Blood In The End
Whispers of the Enemy
A slow run on the treadmill as he watched the news.
"Late into the night some time around 8:45 pm, Rose & Tyler's Jeweller's was robbed. No sign of forced entry. In police reports, the alarm went off 'after' the precious gems were stolen. The Kyuubi has struck again and made a near escape from one of Kohona's police forces." it switched to a conference to the one and only Uchiha Itachi. "Mr. Uchiha what do you have to say about what happened last night!" Rapid conversations were erupting from the T.V. screen.
"Oh, I hope this Kyu comes in the middle of the night to steal me away!" a woman beside him swooned nearly falling off the bike she was on.
"Baby, I'll come to your house right now and steal your heart," he said smoothly to her. The woman giggled.
"Oh, Kyu you are a silly man. I was talking about 'Kyuubi'"
"Aw, well there goes my plans for tonight. What do you think of all the robberies though? Kind of scary, don't you think? I mean this 'Kyuubi' can just sneak in anywhere and grab the whole store without leaving a single footprint!" Kyu stopped his running and looked back to the T.V. it had switched to something lighter, a sock commercial.
"I'm sure you'll be fine, you are not a jewel worth while anyways."
"Oh, ouch. I need some water to put that one out." the girls giggled and went back to their exercise. Kyu jumped off the treadmill and made his way to the locker room. Walking through the door he glance and seen a tall dark man standing there getting ready to go exercise. Kyu walked near the middle of the lockers and turned down near the other side and looked in his own locker. Noting that it was opened slightly ajar.
"Hey, Kyu looking for something?" one of the men in the showers said the second laughing.
"Oh, I don't know, I was hoping of looking for a date tonight, any of you two interested?" Kyu said in a serious tone as he opened the locker. His clothes were gone and only his shoes were in there. "So where are my clothes?"
"Who knows, a pretty young lady was in here not to long ago snooping around."
"Ah, so they shouldn't be to far away." Kyu said and started walking around the room looking for his clothes. He found them in the last shower stall, water still running. "At least I don't have to worry about laundry!" He turned off the water and picked up the soggy shirt and pants ringing them dry and walked back to his locker. "So what did she look like?" Kyu asked as he placed the dripping clothes in his bag.
"Pretty, blonde, ponytail, nice blue eyes, some bangs side swept to the side and an evil little grin." the man said. Kyu gave a soft sigh as he swung his bag over his shoulder. He nodded to the two men, locked his locker and started his way out of the room. He was soon stopped short at the doorway by said evil grin.
"Ino!" Kyu said happily, but was soon covered in water.
"Asshole!" she called out, "First off, you don't talk to me, you ignore me and my calls, and don't even return my calls! What the hell is wrong with you, you low life bastard!"
"First of all, thanks for washing my face, and here I thought you never would do such a thing for me, second thanks for washing my clothes, you've never done that before, and last we broke up." Kyu said and used his towel to wash the water from his face. She growled and stormed out. "What no slap? Pretty sure I was suppose to be slapped before you left!" Kyu said and gave a soft sigh. 'Fantastic start to the day,' he thought and heard a noise behind him. He turned and seen the tall dark man, looking tired, and irritated. He seen the dark bags under the coal bored black eyes, a deep scowl. 'I think I just saw him on T.V. Itachi I think it was,' he thought and stepped aside, seeing the raven stride past without a word. He decided to take this time to walk out of the change room and head out the front door.
"Have a nice day, Kyu!" two girls said in unison giggling.
"And you have a lovely day, lovelies," Kyu winked at them as he walked out. He started walking down the busy streets. He soon got a call on his cell phone and answered.
"Hello? Why yes, I would like some- Oh, well- Sorry you must have- Alright then but tonight is not looking good, or tomorrow night. If you know then why call? I see. I see. Hm. Check back in a few days and I'm sure I'll be free. Yes I saw. No where near me. Fine. Bye." Kyu closed the phone his happy mood dripping away.
Last night, it was late as he and another male drove through the dimly lit town. They stopped at Rose & Tyler's Jeweller's. Kyu stepped out of the car and grabbed a duffel bag from the trunk of the car. "Be careful Akio, the dogs are patrolling the area heavily. We need to make this quick." They always refereed to the police force as 'Dogs', mainly for one specific reason.
