A/N: Check it out! My 2nd posted fic! I hope you peeps like this one. I
kinda took my friend Valkyrie's ideas and changed them a little. I hope
that you people like it. If you do, then review and I will add how they
met and this same story from Aya and Loretta's perspective, AND the sequil
of this fic! This one is only three chapters long...but unlike my Inu-
Yasha fic, the chapters are long. Well, on with the fic!
Weiß Kreuz
Nightmare Assignment:
Chapter 1: The Assignment
Ken helped his wonderful girlfriend off his motorcycle; he wasn't about to let his date with Aurora end so easily, just because they had reached her apartment building. No way! He wrapped his arms around his beautiful date, pulling her right against his chest; but didn't feel her arms wrap around him. He leaned his head down, pressing his lips against hers'. His tongue gently grazed her lips, begging entrance; and was denied. He pulled back and opened his eyes. Aurora was shaking her head, "no". He gave her a look that said, "How dare you try to refuse me, Ken Hidaka?" as she walked up the steeps and opened the door.
He stood there, stunned beyond all belief that she wouldn't even return his goodnight kiss. She turned to look back at him, still holding the large wooden door. At first a mischievous smirk lit her face; then, to his surprise, a wounded frown that told him he had hurt her feelings, flawed her near perfect features. She released the heavy door, and Ken finally understood. His assassin reflexes kicked in, and he stopped the door in the nick of time and he rushed through.
Aurora smiled as his arms encircled her once more. This time she responded by wrapping her arms around his waist. He closed his eyes and kissed her. Even though he was afraid of being rejected once more, he slid his tongue across her lips. Success! This time it was allowed in. He moved very slowly as their tongues met, exactly the way he knew she liked it. If he was forceful or too fast, he had learned, the hard way, that she would pull back and not kiss him again for a while.
After a long moment, when their kiss was finally over, Ken looked into the large, deep, shimmering, black pools that were Aurora's eyes; they were so clear that Ken thought he saw his own green eyes reflected back at him. Sometimes he thought she was too good to be true. She and her roommate, Loretta Bellsworth, had just wondered into Koneko no Sumu Ie, the flower shop where he worked, during their vacation to Japan. If it hadn't been for the shop's owner, his friend, Aya, Ken and Aurora probably wouldn't have ever even met. Stupid Aya had run into her while she smelled a rose, knocking her down; breaking not only the flowerpots he had been carrying, but also the laptop computer Aurora had been holding for her friend.
Aya had been such a jerk and yelled at her, telling her that she should have been watching where she was standing; leaving her to clean the mess he had caused. Yohji and Omi had both rushed to help her first, of course, forgetting the tools to clean the mess with. Omi flashed that adorable young smile he always wears, while smooth Yohji handed her one of the roses she had been smelling and whispered something that had made her smile. But it had been Ken, yep, him, with nothing more then a Wisk-broom and dustpan, who had caught her eye. Ken was glad. Aurora was far too old for Omi and had done nothing so horrible as to deserve the pimp-master, playboy Yohji, who would have just left her with a broken heart. No, she deserved more then that, much more.
"Tonight was wonderful," Ken whispered in her ear. "I don't want it to ever end."
"Neither do I," Aurora whispered back, her voice soft, silky...tempting.
"Is Loretta home tonight?" Ken answered her unspoken invitation.
"Not sure," she ran her hands up his back, "Isn't she supposed to be with Aya?"
"If they are together, let's hope they don't put each other in the hospital...again."
Aurora laughed, both she and Ken knew, all too well, that Aya and Loretta like it violent. Each time they came back from seeing each other they had cuts, bruises, sprains, broken bones, burns...twice before they had had wounds so bad that they were in the hospital for three days.
"I'm sure she's gone," Aurora assured him, even though Ken knew she didn't know.
They walked hand-in-hand up to her apartment. When they reached it, Aurora unlocked the door, but before she could open it, he grabbed her shoulders, turned her around, and kissed her while his body pressed hers' against the door...
...Which is why they both fell- Ken on top of Aurora- when Loretta ripped open the door.
