“Your attorney should be here shortly, and then we will be able to get down to business. Now that you have been raped you know how you made me feel, Kathy. It doesn’t feel well does it,” Kimiko stated accusingly.

Kathy could see the burning hate in Kimiko’s eyes. She felt so much shame that she could hardly talk. Wet tears were trailing down her cheek. She was very sad over what she did to her brother.

Kimiko said, “I had a talk with the States Attorney and I convinced her, with great difficulty to agree to a plead with all of you. It was difficult for me to go plea for mercy for you, Kathy and it made it more difficult for me because she was so unwilling. I had to convince her that there was hope for you. She agreed after nearly an hour of begging. “

Kathy was very confused now. She saw the hatred burning in her sisters eyes but she convinced the prosecutor to have mercy on her. It was so much that she wanted to hug Kimiko now. She spoke in a soft heartfelt voice, “Thank you, Kimiko. “

She spate out, “Don’t thank me, I just hope you can find a place to live, perhaps in Sergeant Kendal’s place.” She laughed cruelly.

Kimiko cringed at the idea of staying with the man that raped her. Kathy understood her sisters anger. Kathy was sorry for hurting Kimiko but she knew it was way too late for sorry. Sorry didn’t make up for four years of torture and pain that she had inflicted.

That really made Kathy wish she had though about the results of what she did. She wished that she could take back what she did but she couldn’t. She didn’t notice that the ADA Casey Novak had walked in the room along with her own attorney.

Her attorney surprised her when she said to everyone, “I need everyone to leave so I can have a word privately with my client. “

Kimiko walked out with the district attorney. She said to Kimiko, “I really need to thank you for getting my suspension revoked Kimiko. I still don’t understand why you made the BAR revoke my suspension so I could be the one to prosecute your abusers only to get second thoughts and talk me in to doing a plea with them. But I still have to thank you, Kimiko. “

Kimiko smiled, “Forgiveness is divine Ms. Novak. And thank you for doing this for me. I don’t think my sister Kathy is all that bad now. As for Sandra and my brother, the plea we worked out and if they accept it, will make them no longer able to hurt any children. “

“You got that right, Kimiko,” Casey said.

The door opened and Kathy's attorney said, “Come in, She has a few questions herself before she agrees to anything. Especially to you, Kimiko.” He gave her a hateful look.
They walked into the room and Kimiko sat down beside Casey. Kathy then asked, “Kimiko, I hope that you are aware that this plea your shoving down my throat will require me to register as a dangerous sexual offender. The charge on the table aggravated sexual assault will make me have to register as a class 3, that’s what my attorney says. “

Kimiko spat out, “SO, its better than the charges your being charged with now?! You could get twenty years to the rest of your life. At least this way, you can walk right out after the judge accepts the plea. Its your choice, of course."

Kathy cried, “But….but Kimiko, Everyone will know about me then, who will hire me, who will want me living in their neighborhood. My life will be over. What will I do?”

“You will still be alive and in better shape than me," Kimiko retorted. “Ans as for the where you will live, I've given you some options. I don’t really give a damn.“

Her lawyer stupidly asked, “How can you do this to your own sister?”

“Its easy sir,” She answered back. “She hurt me much worse. I have forgiven her or I wouldn’t let Casey accept any plea. As for the rest, I feel people need to know how dangerous she is capable of being. Now enough talk, Kathy, do you accept or not.”

She bowed her head, defeated, “I will accept it, Kimiko. I am still sorry for everything.”

“Too late for sorry. Casey Novek was nice enough to have the papers drawn up, ready for you to sign and then all we need to do is see the judge for sentencing. “

Kimiko walked out then as her sister was signing the papers. She had gotten into the car with her dad and they were going back home. Kimiko hoped that everything would work out as she had planned.

Jae said in the quite, “I know that this was very hard for you to do and now that Kathy will be able to walk out of jail very soon, we hope she makes the right choices.“

“I hope I know what I’m doing, Father,” Kimiko said. “My sister will be very shocked when she figures out what I’m doing. “

He nodded and continued driving home. As they were driving, he noticed something strange about Kimiko. Her skin seemed flushed and she looked like she wasn’t feeling very well. Jae was concerned and asked, “Kimiko, is something wrong, you look sick.”

“I don’t know, I suddenly feel very nauseous and light headed,” she said. “I think I will be fine. Must be something I ate.“

Jae shrugged, “Well, OK.“

Jae was alarmed and looked in check on Kimiko because he hadn’t heard from her or seen her all night and morning. He was further alarmed to see her laying on the bed, her body was all pale and laying lifeless on the bed. He walked over to see what was happening. He touched her and found that she was very hot. He grabbed Kimiko and picked her up and raced to his car. Less than 40 minutes later, Kimiko was in the ER, she was attached to monitors and antibiotics.

A white coated doctor was telling him what the deal was, “Jae, I am sorry to tell you this but Kimiko is a very sick girl. She is suffering from Toxic Shock."

Jae looked even more alarmed as The doctor continued telling him, “Since the patient is a girl now, her body has produced fully working female reproductive organs. That means she will have to deal with everything a woman experiences. That means also, a woman's monthly cycle. Without a vagina, the fluids couldn’t be expelled from her body and that caused her to go into toxic shock. We drained the fluids and put her on a heavy dose of antibiotics. She will be OK now. “

The doctor then said, “To prevent this from happening again, we need to operate, sexual reassignment needs to be done immediately. We have the surgeon on hand and need your permission, Jae.”

He knew that was her wish so he had no problem and he consented.

In no time Kimiko was transferred to the OR and doctors were operating. Jae called the rest of the family to come over and they just waited till it was all done. There was nothing more they could really do. Haruki, Nobori, Officer Harukichi Yamaguchi and even the assistant district attorney was there waiting for any news. The news was shocking. All they could do was wait for news.

They got the news close to five hours later. Another doctor came out and greeted Jae and said that everything went smoothly and she was now going to The ER. She was still sedated but should be able to come out of sedation in several hours but she would still be very sore. Things would have to proceed slowly from there. She still had antibiotics going in her to deal with the infection.

Jae felt the buzzer on his cell and he picked it up. He didn’t recognize the number but he answered anyway. It was Kathy. She sounded troubled, “Its me, Kathy, Jae, your Alicia’s new father right?”

“Yes it is, is there something I can do for you, Kathy,” Jae said.
“Yes there is. I am Alicia's sister Kathy. I'm staying with Craig but he’s got mean. Can you come over and help me, Jae. Please I need someone. I am scared.”

It sounded very serious so he said he would be there shortly. He stood up and asked Nobori to stay here while he went out to check on Kimiko’s sister.

He raced to his car and drove across town to meet her. The road to her new place was closed so he had to take a detour underground. He parked the car in a parking garage. He got out to go up to her place when he noticed out of the corner of his eye, two men approaching him from the dark. He turned over as they reached in their coats, and pulled out guns. He knew he was dead and before he could dash behind his car, they let loose. They fired shots into him and he slumped. Bleeding out, he would be dead before an hour.

He didn’t come back to the hospital or did he go see Kathy. Two hours later, two uniformed officers approached the group waiting to go see Kimiko. Nobori and his son Harukichi stood up to meet them. The officer spoke gravely, “I regret to tell you that your brother, Jae Yamaguchi has been shot. He has died from the injuries."

“What?“ Nobori asked. “Who shot him?”

”We caught them quickly. They appear to be friends of Craig, Kathy’s boyfriend. They were also hired by Sandra.“ How was he going to tell Kimiko this?