"Sure, what ever you say, Kyuubi. Just be ready to run, I'll be in and out like the sly foxes we are." Kyu said and made his way into the store with ease from the roof. It wasn't the first time he has done this kind of thing, he slipped in grabbed what he could and easily slipped out. He dropped some of the goods in the car and told his partner in crime that he had more things to grab. Going back in through the roof he decided it was too easy and 'accidentally' tripped the wire and waited a few moments. "Kyuubi, you better high tail it out of here, I tripped! They'll be on us soon, safe house 4." he said into the mic and heard the car squealing off in a hurry. He smiled behind his mask and jumped down from the roof erasing his tracks as he went and started a slow jog through the ally ways. He froze when lights shown down the walls. "Shit, I should have moved faster!" He quickly turned down another way and started a run for it. His police hand radio going off about him starting to make a run for it. He turned another way and soon found himself in front of one of the police dogs. A quick glance and he seen that it was an 'Uchiha' he knew this one. It was Itachi. This dog has been after him since his fifth robbery. "Well, finally decided to get off your ass and join the races?" Kyu mocked and turned another corner. He noted that Itachi has gotten faster and was keeping up fairly well, but the Uchiha had one flaw, he was running out of breath quickly, Kyu can hear it. "What's the matter dog? Can't keep up with a fox!" Kyu picked up his pace and soon lost the Uchiha dog, only leaving small clues of where he's been. He placed some small jewels that wouldn't be missed along the way. Going out to a more public area, he stuffed his equipment in the bag, and made it look like a back back, he glanced to his side and found the lost Uchiha, that was doing a very good job at keeping up with him, just enter the alleyway he had left. "Maybe next time dog," he smiled and started through the busy streets, leaving confused dogs in his wake. He quickly made it back to the safe house and knocked on the door. He was soon let in and greeted with a pat on his back.
"Good job, Akio. I knew you'd make it." Kyuubi said and sat down. Kyu joined him and placed the duffel bag down, the two went to work counting their loot.
He neared the fire house and walked through the garage. "Kyu! You're late!" a males voice rang through the building.
"Sorry! Got lost-" Kyu started to say but was soon silenced.
"Don't you dare say it! You use that excuse every time!" Kyu laughed and went up to the community bed room. He placed his bag down and changed out of his gym clothes into his fire shirt, and fire pants. He walked back down and picked up a mop and started on the floors. As soon as he was done, he started fixing up the walls, and whatever else that needs to be replaced or fixed. The fire house itself was a rundown old building, it only started to look better after he joined with them. He just got near the garage with the fire engines and heard a commotion in the chief's office that was close by.
"Well where the hell is he!" a females voice screeched.
"Ino. . ." Kyu whispered and quickly tried to disappear.
"Listen, he's not in today! He called in sick, something about being dunked in water the night before." the chief said calmly.
"Bullshit!" Ino yelled, "I just saw him at the gym! He didn't look ill to me!"
"Well obviously you don't know him enough to see the signs!" Kyu flinched at hearing the man raise his voice. He made his way to the cleaning closet and stuffed himself in it, listening for the cue to come out.
"-fine see if I care!" a door was slammed shut and angry foot steps walking by. Kyu stayed in there for a while longer until he heard soft knocking on the door. He knew it was one of his crew members, because only they would know that he would stuff himself in a tight small corner somewhere in the house.
"Is she gone?" Kyu said in a small voice.
"Yeah, she's fucking gone. Now come the fuck out of there, we all fucking know you don't belong there you damn mop!" Kyu opened the door and stepped out. "Now go thank the chief," Kyu was pushed towards the direction of the chief's office. Kyu walked into the office preparing to get yelled at.
"Kyu, that is the third one I chased off this year. Find a better woman, or stop dating these hookers." the man said calmly. Kyu gave a nod, not daring to explain himself this time. "Now other matters, Officer Uchiha, sorry for the interruption," he said.
"No, it's fine. It's only a couple's squabble, I'm sure it will blow over." Uchiha said, and the chief laughed.
"First rule about this man is that there are no squabbles," the chief said. Kyu took this time to excuse himself but not without taking a glance at the 'Uchiha' that was here. It was Itachi Uchiha. Kyu walked out and went to finish his daily chores 'Seeing him three times in one day, and twice in real life! What an honor!' he softly laughed to himself. He was making his way to the kitchen to take out the trash before the one that took him out of the closet stopped him.
"Hey, Kyu. Chief want's to see you." he said and took the garbage from Kyu a little roughly.
"Thanks, Hidan" Kyu said and started back towards the office. "Hey, Pein. You wanted to see me?" Kyu asked poking his head through the door.
"Yes, give Officer Uchiha a quick tour of our house." Chief Pein said.
"Of course, just let me see your house keys," Kyu smiled when Pein almost gave him his keys. A glare was tossed at him and a motion for him to go. Kyu laughed and lead the taller man around the house. "So why the sudden interest in our lovely house?" He didn't receive an answer and only shrugged it off. "Very well then, well we'll start off with the kitchen." the two turned into the small kitchen where Hiden worked on lunch, and was also making dessert. "Hidan, is that a cake I smell?"
"Fuck yeah, do me a favor and get me the icing so I can decorate this fucking beauty!" Hidan said and started work on cleaning up his mess.