"I can't possibly understand what you see in that SON OF A BITCH'S FRIEND!" Loretta screamed, stomped off to her room, and slammed the bedroom's door.
Ken smiled, and then remembered that he was laying on Aurora. He pushed himself off of her and held out his hand to help her up. "Are you alright?" He asked, and that's when he saw the crimson blood seeping into the fabric on her right sleeve. "My, Go..." he grabbed her wrist and pushed up the sleeve. A long, deep gash was carved into her skin. Intense fear flashed through his mind. Why hadn't she told him about it? What had happened to her?
"Calm down," she said evenly, obviously sensing his fear. She ran the fingers on her left hand though his eye-length straight brown hair. "Lori and I got into a fight. Stupid me, I got her mad while she was cooking. I was a little too close when she threw the knife down." She smiled, "Needless to say, the fight ended pretty quickly." She groaned and pulled herself to her feet. "I'm sorry, but as you can see, Lori desperately needs me...and I think that the moment has been sufficiently killed." She sighed, "It's weird, after she sees Aya, she either needs to be cheered up or bandaged up!"
Ken nodded, she was right; Aya would probably need a friend, too. He would never admit it, but he deeply loved Loretta. It hurt him when he hurt her. Why were their lives so complicated? He sighed, "I'll come see you tomorrow, I promise."
She nodded and walked him to the door. He kissed her on her forehead and repeated, "Tomorrow." He left the building, hopped on his motorcycle and started for his apartment across Tokyo, behind Koneko no Sumu Ie.
***
When he reached his building, he was surprised to see all of the other members of Weiß, plus Persia's two beautiful secretaries, Manx and Birman, waiting outside for him.
"Took you long enough," Yohji complained between puffs of his cigarette. A pile of finished ones littered the ground beneath him, telling Ken that they had been there for a while.
Omi jumped up and ran to Ken, "How was your date, Ken-kun?" Omi had always been as enthusiastic about Ken's dates with Aurora as Ken was; Ken thought it was very mature of Omi to be a good sport when Aurora said she liked Ken and not him or Yohji. Yohji was still a bit angry. "I bet you had a great time!"
Ken grinned and ran his fingers through his soft hair. "It was great," he assured Omi. "Or at least it was, until-"
Aya abruptly stood and stomped into the apartment building without saying a word. The others watched the door slam behind Aya. "Anyway," Omi continued, "Did you give it to her?"
Manx and Birman stared at Ken in confusion. Ken felt the blood rushing to his face. He reached into his jeans pocket and wrapped his fingers around the beautiful, and very expensive, platinum band with a deep purple tanzanite gem with two flawless, perfectly clear diamonds on either side. He had planned on giving it to her and telling her everything, but the right time never seemed to present itself. How would he, how could he, tell his love that he had been lying to her?
Ken sighed and shook his head solemnly, "No, I couldn't find the right time."
"The right time?!" Yohji exclaimed, jumping to his feet and dropping his cigarette, "You were with her for four fucking hours! Hell, give it to me, I'll ask her!"
Ken stepped back, "You think it would be so easy for me to tell her?" He brushed his hair out of his eyes, "She thinks she knows everything about me! How am I supposed to tell her that when I'm not working at the flower shop, or teaching little kids to play soccer, I murder people?!"
"We aren't murderers, Ken," Yohji said in an understanding tone, "We're the ones who stop the murderers."
"The hell we aren't," Ken sighed, "killing is killing, no matter how you look at it."
"She'll understand that it's just your job." Omi assured him. "We don't do this for fun! We do it because we have to! Because no one else will!"
Yohji shook his head, "Anyway, as you can see, we have a new assignment. Let's get this over with so you can go tell her what you really do, stop stressing over what she'll think, and.we can throw a killer bachelor party with a lot of really hot girls!" He laughed.
Maybe they were right, Ken thought as he followed them into the apartment. After she got over the fact that he lied to her about his career, maybe she would be okay with him being an assassin.WHAT WAS HE THINKING?! OF COURSE SHE WOULDN'T BE OKAY WITH IT! Sweet, gentle Aurora...she would be terrified of him. He didn't know what would hurt him more: the look of angry, shocked, disbelief that would show when he told her he had lied to her, or the paralyzing horror her large black eyes would display as he said, "I'm an assassin."
