Author: ahem… Tada! I'm back sorry about the long wait, as you know things happen. First it was my computer crashing than my parents not paying the bills so we loose internet connection than school than you just kinda forget and just as I'm about to post the chapters the site is having a problem and I can't upload anything. I apologize sincerely and hope that someone reads this. Once again I apologize for the wait. And for future reference please be patient with me.
Kurai: She's actually telling the truth for once. Not a lie or a half-truth. The real honest to god truth.
Tsuara: Let's see how long that lasts.
Author: Hey! It's not like I lie all that much.
Kurai: Lie? No. Twist the truth?
Kurai & Tsuara: Definitely
Author: Gee thanks. Any way I'm not gonna change where the chapters ended and started. But some will be much longer due to the added scenes. This chapter has not changed as much as I had hoped, I'm afraid. I wanted to add more but couldn't think of any thing.
Kurai: I wasn't gonna tell you and let you get in whatever trouble you could get into for it but you are reposting this chapter so you're gonna need to redo the disclaimer.
Author: Oo! I almost forgot! Wait a second…why are you telling me this?
Kurai: -grumbles and looks sour- Hmph! It's a bet.
Author: Ohhh, care to elaborate?
Tsuara: Yeah! What she said!
Kurai: -mumbles- Baka. -Clears throat- My stupid little brother bet that I couldn't be nice to you for an hour. Since that seemed a good way to start that's what I did.
Author: When she says little brother she means her little brother in the story she originated from; not from this fic. I will finish uploading the chapters that are already there and on Saturday, well one update every Saturday. It wasn't my fault but I feel bad any way. -sugary sweet voice- Kurai!
Kurai: -glares- Tsuara Kurai does not own Escaflowne. Unfortunately she does own me/Tsuara, Nanashi, Karei, Lori, Rea, the two insignificant people killed in this chapter, and whatever the hell the language the code names are in.
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-General POV-
"Morrokishi hurry!" the brunette called.
"Hold on. You didn't cover our tracks, just a few more secs." The one called Morrokishi said.
"Fushairu, come on. She can do this on her own." A blond whispered, dragging the brunette away.
The group of four made there way out of the building and into the woods appearing as no more than shadows too the naked eye. They stopped just inside the forest and waited. A few minutes later Morrokishi came out of the shadows.
"Let's go." The blond whispered and they vanished into the shadows once more.
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"Last night the delegate of Spain, Mr. Bonevart Francisco, was murdered in his room. Officials say no clues were left and have no leads onto who could have done this." Click. The television became blank and the group of five standing turned to the only other occupant in the room.
"Well done. Here's the money. Have a good day." The man said brusquely. None of the five replied.
The blond just took the case and left the office, companions in tow. Once outside the building the blond opened the case. Inside was the money and predictably a bomb. She handed it to the only male in the group. He studied the bomb a second and ripped out one of the wires. The bomb shut off.
"Looks like Mr. Atooms business with The Kage isn't finished yet. He'll hear from us tonight." The blond commented looking up at a window where she could see some one watching them. They got in a pitch-black convertible and drove off.
"Ne,Tsuara can we go get something to eat? I'm starving." A red head in the back asked.
Tsuara grunted her assent. "Where to?" was the inevitable question. The group consisted of four girls and one male. The leader who started the group was Tsuara. She had golden blond hair to her shoulder blades with dazzling brown eyes that could freeze the sun. She was five foot three. Her code name was Hotoshia, which meant the forgotten child.
The first one to join Tsuara was Lori. At this time she was twenty-one quickly approaching twenty-two in a few weeks. Her brunette hair was always in a ponytail. Well, anytime they saw her. She did a lot of the dirty work. Her charm helped in many more ways than one way. She was the biggest flirt in the group and occasionally went missing. Though it was never when she was needed. Her code name Fushairu meant The Charmer.
The second one to have joined the group was a red head with green eyes and a few freckles scattered across the tanned skin. She was the most agile and energetic of the group, not to mention the shortest. Her name was Karei. As the most tactical her code name, Burroashi, meant the inquisitor. She was now twenty-three.
The next was the only male at age twenty-one. His name was Nanashi or Corlor for The Protector. He was short for a male with ebony black spiky hair. He was cold and cared only for the people in the car with him, though he wasn't as cold as Tsuara. He was the one who took care of security, bombs and so forth.
The last was Rea. They called her Morrokishi. Her name meant The Silencer or The Predator. She was the one skilled in tracking. She had dirty blond hair bordering on brown that hung to her waist. She was twenty-four when she joined somewhat over a year ago. On missions she braided it but otherwise she let it hang lose. Her hair contrasted nicely with her deep blue eyes. She was relatively new so they didn't know much about her. She was slightly psychotic and a bit sadistic.
They all had their strong points, views and personalities. But there was one thing they all had in common. They all had a bad past, they'd each rather forget about. No one talked about their pasts and no one asked. Tsuara had found each of them and brought them together to form The Kage. Kage meant shadows.
"I'm up for ham and cheese sandwich. The good kind, like at subway." Lori suggested.
"No way! Not everyone's on a diet like you are! I want McDonald's!" Karei argued.
