unbothered expression ever to be seen in the world. While he's struggling to push my hand down, because it stood in the exact position when we started. He says, "Well, *grunts* yer' pretty strong!" I nod and then swiftly push his hand down to the table. That's indicating that I won. The guard gasps and falls to the floor panting. Asahi quickly goes to his aid... I ship it. "Toshibo! Are you OKAY?!" Asahi screams. "Haha! *cough cough* stop screaming dumbass yer' gonna'  explode me' ears!" Toshibo, the guards name says, laughing historically. Toshibo looked at me "Yeh' have good strength, and potential... just don't go to much on yer' strength." he says. I nod and Toshibo stands up, putting a code to the door that he promised we can go through. Once he was done with that, the door opened to reveal a elevator, me and Asahi walk in. We wave bye to Toshibo and the elevator doors close. The elevator starts to move and we start going down. "Um... Ariel?" Asahi asks. "Yes?" I reply. "Why didn't you tell him your real name?" he laughs. "I was what you call, caught up in the music, and didn't reply properly." I say. The elevator stops and the doors open. At first, everything is brightly the color of white, and then my eyes start to focus. I then see a extremely happy older looking Asahi face, what you say, all up in my face. When I see this; I instantly say,

"Why did I make this Decision?" out loud.