The last thing he wanted was her to be afraid of him. But how could she not be if she found out what he really was? Too many "if's" flooded his brain. He knew what he would have to do; no matter how much it hurt him, no matter that after he did, she would never want to even hear his name again, he would tell Aurora what he was. He would have the courage to tell her! ...He hopped.
Omi pushed the video into the VCR and hit play. Immediately the familiar shadow they knew as Persia appeared.
"Hello, White Hunters of the night. Our intelligence has discovered two new and seeming important people to Schwarz. These two should be relatively easy to seek out and eliminate. Eliminating these two would be a hard blow to Schwarz. They have yet to be sent on any missions for Reiji Takatori that we know of..."
Ken was only half listening to the tape; his thoughts were to clouded with the reactions on Aurora's face when he told her everything.
"...The two young women are from America..."
Aurora and Loretta are from America, Ken thought dreamily.
"...Both are 19 years old and considered by are intelligence to be extremely dangerous..."
Aurora is 19, Ken thought, she is so wonderful; I hope she won't hate me after I tell her. What will she say when I ask: "Will you marry me, Au-
"...Aurora Maria Thyme and Loretta Alison Bellsworth are your new targets..."
Ken stared in disbelief. "No," he whispered. He gasped and looked at Aya. Aya's normally emotionless face now showed signs of anger, fear, sadness, and betrayal.
Ken looked back at the television screen only to see horrifying images of Aurora with Crawford, the leader of Weiß's mortal enemy, Schwarz, and Loretta with Schuldich, another member of Schwarz. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Aya turn away and could have sworn that he saw a single tear spill from his eye and trail down his cheek.
On the TV, footage of the Schwarz members sitting in a restaurant with Crawford's arms ensnaring Aurora and Schuldich's hands on Loretta's hips burned into Ken's mind. In the footage, all of a sudden, Farfarello yanked out one of his daggers and he lunged at Aurora, cutting a long gash down her right arm.
Ken's mind reeled as his memories of earlier that night flooded back to him. Hadn't Aurora told him that that gash had been an accident? None of this was possible! This had to be a sick joke; none of this could be true!
Persia's voice spoke as the clip continued; Aurora started yelling at Farfarello but stopped when he pointed the bloody dagger at her. Crawford pushed her out of the way and stood threateningly in front of Farfarello, who backed down immediately. "Aurora Thyme is the brains while Loretta Bellsworth is the muscle. As you can probably guess, Aurora and Loretta will leave two of Schwarz's most valuable members vulnerable."
Just then, something on the tape caught Ken's eye, "Omi! Re...rewind the tape!"
The others stared at him, "Ken, I know this is hard, but-" Yohji started.
"Rewind the damn tape, Omi!" Ken yelled through gritted teeth.
Omi hit rewind and after a second or two Ken said, "Push play!"
Ken's heart felt like a broken mirror that was continuously being trampled on, stomping it's shattered shards into microscopic bits of battered glass as he watched that Schwarz bastard Crawford trail kisses down her neck. Yet his eyes weren't on Crawford; they were fixed on Aurora. As Crawford kissed her, a single tear fell from her left eye as she mouthed one word: 'Ken'.
Ken knew without a shred of doubt what she was mouthing. He had seen her say his name far to many times to not know. He was positive. Whatever was going on, it was against her will. As the scene changed to one of Loretta and Schuldich, there was no doubt in his mind that the incident had been forced-and no one forced Ken Hidaka's girl to do anything.
But he has to see it again, to make sure it wasn't his imagination giving him what he wanted to see. "Rewind it again, Omi," he said in a rush.
Again and again he made Omi rewind the tape, each time his heart kept being stomped on, threatening to ground the glass so small it would only be a string of molecules; but the tear... the word...they were still there, each time he watched it.
He pointed it out to the others, whom dismissed it and said that he was too blinded with shock and emotion to see that she had been using him for Schwarz's gain.
