Chapter One:

The Knight Thief

It was a dark and cloudy night in the city of Wardington, Japan; everyone was sleeping safe and sound in their homes. It was just about midnight, and then it all started. The sirens of cops started to sound all around the city and gun shots started hearing in all of the streets.

A brunette boy around the age of 16 years old, was laying down on his bed until he heard the sounds of alarms gone off by the police squads also he was kind of startled by the sounds of shots from guns, then he got up from the bed and got close to his window and looked through it. All he managed to see was the red and blue lights from the police cars and people shouting at distance and he took a closer look to one of the tallest buildings in the city that had a big screen play that said "Vote for Michael Gehabic" since the elections were coming up and just saw a dark figure touring it apart in half and the jumping and running through the buildings and avoiding the shots then he realized.
-Alice will be mad if she sees that the knight thief tore his grandfather's panoramic- he said and started laughing. He went back to his bed and tried to get some sleep but he couldn't get his mind of the knight thief.

-Come back here! You piece of shit! You think you can outsmart us! Think again! - The Officer Misaki shouted at the knight thief high above in the building that is when the figure laughed and said:

-You are one crazy old man! And look at this old geezer (she said pointing at the sign in the building) is this the one you are voting for? HAHA don't make me laugh! What this man needs is to pay for what he's done!- he shouted angrily now at everyone on the ground, that's when she tore apart in half the sign of Michael Gehabic campaign for governor of the city. -HAHA This is what he deserves! You heard me loud and clear Gehabic! This is what you deserve for what you've done to my family! - he shouted angrily and he noticed how the police men started charging their guns and started shooting at the dark figure high in the building, so what he did is that he jumped and took one of the half's of the sign and used to balance himself and swinging himself so the shots wouldn't get and harm him. Luckily none of the shots get to harm him but only what the bullets managed to do was that the big windows of the building broke and started to rain little pieces of glass, well that did manage to harm and cut him until he managed to jump and get to the other building. He landed on his right foot and rolled over the pavement, he knew that he didn't have much time so he ran along the buildings and jumped to get to the other one and so on until the street of buildings were over so he jumped and got into the rooftop of a house, that's when he saw a window and rolled over to it and slid it open carefully.

He got into the house and saw a bedroom painted with yellow, a bed near the window, a mirror from the other side to left, a little closet plastered to the left next to the door and to the right he saw a large desk with a laptop, some books and a school bag. He made his way through the door and closed it carefully, so no one could hear he was in the room. He locked the door and turned on the lights, he was started by the bright light of the light bulb that shone in the ceiling. That was when he saw the mirror and said:

- Well you have done it again Knight Thief- he smiled to himself- Or should I say Runo Misaki?- He removed his mask and revealed he was a girl, with a long aquamarine hair and green big orbs, smiling to herself and changing from her black suit to her pajamas.

Her knight thief suit was more like a spy suit, all black, with a pair of black skinny jeans and long sleeved vest, a black short sleeve blouse, gloves and black leather boots. Also with all of her high tech equipment that her friend Marucho gave her when he knew about the knight thief, until he moved to the U.S.A. And left her all of the equipment necessary to complete the purpose of being the knight thief.

She was not being the knight thief to scare people off or to make fun of scumbag politicians; all she wanted to do was to figure out what happened 14 years ago, when all of her family died in a fire. She was just two years old, so she only remembers her house being all on fire and painful screams coming from the inside. After weeks of the incident she was adopted to a kind family and they changed her last name to Misaki so she wouldn't be interrogated or suspected for that incident. Years passed and Runo was living a normal life and all, and she did not remember at all that incident, just like she was brainwashed and she actually was. Before she was sent to her foster parents the government erased her memories of that night. She managed to remember all of that "accident" just as she turned 12 years old, but the blunette knew very well that this was not any accident, because if it was, why would the government erased her memory? And why would an officer of the police adopt her? She had a lot of questions in her mind and that is why she became the knight thief. She was a wanted criminal all over Wardington even Japan, she was kind of guilty for causing so much trouble for her foster parent the officer Mr. Misaki, but she knew she had to do it if she wanted to know the truth.

