The Perfect Weapon:
Chapter one: The Sweet Escape
Tap tap tap
The old man continued to tap the tip of his fingers on his office desk impatiently, glancing at the clock that hung on the wall from time to time. One of his maids then entered the room. She smiled at her master, but her grin quickly faded when she saw his grim expression.
The petite woman walked over to him, "Master, is something wrong?" she asked in a kind voice.
"Where is he, dammit!" The man hollered, making his loud voice echo through the small room, and the poor little maid's body shake.
"I-I'm sorry sir, who?"
"Him!That brat I was supposed to be having a meeting with by now, damn that Tsukiyomi Ikuto!"
The maid gasped. Tsukiyomi Ikuto wasn't just a well-known assassin; he was also quite a womanizer. He had woman from all kinds of different companies lined up for him, but for some reason, he always turned them down. Akira Kiyomi, the maid, was one of them.
" Tsukiyomi's supposed to be coming to our manor?" The maid blushed, and then gasped. "Oh, my! I have so much to do! My hair, make-up..." she trailed off. Akira swiftly turned on her heel, and with that, she was gone.
The old man, whom was the head of The Shoumo Corporation, Hashimoto Takusa, groaned. "Useless brat..."
Suddenly a light knock on the door made his head shoot up. "Who is it?"
"It's me, sir, sorry for keeping you waiting for so long." Takusa smirked and stood up.
"Ah, come on in!" he answered delighted.
A handsome man in about his early twenties strolled into the spacious, clean office. He had a slender but tall body. His eyes were a mesmerizing shade of deep blue, and he had navy colored hair, which seemed to be the same dark navy color of twilight.
"Ah, Ikuto, your here!" Takusa put on a fake smile, then walked over and greeted the young man.
"It's been a while my old friend, hasn't it?" Ikuto teased, setting a hand on the older man's shoulder. Takusa's smiled widened, and Ikuto turned to look at the wooden shelf across from him, which had the company's rewards on it.
"Stupid brat..." Takusa murmured under his breath.
"So, you wanted to talk to me?" Ikuto asked, sitting in a brown leather chair across from Takusa.
Takusa folded his hands on his desk and smiled, "I'd like to offer you a job as my assistant!" he said gleaming, almost too much.
"...Uh...I already work with my own company" Ikuto just sat there staring at the old man.
"But think about it! A world of no bad guys, me and you! Removing them together...So?" This was just Hashimoto's plan to make sure he and his company was never to be a target or Ikuto and his vicious group of other top class assassins.
"...So?" Ikuto mimicked.
Takusa wrinkled his forehead, seeming annoyed. "So how about it? Your answer?"
"Uhm...yeah, I decline the offer."
Takusa's expression went blank. "You're kidding me..."
"No." Ikuto smiled.
"You're kidding me! You have to be kidding me!"Takusa shouted, slamming his hands onto the wooden desk.
"Poor desk..." Ikuto murmured.
"After all I've been through! Do you know how many people I've had to fire just to find a spot for you?"
Ikuto shrugged. "Tough luck, big guy. Would it make you feel better if I bought you some ice cream?"
You could see all the veins in Takusa's neck. He was angry, down right pissed. His face was blood-red and there was so much hatred in his eyes, Ikuto was sure steam would start coming out of his ears any moment now.
"You know what; I don't have to deal with this!" There was suddenly a crazed look in Takusa's eyes as he brought out a gun and held it near Ikuto's head.
Ikuto stayed calm. "You wouldn't want to do that, Hashimoto."
A twisted smile played on Takusa's lips. "Oh, just watch me."
As Takusa was about to pull the trigger, the gun flew out of his hand and onto the floor in one swift movement, and Ikuto behind him, placing the blade of a knife on his neck.
"You sure do have a lot of confidence."Ikuto whispered into the old man's ear, leaving him surprised.
Takusa stared back at him for several seconds."Uhh, Uh…You passed!" a nervous smile was painted on his lips.
Ikuto blinked dumbfounded, "...What the hell are you talking about, you fat bastard!"
Takusa tried to hide his anger as he spoke, "The test! You see, Ikuto, this was all just to test if you we're really as strong as the others say. Congrats!"
"..."
"..."
Ikuto kicked Takusa onto the floor and smiled. "You idiotic old geezer. How dumb do you think I am?" He swung the knife in the air,
"Ikuto, Please!" The old man pleaded, but it was too late, Hashimoto's plan had already backfired and turned on him.
Takusa's body fell limp, as Ikuto bent down next to him and tore off Takusa's shirt, then wrote the initials "TNB" with his knife on the left side of Takusa's lower torso. He quickly went to the safe and stole the 950million dollars the company was even worth. Ikuto walked over to the balcony and stood on the edge of it. There was a moment where one could see guilt in his eyes, but just as fast as the rare look came, it left. And so did Ikuto. He jumped off the balcony and ran. He ran as fast as he could away from the scene back to his "pack".