And as the tape was finally allowed to play on, Ken started to believe them too.
(End of Part 1)
A/N: Well? What do you think?! Review PLEASE...! Bowdees!
Weiß Kreuz
Nightmare Assignment:
Chapter 1: The Assignment
Ken helped his wonderful girlfriend off his motorcycle; he wasn't about to let his date with Aurora end so easily, just because they had reached her apartment building. No way! He wrapped his arms around his beautiful date, pulling her right against his chest; but didn't feel her arms wrap around him. He leaned his head down, pressing his lips against hers'. His tongue gently grazed her lips, begging entrance; and was denied. He pulled back and opened his eyes. Aurora was shaking her head, "no". He gave her a look that said, "How dare you try to refuse me, Ken Hidaka?" as she walked up the steeps and opened the door.
He stood there, stunned beyond all belief that she wouldn't even return his goodnight kiss. She turned to look back at him, still holding the large wooden door. At first a mischievous smirk lit her face; then, to his surprise, a wounded frown that told him he had hurt her feelings, flawed her near perfect features. She released the heavy door, and Ken finally understood. His assassin reflexes kicked in, and he stopped the door in the nick of time and he rushed through.
Aurora smiled as his arms encircled her once more. This time she responded by wrapping her arms around his waist. He closed his eyes and kissed her. Even though he was afraid of being rejected once more, he slid his tongue across her lips. Success! This time it was allowed in. He moved very slowly as their tongues met, exactly the way he knew she liked it. If he was forceful or too fast, he had learned, the hard way, that she would pull back and not kiss him again for a while.
After a long moment, when their kiss was finally over, Ken looked into the large, deep, shimmering, black pools that were Aurora's eyes; they were so clear that Ken thought he saw his own green eyes reflected back at him. Sometimes he thought she was too good to be true. She and her roommate, Loretta Bellsworth, had just wondered into Koneko no Sumu Ie, the flower shop where he worked, during their vacation to Japan. If it hadn't been for the shop's owner, his friend, Aya, Ken and Aurora probably wouldn't have ever even met. Stupid Aya had run into her while she smelled a rose, knocking her down; breaking not only the flowerpots he had been carrying, but also the laptop computer Aurora had been holding for her friend.
Aya had been such a jerk and yelled at her, telling her that she should have been watching where she was standing; leaving her to clean the mess he had caused. Yohji and Omi had both rushed to help her first, of course, forgetting the tools to clean the mess with. Omi flashed that adorable young smile he always wears, while smooth Yohji handed her one of the roses she had been smelling and whispered something that had made her smile. But it had been Ken, yep, him, with nothing more then a Wisk-broom and dustpan, who had caught her eye. Ken was glad. Aurora was far too old for Omi and had done nothing so horrible as to deserve the pimp-master, playboy Yohji, who would have just left her with a broken heart. No, she deserved more then that, much more.
"Tonight was wonderful," Ken whispered in her ear. "I don't want it to ever end."
"Neither do I," Aurora whispered back, her voice soft, silky...tempting.
"Is Loretta home tonight?" Ken answered her unspoken invitation.
"Not sure," she ran her hands up his back, "Isn't she supposed to be with Aya?"
"If they are together, let's hope they don't put each other in the hospital...again."
Aurora laughed, both she and Ken knew, all too well, that Aya and Loretta like it violent. Each time they came back from seeing each other they had cuts, bruises, sprains, broken bones, burns...twice before they had had wounds so bad that they were in the hospital for three days.
"I'm sure she's gone," Aurora assured him, even though Ken knew she didn't know.
They walked hand-in-hand up to her apartment. When they reached it, Aurora unlocked the door, but before she could open it, he grabbed her shoulders, turned her around, and kissed her while his body pressed hers' against the door...
...Which is why they both fell- Ken on top of Aurora- when Loretta ripped open the door.
"I can't possibly understand what you see in that SON OF A BITCH'S FRIEND!" Loretta screamed, stomped off to her room, and slammed the bedroom's door.