:Flashback:

One night she had to infiltrate the Maruka Mansion, she knew that it was well armed that mansion and that her friend Marucho was there, but even though she went alongside the mission. She managed to get in the house, but a police man shot her in the left arm, and she started bleeding a lot. The blunette was losing a lot of blood so she ran up a high amount of stairs, turned left and got in the first room she found. She turned on the lights and realized that it was Marucho's bedroom but he wasn't there, well that is what she thought, until she tore apart the left sleeve and saw the pool of blood that was coming from her arm. She was horrified by the sight of blood but she man up and started looking around. She managed to found a first aid kid in the bed to her right. She sat down on the bed and picked up a metal tweezers and looked right back at her arm. She put the tweezers near her bleeding arm and she put them inside the wound. She was about to scream, but she knew she would blow her cover so she bit her lip so hard that she also made them bleed but she managed to take out the bullet from her arm by that she was more relieved. She disinfected the wound with alcohol as well the bottom of her lip and she just bandaged the wound. After all that the injury, did not look all that bad. She then sighed:

-Better be more careful now Runo- she said to herself and remove her mask, and it revealed herself with a lot of sweat. Then she heard a gasp and a sound of something breaking she got up and turned around, and saw a little blond boy lying on the floor with a scared look on his face and looking straight at her.

-Marucho…- she said in a silent tone looking at him in the face. He seemed in a great shock. She also caught a glimpse at the floor and saw that the thing that broke was a flower vase, that was placed in the desk to the left of Marucho. After some minutes of silence someone knocked on the door abruptly, by this Runo got startled and turned around.

-Mister Marucho? Are you okay? I heard something breaking, are you all right?- that was the voice of Kaito, Marucho's butler. He kept on knocking and knocking calling out Marucho's name. That was when Runo felt a grip on her hand that pulled her into a room and threw her in it. She fell inside the room and only got to see Marucho smiling and closing the door, with a slight click of the lock. Runo got closer to the door and placed her ear to be able to hear the conversation.

-I´m coming Kaito- she heard Marucho´s voice from a distance. Then she heard his footsteps getting more silent until he reached to the entrance of the bedroom and heard the door opened and someone else getting in the room. She guessed that it was Kaito.

-Sorry Kaito to keep you waiting, is something wrong?- said Marucho with an amused voice.

-No it was nothing Master Marucho, is just that I heard something break, is everything all right?- he said to Marucho a little worried.

-Don't worry Kaito, it´s just that I saw a cockroach on the bed and I got scared and ran to my closet to hide, but in the process I tripped and bumped in to the desk and so the flower vase you gave me broke- Marucho said to Kaito kind of fast.

"A cockroach? He afraid of that little insect? What a whimp!" Runo thought to herself while laughing a little, but then she remembered that Kaito was still in the bedroom so she tapped her mouth and hoped that Kaito didn´t hear her. To her luck, he did hear her.

-What was that?- Kaito said amused to Marucho.

-What was what?- Marucho said to him, while sounding a little nervous by the way he talked now with Kaito.

"SHIT" Runo thought to herself then she stood up and crashed with a box and it fell on her making it sound a loud thud. Now was she really lucky.

-Master Marucho are you hiding something in here?- Kaito said o Marucho. Then Runo heard some footsteps getting louder and louder getting more and more near the closet now she was really in trouble. There was nowhere she could hide so she just started thinking fast and then something popped up in her mind.

-No Kaito, there´s nothing in there. Nothing at all!- he said more nervous than ever.

-Sorry Master Marucho I have to check until I am sure that there's nothing you are hiding.- he said, he took out a key from his right pocket of a black coat he was wearing. He got to the lock of the door and put the key to opened it.

-No Kaito! Don´t open it!- Marucho shout at him. Now was he scared and nervous at the same time.

Then Kaito opened the door. Now Marucho and Kaito were looking inside the closet kind of scared. They saw a box on the floor with a pile of clothes all scattered on the floor. There was nothing on the room. Marucho let out a sigh but he was still curious to know what happened to Runo, so he closed the door and looked at Kaito.

-See, there was nothing in there, I told you so!- Marucho said while kind of snickering. Then Kaito let out a sight and approached to the main door of the bedroom.

-Very well, Master Marucho, I'll be leaving now- he said and closed the door. Now Marucho ran to the closet and opened the door quietly and got inside the closet.

-Runo? Are you still here?- he said quietly so Kaito wouldn't hear him. He started looking at all sides then he heard something.

-Up here- she said kind of laughing.