"Sure thing, Sweetheart," Kyu said and started for the pantry outside of the kitchen and near the rooms. The two made their way upstairs and into a walk in closet. "Now, it should be in this area, ah! Found it." Kyu mumbled and took the small tub of icing from one of the plastic shelves and started for the door. "Mmm. . . chocolate," one turn of the closet door knob and it didn't open. A small shake and it only made a small noise. "Uh. . . Hidan must have replaced the locks. . ." he shook the door again, he looked around and seen Itachi standing in a corner looking calm. "Ah, so you are over here with me. . . Kinda hoping that you weren't. . ." He was suddenly shoved aside, as Itachi started working on the door. Kyu shrugged and started feeling along the wall. Banging was heard from the now frantic officer, Kyu ignored it as he searched in the dark. He found what he was looking for and turned to Itachi, who was now sitting on the ground breathing heavily. "Whoa, easy there." Kyu quickly knelt down in front of Itachi putting the icing down and gently spoke, "hey, you okay?" Kyu tried his best to think of something to calm the other down but nothing came to mind. 'Alright, think what did Shikamaru always say?' he thought and placed both his hands on either side of Itachi's face. "Listen to the sound of my voice and do as I say. Breath in, hold 1. . . 2. . . 3. . . breath out, slow and easy." Kyu was glad that Itachi was doing what he told him, he could hear his breathing even out slowly, the pulse under his finger tips was starting to slow down. "Breath in, hold 1. . . 2. . . 3. . . breath out, slow and easy." he repeated the words a few more times until Itachi was now calm. "Good, I'm going to let go now." he felt the other shake lightly and felt warmth covering his hands and keeping them where they are. 'Different. His hands are shaking,' he thought and leaned forward, "Let go of my hands." Itachi shook his head and tightened his grip. Kyu pulled back sighing, "Uchiha-"
"Itachi. . ." he said in a weak voice.
"What?" this shocked him, he hadn't actually heard his voice properly, and the lowness wasn't normal for an Uchiha in the first place. They were always so commanding, and smug. Not weak and helpless.
"My name is, Itachi." Now it was more stronger, and slightly angry. Kyu watched him his eyes have long adjusted to the dark and seen that Itachi was watching him carefully with dark almost sad eyes. He noted that they still look tired, but among other people they were more alive. At least it seemed like it. Why show him different eyes? Or was it the fact that Itachi thinks he couldn't see properly that there is a difference. 'No, it was perfectly bright in the changing room when I first seen him. Is it only for me to see?' he thought.
"Kyu. So Itachi-san-"
"Just Itachi."
"Picky aren't we," Kyu said unimpressed. "Just Itachi, please let go of my hands." the grip was now tightening even more. "Just Itachi, I need these hands to get us out, unless you want to stay here all n-mmm!" Kyu widened his eyes at the sudden movement the grip on his hands were long gone and were now pulling him closer to the other. He tried his best to push Itachi away, only succeeding in gasping before he was forcefully pulled back to the soft lips. Kyu tangled his fingers in Itachi's hair and tried to pull away that way. A small hiss was heard and Itachi wrapped his arms around Kyu, a hand slid and gently gripped Kyu's hair. 'I know they say keep your enemy's close. . . but this is too close!'
"Hello?" Kyu said into the phone.
"Kyu, how would you like another job tonight?" the distorted voice asked.
"Why yes, I would like some-" Kyu was cut off almost instantly.
"Great! I want you to trail your officer rival." the voice said cheery.
"Oh, well-" Kyu was about to drop this mission.
"No, you agreed to it, now you have to take it. Follow Uchiha Itachi, I'll make sure he gets to you without any troubles."
"Sorry you must have-"
"No, I make no mistakes, I'm sending him over to your station in Fire House 18. Once you have him under your nose, watch him and see where he goes next. Shadow him, or try to get close to him. Also how do you feel about doing a small job tonight, I hear that-"
"Alright then but tonight is not looking good, or tomorrow night." Kyu said, cutting off the man on the phone.
"Yes, I know. You don't do anymore stealing for two weeks once you've already stolen." the voice said sighing.
"If you know then why call?" Kyu asked.
"I just need you to keep up your unbreakable record. You've done a fine job stealing, I just hate to see such talent go to waste. If you're not going to do this small job, then at least keep an eye on Uchiha Itachi. I'll also need you to bring him to me if you could. Or you'll know what will happen to sweet little brother."
"I see. I see." Kyu gave a soft sigh.
"Alright then, so in two weeks time, I'll give you your next target. I'll hope you will not disappoint."
"Hm."
"Make sure you update me on Uchiha Itachi, I don't want you to leave anything out."
"Check back in a few days and I'm sure I'll be free."
"Perfect, oh did you see how mad your girlfriend was at you?" The bastard was watching him right now!
"Yes, I saw." Kyu tried to keep stationary.
"Did she hurt you my dear? Leave any known marks? Is she close by now?" Kyu lightly bit his tongue, 'Oh, I don't know, you tell me you slimy bastard!'
"No where near me."
"Very well then. Updates on Uchiha Itachi, follow him or get close to him. Actually get close to him. You know what they say: keep your friends close and your enemy's closer and all that rap."
"Fine. Bye." Kyu hung up before the other could speak.
(Edits: Grammar issues, slightly added more details.)