Ken smiled, and then remembered that he was laying on Aurora. He pushed himself off of her and held out his hand to help her up. "Are you alright?" He asked, and that's when he saw the crimson blood seeping into the fabric on her right sleeve. "My, Go..." he grabbed her wrist and pushed up the sleeve. A long, deep gash was carved into her skin. Intense fear flashed through his mind. Why hadn't she told him about it? What had happened to her?
"Calm down," she said evenly, obviously sensing his fear. She ran the fingers on her left hand though his eye-length straight brown hair. "Lori and I got into a fight. Stupid me, I got her mad while she was cooking. I was a little too close when she threw the knife down." She smiled, "Needless to say, the fight ended pretty quickly." She groaned and pulled herself to her feet. "I'm sorry, but as you can see, Lori desperately needs me...and I think that the moment has been sufficiently killed." She sighed, "It's weird, after she sees Aya, she either needs to be cheered up or bandaged up!"
Ken nodded, she was right; Aya would probably need a friend, too. He would never admit it, but he deeply loved Loretta. It hurt him when he hurt her. Why were their lives so complicated? He sighed, "I'll come see you tomorrow, I promise."
She nodded and walked him to the door. He kissed her on her forehead and repeated, "Tomorrow." He left the building, hopped on his motorcycle and started for his apartment across Tokyo, behind Koneko no Sumu Ie.
***
When he reached his building, he was surprised to see all of the other members of Weiß, plus Persia's two beautiful secretaries, Manx and Birman, waiting outside for him.
"Took you long enough," Yohji complained between puffs of his cigarette. A pile of finished ones littered the ground beneath him, telling Ken that they had been there for a while.
Omi jumped up and ran to Ken, "How was your date, Ken-kun?" Omi had always been as enthusiastic about Ken's dates with Aurora as Ken was; Ken thought it was very mature of Omi to be a good sport when Aurora said she liked Ken and not him or Yohji. Yohji was still a bit angry. "I bet you had a great time!"
Ken grinned and ran his fingers through his soft hair. "It was great," he assured Omi. "Or at least it was, until-"
Aya abruptly stood and stomped into the apartment building without saying a word. The others watched the door slam behind Aya. "Anyway," Omi continued, "Did you give it to her?"
Manx and Birman stared at Ken in confusion. Ken felt the blood rushing to his face. He reached into his jeans pocket and wrapped his fingers around the beautiful, and very expensive, platinum band with a deep purple tanzanite gem with two flawless, perfectly clear diamonds on either side. He had planned on giving it to her and telling her everything, but the right time never seemed to present itself. How would he, how could he, tell his love that he had been lying to her?
Ken sighed and shook his head solemnly, "No, I couldn't find the right time."
"The right time?!" Yohji exclaimed, jumping to his feet and dropping his cigarette, "You were with her for four fucking hours! Hell, give it to me, I'll ask her!"
Ken stepped back, "You think it would be so easy for me to tell her?" He brushed his hair out of his eyes, "She thinks she knows everything about me! How am I supposed to tell her that when I'm not working at the flower shop, or teaching little kids to play soccer, I murder people?!"
"We aren't murderers, Ken," Yohji said in an understanding tone, "We're the ones who stop the murderers."
"The hell we aren't," Ken sighed, "killing is killing, no matter how you look at it."
"She'll understand that it's just your job." Omi assured him. "We don't do this for fun! We do it because we have to! Because no one else will!"
Yohji shook his head, "Anyway, as you can see, we have a new assignment. Let's get this over with so you can go tell her what you really do, stop stressing over what she'll think, and.we can throw a killer bachelor party with a lot of really hot girls!" He laughed.
Maybe they were right, Ken thought as he followed them into the apartment. After she got over the fact that he lied to her about his career, maybe she would be okay with him being an assassin.WHAT WAS HE THINKING?! OF COURSE SHE WOULDN'T BE OKAY WITH IT! Sweet, gentle Aurora...she would be terrified of him. He didn't know what would hurt him more: the look of angry, shocked, disbelief that would show when he told her he had lied to her, or the paralyzing horror her large black eyes would display as he said, "I'm an assassin."