Marucho looked up to the roof and saw Runo there. She was supporting her hands on the walls to her right and left and so both of her feet. Marucho was just laughing and shocked by Runo's way of thinking and how he didn't see her at all.

-Are you serious?- he said while looking amazed at her and Runo just smiling at him- Get down here!- he demanded laughing. She let go first of her feet then her hands and she fell on her feet swiftly. Marucho started clapping- Amazing Runo- he said and Runo bowed to him. Then she straightens up and walked out of the closet alongside Marucho. Obviously he questioned her by why was the reason for her being the knight thief and broking into his home. The she had to tell him the entire whole story and of course he understood why she was doing all of that, he thought it was reasonable for her doing all of this, so he decided to help her in any way he could. He gave her new equipment to use, he gave her information of the incident, he also covered for her, well he did all of that until he left for U.S.A so now the one who helps Runo with all of the gadgets is no inse, Marucho sends her the equipment via mail but she liked more having him near her, nut she knew he had to move because of his father's work.

:End of flashback:

-Well Marucho you better not blow my cover up, because if you do you are one little dead man- she said in a kind of joking and serious tone. Then she walked up to the desk and placed her books inside the school bag, then she got out a recording machine from it and pressed the little red button that said "REC" and she said to it quietly.

-Today, Sunday 15 of January, 2012, Infiltrated The Wardington News Reports building, failed to get valid information, managed to tore apart Mr. Gehabic sign campaign and manage to make a fool of the officer. So long not being able to get valuable information, but being able to make the officer go bonkers- she said but was interrupted because of her laughter then she put on a serious tone and said- Tomorrow's assault will be held inside the Museum of Arts and Dancing of Wardington, make a note already left note to officer. By now I got nothing else, Knight out.- she said and ended the recording. She walked up to a little box that was inside her closet and there she placed the recording machine. She walked up to her bed.

-Goodnight Mom and Dad, wherever you are now- she said quietly and turned off the lights and went to bed. Quickly she was sleeping like a baby, but she forgot that tomorrow was Monday, that means having to go to school.

Runo's P.O.V

I was sleeping nice and tidy in my bed, I also remember that I was dreaming, of course I don't remember much of the dream but I do know that it had something to do with my parents, that was the reason that I didn't hear the alarm maybe. I just started hearing the beep beep beep, I looked around still dumfounded by my sleeping and saw that my clock was saying that it was 7 o'clock in the morning.

-Agh! It's Sunday! Why the hell did I turn on the alarm?- I shouted at myself, but before I went back to my sleep I got thinking and I remembered- Today is Monday!- and by trying to get up from bed I fell to the floor. I stood quickly up and ran to my closet and grabbed whatever I found in there. I threw away the pijamas and wore the school´s uniform (yeah still in high school they made us use uniform, lame) that was a blue skirt for the girls, while a blue pants for the boys, with a white blouse, a red tie, a blue vest for girls and a blue jacket for boys, and a pair of black sneakers. After I changed to my uniform I tied up my hair in a ponytail, and I ran to my desk grabbed my schoolbag and ran to the door of my bedroom, got out and literally ran kind of jumped my way across the stairs going down. Then I got to the entrance door and I heard Saki saying to me:

-Good morning Runo, did you sleep well yesterday?- she asked. I looked at her and smiled- Yes I slept very well, but I am going to be late for school, so I better go, goodbye!- I said and got out of the house and ran towards my bike, that it was parked in a tree. I took it and got on it and started pedaling faster to get to the school, or well in this case high school.

I actually live in a kind of house/ restaurant, since Saki and Tatsuo, my foster parents, own the "Misaki Restaurant" and I work for them as their waitress, so I could pay them for all of what they have given me. I know that they don´t keep the money, but I still give it to them so I wouldn't feel that guilty for making fun of Tatsuo every night, after all he is the officer Mr. Misaki. Sometimes it feels wrong to call him names or making fun of him every night for the last 5 years of me being the Knight Thief, but I mean, I need the truth, and I am not letting anything stop me.

-I will not give up- I whispered to myself. I got to the Wardington High school and I parked my bike near the entrance. I walked up to the entrance and I felt as if someone was watching me from somewhere near. I stopped walking and I turned around but all I saw and felt was a pain in the ass. Julie had just tackled me into a hug, and that made me fall to the ground with her.

