31 Yours only

Naruto greeted the other women the moment he came out from the bar. They chatted for a while and Naruto had to suffer some of their flirty suggestion before he could walk away.

Looking at the moon that getting higher and the sky that getting darker, Naruto bitterly sighed as he contemplated whether he should go home or not, remembering Lin Ruoxi terrified expression, Naruto suddenly didn't have any courage to go home since he thought that she might still be like that.

In the end, Naruto decided to give her some time to sort out her feeling with a hope that she willingly forgave him later, because Naruto didn't go back to his home, he went to the only place that became his sanctuary now, The Rose.

The night wind breeze on his face, the coldness it brought would make other people shivered but not him. He leisurely strolled alongside the street, mingled himself among the crowd of people.

Quick Naruto arrived at his destination, upon stepped his feet on the front door, a noisy and loud cheering voice entered his ear.

Oh? It must be one of those days, Naruto thought.

The Rose was a little bit different from other bars in the vicinity, unlike them, the attendant from the Rose didn't provide any services that related to a sexual activity, meaning the Rose didn't allow any kind of operation that consists of physically pleasuring men or women. Instead, they had their attendant to do sort of performance once a month and it varied from singing to dancing, they even held a circus-like attraction sometimes, performed by a professional magician and other else.

By the moment Naruto came inside, most of the seats and tables already filled, only several of it that either too far or couldn't get a clear view of the stage that remained empty.

Naruto strolled for a while before he found a good spot, he leaning his back on the wall and silently gazed at the not too far stage.

The stage floor was higher several feet from the rest and formed a half circle. On the very back of the stage, a red curtain that separated the backstage area from the audience hanged. Several ornaments played their role on makeover the stage such as flowers and decorative lamps. The stage was large enough so it wasn't going to easily get cramp even if you put ten to eleven people together on the top of it.

Naruto eyes scanned the room to look for Jiang Wei, but somehow he couldn't found her anywhere.

Perhaps she is in her room?' he thought, but it was should be unlikely since she had to greet the guests.

When Naruto was about to check on her by using senjutsu, the lighting in the room suddenly became dim causing the lamps on the stage became brighter. The red curtain that previously closed neatly, at this moment, get separated in the middle, revealing another area that went a little bit darker than the front part.

Soon, a slow and romantic backsound being played, its rhythm held an effect to soothe anyone heart who listened. People in the room suddenly went silent, even all the server stood by the side, all of them tried to appreciate the harmony of the alluring sound.

Naruto also listened peacefully, his once restless and depressed heart slowly recovered, the sound as if tried to guide him to relax and put down all of his previous worries.

After a while, the backsound became quiet and a figure slowly came out from the back of the stage. The moment that appearance of the figure became clear, every audience widened their eyes, the reason was not simply because the figure was breathtakingly beautiful but they knew who this was, especially Naruto.

"Rose..."

Yes, the one who appeared on the stage was his woman also the owner of the bar, Jiang Wei. Everyone in the room including Naruto didn't expect that she would be the one who performed this night, previously the one who did it was either one of her employees that had a couple of talent or guest stars. She could be seen chatted and greeted with customer and audience. At most, she went to the stage just for several welcoming speeches.

Jiang Wei wore a knee-length black gaudy dress and black high-hell. her usual let loose raven-hair now tied in a ponytail with a crystal tiara sit upon its throne on the top of her head. Around her neck, you could saw a necklace with a sort of black stone hanged there. It rather looks ordinary compared to other stuff she wore but also looked incomparably match with her dress.

Her left hand grasped a brown color violin and its pair held by her right. Jiang Wei face was bright, even though the makeup she put mostly was black and dark but it wasn't shown any sign of gloominess, instead, she looked like a conservative girl and somehow became very appealing.

Everyone vision fixed on the appearance of this beauty who basked in the light that shone on the stage, unfortunately, the beauty didn't reply their heated gaze, instead, she just smiled while her eyes wandered around as if searched for something.

Eventually, her eyes stopped and lingered for a while on somewhere, her once already bright face now turned brighter and star shone with thousands of helium on her pupil. She nodded then bent her body to bow at the audience.