After a while of arguing between the two, Tsuara intervened and it was finally decided they'd go to Arby's. They looked and acted like normal people but they could be a deadly foe and were not to be underestimated. This happened often because there were four girls and none of them, not even Nanashi, looked like they had muscle on them. The morons who thought this were soon taught other wise.
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Rea stood looking around the table. "Is that all?" she asked carefully. Her question was met with excited agreement from Lori and Karei and simple nods from the last two.
Rea made her way to counter and began to order the food.
"So, how we gonna take care of ol'fatso?" Lori asked leaning her elbows on the table.
"It's a standardized mission. Break in and kill the bastard. What more is there?" Karei returned. The two glared at each other.
"I mean, we usually do a bit of research first. Security, plans, schedule, yatta yatta yatta." Lori expanded.
"We don't need to." Nanashi interjected. Two surprised faces turned to him. Surprised because, one they were going in apparently blind, two he had spoken up, and three he had interrupted a fight in the making.
"Come again?" Lori said after regaining her voice.
"We're very careful about who we choose as our clients. A full search is performed on the possible client before we really approach them for a business deal." Nanashi explained. They quickly became quiet.
"You seriously didn't know that?" Rea asked taking her seat.
"No, why would I?" Karei asked grabbing her chicken sandwich.
"Only because Nanashi always reads Tsuara the full report in the main room." Rea said as she handed out the food.
"Really?" the two asked, mouths full. Rea sighed. Ignorant idiots.
They began to eat, keeping to themselves. But as with all things, it didn't last. Lori and Karei broke out into another fight over god knows what. Taking that as their cue the other three picked up their stuff and moved to the other side of the restaurant.
The fight finally broke when the two finished eating. They looked around as if first noticing their surroundings.
"Hey. How'd you guys get all the way over there?" Karei whined loudly.
"This happens every time we eat." Lori reminded her. Karei blinked.
"It does?" she asked. Lori shook her head with a sigh.
The other three stood up as well. They threw out their trash on the way to the exit.
"You two idiots have a fight every time we eat." Rea remarked.
"We do?"
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The apartment was a flurry of movement. Karei and Lori rushed back and for shouting the occasional insult. Nanashi sat with a suitcase by his feet, tapping quickly on his laptop, fingers but a blur.
Rea also was going back and forth, but at a much slower pace than the first two. Tsuara sat on the windowsill looking out over the city with a duffle bag by her feet.
The city was moving slowly, covered in a hazy fog. The sky let down a light drizzle that was just enough to call for an umbrella. Everything was dulled gray in the dreary afternoon.
Nanashi closed his laptop softly and stood. He made his way over to Tsuara. He stopped behind her looking out over the city landscape. "Every things set." He reported.
She nodded absently. "It came quite suddenly, didn't it?" he asked quietly. Once again he received an absent nod. There was a brief silence.
She turned suddenly.
"Let's go." She said.
By the door stood Rea with her own valuables. Lori stood panting just outside her bedroom sitting on her suitcase. Karei was slung across a fluffy armchair, suitcase on the table.
Lori sighed and Karei moaned but they picked up their belongings. The other three followed suit and they left the empty apartment. The door closed and the lock slid into place with a resounding click. They would never enter this apartment again.
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"Nanashi, how's it moving?" Lori asked through the walkie-talkie. The dreary weather had cleared as quickly as it had come. All that remained of its existence was the wet ground, the fresh smell in the air, and the shadow's renewed energy.
"Almost there give me five more minutes and we'll have approximately ten." He said.
They waited and just as the five minutes were up he gave them the go signal. They entered the grounds and quickly found their way to their 'client's' room. They awoke the man roughly. When he saw them he turned deathly pale and got as far back against the headboard as he could.
"I wish we had more time but we don't, so I'll stick to business. I didn't much appreciate the gift you left in the case this morning. You were lucky enough that we had Nanashi there to disable it." Tsuara said amicably. With a signal Rea went forward taking a knife from her hidden pocket.
"WAIT! WAIT! I can explain. I was just testing you. You know if you weren't good enough to stop the bomb than the police could track you down and I couldn't let that happen but you stopped it…." Tsuara quickly boring of his blabbering shot him with her gun.
Her gun was her trademark. The others wondered where she got such a unique gun. Even Lori had no clue since Tsuara had the gun even before they met. It didn't make a sound and left a small hole in its victim. The bullets hac to be custom made. She always carried three dozen extra cases of ammunition with her. In each case was about two dozen shells. She was always prepared.
She disliked using it because its uniqueness would make it easier to track down. However, she had complete faith that the maker of the magnificent gun and the supplier of the ammo would not spill their guts if their lives depended on it. They knew that what she would do to them was infinitely more horrific than anything anyone else could come up with. And she had no problem doing it.
"Come on." Karei whispered and they left. Just before they left the premises the security came on along with the sirens.
"Shit. We allowed ourselves too much luxury." Lori said as they picked up into a run. The walls were not very high by their standards, so the were each able to clear the jump with ease. As the ran towards the rendezvous point, the spotted Nanashi waiting by the car.
"Getting sloppy." He remarked.
"Ten more seconds and we would have been clear." Karei replied defensively.
"This isn't the place to argue about timing. We have to get moving." Rea snapped sharply. Just as they all headed for the car, five beams of blue light shot from the sky and carried them off.
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