-JULIE GET OFF OF ME!- I shouted at her while she still was hugging me. Julie was one of my best friend, but God was she annoying. She loves to go shopping, and making everyone happy, she has a kind of high and bubbly attitude towards everyone and everything. She is one of the sweetest persons, not like Alice though, but she still was always for me, but right now I was not in the mood of being tackled. –I TOLD YOU TO GET OFF!- I said as I sat up and pushed. She managed to get up and said – Don't be like that Runo, you scare me- she said smiling. She gave me a hand to get up, and I took it.

-Anyway, what was that for?- I said to her while picking up my schoolbag. She looked confused and I just looked a little annoyed – The tacling Julie, what was it for?- I said to her. Now she realized what I was talking about.

- OH! That, it was nothing, just entertaining me- she said while smiling at me. Now I just looked with an angry face at her – Then you should now know, that if you do that again to me, you are dead.- I said to her with a serious tone and I really wasn't joking. By now Julie was scared to death until:

-Come on kiddo, relax it was nothing- A boy approached to us and smiled at me. Well now we have here Dan Kuso, my childhood friend and a guy with some serious nerve. –Look Dan, you should back off now- I said to him while closing my eyes. I opened them and saw Dan and Julie now being now sacred, and then I broke and started laughing so hard. They all looked shocked by my change of reactions, but that was just me. They never knew if I was happy, sad, angry, stressed etc. No one knew me that well, maybe the only who would know how was I would react, would be Dan or Alice, but I don't think so.

Anyway after I finished laughing I looked to them whit a smile on my face, and now they were more relaxed, knowing that maybe I wasn´t that serious about the death part, hahaha if only they knew.

A bell rang in the hall and we all knew that it was time for school, so we went to our assigned classroom; after all we were all in the same classroom. We reached there and entered. I could see that everyone was talking with their friends, not caring about the bell or anything, so I just got to my desk and laid down my schoolbag and sat on the desk, that was when an extremely angry red head got in front of me and shouted –LOOK AT THIS!- She said to me while handing me the newspaper for today. I saw the front page and saw what happened yesterday, a photo of me or well The Knight Thief toring apart the sign of Mr. Gehabic, while some yellow words to the left said "The knight strikes now with new politician", I was about to laugh but I knew that doing that would make me blow my cover so I put on a deadly and serious face and looked at Alice, and said:

-What the hell happened last night?- I said at her in a serious tone, but my mind said "HAHAHAHA THIS IS HILARIOUS! PURE GOLD" I thought to myself.

-It just so happens that the so called Knight Thief, infiltrated the The Wardington News Reports building, and decided to make fun of my grandfather in front of the police!- she said really angry.

Dan heard our conversation and said- Yeah, yesterday I heard him live and clear from my window, saying those things to Mr. Gehabic- he said serious and then everyone joined the conversation that means Alice, Julie, Dan and Shun.

-The thing with the Thief Knight is just out of control- Shun said to everyone, while everyone else nodded incluiding me, but God was I still laughing in the inside and kept telling to myself "If only they knew". Then Julie looked at me and said –What about you Runo, what does your father tell you about it?- she asked curiously and now everyone's eyes were on me, literally every one of the class. I just thought "Shit, I didn't want to get a lot of attention!". So what I did was that I cleared up my throat and said seriously:

-He never talks about that business, and even if he did he wouldn't tell me anything, if he doesn't tell anything to Saki, that means he would not tell me.- I said seriously, but then something seemed off, "Shit! I called Suki by her name! They don't know about me being adopted or something!" I looked started but instantly calmed down, and it seemed like they didn't even notice.

Then Alice stand up and walked towards me with a smile on her face "This isn't good" I just thought and to my luck I was right.

-I got an incredible idea!- she said squealing and looked now to everyone- Let's go tonight to the Museum of Arts and Dancing of Wardington and catch the Knight Thief, that will teach him some manners!- she said while fist bumping the air, and everyone smiled at her, but I was just shocked and not responding to that phrase, what I only managed to say was:

-Shit- I said in a whisper that everyone managed to hear. "Runo you have one bad luck on your side" I thought to myself.

So? What do you think about the new story huh? I think is coming great, and I hope you think that too. Sorry for not updating in some time, I have been busy but thank god school is now over! YAY! Anyways I'll try to update as soon as posible, I'm sure it will not take more than a month or so, for both of the stories. Well Please Review! Peace Out!