"Good evening everyone, I, as the hostess also as the performer for tonight, sincerely welcoming all of you and appreciate your effort to be here for tonight performance, I'm not that good on doing this compare to other people but I'll try my best to please everyone, to every attendant, please don't forget to tend on your duties and make sure to fulfill all of the audience's order, also make them comfortable as they can.

As everyone can see, the violin in my hand isn't a decoration but a real one, I'm not an expert but I had a private lesson before and trying hard to practice for tonight, so I apologize in advance if everyone found I play rather horrible later.

The song that I'll play, I dedicated it to someone that really precious to me, he has became a light in my life and bring me back from the brink of the darkness, without him, I may end up nowhere now, maybe already dead, so everyone knows how much he really meant to me, let's hope together this song, my message, reach out to him," Jiang Wei solemnly said.

Everyone cheered and clapped their hand, some of them even whistled at her statement. Actually, these people felt sad and disappointed when they heard such a woman already had someone in her heart, they all wondered what kind of man that could be so fierce that managed to catch the heart of such a beauty.

A certain blondie was scratching his nose in embarrassment, not only woman that could feel shy when they facing such an open and public confession. His eyes softly gazed at Jiang Wei who stood above the stage and was about to prepare her stance to play the violin.

Jiang Wei took a deep breath before said: "please enjoy," then she positioning the violin on the top of her left shoulder and below her chin.

"My Dearest, Supercell," she said before moving her delicate fingers on the strings and the other hand also started to move.

A beautiful melodies started running about in the room, like a playful child in the summer field yet like a gentle touch of woman at the same time, every second of its tune being played it holds captive of everyone's attention, the way her slender fingers meddling with the strings like she wasn't playing an instrument, instead, she looked like a fisherman who spread her net across the sea, caught every single fish with indifference.

Where she played horribly? if horrible she mean was playing the instrument well than those professionals would already beyond horrible, hell, the word retard may not even that far from them.

Everyone may not be an artistic person or a composer who understood the art of music but they clearly could tell how much she put her soul into her performance. Maybe for her, this wasn't only for the sake of amusement but also the voice of her heart. To tell someone how much he means to her, even though she's not the only one, but she willingly gave all to him, her body, soul, and life, all belong to him.

Naruto's eyes went blurry the moment Jiang Wei put start in her performance, the melodies somehow guided him in a memory lane trip, to the event of their first meeting, it was a bloody night where the moon was at its peak.

(***)

At the late of the night, where the time of most people comforted themselves inside their bed, a black figure could be seen moving at unsteady pace between the alley.

When that figure crossed over the dim light of the street lamp, it showed appearance which was surprisingly a beautiful woman who wore a tight leather suit that perfectly gave a clear view of her hot curves.

Unfortunately, the beautiful woman at this time had shown an exhausted and pale face, like all the blood had gone completely from her body. Several sides of her suit had been torn, revealing a smooth white jade skin with a hint of red behind it, clearly, she had been wounded and the red liquid slowly dripping everywhere from her exposed skin was the proof.

Her breath was heavy, maybe because she had been running for a long time or the wound she suffered had become worst, all in all, she wasn't in the good situation.

However, despite her situation was like that, she didn't stop her movement, with a short-dagger and empty gun in both of her hand, she ran away inside the alley, every turn and curve path she took, every dumpster and dirty bags she passed by, they failed to put a hold on her steps. she was struggling, even she had to crawl, she wouldn't stop, for the sake of everyone who stayed behind, she had to survive, she had to, it wasn't too late for a revenge on another date, even if it took years, but the premise was depending on her survival of this night.

Sadly, it seems the fate itself was against her, when she took a turn in the next corner of the alley, a wall entered her vision, her eyes widened and face became paler with despair, this wall indicated the path she took was a dead end and also the end of her life.

With a hope for another chance, she turned around and was about to search for another path before a commotion of footsteps resound from where she came and completely sealed away her escape.

