First story.
Sorry the first chapter is so long, I wanted to get most of character intros out of the way. :P
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I do not own any part of KHR.
"The operation failed AGAIN?" The man behind the desk roared. He slammed his hand on the table and nearly threw his black fedora in frustration.
"I-I'm s-sorry, Reborn-sama," whimpered the unfortunate henchman, "I-it was that B-black Hunter guy again."
Reborn leaned back in his chair and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.' Damn', he thought to himself, 'This is the third time this week.'
He dismissed the henchman and summoned his two right hand men to his office. Reborn looked in the mirror and tried to smooth the wrinkles of his black suit. He knew that as the young 20 year old leader of a major criminal organization, he had to keep a professional and powerful look to keep the older ones in check.
Two men in matching suits nearly identical to Reborn's walked into the office. Both had a slender, yet muscular, build and walked with a relaxed aura, as if they knew nothing could happen to them. One man with short, gelled back, straight, blond hair looked at Reborn with a grin, "You called, Reborn-kun?"
If it had been any other person than the two in front of him that had addressed him that way, Reborn would have a corpse on his hands right now. However, Reborn just smirked. "Why yes, yes I did Leoko." They had been friends since childhood and founded the company together. Under normal circumstances, Leoko would've strived to be the main boss. But in this case, both knew that it was Reborn who would have an upper hand in the criminal world.
Reborn's demeanor became serious again. "I need you to tell me what you've learned about the Black Hunter from this attack."
The grin faded from Leoko's face." It's the same information we've gathered before. He uses both a bow and a gun, a bow when engaging the lookouts and a gun when engaging the main group. The Black Hunter wears a black suit and a red fedora. The witnesses also said that his eyes glow bright emerald green and when he attacks, it's almost as if he knows the future and were to be at the right time."
"Any casualties?" asked Reborn.
"None," replied Leoko," They were all put to sleep with special arrows and bullets. With, of course, the exception of the 'Victim'."
Reborn's heart sank and slumped into his seat. The reason why the attacks of the Black Hunter were so strange was the fact that at each botched operation, there was always one victim who's description of the Hunter differed from everyone else's—and not in a good way. "Kureko-kun?" said Reborn wearily, addressing the other man in the room with black spiky hair. "What's your information on the 'Victim'?"
Kureko sighed. "Nothing new either. The 'Victim' claims that after everyone else had been defeated, the Hunter approached him and said, 'You don't desrve your fate. I will give you a second chance.' Then, the hunter gave him a kiss and left him with a black rose. After the kiss, the description of the Hunter changed. The new description only differed from the original description in one way: the Hunter's eyes turned into a golden, honey brown. Through blood tests, we have found a drug that causes hallucinations, so I'm not sure if we can trust this description." Kureko looked up at Reborn. "The 'Victim' is requesting to leave the company, just like the other ones."
Reborn shut his eyes. At this rate, I'm going to lose all my employees and my customers. He fumed. No one's going to come to me for weapons anymore. I'm going to lose my status in this underground business!
Frustrated, he just sighed and turned back to Kureko and Leoko who seemed just as annoyed as he was. "Fine. Grant his request."
"Should we wipe his memory?" asked Leoko
Reborn pondered on the question. I was another part of the attacks that infuriated him. Any trace of the appearance of the 'Black Hunter' would be wiped from the henchman's memory, so no one could recognize the Hunter of he was seen. Sadly, the risks of revealing the secrets of the company were too high. "Yes, give him the memory loss drug and 100,000 yen. Then, leave him by the bus stop. After that, cancel all the other operations we have this week. We can't keep losing men and resources like this."
Leoko growled. "Do we have to give him the money? Without our usual profit, we're losing a lot of money."
"I will not abandon a former employee." Reborn said simply. "No one should be left alone in a world like this."
"Whatever," muttered Leoko, "Let's just get back to the campus. There's nothing else for us to do here."
-It's hard being such a young criminal mastermind, thought Reborn as he, Kureko, and Leoko walked down the empty sidewalk, But it's even harder since I also have to go to college to maintain my cover.
"I can't believe it's only 1 am," complained Leoko, "If I knew our operation would be cut short, I would've just stayed at home."
"More like pick up a pretty girl and then go home," Kureko corrected, "We all know what you do on your days off."
Leoko laughed and replied, "Hey, I don't have nor need a girlfriend like you do to keep me company."
Kureko blushed and Reborn chuckled softly. They say in the criminal world, there's no on you can trust,but Reborn knew that Kureko and Leoko would stay by his side.
"So where should we go now?" asked Leoko "It's not like we're going to get any sleep with this 'Black Hunter' dilemma of ours?"
"Well my girlfriend recently opened a café near the university, why don't we go there?" Kureko suggested.
Reborn sighed. "Let's go then. If we're not going to sleep, we might as well get some coffee if we're going to pull an all- nighter."
They went into the shop, where Kureko was promptly tackled by a woman with straight jet –black hair and a smile that seemed to brighten up the room
Kureko groaned and picked himself off the floor. "Keiko! I plan to go to school tomorrow—and not with broken ribs!"
Keiko just laughed and flashed her perfect smile. "So-rry! I was just so happy that you came to visit me on my night-shift!" She turned to the spot where Leoko and Reborn were trying not to double over in laughter. "Reborn-kun! Leoko-kun! You guys came too?"
"'Course we did Keiko-chan!" exclaimed Leoko while draping an arm over her shoulder, much to Kureko's dismay. "Why wouldn't we come to see such a pretty girl like you, right Reborn?"
Leoko looked over at Reborn and saw him staring intensely at something. "Reborn?"
Reborn shook himself out of his daze and turned to where Keiko was carefully extracting herself from Leoko's embrace. "Hey Keiko-chan?"
"Hmmm?"
"You never told us you hired a new barista."
"Oh yeah!" Keiko smiled and waved over the brunette barista with honey-golden eyes that Reborn had been observing before. "This is Kudo Tsunade!" she said, "She just transferred here from Osaka!"
Tsunade bowed. "Nice to meet you all. I'll also be attending Tokyo University. I hope we can become good friends."
As Tsunade straightened back up, her eyes caught Reborn's. Reborn felt a shiver up his spine. There's something strange about her, I just can't quite name it, he thought.
Tsunade turned back to Keiko. "I'll be leaving now Keiko-san."
"Okay!" said Keiko cheerfully "See you tomorrow!"
As Tsunade went to get her bag, Keiko let out a sigh and sadly, "Poor girl, she's been through so much!"
"What do you mean?" asked Kureko
"Her parents and her twin brother died in a horrible accident when she was 15. And if that wasn't bad enough, she wasn't even allowed to see the corpses!"
Reborn head snapped up. He looked at Leoko and Kureko and saw the same understanding expression on their faces. That's why she looked strange. Her appearance almost exactly matches the description of the Black Hunter. Now there's just one more thing…
"Hey Keiko," Reborn said casually, "Did Tsunade-san ever describe her brother to you?"
"Well, no," said Keiko, confused, " But the picture she sent me with her resume had both her and her brother in it. Want to see it?"
"Yes please."
Keiko went to the back and got the picture. "She's so unfortunate. She even refuses to call me Keiko-chan like everyone else! And…"
Keiko kept talking, but Reborn was no longer listening. He grinned at the photo. Just as I thought. The two people in the picture looked nearly identical, except instead of honey-brown eyes, Tsunade's brother had emerald green ones.
Well thanks for reading a newbie's story .!
The next chapter may be freakishly short because I didn't want this one to be too long.