The last thing he wanted was her to be afraid of him. But how could she not be if she found out what he really was? Too many "if's" flooded his brain. He knew what he would have to do; no matter how much it hurt him, no matter that after he did, she would never want to even hear his name again, he would tell Aurora what he was. He would have the courage to tell her! ...He hopped.
Omi pushed the video into the VCR and hit play. Immediately the familiar shadow they knew as Persia appeared.
"Hello, White Hunters of the night. Our intelligence has discovered two new and seeming important people to Schwarz. These two should be relatively easy to seek out and eliminate. Eliminating these two would be a hard blow to Schwarz. They have yet to be sent on any missions for Reiji Takatori that we know of..."
Ken was only half listening to the tape; his thoughts were to clouded with the reactions on Aurora's face when he told her everything.
"...The two young women are from America..."
Aurora and Loretta are from America, Ken thought dreamily.
"...Both are 19 years old and considered by are intelligence to be extremely dangerous..."
Aurora is 19, Ken thought, she is so wonderful; I hope she won't hate me after I tell her. What will she say when I ask: "Will you marry me, Au-
"...Aurora Maria Thyme and Loretta Alison Bellsworth are your new targets..."
Ken stared in disbelief. "No," he whispered. He gasped and looked at Aya. Aya's normally emotionless face now showed signs of anger, fear, sadness, and betrayal.
Ken looked back at the television screen only to see horrifying images of Aurora with Crawford, the leader of Weiß's mortal enemy, Schwarz, and Loretta with Schuldich, another member of Schwarz. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Aya turn away and could have sworn that he saw a single tear spill from his eye and trail down his cheek.
On the TV, footage of the Schwarz members sitting in a restaurant with Crawford's arms ensnaring Aurora and Schuldich's hands on Loretta's hips burned into Ken's mind. In the footage, all of a sudden, Farfarello yanked out one of his daggers and he lunged at Aurora, cutting a long gash down her right arm.
Ken's mind reeled as his memories of earlier that night flooded back to him. Hadn't Aurora told him that that gash had been an accident? None of this was possible! This had to be a sick joke; none of this could be true!
Persia's voice spoke as the clip continued; Aurora started yelling at Farfarello but stopped when he pointed the bloody dagger at her. Crawford pushed her out of the way and stood threateningly in front of Farfarello, who backed down immediately. "Aurora Thyme is the brains while Loretta Bellsworth is the muscle. As you can probably guess, Aurora and Loretta will leave two of Schwarz's most valuable members vulnerable."
Just then, something on the tape caught Ken's eye, "Omi! Re...rewind the tape!"
The others stared at him, "Ken, I know this is hard, but-" Yohji started.
"Rewind the damn tape, Omi!" Ken yelled through gritted teeth.
Omi hit rewind and after a second or two Ken said, "Push play!"
Ken's heart felt like a broken mirror that was continuously being trampled on, stomping it's shattered shards into microscopic bits of battered glass as he watched that Schwarz bastard Crawford trail kisses down her neck. Yet his eyes weren't on Crawford; they were fixed on Aurora. As Crawford kissed her, a single tear fell from her left eye as she mouthed one word: 'Ken'.
Ken knew without a shred of doubt what she was mouthing. He had seen her say his name far to many times to not know. He was positive. Whatever was going on, it was against her will. As the scene changed to one of Loretta and Schuldich, there was no doubt in his mind that the incident had been forced-and no one forced Ken Hidaka's girl to do anything.
But he has to see it again, to make sure it wasn't his imagination giving him what he wanted to see. "Rewind it again, Omi," he said in a rush.
Again and again he made Omi rewind the tape, each time his heart kept being stomped on, threatening to ground the glass so small it would only be a string of molecules; but the tear... the word...they were still there, each time he watched it.
He pointed it out to the others, whom dismissed it and said that he was too blinded with shock and emotion to see that she had been using him for Schwarz's gain.
And as the tape was finally allowed to play on, Ken started to believe them too.
(End of Part 1)
A/N: Well? What do you think?! Review PLEASE...! Bowdees!