An orange haired blue eyed man walked quickly through the sewers of Shibuya. Underground and quiet as the Shibuya River often was, the only sounds echoing off the stone walls was the soft tapping footsteps of the powerful man. It was a mere seconds before a large red door came into his blue-eyed gaze and a frown crossed his pale lips. With long nimble fingers, he turned the golden knobs and pushed the door swiftly open into the Dead God's Pad.
"Tell me Lollipop, why have I been so rudely summoned here?" His tone was light but stern, clearly stating his power to his followers. One sat on the red leather sofa in front of glass coffee table in the middle of the room. His orange hair tied back and puffed out and his skeleton parka and tan jeans just added to his lade back persona. Between his thumb and pointer finger held a cherry lollipop that he had just removed from his mouth.
"Well it's great to see you too, Conductor. We just so happened to be needing your help in certain unresolved and certainly strange matters." The orange haired man in the skeleton parka said smiling in amusement. Beside him, his partner, a short pink haired woman was pacing rapidly making it hard to see her figure. She stopped only to glare at the 'Conductor' before resuming her pacing.
"I see, and were per say, is my Composer?" The question was guarded words picked carefully to avoid names for not even these two were aware of the names of their higher-ups.
"That is the problem I'm afraid. It seems he was attacked on his way to the Higher Planes. The attackers were not at all Noise and the injuries our dear Composer now possesses are rather serious and still not healing. He is in the back in his private rooms." Lollipop's smile faded to a thin line as he spoke off the situation. His lollipop placed back in his mouth. The pink haired woman still pacing.
"I understand." The Conductor nodded. "Take Pinky and scope out Shibuya. If you should encounter any problems please come seek me or the Composer. Be on the look out for anyone who does not belong in Shibuya."
With their orders, the duo left the Pad, 'Pinky' throwing one more glare at the younger orange head.
Once the two had left, the Conductor headed for the back rooms. A door opened just in front of the pool table, leading him to the Room of Reckoning. It did not take long for him to find the room with a panting form on the bed. As he approached a voice called out.
"Why Neku, its so nice to see you here, I'm afraid I am in no mood to entertain you tonight." Despite the clear pain in talking the form of the Composer still spoke with his voice dripping with amusement. It only made the man named Neku snort though as he walked closer.
"Yoshiya Kiriyu, why did i just hear about all this now. And from Lollipop of all people! I'm your Conductor you idiot." Neku sat on the bed beside the form. Sweaty pale skin, dull violet eyes, and damp gray locks framing the sharp features he had come to love flooded his views and as he reached a hand to the paler-than-normal cheek, another one caught his.
The Composer held onto his Conductor's hand as he panted, the other hidden behind silk white sheets. "I'm not as weak as I look, dear. Besides, Sanae informed me that the threat on our territory is not something we could control. He said we must be on the look out for some new faces, because they are the ones that will help us. Your involvement would have been pointless."
Neku scowled at the figure, snatching his hand back.
"Yes, I am aware, I spoke to Mr. H before coming here. I have sent Lollipop and Pinky out to scope Shibuya's grounds." The ex-Proxy started. "And even if my 'involvement' would have been pointless, you had no right to leave me behind Joshua." His tone was light but serious as he spoke with his eyes never meeting Joshua's.
"Yes, dear, but I would have never forgiven myself if I let anything happen to you." Joshua said teasingly as he moved Neku's head to his with his hand on the flushed cheek of the other.
He landed a soft kiss on his Conductor's full lips. And with no hesitation the Conductor returned the kiss using his position to put more pressure to the slight touch of lips Joshua had started.
When they pulled apart, Neku scowled some more. His blue eyes set ablaze as he yanked the sheets from his second partner's body. He had known it. He had listened to his lover's music and felt there was a problem but seeing the darkness seemingly attached to Joshua's pale chest was far more worse than what the music had originally led him to believe.
"You damned idiot! When were you planning on telling me about this!" He pointed to the black shadow covering his entire right side. To which Joshua mentally smacked himself for his stupid mistake. He knew contact gave Neku more power to read his music, how could he have been so stupid?!
"Neku, dear, I suggest you calm yourself as yelling at me will not help matters."
"Calm myself? Josh you hid from me that you were seriously hurt and you expect me to calm myself!? Lay back and stop Talking I'll try to rearrange your music." With that Neku placed his hand on Joshua's chest, pushing his down forcefully and focusing on the wild music of his lover.
Notes were going high and low, the music was torn in places but behind the screeching sounds of the pain the injury was causing his Composer, he could still here the soft, wild notes he had heard the first time he had made the pact with the man. With a steady mind, he reached out to grab a broken note, only to be blocked and rebound right back at him.
"It's impossible, dear." Joshua stated with a matter-of-fact voice. "Its as if it has locked up my music. Not even I could fix it. I'm afraid we must find a key to this lock soon, or I will possibly be consumed by the out-of-place notes, and since no one destroyed me, no one will take my place. So unless we find the key, not only I, but Shibuya as well will crumble under the dysfunctional system."
"Then we'll find the key!" Neku yelled "I'll start scanning the RG until I find it there is no way you are going down without me!"
Joshua grabbed Neku's hand before he could get up. A stern look in his eyes as he spoke his next words.
"Let Kariya and Uzuki take care of that. You have to stay with me and keep this darkness from spreading."