She slowly backed up until her back touched the wall, her mind contantly running, she didn't want to give up but the only exit way now was through her previous path, she only had a short-dagger as a weapon but she doubts it even could be useful against firearms.

Meanwhile, the sound of footsteps got louder and now several man heavy breathing could also be heard alongside with it.

Soon, a crowd of burly men appeared from the corner, their face was red and sweat drenched their clothes even though this night was cold. Clearly they chased her all around the alley for a long time and finally, they successfully cornered her.

"There is no need to run anymore, Miss..." One of them spoke with a deep voice. The man's head was wrapped in a bandage, he had a very rough face and wore a big black coat, on his waist, a local made Glock 37 fiercely stuck.

"Miss is truly great, even the odds were against you yet you still managed to survive this longer, you even killed several of our brothers all by yourself, Boss would be proud if he heard this" the man slowly said, then he added: "However, unfortunately, you had to run out an ammo and ran into the dead end, it seems like the fate itself want you to meet your end, huh, funny..."

"It wasn't yours to decide whether I'm going to die here or not, besides, is this how you return my kindness over the past, Hei Xiong?" the woman spoke with a weary tone, the previous adrenaline she bore slowly diminish, the exhaustion of constant running and wounds she harbored finally taking on their toll now.

The man called Hei Xiong laughed, "It's true that Miss treated me well, but this life, Hei Xiong's life, is bestowed by Boss, no matter dispute between the two of you, I always remain loyal to Gang's Master, the moment Miss was separate herself from West Union Society to establish Red Thorn Society, Miss officially become the enemy of the Boss, also with me and other brothers..."

The woman beautiful face frowned, her expression turned darken as she said : "My father is an autocrat who hold no conscience over his action, his no limit policy shamed even the people from underworld itself, he never hold any significant about any of your lives, when you guys no longer serve any purpose to him, he will abandon and throw you all like a dying dogs, other brothers realize this and join me, why you remain stubborn and persistent?!"

Even she knew it was a useless endeavor, with only a short dagger as her weapon, she wouldn't stand any chance against them, so she tried at least to buy some time for her life and wait if any miracle might happen.

Hei Xiong waved his head, with a cold expression, he said: "Miss, before I send you off, let me tell you something, a triad might be inhuman, but one must know loyality..."

The moment he finished, he fished out the Glock from his waist and pointed it at the women in front of him, all the men behind him follow his movement.

The woman gritted her teeth and glared at those men, even when the scythe of death hovered on top of her head, she would never close her eyes, she strove to see how death came knocking on her door.

At this moment, a relaxed voice belonged to a man appeared in everybody's ears...

"Fellas, what are you guys doing here in this very late night?"

Everyone startled and turned their body around only to see a man with blonde hair stood at where they previously came. Because it was quite dark, it's quite hard to figure it out the appearance of this man.

"Who are you?! Screw off, mind your own business!" Hei Xiong roared.

"Hey what's with the attitude? It just a question, geez, do everyone around here this grumpy as you?" the man retorted in annoyance.

A tick mark beat up Hei Xiong's temple but before he managed to say anything, the man suddenly exclaimed, "Oh wow! A pretty lady, it must be one of my lucky days!" then the man flashed away, gone from where he previously stood.

Everyone startled again for the second time and vigilantly looked around, tried to discover this man where about

"Hey beautiful, how are you doing?" the man voice resounded again, but now it came from in front of them, the man now stood between these people and the woman.

Now they finally could get a clear vision of this man visage, his height was not too tall but also not too short, through a white jacket he wore you can still make out his body proportion which was supposed to be quite lean. These people couldn't make out of his face because he turned his back on them, but not the woman.

Charming and handsome was the first impression the woman held for this man in her thought upon seeing his face. with a clear cerulean blue iris, smooth and clean face, strong jaw, not excessively pointed nose, and sharp chin. This man face had a feature that every other man dream off, a small upward curved on both side of his masculine lips gave off a sense of warm and gentle feeling to everyone who gazed at him.

