G-Defend. Happens after chapter 10.
NOTE: You do NOT need to be familiar with the manga to read this, I have included information on the characters.G-Defend and all of the characters associated with it belong to Morimoto Shuu. I've only taken them out of the box and played with them a while.
2023
At this time, easy, fast and inexpensive transportation has had an unexpected side effect, crime rates all over the world are rising. Eight years ago the World Congress created the System Security Team to protect and run a computer developed security system to help fight crime that effects the world government. The SST's main job is to keep diplomats and governemtn officials safe from assination attempts. To combat this system, criminals had determined that terrorist attacks on the leaders of the regional SST groups will do the most damage and be most likely to disrupt the teams. In the past 8 years, seven of the leaders (called "Instructors" by their teams ) of the Tokyo garrison have been killed. The current Instructor of the Japanese SST group (Ishikawa Haruku) has been in charge for just over 1 ½ years. Many people attribute this to his second in command and bodyguard, Iwase Motohisa.
"81...82...83..."
Ishikawa Haruku stood in the doorway of the shower and watched his second-in command, bodyguard and (in the last few months) lover doing one-handed pushups in the small walkway between their beds. Although he would never tell Iwase, he enjoyed the few times he managed to get out of the shower before Iwase finished his pushups. He liked watching the muscles in back, shoulder and chest work as the man did push up after push up. He even enjoyed watching the sweat begin to gather in his short dark hair, making it glisten. Ishikawa shook himself and moved around Iwase so that he could reach his futon. Tomorrow was a work day and he had no intention of letting himself get soft enough to give Iwase his way tonight.
"..100"
Iwase rose from the floor, grabbed his towel and pajama bottoms and tossed a smile in the direction of the man to his right, sitting on the bed with his back turned pointedly towards him. His smile widened as he walked out to take his own shower. He knew exactly what Ishikawa had been doing when he paused in the doorway, but saying anything about it would likely bring on another hissy fit just as when he had first told him he knew Ishikawa kissed him at night when he was supposedly asleep. He'd had to drag Haruku kicking and screaming into their relationship and that was despite the fact that he knew the man desperately loved him. Luckily Ishikawa had never tried to play poker, his emotions were constantly plastered across his face. He STILL thought that no one other than Nishiwaki in the entire garrison knew they were lovers. Hell, the man had almost collapsed after the bomb incident when everyone was looking for Iwase's remains but thought he could pass it off as "normal concern" for his second in command and bodyguard. (Vol 2 ch 5.1 pg 100-102)
(after shower)
Iwase grinned when he opened the door to a darkened room and quiet breathing. He knew Ishikawa wouldn't give him more than kisses tonight, but he still enjoyed teasing him about what he "expected' from him. He climbed into the bed and wrapped his arms around the smaller frame of his lover and then began licking his ear. "Iwase!" As expected Ishikawa's voice was petulant and the smaller man pushed halfheartedly against his companion's larger muscular frame. "Get off me!" Iwase just chuckled and bent further over his lover.... (Some time later). "Stop it. We have a cabinet meeting to watch over tomorrow and I have no intention of being distracted by, by being too sore to concentrate!"
"But I'll be gentle."
"You always say that. Besides, I have something else to talk to you about."
Iwase sighed and then propped his back up against the wall, pulling Ishikawa into his arms. He brought one leg up cuddling his partner with both his arms and his body and then relaxed. "All right Haruku, what do you want to say?"
"You haven't really taken any vacation time from the job, have you.?"
"Well, there was the weekend we went to see your family." What was Haruku getting at?
"That was MY vacation. You were there in your capacity of bodyguard, that was hardly a vacation for you. Besides, how long has it been since you saw your family? Isn't your sister graduating from high school this year?"
"Well, yeah, but we've been busy lately and -"
"And nothing! You need to spend some time with your family. You didn't even take time off after you had amnesia while in the US at the New York garrison."
"It wasn't like I was badly injured then. Besides, you were hurt and I needed to make sure no one attacked you while you couldn't defend yourself."
"Whatever." The man in his arms shrugged his shoulders. "Things should be quiet after the Congress ends. And I'm ordering you to take your vacation."
"Okay." Iwase started to smile at the idea of Haruku meeting his sister. "We'll go see my family and.."
"No."
"What?"
"I said 'no'. If I'm anywhere near you while you're on vacation, you'll be acting as my bodyguard. You'll go on your own."
Iwase shifted uncomfortably. "Well, I guess you'd be okay here at the garrison for a few days."
"I'm not going to be here".
"WHAT!" He felt stupid saying the same thing again, but dammit, what did Ishikawa think he was doing?
"I have even more vacation time available than you do. I'm taking a vacation too."
"No you're not!"
"Shut up, you haven't heard the entire plan yet."
"I don't like it."
"Not even when I promise 2 – 3 days alone with me? With no one else around?"
Iwashi's mouth dropped open. They had once had 12 hours alone in a hotel room in the US, with half the US garrison guarding the entire floor plus the ones above and below them to make sure the same terrorists that had kidnapped the group on their way to the airport for the flight back to Tokyo didn't get their hands on them again. They had both been refcuperating from what had happened during that kidnapping. It was the only time other than the nights in their own Tokyo garrison they had ever been alone. If you could count being in a room together behind a closed door while a hundred plus other guys walked the corridors in the same building; alone. Yeah, the door was reinforced so no one could break in. But both of them slept with their beepers nearby, constantly ready to be called for any emergency. Haruku actually thought he could find a way for them to be really alone???