*Ikuto's POV*
Let me give you a short summary about myself, to get to the point, I am an assassin. Yes that is my job, but I do not work alone. I have my partner's Souma Kukai and Fujiwara Nagihiko. How did we get started in this business? Well, our fathers used to be great friends, their lives were well when they went into great debt and lost their wives and family. They began to steal and commit crimes, later finding out about the jobs of an assassin. They took us with them on all of their journeys training u as one of them having us later take on the job. We were left alone in the end with no one but each other.
The next day I saw on the news the murder scene of Hashimoto Takusa.
Policeman: "Yes it looks to be the work of the Night Riders."
News reporter: "If anyone sees or knows Tsukiyomi Ikuto, please do the right thing and bring him to justice. "
"Tsk." I turned off the TV sometimes I get tired of seeing news of myself and my partners.
"What was that? Did you or Souma do it? Nagihiko asked
"Well me of course." I replied
Beep Beep Nagihiko's Iphone pager went off. "Hm, looks like I've got another one tonight."
"Have fun." I replied
I went upstairs to my room to get dressed in normal clothes, nearly ready to head out; the towns' people only knew what I looked like with my mask and uniform on so it was all good. Plus I also knew no one would have the guts to turn me in, without the fear of death.
I drove to the local market just to do some grocery shopping since we were running out of food. Once I got to the cashier i saw my face on a local wanted sign. There was also a group of policemen outside the shop so I had to keep on the down low to get to my car.
'Just act normal.' I thought. I decided to keep my head slightly low seeing as all the men were watching me as I passed by.
"Hey you."
'Shit.' I thought
One of the policemen put his hand on my shoulder forcing me to turn around. As I turned around I had a grim face on thinking 'How dare this bastard-'Though everything was quickly cut off as I made eye contact with the man.
I flashed a fake yet kind smile, "Well hello sir."
The policeman carefully scanned me up and down, then pulled out a piece of paper holding it to close to my face, "Have you seen this criminal?"
I backed up a little and looked at the photo; it was a photo of me. I wanted to laugh at this man's stupidity but I had to play along. I swiftly shook my head as if i really put thought into who the person was in the picture, and said, "No sir I haven't."
"Alright well be on the look out kid" The policeman stared at me then said, "Hmm ok run along now, have a good day."
"Likewise." Was my response. I did as I was told carrying on with my day like any other normal man would.
Later on I got a page on my Iphone 4. The name read "Yamada Daichi" and then followed the rest of that person's info. I knew what to do. I got dress and waited for the clock to strike 3 am then I was off.
*Amu's POV*
"Guy's I'm finally gonna get out of here tonight! I have it all planned out this time." I spoke to my fellow friends.
"Amu cut it out." One of the girls said.
"Yeah Amu, you have already tried to escape 23 times, none of them have worked." One of the quite girls said.
"Why don't you just stay here?" Another girl questioned
"I can't stay in this hell whole any longer! This orphanage is driving me crazy and Takahashi Sensei is not helping to welcome me here or any of you and you all know it!" I almost began to yell.
Everyone stayed quiet so Amu continued, "Don't you guys want to know what the outside world is like? To be able to live like everyone else and do what normal teens do? Takahashi Sensei never lets us leave this building. But on the TV it looks like such a wonderful place, that I would even mind just spending one night out there and then well…maybe I would come back." I said.
"I'm still with you Amu; if you want to get out we will go with you like always." Rima and Utau both smiled at me grasping both of my hands.
"Anyone else?" I asked, thought everyone responded by turning their heads as usual.
"Alright girls; here is the plan…" We all gathered into our little corner discussing the plan. Little did they know one of the other girl was jealous and against all their escape plans.
So do you want to know my story? Well for starters I'm an orphan my parents died in a car crash when I was 2, my grandparents were to sick to take care of my and I didn't have any aunts or uncles single both my parents were the only child. So here I was sent to this orphanage where I met my two best friends Rima and Utau. They also wanted to leave and have tried to escape a much I as I have. All 3 of us try to escape together yet somehow Takahashi Sensei always knows before we try it. Its been 6 months since we've tried to escape, but this time I'm sure our plan will work.
"Alright you guys," I whispered and looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping, "This plan goes into action strictly at 3 am." Let's just hope this goes well.
Ok so that was the first chapter ! I told you all it would be up today now this looks longer on word so sorry if its not so long here, My date for chapter 2 will be any given time this week because its my spring break ~ And I will talk to Lena about how she thinks it is and what SHE wants to do for the next story because technically though it is on my account it is her idea and story base so most credit should go to her for making such a wonderful idea! Yay! Also on second notice I will post the link to my quizlla and Teenink on my fanfic page so please check it out! Thank you!