While the woman was appreciating the scene fell upon her eyes, Hei Xiong and other men felt a dread for this man, after all, he just moved across them without them knowing, like a magician who did a vanish show, he disappeared from the stage and reappeared among the crowds of audience, the problem was, that show was just a trick that had been previously set up, this man clearly wasn't doing any show.

"Who are you?! No, what are you?!" Hei Xiong roared, there was a nervous tone in his voice now.

The woman became sober when she heard Hei Xiong's voice, she nervously said: "Quick, go away! You could get into a crossfire if you stand here!"

The man wrinkled his brows, with a pondering looks, he said: "Hmm, that would be hard..."

"Why?" the woman asked with a confusion.

The man nodded and said with a smile, "because I'm lost, can you point me some direction?"

"To where?" the woman nervously spoke, there was somehow a disappointed tone in her voice.

The man suddenly grabbed her hand and kiss the back of her palm, with confidence he said: "Your heart..."

Silence.

Everyone on the scene except the man with a confident smirk on his lips became speechless, what the fuck is this joke?! What kind of person who thought such a cheesy pickup line at this dire situation?!

The woman also got shock, she couldn't help but felt a little bit angry. When she heard this man flirt, if not for the inappropriate situation she might become a little bit bashful, but now? Where she had the time for it.

"Stop fooling around! Get away now, you're really in danger if you stay!" the woman reprimanded, she got really nervous now since the man was still stand between her and those burly men.

"Huh? The pickup line not working? Strange, they said ninety percent of female would fall over their head because of this line, damn it! Turns out it was a scam, I must sue the magazine company!" the man mumbled, ignoring Hei Xiong's interrogation and the woman's warning.

Running out of patience, Hei Xiong said with a cold tone and darkened face," It seems like you have decided to rot in hell together with Miss, very well, I shall gladly deliver you both there together!" then Hei Xiong and his men were pointing their firearm's muzzle toward the pair.

The woman now became panic, if this was only her then she wouldn't have many worries, but now she involved a guy she didn't even know, she might be part of underworld people but she didn't have the heart to cruelly see a bystander die because of her.

she was about to run forward and planned to block the line of fire from the man, at least before she died, she hoped to be useful and managed to save him.

But her attempt was stopped because she just watched something beyond her comprehension.

The man moved away from his position and reappear in front of Hei Xiong, he bent his body slightly below him and moved his left arm upward in reverse. a cold glint flashed by and a sound of something soft being pierced can be heard by everyone ears.

Hei Xiong's head surprisingly had been stabbed through his jaw with a short dagger belong to the woman, blood spilled from it and smeared the blonde man face. However, that gory scene didn't faze him as he took over the Glock from Hei Xiong hand and shoot it toward other men. The shoot seemed like without a proper aim but the man somehow managed to put those bullets resided within their forehead, within seconds, almost half of the burly men went to meet their ancestors.

The woman widened her eyes at the scene being presented in front of her, the amazing view of splendid talent of killing that only had been appearing in movies she ever watched now occurred in the real life and it was happening right in front of her.

By just now that the rest of them who still alive realized that their brothers have been killed, with a confusion they looked around only to find dead bodies with blood slowly crept out from them.

The blond haired man stood beside Hei Xiong's corpse, his eyes reveaedl no empathy or sympathy toward the lifeless human being.

He smiled and his eyes swept the rest of them, he spoke nonchalantly, "I'll count until 10 to give you, all of you a chance to walk away, unless you want what happen to them also happen to you then be my guest."

The men looked at each other, there was a struggle could be seen from their expression, if they all left now, their life might be spared but they would be received a severe punishment from the Boss, also they might lose their chance of killing the woman. If they stayed, they might be had to fight with this mysterious man who seemed like an expert, but they also suspected this man just trick them to walk away and his previous achievement was because he launched a surprise attack then caught their guard off.

After a short moment of contemplating, the rest of these burly men seems decided not to walk away, after all, they still win in a number of people and firearms.

Looking at the decision they made, the blonde man sigh, there was a trace of sadness within his eyes for a second before it change into a coldness.

"Maybe you should try to pet a dog or cat, not a stupidity," with that said, the night of murder and massacre began.